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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8061643 | Refiner plate fixtures for quick replacement, and methods and assemblies therefor A refiner plate carrier for use in refining lignocellulosic material including a mounting mechanism for mounting to a refiner plate segment and not a rotor or stator disk. The combined plate carrier and refiner plate segment may be then attached to a refiner disk. T... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7984869 | Face mounted installation fixture and associated methods A face-mounted carrier for transporting a refiner plate segment for refining lignocellulosic material to a refiner disk. The refiner plate segment may contain threads that facilitate bolting to the face-mounted carrier and bolting to the refiner disk. ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7900862 | Mechanical pulping refiner plate having curved refining bars with jagged leading sidewalls and method for designing plates A refiner plate for a mechanical refiner of lignocellulosic material including: a refining surface on a substrate, wherein the refining surface is adapted to face a refining surface of an opposing refiner plate; wherein the refining surface includes bars and grooves... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7823822 | System and method to align refiner plates during installation on a disc A bushing to assist in positioning a bolt in the bolt apertures of refining plates and disk. The bushing is a cylindrical sleeve that slides over the bolt shaft, before the bolt is inserted into the aperture. The bushing may be short relative to the length of the bo... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7520460 | Refiner disk sensor and sensor refiner disk A sensor, sensor disk, sensor measurement correction system, and method used in measuring a parameter in the refining zone. The sensor includes a spacer that spaces its sensing element from the disk. In one preferred embodiment, the spacer is made of an insulating m... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7513451 | Refining element A refining element for use in the refining of fibrous materials is disclosed in which the refining surface includes an inner portion and an outer portion defining a transition region between these two portions, a plurality of bars and grooves in the inner portion of... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7478773 | Tooth refiner plates having V-shaped teeth and refining method A refiner plate including a generally planar surface having annular rows of teeth arranged concentrically on the plate, and at least one of said rows includes teeth including a leading edge corner angle of less than 90 degrees. These teeth may include a leading side... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7445174 | Refining element Refining elements are disclosed for use in the refining of fibrous material in which the refining elements include a pattern of bars and intermediate grooves between the bars. The bars extend in an arc-shaped direction outwardly over the refining element and the upp... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7419112 | Refining surface and a blade segment for a refiner A refining surface of a refining member, adapted for use with a refiner for defibrating a lignocellulose-containing material, is provided. Such a refining surface comprises a plurality of first grooves, each first groove being defined between two adjacent first bar ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7407123 | Refiner plates with logarithmic spiral bars A special shape of bars on refining discs or plate segments (54) of a rotating disc refiner (10) is disclosed including a plurality of bars (76) generally extending outwards toward the outer end of the disk across its surface, arranged in a sing... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7362028 | Stator of outer rotor type motor for drum type washer The present invention provides an outer rotor type motor for a drum type washing machine to reduce material and weight for fabrication, simplify fabrication process, provide stable assembly of a stator to a fixing side such as a tub or a bearing housing, prevent by ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7350728 | Refining plate attached to a head in a pulp refiner A refiner plate has an outer circumferential edge, a front surface having comminuting projections, and a rear surface. The refiner plate also has and a single mounting opening radially inward from the outer circumferential edge. The refiner plate also includes a rad... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347392 | Refiners and methods of refining pulp A refiner plate for forming accepts and exhaust from a pulp material includes a first side and a second side and defines a channel extending between the first side and the second side. The channel is operable to direct at least some of the exhaust and at least some ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336014 | Stator of outer rotor type motor for drum type washer and fabricating method thereof The present invention provides an outer rotor type motor for a drum type washing machine to reduce material and weight for fabrication, simplify fabrication process, provide stable assembly of a stator to a fixing side, such as a tub or a bearing housing, prevent un... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7300008 | Tooth refiner plates with varying feeding angles and refining method A refiner plate including: concentric rows of teeth and the teeth arranged facing radially inward, the sidewalls of the teeth are at an angles to radii of the plate such that the angle of teeth in a first row(s) of teeth differs from the angle of teeth in a second r... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300550 | High intensity refiner plate with inner fiberizing zone Plate elements, a plate configuration, and associated system for thermomechanical refining of wood chips wherein destructured and partially defibrated chips are fed to a rotating disc primary refiner, where opposed discs each have an inner band pattern of bars and g... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7291247 | Absorbent sheet made with papermaking fibers with durable curl A process for bleaching high bulk cellulosic fiber and producing a durable elevated curl index includes: (a) concurrently bleaching, heat treating and convolving cellulosic fiber pulp at elevated temperature and pressure at high consistency generally under condition... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7198216 | Refining element Refining elements for use with disc refiners for the processing of fibrous materials are disclosed. The refining element include a refining surface having a plurality of bars and intermediate grooves, with the bars having an upper surface and a pair of side surfaces... