Abstract: An apparatus and method for removing hulls from milo berries is provided. The apparatus includes a first cylindrical shaped chamber having a plurality of abrasive grinding stones mounted on a shaft extending through the chamber. The outlet to the first chamber is connected by a suitable conduit to the inlet of a second, cylindrical shaped chamber having a plurality of wire brushes mounted on a rotor extending through the chamber. An aspiration system connected to the chambers removes hull particles that have been separated from the milo berries. As the milo berries sequentially pass through the chambers, the stones and brushes remove the hulls from the berries.

Abstract: For cleaning foodstuffs in the form of a bulk material, such as cereal grains, rice grains, soybeans, sunflower seeds, coffee beans, and the like, there is provided an optical sorting device (24, 24a, 24a') subsequent to a precleaning system (6), which enables sorting on the basis of color and/or size and/or shape. Each particle of the bulk material is allocated to a particle class determined by parameters and conveyed on a supporting surface transporting the bulk material to a reception area (43, 44, 45) for the respective particle class. To clean the bulk material, impurities and bad particles are sorted out of the product, with the product being partitioned into classes, if required.

Abstract: A lamp processing machine for separating glass, powder and metal lamp components placed within the machine. The machine may include two generally cylindrical, concentrically mounted screens and a tube concentrically mounted between the screens. The screens may be mounted within an enclosure having separate outlets for the powder, glass and metal.

Abstract: Basket for machines for mixing and grinding a number of substances in order to produce uniform mixes, such as those used for paints, with the basket in question featuring along its perimeter a circular ring (1) bound at the inner and outer edges by micro-perforated walls (2 and 3), and with this ring functioning as a channel inside of which microspheres made of glass or of other suitable materials are placed; the central portion of the basket, when viewed from below, appears empty in the middle, with this space being bound along its perimeter by the circular channel (1).

Abstract: A press for separating meat from bones includes an annular pressure chamber defined by an inner slotted separation chamber surrounded by an outer slotted separation chamber for reducing pressure within the chamber by increasing the total open area in the slotted chambers through which the meat can flow, to improve upon the texture of the meat recovered, to reduce its calcium content, and to avoid the total destruction of the bone. Pressure reduction is effected by reducing the volume of the product being depressed in the annular chamber, the elongated slots of the separation chambers present shearing edges for shearing away the meat from the bone as the separation chambers are counter-rotated. A back pressure control valve automatically opens in response to annular chamber pressure acting as a flow restrictor for controlling the pressure.

Abstract: A rotary de-icer for separating ice particles from comestible products covered with such particles, comprises a perforate drum mounted on an upstanding frame for rotation about a central axis of the drum, the drum having a cylindrical side wall comprising an assembly of elements parallel to the central axis and extending between opposing ends of the drum. The elements are mutually spaced apart to define uniform gaps through which separated ice particles fall by gravity upon being tumbled during drum rotation causing the ice-covered products to impact against the drum side wall elements which have continuous arcuate surfaces facing inwardly of the drum presenting a plurality of curved surfaces.

Abstract: An electric recycle mixer including a blade cylinder with a top edge, a bottom edge and an outer wall. The bottom edge has a keyhole coupled to a connector member. The connector member has a blade drive with a first end and a second end. The first end of the blade drive is positioned within the keyhole. The connector member has a pair of fastener tabs on opposite sides. A pair of helical mixing blades extend from the top edge to the bottom edge of the blade cylinder, and are interconnected to the outer wall. A perforated cylinder is positioned over the blade cylinder, and has an intermediate portion with a plurality of holes. A lid threadably engages a neck portion of the perforated cylinder and retains the perforated cylinder in a fixed position. A generally cylindrical housing has the blade cylinder and the perforated cylinder therein, while coupling with the connector. The lid is snap-fastened to a top end of the housing.

