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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434981 | Manufacturing method of metal paste A metal paste, in which a filler mainly composed of metal is mixed with good dispersibility, is manufactured with good productivity at a low cost without generating a foil of the metal. A paste-like material (referred to as a paste material hereafter) containing a m... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7122212 | Process for producing oily cosmetics It is intended to provide oily cosmetics (for example, oily cosmetics to be applied to the skin such as oily liniments, oily hair care products such as hair oils) which have excellent effects including an antibacterial effect and are yet safely usable by consumers s... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7048211 | Flexible processing apparatus for isolating and purifying viruses, soluble proteins and peptides from plant sources A flexible automated apparatus for isolating and purifying viruses, proteins and peptides of interest from a plant material is disclosed, the apparatus being applicable for large scale purification and isolation of such substances from plant material. The flexible a... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7011260 | Raw garbage treatment apparatus and a cutter thereof A raw garbage treatment apparatus including a treatment tank 10, a rotating shaft 32 which rises in an upright attitude from the center of the bottom of the treatment tank, a motor 36 which rotates the rotating shaft from beneath the treatment t... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6929201 | Adjustable spice grinder A spice grinder is comprised of a mounting ring for screwing onto a spice container. An outer grinding member comprised of a ring is locked to the top of the mounting ring to prevent rotation. An inner grinding member comprised of a cone is positioned within the out... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6575391 | Mill with quick change, unitized, dynamic elements A mill with capability for rapid replacement of wearable moving components and capacity for precision grinding movement. The wearable moving components form a package of dual counter-rotating rotor centrifugal devices, the packages including first and sec... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6394374 | Disintegrating and grain-regulating device for granules A crushing and particle sizing apparatus for granular material in which the particle size can be controlled without the use of a screen or similar apparatus. A gap region is formed as a particle size adjusting region which allows particles suited to the g... | 05/28/2002 |
| 5687922 | Pulverizer A pulverizer used to pulverize tea leaves, grain such as sesame and wheat, and minerals such as ceramics and rocks. A pair of upper and lower mortars provided for the pulverizer are rotated relatively to pulverize material between the pulverizing surface ... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5580007 | Device and method for reducing in size and mixing of material With a device for reducing in size and mixing material (4), a blade (12) rotates in a the working chamber (2) of a container (3). During reducing in size and mixing, the working chamber (2) is reduced in volume by means of a piston.... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5542616 | Grain-de-acidizing process mill Grain is fed from a hopper to a horizontally oriented adjustable speed steam heated auger driven by a variable speed drive. The auger is long enough (approximately twenty inches) that temperature controlled steam fed to a plurality of inlets along the aug... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5445328 | Dual zone refiner with separated discharge flow control In an apparatus (10,100,300,400) for refining a low consistency fibrous slurry, which includes a plurality of refining zones (38,40; 188,128; 324,334; 411,413) within a casing, the improvement comprises providing a unique discharge flow path from each ref... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5176329 | Condiment grinder A condiment grinder including a grinding mechanism with an adjustment shaft extending therefrom and mounting both a positioning ring for rotational driving of the shaft and an adjustment nut for longitudinal adjustment of the shaft and the coarseness of t... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5082190 | Pepper grinder A pepper grinder possible to be manually operated by pressing or releasing a manipulating plate movably mounted in an opening of the outer wall of a cylindrical body in such a way that a grinding wheel is possible to be rotated by a unit of mechanical str... | 01/21/1992 |
| 4913361 | Apparatus and method for reducing agglomerates to a predetermined particle size Grinding of agglomerates, such as paint pigments, takes place within a cylinder (23). The pigment is applied in a film to the inner surface of cylinder (23) and is ground by rotating blades (70-84) which, because of their angle of articulation with respec... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4828395 | Continuous flow type homogenizer There is provided a continuous flow type homogenizer. The homogenizer comprises, a tubular container having at upper end thereof an inlet for introducing tissue to be homogenized and at lower end thereof an outlet for discharging the homogenized tissue, a... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4759507 | Size reduction machine having an external gap adjustment A series of screens for use with a size reduction machine have a tapered apertured wall formed into a frusto-conial shape, with an open wide end and a narrow closed end. All screens of a particular series have a cylindrical section, the same interior dept... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4721260 | Disc crusher A disc crusher has a base frame on which a case with cover is mounted. A bottom disc seated in a bearing housing is fastened to the cover of the case. A cone is mounted in a bearing body fastened to the cover by shock absorbing springs. The bottom disc an... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4714206 | Bag-receiving chute for coffee grinder A bag-receiving chute combination for a coffee grinder which has a downwardly facing discharge opening from which different sized batches of ground coffee discharge into bags of correspondingly different heights. The combination comprises an elongated, ch... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4688732 | Refiner with improved bearing retainer construction A bearing assembly (40) is provided for supporting a rotatable and axially displaceable shaft (16) of a disc-type refining apparatus (10). An annular retainer ring (44) is mounted non-rotatably about the outer annular ring (54) of a bearing means (42) and... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4674689 | Milling machines A milling machine particularly a disc mill for processing cereal seeds and cereal derivatives including a top disc through a central opening in which the material may be fed, and a bottom disc spaced from the top disc, both discs having mutually opposed p... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4623096 | Process and equipment for cutting material A process and an equipment for cutting material comprehends the surrounding at least of one, however preferably of several round knives along the inner wall of a drum. The adjacent round knives have a predetermined uniform axial distance as well as angula... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4307846 | Continuous flow tissue homogenizer A continuous flow tissue homogenizer is disclosed and includes a generally tubular container (12) with an inner surface (60) defining a tissue homogenization chamber (19). One end of the container has an inlet (46) for the introduction of non-homogenized ... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4071167 | Apparatus for dispersing agglomerates An apparatus for dispersing substances into one another by subjecting them to shear forces between a rotating platen and a stationary or counter-rotating platen which have opposed work surfaces interfaced and forced toward engagement with one another. An ... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4062499 | Electrical grinding machine for coffee beans An electric grinding machine for coffee beans comprising a grinding chamber formed within a casing and containing a rotary mill body driven by an electric motor and a non-rotatable mill body opposite the rotary body and displaceable towards and away there... | 12/13/1977 |