Medical waste grinder
US5533681A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 24, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jul 9, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 24, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S241/606
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A grinder for dry waste materials such as rubber gloves has a vertically-oriented, cylindrically-shaped housing with an opening at its upper end for receiving materials to be comminuted. The housing is divided into upper and lower chambers by means of a rotatable, disk-shaped shredder element. The shredder element has a pair of parallel upwardly-extending impeller blades disposed on its upper surface on opposite sides of its center of rotation which define a channel across the diameter of the shredder element.
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