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| 7263755 | Method for the manufacture of fillings for utilization in the mechanical processing of aqueous paper fiber stock A method for fabricating fillings that are utilized in refiners for the purpose of refining paper fiber stock. The filling manufactured in accordance with the method of the present invention includes a base body, an overlay template on the base body and processing e... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7237943 | Dynamic fluid mixer A dynamic mixer in which two elements are rotatable relative to each other about a predetermined axis and between which is defined a flow path extending between an inlet for materials to be mixed and an outlet. The flow path is defined between surfaces of the elemen... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7166229 | Method and apparatus for extracting liquid present in a humid mass A system for extracting a liquid by pressing a humid mass, the system including at least one extraction channel, while extraction channel being provided with at least one inlet allowing to feed the extraction channel with the humid mass to be treated; with walls pro... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7152823 | Disc mill assembly for pulverizing system A disc mill assembly for a pulverizing system includes: a flywheel, a water jacket, two disc blades, and two ring clamps. In alternate embodiments, the disc mill assembly also includes: an air inlet to provide input air from an external air supply and an improved bl... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7029584 | Rotating filter A device for filtering liquids comprising two shafts which are parallel to each other or at an acute angle wherein each shaft carries a stack of disks that extend perpendicularly to the shaft axis and are rotated thereby. The disks of one stack are engaged in the in... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6932290 | Refining segment and a refining apparatus comprising a refining disc with such refining segment Apparatus for use as at least a portion of the refining surface of a refining disk is disclosed for use in a refiner for lignocellulosic material disposed in a refiner housing, the apparatus including a refiner segment having a periphery and mountable on the refinin... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6450427 | 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... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6334584 | Centrifugal fine grinding apparatus An apparatus for fine grinding material, such as waste automotive tires. The apparatus includes first and second plates mounted within a housing. The first and second plates include respective, opposed inclined surfaces and respective pluralities of gener... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6164196 | Press for food products, such as fruits or vegetables, and kitchen robot comprising such a press A press for food products adapted to be reduced to a puree, comprising a working bowl (12) closed by a removable cover (21) and enclosing a rotatable press tool (23) comprising a central vertical shaft (27) which carries at least one pressing blade (30) w... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6109551 | Cutter apparatus for waste disposal unit A waste disposal apparatus has a cutter apparatus with angled teeth. The cutters may be disposed in a passage of a housing having an inlet and an outlet. The cutter apparatus has a stationary cutter and a pivoting cutter which pivots with respect to the s... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6058833 | Automatic grater for producing food paste An automatic grater for producing vegetable and fruit paste mainly includes a grating disc and a rotational retainer screwed around a motor rotational shaft to rotate at high speed along with the rotational shaft. Vegetable and/or fruit can be fed into th... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6000649 | Screw feeders with perfected profile for cutter-mixer-feeder wagon for fodder and grass or straw silage The invention is a cutter-mixer-feeder wagon for fodder and grass or straw silage, comprising at least two rotary screw feeders (7), housed inside a compartment (75) with curved section obtained on the bottom (76) of the container (2) itself, each one pro... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5924834 | Machine for processing scrap metal containers A machine agitates and rips scrap metal containers such as scrap aluminum cans to expose their interiors and shake out sand, dirt, and other material in the cans. Alternatively, the containers may comprise shell casings which the machine deforms by thrash... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5906154 | Juice extractor Juice extractor, is disclosed, for crushing fruits or leaves, or root of green vegetable for extracting green juice, wherein, considering the incomplete juice extraction of the related art juice extractor, the present invention is provided with thread end... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5829943 | Machine for emptying material from scrap cans A machine agitates and rips scrap aluminum cans to expose their interiors and shake out sand, dirt, and other material in the cans. The machine has an enclosure in which a rotatable shaft is supported. A plurality of blade sets are mounted on the shaft wi... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5791572 | Disintegration device A device for disintegration of material comprises at least one first axle (2) having first processing members (5) arranged to actuate material, on rotation of the axle, in an axial direction towards second processing members (7) for disintegration of the ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5771791 | Multipurpose juice extractor Disclosed is a multipurpose juice extractor having a closed lower chamber for collecting residue of ground material in a compartment next to another compartment for grinding material. Juice extracted from the ground material flows via a juice outlet into ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5762273 | Mulcher apparatus A mulching apparatus is described for converting green waste, including tree branches, small limbs, leaves, and grass clippings into a pulverized mulch. The apparatus comprises a green waste agitator hopper in the shape of an inverted, truncated cone, the... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5761993 | Juice-extractor also serving as a grinder A juice-extractor also serving as a grinder suitable for extracting juice from water-containing materials, such as vegetables, fruits, soybeans, and for grinding dry material into powder, such as coffee beans, green beans, nuts. In addition to elements si... