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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370461 | Adaptive threshold technique for detecting reel-to-bedknife contact A control system for a cutting reel unit includes a height-of-cut adjusting system and a reel-to-bedknife clearance adjusting system. The height-of-cut adjusting system includes a first frame; a second frame; a cutting reel supported by the second frame; a bedknife ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364104 | Cutting machine for organic plant materials, especially for tobacco A cutting machine for organic plant materials has a frame in which a cutterhead of a drum having sets of cutting knives (16, 18) symmetrically arranged on its perimeter surface is mounted. At least two separate knife extension arrangement (10, 10a | 04/29/2008 |
| 7314191 | Two roll sugarcane crushing mill An improved two roll sugarcane crushing mill has two roll mill modules in tandem, each has a pair of main crushing rolls having a bottom roll and a top roll. The bottom and top rolls are rotatingly mounted in a pair of main frames and a pair of top beams at the two ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7284721 | Impactor anvil Prism-shaped anvil blocks (10) are arranged about the inner circumferential wall (12) of a rotating shaft impactor chamber (14). Each anvil block has a planar face 16 oriented to receive material thereonto for breakage. The breakage face ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270285 | Band cutting system A cutting system for cutting elongate bands of material is provided. The cutter includes a cutter and a motor connected to the cutter for rotatably driving the cutter. A tube surrounds the cutter at a predetermined spacing from the motor, the tube including an openi... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267294 | Zero-clearance cutting systems True zero-clearance cutting on a commercial scale is provided via a cutting area including a sacrifice material that is relatively softer than the cutter. One example is a cutting system which is capable of cutting a material such as, for example, tape or paper, int... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267295 | Shredding machines A shredding machine includes a housing which defines a passageway through which a sheet of material to be shredded may pass, a punching mechanism comprising a plurality of punch members, a mechanism to move the punch members from a retracted position in which the pu... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7231757 | Method and apparatus for setting and maintaining reel-to-bedknife clearance A control system for a cutting reel unit includes a reel-to-bedknife clearance adjusting system. The reel-to-bedknife clearance adjusting system includes at least one actuator operatively connected between the reel and the bedknife, and a sound detector. A controlle... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7195187 | Rolling mill system A rolling mill system has oppositely driven, temperature-controlled first and second rolls, each having a first roll half with a first end face, a second roll half with a second end face, and a roll center. The first roll has a peripheral surface with open grooves a... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7159809 | Waste food processor A waste food processor has a housing with an upper room and a lower room communicated with each other, a first grinding assembly and a second grinding assembly respectively received within the upper and lower rooms, and a cleaning assembly connected to the first gri... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156333 | Bale processor with fork lift An apparatus for disintegrating bales of agricultural materials such as hay. The apparatus includes a processing tub and is provided with a novel adjustable fork-lift adapted to raise bales of different size and configuration into the processing tub. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7137233 | Method and apparatus for wrapping a load An apparatus and method for wrapping a palletized load is provided. The apparatus includes a non-powered conveyor load wrapping surface, at least one non-powered conveyor load storage surface, and a pusher assembly for moving the load between the wrapping and storag... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7121073 | Cutting reel adjusting system A control system for a cutting reel unit includes a height-of-cut adjusting system and a reel-to-bedknife clearance adjusting system. The height-of-cut adjusting system includes a first frame; a second frame; a cutting reel supported by the second frame; a bedknife ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114318 | Height-of-cut adjustment system for reel mower A system adjusts the height-of-cut of a cutting reel unit. The system includes a cutting reel; a first frame supported on at least one support element that is supported on, and is movable along, the ground; and a second frame supporting the cutting reel. The system ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7090214 | Feeding mechanism True zero-clearance cutting on a commercial scale is provided via a cutting area including a sacrifice material that is relatively softer than the cutter. One example is a cutting system which is capable of cutting a material such as, for example, tape or paper, int... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7090158 | Dual arbor scrap chopper and chopper blade A dual arbor scrap chopper is disclosed having a number of chopper blades attached to each arbor. The blades are designed to be more easily fitted into a blade recess formed on the arbor, and are preferably designed to provide a blade cutting surface which more clos... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7048215 | Comminuting apparatus having screen and access tray A comminuting apparatus is provided with a housing, at least two intermeshing scissor rolls, a screen, and an access tray. The housing has an entrance opening for receiving waste material and an exit opening for removing subdivided waste material. The scissor rolls ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7028610 | Compacting apparatus A machining waste metal recycling machine has an in-feed hopper. The hopper uses paired augers to move the waste metal through the hopper to a cutting and transporting auger. The hopper augers are powered independently from each other, and may be individually revers... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7021577 | Multi-roller crusher The invention relates to a multi-roller crusher for the comminuting of mineral mill-feed, whereby the crushing roll are provided with crushing teeth, extending in the circumferential and longitudinal axial directions. Viewed in plan, the crushing teeth are arranged ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015271 | Hydrophobic particulate inorganic oxides and polymeric compositions containing same Described are hydrophobic particulate inorganic oxides useful for reinforcing polymeric composition, e.g., rubber. The materials are characterized by: (a) the substantial absence of functional groups capable of chemical reaction with rubber; (b) a BET surface area o... