Abstract: A machine for shaving and pressing ice cream, the machine being capable of: obtaining shaved ice cream having a uniform wave shape and roughness or softness desired by an ice cream eater, since a pressing plate is rotated and moved downwards by a rotary motor embedded in a motor fixing case of a shaving and pressing machine body part and the ascending and descending drive of a driving actuator, thereby easily shaving the ice cream contained in a container in multiple stages; and easily extracting soft ice cream by stopping the driving of the rotary motor and pressing semisolid ice cream, contained in the container, by means of the descending of the pressing plate.

Abstract: Rasp systems for controlled milling of cortical, cancellous or combinations disclosed. The disclosed rasp system may provide morselized bone with predetermined particle-size distribution for automatic milling apparatus. The rasp systems comprises a rasp for cutting material and a push surface to effect directing and sweep the material over surface of the rasp for controlled milling material disclosed. The bone-cutting tooth having side cutters disclosed. In addition, radial rasp systems with self-generating centrifugal forces for pushing material against the rasp surface for automatic milling apparatus disclosed. Furthermore, embodiments can include a battery-powered autoclaveable milling apparatuses for automatic milling cortical, cancellous or combinations of bone material utilizing said radial rasp systems disclosed.

Abstract: The present disclosure, in one aspect, relates to a milling apparatus having a cutter housing and feed chute, a rotary cutter, at least partially housed within the cutter housing and in communication with the feed chute, and a feed ram removably positioned within the feed chute for maintaining a workpiece against the rotary cutter. The feed chute and feed ram may be selectively positionable at one of several angular positions with respect to the rotary cutter. In this manner, the force applied by the feed ram on the workpiece is a function of the weight of the feed ram and the angular position of the feed ram with respect to the rotary cutter.

Abstract: Wrapping of twine on a chain and slat conveyor in a bale processor is reduced. The bale processor has a bale chamber, a chain bed forming a bottom of the bale chamber and a disintegrator roller mounted along one side. Driven and idler shafts extend adjacent to opposite first and second sides of the chain bed. Front, middle, and rear sprockets are mounted to front, middle, and rear portions of the shafts, and corresponding front, middle, and rear conveyor chains engage corresponding sprockets. Conveyor slats are attached to the chains. Wrapping of twine is reduced by supporting the shafts only at front and rear ends thereof such that the sprockets and shafts rotate unsupported between front and rear bearings on walls of the bale chamber. Scraper devices can be mounted adjacent to front and rear sprockets to prevent the build-up of twine on the shafts.

Abstract: A bale shredder apparatus may comprise a frame and a bale hopper mounted on the frame and defining an interior bale chamber for receiving a bale to be shredded with a bale feed opening. A bale shredding assembly may be in communication with the bale chamber through the opening to shred a bale in the bale chamber. A side wall of the hopper may be movable away from the primary side wall to permit removal of a bale from the bale chamber. A primary bale movement assembly may move a bale in a lateral direction toward the opening and a secondary bale movement assembly may move the bale in a direction substantially transverse to the lateral direction. A shredding rotor of the shredding assembly may include at least one brace including at least one leg extending outwardly from the outer surface of the rotor.

Abstract: A shredding assembly includes a shredder having a plurality of interspersed, rotational, shredding blades. A shredder block supports the shredder and shredding blades, and further includes a first set of a plurality of vertical counter plates which are intercalated between the blades. Each counter plate has a top surface, and the top surfaces of the counter plates forms a platform. The platform serves to support pieces of a food product during shredding, and helps in the shredding process by providing a pinching action to the pieces of the product when the blades engage the pieces of the product on the platform.

Abstract: A feed system that is configured to more effectively grab and pull brush and tree materials into a chipper is provided. The system of the present disclosure is configured such that a large, heavy tree trunk can be continuously pulled into the chipper. The system includes two feed rollers one above the other in an offset arrangement.