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5632596 | Low profile rotors and stators for mixers and emulsifiers A rotor-stator assembly includes a rotor and a stator, each of which has a plurality of teeth wherein the height of the teeth is less than approximately one twentieth the diameter of the rotor-stator. According to a presently preferred embodiment of the i... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5613430 | Grinder-type juicer A grinder-type juicer including an upper and lower plate which squeeze foodstuff while rotating. The upper plate has spiral-shaped guide grooves (or elongated guide lands), the lower plate has juice-squeezing grooves. The juice is squeezed by the oblique ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5470023 | Crushing apparatus for waste material A crushing apparatus for waste material comprising a housing and a drive shaft for driving counter-rotating rollers which mesh with each other and which are hollow and open at one end. The rollers are fitted with cutter elements spaced at intervals around... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5452650 | Juice extractor A juicer or a juice extractor having a vertically-arranged grinding chamber and compression chamber. The material to be ground into juice is first ground in the grinding chamber and then compressed in the compression chamber by a pair of Archimedes' screw... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5402950 | Portable shredding machine A trailer mounted shredding machine for reducing solid waste materials to a chip or fragmented consistency which includes an auger having a spiral conveying flight which includes a plurality of replaceable cutting teeth. The cutting teeth cooperate with r... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5397065 | Solid state shear extrusion pulverization A process and apparatus for pulverization of natural and synthetic polymeric material by heating to a pre-melt or softening temperature below its melting point, cooling and applying normal and shear stresses sufficient to form fine powder, and fluidizing ... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5396836 | Detachable connecting apparatus of squeezing roller housing for juice extractor A juice extractor includes a main body equipped with a motor, a gear box having a first shaft and a second shaft to which torque of the motor is transmitted, a housing having a flange connecting surface at the front of the main body, and a pair of squeezi... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5395055 | Solid state shear extrusion pulverization A process and apparatus for pulverization of thermosetting, crosslinked thermoplastic and natural polymeric materials by applying normal and shear stresses by oppositely rotating meshing conical screws sufficient to form fine powder. The process may be co... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5381730 | Juice extractor A juice extractor for extracting juice from raw juice containing materials includes a raw material supply hopper of a housing engaged with a main body. The juice extractor includes a pair of squeezing rollers engaged with each other and mounted in the hou... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5156872 | Juice extractor An apparatus and method for extracting juice from raw juice containing material is disclosed. The apparatus includes a supporting housing, a pair of meshing helical gears (2,3) for crushing the raw juice containing material to initially extract juice ther... | 10/20/1992 |
| 4951887 | Screw mill for comminuting and compressing material for grinding A screw mill comprises two motor-driven conveyor screws mounted in rotary manner in a casing. Each of the conveyor screws is subdivided into two portions. A first portion is constructed as a cooperating conveyor screw pair located in a common working area... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4949915 | Impeller for comminuter An impeller for use in a comminuter of the type having a cylindrical comminuting chamber formed by a circular arrangement of free rotating vertical cutting rolls includes a circular baseplate rotatably mounted at the lowermost end of the comminuting chamb... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4892258 | Comminuter for solid material An improved comminuting device for pulverizing solid material includes a comminuting chamber and a discharge chamber adjacent the comminuting chamber. A screening assembly is located at the interface between the comminuting chamber and the discharge chamb... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4874136 | Pulp refining apparatus A pulp refiner has a pair of refiner members with opposed surfaces each including alternating grooves and lands extending between a central port and a peripheral port through which a pulp slurry is passed. The edges of the lands define work edges. Drive m... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4844350 | Apparatus for processing an elastomeric product Apparatus for processing elsatomeric material, comprising two shafts mounted for rotation in a housing in end bearings and carrying therebetween two gear pairs in cavities in the housing. A channel connects the gear meshing side of the first gear pair wit... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4732335 | Apparatus for treating cellulose pulp with intermeshing disks and assymetrical pulp moving means An apparatus for treating cellulose pulp having a consistency above the flowage limit provided with two shafts (1, 2) rotating in the same axial plane and each carrying working disks (8) the cylinders of rotation of which are in mutually intermeshing enga... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732336 | Apparatus for treating cellulose pulp with intermeshing disks and asymmetrically pulp moving means An apparatus for treating cellulose pulp having a consistency above the flowage limit, provided with two shafts (1, 2) rotating in the same axial plane and each carrying working disks (8) the cylinders of rotation of which are in mutually intermeshing eng... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4655406 | Apparatus for treating cellulose pulp with intermeshing disks and asymmetrical guide fins An apparatus for treating cellulose pulp having a consistency above the flowage limit, provided with two shafts (1, 2) rotating in the same axial plane and each carrying working disks (8) the cylinders of rotation of which are in mutually intermeshing eng... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4586665 | Apparatus for treating cellulose pulp with adjustable treating gap In an apparatus for treating cellulose pulp having a consistency above the flowage limit, the apparatus being provided with two shafts (1) rotating in the same axial plane and each carrying mutually intermeshing screws between which the pulp is treated du... | 05/06/1986 |
