With Mixer Patents (Class 241/101.8)
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Publication number: 20100219270Abstract: A method of separating at least one cluster of a plurality of clustered particles of a specified material. The method includes: initiating the wetting of at least a portion of the plurality of cluster particles; disaggregating at least a portion of the wetted plurality of cluster particles into a disaggregated material including a plurality of smaller clusters, discrete particles or any combination thereof; and stabilizing at least a portion of the disaggregated material by reducing, eliminating or replacing specified controlling attractive forces. A system and apparatus for separating at least one cluster of a plurality of clustered particles of a specified material are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: Minus 100, LLCInventor: Kevin C. Kerns
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Patent number: 7731115Abstract: A machine for distributing blowing insulation including a shredding chamber configured to shred and pick apart the blowing insulation. The shredding chamber includes a plurality of low speed shredders, an agitator and a discharge mechanism. The agitator is mounted for rotation and rotates toward the discharge mechanism. The discharge mechanism includes a side inlet configured to receive the blowing insulation from the agitator. A baffle is disposed between the agitator and the discharge mechanism. The baffle is configured to partially obstruct the side inlet of the discharge mechanism. The baffle allows finely shredded blowing insulation to enter the side inlet of the discharge mechanism and directs heavy clumps of blowing insulation past the side inlet of the discharge mechanism for eventual recycling into the low speed shredders.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Michael W. Johnson, Michael E. Evans, Agustin Hernandez, Robert J. O'Leary, Christopher M. Relyea, Brian K. Linstedt, Gregory J. Merz, Jeffrey W. Servaites, Keith A. Grider
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Patent number: 7690589Abstract: A method of separating at least one cluster of a plurality of clustered particles of a specified material. The method includes: initiating the wetting of at least a portion of the plurality of cluster particles; disaggregating at least a portion of the wetted plurality of cluster particles into a disaggregated material including a plurality of smaller clusters, discrete particles or any combination thereof; and stabilizing at least a portion of the disaggregated material by reducing, eliminating or replacing specified controlling attractive forces. A system and apparatus for separating at least one cluster of a plurality of clustered particles of a specified material are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Inventor: Kevin C. Kerns
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Patent number: 7685933Abstract: A food processing device having a motor shaft of a motor from the device coupled to the tool carrying shaft for multi-speed operation. The tool carrying shaft and the motor shaft are connected by two distinct trains, continuously driven, each train comprising one free wheel, mounted with relation to the free wheel of the other train in such a way that power from the motor is only transmitted to the tool carrying shaft by the relevant train in a single direction of rotation of the motor and that for the other direction of rotation of said motor, the power is only transmitted to the tool carrying shaft by the other train.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Hameur S.A.Inventor: Loïc Xavier Fevre
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Publication number: 20100025510Abstract: A process and system for manufacturing gypsum wallboard that aerates and cools a portion of the stucco used in the manufacturing process. This conditioning of the stucco reduces the amount of water needed to manufacture the gypsum wallboard which in turn reduces the amount of energy and cost needed to manufacture the wallboard.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2009Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: National Gypsum Properties, LLC, a limited Liability Company of the State of DelawareInventors: David G. Peterson, JR., Joseph J. Bailey, Matthew M. Hilken
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Publication number: 20100027373Abstract: A food processing assembly (20) includes a base member (21), a container (22) and a cover (23). The base member (21) has a platform portion (26) adapted to carry the container (22) and a housing portion (25) for a motor. A wall (29) of the housing (25) has a plurality of air inlet slots (35) and a gutter (37) protects the slots (35) from receiving any liquid which might be on the base member (21). The container (22) has a sidewall (52) with an open top that has a peripheral rim (57). A cover (23) includes a tab assembly (73) that has a notch (70) to receive the rim (57). The vertical lifting of a handle portion (77) of the tab assembly (73) removes the cover (23) from the container (22). A spout (61) and a handle (60) are formed near the top of the container (22). A heat shield (62) includes a body portion (63) which is attached to the sidewall (52) at a location under the spout (61), and it also includes a flap (62).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2008Publication date: February 4, 2010Inventors: John K. Barnard, Richard D. Boozer, Eugene J. Kozlowski, Fred H. Mehlman, Robert M. Ulanski
