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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8100354 | Apparatus for processing utility waste with biodegradable organic material content An apparatus containing crushing screws (11) of the same pitch direction and without central shaft, provided with short drive shafts (112) on their driven end, wherein the rotational axis of the discharging screw (151) and the plane determined b... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8033487 | Crusher When the rocking side wall is to be opened, the rocking side wall is rotated about a shaft body and a cutout surface comes into contact with a side surface on the upper side of a connection plate When the rocking side wall is further opened with the cutout surface i... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7992812 | Screening device A sieve device including a cog elongation with several cogs shaped from flexible material arranged parallel to each other. The cogs are provided with bends or chamfers serving for defining a grid to define the grain size for the sieved material. The sieve device is ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7988080 | Rotary chopper element of an integral chopper assembly of a combine harvester A rotary chopper element for an integral chopper assembly of a combine harvester, which rotary chopper element includes a cylindrical rotary member having a plurality of ring portions axially aligned in an ordered side-by-side arrangement along the longitudinal axis... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7942353 | Adjustable screen for material destruction apparatus An adjustable screen apparatus for a material destruction device includes a first stationary fixed member and a second member positioned in an operatively juxtaposed and nesting relationship for reciprocal movement relative to the first member, each having a predete... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7909277 | Comminution device A comminution device including at least one comminution cylinder supported rotating in a machine frame with at least one comminution tool arranged on it, and at least one counter cutter interacting with the comminution tool, and at least one sieve device for the com... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7832667 | Comminution device A shredding device, consisting of at least one shredding roll that is rotatably mounted in a machine frame, at least one shredding instrument that is mounted on the roll, at least one opposing blade that co-operates with the shredding instrument(s) and at least one ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7766263 | Granulator mill A granulator mill has a mill housing which has an openable part and a fixed part, and an infeed hopper; the fixed part includes a rotor with a number of blades which co-operate with fixed blades in the mill housing; the openable part has a discharge section which is... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7681815 | Device for chopping food, in particular pieces of ice A device for chopping food, including ice, has a container with a bearing pin on its bottom. The container is divided into an upper processing zone and a lower collecting zone. For reducing the food, the processing zone accommodates a chopping tool formed by a rotar... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7600708 | Granulator mill A granulator mill includes a mill housing with one fixed part, one openable part connected to the fixed part by a first pivot device with a first pivot axis substantially vertical in the normal position of the granulator mill, one rotor including a number of blades ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7441719 | Mill box for materials grinder A grinder having a grinding structure and a sizing screen is disclosed herein. A top cover covers the grinding structure. The sizing screen can be removed from the grinder by opening the cover, and lifting the sizing screen through the opening left by the cover.... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7371566 | Composting apparatus and method A composting apparatus including an electric motor driven drum. The drum is provided with spaced fins on the inner surface and a supporting shaft that can include air holes to provide air within the confines of the drum. In this instance, tubes with holes are secure... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7360728 | Hay bale processor A hay bale processor (10) having a cylindrical rotatable drum (14) adapted to displace a bale of hay (156-157) over a grill (26) which has a plurality of spaced-apart parallel slot openings (27) which are adjustable to defin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357340 | Destruction method with 45 degree feeding True zero-clearance cutting on a commercial scale is provided via a cutting area including a sacrifice material that is relatively softer than the cutter. One example is a cutting system which is capable of cutting a material such as, for example, tape or paper, int... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7334748 | 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... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7303159 | Crushing control apparatus for shearing crusher A crushing control apparatus for a shearing crusher, which properly controls the crusher in accordance with kinds of objects to be crushed and is capable of reliably preventing stop of operation due to excessive load, clogging and the like, is provided. For this pur... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293727 | 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... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7284715 | Shredding machine A shredding machine having a plastics loading section and a paper loading section. The two loading sections feed material to be shred into a single cutting section. The plastics loading section may include a ram that urges loaded materials into the cutting section f... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7255296 | Granulator mill A granulator mill includes a mill housing with an openable part and a fixed part, a rotor which is rotary inside the mill housing and has a number of blades for co-operation with at least one fixed blade mounted in the mill housing and a discharge section whose inte... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252204 | Combination lock container A combination lock container (10), suitable for accepting a wine bottle, consisting of an upper housing (12), a lower housing (50), a plurality of tumblers (18A-18E), and externally applied indicia (24). Cylindrical walls, o... | 08/07/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7246762 | Process of forming corn flaking grits of improved quality with minimization of production of corn doubles A process for milling corn comprises mixing water and corn kernels to provide a tempering mixture; holding the tempering mixture for a time and temperature effective for lifting hull off from the endosperm of the corn kernels, but a time and temperature which is not... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246763 | Comminution apparatus A comminution apparatus for reducing a particle size of a material includes a cutting chamber defining an interior volume, wherein the cutting chamber includes first and second member forming an angle therebetween. Each of the first and second members include a plur... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240871 | Clean-in-place mill housing A clean-in-place housing for use is a material processing mill including a screen inside the mill housing that moved from processing position to cleaning position with a screen carrier without disassembling the housing. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7229037 | Comminution apparatus These and other objects of the present invention are achieved by a comminution apparatus comprised of a housing member formed with co-planar circularly-shaped chambers in chordal juxtaposition to each other thereby forming a collision zone therebetween and wherein w... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222805 | Shredder with cage relief A materials processing system adapted for the reduction of metallic materials including a material feed portion configured to convey materials to a mill portion comprising a motor driven rotor in close running fit with a cage mounted grate through which reduced mate... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216824 | Shredder with oscillating side walls A shredder for shredding a by-product, such as sprue, runner and the like generated when molding a thermoplastic synthetic resin product, into recyclable shredded pieces, is structured such that front and rear oscillating side walls are openable, right and left stat... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213778 | Tire size reduction/wire separation system A tire size reduction/wire separation system comprising a drive shaft; a plurality of rotors mounted on the drive shaft, each rotor having axial slots with a rotor mounted knife removably secured within each slot; and an independent housing supporting the drive shaf... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7195694 | Reinforcing and/or process fibres based on vegetable fibres and production thereof The present invention relates to reinforcing and/or process fibres based on vegetable fibres whose elementary fibres are fibrillated and to a process for their production. The reinforcing and/or process fibres are characterized in that the elementary fibres have a f... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7186390 | Brine maker An improved brine maker includes a hopper having open upper and lower ends, a solids screen, and a receiving tank having an open upper end and closed lower end. The solids screen and receiving tank are pivotally secured to the hopper adjacent its lower end. The rece... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7186179 | Adjustable flow deflector apparatus for transitioning crop residue flow from an axially arranged threshing system to a residue distribution system of an agricultural combine Adjustable deflector apparatus for transitioning crop residue from an axially arranged threshing system of a combine to a crop residue distribution system is disposed in a position such that at least a portion of a crop residue flow from the threshing system will st... | 03/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7168642 | Glass bottle breaking apparatus Glass bottle breaking apparatus comprises a hopper (17) for receiving empty glass bottles (47) in bulk, at least a portion of the hopper (17) being formed as a grating including stop means (31), and a shaft (22) located outside of ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7163166 | Rotatable assembly for machines A rotatable assembly for a machine includes a rotatable shaft having a longitudinal axis and a rotatable member disposed about the shaft. The rotatable assembly also includes at least one first connecting member operatively mounted to the rotatable member and to the... | 01/16/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7143796 | Wood-reducing apparatus with continual feeder assembly Apparatuses, methods, and systems for producing wood chips are disclosed. The invention in one embodiment produces smooth wood chips of generally uniform size and shape, suited for use in making paper, cardboard, and other recyclable materials. An apparatus is discl... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143969 | Decladding method and decladding device for spent nuclear fuel reprocessing A decladding device of spent nuclear fuel easily and efficiently removes fuel pins from the spent nuclear fuel. Spent nuclear fuel pins P, made of austenitic stainless steel, and in which the spent nuclear fuel is filled, are fed by a feeder 7 one by one or b... | 12/05/2006 |
