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US 5,941,467 AGranted
System and method for reducing material
OwnerMatthew J. McArdle, Robert A. Paulinventors
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Abstract
A pulverizing system for reducing the size of material including a body, a pair of rotating members at least partially disposed within said body, and at least one impeller arm attached to each of said rotating members. The impeller arm attached to one of the rotating member throws material into a substantially head-on collision with material thrown by the impeller arm attached to the other rotating member.
Claims9
A pulverizing system for reducing the size of material comprising:
- a body;
- a pair of rotating shafts partially disposed in parallel within said body;
- a pair of rotors attached to each of said shafts;
- a plurality of graduated baffles extending from said body and defining a plurality of channels therebetween;
- and
- a plurality of impeller arms fixedly attached to each of said rotors in a helical pattern and aligned with said channels;
- wherein at least one of the plurality of impeller arms attached to one of said pair of rotors throws material into a substantially head-on collision with material thrown by at least one of the plurality of impeller arms attached to the other of said pair of rotors.
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A pulverizing system for reducing the size of material comprising:
- a body having a substantially flat top, an inlet, a pair of exit ports, a rounded first side, a rounded second side, and a bottom including two semi-circular portions joined by a center wall;
- a pair of rotating shafts partially disposed within said body;
- a cylindrical hollow rotor attached to each of said shafts;
- a plurality of non-interdigitating impeller arms attached to each of said rotors in a helical pattern;
- a plurality of graduated baffles extending from said body, said graduated baffles including a first graduated baffle proximate said inlet and a second graduated baffle disposed between said first graduated baffle and said pairs of exit ports, wherein the height of said second baffle is greater that the height of said first baffle, and wherein each of said baffles include at least on slot sized to allow particles of a predetermined size to pass though said baffle;
- wherein said impeller arms are arranged to travel in channels formed between said graduated baffles;
- wherein said impeller arms throw the material into collision with material thrown by opposing arms to produce crushed material;
- an input flow inducer located between said inlet and said first graduated baffle, and configured to direct the material towards said rotors;
- a discharge baffle which directs said crushed material out of said body;
- a fan located proximate said exit ports which draws said crushed material from said body;
- a plurality of feet supporting said body;
- and
- a plurality of injection nozzles secured to said body.
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A method of reducing material comprising the steps of:
- (1) dumping material of a first size into a first channel;
- (2) throwing said material into a substantially head-on collision with like material with rotating impeller arms to create material of a second size;
- (3) moving said second sized material to a subsequent channel;
- (4) throwing said second sized material into a substantially head-on collision with like material with rotating impeller arms to create material of a third size;
- (5) repeating steps (3) and (4) until a material of a predetermined size is created;
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- (6) removing said material of a predetermined size.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.