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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7819054 | Solar-powered waste compactor, method of powering a waste compactor, and hydraulic unit therefor A hydraulic power device usable to power a compactor ram of a waste compactor is provided. The hydraulic power device includes a pump assembly having first and second pumps for providing pressurized hydraulic fluid to at least one hydraulic cylinder and piston assem... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7481160 | System and method for controlling compactor systems An integrated system for: complete waste compactor operational control; remote fullness monitoring; and, remote performance and maintenance diagnostics. Such diagnostic information is transferred wirelessly or otherwise to one or more recipients, so as to directly p... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7331168 | Baler A baler with a rectangular baling chamber and in which a baling piston is accommodated. A supply channel with a supply arrangement for the conveying and compressing of crop in the supply channel and for bringing the compressed harvested crop into the baling chamber ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328842 | Networked waste processing apparatus The present invention is related to methods and systems for waste disposal. In one embodiment, a waste pickup apparatus comprises a network interface configured to communicate with a networked waste disposal unit associated with a first user, a data store containing... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7300465 | Intervertebral allograft spacer An allogenic intervertebral implant for fusing vertebrae is disclosed. The implant is a piece of allogenic bone conforming in size and shape with a portion of an end plate of a vertebra. The implant has a wedge-shaped profile to restore disc height and the natural c... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287365 | Baler A baler with a rectangular baling chamber and in which a baling piston is accommodated. A supply channel with a supply arrangement for the conveying and compressing of crop in the supply channel and for bringing the compressed harvested crop into the baling chamber ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7272895 | Double flow cage compactor dryer apparatus and method of compacting and drying wastes A cage drying—compacting apparatus for wastes, includes a cylindrical shape and at least a pair of pressure plates, the cylindrical body having heating longitudinal tubes, coursed by a thermal carrier fluid, provided along the generatrixes of the cylinder and spac... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7208015 | Bone repair device A bone repair device includes a mesh tube coated with poly-L-Lactide and in which a graft is inserted. The tube is maintained in position by a plate fixed with screws to healthy bone portions. The invention is useful for filling bone cavities. ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7168277 | Press with a device for detecting a mutual reference position of tool parts of a pressing tool Devices are provided for detecting a mutual reference position of tool parts of a pressing tool, e.g., a punch and die. The device include (a) first and second reference elements that are moveable, by the pressing device, into a relative position that corresponds to... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7146294 | Weighing baled material An apparatus, a method, and a system are provided for measuring and reporting the weight of bales in a baler. The weight may be determined by a variety of methods. The system may display or store the weight of the bale in the baler. The system may schedule the remov... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7134387 | Refrigerator dismantling method, compression equipment, and refrigerator dismantling device A refrigerant gas is collected and a compressor is removed from a discarded refrigerator, a heat-insulating housing including a heat insulator is cut/processed and separated into a plurality of pieces, and the pieces are compressed/processed by compression rollers o... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7087126 | Mounting apparatus and mounting method A mounting apparatus includes: a heater head for bonding a liquid crystal display and a flexible printed circuit board by thermocompression; a cylinder as a heater head driving means for driving heater head to compress the liquid crystal display and flexible printed... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7086405 | Screenings washer A screenings washer having a hopper, a grinder downstream of the hopper, and a washer downstream of the grinder. The washer includes an auger rotor that receives the screenings ground by the grinder, a spray wash system that sprays a wash fluid directly onto a porti... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7087087 | Implants formed of coupled bone The present invention relates to an implant comprising two or more bone fragments that are combined to form a single unit. Cancellous bone or cortical bone is removed from a source and fashioned into bone components with desirable shapes and sizes. The bone componen... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7080650 | Screenings washer A screenings washer having a hopper, a grinder downstream of the hopper, and a washer downstream of the grinder. The washer includes an auger rotor that receives the screenings ground by the grinder, a spray wash system that sprays a wash fluid directly onto a porti... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081171 | Screenings washer A screenings washer having a hopper, a grinder downstream of the hopper, and a washer downstream of the grinder. The washer includes an auger rotor that receives the screenings ground by the grinder, a spray wash system that sprays a wash fluid directly onto a porti... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7047719 | Baler and process A large rectangular baler is equipped with a stuffer fork used both for blocking crop, that is being pre-compressed in a supply channel, from passing through an inlet of a baling chamber, and for sweeping the pre-compressed crop into the baling chamber once a pre-se... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7011018 | Material compaction apparatus The material compactor generally includes a feed apparatus and a final compaction apparatus. The final compaction apparatus generally includes a compaction chamber having confronting compression plates and an adjustably taperable portion. The area of the inner cavit... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6990896 | Electric high speed molding press An electric compression press is disclosed comprising a frame having a fixed plate and a movable plate, a first member rotationally fixed in a stationary member and having a first gear set. A second member is rotationally fixed in the stationary member and has secon... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6948424 | Material compaction apparatus The material compactor in accordance with the present invention generally includes a feed apparatus, a preliminary compaction apparatus, and a final compaction apparatus. The final compaction apparatus generally includes a compaction chamber having an adjustably tap... