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7607544 Apparatus for use to check potatoes or similar items  
Apparatus for use to check potatoes or similar items, the apparatus including a feeding device for advancing the potatoes in a plurality of rows, a conveying device adapted to receive the rows of...
7335847 Method and apparatus for foreign-body separation from a material flow  
Method and apparatus for the separation of foreign bodies from a material flow, in particular a tobacco stream. Method is characterized in that at least a portion of the material from the material...
6885991 Telephony-based speech recognition for providing information for sorting mail and packages  
The present invention relates to a telephony-based speech recognition system for sorting packages and letters. The invention includes a wireless telephony set in communication with a computer...
6358352 Method for creating higher grade wood products from lower grade lumber  
The present invention is directed to a process whereby low-grade lumber, (i.e., lumber having surface defects such as knots, voids, wane, and bark pockets, and warp defects such as twist, bow,...
6250472 Paper sorting system  
The present invention includes devices and methods for handling and sorting paper. Devices for accelerating and spreading paper from a paper input to a sensor are disclosed. Operably thin layers of...
6239397 Process for sorting mailings  
A process of the type disclosed according to DE 196 50 875 for sorting mailings having different properties by using sorting machines not suitable for all properties of the mailings. The unsuitable...
6216878 System for recycling post-industrial-use plastic  
A system for recycling post-industrial-use plastic waste based on coloring an object, which will become post-industrial-use plastic waste, a user-specified color, said color correlated with a...
6050421 Automatic laundry tie-off apparatus and method  
An automated laundry sorting system is disclosed of the type wherein previously-laundered laundry items on hangers are tagged with electronic identification devices and sorted into predetermined...
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...
5791489 Apparatus for separating foreign bodies from a fiber tuft stream  
An apparatus for detecting foreign substances in a fiber tuft stream and for separating the foreign substances therefrom, includes a conduit guiding the fiber tuft stream therethrough in a...
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...
5687851 Method of sorting a plurality of individually conveyed articles into groups in at least one sorting step  
Described is a method of sorting a plurality of individually conveyed articles in groups in at least one sorting step in a suspension-type conveyor, the articles being introduced in substantially...
5638959 Rotary materials separator  
Solid waste is sorted by passing it through a rotating hollow drum which has sets of extensions, called flights, from the interior wall of the drum, some sets of flights being separated from each...
5632381 Apparatus for sorting materials  
An apparatus for sorting paper materials includes a separating mechanism for thinning the paper materials and a sensing mechanism for classifying the paper material according to type. The...
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...
5388703 Sorting method  
There is described a method of sorting a plurality of individually conveyed articles in a suspension-type conveyor apparatus, wherein the articles circulate along a first conveyor circuit in...
5370234 Rotary materials separator and method of separating materials  
Solid waste is sorted by passing it through a rotating hollow drum which has sets of extensions, called flights, from the interior wall of the drum, some sets of flights being separated from each...
5333738 Process and installation for recovering valuable materials, in particular from waste material on building sites  
A method is proposed for recovering valuable substances, particularly from construction site wastes and industrial trash as well as a system for implementing the method in which the essential...
5314072 Sorting plastic bottles for recycling  
An apparatus and method for sorting plastic bottles for recycling wherein if it is first determined that a bottle is clear, the bottle will be ejected. If the bottle is not determined as being...
5205415 Modular classifier  
Apparatus for classifying tobacco includes a plurality of vertical lift, single-pass, closed loop apparatus projecting a stream of mixed tobacco components across a classifying chamber of each...
5143308 Recycling system  
Apparatus and process for recycling post-consumer plastic containers supplied as compressed bales thereof to recover at least uncolored and colored PET uncolored and colored HDPE in flake form is...
5137621 Integrated screening system for sizing wood chips  
A wood chip screen system which includes a gyratory screen apparatus (10) and a disk screen (12). The gyratory system apparatus includes a top screen element (14) and a lower screen (16). The...
5133507 Procedure and apparatus for the sorting of wood chips  
A two-stage procedure is disclosed for sorting wood chips. The chips are directed to a gyratory screen in the first stage and to a disc screen in the second stage. The chip flow is divided in the...
5101977 Solid waste sorting system  
The present invention is addressed to an apparatus and method for carrying out the effective separation or classification of MSW into fractions with improved efficiency. This improved efficiency is...
5078274 Method and apparatus for wood chip sizing  
A system and process for sizing wood chips to provide a flow of wood chips which are acceptable for feeding to a digester of a pulping system. A flow management screen station is provided which...
5032255 Separation devices for separating particulate material  
A particulate separating device (1) has an inlet (8) leading to sets of inter-leaved discs (2 and 3). The spacings between the discs determine the sizes of the particles which can pass through to...
5009370 Municipal solid waste material sorting trommel system  
A municipal solid waste material sorting system comprises a multi-stage trommel having a relatively short first stage section with relatively small holes for screening out grit, dirt, coins, small...
