Patents Examined by Mark Rosenbaum
  • Patent number: 9221197
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes improved systems and methods for recycling, including an improved method of recycling one or more polymers from a flooring material that has been contacted with a solvent to provide a reclaimed polymer composition. The improved method, in one embodiment, includes prior to the step of contacting the flooring material with the solvent, cutting the flooring material into portions that provide substantially complete contact between the flooring material and the solvent. The improved method, in this embodiment, further includes following the step of contacting the flooring material with the solvent, contacting the portions of flooring material with a mechanical disruptor that both pulls and separates the one or polymers concurrently in at least two different vectors for a time sufficient to separate the one or more polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Hall Patents, LLC
    Inventors: David Hall, Peggy R. Hall
  • Patent number: 9216418
    Abstract: A method for the introduction of auxiliary grinding bodies into an agitator ball mill and for the removal of auxiliary grinding bodies from an agitator ball mill. The auxiliary grinding bodies are transported into the agitator ball mill and out of the latter via a closed circuit by means of a hydraulic conveying medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Schaefer, Michael Lechner, Uwe Neumann, Dimitrios Makrakis, Udo Enderle, Gerhard Kolb, Stefan Mende, Klaus Ott, Horst Pausch, Michael Rappl, Peter Schertenleib, Michael Schmidt, Peter Stich, Lars Weiland
  • Patent number: 9216416
    Abstract: A wear part for a mineral material processing apparatus includes an outer wear surface which comprises an initial phase wear surface to be put in crushing contact with an opposite wear surface, and an end phase wear surface to be taken vertically into use in the crushing process from under the initial wear surface when the wear is progressing. The wear part comprises an end phase wear surface with a protrusion to be put in use when the wear of the outer wear surface is progressing. By means of the protrusion working life of the wear part can be prolonged. A mineral material processing apparatus and a mineral material processing plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Metso Minerals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kari Peltomaki, Tero Onnela, Jouni Mahonen, Mikko Malkamaki
  • Patent number: 9211544
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for organic material reduction and preparation for subsequent recycling or disposal in a self-contained system which is safe for equipment operators, and highly cost and floor-space efficient. The apparatus includes a preferably-shaped hopper for receiving organic materials to the reduced, preferably a floating auger, a solids pump and a macerator. The system preferably generates a processed organic material discharge with a particle size on the order of ?? without concern as to the liquid content of the incoming organic material. The apparatus may be operated by a method which is completely automated following operator initiation, including automatically attempting self-clearing actions in the event of detecting clogs or jams in the processing components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Liquid Environmental Solutions
    Inventor: Shelby Lowe
  • Patent number: 9205430
    Abstract: A steam mill system for transport of powdered activated carbon (PAC) from a storage silo to a steam powered jet mill to produce milled sorbent for use in a coal-fired power plant flue gas for mercury control. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a cyclone separator arranged in a PAC transport line prior to a steam powered jet mill for separation of PAC according to particle size for the purpose of achieving reductions in associated compressed air usage, operating costs and capital costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Carl David Edberg, Raymond W. Cournoyer, Richard C. Laflesh, Timothy Joseph Braun
  • Patent number: 9205429
    Abstract: A reversible conveyor assembly, which comprises a screw conveyor having one or more projection means formed on both upper and lower portions of the screw conveyor. A conveyor flange has a guiding means and a groove that are engraved on upper portion of the conveyor flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Inventors: Chaithanya B. Subbannavar, Naveen H. C. Kumar
  • Patent number: 9199243
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for crushing a mineral material. Then, the mineral material is delivered in a crushing space (6) towards crushing means (8), whereby at least a portion of the material flow is discharged via a screen (20). The remaining mineral material is arranged to meet transfer and screening as well as crusher drums (10, 11) provided in the crushing space such that the transfer and screening drum continues pre-screening while simultaneously transferring the mineral material towards the crusher drum (11). Finally, the mineral material remaining in the crushing space is by crusher blades (19) of the crusher drum (11) subjected to mechanical machining wedging the mineral material against a crusher plate (21) and decreasing the particle size thereof in order for the mineral material to be finally crushed into a particle size to be discharged from the crushing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ECOMECA OY
    Inventor: Jorma Malkamäki
  • Patent number: 9200346
    Abstract: A process for dry granulation of hot liquid slag wherein the hot liquid slag is mixed with solid metallic particles so as to form a solidified, vitrified slag cake mixed with the metallic particles, the slag cake is crushed so as to form hot slag particles and heated solid particles, said particles are cooled and said solid metallic particles are recycled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: PAUL WURTH S.A.
