Abstract: Refiner plate elements for a conical mechanical refiner include: a rotor plate element including at least one rotor plate segment having a feedstock inlet opening disposed at a first end of the rotor plate segment; and a rotor plate segment refining area disposed between the feedstock inlet opening and a second end of the rotor plate segment. The refiner plate elements may further include: a stator plate element including at least one stator plate segment having a stator plate segment refining area; and first and second attaching rails configured to couple to the stator plate segment to a stator support frame of the conical mechanical refiner. A separation between the first attaching rail and the second attaching rail that is not covered by the stator plate segment is configured to form a feedstock outlet opening.

Abstract: Enclosures for vertical pulverizer systems are disclosed. The enclosure may include a vertically oriented cylindrical body forming an internal cavity. The enclosure may also include a cover positioned above the cylindrical body. The cover may have a curved surface. Additionally, the enclosure may include an inlet channel formed through the cover, where the inlet channel may be in fluid communication with the internal cavity of the cylindrical body, and an outlet channel formed through the cover, adjacent the inlet channel. Furthermore, the enclosure may include a base component positioned within the internal cavity of the cylindrical body, opposite the cover, the base component having a curved surface, a journal opening formed through the cylindrical body between the cover and the base component, and a journal opening cover coupled to the cylindrical body. The journal opening cover may cover the journal opening.

Abstract: Shredding device for shredding material comprising a housing: a rotor and one or more counter blades which are arranged in the housing such that they interact for shredding the material; a pusher element that is movable such that it pushes the material to be shredded in the direction towards the rotor and the counter blades; a hopper for feeding the material which is arranged movable on the housing between a first and a second position, where, in its first position, the material may be fed to the rotor and the counter blades, and in its second position, the rotor and the counter blades are freely accessible from the exterior of the shredding device.

Abstract: A reducing machine having an air cooled cutting discs is disclosed. The air cooled discs have cutting surfaces on both sides. The cutting surfaces have edges which are sharpened for cutting input material when the cutting surface is facing the cutting surface of the opposed disc. When the cutting surface of the stationary disc is facing the housing, the cutting surface acts as a heat sink to air cool the stationary disc and the mill assembly in general. Air inlets in the housing lid permit air to flow over the cooling surface of the stationary plate. Air inlets in the carrying plate permit the carrying plate to channel air flow over the rotating cooling surface. A damper restricts air flow over the air cooling surfaces to control the temperature of the reducing machine, such as during start up.

Abstract: The invention relates to a press roll (1) for a roll press, in particular for comminuting highly abrasive materials, comprising a roll body (2) which has a plurality of pocket-like recesses (3) that are distributed over the circumference and are spaced from one another in the circumferential direction (T) on one or both roll edges, each said recess being formed so as to be open laterally and at the top. Only one hard body is removably inserted into each individual pocket-like recess (3) as an exchangeable edge protection element (5), and the length (L) of the pocket-like recesses (3) and the length (I) of the inserted edge protection elements (5) in the circumferential direction (T) is greater than the distance (A) between two directly adjacent recesses (3).

Abstract: An auger is provided for cutting and mixing bulk fibrous feed placed into a mixing chamber of the mixer for eventual consumption by livestock. The auger includes flighting having an outside edge defining a periphery of the auger. A knife is provided, connected to the periphery of the flighting in a continuous or substantially continuous manner along at least a major portion of the periphery of the flighting of the auger. The continuous or substantially continuous knife may be comprised of knife sections placed adjacent and substantially longitudinally to one another thereby providing a continuous or substantially continuous knife. The auger having the continuous or nearly continuous knife along the periphery provides a substantially clean cut of fibrous bulk material and a reduction in crushing and/or tearing of the fibrous material relative to an auger with a non-continuous knife or an auger with a serrated knife.

Abstract: A cutting blade assembly establishes a bidirectional and/or multifaceted scissor-type cutting action to efficiently and effectively process various types of debris encountered by the cutting blade assembly. The assembly includes a cutting plate and a cutting hub configured for relative rotation. A cutting slot is formed in the cutting plate and intersects the axial face to define a cutting edge at the intersection of the cutting slot and the axial face. The cutting hub has a cutting arm positioned adjacent to the axial face. When the cutting plate and the cutting hub undergo relative rotation, the cutting arm passes adjacent to the cutting edge to perform a scissor-type cutting action.

