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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113455 | Device for grinding input material A device for grinding input material is provided with a supporting disk rotating around an axis of rotation within a housing. On the supporting disk, in its circumferential area, first grinding tools are arranged concentrically, axially opposite from which second gr... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7984868 | Adjustable grinder Disclosed is a grinder which includes a grinder assembly retained in a housing. The grinder assembly receives material for grinding such as coffee beans. Grinding burrs are provided, one of which is rotated by a grinder drive motor of the grinder assembly. The other... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7922111 | Refining apparatus of disc-type A disc refiner is disclosed, including a shaft, a rotatable disc and a stationary disc, both with refiner elements. Between the stationary refiner elements and the stationary disc, axially deformable chambers are arranged, filled with an incompressible hydraulic med... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7913942 | Refiner A refiner (1) comprising a stator (2) and a rotor (6) that comprise a planar portion and a conical portion after the planar portion, which in turn comprise refining surfaces (4, 8) provided with blade bars (15, 18, 24) and blade gr... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7699255 | Disc mill assembly for pulverizing system A disc mill assembly for a pulverizing system includes: a flywheel, a water jacket, two disc blades, and two ring clamps. In alternate embodiments, the disc mill assembly also includes: an air inlet to provide input air from an external air supply and an improved bl... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7407123 | Refiner plates with logarithmic spiral bars A special shape of bars on refining discs or plate segments (54) of a rotating disc refiner (10) is disclosed including a plurality of bars (76) generally extending outwards toward the outer end of the disk across its surface, arranged in a sing... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7398938 | Conical refiner plates with logarithmic spiral type bars A special shape of bars on refining cones or plate segments of a rotating conical refiner is disclosed including a plurality of bars generally extending outwards towards the outer end of the cone across its working surface, arranged in a single, two or more radial z... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7386919 | Textile recycling apparatus Apparatus and method of recycling finished textile products into reusable fibers. The arrangement includes a confined chamber of diminishing width through which the textile product is moved. The chamber comprises a stationary side with rows of circumferentially arra... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7384010 | Process for producing crushed product, apparatus therefor and crushed product A process for producing an oxygen-free, non-denaturable, cooled and dried crushed product of superior quality by effecting efficient crushing by a simple apparatus in an easy operation while preventing a decrease in qualities such as flavor, taste and masticating fe... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7364100 | Apparatus for comminuting material with a separate air supply An apparatus for comminuting material includes two disks arranged coaxially to one another inside a housing that encloses a comminuting room. At least part of the opposing surfaces of the disks are provided with interacting comminuting tools thus forming a comminuti... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354011 | Refining element A refiner system is disclosed including a first refiner element and a second refiner element adapted for mounting a refiner for relative rotation with a refining gap between them for processing lignocellulosic material, each of the first and second refiner elements ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350728 | Refining plate attached to a head in a pulp refiner A refiner plate has an outer circumferential edge, a front surface having comminuting projections, and a rear surface. The refiner plate also has and a single mounting opening radially inward from the outer circumferential edge. The refiner plate also includes a rad... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7325464 | Method and a device for measuring stress forces in refiners A method and apparatus for measuring stress forces in refiners is disclosed. In the method, a measuring surface which is a portion of at least one refining surface containing at least a portion of the bars extending across that surface is resiliently mounted in the ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322539 | Refining surface for a refiner for defibering material containing lignocellulose The invention relates to a refining surface in a refiner for defibering material containing lignocellulose, which refiner has two coaxially rotating refining surfaces. The material being defibered is fed between the refining surfaces that both have grooves and bars.... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7309036 | Refining member clash control method A control system with a sensor mounted in direct mechanical connection to a non-rotating refining member so that the sensor is responsive to axial vibration movement of the support, and an analog to digital converter directly connected to the output of the sensor wi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7300008 | Tooth refiner plates with varying feeding angles and refining method A refiner plate including: concentric rows of teeth and the teeth arranged facing radially inward, the sidewalls of the teeth are at an angles to radii of the plate such that the angle of teeth in a first row(s) of teeth differs from the angle of teeth in a second r... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300550 | High intensity refiner plate with inner fiberizing zone Plate elements, a plate configuration, and associated system for thermomechanical refining of wood chips wherein destructured and partially defibrated chips are fed to a rotating disc primary refiner, where opposed discs each have an inner band pattern of bars and g... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300540 | Energy efficient TMP refining of destructured chips A system and method for thermomechanical refining of wood chips comprises preparing the chips for refining by exposing the chips to an environment of steam to soften the chips, compressively destructuring and dewatering the softened chips to a solids consistency abo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7263755 | Method for the manufacture of fillings for utilization in the mechanical processing of aqueous paper fiber stock A method for fabricating fillings that are utilized in refiners for the purpose of refining paper fiber stock. The filling manufactured in accordance with the method of the present invention includes a base body, an overlay template on the base body and processing e... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7252033 | Automatic coffee maker A coffee maker includes a valve mechanism having a micro switch, an electromagnetic valve, a magnetic covering board activated by the electromagnetic valve for opening or closing a powder path, and a spring interconnecting the covering board and the electromagnetic ... | 08/07/2007 |
