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US 2014/0110515 A1Published application
Slug bar for tub grinders
AssigneeJASE Corporation
InventorRichard A. Jackson
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Abstract
A tub grinder has a rotor with hammers that pass between adjacent slug bars. The slug bars have a riser bar portion disposed on the top of the slug bars, the riser bar portions extending vertically higher on one end of each respective slug bar than on the other end of each respective slug bar so that the hammers extend farther beyond the top of the riser bar and slug bar when they pass by first end than when they pass by the second end of the riser bar.
Claims4
1-6. (canceled)
Apparatus for use to form a portion of a grate in a tub grinder comprising:
- a slug bar adapted in use to be fixed with respect to a floor of a tub grinder, the slug bar having a top adapted to be disposed above the floor and a bottom adapted to be operatively rigidly affixed with respect to the floor of the tub grinder, the slug bar having a thickness measured between a first side and a second side, the slug bar further having a central portion thereof adapted to be disposed directly above an axis of rotation of a tub grinder rotor with hammers that can extend above the slug bar when the rotor is rotating, the slug bar, looking from one side thereof, having a first portion adapted to be disposed above the rotor to the left of the central portion and a second portion adapted to be disposed above the rotor to the right of the central portion;
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- wherein the distance between the top and bottom of the slug bar is greater on the first portion of the slug bar than on the second portion of the slug bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.