US 12,440,869 B2
Screening bucket for wood cooking pellets
Mark Keith Vaughn, Evans, GA (US)
Assigned to Georgia Torrefaction Technology LLC, Evans, GA (US)
Filed by Georgia Torrefaction Technology LLC, Evans, GA (US)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/886,479.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/584,203, filed on Sep. 21, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0100016 A1, Mar. 27, 2025
Int. Cl. B07B 1/02 (2006.01); F24B 13/04 (2006.01)
CPC B07B 1/02 (2013.01) [F24B 13/04 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A screening bucket for wood cooking pellets, comprising:
a container defining a top, a bottom, and an interior;
a lid removably attached to the top of the container comprising a pellet port sized for dispensing wood pellets from the interior of the container through the lid;
a sifting screen spaced apart from the bottom of the container dividing the interior of the container into a pellet holding section and a dust collection section;
a retainer pin capturing the sifting screen to the bottom of the container while allowing the sifting screen to move along the retainer pin of the retainer;
one or more shaker springs positioned between the sifting screen and the bottom of the container biasing the sifting screen away from the bottom of the container;
a dust port through the bottom of the container for discharging wood dust shed by wood pellets;
wherein the sifting screen has a mesh size causing wood pellets in the pellet holding section to remain above the sifting screen while allowing wood dust shed by the wood pellets to pass through the sifting screen into the dust collection section;
wherein movement of the sifting screen along the retainer in response to jostling and tapping of the container facilitates movement of the wood dust from the pellet holding section into the dust collection section.