Framework Patents (Class 209/412)
  • Patent number: 11826784
    Abstract: A modular screen support deck for a screening arrangement includes a first deck side having an inward facing side and an outward facing side and a second deck side having an inward facing side and an outward facing side. The first and second deck sides extend in parallel with each other to define a deck plane. A first extension structure is connected to the first deck side and extends inwardly from the first deck side. The first extension structure includes a first connection structure and a second extension structure connected to the second deck side and extending inwardly from the second deck side. The second extension structure includes a second connection structure arranged a distance from the second deck side. The support deck includes a first cross-member with a first and second ends, the first end being connected to the first connection structure and the second end being connected to the second connection structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Metso Outotec Finland Oy
    Inventor: Timo Leinonen
  • Patent number: 11753252
    Abstract: A mobile machine for conveying and/or processing mineral aggregate material, includes a machine frame and a conveyor module supported on the machine frame so as to be displaceable relative to the latter. A conveyor line runs along a virtual conveyor path (FB), the conveyor module being designed at least for conveying the aggregate material along the conveyor path on the conveyor line. A component carrier in a working state of the machine runs in an elevation direction (H) at a distance from the conveyor line crosswise with respect to the conveyor path above the conveyor line. The component carrier supports at least one functional module which interacts with the aggregate material conveyed on the conveyor line. The conveyor module is displaceable relative to the machine frame with a displacement component in the elevation direction. The component carrier is movable both relative to the conveyor module and the machine frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Kleemann GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Rudolph, Emil Scheurer
  • Patent number: 11628474
    Abstract: A vibratory screening machine includes a primary screening area and a pre-screening assembly including a frame and screen assemblies. The screen assemblies are secured to the frame and form a pre-screening surface. The frame is attached to the vibratory screening machine such that the concave pre-screening surface is above the primary screening area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: DERRICK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keith Wojciechowski, Christian Newman
  • Patent number: 11471914
    Abstract: Screening members, screening assemblies, methods for fabricating screening members and assemblies and methods for screening materials are provided for vibratory screening machines that incorporate the use of injection molded materials. Use of injection molded screen elements provide, inter alia, for: varying screening surface configurations; fast and relatively simple screen assembly fabrication; and a combination of outstanding screen assembly mechanical and electrical properties, including toughness, wear and chemical resistance. Embodiments of the present invention use a thermoplastic injection molded material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DERRICK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keith Wojciechowski
  • Patent number: 11471913
    Abstract: Screening members, screening assemblies, methods for fabricating screening members and assemblies and methods for screening materials are provided for vibratory screening machines that incorporate the use of injection molded materials. Use of injection molded screen elements provide, inter alia, for: varying screening surface configurations; fast and relatively simple screen assembly fabrication; and a combination of outstanding screen assembly mechanical and electrical properties, including toughness, wear and chemical resistance. Embodiments of the present invention use a thermoplastic injection molded material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DERRICK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keith Wojciechowski
  • Patent number: 11426766
    Abstract: Screening members, screening assemblies, methods for fabricating screening members and assemblies and methods for screening materials are provided for vibratory screening machines that incorporate the use of injection molded materials. Use of injection molded screen elements provide, inter alia, for: varying screening surface configurations; fast and relatively simple screen assembly fabrication; and a combination of outstanding screen assembly mechanical and electrical properties, including toughness, wear and chemical resistance. Embodiments of the present invention use a thermoplastic injection molded material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: DERRICK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keith Wojciechowski
  • Patent number: 11413656
    Abstract: Screening members, screening assemblies, methods for fabricating screening members and assemblies and methods for screening materials are provided for vibratory screening machines that incorporate the use of injection molded materials. Use of injection molded screen elements provide, inter alia, for: varying screening surface configurations; fast and relatively simple screen assembly fabrication; and a combination of outstanding screen assembly mechanical and electrical properties, including toughness, wear and chemical resistance. Embodiments of the present invention use a thermoplastic injection molded material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: DERRICK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keith F. Wojciechowski
  • Patent number: 11344917
    Abstract: A screening machine includes wall members, screen assembly guide members, a screen assembly and a compression assembly. The screen assembly includes a frame with a plurality of side members and a screen supported by the frame. The compression assembly is attached to at least one wall member and forms the screen assembly into a concave shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: DERRICK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keith Wojciechowski, Christian Newman
