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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113453 | Reducing machine rotor assembly and methods of constructing and operating the same A fragmenting rotor assembly for comminuting waste wood and other fragmentable material. A hammer support is carried by a drive shaft driven in rotation about a longitudinal drive shaft axis. The hammer support projects radially relative to the drive shaft axis and ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8033489 | Impact crusher An impact crusher includes a crushing chamber, a rotor mounted in the crushing chamber, and an apron having an impact surface, said apron being movably positioned within the chamber. The apron is pre-loaded to oppose forces generated within the crushing chamber. The... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7975949 | Hammer assembly for a rotary material crusher A hammer assembly for attachment to a rotor of a rotary material crusher. The hammer assembly has an adaptor, having a base portion and a hammer mounting portion, with the base portion being attachable to the rotor at the periphery portion and a hammer, having at le... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7878437 | Canister with adjustable grinder A canister configured to include a container and a spice grinder coupled to the container. The spice grinder includes a grinding ring and a feed cone unit that cooperates with the grinding ring to define a grinding chamber therebetween. ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7850107 | Rotor for tree mulching machine A rotor assembly for a tree cutting attachment for a skid loader. The rotor assembly is made up of a central driven shaft journaled for rotation in the frame of the tree cutting attachment. Circular endplates are disposed proximately on the opposed ends of the centr... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7721983 | Crusher A crusher comprises a crushing rotor being rotatable and having a crushing bit to crush target materials to be crushed, a feed conveyor for conveying the target materials toward the crushing rotor, and a pressing feeder unit including a pressing roller disposed abov... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7651043 | Bale grinder A machine for grinding forage material includes a support frame that supports an enclosure for retaining a bale of forage material. A rotary shredder is positioned within the enclosure where the rotary shredder grinds the bale of forage material and discharges a for... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7581691 | Flail rotor for a bale processor The novel rotor for a bale processor comprises a number of plate sections that extend radially outward from a rotor axis with bale disintegrators mounted on outer edges of the rotor plate sections for bale disintegration during rotor rotation. The rotor may have fou... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7419109 | Apparatus for attaching hammers to a hammer mill An apparatus for mounting hammers to a hammer mill having at least one hammer provided for attachment to a hammer mill, the at least one hammer having an opening disposed in one end thereof corresponding to a pivot axis, the opening being of a first diameter. A slee... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7360725 | Material crusher Crusher has a housing with a cylindrical crushing chamber defined by a tubular wall. Opposed side plates are secured to respective ends of the wall. A drive shaft rotates impact tools within the chamber. An intake aperture and a discharge aperture are in communicati... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7311278 | Crusher bucket with crushing lid A crusher bucket includes a bucket body (70) and a crushing lid (76) provided on the bucket body. The crushing lid is capable of being opened and closed relative to the bucket body. A material feed rate adjusting mechanism is provided on the bucket bod... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7293729 | Arrangement facilitating single fastener attachment for strikers of a wood comminuting rotor A comminuting striker assembly for mounting on a rotor of a comminuting apparatus comprising: a striker having first and second opposed faces, the first face defining at least one cutting edge, and a striker retainer, the striker and striker retainer defining cooper... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293725 | Control method of a gap adjuster of impact crusher and a gap adjuster In an impact crusher, a rise of an advancing-retracting portion (65) of a gap adjuster (60) caused when a rebound plate (33) touches a rotor (32) or the rotation amount of the rotor (32) is detected to determine a zero-point positi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7284345 | Milling device for floors, rock, excavated material or other material The milling apparatus (1) has a bucket with a receiving chamber and has a milling unit with a milling rotor (14). The receiving chamber has a receiving opening (4) and is embodied as a bucket (2). On the bottom of the bucket (2), a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278596 | Crusher and mobile crushing machine equipped with the crusher A mobile crushing machine, equipped with an impact crusher having a separable casing 31 comprising a stationary casing 70 and a movable casing 30, is adopted for casing 31 with the upper end 724 of the stationary casing 70 p... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7252036 | Rotor blades for food processing machines A rotor for food pulping or straining machines is equipped with a plurality of blades (2) designed to act on the food product to force at least part of it out through a sieve (3) that surrounds the rotor (1) and is characterised in that the blad... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7232084 | Material reducing apparatus A material reduction apparatus for reducing materials having an admixture that resists reduction. The mechanism incorporated into the apparatus to provide a bypass of such admixture while avoiding shut down interruption of the materials reduction operation. ... | 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 |
