Arcuate Screen Concentric With Rotary Comminuting Member Patents (Class 241/73)
  • Patent number: 11937555
    Abstract: A stump grinding system that includes a vehicle and a stump grinder adapted to engage with the vehicle. The vehicle has a first end, a second end opposite to the first end, and a longitudinal axis defined therebetween. The stump grinder includes a chassis operably engaged with the vehicle at one of the first end and the second end. The stump grinder also includes a body operably engaged with the chassis and a grinder wheel operably engaged with the body and partially disposed outside of the body from the vehicle. The stump grinder also includes a drive assembly operably engaged with the grinder wheel and the body. The grinder wheel of the stump grinder is configured to rotate in a plane that is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VENTURE PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Roy I. Steiner, Josiah Daniel Ramseyer
  • Patent number: 11857978
    Abstract: A fragmentation system for electrodynamic fragmentation of material contains a feed and an outlet for transporting material along a transport path in a transport direction. At least one high-voltage pulse source is provided, each of the high-voltage pulse sources contains at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode for generating a high-voltage discharge in a discharge chamber. The transport path has a fractionation section, and the fractionation section extends through the discharge chamber. A selection device for selectively extracting the material on the transport path is provided in order to channel material and/or fragments of the material having a diameter smaller than a minimum diameter past at least one portion of one of the fractionation sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Diehl Defence GmbH & Co. KG, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
    Inventors: Robert Stark, Volker Thome, Severin Seifert, Sebastian Dittrich, Christian Bickes, Juergen Urban
  • Patent number: 11819856
    Abstract: A shredder includes a shredder box having first and second opposite end walls, and first and second opposite side walls that extend between the first and second end walls. The shredder further includes a shredder rotor positioned within an interior of the shredder box, an access door that is pivotally moveable, and a control system for monitoring various parameters to operate the shredder. A side access region is defined between the first and second end walls when the access door is in the open position. The side access region provides access to the shredder rotor and includes an open region defined between the first and second end walls at the second side of the shredder. The open region has an open top which is free of obstructions extending between the first and second end walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Vermeer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Michael Jay McCall, Tyler Haden
  • Patent number: 11795614
    Abstract: An apparatus for dispersing or refining organic material includes a rotor shaft extending along a rotation axis, a rotor to be driven to rotate by the rotation axis, and a housing arranged around the rotor shaft and the rotor, the housing having an inlet for receiving the organic material and an outer wall. The housing has a stator disc, and the rotor has a rotor disc, each disc having teeth on a surface that is turned toward the other disc. After organic material has been dispersed by the teeth, the organic material is fed into a dilution zone where the organic material is mixed with dilution liquid introduced through a number of dilution inlets before the mix is fed out of the apparatus via an outlet arranged in the outer wall. The dilution inlets are angled in relation to the radial of the rotation axis, in a plane perpendicular to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Cellwood Machinery AB
    Inventors: Stefan Virtanen, Dan Rombo, Tomas Anarp
  • Patent number: 11707745
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for the separation of a feedstock stream comprising a principle component and at least one secondary component such that at least one component has greater friability that the others using a rotary impact separator. The methods allow the recovery of two or more streams, one rich in the more friable component, and one lean in the more friable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BROADVIEW GROUP INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Carl Paspek, Joseph Edward Bork, Alan Fredrick Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11399692
    Abstract: A dishwashing appliance may include a cabinet, a tub, a spray arm, a fluid pump, an electric motor, a wireless power receiver, and a wireless power transmitter. The tub may define a wash chamber within the cabinet. The spray arm may be movably disposed within the wash chamber. The spray arm may define one or more orifices to direct wash fluid to the wash chamber. The fluid pump may be in fluid communication with the spray arm to motivate wash fluid thereto. The electric motor may be mounted apart from the fluid pump in mechanical communication with the spray arm to direct a spray position thereof. The wireless power receiver may be in electrical communication with the electric motor. The wireless power transmitter may be spaced apart from the fluid pump in operable communication with the wireless power receiver to transmit an electromagnetic field thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: John Edward Dries
  • Patent number: 11389045
    Abstract: A dishwashing appliance may include a cabinet, a tub, a fluid pump, and a wireless power transmitter. The tub may define a wash chamber within the cabinet. The fluid pump may be in fluid communication with the tub for motivating a flow of wash fluid from the tub when activated. The fluid pump may include a fluid impeller rotatably positioned in fluid communication with the wash chamber, and an electric motor in mechanical communication with the fluid impeller to motivate rotation thereof. The wireless power receiver may be in electrical communication with the electric motor. The wireless power transmitter may be spaced apart from the wireless power receiver in operable communication with the wireless power receiver to transmit an electromagnetic field thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: John Edward Dries
  • Patent number: 11219903
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating leather waste includes: a main body having an inlet and an outlet; a sorting unit rotatably installed in the main body and comprising a plurality of treatment parts having processing components to sort leather inserted into the main body through the inlet; and a power unit configured to rotate the sorting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ATKO PLANNING INC.
