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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7261198 | Bi-directional package divert mechanism and method of use A bi-directional package divert mechanism used for sorting mail and other packages and items into appropriate bins for future delivery. The mechanism includes a downward extending moving mechanism which is capable of moving items into one of two directions, both per... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7229041 | Lifting lid crusher A blockage clearance apparatus for a crusher that has a housing and a lid and at least one anvil mounted to the lid for crushing material. The housing contains a rotatable rotor with radial blow bars against which crushable materials are forced during operation. In ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7032850 | Used-can processing system and method A used-can processing system includes a shredder for cutting a used drum can, and a pelletizer for pelletizing cut pieces of the used can. The shredder includes a pair of rotary blade units which rotate with their blades meshing each other so as to cut a used drum c... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6860440 | Hammermill A hammermill for singulating cellulosic fibers from a pulp sheet comprises a cylindrical housing, a feed slot with a breaker bar positioned therein and a rotor mounted for rotation in the housing. Feed rolls are provided to feed a sheet of pulp into the feed slot up... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6779429 | Knife arrangement for a granulator for granulating plastic ropes Knife arrangement for a granulator for granulating plastic ropes with two draw-in rollers and a cutting rotor (9) cooperating with a counter-knife (2), and a striper (3) facing one of the draw-in rollers (11), whereby counter-knife (2 | 08/24/2004 |
| 6598814 | Fiber chopper A method and apparatus for chopping long unwound items like fiber, fiber strands, yarn, etc. having an idler roll for pressing the item(s) against a backup roll for pulling the item(s) into the chopper uses an improved mount for the idler roll that mainta... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6588691 | Mobile document shredder with retractable loading tunnel and load cell A mobile shredding system is used mounted on a vehicle. The system has a hopper, for receiving material to be shredded, a shredder communicating with the hopper, and a holding space for shredded waste into which the shredder feeds shredded material. A bin... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6585177 | High-security data removal process for data-containing disks, portable machine for high-speed, high-security disk removal, and DVD splitting process and apparatus The data destruction machine is a desk-top, portable unit with a short (under 10 second) cycle time, pluggable into a wall outlet. Upon insertion of a disk (such as a CD or split DVD) into the machine, which is fully automatic, data is removed. The machin... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6565022 | Apparatus for and method of recycling chopped strand mat edge trim An apparatus for and method of recycling the edge portion of a chopped strand mat are disclosed. The method includes the steps of trimming an edge portion of the chopped strand mat, transporting the edge portion to a shredder assembly, and shredding the e... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6186079 | Linear diffuser for balancing coal flow In a delivery pipe for pulverized coal fines from a coal mill to a combustion chamber, a device for diffusing unevenly distributed coal flow evenly across the pipe. In a first form, the invention comprises a plurality of static, lateral, linear diffuser e... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6158681 | Low shearing curved surface granulator for bulk feeding A low shearing curved surface granulator for bulk feed consists of a feeding mechanism and a granulating mechanism; wherein the mainbody of the feeding mechanism is a cylindrical body, the main part of the granulating mechanism is a groove pipe with flang... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6129299 | Bulk material handling system with a sloughing wall A reciprocating slat conveyor (22) conveys a body of bulk material (16) to the outlet end (21) of a container (12). The body of bulk material (16) is moved against a sloughing wall (10). The sloughing wall (10) includes a plurality of slats (40) that are ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6116529 | Corn processor for forage harvester In a pull type forage harvester which travels forwardly in a field to pick up crop material and feed it into a housing having a cutterhead with knives rotatable around a transverse axes. The cutterhead chops the crop material and deposits it in a transver... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6053442 | High-speed crushing apparatus A high-speed crushing apparatus comprising two cutting edges one of which is stationary-type and the other rotary-type, a crusher disposed downstream of the edges including a shaft facing the rotary-type cutting edge and a plurality of cutters attached ro... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6036128 | Tire shredding machine and method of using the same A tire shredding machine which does not require the massive amount of machinery required for existing tire shredders and which is safe and simple to use is disclosed. The tire shredding machine of the present invention essentially includes a housing with ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5785263 | Waste tire pulverizing and separation apparatus A waste tire pulverizing and separation machine including a machine body, and a roll-in mechanism, a pulverizing barrel, and a separation conveyer accommodated in the machine body. The roll-in mechanism is mounted at an input side at an upper side of the ... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5575427 | Bulk product handling method and apparatus A method of converting a mass of berries which have superficially adhered together during storage in a container back to individual berries, said method including the steps of directing the berry mass against an apertured stationary breaking means (9) to ... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5417375 | Material reducing machine An improved arrangement for feeding material through a material reducing machine. An inclined wall is positioned strategic to a material reduction unit and a plunger of the machine. A lower beveled edge of the inclined wall is positioned in close proximit... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5209278 | Drum chipper with knife and knife holder A drum chipper having a rotatable, power-driven drum supporting a knife. With rotation of the drum, a cutting edge in the knife is moved past a cutter bar. A knife mounting keyed to the knife is adjustably positioned along a path in the drum to position t... | 05/11/1993 |
