Abstract: A comminuting device for commercial or industrial waste in the form of paper, plastics and the like comprising a downward feeding hopper, having a rotary cutting mechanism associated with a bottom discharge opening and a crushing and conveying tool above and rotating with the rotor has the discharge opening aligned substantially vertically to pass centrally or chordwise through the lower region of the hopper and the rotor is equipped at its circumferential face with knives disposed one above the other to travel through a substantially cylindrical cutting area traversing the discharge opening.

Abstract: The comminuting apparatus for waste consists of a housing (1), which is circular in cross-section and defines an upright feed hopper accessible from above and which has a bottom (2) as a lower termination of the interior of the housing. Disposed in the vicinity of the bottom is a discharge opening (12) for comminuted material. In the interior of the housing there is a driven rotating substantially plate-shaped tool (6) which has an external diameter substantially corresponding to the internal diameter of the housing and is secured to a drive shaft (5) extending coaxially through the bottom (2) into the interior of the housing. The plate-shaped tool (6) is constructed in the form of a combined screening and centrifugal plate (6) which is provided with screening holes (8) only inside its closed circular peripheral edge and which sets the material in the feed hopper in circulating motion.

Abstract: A machine for comminuting bulk objects such as wood or the like includes a receptor forming in its lower part, a funnel, a guide means at the inner side of the funnel, a comminuting device below the funnel, and a transport and pre-breaking means within the funnel and rotating therein with the comminuting device. The comminuting device includes a rotor rotatable about a vertical axis and having a plurality of cutting edges and at least one stator mounted on the funnel and also having cutting edges. The cutting edges of the rotor traverse an annular working plane which is perpendicular to the rotational axis of the rotor with the annular working plane overlapping with the cutting edges of the stator.

Abstract: A machine for comminuting bulk objects such as wood or the like includes a receptor forming in its lower part, a funnel, a guide means at the inner side of the funnel, a comminuting device below the funnel, and a transport and pre-breaking means within the funnel and rotating therein with the comminuting device. The comminuting device includes a rotor rotatable about a vertical axis and having a plurality of cutting edges and at least one stator mounted on the funnel and also having cutting edges. The cutting edges of the rotor traverse an annular working plane which is perpendicular to the rotational axis of the rotor with the annular working plane overlapping with the cutting edges of the stator.

Abstract: Apparatus for comminuting industrial and/or bulky domestic waste materials has an upright housing with a funnel-shaped section located above a stationary counterknife which cooperates with a single rotary knife therebelow or with two rotary knifes respectively disposed thereabove and therebelow. The inner side of the funnel-shaped housing section has a downwardly sloping spiral surface which advances waste material downwardly toward the upper rotary knife or toward the counterknife and whose upper portion flares outwardly and downwardly at a gradually diminishing angle with respect to the common axis of the knives. The lower portion of the spiral surface merges gradually into the upper portion and thereupon flares outwardly and upwardly with respect to the common axis. A feeding device which rotates with the rotary knife or knives extends into the funnel-shaped section and has one or more arms whose edge portions resemble spirals or helices having a lead opposite to that of the spiral surface.