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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8152085 | Crusher A crusher is provided that can stably crush various information media, such as paper, magnetic recording media including cassette tapes and the like, optical recording media, and substrates, and the like, and has excellent maintainability. Hammer members 2... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7942356 | Horizontal shaft impact crusher A horizontal shaft impact crusher includes a housing, an impeller, and a first and a second curtain against which material accelerated by the impeller may be crushed, the second curtain being located downstream of the first curtain. The housing is provided with a fi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7261633 | Unitary pivoting spreader apparatus Spreader apparatus for a crop residue chopper of an agricultural harvesting machine or combine, mountable in a simple manner and quickly and precisely pivotable sidewardly, and optionally upwardly and downwardly, in a unitary manner, for adjusting or varying a direc... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7252033 | Automatic coffee maker A coffee maker includes a valve mechanism having a micro switch, an electromagnetic valve, a magnetic covering board activated by the electromagnetic valve for opening or closing a powder path, and a spring interconnecting the covering board and the electromagnetic ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7204436 | Residue exit for security destruction machines True zero-clearance cutting on a commercial scale is provided via a cutting area including a sacrifice material that is relatively softer than the cutter. One example is a cutting system which is capable of cutting a material such as, for example, tape or paper, int... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7096900 | Tree cutting attachment for work vehicle A tree cutting attachment for a skid loader or other types of self-propelled work vehicles to be used at construction and landscaping sites. The device is used to cut down brush and trees of up to about 12 inches in diameter. The tree cutting attachment is made up o... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7094146 | Combine chaff discharger A chaff discharger with at least one radial fan wheel, rotatably mounted in a fan housing. The housing includes an end wall turned away from a sieving unit and a peripheral wall formed with at least one chaff discharge opening. A direction of rotation of the radial ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7086942 | Chopping and distributing device For operating a self propelling harvester provided with a cutterbar and a chopping and distributing device located in a discharge region and supplying a crop stream to at least one ejecting blower, a discharge direction of the crop stream from the ejecting blower is... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7076895 | Apparatus and method for suction and discharge of material An apparatus for suction and discharge of material comprises a container (9) with a suction opening (19) for letting in a sucked-up air/material mixture and a discharge opening (14) for discharging material. The container (9) is rotatable... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7066417 | Bale processor Disclosed is an apparatus for disintegrating bales of agricultural material such as hay. The apparatus has a chassis, a processing tub with a discharge opening located in one of its side walls, a disintegrator mounted in the processing tub to disintegrate baled crop... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7017842 | Bale manipulator drive system for a bale processor A bale processor with a processing chamber includes a manipulator driven by a drive system that includes a hydraulic motor. The hydraulic motor of the drive system drives a drive shaft with an axis of rotation offset from a driven shaft of the manipulator. A rotatio... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7004411 | Transport locking for a vibrating feeder of a mobile crushing unit A transport locking arrangement is disclosed for a vibrating feeder of a mobile crushing unit, the transport locking arrangement utilizing the downward rotatable sidewalls of the feeder hopper of the vibrating feeder that are hingedly mounted on the framework of sai... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6945025 | Shredder head with protective elements, and mobile sylvicultural apparatus including the same A shredder head, and a mobile apparatus including the same, for carrying out various sylvicultural applications, such as land clearing and the like. Each of the shredding assemblies of the shredder head includes a protective element also operatively connected to the... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6871485 | Tree cutting attachment for skid loader A tree cutting attachment for a skid loader or other types of self-propelled work vehicles to be used at construction and landscaping sites. The device is used to cut down brush and trees of up to 8-10 inches in diameter. The tree cutting attachment is made up of a ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6820829 | Method and apparatus for separating material An apparatus for sorting particles composed of a mixture of particles with differing physical and chemical characteristics. The apparatus includes a comminutor or a pulverizer for reducing the size of the particles. The apparatus includes a mechanism for separating ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6820830 | Shredder residue dispersion system A security paper shredder where the residue of individual shredded document pages are collected in multiple collection bins for disposal, ensuring that no single collection bin contains the residue of any entire page. To further ensure that no adversary could obtain... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6742732 | Adjustable feeding and striking ramp The present invention relates to an adjustable feeding and striking ramp which permits for adjusting an angular disposition of feed material fed to an impacting radial pathway of shearing teeth carried by a rotor. By adjusting the feeding and striking ramp to a pred... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6663485 | Combine having a feeding device for transferring and an outlet zone for discharging materials A combine harvester having a blower for spreading the discharge mixture of chopped straw, chaff and like materials over a wide area utilizing the kinetic energy obtained through the medium of a chopper or feed device located prior to the blowers to save o... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6637680 | Horizontal shaft impact rock crusher with breaker plate tension bar locking device A horizontal shaft impact rock crusher having breaker plates which are adjustable by hand, using a novel tension rod adjustment nut locking device which employs several loose-fitting retaining devices which, in combination with a bridge to a frame member ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6595445 | Coffee grinder with chaff dispersion reducing apparatus and method A coffee grinder assembly with a housing containing a pair of hoppers for containing coffee beans with a pair of hopper outlet chutes, or grinding chamber inlet chutes for feeding beans into a grinding chamber where the beans are ground by powered grindin... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6572039 | Variable mulch handling and dispersing apparatus A mobile variable mulch handling and dispersing apparatus comprises an input section, a beater section, and a blower section. The input section preferably comprises a primary conveyor further comprising a drag chain conveyor assembly. The input section fu... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6431477 | Gas flow-type chipping machine A gas-flow type chipping machine with a rotating beater-wheel system. In order to chip the feed material, this material is delivered axially into the central area of the beater wheel, where it is deflected and moved in a radial direction to the chipper to... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6416405 | Combine having a feeding device for transferring and an outlet zone for discharging straw, chaff and like materials In a combine incorporating blowers (9) for spreading the discharge mixture of chopped straw and chaff over a wide area, the kinetic energy obtained through the medium of a chopper or feed device located prior to the blowers is retained so as to save on dr... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6412715 | Method for decreasing the likelihood of an object being thrown from a tub grinder A tub grinder includes a tub mounted for rotation about a vertical axis. A grinding member is positioned within a floor of the tub grinder. A deflection plate partially covers the floor to define a narrow trajectory area for debris being ejected from the ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6406368 | Straw and chaff spreader with spread to the rear An apparatus for attachment to a rear end of a combine for spreading straw and chaff comprises a pair of side-by-side rotating pans with attached blades for spreading chaff, with a straw spreader attached to and above each pan to spread straw before same ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6227469 | Comminuting machine A hammermill grinder that eliminates the frequent jamming caused when cutting heads catch on material that enters the lower segment of the rotary cutting arc and then feeds at a rapid rate equal to the rotation of the the hammermill into and under the ham... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6189820 | Method and apparatus for adapting a crusher for use with different materials A method and apparatus for adapting a horizontal shaft impact crusher for efficient crushing of different types of material are provided. At least two feed plates are provided. The feed plates each have a different feed angle adapted for use with a predet... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6155506 | Cutter-mixer and bed-straw spreader wagon provided of a perfected group for the distribution of the straw outside the wagon A cutter-mixer and bed-straw spreader wagon for fibrous products having a container with rotating screw feeder inside and outwardly of a distribution group for conveying the cut and mixed material outside the container. The distribution group has a fan wi... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6086002 | Balanced comminuting, vacuum and loading and/or spreading system The present invention relates to a hydraulic assisted comminuting, vacuuming and loading system for debris and includes: a self propelled vehicle having a bed for either (i) feeding native material, commercial mulch and the like into the system, or (ii) r... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6082647 | Mounted chopper in a combine harvester A combine harvester has a mounted chopper with a wide-distributor discharge, designed such that the need for impeller blowers for distributing the chopped material across the entire cutting width of the combine harvester is eliminated. In the mounted chop... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6036125 | Wood chipper A wood chipper includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet and a cutting assembly disposed within the housing between the inlet and the outlet and a chute disposed about and overhanging the outlet to form a space therebetween.... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6027054 | Self-propelled round bale straw blower A self-propelled machine that is used to break apart large round bales of straw and disperse the shredded material on a prepared seed bed. The machine includes an engine for power, a round bale chopper to dismember the round bale, a centrifugal fan and a ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5950941 | Dissipator for reducing electrostatic charge in fines generated by a coffee grinder An apparatus for the preparation of ground material used to make a beverage includes an electrostatic precipitator to prevent the separation of chaff fines from a main stream of the ground material. The apparatus includes a grinder and a chute leading fro... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5927626 | Solid substance crushing vehicle The present invention relates to a solid substance crushing vehicle which is able to move to a place of collection of glass products, chinaware, old stools, bricks, refractories, tourmaline of magnetic ores, etc. to automatically crush, produce, screen th... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5863005 | Forage harvester including selectively operable crop processing and conveyor arrangements A forage harvester includes a crop processing arrangement as well as a conveyor arrangement which can be selectively positioned in respective operating positions in a cutout in the duct extending between the crop chopping assembly and the blower for disch... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5695134 | Material reducing hammer mill with internal air circulating fan Material reducing rotary mill for receiving paper material, or the like, from a first chamber and forcibly delivering the reduced material into a second chamber for discharge at an outlet, a bypass passage interconnecting the first and second chamber, and... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5657933 | Adjustable feed plate for paper shredder A rotary shredder apparatus for reducing paper material having weight characteristic that creates difficulties in feeding the material for reduction, and in which the apparatus embodies an adjustable slide sheet having one position to allow bulky material... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5553792 | Variable analytical sampling mill and method A sampling mill for grinding discrete materials to obtain a representative sample is provided by this invention. The mill is particularly useful for grinding various foodstuffs such as corn, peanuts, animal foods and the like. The material to be sampled i... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5536154 | Apparatus for treating thermoplastic synthetic plastics material An apparatus for pre-treatment of thermoplastic synthetic plastics material, for example polyester waste, comprises at least two receptacles (1,13) disposed in series following each other, in each one of which receptacles a comminuting or mixing tool (5) ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5529250 | Feeding device for gas swept sized reduction machines A feeding device is disclosed for feeding cellulose material, such as wood chips to gas swept size reduction machines, and wherein the elimination of foreign particles from the material to be crushed is mainly achieved by pneumatic screening. The device i... | 06/25/1996 |
