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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350963 | Blender jar A blender jar defines a geometry to impart vertical movement to material being processed in the blender jar, and, alternatively or in combination, improves the horizontal movement to the blended material. By configuring one or more agitators on the floor of a jar, l... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7325761 | Hammer for a material size reduction machine A hammer 28 is provided for a material size-reducing machine of the type including a rotor on which the hammer is individually pivotally mounted. The hammer 28 includes a mounting end 36 having a throughbore for receiving a pivot pin therethroug... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7311279 | Self cleaning shredding device having movable cleaning rings A self cleaning cutting assembly is provided, having an array of counter rotating cutters in which a plurality of cutters rotating in a first direction are mounted on a first shaft and a plurality of second cutters are mounted on a second shaft for rotating in an op... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7267478 | Blender container with off center blade assembly A container (15) for a blender (10) includes a bottom surface (16) having a non-symmetrically shaped perimeter. A side wall (17) extends upwardly from the perimeter of the bottom surface (16). A mixing blade assembly (20) ha... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7246763 | Comminution apparatus A comminution apparatus for reducing a particle size of a material includes a cutting chamber defining an interior volume, wherein the cutting chamber includes first and second member forming an angle therebetween. Each of the first and second members include a plur... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240870 | Portable hand-held paper shredder A hand-held device for shredding paper comprising a pair of rotary cutting wheels disposed within a housing between an inlet slot and an outlet slot. A motor is positioned in the handle to drive the cutting wheels through a gear assembly. One wheel serves as a drive... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234334 | Saddle for backing assemblies in a rolling mill A saddle for a backing assembly in a rolling mill has non-cylindrical bearing surfaces that accommodate wear by allowing the saddles to self-align. The non-cylindrical bearing surfaces help prevent the needle bearings from being pinched and driven into the gear ring... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7226012 | Grater disc The present invention discloses an improved grater disc having a plurality of grater holes on a disc and at least one grater blade with an angle not less than 90 degrees protruded from the periphery of each grater hole. ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7198212 | Sheet shredder The sheet shredder includes a cutter block pair equipped with plural cutter discs arranged in parallel with each other at a specified distance, cutting units to cut sheets by rotating the cutter discs of the cutter block pair in the different directions respectively... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7134623 | Hammermill A hammermill having a housing, a rotor assembly, a plurality of hammers, and a attrition plate assembly is provided to reduce oversized particulate material to a desired size. The housing has a sidewall that extends between an inlet end and an discharge end which de... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134371 | Apparatus for guiding continuous fibers The present invention is directed towards an apparatus for guiding continuous materials. In one embodiment of the invention, the apparatus comprises first and second conveyors, each comprising a continuous conveyor belt carried by a set of pulleys including a drive ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7128285 | Disintegrator with rotative disk cutters An object of the present invention is to diminish the sizes of most disintegrated material effectively, said sizes being determined by the box seats made on the surface of the under roll (7). In a disintegrator (1) having a case (4) with ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7048215 | Comminuting apparatus having screen and access tray A comminuting apparatus is provided with a housing, at least two intermeshing scissor rolls, a screen, and an access tray. The housing has an entrance opening for receiving waste material and an exit opening for removing subdivided waste material. The scissor rolls ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6988683 | Apparatus for crushing glass or ceramic material Apparatus (2) for crushing glass or ceramic material, which apparatus (2) comprises a rotor (4), rotor blades (6) on the rotor (4), at least one stationary blade (8) which cooperates in use with the rotor blades (6) a... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6979117 | Blending jar apparatus with truncated wall A blending jar apparatus is disclosed including a plurality of walls and a handle secured to one of the plurality of walls. One of the plurality of walls may comprise a truncated wall. The handle may include an aperture extending at least partially through the handl... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978956 | Method and apparatus for granulating plastic A granulator has a first coarse cutting stage operating at between 5 and 45 rotations per minute and a second fine cutting stage operating at two to ten times the speed of the first stage. Since granulate exiting the second stage is uniformly divided, the granulator... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6830207 | Screen cleaning and comminuting system A comminuting apparatus including a filtering screen member for collecting solids carried by an effluent stream. The filtering screen member has an upstream side and a downstream side. The comminutor apparatus further includes a twin shaft grinder for grinding solid... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6732963 | Flour milling roll machine having front door and roll cover with fulcrum axes for exposing rolls easily The machine comprises a front door, a roll cover having a main roll cover and a feed roll cover, a first fulcrum axis between the main and feed roll covers, and a second fulcrum axis between the feed roll cover and a frame. The front door has a hinge at the upper po... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6666395 | Apparatus for wiredrawing vegetables or dicing them into three dimensional shapes An apparatus for wiredrawing vegetables or cutting them into three dimensional shapes, comprising a base frame, a first container supported by said base frame for collecting residues, a drum mounted for rotation about an axis on the surface of die cells, ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6357680 | Self-feeding comminuting apparatus having improved drive motor features A comminuting apparatus includes a frame, a set of overlapping scissor rolls, a first drive motor, and a second drive motor. The frame has an enclosure with an entrance opening for receiving waste material. The set of overlapping scissor rolls is carried ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6241170 | Industrial shredders and novel components therefor Industrial shredders containing a novel shredding head and novel stripper blades to prevent or reduce the possibility of jamming the shredder during operation. The Industrial shredder requires the use of a stripper blade which is removable and replaceable... