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US 8,282,029 B2Granted
System, method and apparatus for processing bone product
OwnerJeroen Maaren, Wynand Maaren +1inventors
InventorsJeroen Maaren, Wynand Maaren, Charles Booysen
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Abstract
The invention discloses a system for processing bone product comprising at least a mincer and a comminuter (10), a method to operate such a system and a comminuter (10) for use in such a system and method.
Claims18
A comminution apparatus for bone product configured to receive bone product and comminute it to a size of less than 0.1 mm, comprising:
- a pair of rigid rollers rotatably located with respect of each other to define a gap of between 0.02 mm to 0.4 mm,
- a drive counter rotationally driving the rollers to a relative rotational speed ratio of not greater than 2:1,
- at least one of the rollers having a surface with one or both of surface texturing and surface shaping applied to it, the surface shaping and surface texturing having a depth of at most 0.025 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.