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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2023
Bouldin Corporation, Morrision, TN (US);
Rodrigo B. Vera, Leeds, AL (US);
David C. Palmer, Franklin, TN (US);
Terry L. Moore, Brentwood, TN (US);
Bouldin Corporation, McMinnville, TN (US);
Abstract
A hydrolyzer infeed system for supplying waste material to a hydrolyzer in a continuous manner, the infeed system comprises an infeed chamber, an inlet gate separate a chamber inlet from a chamber outlet, a ram disposed to reciprocate within the infeed chamber and compress waste material against the inlet gate when the gate is in the closed position and configured to push the compressed waste material past the inlet gate into a hydrolyzer when the gate is in an open position, an actuator operably coupled to the ram and configured to move the ram between retracted and extended positions. In one aspect, the ram extends past the inlet gate when in an extended position. In another aspect, an actuator position sensor operably coupled to the actuator generates a position signal representative of a position of the actuator and a corresponding position of the ram at all positions between the retracted ram position and the extended ram position.