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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2012
Applicant:
Mss, Inc., Nashville, TN (US);
Inventors:
Arthur G. Doak, Nashville, TN (US);
Mitchell Gregg Roe, Franklin, TN (US);
Assignee:
MSS, Inc., Nashville, TN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wire sorting system identifies and sorts wire from mixed electronic waste solely by the shape of the wire. A digital image of a stream of articles is created, and the image data may be processed using a Gabor filter technique to identify elongated narrow objects such as wire.