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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 |
| 6772969 | Break roll machine operable with ease in replacement of the rolls A break roll machine wherein a timing belt of a differential transmission mechanism can be removed easily and wherein the removal of a roll pack module from a machine frame and the installation of the new pre-assembled roll pack module can be performed easily in a s... | 08/10/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6015107 | Roller alignment system A new roller alignment system for permitting quick and precise alignment of the rollers. The inventive device includes first and second side subassemblies, and an elongate linking rod. Each side subassembly comprises an adjustment bracket and threaded elo... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5673864 | Cereal milling machine A cereal milling machine comprising a base frame (100) to be fixedly mounted on a mill floor and at least one removable roll pack consisting of a pair of rolls (2, 4) mounted in fixed and movable bearing housing (1, 5) respectively and rotatable to form a... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5597128 | Machine for destructuring wood chips A chip destructuring and fissuring machine for destructuring wood chips or the like. The chip destructuring machine includes a support frame and two swing assemblies that provide parallel side-by-side squeeze rollers are swing-mounted on the frame to swin... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5566902 | Roll arrangement for a milling machine, and an inter-roll drive therefor A roll arrangement, for milling machine, comprising: a frame; a first elongated roll rotatably mounted within the frame, the first roll having a first end and a second end, the first roll having first sheaves attached at each end; a second elongated roll ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5542618 | roller press A roller press comprising two rollers which rotate in opposite rotational directions, the rollers being driven via two gear units mounted on the roller shafts and having means for counterbalancing the oppositely-directed torques arising in the gear units ... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5509612 | Process and device for the continuous shaping of particulate materials The device for continuous mechanical shaping of a particulate material includes a housing; a pressing roll pair forming a pressing space and enclosed in the housing; a rotating element which can be a size reduction roll or a rotor with screen insert arran... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5470024 | Hand-operated utensil for crushing granular foods A utensil for crushing granular foods is disclosed. The utensil includes at least two crushing rolls which are mounted in side plates. At least the side plates are made from plastic. The side plates have side plate legs separated by a slot. Each side plat... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5192030 | Two roller machine, particularly a roller press A two roll crusher including a pair of parallel rollers forming a crushing nip therebetween with gearings at the ends of the rollers and a plate connected to each of the gearings for absorbing reaction moments, torsion rods extending parallel to the plate... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5072887 | Roll mill Disclosed is a device for automatically adjusting the roll gap between the rolls of a roll mill including simultaneously operated screw jacks which adjust the gap and a shaft mounted geared box drive to accomplish the drive of the secondary roll from the ... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5060874 | Crusher A crusher having a pair of spaced rollers mounted on shafts. One of the rollers is moveable with respect to the other roller and the movement is by a pair of screw jacks in conjunction with a pair of toggle assemblies. The moveable roller is supported by ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4635861 | Roller mill A roller mill, in which the milling rollers are pressed together with high pressures, has a fluidic device for imparting the respective pressure. This fluidic device comprises piston-cylinder units and a pressure line for the fluid. In order to obtain a s... | 01/13/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4374573 | Apparatus for shredding rubber tires and other waste materials Portable apparatus for shredding waste materials, particularly reinforced resilient materials such as used pneumatic tire casings, in which generally cylindrical cutter rolls, each comprising a plurality of cutter discs, are intermeshed with one another t... | 02/22/1983 |
| 4192471 | Crushing apparatus Crushing apparatus employs a pair of rotatable crusher drums mounted to rotate about vertical axes to crush material such as mineral ore, fed through a gap between the drums by means such as scraper-chain conveyor. The drums are mounted on pivoting rocker... | 03/11/1980 |
| 4168806 | Roll type crushing mill A roll crushing mill of the type having a frame with two rotatably disposed crushing rolls parallel and in opposition to one another forming therebetween a crusher gap are both deflectable relative to one another, each roll being mounted on a rotary shaft... | 09/25/1979 |
| 3970256 | Grinding mill Grinding rolls are provided on a support, each having opposite axial ends provided with respective trunnions. Open-and-shut journals are provided on the support for the respective trunnions. A displacing arrangement is engageable with the trunnions of eac... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3964718 | Apparatus for crushing material A crusher includes a housing having an internal conduit for directing the advance of material therethrough. A plurality of cooperative pairs of rotatable crush rollers are disposed within the conduit. An endless flexible chain is operatively arranged to r... | 06/22/1976 |