Abstract: An absorbent product manufacturing apparatus including a pulp feed mechanism (2) for feeding a pulp sheet along a lower surface of a pulp guide part (2411) and a pulp crushing mechanism (3) for crushing the pulp sheet from the pulp feed mechanism (2). The pulp crushing mechanism (3) crushes the pulp sheet with a first crushing cylinder (312) and a second crushing cylinder (322). The crushing cylinders are disposed so as to be inclined with respect to a direction of feeding the pulp sheet. This reduces the force necessary to draw the pulp sheet in the feeding direction and suppresses an increase in the movement speed of the pulp sheet in crushing a rear end portion of the pulp sheet. As a result, it is possible to increase the amount of crushed pulp to be generated in a unit time and to maintain uniformity in the quality thereof.

Abstract: A roller press which is used, in particular, for material bed comminution and into the material feed hopper of which both coarse-grained material, such as, for example, fresh material, and fine-grained material, such as, for example, recirculated grits from a downstream sifter and/or, for example, fly ash, are introduced, wherein the stability of the material bed or grinding bed and therefore a high grinding efficiency are ensured despite the considerably different grain size and grain distribution in the two material flows to be drawn into the roller nip. A pressure screw which conveys the fine material under pressure is inserted into the material feed hopper through at least one fine-grain inlet opening in the hopper, a nozzle-like outlet, in particular a flat nozzle, of the pressure screw extending into a central region of a material draw-in of the press roller nip.

Abstract: A movable filter system is provided for moving one or more filters of a filter assembly between an operative position and a maintenance position. In one embodiment, a filter assembly is secured to a telescoping rod assembly so that it may be moved between operative and maintenance positions. Positioning the rod assembly vertically allows gravity to move the rod assembly to an extended position, and a winch and cable may be used to move the rod assembly to a retracted position. Keyways and channels may be used within the rods of the telescoping rod assembly so as to maintain rotational positioning of the filter assembly.

Abstract: In order to simplify the assembly and to achieve an improved compaction, the unit for compacting hollow bodies, for instance for non-returnable bottles, comprises a roller which can be driven, (1) featuring a plurality of protruding elements and a non-driven counter bearing (9?, 9?, 9?) with at least one recess, and is constructed in such a manner that the protruding elements, upon rotation of the roller, temporarily and at least partly engage with the recess and a deflector (6) which is downstream from the counter bearing in a rotational direction of the operated roller. Said deflector features at least one recess in which the protruding elements of the roller (1) temporarily engage during operation, at least partially.

Abstract: Shredding devices and methods are disclosed for automatically feeding multiple sheets of paper to be simultaneously shredded. The shredding devices include an auto feed portion for receiving and advancing the paper to be shredded. Certain examples include a paper feed tray and an auto feed assembly having a rotatable elongated shaft and a plurality of disks disposed thereon. As the elongated shaft rotates, the plurality of disks engages a stack of paper present in the feed tray and advances multiple sheets of the stack of paper to shredding blades. Certain feed trays are further configured to fold into a top portion of the housing during non-use and can advantageously protect the auto feed assembly. Certain shredding devices further include at least one feed slot for receiving material manually fed into the shredding device by the user.

Abstract: True zero-clearance cutting on a commercial scale is provided via a cutting area including a sacrifice material that is relatively softer than the cutter. One example is a cutting system which is capable of cutting a material such as, for example, tape or paper, into a fiber or powder. The cutting system includes a cutting blade, typically a rotary cutter, and a sacrificial plate or round bar contacting the cutting blade. The contacting portion has a zero clearance during the cutting operation. A metering mechanism is also provided which is capable of metering the material at a predetermined rate to the cutting blade. A mechanism is also provided for incrementally moving the sacrificial blade towards the cutting blade to ensure that the zero clearance is maintained between the cutting blade and the sacrificial plate, even when the sacrificial plate begins to wear down due to usage.

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.