Abstract: The present invention is a novel concrete reclaimer cylinder with a closed chamber and a screen chamber. The reclaimer is disposed in a non-horizontal position such that screen chamber is positioned lower than the closed chamber and driven to rotate. Concrete product is received into the closed chamber at its receiving end and is washed with water to produce cement slurry. The cement slurry flows out of the closed chamber at the receiving end leaving a mixture of sand and gravel in the closed chamber. The sand and gravel mixture is advanced through the closed chamber by eight triangular blades. Each blade is planar in shape, with a screen portion disposed within each blade face, with a perpendicular portion extending from the front edge to direct the sand and gravel mixture through an aperture and into the screen chamber. The sand and gravel mixture is received in a rotating screen and washed by high pressure spray to separate the two constituents.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adjustable length rotary drive coupling comprising a first rotary shaft provided with at least one tooth and a second rotary shaft provided with a plurality of abutment surfaces spaced apart along the length thereof associated with each the tooth. One of the rotary shafts is a drive shaft, with the other shaft being a driven shaft. Each tooth is selectively engageable with any of its associated abutment surfaces, to enable the length of the rotary drive coupling to be adjusted.

Abstract: A screen module for a size reduction machine has a rigid screen having a tapered apertured wall formed in a frusto-conical shape. The rigid screen has an open wide end and a flat end. The wide end is mountable within a channel of the size reduction machine at a predetermined distance from a complementarily shaped impeller. The module has a fine screen nested within the rigid screen and against the tapered apertured wall. The fine screen has a wide end and a narrow end corresponding to the apertured wall. An adaptor disc is releasably secured within the rigid screen at the flat end. The adaptor has a tapered outer perimeter for seating against the tapered apertured wall when the adaptor disc is secured within the rigid screen, clamping the narrow end of the fine screen therebetween. A clamp ring is releasably secured at the open wide end of the rigid screen.

Abstract: A trommel cleaner apparatus having a non-circular rotatable shaft with a plurality of flapper elements mounted thereto for wiping and cleaning engagement with a trommel is provided herein. The flapper elements each have a hub having inner and outer surfaces, with the outer surface including a plurality of flappers extending therefrom so as to engage a trommel in cleaning operation and with the inner surface including a plurality of indexing lobes to variably position the flapper element relative to the shaft and adjacent flapper elements, thereby reducing the torque spikes applied to the trommel.

Abstract: A machine for segregating meat from bone, heavy tissue, and skin and having a material conveying screw mounted for rotation within a perforated conduit serving as a screen through which the meat is extruded as the bone, heavy tissue, and skin are conveyed toward the discharge end of the machine, is provided with a cutter ring with a cutting face against which the bone, heavy tissue, and skin are projected and cut before discharge. The conveying screw is preferably a cutter screw having a spiral flight which bears against the inside of the screen and contacts the margins of the perforations of the screen in a close cutting action as the screw rotates. Feeding cut meat and bone into the machine and operating the machine constitutes the method of the invention.

Abstract: A waste compaction and liquid extraction system and method are provided. The system includes a tank for containing liquid and solids, and a tray that seats on the tank. The tray includes a feeding mechanism for moving bags of waste across the tray, and a stuffing mechanism for pushing the bags down into the tank. A rotary disc impeller is mounted in the tank for grinding the solids to form a mixture of liquid and solids. The impeller has a rotating blade with inclined and bevelled cutting members. A stationary helical screw is horizontally mounted to the output port of the tank. The screw has a receiving end adjacent to the output port and a discharge end. The tank conducts the mixture to the receiving end of the screw. A sieve is provided having a cylindrical sieve surface surrounding the screw. The liquid drains through the sieve. The sieve is rotatably mounted to the output port of the tank. The sieve rotates about the screw to move the solids longitudinally towards the discharge end of the screw.

Abstract: A grinder of solids or solids in liquids has a multiple milling stages. A rotating disc plate carries cutting elements on one side and hammer elements on another, both located at the circumference of the disc plate. The disc plate is rotated in a screened chamber to which the solids or the liquids containing solids to be ground are introduced. Ground product or slurry containing disintegrated solids is passed through the screen before discharged. The use of disc plate and milling elements reduces required torque, leading to improved energy efficiency and results in better performance of the grinder.

Abstract: The present invention is a novel concrete reclaimer cylinder with a closed chamber and a screen chamber. The reclaimer is disposed in a non-horizontal position such that screen chamber is positioned lower than the closed chamber and driven to rotate. Concrete product is received into the closed chamber at its receiving end and is washed with water to produce cement slurry. The cement slurry is floated out of the closed chamber at the receiving end leaving a mixture of sand and gravel in the closed chamber. The sand and gravel mixture is advanced through the closed chamber by four triangular blades. Each blade is planar in shape, with a perpendicular portion extending from the front edge to direct the sand and gravel mixture through an aperture and into the screen chamber. The sand and gravel mixture is received in a rotating screen and washed by high pressure spray to separate the two constituents. The sand permeates the rotating screen while the gravel remains inside the rotating screen.

