Patents Examined by Mark Rosenbaum
  • Patent number: 9079185
    Abstract: The system and method requiring a diverter plate for an in-line mill. The plate for use with the in-line mill includes an aperture for passage of particulate laden fluid therethrough and a plurality of tabs such that the fluid and the particulate entrained thereon is deflected at a variety of axial angles. The diverter plate thus provides a reliable method such that the milling process and component wear resistance is made more efficient thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: UCC DRY SORBENT INJECTION, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Engelmann, Stephen Bosshart, Eric Fleckten, Harun Biligren, Robert LeDain
  • Patent number: 9078543
    Abstract: Provided is a disposable grinder mounted on or demounted from a mixer. The disposable grinder includes a cover that opens or closes an opening of a container, a rotation shaft that is rotatably installed on a central portion of the cover, is mounted on the mixer, and is supplied with a rotational force of the mixer, a grinding part that is coupled to the rotation shaft so as to be housed inside the container and has a plurality of grinding blades receiving a rotational force of the rotation shaft to grind contents contained in the container, and a plurality of ribs that protrude radially from the central portion of the cover and from an inner surface of the cover, and collide with the contents ground by the grinding part to re-grind the ground contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Inventor: Kil Young Oh
  • Patent number: 9078544
    Abstract: A lid assembly for a food storage container includes a grating member removably attachable relative to the container. The grating member includes a grating surface having a plurality of cutting edges and a plurality of apertures configured to permit grated food product to pass therethrough. A drive member is rotatably coupled to the grating member. The drive element is drivingly coupled to an urging element that includes at least one inclined ramp surface. During rotation of the drive element relative to the container, the inclined ramp surfaces of the urging member urge the food product along the grating surface to grate and dispense the food product from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
    Inventor: Frank P. Leigner
  • Patent number: 9073058
    Abstract: A wood chipper with an air entrainment system. The wood chipper includes a chipping drum in a drum chamber and a discharge fan in a fan chamber. The chipping drum and fan are conjointly driven by a common shaft. The discharge fan draws air from the drum chamber through a chamber air inlet and potentially also from the ambient atmosphere through an external air inlet. The volume of air drawn from the drum chamber is sufficient to offset or overcome the negative air flow created by the spinning drum in the drum chamber to reduce blowback. Air entrained with the chipped material moves toward the discharge chute and away from the material inlet. A deflector may be include near the mouth of the discharge chute to further guide air flow from the fan chamber toward the discharge chute and prevent the backflow of air into the chipping chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Morbark, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry E. Voelker, Nathaniel M. Bott, Daniel R. Pung, Michael T. Hadanek
  • Patent number: 9073055
    Abstract: A mill assembly for processing product comprises a mill housing assembly, at least first and second port assemblies defining an exterior inlet opening and an exterior outlet opening, at least one collection assembly, an air guide assembly, and a grinding assembly. In one form, a feed/collection ratio of the exterior inlet opening to the exterior outlet opening is at least approximately 1.5:1. In another form, seals are formed between the port assemblies and the mill housing assembly. In another form, the mill assembly operates in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, a ring plug plate and a wall plug plate are detached from the mill housing. In the second mode, the ring plug plate and the wall plug plate are attached to the mill housing to prevent air from flowing out of the third housing port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Unifine Mill LLC
    Inventors: Stephen J. Fulton, Ronald C. Anderson
  • Patent number: 9073057
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for separating submicron fraction of carbon nano-materials. The method includes grinding of the carbon nano-materials. Upon grinding, the carbon nano-materials are mixed in water to prepare a mixture. The mixture is then treated in an ultrasonic bath to prepare a suspension. The suspension is allowed to undergo a liquid sedimentation. After the liquid sedimentation, a supernatant is collected and filtered to obtain a solid residue of the submicron fraction of the carbon nano-materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
    Inventors: Mohammed A Abdullah Bahattab, Siarhei Zhdanok, Andrei Krauklis, Kirill Borisevich, Pavel Stanavy
  • Patent number: 9066628
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grinder with granularity adjusting mechanism, which comprises a container (1) for holding condiments and a grinding head assembly for grinding the condiments; wherein the grinding head assembly comprises a driving component (2), a female grinding head (3) and a male grinding head (4), the grinder further comprises the adjusting knob (5) that changes a gap between the male grinding head (4) and the female grinding head (3) by moving axially the male grinding head (4). As the design of the adjusting knob, it is convenient for the adjustment between the male grinding head and the female grinding head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Ningbo Garron Housewares Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guoping Zhang
  • Patent number: 9066629
    Abstract: A coffee grinder using a stepper or servo motor in which the amount of ground coffee output is correlated to degrees or increments of burr rotation. By controlling burr rotation a precise amount of coffee is delivered eliminating excess coffee from being ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Inventor: Robert Melvin
  • Patent number: 9067182
    Abstract: Compact and transportable equipment that can be used for fracturing operations on gas or oil fields, includes, successively, a silo for storing polymer in powder form, a feed hopper of a polymer metering device, a device for metering out the powder polymer, a device for dispersing and grinding the polymer, and at least two volumetric pumps enabling the injection and metering of the polymer solution obtained in the mixer used for supplying at least one high-pressure fracturing pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: S.P.C.M. SA
    Inventors: Peter Nichols, Marshall Bond
  • Patent number: 9067211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an abrasive roll assembly, a conveyor assembly and a milling machine having the same. The abrasive roll assembly comprises an abrasive roll element configured for milling food grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Buhler (India) Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventors: Chaithanya B. Subbannavar, Naveen H. C. Kumar
  • Patent number: 9061289