Abstract: An improved two roll sugarcane crushing mill has two roll mill modules in tandem, each has a pair of main crushing rolls having a bottom roll and a top roll. The bottom and top rolls are rotatingly mounted in a pair of main frames and a pair of top beams at the two ends respectively. One end of each of the top beams is pivotally attached near an upper end of the main frames towards a feed side for swinging the top beams along with the top roll. At least one feeder roller is provided with a scraper-cum-deflector with a juice drainer in the close proximity of the main crushing rolls. The feeder rollers are mounted on an auxiliary frame which is mounted on the main frame to adjust the loading the feeder roller in a desired position.

Abstract: A cutting system for cutting elongate bands of material is provided. The cutter includes a cutter and a motor connected to the cutter for rotatably driving the cutter. A tube surrounds the cutter at a predetermined spacing from the motor, the tube including an opening having a bladed portion, the bladed portion and tube being of unitary construction. The cutter and bladed portion are immediately adjacent for cutting segments from a band of material disposed between the cutter and bladed portion.

Abstract: True zero-clearance cutting on a commercial scale is provided via a cutting area including a sacrifice material that is relatively softer than the cutter. One example is a cutting system which is capable of cutting a material such as, for example, tape or paper, into a fiber or powder. The cutting system includes a cutting blade, typically a rotary cutter, and a sacrificial plate or round bar contacting the cutting blade. The contacting portion has a zero clearance during the cutting operation. A metering mechanism is also provided which is capable of metering the material at a predetermined rate to the cutting blade. A mechanism is also provided for incrementally moving the sacrificial blade towards the cutting blade to ensure that the zero clearance is maintained between the cutting blade and the sacrificial plate, even when the sacrificial plate begins to wear down due to usage.

Abstract: A shredding machine includes a housing which defines a passageway through which a sheet of material to be shredded may pass, a punching mechanism comprising a plurality of punch members, a mechanism to move the punch members from a retracted position in which the punch members are spaced from the passageway to an advanced position in which the punch members extend through the passageway, and a feeding mechanism for feeding the sheet of material through the punching mechanism so that repeated movement of the punch members between the retracted and the advanced positions effects shredding of the material. A method of shredding sheet material comprises feeding a sheet of material to be shredded past a punching mechanism and repeatedly punching the sheet material so as to shred the entire sheet.

Abstract: True zero-clearance cutting on a commercial scale is provided via a cutting area including a sacrifice material that is relatively softer than the cutter. One example is a cutting system which is capable of cutting a material such as, for example, tape or paper, into a fiber or powder. The cutting system includes a cutting blade, typically a rotary cutter, and a sacrificial plate or round bar contacting the cutting blade. The contacting portion has a zero clearance during the cutting operation. A metering mechanism is also provided which is capable of metering the material at a predetermined rate to the cutting blade. A mechanism is also provided for incrementally moving the sacrificial blade towards the cutting blade to ensure that the zero clearance is maintained between the cutting blade and the sacrificial plate, even when the sacrificial plate begins to wear down due to usage.

Abstract: A sewage cleaning and comminuting system is provided with a pair of dissimilar sized cutter stacks that extends across an influent channel which intercepts all solids too large to pass there through. The dissimilar sized cutter stacks are capable of grinding large and round shaped objects. The cutter stacks rotate at dissimilar speeds and require less energy to grind solids than other grinders having similar sized grinders rotating at the same speed. The system includes an integrated cleaning assembly whereby debris accumulated between the cutter disks is removed as the cutter disks rotate. Embodiments are provided including grinders that employ three and four shafts. Another embodiment is directed to an improved cutter disk. Yet another embodiment includes an auger screen assembly used in conjunction with the comminuting system to remove solids from the effluent stream.

Abstract: A disk data destroyer comprises a housing, a data destroying shaft set, a motor driver and a sensor. The housing is provided with a hollow receiving chamber, a disk insertion slot and a disk outlet opposite said insertion slot. The sensor is mounted inside said housing adjacent to said disk insertion slot and adapted to output a driving signal to start said motor driver to drive the data destroying shaft set to rotate upon insertion of a data storage disk into said disk insertion slot such that the inserted disk is pressed by the data destroying shaft set so as to destroy storage data thereof.