  • Patent number: 11260325
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a filtering device used for removing impurities in a mixture of biological diatomite, which relates to the technical field of sewage treatment. This device includes a plurality of deflectors evenly distributed in multiple layers in the vertical direction. Each deflector includes a shell and a top plate. There is a filter unit symmetrically arranged on the left and right sides of each deflector. The top of the shell is covered with a top plate hinged with the depressed plate. The bottom of the shell is provided with water inlets which communicate with the shunt pipe, and the upper parts of the left and right side walls of the shell are provided with overflow ports. The shell also has a plurality of diversion folding plates located below the overflow ports and vertically staggered and distributed on the left and right side walls. The filter unit includes an inclined water guiding groove and a filtering plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaohu Dai, Bin Lu, Xiaoli Chai, Boran Wu, Zheng Zhou, Xiuzhong Wang
  • Patent number: 9409184
    Abstract: A portable plant, systems and methods for processing material, the plant having a chassis configured to connect to a truck to transport the plant on a roadway, the chassis having wheels and a base frame, an uppermost portion of the base frame positioned below an uppermost portion of the wheels, a first material processing device such as a hydrosizer mounted to a tower structure, the tower structure rotatably fixed to the base frame, and a hydraulic cylinder connected to the base frame and to the tower structure where operation of the cylinder causes the hydrosizer and the tower to adjust between a generally horizontal orientation where the hydrosizer is generally horizonatally oriented or rests on the base frame and a generally vertical orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Inventors: John Mickelson, Adam Stolt
  • Patent number: 9010541
    Abstract: A shaker screen comprises a frame that has a plurality of opposing sides. The shaker screen also comprises a screen assembly attached to the frame. In addition, each side of the shaker screen comprises a tubular member having an inner edge, an outer edge, and defining a central axis. Further, a horizontal plane intersects the central axis, the outer edge, and the inner edge of each side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Kem-Tron Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Rai Anderson
  • Patent number: 9010542
    Abstract: A compact mobile variable angle vibrating screen with a suspension and dampening system configured to rapidly accommodate variable angles and exhibit acceptable vibration levels; especially during power up and power down surge vibration at the variable angles. The system comprises a group of bi-directional dual pivot leg vibration damper mechanisms, including nesting tubes, one with holes for receiving pins and the other with a semi-circular cutout at the bottom edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Terex USA, LLC
    Inventors: Payton Schirm, Gregory Young
  • Patent number: 8967388
    Abstract: A screening panel and screening arrangement are provided for screening materials. The screening panel includes a peripheral frame having a first side frame member and an opposing second side frame member defining an opening therebetween. Further, the screening panel includes a plurality of spaced elongated screening ribs defining a screening surface of the screening panel. The screening panel includes a one or more sets of screening ribs that extend continuously across at least a portion of the screening surface of the screening panel in a non-parallel direction relative to a flow direction of material in the screening arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Polydeck Screen Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Craig Parsons, Luke Edward Langner, Mark Vincent Weaver, Jerrel D. Warren, II, Gregory D. Anderson, Samuel Michael Durnavich
  • Patent number: 8960446
    Abstract: A seal can have a middle portion, an upper lip, and a lower lip. The upper lip has a configuration with an upper end portion, an upper top portion, and an upper bottom portion with a void space defined in part by the upper end portion, the upper top portion, and the upper bottom portion. The lower lip can have a configuration with a lower end portion, a lower top portion, and a lower bottom portion with a void space defined in part by the lower end portion, the lower top portion, and the lower bottom portion. A middle portion connects the upper lip and the lower lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventors: Grant Young, Ray Young
  • Patent number: 8950585
    Abstract: A screen panel for mining and quarrying industries adapted to be mounted on a screen deck including at least a screening portion having one or more rider bars and a bottom reinforcement portion, the screen panel being designed such that the rider bars are adapted to be replaced from the screening portion as and when required. The rider bars are attached to a portion of the screening portion and/or the reinforcement portion by button type snug fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Tega Industries Limited
    Inventor: Paul Biswadeep
  • Publication number: 20150021239
    Abstract: A screen system having a plurality of screen elements that can be readily removed and replaced to vary one or more characteristics of the screen surface formed by the screen system. The screen system includes a support system for supporting at least one screen element to prevent deformation of the screen element that typically would occur due to the insufficient structural stability of the at least one screen element relative to the weight of the product being screened. Preferably, the support system includes one or more support elements that can be readily and easily installed and removed from the screen system. The support system is preferably configured to permit the one or more support elements to be positioned at different locations in the screen system. Preferably, the support system is configured to permit a variety of different support elements to be used to allow a greater variety of screen elements to be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Myron Henry Wardell, JR.