Abstract: An infeed assembly for a wood reduction apparatus that is selectively adjustable to feed waste into a wood reduction mill along different paths. In one embodiment, the infeed assembly includes at least one movable wall segment that is pivotally movable between extended and retracted positions. In the retracted position, the infeed assembly feeds wood waste into the mill along a path perpendicular. In the extended position, the infeed assembly feeds wood waste into the mill along an angled path. The wall segment may include a fixed end that is pivotally secured to the sidewall and a free end that is selectively movable into the infeed path to provide a surface directing the wood waste along an angled path into the mill. The infeed assembly may include two wall segments that are pivotally extendable into the infeed path from opposite sidewall. The two wall segments may pivot from opposite ends.

Abstract: A bale processor (10) of a type that efficiently processes both round and square bales. A bale processor chamber (12) has at least one moveable wall (12b) adjustable between a mostly vertical position suitable to process round bales and at least one less vertical position suitable to process square bales. A floor conveyor (16) is provided at the bottom of the bale processor chamber (12) and is oriented at an angle of eight to sixteen degrees from horizontal to move a bale and bale parts toward a rotor (14) which tears the bale into smaller pieces and throws the smaller pieces out of the bale processor (10).

Abstract: A bale processor apparatus has a bale chamber configured to hold a front bale in the chamber forward of a rear bale in the chamber. A disintegrator apparatus removes shredded material from the front bale and forms a front stream of shredded material moving laterally, and removes shredded material from the rear bale and forms a rear stream of shredded material. An exhaust opening in the bale chamber adjacent to the front bale is oriented such that the front stream passes laterally through the exhaust opening. A conveyor receives the rear stream and carries same forward and moves same into contact with the front stream such that the rear stream is carried out through the exhaust opening with the front stream.

Abstract: A wood chipper includes a motor, a drive shaft, a feed roller, a feed chute, a chipping device 103, a discharge chute, and at least two adjustable legs. The feed roller has a centered horizontal position which is halfway between its minimum and maximum positions. When the feed roller is at its centered horizontal position, the motor, the drive shaft, and the feed roller are all level with one another. When the feed roller is below its centered position, the drive shaft is angled down from the motor to the feed roller. When the feed roller is above its centered position, the drive shaft is angled up from the motor to the feed roller. A plurality of guides maintain the feed roller in a level position. The legs are adjustable independent of one other to different heights. The legs angle outward at their bottom portions, where they are attached to skids.

Abstract: A system for destroying a memory device (e.g., a hard drive) having data stored thereon. The system has a grind chamber with a rotatable grind wheel positioned therein. A pressure arm presses the memory device against the grind wheel as the grind wheel rotates. The rotating grind wheel grinds the memory device into particles from which the data stored on the memory device cannot be recovered. The particles are collected in a receptacle adjacent the grind wheel. The system may include a plurality of guides configured to maintain the memory device in a substantially stationary position relative to the pressure arm as the grind wheel grinds the memory device into particles.

Abstract: A food cutting machine including a base housing a motor, a cover for the base housing a cutting disk, a feeder part joined to the cover, and a feeder mouth which houses a presser to push the food. The presser and food feeder parts are easily removable. Additionally, the presser (4) incorporates a safety lever (15) which activates the power supply switch of the motor (32).

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: Provided are a granular excreta treating material which has high absorbing property and is expected to exhibit disintegrability and aggregativeness, a production method thereof, and an extrusion type compressive granulating apparatus thereof. The granular excreta treating material has absorbing property and is formed by extruding and granulating a raw material via a granulating hole, wherein the granulating hole includes a small diameter hole and a large diameter hole which are continuous to each other in the axial direction of the hole, in which the small diameter hole forms a compression zone, and the large diameter hole forms a non-compression zone, and in which the raw material is compressed at the compression zone, swells at the non-compression zone, and is cut into granules by a cutting blade rotating along an outlet surface of the non-compression zone.

