Cutting – With means to convey work relative to tool station – Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement
Patent
1998-07-14
2000-05-09
Rachuba, M.
Cutting
With means to convey work relative to tool station
Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement
241166, 241236, B23D 1906
Patent
active
060588225
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates generally to material treatment industries, particularly recycling and waste disposal industries. In particular the present invention relates to apparatus, appliances and assemblies that may be used to cut, crush, pulverise, comminute or otherwise reduce in size materials, particularly waste or scrap materials, so as to convert the waste or scrap materials into a size which is more useable or useful, such as for example, for use in further processing in the manufacture of goods or for more efficient or advantageous final disposal of the waste or scrap material. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to an apparatus, appliance, assembly or installation equipped with a cutting means having one or more cutting elements and/or provided with cutting assemblies for reducing the size of materials. The cutting means and/or assemblies including the cutting elements of the present invention cooperate with each other to reduce the size of the material and may be used in a variety of applications to cut or otherwise reduce in size a wide variety of different materials. One particular application relates to reducing the size of scrap materials, such as for example, tires or scrap iron or metals for subsequent recycling into other useful products. Another application is to recycle domestic or industrial waste by considerably reducing the size of the waste material to small sized particles which can then be readily reused or disposed of.
Although the present invention will be described with particular reference to an installation for reducing the size of tires, scrap metal, domestic rubbish and the like, comprising a plurality of cooperatively engaging cutting elements optionally with other accessories or attachments, such as for example anti-wrap bars or similar, it is to be noted that the present invention is not limited in scope to this embodiment but rather it is more extensive in scope so as to include other arrangements and installations of the cutting apparatus, to other forms of the cutting elements and accessories or attachments and to uses of the apparatus and elements in other applications in respect of a wide variety of different materials.
As time goes by more and more concern is being expressed over the rate of consumption of raw materials and over the rate at which waste materials are being generated. In particular, great concern is being expressed over the amount of and the nature of waste materials which are being disposed of due to the manifold adverse effects that such disposal has on the environment. The concern has even gone so far that fear has been expressed that at some time in the not too distant future there may be serious shortages of one or other raw materials and that the adverse effects on the environment of the disposal of waste materials may be so great so as to permanently damage the environment. Serious environmental damage can arise through the careless disposal of waste or scrap materials in a form which cannot be readily degraded or converted into a more beneficial or useful form. Therefore, if it were possible to recycle more materials or to render the potentially polluting materials into a more benign or inert form prior to disposal, not only would the consumption of raw materials be reduced in the first instance but there would be less waste or scrap materials requiring disposal and accordingly there would be less harmful effects on the environment.
Therefore, it is an aim of the present invention to at least alleviate the adverse effects on the environment due to the disposal of waste materials by converting the waste materials into a form which causes less harm to the environment and which may be more readily disposed of and which may be recycled in greater quantities. The present invention sets out to achieve this aim by providing an apparatus having a cutting assembly provided with one or more cutting elements or similar arrangement that can be used to recycle materials or convert materials into a form which is more useful or useable
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Rachuba M.
Vaughn T. Anthony
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