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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162246 | Multiple safety element torque limiter A displaceable drive ball safety element type torque limiter is installed in a variable speed AC motor drive crusher mill drive which can include a selective operable locking brake to hold the crusher components stationary during maintenance operations. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8074913 | Combination thermoforming trim press and comminuting apparatus A combination thermoforming trim press and comminuting apparatus is provided. The combination includes a horizontal trim press, a comminuting apparatus, and a height-adjustable delivery chute. The trim press has an exit for downwardly delivering a scrap web of therm... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8056845 | Combination coffee grinder and coffee storage device In a combination coffee grinder and coffee storage device, a housing has a grinding chamber and a storage container located with the housing. The storage container has a removable airtight closure and the grinding chamber has grinding blades. A motor is located in t... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7992814 | Mobile system and method for crushing rock while isolating electronic components from excessive vibration A mobile rock crushing vehicle with a detachable electronic control box which can be automatically lifted, by a pair of hydraulic pivoting arms, off the vehicle, lowered and set upon any vibration damping and isolating mass, such as the earth, all by moving a hydrau... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7942355 | Self-propelled crusher and management system for self-propelled crusher A self-traveling crushing machine includes: a traveling device; a crushing device that is provided on the traveling device and crushes a to-be-crushed object supplied; an overload escaping section that escapes an overload of the crushing device; and a controller tha... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7934671 | Auxiliary drive An apparatus and method relate to an auxiliary drive for rotating a gearless grinding mill. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7757987 | Mobile shredder A mobile shredder comprises a truck having an enclosure providing a storage volume for storage of shredded material, and a rotary shredder mounted in the enclosure outside the storage volume. A prime mover is disposed in an engine/transmission compartment of the tru... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7694904 | Auxiliary drive An apparatus includes a shell connection mechanism configured to be actuated between a connected state in which a mechanism is connected to a shell and a disconnected state and an actuator configured to move the first mechanism while the first mechanism is in the co... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7575186 | Comminution machine A comminution machine for waste includes a rotor that carries blade elements and cooperates with counter-blades, which are fixed to the housing. The rotor is driven by a synchronous motor that is excited by a controllable frequency converter. In order to keep the co... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7556214 | Cutting assembly An apparatus including a pair of substantially parallel shafts. Each shaft has a plurality of axially spaced cutting blades mounted thereon such that each blade forms an oblique angle with respect to a central axis of the associated shaft. Each cutting blade include... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7520457 | Automated composting system A composting system with a digestion chamber, an auger shaft with at least one mixing vane, and a power unit. The power unit can be hydraulic and can also power a shredding unit and an input conveyor system. A barrier wall can be interposed between those elements an... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7469851 | Continuously adjustable self-lubricating mill roll drive Described is an adjustable roll drive including a fixed drive cylinder having a fixed drive gear, a fixed intermediate gear rotated by the fixed drive gear, a movable intermediate gear rotated by the fixed intermediate gear, and a movable driven cylinder having a mo... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469850 | Comminuting apparatus with three-phase synchronous motor and integrated epicyclic gear stage A comminuting apparatus having a compact, variable-speed drive unit with a high level of efficiency and high torque levels. The comminuting apparatus comprises a drive device having an electric motor operatively connected by way of a transmission device to a comminu... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7448564 | Portable apparatus for crushing rock and other hard material and related method The invention includes a rock crushing machine and method, the machine having a base and a jaw assembly secured to the base. The jaw assembly is adapted to receive rock as input material to be at least partially crushed. The jaw assembly is provided with an arcuate ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7404527 | Safety shield for an ice shaving machine A safety shield (10) is adapted to be used in a machine having a blade assembly such as an ice shaving and dispensing machine (11). The machine (11) has an ice bin (13) carried by a pedestal (12). An ice shelf (31) has an op... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7387065 | Movable stuffing machine for the production of silage stored on the bottom by means of a tubular film A movable stuffing machine for producing silage is disclosed wherein the silage is stored on the bottom and is used for filling a tubular film. The stuffing machine comprises a stuffing wall (1) which is disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7364104 | Cutting machine for organic plant materials, especially for tobacco A cutting machine for organic plant materials has a frame in which a cutterhead of a drum having sets of cutting knives (16, 18) symmetrically arranged on its perimeter surface is mounted. At least two separate knife extension arrangement (10, 10a | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360731 | Shredder The improvements relate to shredders for paper and the like having a shredding mechanism with an opening through which shredded material passes out of the shredding mechanism, a compactor plate located beneath the shredding mechanism and including an opening, and a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357872 | Lift station and method A lift station for raising the level of an open channel flow of liquid by sweeping blades mounted to a rotated wheel into the liquid flow after entering a housing to sweep the liquid up and back along a housing interior wall and over a weir edge located well above t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7328628 | Apparatus and methods for sample preparation The invention, in various embodiments, provides systems, methods and devices relating to processing a sample. A vessel is described for containing a sample. The vessel includes a reversibly sealable chamber for containing the sample which has a flexible portion to a... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325760 | Automatic guided system for transferring scrap glass An automatic guided system transfers scrap glass resulted from at least one scrap glass source of a clean room to a scrap exit. The automatic guided system for transferring the scrap glass includes a rail module and a vehicle module. The rail module connects the scr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7314307 | Automatic motor-driven blender cup with a leak-free magnetic stirring apparatus An automatic motor-driven blender cup with a leakage-free stirring apparatus includes a blender cup, an internal chamber, a mounting frame, a stirring shaft, a magnetic disk and a motor with a dry battery; wherein, said mounting frame and stirring shaft are disposed... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311277 | Shredder apparatus and shredding method When a printing paper to which an IC chip storing secret information is attached is discarded, a shredder applied voltage to the IC chip by a discharging unit to destroy the IC chip and to make it impossible to read the secret information therefrom. Thereafter, a sh... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303160 | System and method for processing waste on a continuous basis A system for processing waste on a continuous basis comprises an infeed assembly, a vessel held at a non-ambient pressure and/or temperature, and an outfeed assembly. The infeed assembly includes: a sleeve where waste is delivered; a gate construction that moves bet... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300005 | Single motor blower An apparatus for installation of a material having discrete elements. The apparatus includes: (a) a supply material having discrete elements; and (b) a transporter system downstream of the supply material having discrete elements. In the preferred embodiment, the tr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300239 | Hoist for loading and unloading objects on a truck bed A hoist for elevating cargo onto the bed of a truck includes a frame (11) which may be mounted to the truck bed, a platform or container (12) which is connected to the frame by a pivoting arm (9), and an arrangement of linkages for rotating the ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290724 | Blender A blender includes a container mounted removably on a housing for containing food items and provided with a cutting blade unit that is to be driven rotatably by a motor unit when the container is mounted on the housing. A control unit is operable in accordance with ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7284717 | Recycling machine for precast concrete products The concrete product recycling machine is transportable to job sites for breaking apart concrete panels and recycling the concrete and the steel reinforcement therein. The concrete panel recycling machine has a conveyor to transport the panels to rest on top of an a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7276003 | Vertical band saw machine with a speed ratio varying device A vertical band saw machine includes a first transmitting shaft driven by a drive force of a motor, a second transmitting shaft journaling a lower blade mounting pulley for rotating an endless band saw blade, and a speed ratio varying device coupling the transmittin... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276027 | System, for monitoring the concentration of analytes in body fluids The invention concerns a system for monitoring the concentration of analytes in body fluids, in particular in interstitial fluid and comprises a catheter having an implantable region and an outlet opening for withdrawing fluid in particular body fluid. A first and a... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270283 | Single motor blower An apparatus for installation of a material having discrete elements. The apparatus includes a supply material having discrete elements and a transporter system downstream of the supply material having discrete elements. In the preferred embodiment, the transporter ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7240865 | Apparatus for food waste treatment An apparatus for food waste treatment which efficiently treats sewage and odor generated from food wastes. The food waste treatment apparatus includes a body (10), a hopper (30) to put the food wastes into the body (10), a crusher (14) in... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231748 | Adjusting device of film packaging machine An adjusting device that is mounted in a film packaging machine includes a moving mechanism that selectively moves two support blocks in opposite directions and toothed wheels mounted to the support blocks in a symmetric manner and driven by a timing belt that is me... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229041 | Lifting lid crusher A blockage clearance apparatus for a crusher that has a housing and a lid and at least one anvil mounted to the lid for crushing material. The housing contains a rotatable rotor with radial blow bars against which crushable materials are forced during operation. In ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226008 | Briquette of ferrous metal working scrap, method of making the same, mashing crusher of grinding chips and briquette making apparatus using the same A briquette meeting required strength that is formed in an energy-saving manner from ferrous metal working scrap, such as grinding chips, and a method of making the briquette are provided. In a briquette formed by applying a pressing pressure to a ferrous metal work... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226006 | Treatment of municipal solid waste An apparatus and process for the separation, recovery and recycling of municipal solid waste (MSW) in which hot water 48 is added to shredded and homogenized MSW 2 as it enters a rotating feed preparation drum 34 equipped with internal lifter bl... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7213509 | Method and system for individual tire recycling A method for handling scrap tires, includes a step of providing a compacting apparatus to a scrap tire generator, such as a tire retailer. Before compacting the tires, the tire can be marked with a unique identifier assigned to every tire generator. By marking the s... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210641 | Methods of making a niobium metal oxide Methods to at least partially reduce a niobium oxide are described. In one embodiment, a milling process is described wherein the surfaces of the mill in contact with the starting metal oxide, getter material, and/or oxygen reduced metal oxide are the same as the ma... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207508 | Wedding glass housing The invention provides a method for effecting a controlled breaking of a wedding glass, comprising providing a device having a housing having a bottom and top sheet both of puncture-resistant material and an intermediate layer of compressible material retained betwe... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201340 | Method and device for treating articles in the form of sheet-like material The invention relates to an apparatus and corresponding method for processing, i.e. testing, sorting and/or destroying, sheet material, in particular bank notes, comprising a processing device (10) having at least one means (13, 14, 41) for generating ... | 04/10/2007 |
