Abstract: The present invention is generally related to an apparatus having cutter elements for destroying articles such as paper sheets and a mechanism for advancing at least a top sheet from a stack of paper in a tray into the cutter elements for shredding. In one embodiment, the apparatus uses a rotatable feed roller to feed paper atop the stack to the cutter elements. The feed roller moves in an alternating manner between a lowered and raised position to engage and disengage the stack when advancing the paper therethrough. Alternatively, a rotatable cam may be used. In an embodiment, the apparatus uses a rotatable drum or rotatable belt with an internal vacuum to lift paper from the stack and feed into the shredder mechanism.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 13, 2007
Publication date:
January 15, 2009
Applicant:
Fellowes Inc.
Inventors:
Tai Hoon MATLIN, Dipan Pravin Surati, Dennis Gruber, Jim Waring
Abstract: A comminuting apparatus having a compact, variable-speed drive unit with a high level of efficiency and high torque levels. The comminuting apparatus comprises a drive device having an electric motor operatively connected by way of a transmission device to a comminuting shaft that has comminuting tools at its periphery. The tools cooperate with a counterpart member to comminute the material to be processed. The electric motor is in the form of a high-pole three-phase synchronous motor that is electrically connected to the output of a frequency converter controlled by a control device, and the transmission device is in the form of an epicyclic transmission device. The motor surrounds the epicyclic transmission device at least in part, and the motor and the transmission device are arranged in a common housing.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 31, 2006
Date of Patent:
December 30, 2008
Assignee:
VECOPLAN Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Inventors:
Wolfgang Lipowski, Thomas Sturm, Jochen Giehl
Abstract: Described is an adjustable roll drive including a fixed drive cylinder having a fixed drive gear, a fixed intermediate gear rotated by the fixed drive gear, a movable intermediate gear rotated by the fixed intermediate gear, and a movable driven cylinder having a movable driven gear wherein the movable driven gear is rotated by the movable intermediate gear. A linkage system is employed to maintain a substantially constant distance between axes of successive gears and an adjustment mechanism to vary a distance between the fixed drive cylinder and the movable driven cylinder. The continuously adjustable roll drive may be adapted further for use in grain grinding operations.
Abstract: A multifunctional medicinal dispensary device made up of an armstand, an arm with an attached punchknob pivotably connected thereto and equipped with a handle as well as a punchplate with a hole in it being attached to the topside of the armstand along with a splitter bar and splitterguard each connected to the arm and a pillcrusher component also pivotably affixed a pivotstand affixed to the arm and laterally positioned pill compartments within the arm stand all for the purpose of extracting pills from pill packs, splitting and/or crushing them or for extracting liquid medicine from within capsular pill jackets, all very hygienically, economically and efficiently with only minimal effort, without waste.
Abstract: Automatic dosage unit comprising storage unit, conic grinder driven by a motor, identification unit, funnel, fastener, and locking device, arranged to grind a programmed amount of a given product directly into a specific collection unit. E.g. in connection with the storage unit being filled with coffee beans, a caffetier is inserted into the fastening mechanism, whereupon the dosage unit automatically registers the size of the caffetier and a pre-programmed amount of coffee is ground directly into the caffetier. The new in this invention is that it can identify the size of the collection unit, that the product is ground directly into the collection unit by means of a hollow drive shaft, that the storage unit is opened upon installation and closed upon de-installation, as well as that the collection unit is fastened by the dosage unit for the entire duration of the grinding process.
Abstract: Disclosed is the auger in an ice bin mounted in a refrigerator, and the like. The auger in the ice bin is configured to rotate a plurality of augers having spiral-shaped transfer blades and to dispose ice in each space between the transfer blades of the auger for transfer. Accordingly, a certain amount of ice can always be discharged without simultaneously discharging a great amount of ice, and a user may select the number of ice, thus to diversity functions of an ice dispenser. In addition, since the auger is made of a flexible material, the ice can be prevented from being crushed during transfer, thereby enhancing the reliability of the ice dispenser.