| 7201075 | Electric power steering apparatus An electric power steering apparatus having a displacing mechanism in which a fitting hole potion is provided to a gear housing for fitting with and holding a bearing to which a worm shaft for transmitting rotating force of a steering assisting motor to a steering s... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7168639 | Method and apparatus for reducing tires A method and apparatus for reducing vehicle tires includes a feed mechanism for transferring flattened tire treads into a shearing assembly which includes a rotating shear assembly. The shear assembly is comprised of a rotating arbor supporting a stack of a pluralit... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7156333 | Bale processor with fork lift An apparatus for disintegrating bales of agricultural materials such as hay. The apparatus includes a processing tub and is provided with a novel adjustable fork-lift adapted to raise bales of different size and configuration into the processing tub. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7140568 | Multi-sided shaft for a crusher A shredder, crusher, hammermill, ringmill or the like is provided with a multi-sided rotor shaft to which spider arms and hammers are mounted. The rotor shaft has at least one pair, and preferably two or more pairs, of opposing sides. The hammers are pivotally mount... | 11/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7131606 | Comminution blade A blade (2) for a comminution machine of the type having interleaved counter-rotating blades (2) in the case of two shafts (1) or a single set of blades in the case of a single rotating shaft includes a carrier (20) with replaceable teeth... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7108212 | Angular tool and holding block A cutting tool holder, a cutting bit, and a retainer maintaining the cutting bit at a prescribed position relative to the tool holder. The cutting bit is received in a slot located in a first lateral surface that extends through the top surface. The retainer is rece... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7100855 | Modular blades for tire shredder A cutter wheel for tire shearing having a unitary annular core with radially inward shoulders on both sides of the radially outward central portion of the core. Pie-piece shaped cutter segments are mounted atop the shoulders of each core with each cutter segment hav... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7094309 | Process and device for gluing dried fibers designated for the production of fiberboards Dried fibers which are designated for the production of fiber boards are supplied to a fiber roller (17) from a metering device through a feed chute (10) which is subjected to negative pressure, which fiber roller is provided on its surface with a plur... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7090157 | Material reducing apparatus A material reduction apparatus for reducing materials having an admixture that resists reduction. The mechanism incorporated into the apparatus to provide a bypass of such admixture while avoiding shut down interruption of the materials reduction operation. ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7055770 | Reducing machine rotor assembly and methods of constructing and operating the same A rotor assembly operable with anvil mechanism for comminuting waste wood and other fragmentable material has a rotating drive shaft with a series of rotors fixed in axially spaced relation thereon. A series of radially projecting hammers mechanisms are situated alo... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7021576 | Blade mill for grinding plastic material The invention describes a blade mill for grinding plastic material with a rotor which is driven in rotation inside a grinding chamber and has a plurality of radially outwards-pointing cutter blades distributed around its circumference and a plurality of stationary, ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7011261 | Cutting tool of a cutting machine used for cutting plastic materials into granules A cutting machine used for cutting elongate plastic materials into granules includes a cutting tool, which consists of a roller-shaped body, several knives, and soft metallic bars; the roller-shaped body has lengthwise extended holding trenches spaced on an outer si... | 03/14/2006 |
| RE38930 | Knife holder for a chipper disc An improved knife holder for a chipper disc. A knife holder for boding a knife has a first clamping portion and a second clamping portion for clamping the knife therebetween. One of the clamping portions pivots about a pivot point for clamping the knife and for rele... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6978957 | Spool support structure for a spinning reel A spool support structure for a spinning includes a bearing, a spool receiving portion, a retaining member, and a wobble prevention member. The bearing mounted on an inner peripheral portion of a spool is mounted on a non-circular portion of a spool shaft via a reta... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6966511 | Crusher rotor The invention provides a crusher rotor for which the influence of centrifugal force is minimal, the hammer is compact, and the load on the attachment bolts can be reduced. A notch 16b is provided in an attachment plate 16 so as to take a force o... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6966506 | Method and apparatus for harvesting crops A method and system of harvesting crops involves cutting and threshing the crop, separating graff (a mixture of grain kernels, chaff, weed seeds, and other organic matter) from straw (plant stalks), and returning the straw to the field. This is preferably carried ou... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6953168 | System for positioning the rotor and indexing a percussive comminutor The rotor (2) being operatively associated with an indexing member (13) in the form of a prism, coaxial and secured in rotation with the rotor, said indexing member having a number of projecting edges equal to the number of beaters (3), the inde... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6932288 | Apparatus for removing frangible objects from a container Frangible objects that become packed in large containers are removed by crushing the objects while they are still in the containers. A motor-driven crushing assembly is lowered into the container, where rotating strikers come into contact with the frangible objects ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6926215 | Hammermill A hammermill having a housing, a rotor assembly, a first plurality of hammers, and a first 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 ... | 08/09/2005 |