Abstract: A rotary feeder for feeding a particulate material including: a cylindrical housing comprising a feeder inlet, a first feeder outlet, and a second feeder outlet; a rotor mounted in the cylindrical housing including a plurality of substantially impeller blades defining a plurality of circumferentially spaced pockets alignable with the feeder inlet, first feeder outlet, and second feeder outlet, and adapted to sweep a wall of the cylindrical housing as the rotor rotates in the cylindrical housing; a device for rotating the rotor; and a separating screen in the first feeder outlet to substantially prevent oversize material from exiting through the first feeder outlet, wherein each of the plurality of circumferentially spaced pockets will align with the feeder inlet to receive therein a particulate material and an oversize material through the feeder inlet, rotate in the cylindrical housing to align with the first feeder outlet and discharge the particulate material therefrom, and rotate in the cylindrical housin

Abstract: A bale processor, having a support surface for supporting a bale of crop material, a shredding roller positioned at one end of the support surface, the shredding roller having an elongate roller body, the roller body configured to rotate about an axis of rotation, and a feed mechanism positioned on the support surface, the feed mechanism configured for urging the bale towards the shredding roller. The shredding roller includes at least one separating section having at least one impacting member that protrudes outwardly from the elongate roller body, the at least one impacting member configured to impact the bale when the roller body rotates so as to separate the crop material therefrom. The shredding roller also includes at least one conveying section configured to engage a portion of the bale and to direct that portion towards the separating section in a longitudinal direction aligned with the axis of rotation of the roller body.

Abstract: A waste shredder (1) includes at least one loading chamber (3), two or more rotors (4) placed in seats formed in the bottom wall of the loading chamber (3) and a movable hopper (2) sliding above the loading chamber (3) and provided with a reciprocating translational movement. The hopper (2) has two end walls (B, B?) and carries a plurality of stiff vanes (5) placed in the spaces between the rotors (4), the end walls (B, B1) and the stiff vanes (5) protruding downward until they skim the bottom of the loading chamber (3) to press the material (8) to be shredded against the rotors (4). The rotors (4) turn in the opposite direction to the translational movement of the hopper (2) and reverse their direction of rotation when the hopper (2) reverses its direction of translation.

Abstract: A chain driven push arm advances a hay bale along a bed toward an opening including a pair of vertically aligned, spaced-apart idle wheels each including plural radiating blades. As the hay bale advances along the bed, the wheels rotate freely causing the blades to impinge on successive regions of the hay bale to separate a succession of flakes from the hay bale remainder. The bed is mounted on a wheeled truck or vehicle that is towable behind a tractor as the tractor driver remotely selectively operates the push arm to dispense flakes along the ground. An optional, towable conveyor can be used to load the bed with a succession of hay bales.

Abstract: A food processor having a food processing path accessible through a slot in which is received at least one food processing tool removably received within the slot such that food passing along the food processing path is processed by the tool.

Abstract: A shredder head adapted to shred data bearing documents and/or bottles.

Abstract: An apparatus for perforating and deforming containers is equipped with a perforating rotor (6) including sharp perforating elements on an outer circumference for perforating containers in a transport path. The perforating rotor (6) is rotatable about an axis of rotation on a first side of the transport path (4) and oriented transverse to the transport direction (5). A pressing rotor (7) for pressing the containers against the perforating rotor (6) is rotatable about an axis of rotation on a second side of the transport path (4), opposite the perforating rotor (6) and oriented transverse to the transport direction (5) and comprises circumferentially distributed fingers (8) each projecting in a direction radial and circumferential to the axis of rotation of the pressing rotor (7).

Abstract: A hogger and reducing apparatus and considers issues associated with fibrous other materials clogging screening apertures A paddle arrangement having an open framework rotates relative to the screening apertures provided on a drum. Either or both the paddle arrangement and drum may rotate, the resultant action increasing agitation of raw material (being reduced in size by a reducing means) in the vicinity of the screening apertures and also providing a wiping type effect to help clear material from within the apertures.