Abstract: An ice crushing system includes multiple sets of interleaved blades with some of the blades being provided with a series of raised protrusions on one or more faces. With this arrangement, the spacing between the interleaved blades is reduced and a finer crushed ice consistency is established. In accordance with aspects of the invention, the raised protrusions are staggered along each side of a set of fixed blades, with the raised protrusions on one side of a fixed blade overlapping the raised protrusions on the opposing side.

Abstract: A reducing machine having an air cooled cutting discs is disclosed. The air cooled discs have cutting surfaces on both sides. The cutting surfaces have edges which are sharpened for cutting input material when the cutting surface is facing the cutting surface of the opposed disc. When the cutting surface of the stationary disc is facing the housing, the cutting surface acts as a heat sink to air cool the stationary disc and the mill assembly in general. Air inlets in the housing lid permit air to flow over the cooling surface. A damper restricts air flow over the air cooling surface to control the temperature of the reducing machine, such as during start up.

Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to an apparatus having cutter elements for destroying articles such as paper sheets and a mechanism for separating at least a sheet from a stack in a tray. A paper feed mechanism feeds paper that is separated from the stack by a stack separation mechanism to the cutter elements. The feed and separation mechanisms can be activated by rotation of the cutter elements. In one embodiment, the stack separation mechanism moves in an alternating manner between retracted and extended positions to disengage and engage and insert the stack to separate (with its edge) paper therefrom to feed to the feed mechanism for shredding. The paper stack separation mechanism can move in an non-undulating manner relative to the stack. A device for stripping stapled pages, a pivotable support plate, and pressure plate can also be used, as well as a number of sensors.

Abstract: A device and method for processing aggregate material, in particular for preparing olive paste for the extraction of oil. The device includes a housing having an inlet for receiving aggregate material, a driving shaft coinciding with the central longitudinal axis of the housing, a crushing drum mounted on an eccentric segment of the driving shaft, free to rotate thereabout, and a final grinder located downstream from the crushing drum.

Abstract: To provide a mill that can greatly reduce noise during operation and can also contribute to greater device compactness. The mill is provided with: a tubular drum body configured in a manner so that a material to be milled introduced from one section can be discharged from another section; a central shaft that penetrates within the drum body in the direction of tube length thereof; and a plurality of milling plates that are attached at a predetermined interval in the axial direction of the central shaft, and that compartmentalize the interior space of the drum body in to a plurality of milling chambers. The drum body and/or the milling plates rotate, and the mill does not have a milling medium that mills the material to be milled by contacting the material to be milled while rolling within the drum body.

Abstract: A system for refining lignocellulosic material including a first stator plate segment refining zone and a first rotor place segment refining zone, each of which has grooves. The rotor plate groove width is larger than the stator plate groove width in the inner part of the refining zone, but substantially similar in the outer part of the refining zone.

Abstract: Provided is a static food cutting element including a hollow body having an inlet opening in which are arranged food cutting means, and also a discharge outlet. It includes a through-window formed in a lower part of the hollow body, and at least one lengthwise edge of the through-window forms a unit for guiding the cut foods towards the discharge outlet. Also provided is a cutting tool including such a static cutting element and also to an electric appliance including such a cutting tool.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for separating carpet fibers from a backing material to which said fibers are secured. The apparatus includes a belt for driving a carpet strip having one or more backings and one or more fibers secured on a face of said backing into the operative part of the device. There are a pair of rollers that are adapted to receive the carpet strip from said belt, and pass the carpet strip to a dish plate. The dish plate has an edge extending upwardly from the dish plate. The face of the carpet having the fibers contacts the edge after the carpet passes through the rollers. The edge of the blade holds the carpet presenting it to the main drum. The main drum rotates downwards and has a plurality of pins that shred the carpet backing and tear apart and free the face carpet fibers from the backing fibers. The face fibers pass to a receptacle for recycling.