Abstract: A device reuses several plastic materials and paper fibers rejected in previous recycling performed by paper industries, by compacting the fragments of the plastic materials inside of a conventional container.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 2, 2006
Publication date:
November 20, 2008
Inventors:
Ronilso Jose Antunes, Assem Omar Barakat
Abstract: The invention includes a rock crushing machine and method, the machine having a base and a jaw assembly secured to the base. The jaw assembly is adapted to receive rock as input material to be at least partially crushed. The jaw assembly is provided with an arcuate reaction surface that progressively engages the input material. A hollow crushing roll has an axial inner chamber that has an axis of symmetry (O). The crushing roll is a driven member that has an outside surface which forms a crushing zone between it and the reaction surface of the jaw assembly. Positioned at least partially within the crushing roll, an eccentric shaft serves as a driving member. The eccentric shaft has an axis of rotation (E), that axis being displaced from the axis (O) by a distance (T). A drive mechanism is coupled to the eccentric shaft so that as the eccentric shaft turns, rotational and centrifugal forces can be transmitted to the crushing roll by a torque transmitting device or other roll drive torque biasing mechanism.
Abstract: A shredder including a shredding mechanism, a housing at least partially enclosing the shredding mechanism, and a receptacle that receives and contains shredded material is provided. The shredder may further includes a compactor including a ram that, when actuated, moves through the receptacle to compress shredded material in the receptacle. The shredder may further include a foot operated lever coupled to the compactor to actuate the ram. The compactor may also include a scissor mechanism that guides the ram through the receptacle.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 30, 2008
Publication date:
September 25, 2008
Applicant:
Staples The Office Superstore, LLC
Inventors:
William J. Mussig, David Logan Baker, Darren W. Abrams, Benoit Devinat, Daniel A. Barry, Tc Wang
Abstract: A comminuting apparatus having a compact, variable-speed drive unit with a high level of efficiency and high torque levels. The comminuting apparatus comprises a drive device having an electric motor operatively connected by way of a transmission device to a comminuting shaft that has comminuting tools at its periphery. The tools cooperate with a counterpart member to comminute the material to be processed. The electric motor is in the form of a high-pole three-phase synchronous motor that is electrically connected to the output of a frequency converter controlled by a control device, and the transmission device is in the form of an epicyclic transmission device. The motor surrounds the epicyclic transmission device at least in part, and the motor and the transmission device are arranged in a common housing.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 31, 2006
Publication date:
September 18, 2008
Inventors:
Wolfgang Lipowski, Thomas Sturn, Jochen Giehl
Abstract: An apparatus to separate components of a solid feedstock is described. The apparatus may include a threaded shaft that has a plurality of reaction zone segments along the length of the shaft that are separated from each other by dynamic plug segments. The threads of the shaft have a first thread pitch in the reaction zone segments, and a second thread pitch in the dynamic plug segments. The apparatus may also include a motor to rotate the shaft, and an outlet coupled to a second end of the shaft, where one or more solid components of the solid feedstock exit the apparatus through the outlet. The apparatus may additionally include a feeder to supply the solid feedstock to the threaded shaft, and a pump to provide a rinse fluid to the threaded shaft, where the rinse fluid flows in the opposite direction of the solid feedstock along the shaft.
Abstract: A grinder includes a grinder housing having a grinder actuator, a first grinding plate, a second grinding plate and a detachable coupling arrangement. The first grinding plate is detachably coupling with the grinder actuator, wherein the first grinding plate has a plurality of first grinding knifes downwardly and spacedly extended from a bottom side of the first grinding plate. The second grinding plate has a plurality of second grinding knifes upwardly and spacedly extended from the top side of the second grinding plate at a position that the first and second grinding knifes are spacedly disposed within a grinding compartment, such that when the grinder actuator is turned with respect to the grinder base to drive the first grinding plate to rotate, the first and second grinding knifes are correspondingly moved within the grinding compartment to provide a grinding action.