Abstract: A wheeled chassis to which a stump grinding unit is securely attached that includes a chip collector attached to either the stump grinder or the wheeled chassis and positioned adjacent the trailing edge of the stump grinding wheel. The wheeled chassis includes a duct in fluid communication with the chip collector, and a collection bin positioned adjacent the trailing end and in spaced relation below the duct. The wheeled chassis is adapted for hitched connection to a vehicle. A blower can be positioned within the duct to produce a rearwardly directed air flow to assist in the chip movement towards the collection bin. The collection bin can be positioned on the wheeled chassis or on a vehicle to which the wheeled chassis is attached.

Abstract: A highly efficient pelletizing system for making thermoplastic micropellets includes and extruder for extruding molten thermoplastic into thermoplastic strands. A rotor cuts the strands into micropellets. The rotor has more than four teeth per inch and operates at a very high speed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding element, which comprises a substantially planar fastening frame, and where two or more grinding segments made of grinding ceramic material are fastened to the outer surface of the frame by means of bonding agent. The fastening frame preferably comprises at least one fastening hole, and a fastening bolt is supplied through the hole to fasten the grinding element to the frame of the grinder stone. The invention further relates to a grinder stone, where a grinding surface is formed by arranging a required number of grinding elements according to the invention on the outer circumference of the stone's frame.

Abstract: An apparatus for destroying articles that has a cutter rotatably mounted adjacent a feed opening of a chamber containing articles to be destroyed. A ram is mounted in the chamber and is movable in a first direction toward the cutter. A plate forms the bottom surface of the chamber, and the plate has a plurality of grooves extending in the first direction. A wiper is mounted on the front of the ram, and the wiper has a plurality of teeth located in respective grooves in the plate. Thus, the plurality of teeth in the grooves prevent articles from sliding beneath the ram as it pushes articles into the cutter. In another embodiment, a segmented wiper is mounted on a first side wall, the segmented wiper has a length extending across an irregular upper surface of the ram, the segmented wiper further has a plurality of independently movable wiper teeth that are in substantially continuous contact with the irregular upper surface of the ram.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates a wood chipper including a support frame, a cutter housing supported by the support frame, cutter mechanism positioned within the cutter housing, a feed housing supported by the support frame, and a feed mechanism positioned within the feed housing for feeding a log into the cutter mechanism. A feed table extends outward from the feed housing. The feed table is elevated above ground level and is positioned for supporting the log as the log is fed into the feed mechanism. The feed table has an outer edge located a position opposite from the feed housing. The wood chipper also includes an elongated boom that is mounted on the feed housing and that extends over the feed table. The boom works in combination with a winch including a flexible member that extends over the feed table via support provided by the boom. The boom includes an end guide over which the flexible member passes.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for recycling plastic materials includes the movement of hoppers along cutting edges.

