Separator In Discharge From Comminuting Zone Patents (Class 241/79)
  • Patent number: 11717833
    Abstract: An environment-friendly construction waste treatment equipment for civil engineering is provided, including a main frame, a wringing frame, first fixing columns, a second fixing column, an electric motor, etc. wherein the first fixing column is provided on each of front and rear sides of a left side of an upper portion of the main frame, the wringing frame is provided between the first fixing columns, the second fixing column is provided on rear and left sides of the upper portion of the main frame, and the electric motor is provided on the second fixing column. The electric motor is turned on, the wringing wheels wring the construction waste, the wringed construction waste falls onto the conveying belt, and then is transferred to the filtering plate via the conveying belt. In this way, as the construction waste is conveyed via the conveying belt, the equipment is prevented from being blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Jinggangshan University
    Inventors: Zhenwu Wang, Xiaoling Liao
  • Patent number: 11148340
    Abstract: A filtration device for extrusion processes, which comprises a material intake channel, which splits into a first intake channel and a second intake channel leading to a first filter chamber and a second filter chamber, the first and second filter chambers being provided in output with a first output channel and a second output channel, which in turn merge into a channel that is adapted to convey the material to an extrusion head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: C M PRODUZIONE S.R.L.
    Inventors: Carmine Prinzo, Alessio Prinzo
  • Publication number: 20150144718
    Abstract: There is provided an impact grinding assembly. The assembly, according to one aspect, includes a pair of conveyors for conveying at least partially unground material. Each conveyor has a lower portion and an upper portion which is spaced-apart above its lower portion. The assembly includes a pair of vibrating impact plates aligning below the upper portions of respective ones of the conveyors to receive the at least partially unground material. A first one of the impact plates operatively directs material thereon to the lower portion of a second one of the conveyors. A second one of the impact plates operatively directs material thereon to the lower portion of a first one of the conveyors. The impact grinding assembly may further include a material-separation assembly for removing material from the conveyors which has a particle size no greater than a desired particle size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Carey Hunker
  • Patent number: 9016605
    Abstract: A facility for grinding inorganic material include a roller press, a first static separator having an intake supplied with raw material, a dynamic separator having an intake connected to a first output of the first static separator, a ventilation circuit provided through the first static separator and the dynamic separator, and a second static separator having an intake that is connected to an output of the roller press. The first static separator includes two outputs, one for low-granulatory matter and one for larger granulatory matter, whereby the second output is connected to the roller press. The dynamic separator further includes a first output for particles having the desired granulometry and a second output for matter with larger granulometry connected to an intake of the roller press. The ventilation circuit participates in the separation, drying, and transport of low-granulometry particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: VICAT
    Inventor: Marcel Bourgeois
  • Publication number: 20150108261
    Abstract: A meat grinding reclamation system is disclosed herein. The system uses a plate having a plurality of holes through which meat is processed, and a smaller number of waste material sewers that feed waste material away from the meat into separate reniform exhausts. The center of the plate is provided with a shaft opening, which allows use of a center drive shaft across the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: ROME, LTD.
