| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 241240120 | Of plural, diverse materials | 34 |
| 20110049275 | ASPHALT MATERIAL RECYCLING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An asphalt roofing material recycling system and method is used to recycle new and used (post consumer) asphalt materials, such as asphalt shingles, rolled roofing and tar paper that may include granules, fibers or other particles. The asphalt material, which may be in bundles, is broken up and separated and then provided to a cooled recycling vessel. Dry ice is added along with the asphalt material to be recycled. The dry ice removes any moisture present and super-cools the material making it brittle and easier to chip and break up. The recycle vessel includes a number of high speed shippers having tulip hear chipping teeth as well as one horizontal mixer element which stirs the material and makes sure all material is ground. The resulting course to fine powder can be separated by screening and stored as power or compressed into bricks or briquettes. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110095107 | Method and apparatus for the selective separation of two layers of material using an ultrashort pulse source of electromagnetic radiation - A direct-write method, apparatus and end use device for selective separation of at least one layer of material from another layer of material at the interface between them using a beam of electromagnetic radiation from an ultrashort pulse source is disclosed. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20120043402 | METHOD FOR PURIFYING GRAPHENE POWDER - An easy and effective method for purifying graphene powder by removing magnetic impurities, wherein magnetic impurities are incorporated during the process of fabricating the graphene powder, is provided. The method for purifying graphene powder, the method including: ( | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120181361 | System and method for separating carpet fibers - A system and method for separating carpet U's from carpet backing is described. The separation system includes a means for transporting a blend of carpet U's and backing material containing at least backing fibers and an adhesive material to a shaker box. The shaker box has at least one opening for receiving the blend. One or more portions of the shaker box have one or more orifices. The shaker box causes the carpet U's to pass through the orifices when the shaker box is activated leaving at least the backing fibers in the shaker box. The U's are passed to a cleaning means where said U's are treated to remove portions of adhesive material present on said U's. The backing fibers are released from said shaker box and transported for further treatment. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120305686 | Systems and Methods for Processing a Heterogeneous Waste Stream - Systems and methods for processing and sorting a municipal solid waste stream are described herein. A system can include a processing sub-system configured to receive a municipal solid waste stream and to remove the non-processable waste, a processing apparatus configured and disposed to receive constituents of the municipal solid waste stream from the processing sub-system and reduce the size of the constituents of the waste stream to an average particle size of less than about ¾ inch, and separators configured to sort the waste stream into constituents based on density. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20140077007 | Methods of Processing Waste Material to Render a Compostable Product - Disclosed herein are methods of processing municipal solid waste in order to isolate a compostable product. The methods and system disclosed allow for municipal solid waste to be separated into an organic fraction and an inorganic fraction. The purity of the organic fraction may be enhanced in certain methods. The overall yield of organic material may be increased by subjecting inorganic material to further separation steps. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140203122 | ROLLER JAW CRUSHER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A roller jaw crusher system including an elongated roller that rotates normally about a center axis, and a movable breaking plate configured to define a gradually smaller gap between the breaking plate and the roller, wherein the movable breaking plate is configured to rise upward and descend in both a downward direction and a direction toward the elongated roller to break a frangible material captured between the elongated roller and the movable breaking plate. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20160107197 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SEPARATING PRIMARY ORE CONTAINING RARE EARTHS - The invention relates to a method and devices for separating primary ore into dead rock and at least one type of rock which contains at least one valuable mineral, the at least one valuable mineral comprising at least one rare-earth mineral. A sensor-controlled pre-framing method, which is based on the identification and classification of individual rock particles, is used. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160133425 | Method and Apparatus for Recycling - A recycling plant and method is disclosed for safely recycling flat panel displays comprising mercury. The plant comprises a size reducing means for reducing the displays into fragments, separation means for automatically separating the fragments into different material outfeed categories and a local extraction ventilation system comprising a mercury abatement system. The method comprises shredding the displays into fragments, automatically separating the fragments into different material categories, and extracting local exhaust ventilation from the plant through a mercury abatement system. | 05-12-2016 |