Abstract: A machine for harvesting forage including in particular a cutting mechanism and a device for treating the cut products. The treatment device includes at least two ribbed rollers which are driven in rotation by a transmission. The transmission includes at least one flexible element which collaborates with a driving member and driven members which are mounted on shafts which drive the rotation of the rollers. At least one of the driven members is mounted on its shaft by a freewheel configured to transmit rotational movement from the driven member to the shaft in just one direction.

Abstract: In order to further develop a circuit grinding apparatus with a roller mill or roller press for material bed disintegration of granular material and with at least one integrated sifter, where the mill and the sifter are disposed within two stationary side walls between which a material conveyor ring is rotatably seated and can be set into rotation for an internal circulation of material in such a way that the rotatably seated material conveyor ring, which has a very large diameter and rotates in operation, is as light as possible and the rotary actuator is configured as simply as possible, it is proposed in accordance with the invention to dispose around the bottom circumferential area of the material conveyor ring more than two, for example four rolls supporting the ring on the bottom, where two adjacent bearing rolls in circumferential direction of the ring are positioned at the ends of at least one common rocker lever which, in turn, is supported on the machine frame via a tilting joint.

Abstract: This fiber chopper overcomes the disadvantages of the previous cutting rollers for chopping continuous filaments. The apparatus includes a means for feeding continuous fibers to a chopping roller. A spring holds the cutting blades on the chopping roller. The filaments pass between the chopping roller and a feed roller for chopping.

Abstract: In a pull type forage harvester which travels forwardly in a field to pick up crop material and feed it into a housing having a cutterhead with knives rotatable around a transverse axes. The cutterhead chops the crop material and deposits it in a transverse trough having an auger which carries the crop to a lateral discharge location. The improvement comprises a corn processor adapter to which chopped corn is conveyed over a floor to an upper and a lower roll rotatable on axes parallel to the cutterhead. The rolls form a bite to receive the corn and pass it between them to crush the kernels therein. The upper roll is positioned close to the cutterhead knives and in crop stripping relation thereto. The lower roll is positioned over the auger to hold down chopped corn thrown upwardly out of the trough.

Abstract: A materials grinder includes a rotary grinding drum and a shear bar cooperating with the grinding drum to grind various types of materials. The shear bar is mounted on a pivotal structure adjacent the materials grinding drum. A displaceable biasing member biases the pivotal structure toward the grinding drum to maintain the shear bars in close cooperating relationship therewith. If ungrindable materials are encountered, the pivotal structure pivots away from the grinding drum against the bias force of the biasing member to permit the ungrindable materials to pass between the grinding drum and the shear bar. Once the ungrindable materials pass, the biasing member moves the pivotal structure back toward the grinding drum. Materials to be ground are fed to the grinding drum by means of an infeed conveyor and an overhead infeed roller.

Abstract: In a forage harvester having a mechanically driven front attachment and hydrostatically driven compression rollers, the front attachment can be disconnected from its mechanical drive and instead connected with a hydrostatic drive of the compression rollers so as to be driven by the hydrostatic drive.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for comminuting solid waste material into small pieces having a size less than a predetermined size is disclosed. A set of overlapping scissor rolls are rotatably mounted within an enclosure for shearing the waste material into subdivided pieces when the material passes between the scissor rolls. An entrance for receiving the material has: (1) a shear intake manifold communicating with the entrance for receiving the solid waste material upstream of the scissor rolls and directing the waste material to the scissor rolls, and (2) a shear outtake manifold downstream of the scissor rolls for receiving the subdivided waste material pieces from the scissor rolls after the material has passed between the scissor rolls. A feed roll is carried by the frame for feeding the waste material into the shear intake manifold at a desired line speed and directing the waste material to the scissor rolls. A separator screen separates large and small subdivided pieces.