    Inventors: Philip Charles Alexander Metcalf, Charles Arthur William Metcalf
  • Patent number: 8985487
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for selectively separating polyurethane foam and fiber from Automobile Shredder Residue (ASR). The apparatus includes a first separator, a second separator, and a third separator. The first separator primarily separates fine particles, such as dirt or glass pieces, from the ASR at a front portion thereof and separates large-sized polyurethane foam and fiber from the ASR at a rear portion thereof. The second separator grinds remaining materials after the primary separation of the first separator. The third separator separates medium-sized polyurethane foam and fiber from the remaining materials after the separation of the first separator and secondarily separates plastics, rubber, and other materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Kyungnam Kim, June Ho Yang, Hong Mo Koo
  • Publication number: 20140374518
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for crushing and extracting a portion of a seed are disclosed herein. A seed sampling device can include a crushing head having a plurality of pins and a plate having a plurality of receptacles configured to receive and contain a seed therein. The receptacles each include an aperture configured to receive at least a portion of the pins of the crushing head. A press is operably coupled to the crushing head and is configured to move the plurality of pins of the crushing head into the apertures of the plurality of receptacles and sufficiently crush the individual seeds disposed in each of the receptacles such that a portion of the crushed seeds can be communicated through the aperture and out of the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Jialiang Chen
  • Patent number: 8915373
    Abstract: A solid particle flow distribution controller includes an extension skirt configured to be mounted to a discharge skirt at a division between an upstream solid particle conveyance pipe and a plurality of downstream pipes. The extension skirt includes a plurality of circumferential segments. Each segment is movably mounted to the discharge skirt for movement in an upstream and downstream direction with respect to the discharge skirt. The segments of the extension skirt are configured and adapted for motion in the upstream and downstream direction independent of one another to extend upstream of the discharge skirt as needed to improve solid particle distribution among the downstream pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Babcock Power Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Qingsheng Lin, Joseph Bianca, Jilin Zhang, William Freeman, John W Rath, III
  • Publication number: 20140331606
    Abstract: An oats processing equipment comprises at least two groups of awners and at least two groups of oat grinders, with awners within the same group being connected in parallel or in series, and oat grinders within the same group being connected in parallel or in series, preferably 3 to 4 groups of awners and oat grinders are included. An oat processing method comprises steps of: (S00) classifying oats subjected to surface processing according to grain sizes; (S10) feeding oats of a certain class into a plurality of groups of awners for more than two stages of awn removing; and (S20) feeding the oats subjected to the awn removing into a plurality of groups of oat grinders for more than three stages of grinding. The inputted load of a single awner and an oat grinder is limited, thus achieving the technical effect of grinding oats gently and separating the oats finely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Zuobang Sun, Zhi Sun, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 8865781
    Abstract: A method of processing waste carpet or matting material to separate constituent materials thereof, includes optionally drying the material and then cooling the material to a temperature at which at least one constituent material therein is embrittled. A mechanical force is applied to the cooled material causing the embrittled constituent material to break into fragments. Optionally, the material from the previous step is dried. The material is then separated to separate the fragments of constituent material from other constituent material. The carpet material can be initially shredded into coarse pieces. The procedure may be repeated optionally with different temperatures to selectively embrittle and fragment different components and facilitate their separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignees: Haydale Limited, Desso Group BV
    Inventor: Ian Walters
  • Publication number: 20140212594
    Abstract: An apparatus (20, 21) and method (80) operable to: feed (82) a granulated feedstock (26) into a chamber (22); apply (84) a melting or sintering energy (28) in programmable scans (30) producing a material deposit (32) overlaid with slag (34) in the chamber (22); position (86) a slag removal device (40, 52) such that its cutting surface (35) is coincident with a top surface (33) of the material deposit; cut or break the slag free (88) from the material deposit with the slag removal device; separate (92) the removed slag from a reusable portion of the granulated feedstock in a separator (42); and feed (94) the reusable portion of the granulated feedstock to the top surface of the material deposit for repeating (96) the above operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Gerald J. Bruck, Ahmed Kamel
