Abstract: A method is described for recycling the infill of a synthetic turf, said infill being formed by a plurality of different granular materials, including at least sand granules, polymeric material granules and synthetic grass filaments, said method comprising the following steps: drying the infill, screening the infill through a plurality of successive screens (130,140,180,185) each having passage holes of different sizes subdividing the infill into a plurality of groups of granular material having different size ranges, separating each group of granular material into two subgroups of granular material based on the difference in density of the materials, and conveying the separated subgroups of granular materials to different collection containers.

Abstract: Vibrating classifier embodiments such as vibrating grizzly feeders are provided. Some embodiments include a reconfigurable grizzly bar classifier.

Abstract: The disclosure features material separators for screening excavated material (e.g., rocks from soil.) In some implementations the materials separators include (a) a supporting frame; (b) a screening surface mounted at an incline on the supporting frame, the screening surface comprising a plurality of fixed bars that are attached to the frame in a manner to resist upward movement, and a plurality of shift bars that are attached to the frame at their upper and lower ends, in a manner to allow upward movement; and (c) a shift bar actuator, positioned between the upper and lower ends of the shift bars, the shift bar actuator being configured to impart a two-stage movement to the shift bars, whereby during a first stage the upper ends are first displaced vertically, and during a second stage the lower ends pivot upward about the upper ends.

Abstract: The disclosure features material separators for screening excavated material (e.g., rocks from soil.) In some implementations the materials separators include (a) a supporting frame; (b) a screening surface mounted at an incline on the supporting frame, the screening surface comprising a plurality of fixed bars that are attached to the frame in a manner to resist upward movement, and a plurality of shift bars that are attached to the frame at their upper and lower ends, in a manner to allow upward movement; and (c) a shift bar actuator, positioned between the upper and lower ends of the shift bars, the shift bar actuator being configured to impart a two-stage movement to the shift bars, whereby during a first stage the upper ends are first displaced vertically, and during a second stage the lower ends pivot upward about the upper ends.

Abstract: A bucket for crushing inert material comprises an outer casing, an inlet section for the entry of the material to be crushed into the casing and crushing unit arranged in the casing for crushing the material and a screening device for screening the material to be crushed disposed in a position intermediate between the inlet aperture and the crushing unit. The screening device comprises at least one rotating member, the partial rotation of which is suitable for performing a screening of parts of material to be crushed which are of a size below a predetermined dimension.

Abstract: A single vane slat design for use in a sieve or chaffer of a harvester combine. The single vane slat has a weld pocket, preferably on its bottom surface, for receiving a wire on a frame. The single vane slat may be formed of a 26 gage material, and may be attached to the wire using two small welds. The weld material is configured to flow into the weld pocket upon being welded, and achieve direct and incidental contact between the wire and the slat. The weld pocket of the slat is configured such that the slat is self-fixturing to the wire, which lends to the ability to weld the slats to the wires while fixed in the frame. This facilitates accommodating a large number of frame types and sizes.

Abstract: A vibratory apparatus for separating a liquid from a liquid-laden solid material. The apparatus includes an inclined trough having a base with a first end and a second elevated with respect to the first end. A deck is attached to the trough base, the deck defining support points positioned above the base spaced from one another by a distance sufficient to support the solid material above the deck, and passages located between the support points to allow liquid to flow to the deck. A vibratory drive is attached to the trough and oriented impart a conveying motion toward the trough second end. Solid material deposited onto the deck is advanced toward the second end by the conveying motion while the liquid flows along the trough base toward the first end under gravity.

Abstract: A method of separating a liquid from a liquid-laden solid material includes providing a trough having a deck defining a support surface with passages extending through the support surface. The liquid-laden solid material is deposited onto the support surface so that the liquid-laden solid material is supported by the support surface. A vibratory force is applied to the deck to separate a substantial portion of the liquid from the liquid-laden solid material. The liquid separated from the liquid-laden solid material is directed under gravity force through the passages extending through the support surface. The solid material is conveyed along the support surface by the vibratory force to a solids discharge point.

Abstract: A doughnut or puck-shaped spacer has a centrally positioned square hole. A pie-shaped cutaway portion of the spacer allows the spacer to be elastically deformed mounting on a square rod. The rod and spacers join together the bars of a bar screen rack. Bars making up a screen bed are approximately one-quarter inch thick and cantilevered sections of the screening bars benefit from being joined together to control the spacing of the bars and to add rigidity to each rack of bars which makes up the bar screen rack. For ease of assembly, canted slots receive a square rod. The spacers are readily positioned between legs on the square rod. The individual bars are then joined by tightening a nut at the threaded end of the rod, clamping the bars in spaced parallel relation.