Abstract: A safety shield (10) is adapted to be used in a machine having a blade assembly such as an ice shaving and dispensing machine (11). The machine (11) has an ice bin (13) carried by a pedestal (12). An ice shelf (31) has an opening (32) and is positioned in the bin (13). The opening (32) provides access to the blade assembly which includes a shaver wheel (35) which directs ice to a blade (40). The shield (10) has a ring-shaped sidewall (50) which is carried by the bin (13) and which can extend upwardly out of the bin (13) to increase the capacity thereof. The shield (10) also includes a disk-shaped hub (51) which is connected to the side wall (50) by a plurality of arms (52). The hub (51) is larger than the opening (32) and is positioned over the opening (32) to prevent direct human access thereto. But ice may still pass through openings (53) between the arms (52) and through the opening (32) in the shelf (31) to be received by the blade assembly.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 21, 2004
Date of Patent:
July 29, 2008
Assignee:
Vita-Mix Corporation
Inventors:
Jonathan M. Katz, Richard D. Boozer, Stephen P. Rukavina, Jim Lachendro, Robert M. Ulanski
Abstract: A movable stuffing machine for producing silage is disclosed wherein the silage is stored on the bottom and is used for filling a tubular film. The stuffing machine comprises a stuffing wall (1) which is disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the stuffing machine and the direction of stuffing. A driven worm-type compactor is mounted on the stuffing wall (1), is aligned at a right angle from a longitudinal direction of the stuffing machine, is disposed in a horizontal direction, and is embodied as a pronged rotor (3) encompassing conveying prongs (9) which are offset in a helical manner. A feeding device (4) encompassing a metering mechanism (6) is placed upstream of said worm type compactor. The stuffing machine also comprises a roll (7) of silo film, which is mounted thereabove and from which the silo film (30) is directed to the guiding wall through at least one deflection roller (8).
Abstract: The improvements relate to shredders for paper and the like having a shredding mechanism with an opening through which shredded material passes out of the shredding mechanism, a compactor plate located beneath the shredding mechanism and including an opening, and a base, wherein the shredder has a waste bag support mechanism of which the compactor plate forms a part. The waste bag support mechanism is secured to the underside of the shredding mechanism towards the rear thereof for pivotal movement between an operating position in which an upper part of the waste bag support mechanism is close to the underside of the shredding mechanism, and a bag removal position in which the upper part of the waste bag support mechanism is pivoted downwards at its front away from the shredding mechanism.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 23, 2006
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2008
Assignee:
ACCO UK Limited
Inventors:
Michael John Easton, Michael David Sawford
Abstract: A blender includes a base for housing a motor, an insulated, removable mixing container mounted on the base with a dispenser for dispensing content from the container, a lid, and a grinding and shaving assembly disposed inside the mixing container near its bottom. The grinding and shaving assembly includes a grinding and shaving blade assembly attached to a rotating shaft and a screen disposed around the grinding and shaving blade assembly. The screen is spaced from an inner sidewall of the mixing container to form a space between the screen and the inner sidewall. An opening is defined near a bottom of the mixing container to form a fluid passage between the space and the dispenser. A safety switch is provided so that the blender will not run unless the lid is closed. Either an AC or a DC motor may be used, with a build-in DC-AC or AC-DA converter.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 11, 2006
Publication date:
March 13, 2008
Inventors:
Scott Patrick Comstock, Kurt Joseph Comstock, Gregg Alan Bond
Abstract: An apparatus includes a shell connection mechanism configured to be actuated between a connected state in which a mechanism is connected to a shell and a disconnected state and an actuator configured to move the first mechanism while the first mechanism is in the connected state to move the shell.