    Inventors: Marc Solvi, Bob Greiveldinger, Claudine Friederici, Daniel Michels, Mathias Hoffmann, Horst Kappes
  • Patent number: 9198541
    Abstract: An herb grinder is provided. The herb grinder has a top portion and upper chamber wherein herbs and similar materials may be ground. Further, the herb grinder has a spout, allowing ground herbs and materials to exit the grinder without separating the parts of the grinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Inventor: Jeff Smith
  • Patent number: 9199241
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding body for crushing and grinding of ores rocks or earth, inert and all other materials, in drum and other mills. It finds application in ore enrichment, production of construction materials, waste processing and other industrial branches. The grinding body comprises a spheroidal cone, whose forming curve is part of a circle or of some other geometrical curve and a vertex, and a base which is part of a sphere or of other three-dimensional figure, obtained by rotation of geometrical curves and an edge between them. In one of the versions the cone and the base are connected by a cylinder. For better producibility of the grinding body, a flat spot with circular or other shape is made on the surface of the base. In another version the flat spots are made on the surface of the cone and on the surface of the cylinder between the base and the cone. In a subsequent version the vertex of the cone is cut flat with its plane perpendicular or inclined towards the axis of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignees: ASSAREL-MEDET AD, TODOR PENCHEV, PETAR BODUROV
    Inventors: Petar Bodurov, Todor Penchev
  • Patent number: 9192940
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel device (10) for separating composite materials, comprising a cylindrical rotor (17), which has a shaft driven by a motor and strip-shaped first impacting tools (30), which are evenly distributed over the circumference and which protrude from the rotor parallel to the shaft, and comprising a cylindrical stator (12) that surrounds the rotor, wherein an annular space (32) is formed between the rotor and the stator. An air supply channel (15) opens into the upper region of the annular space (32) and an air removal channel (38) leads away from the lower region of the annular space. Furthermore, the cylindrical wall of the stator (12) has strip-shaped second impacting tools (31), which are evenly distributed over the circumference and which protrude radially inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ASCORE Technologies AG
    Inventor: Christoph Muther
  • Patent number: 9192939
    Abstract: A device and a method for preparing adipose tissue for transplantation from lobular fat material extracted by liposuction, the fat material consisting of a mixture of fluid materials and cell fragments, cells and one or more cell magroagglomerates of heterogeneous sizes, include at least one sterile container having a size reducing device for reducing the fat material into cell agglomerates of smaller and identical or similar sizes, the device dividing the inner chamber of the container into at least two portions, particularly a first upper portion and a second lower portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: LIPOGEMS INTERNATIONAL S.P.A.
    Inventor: Carlo Tremolada
  • Patent number: 9192264
    Abstract: A food processor is provided which includes a container, a blade assembly, and a base arranged such that the container is coupleable to the base. The base includes a housing and a motor configured to drive the blade assembly. The food processor further includes an actuator included with the container moveable between a first position and a second, extended position. When the container is coupled to the base and the actuator is in the second, extended position, the actuator is configured to actuate a switch to permit activation of the motor, and the base is constructed such that the container can be coupled to the base when the actuator is in the second, extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Euro-Pro Operating LLC
    Inventors: David M. Audette, Alexander J. Calvino, Waiman Chung, Aric Jennings, Daniel Stephen Potter, Andrea Stavrinou
  • Patent number: 9186678
    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. A paper feed mechanism feeds paper that is separated from the stack by a stack separation mechanism to the cutter elements. The feed and separation mechanisms can be activated by rotation of the cutter elements. In one embodiment, the stack separation mechanism moves in an alternating manner between retracted and extended positions to disengage and engage and insert the stack to separate (with its edge) paper therefrom to feed to the feed mechanism for shredding. The paper stack separation mechanism can move in an non-undulating manner relative to the stack. A device for stripping stapled pages, a pivotable support plate, and pressure plate can also be used, as well as a number of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: FELLOWES, INC.
