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5936216 Froth floatation process for separating carbon from coal ash  
A froth floatation process for separating carbon from coal ash incorporates a step of screening the coal ash before the coal ash is formed into a slurry.
5921481 Air classifier with specified truncated cone-like breather pipe  
An air classifying system that can produce toner particles having a desired particle size is disclosed. The air classifying system contains a supplying pipe for supplying raw materials; a truncated...
5916449 Method and arrangement for monitoring a separating liquid stream  
A method and an arrangement by which separating liquid streams, such as occur for example in cell sorters, are monitored automatically. An image of the separating liquid streams is recorded and the...
5914262 Process and apparatus for cell sorting  
A method of distinguishing between microorganisms having different attributes comprises the steps of: encapsulating one or more cells within a polymeric bead; incubating the cell(s) within the bead...
5911327 Method of automatically discriminating and separating scraps containing copper from iron scraps  
Scrap containing copper is discriminated from iron scrap after being pulverized by imaging iron scrap using a color TV camera, treating RGB signals processed by each of the points in the image as a...
5900604 Progressive mineral reduction with classification, grinding and air lift concentration  
The present invention is a process for recovering valuable minerals using air lift concentration and progressive ore reduction. The ore is ground to a relatively coarse size, the ground ore is...
5885330 Separation system and method of unburned carbon in flyash from a coal-fired power plant  
An apparatus and method for reducing the amount of unburned carbon in raw flyash, wherein raw flyash containing unburned carbon is introduced into the tribocharger, the tribocharger producing...
5881886 Optically-based methods and apparatus for sorting garments and other textiles  
A method is disclosed for sorting textiles, as is a system that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes steps of (a) providing a plurality of textiles to be sorted, each of the...
5842577 Method and apparatus for sorting and acquiring image data for documents  
An apparatus is provided for sorting a group of documents contained with an envelope into selected batches of documents. An envelope feeder feeds a group of envelopes containing documents onto a...
5840179 Ultrasonic conditioning and wet scubbing of fly ash  
Processes for treating fly ash to enhance the fly ash as a pozzolan for portland cement mixes and to separate therefrom a substantial carbon compound and/or to increase the fineness of the fly ash...
5837200 Sorting device for biological cells or viruses  
The sorting device is able to sort biological objects, particularly cells or viruses, in liquids as a function of physically measurable criteria or properties. The sorting apparatus is provided...
5824210 Separation of minerals  
The separation of different minerals based on differences in density, surface tension effects and general relative settling rates of the different media over a range of particle sizes is effected...
5813541 Versatile mounting for control console for testing chamber  
A screening apparatus including a testing chamber and a control console for environmental screening and vibrational testing of manufactured products placed inside the testing chamber. The control...
5803142 Debarking and chipping folded whole-trees  
This invention relates to debarking and chipping folded whole trees. Such structures of this type, generally, increase wood recovery by making high-quality chips out of tree tops, branches, as well...
5804143 System for high-speed measurement and sorting of particles  
A system for sorting particles is arranged such that the presence or absence of multiple parameters is determined for each particle in a flow of particles, and a logic condition is determined based...
5785181 Permanent RFID garment tracking system  
A permanently attached identification device which is a button sized RFID tag having a unique number. The RFID tag is applied to the garment on the first visit and the identification number is then...
5776781 Sterile flow cytometer and sorter with mechanical isolation between flow chamber and sterile enclosure and methods for using same  
An apparatus and process for measuring particles that prevents the particles from being contaminated during the measuring and optional sorting process wherein a flow chamber or region is...
5772040 Workpiece conveying apparatus used with workpiece inspection device  
Workpieces in which, for example, wire bonding has been performed are inspected to determine if they are defective or not by an inspection device. Workpieces which have been found to be defective...
5772777 Method for processing composite materials to enable recycling thereof  
A method for processing composite materials (matrix+reinforcing fibers) to enable recycling thereof. The method is useful for chemically upgrading materials and comprises exposing the materials to...
5765694 Seed cotton module handler and trash separator  
An infeed conveyor feeds seed cotton modules successively to a feeder head having disperser drums which reduce the modules to clumps of cotton. Incorporated into the conveyor are fluted rollers and...
5763170 Method for forming an array of biological particles  
A method for forming and using an array of, e.g., bacteria, yeast or bacteriophage for the purpose of identifying particular constituents thereof. The array is formed by directing a stream of...
5752606 Method for trapping, manipulating, and separating cells and cellular components utilizing a particle trap  
A method for trapping, separating, manipulating and controlling particles and molecules of biological origin is disclosed. The method comprises containing the particles or molecules of biological...
5725720 Detector for envelopes made of plastic, and flat article processing equipment including such a detector  
The apparatus of the invention for discriminating mail in a paper envelope from mail in a plastics envelope makes use of a pneumatic technique. In particular, the apparatus comprises a pneumatic...
5697704 Method and apparatus for separating clumps of dried fruit  
Clumps of dried fruit are separated into individual fruit pieces with reduced damage to the fruit itself by passing the clumps through an apparatus containing a rotating shaft from which...
5688693 Method and system for sampling and determining the presence of contaminants in recyclable plastic materials  
An inspection system for sampling and determining the presence of residues of contaminants within plastic materials to be recycled from used plastic materials such as plastic beverage bottles or...