Abstract: A machine for de-aggregating a bale of insulation and blowing de-aggregated insulation, the bale of insulation having a length, the machine comprises a de-aggregation chamber having an inlet end positioned above an outlet end, the de-aggregation comprising a single upper de-aggregation member and a single lower de-aggregation member, each de-aggregation member comprising a rotary mounted shaft having a length and a plurality of paddles angularly staggered around the shaft and extending along the length of the shaft, the paddles of the upper de-aggregation member comprising first and second paddles having differing lengths and both the first and second paddles are interleaved with the paddles of the lower de-aggregation member.

Abstract: A waste disposal unit for biologically hazardous waste includes a waste reception mechanism for receiving un-shredded waste, a housing having an interior containing a shredder mechanism and a storage volume for receiving shredded waste from the shredder mechanism. The housing is configured to prevent external access to the interior of the housing. In a first configuration of the waste reception mechanism, un-shredded waste may be received and access from the waste reception mechanism to the interior of the housing is closed. In a second configuration of the waste reception mechanism, access from the exterior of the waste disposal unit into the waste reception mechanism is closed and access from the waste reception mechanism into the interior of the housing is open to permit un-shredded waste to pass from the waste reception mechanism to the shredder mechanism. The waste disposal unit is engaged by a detachable shredder drive mechanism.

Abstract: A document shredder has a housing wall interrupted by an insertion opening of a feed channel for the material to be comminuted. A cutting unit adjoins the feed channel in the insertion direction of the material to be comminuted. A suction-extraction device has an intake end opening into the feed channel and intended for sucking the air stream out of the feed channel. A filter element in the blow-out opening filters out fine dust particles before the suction-extracted air is blown out of the document shredder housing into the surroundings.

Abstract: A twin and multiple motor paper shredder. Each of the motor relays power through respective gear assembly to the first rotary cutter. Each motor operates at a lower power output and have simpler specification than the conventional motor systems. However, when in combine use, the power output from two or more smaller motor are greater than one single larger motor system and the cost are lower. In this way, manufacturer is able to reduce the production cost, and at the same time, increase the stability and reliability of the paper shredder.

Abstract: A paper shredding mechanism has two rows of shredding units rotating in opposite directions. Each unit has a flat body, with a periphery and left and right sides, and at least one piercer projecting from the periphery for piercing and cutting a paper sheet fed between the two rows. The piercer cuts in a first direction, transverse to the paper feeding direction, and has a shearing edge on each of the left and right sides, alongside the periphery. The piercer has a cutting edge which extends across the left and right sides of the body. The shearing edge of each of the units bears laterally against the shearing edge of an adjacent unit. The two shearing edges together act as shears, cutting the paper sheet in a second direction, parallel to the feeding direction.

Abstract: A machine for shredding various materials, such as blocks of plastics, wood residues, cardboard packaging, building materials and so forth, comprising a rotor constituted by a cylindrical roller and a plurality of shredding teeth, arranged in respective slots, which are provided in the surface of the roller and lie on radial planes which are perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the roller, the shredding teeth comprising cutting elements constituted by plates and blocks for fixing the plates and cooperating with stationary teeth arranged in a comb-like arrangement, the plates being arranged directly on the slots provided in the surface of the roller and the blocks being accommodated in cavities shaped like seats for a key, which are formed in the surface of the roller in line with the slots and lie at right angles to them, the blocks being fixed by means of screws so that they can be removed from the seats and protruding from the slots with a portion that acts for the plates as an element for abutment and

Abstract: A pulveriser mill having a rotatable grinding ring and a rotatable port ring around the circumference of the grinding ring co-rotatable therewith, the port ring defining around its 360 degree extent a plurality of openings separated by lands, the openings permitting air to flow from beneath the grinding ring to above the grinding ring, and the lands serving as obstructions to the flow of air from beneath the grinding ring to above the grinding ring, wherein the aspect ratio of the openings is in the range from 1:1 to 3:1.

Abstract: A moveable shaft assembly including a frame, a first shaft, and a first drive assembly. The frame includes a first support wall and a second support wall opposite the first support wall. The first shaft includes a drive end and a support end and defining a first axis therebetween. The first shaft extends between the first support wall and the second support wall. The first drive assembly rotates the first shaft about the first axis, and the first drive assembly is coupled to the drive end of the first shaft. The first shaft and first drive assembly are moveable relative to the frame in response to a reaction force acting on the first shaft in a direction oblique or transverse to the first axis.

