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Granule conveying apparatus

  • US 9,907,229 B2
  • Filed: 07/05/2013
  • Issued: 03/06/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Granule conveying apparatus comprising two screw conveyors each having flighting mounted to a shaft and a cylindrical volume associated therewith having a length defined by said shaft and a diameter defined by the flighting, one end of each of said two screw conveyors meeting at an elbow, wherein said shafts are supported independently from one another and the shaft of each of said two screw conveyors intersects the cylindrical volume associated with the other one of said two screw conveyors at the elbow, wherein one of said two screw conveyors comprises a discontinuous flighting region through which the shaft of the other of said two screw conveyor passes such that said one of said two screw conveyors has flighting disposed on its shaft on both sides of the discontinuous flighting region and the shaft of the other of said two screw conveyors passes by the shaft of said one screw conveyor at a distance less than a radius of the said flighting.

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