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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7461744 | Apparatus for separating fibers from reject material An apparatus for separating fibers from reject material produced in the manufacture of recycled pulp. The apparatus comprises a rotating reject cylinder provided with openings, to one end of which the reject material is fed and from the other end of which it is disc... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461746 | Portable screening/washing plant with scrubbing mill A portable screening and washing assembly includes a frame, and in addition, a scrubbing mill, a vibratory screen assembly and a fine material washer, all of which are mounted on the frame. Both the scrubbing mill and the fine material washer are adapted to move bet... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461747 | Machine for the orderly storage and delivery of banknotes A machine for the orderly storage and delivery of banknotes comprises an input of banknotes (11), an output of banknotes (19), a path (12, 14, 15, 18) of sequential flow of banknotes between the input and the output, devices (13) for dete... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7451880 | Debris removal from fluidized sand bed Apparatus for removing debris from a fluidized sand bed. One or more troughs extend radially from a vertical shaft. Associated with each trough is a perforated chute. The apparatus is placed into the fluidized bed of sand, and rotated. As the apparatus rotates, the ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7448498 | Spreading device and adjustable grading system incorporating same An adjustable grading system 10 comprises a frame 12, a plurality of elongated bars 14 retained at opposite ends within the frame 12 and moveable along the frame, and a spreading device 16. The spreading device 16 is provide... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7445121 | Dynamic separator A dynamic separator for the processing of minerals such as coal is provided. The dynamic separator includes two movable trays that are pivotally connected to each other and actuated by a specially constructed crankshaft. The positive motion of the trays makes it pos... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7446277 | Method for sorting integrated circuit devices A method for sorting integrated circuit (IC) devices of the type having a substantially unique identification (ID) code, such as a fuse ID, including automatically reading the ID code of each of the IC devices and sorting the IC devices in accordance with their auto... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7441663 | Tray assembly having hinged dividers A tray assembly has a tray and a divider assembly removably connected to the tray. The tray has a base, a first side fixedly attached to the base, a second side fixedly attached to the base and the first side, a third side opposite the first side and fixedly attache... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7442896 | Method for processing mail A method for processing mail, wherein a plurality of mailing items inserted into insertion places are collected and subsequently transported in a container to postal centers where they are sorted in sorting devices according to postal categories. The invention is ch... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7442897 | Apparatus and methods for identifying and processing mail using an identification code Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for identifying and processing mail using an identification code on a mailpiece as a redundant source of identification information in a mail sorting system. In one embodiment, this information is s... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441661 | Solids/liquids separator A separator for separating solids and other objects (debris) from a liquid, and having a separator body (2) through which the liquid, having debris entrained therein (16, 19, 20), flows from an inlet (6) to an outlet (13), and a port (... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438188 | Device for use in placer mining operations and method An aggregate material separating device includes a frame with a shaker mechanism. A trough is disposed on the frame and coupled to the shaker mechanism by a shaker spring. A hopper is disposed at an end of the trough and can receive a load of aggregate material. A h... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438190 | Apparatus and method for isolating materials Apparatus is provided for separating non-magnetic mineral values from a source containing magnetic material and non magnetic material. The apparatus includes first and second conveyers in overlying relation which counter-rotate relative to one another. One of the co... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439468 | Method of sorting postal items with predictive management of sort-outlet tray replacement A method of sorting postal items in a plurality of sorting passes in a sorting machine having sort outlets with removable trays, the method including the steps of: (i) after a first sorting pass during which the sorted items are stored in the trays, determining and ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434694 | Cyclone separator with stacked baffles A cyclone separator has at least one baffle spaced inwardly from the cyclone separator housing to serve as a false wall which allows particles that separate from the gas stream to fall down between the baffle and the housing without being re-entrained into the gas s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434696 | Inlet head for a cyclone separator An inlet head for a cyclone, the inlet head including a feed chamber therein having an inner side wall, an end wall at one end of the side wall, an open end at the other end of the side wall, the open end being of circular cross-section with a central axis. The inle... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7422117 | Continuous change order processing A currency processing machine and method, system, and computer program product for filling change orders is provided. In one embodiment, the currency processing machine includes a document input which receives a stack of documents and feeds single documents from the... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7422116 | Self-propelled screening apparatus A self-propelled screening apparatus (1) having a chassis (11); a pair of endless tracks (12) supporting the chassis (11); a superstructure (13) rotatably mounted on the chassis (11); a prime mover (19) provided in or... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419058 | System for gathering discarded post-consumer carpet, for recycling A carpet disposal system which includes: a collector collecting carpet, the carpet collecting performed by a collection agent, which has a unique identifier; an assigner assigning the collection agent unique identifier to the collected carpet; a transporter transpor... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417203 | Method and device for sorting objects A sorting device to sort granules within a bulk of granules, where the granules differ in quality includes a positioning means giving a well-separated position for each granule. At least one detector is arranged to receive electromagnetic radiation or sonic waves se... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416085 | Sieving device having beating elements The invention relates to a sieving device provided with a sieving mat (2), which has sieving openings, and with beating elements (7), which are located underneath the sieving mat and which strike against the underside of the sieving mat (2) in o... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413086 | Inline sifter An inline sifter including a gas-powder mixture receiving module which receives a mixture of a gas and powdery material from an inlet, a sieving module which communicates with a supply chamber of the gas-powder mixture receiving module, a rotating mechanism which is... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414219 | System and method for grouping mail pieces in a sorter A method and system for processing of media items includes a separator system feeding a series of media items onto a transport system that is controlled such that adjacent media items destined for the same sortation bin are transported along a transport path as a gr... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7410064 | Circular-cylinder sieve In a cylindrical sieve, a first frame 7 is provided with a first ring plate 7a arranged in a radial direction and a ring plate 7b extended inward in an axial direction X of the sieve from an inner end of the first ring plate 7 | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410063 | Method and system for sorting particles sampled from air Methods and systems for sorting particles entrained in a gaseous stream are disclosed. A representative system, among others, includes a particle scanner, a sorter, which is in pneumatic communication with the particle scanner, and a controller, which is in electric... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407056 | Automatic container recycling apparatus The invention relates to a unit for automatic recycling apparatuses for containers, e.g. cans and bottles made of glass, plastic, or metal. Said unit comprises a conveying device with a conveyor belt for advancing the containers in the direction of the longitudinal ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7407047 | Disk-shaped object sorter Disk-shaped object thickness-restricting means is provided in a disk-shaped object guiding path for transferring a disk-shaped object, inserted through a disk-shaped object slot, in an inclined direction. The disk-shaped object thickness-restricting means comes into... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7395934 | Batching with feedback correction A method and apparatus are disclosed for automatically batching objects into portions, comprising conveying and weighing objects. An appropriate bin for each of the weighed objects is selected, wherein each bin is provided with a weighing means. Accordingly, the tot... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397010 | Sorting device for flat mail items The invention relates to a sorting device which includes a mail item buffer storage having storage pouches, circulating in a conveying loop and moving past charge station. Below straight handover sections of the conveying loops, circulating mail from containers, dis... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397011 | Device for the sorting of flat mailings A device for sorting flat mailings has a pouch loop system defining a transport path including a lower level and an upper level coupled via level transitions. The transport path has several partial loops including the level transitions and arranged within an inner a... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392908 | Methods and apparatus for sorting particles hydraulically A method and apparatus for selectively sorting individual particles, such as blood cells of a particular type of interest, from a plurality of particles of different types. Particles of interest are individually differentiated from other particles in a known manner,... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390987 | Method of handling postal objects using dynamic overflow In a method for sorting postal objects in a sorting machine comprising sorting outlets with movable trays for the storage of the postal objects, respective logical destinations (DL) are associated to the sorting outlets and some sorting outlets of the machine are re... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389880 | Unit and method for processing of shredder residues and uses of a sand fraction produced thus A method and system are for sorting shredder residues of metal-containing wastes, in particular of body shells Shredder residues are separated into a shredder light fraction and a non-ferromagnetic fraction (shredder heavy fraction). During the sorting of the shredd... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383957 | Screening finger tine assembly A screening finger assembly having a holder (19) and a set of generally parallel finger tines (16) spaced apart in a row and each mounted in cantilever manner in a respective mounting (20, 22) in the holder (19). Each tine (16) has... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380670 | Compact dedusting apparatus A compact housing for a dedusting apparatus utilizes a magnetic flux field to disrupt the static charge attracting dust particles to product particles, which along with fluidization and counter current airflow principles that are proven to dislodge dust particles fr... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380674 | Method of processing and sorting aggregate material A method of processing and sorting aggregate materials includes providing an aggregate material processing device which has aggregate material holding region having an opening over which may be pivotably and removably placed an aggregate material sorting device. The... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7374049 | Screening plant A screening plant having a main frame, a trammel drum mounted on the main frame to be rotatable about a rotational axis at a small angle to the horizontal, and having an input end and an opposite discharge end at a lower end than the input end, screening apertures p... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370765 | Apparatus for sorting laundry pieces A device for sorting of laundry pieces comprises a transport device for transporting different types of laundry pieces, a first collection device for receiving a first type of laundry pieces and disposed in a receiving relationship to the transport device, a second ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365284 | Sorting mail in carrier walk sequence An automated mail sorting system including a display for displaying the image of an item of mail belonging to a carrier route, and input device for associating the image with any of a plurality of stations in a walking sequence of the carrier route, and a sorter hav... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361861 | Modular document sorting apparatus and method A modular document sorting apparatus and method. A plurality of modules are functionally connected to one another to enable them to scan documents for information and sort the documents according to the scanned information. Each module performs at least one function... | 04/22/2008 |