Abstract: Comminution apparatus is described which is tailored for the processing of green, soft, and fibrous waste. Inner and outer comminution drums bear projecting macerating features which can progressively interact to provide a shearing action on material on waste within the outer comminution drum. Screening apertures on the outer comminution drum allow for the exit of comminuted material.

Abstract: A blade of the crosscut shredder has the feature that any of a plurality of blades on rotary shafts rotating in opposite directions has a plurality of primary shoots. A plurality of auxiliary shoots are provided in the vicinity of the primary shoot. The distance between the primary shoot and the blade center is slightly larger than the distance between the auxiliary shoot and the blade center. When the blades rotate in opposite directions with the rotary shafts, the auxiliary shoots of any blade on either rotary shaft pushes the paper to be shredded toward the primary shoots on the opposite blade. The primary shoots thus pierce the paper at a lower power.

Abstract: The present invention describes a fiber based milling device for milling particles. The fiber based milling device includes a milling chamber with an inlet and an outlet, and also at least one fiber assembly. The fiber assembly contacts a particle to be milled in the milling chamber. Also disclosed is a method for milling particles by contacting the particles to be milled with a fiber assembly.

Abstract: This invention relates to a shredding device having a driving unit driving a rotor including shredding tools on its periphery which for comminuting a material such as waste material and/or industrial residues, interact with a least one counter knife assembly that is arranged in a stationary fashion with respect to the machine housing during the shredding operation. The shredding device is characterized in that the counter knife assembly includes at least two counter knife bars which run approximately parallel to each other and are arranged one above the other in the rotating direction of the rotor, the counter knife bars, for the compensation of wear at the shredding tools and/or at the counter knife assembly, being arranged for an adjustment radially to the rotor axis by a mutually different degree by means of an adjustment device. A process for operating a shredding device is also described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roller press comprising at least two rotatably mounted, counter-rotating rollers, separated by a roller nip, wherein at least one roller is driven by a gear. According to the invention, a coupling is situated between the gear and the driven roller or rollers. The advantage of the invention is that it provides a connection between the drive and the milling roller which permits simple, rapid disassembly and assembly of the connection between the shaft and the drive.

Abstract: The roller mill according to the invention substantially comprises a rotatable grinding table, at least one grinding roller which is retained rotatably on a pivot lever and which is in rolling engagement with the grinding table, the pivot lever being pivotable about a pivot lever axis, and at least one drive train which is connected to the grinding roller and which has a fixed motor and a fixed gearing mechanism. The drive train further has a gearing mechanism which pivots with the pivot lever and/or the grinding roller.

Abstract: A screen and grinder assembly including a frame, a grinder unit removably coupled to the frame, and a screen unit coupled to the frame. The screen unit is configured to divert solids suspended in a liquid stream to the grinder unit for grinding thereby.

Abstract: An apparatus for shredding animal carcasses has a pair of counter-rotating shafts, each of which supports a stack of alternating pug tooth elements and untoothed spacers of about the same thickness so that the pug tooth elements intermesh. Each pug tooth element has a base circle and a tooth with a forward rake, which tooth extends substantially beyond the base circle of the element. Carcasses are fed into the apparatus while the shafts are rotated by a drive mechanism, producing a shredded material which may be composted above ground.

Abstract: A material shredder including an elongate rotor including distributed, outwardly projecting cutting teeth having cutting edges collectively defining a rotor cutting profile, and an elongate bed-knife disposed operatively adjacent the rotor and possessing distributed cutting edges collectively defining a bed-knife cutting profile which meshes complementarily with the rotor cutting profile with rotation of the rotor, these two profiles collectively defining an elongate shredding interface wherein there are certain reverse-facing, mutually facing, respective cutting edges in the teeth and bed-knife that face, respectively, toward and away from the rotor.

Abstract: The invention presents a beating technology of used paper processing apparatus of furniture size, capable of preventing leak or disclosure of confidential information, personal information or any other information securely and capable of holding a high confidentiality, that can be installed not only in a large office, but also in a small shop or general household. In the beating process of the beating unit in the used paper processing apparatus of furniture size, by using at least one grinder having beating action surfaces disposed oppositely across a tiny beating gap, and a pair of beating disks rotating relatively, the beating gap of the beating action surfaces is controlled or adjusted to be narrower gradually from the beginning till the end of the beating process. As a result, a smooth and efficient beating operation is realized from the beginning till the end of the beating process.

