Unbalanced Weight Patents (Class 209/366.5)
  • Patent number: 9574634
    Abstract: A damper includes a cylinder, cores and covers. The cylinder includes eccentric bores each confined in a wall formed with a thick portion and a thin portion located opposite to the thick portion. The thick portions of the eccentric bores are located on different sides of the cylinder. Each core is inserted in a corresponding eccentric bore. The covers close the eccentric bores to keep the cores in the eccentric bores. The cores are made with a volume smaller than that of the eccentric bores. The cores are separated from each other. The cores exert forces on the walls of the eccentric bores because of inertia to alleviate vibration of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: MONKULA ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuo-Chi Lin
  • Patent number: 9339847
    Abstract: A vibrating aggregate for moving the processing device, the vibrating aggregate including at least a frame, a shaft having an axial line and being arranged to rotate with respect to the frame, as well as a first element connected to the shaft in such a way that the center of mass of the element is not on the axial line, and fitted to move along a circular path. The vibrating aggregate also comprises a second element coupled to the shaft and arranged to move along a linear path. Furthermore, the invention relates to an apparatus for processing mineral material, and a method for moving the processing device of an apparatus for processing mineral material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: METSO MINERALS INC.
    Inventors: Aki Lautala, Antti Harju
  • Publication number: 20140299519
    Abstract: The method for fractionating bulk material comprises the step of feeding the bulk material to at least one screen in a device (1) comprising at least one housing (10) with an inner space for receiving the screen. The housing (10) has at least one inlet (13) for feeding the bulk material and at least one outlet for discharging at least one fraction of the bulk material. The housing (10) has a roof (15) and a floor (16), with at least a gyrating mass (17) respectively arranged on the roof and the floor. The device (1) also has at least one mechanical coupling means, wherein the gyrating masses are coupled to one another by the mechanical coupling means (21) arranged outside the inner space and can be driven. The device (1) has a drive means for driving the mechanical coupling means. The method also comprises the step of setting the housing (10) in an oscillating motion by means of driving the gyrating masses. In a further method step, the fractionating of the bulk material is performed by means of the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Bühler AG
    Inventors: Jurgen Moosmann, Bruno Fassler
  • Publication number: 20120125824
    Abstract: The mechanical vibrator is applied to vibrating screens or other equipment and comprises a bearing housing to be affixed to a side wall of the equipment, to carry a pair of bearings which support a shaft having an inner end portion and an outer end portion which respectively affix a first and a second counterweight. The first and the second counterweights have respective first and second eccentric masses of different values and which are positioned and dimensioned so that the first and the second counterweight generate equal loads on the bearings. The second counterweight is constructed to selectively and removably attach a third counterweight presenting a third eccentric mass maintained aligned with the center line of the bearing housing, to provide a variation of the total eccentric mass of the vibrator, without changing the balance of the load distribution on the bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: METSO BRASIL INDUSTRIA E COMERCIA LTDA
    Inventor: Andrzej Niklewski
  • Patent number: 8083072
    Abstract: A mobile vibrating screen with a readily stowable and pivoting drive system comprising a motor with an attached drive sheave, a belt, a driven sheave and plurality of universal joints which are configured to maintain a connection between the motor and an eccentric weight shaft when said drive system is switched from an operational configuration to a stowed configuration. In an alternate embodiment, some small d parts, e.g. drive shaft, need to be removed and stowed elsewhere on the plant when drive is converted from operation to transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Terex USA, LLC
    Inventors: Albert Botton, Edwin J. Sauser
  • Patent number: 7997416
    Abstract: An oscillating screen comprises a screening container inside which a screening means is disposed lying on a determinate screening plane (P), coinciding or inclined with respect to a horizontal oscillation plane (X), and oscillation means to move the screening container with respect to a fixed supporting structure. The oscillation means comprises a first movement unit provided with a first rotary shaft associated with a first eccentric element cooperating with the screening container, and a second movement unit having at least a second rotary shaft provided with a second eccentric element cooperating with the screening container. A transmission means connects the first rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft with each other, so that they have the same angular velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Inventor: Sergio Vecchiato
  • Publication number: 20100314299
    Abstract: A mobile vibrating screen with a readily stowable and pivoting drive system comprising a motor with an attached drive sheave, a belt, a driven sheave and plurality of universal joints which are configured to maintain a connection between the motor and an eccentric weight shaft when said drive system is switched from an operational configuration to a stowed configuration. In an alternate embodiment, some small d parts, e.g. drive shaft, need to be removed and stowed elsewhere on the plant when drive is converted from operation to transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: TEREX CORPORATION
    Inventors: ALBERT BOTTON, EDWIN J. SAUSER
  • Patent number: 7025210
    Abstract: A method of attenuating the sound emanating from a bank of a plurality of vibrating screens of a plurality of vibrating screening machines including the steps of providing a master pulse of known phase and frequency, comparing the phase and frequency of a plurality of vibrating screens with the known phase and frequency of said master pulse, and adjusting the phase and frequency of said bank of plurality of vibrating screens so that the waveforms produced thereby tend to cancel each other. An apparatus for implementing the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Derrick Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: James A. Mooney
  • Patent number: 6918492
    Abstract: A sealed wheel case for use on a vibrating aggregate processing device comprises a housing sized to hold a rotatable wheel supported on a shaft, the housing having a base, a peripheral sidewall, and a cover. The cover includes an aperture adapted to receive therethrough a driven portion of the shaft. A seal is disposed adjacent the shaft and the aperture, and an annular baffle is mounted to an inside surface of the cover and extends into the wheel case. The annular baffle is positioned on the inside surface of the cover to generally surrounding the shaft and the seal, and a plurality of attachment bolts are arranged to secure the housing to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Inventor: David A. Ostergaard
  • Publication number: 20040045877
    Abstract: There is provided exciter apparatus having a cast housing (11) and mounting base (14) secured to mounts bolted to the side plates of screening apparatus. A pair of shafts are mounted for rotation in and extend out of both sides of the cast housing (11). A gear assembly is keyed to each shaft t form a gear train coupling the shafts. The outer ends of each of the shafts are provided with eccentric masses (30) aligned on their respective shafts 180° out of phase. Drive spools (35) are driven by electric motors (not shown). Coupling spools (37) are adapted to accept flexible couplings for joining exciter units together. The gears (26) comprise 9 teeth of an 18-tooth module at 325.0 mm pitch circle diameter (PCD) and 65 mm axial dimension. The lands between the teeth are at a notional diameter 262.6 mm, the teeth having a corresponding notional tooth height of 31.2 mm to the PCD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Rubie, John Russell, Paul Dalziel, Ben Plant
  • Patent number: 6679385
    Abstract: A vibrating screen separator. The vibrating screen separator may be operated in a linear, an elliptical, or in a transition from elliptical to linear modes of operation. In the linear mode of operation, the screen separator moves along a reciprocating straight line path, and, in the elliptical mode of operation, the screen separator moves along an elliptical path. In the transitionary mode of operation, the screen separator is transitioned from movement along the elliptical path to movement along the linear path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: M I LLC.