| 241240130 | Including metal | 17 |
| 20100147980 | REDUNDANT TIRE AND RUBBER COMPOUND REPROCESSING - The invention provides for methods, systems, and devices for processing rubber materials including rubber from tires, tubes, shoe soles, or any other rubber containing product. Characteristics of the rubber materials, such as chemical composition and/or product manufacturer, model, and manufacture date, can be identified. Identification can be performed by personnel, can be automated, or can be a combination thereof. The characteristics of the rubber material can be used to sort the rubber product. Rubber materials suitable for a particular end product can be selected for further processing, which can include size reduction, material separation, chemical and physical processes, devulcanization, or a combination thereof. Processed rubber materials can be stored or delivered to a user or manufacturing site with product specifications. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110127361 | METHOD FOR SEPARATING UNVULCANIZED RUBBERIZED STEEL CORD MATERIAL FOR TIRES - A method separates a rubber material and a steel chord material in tires, tire blanks and carcasses from one another in a simple manner. In the method, rubberized steel chord is fed to a separating device. Then a powdered separating material is fed to the separating device. The steel chord and the rubber are separated by way of interactions between rotating tools and the separating material in the separating device. The separated rubber particles are encapsulated by the separating material. The rubber particles are discharged from an opening in the separating device. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20120032008 | Systems for Isotropic Quantization Sorting of Automobile Shredder Residue to Enhance Recovery of Recyclable Resources - Systems and methods for increasing recyclable material recovery from automobile shredder residue. Embodiments include substantially isotropic quantization separation of automobile shredder residue such as a wind tunnel system and even substantially horizontal laminar air flow and can be used with or without out other traditional automobile shredder residue sorting systems perhaps creating additional recyclable quantities and even better separated results such as with zorba and zurik and the like. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120217328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SORTING RECYCLABLES AT A MATERIAL RECOVERY FACILITY - Systems and methods for providing a quantity of cullet having at least two colors of glass from an input stream of recyclable material and non-recyclable material. In an embodiment, the system includes a sortation station, a screening apparatus, an air classifier, and a crushing apparatus to provide as output substantially pure cullet having at least two colors. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20140151473 | PULPER WITH A SHAFT AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING COMPOSITE MATERIALS - A pulper with a shaft on which a spiral is arranged has been improved to such an extent that it comprises a shaft with a counter-rotating spiral. Preferably both spirals are arranged on the same shaft. This results in extreme friction in the centre of the reaction space of the pulper and thus in an increase in the capacity of the pulper and in an improvement to achieve highly efficient suspension. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20160151791 | Method for Improving Rheological Properties of Mineral Slurry | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160158767 | CHALCOPYRITE ORE BENEFICIATION PROCESS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a mineral processing technology and method for refractory chalcopyrite ores, particularly to a mineral processing technology and method for the separation of chalcopyrite from multiple natural types of copper ores containing chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, talc and serpentine, which belongs to the technical field of mineral processing. It's characterized by: conducting a two-stage grinding on the chalcopyrite ore, with each grinding stage followed by size grading, and treating ores in different size fractions separately, wherein coarse-grain ores are separated in the presence of xanthate, with calcium oxide and CMC controlling the pH and acting as depressor respectively, while fine-grained ores are subjected to rougher in the presence of kerosene, and subsequently subjected to cleaner in the presence of xanthate. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160167060 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING A COPPER SULFIDE FROM AN ORE CONTAINING AN IRON SULFIDE | 06-16-2016 |
| 241240140 | Magnetically , electrostatically, or by use of eddy currents | 9 |
