Amplified ballistic separator for separating material

• US 10,639,677 B1
• Filed: 12/21/2019
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CP Manufacturing Incorporated (The CP Group (United States))
• Original Assignee: CP Manufacturing Incorporated (The CP Group (United States))
• Inventors: Davis, Nicholas, Davis, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Rodriguez, Joseph C
• Application Number:
  US16/724,243
• Time in Patent Office: 136 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B03B 9/06 specially adapted for refuse
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 1/12 Apparatus having only parallel elements
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 13/003 Separation of articles by differences in their geometrical form or by difference in their physical properties, e.g. elasticity, compressibility, hardness
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 13/10 using momentum effects

Abstract

A novel ballistic separator for separating material is disclosed. The separator includes a separator bed adapted to contact the material, with the bed further comprising an agitator and an amplified agitator. The amplified agitator has a total lateral displacement. The separator also includes a crankshaft kinematically linked to the agitator and the amplified agitator. The crankshaft has a total lateral displacement. The amplified agitator total lateral displacement is larger than the crankshaft total lateral displacement.

Claims

1. An amplified ballistic separator for separating material, the separator comprising:

a separator bed adapted to contact the material, the bed comprising;

an agitator;

an amplified agitator having an amplified agitator total lateral displacement;

a crankshaft having a crankshaft total lateral displacement, the crankshaft kinematically linked to the agitator and the amplified agitator, wherein the amplified agitator is linked to the crankshaft by a cam follower;

wherein the amplified agitator total lateral displacement is larger than the crankshaft total lateral displacement.

2. The separator of claim 1, the separator comprising a second crankshaft kinematically linked to the agitator and the amplified agitator.

3. The separator of claim 1, wherein the bed comprises a plurality of agitators and a plurality of amplified agitators, both pluralities kinematically linked to the crankshaft.

4. The separator of claim 3, wherein the crankshaft has multiple phase regions and adjacent amplified agitators are connected to different phase regions.

5. The separator of claim 1, wherein the agitator has an agitator total lateral displacement that is less than the amplified agitator total lateral displacement.

6. The separator of claim 1, wherein the agitator'"'"'s movement traces a circle and the amplified agitator'"'"'s movement traces a non-circle.

7. The separator of claim 1, wherein the amplified agitator comprises a saw tooth.

8. The separator of claim 1, wherein the cam follower comprises:

a notch;

an agitator pivot connected to the agitator; and

an amplified agitator pivot connected to the amplified agitator.

9. The separator of claim 8 further comprising a cam disposed of in the notch.

10. The separator of claim 8, wherein the cam is fixed relative to the movement of the crankshaft.

11. The separator of claim 1, wherein the cam follower comprises:

a notch;

a fixed pivot; and

an amplified agitator pivot connected to the amplified agitator.

12. The separator of claim 11 further comprising a cam disposed of in the notch, wherein the cam is connected to the agitator.

13. The separator of claim 1, further comprising an alignment groove and an alignment pin disposed therein, wherein the alignment groove and alignment pin are constructed to maintain a preset movement of the agitator relative to the amplified agitator.

14. The separator of claim 1, wherein the amplified agitator total lateral displacement is at least 1.5 times larger than the crankshaft total lateral displacement.

15. The separator of claim 1, wherein the bed is inclined.

16. The separator of claim 15, where the bed has a lower edge and a higher edge, and the separator is constructed to separate the material into a first fraction located adjacent to the higher edge and a second fraction located adjacent to the lower edge.

17. The separator of claim 16, wherein the bed is perforated to allow a third fraction of the material to travel through the bed.

18. An amplified ballistic separator for separating material, the separator comprising:

a separator bed adapted to contact the material, the bed comprising;

an agitator;

an amplified agitator having an amplified agitator total lateral displacement wherein the amplified agitator wraps around a portion of the agitator;

a crankshaft having a crankshaft total lateral displacement, the crankshaft kinematically linked to the agitator and the amplified agitator, wherein the amplified agitator is linked to the crankshaft by a cam follower;

wherein the amplified agitator total lateral displacement is larger than the crankshaft total lateral displacement.

19. The separator of claim 18, wherein the amplified agitator comprises a saw tooth.

20. An amplified ballistic separator for separating material, the separator comprising:

a separator bed adapted to contact the material, the bed comprising an amplified agitator having an amplified agitator total lateral displacement;

a crankshaft having a crankshaft total lateral displacement, the crankshaft kinematically linked to the amplified agitator by a cam follower;

wherein the amplified agitator total lateral displacement is larger than the crankshaft total lateral displacement.

21. The separator of claim 20, the separator comprising a second crankshaft kinematically linked to the amplified agitator.

22. The separator of claim 20, wherein the bed comprises a plurality of amplified agitators kinematically linked to the crankshaft.

23. The separator of claim 22, wherein the crankshaft has multiple phase regions and adjacent amplified agitators are connected to different phase regions.

24. The separator of claim 20, wherein the amplified agitator comprises a saw tooth.

25. The separator of claim 20, wherein the amplified agitator total lateral displacement is at least 1.5 times larger than the crankshaft total lateral displacement.

26. The separator of claim 20, wherein the bed is inclined.

27. The separator of claim 26, where the bed has a lower edge and a higher edge, and the separator is constructed to separate the material into a first fraction located adjacent to the higher edge and a second fraction located adjacent to the lower edge.

28. The separator of claim 27, wherein the bed is perforated to allow a third fraction of the material to travel through the bed.