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6978956 | Method and apparatus for granulating plastic A granulator has a first coarse cutting stage operating at between 5 and 45 rotations per minute and a second fine cutting stage operating at two to ten times the speed of the first stage. Since granulate exiting the second stage is uniformly divided, the granulator... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969017 | Comminuting apparatus A comminuting apparatus is provided having a frame, a set of overlapping scissor rolls, a shear outtake manifold, and a pneumatic conveyor. The frame has an enclosure with an entrance for receiving waste material. The set of overlapping scissor rolls includes a feed... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6938845 | Twin-shaft comminutor having dissimilar sized cutters A sewage cleaning and comminuting system is provided with a pair of dissimilar sized cutter stacks that extends across an influent channel which intercepts all solids too large to pass there through. The dissimilar sized cutter stacks are capable of grinding large a... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6931828 | Harvesting machine comprising a monitoring device for monitoring the sharpness of cutting blades and/or their distance to a counter-cutter A harvesting machine includes a pick-up unit for picking up the harvested crop, a cutting device that is equipped with at least one cutting edge that cooperates with a counter-cutter for cutting and/or chopping the harvested crop, and a monitoring device, which can ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928915 | Slicing machine with plug prevention device A plug prevention device is provided in a slicing machine having a rotary impeller for carrying products such as potatoes or the like into engagement with cutting knives to form lattice cut slices, wherein the plug prevention device prevents the products from lodgin... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6742733 | Disk data destroyer A disk data destroyer comprises a housing, a data destroying shaft set, a motor driver and a sensor. The housing is provided with a hollow receiving chamber, a disk insertion slot and a disk outlet opposite said insertion slot. The sensor is mounted inside said hous... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6668531 | Harvesting machine with freewheel compensation A machine for harvesting forage including in particular a cutting mechanism and a device for treating the cut products. The treatment device includes at least two ribbed rollers which are driven in rotation by a transmission. The transmission includes at ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6557790 | Circuit grinding apparatus with high-pressure roller mill and sifter In order to further develop a circuit grinding apparatus with a roller mill or roller press for material bed disintegration of granular material and with at least one integrated sifter, where the mill and the sifter are disposed within two stationary side... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6527211 | Blade and spring fiber chopper This fiber chopper overcomes the disadvantages of the previous cutting rollers for chopping continuous filaments. The apparatus includes a means for feeding continuous fibers to a chopping roller. A spring holds the cutting blades on the chopping roller. ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 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 |
| 5881959 | Materials grinder with infeed conveyor and anvil A materials grinder includes a rotary grinding drum and a shear bar cooperating with the grinding drum to grind various types of materials. The shear bar is mounted on a pivotal structure adjacent the materials grinding drum. A displaceable biasing member... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5862656 | Forage harvester and method of operating the same In a forage harvester having a mechanically driven front attachment and hydrostatically driven compression rollers, the front attachment can be disconnected from its mechanical drive and instead connected with a hydrostatic drive of the compression roller... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5860607 | Apparatus for comminuting waste materials having screw delivery features An improved apparatus for comminuting solid waste material into small pieces having a size less than a predetermined size is disclosed. A set of overlapping scissor rolls are rotatably mounted within an enclosure for shearing the waste material into subdi... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5845857 | Coffee mill adapted for controlled mixing of coffee beans A coffee mill providing for mixing of coffee beans in different ratios includes a bin partitioned in the middle to form two chambers holding two different types of coffee beans. An outlet in the bottom center of the bin leads to a coffee grinder. This cen... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5826810 | Feeder means for a forage harvester A forage harvester is provided with a front unit, comprising a rotatable cutterhead to which crop material is fed by stationary lower feedrolls and movable upper feedrolls. The latter are journalled in a pair of bearing housings, connected to load arms, w... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5772133 | Fragment recirculating shredder A revolving trommel situated adjacent to a shredder has an annular screen which intercepts oversized or elongated fragments in the outflow from the shredder for return to the shredder. A first fragment guide directs the shredder outflow into the trommel a... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5743073 | Automatic forage harvester knife sharpening method using first and second speed ratios A forage harvester is provided with a rotatable cutterhead (9), a solid cylindrical grinding stone (15), a motor (33) for moving the stone (15) along a path adjacent the cutterhead (9) and an adjustment mechanism for moving the stone (15) towards the cutt... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5713525 | Horizontal comminuting machine particularly for recyclable heavy wood randomly carrying non-shatterable foreign pieces A horizontal comminuting machine for reducing recyclable waste wood and other comminutable material which may have non-reducible foreign objects incorporated with it has a generally horizontal rotary drum mounting a plurality of peripherally spaced commun... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5695131 | Shredder separator A device and method for both liberating rubber from other parts of a tire, and cutting the rubber and other parts to an appropriate size for recycling.... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5580008 | Chopper with rotatable cutting tool and stopping body A chopper has a rotatable cutting tool provided with a plurality of cutting teeth, a stopping body having a surface which faces the cutting teeth and guides the chopping product. The surface extends substantially in an axial direction of the cutting teeth... | 12/03/1996 |