| RE39688 | Tangential discharge disk refiner A papermaking refiner has two stationary disks mounted to the support structure of a fixed housing. A rotating disk is mounted on a shaft which extends through the housing. The support structure allows stock to circulate on both sides of the disk support structure, ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7198216 | Refining element Refining elements for use with disc refiners for the processing of fibrous materials are disclosed. The refining element include a refining surface having a plurality of bars and intermediate grooves, with the bars having an upper surface and a pair of side surfaces... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188792 | Refiner rotor assembly with a hub having flow-through ports A refiner including a material-admitting inlet and an outlet; and spaced apart first and second refining discs mounted in the chamber. The refiner further includes a rotary third ref refining disc disposed between the first and second discs. A first path for the mov... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182285 | Tire rubber granulator A comminution apparatus for refining various materials into smaller pieces of a desired size, the apparatus having a pair of generally circular disks disposed on a common axis and arranged generally parallel to one another forming a comminution region there between.... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7172148 | Grooved pyramid disperger plate A disperger plate segment, for removing contaminants from recycled, or recovered, paper and packaging materials includes radially concentric rows of teeth. Each row of teeth includes teeth and channels disposed intermediate the teeth. Each of the teeth have an upper... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7152823 | Disc mill assembly for pulverizing system A disc mill assembly for a pulverizing system includes: a flywheel, a water jacket, two disc blades, and two ring clamps. In alternate embodiments, the disc mill assembly also includes: an air inlet to provide input air from an external air supply and an improved bl... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7134621 | Mixing apparatus A mixing apparatus wherein raw material may be crushed to fine particles of desirous size to be mixed uniformally by multi-layered mixing blocks. The mixing apparatus includes a plurality of mixing units piled up in a housing, and arrays of projections formed at the... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7128286 | Double disk refiner, stock inducer therefor and method of refining low consistency stock A double disk refiner and inducer for the same that mixes fiber in low consistency (6% or less by weight) stock and urges it towards both pairs of refiner disks of the double disk refiner. In a preferred embodiment, the inducer comprises an impeller that has at leas... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7104480 | Refiner sensor and coupling arrangement A sensor assembly and coupling arrangement for a rotary disk refiner. The sensor assembly includes a housing formed by a base and frustoconical cap that has a sensing element carrying bulb extending outwardly therefrom. The coupling arrangement includes a conduit ar... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7070135 | Chipping apparatus with eccentric chipping tools A chipping apparatus includes a housing arranged about an axis of rotation and a chipping system within the housing rotating in a predefined direction about an axis of rotation. The chipping system has chipping tools that form a circular or ring-shaped chipping zone... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064536 | Transducer for distance measurement A transducer (10) for distance measurement, especially between a stator and a rotor in a refiner for paper pulp production, in which the transducer is of the magnetic type and has a tubular casing (17), the one end of which forms a measuring head (1... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7007879 | Pair of opposed co-operating refining elements Apparatus for refining lignocellulosic material is disclosed having a pair of opposed co-operating refining elements intended for a disk refiner for the disintegration of the lignocellulosic material in a refining gap between two opposed counter-rotating refining di... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6989074 | Paper pulp refiner control system and method using active hydrostatic bearings A paper pulp refiner with control system employs active hydrostatic bearings for supporting the refiner rotor, at least in part, the hydrostatic bearings are defined between the refiner rotor plates (25, 55) and stator plates (22, 60) through openings ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6969019 | Refiner and agitating apparatus for papermaking A refiner for separating and beating a material includes a conical type stationary shell including a first beating section; a ring-shaped stationary disc provided on an outer edge of the conical type stationary shell and including a second beating section; a rotatio... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6957785 | Refining segment for a rotatable refining disc, and a refining apparatus comprising a refining disc with such refining segment Apparatus for use as a portion of a refining surface of a rotatable refining disk is disclosed. The apparatus includes a refining segment having a periphery and being mountable on a rotatable refining disk in juxtaposition with an opposing refiner disk for treating ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955309 | Method of diagnosing and controlling a grinding mill for paper and the like This invention relates to a method of diagnosing or controlling a grinding mill for paper pulp, wood chips, or other fibrous materials, by measuring the incremental change in power related to an incremental change in the gap, and using the ratio of the two differenc... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6932290 | Refining segment and a refining apparatus comprising a refining disc with such refining segment Apparatus for use as at least a portion of the refining surface of a refining disk is disclosed for use in a refiner for lignocellulosic material disposed in a refiner housing, the apparatus including a refiner segment having a periphery and mountable on the refinin... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6926216 | Material crusher A material crushing device including rotating rotors having first and second crushing surfaces which converge to a nip. One or both of the crushing surfaces may include projections and one or more of the crushing surfaces includes channels disposed at the nip for ej... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6910651 | Material crusher A material crushing device including rotating rotors having first and second crushing surfaces which converge to a nip. One or both of the crushing surfaces may include projections and one or more of the crushing surfaces includes channels disposed at the nip for ej... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6892973 | Refiner disk sensor and sensor refiner disk A sensor, sensor disk, sensor measurement correction system, and method used in measuring a parameter in the refining zone. The sensor includes a spacer that spaces its sensing element from the disk. In one preferred embodiment, the spacer is made of an insulating m... | 05/17/2005 |