  • Publication number: 20140209718
    Abstract: A device for disposing of a container having a biological fluid contained therein. The device includes a housing having a first end and a second end. Proximate the first end is an opening through which the container is received. A shredding chamber, between the opening and the second end and within the housing, is configured to break the container into a plurality of pieces. A collection grid is positioned between the shredding chamber and the second end and within the housing. The collection grid is slidable with respect to the housing and is porous to the biological fluid and not to the plurality of pieces. A port, proximate the second end, is configured form removal of the biological fluid from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Government of the United States as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
  • Publication number: 20140203124
    Abstract: The invention is a movable shredder for metal materials that comprises a movable assembly (1) and a drive unit (2), so that the movable assembly (1) shreds the metal material into fragments by means of a shredding element (7), and the drive unit (2) supplies energy to the movable assembly (1), said energy is used by the shredding element (7) to shred said metal material into fragments, wherein comprises a frame (3) and a system of caterpillar tracks (4) which make the movable assembly (1) movable. The movable assembly (1) comprises a feeding conveyor belt (11), a dosing roller (6), the shredding element (7), a metal extraction conveyor belt (8) and an outgoing conveyor belt (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventor: Jose Angel ARRIETA GONZALEZ
  • Publication number: 20140191068
    Abstract: A waste tire separation recycling treatment device includes a machine rack, a pair of crushing rollers, a pair of stripping wheels and a guiding portion. After a waste tire, which is performed with pyrolysis, is placed in the device to obtain a non-metal scrap, a metal scrap and a mixture, and above 98% of the non-metal scrap, the metal scrap and the mixture are sequentially rolled and striped off to transform them into the non-metal scrap and the metal scrap. Afterward, several separation processes are performed to separate the non-metal scrap and the metal scrap, thereby greatly increasing the efficiency of separation recycling treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventor: LI-FENG CHENG
  • Publication number: 20140091164
    Abstract: An apparatus for crushing material, especially wood, comprising a main body, and an ejection box connected to the main body via an ejection opening, and a first conveying screw in the ejection box beneath the ejection opening for conveying the crushed material from the ejection box, characterized in that a first screen having a first mesh width is arranged beneath the ejection opening, which first screen extends from the ejection opening to the first conveying screw at an incline with respect to the horizontal, and that a sliding surface arranged in an inclined manner with respect to the horizontal or a second screen which has a second mesh width that is smaller than the first mesh width and which is inclined with respect to the horizontal is arranged beneath the first screen, which second screen extends from the main body to a second conveying screw which is arranged beneath the first conveying screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventor: Ralf Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20140091165
    Abstract: A media-agitation type pulverizer of the present invention includes: a guide ring installed to radially divide a lower region of a pulverization chamber into an inner section and an annular outer section. A flow of a mixture of a raw material slurry and pulverizing media is formed as a helicoidal flow comprising a secondary flow flowing through a circulation flow path which has an upward flow path and a downward flow path created, respectively, in the outer section and the inner section of the lower region of the pulverization chamber, with respect to the guide ring. A rotational-flow suppressing device is provided within the pulverization chamber and adapted to strengthen the secondary flow of the helicoidal flow, thereby stabilizing the helicoidal flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: ASHIZAWA FINETECH LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Shogo Iwasawa, Takahiro Tamura
  • Patent number: 8672248
    Abstract: An asphalt roofing material recycling system and method is used to recycle new and used asphalt materials. The asphalt material is broken up and separated. Dry ice may be added to the recycler and/or a jacket coolant used to cool the recycling vessel. The recycle vessel includes a number of high speed choppers having a blunt end as well as a horizontal mixer element with paddles. The recycled asphalt material is provided to a screener that may feature a plurality of sloping levels, each level including a tray below a screen and balls located within the tray that bounce due to vibration to prevent clogging of the screener. A second processing trip involving gravity feeding the material to be further recycled into a cutter with knife edges to further break down the size of the asphalt material is used for large particles that do not pass through the screener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Recycled Asphalt Shingle Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Zickell, Thomas J. Zickell
