Patents Examined by Mark Rosenbaum
  • Patent number: 9661887
    Abstract: A button mounting device includes: a button mounting unit that comprises a first die holding the button main body and a second die holding the button mounting tool; an intermediate material formation unit that forms an intermediate material, which is to be interposed between the button main body and the cloth or between the button mounting tool and the cloth, by cutting a strip-shaped sheet material; and an intermediate material transfer unit that transfers the intermediate material formed by the intermediate material formation unit to the button mounting unit to supply the first die or the second die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 9662659
    Abstract: A food waste disposal includes a grinding part configured to grind food waste, a dewatering part configured to receive the ground food waste from the grinding part and to discharge water out of the received food waste, and a connecting frame having a rotating shaft. The dewatering part is rotatably coupled to the connecting frame via the rotating shaft. Further, the dewatering part is configured to be rotated vertically downward away from the grinding part in a top/bottom direction around the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sungmin Kim, Jongseok Kim, Sunki Lee
  • Patent number: 9661953
    Abstract: An aroma granulate mill for dispensing ground aroma granulate, particularly a spice mill for dispensation of ground spices, such as salt and pepper, comprising a container for accepting unground, coarse aroma granulate, an element provided at the container having a dispensation opening for dispensing ground, fine-grained aroma granulate, and a grinder arranged upstream to the dispensation opening for milling the unground, coarse aroma granulate into ground, fine-grained aroma granulate is provided. The element includes the dispensation opening having a concave collar, which forms a cavity open towards the outside, which has a circumferential side wall and comprises at least one section recessed in reference to the circumferential side wall in the direction towards the container, in which the dispensation opening is arranged, with the circumferential side wall defining an opening, with its area being smaller than the cross-section of the opening of the cavity at its widest section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: RIENSCH & HELD GMBH & CO.
    Inventor: Christian Justus
  • Patent number: 9656268
    Abstract: A system for shearing bulk material includes a shearing cartridge with an input port and an output port. A first plurality of rotatable blades are disposed about a first shaft, Each of the first plurality of rotatable blades includes a center aperture such that the first shaft extends through the center apertures of the first plurality of rotatable blades to selectively rotate each of the first plurality of rotatable blades simultaneously. A second plurality of rotatable blades is opposingly offset from the first plurality of rotatable blades. Each of the second plurality of rotatable blades includes a center aperture such that the second shaft extends through the center apertures of the second plurality of rotatable blades to selectively rotate each of the second plurality of rotatable blades in a direction opposite the first plurality of rotatable blades to shear and reduce the bulk material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Green Innovative Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Johnny Taylor
  • Patent number: 9655474
    Abstract: A food processor includes a base and a bowl with a removable lid. Food items are advanced into the bowl through a feed tube formed in the lid where they are cut by a cutting assembly driven by a motor. The cutting assembly is adjustable to vary the thickness of the cut food items. An adjustment assembly positioned in the base is operable to adjust the cutting thickness of the cutting assembly while the cutting assembly is driven by the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin James Beber, David J. Gushwa, Yung Leong Hin, Jeffrey Carl Loebig, Euan Skinner Macleod, Qu Zhi Jie
  • Patent number: 9649637
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for processing materials such as granular matter mined from deposits, comprising a tubular container disposed upright and an axle device provided centered therein. A processing chamber for receiving the material to be processed is provided between the axle device and the inner wall of the tubular container. The tubular container is driven rotatingly. Engaging dogs are provided in the processing chamber as working elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: HAVER & BOECKER OHG
    Inventors: Hagen Muller, Bernd Wauligmann
  • Patent number: 9650584
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing engineered fuels from solid waste material are described herein. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a waste stream at a multi-material processing platform and separating the waste stream to remove non-processable waste and marketable recyclables. The method further includes conveying processable materials to a material classification system and incorporating additives to produce an engineered fuel from the constituents of the waste stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: ACCORDANT ENERGY, LLC
