...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8205817 | Bead mill with separator A bead mill for performing wet comminuting including a stationary vessel having an internal wall and forming a milling chamber to be filled at least partly with milling bodies, raw particles and a carrying liquid to form a suspension within the milling chamber; an a... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8172169 | Media-agitation type pulverizer Disclosed is a media-agitation type pulverizer, which is enabled to acquire products of high quality by excellent pulverizing/dispersing actions. The media-agitation type pulverizer comprises a grinding container having a material entrance and a spherical grinding c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8118247 | Agitator ball mill An agitator ball mill for finely grinding or dispersing material has a cylindrical or conical grinding chamber for accommodating grinding bodies and for accommodating the material which is to be ground or dispersed. It also has an inlet, which is arranged at one end... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8028943 | Agitating ball mill An agitating ball mill includes a comminution vessel surrounding an agitating shaft which is provided with a product inlet and a product outlet, wherein the comminution media located within the comminution vessel is activated through the rotation of the agitating sh... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8002213 | Agitator mill An agitator mill has a grinding vessel and an agitator shaft arranged such that it can be driven to rotate therein. Fixed at the end of the agitator shaft is a last agitator disc, on which is fixed a substantially cylindrical cage having apertures. Arranged inside t... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7931222 | Agitator mill An agitator mill for treating free-flowing grinding stock has a grinding receptacle and an interior stator disposed therein. A rotatably drivable annular cylindrical rotor is disposed between the interior stator and the receptacle wall, with a grinding chamber being... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7845589 | Agitating ball mill Agitating ball mill with a cylindrical grinding vessel comprising at least one grinding stock inlet and at least one grinding stock outlet wherein in the grinding vessel an agitating shaft connected with a drive is arranged which transmits a part of the drive energy... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7828238 | Media-agitation type wet disperser and method for dispersing fine particles A media-agitation type wet disperser is provided which eliminates the group motion of media, attains high dispersion efficiency, and avoids wear problem. A cylindrical vessel having a feed opening for the treating material and a discharge opening for the treated mat... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7591440 | Methods and systems for cement finishing mill control Methods and systems for controlling a cement finishing mill, and operating the mill at an optimal point, are disclosed. To determine an optimal point of operation, values of mill power and sound are collected and compared to values predicted by a model to determine ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7588205 | Medium agitation mill The object of the present invention is to provide a medium agitation mill which is responsive to the standstill of the mill for preventing the pulverizing medium from invading the inside space of the longitudinal hollow space of the drive shaft of the impeller. ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7374115 | Ball mill provided with an agitator A ball mill is provided with an agitator and comprises a grinding chamber containing grinding medium, a stator and a rotor which are arranged in said grinding chamber, an input opening for material to be ground and an output opening for ground material which are use... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374116 | Circulation type media agitator mill A circulation type media agitator mill includes a cylindrical vessel, and an agitating member arranged rotatably in the cylindrical vessel. A grinding media is contained in a grinding chamber defined between a cylindrical wall of the agitating member and a surroundi... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7278592 | Processing apparatus and method for fluid, and deaerator therewith A processing apparatus for fluid with a simple structure, high productivity, ability of precise dispersion, emulsification and grinding, is provided. The apparatus of the present invention comprises at least two processing faces of a first face and a second f... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275704 | Compound dispersing method and apparatus To provide a dispersing apparatus that can stir media in a vessel uniformly, and by increasing the shearing power at stirring, can perform quality constant dispersion with high dispersing efficiency. In a dispersing apparatus wherein a basket-shaped vessel 2 ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7264191 | Agitator mill An agitator mill comprises a grinding receptacle and a rotarily drivable agitator arranged therein. A grinding-stock supply mouthes into the grinding chamber; a grinding-stock discharge leads out of the grinding chamber. The grinding chamber is at least partially fi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7243866 | Agitator mill An agitator mill comprises an annular cylindrical exterior grinding chamber which is defined by an inner wall of a grinding receptacle and an outer wall of a rotor; and an interior grinding chamber which is defined by an inner wall of the rotor and an outer casing o... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7229035 | Method of deagglomerating ceramic powder, deagglomeration mill used therefor and method of preparing highly dispersed slurry using the deagglomerated powder Disclosed herein is a method of deagglomerating ceramic powder to inhibit agglomeration and provide a uniform particle size, a deagglomeration mill used for the above method, and a method of preparing uniformly mixed ceramic slurry using the deagglomerated ceramic p... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7216822 | Agitator mill An agitator mill comprises an annular cylindrical exterior grinding chamber which is defined by an inner wall of a grinding receptacle and an outer wall of a rotor; and an interior grinding chamber which is defined by an inner wall of the rotor and an outer casing o... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210641 | Methods of making a niobium metal oxide Methods to at least partially reduce a niobium oxide are described. In one embodiment, a milling process is described wherein the surfaces of the mill in contact with the starting metal oxide, getter material, and/or oxygen reduced metal oxide are the same as the ma... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7100851 | Method and apparatus for dispersing pigment in liquid medium The present invention provides an apparatus for dispersing pigment in a water-based or oil-based intermediate mixture for producing a coating composition comprising a mixer and a dispersing device, the mixer having a vacuum pump and capable of conducting a primary m... