Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Tetsushi Yonekawa

Hiroshi Takano

Takashi Okada

Yoshihiro Ogawa

A apparatus for crushing waste metal products includes a rotor having a crushing device on a periphery thereof and a casing enclosing the rotor. The casing has an inlet and an outlet for products to be crushed. An exhaust gas from the casing is partly returned to the inlet of the casing by a circulator. The rest of the exhaust gas is ventilated and processed by an exhaust processor. An oxygen concentration is monitored in a gas pathway of the circulator to control the gas concentration in the casing. If the oxygen concentration is high, a water shower sprays into the casing.

Apparatus for crushing waste products and method of operating the same

An apparatus for forming a metal feedstock from waste metal products is disclosed. The apparatus includes devices for: crushing the metal products into pieces; magnetically separating sheet-shaped ferrous scraps and ferrous cast blocks from the crushed pieces; placing the cast blocks between the sheet-shaped scraps to make a sandwich structure; and pressing the sandwich structure to form a metal feedstock.

Apparatus for forming metal feedstock from waste metal products

A waste object containing oil has a first opening formed therein at an upper portion thereof and a second opening positioned below the first opening. The first and second openings are connected to a recovery tank. Hot water of a predetermined temperature is held in the recovery tank and is caused to accumulate inside the waste object via the second opening. Oil that has floated upwards is recovered in the recovery tank via the first opening.

Method of and apparatus for removing oil from a waste object

An apparatus for crushing waste metal products includes a rotor having crushing means on a periphery thereof and a casing enclosing the rotor. The casing has an inlet and an outlet for products to be crushed. An exhaust gas from the casing is partly returned to the inlet of the casing by a circulator. The rest of the exhaust gas is ventilated and processed by an exhaust processor. An oxygen concentration is monitored in a gas pathway of the circulator to control the gas concentration in the casing. If the oxygen concentration is high, a water shower sprays into the casing.

A metal feedstock from wasted metal products is disclosed. The feedstock is formed by crushing the metal products into pieces; magnetically separating sheet-shaped ferrous scraps and ferrous cast blocks from the crushed pieces; placing the cast blocks between the sheet-shaped scraps to make a sandwich structure; and pressing the sandwich structure to form a metal feedstock.

Metal feedstock from wasted metal products

This invention pertains to a method of separating iron sheets from washed iron products. The method includes the following steps: crushing wasted iron products into pieces; transporting the crushed pieces on a conveyer; and separating iron sheet pieces from the crushed pieces on the conveyer by virtue of a magnetic separator placed over the conveyer, wherein the iron sheet pieces staying on the conveyer in a standing state are selectively subjected to an upward force. By applying the upward force to the sheet-shaped iron pieces staying on the conveyer, the balance between magnetic and gravitational force is lost and the iron sheet pieces are smoothly attracted by the magnetic separator.

Method of separating iron sheets from wasted iron products

A method of forming a metal feedstock from wasted metal products is disclosed. The method includes the steps of crushing the metal products into pieces; magnetically separating sheet-shaped ferrous scraps and ferrous cast blocks from the crushed pieces; placing the cast blocks between the sheet-shaped scraps to make a sandwich structure; and pressing the sandwich structure to form a metal feedstock.

Preparation of metal feedstock from wasted metal products

An apparatus for demolishing an oil-containing industrial waste object, includes a turntable for supporting thereon of an oil-containing industrial waste object, a sealed enclosure mounted above the turntable for gas-tightly enclosing the industrial waste object, a fluid pumping device for sucking a fluid medium out from the sealed enclosure, and a plasma arc torch fitted inside the sealed enclosure for radiating the industrial waste object with a plasma. After the fluid medium within the sealed enclosure has been sucked out by the fluid pumping device, an inert gas is supplied into the sealed enclosure through an inert gas supply port. The industrial waste object is then irradiated by a plasma from the plasma arc torch while being rotated together with the turntable, to thereby cut the industrial waste object horizontally.

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Otsu, Japan

Tetsushi Yonekawa