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Patent number: 7618181Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for dispersing pigment in a water-based or oil-based intermediate mixture for producing a coating composition comprising a mixer and a dispersing device, the mixer having a vacuum pump and capable of conducting a primary mixing of a pigment component and resin-containing liquid medium to form an intermediate mixture, the dispersing device capable of conducting the secondary mixing of the intermediate mixture, the mixer and the dispersing device being connected by pipes to form a circulation channel for the intermediate mixture, one of the pipes being provided with a seal-less pump, the intermediate mixture capable of circulating between the mixer and the dispersing device through the circulation channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Hiraki, Yushi Taguchi
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Publication number: 20090229491Abstract: The asphalt roofing material is delivered into a treatment chamber of a processor. Hot oil is passed through a jacket surrounding the treatment chamber. Heated asphalt forms a hot solid and/or a liquefied slurry. The hot solid and/or the liquefied slurry is then removed from the treatment chamber. The asphalt roofing material in the treatment chamber can be agitated to promote mixing. The asphalt is heated to a temperature in the range from 200 degrees Fahrenheit to 650 degrees Fahrenheit within the treatment chamber. The solid and/or liquefied slurry is milled after it has been removed from the treatment chamber. The solid and/or the liquefied slurry is cooled after it exits the treatment chamber, preferably to a temperature in the range of approximately 90 degrees Fahrenheit to 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The hot solid and/or the liquefied slurry is passed through a hammer mill after the hot solid and/or the liquefied slurry exits the treatment chamber to reduce the particle size of the solid particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventor: Thomas B. Harmon
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Patent number: 7575187Abstract: A mixing system and method for manufacturing a thermal interface material are disclosed. The mixing system mainly includes a mixing chamber having a bottom portion, a first inlet, a second inlet, a spray nozzle, and an outlet. The first inlet is defined in the bottom portion and is configured for inflating a gas into the mixing chamber to form a gas vortex. The second inlet is defined in the mixing chamber and is configured for supplying a plurality of powdery thermally conductive particles to the gas vortex. The spray nozzle is disposed essentially facing the first inlet and is configured for spraying a liquid curable matrix material towards the gas vortex to admix the matrix material and the particles. The outlet is disposed adjacent the gas vortex and is configured for discharging the admixed matrix and particles from the mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chi-Chuang Ho, Bor-Yuan Hsiao
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Publication number: 20090121053Abstract: Method for reusing bituminous products (11), in particular bitumen containing roofing materials and membranes, wherein the bitumen containing products are placed in a second hopper (9), where a particulate material having a grain size between 5 mm and 35 mm is placed in a first hopper (5), and that in the bottom of the second hopper, conveyor means (10) urges the bituminous material into a mixing chamber (8), and that inside said mixing chamber a milling and/or crushing wheel (14) is arranged, which wheel engages and crushes/mills the material transported from the second hopper in an engagement zone, and at the same position as the wheel engages the bituminous material, the particulate material by means of a first conveyor (7) is fed into the engagement zone, and that the wheel's action will fragment the materials and at the same time mix the fragmented bituminous materials and the particulate materials, and transport the material past a sieve (15) , where material having a particle size smaller than the sievType: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2006Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventor: Karsten Rasmussen
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Patent number: 7469846Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for the wet-mechanical treatment of a substance mixture, particularly of refuse of all types, comprised of inert substances, water and of organic substances having a water-soluble and bioconvertible portion, whereby water is used as a solvent, washing agent and separating agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2004Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Ecoenergy Gesellschaft fur Energie—und Umwelttechnik mbHInventor: Reinhard Schu
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Publication number: 20080277512Abstract: The invention provides an ingredient dispensing apparatus (100; 200) comprising first and second hoppers (102, 104; 202, 204) for storage of an ingredient, first and second dispensers (120, 124; 214, 224) for dispensing an ingredient from the respective hopper (102, 104; 202, 204) and a drive mechanism (128; 228) for rotatably driving the first and second dispensers (120, 124; 214, 224). The first and second dispensers (120, 124; 214, 224) are arranged such that, in a first direction (D1) of rotation of the drive mechanism (128; 228), the first dispenser (120; 214) dispenses an ingredient from the first hopper (102; 202) and in a second direction (D2) of rotation of the drive mechanism (128; 228), the second dispenser (124; 224) dispenses an ingredient from the second hopper (104; 204).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: DYSON TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Remco Douwinus VUIJK
