Abstract: A scrapped glass pulverizing device includes a vibration crushing device. The vibration crushing device includes a vibration hammer, a vibration generator that controls vibration of the vibration hammer up and down, and a crushing platform arranged below the vibration hammer and supports scrapped glass.

Abstract: Used tires are chopped up in a punch press which progressively punches out areas of each tire lying flat in the press. The tire fragments are conveyed from the press to a collection container. An elevator mechanism may receive four tires stacked vertically, each used tire therein successively fed into the press by a feed mechanism receiving each tire from the elevator mechanism. An on-site enclosure houses all of the components and a container of collected fragments which is accessed for removal through a door in the enclosure.

Abstract: The concrete product recycling machine is transportable to job sites for breaking apart concrete panels and recycling the concrete and the steel reinforcement therein. The concrete panel recycling machine has a conveyor to transport the panels to rest on top of an anvil. The anvil supports the panel for a hammer to engage the panel on the anvil such that the energy imparted by the hammer is reflected by the anvil and breaks apart the concrete panel. Concrete aggregate produced by the hammer fall onto a conveyor thereunder to transport the concrete for recycling. The hammer may traverse the width of the panel to reach all portions of the surface. The steel reinforcement rods can be sawed into manageable and saleable lengths. The steel can be dropped into a container for removal by scrap dealers.

Abstract: A recycled wood product is formed from wood products originally made from first cut wood. The recycled wood product is formed by removing external fittings, if any, projecting from the original, wood product and thereafter chipping the original wood product into platelets which are thereafter assembled in layers, glued together and then pressed together. Any excess formaldehyde in the original wood product is removed by the addition of urea. Machinery to practice the process includes a chipping tool which chips the original product into platelets as the original wood product is advanced against the chipping tool on a movable support structure.

Abstract: Sheets of defectively manufactured wallboard are loaded in a stack on a conveyor and are advanced intermittently to a shearing station where a shear periodically cuts through the stack to sever successive leading end sections from the stack. Each cut-off leading end section drops into a shredder which reduces the wallboard into small particles and chunks capable of being recycled.

Abstract: A machine for crushing wood pallets having a stationary table with a grid providing vertical passages therethrough, a ram mounting above the table and reciprocable towards and away from the table and having an array of downwardly extending cutters which, when the ram is fully advanced towards the table, extend partially through the table grid, hydraulic cylinder-pistons for alternatively reciprocating the ram towards and away from the table, a conveyor for moving wood pallets onto the table and a collector below the table for collecting broken pieces of crushed wood pallets passing through the table grid.

Abstract: A reciprocating cutting apparatus for cutting living plant material. The cutting apparatus includes a frame. A reciprocating cutting assembly is mounted at one end of the frame for cutting the materials. The frame includes structure for synchronizing the feeding of the materials with the cutting assembly. The living plant material is fed into the cutting assembly in the upward stroke and held still on the downward or cutting stroke. The cutting assembly can be adjusted for cutting the desired strip width of living plant material. The cutting apparatus further includes structure mounted on the frame which applies pressure to the living plant material just prior to the living plant material being cut.

Abstract: An acute-angled wedge, wider than pavement to be broken up and removed, is forced under the pavement to exert a force to lift it off the underlying ground. A heavy, pivoted, and preferably hydraulically driven hammer hits the pavement above the front edge of the wedge and cracks the pavement at every few inches of its length which then slides over the wedge and successive ramps to a second hammer. This second hammer, also preferably hydraulically driven, has a saw-tooth impact surface profile which renders the cracked pavement and any tensile reinforcement material therein into smaller pieces. These smaller pieces are collected into a hopper for periodic transfer to external transportation means, such as a front-end loader, for ultimate disposal. As pavement is removed and the apparatus moves on, the ground left in its trail is substantially in a condition to immediately receive replacement pavement.

Abstract: Apparatus for pulverizing concrete sheets such as roadways, and for separating reinforcing steel from concrete, having an anvil for positioning under and in supporting relationship to the concrete, a hammer for repeatedly striking the concrete from above, and a drive mechanism for imparting relative movement between the concrete and the anvil and hammer combination.

Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out the process of producing fine iron particles which comprises in combination an endless chain trained about a pair of opposite and spaced drive and driven sprockets and having a plurality of spaced permanent magnets attached to the exposed side of the chain, a non-magnetic chip guide plate positioned above and in parallel to the chain and having a hopper at one end and a chip discharge chute at the other end and a magnetic striking member normally disposed above and spaced from said chip guide plate and connected to a reciprocal impact means to be moved toward and away from said guide plate as the impact means moves reciprocally.