Abstract: A rotary mill, particularly designed for the milling of flour, includes a screen assembly within which the hammer assembly rotates. It consists of a fine inner cylindrical screen surrounded by a coarse support screen. The cylindrical end edges of the screens are supported in end channels. The intake end of the cylindrical screen is provided with an annular wear plate around the inside thereof and extending two or three inches inwardly to protect the fine screen against heavy wear as the whole grain is entering and beginning to be broken up by the hammer assembly. A lip projects inwardly from the free edge of the wear strip to restrain movement of large particles onto the screen.

Abstract: An adjustable length rotary drive coupling comprising a first rotary shaft provided with at least one tooth and a second rotary shaft provided with a plurality of abutment surfaces spaced apart along the length thereof associated with each the tooth. One of the rotary shafts is a drive shaft, with the other shaft being a driven shaft. Each tooth is selectively engageable with any of its associated abutment surfaces, to enable the length of the rotary drive coupling to be adjusted.

Abstract: A media basket mill for dispersing a selected constituent into a liquid vehicle to produce a mixture of the constituent and the liquid vehicle within a mixing vessel includes a basket extending in an axial direction between a upper end and a lower end, a media bed in the basket, and an impeller, the basket having a wall for retaining the media bed within the basket and openings in the wall for permitting passage of the mixture through the wall in response to operation of the impeller when the basket is immersed in the mixture in the vessel, the wall including a bottom wall portion at the lower end and an axially extending side wall portion having an overall diametral dimension, the openings being located at least in the side wall portion, the impeller including a rotor mounted for rotation about the axial direction, and impeller blades on the rotor, the impeller blades having at least blade portions located radially outwardly beyond the diametral dimension of the side wall portion of the wall of the basket fo

Abstract: A mobile fluorescent lamp digesting system which crushes, cleans and classifies various lamp components into distinct groups i.e. clean glass, phosphor powder and metal end-caps, utilizing a crusher fan mounted inside a screen drum which is mounted on single rotating axis. An air knife is directed into fractured material during processing further enhancing cleaning action. The system is operated under negative air pressure to collect any ambient phosphor dust and or mercury vapor via a two stage filtering arrangement. First stage filter media is resistant to plugging by fine dust. The second stage is activated carbon media to collect metallic mercury vapors. Classified components are neumatically transported into collection chambers or drums after processing is completed for easy handling.

Abstract: An apparatus for refining a paper material is formed of a casing, a first chamber situated in the casing and having first and second openings, a second chamber situated inside the casing adjacent the first chamber and having a third opening, a screen plate for dividing the casing into the first and second chambers, and an agitating member situated inside the first chamber adjacent to the screen plate for agitating the paper material in the first chamber. The screen plate removes a part of foreign substances in the paper material. In the invention, a cleaning device for removing the other part of the foreign substances contained in the paper material is situated in the first chamber or the second chamber. The cleaning device is formed of a plurality of cleaners. The paper material supplied from the first opening passes through the cleaning device and the screen plate, and is discharged from the third opening so that the one and the other foreign substances are substantially removed from the paper material.

Abstract: A disc hog for reducing timbers to wood chips and shards of a predetermined maximum size comprises a housing defining a disc-shaped interior cavity and a heavy metal disc disposed in the cavity and mounted for rapid rotation about its central axis. A feeder opening is formed in the housing and a chute is positioned to facilitate the feeding of timbers through the opening for presentation to the front surface of the rotating disc. Both the front surface and the rear surface of the rotating disc is studded with hammer blocks that protrude outwardly from the surface. The hammer blocks on the front surface are sized and configured to impact, tear apart, and shred a timber fed to the disc into wood chips and shards. The hammer blocks on the rear surface of the disc are sized and configured to reduce wood shards and chips to shards of smaller size.