Abstract: A coffee mill providing for mixing of coffee beans in different ratios includes a bin partitioned in the middle to form two chambers holding two different types of coffee beans. An outlet in the bottom center of the bin leads to a coffee grinder. This central outlet is surrounded by a base cylinder having a side opening leading to each chamber of the bin. The cylinder is covered by a cylindrical closure cap, also partially open on the side. The cap can block both chambers of the bin, one chamber, or provide partial blocking to one side and none to the other, thus allowing the user to adjust the ratio of different coffee beans by rotating the cap. The bin interlocks with the housing of the grinder, but can be disengaged for removal. The cylindrical closure cap is positioned to block the outlet from both section of the bin when the bin is to be removed.

Abstract: A forage harvester is provided with a front unit, comprising a rotatable cutterhead to which crop material is fed by stationary lower feedrolls and movable upper feedrolls. The latter are journalled in a pair of bearing housings, connected to load arms, which are linked to crank arms pivotally attached to a feeder frame. Each load arm has a protruding member to which a spring is attached for compressing incoming crop material to an even mat. The springs also push the upper feedrolls rearwardly to compensate the reaction forces from the material flow and prevent excessive wear of the feedroll axles at their passage through the feeder frame.

Abstract: A revolving trommel situated adjacent to a shredder has an annular screen which intercepts oversized or elongated fragments in the outflow from the shredder for return to the shredder. A first fragment guide directs the shredder outflow into the trommel and vanes in the trommel lift the oversized fragments to another fragment guide which extends out of the trommel to the shredder intake. In the preferred form, the trommel rests upon and is turned by a motor driven flexible continuous belt which carries fragments that pass through the screen upward to an elevated discharge chute. The apparatus is particularly useful for fragmentizing sterilized medical wastes.

Abstract: A forage harvester is provided with a rotatable cutterhead (9), a solid cylindrical grinding stone (15), a motor (33) for moving the stone (15) along a path adjacent the cutterhead (9) and an adjustment mechanism for moving the stone (15) towards the cutterhead (9). During the final stage of the sharpening cycle the stone (15) is automatically moved along the path at a substantially lower speed in order to improve the finishing of the cutterhead (9), such that the shearbar (11) can be adjusted closer to the rotating cutterhead (9).

Abstract: A horizontal comminuting machine for reducing recyclable waste wood and other comminutable material which may have non-reducible foreign objects incorporated with it has a generally horizontal rotary drum mounting a plurality of peripherally spaced communinuting tools traveling in a continuous work contacting path. A feed works delivers material forwardly to the rotating drum in a longitudinal feed stream and to a lead anvil which, under undue operating pressure, withdraws from an operative position adjacent the path of the tools to a removed position. An anvil confining assembly on the machine frame controls the travel of the anvil. Rearwardly of the lead anvil, individual anvils are mounted to cooperate with the tools to further reduce the material.

Abstract: A device and method for both liberating rubber from other parts of a tire, and cutting the rubber and other parts to an appropriate size for recycling.

Abstract: A chopper has a rotatable cutting tool provided with a plurality of cutting teeth, a stopping body having a surface which faces the cutting teeth and guides the chopping product. The surface extends substantially in an axial direction of the cutting teeth and is arranged at a distance from the cutting teeth. The cutting teeth during a cutting process are in operative connection with the chopping product. A rotatably supported pressing roller which is arranged in a distance-free manner relative to the cutting tool and forms a gap between the pressing roller and the cutting tool, while the stopping body having a working side which extends in the gap between the pressing roller and the cutting tool.