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Patent number: 7438244Abstract: An apparatus and method for separating contaminated plastic material from various types of contaminants, including paper, includes a grinder for reducing the size of the contaminated plastic material to a reduced size of pieces and an eductor for receiving the pieces of contaminated plastic material from the grinder. The eductor has a nozzle portion at one end for producing a turbulent flow of compressed air and an intermediate portion with a mixing chamber for receiving the turbulent flow of air and the reduced size of pieces whereby the pieces are pulled into the eductor by the compressed air flow and the contaminants are separated from the plastic.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Environ Solutions IncorproatedInventors: Timothy C. Rozema, James W. Trent
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Patent number: 7434754Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an agitator (10) positioned near the screen (4) of a hogger to increase turbulence in that region. The induced turbulence from the driven blades (15) of the agitator (10) reorients material contained within the hogger (1), thereby representing the material to the screen (4) and grinding disc (5) with potential improvements in both screening and comminuting efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Progressive IP LimitedInventor: Rodney Warwick Sharp
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Patent number: 7395751Abstract: An ice beverage-making apparatus includes a housing, an electric motor located within the housing, a torque transmission supported by the housing and receiving input from the electric motor and providing a first output shaft and a second-speed output shaft that rotates at a different speed than the first output shaft. The apparatus further includes an ice crushing module supported by the housing and receiving torque from the first output shaft, and a blending module receiving torque from the second output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Main Power Electrical Factory Ltd.Inventor: Ka Lok Joe Liu
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Patent number: 7393133Abstract: The invention is a device for mixing nursery dirt, peat moss and wood shavings into a marketable soil mixture. The device is made of a housing, a conveyor, a motor, a scalloped cylinder, a metal blade, at least seven metal cylinders, sprockets that turn the scalloped cylinder and at least three of the metal cylinders, a belt, and a chain.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2006Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Inventor: Ernesto Acosta
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Patent number: 7360728Abstract: A hay bale processor (10) having a cylindrical rotatable drum (14) adapted to displace a bale of hay (156-157) over a grill (26) which has a plurality of spaced-apart parallel slot openings (27) which are adjustable to define an average fiber cut length. A rotor (28) driven by an electric motor (66-67) has cutting blades (35) projecting through the openings to contact a bottom face (159) of a bale of hay (160) displaced over the grill. The rotor has a driveable shaft (29) secured to a displaceable suspension mechanism (45) to displace the blades (35) in the openings and above the grill a variable distance depending on the resistive load appliA hay bale processor (10) having a cylindrical rotatable drum (14) adapted to displace a bale of hay (156-157) over a grill (26) which has a plurality of spaced-apart parallel slot openings (27) which are adjustable to define an average fiber cut length.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Inventor: Victor Rousseau
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Patent number: 7316365Abstract: Taught herein are methods of integrated material processing, especially integrated processing of waste materials. According to the methods, waste materials are exposed simultaneously to two or more unit operations, and the physical phenomena associated with each of the unit operations act in concert to achieve a desired processing objective.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Multichem EKO SP. ZO.O.Inventor: Stanislaw Rogut
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Patent number: 7240865Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2003Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Inventor: Dong-Gak Choi
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Patent number: 7240867Abstract: A processing arrangement for manufacturing composite cementitious materials, such as hydraulic blended cements, with significantly reduced Portland clinker minerals content. The arrangement includes a milling unit for pregrinding supplementary cementitious materials and highly reactive pozzolans or mineral fillers, such as fly ash, blast furnace slag, fine quartz, granitic quarry fines, and the like, and a milling unit for pregrinding the Portland cement. The pregrinding units are followed by grinding unit for grinding the preground components. The pregrinding units are adapted to work as an open circuit or as a closed circuit for the material being ground.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2004Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Procedo Enterprises EtablissementInventor: Vladimir Ronin
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Patent number: 7175118Abstract: Apparatus and method for dispersing solid constituents into a liquid vehicle employ an immersion mill operating in combination with a low shear mixer blade assembly which sweeps the walls of a tank containing a batch of solid constituents in a liquid vehicle to circulate the batch through the immersion mill to carry out a milling operation to establish a relatively high viscosity mixture having a high degree of uniformity. The immersion mill includes an improvement wherein a helical screw impeller is placed within a tubular inlet passage for moving the batch longitudinally through the tubular inlet passage into the immersion mill, the helical screw impeller including a helical flight extending along the length of the tubular inlet passage and having a diameter complementary to the diameter of the tubular inlet passage and a pitch less than the length of the tubular inlet passage such that the helical flight spans the diameter of the tubular inlet passage along plural turns of the helical flight.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2004Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Hockmeyer Equipment Corp.Inventor: Herman H. Hockmeyer