5000390 Apparatus and method for sizing wood chips  
A wood chip sizing apparatus, based on the thickness dimension, which includes a gyratory screen system (16) comprising three separate screens (18, 22, 26) which produces a total of four fractions,...
4929342 Apparatus and method for separating recyclable materials  
An apparatus for sorting recyclable materials including an inlet conveyor with a magnetic pulleys that directs magnetic objects out of the flow of recyclable materials. A vacuum inlet is positioned...
4842144 Grain sorter for use in a rotary type rice hulling and sorting device  
A grain sorter for use in a rotary type rice hulling and sorting device comprising a hulling part, a pneumatical sorting part, sorting cylinders rotatably installed so that mixed rice grains may be...
4834870 Method and apparatus for sorting non-ferrous metal pieces  
Mixed pieces of different non-ferrous metals are sorted by initially moving the pieces through a high density, rapidly changing magnetic flux field, and immediately thereafter, freely moving the...
4785761 Mobile seed cleaning apparatus  
A mobile seed cleaning and/or separating apparatus has a wheeled, self-propelled chassis mounting a plurality of cleaning and/or separating stations. The stations are interconnected by conveyors...
4783253 Process for separating radioactive and hazardous metal contaminants from soils  
A process for treating radioactive contaminated soils to remove radioactive metal oxide contaminants therefrom comprises creating a suspension of particles of the soil in a column of water,...
4750993 Process and apparatus for the separation of metallic components from nonmetallic components of a mixture  
A process and apparatus for separating metallic from nonmetallic components in a mixture are disclosed. The process and apparatus rely upon the combination of prefractionation by sedimentation,...
4742919 Rotating separator  
Fines are separated from pin chips and a system in which a mixture of fines and pin chips is introduced onto a rotating disk which imparts centrifugal forces thereto for separation. In a first...
4741443 Fluidized bed for continuous separation of two mixed solid phases  
In a fluidized bed apparatus for separation of two mixed solid phases of which one is formed by a fluidizable powdery material and the other is formed by a material which is not fluidizable under...
4519896 Dry material sorting device  
A dry material sorting device for selectively sorting mixtures of granular material comprising component materials such as sand and gold having different specific gravities. The use of a horizontal...
4488958 Method of preparing highly purified kiln dried solar salt  
Partially purified salt containing less than about 00.4 weight percent insolubles is further purified to reduce the insolubles until the milk pad rating is 3 or better for certain industrial uses...
4441616 Process for sorting coarse to fine materials according to their chemical composition  
Process for sorting coarse to fine materials according to their chemical composition, in which samples are taken and analyzed, and in which the transporting and/or further processing of the...
4421542 Automatic glassware forming machine with automatic down and/or stuck ware rejection  
Appratus for automatically removing stuck and down ware from an automatic glassware forming machine conveyor produces a first signal for each item of normal ware, stuck ware and down ware which is...
4376042 Chip sizing process  
A chip screening system has a primary screening station for dividing an incoming flow of chips into a first acceptable fraction and a second fraction having acceptable chips and also both oversized...
4363722 Process and apparatus for treating titanium machining scrap  
A process and apparatus is disclosed for treating titanium machining scrap to remove both magnetic and non-magnetic high density inclusions, particularly bits or pieces of tungsten carbide broken...
4354865 Automatic glass ware forming machine with automatic down and/or stuck bottle rejection  
Apparatus for automatically removing stuck and down ware from an automatic glassware ware forming machine conveyor produces a first signal for each item of normal ware, stuck ware and down ware...
4284496 Particle guiding apparatus and method  
Disclosed is a particle analyzer wherein uniformally charged liquid droplets, having a uniform velocity in a linear trajectory, proceed into a tubular electrode in which the electrostatic field is...
4280623 Method and apparatus for controlling, orienting and analyzing biological cells in liquid suspension  
A liquid flow system contains suspended biological cells for the purpose of orienting them, spacing them from each other and analyzing the cells. Many biological cells are not of spherical shape...
4279345 High speed particle sorter using a field emission electrode  
The invention sorts small particles by subjecting them to a charging and motivating field produced by a single positively charged electrode. The magnitude of the charge placed on the particle...
4225427 Sorting apparatus for a stock suspension obtained from waste paper  
A sorting apparatus for a stock suspension obtained from waste paper, comprising a separation container having a free liquid surface for the separation of heavy weight particles and floating...
4221035 Apparatus for removal of plastic overwrap from reclaim tobacco  
The removal of so-called zip-tape from reclaim tobacco is achieved by use of an elongate vibratory conveyor having grooves extending longitudinally therewith and of longitudinal depth profile...
4190678 Method and apparatus for dewatering vegetables and the like  
A frame structure having a pre-dewatering unit fixedly mounted thereon and a final-dewatering and inspection table unit movably mounted thereon. The pre-dewatering unit includes a vertically...
4094772 Method of and apparatus for sorting light refuse fractions  
A light refuse fraction including flat pieces of different rip resistance, such as relatively rip-resistant synthetic-resin foils and textiles and less rip-resistant paper, is separated by first...
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