Abstract: A screen apparatus for paper making capable of substantially fully recovering fibers from a paper feedstock which has been subject to a pulper and discharging a residue while dehydrating it. A paper feedstock is subject to two-stage maceration and two-stage screening through first and second screen chambers each provided therein with a screen and macerating blade combination. The screens are each cleaned by the macerating blades, so that fiber pieces contained in the paper feedstock are substantially fully recovered with high efficiency and a residue is discharged while being substantially free of fiber pieces and substantially dehydrated.

Abstract: Apparatus for fragmentizing objects recovers and reprocesses oversized fragments. A shredder is encircled by an annular trommel revolving about a horizontal axis of rotation and which extends over the shredder intake hopper and below the fragment outlet. Fragments which are too large to pass through apertures in the trommel are carried upward by vanes on the trommel and returned to the intake hopper. In one form of the apparatus, a fragment guide has a curved surface extending along at least a lower portion of the trommel and which is spaced from the trommel to allow small fragments to pass through the trommel apertures. Cleats on the trommel urge such fragments towards a fragment discharging end of the guide. Thin elongated fragments which attempt to pass through a trommel aperture are stopped by the presence of the guide and thus are also carried upward and returned to the intake for further processing.

Abstract: The ultracentrifugal disintegrator includes a device for cooling the annular zone (7), extending from the outer face (8) of the rotor (4) to the inner face (9) of the sieve (5), by feeding a gaseous coolant to the upper part of the zone (7), vertically with respect to the zone (7). Such a disintegrator is used for the cryocomminution of heat sensitive material.

Abstract: An improved mechanical fractionation system (20) for processing of xanthophyll-containing vegetative crops and the like to yield economically valuable end products, and particularly a relatively xanthophyll rich high protein, essentially friable when dry particulate fraction primarily derived from non-vascular plant leaf or petal tissue, and a separate tougher, particulate fibrous fraction derived principally from plant stem and the leaf vascular xylem and phloem network. The system (20) preferably includes a drying assembly (22) for partially drying the vegetative crop to a moisture content of from about 15-30% by weight, a fractionating hammermill (24) serving to separate the partially dried crop into a high protein xanthophyll-containing fraction and a high fiber fraction, respectively, and an individual, downstream high protein and high fiber fraction processing assemblies (26, 28).

Abstract: A size reduction machine for use in process industries to continuously and precisely reduce the size of particles, while controlling fines, has a rotatable spindle and a motor operably connected to the spindle for effecting rotation of the spindle. The spindle is mounted within a channel having an input and an output.

Abstract: An abrasive type vertical grain milling machine in which each of spacers comprises a boss portion fitted on a main shaft and a plurality of arm portions extending from the boss portion in the radially outwardly and serving to induce bran removing air into a grain milling chamber through spaces between the circumferentially adjacent arm portions, is capable of discharging bran produced in the grain milling chamber with high bran discharging power and has little possibility that the bran removing power is reduced during operation.

Abstract: Multi-purpose apparatus having a single power-driven disc-like element to effect chipping of branches and related debris fed into a disc-mounted blade/aperture configuration on one side of the disc with a vacuum/volume reduction structure having fan blades disposed on the other side of the disc cooperating with a cylindrical screen. The disc and screen are located within a housing having an air inlet for air moved by the fan blades whereby debris can be drawn in from the front end of an air passageway connected to the air inlet and discharged with the chips and debris through the screen out of a single outlet. The outlet is located at the top of a generally volute housing and the apparatus can be mounted on wheels for walk-behind operation with handlebars supporting a debris collection bag attached to the outlet end of the housing. A passageway conducts air into the housing to which attachments can be affixed.

Abstract: An appliance for sorting and deflaking fiber suspensions has a rotor with a horizontal axis rotatively mounted in a housing. In a first, inlet rotor zone the rotor is provided with entraining means for extracting by centrifugation contaminating particles of high relative density. The rotor is surrounded donwstream by a screening cylinder and is also provided with entraining means for the fiber suspension, which deflake and sort out the fiber suspension in a second rotor zone. In a third rotor zone the fibers are washed out of the rejects after water has been added and in a fourth zone the rejects are dehydrated.