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Patent number: 7100851Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for dispersing pigment in a water-based or oil-based intermediate mixture for producing a coating composition comprising a mixer and a dispersing device, the mixer having a vacuum pump and capable of conducting a primary mixing of a pigment component and resin-containing liquid medium to form an intermediate mixture, the dispersing device capable of conducting the secondary mixing of the intermediate mixture, the mixer and the dispersing device being connected by pipes to form a circulation channel for the intermediate mixture, one of the pipes being provided with a seal-less pump, the intermediate mixture capable of circulating between the mixer and the dispersing device through the circulation channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2001Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Hiraki, Yushi Taguchi
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Patent number: 7028933Abstract: A mixing machine consists of a hopper having a main chamber within its housing with a rotary member, a secondary chamber having a bottom worm conveying the material from one end of the mixing machine to the other end thereof, until collapsing with a loop found on its front portion and generating a material bubble; an upper worm to remove the material bubble and carrying it up to the middle part of the machine. At the middle part of the machine, the material is forced by a loop system having an upper worm to move towards the rotor area, such that the material is actually moving towards the back portion of the machine, completing a mixing cycle.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Tormex Industrias, S.A. de C.V.Inventor: Javier Villarreal Maiz
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Patent number: 7028932Abstract: A machine including a container fitted with a base that extends between lateral walls and end walls. The base partially covers (i) a mixing rotor and (ii) a feed auger which moves products in the skip either in a closed circuit or in a circuit towards a distributing chute. A transfer screw is mounted on top of the feed auger. The transfer screw can include cutting members in the form of sectioning parts. The sectioning parts co-operate with teeth which are disposed on a beam. The teeth can be positioned as necessary either on a beam located in the container or on one or more beams located on the lateral wall. Similarly, the feed auger can also include sectioning parts that co-operate with teeth if required.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2002Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Lucas GInventors: Gerard Lucas, Jean-Claude Retaillaud
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Patent number: 6983902Abstract: A truck for shredding and mixing products for zootechnical use, of the type that comprises, on a chassis (11) with wheels (12) that is self-propelled or towed, a container (13) that is substantially shaped like an inverted frustum, is open in an upper region and contains shredding and mixing means (14) which comprise at least two adjacent rotating main screw feeders (15, 16), each having an external profile (17) that lies on a substantially conical imaginary surface and at which shredding cutters are mounted. Contrast cutters (20) substantially shaped like circular sectors are hinged to the internal wall of the container (13) by means of their respective vertices in a vertical arrangement in substantially radial positions and can be inserted and removed through appropriately provided slots. Auxiliary screw feeders (18, 19), suitable to avoid the formation of stagnation regions, are arranged between the main screw feeders (15, 16), in the regions adjacent to the walls of the container (13).Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2002Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Inventor: Tiziano Faccia
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Patent number: 6955311Abstract: In a self-propelled recycling machine for receiving recyclable materials and processing the recyclable materials to produce recycled products, the self-propelled recycling machine comprises traveling units 2 disposed side by side in a spaced relation, a base frame 29 disposed between the traveling units 2 so as to form a space for accommodating a power unit 3 between the traveling units 2, the power unit 3 disposed in the space within the base frame 29, and a mixing apparatus 23 disposed on the base frame 29. With such a construction, flexibility in layout of various component units can be increased.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Moro, Takanao Hasebe, Masamichi Tanaka, Kazuhide Seki
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Patent number: 6716401Abstract: A system for treatment of infectious waste including an impactor coupled to a mixing drum that can be pressurized. Infectious waste is introduced directly into the impactor, where the waste is pulverized, then introduced into the mixing drum through its inlet end for mixing with a treatment fluid effective to kill pathogenic organisms. The drum is sealed, and superatmospheric pressure is applied therein to drive the treatment chemicals into the waste particles. After treatment, the treated waste and treatment chemicals are discharged from the drum through the inlet end of the mixing drum.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2000Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Inventor: W. Lynn Benson