    Inventors: Jieon Kim, Bong Jin Choe, Kang Gu Lee, Young Hyeon Choe
  • Patent number: 11161122
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a roll film shredding device, and more specifically to a roll film shredding device which rapidly and effectively shreds a long object rolled up into a roll shape, and in particular twists and crumples an object and then performs a shredding operation, thereby effectively shredding an object even though the object is thin, flexible and viscid. The roll film shredding device according to the present invention includes a support frame; an object-to-be-shredded introducing member coupled to the support frame; an object-to-be-shredded twisting unit rotatably installed to the object-to-be-shredded introducing member and performing a twisting operation for an object to be shredded; a rotary driver driving the object-to-be-shredded twisting unit to rotate and perform the twisting operation; and a cutter cutting the object twisted by the object-to-be-shredded twisting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: IDP CORPORATION LTD.
    Inventors: Changbum Kim, Junkyu Park
  • Patent number: 11110465
    Abstract: One aspect relates to a crushing device with a comb system, wherein the crushing device includes at least one crushing roller rotatably mounted in a machine frame with at least one crushing tool arranged thereon, wherein the crushing device comprises at least one counter blade which cooperates with the crushing tool, wherein the comb system includes at least one base comb on which the at least one counter blade is arranged and on which at least one screening element can be arranged as a component of a screening device. The screening device during use at least partly encloses the crushing roller and the screening element is spring-mounted with a suspension on the base comb. The suspension includes an end position limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Doppstadt Familienholding GmbH
    Inventor: Ferdinand Doppstadt
  • Patent number: 11018031
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a cutting dust collection box that collects cutting dust and a cutting dust guide plate that is disposed on the downstream side in a processing feed direction relative to a chuck table and receives cutting water and the cutting dust that flow to the downstream side after cutting to guide the cutting water and the cutting dust to the cutting dust collection box. A cutting dust breaking unit that breaks the cutting dust into small pieces is disposed at a position onto which the cutting dust that flows from a plate-shaped cover drops over the cutting dust guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Ueyama, Kei Katoh
  • Patent number: 10010028
    Abstract: A chopper assembly for a harvester may include a blade reset assembly having an automatic blade reset mechanism configured to apply a force that urges the assembly to pivot about a pivot axis such a blade element supported by the blade reset assembly is biased towards an extended position. In addition, blade reset assembly may be configured to pivot against the force applied by the blade reset mechanism when the blade element is subjected to a sufficient counterfbrce force such that the blade element is moved towards a retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Mark D. Dilts, Nathan E. Isaac, Cooper Wilhelm Linde
  • Patent number: 9308673
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-functional rubbing and separating device, comprising a main body, a rotating axle and lapping blades; wherein a feeding port is disposed on one end of the main body and a discharge port is disposed on another end; the rotating axle and lapping blades are disposed inside said main body; the lapping blades are distributed on outer cylindrical surface of the rotating axle; and multiple through-holes are disposed on an sidewall of the main body. The multi-functional rubbing and separating device herein is added between a flotation tank and a washing tank, which can effectively improve the washing quality for waste plastics, thereby separating waste plastics and impurities more thoroughly and improving the quality of recycled products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Inventor: Yubin Feng
  • Patent number: 9233376
    Abstract: A comminuting rotor is driven by a rotary current electric motor via a non-positive traction drive, wherein said rotary current electric motor is energized by a controlled frequency converter for operating the comminuting rotor at a predetermined rotational speed during the normal operating phase. A degree of slip of the traction drive is determined and monitored and the rotary current electric motor is controlled for being powered off if a first slip threshold value is exceeded. If a predetermined second threshold of the traction drive slip is exceeded, which is below said first slip threshold, for continuing the operation of the comminuting device, the frequency converter is controlled in a slip operating phase for a closed or open loop control of the traction drive slip to a predetermined third slip threshold value and for reducing the torque output from the rotary current electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: VECOPLAN AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Lipowski
