James Patrick Lowe

US Patent:

57953600, Aug 18, 1998

Filed:

Feb 26, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/607014

Inventors:

Sam Levy - Richmond VA
James H. Lowe - Richmond VA

Assignee:

Mactavish Machine Manufacturing Co. - Richmond VA

International Classification:

B01D 4500

US Classification:

55408

Abstract:

A lamina/air separator for use atop apparatus for removing tobacco lamina from a lamina/stem mixture includes a horizontally disposed perforated cylindrical drum rotatively secured within a housing having sidewalls containing air exit ports adjacent the extremities of the drum. A sealing assembly interactive between each extremity of the drum and associated sidewall utilizes two flexed sealing strips to create a stagnant zone, bounded in part by the sidewall, that envelopes the extremity of the drum.

US Patent:

D3700208, May 21, 1996

Filed:

Dec 14, 1994

Appl. No.:

D/032187

Inventors:

Sam Levy - Richmond VA
James H. Lowe - Richmond VA

Assignee:

MacTavish Machine Manufacturing Company - Richmond VA

US Classification:

D15147

US Patent:

54272483, Jun 27, 1995

Filed:

Oct 20, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/326595

Inventors:

Sam Levy - Richmond VA
James H. Lowe - Richmond VA

Assignee:

MacTavish Machine Manufacturing Co. - Richmond VA

International Classification:

B07B 400

US Classification:

209137

Abstract:

A modular pneumatic type tobacco separator apparatus employs a separation chamber which receives a threshed tobacco mixture at a feed trough at an upper elevation, and receives an upwardly directed air stream at a lower elevation. The air stream separates the mixture into lamina material, which is blown upwardly and removed by way of a screening separator, and stem material which falls to the bottom of the chamber, and is removed by an upwardly inclined conveyor belt. The configuration of the apparatus is such that, when two units of the apparatus are placed interactively together, the stem material emergent from a first unit drops by gravity into the feed trough of the next successive downstream unit of the apparatus.

Address:

3920 Whispering Oaks Pl APT 102, Virginia Beach, VA 23455

VIN:

2C3KA63H17H897026

Make:

CHRYSLER

Model:

300

Year:

2007