B29B 17/04
Disintegrating plastics
Official title: Disintegrating plastics, {e.g. by milling}(B29B9/02, B29B11/02, B29B13/10, {B29B17/02} take precedence)
B29B17/04 (Disintegrating plastics) appears on 1,237 US grants and 1,473 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29B- Granted patents
- 1,237
- Published applications
- 1,473
- Assignees
- 934
- Inventors
- 3,272
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 11 | 0 |
| 1977 | 11 | 0 |
| 1978 | 12 | 0 |
| 1979 | 9 | 0 |
| 1980 | 10 | 0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 9 | 0 |
| 1984 | 10 | 0 |
| 1985 | 6 | 0 |
| 1986 | 11 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 6 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
| 1992 | 15 | 0 |
| 1993 | 21 | 0 |
| 1994 | 25 | 0 |
| 1995 | 17 | 0 |
| 1996 | 28 | 0 |
| 1997 | 23 | 0 |
| 1998 | 26 | 0 |
| 1999 | 29 | 0 |
| 2000 | 28 | 0 |
| 2001 | 29 | 9 |
| 2002 | 30 | 39 |
| 2003 | 33 | 35 |
| 2004 | 30 | 51 |
| 2005 | 23 | 42 |
| 2006 | 26 | 42 |
| 2007 | 24 | 36 |
| 2008 | 16 | 30 |
| 2009 | 16 | 44 |
| 2010 | 24 | 31 |
| 2011 | 25 | 42 |
| 2012 | 26 | 32 |
| 2013 | 23 | 35 |
| 2014 | 25 | 46 |
| 2015 | 30 | 41 |
| 2016 | 25 | 28 |
| 2017 | 39 | 46 |
| 2018 | 24 | 37 |
| 2019 | 40 | 56 |
| 2020 | 34 | 61 |
| 2021 | 38 | 80 |
| 2022 | 47 | 119 |
| 2023 | 54 | 124 |
| 2024 | 71 | 142 |
| 2025 | 77 | 128 |
| 2026 | 68 | 97 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for manufacturing polyester film having laminated structure29 Sep 2026US 12,747,326 B2Nan Ya Plastics Corporation
- Combined washing/delamination process for multilayer film-containing recycling streams29 Sep 2026US 12,747,331 B2Borealis AG
- System for demolition of blade of wind turbine and related method22 Sep 2026US 12,741,303 B2J.H. Fletcher & Co.
- Chip made from recycled composite material and production method thereof22 Sep 2026US 12,741,401 B2Fairmat
- System and process for converting waste plastic into a usable product22 Sep 2026US 12,742,052 B2
- Support element for the human body comprising a recycled material and method for its production8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307752 A1Selle Royal Group S.P.A.
- Recycling waste air filtration waste to make glass-reinforced thermoplastic composites1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295910 A1Johns Manville
- Recovering polymer from three-dimensional printed objects1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297282 A1Peridot Print LLC
- Method for producing granulated material for chemical recycling, and granulated material for chemical recycling24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284935 A1
- Methods and systems for lactic acid production and polylactic acid recycling24 Sep 2026US 2026/0286401 A1TripleW Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Carpet and techniques for making and recycling same113US 5,240,530 ATennessee Valley Performance Products, Inc. · 1993
- Process for reclaiming thermally strained polyester scrap material95US 5,225,130 AHoechst Aktiengesellschaft · 1993
- Process for manufacturing finished and semi-finished products from mixtures of various synthetic resin scrap materials94US 4,250,222 AInstitut National de Recherche Chimique Appliquee · 1981
- Process for recovering carbon black and hydrocarbons from used tires91US 4,284,616 AIntenco, Inc. · 1981
- Apparatus and methods for pulverizing materials into small particles91US 6,227,473 B1C. A. Arnold & Associates, Inc. · 2001