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6194564 | Process for production of saline-solution soluble xanthan gum A process for saline-solution soluble xanthan gum which comprises the steps of precipitating xanthan gum by mixing, with stirring, an aqueous solution of xanthan gum with an organic solvent which is a non-solvent to xanthan gum but is hydrophilic, removin... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5921482 | Structure for paper shredder in a waste paper disposer Disclosed is an improved structure for a paper shredder in a waste paper disposer formed of one piece design composed of a hanging portion, and a shredder body with a plurality of scrapping elements and guiding slots. The structure is divided in two parts... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5904307 | Pulverizer apparatus with horizontal axis pivot scraper A scraper assembly for use with an associated coal pulverizer or as part of a coal pulverizer having a vertical axis with a central hub that rotates during normal operation of the pulverizer. The scraper assembly includes a bracket dimensioned and configu... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5893524 | Paper shredder A paper shredder, particularly a small paper shredder, includes a shell-like lower housing part which includes the cutting rollers with their bearing plates at the end faces and the stripping elements, and an upper housing part which is provided with a ma... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5853131 | Desktop paper shredder A desktop paper shredder including a housing in which a pair of shafts are rotationally mounted. The housing is provided with an entrance that corresponds to and is aligned with the shafts. A paper trash container is removably disposed at the lower portio... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5826809 | Support for cutting cylinders in a paper shredder A support integral with a housing for a paper shredder having a plurality of cutting cylinders with cutting shafts. The support has at least one rib extending outward from at least one wall of the housing toward the cutting shafts of the cutting cylinders... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5746378 | Volume reduction machine A volume reduction machine for crushing beverage containers has a pair of feed rolls and a pair of crusher rolls. The feed rolls in spaced relationship to a feed plate, urge containers to be crushed, while puncturing them. The feed rolls comprise a plural... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5716185 | Bar cleaner for trash bag breaker A multiplicity of teeth are mounted to a beam in a comb structure, with the space between the teeth defining slots. The edges of the slots are lined with upstanding flanges which are sharpened to form cutting edges. The comb structure is arranged to be su... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5636801 | One piece molded stripper for shredders A stripper for use on a cutting cylinder having a shaft. The stripper comprising a unitary, resilient body and an arcuate recess in the mid-portion of the body adapted to surround at least about 180 degrees of the circumference of the shaft of the cylinde... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5564881 | Bar cleaner for trash bag breaker A multiplicity of teeth are mounted to a beam in a comb structure, with the space between the teeth defining slots. The edges of the slots are lined with upstanding flanges which are sharpened to form cutting edges. The comb structure is arranged to be su... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5562256 | Garlic grater A garlic grater having a grating drum with a cylindrical grate driven into rotation by a motor which is preferably operated with batteries. The grating drum is freely mounted within an inner liner in such a manner as to define an annular, garlic skin-rece... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5520342 | Apparatus for recycling asphalt materials Apparatus for processing recyclable asphalt material includes an elongate drum having a generally cylindrical wall, a central axis, a first end and a second end, and being mounted for rotation about the central axis, with the central axis tilted at an acu... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5516050 | Industrial Rotary Shredder Rows of finger blocks are mounted to a frame body of a rotary industrial shredder laterally parallel to respective ones of the counter-rotational pair of shafts so as to be moveable slightly, but meaningfully, during the shredding operation while maintain... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5409171 | Document shredder In a document shredder (1) each tool roller (7, 11) has two tool strippers (8, 9 or 12, 13) with in each case at least one support rod (15) and associated stripping bodies (28), so that two rows of stripping bodies (28) are provided in spaced manner in th... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5379951 | Comminuting apparatus The comminution of solid materials, such as stumps and wood waste, into particulate form is accomplished by introducing the material to be comminuted into a tub. The tub is rotated to induce a circular motion to the material. Simultaneously, a disk positi... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5374316 | Method and apparatus for separation of sugarcane pith from rind An improved apparatus and method for separating milled sugarcane pith from flattened rind upon discharge from a depithing station. The method includes dividing the discharge by a fixed deflector, preferably with a blunt upstream edge, into a primary pith ... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5346144 | Document shredder and container as a substructure for it A workplace document shredder is located with its cutting mechanism, gear and electric motor in a self-supporting, integral casing, which carries all the functional parts and circumferentially surrounds the same. The bearings of the cutting rollers are co... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5339961 | Debagger sorter machine A machine for removing yard waste from bags and for sorting the waste. Filled bags dropped into a hopper have offset slashes cut in opposite sides by blades mounted upon two rotary shafts. The blades are pivoted to minimize solid tramp waste damage, and a... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5333951 | Roll mixing machine and method A mixing machine including a frame; a first roller rotatably supported by the frame; a second roller rotatably supported by the frame in a position parallel to the first roller and closely adjacent thereto so as to facilitate compression of material there... | 08/02/1994 |