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198209 | Metal casting molded body comprising a cast-in hard material body A metal casting molded body comprising at least one effective surface for machining or processing a material and formed from a compound material, wherein said compound material comprises at least one porous hard material body in a casting matrix made of a metallic c... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188792 | Refiner rotor assembly with a hub having flow-through ports A refiner including a material-admitting inlet and an outlet; and spaced apart first and second refining discs mounted in the chamber. The refiner further includes a rotary third ref refining disc disposed between the first and second discs. A first path for the mov... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182285 | Tire rubber granulator A comminution apparatus for refining various materials into smaller pieces of a desired size, the apparatus having a pair of generally circular disks disposed on a common axis and arranged generally parallel to one another forming a comminution region there between.... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7179347 | Method for fiber stock preparation A method for the preparation of fiber stock for the production of paper or cardboard, including the steps of: a) Supplying fibers in the form of a suspension that has a predetermined solids content, b) Loading of t... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172148 | Grooved pyramid disperger plate A disperger plate segment, for removing contaminants from recycled, or recovered, paper and packaging materials includes radially concentric rows of teeth. Each row of teeth includes teeth and channels disposed intermediate the teeth. Each of the teeth have an upper... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7100853 | Deflector for coal pulverizer/classifier A deflector disposed immediately above and outboard of a rotating vane wheel in a pulverizer/classifier is protected from wear and abrasion by side-by-side abutting high-hardness wear plates having an alloy content of approximately 15 percent chromium and three perc... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7007879 | Pair of opposed co-operating refining elements Apparatus for refining lignocellulosic material is disclosed having a pair of opposed co-operating refining elements intended for a disk refiner for the disintegration of the lignocellulosic material in a refining gap between two opposed counter-rotating refining di... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6976516 | Underneath style knife clamp with replaceable clamp wear member A two-part blade support base for mounting a chipper knife to a chipper disc wherein the parting line between the upper part and lower part is substantially parallel to a plane defined by the chipper disc. The parting line incorporates a vertical step which transmit... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6957785 | Refining segment for a rotatable refining disc, and a refining apparatus comprising a refining disc with such refining segment Apparatus for use as a portion of a refining surface of a rotatable refining disk is disclosed. The apparatus includes a refining segment having a periphery and being mountable on a rotatable refining disk in juxtaposition with an opposing refiner disk for treating ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6953167 | Wood chipper knife holder system for a power driven rotor head A wood chipper knife holder assembly for a power driven rotor head has at least one opening in its wood confronting surface for the knife holder assembly which includes a mount block. A counter-knife receiving surface opposite the wood confronting surface of the rot... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6951313 | Knife for disk chip cutting machines A knife for a disk chip cutting machine which is mounted between a carrier part and a clamping part and which includes a chip breaking surface extending into an opening adjacent an outer surface of the carrier part. The chip breaking surface includes a concave porti... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6935589 | Papermaking refiner plates and method of manufacture Replaceable refiner fillings (10) used for refining of lignocellulosic and other natural and synthetic fibrous materials in the manufacture of paper, paperboard, and other fiberboard products. The refiner fillings (10) include a pattern of blades (1... | 08/30/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6926216 | Material crusher A material crushing device including rotating rotors having first and second crushing surfaces which converge to a nip. One or both of the crushing surfaces may include projections and one or more of the crushing surfaces includes channels disposed at the nip for ej... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6910651 | Material crusher A material crushing device including rotating rotors having first and second crushing surfaces which converge to a nip. One or both of the crushing surfaces may include projections and one or more of the crushing surfaces includes channels disposed at the nip for ej... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6892973 | Refiner disk sensor and sensor refiner disk A sensor, sensor disk, sensor measurement correction system, and method used in measuring a parameter in the refining zone. The sensor includes a spacer that spaces its sensing element from the disk. In one preferred embodiment, the spacer is made of an insulating m... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6840470 | Refiner force sensor This invention relates to a refiner force sensor for refiners used in the pulp and paper industry, to a refining apparatus, and to a method of measuring force acting on a refiner bar in a refiner. ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6722595 | Knife for disk chip cutting machines A knife for a disk chip cutting machine which is mounted between a carrier part and a clamping part and which includes a chip breaking surface extending into an opening adjacent an outer surface of the carrier part. The chip breaking surface includes a concave porti... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6705554 | Rotor for a paper stock processing machine, anti-wear element for such a rotor, and paper stock processing apparatus Rotor for a paper stock processing machine, an anti-wear element for protecting a leading front surface of a rotor blade, and a paper stock processing apparatus. The rotor includes at least one rotor blade having a leading front surface to be protected, and an anti-... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6634583 | Process and device for the dispersion of a fibrous paper material Process and device for dispersing a fibrous paper web which comprises a substantially consistent fibrous paper material. The device includes an inlet for fibrous paper material, a stationary stator, and at least one rotatable rotor. The stator and the at ... | 10/21/2003 |
