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Classifying, separating, and assorting solids December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/09

20090321327 - Wet garbage recycling: The Water Garbage Recycler is a system to recycle waste by using water as a medium to classify and extract waste material. Water causes lightweight materials to float to the surface where they are collected for processing. These materials are shredded and compacted in bales to be recycled. Likewise, heavier... Agent: Michaelanguelo-international Co.

20090321328 - Method and apparatus for screening: A screening machine includes wall members, screen assembly guide members, a screen assembly and a compression assembly. The screen assembly includes a frame with a plurality of side members and a screen supported by the frame. The compression assembly is attached to at least one wall member and forms the... Agent: Adams And Reese LLP

20090314690 - Electromagnetic separator and separation method of ferromagnetic materials: Electromagnetic separator comprising two or more solenoids (6, 7) arranged inside a rotatable drum (1) and connected to a continuous current power supply (8) for generating a magnetic field suitable for separating ferromagnetic parts, wherein said power supply (8) supplies a current being substantially constant in time. The invention also... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090314691 - Method and apparatus for monitoring the performance of automated egg removal: Methods and apparatus are provided that automatically determine whether or not eggs designated for removal from an egg carrier have been removed by an egg removal apparatus. Light is emitted along a path above and across an egg carrier as an egg picker moves to pick up an egg. The... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090314692 - Recovery of reprocessable medical devices in a sharps container: Reprocessable medical devices that have been disposed of in a sharps container are recovered, disinfected or sterilized, sorted, and packed for reprocessing in a generally continuous process. In one embodiment, either a sharps container or at least a portion of its contents is successively and controllably conveyed, either manually or... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090314693 - Self-propelled crushing machine: A self-propelled crushing machine is provided which ensures that, even when crushed pieces of an object include a concrete reinforcing steel bar or other like material piece, it is prevented that the concrete reinforcing steel bar will pierce into a conveyor belt. To this end, the crushing machine has a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20090314694 - Recovery of reusable medical devices in a sharps container: A recovery device and method of use to ensure that any reusable medical device that has been disposed of in a sharps container is recovered, cleaned, sterilized, and repackaged for reuse. In one embodiment, a sharps container and sorting surface are manipulated to rotate together and independently, so that the... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090308794 - Apparatus and method for removing unburned carbon from fly ash: An apparatus and a method for removing unburned carbon from fly ash capable of suppressing facility cost and stably conducting performance adjustment depending on property of the fly ash. The method comprises the steps of: adding water to fly ash to produce slurry; adding collector to the slurry, feeding the... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20090308795 - Laminated screens: A laminate screen for a vibratory separator, the screen including a product screen mesh layer having a plurality of wires. The screen further including a structural screen mesh layer having a plurality of wires secured to the product screen mesh layer with a thermoplastic polymer, wherein the structural screen mesh... Agent: Osha Liang/mi

20090301938 - Method of removing unburned carbon from coal ash: A method comprising; a step in which unburned carbon contained in coal ash is mechanically separated with a classifier; a step in which the coal ash from which part of the unburned carbon has been removed with the classifier is pulverized or disaggregated with a pulverizer; a step in which... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik

20090301939 - Apparatus and method for separating solids from a solids laden liquid: An apparatus and method for separating solids from a solids laden drilling mud (14), the method comprising the steps of introducing solids laden drilling mud to a first side of a screen (13), the drilling mud passing through the screen (13) and screened drilling mud located the other side of... Agent: National Oilwell Varco

20090301940 - Apparatus and method for grading and batching of articles: An apparatus for grading and batching of articles is proposed. The apparatus consists of an in-feed station for grading of the articles into multiple “quality classes”. The articles of each of the classes are weighted by one of multiple weighing means provided. The ability to attach multiple electronic tags or... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090301941 - Process and composition for froth flotation: A method for conducting froth flotation using a collector which is primarily hydrocarbon in nature or is a mixture of hydrocarbons with certain oxygenates, the collectors being substantially free of polynuclear aromatics, sulfur and nitrogen.... Agent: C. James Bushman

20090301942 - Method and apparatus for optimizing the separation of small particles using the asymmetric flow field flow fractionation method: A new type of asymmetric flow field flow fractionator, A4F, is described permitting improved sample fractionation means by providing a range of available channel lengths within the same A4F unit. With such an apparatus, samples may be optimally separated by performing such fractionations as a function of channel length. The... Agent: Wyatt Technology Coporation

20090301943 - Mud-screen using 3-layered sintered mesh: A screen for use in filtering drilling mud in a re-circulating system is provided by sintering multiple layers of metal cloth of graduated fineness, finest on top, to form a monolithic panel.... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090301945 - Screen module for vibratory screening apparatus: The invention provides a screen module for use on vibratory screening apparatus. The screen module includes: a panel frame having opposed side portions joined by opposed end portions, the end portions being configured for locating the panel frame between spaced panel support rails of the vibratory screening apparatus; at least... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC

20090301944 - Screen panel fastener and fastening arrangement: The invention provides a fastener (10) for a screen panel (20), the fastener including a base section (12) at least two outer engagement means (14) extending from opposite side zones of the base section, the two outer engagement means at least partially opposing one another; and at least one inner... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20090301946 - Device and method for storing and dispensing banknotes: An automatic device for storing and dispensing banknotes of a preset number of denominations comprising an inlet (12) for the banknotes, recognition means (13) for recognizing the denomination of the incoming banknotes, a plurality of LIFO roller magazines (14-16) for storing the banknotes, an outlet for the banknotes (18) ,... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090301947 - Processing shiny mail pieces: Methods, apparatus, software and systems are disclosed for improved processing of mailpieces in order to reduce expensive manual steps. Shiny mail, i.e., mailpieces having glossy surfaces that sometimes interfere with printing of barcodes and or ID Tags may lead to rejects. In some embodiments, shiny mailpieces are identified, and at... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090294333 - Centrifugal separator: Disclosed is a centrifugal separator with an inlet channel for a flow containing coarse and fine particles, a first outlet channel for a flow containing predominantly coarse particles, a second outlet channel for a flow containing predominantly fine particles and a separator chamber with at least one separator device, wherein... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090294334 - Woven wire screening and a method of forming the same: A woven wire screening for use in classifying material flowing therethrough and a method of forming the same. The woven wire screening includes a plurality of warp wires and a plurality of weft wires. The plurality of warp wires and the plurality of weft wires are interwoven to form an... Agent: Merek, Blackmon & Voorhees, LLC

20090294335 - Vibrating screen tensioning apparatus and method: A tensioning apparatus for tensioning a screen in a vibrating screen separator of the type having a box structure defined by two opposing spaced-apart upright side walls separated by at least one screen bed support structure. Included is an actuator support mounted to an exterior surface of a side wall... Agent: Law Offices William Forster

20090294336 - Fines separator and trap: A bag (600) comprises a storage region (630), a fines filter (635), and a fines trap (640). A plurality of chevron-like regions (620) that join the flat sides of the bag are spaced by a plurality of open regions (625). When a mixture of coarse (700) and fine (705) particles... Agent: Waleed Y. Jassim

20090294337 - Device for separating flat mail items: An apparatus for separating flat mail items includes two transport devices for transporting two independently mobile stacks of mail items to an extraction device for extracting mail items from both stacks of mail items and supplying the mail items to a transport run. A single-component extraction element of the extraction... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090294338 - System and method for validating mailings received: The present subject matter relates generally to techniques and/or equipment for validating mail items within a mail processing system. Sort scheme data and mail item identification data are loaded into the mail processing system. The mail item identification data includes a mail owner identification value and a unique mail item... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP