Abstract: A grinding device for containers dispensing food products, which includes means for selectively adjusting the distance between blades and teeth and thereby selecting at will the desired grain size for grinding. The device has a static piece that is coupled to the neck of the container and is connected to a rotary piece such that the fixed piece includes a series of teeth which, together with blades projecting from the bottom face of the rotary piece, constitute the grinding mechanism of the device. The device includes, on the outside of the fixed piece, two or more channels that guide the rotation and axial retention of the rotary piece, while the rotary piece contains projections for fitting into the channels of the fixed piece.

Abstract: The proposed multifunctional hydrodynamic vortex type reactor includes —a housing having curvilinear inner sidewalls, —a base attached to the housing, an inverse taper narrowing downward and attached to the top of housing, —a supporting tube passing at least through the housing and base, —a set of washers tapered downward and mounted on an outer surface of the supporting tube such that outer upper edges of the set of washers and the inner sidewalls form predetermined gaps therebetween, and —a number of inlets tangentially attached to the base for introducing, under external pressure, a solid substance and a liquid (or a suspension of their mixture) thereinto, forming a circulating flow therein. The flow forms a high speed bypassing cavitation zone and, changing its direction at the inverse taper, forms a vortex cavitation zone, providing for mixing and grinding the substance up to nanoscale sizes. Methods for intensifying cavitation are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for a material reducing machine that allows a reducing rotor to be selectively configurable in a plurality of different reducing configurations. The different reducing configurations in which the reducing rotor can be configured can include reducing configurations having reducers located at different positions, reducing configurations having different reducer densities (e.g., different overall densities and different regionalized densities), reducer configurations having different reducer counts, reducer configurations having different reducer patterns, and reducer configurations having different lay-outs.

Abstract: The invention relates to macerator for processing a slurry, the macerator comprising an inlet configured to receive a flow of inlet slurry comprising particles having an average particle size of less than 20 mm, an outlet, two or more bodies that rotate relative to each other, each body comprising a plurality of apertures to define a flow path through each body, wherein the slurry traverses the flow path from the macerator inlet to the macerator outlet via the at least one aperture of each body to produce an outlet slurry.

Abstract: The invention involves an automatic shut-off waste disposer that may be activated with a control module, which utilizes a programmable automatic shut-off routine. This enables a user to turn on the garbage disposer and walk away without having to turn the disposer off. In exemplary embodiments, activation of the disposer includes actuation of a solenoid valve for injecting a stream of water flow into the dispenser chamber in order to facilitate a proper water flow while the disposer is actively disposing of food waste. In some exemplary embodiments, activation of the disposer may be achieved via a user-activated pneumatic actuator, which may be installed in proximity to the sink to which the disposer is coupled. In some exemplary embodiments, the disposer implements a sensor for automatically shutting of a motor of the disposer upon a predetermined event.

Abstract: Animal bedding is disclosed. The animal bedding comprises a juniper tree cut at ground level, the juniper tree having needles and a trunk. The juniper tree is naturally dried until the needles are brown, then ground using a screen that is 3 inches or less. The ground juniper tree is hammer milled and dust of 20 mesh minus is extracted from the hammer milled tree, which is then placed in a bagging machine and dust is vacuumed from the juniper tree. The juniper tree is then bagged.

Abstract: A stirring mill, including a horizontally arranged milling vessel and a stirring shaft which is arranged therein so that it can be rotationally driven are provided. The stirring shaft has a first stirring shaft section adjacent to an inlet for material to be ground, which has a smaller diameter D24, and a second stirring shaft section adjacent to an outlet for material to be ground, which has a larger diameter D25 and in which a separating device is formed. Bypass channels leading into the separating device are formed in the first stirring shaft section.

Abstract: A turret includes a generally frusto-conical shaped body and a plurality of static straightening vanes arranged interior to the body, the vanes dividing the body into a plurality of substantially equal sections. The vanes are configured to straighten a swirling flow of solid particles as they enter the body, and to divide the swirling flow into a plurality of straightened flows that are communicated to a plurality of coal outlet pipes.

