Abstract: Provided is an electrode treat rent method comprising a peeling step that involves grind ng, with a grinding means, an electrode in which an electrode mixture is held on a collector, and peeling the electrode mixture from the collector, the electrode treatment method Characterized in that the grinding means has a first member (3) that has a grinding surface and a second member (4) that has a grinding surface, and the first member (3) and the second member (4) are disposed so that the grinding surfaces of the first member (3) and the second member (4) face each other and a space for grinding the electrode is formed between the members, and at least one among the first member (3) and the second member (4) is a grinder that rotates around the direction in which the grinding surfaces face each other and which serves as the rotational axial direction.

Abstract: A spice mill part, more particularly a spice mill lower part, for a spice mill, having a housing, which consists at least in part of a plastic material and which can be rotatably connected to a further spice mill part, more particularly a spice mill upper part. A receiving element is provided on the housing, in which receiving element there is arranged a milling element being particularly a milling ring, made from a ceramic material, with the milling element being clamped in the receiving element in a frictionally engaged manner by a compressive force directed substantially radially inwardly and acting on a self-contained outer bearing face of the milling element, the compressive force acting substantially along the entire circumference on the external bearing face of the milling element.

Abstract: An ice shaving system includes a body and a driven member positioned within the body. The driven member is drivable to produce shaved ice. The ice shaving system also includes a motor configured to selectively drive the driven member and a spout having an outlet. The spout is configured to dispense the shaved ice via the outlet. The ice shaving system further includes a shaping device configured to form a portion of the dispensed shaved ice with a predetermined shape. At least a portion of at least one of the spout or the shaping device defines a movable structure that is movable relative to the body. The motor is selectively activatable to drive the driven member in response to actuation of the movable structure relative to the body.

Abstract: Grinder-doser device for coffee beans includes a body which internally houses an electric motor, having a shaft, which is integral in rotation with the lower grinder holder to which the lower grinder is joined, said lower grinder holder, and said lower grinder being housed inside a head which has a horizontal annular seat in the lateral edge, which houses an upper grinder. The upper grinder being formed by a toothed annular portion housed inside a hollow annular portion, which in turn is surrounded by an annular portion, which rests on the annular seat. The flat upper surface of the upper grinder is rectified and collimated with the plane passing through the ends of the teeth of the toothed portion.

Abstract: A deagglomerator for use in resizing masses of cells is disclosed. The deagglomerator may include a plurality of apertures defined by a plurality of front and back edges. The masses of cells may be passed through the plurality of apertures from the front to the back, and from the back to the front, repeatedly. The deagglomerator may also include a plurality of blades that may aid in the deagglomeration of the cell masses. The deagglomerator may be configured between two syringes so that the tissue may be passed back and forth from the first syringe through the device to the second syringe, and then back again from the second syringe through the device and to the first syringe. In this way, the masses of cells may be properly deagglomerated.

Abstract: There is provided a stirring device including a stirring tank including an inner peripheral wall which is circular in cross section, at least one circulating impeller and at least one dispersion blade which are located inside the stirring tank and rotatable around a vertical axis independently of each other, and a guide ring disposed radially outward near the dispersion blade. The circulating impeller is disposed along the inner peripheral wall of the stirring tank, and rotates around the vertical axis to form at least a downward flow in a stirring object existing inside the stirring tank. The dispersion blade rotates to apply a shear force to the stirring object, and is disposed at a radially inner position of the stirring tank from the circulating impeller, and at a position in contact with a flow of the stirring object, which is formed by the circulating impeller.

Abstract: A brewer's spent grain (BSG) grinder includes a charging tank connected to a grinding unit, the charging tank being equipped with a device for BSG moistening, and the grinding unit having an outlet for discharging grinded BSG. The grinding unit includes a stator and a rotor located coaxially with a gap defined between their working surfaces. A device for mixing and moving a mixture into the gap is fixed on a central part of an upper side of the rotor. A device for discharging grinded BSG is located under the rotor. The rotor is configured to allow staged grinding of BSG to obtain coarser and finer fractions of BSG at upper and lower stages of the rotor respectively. An upper part of the rotor is equipped with blades located around a circumference of the rotor, an outer surface of each blade being part of the working surface of the rotor.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for cooling the motor of a frozen confection machine during operation are described. A frozen confection machine has a blade assembly for shaving ice and a housing comprising an air inlet and an air outlet. The machine has a motor disposed in the housing and is attached to a drive shaft for bringing ice into contact with the blade assembly. The machine also includes a drip tray and a heat sink that is in mechanical contact with the drip tray. The machine uses a fan assembly to causes airflow to move into the housing across the heat sink and past the motor for cooling the motor. During use, the airflow cools the motor to prolong motor life and enhance performance. The heat sink may be integrated with the tray or may be a standalone heat sink. The heat sink may have fins or other structures to increase thermal transfer. The airflow may be passively created by convection or enhanced by a fan or otherwise.

Abstract: A well tool assembly, system, and method for handling well debris is described. The assembly includes an electric submersible pump (ESP) configured to be positioned within a wellbore and a well debris cutting tool configured to be positioned downhole relative to the ESP within the wellbore. The ESP is configured to rotate in a first direction to pump well fluid in an uphole direction. The well debris cutting tool is configured to rotate in a second direction opposite the first direction and to grind debris carried by the well fluid in the uphole direction.