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6941860 | Method of briquetting metal chips and briquetting press A method and a briquetting press for briquetting metal chips, wherein stable briquettes/pressed component are produced. The actual length (Lact) of the pressed component is obtained by applying pressure (Pmax/Preq) using at least one... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6915736 | Baler calculating device A baler is described which has a collection chamber or duct and a baling chamber. Crop material enters the duct until a pre-determined level has been reached at which time a stuffer transfers the pre-compressed crop to the baling chamber. A control system is provide... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6874411 | Recycle of grinding sludge A method of and an apparatus for compressing the grinding sludge, which is effective to compress the grinding sludge to provide an intended rigid briquette even though the grinding sludge contains ground chips of hardened iron and/or steel materials and an oil-based... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6782595 | Method for briquetting metal chips and briquetting press A method and a briquetting press for briquetting metal chips wherein stable briquettes/pressed components are produced. The actual length (Lact) of the pressed component is obtained by applying pressure (Pmax/Preq) using at least one... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6745679 | Grinding sludge compacting machine A compressing machine includes a press unit 12 for compressing a concentrated sludge within a squeezing chamber to provide a briquette B, and a press control means 13 for controlling the press unit 12. The press control means 13 includes ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6742448 | Baler with doors and platen positions interlocks There is disclosed a baler for paper recycling having a control system responsive to switches and digital timers, and an electromagnetic interlock coupling a loading door and a chamber door, said control system including a programmable relay having outputs to motor ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6561085 | System and method for variably adjusting the pick-up level of one or more waste compactor containers A method and system for remotely managing a network of one or more waste compactor containers, each of which is associated with a monitoring unit and has a set of operating parameters including a container pick-up level. The method and system further allo... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6543342 | Method for determining a value relating to compressing rate of a baler A baler is described which has a collection chamber or duct and a baling chamber. Crop material enters the duct until a pre-determined level has been reached at which time a stuffer transfers the pre-compressed crop to the baling chamber. A control system... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6530311 | Method of and a bale press for producing high-density round bales from agricultural harvest products A method of producing high-density bales from harvest products in a bale press with a variable volume compression chamber which is circumferentially limited by belts, a chain conveyor rolls and which yields to a force imparted by preloaded means, with the... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6526878 | Device and method for controlling pressure in binding media A media binding device is operable to apply pressure on a plurality of media sheets, while applying heat to melt adhesive provided between the sheets of media. The media binding device may be implemented in conjunction with an image forming device, e.g., ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6474228 | Baler display device A baler is described which has a collection chamber or duct and a baling chamber. Crop material enters the duct until a pre-determined level has been reached at which time a stuffer transfers the pre-compressed crop to the baling chamber. A control system... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6419794 | Method and apparatus for damping contact oscillations of rotating rolls In a method and apparatus for damping contact oscillations of rotating rolls in a paper machine, but notably in a coater, the rolls are held endways in bearings. At least two rolls form a nip with each other. The damping is carried out actively and the ac... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6276419 | Sealing apparatus A sealing apparatus includes a base having a fixed jaw, a press lever having a movable jaw and pivotally supported on the base, a posture changing mechanism for pressing the press lever toward the base, and a heater for heating material to be sealed clamp... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6272981 | Chip compressing apparatus A chip compressing apparatus, including a housing which has an inner space having opposite open ends, a movable member which is movable, along one of the opposite open ends of the housing, to a closing position where the movable member closes the one open... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6190296 | Apparatus for machining a material web In an apparatus for machining a material web by means of a sonotrode, the pressure force of the sonotrode is determined and is used as a control signal for the advance of the sonotrode, as a result of which the nip height is set.... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6182563 | Hay bale stacking apparatus Apparatus for stacking bales of hay into large bundles such as, for example, three bales high and seven bales wide, positions bands about the stacked array to provide a tightly bound, compressed stack of bales. The stacking apparatus compresses the stacke... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6123017 | System and method for evaluating the fill state of a waste container and predicting when the container will be full A system and method for determining the fullness of a large capacity waste container (20). Each time the a compactor (22) is used to compress the waste in the container a monitoring unit (24) determines the highest hydraulic pressure generated by the comp... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6101932 | Channel bale press for agricultural harvest crop and device and method for controlling operation of the bale press A bale press for agricultural harvest crops including a pressure channel having at least a portion of one of its sides formed by a pivotal rail section, a hydraulic device for applying pressure to the rail section, a plunger displaceable in the pressure c... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6085486 | Forage compactor A forage compactor for compressing forage or crop into bales of increased crop density for transportation. A crop feed area feeds crop to a conveyor where it is moved to a scale area for proper bale weight. An indexer severs the crop while moving it from ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6055902 | Compaction apparatus with electrical ram motion control responsive to motor current There is disclosed compaction apparatus for waste management and recycling purposes including a hydraulic cylinder driven ram capable of exerting very large forces to compact waste paper, trash, or similar commercial or residential waste material. The hyd... | 05/02/2000 |
