Abstract: A workpiece fixing jig 1 includes a base 2 to be fixed on a table, and a clamping mechanism 10 provided on the base 2 for clamping a workpiece. The clamping mechanism 10 includes a first clamping portion 20 and a second clamping portion 30 provided to face each other. At least one of the first and second clamping portions 20 and 30 is configured to move forward and backward with respect to the other along a moving direction and the moving direction is set to a direction intersecting a direction in which the base 2 is fixed on the table. In using this workpiece fixing jig 1, the base 2 is fixed on the table after the workpiece is clamped between the first clamping portion 20 and the second clamping portion 30.

Abstract: An apparatus for dry physical separation of particulate material comprises an inclined separating surface having upper and lower edges, oscillation means for inducing non-linear oscillatory motion of the separating surface, and introduction means for introducing the particulate material onto the separating surface between the upper and lower edges.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a rotary shaking separator, which can maintain a constant separating accuracy without any failure in separation which might possibly occur in the same separating vessel, and which is not required to have a rotary shaft inserted though a central portion of the separating vessel.

Abstract: A material separating apparatus which is particularly suitable for sorting different forms of waste material including a carrier, generally a table (1) having a surface (10) onto which material can be deposited; and a drive element (3) for providing the carrier surface with a reciprocating motion in the plane of the carrier surface; the drive element being arranged to provide, in use, an abrupt change of direction of the carrier surface at each end of its travel to provide a motion to cause different components of the material to be separated in consequence of obtaining different velocities in dependence on their physical properties, and the table surface having different sloping zones for channeling out different materials. The drive element uses an offset crank linkage which collapses at the end of travel in each direction enabling the inertia of the table to continue until it hits a stop and is then drawn back in the reverse direction by the linkage.

Abstract: Apparatus for sorting constituents of a mixture according to density and/or grain size includes a vibratory table which extends at an inclination underneath a feed inlet for transport in a conveying direction and sorting of the mixture. The vibratory table is subdivided transversely to the conveying direction into single table sections, with each table section being driven by two crankshafts of a crank mechanism and with the movement of the table sections being adjusted to each other by the crankshafts at a phase shift. In order to bridge the gap between successive table sections, flexible transition members are provided by which neighboring table sections are connected with each other end-to-end.

Abstract: A particle separation apparatus having an adjustable tilted vibratory conveyor, an adjustable material flow control guide, and an adjustable material flow splitter. A heterogenous mixture of taconite pellets and other material is fed to the vibratory conveyor. The different particles flow across the surface of the vibratory conveyor in different paths or trajectories according to the different coefficients of friction and angles of rest inherent in the particles. The different flow paths are split such that one stream of material is chiefly taconite pellets and the other path is made mostly of non-taconite pellet material.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for separating and removing seeds from a juice/juice sac slurry. In one embodiment of the present invention, a juice/juice sac slurry is deposited onto the upper surface of an inclined, vibrating bed. The bed includes a plurality of ridges and valleys that form channels, and a plurality of pins and dams projecting upwardly from the bed. The high frequency vibrations imparted to the bed cause the juice sacs to travel up the bed to a point where they are collected while the seeds bounce off and tumble down the bed to another point where they are collected and discarded. Also disclosed and described are apparatuses for and methods of extracting fruit meat sections from a whole fruit, and an apparatus for and method of separating sectional membranes from the fruit meat section to produce the juice/juice sac slurry.

Abstract: A sorting machine for grained products comprises at least one sorting board which is inclined relative to horizontal and vertical planes and reciprocatingly vibratable in a plane and direction suitable for sorting, a unit for supplying a product to be sorted and arranged in one region of the sorting board and a unit for separating and withdrawing a sorted product and located in another region of the sorting board, the sorting board with the supplying unit and the separating and withdrawing unit together forming a sorting unit, two imbalance drives which operate in opposite directions and cooperate with the sorting unit for driving the latter in vibration, a base frame, a unit forming at least three supporting points on which the sorting unit is supported in a vibration-damping manner freely movably so as to provide inclination of the sorting unit relative to horizontal and vertical planes, and a unit for additionally adjusting the inclination relative to the horizontal and vertical planes.

Abstract: The device consists of two fluidized bed tables (2, 3) which can vibrate on their support, an can be inclined as desired, allowing a common airflow to pass through. Located over the top end of the upper fluidized bed (2) is an inlet (1) for the granular material, opposite which, at the bottom end, is an outlet (14) for the very light granular fraction. At the top end of the lower fluidized bed (3) are a stone outlet (13) and, at the lower end, an outlet (15) for the heavy granular fraction. In addition, a chute (19) is situated between the fluidized beds (2, 3). An intermediate floor (17), shorter in length than the fluidized bed (2, 3) allows the evacuation and if necessary the regulation of a mixed fraction.

Abstract: A bowl feeder for separating damaged rolling bodies, for example nuclear fuel pellets, from sound ones includes a bowl (10) having a central conical section (12) for distributing the bodies radially outwardly towards a V-shaped circular channel (16) which ensures that the bodies are arranged end-to-end with the rolling axes orientated lengthwise of the channel. The channel (16) discharges the bodies one by one onto an outer sloping section (14) whose slope is sufficiently shallow to allow bodies with asymmetrical defects to resist rolling by virtue of the shift in their centres of gravity, while allowing defect free bodies to roll radially outwardly down the slope. A system of rails (22, 24, 26) with gaps (28, 30, 32) serves to separate defective bodies from those which are defect free, the latter being allowed to roll to the outer periphery of the bowl and eventually to a feed track (38) while the former are routed to a reject outlet (40).

