Material processing machine with a colorizer system and methods of reducing and colorizing waste material

A material processing machine for reducing and colorizing waste material, said material processing machine comprising:

• a frame;
• an infeed system supported by said frame;
• 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, 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;
• a rotor rotatably supported by said frame within said reducing chamber with said rotor partially disposed within both said inlet and outlet zones for rotating during a material reducing operation, and said rotor having a plurality of processing tools adapted to reduce the waste material within at least said inlet zone during said material reducing operation;
• a colorizer system comprising a screen, a pump, and a manifold;
• said screen coupled to said housing in said outlet zone with said screen separating said reducing chamber and said discharge system and said screen having a plurality of apertures;
• said manifold comprising an inlet in fluid communication with said pump for directing a colorant through said manifold;
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• said manifold disposed adjacent to said screen and said manifold having a plurality of orifices aligned with at least a portion of said plurality of apertures for directing the colorant through said screen in a direction of said processing tools within said outlet zone such that rotation of said rotor and said processing tools, with the colorant disposed thereon, provides for substantially contemporaneous reducing of the waste material within said inlet zone and colorizing of the waste material within at least said inlet zone.