  • Publication number: 20140027549
    Abstract: A device for recycling molding sand, the device containing a base; a vibratory reclaimer; a pneumatic cascade classifier serially connected at its upper section to the vibratory reclaimer; and at least two generators of vibrations. The vibratory reclaimer contains: a vertical column, the vertical column being hollow and cylindrical in shape, having an axis of rotation, and a side wall with at least one pour-out hole, wherein the pour-out hole is connected with a transport trough, and the transport trough is rigidly mounted and rises in a spiral fashion along the side wall and at a top end passes through a channel extending to a feeding screw for feeding recycled molding the to the pneumatic cascade classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIE
    Inventors: Jozef DANKO, Mariusz HOLTZER, Rafal DANKO, Grzegorz HOLTZER, Jerzy KUZMIN, Krzysztof MATUSZEWSKI, Karol PRZYBYLA
  • Patent number: 8628612
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing, starting from a slag material, a filler for construction materials which contain bitumen or a hydraulic binding agent. The slag used to prepare the filler contains ?-dicalcium silicate. The process comprises the step of removing from the slag material a finer fraction formed by particles of a size between 0 and at least 0.75 mm so as to reduce the ?-dicalcium silicate content of the slag material; and the step of finely milling at least a portion of the remaining coarser fraction of the slag to obtain the filler. The invention also relates to the obtained filler, to the use thereof for preparing construction materials and to concrete or mortar compositions and asphalt compositions containing the filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Recmix Belgium
    Inventors: Evelyne Nguyên, Dirk Van Mechelen
  • Publication number: 20140008473
    Abstract: To provide a mill that can greatly reduce noise during operation and can also contribute to greater device compactness. The mill is provided with: a tubular drum body configured in a manner so that a material to be milled introduced from one section can be discharged from another section; a central shaft that penetrates within the drum body in the direction of tube length thereof; and a plurality of milling plates that are attached at a predetermined interval in the axial direction of the central shaft, and that compartmentalize the interior space of the drum body in to a plurality of milling chambers. The drum body and/or the milling plates rotate, and the mill does not have a milling medium that mills the material to be milled by contacting the material to be milled while rolling within the drum body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Daito Doboku, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeo Yanase
  • Publication number: 20130341445
    Abstract: A pulper includes a tank having a papermaking material insertion port and a discharge port; a strainer covering the discharge port of the tank; a rotor provided above the strainer for disintegrating the papermaking material and having a rotor vane with a front edge formed linearly in a plan view; a front cutter blade attached to a back surface of the rotor, and extending long in a longitudinal direction along the front edge of the rotary vane, the front cutter blade being formed linearly in a plan view; and an inclined cutter blade attached to the back surface of the rotor. The inclined cutter blade extends long in the longitudinal direction and is inclined away from the front cutter blade toward an outside. The inclined cutter blade and the front cutter blade are integrally formed via an inner portion of the inclined cutter blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventor: Masaki AIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20130327861
    Abstract: In a vertical roller mill in which a fixed-type cyclone sorter is provided in a casing, the fixed-type cyclone sorter includes a conical member; a fixed-blade entrance window through which a solid-gas two-phase flow is introduced into the interior of the conical member; a flat plate-like fixed blade that causes the solid-gas two-phase flow to spiral; an inner cylinder into which pulverized coal is guided from the bottom end thereof toward the top end thereof by means of spiraling of the solid-gas two-phase flow; and a pulverized-coal exit through which the pulverized coal guided to the top end of the inner cylinder is guided outside the conical member, wherein the fixed blade is provided with a tip portion where a downward flow is increased for the solid-gas two-phase flow guided into the interior of the conical member from the fixed-blade entrance window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Shinji Matsumoto, Takashi Tsutsuba, Koki Matsuzaki, Sotaro Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro Sueoka, Kenichi Arima, Tsugio Yamamoto, Takuichiro Daimaru
  • Patent number: 8556201
