A material processing machine for reducing and colorizing waste material, said material processing machine comprising:
- a frame;
- an infeed system supported by said frame defining a material processing axis along a direction that the material is fed;
- a discharge system supported by said frame and spaced from said infeed system;
- a housing supported by said frame between said infeed and discharge systems with said housing defining a reducing chamber along said material processing axis, and with said reducing chamber in turn defining an inlet zone adapted to receive the waste material from said infeed system, and an outlet zone spaced from said inlet zone adapted to direct reduced, colored, waste material to said discharge system, and a transition zone between said inlet and outlet zones, and wherein said reducing chamber defines an upper recess extending across the inlet zone and the outlet zone;
- a rotor having a shaft rotatably supported by said frame within said reducing chamber with said shaft defining a longitudinal axis extending transverse to said material processing axis and also defining a vertical plane perpendicular to said material processing axis;
- wherein said transition zone defines a pair of transition planes parallel to said vertical plane with one of said transition planes separating said inlet zone from said transition zone, and the other of said transition planes separating said outline zone from said transition zone;
- wherein said shaft is disposed entirely within said transition zone between said transition planes;
- wherein said rotor intersects said transition planes to be partially disposed within said inlet, said transition, and said outlet zones for rotating during a material reducing operation, and;
- wherein said rotor has a plurality of processing tools adapted to reduce the waste material within said inlet zone and said transition zone during said material reducing operation;
- at least one screen coupled to said housing in said outlet zone with said screen separating said reducing chamber and said discharge system;
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- a colorizer system having a pump and a manifold, said manifold comprising an inlet in fluid communication with said pump for directing a colorant through said manifold, and said manifold mounted to said housing and entirely within said outlet zone and radially adjacent to said at least one screen around said longitudinal axis of said rotor and adjacent to said upper recess, said manifold comprising an elongate chamber and having openings arranged along a length of said elongate chamber and oriented to direct the colorant directly onto said rotor within said outlet zone such that rotation in an operating direction rotates said rotor through said transition zone with the colorant disposed thereon, and provides for substantially contemporaneous reducing of the waste material within said inlet zone and said transition zone and colorizing of the waste material within at least said inlet zone with the colorized, reduced waste material passing through said at least one screen to said discharge system.