  • Patent number: 9144804
    Abstract: A comminuting device for waste products and/or production waste is described that includes a driving device that drives at least one comminuting rotor presenting on the periphery thereof a number of comminuting tools that are fixed to the comminuting rotor, for forming at least one knife bank extending in the axial direction with one directional component The comminuting tools cooperates with at least one counterknife arrangement adapted in its form to the rotation surface of the comminuting rotor equipped with said tools, for disintegrating the material to be processed. Neighboring comminuting tools within a knife bank are arranged adjacent to each other at respectively associated lateral faces and offset to each other on the periphery of the rotor, such that equivalent cutting edges of neighboring comminuting tools have the same distance to the rotor axis and each lie in a plane that runs parallel to the rotor axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Vecoplan AG
    Inventors: Heiko Kessler, Pierre Wiezorek
  • Publication number: 20150115083
    Abstract: A recycling machine comprises a machine body, a rotary mechanism and a cutting wheel assembly. The cutting wheel assembly includes a front cutting wheel and a rear cutting wheel that are coupled with a rotary assembly to rotate in a same direction. The front and rear cutting wheels have respectively front and rear cutters that are arranged in rows and rotated at different speeds in the same direction to shear against each other. The front cutters rotating at a slower speed shear garbage bags first, and the shorn garbage bags are then squeezed in first and second movement spaces formed between first and second filter meshes and the front and rear cutting wheels and carried to the front and rear cutters to be shorn again, such that trashes in the garbage bags fall through first and second meshes of the first and second filter meshes to be collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Da Zhi Yun Enterprise Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsung-Po Hung
  • Patent number: 8979007
    Abstract: A device for comminuting feed material is provided that has a housing including longitudinal walls and transverse walls for accommodating a rotor that rotates about a longitudinal axis. The rotor is equipped about its circumference with processing tools, and has, on its faces, an annular disk, each of which is concentric to the longitudinal axis. Within the housing, at least one screen path extends over a part of the circumference of the rotor, each screen path running at a slight radial distance from the annular disks while forming a seal gap. The feed material is supplied to the rotor through a feed shaft and is directed out of the device via a material discharge extending downstream of the screen path. In order to return material that emerges through the seal gap to the remaining material flow annular disks are each arranged with an axial clearance A from the transverse walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Pallmann Maschinenfabric GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut Pallmann
  • Patent number: 8899503
    Abstract: A scissor type hammer mill, mainly includes an inlet (1), hammers (2), a rotor (3), a screen (9) and a screen carriage (13) thereof, an outlet (7), a hammermill body (8), and a motor (6), and further includes a stationary hammer frame (4) and stationary hammer blades (5) provided on the stationary hammer frame (4). The stationary hammer frame is fixed on the hammermill body, and the stationary hammer blades are fixed on the stationary hammer frame, the stationary hammer blades are mounted in parallel to a rotation plane of the hammers with a distance therebetween. When the material enters into the cavity of the hammer mill, the material form a rotating material ring after being hit by the hammers, and the material is milled once again after the material ring hits the stationary hammer blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Inventors: Xinguo Yu, Qicheng Le, Zheng Yu
  • Patent number: 8844849
    Abstract: A device for comminuting material components includes a housing, at least one rotor that is supported in the housing and has rotor blades and rotor teeth mounted thereon, at least one stator blade that can be supported on the housing, and at least one screen device, which can be moved from an operational state of the comminuting device downward or laterally relative to the housing to a maintenance state, wherein in the operational state the at least one stator blade and the at least one screen device are supported against each other and can be moved together into the maintenance state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventors: Peter Schiffer, Mario Fritz, Egon Tiefnig
  • Patent number: 8820667
