A system for comminuting solid waste material including a casing defining a comminution chamber having two side walls and adapted for connection in a solid waste disposal channel. The system includes a first shredding device and a second shredding device disposed along a line extending perpendicular to a flow direction in the channel to faun a pair of interactive shredding members. A rotating screening drum disposed within the casing upstream of the first and second shredding devices and positioned between the first and second shredding devices, the rotating screening drum configured to permit fluid to pass therethrough and to move solids toward one of the shredding devices. The rotating screening drum is configured to rotate clockwise and counter clockwise to alternately distribute solids captured thereon to one of the first and second shredding devices.

Grinding apparatus for grinding substances, such as tobacco. In certain embodiments, grinding apparatus with a plurality of receptacles which can be selectively filled with a ground product, such as tobacco. In still other embodiments, a grinding apparatus with a cone lifting mechanism, vibration inducing mechanism and/or with a selector capability or mechanism for selecting one or more of a plurality of receptacles, or storage area(s), for delivery of a ground product.

An accumulation device that is operable in a feeding arrangement of a granulator, for accumulating flat material to be granulated, includes a first guiding device and a second guiding device. The accumulation device further includes a rotational shaft arranged to connect the accumulation device to the feeding arrangement. The first and the second guiding device are fixedly arranged in relation to each other so that when the accumulation device is rotated around its rotational shaft, the first guiding device as well as the second guiding device is rotated around the rotational shaft. A feeding arrangement and a granulator including such an accumulator device are also provided.

An automatic paper shredder with a staple removing structure and a staple removing method using the same. The automatic paper shredder includes a shredder cover, a paper holding box, a shell, a paper holding plate, a paper inlet, a paper shredding component, a drive motor, a paper pick-up component, a paper pressing plate, a straight through-hole, a waste paper bin and a staple removing component. The automatic paper shredder removes a staple (or clip) on a stack of paper through cooperation with a paper shredding structure. Paper can be automatically picked up in batches. Meanwhile, damage caused by staples to the whole shredder is prevented, and thus, the whole shredder is protected in use and has a longer service life.

A manufacturing method for a granulated body includes supplying powder agitated by a dry agitator to a wet agitator, and agitating the powder supplied from the dry agitator with a liquid component in the wet agitator by rotating blades that have inclined surfaces, so as to form a granulated body. The blades are rotated when the powder is supplied to the wet agitator from the dry agitator. The dry agitator agitates the powder in a dry state, and the wet agitator is positioned below the dry agitator. The wet agitator includes an agitation chamber and the blades rotating around a center axis orthogonal to a direction in which the powder is supplied.

In one embodiment, a hydroseeder has an integrated bale grinder. The hydroseeder includes a tank, an agitator, a plurality of grinding flights, and a basket. The tank includes an opening and is configured to hold a material slurry. The agitator is positioned below the opening and is configured to agitate the material slurry. The plurality of grinding flights extends from the agitator and is configured to grind a material bale as it is introduced into the tank. The basket extends from the opening of the tank and is configured to direct the material bale toward the plurality of grinding flights.

A shredding rotor rotatably coupled to a support frame is configured to remove plant leaves from plant stems fed into an aperture in the support frame. The shredding rotor includes many flexible shredding strands attached to a rotor axle. The shredding strands are sufficiently flexible to strip leaves from all sides of the stems without breaking the stems into pieces. Shredding strands are spaced far enough apart from one another to prevent plant material from becoming lodged between the strands. A destemming and shredding apparatus including two shredding rotors separates an incoming stream of plant materials into an output stream of shredded leaves and another output stream of essentially intact stems. A shredding apparatus having no more than one shredding rotor receives destemmed leaves at an inlet aperture and outputs shredded leaf fragments.

Method and apparatus (100) for transforming organic and inorganic solid urban waste into aggregates, comprising an extruding machine connected to a reactor. The extruding machine is formed by an extrusion cylinder (103) through which a piston circulates (104) inside an extrusion cavity (106), which comprises three sections (107, 110, 111) and is fed with a parget obtained after pre-processing the waste. The end (115) of the third section (111) is connected to the reactor (112) through an opening (114). The reactor's longitudinal shaft is formed by a rotatory steel shaft (116) in which some steel blades are arranged (108), whose ends play the roles of cutting, hammering, punching and hydraulic helix as they rotate. Between the end of the blades and the wall of the reactor, there is a clearance of more than 0.1 mm of thickness. The reactor has a discharge valve (300) to discharge the parget present in the boundary area through some openings (304), once it has been processed by a series of pressure, vibration energy and decompression cycles.

Method and apparatus (100) for transforming organic and inorganic solid urban waste into aggregates, comprising an extruding machine connected to a reactor. The extruding machine is formed by an extrusion cylinder (103) through which a piston circulates (104) inside an extrusion cavity (106), which comprises three sections (107, 110, 111) and is fed with a parget obtained after pre-processing the waste. The end (115) of the third section (111) is connected to the reactor (112) through an opening (114). The reactor's longitudinal shaft is formed by a rotatory steel shaft (116) in which some steel blades are arranged (108), whose ends play the roles of cutting, hammering, punching and hydraulic helix as they rotate. Between the end of the blades and the wall of the reactor, there is a clearance of more than 0.1 mm of thickness. The reactor has a discharge valve (300) to discharge the parget present in the boundary area through some openings (304), once it has been processed by a series of pressure, vibration energy and decompression cycles.

A viscous food product dispensing system having a transport section for receiving a particulate food product from a bin, an auger for processing and conveying the received particulate food product from the transport section into an outlet adapter via one or more flutes, a milling device housed in the outlet adapter, and a discharge nozzle in the outlet adapter that pinches off the viscous food product created by the milling device. The auger has a unique design that allows it to engage and break whole nuts.