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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7364102 | Pill crusher with gear rack A pill crusher having a rack and pinion advancing a platen. Pill crushers are used to crush pills into powder for various medicinal reasons, such as ease of mixing or dosing. A rack on a slide way is linearly advanced by rotational movement of a pinion on a handle. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364103 | Method and device for the alignment and location of a sample such as tablets, pills or tablettes The invention relates to a device for the alignment and location of a sample (7), such as pills or tablets, for carrying out a further method step, such as a hardness test, with the aid of two opposing jaws (2, 3, 21), which may be moved relative to ea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7270281 | High frequency electro mechanical pill/tablet dissolver A pill dissolver includes a first crushing surface, and a second crushing surface positioned to receive a cup between the first crushing surface and the second crushing surface. The pill dissolver also includes pinching jaws operable to pinch a top portion of the cu... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7252254 | Pill crusher and splitter A pill or tablet crusher and splitter using a combination lever and screw action. A lever attached to a ring having an internal screw thread advances a transversely movable platen towards a transversely fixed or placed anvil crushing a pill or tablet placed between ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7237734 | Crushing apparatus and method A crushing apparatus includes a substantially U-shaped spring member having a first beam portion having a first free end, a second beam portion having a second free end, and a fixed center portion. The first and second free ends are in opposed, spaced relation with ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7195184 | Method of crushing silicon blocks In a method of crushing silicon blocks, a silicon block to be crushed is heated and is then forcedly cooled. Subsequently, a crushing member which contains no metal component at least on a surface thereof is made to strike the cooled silicon block to thereby crush t... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7143970 | Jaw crusher A jaw crusher used to crush hard materials includes a frame and a fixed and movable jaw positioned in spaced opposed relationship to receive hard materials to be crushed between the jaws. A lever is pivotally connected to the frame for pivotal movement about an axis... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6962592 | Allograft implant cutting machine The present invention is an apparatus for cutting allograft bone implants from donor bone. Die sets of standard sizes are installed in a press. Donor bone is then placed in position between the upper and the lower parts of a matched cutting set comprising a hollow c... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6523766 | Portable pill crushing device The present invention relates generally to a crushing device. More particularly, the present invention relates to providing a portable pill crushing device for pulverizing medicines that are supplied in the form of pills, tablets, etc. The pill is automat... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6325313 | Device for feeding a material treating plant and vibratory mill equipped with same A device (1) for feeding a material processing plant (2) such as, in particular, a crusher, including an outer shell (3) and a bell (6), provided at least internally in the outer shell (3) and secured to the latter, the bell (6) being provided so as to be... | 12/04/2001 |
| 5743476 | Concrete crusher A concrete crusher has a crushing surface 1a on a stationary lower jaw 1 and it is formed so that its axial cross-section is V-shaped. A main crushing blade 5 is installed on a crushing surface 2a of a movable upper jaw 2 pivoted to the lower jaw and is o... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5601241 | Material disintegrating apparatus An apparatus for disintegrating baled crop material of various shapes and sizes includes a frame having a longitudinal axes and a material supporting floor with a centrally located first opening, mounted on the frame. Beneath the material supporting floor... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5580004 | Self-propelled crushing machine When objects of crushing are clogged between a bottom plate and a crusher, a locking of the bottom plate that may ensue is automatically released in a self-propelled crushing machine. The machine comprises a feeder hydraulic motor (54) for reciprocating t... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5511735 | Spinning reel for fishing with drag operation and spool free states A spinning reel for fishing includes: a spool shaft which reciprocates in an axial direction in linking with rotation of a handle shaft wherein a spool is provided at a first axial end of the spool shaft and a drag mechanism is provided at a second axial ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5187868 | Metal demolition shear A metal demolition shear has a pivotal axle (4) with threading means (34, 35, 48, 42, 90, 92, 104) at opposite ends for adjusting linear positioning of thrust bearings (25, 26, 55, 56, 64) in order to adjust closeness of a pivotal jaw (1) to a stationary ... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5082187 | Vibrating screen crusher In a device for crushing materials, in particular soft stone, a plurality of grates with breaking elements are arranged below a bunker containing the feedstock. At least one of said grates is translationally mobile in the horizontal direction with respect... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5025992 | Hay feeding apparatus An improved hay feeding apparatus is mounted on a vehicle bed and utilizes a hay walker for separating portions of a bale of hay and discharging the separated hay into a windrow alongside the vehicle. The present invention utilizes a sweep to gather bales... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4848679 | Crusher A crusher with opposed jaw members that relatively reciprocate in a substantially linear path to crush material. The jaw members have stepped cruching faces, and a step in a crushing face is defined by a crushing expanse delineated by the front surfaces o... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4697749 | Combination condiment grinder and dispenser A combination condiment grinder and dispenser mechanism (10) which can be held and operated by one hand and which includes a hand-activated lever (80) which when squeezed forces a grinding surface (88,90) in one direction against spring (92) pressure. Whe... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4629135 | Cycloidal sonic mill for comminuting material suspended in liquid and powdered material An annular treatment chamber is formed by a gap between inner and outer inertial ("inductively reactive") members. At least one of these members, typically the inner one, is vibratorily driven cycloidally in an orbital path, which is typically circular or... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4580732 | Filter cake processing method and mechanism The invention relates to a shredding apparatus for use in shredding a material mass into a plurality of discrete particles. The principal components includes a shredding screen and wiper blades. The wiper blade include a semi-rigid blade having its lower ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4387859 | Resonantly-powered crusher A crusher for reducing the size of pieces of rock, concrete and the like is disclosed. A pair of resonant beams are suspended at their upper nodes from the upper end of a frame. The beams are driven by an oscillatory driver which engages the beams near th... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4361291 | Electromagnetic milling device A device for crushing, pulverizing, classifying and dedusting dry grind or dewatering wet grind ores. The ore is fed into a trough in which is seated crusher, spacer and pulverizer bars vibrated by an electromagnet energized by a low frequency electric pu... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4327543 | Agricultural machine An agricultural machine for picking up and chopping crop, particularly green crop such as grass to be made into silage, and comprising a picking up device for collecting crop from ground over which the machine is travelling and at least one chamber to whi... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4316410 | Compact can crusher A compact can crusher in which used beverage cans and the like are dropped into a chute and are crushed flat between an oscillating crusher plate and a wall of the chute, the crushed cans being dropped through an open lower end of the chute. A drive motor... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4253704 | Method and apparatus for disintegrating a material A method for disintegrating a material comprises acting on the material being disintegrated with shock waves produced upon applying individual electromagnetic field pulses to a current-conducting element arranged in a close proximity to the material being... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4186543 | Food processor A versatile food preparing machine which includes various attachments for selectively processing many different kinds of foods. The machine is characterized by incorporating a bottomless hopper and a food support pad for restingly supporting the food at v... | 02/05/1980 |
| 3995781 | Vibratory comminutor A plurality of rigid first comminuting elements are located in a container for material to be comminuted, and are stationarily mounted with reference to the container. A plurality of second comminuting elements are also located in the container and each o... | 12/07/1976 |