    Inventor: Dingrong Bai
  • Patent number: 9649666
    Abstract: The method and systems efficiently extract recyclable materials from a mixed solid waste stream. The methods and systems use sizing, density and dimensional separation to produce intermediate waste streams that are enriched in particular recyclable materials. The recyclable materials can then be efficiently sorted from the individual intermediate streams using mechanized sorting equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: ORGANIC ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: George Gitschel
  • Patent number: 9650650
    Abstract: Solid waste that includes a mixture of wet organic material and dry organic material can be are separated using mechanical separation to produce a wet organic stream enriched in wet organics and a dry organic stream enriched in dry organics. The separated wet organic stream and dry organic stream are separately converted to renewable or recyclable products using different conversion techniques particularly suited for the separated wet and dry organic streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: ORGANIC ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: George Gitschel
  • Patent number: 9642494
    Abstract: An improved immersion blender generally consisting of a motor, an elongated motor shaft that extends from the motor through a removable tubular guard to a back-to-back radial-flow cutter blade. The cutter blade is securely attached to the distal end of motor shaft and is housed within the tubular guard assembly. The tubular guard has a manifold at its distal end that provides side inlet and outlet ports for the blade and a lower inlet aperture through the distal annular plate of the manifold. The lower blade of the back-to-back radial-flow cutter draws liquid from the bottom portion of the container, through the lower inlet side-ports in the manifold and the aperture through the distal end of the manifold, and discharges the liquid through the outlet ports in the manifold toward the sides of container in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Inventor: Kevin Brun
  • Patent number: 9643189
    Abstract: A set of cutters for a mincer with at least one perforated disc (12, 14) and with a cutter holder (11, 13) able to be driven in a rotating manner by the shaft (15) of the mincer, wherein on the cutter holder (11, 13) several cutters (25, 26, 27, 28) are rotatably arranged about axes which are aligned parallel to the shaft (15) of the mincer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Heinrich GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Greiner
  • Patent number: 9643188
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vertical roller mill and a method for operating a vertical roller mill, wherein the grinding assemblies thereof, consisting of a grinding table and at least one grinding roller, interact such that material to be ground is comminuted in the grinding bed between the grinding table and the at least one grinding roller, wherein at least one grinding assembly is driven and at least one grinding assembly is pulled, and the pulled grinding assembly is braked in order to increase the flow of energy through the grinding bed between the grinding table and the at least one grinding roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventor: Markus Berger
  • Patent number: 9643191
    Abstract: A vertical mill for grinding material to be ground and a method for this are claimed, wherein the vertical mill has a grinding table and one or more grinding rollers. A ring duct with blade ring for a transport gas flow ascending around the grinding table is provided. An annular gap distance is present between a downwardly projecting oversize material cone and the upper region of the grinding rollers, through which annular gap distance a proportion of fine particles is also fed back in a recirculating manner to the grinding table. In order to overcome this disadvantage, a barrier gas flow flowing from inside to outwards is provided in the region of the gap distance, whereby the recirculation of grinding particles of a certain size can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: LOESCHE GMBH
    Inventor: Matthias Mersmann
  • Patent number: 9635884
    Abstract: An herb grinder has a longitudinal dimension and comprises a grinding assembly having a grinding compartment for grinding herbs placed therein, and a longitudinal storage compartment different the grinding compartment. The longitudinal storage compartment can extend along the longitudinal dimension of the grinder along a constant length, which is greater than that of the grinding compartment and which is such as to allow the storage compartment to store therein an accessory of a corresponding length. Alternatively or in addition, the storage compartment can comprise hollow cavity configured to hold therein a roll of rolling paper having a free end, and a longitudinal slot extending along the cavity and connecting an interior of the hollow cavity with its exterior exposed to a user so as to allow the free end of the rolling paper to pass through and project outwardly from the longitudinal slot, allowing removal of a desired amount of rolling paper by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Elad Shalom
