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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136672 | Sizing roller screen ore processing apparatus A mined ore processing apparatus to process mined ores, such as oil sands ore, into granular material is disclosed. An ore processor bed receives the ore to be processed. The ore processor bed has a frame supporting several rotating elements each separately driven t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7677397 | Sizing roller screen ore processing apparatus Discloses a mined ore processing apparatus to process mined ores, such as oil sands ore, into granular material. An ore processor bed receives the ore to be processed. The ore processor bed has a frame supporting several rotating elements each separately driven to p... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7434695 | De-inking screen Multiple shafts are aligned along a frame and configured to rotate in a direction causing paper products to move along a separation screen. The shafts are configured with a shape and spacing so that substantially rigid pieces of the paper products move along the scr... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7341154 | Water bath separator A water bath separator includes a tank for receiving a volume of water for forming a water bath having a top water surface and a light material conveyor path extending from the tank such that an upstream end of the light material conveyor path is closely below the t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7261209 | Multi-disc module and method of application A modular multi-disc assembly for use in material separation screens and a method of application to those screens are provided. The modular multi-disc assembly includes an inner securing hub that clamps onto the drive shaft of a material separation screen. The modul... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7117996 | Adjustable object size grader An adjustable apparatus for sizing objects, mainly delicate foods, by the rotation of a set of at least 7 rollers, each roller having one less tooth so that the rollers move at progressively higher revolutions per minute, from the in-feed shear roller of 144 revolut... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7004332 | Articulating disc screen apparatus for recyclable materials A disc screen apparatus for classifying a stream of mixed recyclable materials of various sizes and shapes, including newspaper, clean mixed paper, magazines, plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, cans, and the like. The apparatus has an inclined fixed first disc... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7004300 | Adjustable disc roll for longitudinally orienting elongated wood chips An apparatus for longitudinally orienting pre-glued elongated wood strands for forming OSB panels includes a spreading head with disc rolls that each have discs arranged parallel to one another on a rotatable shaft arranged over a forming belt. The discs of a given ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000779 | Separation device Device for separating fine fractions and coarse fractions from bulk goods, comprising a frame and a screen plane supported by it for supporting the coarse fraction and allowing the fine fraction to pass through, the screen plane being formed by a number of screen di... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6848583 | Drilling fluid treatment A shale shaker having a basket for holding screen assembly apparatus, screen assembly apparatus for treating fluid introduced to the shale shaker, a roller bed assembly secured above and/or to the basket above the screen assembly apparatus, the roller bed assembly h... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6648145 | V-shaped disc screen and method of classifying mixed recyclable materials into four streams A disc screen apparatus has a V-shaped configuration with a lowermost region that provides a laterally inclined trough that receives the mixed recyclable materials. Broken glass falls downwardly between the discs of the lowermost region. Plastic milk bott... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6612446 | Roll for spreading and slowing down pourable materials A spreading roll for spreading out a chip fleece for producing wood chip material or similar panels, includes two disk-shaped end pieces (3, 7), plural thin spokes (6), rods, pipes or cords arranged extending between the end pieces, and pipe-shaped loose ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6460706 | Disc screen apparatus with air manifold Air is directed downwardly from at least one laterally extending air manifold to push newspaper in a stream of mixed recyclable materials against the discs of an inclined disc screen to ensure that the newspaper is conveyed upwardly over an output end of ... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6382425 | Mobile system for recovering material from construction waste and demolition debris A mobile system for recovering materials from construction waste or demolition debris is provided. The system includes a mobile wheeled chassis that has at least one picking station. A grapple is mounted on the wheeled chassis for selectively retrieving w... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6371305 | Method and apparatus for sorting recycled material A compound disc is used to eliminate a secondary slot normally formed between the outside perimeter of discs on adjacent shafts of a material separation screen. The compound disc includes a primary disc joined to an associated secondary disc. The primary ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6318560 | Removable disc construction for disc screen apparatus A disc screen apparatus is disclosed for separating mixed recyclable materials of varying sizes and shapes. The disc screen apparatus has an enclosure or frame with an input, a container discharge location and a paper discharge location. A first plurality... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6296124 | Screening device for bulk materials A screening device for separating fractions of bulk materials, and has at least one screening floor, with a plurality of shafts aligned parallel to each other, which rotate at the same speed, in the same direction of rotation. Screening stars are mounted ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6257414 | Roller sifting and dispersing machine A roller sifting or dispersing machine for the classification or dispersing of wood chips, fibers, or similar materials and to the utilization of an above-described roller sifting or dispersing machine. The roller sifting machine includes annular grooves ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6250477 | Starscreen The invention relates to a star scalper for separating supplied material, and has a number of parallel, rotatable shafts that are each equipped with a number of star bodies placed at a distance from each other, which bodies have a hub and radially protrud... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6250478 | Stepped disc screens of unequal inclination angles for conveying and grading recycling materials A disc screen apparatus is disclosed for separating mixed recyclable materials of varying sizes and shapes. The disc screen apparatus has an enclosure or frame with an input, a container discharge location and a paper discharge location. A first plurality... