Patents Examined by Faye Francis
  • Granulator mill
    Patent number: 11273450
    Abstract: Granulator mill granule chamber including at least one non-rotatable blade, rotatable rotor arranged inside the granule chamber, the rotor a number of blades which are arranged for cooperation with the non-rotatable blade, a infeed hopper for feeding waste into the granule chamber, a grid arranged in the granule chamber, where through granulated waste is allowed to pass to an outfeed hopper. A scraping device is provided in a space located axially in between a housing and the rotatable rotor and the scraping device is attached to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: RAPID GRANULATOR AB
    Inventors: Ernad Jugo, Kurt Sjöberg, Jasmin Bukaric, Henrik Karlsson
  • Silicon rod crushing method and apparatus, and method of producing silicon lumps
    Patent number: 11273451
    Abstract: A silicon rod crushing method relatively moves an application position of high-voltage pulse discharge to a silicon rod in a longitudinal direction thereof while rotating the silicon rod to thereby crush the silicon rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromi Ibaragi
  • Mill for spice products
    Patent number: 11266269
    Abstract: The mill for spice products, in particular such as cinnamon sticks, houses a reservoir for storing the spice product. The reservoir communicates through a passage, with a grinding mechanism. The reservoir includes a mechanism for fragmenting the spice product. The mechanism for fragmenting are defined by a crusher of the spice product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: PEUGEOT SAVEURS
    Inventors: Nicolas Brouillac, Samuel Savatier, Gaetan Carrier
  • System and apparatus for processing waste egg shells into products
    Patent number: 11266997
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for processing waste egg shells into (i) a first product including calcified egg shell particles having diameters of 3? or less, and (ii) a second product including calcified egg shell particles having diameters in a range from about 3? to about 7?. The first product may be used as a CaCO3 substitute for paint compositions and plastics compositions. The second product may be used as a CaCO3 blasting media substitute for use with abrasive blasting equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventor: Jack Maendel
  • Method and apparatus for rock disintegration
    Patent number: 11266995
    Abstract: Ore rock is disintegrated into extremely fine rock fraction in a slurry by subjecting the slurry in selective orders of application of excitation forces and energy to cause spontaneous cavitation to occur in the slurry. The excitation forces and energy are provided by electrodynamic discharges, hydrostatic force, hydrodynamic energy, and sonic vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventors: Victor Zaguliaev, Nikolai Novikov
  • Apparatus for comminution of dried plants
    Patent number: 11260394
    Abstract: Apparatus for comminution of dried tea leaves, herbs and other dried plants and their component parts. The apparatus facilitates gentle comminution of the comminuted commodity. The apparatus includes arrangements of driven comminuting rollers and housing (1) with an overhead inlet (6) and a bottom outlet (7) for ground commodity, and may include at least two or more rotatably driven comminuting rollers (2, 3) arranged in at least two or more levels (4, 5) one above the other. The rollers (2, 3) are studded with cams (24) for a comminution operation. Combs (15) may interface with the comminuting rollers. Comb adjusters (23) facilitate adjustment of combs that are adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: Lukas Pfammatter, Marco Aschwanden
  • Cutter wheel, cutter disc as well as cutter assembly suitable for grinder pumps
    Patent number: 11253866
    Abstract: A cutter assembly configured for a grinder pump and including a cutter wheel and a cutter disc that interact with each other. The cutter wheel includes a shaft portion that is configured to interact with a central hole of the cutter disc, a hub portion that is connected to the shaft portion and at least two main cutting edges that in the radial direction extend outwards from the hub portion and that are configured to interact with a set of cutting holes of the cutter disc. The shaft portion includes an axially extending cutting recess. The hub portion includes only one radially extending cutting recess. The cutter disc includes a suction side, a central hole that is configured to interact with the shaft portion of the cutter wheel and a set of cutting holes that open in the suction side radially outside the central hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventor: Jan Bäcke
  • Comminuting device
    Patent number: 11253865
    Abstract: An exemplary aspect encompasses a comminution apparatus for comminution of material to be comminuted which includes a machine frame, a driven comminution roller which is mounted on the machine frame and comminution tools. A comb including counter tools and a comb flap is pivotably mounted on the machine frame, wherein the comminution roller cooperates with the comb for comminution, wherein the comb is pivotably mounted on the comb flap in the range of its upper end, wherein at least one spring means engages the comb with its first end and wherein the comb is resiliently supported via the spring means. In accordance with one aspect the spring means is supported by its second end on the machine frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Doppstadt Familienholding GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Doppstadt
  • Dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect
    Patent number: 11253867
    Abstract: Dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect dryly processes viewable fine-grained substances into a nano-sized dimension by high-pressure airflow resulted from a pressure-generating unit, as well as high-speed fluid and high mechanical momentum generated in a pressure cylinder by high-speed rotation of a booster impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Hsiao, Yu-Chih Hsiao
  • Spice and herb finger grinder
    Patent number: 11246454
    Abstract: A fingertip grinder mechanism is provided with which a user can manually grind spices, herbs, and other organic materials without pain, fatigue, or other discomforts. Five specific types of fingertip grinders include the thumb grinder, the fore fingertip grinder, the two fingertip grinder, the three fingertip grinder, and the four fingertip grinder. An individual puts on one type of fingertip grinder on one hand and another type on the other hand and proceeds to rub their hands back and forth together to effect the grinding of the contents between the hands. The grinder element can have holes as well as the grinding spikes and a tray built in under the grinder element to catch and store the residue of the grinding process that enters through the holes. Magnets can be embedded in the fingertip elements so that they can cling to each other and not get misplaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventor: Rosalind Louise Crowley
  • Food processor with overflow detection ring
    Patent number: 11246453
    Abstract: Embodiment provides a food processor with overflow detection ring. The overflow detection ring includes an annular body, a detecting portion connected to an inner edge of the annular body and extending along one side of the annular body, and a lead connecting structure connected to an outer edge of the annular body. The annular body, the detecting portion, and the lead connecting structure are in electrically conduction with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: GUANGDONG MIDEA CONSUMER ELECTRICS MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rong Liu, Jianfei Xu, Yan Tang
  • Material processing machine with a colorizer system and methods of reducing and colorizing waste material
    Patent number: 11241696
    Abstract: A material processing machine having a reducing system for material reducing operations is disclosed. The reducing system includes a rotor having processing tools to reduce the material within a reducing chamber. A colorizer system includes a manifold positioned adjacent a screen defining a plurality of apertures for directing colorant from a colorant source through the apertures towards the reducing system. The material reducing operations include a two-stage reducing operation with selectively interchangeable screens that incrementally reduce the material to provide substantially uniform colorizing and material size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Smoracy, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Douglas Kimbell, Chad Dale Cross
  • Agitator ball mill and method for operating an agitator ball mill
    Patent number: 11235336
    Abstract: An agitator ball mill including an in particular horizontal grinding container, which has a first end area having a grinding material inlet and a second end area having a grinding material outlet, and a method for operating an agitator ball mill. The agitator ball mill includes a shaft, which can be rotated in the grinding container or in the grinding chamber, respectively, by means of a drive unit and which is formed as agitator shaft at least in sections and which is equipped with agitator elements, as well as a separating device. The separating device includes a classifier rotor, which is arranged on the agitator shaft axially spaced apart from the grinding material outlet and has a rotatable rotor cage, as well as a screen unit, which is arranged within the rotor cage and which is fastened to the classifier rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Enderle, Claus Simon, Sergio Soria
  • Method and device for discharging hard to grind particles from a spiral jet mill
    Patent number: 11235337
    Abstract: A grinding, separating, and discharging of hard to grind parts of a material mixture of components with different grindability from a spiral jet mill, wherein the hard to grind parts are discharged from the process chamber via at least one additional discharge nozzle. A spiral jet mill for comminuting and classifying grinding material, including at least one process chamber, wherein this at least one process chamber is enclosed by a housing, at least one grinding material feeding, which leads into the at least one process chamber, at least two grinding nozzles, a fine material outlet, which is radially enclosed by a separator wheel, wherein at least one discharge nozzle is assigned to the process chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEIZSCH Trockenmahltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Winter, Hermann Sickel
