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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7331469 | Vibratory separator with automatically adjustable beach A vibratory separator having a basket for supporting screen apparatus for treating material, the basket pivotably mounted on a base, vibratory apparatus connected to the basket for vibrating the basket, the material forming a pool on the screen apparatus, and a beac... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7284665 | Method and apparatus for processing articles Apparatus is described for processing articles. It has a hollow drum having permeable walls. At one end there is an inlet for receiving articles onto an inside surface of the permeable walls. At the other end is an outlet for discharging articles from the drum. The ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284664 | Methods and apparatus for performing data acquisition and control Mechanisms and techniques provide a data acquisition basic input output system between a central controller and a set of modules networked to the central controller. The central controller obtains at least one command to be sent to at least one module of the set of ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278540 | Adjustable basket vibratory separator A vibratory separator having a base, a basket movably mounted on the base and for supporting screen apparatus for treating material introduced into the vibratory separator, the basket on a base and pivotable with respect thereto, vibratory apparatus connected to the... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7231927 | Method for recycling used-up plastic products and washing process of crushed plastic and apparatus therefor An object of the invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for recycling plastics which is improved with respect to operation efficiency, operation environment, lowering degradation of plastics, recycling cost and environment load including saving energy. Th... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7165289 | Animal shaped toy recovery and storage device A recovery and storage device suitable for picking up children's toys and placing them in a storage container has an appearance of a novelty animal, primarily an elephant, including an anatomical frame member with a vacuum motor integrated with a vacuum housing incl... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163106 | Strainer for cleaning fibrous suspensions A strainer for fibrous suspensions, having a container, a filtering basket inside the container and a rotor inside the filtering basket coupled to motorization means suited to set it rotating. In the container there are a drain chamber of the rejected suspension, a ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7111739 | Wet fine particle sizing and separating apparatus A particle sizing and separating apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a base and a frame that is movably connected to the base. A motor assembly is provided to vibrate the frame and at least two screens are connected to the frame. Means also are provided f... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7104403 | Static two stage air classifier A two-stage static air classifier has a feed duct through which particles of a granular mixture fall. A classifying louver plate having fins forming upwardly inclined classifying channels is fitted into a side opening in the feed duct. Particles of a set size are dr... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7097044 | Dry separation of contaminants from polyester materials A method for separating polyester materials from contaminants is disclosed suitable for, for example, a polyester recycling system. The method is a dry separation method and includes rapidly spinning a mixture of polyester and contaminants within a cleaning chamber.... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093718 | Inline sifter A booster 8 extending in an internal area 53 of a sieve 7 is attached to the outer circumferential face of a rotating shaft 6. The booster 8 has four blades 82, which are radially extended from the outer circumferential face... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7021089 | Laundry appliance A laundry appliance such as a washing machine includes an outer housing and a drum rotatably mounted therein. The drum has an inner wall and an outer wall separate from the inner wall, the inner and outer walls being perforated to allow washing liquid to flow into a... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6942103 | Static two stage air classifier A two-stage static air classifier has a feed duct through which particles of a granular mixture fall. A classifying louver plate having fins forming upwardly inclined classifying channels is fitted into a side opening in the feed duct. Particles of a set size are dr... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6926839 | Method and apparatus for removing particulate contaminants from commercial laundry waste water A filtration apparatus includes a filter element disposed at a 45 degree angle defining an upper chamber for solids and a lower chamber for liquid. A trough is disposed at the lower end of the filter element. The floor of the trough funnels toward a central drain an... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6905528 | Conveying air filtration system An arrangement used for filtering out conveying air when supplying fiber material to a processing machine is provided. The arrangement has an essentially vertical filling chute for the fiber material, the chute having an upper intake opening and a lower exit opening... | 06/14/2005 |
| RE38738 | Cylindrical screen, particularly for paper pulp Cylindrical screen, particularly for paper pulp, of the type comprising at least one filtering element (10) positioned between two flanges (1, 2) by means of a number of bars (3). The filtering element is composed by wires (10) placed sid... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6368387 | Device and process for recovering powder and installation for spraying coating product equipped with such a device A device for recovering powder in an installation for spraying pulverulent coating product. The device includes: at least one cyclone for separating the powder recovered in the installation and its conveying air, and a sieve associated with the or each cy... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6360897 | Screen device comprising two screen chambers for separating fiber suspensions A screen device for separating fiber suspensions comprises a screen (40) defining a central chamber (36), and a rotor (15) in the central chamber having a first (21) and a second (27) rotor portion, respectively, provided with first (43) and second (41) p... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6357596 | Sperm strainer system The invention in the simplest form is a passive method and apparatus for filtering motile sperm from a sperm sample. The invention passively filters the motile sperm using a membrane assembly disposed in a container. In operation, a sperm sample is placed... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6338412 | Cylindrical screen, particularly for paper pulp Cylindrical screen, particularly for paper pulp, of the type comprising at least one filtering element (10) positioned between two flanges (1, 2) by means of a number of bars (3). The filtering element is composed by wires (10) placed side by side and hel... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6329436 | Process to recycle shredder residue A system and process for recycling shredder residue, in which separating any polyurethane foam materials are first separated. Then separate a fines fraction of less than about 1/4 inch leaving a plastics-rich fraction. Thereafter, the plastics rich fracti... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6311850 | Pressure screening apparatus for screening a paper stock suspension and screen clearer for such a screening apparatus A pressure screening apparatus for screening a stock suspension and screen clearer for a pressure screening apparatus. The pressure screening apparatus includes an inflow chamber, a suspension inflow connected to one end of the inflow chamber, a reject ou... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6299695 | Method and apparatus for processing ceramic components A method and apparatus for processing or cleaning ceramic components that are contaminated with dust deposits are provided. Relative vibrations are generated between the ceramic components and the ambient atmosphere for dislodging dust deposits from the c... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6129214 | Sperm strainer system The invention in the simplest form is a passive method and apparatus for filtering motile sperm from a sperm sample. The invention passively filters the motile sperm using a nucleopore membrane that is contained within a membrane assembly, wherein the mem... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5925249 | Screening arrangement Apparatus for screening pulp suspensions containing heavy impurities is disclosed including a casing with an inlet for the pulp suspension at the lower end of the casing, a stationary screen mounted within the casing, a rotor mounted for rotation within t... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5908115 | Method and apparatus for the classification of solid particles A method and apparatus for the classification of solid particles, in particular powdery catalytic components for the polymerization of olefins, which comprises sending solid particles suspended in a transporting gas flow through a screening device. Immedi... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5881887 | Apparatus called "TSS"-the turbo screening system, for filtering and fractionation of suspensions containing fibres, fibre fragments, fines and other particles The present invention is directed to an electrolytically produced screening material for the removal of fibers from suspensions during the production of pulp and paper. The screening material is a thin, smooth metal foil having perforations on the order o... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5873469 | Vibrating screener An improved vibrating screener is disclosed as including an inlet system which provides for tangential input of the material to be processed by the screener. A spacing frame is provided in connection with the tangential inlet in order to separate material... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5800578 | Air separation system including a tangential separator and a pneumatic relay conveyer A separating system for separating material transported by air utilizing apparatus having a tangential inlet for a stream of air and entrained material, a bottom material exit, a boundary wall air exit and a central interior air exit. Each air exit includ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5735403 | Apparatus for removal of fine particles in material flow system A particle separator for use in a material flow system having an airflow generator to generate a flow of air to provide supply material having coarse and fine particulate material to the particle separator. The particle separator includes a housing having... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5667080 | Jewelers vacuum A hand-held jeweler's vacuum comprises an elongated vacuum member with an opening at one end, motor drive means located at the other end and an aperture in the bottom of the elongated member. A detachable box member is mounted beneath the aperture to rece... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5645724 | Rotor-equipped cylindrical screens A cylindrical screen within which rotates a rotor fitted with means causing pressure variations and/or turbulence. The rotor (1) consists of one or several cylindrical surface segments (2) which when geometrically developed are right triangles of which th... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5624558 | Method and apparatus for screening a fiber suspension The differences in performance of a screening cylinder during screening of a fiber suspension (e.g. low consistency paper pulp) at the inlet end compared to the reject end is accommodated by constructing the feed side surface of the screening cylinder so ... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5614094 | Vibrating screen unit A vibrating screen unit for dewatering dredged material. The vibrating screen unit includes a frame and a top screen deck, a middle screen deck and a bottom screen deck. The middle screen deck includes a splitter which extends across the width of the fram... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5607589 | Multiple contour screening A screen cylinder or plate has a screening surface and accepts surface on opposite faces, and screens pulp flowing in a flow direction to separate accepts from rejects. A number of substantially parallel macro grooves are formed in the screening surface g... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5593582 | Two for one shale shaker A shale shaker having two feeds, two screens, two mud outlets and a removable tray between the screens is disclosed. Each screen receives one feed and produces one outlet of cuttings and another outlet for separated mud for either bypass or direct feed to... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5453193 | Strainer An improved strainer device has a screen which receives a solid/mixture from a feed container for separation. To insure that an uneven flow of the mixture over the screen does not occur due to, for example, a non-level mounting, inlet rushing or turbulenc... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5431287 | Separator screen feeder A vibratory screen separator system having a moving manifold, angled feed nozzles, and angled spray nozzles. The spray nozzles and the feed nozzles are attached to the bottom of the manifold, and the manifold moves back and forth over the screen. The feed... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5429247 | Method and apparatus for screening peat moss material Method and apparatus for screening peat moss material. The method comprises the steps of forming an aqueous slurry of peat moss material and flowing the slurry on a screen to separate fines from coarser particles in the slurry. A spray of relatively large... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5296098 | Method and device for separating a fibre suspension A fibre suspension is separated by a filter device having a hollow filter body (1) with a wall (2) of filter material, and a container (3). The entire fibre suspension to be separated is sprayed in the form of at least one liquid jet onto said wall (2) to... | 03/22/1994 |
