Classifying, separating, and assorting solids inventions 02/08

20080047877 - Screening arrangement: A screening panel 10 comprises a peripheral frame 12 consisting of a pair of mutually laterally spaced side members 14, 16, which are integral with a pair of mutually axially spaced end members 18, 20. The side members 14, 16 and end members 18, 20 define corners of the panel... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080047878 - Method of processing and sorting aggregate material: A method of processing and sorting aggregate materials includes providing an aggregate material processing device which has aggregate material holding region having an opening over which may be pivotably and removably placed an aggregate material sorting device. The method involves causing the aggregate material processing device to engage with a... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20080047879 - Agricultural produce separator: Apparatus for separating agricultural produce from stones and clods including at least one generally cylindrical separation assembly arranged to be impinged upon by a mixture of agricultural produce and at least one of stones and clods, the at least one generally cylindrical separation assembly including a plurality of generally mutually... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080047880 - System and method for beneficiating ultra-fine raw coal with spiral concentrators: A system and method is provided for beneficiating, or “cleaning”, ultra-fine raw coal with spiral concentrators. The inventive system includes multiple pre- and post-classification systems to size the finer sized raw mineral to develop a pre-sized mineral fraction within a first size range (approximately 0.15 mm by 0.044 mm). The... Agent: Bryan H. Opalko, Esquire Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080041768 - Nozzle sorting apparatus and method: A sorting apparatus includes a nozzle, a light source, and a light receiver. The nozzle is positioned with respect to the light source and the light receiver such that light from the light source travels through holes defined by the nozzle and onto the light receiver, thereby to create a... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20080041769 - Pneumatic flotation column: The machine productivity for a foam product is increased by increasing the surface of the enlarged upper part of the cylinder housing and by reducing material intensity by optimizing the dimensions thereof. This is obtained by determining the diameter of the enlarged housing part in the known machine which contains... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080041770 - System and method for sequencing mail in delivery point order: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of using a multi-input sorting machine for sorting mail in delivery point order.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080041771 - Device for sorting out waste parts of workpieces processed on saws, preferably on optimizing cross-cut saws, and method using such devices: A device for sorting out waste parts of workpieces on saws has a saw having at least one saw blade for cutting workpieces into workpiece parts. At least one feed roller is arranged upstream of the saw in a transport direction of workpieces. At least one feed roller is arranged... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20080035532 - Automated high-throughput seed sample handling system and method: A method and apparatus for processing seed or seed samples includes an autonomous sorter which sorts seed by pre-programmed criteria. Optional features can include a counter to autonomously ensure the correct number of seeds to a seed package, a cleaning device, a sheller, and a label applicator. A conveyance path,... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C Attn: Pioneer Hi-bred

20080035533 - Screening module retaining member: A screening module retaining member 10 includes a body member 12 defining a passage 16. A retaining element 14 is displaceably arranged in the passage 16. The retaining element 14 is displaceable between a first, non-retaining position in which the retaining member is accessible from a first end of the... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080035535 - Apparatus and methods for processing mailpiece information in a mail processing device using sorter application software: Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for processing mailpiece information in a mail processing device using sorter application software. In one embodiment, a mail processing device uses the sorter application software to communicate with an identification code server. In this embodiment, different types of mail processing devices... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080035534 - Method of delivering a printed product to a binding or mailing line: A method of combining a plurality of mail streams into one mail stream, each piece of mail including a sequence code including providing a mailing line including a plurality of pockets, placing the plurality of mail streams into the plurality of pockets, one mail stream in each pocket, reading the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080029439 - Handheld waste scanning method: A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations each of which houses a number of disposable containers.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080029440 - Methods of separating ionized particles: Methods of separating ionized particles comprise the step of providing a particle separator comprising a housing, and an electric field disposed inside the housing. The electric field defines a magnitude E (volt/cm) which increases the farther ionized particles travel within the housing. The method further includes delivering a gas flow,... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP

20080029441 - Method for treating ground crude potassium salts that contain kieserite: The electrostatic separation of ground crude potassium salts containing kieserite is accomplished by mixing the ground crude potassium salt with a conditioning agent containing a combination of an aromatic carboxylic acid or its derivatives, an ammonium salt of an aromatic carboxylic acid, as well as an unbranched fatty alcohol having... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080029442 - Screen assembly for vibratory separator: A mount for a screen assembly, a screen assembly with such a mount, and a vibratory separator (e.g., a shale shaker) with such a screen assembly; the mount in certain aspects including a body with an inwardly projecting handle apparatus accessible when the screen assembly with such a mount is... Agent: Guy Mcclung # 114

20080029443 - Single vane slat: A single vane slat design for use in a sieve or chaffer of a harvester combine. The single vane slat has a weld pocket, preferably on its bottom surface, for receiving a wire on a frame. The single vane slat may be formed of a 26 gage material, and may... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20080029444 - Waste sorting method with decontamination: A system for disposing of medical waste is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of disposable containers according to applicable rules and regulations governing the handling and/or disposal of such items. In some embodiments, a system comprises sorting stations, each of which houses a number of disposable... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080029445 - Sorting system: A sorting system for separating metals from nonmetals in an automobile recycling process. The system includes a belt conveyor, a sensor assembly under the conveyor, a deflector assembly at the end of the conveyor, and a microprocessor for controlling the deflector assembly in response to the sensor assembly. The sensor... Agent: Warner Norcross & Judd LLP