MATERIAL SEPARATOR

• US 20170028442A1
• Filed: 10/12/2016
• Published: 02/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Andrew J. Archer
• Original Assignee: Andrew J. Archer
• Inventors: Archer, Andrew J.
• Application Number:
  US15/291,426
• Publication Number:
  US 20170028442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 1/02 acting directly on the substance being separated
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 1/24 with material carried by travelling fields
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 1/30 Combinations with other devices, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 2201/20 Magnetic separation whereby the particles to be separated are in solid form
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 1/282 their jigging movement being a closed or open curvilinear path in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the screen and parrallel or transverse to the direction of conveyance
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 1/42 Drive mechanisms, regulating or controlling devices, or balancing devices, specially adapted for screens
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 15/00 Combinations of apparatus for separating solids from solids by dry methods applicable to bulk material, e.g. loose articles fit to be handled like bulk material using wet methods B03B7/00; using gas currents B07B9/00
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 4/08 while the mixtures are supported by sieves, screens, or like mechanical elements
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 9/00 Combinations of apparatus for screening or sifting or for separating solids from solids using gas currents; General arrangement of plant, e.g. flow sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B07C 5/342 according to optical properties, e.g. colour according to radiation transmittivity B07C5/3416

Abstract

A system and method for separating mixed materials employing a primary material separation deck and a secondary modular separation pathway for further separation of a portion, e.g. a three-dimensional portion, of the mix materials.

Claims

1. A separator for separating mixed materials comprising:

a vertically rotating horizontally oriented screen;

a three-dimensional material output positioned at a first end of the screen; and

a three-dimensional material separation pathway extending from the three-dimensional material output, the pathway having a plurality of different three-dimensional material separation points.

2. The separator of claim 1 wherein the three-dimensional material output is positioned at the first end of the screen that is lower than an opposite second end of the screen.

3. The separator of claim 1 wherein the three-dimensional material separation pathway comprises a series of conveyor belts linking together each of the plurality of different three-dimensional material separation points.

4. The separator of claim 1 wherein the three-dimensional material separation pathway extends from the three-dimensional material output and returns to a material input of the separator.

5. The separator of claim 1 wherein the three-dimensional material separation pathway is incorporated into the structure of the separator.

6. The separator of claim 1 wherein the plurality of different three-dimensional material separation points comprises at least three different three-dimensional material separation points.

7. The separator of claim 1 wherein each separation point of the plurality of different three-dimensional material separation points comprises a different material separation technique.

8. The separator of claim 1 wherein one of the separation points of the plurality of different three-dimensional material separation points comprises a magnet.

9. The separator of claim 1 wherein one of the separation points of the plurality of different three-dimensional material separation points comprises an eddy current.

10. The separator of claim 1 wherein one of the separation points of the plurality of different three-dimensional material separation points comprises an optical recognition system.

11. A separator for separating mixed materials comprising:

a horizontally oriented deck having a plurality of material outputs; and

a modular material separation pathway comprising;

an extension from one of the plurality of material outputs;

at least one material separation point; and

a return to a material input of the separator or one of the plurality of material outputs of the deck.

12. The separator of claim 11 wherein the modular material separation pathway comprises a series of three separation points.

13. The separator of claim 11 wherein the at least one material separation point comprises a magnet.

14. The separator of claim 11 wherein the at least one material separation point comprises an eddy current.

15. The separator of claim 11 wherein the at least one material separation point comprises an optical recognition system.

16. The separator of claim 11 wherein the modular material separation pathway is incorporated within the separator.

17. A method for separating mixed materials comprising;

separating a quantity of mixed materials through a vertical rotation of a horizontally oriented screen;

collecting a three-dimensional portion of the mixed materials in a first output of the screen;

transferring the three-dimensional portion of mixed materials to a three-dimensional material separation pathway; and

separating different three-dimensional materials of the three-dimensional portion of the mixed materials from one another based upon different material characteristics at at least one separation point on the three-dimensional material separation pathway.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the step of transferring the three-dimensional portion of mixed materials to a three-dimensional material separation pathway comprises employing a system of conveyor belts.

19. The method of claim 17 wherein the step of separating different three-dimensional materials of the three-dimensional portion of the mixed materials from one another based upon different material characteristics at at least one separation point on the three-dimensional material separation pathway comprises separating the different three-dimensional materials based upon a materials magnetism.

20. The method of claim 17 wherein the at least one separation point on the three-dimensional material separation pathway is incorporated into a mixed material separator.