Abstract: A trough-like vibrating conveyor is used to sort and separate two differently shaped components in a mixture of materials of value. The mixture is separated into generally cylindrically shaped parts, such as hollow parts, and generally flat-shaped parts. The conveyor includes at least two unbalanced motors each arranged on an opposite side of the conveyor extending in the conveying direction. Further, the motors are offset relative to one another in the conveying direction. The vibrating conveyor affords a simple operation for separating the differently shaped components of the mixture as the mixture moves between the inlet and outlet ends of the conveyor and particularly for separating any glass particles. The conveyor requires little in the way of technical or personnel expenditure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a separation wall movement control device for grain sorting machines designed to separate mixed grain of different kinds which give different responses to light by the rough surface grain sorting plate, the separation wall being designed to move or stop along one side of a rough surface grain sorting plate. A detector consisting of many LED light sources and light receiving elements is provided facing one or both sides of a grain exit passage of the rough surface grain sorting plate. The mixing ratio of grain flowing out through the grain exit passage of the rough surface grain sorting plate is detected, the detector sends a signal through the control circuit to the motor communicating with the separation wall provided at a distance in the direction of movement of the detector, and the separation wall is moved to the boundary between pure grains and mixed grains and is stopped there.

Abstract: An automatic control device for a boundary plate of a grain separator for separating a grain mixture into different grains. The grain separator has a separator plate provided with a roughened surface and mounted at inclinations in both of longitudinal and lateral directions with respect to the horizontal plane. A lateral movement is imparted to the different grains on the separator plate by a lateral oscillation given to the separator plate or by a lateral jet of air jetted from a numerous small aperture formed in the separator plate, so that the flow fluxes of different grains are deflected away from each other due to the difference in the physical properties such as specific weight and/or friction coefficient, so that the mixture of different grains are separated.

Abstract: Disclosed is a vibratory grain sorting machine which comprises an assembly to be vibrated at least including a frame and at least one stack of sorting plate members. The assembly to be vibrated is pivotally supported on a base structure by a plurality of strut units. At least one of the strut units has a top end pivotally connected to a side wall of the frame and a bottom end pivotally connected to the base structure. Each of the remaining strut units has a top end pivotally connected to a bottom wall of the frame and a bottom end pivotally connected to the base structure. A vibrating device is connected to the frame to apply a force substantially toward and away from the center of gravity of the assembly to be vibrated, thereby angularly reciprocating the assembly to be vibrated, around the bottom ends of the respective strut units.

Abstract: A rectangularly shaped separating element for a vibratory grain separator is made from a single metal plate, and has upright front and rear walls, and side walls, one of which side walls has therein a notch serving as hulled rice outlet, and the other of which has therein a notch servicing as an unhulled rice outlet. The plane, upper surface of the separating element has formed thereon a first plurality of spaced protuberances inclined obliquely to the front wall and the sidewall containing the rice outlet for moving the hulled rice toward the hulled rice outlet, and a second plurality of protuberances inclined obliquely to the front wall and the other side wall for moving the unhulled rice toward the unhulled rice outlet.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a rectangular separating plate having upright front and rear walls and unhulled and hulled rice outlets formed on opposite sides thereof, respectively. The plate is adjustably supported in a plane inclined to the horizontal and is reciprocated in a direction transversely of the front and rear walls. Substantially two thirds of the surface of the plate adjacent its front wall is formed with first inclined projections inclined toward the hulled rice outlet, and one third thereof adjacent its rear wall is formed with second inclined projections inclined toward the unhulled rice outlet. Reciprocation of the plate causes the first projections to guide hulled rice toward the front wall and ultimately to the hulled rice outlet, and the second projections guide unhulled rice toward the rear wall and ultimately to the unhulled rice outlet.

Abstract: A sorter for grains, pulses and the like having a perforated sorting plate mounted on a frame and both longitudinally and laterally inclined with respect to the horizontal plane and adapted to be vibrated in the longitudinal direction while being intermittently lifted toward the upper side. The perforated sorting plate overlies an air chamber into which pressurized air is introduced by a blower through an air duct. The perforated sorting plate is provided with a corrugated upper surface to define a multiplicity of ribs oriented in the direction perpendicular to the direction of vibration of the sorting plate and in parallel rows at a pitch not less than the size of the material to be sorted. A set of discharge openings for receiving the sorted material is provided at the lower end of the perforated sorting plate where the ribs terminate.

Abstract: Potatoes which are to be graded according to their size prior to further processing, for example in the manufacture of a snack food product, are deposited in a hopper 16 at the lower end of an upwardly inclined walking beam conveyor 18. Pockets 35, 37 formed in the conveyor 18 pick up potatoes from the hopper 16 and convey them along the conveyor by transferring each potato from pocket to pocket. Any potatoes whose dimensions are greater than those of the pockets 35, 37 are either not picked up or fall out of the pockets under gravity as the conveyor 18 is operated and drop back into the hopper 16. Periodically, a base wall 17 of the hopper 16 is opened to discharge the accumulated large-size potatoes therefrom.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for separating waste material contained in a heap in at least one separating zone, the heap largely comprising particles of the same shape, size and density, from which the waste particles differ. It also relates to apparatus for performing the method. The heap is fed onto an inclined conveying surface where it is vibrated and the waste particles are removed upwards and the remaining particles downwards, the vibrations being initiated at an angle to the horizontal which is larger than the inclined position of the conveying surface.