Media Screening Devices for Capturing Media during a Deburring Process

A method for screening deburring media during deburring of a hardware part, comprising:

• introducing media slurry into a deburring machine;
• introducing a media screening device into the deburring media slurry, the media screening device freely movable within the deburring media slurry to define a dynamic zone of capture;
• and
• operating the deburring machine to move the media screening device about the deburring media slurry, thereby facilitating capture of noncompliant media in the media screening device.

A media screening device operable with a deburring machine, comprising;

• a housing comprising at least one wall defining an inner chamber, and configured to be freely movable about a deburring media slurry of a deburring machine;
• a plurality of openings disposed through the at least one wall, each opening comprises an outer opening area and an inner opening area, wherein the outer opening area is sized larger than the inner opening area, and wherein the inner opening area is sized to restrict compliant deburring media from passing through the inner opening area opening, and sized to permit noncompliant deburring media to pass through the inner opening area, thereby capturing the noncompliant deburring media within the inner chamber;
• and
• at least one removable housing enclosure removably coupled to the housing to facilitate removal of captured noncompliant deburring media.