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US 6,659,025 B2Granted
Tire recycling process
OwnerZhian Yuinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a rubber tire recycling process that does not require the inefficient procedure of cutting and shredding the rubber tires. The entire rubber tire enters the recycling process without ever being cut thereby maintains the integrity of the steel wires within the steel belted rubber tires. The present invention allows virtually every component of the rubber tire to be recycled and results in high quality recycled end products that include, among others, full strands of steel wires and high grade rubber.
Claims4
A tire recycling process comprising the steps of:
- delivering a rubber tire into a first chamber with partial vacuum;
- transporting the rubber tire into a second chamber filled with a pressurized oxygen-free gas;
- compressing the rubber tire by mechanical means to remove all the remaining gas within the hollow exposed area within the rubber tire;
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- delivering the compressed rubber tire into a pyrolysis tire recycling process;
- wherein the tire is not cut and the integrity of the steel wires within steel belted rubber tires are maintained and full strands of steel wires may be recovered and the recovery of rubber is possible.
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