Abstract: A crushing apparatus crushes a supplied material into the form of a fine powder. The material is supplied into a crushing tank while disposing the crushing tank within the processing tank. The supplied material is crushed within the crushing tank and then is discharged to the interior of the processing tank through the axial flow pump member and an axial flow promoting member. During operation, the material is continuously circulated within the processing tank in a manner passing through the crushing tank, whereby crushing is performed in such circulating process. Since the axial flow pump member is provided at the lower portion of the crushing tank, the material in the inclined casing is guided axially downward to generate an axial flow when the inclined vane is rotated. A pumping effect is provided by the axial flow. The crushed material is sucked to the side of the inclined casing and then is emitted downward.

Abstract: A size reduction machine for use in process industries to continuously and precisely reduce the size of particles, while controlling fines, comprises an impeller mounted on a rotatable shaft, a drive operably connected to the shaft for effecting rotation of the shaft. The shaft and impeller are vertically mounted within a vertically extending channel having an input and an output. A screen has a tapered apertured wall formed in a frusto-conical shape. The screen is rigidly mounted within the channel so that any particles passing from the input to the output pass through the screen. The impeller is shaped and mounted so that a gap between an edge of the impeller and an interior of the screen remains substantially constant as the impeller rotates relative to the screen. The improvement comprises the drive being operably connected to the shaft at a point under where the impeller is mounted onto the shaft.

Abstract: A beating apparatus for fibre suspensions, including a housing having at least one inlet for suspension and one outlet for beaten suspension, a rotor rotatably arranged in the housing and having a beating surface, in which open perforations extend through the rotor, and at least one stator arranged in the housing and having a stator shoe located close to the beating surface of the rotor is provided. In order to prevent unbeaten suspension from reaching the outlet, shields and guides are provided between the inlet and the outlet. The shield and guides lead all flow between the inlet and the outlet through the stator shield.

Abstract: The apparatus is for shredding and straining thermo plastic and rubber like materials to produce clear polymer pellets separated from oversize foreign materials, more particularly an apparatus provided with a hopper and forcing section adapted to feed hot or cold selected process materials into a shredding or granulating section which is adapted to granulate vulcanized rubber to pellets so small that they cannot harbor oversize materials or contaminates. The granulating section feeds warmed and under high pressure process material to the straining section which features multiple circumferential openings, adjustable in width in 0.0005 inch graduations, which lead off the fine and fluent phase materials and redirect the oversize and less fluent material to a separate discharge port. To avoid plugging the entrances to the circumferential openings of the straining section are composed of multiple plates, one set of which is stationary and secured to the barrel member.

Abstract: One known type of machine in use for separating meat from feed material containing sinew-like material and bone particles includes a foraminous cylinder or sleevelike screen in which a conveying auger rotates. Such feed material is introduced into the infeed end of the cylinder/auger combination. The auger conveys the feed material toward the discharge end of the combination. During conveyance, meat is separated by exuding through the foramina. Compacted residue formed primarily of bone particles and sinew-like material discharges through a restricted orifice provided by a valve located at the discharge end of the cylinder/auger combination. Heretofore, the foramina in the screen were arranged in circumferential rows separated from each other by circumferential bands free of foramina. According to the present invention, novel foraminous cylinders or screens are provided in which the foraminous areas do not include circumferential bands which are free of foramina.

Abstract: A paper material screening and refining apparatus has a tank which receives a paper material to allow the paper material to accumulate therein; a cylindrical screen which divides the space in the tank into a primary chamber and a secondary chamber; a cylindrical rotary member carried by a rotary shaft and disposed so as to oppose to the screen; a rotational member carried by the rotary shaft and disposed near the end of the tank remote from the paper material receiving end of the tank; a water supply pipe for supplying water into the primary chamber from the region near the rotational member; a water supply valve provided in the water supply pipe; a discharge pipe for discharging the paper material in the primary chamber of the tank from a region near the rotational member; and a discharge valve provided in the discharge pipe.

Abstract: A vertical type grain-milling machine has a perforated bran removing cylinder arranged vertically with respect to a machine frame; a main shaft which is rotatably provided within the perforated bran removing cylinder; and a milling roll and a screw roll which are in abutment with each other and which are mounted on the main shaft, the milling roll being associated with a grain discharging section and the screw roll being associated with a grain supplying section. The perforated bran removing cylinder is surrounded by an air in-take frame which has a large number of through-holes for causing in-flowing air to have a downward component of orientation. The discharging of the bran externally of the machine is enhanced and the adherence of bran onto the inner wall of the air in-take frame and the perforated bran removing cylinder is prevented.