Abstract: The invention, in various embodiments, provides systems, methods and devices relating to processing a sample. A vessel is described for containing a sample. The vessel includes a reversibly sealable chamber for containing the sample which has a flexible portion to allow the vessel to deform nondestructively in response to a mechanical impact to fragment the sample. In certain embodiments the vessel may include a port for reversibly engaging with a second vessel to enable transfer of material between the two vessels while maintaining a barrier between the sample and an external environment. The vessel may be exposed to mechanical impacts of various energies and at various temperatures, and the internal surface of the structural barrier of the vessel may be treated with various chemical agents to maintain integrity of the sample.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 2, 2004
Date of Patent:
February 12, 2008
Assignee:
Covaris, Inc.
Inventors:
James A. Laugharn, Jr., Brevard S. Garrison
Abstract: An automatic guided system transfers scrap glass resulted from at least one scrap glass source of a clean room to a scrap exit. The automatic guided system for transferring the scrap glass includes a rail module and a vehicle module. The rail module connects the scrap exit to the scrap glass source. The vehicle module is moved along the rail module for transferring the scrap glass from the scrap glass source to the scrap exit.
Abstract: When a printing paper to which an IC chip storing secret information is attached is discarded, a shredder applied voltage to the IC chip by a discharging unit to destroy the IC chip and to make it impossible to read the secret information therefrom. Thereafter, a shredding cutter shreds the printing paper and the shred printing paper is discarded.
Abstract: A system for processing waste on a continuous basis comprises an infeed assembly, a vessel held at a non-ambient pressure and/or temperature, and an outfeed assembly. The infeed assembly includes: a sleeve where waste is delivered; a gate construction that moves between an open and a closed position; and a ram that moves within the sleeve to compress waste when the gate construction is in the closed position and to push the compressed waste into the vessel, where it is metamorphically processed, when the gate construction is in the open position. The processed material moves from the vessel to the outfeed assembly, which includes a compaction chamber, a ram that moves within the compaction chamber, and a cutter assembly. Waste is compacted in the compaction chamber by the ram, cut by the cutter assembly, and delivered as a compacted block to an environment having an ambient pressure and/or temperature.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 30, 2004
Date of Patent:
December 4, 2007
Assignee:
Bouldin Corporation
Inventors:
Floyd Eugene Bouldin, Thomas Edward Cantrell
Abstract: An apparatus for installation of a material having discrete elements. The apparatus includes: (a) a supply material having discrete elements; and (b) a transporter system downstream of the supply material having discrete elements. In the preferred embodiment, the transporter system includes (i) a vertical feed, inline blower and (ii) a material agitator upstream of the vertical feed, inline blower. The apparatus may further include an applicator assembly connected downstream to the transporter system. In the preferred embodiment, the material is installed without the use of water.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 13, 2004
Date of Patent:
November 27, 2007
Assignee:
U.S. Greenfiber, LLC
Inventors:
David James Bowman, Mitchell R. Smith, Frank C. Burroughs, Joseph C. Willingham, Sr.
Abstract: A system for process-technological machines such as mills and classifiers having an enclosed design with no rotary unions between the ambient air and system interior. This system is particularly useful for CIP and SIP operation modes or glove-box operations. The mills or classifiers include an encapsulation that seals the components of the magnetic bearing spindle drive against the working zone of the shaft in the magnetic bearing spindle housing. The magnetic bearing spindle drive is designed such that the shaft can be removed to facilitate simpler and easier component exchange as well as thorough cleaning.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 4, 2007
Publication date:
November 8, 2007
Inventors:
Georg Konetzka, Karsten Ludewig, Jurgen Stahl
Abstract: An apparatus for installation of a material having discrete elements. The apparatus includes a supply material having discrete elements and a transporter system downstream of the supply material having discrete elements. In embodiments, the transporter system includes: a high speed, inline blower; a material agitator upstream of the inline blower, the material agitator including a plurality of concentric rings with serrations on the upper surface of each arm, wherein at least one outer ring includes saw tooth serrations on the upper surface of the ring; a transmission connected to the shaft of the blower for providing a lower speed mechanical output to the material agitator; and an orifice substantially adjacent to the inlet of the blower for receiving the supply material having discrete elements. In embodiments, the apparatus further includes an applicator assembly connected downstream to the transporter system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 11, 2006
Publication date:
October 25, 2007
Inventors:
David J. Bowman, Frank Comer Burroughs, Joseph Chester Willingham, William Crockett Richardson, Mitchell Ray Smith
Abstract: The concrete product recycling machine is transportable to job sites for breaking apart concrete panels and recycling the concrete and the steel reinforcement therein. The concrete panel recycling machine has a conveyor to transport the panels to rest on top of an anvil. The anvil supports the panel for a hammer to engage the panel on the anvil such that the energy imparted by the hammer is reflected by the anvil and breaks apart the concrete panel. Concrete aggregate produced by the hammer fall onto a conveyor thereunder to transport the concrete for recycling. The hammer may traverse the width of the panel to reach all portions of the surface. The steel reinforcement rods can be sawed into manageable and saleable lengths. The steel can be dropped into a container for removal by scrap dealers.
