Abstract:
This invention relates to a flat stroke sifter screen unit having the entire vibratory drive system mounted at the inlet end of the unit including drive springs, input motor (or vibratory excitor) and counterbalance, all located at this end of the screening unit. The outlet end of the unit is free of any bearings, or wheels, or rods, or the like and the entire unit is supported on isolation springs which may be steel coils for a fully free floating mounting.
Abstract:
This invention provides novel mechanical work generating means. Basically, the novel mechanical work generating means provided by the present invention comprise: first means for mechanically generating a heat component of work; second means, mechanically interconnected to the first means, for mechanically generating a non-heat component of work; and third means, mechanically interconnected to the first and second means, for combining the heat and non-heat components of work into a resultant mechanical work output.
Abstract:
This invention provides novel apparatus for accelerating the emptying of railroad hopper cars and the like. The invention comprises: a rigid frame fixedly mountable through a base to a pair of generally horizontally-spaced-apart rails upon which the wheels of a railroad hopper car can be movably supported, with the frame including an upright section from which there generally horizontally extends towards the rails a hollow spool connected to a vented source of pressurized fluid; and an excitor connected to the spool through an inflatable yieldably resilient sleeve that performs dual functions of moving the excitor generally horizontally with respect to the frame into and out of contact with a side of the hopper car and also vibration isolating the excitor from the frame. The novel apparatus further includes a stabilizer mechanism connected between the excitor and frame for multi-directional movement relative thereto, with the frame including a second section which is vertically spaced apart from the spool and extends generally horizontally from the upright section of the frame toward the rails and with the stabilizer mechanism comprising a rigid link connected at each of its opposite ends between the second section of the frame and the excitor through a vibration isolating member having a rigid central portion and hollow end portions at opposite ends thereof, each of which is lined with a yieldably resilient material and has a central bore that is offset by substantially a right angle from that of the other.
Abstract:
A circular vibratory conveying apparatus for conveying material. The apparatus includes a bed on which material is conveyed, a counterbalance supported on a plurality of isolation springs, a plurality of inclined drive springs extending between the bed and the counterbalance, and a plurality of stabilizers for controlling movement of the drive springs along their central axes. Three or more vibratory motors, each having rotatable eccentric weights, are attached to the counterbalance. The eccentric weights rotate in phase with one another to rotationally vibrate the bed at a vibration frequency.
Abstract:
This invention provides an improvement in a vibratory conveyor of the type including an elongate utilized container, which can be vibrated as a free mass at a selected frequency and stroke by drive means, such as a motor having weights eccentrically mounted on its output shaft, and which container is interconnected by yieldable means to elongate counterbalance means located opposite one long side of the container and with the stroke axis of the container being inclined with respect to the long central axis of the container. Basically, the improvement of the present invention is that the counterbalance means is comprised of plural counterbalance sections which are longitudinally arranged generally parallel to the long central axis of the container. Preferably, the plural counterbalance sections are interconnected to one another by connector means that are generally rigid in a direction perpendicular to the stroke axis of the container so as to inhibit relative movement between the counterbalance sections in that direction but are also constructed so as to permit relative movement between the counterbalance sections in a direction parallel to the stroke axis of the container. The improvement of the present invention is particularly beneficial wherein the unitized container has a length of greater than thirty feet.
Abstract:
A storage bin arrangement especially suited for receiving, storing and discharging, in accordance with a combination of induced vertical flow and impelled retrieving concepts, bulk solid materials, in one embodiment of which essentially the entire bin itself is arranged for responding to a circular conveying type vibratory helical stroke movement generated by a pair of electric motors secured to the opposite sides of the bin in oppositely oriented positions to dispose their respective driving shafts at opposite, typically, 45 degree angulations with respect to the horizontal, and with each such motor shaft driving a pair of eccentrically oriented weights, with the bin having a low profile bottom section equipped with one or more off center located, vertically oriented, vertically rectilinear, discharge chute arrangements and having one or more internally applied baffles, either of inverted cone type or one or more rows or levels of internally applied centerless, radial, sidewall mounted type, in spaced relation, above the bin low profile bottom section, and in a second embodiment, a bin actuator having the features indicated above that is mounted below a large discharge opening in a conventional stationary bin, while responding to the same type of helical vibration to effect both types of material discharge from the bin free of excess beadroom; either embodiment can also eliminate vertical space consuming pant leg type discharge chutes, and provide for optional divided flow of the bulk solid materials therefrom.
Abstract:
The apparatus and method are improvements over the refuse derived fuel (RDF) handling system disclosed in applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 4,774,893, in which the activated bins are equipped with centerless baffles made up of a plurality of stub type internal baffles affixed cantilever fashion to the bin side walls at predetermined levels downwardly of the bin, with the baffles having increased length as the levels of same approach the bin discharge outlet, that avoid the formation of vertical bridges building up from the top baffle through the bin inlet to clog and feed of the RDF to the respective bins, the use of cycle type operation or pulsing for the vibrating feeder drives on start up of the system to eliminate vertical bridging up from the feeder trough into and through the activated bins supplying same and insure the steady low feed rate required while the power plant furnaces involved are brought up to temperate, and to provide the system vibrating feeders with an inclined ramp type obstruction upstream but adjacent the feeder trough RDF discharge outlet to the furnace fuel feed chute serviced by same to insure that the RDF supplied to the furnace feed chute was conveyed solely by vibration, whereby the tendency of some furnace fire chambers to operate at negative pressure, which can result in the loss of control of the discharge rate of the feeder servicing same, is not a factor in the supply of the RDF to the furnace fire chamber.
Abstract:
A system for handling refuse derived fuel (RDF) devised to make RDF fired power plants practical, that includes a method and apparatus for receiving, storing and discharging, distributing and feeding RDF at the plant that accepts such material for fuel, which has been shredded to a predetermined nominal size and usually has most of the ferrous metals removed therefrom, which system includes a relatively large activated bin for primary surge capacity purposes that initially receives and stores the RDF, to provide a binned quantity of same from which as continuous flow of the RDF can be generated that will result in a pulsation free, steady supply of RDF to the plant furnace or furnaces, for firing the power plant involved, with one or more trains located adjacent the locale of the plant furnace to be fired, each of which includes several metering activated bins that are actuated to supply an underlying vibrating feeder that conveys the RDF to the furnace fuel chute, with the activated metering bins of each train being supplied from by one, or parallel, vibrating conveyors. For some trains, two metering bins can be provided for redundancy, that is, for the purpose of using either of such bins to supply the RDF to the vibrating feeder underlying same in the event that one of such activated bin arrangement does not operate.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a flat stroke sifter screen having a vibratory excitor mounted at the inlet end and drive springs at the outlet end with a counterbalancing member having a tuning plate and stabilizers for the counterbalance, whereby the lateral vibratory action of the sifter is in the form of an elliptical motion adjacent the inlet end and a substantially straight back and forth, or axial motion is obtained adjacent the discharge end.
Abstract:
A vibrating screen feed conveying apparatus for conveying and separating sticky “moisture laden bulk solids” which are sticky and wet flowing onto a vibrating screening feeder and into a hopper. The apparatus includes a bed on which material is conveyed, a longitudinal counterbalance supported on a plurality of isolation springs, a plurality of inclined drive springs extending between the bed and the longitudinal counterbalance, and a plurality of stabilizers for controlling movement of the drive springs along their central axes. A plurality of vibratory motors, each having rotatable eccentric weights are attached to the rear end of the longitudinal counterbalance. The eccentric weights rotate in phase with one another to vibrate the bed at a vibration frequency.