  • Patent number: 8925735
    Abstract: The invention relates to a screen frame adapted for use in a shaker to separate solids from a liquid/solid mixture and to which woven wire mesh is to be attached, comprising an outer perimeter and a plurality of plastics ribs extending between opposing regions of the perimeter, the plastics ribs together forming an upper face and a lower face, wherein the frame further comprises at least one metal rib extending between opposing regions of the perimeter and extending from the upper face to the lower face, and to a shaker comprising at least one such screen frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Graham Robertson, Brian Carr, Eric Cady
  • Patent number: 8915376
    Abstract: A mobile collapsible screen and cone crusher combination where the screen is pivoted forward and downward for transport and a rubber hopper is coupled to the fines conveyor so as to permit a hinged connection and a sliding connection between the flexible hopper and the fines conveyor. A plurality of flexible matter edge plates are used at the rear of the flexible hopper to facilitate proper compression and expansion of the flexible hopper. A selectable maintenance catch is used to allow the screen to be elevated to an intermediate height for maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Terex USA, LLC
    Inventor: Dan L. Garland
  • Patent number: 8800779
    Abstract: A screen system having a plurality of screen elements that can be readily removed and replaced to vary one or more characteristics of the screen surface formed by the screen system. The screen system includes a support system for supporting at least one screen element to prevent deformation of the screen element that typically would occur due to the insufficient structural stability of the at least one screen element relative to the weight of the product being screened. Preferably, the support system includes one or more support elements that can be readily and easily installed and removed from the screen system. The support system is preferably configured to permit the one or more support elements to be positioned at different locations in the screen system. Preferably, the support system is configured to permit a variety of different support elements to be used to allow a greater variety of screen elements to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Lumsden Corporation
    Inventor: Myron Henry Wardell
  • Patent number: 8789707
    Abstract: There is provided a screen frame adapted for use in a shaker to separate solids from liquid/solid mixture and to which woven wire mesh is to be attached, comprising a plurality of intersecting elongate members (12) defining a plurality of openings (10), or cells, wherein at least one protrusion (26) in the form of an elongate rib extends partway across each opening (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: United Wire Limited
    Inventor: Graham Robertson
  • Patent number: 8757392
    Abstract: Mechanical separators and screening machines, and methods for flexible sieve mat screening are disclosed. In an example configuration, a flip-flow type flexible mat screening apparatus is provided with optimized relative elevation positions for adjacent pairs of first and second mat supports. In one configuration, a portion of the first mat supports is arranged at a lowered or offset position relative to adjacent second mat supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Action Vibratory Equipment, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew T. LaVeine
  • Patent number: 8727128
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating material, particularly excavated material is presented. The method and apparatus utilize a releasable and interchangeable screen assembly which is positioned on top of a frame having a slanted grate. The screen assembly includes bar members which traverse the top of the screen and inverted hook members attached to a top surface of the bar members to enable an equipment bucket to engage the inverted hook members in order to lift and move the screen assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Inventor: Bruce K. Zeller
  • Patent number: 8727127
    Abstract: A screening apparatus includes beams and screen panels forming a broad screening surface. Each panel is mounted to a pair of beams along opposite side edges to bridge between two adjacent beams. The panels are mounted to an upwardly facing edge of the beams by elongate fixing members extending in the longitudinal direction of the beams. The fixing members engage opposite side edges of the panels and include a pair of projections that extend into openings provided in the edge of the beams. Each projection is engaged by a locking clip to prevent release from the openings. The openings into which the projections extend are of greater diameter than the outside diameter of the projections providing a loose fit within the openings, to allow movement of the fixing rails and the screen panels before the projections are engaged by a locking clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Lettela Pty Limited
    Inventors: Raymond Maxwell Woodgate, Marc Raymond Woodgate, David Charles Alexander James Waller
  • Publication number: 20140124417
