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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7954740 | Pressure differential nano grinding and dispersing assembly A nano grinding and dispersing assembly has a raw material feeder, a liquid supply unit connecting to the delivering pipe of the raw material feeder, a gas supply unit connecting to the delivering pipe of the raw material feeder, a pressure equalized assembly and a ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946516 | Feed chute for vertical roller mill The invention relates to a roller mill for grinding solid material such as cement raw materials and similar materials, said roller mill comprising a substantially horizontal grinding table and at least two rollers which are configured for interactive operation with ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7753298 | Rotor processor A rotor processor includes a stator chamber and a rotor mounted for rotation within the chamber. The rotor has a perimeter edge spaced closely to the interior wall of the chamber so as to define a slit or gap there between. The rotor is slidably mounted upon a rotor... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7651042 | Method and apparatus for creating a slurry A mobile slurry apparatus for creating a slurry from oil sand ore has a frame and a slurry box supported by the frame. Water is mixed with the ore to form a slurry that is retained in the slurry box. The frame base has a first set of spaced apart support points for ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7597280 | Apparatus for separating the organic membrane portion and the mineral portion of broken egg shells Apparatus for separating the organic membrane portion and the non-organic mineral portion of broken egg shells includes at least one separating tank into which a slurry of water and finely ground egg shells is introduced. A plurality of overlapping vanes is in the i... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7490787 | Lawn debris bagging system A lawn debris bagging system is disclosed. A temporary chute is provided to direct lawn debris or similar material toward a vented bag. The frame of the chute has an opening with a holding mechanism to hold a vented bag open and substantially on it's side, to allow ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7431830 | Compact slurry preparation system for oil sand Staged crushing combined with water addition and mixing is practiced at the mine site to prepare an oil sand slurry ready for hydrotransport. More particularly, as-mined oil sand is crushed to conveyable size (e.g. —24″) using a mobile crusher. The pre-crushed o... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7320541 | Mixer element for a mixer for multi-component pastes, and mixer using the same The present invention relates to a mixer element for a mixer for producing a paste by mixing components, the mixer comprising a mixing chamber. The mixer element comprises a body portion comprising a longitudinal axis extending from a rear end to a front end of the ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7270281 | High frequency electro mechanical pill/tablet dissolver A pill dissolver includes a first crushing surface, and a second crushing surface positioned to receive a cup between the first crushing surface and the second crushing surface. The pill dissolver also includes pinching jaws operable to pinch a top portion of the cu... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7244361 | Metals/minerals recovery and waste treatment process A metals/minerals recovery and waste treatment process comprising a main separation stage in which a metal/mineral-bearing ore is slurried with water and separated into an enriched fraction and an aqueous metal/mineral waste fraction, and a waste sedimentation stage... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7213779 | Rotary grinder apparatus and method A rotary grinder having a cylindrical drum that includes a cylindrical surface. The cylindrical surface defines two holes. The drum receives opposite ends of a through-member at the two holes such that the opposite ends of the through-member comprise hammers when th... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7207794 | Pouch production apparatus and method A pouch production apparatus includes a pouch forming apparatus operable to form pouches from an elongate web of material and zipper tape and an extrusion apparatus responsive to operation of the pouch forming apparatus and operable to extrude zipper tape. A pneumat... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7020984 | Device for feeding a drying gas to a mixing granulator The invention relates to a device for feeding a drying gas to a mixing granulator comprising a mixing chamber and a rotating agitator (3), on which mixer blades (4) are arranged in a radial position with respect to a drive shaft (5). The feeder ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6951169 | Horizontal grinding type rice milling machine In a horizontal grinding-type rice polishing machine which is so configured that a grinding roller (1) installed circularly and fixedly on a horizontal rotation axis (10) is covered with a concentric cylindrical bran removing screen (S) that can be spl... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6932243 | Dispensing assembly with dynamic mixer A dynamic mixer configured to a double cartridge or a dispensing appliance, wherein the mixer includes two similarly configured inlets that are configured to connect to respective outlets of the double cartridge or the dispensing appliance, the outlets having either... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6915969 | Method and installation for making flour from ozone-treated grains The present invention relates to a method for making flours having a high food safety level comprising the grinding of grains previously cleaned and moistened, characterized in that, prior to or simultaneously with said grinding, said grains are brought into contact... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6880772 | Process and apparatus for combined milling and drying A process of both milling and drying a solvent-moist material (e.g., water-moist methylhydroxyethylcellulose) is described. The process includes, (a) providing a mill-dryer (100) which includes, in series, a heat exchanger (1), a mill (2) and a ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6564700 | Apparatus for producing a target pH in a foodstuff A stream (A) of first foodstuff has a first pH and a stream (B) of second foodstuff has second pH. The first pH and second pH are oppositely related to a third or target pH for the foodstuff such that one pH level is above the target level while the other... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6142067 | Apparatus for treating ammoniated meats An initial comminuted meat product (21) is exposed to ammonia to produce an ammoniated meat product. The ammoniated meat product is further comminuted in a comminuting device (12) to produce a further comminuted meat product (22). The ammonia exposure to ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6102310 | Rotary grinder method and apparatus An in-line grinder has been developed which can be configured to perform in a variety of applications through the use of an adjustable rotor/stator assembly, removable shear bar, and a variety of interchangeable stator-rotor configurations. A unique drive... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6076753 | Agitated slurry pump box for oil sand hydrotransport A large, mechanically agitated pump box is used between a mixer, for mixing oil sand and water to produce a slurry, and a pipeline for conveying the slurry to a processing facility. Prior to the aqueous slurry being discharged into the pump box from the m... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6027056 | Slurrying oil sand for hydrotransport in a pipeline A mixer circuit, in the form of a vertically oriented stack of components, functions to slurry oil sand with water in preparation for pumping through a pipeline. The oil sand is initially dropped from the end of a conveyor. It is contacted in mid-air with... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6021966 | Process and apparatus for simultaneously grinding and drying a material to be ground containing moist cellulose ether In the process and the apparatus, a gas stream is divided into three partial gas streams. The first partial gas stream transports the material to be ground into the grinding and friction space of a mill (26), while the second partial gas stream runs aroun... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5921479 | Process and apparatus for simultaneously grinding and drying material to be ground containing moist cellulose ether In the process and the apparatus, a gas stream is divided into three partial gas streams. The first partial gas stream transports the material to be ground into the grinding and friction space of a mill (26), while the second partial gas stream runs aroun... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5829692 | Modularly tiered clear-trajectory impact comminuter and modular comminution chamber A modularly tiered clear-trajectory impact commuter apparatus that comminutes rock, drilling materials and other comminutable by impact rather than by grinding or crushing. The invention creates a comminution environment which maximizes the establishment ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5791567 | Apparatus for processing used metallized belts or bands An apparatus for processing used belts and bands of a machine for printing sheet elements comprises an accumulation bin having an upper portion for receiving the belts and bands from a supply arrangement and a lower portion provided with a grinder for gri... | 08/11/1998 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5368240 | Apparatus for reducing rubber to particles Apparatus for reducing to particles scrap rubber, consisting of an inclined pre-cooling tunnel (11) comprising a conveying means (27) and adapted to be charged via a feed shaft (13), a main cooling tunnel (12) filled, at least in part, with a cooling medi... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5340037 | Method and apparatus for grinding hot material and recovering gasses emitted therefrom A system for grinding hot coke includes feeding the hot coke into the system, while maintaining the system under less than atmospheric pressure, wetting the coke during this feeding step to assure constant flow of the coke into a grinding mill where the c... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5261612 | Method and apparatus for extracting injectable collagen from adipose tissue A method and apparatus for extracting injectable collagen from human adipose tissue, such as removed by liposuction procedures. The apparatus includes a clear container with inlet and outlet fittings to be attached to the suction line of a liposuction mac... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5203966 | Method and apparatus for conditioning baled wastepaper in recycling operations The invention provides an improvement in the quality and quantity of cellulosic fibers recovered in recycling wastepaper contained in waste material packaged in compressed bale form by sufficiently wetting the baled waste material with a liquid that waste... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5184781 | Glass pulverizer The invention is a glass pulverizer in which two rotatable chain-type flail assemblies are housed within two contiguous, internally joined drum-like housings. One housing has an inlet on one end and the other housing has an outlet located on an end furthe... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5183215 | Grinding appliance A grinding appliance, intended especially for grinding material in the form of flowable or pasty conglomerates, consists of a housing (1) with an inlet chamber (2), a grinding chamber (3) for receiving grinding balls and an outlet (4). A rotatably mounted... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5170949 | Apparatus and method for processing scrap film An economical apparatus and method for reprocessing scrap film. The apparatus includes a film-air separation chamber for separating air from incoming strips of scrap film, a cutter for cutting the strips into fine pieces, and a storage tank or further rep... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5169073 | Process for separating and recovering lead, rubber and copper wires from waste cables The present invention relates to a process for separating and recovering copper wires, lead grains coming and rubber grains coming from waste cables, through washing, gravimetric separation, screening and by flattening the lead grains thereby facilitating... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5147155 | Device for achieving uniform distribution of airborne fibres, e.g. cellulose-fibres A device for achieving uniform distribution of airborne fibres, for instance cellulose-fibres, in the outlet of a conduit intended for the air-transport of fibres, the device being placed in the outlet (10) of the conduit. In accordance with the invention... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5108039 | Comminuting machine A comminuting machine for comminuting meat and the like and especially for material which has been previously cut into small pieces. The comminuting machine includes at least one cutting unit. A feed pump is arranged in front of the inlet of the comminuti... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5104047 | Wet process recovery system for solid waste Disclosed is a wet process recovery system for solid waste. The waste is fed into a hydrokinetic separation step wherein it is immersed in a body of water which is subjected to rising and lateral flows. These flows establish a synthetic gravitational envi... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5064124 | Medical waste disposal system A disposal system for the grinding, sorting, and sanitization of medical waste with sanitizing liquid includes a hollow housing. The hollow housing includes a grinding device to grind the medical waste, a receiving device to receive and sort the ground me... | 11/12/1991 |
