Apparatus for comminuting waste materials
CA 1280393 C · Owner: Roberts, Clive J. · Inventors: Doornink, John R.; Roberts, Clive J.; Irwin, Jere F.
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An apparatus for comminuting waste material such as waste plastic sheet material, into progressively smaller pieces until a desired size is reached that may be recycled. The apparatus has a set of slowly rotating, intermeshing scissor rolls for receiving the waste material and shearing the material into smaller pieces. A paddle wheel conveyor receives the smaller pieces from the scissor rolls and moves the smaller pieces over a screen with the undersized smaller pieces passing through the screen defining the desired reduced size. The oversized smaller pieces that do not pass through the screen are reprocessed back to the scissor rolls by the paddle wheel conveyor. A vacuum pump draws air …
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- Granted February 19, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended February 19, 2008.
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