    Abstract: Methods and systems for separating a mixed waste into a wet organic fraction, a dry organic fraction, and an inorganic fraction are achieved by (i) comminuting the mixed solid waste, (ii) fractionating the comminuted stream by size to produce two or more particle-sized waste streams, and (iii) processing one or more of the particle-sized waste streams using density separation to produce an intermediate wastes stream, and (iv) recovering a homogenous product (e.g., a recyclable material or an organic fuel) from the intermediate waste stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: ORGANIC ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: George Gitschel
  • Patent number: 9061287
    Abstract: An improved wood chipper and storage dump box assembly is provided on a trailer adapted to be towed behind a truck. The dump box is pivotally mounted on the trailer for movement between an upright fill position and a sideways tilted dump position. The brush chipper is mounted on a trailer behind the dump box to discharge chipped brush and material into the dump box through an opening in the back wall. The top of the dump box is open for loading logs and other unchipped material. The dump box includes a discharge opening in one side wall, with a door movable between open and closed positions relative to the discharge opening. Hydraulic actuators control movement of the door and tipping of the dump box, and are connected to the hydraulic system of the chipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Inventor: James P. McDermott
  • Patent number: 9044759
    Abstract: A shredder includes a housing having a throat for receiving at least one article to be shredded, and a shredder mechanism received in the housing and including an electrically powered motor and cutter elements. The shredder also includes a detector that is configured to detect a thickness of the at least one article being received by the throat, and a controller that is configured to operate the motor to drive the cutter elements to shred the at least one article and to set a flutter threshold higher than the predetermined maximum thickness threshold, if the detected thickness is less than a predetermined maximum thickness threshold. The controller is also configured to thereafter continuously detect the thickness of the at least one article being inserted into a throat of the shredder; and to perform a predetermined operation responsive to the thickness detector detecting that the thickness of the at least one article is greater than the flutter threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: FELLOWES, INC.
    Inventors: Tai Hoon K. Matlin, Michael Dale Jensen
  • Patent number: 9033270
    Abstract: An improved scraper plate assembly is provided on a comminuting device having compliant rounded edges, sloped walls, and reduced height for placement along recycle flow paths within a comminuting apparatus when circulating subdivided waste material from between a pair of scissor rolls for further delivery to a scissor roll for further movement and subdividing of the subdivided waste material. A comminuting apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Irwin Research and Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Dale L. Vantrease
  • Patent number: 9022307
    Abstract: The pulverizer including a pulverization chamber, a jet nozzle, a pulverization nozzle, and a collision member is provided. The pulverization nozzle includes an acceleration tube. The acceleration tube includes an acceleration part A and an acceleration part B. A center (a) of the supply aperture is positioned within the acceleration part A. A point of intersection (b) where central axes of the acceleration tube and the supply aperture intersect is positioned within the acceleration part B. An angle ? formed between the central axes of the acceleration tube and the supply aperture satisfies an inequation 30°??<60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeaki Kakuda, Nobuyasu Makino
  • Patent number: 9022308
    Abstract: A bucket (10) that is attachable to a piece of earth moving equipment by means of transverse shafts (11). The bucket (10) includes an outer casing (12) providing an upper (first) jaw member (13) and a lower (second) jaw member (14) so as to generally encompass a passage (15) along which material to be crushed passes from a passage inlet (16) to a passage outlet (17). Preferably the jaw member (13) includes an attachment assembly (42) that provides for attachment of the bucket (10) via shaft (35) to the piece of moving equipment that is to use the bucket (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Flip Screen Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Sam Dominic Seaton Turnbull
  • Patent number: 9016606
    Abstract: A paper shredder includes a housing, cutters positioned in the housing, and a feeder base adapted to support a stack of paper. The feeder base includes a feeder slot. The feeder base further includes a sidewall extending in a direction generally perpendicular to the feeder slot, and an aperture formed in the feeder base at a location spaced from the feeder slot. The aperture provides a pathway between a top surface of the feeder base and a waste area below the feeder base and has a first end closest to the sidewall and defining a first end point closest to the feeder slot, and a second end farthest from the sidewall and defining a second end point closest to the feeder slot. The first end point is closer to the feeder slot than the second end point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: ACCO UK Limited
    Inventors: Paul A. Aries, Kaushik Patel
  • Patent number: 9010667
    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: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Liquid Environmental Solutions
    Inventor: Shelby Lowe
  • Patent number: 9010670
    Abstract: Method and device for preparing a paste by blending or mixing materials, in particular for making aluminum production electrodes. The method includes the following operations: a) introducing the materials to be blended or mixed into a vat (31) having an inner surface extending along a substantially horizontal axis of revolution (X), b) rotating the vat (31) about the axis of revolution (X) and urging the materials via centrifugation against the inner surface of the vat (31), and c) locally dislodging the centrifuged materials from the inner surface by rotating the vat (31) and causing same to fall onto a crumbling tool (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Fives Solios S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Andre
  • Patent number: 9010666
    Abstract: A method for the operation of a jet mill with an integrated dynamic air classifier, wherein particles are fed as grinding stock into a grinding chamber of the jet mill and are ground there into ultra-fine particles by grinding, in that superheated steam or technical gases is/are used as working stock, wherein at least one surface-active additive is fed to the grinding stock for stabilization of the generated ultra-fine particles. A jet mill for performing this method, having an integrated dynamic air classifier, and a grinding chamber into which superheated steam or technical gases are provided as working stock via working stock feed devices as grinding stock and in which the grinding stock is ground into ultra-fine particles by grinding, and wherein feeding devices for at least one surface-active additive for stabilization of the generated ultra-fine particles are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignees: NETZSCH Trockenmahltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Nied, Hermann Sickel, Dimitrios Makrakis