Process and means for disintegrating compressed material bales
Assigneemst-Maschinenbau GmbH
InventorsJoachim Meyer, Frank Stöver
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for disintegrating compressed bales of coarse, fiberlike, natural or synthetic materials, especially straw bales, and transporting the disintegrated materials to further processing. Bales often contain foreign objects which the invention removes from disintegrated bale material by moving the material disintegrated from the compressed bales to a feeding and collecting auger and sucking off the portions of natural or synthetic fiber intended for further processing from the feeding and collecting auger, while the contaminants collected are moved on by the feeding and collecting auger and discharged.
Claims15
A process for disintegrating compressed bales of material comprising:
- a bale disintegration station having a conveyor;
- a material separation station;
- a bale disintegration device disposed to receive a bale from said conveyor and to feed disintegrated material and foreign objects to said material separation station;
- a suction system disposed in relation to said material separation station to remove disintegrated material from said material separation station and transport the disintegrated material through a material outlet;
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- an auger disposed in relation to said material separation station such that foreign objects are transported to a contaminate outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.