US 12,440,849 B2
Articulable-arm-mountable pulverisation apparatus and method of use thereof
Nick Humphreys, Gloucestershire (GB); and William Oughton, Gloucestershire (GB)
Assigned to Auger Torque Europe Limited, Cheltenham (GB)
Appl. No. 18/256,078
Filed by Auger Torque Europe Limited, Cheltenham (GB)
PCT Filed Dec. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/GB2021/053225
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 6, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/123252, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 16, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2019458 (GB), filed on Dec. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0017266 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. B02C 2/00 (2006.01); E02F 3/96 (2006.01)
CPC B02C 2/00 (2013.01) [E02F 3/965 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Articulable-arm-mountable pulverisation apparatus the apparatus comprising: a material-receiving housing having a material-processing chamber, a discharge outlet portion, and a drive-unit compartment; an articulable-arm mounting element; a rotatable element in the material-processing chamber and having a side surface which, together with an interior surface of the material-processing chamber, forms a tapering pulverising material flow-path towards the discharge outlet portion; and a unitary drive unit in the drive-unit compartment, the drive-unit compartment having an openable access cover, whereby opening the openable access cover, the unitary drive unit can be slidably removed in an axial direction as one-piece from the drive-unit compartment.