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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6776366 | Drive assembly for dual coacting rollers A drive assembly for a dual coacting roller machine having a driven sprocket mounted onto a first roller shaft, a drive sprocket mounted onto a second roller shaft, and a pair of idler sprockets connected by a belt to the driven sprocket and drive sprocket, wherein ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6616077 | Material processing apparatus A method for adjusting the separation between a pair of roller assemblies. A frame is provided. One roller assembly is rotatably supported by a first pair of supports fixed with respect to the frame. On the other hand, another roller assembly is rotatably... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6409110 | Apparatus for processing compacted biomass An apparatus for processing compacted biomass is provided which include a conveying system forwarding compacted biomass in a controlled manner in a mainly horizontal direction, and first and second rotatable rollers positioned downstream of the conveying ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6394376 | Material processing apparatus A modular material processing apparatus comprises a housing including a frame, the frame defining a pair of oppositely facing lateral ends and a pair of oppositely facing longitudinal sides; a pair of co-acting, substantially parallel, counter-rotating ro... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6357683 | Roller grinding mill The invention relates to a roll mill with two rolls which are rotatably mounted in a machine frame and have an outer wear protection casing. In order to facilitate a particularly simple and rapid replacement of the wear protection casings on the rolls, bo... | 03/19/2002 |
| 5816511 | Cylinder-type machine for milling seed and grain having a device with a single axis of rotation for adjusting the interaxial distance of the cylinders Machine for milling cereals and the like of the type comprising at least one pair of cylinders (2, 3) rotating about respective axes of rotation, one of which is fixed and one movable in translation with respect to the other, each end of the movable cylin... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5813324 | Needle destruction device A needle destruction device has a main frame, a lateral plate, a motor, a motor shaft extending from the motor, a drive gear connected to the motor shaft, a follower gear engaging with the drive gear, a first upper roller, a second upper roller, a first l... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5694709 | Pipeline padding machine with crusher A pipeline padding machine is provided comprising a crushing mechanism for crushing large pieces of excavated material into smaller pieces of material that are suitable for use in padding a pipeline or underground cable. In preferred embodiments, the crus... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5678777 | Flour milling machine At least a pair of metal rolls having different peripheral speeds with each other are removably mounted to respective rotary shafts in a cantilever form. The axial length of each of the metal rolls is between 100 and 500 mm and the peripheral speed of the... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5601242 | Roller press A roller press (1; 11) for grinding of granular material and comprising two or more rollers (3, 5; 13, 14, 15) alternately rotating in opposite directions, of which at least one is displaceable in a guideway (7; 16, 17) and where only some of the rollers ... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5553796 | Roller Mill A roller mill having a fixed roller and a floating roller mounted on a frame and driven in opposite directions includes two gear units for the rollers and two independent torque absorbers to minimize the transfer of torque loads to the frame. Each torque ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5381977 | Apparatus for material bed comminution of brittle material for grinding The invention relates to apparatus for material bed comminution of brittle material for grinding, with two roll-like comminuting tools, in which the length:diameter ratio is in each case less than 1 and of which one tool is fixed and the other is mounted ... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5362001 | Apparatus for pulverizing rubber scrap Rubber scrap is pulverized by feeding it into a gap between a parti-cylindrical recess in a block and a cylinder rotating in the recess. A plurality of blocks are mounted one above another in a first frame, and a like plurality of cylinders are mounted in... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5350126 | Shredding device for paper web used in the manufacture of cigarettes with filters A shredding device for paper web is equipped with a receiving drum, the peripheral surface thereof being formed as a suction surface, a bladed drum having a pair of free rollers which rotate in contact with the peripheral surface or the receiving drum. a ... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5154364 | Grinding gap adjusting device for milling roller mills A grinding clearance adjustment device for milling roller frames is disclosed, in which a casing contains two grinding rollers, one of which is constructed as a pivotable loose roller. Adjustment members, for the rollers are provided, as well as a device ... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5054702 | Rotary crushing roll The invention relates to a mill and to a method of applying a coating of wear-resistant material to the surface of a cylinder crushing shell. According to the invention the coating is formed by the winding of a profiled strip about the suface of the shell... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5027491 | Roller A crusher roller having a pair of roll hubs mounted on a shaft. Each hub has an external taper on its radially outer surface and an annular recess in each end adjacent to the inner surface. A shrink disc with an internal taper on the inner surface is posi... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4982907 | Document shredder A document shredder comprises a pair of cutter assemblies, each having a shaft on which there are cutter disks with interspersed spacers. The disks overlap to form a nip. On the one shaft, additionally, there are rings mounted in the spacers, and that per... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4905910 | Double roll machine such as, for example, a roll press In a double roll machine such as roller presses for extremely high drive power requirements without having to employ heavy and bulky drive motors with intermediate gears operating under the principles of product bed pressing, both long ends of both roller... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4836458 | Device for the selective or simultaneous traverse of the cutting members in a machine for the chopping and/or cutting of material in sheet Device for the selective or simultaneous traverse of the cutting members in a machine for the chopping and/or cutting of material in sheet, supported by supporting and slip beams, comprising: two bar-formed elements, mechanically interconnected, each parallel ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4815370 | Rice press rollers In a rice pressing apparatus having mating rollers mounted in parallel at a specific gap, each roller comprising a slightly tapered metal hub of aluminum or an aluminum-zinc alloy, a removable rubber sleeve and retaining caps at each end to maintain prope... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4759508 | Apparatus for crushing containers containing a toxic liquid An apparatus for crushing small containers, such as vials, containing a scintillation liquid. The apparatus includes a closed housing having a feed opening in the upper end which communicates with a hopper. The lower end of the hopper registers with a pai... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4709864 | Method and apparatus for the crushing of material The invention relates to a method and to apparatus for the crushing of material to be comminuted by means of a material bed roll mill, in which such material is forcibly delivered in a regulable mass flow to the roll gap. In this way even materials which ... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4703897 | Method and apparatus for continuous pressure comminution of brittle grinding stock A method and apparatus for continuous pressure comminution of brittle grinding stock such as cement clinker wherein simultaneous operations of unit grain comminution and product bed comminution are carried out in the roller gap of the same roller machine ... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4608007 | Oat crimper A roller mill for cracking or crimping oats or the like is constructed with a cam adjustment which will positively maintain the rollers at an adjustably selected minimum spacing and which can be readily adjusted to establish a wider spacing for handling c... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4576339 | Scrap tire cutting apparatus An apparatus for cutting scrap tires and other waste products is disclosed. The apparatus includes a frame having a cylindrical anvil roll rotatably mounted therein. A blade roll is also mounted in the frame for rotation about an axis parallel to the rota... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4566641 | Sheet breaking apparatus A sheet breaking apparatus for breaking or cutting waste sheet materials according to the invention comprising a pair of endless band-like rotating body, one of which is driven downwardly or in a feeding direction of the sheet materials at a faster speed ... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4545541 | Multiple roll roller mill A multiple-roll roller mill, useful in particular for livestock feed processing, is disclosed. The mill includes a main roller and at least two secondary rollers, each secondary roller opposing a different axial portion of the main roller circumference an... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4527748 | Tubular mill for grinding natural and synthetic raw materials, particularly for the cement industry The invention relates to a tubular mill for grinding natural and synthetic raw materials, in particular for the cement industry, comprising a horizontally-disposed rotary cylindrical drum, characterized by comprising one or more fixed grinding rollers dis... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4519188 | Linkage for equalizing conditioning roll pressure A linkage for equalizing the biasing forces exerted on the opposing transverse ends of the upper conditioning roll in a mower-conditioner is disclosed wherein a separate torsion bar is utilized to bias each respective end of the upper conditioning roll to... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4485977 | Roller mill construction An improved roller mill construction. Material to be milled or ground such is fed through a discharge opening in a hopper to a pair of cooperating rolls that are mounted within a housing. The discharge opening is enclosed by a sliding gate which is biased... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4432275 | Nut blanching apparatus A nut blanching arrangement in which nuts to be blanched are passed between first and second spaced, counter-rotating rollers. Each roller is provided with a plurality of hollow elastic tubular rings extending around its outer circumference. The tubular r... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4346850 | Shredding machine incorporating a torque cushioning assembly A shredding machine of the general type employed for comminuting difficult to shred material incorporates a torque cushioning device for the purpose of minimizing breakage of the comminuting teeth or knives of the apparatus when the teeth encounter metal ... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4022073 | Roll drive for cluster mills In a beam-backed cluster-type strip mill each roll is driven separately from a vertical motor placed on top of the housing through a floating right-angle gearbox. The gearbox is keyed onto one end of each roll and is so suspended that only pure torque is ... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3986675 | Sand conditioner assembly A method and apparatus for mold sand conditioning which includes the directing of mold sand between bristles of counterrotating brushes where the bristles are intertwined and the sand is forced into the brushes to be finely divided and aerated upon discha... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3986454 | Multi-purpose side frames for rotary printing press An improvement in printing presses wherein main press side frames are provided with circumferential slots about the axis of plate or printing cylinders for receiving sectional or reversible mounting blocks for carrying impression cylinders. The mounting b... | 10/19/1976 |
