Patents by Inventor Knut Kjaerran

Knut Kjaerran has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220297132
    Abstract: An abrasion resistant distributor plate assembly mountable within a rotor of a vertical shaft impact crusher to protect the rotor from abrasive wear caused due to material falling on to the rotor. The distributor plate assembly includes a main body, wear-resistant inserts mounted on the main body having a wear resistance greater than the main body, and an elevated central component directly mounted on the main body, which has a wear resistance greater than that of the inserts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Knut KJAERRAN, Rowan DALLIMORE, Andreas FORSBERG
  • Publication number: 20220152619
    Abstract: An abrasion wear resistant plate mountable to a rotor of a vertical shaft impact crusher includes a metallic main body, and at least four non-metallic tiles arranged on an upper surface of the main body to form a portion of a contact face facing an internal space of the rotor. Each of the tiles have an abrasion wear resistance greater than that of the main body, each one of the tiles having at least three edges each matching with and positioned against an edge of a neighboring tile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas FORSBERG, Knut KJAERRAN, Rowan DALLIMORE
  • Patent number: 11260395
    Abstract: A distributor plate assembly for a vertical shaft impact (VSI) crusher is optimized for abrasion wear resistance. The distributor plate includes a plurality of plate segments, each segment being formed from a main body of ductile iron alloy having cemented carbide granules embedded within the iron alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Hodin Esbelani, Rowan Dallimore, Knut Kjaerran, Andreas Forsberg, Mats Malmberg, Oskar Larsson
  • Patent number: 11123747
    Abstract: A vertical shaft impact crusher feed hopper distribution device arranged for feeding material to be crushed to a rotor of a vertical shaft impact crusher. The feed hopper distribution device is arranged to be mounted in a feed hopper that feeds material to the rotor and includes a supply channel that forwards material from an inlet opening arranged adjacent to an upper end of the supply channel to a hopper bottom opening arranged in a bottom of the feed hopper and communicating with the rotor. The supply channel has a cross-section that widens along at least a portion of the distance from the upper end to a lower end of the supply channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Rowan Dallimore, Andreas Forsberg, Knut Kjaerran
  • Patent number: 11052400
    Abstract: A locking device for a crusher rotor of a horizontal shaft impact crusher includes a locking-wedge having a first through bore, a screw element for driving the locking-wedge into a locking position between a rotor arm and the hammer element and for holding the locking-wedge in the locking position, thereby fixing the hammer element to the rotor disc, a locking nut for receiving the locking screw element, and a locking nut holder. The screw element is at least partly located in the first through bore and extends through the locking nut. The locking nut holder holds the locking nut in a manner that prevents the locking nut from rotating as the screw element is driven through the locking nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Rowan Dallimore, Andreas Forsberg, Knut Kjaerran
  • Patent number: 11000854
    Abstract: A rotor positioning device in a crusher is arranged to adjust a rotational position of a rotor shaft. A shaft engager includes a female toothed mating surface for coaxial engagement with a male mating surface at an end of the rotor shaft, so they become rotationally interlocked. The shaft engager includes alignable indicator slots that are, when in use, alignable with markings associated with an end of the rotor shaft, such that the markings become visible through the slots as the rod is rotationally driven by a drive component. The markings correspond to hammer positions within the crusher, such that these can be maneuvered for maintenance (e.g. to top dead-center positions) before access to the crusher chamber is gained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Andreas Forsberg, Rowan Dallimore, Knut Kjaerran
  • Patent number: 10814330
    Abstract: A rotor locking device in a crusher is arranged for locking a rotational position of a rotor shaft. A shaft engager includes a female toothed mating surface for coaxial engagement with a male mating surface at an end of the rotor shaft to rotationally interlock the same. A fastening portion with engager apertures overlaps with a bearing mount surrounding the rotor shaft so it can be fastened therewith. The engager apertures are circumferentially elongated in order to accommodate alignment with fastening points in the bearing mount, at least when a closest rotational mating position is chosen for alignment. This enables any rotational position of the rotor shaft to be locked for safety before having to access the crusher chamber, especially when the rotor of the crusher has become blocked and requires maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Knut Kjaerran, Andreas Forsberg, Rowan Dallimore
  • Patent number: 10751724
    Abstract: A crushing device includes a horizontal shaft impact crusher having an impeller rotating around a horizontal shaft and at least one curtain against which material may be crushed. The crushing device further includes a first feeding device for feeding a first type of material to be crushed to a crushing chamber of the horizontal shaft impact crusher. A second feeding device feeds a second type of material, having a smaller average particle size than the first type of material, to the crushing chamber simultaneously with the first feeding device feeding the first type of material to the crushing chamber. A mixing arrangement for at least partially mixes the first and the second types of materials with each other before bringing them into contact with the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Rowan Dallimore, Andreas Forsberg, Knut Kjaerran
  • Patent number: 10695767
    Abstract: An abrasion resistant wear plate is mountable within a rotor or a vertical shaft impact crusher to protect the rotor from material fed into the rotor. The wear plate includes a main body that mounts and supports at least one abrasion resistant insert to define, in part, a contact face over which feed material is configured to flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Knut Kjaerran, Andreas Forsberg, Rowan Dallimore
  • Patent number: 10695768
