Patents Examined by Joseph Finan
  • Patent number: 10449549
    Abstract: The invention discloses an environmentally friendly fertilizer device based on big data, comprising a work box and a crushing space set in the work box, wherein a crushing driving space is set in one end wall of the crushing space, wherein a crushing mechanism is set in the crushing driving space; by turning on a first electromagnetic switch, the kitchen garbage enters the crushing space from the feed inlet, so the kitchen garbage is crushed by the crushing space. A transmission space is arranged in the lower end wall of the crushing space, and a driving space is set in the lower end wall of the crushing driving space; a stirring space is set in the lower end wall of the transmission space; the crushed kitchen garbage enters the stirring space through a circulation pipeline and is stirred by the stirring mechanism, thereby the kitchen garbage can be fully fermented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Inventor: Guosong Ge
  • Patent number: 10442620
    Abstract: Apparatus for processing material in a pneumatic material conveying system, which apparatus includes a waste container/separating device, into which material is configured to be conducted from a conveying pipe of the pneumatic material conveying system via an inlet aperture and which is configured to be connected to a device for achieving a partial vacuum. The apparatus further includes a press device/compactor device, which is arranged to act on the material (w) conducted into the waste container/separating device, via at least one aperture formed in the container, and that at least one wall that is transverse with respect to the input direction of the material is arranged in the container space of the waste container/separating device, which wall is configured to guide the material into the operating range in the container space of the compression device of the press device/compactor device. A waste container/separating device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: MARICAP OY
    Inventor: Göran Sundholm
  • Patent number: 10399086
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for disinfecting medical waste. The method includes shredding the medical waste via a shredder until the medical waste has a predetermined particle size. Further steps include spreading the medical waste onto a heating conveyor and conveying the shredded medical waste through a heating chamber via a heating conveyor. Thus, within the heating chamber, the shredded medical waste is heated via one or more infrared heating elements and at least one additional heating source, e.g. induction heating, such that the medical waste is heated from a plurality of directions. The resulting treated medical waste is biologically inert and clean and can be disposed of in standard commercial garbage or roll-off bins, which are typically located at medical facilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Viradys Medical Waste Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene W. Waldenmaier, H. Eugene W. Waldenmaier, Michael W. Green
  • Patent number: 10392776
    Abstract: A jaw assembly for a demolition tool is disclosed. The jaw assembly comprises at least one first coupling portion and at least one second coupling portion disposed on a first jaw. The first coupling portion comprises an intermediate contact member and side contact members laterally extending from opposite sides of the intermediate contact member. A wear plate comprises a body element saddling the intermediate contact member, a pair of spaced apart first engagement elements extending from an end of the body, and a pair of spaced apart second engagement elements extending from an opposite end for engaging the side contact members. An active module is removably coupled to the second coupling portion and comprises a body member and a pair of braces disposed on opposite sides of the body member, wherein a brace extends over the second coupling elements. The wear plate may be replaced when worn out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Work Tools B.V.
    Inventor: John Van Gemert
  • Patent number: 10391500
    Abstract: A gyratory crusher shell has an annular wall extending around a longitudinal axis. A plurality of ears project radially outward from an annular rim of the topshell with each ear including a respective lug to sit within a corresponding recess at an annular rim of the topshell to rotatably lock the crushing shell at the topshell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Mikael M Larsson, Anders Hallberg
  • Patent number: 10383481
    Abstract: Disclosed is a blender including a noise blocking device. The blender includes: a container receiving food therein and having a processing member in which a processing member for processing food accommodated in the container is rotatably mounted thereon; a handle connected to the container; a body configured to allow the container to be mounted on an upper side thereof and receiving a drive device for supplying drive force for rotation of the processing member; and a noise blocking device connected to the body to define a closed space for receiving the container, wherein the handle is disposed outside the noise blocking device. The blender has a compact and simple structure, and provides user convenience. The noise blocking device of the blender can have an improved noise blocking effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: NUC Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ji Tae Kim
  • Patent number: 10384176
    Abstract: Provided is a stirring device that allows a weight measurement during a rotation operation to be accurately performed while suppressing increase in reinforcement structures required for support of a stirring container and suppressing increase in weight. A device frame is provided with legs, a heating kettle is provided with a reinforcement base attached on the bottom side, a motor bed is provided to support a cutter/motor unit to the reinforcement base or the device frame, load cells are provided to indirectly measure a change in weight of a stirring substance in the heating kettle during a rotation operation of the cutter/motor unit, and closed reinforced structures are configured to include the heating kettle, the cutter/motor unit, the reinforcement base, and the supporting stand as reinforcing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Kajiwara Inc.