Abstract: A liquid pump including a motor housing, a motor, a volute housing joined to the motor housing, and upper and lower seals contained in the volute housing. The motor housing has a motor housing side wall including a distal end joined to the volute housing. The motor includes a rotatable shaft that extends into the volute housing. The volute housing includes an upper volute wall having a major portion in direct fluid communication with the motor housing volume, thereby enabling a high rate of heat transfer from the motor to the fluid in the volute that is being pumped. In that manner, the pump has dual seal capability that reduces the risk of motor damage due to a seal failure, while also having a high rate of heat transfer out of the motor housing, which reduces the risk of failure of the motor from operating at a high temperature.

Abstract: A light weight plate segment configured to be mounted on a disc of a disperser or refiner for comminuted cellulosic material including: a front face having disperser teeth or refining bars; a back face having a raised post surrounding a fastener attachment structure and a raised plate positioning section; side edges of the plate segment; and a radially outer edge and a radially inner edge extending between the side edges; wherein the back face lacks raised structures along the side edges.

Abstract: A kneading device 1 comprising an inner cone 2 and an outer cone 3, wherein the inner cone 2 and the outer cone 3 defines a space 4 in between the inner cone and the outer cone; from a horizontal plane the inner cone 2 inclines and forms an angle ic; from the same horizontal plane the outer cone 3 inclines and forms an angle oc; where the inner cone 2 has an opening in a bottom of the inner cone 2; where both the inner cone 2 and the outer cone 3 continue vertically in an inner extension 5 and an outer extension 6, respectively, wherein a space in between the inner extension 5 and the outer extension 6 is a gap E; where scraping wings 7 extend from a center portion 8 of the kneading device 1 and through the inner cone 2 and the outer cone 3 and towards, but not fixated to, an inner wall 9 of the outer cone 3; and where the outer cone 3 inclines more than the inner cone 2, when viewed from the horizontal plane, so that angle oc>angle ic.

Abstract: In a method for grinding coffee beans (5), the beans (5) are ground off bit by bit by applying a device (1) comprising two tools (20; 40, 42), wherein one of the tools (20; 40, 42) is a grinding tool (20) having an abrasive surface (21), wherein the beans (5) and the abrasive surface (21) are made to contact each other and to perform a relative movement with respect to each other, and wherein another of the tools (20; 40, 42) is a bean delimiting tool (40, 42) having a surface (44) against which the beans (5) are retained during the time that they are in contact with the abrasive surface (21). By grinding off coffee beans (5) instead of crushing coffee beans (5) in a conventional manner, it is achieved that the grinding process can be performed at a relatively high speed and a relatively low torque.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for processing materials such as granular matter mined from deposits, comprising a tubular container disposed upright and an axle device provided centered therein. A processing chamber for receiving the material to be processed is provided between the axle device and the inner wall of the tubular container. The tubular container is driven rotatingly. Engaging dogs are provided in the processing chamber as working elements.

Abstract: A chopping-grinding mill for used objects and other waste materials includes a base, on which a disc-shaped vertical-axis rotor (2) is rotatably mounted, the rotor (2) having a plurality of cutting blades (5, 6) fixed to its upper surface. A disc-shaped coaxial stator (3) is associated with the rotor (2) and carries a plurality of cutting blades (II, 12) fixed to its lower surface. The stator (3) is fixed at an adjustable distance above the rotor (2), which together define a grinding chamber. Primary cutting blades (5, II) extend from the centre to the periphery of the rotor (2) and stator (3) and secondary cutting blades (6, 12) extend only in correspondence of a peripheral crown of the rotor (2) and of the stator (3), while a feeding window (10) of the material to be ground is provided in the stator (3), in the area inside to the peripheral crown.

Abstract: An apparatus, system and method is disclosed for processing geological solids or wellbore cuttings generated by excavation or drilling under a body of water. An apparatus for processing solids in association with a riser may employ a solids processing apparatus having a central cavity that is substantially free of mechanical obstructions. The central cavity may be positioned in-line with the riser. The apparatus may be adapted for receiving solids within the central cavity and reducing the particle size of the solids by action of a cutter assembly which is positioned outside of the central cavity. The cut and processed solids may be pumped to the surface of the water.

Abstract: An automatic and continuous rubber extracting device comprises a first grinding stone having a central opening and second grinding stone rotatable mounted against the first grinding stone. The first grinding stone is a top stone and the second grinding stone is a bottom stone. A cone is disposed within the central opening of the first grinding stone. A motor apparatus is provided for rotating the bottom stone and the cone. A screw feed is in communication with the central opening of the first grinding stone. Plant material from the screw feed is fed along the cone and between the first grinding stone and second grinding stone. The cone may be provided with grooves and recesses along an lateral surface thereof.