Abstract: Apparatus for processing asphalt material to be recycled by introducing used asphalt material from the field in relatively large pieces, as received from the field, into one end of a cage-like array of tubular breaker members while simultaneously heating the tubular breaker members from the other end of the cage-like array and rotating the cage-like array about a tilted central axis of rotation to tumble the material within the cage-like array and reduce the size of the pieces of material to a desired aggregate size within a mass of material moving toward the other end of the cage-like array, the tubular breaker members being spaced apart circumferentially such that only the desired aggregate-sized pieces in the mass of material pass radially out of the cage-like array for delivery and reuse, collecting and oxidizing pollutants emanating from the asphalt material being processed and, in an alternate embodiment, generating electrical power for use at the site of the apparatus.

Abstract: An extensible spacer device for setting a gap between an impeller and a screen of a size reduction machine comprises a first collar having an axially extending bore, an internal thread on an inside surface of the bore and a circumferential shroud extending axially, a second collar having a base portion, a barrel portion and an axially bore extending therethrough. The barrel portion has an external thread adapted to threadingly engage the internal thread. The shroud is adapted to cover the barrel portion and frictionally engage the base portion when the first collar threadingly engages the second collar. A calibrated scale is on the base portion and a plurality of gradations circumferentially extends about the shroud to indicate an axial length of the spacer device as the first collar is rotated relative to the second collar.

Abstract: A perforated cylindrical receptacle is fitted within the main cylinder of an ordinary sink drain. A conical elevation of the bottom of the receptacle provides at the apex, a bearing point for a propeller, which may spin by the flow of draining fluid to free and fragment debris. By depressing a spring loaded bearing point, the same propeller can be used to manually force the propeller against the floor of the receptacle to crush and grind more resistant material. A plug placed below the receptacle and prop assembly can be raised or lowered by rotation of the assembly. The assembly is removable for cleaning and inspection.

Abstract: The drum incorporates an inner and outer cylinder, having a helical vane located intermediate thereof, with the media drum being supported upon a base and rotated by a drive motor. The drum contains two parts, an entrance segment and an exit segment. At the exit segment, reclaiming media and sand passes into the space between the inner and outer cylinders and is carried to the entrance segment by the helical vanes. At the entrance segment, the media is picked up by a reclaimer which reintroduces the media into the reclaimer to recycle the media.

Abstract: A mobile screening apparatus includes a horizontal rotary drum preferably fed by underflow from a prescreening device that is reversible endless belt of screening grizzly bars. The belt reverses for expelling oversize material caught between bars. Force needed to turn the drum is monitored, as a way of controlling drum feeding by the prescreening device, for preventing protracted over-filling of the drum. The screening drum includes an outer peripheral cage of longitudinal bars, at least some of which preferably are movably mounted. A set of wires is circumferentially wrapped about the bar cage, with sufficient flexibility to permit the wires to locally elastically flex away from the bars sufficient to pass slightly oversize material and facilitate cleaning of debris lodged in spaces among the bars and wires. Brushes help dislodge lodged debris.

Abstract: The invention is a center fed hammer mill having a base plate, one or more intermediate plates having a central opening or hole, the intermediate plates being held together in fixed relative position by pins running through the outer edge of the intermediate plates, one or more hammers attached to the pins and a top plate having a central hole which is coextensive with the central hole of the intermediate plates, as well as a tube affixed to the top plate. The invention also comprises a method of using a center fed hammer mill.

Abstract: An improved motor coupling and bearing housing are disclosed for a meat deboning machine and the like wherein the motor coupling includes an axially fixed coupling between a drive motor shaft and an auger which accommodates axial movement during thermal expansion to reduce bearing and other parts failure, and allow the drive motor to operate at its magnetic center. A thrust bearing operates between the coupling and is pre-loaded by a biasing force exerted between the coupling and the drive motor shaft which also loads the coupling as it floats over the drive motor shaft. A twist lock connection is made between the coupling and the auger which allows for quick assembly and disassembly while maintaining a good drive connection. An idler housing in conjunction with the motor coupling accommodates thermal expansion of the auger clearance in the motor coupling accommodates small amounts of angular misalignment without placing large forces on the bearings.