5676255 Method of recycling medical instruments  
A method of recycling medical instruments, especially surgical instruments. The decontaminated medical instruments are received and identified for processing. The analysis and construction of each...
5643796 System for sensing droplet formation time delay in a flow cytometer  
A droplet flow cytometer system which includes a system to optimize the droplet formation time delay based on conditions actually experienced includes an automatic droplet sampler which rapidly...
5602039 Flow cytometer jet monitor system  
A direct jet monitor illuminates the jet of a flow cytometer in a monitor wavelength band which is substantially separate from the substance wavelength band. When a laser is used to cause...
5588534 Garbage separator system  
There is provided a method and apparatus for processing domestic garbage wherein the garbage is debagged and placed on a series of vibrating conveyors which are tilted with respect to the...
5586660 Process and apparatus for screening a stream of bulk material  
The screening of a stream of bulk material is accelerated so that this takes place in the state of the fluidized bed. The screening apparatus can be made correspondingly smaller. So that the...
5567245 Method for separating vinylidene chloride polymer from other polymers  
A method for separating a polymer such as polypropylene from a layered plastic material that includes a layer of polypropylene together with a layer of vinylidene chloride is provided. The layered...
5554842 Luminescent facing marks for enhanced postal indicia discrimination  
A postal indicia is disclosed that contains markings thereon which may be used to distinguish between availability or non availability of additional security and sorting information. The foregoing...
5550058 System for flexibly sorting particles  
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for flexibly controlling sorting decisions for a flow cytometer or similar instrument at a purity vs. yield ratio of sorted particles, particularly...
5547084 Article sorting method and system  
An article sorting method and a system to perform the method, in which a plurality of articles having different sorting destinations are sorted out in a highly efficient manner by one carriage. The...
5538138 Method and device for sorting items provided with address information  
A method for sorting items provided with address information includes passing the items successively through a scanning device for generating a video image of each item, a mechanical storage track...
5527432 Method of dry separating fibers from paper making waste sludge and fiber product thereof  
Provided are methods of dry recovering useable fiber from paper making sludge. In the methods, paper making sludge is dewatered and dried. The dewatered and dried sludge is then fiberized using a...
5522509 Method for sorting tableware of restaurant, tableware used for the same method, adjusting apparatus and tableware sorting apparatus  
This invention is provided to automate an adjusting job of a restaurant and to realize automatic sorting of tableware and to improve an operating efficiency of a restaurant job. Resonance tags are...
5518121 Method for automated mail extraction and remittance processing  
In a method for the automated processing of bulk mail, envelopes are transferred to a receiving apparatus in bulk fashion (from incoming mail trays or the like) for the extraction of documents...
5508499 Method and apparatus for the univocal and permanent connection of containers for medical use to a given patient  
The apparatus comprises a device for the transfer (13) of containers (12) which takes containers (12) from a magazine for containers (11) to convey them in succession to a delivery station (16)...
5507074 Decorticating method for separating bast from core of forage chopped kenaf or the like  
A method of decorticating short lengths, typically three to five inches of material such as kenaf to separate bast from core and which has been harvested by a chopper harvester of the type used for...
5490928 Tandem waterwheel trommel  
A tandem waterwheel type trommel apparatus having a laterally-disposed drain-off drum and a laterally-disposed classifying drum combined through a short pipe to form a main body, which is rotatably...
5489506 Dielectrophoretic cell stream sorter  
A method and apparatus for continuously sorting living cells from a mixture of many unlike cells to obtain separate populations of like cells. The invention comprises cell and fluid intake ports, a...
5484238 Refuse bag opening device  
A rigid, box-like frame structure has a vertically movable subframe assembly mounted thereon. Attached to the subframe are a number of horizontally movable tined sleeves with connected sharpened...
5483469 Multiple sort flow cytometer  
A flow cytometer utilizes multiple lasers for excitation and respective fluorescence of identified dyes bonded to specific cells or events to identify and verify multiple events to be sorted from a...
5464099 Method for the automated processing of documents and bulk mail  
An apparatus for the automated processing of bulk mail in a continuous and automatic procedure includes an operative combination of processing stations including an input station for receiving...
5464581 Flow cytometer  
A Faraday cage enclosing the flow chamber of a cytometer and ground planes associated with each field deflection plate in concert therewith inhibit electric fields from varying the charge on...
5447238 Separating mechanism  
An apparatus for separating fiber and shiv includes a pinned metering rotor and a pinned separation rotor adapted to rotate with surfaces moving in opposite directions and having fixed bearing...
5441159 Apparatus for handling documents for delivery to remittance processing equipment  
An apparatus for presenting documents to a remittance processing device includes an arm for receiving a plurality of the documents for presentation to the remittance processing device and a...
5436843 Systems and methods for recycling resources and circulating products  
A resource recycling system and a product circulation system, wherein a search is made for information regarding specifications and production methods for a recovered product and an original...
5431285 Vehicle unloading facility with computer directed sampling  
An unloading facility for receiving a particulate material, such as coal, from a vehicle, and then conveying the particulate material to another location. The unloading facility primarily includes...