Abstract: In order to manufacture the compound powder or the porous granulated substance in an efficient manner, a powder processing apparatus has an accumulating face on which the processing target powder is to be accumulated and a processing face disposed in opposition to the accumulating face and convexly curved, and a moving means for moving the accumulating face and the processing face along the accumulating face relative to each other. The apparatus comprises an excitement treatment means capable of applying an excitation energy to the processing target powder accumulated on the accumulating face from an excitation energy supplying portion disposed in opposition to the accumulating face or an oscillation means for oscillating the accumulating face or the processing face in a direction intersecting the accumulating face.

Abstract: A cordless electric condiment grinder includes a hollow housing elongated to extend between a base for supporting the grinder uprightly and an opposing top, the top of the housing having a bulbous form to define a condiment reservoir. A rotary grinding mechanism is disposed in a lateral opening in the top of the housing and a tilt switch controls operation of the grinding mechanism, allowing freshly ground condiment to be dispensed automatically upon rotating the grinder through an acute angle and thus is particularly suited for use by people with limited dexterity.

Abstract: A waste comminuting device includes a comminuting housing (1), a rotor (2) provided with a plurality of protruding peripheral knives, stationary counterblades supported by the comminuting housing, the minimal distance separating each knife from each associated counterblade, during the passage of the knife opposite the counterblade, being equal to an operating clearance, called the cutting size. For each knife (3, 4, 5, 6) and for at least one direction of rotation of the rotor, at least two non-aligned counterblades (7 and 11, 8 and 12, 9 and 13, 10 and 14) associated with the knife are adapted so that the distance separating the leading edge (45) of the knife and the leading edge (48, 56) of a counterblade at the moment when the leading edge of the knife opposes the leading edge of the counterblade, is different from one counterblade (7-10) to another (11-14).

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of cooling hot material having different particle sizes that has been heat treated in a kiln. The material is first passed through a cooling apparatus, after which it is delivered to a screening apparatus for screening out smaller material below a pre-determined fineness and transporting larger material above such pre-determined fineness to a crushing apparatus. The larger material is crushed and is delivering back to the cooling apparatus for further cooling. It is a feature of the invention that the cooling apparatus, screening apparatus and crushing apparatus have a common environment, that is, they are all enclosed within the same housing.

Abstract: A coarse material comminution machine 1 comprises a rotor 2 fitted with blades 4 and a stator body 3 located on the stator side with at least one blade 5 adjustable by means of a control device 11 in the direction towards the rotor 2 and in the direction away from the rotor 2. The control device has an adjusting slide 12 that is movable relative to the rotor 2 as well as an activating device 13 for the movement of the adjusting slide 12 in the direction towards the rotor 2 and in the direction away from the rotor 2. The blade 5 is kinetically coupled to a movement of the adjusting slide 12. The blade 5 is connected to the adjusting slide 12 by one or several coupling members 14 connectible to the adjusting slide 11 and the blade 5 in form-fitting and detachable fashion.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cutting blades for shredders. Specifically, this invention teaches cutting blades, cutting blade assemblies, and a rotary cutting assembly which reduce the power needed to shred paper, plastic, and other forms of media that hold information. This is accomplished by creating a cutting blade with at least three adjacent teeth. The formation of three or more adjacent teeth more readily tears through paper and other media thus reducing the amount of power necessary to drive a shredder. This invention further discloses light weight cutting blades which require less material to manufacture, thus saving both materials and cost.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cutting blades for shredders. Specifically, this invention teaches cutting blades and a rotary cutting assembly which reduce the power needed to shred paper, plastic, and other forms of media that hold information. This is accomplished by creating a cutting blade with at least three adjacent teeth. The formation of three or more adjacent teeth more readily tears through paper and other media thus reducing the amount of power necessary to drive a shredder.