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a sieve mill including a basket having a curved inner side for supporting a sieve which rests on the curved inner side of the sieve basket, and two longitudinal edges which are parallel and opposite each other, a material inlet arranged above the sieve and a cylindrical rotor arranged such that it can rotate inside the sieve basket. A longitudinal edge of the sieve is arranged in a first retaining bar having a first positioning recess for receiving the longitudinal edge, and another longitudinal edge is arranged in a second retaining bar having a second positioning recess for receiving the other longitudinal edge, the second retaining bar can pivot between an open position in which the second positioning recess can withdraw and feed the associated longitudinal edge, and a closed position in which the second positioning recess exerts pressure upon the longitudinal edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Hosokawa Alpine Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Leonhard Heinrichsmeier, Claus Eberhardt, Claus Ulrich
  • Patent number: 8800901
    Abstract: A pulverizer includes a cutting rotor with a multiplicity of cutting blades, a cutting stator surrounding the cutting rotor with a plurality of stator blades, a milling stock inlet for the milling stock feed and a discharge screen in direction of rotation of the cutting rotor located after the milling stock inlet, wherein all stator blades in direction of rotation of the cutting rotor are arranged between the milling stock inlet and the discharge screen. Furthermore, an operating method for a pulverizer as described above is also contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Netzsch-Condux Mahltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Nied, Wolfgang Rohmann, Hermann Sickel, Thomas Becker
  • Patent number: 8783593
    Abstract: A material reduction machine includes a frame, a drum housing mounted to the frame, and a drum that is mounted for rotation within the drum housing. The drum includes a circumferential wall and a knife that is mounted on the drum. The machine includes a plurality of interchangeable belly bands, each of which is adapted to be removably attached to the frame so as to form a portion of the drum housing and to provide an inner surface that forms a belly band arc portion that is concentric with and of a larger diameter than the circumferential wall of the drum. A first interchangeable bellyband has a smooth inner surface, and a second interchangeable belly band has a plurality of flow interrupters spaced along its inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Astec Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Peterson, Bradley Simon Harness
  • Patent number: 8733681
    Abstract: Apparatus for comminuting pourable feedstock, including a housing surrounding a comminution space, in which housing a rotor rotating about an axis is disposed, the rotor being equipped around its circumference with rotor tools. A screen is disposed here along one portion of the rotor circumference. The apparatus is charged with feedstock through a product inlet, and the sufficiently comminuted product is drawn off through a product discharge. The product discharge includes a suction bin to collect the screen through fraction, which bin can be connected to a suction line to allow the collected product to be transported away. In order to improve the accessibility of the rotor for repair and maintenance work while simultaneously preserving a compact constructive design of the apparatus, the screen and the suction bin form one unit that can be swiveled as a whole about a horizontal swivel axis relative to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Pallmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut Pallmann
  • Publication number: 20140117129
    Abstract: In one preferred form of the present invention, there is provided a rock breaker 10. The rock breaker 10 includes a body 12 having a recess 14 for receiving an impactor 16 that is adapted to rotate about an axis 18 extending longitudinally into the recess 14. The recess 14 includes a curved wall 20 extending along the recess 14. The curved wall 20 has a number of narrow elongate slit-type openings 22 each extending around the recess 14 across the curved wall 20. The slit-type openings 22 are spaced apart in a direction along the body 12 to form a series 68. The impactor 16 includes two impactor bars 28 that are each positioned in an offset position for rotating in a direction along the slit type openings 22, in a direction around the recess 14, with each impactor bar 28 extending across the slit type openings 22 in an adjacent manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Michael James Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20140103152
    Abstract: The invention relates to a comminutor for comminuting bulk material, and a trailer and method therefor. The comminutor includes a frame provided with an opening; a rotatable drum which is arranged on the frame and on which blades are provided; counter-blades which are connected to the frame and which operate with the blades for the purpose of comminuting material carried into the opening; a screen positioned on the underside of the drum; and an access door connected to the frame and provided with a tilting mechanism such that easy access to the screen is obtainable by opening the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Harmke Van der Galien