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a vibratory separator, a screen support coupled to an inner surface of the vibratory separator, a screen having a first side with a sloped edge and a second side, the second side having a sloped edge, a screen retainer coupled to the vibratory separator, a wedge retainer coupled to a sidewall of the vibratory separator opposite the screen retainer, and a wedge having a first surface configured to engage the wedge retainer and a second surface configured to engage the a sloped edge of the second side of the screen. A method includes disposing a screen on a screen support in a vibratory separator, engaging a first side of the screen with a screen retainer coupled to the vibratory separator, and applying at least one of a downward vertical force and a lateral force to a second side of the screen with a clamping apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventor: Benjamin Lanning Holton
  • Patent number: 8695805
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to vibratory separators that are used for processing drilling fluid, and in particular, vibratory separators that utilize electro-magnetic clamping apparatuses for attaching screen assemblies to a basket assembly. In one exemplary embodiment, an illustrative vibratory separator is disclosed which includes, among other things, a basket assembly having at least one screen support, and at least one screen assembly that is adapted to be releasably secured to the at least one screen support. Additionally, the disclosed vibratory separator also includes an electro-magnetic clamp apparatus that is adapted to releasably secure the at least one screen assembly to the at least one screen support when the electro-magnetic clamp apparatus is energized to a magnetized state, and to release the at least one screen assembly from the at least one screen support when the electro-magnetic clamp apparatus is de-energized to an un-magnetized state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Dufilho, Eric Scott
  • Patent number: 8640878
    Abstract: A tilt roller grader for grading solid objects, such as shrimp. The grader has grading rollers obliquely arranged across a tilted grading bed. Jacks in cross members supporting the bed are used to jack up the grading bed across its width to adjust the flatness of the bed for uniform grading gaps between the grading rollers and the bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Christopher G. Greve, Robert S. Lapeyre
  • Publication number: 20130313168
    Abstract: Screening members, screening assemblies, methods for fabricating screening members and assemblies and methods for screening materials are provided for vibratory screening machines that incorporate the use of injection molded materials. Use of injection molded screen elements provide, inter alia, for: varying screening surface configurations; fast and relatively simple screen assembly fabrication; and a combination of outstanding screen assembly mechanical and electrical properties, including toughness, wear and chemical resistance. Embodiments of the present invention use a thermoplastic injection molded material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Derrick Corporation
    Inventor: Keith F. Wojciechowski
  • Patent number: 8517179
    Abstract: A vibratory separator including a screen frame and a screen attachment. The screen attachment including at least one vertically disposed latch on the screen frame, at least one vertically disposed catch on the screen frame, and at least one bearing surface proximate the at least one vertically disposed catch. Additionally, a method of securing adjacent screens including inserting a vertically disposed latch of a first screen into a catch of a second screen, wherein the inserting includes contacting the latch of the first screen with a bearing surface of the second screen adjacent the catch of the second screen. The method further includes forming a planar alignment of the first screen to the second screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignees: M-I L.L.C., United Wire Limited
    Inventors: Graham Robertson, Brian S. Carr, Eric Cady, Claire Galloway
  • Patent number: 8505737
    Abstract: A vibrating screen device includes a support structure, which supports apertured screening elements. The support structure includes a plurality of support carriers, each having a straight portion and a spacer part fixed to at least one end of the straight portion. The spacer part of each support carrier engages a spacer part of an adjacent support carrier to space the straight portions apart by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Mats Malmberg
  • Patent number: 8317031
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating fine particulate matter from debris and bulk material is presented which includes a frame, a screen connected to the frame that is adjustable in height relative to the frame at one of its ends, a removable trough positioned near the back end of the frame, and a motor for vibrating the frame to assist in separation of materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Z Screen LLC
    Inventor: Bruce K. Zeller
  • Patent number: 8113358