    Inventors: Roger Suter, Alan Burkhard
  • Patent number: 6669026
    Abstract: A vibration-reducing eccentric weight system mounted to the driveshaft of a screen box in a portable screening plant with the eccentric weight system's center of gravity on the driveshaft's axis of rotation. The eccentric weight system includes a weight that is radially slidably mounted to the driveshaft, but biased so that its center of gravity is spaced from the driveshaft's axis of rotation during slow and no rotation. Upon rotation above a preselected speed, the centrifugal force displaces the weight radially outwardly. This causes a gradually increasing vibration corresponding to gradually increasing distance between the weight's center of gravity and the driveshaft's axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Ohio Central Steel Company
    Inventors: Douglas J. Cohen, Mauricio A. Escobar
  • Patent number: 6513664
    Abstract: A vibrating screen separator. The vibrating screen separator may be operated in a linear or elliptical mode of operation. In the linear mode of operation, the screen separator moves along a reciprocating straight line path, and, in the elliptical mode of operation, the screen separator moves along an elliptical path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: M-I, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Grady Logan, Gary Fout, Roger Suter
  • Publication number: 20020195378
    Abstract: A vibration-reducing eccentric weight system mounted to the driveshaft of a screen box in a portable screening plant with the eccentric weight system's center of gravity on the driveshaft's axis of rotation. The eccentric weight system includes a weight that is radially slidably mounted to the driveshaft, but biased so that its center of gravity is spaced from the driveshaft's axis of rotation during slow and no rotation. Upon rotation above a preselected speed, the centrifugal force displaces the weight radially outwardly. This causes a gradually increasing vibration corresponding to gradually increasing distance between the weight's center of gravity and the driveshaft's axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Douglas J. Cohen, Mauricio A. Escobar
  • Patent number: 6401933
    Abstract: A vibration-reducing eccentric weight system mounted to the driveshaft of a screen box in a screening plant with the eccentric weight system's center of gravity on the driveshaft's axis of rotation. The eccentric weight system includes a weight that is radially slidably mounted to the driveshaft, but biased so that its center of gravity is spaced from the driveshaft's axis of rotation during slow and no rotation. Upon rotation above a preselected speed, the centrifugal force displaces the weight radially outwardly. This causes a gradually increasing vibration corresponding to gradually increasing distance between the weight's center of gravity and the driveshaft's axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Ohio Central Steel Company An Ohio Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas J. Cohen, Mauricio A. Escobar
  • Patent number: 6386375
    Abstract: A vibrating screen supported by springs and vibrated via rotating gear sets. The gears are provided with off center weights synchronized to produce angularly directed vibration for moving the material from end to end on the screen. The gears are lubricated with a bath of low viscosity lubricant which is vibrated to form lubricant spikes that extend into the path of the weights to be propelled by the weights into the gears. The weights are substantially crescent shaped at their leading end to avoid hammer like impact of the lubricant and to thereby reduce heat generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Johnson Crushers International
    Inventor: Lawrence Calvin Olsen
  • Patent number: 6382424
    Abstract: A truck mounted particle screener for mounting atop the dump body of a dump truck having a support frame, a screen deck, a plurality of spring assemblies connecting the screen deck to the support frame, and a vibrating mechanism attached to the screen deck for imparting the vibratory motion to the screen deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Inventors: Christopher J. Bolton, Kenneth A White
  • Patent number: 6349834
    Abstract: A vibratory screen separator having a resiliently mounted frame with a screen mounting to receive screens for material flow thereacross. Eccentric weight systems are rotationally mounted with effective axes of eccentric force coincident. The weight systems are symmetrical about a center plane through the separator for uniform vibration thereacross. The coincident axes extend through the center of gravity. A drive is coupled with both weight systems such that the direction of rotation of the weight systems are opposite to one another in one embodiment and opposite in another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: M-I, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Brian S. Carr, Ari M. Hukki, Eric K. Johnson, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20010004973
    Abstract: A device for separating sawdust and manure, wherein a reticulated object is attached in an inclining condition to a supporting frame through a spring so as to be able to vibrate freely, wherein the reticulated object is vibrated by a vibrating means, wherein sawdust containing manure is placed on the reticulated object, and wherein the reticulated object in an inclining condition is vibrated so that the manure falls from the lower end of the reticulated object and the sawdust passes through the reticulated object and falls beneath the reticulated object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Inventor: Nobumasa Asakawa