    Abstract: In a method and equipment for conditioning a heavy fraction high in plastics, which is obtained by conditioning low-metal scrap high in plastics, which originate at least in part from shredder processes of scrap vehicles, the method includes: isolating metal parts from the heavy fraction high in plastics; reducing the size of the metal-reduced heavy fraction high in plastics that remains after the isolation of the metal parts; splitting up of the metal-reduced heavy fraction high in plastics, that remains after the isolation of the metal parts, into fractions high in plastics having different grain sizes; conditioning the separated fractions high in plastics at least partially in separate processes. The equipment includes appropriate devices for carrying out the foregoing processes. A highly pure granulate fraction may be obtained, which may be fed to material utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Sicon GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Knust, Bram den Dunnen, Heiner Guschall, Daniel Goldman
  • Publication number: 20130264402
    Abstract: An agitator ball mill with a cylindrical grinding container is disclosed. The grinding container includes at least one grinding stock inlet and at least one grinding stock outlet. An agitator shaft connected to a drive is disposed in the grinding container. The agitator shaft transmits a part of the drive energy of the drive to the auxiliary grinding bodies. The auxiliary grinding bodies are distributed loosely in the grinding container. Furthermore, the agitator ball mill includes a separation device assigned to the grinding stock outlet, wherein the separation device is disposed around a rotational axis and/or rotates around this rotational axis. The separation device includes at least two components, whereof one component is at least one separation device and a second component is a dynamic element for generating a material flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Horst Pausch, Jan Wolfrum
  • Patent number: 8523093
    Abstract: A system for separating a plastic waste from a paper waste comprising a first fan which draws air toward the first chamber, the second fan blows air up the third tunnel from the lower third tunnel end toward the upper tunnel end, the third fan draws air into the second cyclone, wherein to separate the plastic waste from the paper waste in the mixed-paper-and-plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Liviu Siladi
  • Publication number: 20130193244
    Abstract: Methods and systems for separating a mixed waste into a wet organic fraction, a dry organic fraction, and an inorganic fraction are achieved by (i) comminuting the mixed solid waste, (ii) fractionating the comminuted stream by size to produce two or more particle-sized waste streams, and (iii) processing one or more of the particle-sized waste streams using density separation to produce an intermediate wastes stream, and (iv) recovering a homogenous product (e.g., a recyclable material or an organic fuel) from the intermediate waste stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Organic Energy Corporation
    Inventor: Organic Energy Corporation
  • Publication number: 20130186993
    Abstract: Disposed is a jet mill that has a cylindrical pulverization chamber (10) and a classification chamber (6) that connects to the pulverization chamber (10). A fine-powder discharge port (4a) and a classification rotor (7) are provided in the classification chamber (6). A feedstock supply port (5) and at least one gas emission nozzle (11) are provided in the pulverization chamber (10). The shape of the classification chamber (6) is a cone that starts on the inner wall of the pulverization chamber (10), and is angled towards the classification rotor (7). This configuration gives the jet mill high efficiency of pulverization and reduces the amount of powders left in the chamber when the jet mill has finished running.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: HOSOKAWA MICRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshikawa, Tomoyuki Chiba, Takashi Shibata
  • Publication number: 20130181077
    Abstract: A concentrator device for recovering lead, gold or other heavier matter from soil, gravel or another substrates. The concentrator may have an inner cylinder with screens and an outer cylinder with baffles. Various baffle arrangements are disclosed. A variable speed motor may drive rotation of the outer cylinder and a pre-processing hopper may be used to break up input soil. The hopper may include mechanical and/or water based components to separate the recovery object from the substrate it is in. Various screen configurations for the inner cylinder are disclosed, as are related aspects of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Inventors: Darrell L. Harris, Jerry E. Marks
  • Publication number: 20130171725
    Abstract: There is provided a garbage separating apparatus including an input unit having an inlet opening through which garbage is input, a crushing unit configured to crush garbage input through the inlet opening, a filtering chamber having an outlet opening and a perforation member provided with a plurality of holes for allowing separation of the garbage crushed by the crushing unit, a food waste collection chamber for accommodating, among the crushed garbage, food waste having passed through the perforation member, and a sweeper device configured to move, among the crushed garbage, impurity garbage remaining on the perforation member to the outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Chun Il Koh