    Abstract: A screen for a gyratory sifter including a frame having a plurality of cross-members and a rigid external extension. Additionally, the screen including a filtering element securably attached to the frame. Also, a method for installing a pre-tensioned screen in a gyratory sifter including inserting the pre-tensioned screen into the gyratory sifter. The pre-tensioned screen including a frame having a plurality of cross-members and a rigid external extension and a filtering element securably attached to the frame. Additionally, the method including mating the pre-tensioned screen to a ball box, wherein the mating includes placing the pre-tensioned screen against a contoured section of the ball box, and securing the pre-tensioned screen with a screen plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: M-I LLC
    Inventor: Joseph L. Smith
  • Patent number: 8025154
    Abstract: The invention provides a fastener (10) for a screen panel (20), the fastener including a base section (12) at least two outer engagement means (14) extending from opposite side zones of the base section, the two outer engagement means at least partially opposing one another; and at least one inner engagement means (16) located between the outer engagement means; the inner and outer engagement means including retaining formations (14.2, 16.2) adapted to engage a complementary receiving formation in a screen panel (20) in a snap fit configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Multotec Manufacturing (Pty) Limited
    Inventor: Nigel Peter Kriel
  • Publication number: 20110220556
    Abstract: A vibrating screen device includes a support structure, which supports apertured screening elements. The support structure includes a plurality of support carriers, each having a straight portion and a spacer part fixed to at least one end of the straight portion. The spacer part of each support carrier engages a spacer part of an adjacent support carrier to space the straight portions apart by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Mats MALMBERG
  • Patent number: 7992719
    Abstract: A hookstrip screen assembly for use in a shaker is disclosed. The hookstrip screen assembly includes a filtering element and a composite frame further including a top surface, a bottom surface, and a plurality of filtering element attachment points. Also, the filtering element is attached to the plurality of filtering element attachment points. In another aspect, a method of forming a hookstrip screen assembly for use in a shaker. The method of forming a hookstrip screen assembly includes forming a wire structure, molding a composite frame incorporating the wire structure and forming a plurality of filtering element attachment points on the composite frame. The method also includes attaching a filtering element to the plurality of filtering element attachment points on the composite frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignees: M-I L.L.C., United Wire Limited
    Inventors: Brian S. Carr, Graham Robertson, Eric Cady
  • Patent number: 7959009
    Abstract: A screening arrangement and a modular system and modular protective cover for protecting a support frame in a screening arrangement is disclosed. The modular system includes a plurality of modular protective covers mounted in side-by-side relationship. Each of the modular protective covers includes a top surface and two opposing side walls that define a recess. The modular protective cover has a male component located at a first end of the modular protective cover and a female component located at a second end of the modular protective cover. The male component of the modular protective cover is adapted to mate with the female component of an adjacent modular protective cover to provide a generally continuous protective surface along a length of a support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Polydeck Screen Corporation
    Inventors: Mark V. Weaver, Peter Helmut Franz Freissle
  • Patent number: 7918346
    Abstract: A tensioning apparatus for tensioning a screen in a vibrating screen separator of the type having a box structure defined by two opposing spaced-apart upright side walls separated by at least one screen bed support structure. Included is an actuator support mounted to an exterior surface of a side wall of a box structure for pivotally securing the stationary end of an actuator thereto. The actuator includes a movable end that is cyclically movable from a first releasing position adjacent the sidewall, to a second engaging position, transversely spaced apart from the side wall, responsive to a track follower moving along a track inclined transversely to the side wall of the box. A clamp rail assembly is fixed to the movable end of the actuator to engage and tension a screen responsive to transverse movement of the movable end of the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Inventors: Mark Roppo, Randall O. Parker
  • Patent number: 7905359
