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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7311278 | Crusher bucket with crushing lid A crusher bucket includes a bucket body (70) and a crushing lid (76) provided on the bucket body. The crushing lid is capable of being opened and closed relative to the bucket body. A material feed rate adjusting mechanism is provided on the bucket bod... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7207513 | Device and method for comminuting materials The present invention provides a comminuting device that can generate an impact speed exceeding 200 ft/s, for example 1,500 ft/s, while consuming less energy than conventional comminuting devices, and thus, is more efficient than conventional comminuting devices. Th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204438 | Impact crushing apparatus for grain The present invention relates to an impact crushing apparatus that mills grain between a milling cylinder and a screen. Each of a plurality of blades mounted along the circumference of the milling cylinder comprises a columnar body with a square cross section, cutti... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7143796 | Wood-reducing apparatus with continual feeder assembly Apparatuses, methods, and systems for producing wood chips are disclosed. The invention in one embodiment produces smooth wood chips of generally uniform size and shape, suited for use in making paper, cardboard, and other recyclable materials. An apparatus is discl... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7108210 | Comminuting machine A comminution machine has a machine housing and a closed working cylinder with comminution holes arranged therein. Tools are arranged on a coaxial shaft within the working cylinder. The tools have vanes revolving at a spacing of at most a diameter of the comminution... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7077346 | Snow and/or ice liquefier A method of and system for liquefying snow. The system includes a rotor-stator device mounted within a melting reservoir and having a slotted rotor and a slotted stator. Snow and/or ice is deposited in a water bath in the melting reservoir. The rotor rotates at high... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6971596 | Snow and/or ice liquefier A method of and system for liquefying snow. The system includes a rotor-stator device mounted within a melting reservoir and having a slotted rotor and a slotted stator. Snow and/or ice is deposited in a water bath in the melting reservoir. The rotor rotates at high... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6968765 | Cutting head for cutting a food product An improved cutting head for a food product on a slicing machine including upper and lower mounting rings, a plurality of cutter support segments connected to the mounting rings, a cutting blade attached to a front edge portion of each cutter support segment, and op... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6955312 | Apparatus and method for comminuting rock An apparatus for comminuting rocks, comprising a frame having a restrictive passageway with an inlet and an outlet end for relative displacement of rocks from the inlet to the outlet end. A rotary impacting device is secured to the frame in the passageway so as to b... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6908053 | Ice shaver An ice shaver machine that includes a hopper for receiving ice, a blade and scraper for drawing the received ice across the blade, thereby producing thin, snow-like ice shavings or flakes, which are scraped to a spout, which, in turn, is provided for delivering the ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6655615 | Device for mincing organic substances A tearing mill for comminuting fruits (3) is equipped with a tearing bed (15) with tearing elements (4) and delivery vanes (5) for the fruits (3). Directly upstream of the tearing elements (4) in terms of the delivery direction (v), openings (16) for the ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6547170 | Rotary granular material cutters The present invention is an improved rotary granular material cutting apparatus and knife blade assembly. The apparatus comprises a perforated drum that may receive granular material into its interior. The grains of material extend through perforations in... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6536691 | Apparatus for and method of shredding a product An apparatus for shredding a product includes a housing having an interior space bounded by a generally cylindrical sidewall that can include one or more contoured segments. The housing further includes a cutting implement, preferably also contoured, foll... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6527212 | Ice shaver An ice shaver machine that includes a hopper for receiving ice, a blade and scraper for drawing the received ice across the blade, thereby producing thin, snow-like ice shavings or flakes, which are scraped to a spout, which, in turn, is provided for deli... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6431479 | Rotary granular material cutters The present invention is an improved rotary granular material cutting apparatus and knife blade assembly. The apparatus comprises a perforated drum that may receive granular material into its interior. The grains of material extend through perforations in... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6431477 | Gas flow-type chipping machine A gas-flow type chipping machine with a rotating beater-wheel system. In order to chip the feed material, this material is delivered axially into the central area of the beater wheel, where it is deflected and moved in a radial direction to the chipper to... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6412714 | Apparatus for mixing, grinding, dispersing or emulsifying An apparatus for mixing, grinding, dispersing or emulsifying including a rotatable drive, a rotor body connected for rotation with the drive and having at least one aperture for fluid flow through the rotor body and a flow divider plate structure extendin... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6029918 | Kitchen waste composter Vegetable matter is composted in an outer drum having an axis for rotation which is disposed horizontally for rotation inside an outer housing. The outer drum and the housing have respective waste inlets which are in communication with each other for rece... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5687921 | Reducing apparatus The invention relates to a device for shredding plastic objects (2)!, provided with a spiral-shaped housing (3)! in which a carrier member (4)! is rotatably mounted. The housing (3)! has an opening (8)! arranged in its upper surface (5)! for f... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5558281 | Recycling and solid material conversion apparatus A motor driven grinding apparatus, and a system incorporating the inventive grinder, for reducing the size of waste material. The apparatus includes a housing having an interior, an exterior, an inlet for introducing material into the interior, and an exi... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5505393 | Crushing device especially for scrap metal A crushing device for crushing material such as scrap metal and refuse has a housing with a material feeding section and a material removal section for removing crushed material. A shaft with a rotor connected thereto is rotatably supported in the housing... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5484110 | Comminuting machine with communication cover plate The comminuting machine includes a housing provided with a rotary impact mechanism. A conveyor conveys infed material to the rotary impact mechanism which cooperates with an impact plate in disintegrating the infed material. A comminuting cover plate cove... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5431348 | Ultracentrifugal disintegrator and its use for the cryocomminution of heat sensitive material The ultracentrifugal disintegrator includes a device for cooling the annular zone (7), extending from the outer face (8) of the rotor (4) to the inner face (9) of the sieve (5), by feeding a gaseous coolant to the upper part of the zone (7), vertically wi... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5326038 | Beating apparatus for fiber suspensions A beating apparatus for fibre suspensions, including a housing having at least one inlet for suspension and one outlet for beaten suspension, a rotor rotatably arranged in the housing and having a beating surface, in which open perforations extend through... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5211343 | Cereal grain milling system with disc mill and improved bran removal machine A milling system for cereal grains such as wheat includes one or more bran removal machines which removes a substantial fraction of the bran of the incoming wheat to form a pearled wheat. The pearled wheat is then supplied as a feed stock to a disc mill i... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5201469 | Comminuting mill A rotating mill for comminuting a product, such as a food product, is disclosed in which the shape and orientation of the impeller blades, as well as the increased peripheral speed of the impeller, produce a finely comminuted product that was heretofore o... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5188298 | Method and apparatus for fiberizing A method and apparatus for communicating feed stock in the form of shreds or the like to form a low density particulate product. The shredded feed stock is fed to a material handling rotor that functions as a centrifugal blower. The apparatus includes a h... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5050809 | Flavored shaved cube ice machine A flavored shaved cube ice machine that includes a cube ice shaver arranged within a cabinet. A shaving head, of the cube ice shaver is adjacent to receive cubes of ice from a bin and mounts a ring shaped blade wherein lateral slots are formed at interval... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4919340 | Method and apparatus for fiberizing and cellulosic product thereof A method and apparatus for fiberizing feed stock in the form of shreds or the like to form a low density cellulosic product. The shredded feed stock is fed to a material handling rotor that functions as a centrifugal blower. The apparatus includes a housi... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4858834 | Chip slicer improvement Apparatus and a process for use in preparing pulp for papermaking and particularly the preparation of wood chips including a rotary anvil with vanes forcing wood against a cutting knife and an infeed chute directing wood into the radial interior of the ro... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4856715 | Lettuce tearing machine Heads of lettuce are mechanically torn into bite size portions. Each head of lettuce is washed, the outer leaves and core removed, and the cleaned heads are introduced one at a time into a rotating cylindrical basket. The basket upwardly opens and has hol... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4852814 | Apparatus for grinding and straining food products, such as fruits or vegetables Apparatus for grinding and straining food products such as fruits or vegetables so as to reduce them to a puree, comprises a working receptacle having a bottom wall and a side wall which are figures of rotation having a vertical axis. A sieve is provided,... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4664317 | Comminuter apparatus A comminuter apparatus for comminuting documents and the like in a manner to prevent their legible reconstruction includes a feed hopper having a closable access opening and a discharge opening such that materials introduced into the hopper pass by gravit... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4621775 | High-speed mill for grinding biomass and like material A high-speed mill comprises a stationary ring-shaped head for clamping cutting plates thereto and an impeller borne inside the ring-shaped head, said impeller consisting of a rotor with fixed straight vanes and being adapted to bring about rotation of the... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4597538 | Asphalt comminuting apparatus A comminuting apparatus which includes a housing containing a drum rotatable about a horizontal axis, a first crushing and screening grate pivotally suspended in the housing, and having a lower end adjustably movable toward the drum to form with the drum ... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4458763 | Soil stabilizer machine with recycler screen The present invention relates to a soil stabilizer machine with a recycler screen. The soil stabilizer machine includes a horizontal rotor having a plurality of teeth along a periphery thereof. In operation, the machine moves along the ground and the roto... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4440635 | Process and apparatus for the recovery of cellulose fibers from paper-plastic mixtures A process, and apparatus for recovering cellulose fibers from contaminated paper-plastic mixtures by exposing the mix to controlled wetting to increase the weight of paper cellulose components relative to the weight of the plastic components; subjecting t... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4366929 | Process and apparatus for grinding materials A process for grinding materials comprises driving a plurality of unground particles in a grinding zone in a predetermined direction, abruptly reversing the direction of motion of part of the particles in a subsequent grinding zone so that they impact wit... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4363452 | Centrifugal crusher with a rotating grate having grate bars adapting the grate for separating the grit also according to its width A centrifugal crusher having a rotor-crusher and a cylindrical grate rotatably mounted about it, wherein the grate is made up from a plurality of bars which on both sides having cam-shaped configuration such that when the bars are assembled, the adjacentl... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4203556 | Grinding device A grinding device is disclosed in which material to be ground is fed axially to a rotating plate on which two sets of blades are mounted. A first inner set of slinger blades forces the material outwardly to a second set of grinding blades. The inner edges... | 05/20/1980 |