  • 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: 8464971
    Abstract: Methods for creating a proppant of a specific size from a slurry extracted from a fractured hydrocarbon well is provided, including the steps of separating water from the slurry, resulting in a solid stream and a liquid stream; mixing the slurry stream with particulate, resulting in a feed material; fusing proppant material in the feed material; quenching the fused proppant material; breaking the fused proppant material; sizing the broken material for the specific size; and mixing broken material that is not of the specific size with the feed material. A system for performing the method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: MBJ Water Partners
    Inventor: Joseph G. Munisteri
  • Publication number: 20130146691
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for crushing a mineral material. Then, the mineral material is delivered in a crushing space (6) towards crushing means (8), whereby at least a portion of the material flow is discharged via a screen (20). The remaining mineral material is arranged to meet transfer and screening as well as crusher drums (10, 11) provided in the crushing space such that the transfer and screening drum continues pre-screening while simultaneously transferring the mineral material towards the crusher drum (11). Finally, the mineral material remaining in the crushing space is by crusher blades (19) of the crusher drum (11) subjected to mechanical machining wedging the mineral material against a crusher plate (21) and decreasing the particle size thereof in order for the mineral material to be finally crushed into a particle size to be discharged from the crushing space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: ECOMECA OY
    Inventor: Jorma Malkamäki
  • Patent number: 8459581
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing and sorting a municipal solid waste stream are described herein. A system can include a processing sub-system configured to receive a municipal solid waste stream and to remove the non-processable waste, a processing apparatus configured and disposed to receive constituents of the municipal solid waste stream from the processing sub-system and reduce the size of the constituents of the waste stream to an average particle size of less than about ¾ inch, and separators configured to sort the waste stream into constituents based on density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Re Community Energy, LLC
    Inventor: Dingrong Bai
  • Patent number: 8453846
    Abstract: A method for classifying a ground material-fluid mixture and a mill classifier improve the grinding and classification process, wherein a fine material-fluid flow leaving a dynamic classifier part with angular momentum is subjected to a swirl reduction or swirl elimination, with the aid of a guiding apparatus and a displacement body and is made uniform in a classifier outlet housing and deflected into a virtually linear flow. The fixed guiding apparatus arranged coaxially with the classifier axis in the classifier outlet housing and the displacement body may be formed as one unit, and the guide elements of the guiding apparatus may be arranged on the displacement body and extending into the vicinity of the inner wall of the classifier outlet housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: LOESCHE GmbH
    Inventors: Andre′ Baetz, Michael Keyssner
  • Publication number: 20130119171
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for recycling plastic, including a universal shredder and a reversible conveyor system. The apparatus and method includes a water wash for eliminating contaminants, a dryer apparatus and an extrusion assembly in which multiple in-line extruders are used to process the plastic and filter screens are positioned after each extruder to further cleanse the plastic into a highly-purified extruded product. The present invention also comprises the end product substantially free of impurities and suitable for use in the manufacture of products, including food containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: NEXTLIFE ENTERPRISES, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Lee Whaley, Anilikumar Rasiklal Shah, Huimin Zhao
  • Publication number: 20130092769
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a separating device for crushing concrete. The separating device comprises at least two crusher members which, optionally in co-action with bounding elements situated adjacently of the at least two crusher members, define at their upper outer ends an inlet opening for concrete to be crushed and at their lower outer ends an outlet opening for crushed concrete or at least concrete fractions. The separating device further comprises a drive device adapted to move repetitively at least a part of one of the two crusher members in the direction away from and toward the other crusher member. Outlet restriction means are provided under the outlet opening to limit an outflow of crushed concrete and/or concrete fractions. The invention further relates to a method for crushing and separating a composite material, in particular concrete, into original components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventor: Koos Jacobus Schenk
  • Publication number: 20130008987
    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: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: Astec Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnold Neil Peterson, Bradley Simon Harness
  • Patent number: 8348187
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and process for reducing the size of solid particles are disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a cavitation processor and a comminution processor in physical communication with one another to reduce the size of solid particles. In another embodiment, a process for reducing the size of solid particles includes passing the solid particles sequentially through a cavitation processor and a comminution processor which are in physical communication with one another. Examples of solid particles which may be used in the system and process herein, include pharmaceuticals, foods, inks and paints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Cavitech Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Oleg V. Kozyuk
  • Publication number: 20120325946
    Abstract: Provided is an electric kitchen appliance including a housing which contains an electric motor connected to an upper drive output, a work chamber comprising a work container sealed by a lid with a chute for inserting food, the work container having a discharge outlet, a removable pressing screw which can be rotated by the upper drive output being arranged in the work chamber. Rotation of the pressing screw is provided by a rotary element removably mounted in the work chamber, the rotary element including a pre-cutting disc and a driving member which is rotated by the upper drive output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Charles, Augustin Dominguez
  • Publication number: 20120305685
    Abstract: Provided is a unit which is capable of readily grinding and collecting a small amount of a sample which is difficult to be ground. The unit for grinding a sample comprises a club-shaped pestle and a mortar into which the pestle can be inserted, wherein the pestle comprises a roughened taper located at at least one end of its pestle body, wherein the mortar is a tube with an inverted frustoconical bottom, and the surface of the mortar where the taper of the pestle contacts the inverted frustoconical bottom when the pestle is inserted into the mortar is roughened, and wherein the angle of the taper with respect to the longitudinal centerline of the pestle is substantially equal to the angle of the inner wall of the inverted frustoconical bottom with respect to the longitudinal centerline of the mortar. The roughened taper and surface improve grinding efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Takuji Yamamoto, Kiyonori Higa, Shunji Hattori
  • Publication number: 20120288161
    Abstract: A method of quantitatively obtaining a measurement of pollen of a plant. A quantitative collection of a sample of pollen is counted. Total pollen of the plant can be calculated. One way of quantitative collection of pre-shed pollen involves blending a part of the plant with pollen in the presence of liquid (e.g. water) in a blender. The action of the blender tends to destroy the non-pollen parts of the plant and release the pollen into the liquid. Extraction of the pollen from the blender can be through a sidewall port that includes a filter or sieve having a mesh size that passes relevant pollen but blocks most non-pollen plant parts. The sample can be efficiently prepared for counting of pollen. One method of counting comprises imaging the sample with the pollen well distributed in the focal plane of the imager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: ADDA SAYERS, DEAN M. TRANEL, TRAVIS A. HANSELMAN, STEPHEN D. STRACHAN
  • Patent number: 8302890
    Abstract: A modular ore processing system for concentrating ores includes a plurality of separate modules constructed so as to be serially arranged to form a feed processing system for concentrating a desired material in the ore, wherein the modules are individually transportable to a processing site to be operationally coupled to form the modular ore processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Gekko Systems Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Alexander Hamilton Lewis-Gray
  • Publication number: 20120199677
    Abstract: The compact machine (1) for differentiated recuperation of electric cables comprises: a grinder (2) for grinding cables; a terminal separator (3) for separating metal and plastic fragments produced by the grinder (2); a series of ventilators (4, 40, 400) for pneumatically conveying metal and plastic fragments from the grinder (2) to the terminal separator (3); an intermediate separator (7), located in cascade from the grinder (2), capable of enabling pneumatic transit or collection of the metal fragments having a lower or greater weight than a predetermined limit weight, such as to enable a first separation of the metal fragments; a plate grinder (6) located in cascade from the intermediate separator (7), capable of centrifuging the metal fragments produced by the grinder (2) and releasing the metal fragments, which have a rounded geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: MG RECYCLING S.R.L.