    Abstract: A hammer mountable at a rotor of a horizontal shaft impact crusher (HSi-crusher), the hammer including a front face, a rear face and at least one recess projecting inwardly into a main body of the hammer from the front face. The at least one recess being arranged to receive an attachment element to mount the hammer at a hammer lifting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Rowan Dallimore, Knut Kjaerran, Andreas Forsberg
  • Publication number: 20190381510
    Abstract: A locking device for a crusher rotor of a horizontal shaft impact crusher includes a locking-wedge having a first through bore, a screw element for driving the locking-wedge into a locking position between a rotor arm and the hammer element and for holding the locking-wedge in the locking position, thereby fixing the hammer element to the rotor disc, a locking nut for receiving the locking screw element, and a locking nut holder. The screw element is at least partly located in the first through bore and extends through the locking nut. The locking nut holder holds the locking nut in a manner that prevents the locking nut from rotating as the screw element is driven through the locking nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Rowan DALLIMORE, Andreas FORSBERG, Knut KJAERRAN
  • Publication number: 20190314824
    Abstract: A rotor locking device in a crusher is arranged for locking a rotational position of a rotor shaft. A shaft engager includes a female toothed mating surface for coaxial engagement with a male mating surface at an end of the rotor shaft to rotationally interlock the same. A fastening portion with engager apertures overlaps with a bearing mount surrounding the rotor shaft so it can be fastened therewith. The engager apertures are circumferentially elongated in order to accommodate alignment with fastening points in the bearing mount, at least when a closest rotational mating position is chosen for alignment. This enables any rotational position of the rotor shaft to be locked for safety before having to access the crusher chamber, especially when the rotor of the crusher has become blocked and requires maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Knut KJAERRAN, Andreas FORSBERG, Rowan DALLIMORE
  • Publication number: 20190308197
    Abstract: A bearing cartridge and a retaining ring for a bearing cartridge arranged to support a rotatable main shaft of a vertical shaft impact (VSI) crusher. The retaining ring is formed as a single piece ring positionable radially between a drum forming part of a mainframe of the VSI crusher and a region of the main shaft of the crusher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas FORSBERG, Knut KJAERRAN, Rowan DALLIMORE
  • Publication number: 20190201910
    Abstract: A locking device for a crusher rotor of a horizontal shaft impact crusher including at least one hammer element and at least one rotor disc having a plurality of rotor arms. The locking device includes a locking-wedge having a first engagement surface for engaging one of the rotor arms and a second engagement surface for engaging the hammer element. An installation handle of the locking devices is arranged to move the locking-wedge to a locking position where the first engagement surface engages the rotor arm and the second engagement surface engages the hammer element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Rowan DALLIMORE, Andreas FORSBERG, Knut KJAERRAN
  • Publication number: 20190168227
    Abstract: A rotor positioning device in a crusher is arranged to adjust a rotational position of a rotor shaft. A shaft engager includes a female toothed mating surface for coaxial engagement with a male mating surface at an end of the rotor shaft, so they become rotationally interlocked. The shaft engager includes alignable indicator slots that are, when in use, alignable with markings associated with an end of the rotor shaft, such that the markings become visible through the slots as the rod is rotationally driven by a drive component. The markings correspond to hammer positions within the crusher, such that these can be manoeuvred for maintenance (e.g. to top dead-center positions) before access to the crusher chamber is gained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas FORSBERG, Rowan DALLIMORE, Knut KJAERRAN
  • Patent number: 10286401
    Abstract: An abrasion wear resistant distributor plate assembly is mountable to protect a rotor within a vertical shaft impact crusher for material fed into the rotor. A distributor plate is arranged so as to be resistant to the operational abrasive wear resulting from contact with a flow of crushable feed material through the crusher rotor. Attachment components are provided around a perimeter of the plate to facilitate mounting and decoupling of the plate at the rotor during servicing or replacement procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Andreas Forsberg, Rowan Dallimore, Knut Kjaerran
  • Patent number: 9908121
    Abstract: A crusher hammer lifting device facilitates raising and lowering of a hammer mountable at a rotor of a horizontal shaft impact crusher (HSi-crusher). The device includes a main body, a mount engager for attachment to an auxiliary lifting tool and a hammer attachment for releasably mounting the hammer in a rotatable manner at the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Andreas Forsberg, Knut Kjaerran, Rowan Dallimore
  • Publication number: 20170209866
    Abstract: An abrasion wear resistant distributor plate assembly is mountable to protect a rotor within a vertical shaft impact crusher for material fed into the rotor. A distributor plate is configured to be resistant to the operational abrasive wear resulting from contact with a flow of crushable feed material through the crusher rotor. Attachment components are provided around a perimeter of the plate to facilitate mounting and decoupling of the plate at the rotor during servicing or replacement procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas FORSBERG, Rowan DALLIMORE, Knut KJAERRAN
  • Publication number: 20170173590
    Abstract: An abrasion resistant wear plate is mountable within a rotor or a vertical shaft impact crusher to protect the rotor from material fed into the rotor. The wear plate includes a main body that mounts and supports at least one abrasion resistant insert to define, in part, a contact face over which feed material is configured to flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Knut KJAERRAN, Andreas FORSBERG, Rowan DALLIMORE
  • Publication number: 20170151572
    Abstract: A hammer mountable at a rotor of a horizontal shaft impact crusher (HSi-crusher), the hammer including a front face, a rear face and at least one recess projecting inwardly into a main body of the hammer from the front face. The at least one recess being arranged to receive an attachment element to mount the hammer at a hammer lifting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Rowan DALLIMORE, Knut KJAERRAN, Andreas FORSBERG