    Inventors: Hidehiro Kajiwara, Norikazu Ishii, Masatoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10349582
    Abstract: A baler including a baling chamber that includes a bale-forming channel including an inlet end and an outlet end, a plunger mounted within the channel for compressing bale material in the channel and driving the compressed bale material towards the outlet end of the channel, and a rotary drive mechanism for driving reciprocating movement of the plunger, and an additional drive mechanism for driving the compressed bale material towards the outlet end of the channel, thereby reducing torque in the rotary drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: KUHN-GELDROP BV
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Galant, Marijn Van De Laarschot
  • Patent number: 10343227
    Abstract: A motorized manually operated pressing tool, in particular a crimping tool, with a fixed holding part, in which at least one pressing jaw is pivotably mounted about a pivot axis. The pressing jaw forms a working area and an impingement region extending in the longitudinal direction of the pressing jaw. In order to carry out a pressing operation the impingement region can be acted upon with an impinging part that is movable relative to the impingement region. The impinging part is movable in the longitudinal direction of the impingement region by exertion of manual force and by a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: GUSTAV KLAUKE GMBH
    Inventor: Egbert Frenken
  • Patent number: 10327595
    Abstract: A versatile food processing system that can work with plurality of top-mounted food processing units of different types and sizes is disclosed. The motor base of the food processing system has a locking mechanism and safety actuators at different radial locations so that food processing units of different sizes can utilities the safety mechanism. One particular processing unit is especially useful for making noodles and vegetable strips. The processing unit comprises a stationary outer vessel and a rotating inner vessel. Blades are located on an inner lid of the inner vessel. The inner vessel spins in unison with the inner lid without a central shaft to avoid harm caused by the shaft to the quality of the resulting noodles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Capbran Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Colin Sapire
  • Patent number: 10322830
    Abstract: A strapping machine configured for and method for actuating the belt drive mechanism of a strapping machine during a loss of band carrying out the following steps of polling the detector as to a proper shooting of the strapping band in the shooting direction up until the end of the shooting trajectory, and for an improper shooting of the strapping band, activating the shooting and retrieval unit to retrieve the strapping band with a definite retrieval speed for a defined retrieval time so that the strapping band emerges from the shooting and retrieval unit opposite the shooting direction, and actuating the drive of the back-tensioning unit so that the back-tensioning unit transports the strapping band back into the shooting and retrieval unit in the shooting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SMB SCHWEDE MASCHINEBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Höhn, Jochen Witzgall, Jürgen Schödel
  • Patent number: 10316530
    Abstract: A jaw assembly for a demolition tool is disclosed. The jaw assembly may have a support portion centrally disposed on a second jaw. The support portion may have a first contact surface and an aperture disposed thereon. A work plate may be mounted on the support portion and may have a plate member in abutting contact with the support portion. The work plate may also have a tooth member and a boss extending in a direction opposite to the tooth member. The boss may be engaged to the aperture. The jaw assembly may have a pair of seating portions disposed on the second jaw, each seating portion having a slot. The jaw assembly may also have a work module mounted in each seating portion. The work module may have a base, a tooth, and a mounting element extending in a direction opposite to the tooth and engaging the seating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Work Tools B.V.