  • Patent number: 8628036
    Abstract: A tub grinder has a rotor with hammers that pass between adjacent slug bars. The slug bars have a riser bar portion disposed on the top of the slug bars, the riser bar portions extending vertically higher on one end of each respective slug bar than on the other end of each respective slug bar so that the hammers extend farther beyond the top of the riser bar and slug bar when they pass by first end than when they pass by the second end of the riser bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: JASE Corporation
    Inventor: Richard A. Jackson
  • Patent number: 8544776
    Abstract: A device and method for dissociating feed material occurring as mixed materials is provided. The device includes a rotor/stator system arranged within a housing, a rotor of the rotor/stator system being equipped around its circumference with processing tools which are radially opposed by stator tools that are arranged stationary relative to the housing while maintaining a working gap; a first circumferential section for supply of the feed material and wherein the processing of the feed material takes place along a second circumferential section, the second circumferential section being divided in a direction of rotation of the rotor into a first subsection and at least one additional second subsection; and a stator tool followed by a processing path being provided at a start of each subsection with respect to the direction of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Pallmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut Pallmann
  • Publication number: 20130161427
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a comminution apparatus including a rotational reducing unit that is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The rotational reducing unit includes a plurality of material reducing components that are mounted to a carrier. The material reducing components are rotated by the carrier in a first direction about the axis of rotation. The comminution apparatus also includes a screen at least partially surrounding the rotational reducing unit. The screen defines a plurality of sizing slots that have slot lengths and slot widths. The slots are elongated along the slot lengths such that the slot lengths are longer than the slot widths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: VERMEER MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: Tadahiro Hongo, Gary Verhoef, Peilin Yang, Scott Alan Rempe
  • Publication number: 20130161428
    Abstract: A reducing component is disclosed herein. The reducing component includes a block-style reducer including a height, a width and a depth. The block-style reducer includes first and second ends separated by the height, first and second sides separated by the width and front and back sides separated by the depth. The block-style reducer also includes a first reducing edge that extends across the width of the block-style reducer at a location adjacent to the first end of the block-style reducer. The reducing component also includes a blade-style reducer that projects forwardly from the block-style reducer at a location adjacent the second side of the block-style reducer. The blade-style reducer includes a second reducing edge that extends primarily along the height of the block-style reducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: VERMEER MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventor: Tadahiro Hongo
  • Patent number: 8469075
    Abstract: A coating film peeling apparatus for resin material includes: a peeling cylinder, a peeling roll installed therein with a space for a peeling process along an inner wall of the peeling cylinder, a resistance lid disposed to block a discharge port of the peeling cylinder, and a pressure adjustment part for adjusting an outflow rate and internal pressure of the peeling cylinder. The peeling cylinder is constituted by a polygonal-shaped angular columnar body having, as coating film pass-through holes, rows K of small holes and rows L of small holes and projection rings (angular embossments) provided alternately in multiple rows along a direction perpendicular to a rotating direction of the peeling roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Satake Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Furukawa, Katsumi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8387904
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fastening means for fastening a screen plate onto a screen carrier of a screen device for a comminuting device, comprising a first tensioning element, which is connected to the screen device, particularly to the screen carrier, and which is designed to exert a force on the screen plate; a second tensioning element, which is connected to the screen device, particularly the screen carrier, and which is designed to exert a force on the screen plate, wherein at least one of the tensioning elements is an elastic element, which is designed to exert an elastic restoring force on the screen plate such that the screen plate is tensioned between the first and the second tensioning elements. The invention further relates to a method for fastening a screen plate onto a screen carrier of a screen device for a comminuting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Inventors: Peter Schiffer, Mario Fritz, Egon Tiefnig