Abstract: An apparatus for installation of a material having discrete elements. The apparatus includes a supply material having discrete elements and a transporter system downstream of the supply material having discrete elements. In the preferred embodiment, the transporter system includes: (i) a high speed, inline blower (ii) a material agitator upstream of the inline blower and (iii) a planetary transmission connected to the shaft of the blower for providing a lower speed mechanical output to the material agitator. The material agitator may include a plurality of concentric rings with serrations on the upper surface of each ring. In the preferred embodiment, the apparatus further includes an applicator assembly connected downstream to the transporter system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 2, 2004
Date of Patent:
September 18, 2007
Assignee:
U.S. Greenfiber, LLC
Inventors:
David J. Bowman, Mitchell R. Smith, Frank C. Burroughs, Joseph C. Willingham, Sr.
Abstract: A comminution machine for waste includes a rotor that carries blade elements and cooperates with counter-blades, which are fixed to the housing. The rotor is driven by a synchronous motor that is excited by a controllable frequency converter. In order to keep the connected power of the comminution machine small and nevertheless be able to apply a large torque to the rotor, the synchronous motor acts upon the rotor via a reduction gearing and a clutch.
Abstract: A new method and concept for the recovery of valuable materials from solid waste and the conversion of organic solid waste and sewage into crude oil, gas, usable elemental solids and water uses a two step process, solid waste reduction and an organic fusion process. Two resources are used in the Waste Resource Process, solid waste (municipal garbage) and waste water (municipal sewage). Waste water goes directly into the Organic Fusion Process. Solid waste requires processing for removal of non-organic products and preparation of the organics that are used in the Organic Fusion Process. Solid waste organics used in the Organic Fusion Process include, plastics, papers, food and yard waste, organic construction debris, waste oils, many household and commercial chemicals; anything with a hydrocarbon molecular structure.
Abstract: An apparatus for food waste treatment which efficiently treats sewage and odor generated from food wastes. The food waste treatment apparatus includes a body (10), a hopper (30) to put the food wastes into the body (10), a crusher (14) installed in the body (10) to crush the food wastes, an agitating container (42) having an agitator (38) therein and provided at a lower portion in the body (10) to agitate the food wastes, a sewage purifying tank (70) provided under the crusher (14) in the body (10) so as to purify sewage generated from the food wastes during a crushing operation of the crusher (14), and a drain pipe (73) extending from the sewage purifying tank (70), with a magnetic material (74) mounted on an end of the drain pipe (73) to secondarily purify the sewage drained from the sewage purifying tank (70) into a sewer pipe.
Abstract: A briquette meeting required strength that is formed in an energy-saving manner from ferrous metal working scrap, such as grinding chips, and a method of making the briquette are provided. In a briquette formed by applying a pressing pressure to a ferrous metal working scrap, the percentage by weight of grinding chips is in the range of 10 wt % to 35 wt %. Viscous water-containing grinding chips crushed to a desired size and metal working scrap, such as gear cutting chips, are mixed in a feed hopper 7, and a pressing pressure is then applied to the raw mix by use of a compression pressing machine 8 to form a briquette B of ferrous metal working scrap. The content of a grinding fluid of the viscous water-containing grinding chips is 20 wt % to 60 wt %.