Abstract: Used single use camera bodies (10) and miscellaneous loose parts (130, 132, 134) are dumped into a receiver conveyor (72) from which they move to a metering conveyor (88) which delivers them to a series of vibratory grid separators (106, 108, 110) having grid bars (124) separated by slots (126) configured such that each camera body can be positioned with at least one lengthwise corner (148-154) located in the slot and the center of gravity (156) of the camera body positioned above the slot. Camera bodies are thus conveyed lengthwise along the vibratory grid separators to enable loose parts to fall more readily through the slots. Camera bodies are then separated by types at a plurality of sorting stations (186).

Abstract: The bars of one of two sets of interleaved screen bars is extended beyond the interleaved portion of the screen bed, thus forming a region of the screen bed which has screens particles of intermediate dimensions. A second improvement is a clamping member which holds the downwardly extending legs of individual bars of the screen. The clamping member is a steel channel which has a steeply peaked roof between legs which sheds particles. The bar legs fit into slots which penetrate the peaked roof transverse to the lengthwise direction of the channel. The legs are retained by transverse bolts which pass through the vertical sidewalls of the channel and the legs, retaining and clamping them. The third improvement mounts the clamping member to a flange which may be traversed by a screw and bolt arrangement such that the clamping member may be adjusted in its lateral position. A fourth improvement is a clamping member which extends longitudinally and which has a keyway formed therein.

Abstract: A screen assembly according to the invention screens material by size and includes first and second sets of transversely spaced apart, longitudinally extending first and second members respectively. The members are parallel to each other, and some members of the second set are located between some members of the first set. At least one of the sets is mounted to vibrate along a longitudinal axis to feed material therealong. A plurality of longitudinally spaced apart, transversely extending third members are located between adjacent first and second members so as to define a plurality of screen openings between the first, second and third members. Third members are mountable so as to be out-of-phase with vibrations of at least one of the first or second sets of longitudinally extending members. The screen assembly can be installed in a vibrating conveyor, such that the first members vibrate with a pan of the conveyor, so as to feed material along the first members.

Abstract: A bar screen system comprising two sets of interleaved bars. In each set, the height of the individual bars is staggered so that every third bar is higher than the other bars, which are the same height. The bars are driven such that the bars in one set are approximately 180.degree. behind the other set in their respective predetermined paths of movement, resulting in a tipping and agitation action which tends to present the wood chips loaded at a high rate onto the bar screen in their thickness dimension to the slots between adjacent bars.

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: A bar screen apparatus (10) having inner and outer frame assemblies (14, 16), with each frame assembly including a plurality of thin, blade-like bar elements (44). Each frame assembly (14, 16) further includes means for maintaining the blade-like bar elements under tension (58, 76). The inner and outer frame assemblies are driven by a drive system which includes a drive motor (97), a first drive shaft (121) at the infeed end of the apparatus, a second drive shaft (128) at the discharge end of the apparatus and a connecting assembly (126) for connecting the two drive shafts. Certain eccentric cams (114, 116, 118 and 120) are mounted on the first drive shaft (121) and are connected to the inner and outer frame assemblies (14, 16), while other eccentric cams (140, 142, 144 and 146) are mounted on the second drive shaft (128) and are connected to the inner and outer frame assemblies (14, 16), with the bar elements in the inner frame assembly being driven approximately 180.degree.

Abstract: A bar screen (10) for sizing wood chips which includes a plurality of parallel bars (12--12) supported at their respective ends (14, 16) in such a manner and driven in such a manner that each bar moves both longitudinally and vertically. Two alternating sets of bars (12--12) are included, one set being 180.degree. removed in position relative to the other set. The speed and movement of the bars (12--12) is such that the wood chips are tipped up to a vertical orientation and supplied with such a momentum that the chips break contact with the bars and encounter a slot between adjacent bars in their thickness dimension.

Abstract: A method for screening of wooden chips and the similar stuff placed upon a vibrating conveyor including a chute (1) and a frame (2), at which the bottom (4) of the chute (1) is provided with a screening grid consisting of mutually parallel screening rods (6) and is brought to vibrate relative to the frame (2) by help of a vibrating device (11) and at which the frame (2) is provided with longish carriers (9) which are arranged projecting up between the screening rods (6) and the carriers (9), and at which the carriers (9) is brought to vibrate partly relative to the frame (2) and partly relative to the chute (1) with the screening rods. The chute (1) with the screening rods (6) is vibrating in the same plane as the carriers (9) at which the relative movement between the screening rods (6) and the carriers (9) is controlled by a mutual phase displacement of these respectively movement of vibration.