    Abstract: The device for delivering bulk material consisting of individual products has a supply container for storing the individual products. A perforated plate is arranged downstream of the product outlet of the supply container on a base stand and serves to receive the individual products from the product outlet and to move them further in a transport direction while removing broken products and dust. A clamping strip is supported and removably fixed in a motion guideway of a motion guideway carrier mounted on the base stand. The motion guideway extends at an angle to a vertical direction. The clamping strip thus removably fixes the perforated plate to the base stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Uhlmann Pack-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kurt Gnann, Harald Mauz
  • Publication number: 20110049019
    Abstract: A screening module for a screening assembly includes a panel member defining a plurality of screening apertures; and a support arrangement with which the panel member is fast. The support arrangement includes a plurality of strengthening arrays arranged, in use, beneath the panel member, each strengthening array comprising a skirt portion bounding an area on a bottom surface of the panel member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: LUDOWICI AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Ronald Keith McGregor, Ronald Leslie Johnson
  • Patent number: 7861867
    Abstract: A reconfigurable grizzly-type system providing improved field processing of ore, rock, and soil. The system provides reconfigurable screening of rocks, rubble, gravel, and debris from soil based on material size. The system also provides improvements related to efficient storage and transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Inventor: John Robert Derrick
  • Patent number: 7798240
    Abstract: To provide a waste recovery station for a beach cleaner which is less liable to be bulky after being divided and can facilitate installing work, and which can easily load and unload a beach cleaner and a waste recovery station on and from a trailer. A waste recovery station includes a pair of left and right grounded members, guide members formed like a mountain as viewed from the side and attached to the grounded members, and bar-like connecting members integrally connecting the grounded members. The waste recovery station can recover the waste collected by the beach cleaner towed by the towing vehicle to run on the sand area by allowing the beach cleaner to ride on the waste recovery station. The waste recovery station includes a connecting pipe which removably connect an end of the connecting member to the grounded member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shokichi Arai, Hidekazu Sakai, Tadashi Oshima, Tetsuro Hosoda
  • Patent number: 7770737
    Abstract: A screening machine for screening bulk material and the like comprising a housing and two sidewalls at which a screen deck is disposed, the screen deck comprising cross-members mounted on the sidewalls and longitudinal members which are mounted on the cross-members and receive an exchangeable screen lining. Said longitudinal members are clamped to the cross-members by means of removable mounting ties from two different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Haver & Boecker OHG
    Inventors: Klaus Fennekotter, Rudiger Heinrich, Dieter Takev, Hubert Schulze Eistrup
  • Patent number: 7757864
    Abstract: A screen assembly that is sufficiently flexible to adapt to a non-planar profile of a crowned deck on a vibrating shaker. When attached to the crowned deck, the screen assembly provides a screen with less curvature than the crowned deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert M. Barrett, Brian S. Carr
  • Publication number: 20100025307
    Abstract: A screening panel 10 comprises a peripheral frame 12 consisting of a pair of mutually laterally spaced side members 14, 16, which are integral with a pair of mutually axially spaced end members 18, 20. The side members 14, 16 and end members 18, 20 define corners of the panel 22.1, 22.2, 22.3 and 22.4 and the peripheral frame 12 where they meet. A plurality of mutually spaced ribs 15 extend across the periphery of the panel 10 to define a screening surface. The side members and end members are rectangular in cross-section, thereby defining substantially flat upper peripheral surfaces 12.1, outer peripheral surface 12.2 and lower peripheral surface 12.3 of the peripheral frame 12 and thus also the panel 10. The panel 10 includes locating recesses 24 provided at or near to the corners 22.1, 22.2, 22.3 and 22.4 of the panel 10. The panel 10 also has separate securing recesses in the form of semi-circular grooves 30 formed in the lower surface 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Manfred Franz Axel Freissle, Peter Helmut Franz Freissle
  • Patent number: 7654394
    Abstract: Mechanical separators and screening machines, and methods for flexible sieve mat screening and flexible mat conveying are disclosed. In an example configuration, a flexible mat screening apparatus is provided with geometrically optimized guiding edge seals at lateral sides. One preferred configuration includes an assembly wherein a sieve mat has upwardly curved lateral sides forming a non-vertical, gradually curved shape. In another configuration, a movable support section is supported on a main frame section via a plurality of shear blocks, each arranged with its compression axis disposed horizontally. In yet another configuration, the movable support section is further connected to the main frame section via vertical stabilizers or leaf springs, the vertical stabilizers permitting longitudinal movement between the movable support section and the main frame section, but inhibiting vertical and/or lateral movement therebetween. Yet another configuration includes a boltless mat section attachment assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Action Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew T. LaVeine, Stanley L. Humiston