Abstract: A waste paper processing system includes an upper shredding portion and a lower compressing portion. The shredding portion includes to horizontally parallel shafts mounting thereon a plurality of circular blades. The shafts are rotated to spin outwardly of a space between the shafts from a paper feeding direction. Presser arms are provided for retaining paper from above during shredding and stopper arms and a filter portion are provided below the blades to assure the paper is shredded sufficiently. After shredding the paper falls into a hopper and is introduced via a rotor to the compression portion. In the compression portion a screw is rotated for urging the shredded paper into a compression tube the tube as a narrower portion at the lower end for assuring sufficient compression of the shredded paper. In addition, water is added to the shredded paper in the upper side of the compression tube for binding the shredded paper together as pulp.

Abstract: Two rolls are mounted to a frame and rotated about spaced parallel axes by electric motors operating through speed reducers. Each roll has a surface formed of uniformly spaced, circumferential extending triangular grooves and ridges defined between grooves. The ridges of one roll are closely spaced from the grooves of the other roll to define a sinuous nip therebetween. A vibrating conveyor orients wood strands and feeds the strands to the nip with the grain of the strands parallel to the roll ridges and grooves. Wood chips have low strength transverse to the direction of the grain and, thus, when forced to flex by the interdigitating ridges and grooves of the opposed rolls, split into narrower strands.

Abstract: To reliably sterilize hospital refuse in a quantities and configuration in which it occurs on its collection, the plant includes a refuse loading device, a shredder, a motorized screw for refuse conveying, a microwave oven and a device for removing the treated refuse upon its exit from the oven.

Abstract: A coffee mill with two bins for holding two types of coffee. The bins slope downwardly and inwardly to provide two adjacent bin outlets. These outlets feed into the entrance to a coffee grinder. A slider plate and a baffle plate are slidingly mounted between the outlets and the entrance, and can be used to close the outlets altogether or to partially or entirely close all of one outlet, leaving the other outlet open. The slider plate removably interfits with the baffle plate so that moving the baffle plate causes both plates to slide together, in order to determine the coffee mix. When the two plates are in the position in which the slider plate covers both bin outlets, the slider plate fits within and is carried by a supporting frame proximate to the outlets. As a result, the bin and the slider plate can be lifted, and the slider plate will seal the bin outlets and prevent spillage of the coffee beans remaining in the bins.

Abstract: According to the present invention a crushing mechanism having at least two pairs of co-acting rollers, each roller having a hub with a plurality of teeth extending from a circumference thereof, the pairs of rollers being mounted in open cage fashion and characterized in that each tooth is, at least at its outermost position, in the form of a flat plate angled relative to a radius of the hub with an edge lying parallel with a roller axis, the rollers at their closest positions having plates on one in spaces between plates in the other, the plates of the at least two pairs of co-acting rollers comprising a means for crushing without scraping material in the crushing mechanism, the angle of each plate is substantially the same angle which would be present on a face of a gear tooth between co-acting rollers having gear teeth for crushing material.

Abstract: Apparatus for fragmentizing objects recovers and reprocesses oversized fragments. A shredder is encircled by an annular trommel revolving about a horizontal axis of rotation and which extends over the shredder intake hopper and below the fragment outlet. Fragments which are too large to pass through apertures in the trommel are carried upward by vanes on the trommel and returned to the intake hopper. In one form of the apparatus, a fragment guide has a curved surface extending along at least a lower portion of the trommel and which is spaced from the trommel to allow small fragments to pass through the trommel apertures. Cleats on the trommel urge such fragments towards a fragment discharging end of the guide. Thin elongated fragments which attempt to pass through a trommel aperture are stopped by the presence of the guide and thus are also carried upward and returned to the intake for further processing.

Abstract: A mobile self-contained scrap fragmentizer for reducing light scrap metal structures into small pieces of scrap metal. The apparatus includes an apparatus housing having a scrap-receiving opening for receiving the metal structures to be fragmentized, and a discharge opening for discharging fragmentized pieces of scrap metal. The apparatus is attached to a vehicle having a source of hydraulic power. A feed roller and fragmentizing rotor are powered by the source of hydraulic power for feeding metal structures in the scrap-receiving opening into the apparatus housing and for fragmentizing the metal structures into small pieces of scrap metal. The fragmentized metal structures are discharged through a discharge opening in small pieces ready for further processing.

