Abstract: Screening machine (10) for screening solid materials, comprising both a screening box (12) shaped so as to have a plurality of perimeter walls (16, 17, 19, 21) and an upper wall (15), and configured to make said solid materials to be screened flow inside it, and also a plurality of anti-propagation devices (27), at least a first of which is disposed on said upper wall (15).

Abstract: A screen sorting device for cleaning a fibrous stock suspension includes: an inlet for the fibrous stock suspension; a first sorting stage, which includes a first accepts discharge; at least one second sorting stage, which includes a second accepts discharge; and a fill level detection way, which is configured for detecting an accumulation height in the at least one second sorting stage and is assigned to the at least one second sorting stage.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for singulating, orienting, and delivering oriented objects (e.g., embryos) to a desired location (e.g., a plate containing a selected medium).

Abstract: Important variables which influence the efficiency of a hydrodynamic separation of dense materials using a hydrocyclone are the dynamic viscosity at the inflow of the hydrocyclone and the number of passes through the hydrocyclone. According to the invention, the method and the device allow a control of the viscosity in the hydrocyclone as well as the number of passes through the hydrocyclone when separating dense materials from a slurry in conjunction with an anaerobic fermentation of the constituents of the slurry which can be fermented. By fermenting the constituents of the slurry which can be fermented, the content of a fermentation reactor has a lower viscosity than the slurry being fed. The viscosity in the inflow of the hydrocyclone is set by means of a controlled return flow from a fermentation reactor, and the number of passes is set by a controlled return flow from the outflow of the hydrocyclone. The slurry is pumped into a return flow from the fermentation reactor.

Abstract: A system for processing scrap material that includes a variable-power electromagnetic drum separator wherein shredded scrap material is placed in free fall at a position proximate the electromagnetic drum separator. A first fraction of the scrap material is attracted to the electromagnetic drum separator and is carried under the rotational axis of the electromagnetic drum separator thereby separating the first fraction of material from a second fraction of the material which continues to free fall and wherein the first fraction is a low-copper ferrous material with the second fraction having a higher non-ferrous content than the first fraction. A magnetic drum separator may be positioned upstream of the variable-power electromagnetic drum separator and be used to separate non-ferrous materials. The variable-power electromagnetic drum separator may be adjusted so that the second fraction includes some ferrous material. A robotic picker may be used to remove undesirable materials from the second fraction.

Abstract: Static screening apparatuses that provide improved efficiency in the removal of undersized particles from oversized particles. In an embodiment, a static screening apparatus incorporates two or more (e.g., multiple) stacked screening modules allowing for adding additional screening capacity without significantly increasing space requirements for the multiple screening apparatuses. In some embodiments, a static screening apparatus utilizes specialized synthetic screening surfaces having an increased open area in relation to convention wire and wedge wire screens. The increased open area of such synthetic screen surfaces provides more efficient separation of oversized materials from undersized materials in sieve or static screen assemblies. In further embodiments, a stacked static screening apparatus may incorporate synthetic screening surfaces.

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for sorting target particles. In various embodiments, the disclosure provides a cassette for sorting target particles, methods for sorting target particles, methods of loading a microchannel for maintaining sample material viability, methods of quantifying sample material, and an optical apparatus for laser scanning and particle sorting.

Abstract: A method for disassembling and separating a waste lithium-ion battery comprises: directly tearing a battery pack or a cell of the waste lithium-ion battery with water and electricity without discharging after removing a housing, then performing first wet screening, directly performing wet degumming without drying after recovering an electrolyte and removing iron by magnetic separation, then performing first crushing with water, third wet screening and second crushing with water after performing second wet screening, and finally performing jigging separation to obtain copper powder, aluminum powder, positive and negative electrode materials, plastic powder and separator pulp.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a filter device with enhancements to ensure the continuity of the function of the flexible scraper element (23), which separates plastic and waste (pollution, foreign matter) from each other, presses on the filtering element to be used in recycling systems for the recovery of plastic materials, to enable the scraper to sharpen itself, to prevent permanent damage on the filtering element (9) due to the melt pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for classifying materials utilizing a vision system, which may implement an artificial intelligence system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, which may then be separated from a heap in a scrap yard into separate groups, such as other heaps, based on such an identification or classification. The artificial intelligence system may utilize a neural network, and be previously trained to recognize and classify certain types of materials.

