Two stage comminutor

• US 3,313,332 A
• Filed: 04/07/1964
• Issued: 04/11/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fritz Otto, Stephan Siegfried
• Original Assignee: Fritz Otto, Stephan Siegfried
• Inventors: Siegfried, Stephan, FRITZ OTTO
• Application Number:
  US04/359,543
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• US Class Current: 241/98
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 43/046 with tools driven from the bottom side
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 18/06 with rotating knives
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 18/08 within vertical containers B02C18/062, B02C18/065 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 18/12 with drive arranged below container B02C18/083 takes precedence

Claims

3. IN A DEVICE FOR COMMINUTING MEAT OR THE LIKE, IN COMBINATION, A STATIONARY CONTAINER;

PRE-COMMINUTING MEANS LOCATED IN SAID CONTAINER;

FINE COMMINUTING MEANS LOCATED IN SAID CONTAINER SUBSEQUENT TO SAID PER-COMMINUTING MEANS IN THE DIRECTION OF FLOW OF MATERIAL FOR RECEIVING MATERIAL FROM SAID PRE-COMMINUTING MEANS AND FOR FINE COMMINUTING THE RECEIVED MATERIAL;

AN UPPER PLATE EXTENDING ACROSS THE CONTAINER BETWEEN SAID PRE-COMMINUTING MEANS AND FINE COMMINUTING MEANS FOR SEPARATING SAID PRECOMMINUTING MEANS AND FINE COMMINUTING MEANS FROM EACH OTHER, SAID PLATE BEING FORMED WITH AN OPENING PASSING THERETHROUGH;

MEANS COOPERATING WITH SAID PRE-COMMINUTING MEANS FOR RECIRCULATING AND MIXING THE MATERIAL DURING TREATMENT THEREOF IN SAID PRE-COMMINUTING MEANS;

AND A ROTARY CLOSURE PLATE LOCATED BENEATH AND DIRECTLY