Abstract: A scrap fragmentizer for reducing light scrap metal structures into small pieces of scrap metal. The apparatus includes an apparatus housing having a scrap-receiving opening for receiving the metal structures to be fragmentized, and a discharge opening for discharging fragmentized pieces of scrap metal. The apparatus is attached to a vehicle having a source of hydraulic power. A feed roller and fragmentizing rotor are powered by the source of hydraulic power for feeding metal structures in the scrap-receiving opening into the apparatus housing and for fragmentizing the metal structures into small pieces of scrap metal. The fragmentized metal structures are discharged through a discharge opening in small pieces ready for further processing.

Abstract: The manufacture of fine powder from vegetable fiber materials at relatively low cost and without contamination, wherein the manufacturing system involved is equipped with a pressure roller system having a couple of pressure rollers, each having teeth of wave-shaped cross section and teeth bottoms, with both such rollers being placed opposite to each other with a minimal space in between same and arranged for synchronous revolution, and with the present invention comprising such processes as to pressure feed the vegetable fiber raw materials to said pressure roller system to mill the aforesaid raw materials with such pressure roller system, and after multiple repetition of said milling process, to pulverize flaked raw materials resulting from the aforesaid milling process with a flake breaker.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for separating milled sugarcane pith from flattened rind upon discharge from a depithing station. The method includes dividing the discharge by a fixed deflector, preferably with a blunt upstream edge, into a primary pith flow and a rind flow which includes a secondary pith flow, and thereafter removing pith from the rind flow and diverting it to join pith from the primary pith flow. Preferred embodiments capture the pith in interstices of a rotating brush which merges with the secondary pith flow, turning such pith away from the rind flow, and then releasing it.

Abstract: A paper shredder includes a box-like casing, a shredding roller assembly provided in the casing, and an automatic paper feeding device. The shredding roller assembly includes a pair of rotatable shredding rollers and a motor driving unit connected to the shredding rollers. The feeding device includes a tray which is mounted to the casing adjacent to the shredding roller assembly, a rotary shaft which is mounted rotatably on the tray, a tension spring which is connected to the rotary shaft and the tray, and at least one push rod, each of which having two pivotally connected rod sections. A first one of the rod sections is mounted on the rotary shaft, while a second one of the rod sections is provided with a press piece which presses against a stack of paper sheets on the tray.

Abstract: A trash plant stem shredder having vertically stacked pairs of parallel, frictionally engaged contra-rotating uprooting rollers are carried by a frame and towed behind a vehicle. The uprooting rollers are tilted forward such that, when a trash plant stem which remains in the ground after harvesting an agricultural product from the plant, enters the nips of the rollers, the stem is uprooted and moved rearwardly along the frame. A contra-rotating feed roller is disposed rearwardly of the uprooting rollers and in abutting relationship thereto, and feeds the stem to a shredder which includes a plurality of vertically stacked cutter units that longitudinally shear or shred the stem into small sections which are scattered and allowed to biodegrade in the field and fertilize the soil.

Abstract: An infectious waste feed system for comminuting infectious waste and feeding the comminuted waste to a combustor automatically without the need for human intervention. The system includes a receptacle for accepting waste materials. Preferably, the receptacle includes a first and second compartment and a means for sealing the first and second compartments from the atmosphere. A shredder is disposed to comminute waste materials accepted in the receptacle to a predetermined size. A trough is disposed to receive the comminuted waste materials from the shredder. A feeding means is disposed within the trough and is movable in a first and second direction for feeding the comminuted waste materials to a combustor.

