"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350963 | Blender jar A blender jar defines a geometry to impart vertical movement to material being processed in the blender jar, and, alternatively or in combination, improves the horizontal movement to the blended material. By configuring one or more agitators on the floor of a jar, l... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341416 | Machine and method to feed filled bags, open the bags, empty the bags, and dispose of the empty bags A filled plastic bag may contain insulation. The bags are stacked in a loader. A pair of reciprocating arms rotate a bottom-most bag causing that bag to fall through an opening of a base. A conveyor receives the bag and moves it through a transverse knife and a long... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7329425 | Process for natural recycling of protein waste An apparatus and process for naturally recycling poultry carcasses for use as a nutritional supplement, the apparatus generally consists of four modules: an enzymatic digest medium mixing assembly that self adjusts for pH; a mobile grinding assembly mounted on a tru... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325969 | Container mixer A container mixer comprising a loadbearing device, a mixer arm (5) and a docking unit (6) for holding a container (7). The mixer arm (5) is mounted on the rotatable part of a first rotary device (10) having a horizontal first axis ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7267478 | Blender container with off center blade assembly A container (15) for a blender (10) includes a bottom surface (16) having a non-symmetrically shaped perimeter. A side wall (17) extends upwardly from the perimeter of the bottom surface (16). A mixing blade assembly (20) ha... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7226778 | Apparatus for natural recycling of protein waste An apparatus and process for naturally recycling poultry carcasses for use as a nutritional supplement, the apparatus generally consists of four modules: an enzymatic digest medium mixing assembly that self adjusts for pH; a mobile grinding assembly mounted on a tru... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7169263 | Coarse dirt collector for removing coarse material from a pulper and corresponding method The invention relates to a coarse dirt collector (7) for removing coarse material from a pulper (1). The coarse dirt collector (7) comprises a support arm (8) with a collecting basket (9). The collecting basket (9) consists ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7052599 | Method and apparatus for reuse of abrasive fluid used in the manufacture of semiconductors An apparatus and method recycles the abrasive fluid or slurry effluent used in the polishing step in the manufacture of semiconductors. Agglomerations of abrasive grains built up in the slurry effluent are crushed using a mill, ultrasonic oscillation, or pressurized... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6964511 | Mixing apparatus and method A mixing apparatus including a frame, a housing, and a pair of thrust generators are disclosed. The housing is pivotably mounted to the frame and is movable between a retracted position substantially parallel with the frame and an extended position substantially per... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6913380 | Continuous preparation of heat-vulcanizable silicone compositions High levels of treated fumed silica, processing fluid and high molecular weight silicone polymer are continuously compounded into a homogeneous silica filled heat-vulcanizable silicone composition by forming a premix in a continuous annular layer mixer and continuou... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6742529 | Resin recycling system A system for recycling reusable resin mold products recovered from discarded apparatuses is disclosed. This recycling system includes a crushing system for crushing resin mold products one kind by one kind into crushed resinous pieces and packing the same in a bag, ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 5985347 | Cheese processing vat and method A cheese processing vat of the type having a pair of interconnected generally cylindrical wall portions with agitator panels rotating therein to sweep generally cylindrical volumes includes agitator panels which are driven to rotate in opposite directions... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5976594 | System and process for producing feed from food waste A continuous process for turning food waste into nutritionally balanced animal feed. A production system is disclosed which includes a series of pipes and tanks through which food waste is processed and dehydrated so that the food waste is ultimately conv... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5891330 | Waste treatment system A system for treating human waste in remote or portable toilet facilities, including a holding tank that stores waste; a heat reservoir that receives waste from the holding tank, heats the waste to kill fecal coliform bacteria therein present, and routes ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5695281 | Device for manufacturing paint A device for manufacturing paint by mixing a dry paint powder with water has a paste mixing zone for mixing dry paint powder with water to a paint paste. The paste mixing zone has an inlet for the dry paint powder. The paste mixing zone further has a mixi... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5606907 | Food processing vat A cheese processing vat of the type having a pair of interconnected wall portions each having a compound frustoconical shape, with agitator panels rotating therein to sweep volumes which correspond to the frustoconical wall portions, said agitator panels ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5513559 | Food processing vat A cheese processing vat of the type having a pair of interconnected generally cylindrical wall portions with agitator panels rotating therein to sweep generally cylindrical volumes includes agitator panels which have radially inner edge portions spaced ra... | 05/07/1996 |
