Abstract: A screening arrangement in a vibrating screen for screening of material, such as crushed stone, gravel or the like, the screening arrangement having directing means provided on top of the screening arrangement to direct the material to be screened, such that the directing means are arranged to direct or adjust the width of screening material in relation to the amount of material to be screened, and to achieve a continuous optimal layer of the material to be screened.

Abstract: A vibratory separator and a screen mounting basket for a vibratory separator for separating components of material introduced into the basket, the vibratory separator including a collection receptacle beneath the basket, at least one screen assembly mounted in the basket, and at least one dam within the basket for intercepting material introduced into the basket, and for forming a relatively deep pool of material over one or more of the screen assemblies.

Abstract: A vibrating screen unit for dewatering dredged material. The vibrating screen unit includes a frame and a top screen deck, a middle screen deck and a bottom screen deck. The middle screen deck includes a splitter which extends across the width of the frame and comprises alternating closed channels and screen rows which alternate across the width of the frame.

Abstract: A screening deck for a wood chip screening apparatus including a plurality of parallel bars mounted in separate, interlaced grids, with the bars of at least one grid having top surfaces disposed in at least two planes, such that, during oscillatory movement of the grids, at all times at least two bar height positions result, for promoting chip action.

Abstract: This invention relates to a screen separator for separating metal adsorbent particles from a pulp and includes a screen separator for separating metal adsorbent particles from a pulp including an open topped and closed bottom cylindrical screen for axially vertical location, in use, in a tank containing pulp with the open top of the screen at or adjacent the full pulp surface level in the tank, an impeller which is located in the screen with its axis of rotation vertical, drive means, and a drive shaft connecting the drive means to the impeller with the impeller being adapted to drive pulp in the screen upwardly to a level above the surface level of the full pulp level in the tank when the impeller is rotated in the screen. The invention further extends to a method of separating the particles from the pulp by means of the separator and to a metal recover process which employs the separation method.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing debris from granular material includes a set of scalper assemblies and striker assemblies, which are disposed between an inlet and an outlet, and which are interconnected by a mechanical system to help urge the flow of the material through the housing to the outlet. The scalper assemblies are disposed on a set of frames covered with removable screens so that the flow of material falling against the scalper screens, cascades down the screens to form a flowing sheet of material, which falls off of the terminal end of the frame. The scalper screens are tiered and portions thereof are raised and dropped to help urge the larger debris within the granular material downwardly across the scalper screen towards its terminal end, while concurrently permitting the smaller granular material disposed thereon to fall through the screen meshings.

Abstract: A centrifugal drier drum for wet granular material has a peripheral drying wall arranged for rotation about its axis and an entry part for receiving the material to be dried and directing this material to within the drum. The entry part is fixed to the wall of the drum by a number of supports. Material fed to the drum impacts the entry part at an impact zone, and is received within the drum at a projection zone. An annular retaining space for retaining the material to be dried is formed at both the impact zone and the projection zone such that the circulating material strikes the surfaces of material retained in these retaining spaces.

Abstract: Disclosed is a plow assembly adapted for use with an endless conveyor type filtering device. The assembly comprises an elongated support member and at least one plow depending therefrom. The plow comprises a shaft affixed to the support member, a plow body having a central bore through which the shaft partially extends, the body being capable of rotary movement on the shaft, and a stop retaining the plow body on the shaft.

Abstract: Disclosed is a filtering device comprising an endless perforate conveyor belt adapted to carry a liquid-containing material and extract liquid from the material through the belt, and a plow assembly for disrupting the material carried by the belt. The plow assembly comprises a generally horizontally positioned cross-member extending across the width of the belt, the cross-member supporting at least one plow such that the plow is capable of contacting the material carried by the belt, the cross-member is mounted adjacent its ends on slide means that enable the cross-member to be raised and lowered with respect to the perforate belt. The device further includes selectively actuatable member for raising and lowering the cross-member with respect to the belt to thereby move the plows into and out of material contacting position.