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Patent number: 6581859Abstract: A drilling fluid homogenizer and method of homogenizing drilling fluid which produce a non-clogging homogenized drilling fluid at a high throughput, in an open-loop process. The non-clogging homogenized drilling fluid is capable of being created at high rate so that the non-clogging homogenized drilling fluid is available on demand to eliminate halting of drilling operations. The drilling fluid homogenizer is coupled in series with the closed-loop designed drilling fluid system and is adapted to homogenize water-based drilling fluid and other drilling fluid types, such as, synthetic drilling fluid during drilling operations on demand.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Diamond Tank Rentals, Inc.Inventors: Ben A. Adams, Chris G. Cooper
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Patent number: 6513739Abstract: A flour sifter includes a sifter unit detachably supported on a stand that houses an electric motor and speed reducer. The speed reducer output shaft has a disconnectable connection with an agitator shaft that extends transversely within the sifter tube, such that when the motor is energized the agitator is rotated to pulverize flour particles located on a sifter screen in the sifter tube. Flour particles gravitate through screen openings into a collection receptacle placed below the sifter tube. The sifter unit can be removed from the stand for cleaning or storage.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2001Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Inventors: Eula C. Fritz, Wanda C. Fritz
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Patent number: 6508423Abstract: The apparatus comprises a container which essentially has the shape of a body of revolution and comprises two half-shells detachable from one another and having a vertical axis. The container preferably has the shape of a sphere with a material inlet arranged in the upper half-shell and a material outlet arranged in the bottom of the lower half-shell. Also arranged in the container is a stirrer which is rotatable about an axis inclined not more than 20° and which is connected to a drive device arranged on the upper half-shell and picks up and constantly circulates the entire material during operation of the apparatus. The apparatus is suitable as a dryer, mixer and, with introduction of a suitable liquid, also as a granulator and can be used not only for chemical synthesis but also as a reactor, for example in the pharmaceutical manufacturing stage, in combined applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2001Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Rosenmund VTA AGInventor: Alfred Gloor
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Patent number: 6505786Abstract: A silage cutter having a frame consisting of first and second frame members which are adapted to be moved relative to one another about a hinge axle by means of a drive mechanism, wherein the drive mechanism includes two hydraulic cylinders. The first frame member has a knife attached thereto. The second frame member has provided thereon gripping devices for gripping the silage. A hydraulic device causes the two cylinders to always have the same length.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Trioliet Mullos B.V.Inventor: Nicolaas Van Der Plas
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Patent number: 6491243Abstract: A system for continuously processing PTFE by irradiation and grinding includes a processing vessel having first and second horizontally adjacent agitators in first and second transversely adjacent vessel portions. The bottom of the vessel has a step between the portions whereat heated air is injected for agitating and grinding the PTFE.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1999Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: Shamrock Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert Luniewski, William B. Neuberg
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Patent number: 6481649Abstract: A method is disclosed for the structural agglomeration of aerogel particles. The method comprises the steps of feeding aerogel particles to a mixing apparatus. A binder also is added to the mixing apparatus. After thorough mixing agglomerates from the mixing apparatus optionally are separated according to their size.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1999Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Cabot CorporationInventor: Marc Schmidt
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Publication number: 20020139879Abstract: A flour sifter includes a sifter unit detachably supported on a stand that houses an electric motor and speed reducer. The speed reducer output shaft has a disconnectable connection with an agitator shaft that extends transversely within the sifter tube, such that when the motor is energized the agitator is rotated to pulverize flour particles located on a sifter screen in the sifter tube. Flour particles gravitate through screen openings into a collection receptacle placed below the sifter tube. The sifter unit can be removed from the stand for cleaning or storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2001Publication date: October 3, 2002Inventors: Eula C. Fritz, Wanda C. Fritz
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Patent number: 6422492Abstract: An apparatus for treating ion-exchange resin includes a disk mill having a plurality of disks including corundum for comminuting the ion-exchange resin. Reliable temporary storage or final storage even of coarse-grained ion-exchange resin from a nuclear plant is made possible by reduction of the swelling capacity.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Johann Lisson, Karl-Heinz Kleinschroth, Robert Grigat, Klaus Blinn