Abstract: A flailer for cutting forage-type materials in a feed reel mixer or similar machine has a powered shaft with a plurality of flailing blades swingably mounted in a full helix fashion, and an arcuate hood for directing material into the path of the flailing blades and containing the resulting debris. An intake shield having a resilient flap attached thereto is mounted to the hood at its inlet to prevent undesirably large materials from entering the flailer. Another resilient flap at the outlet side of the hood directs cut materials down onto the auger and helps contain the dust from flailing. A second set of stationary blades mounted on the inside of the hood near its inlet cooperates with corresponding flailing blades to shear the materials in a series of smooth individual cuts, conserving power and reducing vibration.

Abstract: The present invention involves an improvement to a beverage making apparatus in which a slide valve assembly for preventing moisture from seeping into an area holding the solid component of a beverage mix is provided with a finger tab. The tab serves as a grasping device to manipulate the slide valve between open and shut positions and as a deflector of the solid material ejected from the holding area.

Abstract: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for breaking apart tightly compressed and interlocked articles such as plastic bottles into separate individual articles in a form suitable for subsequent processing.

Abstract: A feeding mechanism is for feeding cylindrical containers having a diameter and a major length dimension to a cutting machine and includes a pair of parallel feed shafts centrally disposed above the cutting machine. The feed shafts have parallel axes of rotation for rotation in opposite directions. The feed shafts have a predetermined distance therebetween to provide a predetermined gap between the feed shafts which is greater than the diameter of the cylindrical container. Each of the feed shafts includes a pair of feed discs mounted for rotation therewith. The pair of feed discs on each shaft include corresponding curved sectors which cooperate with corresponding curved sectors of the pair of feed discs on the other shaft for gripping the sides of the container therebetween. Rotation of the shafts toward the cutting machine causes the container entrapped by the corresponding curved sectors to be fed in an end first direction toward the cutting machine.

Abstract: A tire shredder having a stripper plate to prevent feed from wrapping about a shaft on which feeder discs are mounted.

Abstract: In general, paper shredders cut paper into narrow strips, and for such purpose, include narrow, somewhat delicate blades. A paper spreader for receiving shredded paper from a shredder, and compacting and cutting the paper into smaller pieces before distributing the paper pieces to a pile includes an outlet chute for receiving shredded paper from a shredder, an auger inclined upwardly and outwardly from the chute for compacting and conveying shredded paper away from the shredder, a deflector plate at the outer top end of the auger for deflecting paper carried by the auger, and a blade on the deflector plate extending tangentially of the auger shaft for cooperating with a sharpened, upwardly tapering auger flight to shear the paper carried by the auger.

Abstract: In a forage harvester having a motor driven sharpening stone driven back and forth along a path parallel to the axis of a rotating cutterhead to sharpen the knives of the cutterhead, and a door which normally prevents access to the knives, a control circuit is provided for controllig the opening of the door, the movement of the sharpening stone to sharpen the knives, and the closing of the door after the knives have been sharpened. The circuit is controlled by switches located at an operator's control panel and accessible to the operator while he is in the driver's seat of the harvester so that the operator does not have to leave his driving position to accomplish the knife sharpening operation. The circuit includes visual indicators lcoated on the control panel for indicating the status of the circuit during the entire operation.

Abstract: A method and mechanism for controlling the material feed of a machine for chipping wood or brush. The machine has a pair of coacting feed rolls which feed material to be chipped into a rotating chipper that is driven by an engine of variable speed. Hydraulic motors for driving each of the feed rolls are actuated when the speed of the engine is at least a selected high level appropriate for efficient chipping. If the material is of a size or composition to load the engine below a selected low level adverse to efficient chipping, the hydraulic motors are interrupted to stop feeding of the material to allow the engine to return to an efficient chipping speed. When the engine has recovered to at least the selected high level, the hydraulic motors are reactivated to again feed material into the chipper.

Abstract: In a chopper for comminuting stalk-shaped harvested crops, in particular maize, to improve the throughput it is proposed that the cutting drum (10), the press rollers (7) and the post-accelerator rotor (6) have the same width. Preferably, the post-accelerator rotor (6) is arranged directly above the press rollers (7) and, to be precise, in particular on the side on which it can have the same direction of rotation as the cutting drum (10).