Processor for chipping and shredding vegetatation
OwnerAldo Vandermolen, Terry Rhodesinventors
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Abstract
A processor can chip and shred vegetation, including wood and one or more of various other materials, such as agricultural products, yard and garden debris or forestry brush and waste. The processor includes a housing having a hopper opening. A rotor is rotatably mounted in the housing. A driver such as a motor or drive shaft is adapted to drive the rotor. Cutters are mounted on the rotor to swing past the hopper opening. A hopper is mounted at the hopper opening on the housing for feeding material toward and past the cutters. The processor is structured to process wood having a rated diameter but the hopper opening is sized to accept various other materials in amounts exceeding the rated diameter.
Claims53
A processor for chipping and shredding vegetation including wood and one or more of various other materials such as agricultural products, yard and garden debris, or forestry brush and waste, said processor comprising:
- a housing having a hopper opening;
- a rotor rotatably mounted in said housing and having an entry face and a discharge face, said hopper opening facing said entry face of said rotor, said housing having a wall facing said discharge face of said rotor and shaped to block external air from mixing with incoming airflow from said hopper opening;
- at least one flail mounted to articulate on said discharge face of said rotor;
- a drive means adapted to drive said rotor;
- a cutter mounted on said rotor to swing past said hopper opening;
- a hopper mounted at said hopper opening on said housing for feeding said material toward and past said cutter, said drive means and said rotor being sized to process solid wood having a maximum rated diameter, said hopper opening being sized to accept one or more of said various other materials in amounts exceeding said maximum rated diameter.
A processor for chipping and shredding vegetation including wood and one or more of various other materials such as agricultural products, yard and garden debris, or forestry brush and waste, said processor comprising:
- a housing having a hopper opening with, at least partially, a polygonal border having one interior obtuse angle;
- a rotor rotatably mounted in said housing, said hopper opening having a lower edge aligned radially with respect to rotation of said rotor;
- drive means adapted to drive said rotor;
- a cutter mounted on said rotor to swing past said opening;
- a stationary bar mounted at said lower edge of said hopper opening for interacting with passage of said cutter;
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- a hopper mounted at said hopper opening on said housing for feeding said material toward and past said cutter.
A processor for chipping and shredding vegetation including wood and one or more of various other materials such as agricultural products, yard and garden debris, or forestry brush and waste, said processor comprising:
- a housing having a hopper opening with, at least partially, a polygonal border having one interior obtuse angle, said housing including a pair of complementary shells shaped to abut side by side along a joint, one of said shells having an acutely angled edge along said joint, the other one of said shells being larger and supporting said hopper;
- a rotor rotatably mounted in said housing;
- drive means adapted to drive said rotor;
- a cutter mounted on said rotor to swing past said opening;
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- a hopper mounted at said hopper opening on said housing for feeding said material toward and past said cutter.
A processor for chipping and shredding vegetation including wood and one or more of various other materials such as agricultural products, yard and garden debris, or forestry brush and waste, said processor comprising:
- a housing having a hopper opening with, at least partially, a polygonal border having one interior obtuse angle;
- a rotor rotatably mounted in said housing;
- drive means adapted to drive said rotor;
- a cutter mounted on said rotor to swing past said opening;
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- a hopper mounted at said hopper opening on said housing for feeding said material toward and past said cutter, said hopper including (a) a front wall distal said housing, and (b) a rear wall proximal said housing, and substantially narrower than said front wall.
A processor for chipping and shredding vegetation including wood and one or more of various other materials such as agricultural products, yard and garden debris, or forestry brush and waste, said processor comprising:
- a housing having a hopper opening with, at least partially, a polygonal border having one interior obtuse angle;
- a rotor rotatably mounted in said housing;
- drive means adapted to drive said rotor;
- a cutter mounted on said rotor to swing past said opening;
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- a hopper mounted at said hopper opening on said housing for feeding said material toward and past said cutter, said housing having a vacuum port concentric with said rotor on a side opposite said hopper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.