Abstract: An apparatus and process for the separation, recovery and recycling of municipal solid waste (MSW) in which hot water 48 is added to shredded and homogenized MSW 2 as it enters a rotating feed preparation drum 34 equipped with internal lifter blades 36. The blades 36 and rotation of the drum 34 cause mixing and pulping of the MSW before discharge into a rotating thermal processor 56 also equipped with lifter blades 58 and cone section 64, and in which the moist MSW 2 is heated by heating the hot gases in the processor by a flame from burner 62 which converts the moisture in the MSW to steam. The steam permeates through the MSW as it is turned and lifted in the thermal processor 56, causing further pulping. The now cooked and treated MSW 2 is then fed to a conveyor 68 for transportation to a trommel screen for the separation of recyclable components.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 2, 2003
Date of Patent:
June 5, 2007
Inventors:
John A. Porter, Tony Lees, Paul A. Fitton
Abstract: The invention provides a method for effecting a controlled breaking of a wedding glass, comprising providing a device having a housing having a bottom and top sheet both of puncture-resistant material and an intermediate layer of compressible material retained between the sheets, the intermediate layer being provided with an opening forming a well sized to accommodate a wedding glass therein, whereby a stamping action directed to the top sheet results in the compression of the intermediate layer and the shattering of the glass within the confines of the sheets and the well.
Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and corresponding method for processing, i.e. testing, sorting and/or destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes, comprising a processing device (10) having at least one means (13, 14, 41) for generating information on the processing of individual sheets (12) of sheet material, and at least one monitoring device (20) having at least one memory device (21) for storing the information on the processing of individual sheets (12). To improve the monitoring of sheet processing, in particular in regard to disturbances in the course of processing, it is provided that the processing device (10) has at least one means (11) for detecting the identity of individual sheets (12) of sheet material and the memory device (21) of the monitoring device (20) is formed for storing the information on the processing of individual sheets (12) together with the identity of the individual sheets (12).
Abstract: A method for destroying confidential documents, including the steps of a) keeping one or more confidential documents in a container, b) identifying the container, c) storing identification data relating to the container in question in an electronic data system, d) establishing the identity of one or more containers, e) comparing the identity as established in step d) with the data from the electronic data system of step c), and f) destroying the containers if the identity of the container in question as established in step d) corresponds to the identification data of the container in question from the electronic data system as stored in step c).
Abstract: A cutting assembly including a pair of substantially parallel shafts, each shaft having a plurality of axially spaced cutting blades mounted thereon such that each blade forms an oblique angle with respect to a central axis of the associated shaft, wherein each cutting blade includes a central body having a plurality of teeth radially spaced thereabout.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 11, 2005
Date of Patent:
February 20, 2007
Assignee:
Moyno, Inc.
Inventors:
Dale H. Parrett, David Pitsch, Adam Downey
Abstract: The system for measuring wear in a grinding mill has at least one bolt passing through the shell and a wear plate. The bolt has an elongated oblong-shaped bolt head extending through the wear plate, flush with a surface of the wear plate. The bolt head is exposed to a same abrasion as the wear plate. The bolt has a groove there along and a plurality of wire loops embedded in that groove. Each wire loop extends to a distinct point along the bolt head, such as to form a ruler along the bolt head. A mobile transmitter-receiver is mounted to the stem of the bolt and is connected to the wire loops. The mobile transmitter-receiver has electronic circuitry therein for detecting broken loop conditions and for transmitting these conditions to a remote receiver where the conditions are related to degrees of wear on the wear plate.