Abstract: A bar screen for the separation by size of lump goods, such as wood chips, according to its thickness, and comprising parallel bars (1-5) provided with flights (6), where the bars are mutually movable.

Abstract: A screening device having a screen deck composed of two screen frames (11, 27) provided with oblong, parallel screening elements (20, 28), the elements (20) of the first frame being arranged between the elements (28) of the second frame. The second frame (27) rests on the first frame (11). The frames are provided with guide and contact elements (22-26, 32) for guiding and retaining the second frame in a predetermined position on the first frame. The second frame (27) can, in order to free material particles which have jammed between the screening elements (20, 28), be raised freely relative to the first screen frame to a predetermined maximum height, the frames and their screening elements remaining parallel to one another. The frames can be resiliently supported for performing oscillating movements relative to a support frame (5) and relative to one another.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for screening and separating wood chips or the like according to thickness. In the illustrated embodiment, the apparatus comprises two generally horizontal decks mounted one beneath the other, and with each deck having three screening sections disposed in a serial arrangement along its longitudinal length. Each screening section comprises an opening in the associated deck, a stationary grid composed of parallel rod elements disposed in the opening, and a movable grid which is also composed of a plurality of rod elements and which are disposed in alternating relation with the rod elements of the stationary grid. Further, the grids are arranged so that the gaps between the rod elements are parallel and of predetermined uniform separation throughout.

Abstract: A size grader for pod vegetables includes a horizontally oriented rotatable drum which contains banks of fixed grading members and movable panels oriented over each bank. The banks and panels are wanted on the drum so as to be parallel to its longitudinal axis. The final grading members and the movable panels have grading vanes which are disposed circumferentially to the drum and transversely to its longitudinal axis. The apertures between the fixed grading vanes and the movable vanes defines grading surfaces. A control rod mounted to the drum longitudinally across each row of panels and operatively engaged with a rowring enables movable panel to move selectively with respect to its corresponding fixed panel as the drum rotates so that the movable panel moves toward the fixed panel in grading position when the panel is in a lower level in the drum and moves away from the fixed bank in a clearing position when the panel is located above the drum.

Abstract: A separator system for separating grinding bodies and ground material in an agitator mill wherein stationary and moveable or oscillating separator members in a grinding chamber define a variable gap which narrows when a moveable separator member moves against the flow of ground material.

Abstract: A side seal assembly for a screening machine of the type which includes an elastic sealing element which bridges a slot between the sidewall and the screening lining of the screening machine, and a support for the sealing element is provided. The sealing element is covered with an elastic foam plastic at least at the side thereof facing the screening lining, and that the support for the sealing element is rigidly coupled with the sidewall of the screening machine.

Abstract: A screening mechanism which has two ladder-shaped frame systems with spaced parallel ladder stringers and spaced parallel ladder rungs extending between the stringers, wherein at least one of the said frame systems is moving relatively to the other frame system to form sieve zones of continuously changing width with alternating dips of a different depth, curved arches or a different tension in a stretched condition, whereby at least one of the said frame systems is connected to a driving means such as a crankshaft, electro-magnets, pneumatic or hydraulically driven cylinders or the like and is held on link springs, swing supports, rollers, suspended swings, cables, swing metals or the like, while the other frame system is moving by the same driving means shifted by 180.degree..

Abstract: An improved tomato harvester separator of the type having lengthwise extending bars with lengthwise extending gaps between them, has series of slender resilient fingers extending in both directions from alternate ones of the bars. This placement of the fingers, with alternating fingerless bars adjacent to the rows of fingers, avoids the progression of the tomato plants and their tomatoes to one side of the separator during shaking and separation, and therefore is particularly useful in harvesters wherein the stream of separated tomatoes is divided to two sides of the machine.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating rocks larger than a predetermined size from a mixture of various size rocks utilizing a plurality of transversely spaced, inclined arms. The arms reciprocate back and forth, thereby expediting the flow of the smaller rocks into a hopper below and the larger rocks to roll down the inclined arms. The arms are resiliently supported by springs, and the driving mechanism is mechanically isolated from the arms to protect it from shock and vibration received by the arms.

Abstract: A device for sieving, sorting, filtering and the like, comprising two frame systems movable relatively to each other, each frame system comprising a number of carriers extending in the sieving direction and moving parallel to one another, said frame systems interengaging in such a way that one carrier of one system is always adjacent within a certain distance to one carrier of the other system.