    Inventor: John Van Gemert
  • Patent number: 10279353
    Abstract: A mill and operating method for using grinding bodies for grinding a grinding stock. Grinding bodies that have passed through the through the product outlet enter an upwardly inclined discharge pipe from where, when the grinding body mill is at a standstill, the grinding bodies are directed out of the discharge pipe through the product outlet into a rotor body of the separating device. When operation of the grinding body mill is resumed, the grinding bodies are conveyed back into the grinding chamber owing to the rotation of the rotor body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Netzsch Trockenmahltechnik
    Inventors: Roland Nied, Lars-Peter Weiland
  • Patent number: 10279509
    Abstract: A wasted carpet and felt scrap recycling apparatus is provided. The waste carpet and felt scrap recycling apparatus includes a feeding unit that feeds a cut scrap while forming a feeding path and a supply unit that is connected to the feeding path and supplies the scrap that passed the feeding unit along the feeding path while pressing the scrap. A separation unit is spaced apart from the supply unit, and provides a frictional force to one surface of the scrap supplied from the supply unit through rotation of the supply unit and separates the scrap into fiber and recycled material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, DITGREEN CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Mo Koo, Byeong Kwon Hong, Bong Hyun Park, Jae Woong Ha, Soon Yong Park
  • Patent number: 10273559
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to reclaim metals from scrap material such as automobile shredder residue (ASR) that, after separating out light density components, separates out friable material such as rock and glass by crushing and screening operations to generate a high metal content product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: BEST PROCESS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Timothy F. Conway
  • Patent number: 10245800
    Abstract: A method of forming a higher density bale of waste paper from two or more lower density bales of waste paper includes positioning the lower density bales intact and in side-by-side relationship with respect to each other, moving them to a compression zone, and compressing the bales together in the compression zone to form a higher density bale. The higher density bale can then be strapped to maintain its higher density configuration and shape. Thus, a larger tonnage of waste paper in bales can be loaded into a shipping container for transport. A rebaler for carrying out the method includes side feed and side retrieval of bales, significantly improving over traditional top feed machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventor: John L. Newsome, III
  • Patent number: 10233116
    Abstract: An activated pozzolan composition includes a fine interground particulate blend of an initially unactivated natural pozzolan and a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) different than the initially unactivated natural pozzolan. The initially unactivated natural pozzolan may include volcanic ash or other natural pozzolanic deposit having a moisture content of at least 3%, and the activated pozzolan composition can have a moisture content less than 0.5% The initially unactivated natural pozzolan may have a particle size less than 1 mm before intergrinding with the SCM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: ROMAN CEMENT, LLC
    Inventor: John M. Guynn
  • Patent number: 10213978
    Abstract: A method of forming a higher density bale of waste paper from two or more lower density bales of waste paper includes positioning the lower density bales intact and in side-by-side relationship with respect to each other, moving them to a compression zone, and compressing the bales together in the compression zone to form a higher density bale. The higher density bale can then be strapped to maintain its higher density configuration and shape. Thus, a larger tonnage of waste paper in bales can be loaded into a shipping container for transport. A rebaler for carrying out the method includes side feed and side retrieval of bales, significantly improving over traditional top feed machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventor: John L. Newsome, III
  • Patent number: 10130069
    Abstract: A production method for animal excretion treatment material and a production device therefor, having a step in which a raw material is pulverized and a pulverized material is obtained and a step in which the pulverized material is granulized. In the step in which the pulverized material is obtained, the raw material is pulverized by a pulverizer and the pulverized material is obtained. The pulverizer has: an insertion port for the raw material; a pulverization chamber for the raw material; a pulverization mechanism provided inside the pulverization chamber; a mesh screen through which passes the raw material pulverized by the pulverization mechanism and having a plurality of openings; and a discharge port connected to the openings in the mesh screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Shotaro Mochizuki, Hidekazu Yamada, Takahiro Otomo, Tatsuya Sogo, Chiyo Takagi
  • Patent number: 10118179
    Abstract: An apparatus for separating material includes a frame and a rotatable sleeve supported by the frame. The sleeve has a first end, a second end, and a wall with a plurality of apertures to permit material smaller than a first size to fall through the apertures. A source of forced air is arranged to force air through an interior of the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: LANKOTA GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Lance C. Tschetter, Dakota R. Tschetter, Colin H. Treeby