Abstract: A rotatable assembly for a machine includes a rotatable shaft having a longitudinal axis and a rotatable member disposed about the shaft. The rotatable assembly also includes at least one first connecting member operatively mounted to the rotatable member and to the shaft at a first location along the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The rotatable assembly includes at least one second connecting member operatively mounted to the rotatable member and located at a second location spaced from the first location along the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The rotatable assembly further includes a bearing operatively mounted to the shaft, wherein the second connecting member is operatively mounted to the bearing to allow the shaft to twist without permanent deformation when a concentrated load is subjected to the shaft as the rotor is rotated.
Abstract: A waste food processor has a housing with an upper room and a lower room communicated with each other, a first grinding assembly and a second grinding assembly respectively received within the upper and lower rooms, and a cleaning assembly connected to the first grinding assembly for cleaning residues remained on the first grinding assembly to make the removed residues further processed by the second grinding assembly. Particularly, the first grinding assembly is composed of a first toothed drum and second toothed drum respectively with different sharp teeth and cutouts to make engaging gaps in different sizes so that solid residues in large sizes also can be introduced between the first and second drums for grinding. Thereby, grinding capability and efficiency of the waste food processor are significantly improved.
Abstract: Self contained filter backpurge systems useful for totally enclosed processing mills and for clean in place (CIP) processing material processing mills.
Abstract: This invention discloses a paper shredder having a manual paper pressing device, where the paper shredder is provided at a rear end thereof with an aperture, including: a large-size presser disposed beneath the paper shredder and having a connecting shaft at an end thereof, the connecting shaft passing through the aperture provided at the rear end of the paper shredder to movably pivot to a presser rod, the presser rod being rotatable about the pivoting location, wherein when the presser rod is levered upwards from a horizontal position about the pivoting location to a vertical position and then pressed downwards, the large-size presser is activated to compact the paper chips in the basket or bin directly so as to reduce space occupied by the paper chips and to increase capacity of the basket or bin. After the force for causing the presser rod downwards vanishes, the presser rod would recover to its original position due to recovering force exerted by a spring.
Abstract: A combination including a cabinet and a shredder. The cabinet including a cabinet housing having a top, a front, a back and two sides, a drawer supportable by the cabinet housing and operable to selectively support materials therein, the drawer being movable between an open position and a closed position and the shredder being supported by the cabinet housing and at least partially positioned within the cabinet housing, the shredder having an inlet for materials to be fed into the shredder to be shredded to form shredded material and an outlet through which shredded material is dispensed.
Abstract: A wooden debris compressor includes a storing tank, and a poking device under the storing tank provided with plural poking rods fixed spaced apart in a definite angle. Then alternate back-and-forth rotation of the poking rods controls the volume of wooden debris falling down, and at the same time ax-shaped knives at outer ends of the poking rods rotates also back and forth alternately to break bridged conditions of wooden debris to let wooden debris smoothly fall down through a feeding hole. Then a cutting device with a cutter is provided on a material room of a feeding device to cut wooden debris in bridged conditions in an upper portion of the material room to let it fall down in a lower portion. Then the compressor can carry out compressing operation continuously and smoothly.
Abstract: A circular saw includes a worktable, a blade supporting unit pivotally mounted to the worktable, a saw blade shaft mounted rotatably on the supporting unit and driven by a motor to rotate a saw blade, a driving shaft mounted rotatably on the supporting unit, and a dust collecting member confining a dust passageway which has an intake port in the vicinity of the saw blade, and an outlet port for passage of wood dust. A blower casing is disposed outwardly of the supporting unit, and defines an accommodation chamber disposed downstream of the outlet port and receiving a driving end of the driving shaft. An impeller is mounted on the driving end and is rotatable so as to draw wood dust from the dust passageway into the accommodation chamber and out through a discharge port.
Abstract: A shredder that shreds a recording medium which includes, on a surface thereof, an image forming portion and a holographic memory portion in which data is recorded. The shredder includes a data destroying unit that destroys at least the data recorded in the holographic memory portion and a shredding unit that shreds the entire recording medium. Thus, when a recording medium to which has been added a holographic memory portion in which useful information is recorded is to be discarded, the data(information) recorded in the holographic memory portion can be safely destroyed so that the data can no longer be read.
