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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7357340 | Destruction method with 45 degree feeding 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... | 04/15/2008 |
| RE40126 | Mobile shredding system Disclosed is a mobile shredding and material handling and feed system, preferably for use in the handling and shredding of paper and other office related feedstock. An embodiment of the system on the input side utilizes an input hopper, a first conveyor, a feed aper... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7258293 | Wood crusher and wood treating method A wood crusher has body frame; a crushing apparatus installed on the body frame and a crushing rotor rotated in a crushing chamber. A feed conveyor for conveying wood to be crushed is installed on one side of the body frame in the longitudinal direction thereof and ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7168639 | Method and apparatus for reducing tires A method and apparatus for reducing vehicle tires includes a feed mechanism for transferring flattened tire treads into a shearing assembly which includes a rotating shear assembly. The shear assembly is comprised of a rotating arbor supporting a stack of a pluralit... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7163166 | Rotatable assembly for machines A rotatable assembly for a machine includes a rotatable shaft having a longitudinal axis and a rotatable member disposed about the shaft. The rotatable assembly also includes at least one first connecting member operatively mounted to the rotatable member and to the... | 01/16/2007 |
| 6978955 | Mill box for materials grinder A grinder having a grinding structure and a sizing screen is disclosed herein. A top cover covers the grinding structure. The sizing screen can be removed from the grinder by opening the cover, and lifting the sizing screen through the opening left by the cover.... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6896213 | Device for supplying a material A device for supplying material to a container, particularly for supplying raw material to a vertical mill with air flow conveying in a milling plant. A conveyor is provided for the material, whereof an end region is located in a feed device. The feed device and the... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6742732 | Adjustable feeding and striking ramp The present invention relates to an adjustable feeding and striking ramp which permits for adjusting an angular disposition of feed material fed to an impacting radial pathway of shearing teeth carried by a rotor. By adjusting the feeding and striking ramp to a pred... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6676053 | Paper shredder A paper shredder for cutting sheet material includes a first and second blade and a sheet feeding assembly. The first blade has a cutting edge along one side thereof and the cutting edge has a non-straight profile. The second blade has a cutting edge that... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6666393 | Apparatus for breaking up compacted laundry There is provided apparatus for breaking up a cake 5 of compacted laundry. The cake 5 falls from a conveyor 6 into the nip between a pair of spaced star shaped rollers 1 mounted on a frame 2 and driven by a motor and gearing 3. The broken up articles of l... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6634579 | Method of and apparatus for sharpening orbiting knives The orbiting knife or knives on a rotary knife holder in a tobacco shredding machine is or are automatically adjusted relative to a sharpening tool in response to signals indicating changes of one or more variable parameters which are indicative of the ne... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6588688 | Grinder for comminuting waste material A grinder for comminuting waste material comprises a frame structure (18, 20). A grinding rotor (24) is rotatably carried by the frame structure (18, 20.) The grinding rotor (24) carries a plurality of cutting tools (36) cooperating with a counter blade (... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6491245 | Mobile shredding system Disclosed is a mobile shredding and material handling and feed system, preferably for use in the handling and shredding of paper and other office related feedstock. An embodiment of the system on the input side utilizes an input hopper, a first conveyor, ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6446890 | Process and apparatus for manufacturing chopped thermoplastic fibers In a process for manufacturing chopped thermoplastic fibers made directly beneath bushings, especially chopped glass fibers, the thermoplastic fibers are chopped in a region in which an anvil wheel and a blade-holder wheel, rotating simultaneously, are in... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6378795 | Method and apparatus for forming food clusters An improved method and apparatus for the formation of food clusters by using a fingerwheel to break a bed of food product into clusters of a uniform size. After the food product, such as popcorn, and the coating that is placed on the product is mixed toge... | 04/30/2002 |
| 5988541 | Triturating machine with material selection and rotating compactor A refuse trituration-compaction machine including: a rotating loading inlet with a cylindrical portion and a pivoting sack-pushing flap for pushing material into the machine; a horizontal conveyor belt for transporting the refuse from the loading inlet to... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5947395 | Materials reducing machine A machine for reducing materials such as logs, limbs, stumps and the like into small particles. A hold down and infeed roller in combination with a conveyor feeds the materials into a rotating rotor. The rotor has cutters mounted on its periphery and is r... | 09/07/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5533684 | Wood chip strand splitter Two rolls are mounted to a frame and rotated about spaced parallel axes by electric motors operating through speed reducers. Each roll has a surface formed of uniformly spaced, circumferential extending triangular grooves and ridges defined between groove... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5505391 | Straw shredding/dispersing apparatus Straw shredding/dispersing apparatus shreds straw or other shreddable material into small particles and disperses the particles over land. A conveyor feeds shreddable material through a door into a housing, and into a shredder in which three sets of flail... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5464162 | Device for reducing paper, in particular valuable papers A device for reducing paper, in particular valuable papers, such as bank notes, said device being provided with a reducing device as well as with a conveyor belt for supplying the paper to the reducing device, whereby the at least substantially horizontal... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5375775 | Tire recycling apparatus and method A transportable machine reduces vehicle tires to a fine powder size suitable for incorporation into new articles of manufacture. An upper infeed assembly is mounted to a frame above a spring-loaded upwardly biased lower infeed assembly. A splayed tire is ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5368238 | Adjustable rotary drum bale cutter apparatus and method A horizontally oriented three sided frame is adapted to hold a round hay bale. An endless chain driven conveyor encircles the floor of the frame to cause the round bale to rotate about a longitudinal axis thereof while simultaneously urging a portion of t... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5261614 | Paper shredder with material conveyor A paper shredder includes a cutting unit with cutting rollers and a feed table arranged in front of the cutting unit. A conveyor belt for waste material or paper to be comminuted is mounted in the feed table. The conveyor belt extends into an intake gap o... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5209413 | Device for shredding cylindrical bales A bale shredding comprising an elongated wheeled frame having a first bale conveyor pivotally mounted thereon and moveable from an inclined position for loading bales onto the bale conveyor to a horizontally disposed transport positon. A bale shredder is ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 4927088 | Tire feeding structure for tire shredding apparatus Feeding structure for tire shredding apparatus comprises a set of studded rollers defining a feed mouth opening into a feed throat that leads into the tire shredding mechanism. Forwardly placed lower and upper rolls rotate at different speeds, the upper f... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4917313 | Crusher for battery cathodes A crusher for battery electrodes having a wall, a plurality of crusher heads opposite the wall, a belt carried by the crusher heads for moving battery cathodes through the crusher, and an opening defined between the first floor and the second floor throug... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4913360 | Sheet handling apparatus A system for destroying sheets, particularly banknotes, comprises a first feed system (13) for feeding sheets at a first feed speed to sheet destruction apparatus, a second feed system (2) upstream of the first system (13) for feeding sheets at a second f... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4821967 | Paper shredder paper feeding system A paper feeding system of a paper shredder comprises a paper set block provided in the shredder main body; a paper feed opening formed at the end of the paper set block on the side of the shredding cutter; a paper transport device for sending papers autom... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4815670 | Shredder A shredder has two intake sections through which paper to be shredded can be fed through cutting rollers. Detectors for detecting presence or absence of paper in each sections are provided such that the maximum number of sheets of paper that can be transp... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4688729 | Baled mulch applicator A baled mulch applicator for the uniform application of baled mulch material from bales to a plurality of furrows between rows of soil on cultivated land to control soil erosion and increase crop yield. The apparatus has a plurality of bale chambers dapte... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4632318 | Knife feed system in rotary drum cutter A knife feed system in a rotary drum cutter having a rotary drum disposed in proximity to a raw material shredding port and a plurality of knives arranged at predetermined intervals on the rotary drum, in which the knives are each ejected by a predetermin... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4627577 | Flow control system in shredding machine A flow control system in a tobacco shredding machine or the like having a conveyor means for conveying raw material under compression up to a shredding port and a rotary drum cutter adapted to rotate in close proximity to the shredding port and shred the ... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4627580 | Apparatus for severing foamed material Apparatus for converting blocks of foamed synthetic plastic material into chips has a severing device which removes from a block a continuous layer or a series of discrete layers of foamed material, a severing device with a series of coaxial rotary disc-s... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4625924 | Hold down mechanism for reduction apparatus The hold down device is pivotal toward and away from a feeding table which conveys various sizes of materials to reduction apparatus. The hold down device includes a curved belly pan which, depending upon its point of contact with the material, creates ei... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4524916 | Dispersing machine for large bales A self-loading machine for dispersing material contained in large bales. The machine has a generally trough shaped body with a movable side which lowers to engage a bale and raises to load the bale into the machine. A cylindrical rotor is made up of a ser... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4522096 | Dicing apparatus for sheet material A method and apparatus are provided to cut sheet material into quadrilateral pieces. The sheet material first is slit lengthwise into ribbons; then a swing assembly lays the ribbons onto a cutting bed, where circular knives cut them transversely into quad... | 06/11/1985 |
| 4467970 | Apparatus for cutting plant materials, in particular tobacco There is provided an apparatus for cutting plant material, in particular tobacco, having a funnel-shaped press in which the charged material to be cut is compressed and fed to a mouthpiece arranged at the outlet end of the press, a knife carrier rotating ... | 08/28/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4417697 | Crushing/discharging device for materials being dried in a multistage type vacuum drying apparatus An apparatus is disclosed wherein a highly viscous, heat-sensitive material such as concentrated whole milk or concentrated fruit juice is supplied onto a plural-stage belt conveyor stretched within a vacuum chamber and is dried and solidified by means of... | 11/29/1983 |
