Abstract: An apparatus and method of separating medium-sized materials such as trash, bottles, floated articles, and submerged articles from garbage for collection by means of wind and water is disclosed. Moreover, an initial cleaning of garbage and a dilution of toxic materials contained therein are performed while disposing garbage, thereby significantly reducing a possibility of contracting diseases by or poisoning cleaning employees.

Abstract: A separator system for separating first material from second material, in one aspect for separating gumbo from drilling fluid, a combination of the first material and second material introducible to the separator system, the separator system having a screen conveyor having a plurality of spaced-apart rods or shafts, a plurality of wires, for each pair of adjacent rods or shafts of the plurality of spaced-apart rods or shafts a wire of the plurality of wires wrapped partially, once, or more around the rods of the pairs of spaced-apart rods, and portions of the rods and portions of the wires defining openings through which the first material is passable and through which the second material is not passable so that the screen conveyor separates the first material from the second material.

Abstract: A device for the elimination of trimmings of rolls or logs of ribbon-like material that can be connected below a cropper machine of at least one roll or log, in turn fed by a feed surface (11) of rolls (12) and top and/or tail crop ends (21), one after another, comprising, below of the feed surface (11), at least one conveyor element (16) closed in a ring which moves around a pulley (14) and which receives the rolls (12) and top and/or tail crop ends (21) on an upper section, the conveyor element (16) having an opening (17) with a dimension at least equivalent to the diameter of a log, inside which the top and/or tail crop ends (21) fall, the opening (17) being positioned as the conveyor element (16) rotates at the beginning of the upper section when the top and/or tail crop ends (21) reach this point.

Abstract: A sorting arrangement for flat items of mail, has a plurality of containers (1) which circulate in a conveying loop with at least two semicircular conveying sections (2) and are intended for laterally receiving, for transporting and for discharging in a controllable manner in each case one item of mail standing on a narrow side, and a plurality of depositing receptacles (4) which are arranged along the conveying arrangement, beneath the containers (1), and are open at the top. The lateral openings of the containers (1), for loading purposes, are located in the interior of the conveying loop, and the transporting element (7) of the material infeed is arranged within the conveying loop, and transports the items of mail into the lateral openings of the containers (1) in a horizontally aligned semicircular conveying section.

Abstract: A nut harvest trailer having a hopper with a rotatable loop of flexible screen affixed over the top of the hopper extending from the front to the rear thereof. A solid panel is affixed between an upper and lower layer of the loop of screen. The solid panel extends from the front of the hopper toward the rear thereof. The solid panel terminates to leave a narrow opening between the end of the solid panel and the rear of the hopper. The structure allows a mixture of nuts and small limbs to be deposited onto the upper layer of screen and solid panel at the front of the trailer. The mixture is then moved by the upper layer of screen on the solid panel toward the rear of the trailer where the nuts fall through the screen, through the narrow opening and into the hopper of the trailer. The sticks remain on the screen and are deposited off the rear of the trailer. The lower layer of the screen loop moves from the rear of the hopper toward the front thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for arranging conveyor-transported fragmentary particles into one row or several adjacent rows of individual particles before their removal from the conveyor. According to the invention, the conveying base is divided into two subsequent sections, namely, a vibrating section and a subsequent stabilizing section. In the vibrating section the conveying base and the particles on top of it are brought into a relative motion while the particles are subjected to transversal counter-forces in order to concentrate the particles along a straight line in the longitudinal direction of the conveying base. In the stabilizing section the relative motion of the conveying base and the particles on top of it is stopped in good time before the removal of the particles from the conveyor, so that the particles no longer move in relation to each other when they are being removed from the conveyor. This substantially facilitates the analysis of the particles and their separation from each other.

Abstract: Apparatus for separating peanuts and like commodities from vines and debris entrained with the peanuts during the harvesting process includes an endless conveyor forming a screen structure made up of elongated platelike members interconnected by spaced apart endless roller chains trained over a triangular arrangement of drive shafting and supporting sprockets. The conveyor screen members are formed by the elongated plates which include horizontally projecting spaced apart tines and vertically extending rake teeth aligned with the tines. The adjacent tines and adjacent plates form openings of predetermined size for allowing peanuts to drop through the conveyor screen into a first receiving hopper while retaining stems, vine parts and other debris on the conveyor screen to be deposited in a second receiving hopper.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with an improved construction of an apparatus for assorting such spherical fruitage as oranges, apples and pears by each different size thereof, comprising a plurality of assorting plates vertically overlapped with each other, the uppermost plate being provided with the largest diameter assorting hole and successive lower plates having holes of decreasing diameter so that as the plates progress in operation, the lower plates are successively moved downwardly into different positions, thereby permitting the fruits to be assorted free of any damage which otherwise might affect the rind of the fruits by passing the fruit through each of the assorting holes.