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6237778 | Agricultural separating device and agricultural separator An agricultural separating device has a starshaft (7) comprising a row of resilient starwheels (2) mounted on a rotatable shaft. Rings (5) formed of a rigid material (e.g. nylon or polypropylenes), and having an outer diameter such that they extend radial... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6234322 | Roller device to separate chips and particles of wood or material similar to wood of different gradings, and the relative forming machine employing the device Device incorporating rollers to separate particles of different gradings a plurality of adjacent rollers (11) forming a selection bed where each roller (11) has a surface conformation defining a plurality of circumferential peaks (12) alternating with cir... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6196394 | Method for operating a roller bar screen The invention relates to a method for operating a roller bar screen and to the generation of certain parameters for optimal adaptation to the bulk material being processed and as a prerequisite for process optimization. Construction measures--essentially ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6149018 | Method and apparatus for sorting recycled material A compound disc is used to eliminate a secondary slot normally formed between adjacent shafts of a material separation screen. The compound disc includes a primary disc joined to an associated secondary disc. The primary disc and the secondary disc each h... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6076684 | Waste paper sorting conveyor for sorting waste paper form waste cardboard A waste paper sorting conveyor for sorting waste paper from waste cardboard has a sorting bed formed by a row of rotatable, driven shafts mutually spaced in a conveying direction and each extending transversely to the conveying direction. The shafts each ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5960964 | Method and apparatus for sorting recycled material A compound disc is used to eliminate a secondary slot normally formed between adjacent shafts of a material separation screen. The compound disc comprises a primary disc joined to an associated secondary disc. The primary disc and the secondary disc each ... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5901856 | Paper and cardboard separator with inverting rotor A device for separating office paper and computer printout from cardboard waste material is provided. The device has two decks, each of which has multiple driving and separating disc rotors. Non-cardboard paper can fall between the disc rotors as the pape... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5799801 | Method and apparatus for separating paper from cardboard A disc screen classifies material by size. The disc screen includes a frame, a plurality of shafts mounted on the frame parallel with one another and a first stage including discs mounted on the shafts in a substantially coplanar row. Each of the discs ha... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5740922 | Sizing screen with individual row spacing adjustability Sizing screen apparatus is provided with mechanism for enabling the extent of spacings, longitudinally of an elongate sizing screen between transversely extending, individual rows of spacing members, to be adjusted individually. Each transversely extendin... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5626239 | Separating machine A screening machine comprising a plurality of rotors adapted such that in a frame the axes of the rotors are arranged parallel to one another from a supply side where objects to be screened including mixed substances different at least in size are supplie... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5590792 | Screening machine A screening machine including a plurality of rotors adapted such that in a frame the axes of the rotors are arranged parallel to one another from a supply side where objects to be screened including mixed substances different at least in size are supplied... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5582300 | Screening machine A screening machine comprising a plurality of rotors adapted such that in a frame the axes of the rotors are arranged parallel to one another from a supply side where objects to be screened including mixed substances different at least in size are supplie... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5558234 | Product size grading system A product size grading system comprises a roller bed having a plurality of rotary shafts wherein each shaft supports product sizing roller members. A motorized transmission is coupled to the plurality of rotary shafts and drives the rotary shafts in a uni... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5555985 | Screening machine A screening machine comprising a plurality of rotors adapted such that in a frame the axes of the rotors are arranged parallel to one another from a supply side where objects to be screened including mixed substances different at least in size are supplie... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5544761 | Soft cranberry and undersize cranberry separator and method A cranberry separator, and method, to separate soft and undersize cranberries from hard, marketable cranberries. Mushy cranberries do not clog the separator. Pressure is repeatedly applied to each cranberry, to a pressure less than 0.50 psi, as cranberrie... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5503712 | Screening system for fractionating and sizing woodchips A flow management system and process for providing controlled separation and sizing of an incoming flow of wood chips. A flow management screen is provided in the form of a horizontal disk screen having a variable speed drive, with the drive controlled ba... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5480034 | Screening machine A screening machine comprising a plurality of rotors adapted such that in a frame the axes of the rotors are arranged parallel to one another from a supply side where objects to be screened including mixed substances different at least in size are supplie... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5450966 | Multi-stage disc screen for classifying material by size A disc screen for classifying material by size. The disc screen comprises a frame, a plurality of shafts mounted on the frame parallel with one another, a first stage including discs mounted on the shafts in a substantially coplanar row, each of the discs... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5361909 | Waste aggregate mass density separator Apparatus and method are disclosed for separating and recovering the solid particle components of a waste aggregate using screening and air separation mechanisms. Such an aggregate could be log yard waste comprising soil, wood and mineral particles. The a... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5298119 | Screening system for fractionating and sizing wood chips A flow management system and process for providing controlled separation and sizing of an incoming flow of wood chips. A flow management screen is provided in the form of a horizontal disk screen having a variable speed drive, with the drive controlled ba... | 03/29/1994 |
