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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5197681 | Apparatus for safe high speed slicing/shaving of a food product A slicing/shaving machine particularly adapted for high speed slicing/shaving or food products in which at least one slicing/shaving blade defines a slicing/shaving edge of a generally arcuate configuration. The blade is carried by a slicing/shaving drum ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5163628 | Food slicer A kitchen appliance for slicing food has a slicing cylinder arranged rotatably in a housing. Material to be sliced is pressed against the slicing cylinder by means of a pusher which can be moved into a feeding chamber. The wall of the feeding chamber loca... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5112273 | Process and apparatus for separating fine bones from fish flakes The present invention is a process and an apparatus for efficiently separating fine bones from fish flakes wherein fish flakes are dispersed after dehydration or dehydrated after dispersion, and separated using a sieve with a plate with slits formed there... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5076503 | Size reduction processing apparatus for solid material A cutter blade projects tangentially from the peripheral surface of a solid cylindrical rotor for travel along an arcuate path in converging relation to a support surface of an anvil aligned with a horizontal travel path along which scrap lumber is contin... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4967969 | Apparatus for chipping solid materials An apparatus for chipping solid materials generally comprises a chippr having a plurality of blades mounted between two hubs and spaced from one another and the shaft so that the chipped material does not jam the chipper. The blades preferably have a blad... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4884755 | Food processor An appliance for processing food items including a first housing and a second housing releasably attached to the first housing. The first housing has a handle to facilitate hand-held use. A cutting member is mounted in the second housing and apparatus is ... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4856718 | Food processor and food cutting devices therefor A hand-holdable food processor for cutting, slicing, shredding or grating vegetables, fruit, cheese and the like. The food processor is operable in various orientations while being held by hand and has a power supply, food cutting means for cutting, slici... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4738402 | Waste recovery system Waste material pulping process includes (a) providing tank structure having an inlet and an outlet, and forming sequential zones through which waste material passes, including first, second and third zones, (b) providing a shredding and mulching rotor carried ... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4720050 | Comminutor-pump assembly A comminutor and a pump are assembled together so that they are driven by the same prime mover, such as a tractor power take-off, the pump being arranged to draw liquid, such as sewage, into a comminution chamber containing a rotating hollow cylinder whic... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4674168 | Method for exchanging the blade receivers in disc cutter machines and disc cutter machines for carrying out the method In order to provide a method and a disc cutter machine for carrying out the method with which the previously strenuous blade receiver exchange is simplified and facilitated, it is provided that the blade receiver (8) to be exchanged is tilted up by means ... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4630556 | Method for burning coal-liquid slurry fuels and apparatus therefor Process for preventing clogging of an atomizing device, which is used to feed a fluid coal-liquid slurry fuel into a combustion chamber in the form of a particulate spray, by continuously passing all of the slurry fuel through a comminuting means position... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4615492 | Pulping apparatus Pulping apparatus particularly for reducing waste fibrous material into a fiber slurry. A disintegrating and mulching drum is provided to shred and tear wet feed material into clumps of wet fibrous material and the clumps then converted into water-logged ... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4479581 | Apparatus and method for processing bagged refuse A raw refuse processing apparatus disk screen separating bed has a series of interdigitated rotatable disk assemblies and is adapted to receive raw refuse at one end, including bagged refuse, and at an intermediate location along its length the separating... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4448738 | Process for producing foamed plastic articles An improvement is disclosed in a process for producing foamed articles of thermo-plastic or thermo-setting compounds. The improvement reduces the number of steps normally followed to make a foamed product and cuts down on the time. The improvement compris... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4441410 | Coconut grater A coconut grater for grating and removing the coconut flesh from the interior of a coconut shell has a rotatable shaft and a plurality of curved grating members. Each grating member has a front portion secured to a leading end of the shaft and then curvin... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4390133 | Food processor The invention relates to a food processor of the slicer/shredder type having a power base L-shaped housing with a second feed chute housing rotatably attached to the L-shaped housing to extend above it in an operative position over the L with the chute fo... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4386740 | Food processor The invention relates to a food processer of the slicer/shredder type having a power base L-shaped housing and a second feed chute offset from the upstanding base and rotatably attached to the L-shaped housing to extend above it in an operative positive p... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4307843 | Slicer for food products The slicer for food products comprises a circular blade 2 mounted to rotate in a support-means 1, and a base 4 comprising a surface 5 for the accommodation of the product to be sliced, the said surface running substantially parallel with axis of rotation ... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4301846 | Machine for producing wood shavings from chips A machine for producing thin shavings from chopped cellulose chips, in which the shavings are cut substantially in the fiber direction and have a large surface area relative to their thickness. The machine comprises a first part provided with at least one... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4236554 | Land clearing machine A rotating cutterhead projects forward from a tractor or other suitable vehicle and fells trees as the tractor is moved over land to be cleared. The tree-felling cutterhead rotates in a direction such that its leading face moves upward and then rearward t... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4227656 | Vegetable slicer The pusher plate which pushes foodstuffs through the chute to the food processor in a vegetable slicer is divided, each portion being separately operable and having divider walls for selectively reducing the effective capacity of the chute to expedite han... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4226370 | Soil processing device and method In a device and method for particulating conglomerated materials, and especially soil samples, a revolving drum is mounted for eccentric rotation about a vertical axis. A grating or screen comprises the cylindrical wall of the open ended drum. The materia... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4219165 | Attachment for food cutters The specification discloses an attachment for a food cutting machine which facilitates perpendicular cutting and chopping of food. The attachment is designed for ready attachment to a conventional food cutter of the type having a rotatable cutting cone wi... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4214715 | Rotary food cutting apparatus Food in a hopper is sliced or shredded by a conical cutter which rotates adjacent to the lower edge of the hopper. A set of interchangeable cutters are provided for producing products of different shapes. Such cutters have conical walls of differing conic... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4214714 | Apparatus for cutting food A rotary conical cutter lies adjacent to the lower edge of a food-retaining hopper to grate, shred or slice food in the hopper. Cut food enters the center of the cutter through openings defined by cutting edges which project from the conical wall in the c... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4162769 | Whole tree chipper A whole tree chipper composed of a housing encasing a rotor formed by a pair of substantially identical axially aligned frustro-conical hollow discs having their minimum diameter ends connected together and provided with at least one knife on each disc is... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4081145 | Food cutting machine A food-cutting machine for slicing, grating or shredding foodstuffs such as fruits, vegetables, meats or cheeses. The device is designed particularly for home kitchen use and features a hollow body or housing, the interior of which is adapted to storage o... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4077450 | Rotary drum wastewood chipper The periphery of the chipping drum carries one or more axial rows of individual chipping bits in which the bits of adjacent rows are in staggered relationship if there is more than one row, and further carries an evening knife located in a position traili... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4009837 | Wood chipping apparatus Wood chipping apparatus including a removable wood chipping cartridge in the form of a hollow drum having axial extending wood chipping knives positioned adjacent to wood chip receiving apertures in the drum. The drum is removably connected, at one end, t... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3991946 | Machine for producing wood shavings from chips A machine for cutting wood chips to shavings comprises a rotatable drum having circumferentially spaced cutting members connected to a feed passageway. The latter extends along a substantial portion of the length of the drum and houses feed screws forcing... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3979075 | Machines for cutting wood and other ligneous materials into small pieces A cutting machine for cutting ligneous materials into small pieces comprises a toothed cutting cylinder and a reaction member. In a mobile version of the machine the reaction member is in the form of a toothed felling cylinder 14, which is tangentially mo... | 09/07/1976 |