Abstract: A vibratory screening machine includes replaceable screen assemblies. Compression mechanisms are used to secure replaceable screen assemblies to the vibratory screening machine. Each compression mechanism applies a force to a replaceable screen assembly that includes both a horizontal component and a downward vertical component. Each replaceable screen assembly is typically substantially flat prior to installation on a vibratory screening machine. The force applied to a screen assembly by one or more compression mechanisms causes the screen assembly to be pushed into engagement with underlying concave support members such that the screen assembly itself assumes a concave shape with the center of the screen assembly being lower than the side edges. The vertical downward component of the force helps to secure the screen assembly to the screening machine.

Abstract: A cleaning and debris management system that separates debris from billet leaf bundles in a harvester. The system includes an elevator and one or more air sources. The elevator includes first and second sections that meet at transition points. The air sources include upward and lateral sources located at the transition points to blow air through the bundles as they move across the transition points from the first to the second section. The air blown by the air sources spreads out the bundles and separates the debris. The elevator can cause the bundles to become airborne at the transition points, and the air sources can blow air through the airborne bundles. The system can include a hood where an air source blows air into a base and out an outlet of the hood to blow some of the debris out of the outlet.

Abstract: An exemplary sieve mechanism is configured for separating grain from chaff. The sieve mechanism generally includes a frame and a louvered region including a plurality of louvers mounted to the frame. The sieve mechanism further includes and an unlouvered region lacking louvers such that a gap is defined adjacent the louvered region.

Abstract: Methods and systems for sorting mixed metal scrap may first determine a sorting attribute of each article of metal scrap, and subsequently mark each article with a machine-readable or visually identifiable mark according to the sorting attribute. The articles of mixed metal scrap can be sorted along a high throughput conveyance using a series of sensors to scan the articles for the machine-readable marks, and rapidly sorting marked articles to appropriate sorting destinations based on detecting the machine-readable marks, and without requiring repeat identification by metal analyzers at the sorting step.

Abstract: A cryogenic processing system includes a cryogenic fluid source, and an auger, which includes an auger vessel containing at least one screw assembly. The screw assembly includes a flighting and a hollow shaft radially inward of the flighting. The shaft is in fluid communication with the cryogenic fluid source and includes one or more nozzles for dispensing cryogenic fluid within the auger vessel.

Abstract: A material sorting system sorts materials utilizing a vision system that implements a machine learning system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, which are then sorted into separate groups based on such an identification or classification. The material sorting system can sort material pieces containing contaminants, such as copper from steel.

Abstract: A laser line is provided for providing separation of hazelnut from items thereof, which are not compliant to standard, in hazelnut processing facility. The laser line comprises at least one first detection module having at least one first detection unit for use in visual picking of hazelnut on said laser line, and at least one second detection unit provided at the continuation of said first detection unit and which provides keeping of the items, which are not suitable to standard and which are not kept by the first detection unit, by means of visual detection, and at least one second detection module provided at the continuation of said first detection module and which can provide keeping of the items, which are not suitable to standard and which exist in hazelnut, by detecting said items by means of laser scanning.

Abstract: A screen assembly is formed by attaching side edges of a plurality of screen elements to each other. Reinforcing fibers may be embedded in the material of selected screen elements. The reinforcing fibers extend in a direction in which the screen assembly will be tensioned to secure the screen assembly to a screening machine. Hook strips may be attached to ends or sides of the screen assembly to facilitate mounting the screen assembly to a screening machine.

Abstract: A bill handling apparatus enables insertion of a deposited object therein from an insertion slot, the object including a bill containing a metallic component. The bill handling apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry coupled to a memory and configured to estimate a number of bills in the object that has been inserted, obtain an actually measured metal quantity in the object that has been inserted, estimate a threshold that is a quantity of metal in the object that has been inserted, based on the number of bills estimated by the first estimating and a reference metal quantity corresponding to one of the bills, the reference metal quantity having been determined beforehand, make a comparison between the actually measured metal quantity and the threshold, and determine, based on a result of the comparison, whether or not the object that has been inserted is a bill or bills only.

Abstract: The invention relates to a garment sorting system and method for sorting garments arranged on garment carriers. The system comprises a first transporting conveyor arrangement arranged to receive a garment carrier from a pairing station which transports the garment carriers to an identification and sorting arrangement on a second conveyor arrangement comprising an identification device arranged to identify a garment carrier from an identification code for further sorting. For each garment carrier, a sorting rail address is requested by the identification and sorting arrangement from a garment identification database. The identified garment carrier is transported to a plurality of sorting rails, where the second transporting conveyor arrangement comprises a sorting interface for each sorting rail such that the identified garment carrier is moved from the second transporting conveyor arrangement to the correct sorting rail by operation of the corresponding sorting interface.