Abstract: In an assembly including a diesel engine, a fluid coupling connected to the flywheel of the diesel engine, a comminuting machine and a conveyor for feeding the comminuting machine, a fluid coupling module is common to various output power train assemblies. Slip speed of the fluid coupling between impeller input and runner output shafts is measured, and modulates or regulates the process feed rate of the conveyer. An electrically actuated control valve acts as an oil flow diverter valve directing oil into the fluid coupling impeller when a signal to engage the coupling is given, and in response to a signal from an over-temperature sensor when the temperature of circuit oil leaving the element exceeds a preset set point value, diverts the oil to a reservoir, thereby permitting the impeller and runner cavity to evacuate, which separates the engine from the load.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 19, 2004
Date of Patent:
June 13, 2006
Inventors:
Melbourne F. Giberson, Mark T. Simonelli, Frederick C. Wiesinger, Jr., Gerald L. Abrams
Abstract: A bale processor with a processing chamber includes a manipulator driven by a drive system that includes a hydraulic motor. The hydraulic motor of the drive system drives a drive shaft with an axis of rotation offset from a driven shaft of the manipulator. A rotation transmission mechanism allows a higher torque to be applied to the manipulator than may be applied by the hydraulic motor alone and, thereby, leads to improved performance for the bale processor. Additionally, the hydraulic motor may be sized such that the peak allowable pressure of the hydraulic motor is higher than the peak output pressure of the power source used to drive the hydraulic motor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 12, 2003
Date of Patent:
March 28, 2006
Assignee:
Highline Mfg. Inc.
Inventors:
Charles Lepage, Murray Kosokowsky, Kimball Lischynski
Abstract: Improved methods for producing titanium dioxide slurries. The output from a micronizer is passed through a condenser to condense the steam and form an aqueous slurry of titanium dioxide, which can in most cases then be further concentrated as desired or which can be sold or used without further concentration, instead of passing the micronizer output to apparatus for separating the TiO2 from the steam, as is currently practiced in the art. The resultant slurry from the condenser is in a further refinement preferably sent to an agitated storage tank together with dispersant and anti-settling compounds to aid in preventing settling of the titanium dioxide solids out of the slurry. To help facilitate condensation of the steam/pigment mixture sent to the condenser, a portion of the condensed slurry is in yet a further refinement pumped from the slurry storage tank to a heat exchanger. The output from the heat exchanger is then fed to the condenser to facilitate the condensing of the steam in the condenser.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 7, 2003
Date of Patent:
January 3, 2006
Assignee:
Kerr-McGee Chemical, LLC
Inventors:
Thomas Ian Brownbridge, Jeffrey Austin Engle
Abstract: The present invention is a strip/cross switch mechanism of double-duty shredder, consists of two main bodies, machine drive device and switch knob device, wherein, machine drive device comprises: motor drive gear wheel, drive shaft, shaft coat, large strap wheel, ratchet wheel, drive key, pawl, pawl wheel, and the switch knob device consists of fork, knob arm, fork frame and knob, the rotary knob change the position of fork to make large strap wheel compel drive key move to the position that pawl and ratchet wheel disposed, when derive key intermeshes with pawl the ratchet wheel that pawl affiliated to and the fixed drive shaft of ratchet wheel will be rotated to rotates latitude paper-cutting mechanism drivingly connected to drive shaft to cut the paper to be cut in latitudinal direction.
Abstract: A recycling device and a method of using same are disclosed. The recycling device includes the interconnected components of a housing unit, a first door, a second door, an elongated barrel, an electrical plug, a utility motor, a utility belt drive, a rolling pin, a conveyor belt, a plurality of intake rollers, a shredding blade, a receiving bucket, a hydraulic press, a compression piston, and a control panel. The method of using the device includes a convenient means for recycling a plurality of various types of materials, in which the method includes the steps of obtaining and plugging.