Abstract: A sifter insert for use in a sifting device has an insert frame and a screening media affixed thereto. An insert frame air channel is located within the insert frame. The sifter insert is sized to be received in a sifter box frame of an associated sifter box. The sifter box frame has a box frame air channel in fluid communication with the insert box frame channel of the received sifter insert. The passage of air through the box frame air channel and the insert frame air channel may cool the sifter box and the insert frame, and may cool the screening media and the material being sifted thereon. Channel holes in the insert frame may direct air from the insert frame air channel to the screening surface of the screening media.

Abstract: A combination table, sifter, and collection tray for herbs is described herein. The device is generally a food and plant processing device, and more particularly is a combination table, sifter, and collection tray. The table, sifter, and tray are nested into one another to form a unitary device for easy transport.

Abstract: A sifter insert for use in a sifting device has an insert frame and a screening media affixed thereto. An insert frame air channel is located within the insert frame. The sifter insert is sized to be received in a sifter box frame of an associated sifter box. The sifter box frame has a box frame air channel in fluid communication with the insert box frame channel of the received sifter insert. The passage of air through the box frame air channel and the insert frame air channel may cool the sifter box and the insert frame, and, may cool the screening media and the material being sifted thereon. Channel holes in the inset frame may direct air from the insert frame air channel to the screening surface of the screening media.

Abstract: A sieve is disclosed for use in a plansifter. The sieve can be changed between backwire and combined sieve configurations without the height of the sieve changing, and while maintaining contact between a frame of the sieve and the sieve box. A dynamic combined cleaner also is disclosed in which the center of gravity of the cleaner dynamically changes based on inertial movements applied to the cleaner.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) is provided in the present invention, including a conductive plug with a protruding portion extending outwardly on one side and a notched portion concaving inwardly on the other side of the upper edge of conductive plug, and a memory cell with a bottom electrode electrically connecting with the conductive plug, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) on the bottom electrode, and a top electrode on the magnetic tunnel junction, wherein the bottom surface of memory cell completely overlaps the top surface of conductive plug.

Abstract: A screen assembly for vibratory separation includes a screen having a plurality of raised screen components formed therein, with each of the raised screen components defining a face oriented to oppose a flow direction of the screen assembly. In examples, a screen of the screen assembly is assembled from a plurality of metal cloth layers bonded together. Bonding of the metal cloth layers may be accomplished by a sintering process.

Abstract: Disclosed is a size portable particle size distribution sampling device that is small enough to be carried by truckers and handled by terminal personnel. The device consists of multiple nesting screening (sieve) cups, with a sample cup at the top, a plurality of screening cups in sequence below the sample cup and a base container at the bottom. Methods of use are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention is a handheld device for flouring/breading foods comprising two chambers that are capable of removably connecting together each chamber having a sieve. The foods chamber can connect to the flour chamber in a screw-like fashion, using grooves and channels, using buttons and snap fittings, using magnets, hook and loop tape, wing nuts, or the like. Preferably, the openings in the food chamber sieve are greater in size than the openings in the flour chamber sieve which is removable. The device further comprises a lid hingedly connected to the top of the food chamber and a handle for grasping the device with one hand. The lid is preferably spring hinged such that when opened, the lid is maintained open preventing the lid from closing when the device is tilted. The present invention also includes the above device with more than two sieves decreasing in opening size from the top down in the device.

Abstract: A vibrating device includes a drive unit configured to drive a vibrating member to produce vibration Z (x, y) at a dust-screening member, the vibration being expressed as follows: Z(x,y)=Wmn(x,y)·cos(?)+Wnm(x,y)·sin(?) where Z (x, y) is vibration at a given point P (x, y) on the dust-screening member, m and n are positive integers including 0, indicating the order of natural vibration corresponding to a vibrational mode, W mn ? ( x , y ) = sin ? ( n ? ? ? · x + ? 2 ) · sin ? ( m ? ? ? · y + ? 2 ) , ? W n ? ? m ? ( x , y ) = sin ? ( m ? ? ? · x + ? 2 ) · sin ? ( n ? ? ? · y + ? 2 ) , and ? is +?/4 or ranges from ??/8 to ??/4.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plan sifter for sifting, or sieving, flour-like or granular products, comprising at least one compartment. The characterizing part is that each sifting compartment has a dedicated drive. In this manner, the base surface available can be better utilized, and the sifting capacity can be better adjusted to the actual need.