Abstract: An adjustment mechanism for a rotary disc chipper apparatus includes an axially displaceable shaft attached to a chipper disc, at least one gear disposed in relation to the axially adjustable shaft and a drive member engageable with the at least one gear to produce axial movement of the axially displaceable shaft and the chipper disc.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutter knife (8), a cutter head disk (1) and a system including the inventive cutter head disk and the inventive knife, wherein the cutter knife includes a longitudinal bore enabling only one cutter knife to be arranged on the cutter head disk, the longitudinal bore thereof being compatible with the pin. The scaling on the longitudinal bore makes it possible to verify the position of the cutter knife in relation to the cutter head disk.

Abstract: The invention provides a crusher rotor for which the influence of centrifugal force is minimal, the hammer is compact, and the load on the attachment bolts can be reduced. A notch 16b is provided in an attachment plate 16 so as to take a force of a hammer tip 22, directed in a radial outward direction of a rotor 1, and a protrusion 22b for engaging with the notch 16b is provided on the hammer tip 22.

Abstract: A chipping apparatus includes a housing arranged about an axis of rotation and, for accomplishing the chipping, a chipping system within the housing rotating in a predefined direction about the axis of rotation. The chipping system has first chipping tools and second chipping tools that move relative to one another during the course of rotation and thereby form a circular or ring-shaped chipping zone through which air flows. The fed material is introduced into the housing in the axial direction, supplied in the radial direction to the chipping tools, and after chipping is drawn out of the housing as chipped material tangentially through an outlet. The geometry of the housing is defined by a first coordinate system with the primary axes X1 and Y1, which intersect at right angles in the center point M1 of the housing and of which the primary axis Y1 is arranged perpendicular to the tangential outlet direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for making hydrogen storage powder by hydride comminution which includes a hydride reactor with at least one chamber for tumbling powder.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for separating and processing solid waste, often but not necessarily from municipalities (and so will be generically referred to herein as municipal solid waste or “MSW”), into useful products, and for reducing biohazards and putrid odors derived from MSW. The MSW is loaded into an elongated, generally cylindrically shaped rotating pressure vessel and is subjected to heat and pressure by the application of steam in specified amounts to break down the organic portion of the MSW into a cellulose feedstock, or a de-manufactured paper product, of uniform particle size and density. This product is then easily separable from other constituents of MSW, such as glass, aluminum and other metals, and plastics. The recyclables are recovered and sold in the market. The waste water from the process is reduced by processing through a water vamping apparatus.

Abstract: Tooling parts such as cutting knives, bearings, gears and the like are constructed from advanced wear ceramics and fiber reinforced polymer material. The cutting knives are constructed from a plurality of ceramic blades molecular bonded or embedded in a support of reinforced polymer material. The resulting cutting blades are light in weight, inert to chemical attack, and maintain their sharpness during the processing of various materials such as plastics, wood, paper, cardboard and the like.

Abstract: A method of making feedstock from material supplied in rolls of flexible sheet material which comprises the steps of creating a pluri-layer web of "n" different layers of sheet material, each layer being selected with regard to some known parameter property of the sheet material whereby the pluri-layer web has an aggregate value of the selected parameter which lies within a chosen range of values of said parameter property. Conveniently the feedstock is created by disintegrating the pluri-layer web to create a mass of comminuted pieces of sheet material.

Abstract: The cutting cylinder of a forage harvester is provided with a plurality of fragmenting bars interspersed between the circumferentially spaced apart knives of the cylinder. Each of the fragmenting bars has a generally radially outwardly projecting portion that terminates in an outermost, serrated margin located inwardly adjacent the extremity of the cylinder as defined by the cutting edges of the knives during rotation thereof. Such serrations of the bars present rasping teeth that abraid, fracture and fragment crop cuttings produced by the knives so as to provide more uniformly sized, finer crop fragments and cracked kernels for the production of high quality silage.

Abstract: A machine for comminuting clay stock. The machine includes a rotating body and a plurality of cutter blades attached to the body for rotation therewith. Clay stock is directed onto the body by a feed hopper. A non-rotating crowder mechanism is associated with the cutting blades to crowd portions of the clay stock against the rotating cutter blades whereby particles of clay are cut from the clay stock. A plurality of upwardly extending lugs are attached to the body for rotation therewith. A plurality of teeth members are attached to the crowder mechanism for coacting with the lugs to prevent rocks and the like from being crowded against the cutter blades.