Abstract: An infeed chute with a material and air deflector is provided for a shredding device such as a bark hog. The infeed chute is attached to the inlet of the cutting device and a material and air deflector is defined therein for preventing material from being ejected out of the infeed chute by the cutting blades without substantially obstructing material inflow. The material and air deflector is attached to the inside of the infeed chute and includes a flat plate upstream deflector surface and a curved downstream deflector surface. The deflector surfaces extend across the infeed chute to define a substantially tortuous path between the inlet and outlet of the infeed chute to prevent material ejected by the cutting device from leaving the inlet of the infeed chute or from obstructing infeed flow.

Abstract: A media basket mill is used for dispersing a selected constituent into a liquid vehicle to produce a mixture of the constituent and the liquid vehicle and includes a basket containing a media bed of discrete media elements for immersion within a batch of the constituent and the liquid vehicle in a mixing vessel, a first impellar for establishing a first pressure differential adjacent a first end of the basket for moving the mixture along a circuit through the basket, and through the media bed in the basket, when the basket is immersed in the batch in the vessel and a second impeller for establishing a second pressure differential adjacent a second end of the basket for assisting in the movement of the mixture along the circuit into the basket and through the basket, and through the media bed in the basket, to increase the throughput of the mixture through the basket and the media bed in the basket, while deterring escape of media elements from the basket the second end of the basket.

Abstract: A process and device for the treatment of waste substances for the purposes of recovering organic matter involving introducing, by a suitable mechanical device, the substrate of waste substances to be treated; opening, by thermal fusion, any various packages containing this substrate; separating the fine elements of this substrate by screening; selectively fragmenting the coarse residues from the first sizing; separating these residues by screening; separating all of the screened fragments by means of magnetic sorting; differentially wetting these screened fragments; sorting these fragments by differential rebound and aqueous adherence; and removing, by a mechanical device, the substrate of screened waste substances.

Abstract: A mixing machine for dispersing finely divided solid particles in a liquid vehicle including an agitator shaft, a rotor stator assembly, a plurality of stator support rods, variable flow restrictor means being associated with the stator portion and a second variable flow restrictor means being associated with the rotor stator assembly.

Abstract: A machine is employed for recovering heavy metals, such as gold, from placer ore. The machine employs a cylindrical, annular outer drum mounted for rotation at an inclination to the horizontal and including at least one spiral vane extending the length of its inner surface. A cylindrical, annular inner barrel is mounted within the drum and has an upper fragmentation section, an intermediate trommel section, and a lower discharge section. A spray of water is directed into the inner barrel and a water spray bar is located in the annulus between the inner barrel and the outer drum. A sluice box is located to receive an input discharge from the upper end of the outer drum. The ore is separated into large tailings that are discharged from the lower end of the inner barrel and fine, light tailings from the outer drum.

Abstract: A screening machine has a rotating screening drum for screening dirt or other material to a desired size through the screen openings, and is made so that it reduces clogging of the screen, even when rocks, dirt clods, and moist dirt is being screened. The rotating drum has interior brushes and a beater bar for keeping the material moving on the interior of the drum. A holding bin and feeding conveyor is used at the input end of the machine and is positioned to empty into an input pulverizer or shredder, that has a powered drum that will break the dirt clods up. The holding bin has a cover grate to remove excessively large rocks and the like. The output from the pulverizing roller also drops material onto a grate through which the material passes before reaching the screening drum. These grates are called "grizzly bars" and help in the classification process. The screening drum can be converted to a mixer drum by lining the screen wall with sheet metal and removing the normally used interior brushes.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for fiberizing feed stock in the form of shreds or the like to form a low density cellulosic product. The shredded feed stock is fed to a material handling rotor that functions as a centrifugal blower. The apparatus includes a housing that defines a cylindrical rotor chamber formed about a horizontal axis and a volute-shaped internal passage having at least one convolution formed around the rotor chamber. Located within the housing is a cylindrical screen with perforations that open into the rotor chamber. The centrifugal blower rotor is mounted in the rotor chamber and has a plurality of radial vanes with rakes attached to the outer ends closely spaced from the inner surface of the screen so that they continuously wipe pass the perforations to prevent clogging or blinding.