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Publication number: 20020084369Abstract: A system for continuously processing PTFE by irradiation and grinding includes a processing vessel having first and second horizontally adjacent agitators in first and second transversely adjacent vessel portions. The bottom of the vessel has a step between the portions whereat heated air is injected for agitating and grinding the PTFE.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 1999Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: ROBERT LUNIEWSKI, WILLIAM B. NEUBERG
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Patent number: 6345777Abstract: Fibers to be introduced into a mixture are initially pelletized or granulated at a compacting station. The pellets or granules are then transported to a user station where they are stored, and then re-fiberized as required ready for use and introduced into a mixer where they are mixed with other ingredients to provide a mixture with the required properties which is then ready for delivery.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2000Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Excel Industries Ltd.Inventor: Roger Leaver
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Publication number: 20020005444Abstract: A pretreatment apparatus for raw materials for production of reduced iron pretreats the raw materials, comprising an iron material, such as iron ore, and other raw materials, such as coal and flux, by a dryer, classifiers, a roll press, and a vertical mill, and feeds the pretreated raw materials to a pelletizer via a feed bin. At least two fluidized mixers for mixing the classified raw materials, one of the fluidized mixers for storage and the other fluidized mixer for supply, are provided for batch treatment. The pretreatment apparatus can uniformize the crushed particle sizes of iron ore, coal, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2001Publication date: January 17, 2002Inventors: Susumu Kamikawa, Hironori Fujioka, Hiromi Osaka, Keiichi Sato, Yoshimitsu Onaka
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Patent number: 6336603Abstract: A magnetic induction drive for a rotatable driven member in a sealed housing, in particular, a shaft-mounted blade in a blender cup or a shaft-mounted blade in an ice shaver, uses a comparatively thin circular drive plate of a magnetizable material with circumferentially arrayed poles enclosed within a housing secured to a drive shaft. A brushless d.c. motor in a base separate from the housing has a rotor formed as an array of pie-shaped permanent magnet regions that interact with an electronically controlled, rotating electromagnetic field produced by a ring of stator coils. A second such permanent magnet is coupled to rotate coaxially and in unison with the rotor, with poles of opposite polarity aligned and adjacent one another. A steel disc is sandwiched between and bonded to the rotor and the second permanent magnet. The magnetic field (lines of flux) of the second magnet extends axially away from the rotor to induce magnetic poles of opposite polarity in the drive plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2000Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Island Oasis Frozen Cocktail Company, Inc.Inventors: John F. Karkos, Jr., John Micheli
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Publication number: 20010011688Abstract: Methods and apparatus for mixing two or more drilling fluid components to form a drilling fluid composition. In one embodiment, a method is provided which comprises (a) combining the components in a substantially sealed mixing tank to form a mixture, at least one of the drilling fluid components being dispensed under substantially sealed and externally dust-free conditions from at least one bulk bag into the tank, (b) agitating the mixture within the mixing tank, and (c) circulating at least a portion of the mixture from the mixing tank through grinding means for breaking apart agglomerates within the mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2001Publication date: August 9, 2001Inventors: Blake Whitlatch, Larry J. Smith
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Patent number: 6250576Abstract: An apparatus for producing glass sands by a method which includes the steps of crushing glass articles to convert them into fine fragments so as to form glass fragments, then agitating finely crushed glass fragments to eliminate sharp portions while at the same time forming glass fragments into glass sands with a predetermined granular configuration, then sieving foreign materials which have been entrapped into glass sands formed in a granular configuration, while at the same time sorting out glass sands according to their grain sizes.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Kaneto Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshinori Harada
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Patent number: 6186427Abstract: A mixing apparatus comprising a stirring member (4) and a flow direction-changing member (7), which are provided so as to rotate together with a rotating shaft (3) disposed to be drivable in a rotating manner around an axis inside a vessel (2) for containing a material to be mixed, and a pulverizing member (6) provided on the inner circumference (2a′) of the vessel (2) facing the outer circumference of the rotating shaft (3) to be drivable in a rotating manner. The stirring member (4) is arranged by leaving a space relative to the outer circumference of the rotating shaft (3) in the radial direction of rotation, and has a stirring surface, which causes the material being mixed to flow toward the outer circumference of the rotating shaft (3).Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1999Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kouji Toyoda, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Hideichi Nitta, Kenji Tanaka