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7093782 | Method and device for fine grinding of mineral particles A method for fine grinding of mineral particles consists of producing by atomization pellets, made from steel with a high carbon content, or cast iron, with a granular size range less than 15 mm and mixing the pellets with balls, made from steel or cast iron with di... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7070134 | Centrifugal grinding mills The present invention relates to a centrifugal grinding mill comprising a vertical axis of revolution (1), a nutating axis (2) intersecting axis (1) at a point of nutation symmetry (3), a grinding chamber (4) symmetrical about axis... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7059552 | 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 juxtapositioned to each other thereby forming a collision zone therebetween and wherein... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7018277 | Device for grinding workpieces To improve the grinding action when grinding workpieces in a device equipped with a container and a rotary disk rotating relative thereto using abrasive granules, according to the invention there are ribs in the upper area of the container. ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7014134 | Stirred ball mill The horizontally operating stirred ball mill has a cylindrical grinding chamber (50) serving for receiving grinding media, a material inlet (37) arranged at the end of the grinding chamber (50) and opening into the interior (3) of the gri... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6887135 | Ball finishing apparatus and process An apparatus and process of surface finishing golf balls prior to painting is provided. The apparatus and process make use of nylon loops as a finishing material that is used to abrade the surface of adjacent moving golf balls. Optionally, the abrading process betwe... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6821191 | Ball finishing process An apparatus and process of surface finishing golf balls prior to painting is provided. The apparatus and process make use of nylon loops as a finishing material that is used to abrade the surface of adjacent moving golf balls. Optionally, the abrading process betwe... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6719610 | Method and device for grinding particulates A particulate grinding method and device applies different force fields to drive the grinding medium and the particulates move in different routes but collide only at a grinding area so that they are separated naturally without conventional screening mechanisms, suc... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6655617 | Drive system for a tube mill A simply and compactly built drive system for a tube mill is provided whose force transmission is no longer threatened by flexures and other deformations of the grinding tube. A one-piece ring gear having a diameter less than or equal to the diameter of t... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6619574 | Method for verifying the filling level of coal in a ball mill The method of monitoring the level of filling of a ball mill which is fed with material to be pulverized and is provided with a drum mounted to rotate on two bearings which are relatively far apart, consists in measuring the weight of the drum using strai... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6585180 | Pipeline beads mill and dispersing system having the pipeline beads mill A pipeline beads mill has a dispersion chamber, a first feeding port for feeding a material to be treated into the dispersion chamber, a second feeding port for feeding a dispersion media into the dispersion chamber, a tubular outer stator disposed in the... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6565024 | Dispersing device A dispersing device has a container that receives and processes a product to be dispersed and a grinding device with a housing that contains grinding bodies, wherein said housing has openings enabling the product to be dispersed to pass through, an agitat... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6547171 | Pulverizing installation The ball mill is of the type including: a rotary drum (11, 12, 13) having a horizontal axis (XX') and each end of which is supported by a journal (14, 15) which terminates it and through which passes an axial tube (41) around which it delimits an annular duct ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6460791 | Agitator mill An agitator mill with a grinding receptacle comprises a grinding chamber defined by an inner wall thereof and a rotor which is located therein and driven in high-speed actuation. Mounted on the rotor are agitator elements which stand out radially and to w... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6260779 | Agitator mill An agitator mill comprises a cylindrical grinding receptacle, in which is disposed an agitator to be driven in rotation. At one end a grinding-stock supply line opens into the grinding chamber. At the other end a grinding-stock discharge line discharges t... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6220536 | Milling machine, method of crushing ore by use of the milling machine, and method of manufacturing the milling machine There is described a milling machine which has a shell main unit and enables an improvement in the efficiency of crushing ore by uniform distribution of grinding members within the shell main unit and which enables an improvement in the quality of crushed... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6158680 | Multi-barrel media mill and method of grinding A multiple barrel chamber for a media mill where the media mill is used to grind and disperse pigments for paint, coating, ink products, and other pigment-vehicle fluids, as well as grinding and dispersing other particulate matter. More particularly, a th... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6086242 | Dual drive planetary mill A mill for grinding and/or mixing a material. In one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention, the mill includes a first container rotatably mounted at a first end of a gyration arm. The container rotates about a first axis, and the gyratio... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6070817 | Pulverizer The present invention provides a pulverizer which can readily miniaturize a whole pulverization apparatus including the pulverizer and can be used for various purposes such as grinding aggregate or pigments, polishing decorative stones or pinballs, and mi... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6021969 | Agitator mill An agitator mill comprises an annular cylindrical exterior grinding chamber, which is defmed by an inner wall of a grinding receptacle and an outer wall of a rotor and an interior grinding chamber, which is defined by an inner wall of the rotor and an out... | 02/08/2000 |