| 20080251616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TREATING SHREDDER RESIDUES - In a method for sorting shredder residues of metal-containing wastes, e.g., vehicle bodies, the shredder residues are separated into a shredder light fraction and a non-ferromagnetic fraction (shredder heavy fraction). A system is arranged for sorting shredder residues of metal-containing wastes, e.g., vehicle bodies. At least parts of the primary material streams produced during the sorting of the shredder light fraction and the shredder heavy fraction in preliminary processes are fed to a common, main process for final processing, at least a ferromagnetic fraction, a fraction containing non-ferromagnetic metals, a granulate fraction, a fiber fraction, and a sand fraction being produced as end products. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20090166454 | METHOD OF DISPOSING CITY REFUSES - This invention relates to a method of disposing city refuses comprising following steps: (1) primary classification, in which the materials which can be independently disposed are separated from the city refuses; (2) first crushing; (3) first separating, in which the refuses is divided into two classes of heavy materials made of minerals mainly and slight materials made of organics mainly; (4) crushing of heavy materials; (5) magnetic separating of heavy materials, in which the heavy material is divided into two classes of magnetic heavy materials and non-magnetic heavy materials; and (6) crushing of slight materials. The method recycles most of the city refuses as reusable materials. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090302139 | PROCESS FOR THE COMMINUTION OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS - The invention relates to a process for the comminution of composite materials, e.g. of electronics scrap, and also for the separation of the materials present therein, using a plurality of comminution stages and separation stages, with use of at least one hammer mill or rotor-impact mill ( | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100038460 | RECYCLING METHOD OF USED TYRES AND INSTALLATION FOR THE ACTUATION OF THE SAME METHOD - A recycling method of used tyres is disclosed, which comprises grinding of tyres to obtain tyre pieces with approximate maximum dimensions of 100×80 mm, granulating of ground tyre pieces to obtain filaments of harmonic steel and granules containing textile fibres with 1-16 mm granulometry, removal of steel filaments using the attraction of a magnetic field, and refining of granules containing textile fibre, in such a way to separate textile fibre from rubber granules with 1-3 mm granulometry for introduction on the market to mould rubber-based materials. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20130175371 | ELECTRIC SORTING BY MEANS OF CORONA DISCHARGE - A method for separating a particle mixture into a first and second fraction, the first fraction of particles having an electrical conductivity greater than the particles of the second fraction, by a) ionizing air to have the same polarity with a corona electrode; b) mixing the ionized air with a fluidized particle mixture containing two particle fractions with different electrical conductivities, to obtain a fluidized particle mixture ionized to have the same polarity; d) precipitating particles of the second fraction from the particle mixture on a collection electrode moving relative to the particle mixture, where the collection electrode is grounded or has an opposite charge to the corona electrode; e) removing particles adhered to the collection electrode as the second fraction; and f) obtaining the first fraction from particles of the particle mixture which do not adhere to the collection electrode. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130292501 | METHOD OF RECOVERING FILM-FORMING MATERIAL | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130313345 | BATTERY RECYCLING METHOD - A method for recycling discarded batteries by chopping or crushing to recover reusable materials, the method comprising the steps, sorting a plurality of batteries into groups by battery technology; removing button-cell batteries from said groups; chopping said groups of batteries into pieces approximately one quarter inch or less, to produce final particule matter; removing ferro-magnetic material form said final particulate matter; transferring said final particulate matter to refining or smelting process to recover to recover reusable materials. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140131488 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEPARATING MATERIALS FOR SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING - Systems and methods for providing a quantity of cullet having at least two colors of glass from an input stream of recyclable material and non-recyclable material. In an embodiment, the system includes a sortation station, a screening apparatus, an air classifier, and a crushing apparatus to provide as output substantially pure cullet having at least two colors. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140231557 | PROCESSES AND REQUIREMENTS FOR THE RECOVERY OF PLASTICS FROM DURABLE GOODS - A process for the recovery of a plastic product from ASR or ESR mixtures can include five or more process steps selected from DEXRT; XRF; size reduction; density separation; NIR sorting; Electrostatic separation; LD sorting; Wood removal; rubber removal; metal removal; and glass removal. | 08-21-2014 |
