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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8128010 | Waste toner cartridge processing equipment In a waste toner cartridge processing equipment (100) including a crushing means (303) for crushing a waste toner cartridge (101) and extracting various materials (106 to 108) constituting the waste toner cartridge, the crushing me... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7926749 | Apparatus for treating organic waste material The apparatus for treating waste (50, W), in particular organic waste, comprises from the above to below: a loading section (2, 101), a grinding section (3, 102) and a section (4, 107) for storing the waste. A possible succession of steps... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7617999 | Preparing vehicular material for recycling A system for preparing recyclable vehicular material may consist of a transportable enclosure including a storage space, at least one opening, and at least a portion of an intake loader, a tire shredder, a fragment conveyor, and a storage floor. The intake loader ma... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7351385 | System for enabling landfill disposal of kitchen waste oil/grease An apparatus for conversion of kitchen waste grease to a landfill-acceptable solid includes a grease collection cartridge. A mixing baffle within the cartridge has a package with a reactant to convert grease and oil, and water into soap. The apparatus has means for ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7296340 | Apparatus of recycling printed circuit board The present invention provides a recycler that recycles a printed circuit board for separating and retrieving a metallic material, which includes a printed metallic material, and an insulating material, both composing the printed circuit board. The insulating body b... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7284930 | Composition and method for forming a sprayable materials cover An alternative cover for landfill may be formed from a slurry mixture of water, cementitious binder, adhesion enhancing admixture and fiber. These constituents may be mixed and applied to cover landfilled wastes, granular material piles or for soil erosion control. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7195183 | Method of processing composite wastes A method or processing composite waste including combustibles and incombustibles has a press process for pressing the composite waste, a dry distillation process for performing dry distillation on the pressed composite waste, a shredding process for shredding the co... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7163580 | Aluminum flake pigment, paint composition and ink composition containing the same, and films thereof In order to provide an aluminum flake pigment having excellent metallic luster, fine-grainedness and a plating-like appearance presenting silvery classiness, an aluminum flake pigment, obtained by grinding aluminum powder in an organic solvent, having an average thi... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7134152 | Adaptable, low cost air gap and flow control A kitchen sink installation includes a plurality of adjacent kitchen sinks having drain tailpieces, a manifold pipe mounted substantially horizontally under the sinks and having a length and a plurality of discrete openings along its length, each of the openings fac... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7060179 | Sanitation barrier for oil/grease separator in a kitchen An apparatus for enhancing sanitation in a kitchen equipped with an oil/grease separator includes a barrier made of two vertical portions connected by a horizontal portion to bound a volume between the oil/grease separator and a kitchen wall and prevent the ingress ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6911118 | Pulper for producing paper pulp from waste paper A pulper for producing paper pulp from waste paper containing undesired scrap particles includes a container (1) forming a chamber (4) defined by a bottom wall (5) and a cylindrical circumferential wall (6). A paper tearing member (7 | 06/28/2005 |
| 6880772 | Process and apparatus for combined milling and drying A process of both milling and drying a solvent-moist material (e.g., water-moist methylhydroxyethylcellulose) is described. The process includes, (a) providing a mill-dryer (100) which includes, in series, a heat exchanger (1), a mill (2) and a ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6811655 | Apparatus for preparing paper pulp from used paper The invention concerns a method and an equipment for combining in one single apparatus, the functions for filtering, decontaminating, and thickening paper pulp from used paper, while providing the complementary function of clarifying the filtrates. The apparatus ( | 11/02/2004 |
| 6691939 | Pressure differential material transport and disposal system A pressure differential material transport system to transfer materials with an airflow to a sewer system. Embodiments of the pressure differential material transport system may be used for residential or industrial applications to dispose of materials to... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6629652 | Kitchen sink disposer mount for space conservation A food disposal system for installation on a drain of a commercial kitchen sink enables segregation of oil/grease from effluent flows from the drain. A housing collects effluent flows containing water, oil/grease, and solids from the drain, and a macerati... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6619571 | Method for emptying fixed-bed reactors A method for the removal of a spent catalyst from a fixed-bed reactor is disclosed, wherein a suction hose, in which a high pressure hose comprising a high-pressure nozzle is integrated, is introduced into the reactor, the catalyst is then size-reduced by... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6527208 | Process and apparatus for reclaiming the economic components of polluted scrap rubber tires A process, and associated apparatus, that separates the economic components of scrapped rubber tires while isolating and removing certain levels of contamination associated with these tires. The separation of the scrap tires contaminants is accomplished b... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6380265 | Dispersion of fine porous inorganic oxide particles and processes for preparing same A dispersion comprising fine porous inorganic oxide particles, e.g., silica gel particles, wherein the particles have a median particle size below three microns. The dispersed particles have a porosity after drying in which at least about 0.50 cc/g of por... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6357678 | Process for producing ultra finely-divided zeolite powder Particulate synthetic zeolite is micronized in a liquid organic medium to form a micronized zeolite product having an average (mean) particle size of about 2 microns or less and containing at least 90% by weight, based on the dry weight of the zeolite pro... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6338829 | Apparatus for breaking garbage bags An apparatus for breaking garbage bags comprises a bag breaking and a liquid waste processor. The breaker mechanism breaks the input garbage bags containing waste materials. The liquid waste processor includes a removable liquid waste absorbent sheet. Thi... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6311905 | Screen cleaning and comminuting system A sewage cleaning and comminuting system is provided with a transverse semi-circular concave filtering screen that extends across an influent channel which intercepts all solids too large to pass therethrough. A combined screen cleaning and comminuting gr... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6306222 | Process for cleaning plastics for recycling them A process for cleaning plastic materials is disclosed, in which foreign materials adhered on and internally intruded into the plastic materials are cleaned to recycle the plastic materials. The process for cleaning plastics to recycle them according to th... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6267309 | Municipal solid waste processing facility and commercial ethanol production process A method of processing waste is disclosed wherein the municipal solid waste is segregated and processed to recover reusable rubber, metal, plastic, glass and the remaining organic portion of the waste stream is used to make ethanol and other chemicals. On... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6194564 | Process for production of saline-solution soluble xanthan gum A process for saline-solution soluble xanthan gum which comprises the steps of precipitating xanthan gum by mixing, with stirring, an aqueous solution of xanthan gum with an organic solvent which is a non-solvent to xanthan gum but is hydrophilic, removin... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6182913 | Method and apparatus for reclaiming carpet components A system for reclaiming carpet components such as yarn, tufting primary, binder, and secondary backing wherein the carpet is sprayed with a high velocity water spray so as to disjoint the components from one another, and thereafter, separating the seconda... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6177056 | Process for recycling lead-acid batteries A process for recovery of substantially all the sulfur in a spent lead-acid battery as Na2 SO4 is disclosed. The process comprises (a) breaking the batteries to remove the acid, (b) separating the plastic from the lead bearing materi... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6050509 | Method of manufacturing polymer-grade clay for use in nanocomposites A clay purification process, for removing impurities recovered with the clay, particularly a montmorillonite clay, includes the steps of separating the clay from rocks and other large non-clay impurities; dispersing the clay and smaller impurities in wate... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6029915 | Grinding and dispersing method and apparatus A grinding and dispersing apparatus comprises a tank for storing a liquid containing a material to be treated and a container disposed in the tank for containing grinding media. The container has an inlet for receiving the liquid containing the material a... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6000551 | Method for rupturing microalgae cells A method for rupturing microalgae in an aqueous suspension is disclosed. In one embodiment the aqueous suspension is passed through a constriction into a liquid phase at a pressure sufficient to rupture the cells by circulating the aqueous suspension thro... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5979804 | Particulating apparatus and method A particulating apparatus for liquid filled plastic containers in preparation for recycling produced plastic particulate. The particulating apparatus includes a container hopper for accepting a supply of plastic containers to be processed by the particula... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5975439 | Municipal solid waste processing facility and commercial ethanol production process A method of processing waste is disclosed wherein the municipal solid waste is segregated and processed to recover reusable rubber, metal, plastic, glass and the remaining organic portion of the waste stream is used to make ethanol and other chemicals. On... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5954276 | Method for grinding of granular material and grinding equipment A method and apparatus for grinding granular solids in liquid slurry form within a mill. The solids density of the feed slurry is maintained below the solids density in the mill, thus causing the liquid to flush through the mill, preferentially carrying a... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5954277 | Agitated slurry pump box for oil sand hydrotransport A large, mechanically agitated pump box is used between a mixer, for mixing oil sand and water to produce a slurry, and a pipeline for conveying the slurry to a processing facility. Prior to the aqueous slurry being discharged into the pump box from the m... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5951875 | Adsorptive bubble separation methods and systems for dewatering suspensions of microalgae and extracting components therefrom A process and system are disclosed for recovering mixed carotenoids from the alga Dunaliella salina. The harvested cells are ruptured, typically by circulating the algal suspension at high pressure through a pump loop. The cells can then be dewatered by a... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5941468 | Waste treatment apparatus and method Containerized medical waste is treated by shredding, and then passing the shredded material, by means of a screw conveyor, through a direct steam impingement stage and a dehydration stage in which the material is brought into contact with a hot surface to... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5879551 | Device for dewatering suspensions A device for dewatering suspensions such as sludge or similar dewaterable goods contains several rollers and filtering webs that follow a sinuous path around the rollers. The width of at least one pressure gap, as well as the force which is applied on the... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5832844 | System for recycling used oil filters A recycling system processes used oil filters on a continuous basis by shredding the oil filters and then incinerating the shreds in a rotary kiln. The shreds are fed into the upper end of an inclined rotating drum kiln. The shreds of combustible material... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5779164 | Municipal solid waste processing facility and commercial ethanol production process A method of processing waste is disclosed wherein the municipal solid waste is segregated and processed to recover reusable rubber, metal, plastic, glass and the remaining organic portion of the waste stream is used to make ethanol and other chemicals. On... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5775601 | Systems and method for producing delaminated sedimentary mica Sedimentary mica flakes are produced having a bulk density of between about five and one-half pounds per cubic feet and eight pounds per cubic feet (5.5-11 lbs/ft3), a high aspect ratio, and a G.E. brightness between about seventy-five and nine... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5772127 | Slurrying oil sand for hydrotransport in a pipeline A mixer circuit, in the form of a vertically oriented stack of components, functions to slurry oil sand with water in preparation for pumping through a pipeline. The oil sand is initially dropped from the end of a conveyor. It is contacted in mid-air with... | 06/30/1998 |