Abstract: An integrated system for diverting and reducing the size of waste materials in an effluent stream comprising a frame having a bottom housing and a top housing and mountable in the stream. A grinder unit is mounted to the frame bottom housing and comprises a cutter assembly positioned in the stream and a drive mechanism coupled to the cutter assembly to rotate the cutter assembly. The drive mechanism may be electric or hydraulic. A diverter unit is mounted to the frame. It may be a single diverter or dual diverters. The diverter unit comprises a cylindrical drum rotating on a stub shaft. It may also be a helical coil. A drive assembly operably couples the drive mechanism to the drum shaft to rotate the cylindrical drum as the cutter assembly rotates. In operation the diverter unit is positioned side by side to the grinder unit to diverts solids in the effluent stream toward the grinder unit for size reduction. Side rails are employed for flow control around both the diverter unit and the grinder unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary grinder with an improved ram and screen. Rotary grinders of the present invention are, for example, used to grind plastic or wood to reduce the size of the material to a desired size. Material to be ground is placed inside a hopper and a ram is used to force the material toward the rotor having a plurality of cutters thereon. The ram does not have to ride in horizontal channels on the sides of the hopper so material does not interfere with or jam the ram. Further, a grooved screen may be employed wherein the screen has a plurality of V-shaped grooves therein in which the cutters travel. This permits the cutters to “clean” the screen so that ground material, for example, plastic, does not block the openings in the screen.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for separating compressed material containing paper fibers where the apparatus includes at least three hammer rollers arranged essentially in a same plane and each hammer roller includes rotatable hammers. The process includes rotating the rotatable hammers, transporting the material over the at least three hammer rollers in a transport direction essentially parallel to the plane and transverse to the axes of the rollers, breaking up the material into fine material and non-fine material, and separating the fine material from the non-fine material by allowing the fine material to pass through gaps formed between the hammer rollers. The apparatus includes a machine frame and a plurality of rotors arranged next to one another in the machine frame. Axes of the driven rotors are arranged to lie in at least one plane, and the rotors are positioned to form free gaps between the driven rotors.

Abstract: A wood chipping apparatus includes a housing having a chipping chamber and an air chamber isolated by a fixed partition wall of the housing. A chipping drum is supported for rotation in the chipping chamber. A fan is supported for rotation in the fan chamber. The chambers have adjacent outlets that communicate with a discharge chute. Wood chips exiting the chipping chamber are received in the chute and are entrained by air issuing from the fan chamber to carry the chips along the chute. A baffle separates the outlets of the chambers and ensures that the air from the fan chamber does not backflow into the chipping chamber through its material outlet.

Abstract: A low shearing curved surface granulator for bulk feed consists of a feeding mechanism and a granulating mechanism; wherein the mainbody of the feeding mechanism is a cylindrical body, the main part of the granulating mechanism is a groove pipe with flanges on both its ends, the groove pipe is longitudinally mounted on the cylindrical body, and the granulator is provided with a ball comber board and a ball scraper. A sector plate is mounted parallel to the cylindrical body on the inner cavity baseplane of the cylindrical body in the feeding mechanism; a driving wheel is set up under the sector plate; a sliding pin is fastened in the driving wheel; the sliding pin fits in with a slide way opened on the sector plate, which slides up and down in the slide way following rotating of the driving wheel, and the sector plate is made to swing repeatedly around the pin in the cylindrical body. The granulator performs massive feeding in one time, can greatly reduce labor.

Abstract: Apparatus for creating wooden shavings for stock bedding from logs which includes a frame supporting a carriage bed and rotary carriage ring. Arcuately spaced rotary cutter means are provided on the carriage bed, and are positioned to contact logs supported on the carriage ring. The carriage ring consists of an annular carriage support ring which supports arcuately spaced log-receiving boxes, so that upon rotation of the annular carriage support ring, logs positioned within the log-receiving boxes are exposed to the cutting action of the rotary cutter means.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates a wood chipper including a support frame, a cutter housing supported by the support frame, cutter mechanism positioned within the cutter housing, a feed housing supported by the support frame, and a feed mechanism positioned within the feed housing for feeding a log into the cutter mechanism. A feed table extends outward from the feed housing. The feed table is elevated above ground level and is positioned for supporting the log as the log is fed into the feed mechanism. The feed table has an outer edge located a position opposite from the feed housing. The wood chipper also includes an elongated boom that is mounted on the feed housing and that extends over the feed table. The boom works in combination with a winch including a flexible member that extends over the feed table via support provided by the boom. The boom includes an end guide over which the flexible member passes.

Abstract: An arrangement in a pulp grinder comprising a grindstone, a feed chute extending to the grindstone, a piston moving in the feed chute, an auxiliary piston and closing members. In the arrangement, there are recesses on the front of the piston and apertures in the auxiliary piston so that the closing members can be pushed from both sides of the feed chute through the auxiliary piston to the recesses of the piston so that they settle behind the wood pressed by the piston.