| 241240160 | Including food | 3 |
| 20090206186 | Processing Apparatus and Methods - The invention relates to processing apparatus and methods and in particular, but not exclusively, to an apparatus that may be used to process a wide variety of feed materials by one or more of milling or grinding, mixing, blending, separation, drying and sterilisation. In a preferred embodiment there is provided a feed material processing apparatus ( | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100308137 | Food dispenser with a vacuum system - A first, exemplary embodiment has a first container (spice rack) to organize and house the spices. On the outside of this container, there is a plurality of buttons with each button corresponding to each spice in a plurality of second containers (spice container) mounted on a Lazy Susan device. When a button is pushed, the appropriate spice will come out of the selected second container. Each button corresponds to a barcode. Each spice container will have a barcode on it representing the spice within the spice container and a scanner on the inside of the first container will scan each barcode until it comes to the barcode that corresponds to the button hit. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20120286077 | CONTINUOUS MEAT GRINDING RECLAIMING SYSTEM - An continuous meat grinding reclaiming system that comprises a primary meat grinder unit and a secondary meat grinding unit for continuously and simultaneously processing a meat batch in a single processing run. The primary meat grinder unit is designed to grind a batch of meat by initially separating or extrapolating pure meat from the meat that contains bone; collecting the pure meat into a container; and transferring the meat that contains the bone to the secondary meat grinder unit. The secondary meat grinder unit is designed further grind the batch of meat by separating additional pure meat from the meat that contains the bone; collecting this additional pure meat into the container with the original pure meat; and discard any remaining “undesireables”. The meat grinding reclaiming system also provides an inventive variable valve reducer for controlling the flow of the undesireables through the secondary transfer pipe. | 11-15-2012 |
| 241240190 | Including fibrous material, e.g., paper | 4 |
| 20100282878 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHREDDING PLASTERBOARD - This invention provides an apparatus, a system and a method for shredding building materials such as plasterboard, and then processing the shredded waste to recover the constituent materials. The apparatus ( | 11-11-2010 |
| 20120018548 | Production of clean glass particles from post-consumer waste - Clean glass particles are produced from post-consumer mixed glass and like waste streams by a series of pulverizing, size- and material-based separation, ozonation, drying, sizing, and paper fluff removal steps. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20140263770 | Apparatus and Method for Separating Paper from Mixed Recyclable Materials - A paper separating apparatus is provided for mixed recyclable material. The apparatus includes a frame, an agitating roll, a first screw conveyor roll, a second screw conveyor roll, a first opening, a second opening, and at least one drive motor. Three-dimensional mixed recyclable material is delivered along the rolls from the entrance end to the exit end, and paper is dropped through one of the first opening and the second opening. A method of separating paper from three-dimensional mixed recyclable material is also provided. | 09-18-2014 |
| 241240210 | Sorting by use of sieve | 1 |
| 20130001336 | BALED BIOMASS PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for automated destringing and breaking down of baled biomass material using limited manual labor is disclosed. The method includes selecting and moving one bale of biomass material from a stack of bales to an automated destringing station where the string is removed from that bale. The bale is then lined up next in line with previously processed destrung bales and advanced along a continuous process line through a bale chopper that breaks the biomass material down into useful pieces for further processing at the facility. In a preferred embodiment an automated initial quality control evaluation step can be provided with a bale rejection system operated on detected non-conforming bales before they are destrung. | 01-03-2013 |
| 241240240 | Including coal | 1 |
| 20140263771 | METHOD AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING A CONTROLLED BATCH OF MICROMETER-SIZED OR NANOMETER-SIZED COAL MATERIAL - A micrometer-sized or nanometer-sized coal material is produced using a method of providing a controlled batch of micrometer-sized or nanometer-sized coal material. This method includes: (a) specifying at least one desired physical and/or chemical parameter of the controlled batch of coal material; (b) specifying the desired range of the physical and/or chemical parameter in the controlled batch of coal material; (c) obtaining a feedstock batch of coal material; and (d) processing a feedstock batch of coal material to obtain the controlled batch of coal material having the at least one specified physical and/or chemical parameter in the specified range thereof. | 09-18-2014 |