  • Patent number: 9636685
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of mineral and metallurgical processes, to disintegrating in general and to disintegrating by tumbling mills, and more particularly to a method and arrangement for determining a degree of fullness of a large grinding mill drum, and to a large grinding mill drum. An arrangement for determining a degree of fullness of a grinding mill drum has a sensor arrangement attached to at least one lifting bar bolt of an at least one lifting bar of the grinding mill. The sensor arrangement includes at least one force transducer attached to the at least one lifting bar bolt. With the help of the measurement arrangement, more reliable measurement data can be provided for the determination of the degree of fullness of a grinding mill drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: OUTOTEC (FINLAND) OY
    Inventors: Jukka Pirttiniemi, Esa Porkka, Nikolai Vatanski
  • Patent number: 9630214
    Abstract: Disclosed is a grinding mill including a roller press configured to comminute grinding stock, a first conveying mechanism in communication with the roller press and configured to transport downstream at least one of fresh grinding stock or grinding stock comminuted by the roller press, and a static sifter disposed downstream of the first conveying mechanism and configured to sift at least one of the fresh grinding stock or grinding stock comminuted by said roller press. The static sifter includes a sifting stock inlet disposed in an upper sifting space, and sifting gas inlet disposed in a lower sifting space, and an aeration plate separating the upper sifting space from the lower sifting space. The aeration plate also permits sifting gas to pass there through from the lower to the upper sifting space. The static sifter also includes oversized material outlets disposed in each of the respective upper and lower sifting spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventors: Olaf Hagemeier, Aimo Dirk Haack
  • Patent number: 9630184
    Abstract: A pulverizer 10 includes a journal assembly 19 with a grinding roller 18 that grinds solids in a grinding table 14. The oscillations of the journal assembly 19 are monitored by an angular displacement transducer (ADT) 32 that creates a composite signal. A controller 83 receives the composite signal from the ADT and compares it with known information of the pulverizer 10. It then identifies abnormal situations such as damage to a grinding roll 14, the grinding table 14, the spring assembly 20 and other parts of the pulverizer 10 before they cause major damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Richard Brian Stone
  • Patent number: 9616428
    Abstract: The invention refers to a comminution device, such as for example a shredder (II) or the like for in particular large-size materials, with a main drive (I) generating a rotational movement for a shredder shaft (2), wherein the rotational speed of the shredder shaft (2) can be changed continuously by means of a gear interposed between main drive (I) and shredder (II), wherein as gear a planetary gear, in particular a planetary superposition gear (1), preferably a hydrostatic superposition gear is provided. The invention is characterized in that the hydraulic engine (4) as additional drive aggregate can be impinged in two different rotational directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: DOPPSTADT FAMILIENHOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Johann Doppstadt, Horst Berger
  • Patent number: 9616595
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing ink printed on a plastic film comprising various physical/chemical treatments. The main steps in the method are: conditioning the material, grinding, removing ink from the film, washing the film, recovering the cleaning solution, recovering the pigment and drying the film. As a result of the method, it is possible to obtain, on one hand, a plastic film free of ink and, on the other hand, the pigment. Said products may be reused in industry, thereby enhancing the value chain of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Universidad de Alicante
    Inventors: Andrés Fullana Font, Agustin Lozano Morcillo
  • Patent number: 9616429
    Abstract: The invention concerns a control and positioning system for the indication of the mounting position of an exchangeable wear lining element at a surface at a wall that is subject to wear, which may be constituted by, for example, the inner surface of a rotating drum at an ore grinder. The wear lining element is supported at the free end of a maneuverable arm that is a component of a lifting arrangement that is controlled during the handling of the wear lining element during a mounting operation by a crane operator. The wall is provided with a set of mounting holes and the wear lining element is equipped on its lower surface with a set of attachment means. The wear lining element is intended to be tightened against the surface by means of supplementary attachment means that are introduced through the mounting holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Metso Minerals (Sweden) AB
    Inventors: Tage Moller, Lars Furtenbach, Dennis Johansson