Once i saw a video of a chinese cuber on youtube, but I was never able to find it back. I remember a small , portable machine with a diesel or tractor drive. There was a belt or chain conveyor which took the hay or whatever up to thecuber wheels which-in may memory -were conically shaped. I saw sawdust cubes on a fair in Stuttgart some years ago presented by a chineese company, but they never answered my mail asking for the origin of the cubes. Would be hard pressed to remember that chinese exhibitors but I still have a picture of that young lady representing them...
Who knows about chinese cubers ? Rolf Am Sonntag, 5. Juni 2011 07:25:20 schrieb Tom Miles: > Art, > > > > You seem to be describing the Osborn Hay Cuber. US Patent US3963405 > > http://www.google.com/patents?id=DwsxAAAAEBAJ > <http://www.google.com/patents?id=DwsxAAAAEBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=US396 > 3 > 405&hl=en&ei=rwXrTf_SE5CcgQet4o3ZCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 > &v ed=0CCgQ6AEwAA> > &printsec=frontcover&dq=US3963405&hl=en&ei=rwXrTf_SE5CcgQet4o3ZCQ&sa=X&oi=b > o ok_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA > > > > We new Glen Osborn very well. He was from Moses Lake, Washington. We used > his cuber at the Straw Utilization Center in Corvallis from 1974-1977. We > used three Osborne cubers in a facility to treat straw with sodium > hydroxide and to cube 10,000 tpy straw for export to Japan. We owned one > for several years after that and used it in California, Oregon and Idaho > for cubing everything from ensiled food wastes to paper waste for fuel. > I'll have to check to see what our actual production was. > > > > The cuber was robust. It was not as efficient as those made later by Warren > & Baerg. It would take a coarsely shredded or ground material and make a > fairly hard cube. I am sure that lots of energy was lost in the flailing > and mixing action of the gears and feed mechanism. It did run smoothly > when you have a uniformly sized material and ran a proper head of material > over the gears. Unplugging the dies that are internal to the gears was a > challenge. > > > > Regards, > > > > Tom Miles > _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