  • Patent number: 8353471
    Abstract: A method of producing a foundation bed (1) for a granulator mill includes the steps that the foundation bed is cast from a plastic- or concrete based casting material in a mold (13) manufactured from thin sheet metal, the mold being given surfaces (16) for cooperation with a granulator mill housing (2) with high precision. In order to avoid after-treatment of the surfaces (16) of the mold intended for cooperation with the granulator mill housing, these surfaces are clamped during the casting process against a common, configurationally stable clamping member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Rapid Granulator AB
    Inventors: Henrik Karlsson, Kurt Sjöberg, Ulf Henning, Björn Pettersson
  • Patent number: 8267339
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transfer unit having a transfer rotor and a food waste treatment apparatus using the transfer unit. The transfer unit includes the transfer rotor, a housing and a sieve. The transfer rotor includes a rotor body, and at least one blade provided on the circumferential outer surface of the rotor body. The housing has a hollow container shape and contains the transfer rotor therein such that the transfer rotor is rotatable without interference from the housing. The housing is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the horizontal plane. The sieve is provided in the housing to guide discharge of sewage from food waste. The sieve is disposed in the lower portion of the housing to drain the sewage generated from the food waste to the outside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Woongjin Coway Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung Jin Park, Chang Young Lee, Dong Hee Jang
  • Patent number: 8245961
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a material reducing machine including a rotary reducing component positioned at least partially within a reducing chamber. A sizing screen defines a portion of the reducing chamber and extends at least partially around the rotary reducing component. Material catches are disclosed for preventing elongated strips of material from snaking longitudinally through the sizing screen without being adequately reduced in length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Vermeer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Daniel James Vroom, Duane Harthoorn
  • Patent number: 8152081
    Abstract: A comminuting machine including a frame, an infeed conveyor connected to the frame, a hammer mill connected to the frame, the hammer mill including a hammer mill housing substantially surrounding the hammer mill, a containment system substantially surrounding a comminuting portion of the comminuting machine, the containment system includes at least one cage, the at least one cage including a cage frame extending to substantially block projectile travel paths through openings of the comminuting machine, the cage frame being connected to the frame, and a drive unit movably coupled to the frame for effecting movement of the at least one cage relative to the comminuting portion of the comminuting machine without disconnecting the cage frame from the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Harris Waste Management Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Javier Herrera
  • Publication number: 20120061498
    Abstract: A device for comminuting feed material is provided that has a housing including longitudinal walls and transverse walls for accommodating a rotor that rotates about a longitudinal axis. The rotor is equipped about its circumference with processing tools, and has, on its faces, an annular disk, each of which is concentric to the longitudinal axis. Within the housing, at least one screen path extends over a part of the circumference of the rotor, each screen path running at a slight radial distance from the annular disks while forming a seal gap. The feed material is supplied to the rotor through a feed shaft and is directed out of the device via a material discharge extending downstream of the screen path. In order to return material that emerges through the seal gap to the remaining material flow annular disks are each arranged with an axial clearance A from the transverse walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventor: Hartmut PALLMANN
  • Patent number: 8100354
    Abstract: An apparatus containing crushing screws (11) of the same pitch direction and without central shaft, provided with short drive shafts (112) on their driven end, wherein the rotational axis of the discharging screw (151) and the plane determined by the rotational axes of the two crushing screws (11) define an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Veolia Bioenergy Europe Kft.
