Patents Examined by Mark Rosenbaum
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Patent number: 9661887Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: YKK CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Kanazawa
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Patent number: 9662659Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sungmin Kim, Jongseok Kim, Sunki Lee
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Patent number: 9661953Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: RIENSCH & HELD GMBH & CO.Inventor: Christian Justus
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Patent number: 9656268Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Green Innovative Solutions, LLCInventor: Johnny Taylor
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Patent number: 9655474Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Kevin James Beber, David J. Gushwa, Yung Leong Hin, Jeffrey Carl Loebig, Euan Skinner Macleod, Qu Zhi Jie
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Patent number: 9649637Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: HAVER & BOECKER OHGInventors: Hagen Muller, Bernd Wauligmann
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Patent number: 9650584Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: ACCORDANT ENERGY, LLCInventor: Dingrong Bai
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Patent number: 9649666Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: ORGANIC ENERGY CORPORATIONInventor: George Gitschel
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Patent number: 9650650Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: ORGANIC ENERGY CORPORATIONInventor: George Gitschel
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Patent number: 9642494Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Inventor: Kevin Brun
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Patent number: 9643189Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Heinrich GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Greiner
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Patent number: 9643188Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AGInventor: Markus Berger
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Patent number: 9643191Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: LOESCHE GMBHInventor: Matthias Mersmann
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Patent number: 9635884Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Inventor: Elad Shalom
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Patent number: 9636685Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: OUTOTEC (FINLAND) OYInventors: Jukka Pirttiniemi, Esa Porkka, Nikolai Vatanski
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Patent number: 9630214Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AGInventors: Olaf Hagemeier, Aimo Dirk Haack
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Patent number: 9630184Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventor: Richard Brian Stone
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Patent number: 9616428Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: DOPPSTADT FAMILIENHOLDING GMBHInventors: Johann Doppstadt, Horst Berger
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Patent number: 9616595Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Universidad de AlicanteInventors: Andrés Fullana Font, Agustin Lozano Morcillo
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Patent number: 9616429Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Metso Minerals (Sweden) ABInventors: Tage Moller, Lars Furtenbach, Dennis Johansson