  • Coffee grinder
    Patent number: 11229323
    Abstract: A coffee grinder has a housing that includes a ring burr, a shaft extending through the ring burr, a frustoconical burr, and an interlocking plug. An internal bore of the frustoconical burr has an upper cylindrical surface adjacent the top end, an interlocking portion adjacent the bottom edge, and a tapered side surface. The interlocking plug is shaped to extend through the internal bore of the frustoconical burr, and includes an upper cylindrical portion that fits through the upper cylindrical surface, and a lower portion that includes a sidewall surface which is also tapered such that the sidewall surface interlocks with the side surface of the frustoconical burr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Jana Media, LLC
    Inventors: Raj Jana, Thomas Hazzard
  • Shredder with paper separation and advancement mechanism
    Patent number: 11229914
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to an apparatus having cutter elements for destroying articles such as paper sheets and a mechanism for separating at least a sheet from a stack in a tray. The separation mechanism can be activated by rotation of the cutter elements. In one embodiment, the separation mechanism is provided in the form of a helical mechanism configured for insertion into the stack and to receive separated sheets from the stack in between its space(s) as it is rotated. The separated sheets can fall via gravity into the shredder mechanism. Optionally, a paper feed mechanism can feed separated paper to the cutter elements. The tray can include an edge to assist in directing separated paper towards the cutter elements. One or more staple picking support mechanisms can also be provided to assist in separating sheets from a stapled set of pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: FELLOWES, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Carson, Tai Hoon K. Matlin, Shawn Michael Applegate, Dennis William Gruber, Dipan Pravin Surati
  • Jet milling method
    Patent number: 11229915
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for simultaneously jet milling and conditioning particulate material comprising a grinding chamber and an aerosol generator arranged to supply liquid aerosol into the grinding chamber. A composition made by this method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: VECTURA LIMITED
    Inventors: Fergus Manford, Matthew Green
  • Mill for granular food
    Patent number: 11229324
    Abstract: A mill for granular food including an adjuster attached to a barrel unit and rotatable relative to the barrel unit and to be prevented from coming off the barrel unit in an axis direction. A ground particle size for granular food is adjusted by rotating the adjuster. A movement attachment and detachment unit that inscribes an outer mill unit in the barrel unit and the adjuster, and makes the outer mill unit movable in the axis direction and makes the outer mill unit attachable and detachable. A rotary shaft extending from a rotary operation unit extends downward along a mill. An inner mill unit is attached to the rotary shaft. The adjuster is provided with a movement restricting unit that restricts movement of the inner mill unit to a predetermined position. Releasing the restriction makes the inner mill unit and the outer mill unit extractable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KAI R&D CENTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Abo
  • Apparatus for tearing meat
    Patent number: 11224230
    Abstract: An apparatus for tearing meat is disclosed. The apparatus includes a gravity-fed hopper including at least one sidewall that forms a first opening configured to receive meat articles and a second opening configured to discharge torn meat articles. The apparatus includes a rotatable spindle element positioned at least partially within the hopper and downstream of the first opening. The rotatable spindle element includes a shaft having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of teeth coupled to the shaft, the teeth being spaced apart from one another. The apparatus includes a plurality of rods, which extend from the sidewall spaced apart from one another and which are interlaced with the plurality of teeth, and a motor coupled to the rotatable spindle element configured to rotate the rotatable spindle element to cause at least some of the plurality of teeth to rotate and pass between two different rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: House of Raeford Farms, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronnie Cameron
  • Food processor having external slicing disc adjustment
    Patent number: 11224312
    Abstract: A food processor having an external slicing disc adjustment mechanism is provided. The food processor includes a work bowl and a lid configured to be selectively removable therefrom. The food processor further includes a slicing disc having a disc body and a slicing blade internal to the work bowl, and a mechanism for adjusting a spacing between the disc body and slicing blade. The mechanism includes a rotatable lever accessible form outside the work bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CONAIR LLC
    Inventor: Joseph W. Zakowski