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.

The disclosure discloses a cutterhead assembly of a branch grinder, including a cutterhead body, a center shaft disposed in a center of the cutterhead body and at least two installing shafts circumferentially distributed by using the center shaft as an axis, each of the at least two installing shafts is successively provided with a limiting plate, a first blade, a first bush, a second blade and a second bush from top to bottom, the first blade and the second blade are in clearance fit with a corresponding installing shaft in the at least two installing shafts, a center of the limiting plate is positioned at an upper end of the center shaft and a gap is kept between the limiting plate and an upper end of the first blade, an outer end of the limiting plate is stretched into the installing shafts and fixed, through the above installation, the first blade and the second blade can be completely rotated in 360 degrees relative to the installing shafts, in a circumferential rotating process of the blade, shredded wood can be taken out from the center of the cutterhead body, and a problem, that material blockage is caused to affect a cutting effect of the cutterhead assembly due to the material is stacked in the center of the cutterhead body 1, is avoided.

An automatic shutoff woodchipper having a blade for shredding material fed into the woodchipper, a motor to drive the blade, and a feed chute to direct material to the blade for shredding. An electronic sensor in the mouth of the feed chute sends an electronic proximity signal to an electronic controller when a signal device worn by an operator, detectable by the sensor, closes to within a predetermined distance from the sensor. Upon receiving the electronic proximity signal from the electronic sensor, the electronic controller generates an electronic shutoff signal that automatically halts the operation of the blade.

An orchard sanitation implement disposes of unharvested nuts which may otherwise be utilized as habitat and food for navel orangeworms. Unharvested nuts are lifted from the orchard floor and delivered to a storage bin of the implement. Once received within the storage bin, the unharvested nuts are separated from other orchard debris by a looping belt which allows unharvested nuts to fall through, but other orchard debris is conveyed outside of the storage bin for deposit either into a container or back to the orchard floor. The unharvested nuts fall through openings in the looping belt, through an outlet at the bottom of the storage bin and into a shredding unit attached to the outlet. The shredding unit shreds and pulverizes the unharvested nuts into a composition which is too small to be utilized by navel orangeworms for habitat or a source of food.

A flywheel and paddle assembly for a chipping or shredding apparatus, including a wood chipper, a brush chipper, and a leaf shredder. The assembly has a flywheel attached coaxially to a drive shaft. The flywheel has at least one aperture extending from the front side to the back side, and carries at least one knife adjacent to the at least one aperture. The knife presents a knife edge on the front side of the flywheel. A paddle is rotatably mounted coaxially to the drive shaft adjacent to the back side of the flywheel. The paddle is configured to rotate on the drive shaft independently of the flywheel. A chipping or shredding apparatus incorporating the aforesaid flywheel and paddle assembly is also disclosed.

A grinding machine for grinding herbs is provided, and can include a vertical-oriented vessel with a substantially horizontal separating screen disposed in the vessel, creating a grinding chamber above and a collecting chamber below. Rotating blades in the grinding chamber rotate above the screen where dried herbs placed in the grinding chamber are ground into smaller pieces by the rotating blade that can descend through openings disposed through the screen to accumulate in the collecting chamber. A lid enclosing the vessel can further include a feed chute for feeding dried herbs into the machine while it is operating.

A mobile chipper shredder includes a removable fin plate positioned within the rotor chamber. The removable fin plate includes a main body that has an arcuate shape and a plurality of fins that extend toward a rotor assembly from the main body. The fins are spaced on the main body so as to not interfere with paths of travel of a plurality free-swinging shredding hammers of the rotor assembly within the rotor chamber. The plurality of fins radially overlap at least one path of travel of the plurality of free-swinging shredding hammers.

A method of operating an apparatus for the comminution of a botanical feedstock wherein a blade that is positioned above a screen and the blade is rotated at a rate of rotation, wherein the trailing portion of the blade generates turbulence that induces upward movement of cut and partially cut feedstock from the upper surface of the screen to a plane of rotation of the cutting edge of the blade.

An organic material and plant vine chopper assembly has two plant vine chopper rotor drum assemblies that chop plant vines and other organic material. Each rotor drum assembly has a plurality of rotor rings each ring having a plurality of angled blades that effectively cooperate with each other to guard each blade and the drum against the wrapping of clogging fibrous strands and other clogging material around the drum. Each chopper rotor drum assembly incorporates a plurality of rotor rings spaced along and encircling and attached to a main drum tube and distributed in a cutting zone along and surrounding the longitudinal rotational axis of the drum tube with each rotor ring having a pair or a plurality of pairs of cutting blades attached to respective alternately angled mounting tabs that alternate to the left and to the right to the general plane of the rotor ring.

An apparatus for the comminution of a botanical feedstock includes a vessel, a screen positioned in the vessel above a first feedstock outlet and spaced from the top of the vessel, and a blade rotatably mounted above and generally parallel to the screen. The blade has a leading side, a trailing side, and a radial blade length. At least a portion of the leading side has a cutting edge and at least a portion of the trailing side has a downwardly extending trailing portion. The downwardly extending trailing portion has a lower edge having a plurality of discontinuities along a radial length of the trailing portion. The cutting edge is spaced from the upper surface of the screen by a first distance and a lowermost portion of the lower edge is spaced from the upper surface of the screen by a second distance.