Abstract: A vibrating screen apparatus for sizing materials is shown that has a minimum of moving parts therein. A vibrating motor is mounted below longitudinal vibrating bars. The vibrating bars are set on air mounts, which air mounts are between the vibrating bars and cross braces connected to the frame. The vibrating bars press against the underside of a vibrating screen to form a crown therein when the air mounts are inflated. The vibrating screen is stretched between the sides of the frame by tensioning rails. A shroud over the top of the frame is secured in place. Multiple size materials can be produced by stacking multiple vibrating screen apparatuses.

Abstract: A manual sifter including a rotor overlying a sifter screen and rotatable in response to longitudinal reciprocation of a drive arm engaging a crank wheel fixed to the rotor. The drive arm includes a projecting pin engaged within an elongated slot of the crank wheel, the drive arm having a cam edge thereon engage with the crank wheel to vary the torque applied to the rotation of the crank wheel as the arm reciprocates.

Abstract: A large or square plansifter has a large number of sieve stacks with e.g. more than 20 sieve boxes. Such boxes are constructed without a supporting grating and design so as to be exchangeable in the covered state and so that they can be placed on or in the sieve frames. A free product fall-through space or discharge space is accordingly formed between the sieve screen and a flat base plate. The sieve cleaners are placed on or in the flat base plate. In a particularly preferred manner, the sieve frames are constructed as metal frames. The sieve cleaners clean the sieve screen and clear the product from the base plate. The sieve cleaners preferably have 2, 3 or 4 arms.

Abstract: A media recovery hopper which lies on a floor permitting spent media and debris to be swept thereinto. The hopper, in the preferred embodiment, is a substantially rectangular box having one of its four side walls shorter than the rest. The media/debris is swept over this shorter side wall while the other walls collect and "queue" the mixture for recovery. The mixture falls through a screen and into a channeling mechanism composed of a series of ridges and valleys. Along each valley are drop-orifices which permit the media/debris mixture to fall therethrough and into an air-stream which carries the mixture to proper collection or sorting mechanism.

Abstract: A sieve for powder. The sieve has a housing in which a transverse screen is mounted to divide the housing into upper and lower chambers. Air under pressure carries powder into a cyclone stack mounted on top of the housing from which it is directed onto the screen. A vibrator is connected to the screen to vibrate and thus to assist in the sieving operation. The screen is downwardly inclined and overlying its lower end an inspection cover is mounted in the housing to permit access to the screen for removal for the material which does not pass through the screen.

Abstract: In a sieving apparatus a suction chamber is connected to a source of vacuum. The chamber is connected to sieve by a plurality of air channels. Air inlets supply air to the underside of the sieve to agitate the material being sieved. A sieve case has a cover with apertures to permit more air to enter the sieve case to further agitate the material being sieved.

Abstract: A sifting machine includes a screen; a plurality of spaced leaf springs supported below the screen and extending transversely to the length dimension of the screen; and a drive connected to the leaf springs for causing each leaf spring to periodically bend away from the screen and subsequently move rapidly towards the screen to intermittently beat the latter. The active beating length of each leaf spring is somewhat less than the useful width of the screen. There are further provided a downwardly resiliently yielding support for opposite ends of the active beating length of each leaf spring and a cable or the like attached to the mid portion of each leaf spring. The cable forms part of the drive for agitating each leaf spring.

Abstract: A sifter, shaped to nest within a similarly shaped sifter, includes a tapered, hollow body, a handle connected to the body and extending outwardly therefrom, and an actuating mechanism extending along the outer surface of the body for driving an agitator positioned within the body.