Abstract: A system includes a grinder to obtain a ground meat; a mixer to add fat to the ground meat; a payload bay to receive the ground meat; a plurality of evaporators coupled to the payload bay; a pump to force coolant flowing through the evaporators; and means for adding fat to the chopped meat product and then chopping the fat and adding liquid nitrogen to maintain the temperature of the chopped meat product and fat being chopped between 1° C. and 10° C. to obtain a chopped meat and fat product.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for recycling asphalt millings containing bitumen and stone. A milling tube is provided having an outer tube and an inner tube axially aligned with and substantially contained within the outer tube, the inner tube having a diameter less that a diameter of the outer tube to thus define a mixing space between the inner and outer tubes. At least one of the inner and outer tubes is adapted to rotate relative to the other. An inlet is provided to the mixing space to receive the asphalt millings. A plurality of inner tube projections project radially outward from a surface of the inner tube toward the outer tube, and a plurality of outer tube projections project radially inward from a surface of the outer tube toward the inner tube. The milling tube facilitates the separation of the asphalt millings into bitumen and stone as one of the inner and outer tubes rotates relative to the other.

Abstract: The waste shredding device includes at least one shredding shaft, an electric motor for driving the at least one shredding shaft, a mains connection for supplying the electric motor with electrical energy and an energy store for storing energy and for at least partially supplying the electric motor with electrical energy, in particular for covering power peaks. Furthermore, a corresponding method for operating the waste shredding device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for dissociating different constituents of a heterogeneous artificial material, including the fragmentation of the material in a fragmentation machine by material-bed compression, the machine including at least one vibrator and a system for controlling at least one parameter of the fragmentation force from the speed of rotation of the vibrator and the phase shift angle between at least two vibrators. The control system adjusts a rotation parameter of the vibrators so as to generate a fragmentation force by the machine allowing to at least partially dissociate at least one of the constituents of the material from the other constituents.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments include diesel-electric powered, substantially heavier (e.g., 120 ton), larger (e.g., 11? 8? and 12? 6? diameter wheels), and more powerful (e.g., 250-350 hp per wheel) landfill compactors. Disclosed embodiments also include an integral hammer mill, oriented in an “upside-down” configuration to additionally compact landfill waste.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to subterranean formation operations and, more particularly, to milling oilfield particulates for use in subterranean formation operations. The embodiments provide systems and methods which may include jet mills that can be customized to grind desirably sized crude oilfield particulates, thereby creating operational oilfield particulates, and containerized for ease of use, movement, and shipping.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of food waste disposers, and, more particularly, to food waste disposers with embedded sprinkler assemblies.

Abstract: A crusher bucket comprising a casing in which there are mounted crushing means comprising a fixed jaw and a movable jaw, in which the movable jaw is supported on the casing by means of a pair of eccentric shafts, wherein at least one of the eccentric shafts is directly fixed to the side walls of the casing.

Abstract: A powder deagglomerator includes a vertical flow chamber, a powder inlet tube, and an ultrasonic horn vibrationally coupled to an ultrasonic transducer. The vertical flow chamber includes an outer wall, powder outlet port, and a mounting port sealably engaging an ultrasonic horn. The powder inlet tube extends through the outer wall and is aligned to dispense agglomerated powder in a gaseous stream downward onto a distal end of the ultrasonic horn. A method of using the powder deagglomerator to deagglomerate a powder is also disclosed.

Abstract: An emulsion system is provided. The system includes a shaft that supports a plurality of cutting assemblies and screens in alternating order, wherein the cutting assembly rotates with respect to an in close proximity to the screen. The cutting assemblies include a plurality of cutting elements that extend radially outward from a hub and are positioned at consistent radial spacing along the perimeter of the hub. Each cutting element includes front and back edges that cut food particles in conjunction with holes within the screen, wherein the front and back edges are substantially perpendicular.

Abstract: An electronic grinder powered by a smartphone has an electronics housing removably attached to a container section. The electronics housing has a motor and a microcontroller powered by a smartphone connected by a universal serial bus connector. The container section is sealed at the top by an openable, swivel-mounted cap. The motor has a blade that extends into the container section. The blade connected to the motor by a magnetic connection and the blade is configured to grind material disposed in the container section when the container section is closed.

Abstract: A high-voltage electric pulse device for crushing pretreatment of ores includes an ore feeding bin, a pulse insulating barrel body, a supporting frame, a pulsation device, a product collector and a power supply. The pulse insulating barrel body and the pulsation device are assembled together, a pulsation insulating barrel body is connected with an actuating diaphragm, the actuating diaphragm is connected with an ore discharging outlet, a pulsation cone is arranged in the ore discharging outlet, the pulsation cone is hinged to a connecting rod, and the connecting rod is hinged to an eccentric wheel. Expanding and contracting devices are arranged on a cover plate, a copper bar of each expanding and contracting device is connected to a corresponding high-voltage ceramic capacitor through a high-voltage wire in parallel. A high-voltage negative pole is mounted on a screen cloth at the pulse insulating barrel body.