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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4180004 | Methods of handling waste including rubber tires Waste such as combustible trash and prime garbage is mixed with rubber tires and shredded together to produce a compacted and combustible output product which can be used as a fuel or be incinerated for further compacting. The process involves interengagi... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4161792 | Waste disposal system and method Disclosed is a portable waste disposal system that is designed primarily for use in marine craft, mobile homes, campers or the like. The system comprises a macerator unit for converting excrement to a liquified effluent, and an incinerator unit for incine... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4155313 | Utilization of solid material containing combustible matter Solid particles comprising combustible matter (e.g. coal) associated with or contaminated by inert matter (e.g. ash, rock) is segregated in a segregation zone into low density/small size and high density/large size fractions. The low density/small size fr... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4154585 | Fluidized bed particulate collectors A fluidized bed, particulate collector system wherein, in one embodiment, the bed particles have applied thereto at the surface thereof, an additive that serves to adhere particulate, once collected, to the bed particles. The bed particles and/or additive... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4143603 | Method and furnace for combustion of primary fuels with moisture containing secondary fuels A moisture-containing viscous secondary fuel is combusted in the chamber of an industrial furnace by comminuting the secondary fuel to a particle size of 5-50 mm and propelling the particles at an initial speed of 1-10 m/sec. onto a layer of intensely bur... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4133273 | System for the disposal of sludge, hazardous and other wastes An ecologically clean process is described for the disposal of partially dewatered waste water sludges in combination with hazardous or noxious chemical wastes, with or without added high calorific waste from other sources which comprises, dewatering the ... | 01/09/1979 |
| 4121524 | Method of and apparatus for treating refuse Any bundles in household refuse are broken up and this refuse is then coarsely comminuted with the broken up bundles, only the hard components of the refuse being comminuted with the light components merely being temporarily deformed between a pair of rol... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4099473 | Fuel handling, metering and preparation apparatus and method A bin receives coarse discrete primary shredded fuel material, such as may be derived from municipal refuse, and metering conveyor means move the material from the bin through efficient discharge controlling means to smooth flow conveyor means which deliv... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4073242 | Sewage sludge disposal A slanted sieve is used to drain liquid out of sewage and to concentrate the sludge, the liquid being drained into a first tank and the sludge allowed to slide into an adjacent, second tank. The sludge is drawn from the second tank into a macerating pump ... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4063903 | Apparatus for disposal of solid wastes and recovery of fuel product therefrom Apparatus for the disposal of solid wastes by converting the organic fraction of such wastes to a fuel or fuel supplement and by recovering one or more of the constituents of the inorganic fashion. A minimum amount of sterile land fill remains. No signifi... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4044695 | Multi-stage pneumatic municipal solid waste separation and recovery of a plurality of classifications Heterogeneous municipal solid waste is pneumatically separated in a first stage into relatively heavy incombustible and lighter weight combustible fractions. The first stage light combustible fraction is further pneumatically separated in a second stage i... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4041906 | Energy system producing electricity, hot water and steam from combustible refuse An energy system which burns refuse inside a steam chamber to drive a steam turbine and an electrical generator. In addition to the electrical energy produced, hot water and steam are delivered as by-products.... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4015546 | Apparatus and method for converting refuse to useful energy The preferred embodiment of the invention disclosed herein includes apparatus for and the steps of separating glass, metal and other generally non-combustible material from refuse to provide a volume of generally combustible refuse, shreddingthe volume of... | 04/05/1977 |
| 3991689 | Waste grease-burning system Apparatus for incinerating grease-laden aqueous mixtures includes a burner assembly or having a swirl chamber whereinto the liquid is tangentially fed and swirled. From a nozzle connected to the chamber, a minor fraction of the feed mixture is emitted as ... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3985086 | Freezer, vacuum, oven sewage treatment system Raw sewage, garbage, waste, and the like, is ground and supplied to a freezer and vacuum chamber where it is frozen. The water is drawn off by vacuum and waste matter is supplied to an electronic oven where it is reduced to ash. Compressed air and accumul... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3962044 | Heat treating excreta and products thereof Solid animal excreta, such as solid livestock excreta, solid human excreta and solid poultry excreta, is converted to useful products by particulating the excreta and heat treating it in a closed heating zone at about 200°C to about 1000°C for a time su... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3955512 | Refuse incinerator A combustion chamber is arranged above a burner grate, and a fragmentizing device fragmentizes refuse and forwards it to the combustion chamber in form a mix composed of lighter and heavier refuse particles. The lighter refuse particles become combusted i... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3951081 | Method and apparatus for incinerating of refuse A combustion chamber has a lower end provided with a grate, and an inlet admits unclassified refuse into a comminutor wherein it is comminuted and forms a heavier particle fraction and a lighter particle fraction. The fraction having the heavier particles... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3939781 | Incinerator, incineration system and method Comminuted waste material is inserted into an upper section of a vertically directed incinerator. The incinerator includes a plurality of vertically contiguous zones. A blower is connected to an outlet port of the incinerator to adjust the flow rate of co... | 02/24/1976 |
| 3938449 | Waste disposal facility and process therefor Solid wastes are dumped into a receiving pit and a conveyor transfers them to a separate station where salvage operations are performed. Adjacent the salvage station a saw cuts waste wood to manageable lengths, which is conveyed with the other wastes to a... | 02/17/1976 |