| 4938424 | Food processing vat An improved food processing vat including an outer shell, and a vessel to contain a food product, such as curds and whey, is spaced inwardly of the shell and is composed of a pair of generally cylindrical sections which intersect along vertical apices. Ea... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4918665 | Apparatus for mixing material The invention relates to mixing apparatus in which the drive motor and the stirrers are each coupled to the three revolving elements of a planetary gear. In such apparatus the speed of the two stirrers is automatically adapted to the prevailing counter-mo... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4848919 | Pinned mill for mixers A pinned mill for a mixer having a mixing mechanism has a motor outside the mixer container and a rotor inside the container and spaced apart from its walls. The rotor is rotationally drivable by the motor and is at least partly surrounded at a tangent by... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4815671 | Container having a built-in mill A container and built-in mill construction includes a hollow container with a conical guide supported in a lower part of the container. The conical guide has an opening. A cylinder is provided connected to the conical guide extending downward about the pe... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4674692 | Mixing and/or comminuting apparatus A mixing and/or comminution apparatus is described in which a nozzle arrangement which can be supplied with suckable and/or pumpable media is provided in the region of a stirrer member which rotates within the apparatus around the wall thereof. The nozzle... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4509862 | Feed processing system An industrial and feed mixing system including a mixing tank being supplied in part by a hammermill. A pair of vertical augers rotatably mounted in the tank convey feed upwardly. A bottom horizontal auger includes inner and outer auger flights of opposite... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4506838 | Comminution and mixing apparatus In a comminution and mixing apparatus, comprising a cylindrical container (1) for receiving the material to be treated and at least one drivable stirrer which is concentrically journalled relative to the axis (20) of the container and which extends substa... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4501047 | Method and apparatus for separating fibers Disclosed is an apparatus and method for separating clumps of resilient fibers such as aramid polymer fiber agglomerates. Rotating blades throw the fiber clumps outwardly against a surrounding resilient "cushion" of fibers of the material. Rather than phy... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4465239 | Feeder assembly for insulation blowing machines A feeder assembly for particulate matter blowing machines including a cylindrical member with an opening along its upper surface through which particulate matter is inserted. A drive shaft is positioned longitudinally through the member and a cylindrical ... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4411390 | Insulation blowing and spraying apparatus An apparatus for producing particulate material from compact masses of materials such as that used for insulation and then pneumatically dispensing the material in a uniform flow and with a preselected and consistent density. The apparatus includes a hopp... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4321860 | Closed cheese making vat with recirculating whey A cheese making vat comprising a closed vessel having a vertical shaft mounted for rotation within the vessel. The shaft carries a frame that extends radially outward from the shaft, and a series of vertical blades are mounted on the frame and are designe... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4206880 | Food processing apparatus A closed food processing vat particularly for use as a cheese curd vat where at least one rotatable vertical shaft within the vat has a pivotally associated cutter frame stopped so the frame when the shaft is rotated in one direction is moved to a cutting... | 06/10/1980 |
| 3997147 | Continuous mixer A continuous mixer or kneader, particularly for explosive, potentially explosive, and other critical materials, wherein longitudinally split barrel sections are maintained closed by a mechanism which is actuated to instantly split the barrel sections unde... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3974969 | High speed chopper for precision mixers A comminuting and/or mixing machine having a plurality of alternately aligned blades each one having plural step-like leading edges lying in a plane angularly disposed to the direction of movement of the blades. The angular disposition of the step-like ed... | 08/17/1976 |