Abstract:
An apparatus and method are described for creating rubber crumb from rubber vehicle tires. The method provides for the soaking of a vehicle tire in a solvent, removal of the tire from the solvent, movement of the tire by a conveyor to an apparatus that applies physical pressure to the tire, while situated upon a circular screen which allows the physical pressure applied to fragment the tire into its component parts, pressing the rubber components through the screen with any remaining liquid and allowing the non rubber components to be removed for recycling purposes or to be discarded. The apparatus applies physical pressure to separate the rubber and non rubber components from one another.
Abstract:
Rubber chips are immersed in a coolant to cool the chips to a the temperature in the range of null90 degrees to null110 degrees Celsius. The coolant contains alcohol such as n-butyl alcohol, methanol, pentane and is cooled by nitrogen. The cooled chips are then comminuted to a powder in the range of 10 mesh to 100 mesh ASTM in size.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for crushing and pulverizing tire chips roughly crushed to a size of 10 cm in length by completely separating to rubber components from iron components in a single crushing process. It is intended to extensively simplify the process to produce rubber powder from waste tires and to promote material recycling of the used tires. The method comprises the steps of catching the tire chips between monoaxial rotary blades 3 rotated within a casing 2 and fixed blades 4 and 4 fixed and arranged at opposed positions and maintaining a gap slightly larger than diameter of a piano wire 9 contained in the tires, rupturing only the rubber components without cutting piano wires and steel fibers, tearing and withdrawing rubber components by rotation of the rotary blade 3, and crushing while separating rubber components from iron components.
Abstract:
Plant for the processing of spent rubber and spent rubber products by cryogenic size reduction, comprising freeze tunnels for freezing the material stock to be reduced, foreign material separating means and reducing means for the deep-frozen material. To this end, a multi-stage pre-reducing system comprising reducers (17, 17a) is provided. The pre-reduced material stock is directed through a freeze system divided into a plurality of freeze zones in which a low-temperature liquid refrigerant may be sprayed onto the material stock. The freeze system has a temperature equalizing system connected to the output thereof, and the deep-frozen material stock is comminuted to a fine grain size in a step-wise fashion in subsequent multi-stage fine reducers.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for forming superfine particles of rubber powder suitable for recycling, as by incorporation into new rubber production, is shown. Coarsely ground rubber particles, formed in a conventional manner, are mixed in a soaking vessel with a reagent which causes the rubber particles to swell. The swollen, reagent-impregnated rubber is less elastic and more easily ground. The reagent-impregnated particles are then transported to a grinder which reduces the size of the particles to 200 &mgr;m or less. The ground particles are then heated to drive off the reagent which is recovered in a reagent recovery system. The dried particles are then sorted according to size. The process is conveniently automated and provides the ability to economically recycle rubber.
Abstract:
The method for shredding wornout tire cases comprises exposing wornout tire cases to the effect of an explosion exerted thereon in a closed circular system so as to establish a directional circulating flow of explosion products. The device for carrying the method into effect comprises a chamber (1, 2) and a piping (3, 4) which forms, together with the chamber, a circular closed system, the chamber has a portion shaped as a cone-frustum shell (1), wherein shredding members (7) and a fixing unit of the explosive (13) are accommodated; a the smaller-diameter portion of the cone-shaped shell (1) communicates with one end of the piping (4) through a valve appearing as, e.g., a grid established by plates (7) in the area of the smaller base of the shell (1), while the other end of the piping (3) communicates with the chamber (1, 2) from the side of the larger-diameter portion of the cone-shaped shell (1).
Abstract:
A method for reclaiming rubber comprising the steps of (a) producing scrap from used rubber materials; (b) milling said scrap to produce rubber crumbs characterised in that the crumbs of said milling step (b) are continuously fed to the milling machine at compression force preferably 100 metric tonnes and the temperature of the crumb feed being milled is maintained at a suitable temperature so as to obtain the reclaimed rubber. The preferred embodiment of the invention provides for a cooling system to keep the temperature of the milling process below 100.degree. C., the pressure being exerted by the mill rolls at close to zero nip with roll speeds at a 1:1.6 ratio, and the surfaces of the rolls are smoothen. Most preferably, the compression force is equivalent to 200 metric tonnes in weight and the crumb feed is continuously milled for about 30 revolutions.
Abstract:
A slow speed high torque shear technology is disclosed having optional configurations and attachments for its construction and methods for reconfiguring existing shears to improve performance, and maintenance economics. A method is provided for the readily replacement of individual cutters and tooth modules, reconfiguration of cutter and tooth assemblies in a mix and match manner, in combination with matching anvils having replacement cutting elements with multiple cutting faces. Alternative embodiments are provided illustrating methods of configuration of various types of cutting elements and material feed systems. Methods for converting a shear a rough cut shear to a fine particle shear and then to a granulator is provides. A method for rejecting unprocessable material is also disclosed.
Abstract:
An improved continuous crumbing machine for recycling rubber tires and other materials such as polyethylene containers, gypsum, hardboard, tin cans, glass jars and bottles. The device comprises a pair of rotating rolls having negative rake teeth of interlocking sprocket design formed on the outer periphery of each roll. The materials to be fragmented or crumbed are fed between pairs of rotating rollers having negative rake teeth. A plurality of stages of rotating rollers are placed in series to obtain the desired particle size.
Abstract:
A rubber reduction and recycling system with dramatically reduced power requirements. The present invention provides a series of reduction stations which successively reduce the size of the rubber, typically in the form of tires, to eventually result in crumb rubber. The power requirements are dramatically reduced by providing a fixed cutting plate through which the teeth of the cutting apparatus pass and cut the rubber in a shearing fashion. Moreover, the teeth of the cutting apparatus pass through the fixed cutting plate at an angular disposition so that at any given point, a relatively small portion of the rubber is being cut and thereby consuming power. Finally, the power consumption is reduced by providing the teeth on rotating shafts in a plurality of series of arcuate patterns. Therefore, at any given time, only a relatively small number of teeth in each series cut at the same time and thereby require power.