Abstract: A grain harvesting combine is provided with an improved sieve plate for more efficient cleaning of the grain. The sieve plate is mounted on the combine adjacent the rearward end thereof and is substantially rectangular in shape. The sieve plate has forward and rearward edges and opposite side edges, the forward edge and side edges being substantially coplanar. The sieve plate also has a forward portion which slopes downwardly from the forward edge and terminates in a substantially flat portion extending rearwardly to the rearward edge. Inclined opposite side portions are also provided which slope downwardly from each side edge to the flat portion of the sieve. The degree of incline of the forward portion and side portions is approximately 5.degree. from the flat portion. The inclined side portions minimized grain loss when the combine is operating on sloping terrain.

Abstract: A rear dump truck for transporting particulate material and simultaneously discharging and sieving the material. The rear dump truck includes a load box divided into a front section and a rear section by a partition dump door. The front section of the box forms a load chamber space for carrying the particulate material and the rear section forms a load chamber space including wire sieves for sieving purposes. To adjust the flow rate of the particulate material passing from the front section into the rear section through below the partition dump door upon the tilting up of the box, a stopper which is tiltable by a hydraulic jack is positioned just before the partition dump door. The particulate material is supplied in a suitable amount at a given time through the adjustment of the tilting of the stopper and passes onto the wire sieves. The material is sieved and the sieved particles are discharged through rear dump doors according to the particle sizes.

Abstract: An automatic sizing device for particulate or granular material containing small, medium and large sized particles flowing therethrough. The device includes an inclined housing with a first conduit having an inlet opening for receipt of the particulate material, and a second conduit that is located beneath the first conduit and has an outlet for the exit of medium sized particles from the housing. A first mesh sizing screen is longitudinally extended between the inlet and the outlet openings to divide the housing into the first and second conduits and includes a plurality of openings sized to permit passage of only medium and small sized particles therethrough. At least one metering rotor is located in the first conduit adjacent the sizing screen to retard the flow of particulate material through the first conduit and urge the medium and small sized particles to pass through the sizing screen into the second conduit.

Abstract: For screening oversized objects and especially long slender particles wherein the long dimension of the particle is aligned in the direction of flow through a fluid-flow conduit, there is provided a screen comprising a pair of opposing corrugated surfaces, the folds or corrugations on the opposing surfaces being substantially parallel, and separated by a distance, and having a wave length, determined by the size particle to be screened. Preferably, the corrugated surfaces are formed as two sets of a plurality of corrugated plates inserted within and extending along the direction of fluid-flow in a conduit, the sets being relatively movable between a position where the two sets are interleaved, and a position where the two are separated.

Abstract: A vibratory screen apparatus is employed to continuously separate particles of random sizes, such as wood chips, into groups large, medium and small sized particles. A vibratory frame has a horizontal platform driven in vibratory movement to convey particles on the platform to one end of the platform. Upper and lower inclined screens are mounted upon the platform, particles are fed to the upper end of the upper screen which will pass medium and small sized particles passing through the lower screen to the platform. Gravitational movement of particles down the inclined upper screen is delayed by the vibratory movement of the screen; abutment surfaces on the upper surface of the upper screen imparting intermittent upward movement to particles on that surface which resists, but does not overcome gravitationally induced flow of the particles.

Abstract: A power driven oscillating sifter oscillated by a motor driven crank arm with the sifter having a pair of end plates and a central baffle all secured to the shaft. A perforated semi-cylindrical sifter panel is detachably secured to the end panels by means of inturned flanges on the end panels. The sifter panel has a plurality of longitudinally extending ribs for agitating the material to be sifted and openings are provided in the baffle and the lower end wall to permit the exit of materials which will not pass through the perforations of the sifter panel.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for dewatering rubber crumb in which a slurry of rubber crumb and fines overflowed from a feed tank onto a curved screen for dewatering is subjected to a change in direction away from the screen by a fixed baffle in the feed path upstream of the screen and is then redirected by a second, adjustable baffle onto the screen with the second, adjustable baffle also determining the spacing between the screen and the second baffle and thereby restricting flow from the curved screen onto a coated chute which delivers partially dewatered rubber crumb from the apparatus.

Abstract: A cleaner for removing waste particles from grain and similar agricultural products. The cleaner comprises a pair of concentric drums adapted to be rotated in unison and having perforated outer surfaces for separating out waste particles. The inner drum has a plurality of sections of decreasing diameter for deterring the flow of the grain therethrough while separating out the waste particles.