Abstract: An apparatus for pulverizing a collection of pieces of materials such as vulcanized rubber to create a very fine powder. The apparatus includes a piston and a cylinder which places the material to be pulverized under extremely high pressure of at least 1,000 psi and forcing the compressed material out of one or more exit ports. These exit ports are located at the end of a smoothly narrowed channel leading to the exit ports. A rapidly moving cutter is positioned so that its path completely covers the exit port. The compressible materials are thus compressed to the point where they have no voids and provide a solid incompressible cuttable face. The rapidly moving cutter creates a fine powder at the exit port.

Abstract: A tire shredding machine which does not require the massive amount of machinery required for existing tire shredders and which is safe and simple to use is disclosed. The tire shredding machine of the present invention essentially includes a housing with a safety hood, several wheels, and guide elements or wings. In order to shred a tire, the tire is cut in half and each half is fed into the machine one at a time. The safety hood remains in an open position until the tire is fed into the machine. Once the tire is in the machine, the hood is placed into a closed position, a switch is activated, and the wheels pull the half of the tire into the machine. The tire contacts the guide elements which, in turn, spread out or flatten the tire so that the tire may be fed into a grinder which shreds the tire.

Abstract: A system of processing big refuses such as spring-containing mattresses according to the present invention includes a crushing process for crushing big refuses such as spring-containing mattresses by a single axial crusher capable of crushing them into a certain particle size or less, a magnetic-force grading process for grading iron material by a magnetic-force grader from crushed pieces crushed in said crushing process, and a wind-force grading process for removing light-weight refuses such as fiber adhering to iron material graded in said magnetic-force grading process by a wind-force grader.

Abstract: A machine, a method, and an air-cooled cutting brush for removing tread material for recycling from used motor vehicle tires prior to scrapping or retreading without damaging the tire cords and beads. The tread material is removed as fine particles, or buffings, ready for recycling without subsequent sorting out of cloth or metal. A tire is mounted in an upright position on a tire receiving assembly which expands to grip the tire beads. The tire receiving assembly is mounted on a supporting structure which pivots. An elongate, powered, rotating, cutting brush is mounted on a rolling mounting structure which moves the cutting brush into and out of engagement with the tread on the outer, ground-contacting portion and on the sidewalls of a tire. In operation, the tire is rotated as the cutting brush engages the tread material of the ground-contacting portion, the supporting structure is then pivoted to remove the tread material of one sidewall, and repeated on the opposite sidewall.

Abstract: An apparatus for grating or shredding cheese or like foodstuff, or for storing it in a ready-to-grate or -shred condition. A container is provided within which cheese, or like foodstuff, is mounted or stored on a spring-loaded plate, being captured at the container open end with a grating cap having raised blades on its internal surface in contact with the cheese or like foodstuff, which grate or shred the foodstuff when the grating cap is rotated versus the container, and having holes and perforations through its thickness from which the grated foodstuff exits. The cross section of the container cavity is non-circular and is defined by a multiplicity of contiguous container internal sidewalls, at least one of which is planar. The cross sections of the mounting plate and cheese, or like foodstuff, conform to the container cavity cross section, immobilizing the cheese, or like foodstuff, rotationally with respect to the container.

Abstract: Fiberglass filament waste is cut into segments with an apparatus comprised of a feeder that includes a cutting roller having a rotatable shaft with a plurality of spaced circular cutting blades mounted thereon, and a waste feeder having a discharge opening adjacent said roller for conveying said waste into engagement with the periphery of the blades, the feeder including at first and second spaced surfaces extending from a waste inlet opening to a waste discharge opening, at least one of the surfaces being pivotal adjacent the waste inlet opening to expand the discharge opening under pressure from waste being conveyed between the surfaces. At least one of the surfaces, which may be a surface of a conveyor belt, is moveable toward the discharge opening, while the other surface may be stationary, or move toward the discharge opening. In one embodiment, the lower surface moves toward the discharge opening, while the upper surface moves away from the discharge opening to equalize the volume of waste being fed.

