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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2017
Spectrum Medical Lending, Llc, Chicago, IL (US);
Susan Rees Bates, Sudbury, MA (US);
Duane Delfosse, Windham, NH (US);
Jeffrey H. Bell, Sudbury, MA (US);
Peter G. Bates, Concord, MA (US);
Spectrum Medical Lending, LLC, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Featured are a two-stage grinder, an apparatus embodying same and methods related thereto. Such a medical waste grinder includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage includes spring loaded cutter stacks mounted on two adjacent shafts between two edge plates, each of the cutter stacks including cutters arranged in a helix to create space, each cutter including a number of teeth per blade and including a major diameter and a minor diameter, each cutter turning opposite a fixed counter knife enabling a pinching action against the teeth of the cutter. The second stage includes spring loaded cutter stacks.