| 4978079 | Shredder-mixer A machine for preparing soil mixes and the like utilizing a hopper and a conveyor forming a live bottom for the hopper to convey the materials into a shredding chamber. A hammer mill type apparatus is positioned in the shredding chamber to shred and mix t... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4895309 | Impactor for breaking large metal pieces An impactor for breaking large, boulder size, ferrous metal pieces comprises a massive, horizontally axised, cylindrically shaped rotor having spaced apart, outwardly extending, impact heads. The rotor is formed of a number of axially aligned, thick, larg... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4867382 | Lifting mechanism for the pressing roller of the feed mechanism of a crusher for scrap A lifting mechanism for the pressing roller of the feed mechanism of a crusher for scrap. The rotor of the crusher, via a lifting mechanism that acts upon a mounting bracket of the rotor mounting, can be removed from a split housing after an upper part of... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4771953 | Retractable anvil chipper A wood and stump chipper having a rotational chipper disc with protruding blade means for chipping wood advanced thereto; a support trough for wood; a ram for advancing wood along the support trough to the disc; power means for shifting said ram from a po... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4650129 | Capped disc for hammer mill rotor A hammer mill for treating scrap metal including a rotary hammer means for delivering impact blows to scrap metal is shown. Discharge grates are provided for disposing of the scrap metal through discharge outlets for the hammer mill. The rotor is a disc t... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4641789 | Compactor enhancement system An automatic compactor enhancement reduces the volume of compactable low-level radioactive wastes and transfers the reduced wastes to a nearby waste compactor. The wastes are shredded by a primary shredder assembly and a secondary shredder assembly. The s... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4513018 | Continuous production of corn products Embodiments of this invention include methods and apparatus for the production of flour from which products such as corn tortillas, tortilla chips, "taco shells", and the like, may be produced, in a continuous process, by pre-cooking the grain, stabilizin... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4449672 | Machine for loading and disintegrating large bales of forage material A machine for grinding large bales of forage material is provided with a cradle pivotably mounted on a frame. The cradle is movable to a lowered position in which lifting members can engage a bale of crop material lying on the ground. The cradle can be pi... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4432772 | Slag breaker of pressure-type coal gasifier A slag breaker of a pressure-type coal gasifier having a rotary grate with a plurality of grate segments, a generator bottom and an ash separator, has an inclined breaking plate arranged to be located immediately below the grate segment and prior to the a... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4378094 | Material reducing mill by-pass for uncrushables A material reducing mill having a material feeding conveyor delivering material to be reduced in the mill by falling onto a reducing rotor, and a by-pass gate adjacent the fall of the material and operable to direct material in by-pass of the reducing rot... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4366931 | Crushing device A crushing device is disclosed for fragmenting coarse material which includes a frame, an elongated housing mounted to the frame for oscillatory motion about a horizontal swing axis adjacent a first end of the housing, a rotatable crushing roller mounted ... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4339085 | Reversible material reducing mill A reducing mill for handling a wide variety of trash and waste material needing reduction to a state for easy subsequent handling and for separating certain components of the material by a specific gravity characteristic. The reducing mill embodies means ... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4245790 | Pressure relief for material shredders Pressure relief for material shredders to immediately vent pressure rise within the working spaces of a material shredder and prevent structural damage to the shredder and surrounding equipment. The pressure relief is also directed to structure for contro... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4243183 | Preparation and crushing tool A preparation and crushing tool, particularly for processing refuse material, including a drum mounted for rotation about a central axis at a subcritical speed, at least one rotor disposed within the drum eccentric to the axis of the drum and mounted for ... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4228964 | Apparatus for processing cellulose insulation A new and useful apparatus has been devised for grinding paper into cellulose fiber insulation in which a hammermill or rotary beater has a paper feed inlet which establishes a low pressure zone at the entrance to the hammermill housing whereby to encoura... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4214716 | Pulverizer This invention relates to pulverizers of the kind comprising a barrel having an inlet for material to be pulverized, an outlet, an upright rotor rotatable within the barrel and a plurality of hammers mounted on the rotor. Apparatus according to the invent... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4203557 | Continuous-operation crushing machine A crushing-machine housing accommodates a rotating crushing roller whose periphery travels in the same direction as the conveyor which feeds material through the crushing machine, the clearance between the crushing roller and such conveyor determining the... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4183471 | Alfalfa separator An alfalfa separator is provided for separating the coarser stem and fiber portion of the alfalfa plant from the finer leaf portion. The separator includes a housing having a chamber therein. The bottom part of the chamber is defined by a screen which is ... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4172561 | Mineral lump breaker A mineral lump breaker, for example for use in conjunction with a coal conveyor in a mine, comprises a breaker element and reaction means, for example in the form of a breaker plate or reaction discs. The breaker element and reaction means are carried by ... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4162767 | Impacting crusher with variable flow feed distributor An impacting crusher with a relatively wide rotor is adapted to receive its feed material from a relatively narrow conveyor, while establishing even distribution of wear across the rotor. Periods of operation between rotor overhaul and replacement are ext... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4151959 | Apparatus for comminuting pulverizable material An impact pulverizer mounts a rotor concentrically within an octagonal shaped reduction chamber. The rotor has a substantially solid core and generally radially extending impact blades, each of which slopes in the axial direction of the rotor. Upon rotati... | 05/01/1979 |
