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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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