Cremated remains processor
AssigneeNo Flame Process, Inc.
InventorDanny Franklin Williford
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Abstract
Apparatus for processing cremated remains. A hollow drum is mounted for rotation within a housing with an open end of the drum positioned in register with the discharge opening of a detachable loading funnel. A plurality of elongate rods carried within the drum are constrained at their opposite ends by channels so as to undergo relative movement with the inner periphery of the drum. The rod diameters are sized so that they tumble one over the other as the drum rotates for reducing fragments of the cremated remains which are charged into the drum through the loading funnel. The reduced remains drop through apertures in the drum into a discharge funnel and ash pan where they are collected for subsequent removal.
Claims8
Apparatus for reducing cremated remains including the combination of a housing having an entry opening for receiving a charge of the remains, a hollow reducing drum mounted for rotation about is longitudinal axis within the housing, said drum including an outer cylindrical shell formed with a plurality of apertures sized for passing fragments of the remains below a predetermined size, the shell further including an end opening positioned in register with the entry opening of the housing for receiving the charge of remains, means for rotating the drum about its longitudinal axis, a plurality of elongate rods carried within the drum, at least certain of the rods having disparate diameters, means for constraining the rods for relative movement about the inner periphery of the drum whereby the rods are caused to react with the rotating shell of the drum and tumble one over the other for progressively reducing the remains to a size for passing through the apertures, and means for collecting the remains which pass through the apertures.
Cremated remains processing apparatus comprising a drum having a cylindrical wall formed with a plurality of apertures, said apertures being sized for passing cremated remains fragments which are smaller than a predetermined size, one end of said drum being formed with an entry opening for receiving a charge of cremated remains, means forming annular flanges about opposite ends of the drum with the flanges projecting inwardly of the drum ends in spaced-apart relationship with the cylindrical wall to form channels therewith, a plurality of elongate cylindrical rods mounted within the drum with their opposite ends supported for relative movement within the channels, at least a pair of the rods being of disparate diameters whereby reaction of the rods with the cylindrical wall during rotation of the drum causes the rods to disparate diameters to rotate at different rates and tumble one over the other for reducing the cremated remains, means for rotating the drum, and collection means mounted below the drum for collecting the remains which pass through the apertures.
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