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==Patent situation== | |||
*https://patents.google.com/patent/US20020027173A1/en "Apparatus and method for circular vortex air flow material grinding" | |||
*http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6971594.PN.&OS=PN/6971594&RS=PN/6971594 | |||
* patent may be owned by Greenshift, or may have expired. The inventor died a few years ago and the original company appears to be defunct. | |||
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Revision as of 21:10, 8 March 2016
Technology also known as "Windhexe", as invented by farmer Frank Polifka in Kansas. From Wikipedia: Grinding and dehydrating apparatus operated with compressed air typically used in waste reduction and food processing. The Windhexe was unveiled in 2002 and operates via compressed air injected into a conical chamber which tumbles material at high speeds causing simultaneous dehydration and disintegration. The limited application of the Windhexe is in waste reduction and in animal processing with more proposed uses being explored commercially.
Requires: Compressed Air
Potential Uses
- food processing
- biomass processing (turns everything into powder), bio-energy (biodiesel)
- minerals processing (for resource extraction)
Video
Patent situation
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US20020027173A1/en "Apparatus and method for circular vortex air flow material grinding"
- http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6971594.PN.&OS=PN/6971594&RS=PN/6971594
- patent may be owned by Greenshift, or may have expired. The inventor died a few years ago and the original company appears to be defunct.