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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7028935 | Apparatus and method for shredding wet chip materials A shredder apparatus and method for shredding wet chip materials in which the shredder utilizes a shredder mechanism having a shaft attached to a frame, a bearing assembly disposed on the shaft, and a rotatable rotor disposed on the bearing assembly. First shredder ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028844 | Dried lavender flower separator system and method An improved dried lavender processing apparatus and method comprises a multi-module system comprising a first de-stemmer unit that receives the dried lavender in bundles, separates the buds (corollas/calyxes) from the stems and leaves, collects the stems and leaves ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7021455 | Wet chip pick-up assembly A wet chip pick-up assembly includes a slotted rotary drum. A comb member is seated for movement in each of the drum slots. A friction drive assembly frictionally engages the drum causing the drum to rotate which, in turn, causes the comb members to rotate. ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6951285 | Air suspension grain cleaner system An air suspension grain cleaner system for efficiently cleaning grain in small applications. The air suspension grain cleaner system includes a frame, a cleaning chamber, a blower unit fluidly connected to a lower portion of the cleaning chamber, a grain inlet fluid... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6848582 | Longitudinal micrometric separator for classifying solid particulate materials A longitudinal micrometric separator for the classification of solid particulate materials comprising an outer casing having an inflow opening and an outflow opening for the particulate material, a collection chamber at the bottom, as well as a sliding support for t... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6809314 | Fine particle classification apparatus and method for classifying aerosol particles in a sheath gas A fine-particle classification apparatus includes an aerosol generation section which generates an aerosol containing fine particles in a medium background gas, a fine-particle classification section which classifies the fine particles contained in the aerosol in a ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6540087 | Part separator having multiple inlets and method of supplying wet chips through multiple inlets A parts separator is provided for separating undesired heavy material from wet chips. The parts separator is adapted to be attached to a centrifugal separator, and includes a first chute member having a top portion and a bottom portion and including space... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6253465 | Multi-chamber fluidized bed-carrying classifier A multi-chamber fluidized bed classifying apparatus comprising; a main chamber having a fluidized bed arranged on wind boxes, through a perforated gas distributing plate is divided into a drying chamber and a classifying chamber by a partition plate, and ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 5934478 | Gas stream classifier and process for producing toner A gas stream classifier has a gas stream classifier for classifying a feed powder supplied from a feed supply nozzle, into at least a coarse powder fraction, a median powder fraction and a fine powder fraction by an inertia force acting on particles and a... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5931306 | Gas current classifier and process for producing toner A gas current classifier has a material feed nozzle, a Coanda block, a classifying wedge and a classifying wedge block having the classifying wedge. The Coanda block and the classifying wedge define a classification zone, and the classifying wedge block i... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5887725 | Classifier having a rotatable dispersion plate A raw material is dispersed around a rotating separator main body having a plurality of classifying blades annularly arranged on the main body and is exposed on a rising flow of classifying air so as to sift off crude powder which cannot be entrained on t... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5725102 | Method and device for separating heavy particles from a particulate material In a method for separating heavy particles from a particulate material containing such heavy particles, use is made of a device having a Coanda sifter, which is adapted to receive a flow of the particulate material and which has a downwardly-facing, conve... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5458245 | Device for cleaning a mixture of substantially granular grains and method for cleaning this mixture of grains A device for cleaning a mixture of substantially granular grains containing differently sized particles comprises a housing (5) which has an inlet (11) for the mixture (1) on its upper side and an outlet (12) for the cleaned granules (18) on its lower sid... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5032256 | Method and apparatus for air separation of material The application disclosed a granular material classifying device comprising a horizontally disposed, transversely unrestricted wind tunnel, having an upstream end, a downstream end, a top end and a bottom end, for directing a horizontal airflow from the u... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4908124 | Method and apparatus for removing foreign objects from fluid bed systems A foreign object removal system is disclosed including a removal chamber projecting laterally from the combustion chamber of a fluid bed reactor and connected via a downwardly directed pipe to a material flow control plenum chamber, which includes means f... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4872972 | Apparatus for classifying particles An apparatus for classifying particles entrained by a solid-gas jet stream includes a feed nozzle, a cyclonic wall having an inner arcuate wall, and an auxiliary inner arcuate wall provided at an outlet port of the nozzle. The solid-gas stream is prelimin... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4802977 | Process for size separating toner particles A process for classifying toner particles supplied through a supply nozzle into at least three fractions in a classifying chamber divided into at least three sections and placed under a reduced pressure under the action of the inertia force of the toner p... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4599163 | Device for the separation of the components of edible meal Separator device for edible meal, comprising a vertical cylindrical container (4) provided at its the bottom with a discharge rotary valve (9). A feeding duct (5) extends axially into the top portion of the container, and swirling means are provided so th... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4304661 | Machines for concentrating ore The present invention discloses a novel machine that, by a dry process, will segregate granules of different specific gravities. The machine first segregates the granules as to size, regardless of their specific gravities and regardless of the multiplicit... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4299694 | Method and apparatus for char separation from the discharge materials of an iron oxide reducing kiln A classifying system including an air elutriation device is disclosed, which device is in the form of an upright box defining an airflow chamber open at its lower end and connected at its upper end to an exhauster device. A mixture of particulate material... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4211641 | Circulating air classifier or separator Circulating air classifier having a separator chamber containing an impeller rotatable about a vertical axis, and a funnel-shaped pre-separator disposed underneath and in open communication with the separator chamber. A blower forces air through a conduit... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4153541 | Method and apparatus for the continuous centrifugal classifying of a continuous flow of particulate material in a deflected flow A continuous flow of material is separated in a continuous centrifugal classifying method into at least one fraction of coarse material and at least one fraction of fine material using a deflected flow with the stream of material introduced in a thin laye... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4083773 | Fruit harvesting machine with leaf separation means A fruit gathering machine, by which the fruit is released by means of shakers, is provided with means for separating out leaves which are removed at the same time. The leaves and fruit fall towards lateral discharge conveyors and each conveyor has air duc... | 04/11/1978 |
| 3930996 | Automatic popcorn popping method Method and apparatus for automatically popping corn in heated seasoning oil. A rotary valve disk in a closed pot is operated to correlate the phases of corn and salt input into the pot, cooking, steam discharge, and discharge of popped corn and unpopped k... | 01/06/1976 |
