US 11,890,786 B2
Methods and systems for facilitating pollution-free tire recycling processes
David Max Shin, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by David Max Shin, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/183,017.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/320,094, filed on Mar. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0294332 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B02C 19/00 (2006.01); B29B 17/04 (2006.01); B29B 17/02 (2006.01); B03B 9/06 (2006.01); B02C 19/18 (2006.01); B02C 23/14 (2006.01); B02C 23/16 (2006.01); B02C 23/20 (2006.01); B02C 23/38 (2006.01)
CPC B29B 17/0412 (2013.01) [B02C 19/186 (2013.01); B02C 23/14 (2013.01); B02C 23/16 (2013.01); B02C 23/20 (2013.01); B02C 23/38 (2013.01); B03B 9/06 (2013.01); B29B 17/02 (2013.01); B29B 2017/0224 (2013.01); B29B 2017/0272 (2013.01); B29B 2017/0488 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for converting tires into tire grains, the system comprising:
a plurality of conveyor belts;
a shredder to shred a plurality of tires into a plurality of tire shreds;
a water sprayer to spray the plurality of tire shreds with highly pressurized water;
a filter to filter out a plurality of oversized tire shreds;
a fan to blow dry the plurality of tire shreds;
a freezer to freeze the plurality of tire shreds;
wherein the freezer freezes the plurality of tire shreds to a temperature between of −150° C. to −300° C.;
a hammer mill crushes the plurality of tire shreds into a plurality of tire grains;
a separator separates out a plurality of oversized tire grains from the plurality of tire grains;
a magnet separates out a plurality of metallic fibers from the plurality of tire grains;
a crushing machine crushes the plurality of oversized tire grains;
a screener separates out any of the plurality of tire grains that are above or below a designated size;
an autobagger; and
wherein the plurality of conveyor belts carries the plurality of tires, plurality of tire shreds, plurality of tire grains, and plurality of oversized tire grains between the components of the system for converting tires into tire grains.