Abstract: A driven opening roll (A) covered with card clothing receives a web (W) over a feed plate (B) which carries a pair of serially arranged feed rolls (C) and (D) for separating fibrous material from the web and removing the fibrous material in a passageway (E) providing air flow progressively increasing in velocity.

Abstract: The tire shredder includes a frame, a conveyor assembly depending from the frame defining a feed path for the tires and debris from an input end to a discharge end, a carriage supported with respect to the conveyor assembly to have a reciprocating linear travel across the linear feed path at the discharge end, and a plurality of rotary cutting elements mounted on the carriage with axes of rotation parallel to the travel of the carriage. By providing a plurality of rotary cutting elements tires coming in a wide variety of sizes can be handled.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for disassociating material such as peat moss from a compressed bale. The apparatus includes a housing having a plurality of substantially vertically stacked agitator assemblies. The agitator assemblies are rotatable in response to an independent hydraulic drive motor attached to one end of the vertical shaft of each agitator spindle partially comprising the agitator assembly. The hydraulic motors are mounted to the exterior of the housing, but receive the aforementioned shafts. A lifting platform is provided within the housing to enable a bale of material to be placed thereon. The lifting platform is hydraulically manipulated such that it may be raised to enable the bale of material to come in contact with the rotating spindles of the agitator assemblies. An exit port is provided in the lowermost portion of the housing to enable the material to be ejected from the housing after it is disassociated from the bale.

Abstract: Apparatus for reducing to particles tread portions and beaded side wall portions of vehicle tires, particularly extra large vehicle tires, or for preparing such vehicle tires for recapping, comprises a tire holder assembly, having a paired set of dual jacks carried by opposite ends, respectively, of elongate, rigid, tire clamping frames, and a rotary, cutter blade assembly made up of a side-by-side series of disks carrying cutter blades of chisel type offset from one another to provide a helically oriented series of such cutting blades. Opposite side and end members of each of the frames provide for clamping corresponding side wall beads of a received tire, while opposite ends of opposite end members of the respective frames, usually clamping corners thereof, span respective chords of the circumferences of corresponding beads of the tire.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for pulverizing into fine powder in one step scrapped difficult to crush plastics of fiber reinforced thermosetting plastics by using a rotating diamond wheel having diamond grits of rough grain size of more than 270 mesh on the outer surface, a pushing unit to press plastic materials against the diamond wheel above and a powder collector.

Abstract: A material feeding system and method generates a specified continuous output from a variable quantity of discrete and separated units of input. The conversion from discrete units of input to a continuous stream of output is facilitated by a dispersing wheel positioned over the conveying apparatus, in a position blocking the advance of the discrete units of input. The dispersing wheel rotates in opposition to the direction of advance of the conveying apparatus, breaking up the units of input and dispersing them along the length of the advancing conveying apparatus. The dispersing wheel has an outer cylindrical surface, with teeth thereon, which teeth engage the material and, in combination with the advance of the conveying apparatus, disperse the material on the conveying apparatus.

Abstract: A disposal system 1 for waste material comprising independently integrated shredding 2, storage 3, and furnace 4 systems. A first transportation system 5, controlled by the shredding system, transports material to the storage system which has capacity that permits repeated shredding cycles with no furnace cycle. A second transportation system 6, controlled by the furnace system, removes material from the storage system at a rate satisfying the output heat demand 7 of the furnace system. The shredder 19 has a hopper 20 with three vertical sides, 9 10, and 11, and a fourth inclined side 12 with a blade 13 at its lowest end. A single rotating member 14 cooperates with the blade. A pusher 15, acting along the inclined side, dislodges any bridging in the hopper. A grate 16 receives the shredded material and cooperates with the rotating member for further shredding. There is a magnetic separator 17.