    Inventor: Guido Blo
  • Publication number: 20120175446
    Abstract: A particle separator comprises: a driving shaft and two support rings, mounted on the driving shaft, having a plurality of mounting holes, a plurality of blades, having far ends to which two holding rods are attached to be inserted in the plurality of mounting holes, so that the plurality of blades are allowed to sway while being mounted on the support rings, wherein the mounting holes of the support rings are arranged in a quantity that is a divisible number, so that, when the blades are installed, any divisor of said quantity of mounting holes serves as a guide for a number of mounting holes between mounted blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventor: Jin-Hong Chang
  • Publication number: 20120138718
    Abstract: In a vertical roller mill including a fixed classifier, a proportion of coarse particles in a pulverized coal product is reduced. The vertical roller mill (10) includes a cyclone-type fixed classifier (20A) provided within a casing (11) for classifying fine powder having a small particle diameter by centrifugal force and discharging the classified powder to the outside. The fixed classifier (20A) is adapted to discharge the fine powder to the outside from a pulverized coal outlet (16) at an upper side through a lower end portion of an inner cylinder (24) provided inside a cone (21) by introducing a solid-gas two-phase flow into the inside from a fixed vane inlet window (22) opened on the cone (21) and swirling the solid-gas two-phase flow using a fixed vane (23) arranged in the vicinity of the inner side of the fixed vane inlet window (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Takuichiro Daimaru, Yasuhiro Sueoka, Kenichi Arima, Tsugio Yamamoto, Takashi Tsutsuba, Shinji Matsumoto, Koki Matsuzaki, Sotaro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8181584
    Abstract: An improved apparatus for on-line coal flow control in vertical spindle mills comprising a plurality of independently adjustable flow control elements and positioning rods that adjust the positioning of those flow control elements. Each flow control element is positioned within the discharge turret of the vertical spindle mill along the outer wall of the discharge turret proximate the entrance to its corresponding coal outlet pipe. The adjustable rods are seated on the side or top of the discharge turret of the coal pulverizer and are connected to the flow control element horizontally or vertically as the case may be. The flow control elements can be independently rotated by +/?90 degrees about the positioning rod axis, moved back and forth in the horizontal plane, and can also be moved up and down in the vertical plane. Therefore, each flow control element has three degrees-of-freedom: one rotational and two linear displacements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Inventors: Harun Bilirgen, Edward Kenneth Levy
  • Publication number: 20120104123
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing an explosible powder suitable for combustion in an oxidizing gas. This method involves providing a biomass feedstock material and drying the biomass feedstock material to a moisture level of less than or equal to 10%. The dried biomass feedstock material is milled to form an explosible powder suitable for combustion when dispersed in an oxidizing gas. A system for carrying out this method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Ken W. WHITE, Edward Bacorn
  • Publication number: 20120104124
    Abstract: The invention provides for methods, systems, and devices for processing rubber materials including rubber from tires, tubes, shoe soles, or any other rubber containing product. Characteristics of the rubber materials, such as chemical composition and/or product manufacturer, model, and manufacture date, can be identified. Identification can be performed by personnel, can be automated, or can be a combination thereof. The characteristics of the rubber material can be used to sort the rubber product. Rubber materials suitable for a particular end product can be selected for further processing, which can include size reduction, material separation, chemical and physical processes, devulcanization, or a combination thereof. Processed rubber materials can be stored or delivered to a user or manufacturing site with product specifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Alan Higginson, David Higginson, Rachel Aucock, Brete C. Harrison
  • Patent number: 8146841
    Abstract: Clean glass particles are produced from post-consumer mixed glass and like waste streams by a series of pulverizing, size- and material-based separation, ozonation, drying, sizing, and paper fluff removal steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Glass Processing Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Cynthia Andela
  • Patent number: RE45290
    Abstract: Clean glass particles are produced from post-consumer mixed glass and like waste streams by a series of pulverizing, size- and material-based separation, ozonation, drying, sizing, and paper fluff removal steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Glass Processing Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Cynthia Andela