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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7845587 | Pulverizer upper gearbox bearing assembly A pulverizer upper gearbox bearing assembly for a mill includes a bowl hub having a stepped hub defining a first bore to receive a shaft therethrough and a bowl extending radially outwardly therefrom defining a cavity between the stepped hub and bowl, the stepped hu... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7766266 | Sound generator help system of shredder A sound generator help system of a shredder is disclosed. A disorder signal during the operation of the shredder is transmitted to the sound generator help system which then suggests the user how to correct operate the shredder and fix the problem in voice. When a p... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7621476 | Cutter knife The invention relates to a cutter knife (8), a cutter head disk (1) and a system including the inventive cutter head disk and the inventive knife, wherein the cutter knife includes a longitudinal bore enabling only one cutter knife to be arranged on th... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7344096 | Shredder with lock for on/off switch The present application discloses a shredder with a switch lock that locks the on/off switch in its on/off position. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7303158 | Shredder head having shredder blades and an associated safety feature for protecting a portion of a person's body A shredder having a safety feature(s) that reduces potential safety hazards by detecting the touch of a portion of a person's body. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303159 | Crushing control apparatus for shearing crusher A crushing control apparatus for a shearing crusher, which properly controls the crusher in accordance with kinds of objects to be crushed and is capable of reliably preventing stop of operation due to excessive load, clogging and the like, is provided. For this pur... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7229036 | Food processing appliance with indicator A food processing appliance for processing food stuff including a housing and an electric motor mounted within the housing. A bowl lid is removably mountable over the bowl. The bowl is mounted to the housing and the bowl lid is mounted over the bowl in a working pos... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7207511 | Condiment grinder A condiment grinder has a body for containing condiment seeds, and a condiment grinding mechanism provided at a lower open end of the body through which condiment seeds, ground by the mechanism, may be dispensed. The grinding mechanism has a female grinder and a mal... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204441 | Shredder apparatus and full bin indicator A shredder apparatus is provided that may include a bin for receiving shredded materials and a shredder housing that contains a shredder mechanism. The shredder housing is configured to be seated upon the bin and to provide a bin access opening to allow for the depo... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7182283 | Pulverizer real-time monitoring system A pulverizer monitoring system is applicable to at least one pulverizer having a rotatable bowl assembly, and at least one journal assembly having a grinding roll positioned proximal the rotatable bowl assembly, wherein the grinding roll is deflected by the feedstoc... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7172144 | System for measuring wear in a grinding mill The system for measuring wear in a grinding mill has at least one bolt passing through the shell and a wear plate. The bolt has an elongated oblong-shaped bolt head extending through the wear plate, flush with a surface of the wear plate. The bolt head is exposed to... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7066415 | Touch pad control information system for a food waste disposer A touch pad control information system for a food waste disposer is disclosed. The touch pad is mountable to a wall or countertop near the food waste disposer. The touch pad preferably includes switches which allow the user to select from a plurality of disposer fun... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7040559 | Shredder with lock for on/off switch The present application discloses a shredder with a switch lock that locks the on/off switch in its on/off position. ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036758 | Cone crusher A crushing chamber is formed between a concave liner and a mantle liner. The concave liner has a first area surface having a length of T to √2T; a second and a third area surface; which surfaces are gradually inclined from the side of the inlet for the crushing ch... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6978954 | Detector for a shredder A shredder for shredding material is provided that includes a housing. having a cutting device to shred material. A receptacle is also included and is positioned to receive the shredded material. A detecting device is positioned between the cutting device and the re... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6719225 | Device and method for pre-disintegrating and cutting into sections fibrous plants and for the separation of fibers and woody parts A device and method are provided for pre-disintegrating and cutting fibrous plants to staple length for the separation of fibres and woody parts with the goals to accelerate drying, if applied during harvesting, but mainly to facilitate separation of woody parts bef... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6581860 | Crusher A crusher comprises a main shaft a portion of which is disposed in a bore of a rotatable eccentric shaft, the main shaft (1) having a central axis that is inclined with respect to the axis of rotation of the eccentric shaft, and a first crushing head atta... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6343752 | Indoor wastewater disposal system and tank therefor A self-contained, indoor wastewater disposal system for collecting, grinding, and pumping wastewater is readily installed within a building such as in the basement thereof by connecting to a wastewater feed pipe, to a wastewater discharge pipe, and to an ... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6182914 | Method and device for pre-milling a confectionery material A desired consistency for particulate confectionery material is obtained by adjusting the spacing of a nip between two rotary milling cylinders in dependence upon a measured force exerted by the confectionery material on the cylinders during passage of th... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6149082 | Paper waste disposal system A paper waste disposal system having an intake assembly structured to receive paper waste generated by a continuous feed and operation printing system, a collection assembly structured to collect and contain the paper waste received by the intake assembly... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6129297 | Cone crusher with wear indicator A cone crusher with wear indicator. The cone crusher comprises a frame, a head rotatably supported on the frame, a bowl supported on the frame in spaced relation to the head, a liner mounted on one of the head and the bowl, and an indicator for indicating... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5865384 | Spice grinder Spice is ground into variable particle sizes by a manually or electrically grinder including a housing, a spindle, a grinding device, a particle size adjusting device, and a driving device. The housing has a housing ring at an upper portion and a partitio... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5743473 | Apparatus for crushing glassware An apparatus for crushing and storing product, especially glassware such as fluorescent lights and mercury vapor lamps, which when crushed, produces injurious substances, particularly mercury compounds, broken glass, and phosphorous powder. A flat funnel ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5692687 | Medical waste processing and disinfecting apparatus A medical waste handling device in which the medical waste material, including syringes, are ground and crushed in a grinding unit while being sanitized and subjected to a cold temperature of about -50° F. to make the waste material brittle, passing the ... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5653393 | Cone crusher The structure of this invention involves a driving device for rotating a concave support, an input detection device for detecting a variation of electric current to a driving motor of the driving device, a rotation detection device for detecting the numbe... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5462236 | Calibrateable timed weight grinder A coffee grinding apparatus which measures a quantity of coffee for grinding as a function of time and which is calibrateable to accurately discharge a selected weight of ground coffee. The grinding apparatus includes at least one storage hopper in gravit... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5443215 | Apparatus for adjusting a shearbar relative to a cutterhead In a forage harvester which has an automatically adjustable shearbar mechanism for adjusting the distance between the shearbar and a rotating cutterhead, rotation of the cutterhead is determined by the use of essentially steady state signals without subst... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5407141 | Impact mill Impact mill comprising a housing (1) wherein a drivable centrifugal rotor (3) rotatable about a rotational axis (8) and an impact body (7) enclosing this centrifugal rotor are provided. At least one sensor (11, 111, 211, 311, 411) is assigned to the impac... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5282579 | Apparatus for adjusting the gap of a size reduction machine An extensible spacer device for setting a gap between an impeller and a screen of a size reduction machine comprises a first collar having an axially extending bore, an internal thread on an inside surface of the bore and a circumferential shroud extendin... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5050808 | Milling apparatus and system therefor In a milling apparatus for milling granular material into milled particles, a roll mill includes a pair of rolls which are rotatably arranged in facing relation to each other. At least one of the rolls is movable toward and away from the other. A gap adju... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5035366 | Paper shredder with service power outlet A paper shredder is provided not only with cutters for cutting paper, a driver for driving the cutters and a power source for the driver, but also with a service power outlet from which power can be supplied to an external electrical equipment such as a v... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4973000 | Method and apparatus for determining the contact position in a refiner Methods for determining the contact position between a pair of relatively rotating refining surfaces are disclosed including detecting the heat radiating from the initial contact between the pair of refining surfaces during relative rotation therebetween ... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4817441 | Process and apparatus for obtaining a gas sample A process for obtaining a gaseous sample from a stream containing solid particulate material, a gas, water and steam which comprises withdrawing a stream containing said particulate material, a gas, water and steam from a system containing the same throug... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4765548 | Garbage disposal apparatus Garbage disposal apparatus of the type used in fast food restaurants for receiving refuse from food trays has a garbage-receiving cabinet with a vertically slidable door panel operated by a pedal-actuated mechanism, permitting two-handed handling of the f... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4759508 | Apparatus for crushing containers containing a toxic liquid An apparatus for crushing small containers, such as vials, containing a scintillation liquid. The apparatus includes a closed housing having a feed opening in the upper end which communicates with a hopper. The lower end of the hopper registers with a pai... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4754932 | Coal pulverizer inerting and fire extinguishing system A combination inerting and fire extinguishing system particularly suited for employment in a pulverizing bowl mill (10) of the type that is operative for effecting the grinding of material and that includes a substantially closed separator body (16) in wh... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4682737 | Method and apparatus for preventing clogging of powdery granules in light powdery granule treating system In a light powder granule treating system, a light powdery granule supplying member is connected to a light powdery granule treating member through a supply conduit, and a sensing member is arranged for detecting the light powdery granules being so stagna... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4635858 | Methods of operating ball grinding mills An electric motor operated rotary drum type grinding mill is operated at optimal efficiency by detecting and analyzing the motor current. The power signals are converted by signal processing equipment for presentation as pictorial display representations ... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4362219 | Food preparing machine A food preparing machine has an electric motor for driving food processing implements in order to eliminate the need for a separate weighing unit or for a volume-measuring unit when measuring different ingredients, the machine is provided with a weight-me... | 12/07/1982 |