    Inventors: Xiao Guang Xu, Jian Liang Lyu, Tai Hoon K. Matlin
  • Patent number: 9185882
    Abstract: Feed-mixing device comprising a container with a side wall having a dispensing opening which can be closed off with a slide in front of which a removing device is placed which, for example, comprises a roller with teeth. When the roller rotates, the teeth extend inside the side wall. On a first peripheral section of the roller, the teeth are placed in such a manner that they do not extend inside the side wall. Thus, the slide can be positioned in such a manner that it runs in a fluent and continuous manner with respect to the side wall, while the assembly still forms a compact arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: LELY PATENT N. V.
    Inventors: Jan Lambertus Pastoor, Howard Sie, Arie Huyzer
  • Patent number: 9186683
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a comminution apparatus including a rotational reducing unit that is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The rotational reducing unit includes a plurality of material reducing components that are mounted to a carrier. The material reducing components are rotated by the carrier in a first direction about the axis of rotation. The comminution apparatus also includes a screen at least partially surrounding the rotational reducing unit. The screen defines a plurality of sizing slots that have slot lengths and slot widths. The slots are elongated along the slot lengths such that the slot lengths are longer than the slot widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Vermeer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Tadahiro Hongo, Gary Verhoef, Peilin Yang, Scott Alan Rempe
  • Patent number: 9179802
    Abstract: Disclosed is a machine for stirring, cutting, cooking or processing food under modified atmosphere. A drive shaft is provided in the mixing machine, for putting the product into rotary motion in the processing bowl, said drive shaft having a lower power take-off and being vertically supported by a liner which is integral with the base of the bowl, whereas the opposite end of said shaft is integral with a hub having at least one radial arm, with a liner fitted thereto for supporting and guiding a secondary vertical arm, which may be used for cutting or emulsifying food product, which shaft is integral with a pinion meshing with a crown wheel, said crown wheel being fitted to a sleeve which is coaxial and integral with supporting and guiding liner for the shaft, whereas each secondary shaft may be equipped with at least one epicyclically driven, high-speed mixing or processing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Firex S.r.l.
    Inventors: Paolo Cadorin, Francesco Pinto
  • Patent number: 9168672
    Abstract: A knife with disposable inserts. Either (1) a front side of the knife body has a cutting edge, the front side of the insert is removably mounted to a rear side of the knife body, and either (A) a rear side of the insert has a cutting edge, or (B) the rear side of the insert has a blunt face that forms a rear side of the knife; or (2) a rear side of the knife body has a blunt face that forms the rear side of the knife, the rear side of the insert is removably mounted to the front side of the knife body, and the front side of the insert has a cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Key Knife, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Charles Hinchliff
  • Patent number: 9168535
    Abstract: The field of the disclosure relates to anvils for comminuting apparatus such as grinders or chippers. In some embodiments, the anvil is adjustable in length to maintain a clearance between a comminuting drum and a shear edge of the anvil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: VERMEER MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: Keith Leon Roozeboom, Joseph Edward Breja
  • Patent number: 9161662
    Abstract: A food processor device for processing foodstuff includes a housing and a food processing container for holding foodstuff during processing. The food processing container is supported by the housing during use of the food processor device. The food processor further includes a user interface for exchanging information, during use, with the user and a food weighing device. The food weighing device includes a food weighing bowl for weighing foodstuff before the foodstuff is entered into the food processing container, and at least one weighing sensor for sensing the weight of the food weighing bowl. During weighing, the food weighing bowl is located above the food processing container. Further, the weighing bowl is suitable for covering the food processing container during food preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Marcel Sladecek