    Inventors: Ernö Páll, Ferenc Töröcsik, Gyözö Barabás, Mihály Szilágyi, István Hajdú
  • Patent number: 8033487
    Abstract: When the rocking side wall is to be opened, the rocking side wall is rotated about a shaft body and a cutout surface comes into contact with a side surface on the upper side of a connection plate When the rocking side wall is further opened with the cutout surface in contact with the side surface on the upper side of the connection plate, the rocking side wall is rotated about the shaft body in operative association with the connection plate. In the middle of the opening motion of the rocking side wall, a rocking axis of the rocking side wall moves from the shaft body to the shaft body. When the rocking side wall is rotated about the shaft body placed closer to the outside than the shaft body, the rocking side wall is opened while being further away from rough crush blades and the crush blades, and this widen the opening between the rocking side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Matsui Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Saiji Yamashita, Syuji Shinagawa, Kazunari Hanaoka, Kiyokazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7992812
    Abstract: A sieve device including a cog elongation with several cogs shaped from flexible material arranged parallel to each other. The cogs are provided with bends or chamfers serving for defining a grid to define the grain size for the sieved material. The sieve device is included in a cylinder disintegrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Doppstadt Calbe GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Doppstadt, Horst Berger
  • Patent number: 7988080
    Abstract: A rotary chopper element for an integral chopper assembly of a combine harvester, which rotary chopper element includes a cylindrical rotary member having a plurality of ring portions axially aligned in an ordered side-by-side arrangement along the longitudinal axis of the rotary member, with each ring portion having disposed annularly therearound a plurality of mounting lugs, each of which mounting lugs is designed to support or to have affixed thereto at least one knife blade. The mounting lugs on each succeeding ring portion are rotated or offset radially from the lugs of the preceding ring by a predefined amount and the knife blades are attached to the mounting lugs to form mounted assemblies that have beveled leading edges that extend substantially continuously from adjacent to the outer surface of the rotary member to the tips of the knife blades. The knife blades of such mounted assemblies define a plurality of spaced helical arrays that extend along and wrap around the rotary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Jason M. Benes, Wayne T. Flickinger, Andrew V. Lauwers
  • Patent number: 7942353
    Abstract: An adjustable screen apparatus for a material destruction device includes a first stationary fixed member and a second member positioned in an operatively juxtaposed and nesting relationship for reciprocal movement relative to the first member, each having a predetermined plurality of openings which are disposed in a predetermined pattern. A guide system is provided for guiding the reciprocal movement of the second member relative to the first member. A power operated drive is coupled to a source of power and to the second member for reciprocally moving the second member between a first position wherein each opening in the second member substantially overlaps a respective opening in the first member for producing large size particles and a second position wherein each opening in the second member partially overlaps each of a pair of adjacently disposed openings in the first member for producing small size particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Allegheny Paper Shredders Corporation
    Inventors: Richard D. Cerra, Andrew J. Ciesielski, Stephen H. Ciesielski, James J. Wagner, Thomas A. Wagner
  • Patent number: 7909277
    Abstract: A comminution device including at least one comminution cylinder supported rotating in a machine frame with at least one comminution tool arranged on it, and at least one counter cutter interacting with the comminution tool, and at least one sieve device for the comminuted material the housing of which encircles the comminution cylinder at least partly, the sieve device and the counter cutter forming a common structural component. The counter cutter is designed like a plate and has recesses designed corresponding to the shape of the comminution tools of the comminution device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Doppstadt Calbe GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Doppstadt, Horst Berger
  • Patent number: 7891590
    Abstract: Method for reusing bituminous products (11), in particular bitumen containing roofing materials and membranes, wherein the bitumen containing products are placed in a second hopper (9), where a particulate material having a grain size between 5 mm and 35 mm is placed in a first hopper (5), and that in the bottom of the second hopper, conveyor means (10) urges the bituminous material into a mixing chamber (8), and that inside said mixing chamber a milling and/or crushing wheel (14) is arranged, which wheel engages and crushes/mills the material transported from the second hopper in an engagement zone, and at the same position as the wheel engages the bituminous material, the particulate material by means of a first conveyor (7) is fed into the engagement zone, and that the wheel's action will fragment the materials and at the same time mix the fragmented bituminous materials and the particulate materials, and transport the material past a sieve (15), where material having a particle size smaller than the sieve
