Classifying, separating, and assorting solids inventions 07/07

20070170099 - 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 hopper wash... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20070170100 - Conveyor system for separating scrap components: This invention relates to the conveying of scrap material along a conveyor, such that when the material reaches the top of its transfer conveyor, as rising up from the shredder, most of the scrap material shredded will be of smaller size, and fall directly into a chute, bin, or onto... Agent: Paul M. Denk

20070163924 - Granular body-processing apparatus: A grain processor comprises a conveyor, air-suction means, and air-blowing means. The conveyor has a surface defining a conveying course on which grains are disposed, and the surface has holes smaller than the grains. The air above the surface is sucked downward through the holes by the air-suction means. The... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070163925 - Classifier for granular material: The present invention relates to a dynamic air classifier for the separation of granular and powdery materials into fractions of different grain sizes comprising a rotary cage, wherein: said classifier also comprises a recovery chamber for fine materials with a outlet bottom, said chamber being defined by a casing; said... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20070163926 - Method and device for separating solid particles on the basis of a difference in density: The invention relates to a method of separating solid particles, using a magnetic fluid, wherein the magnetic fluid is passed through a magnetic field for the purpose of changing the effective density of the magnetic fluid, and the particles are separated into fractions of different density. The present invention further... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070163927 - Vapor extracting and separator cleaning apparatus: Embodiments relate to an apparatus for separating solids from drilling fluid that includes a shaker having a screening surface onto which the fluid and solids are directed and a vibratory drive vibrating the screening surface. A cabinet includes a plurality of walls enclosing the shaker, a vapor extraction system for... Agent: Carter J. White Legal Department M-i L.L.C.

20070163928 - Rotary bar screen device: Provided is a rotary bar screen device. The device includes a driving motor, an up/down pair of driving and driven sprockets, left and right transfer chains, a plurality of screen buckets, a removal unit, and a slide plate. The driving motor is provided over a support frame, and transmits a... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070158242 - System and method for treating shredder residues and utilizing a produced fiber fraction: In a method for sorting shredder residues of metal-containing wastes, in particular of vehicle bodies, where the shredder residues are separated into a shredder light fraction and a non-ferromagnetic fraction) and a system for implementing the method, (a) a crude-fiber fraction being generated during the processing of the shredder light... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070158243 - Method and device for the separation of particles: The invention relates to a method of separating a particle fraction from a particle stream making use of gravitational force and which is performed in a fluid. This provides particle fractions that are collected in respective collecting means. According to the invention the fluid and the collecting means are moved... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070158244 - Method and apparatus for a vibrating screen aggregate separator: A vibrating screen aggregate separation device separates finer grained material from an aggregate material that may contain a wide variety of undesired materials. A mesh design associated with a vibrating screen contains perforations to allow smaller diameter material to pass through into a container that is situated below the screen.... Agent: Wallace, LLC

20070158245 - Sorting system using narrow-band electromagnetic radiation: A system for sorting articles includes a detector system having a plurality of narrow bandwidth sources of electromagnetic energy sequentially illuminating articles passing through the detector system, the detector system further including a collector for collecting electromagnetic energy reflected from the articles; a deflector for deflecting selected articles toward an... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070151903 - Handling system for recycling of packages: The present invention relates to a handling device for returnable packagings comprising a feeding device (A), having at least one inlet feed opening (16), a detection means (3) arranged in connection with said feeding device (A), for detection of at least one property of a returnable packaging present in the... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20070151904 - Method and system for sequentially ordering objects using a single pass delivery point process: A method and system using a single pass sequencer having a transport system for transporting the mail pieces to a transport system having a moveable carriage system and a stationary carriage system with a plurality of holders slidable between the moveable carriage system and the stationary carriage system. The plurality... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C