Method and apparatus for separating adhered paper from paper-covered gypsum board

Abstract

A method and apparatus for separating adhered paper from paper-covered gypsum board, involving passing the gypsum board past a magnet to automatically remove ferrous materials from the gypsum board without stopping the process/apparatus, pulverizing that gypsum board into a screenable mixture of pieces of paper and smaller separated gypsum board particles, and then screening that mixture and segregating the pieces of paper from the gypsum board particles. This method and apparatus may optionally also include an area for manually pre-sorting and removing non-gypsum materials from the gypsum board prior to pulverization, may optionally also include additional screening steps, and may optionally also include passing the screened and segregated gypsum board particles past a second magnet. The magnets may have self-cleaning belts.

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