Abstract: A powder processing apparatus includes a main body portion having a cylindrical rotor rotating at a high speed, and a cylindrical stator arranged coaxially with the rotor, outside the rotor with a gap therebetween; a supply port provided at one end of the main body portion, and supplying a processing raw material into the gap together with an airflow; and a discharge port provided at the other end of the main body portion, and discharging, from the gap, a processed product obtained by spheroidizing the processing raw material between the rotor and the stator. In the inner peripheral surface of the stator, there are provided circumferential grooves orthogonally intersecting the axis line of the stator, or a spiral groove forming an angle of not less than 60 degrees and less than 90 degrees with respect to the axis line.

Abstract: A grinder has a hollow housing, a support rotatable in the housing about an upright axis, a lower annular grinding disk fixed atop and rotatable with the support, and an upper grinding disk nonrotatably fixed in the housing above the lower disk and forming therewith a radially extending annular grinding gap. The disks form with the housing an annular outlet chamber into which the gap opens radially outwardly. The housing forms an upwardly open intake into which the gap opens radially inward. An electrical drive is connected to the support for rotating the support and lower disk in the housing so that material charged into the intake is ground in the gap and expelled as particles into the output chamber. An angular-contact bearing is braced axially and radially between the support and the housing below the disks.

Abstract: A mixing machine adapted to mix a liquid mixture containing bitumen with solid granules so as to obtain a homogenised bituminous mix. The machine comprising a cylindrical container arranged coaxially to a vertical axis and capable of containing the liquid mixture containing bitumen and the solid granules, a heating circuit for heating the inner side surface of the cylindrical container, a mixing assembly mounted axially rotatable within the container to rotate about the vertical axis, and a driving unit adapted to rotate the mixing assembly about the vertical axis. The mixing assembly comprises a helicoidal blade which extends coaxial to the axis within the container and has its outer peripheral edge in contact with the inner surface of the container so as to scrape the material adhering on the inner surface during its rotation.

Abstract: A nondenatured ground matter with high quality is produced through efficient grinding while preventing overheating by, even in the case of grinding a material to be ground having a flexible thin film, such as cereal grain, efficiently crushing the thin film of low grindability to thereby obtain a ground matter of fine grains with uniform size by the use of simple apparatus and operation. A raw material is fed through raw material supply channel (55,56) into raw material introduction part (11) between fixed grinding disc (4) and moving grinding disc (5). The moving grinding disc (5) is hung down by means of drive shaft (21), and the gap between the same and the fixed grinding disc (4) is adjusted by means of gap adjusting means (7). While preventing any heat transfer from drive unit (8), power is transmitted to the drive shaft (21) so as to rotate the moving grinding disc (5).

Abstract: A mixing apparatus comprises first and second opposing mixing members rotatable relative to one another about an axis and which have facing surfaces which extend away from the axis and which define a mixing chamber therebetween. Means are provided for rotating at least one of the mixing members to provide relative rotation between the first and second mixing members in a first rotational direction. An array of mixing formations on at least one of said surfaces interact to mix material within the mixing chamber and are configured to propel material within the mixing chamber towards the axis. The number of mixing formations on at least one of the surfaces increases with radial distance from the axis.

Abstract: A vertical crusher having a housing defined chamber, enclosing a vertical axis rotor. The chamber has material(s) feed inlet(s) into the chamber. There is a drop-through outlet, which may be closable, from the chamber from which material(s) of at least a maximum size can drop in use. There are air inlet(s) into said chamber and air classifier outlet(s) from the chamber, for air or fine particles. Within the chamber also is a mass of discrete media, agitatable under the direct and/or indirect action of the rotor.

Abstract: A metal paste, in which a filler mainly composed of metal is mixed with good dispersibility, is manufactured with good productivity at a low cost without generating a foil of the metal. A paste-like material (referred to as a paste material hereafter) containing a metal filler is fed into a gap between a pair of rotating whetstones 11 and 12 which are relatively rotated while facing with each other having a specified gap therebetween, to pass and discharge therein. The paste material is thus kneaded and dispersed. In addition, the paste material is kneaded and dispersed by suppressing the generation of a metal foil, adjusting the gap to a specified interval dg and feeding the paste material into the interval while applying thereon a predetermined positive pressure and/or negative pressure.

Abstract: A processing apparatus for fluid with a simple structure, high productivity, ability of precise dispersion, emulsification and grinding, is provided. The apparatus of the present invention comprises at least two processing faces of a first face and a second face, both of which are arranged in a tight-closed passage and positioned opposite to each other to constitute part of said passage, and a contact pressure applying mechanism for putting both faces 1, 2 into closed contact with each other, wherein the rotation of the second processing face 2 in respect of the first processing face 1 may cause dispersion or emulsification of the fluid to be processed between both processing faces 1, 2.

Abstract: A processing apparatus for fluid with a simple structure, high productivity, ability of precise dispersion, emulsification and grinding, is provided. The apparatus of the present invention comprises at least two processing faces of a first face and a second face, both of which are arranged in a tight-closed passage, and positioned opposite to each other to constitute part of said passage, and a contact pressure applying mechanism for putting both faces 1, 2 into closed contact with each other, wherein the rotation of the second processing face 2 in respect of the first processing face 1 may cause dispersion or emulsification of the fluid to be processed between both processing faces 1, 2.