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Tagpap Recycling ApS
    Inventor: Karsten Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 7878431
    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
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Univation Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William J. Blickley, Randall L. Force, David M. Gaines
  • Publication number: 20100308144
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a material reducing machine including a rotary reducing component positioned at least partially within a reducing chamber. A sizing screen defines a portion of the reducing chamber and extends at least partially around the rotary reducing component. Material catches are disclosed for preventing elongated strips of material from snaking longitudinally through the sizing screen without being adequately reduced in length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Daniel James Vroom, Duane Harthoorn
  • Patent number: 7832666
    Abstract: Apparatus for destruction of articles and any information associated therewith. Embodiments include an article-destruction chamber and a rotating head for repeated striking of articles and article fragments in the chamber. The head includes a body portion and a shaft. The body portion has plural striking elements extending radially outward therefrom. Each striking element has a forward-facing radial striking surface with an area. High-speed rotation of the head causes the striking surfaces to violently contact and destroy articles and article fragments in the chamber and to render any associated information unusable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Chudy Group, LLC
    Inventors: Larry Montgomery, Duane S. Chudy
  • Patent number: 7832667
    Abstract: A shredding device, consisting of at least one shredding roll that is rotatably mounted in a machine frame, at least one shredding instrument that is mounted on the roll, at least one opposing blade that co-operates with the shredding instrument(s) and at least one screen for the shredded product. The housing of the screen at least partially surrounding the shredding roll. The screen can be displaced in relation to the machine frame and/or the shredding roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Doppstadt Calbe GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Doppstadt, Horst Berger
  • Patent number: 7832670
    Abstract: Described herein is a material reducing apparatus including a bypass arm and a bypass control member for allowing reduction-resistant objects of a material to bypass the apparatus while avoiding interruption of the operation of the apparatus. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Astec Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold N. Peterson, Glenn Ford Bittrolf
  • Publication number: 20100193620
    Abstract: A chipper mounted aerial unit for tree trimming and removal includes a truck having a cab and bed frame. An aerial unit including a hydraulic arm and lift bucket are attached to the bed frame. A chipper unit is attached at and end of the bed frame opposite the truck cab, and has a feed chute angled with respect to a discharge chute, the discharge chute being in substantial alignment with a main longitudinal axis of the truck. A chip box trailer is connected by means of a hitch to the bed frame and is positioned to receive debris in the form of chipped wood and the like from the discharge chute of the chipper. The chip box trailer may be quickly removed from a hitch on the bed frame and transported to a disposal area by another vehicle, while another chip box trailer is positioned for continued receipt of debris from the chipper, minimizing down time and improving operator safety by allowing the operator to stand out of the roadway while feeding the angled feed chute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventor: DENNIS A. ANDERSON
  • Patent number: 7766263
    Abstract: A granulator mill has a mill housing which has an openable part and a fixed part, and an infeed hopper; the fixed part includes a rotor with a number of blades which co-operate with fixed blades in the mill housing; the openable part has a discharge section which is discrete from the interior of the mill housing by means of a grid which surrounds approximately 160° of the rotor and extends in beneath it; where the fixed part and the openable part are connected to one another by the intermediary of a pivot device with a vertical pivot axis and the end of the openable part facing away from the pivot axis is fixedly lockable in the fixed part at the journal box of the rotor and is centered there by a guide surface at the journal box and a guide surface on the openable part, the openable part is thus horizontally pivotal and may be opened manually; the infeed hopper is vertically pivotal about a horizontal axis and opened by means of a motor, where the infeed hopper and the openable part have mutually engaging lo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Rapid Granulator AB
    Inventors: Henrik Karlsson, Kurt Sjoberg, Magnus Blom