  • Patent number: 7641053
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating material, particularly excavated material is presented. The method and apparatus utilize a releasable and interchangeable screen assembly which is positioned on top of a frame having a slanted grate. The screen assembly includes bar members which traverse the top of the screen and inverted hook members attached to a top surface of the bar members to enable an equipment bucket to engage the inverted hook members in order to lift and move the screen assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Inventor: Bruce K. Zeller
  • Publication number: 20090283454
    Abstract: A screen apparatus, which in certain aspects is a screen apparatus having a support, screening material on the support, a mass member connected to the screen apparatus, and energizable identification apparatus connected to (exteriorly, interiorly, and/or within) the mass member for identifying the screen apparatus; a vibratory separator with such a screen apparatus; and a vibratory separator or shaker with energizable identification apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Eric Scott, Leon Ellison, Rheinhold Kammann, Manfred Worms, Clive Lam, Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 7604127
    Abstract: A screening panel 10 comprises a peripheral frame 12 consisting of a pair of mutually laterally spaced side members 14, 16, which are integral with a pair of mutually axially spaced end members 18, 20. The side members 14, 16 and end members 18, 20 define corners of the panel 22.1, 22.2, 22.3 and 22.4 and the peripheral frame 12 where they meet. A plurality of mutually spaced ribs 15 extend across the periphery of the panel 10 to define a screening surface. The side members and end members are rectangular in cross-section, thereby defining substantially flat upper peripheral surfaces 12.1, outer peripheral surface 12.2 and lower peripheral surface 12.3 of the peripheral frame 12 and thus also the panel 10. The panel 10 includes locating recesses 24 provided at or near to the corners 22.1, 22.2, 22.3 and 22.4 of the panel 10. The panel 10 also has separate securing recesses in the form of semi-circular grooves 30 formed in the lower surface 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Inventors: Manfred Franz Axel Freissle, Peter Helmut Franz Freissle
  • Publication number: 20090255857
    Abstract: A filtering flow box for receiving a supply of plastic pellets from a bottom-unloading tower silo and removing undesirable plastic strands (“angel hair”) from the pellets before they are processed for manufacturing. The box has an angled entry wall for laterally channeling pellets to an angled filter. The pellets pass through the filter and angel hair collects on the filter's upstream surface. The filter can be removed from the box at an angle having a vertical component for cleaning, thus allowing any pellets that have accumulated on top of the filter to fall back into the box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: ALLEY INDUSTRIES LLC
    Inventors: Ronald E. Borger, Troy Steinbrunner
  • Patent number: 7581647
    Abstract: A shale shaker (10) or vibratory separator which, in one aspect, has a base (22), vibration isolation apparatus on the base (22), a basket (12), mount apparatus (16) for mounting the basket on the base (22), and at least one of the base (22), basket (12), and the mount apparatus (16) made of, encased in, or coated with composite material which, in certain aspects, is all or part flexible composite material; and methods of using such separators and shakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Varco I/P, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Newton Grichar, Kenneth Wayne Seyffert, Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 7571817
    Abstract: A vibratory separator (in one aspect, a shale shaker) and methods for using it, the separator in certain aspects having a base, a basket movably mounted on the base, screen apparatus on the basket, material flowing onto the screen apparatus for treatment, at least a portion of the screen apparatus not inclined downhill (e.g. said portion horizontal or uphill), electromagnetic vibratory apparatus connected to the basket for vibrating the basket and the screen apparatus, driving apparatus for driving the electromagnetic vibratory apparatus, and control apparatus (on-site and/or remote) for controlling the driving apparatus and the electromagnetic vibratory apparatus; the material, in one aspect, being drilling fluid material with solids therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Varco I/P, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Scott, George E. Smith, Lyndon Stone, Norman Padolino, Kevin McDonough, Kenneth W. Seyffert, William Koederitz, Mallappa Guggari, Guy L. McClung, III