Fiber recovery system and method of recovery

Claim 1

A FIBER RECOVERY APPARATUS FOR RECOVERING FIBERS FROM FIBER-SHEET COMPOSITE WAST PRODUCTS WHICH HAVE THE FIBERS IN A FLUFF FORM AND RETAINED AT LEAST IN PART BY COVERING SHEET MATERIAL, THE SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING MEANS FOR FEEDING THE WASTE PRODUCTS, CUTTER MEANS POSITIONED TO RECEIVE THE WASTE PRODUCTS FROM SAID FEEDING MEANS, AND TO FURTHER FEED AND CUT THE PRODUCTS INTO SMALL PIECES, AGITATOR MEANSPOSITIONED FOR THE RECEIPT OF THE CUT PIECES AND TO WORK THE CUT PIECES TO FREE FIBERS FROM OTHER COMPONENT MATERIAL OF THE WASTE PRODUCTS, A VERTICAL TRAVELLING SCREEN HAVING A FRONT AND REAR REACH AND HAVING THE FRONT REACH FACING ON THE AGITATOR MEANS FOR RECEIPT OF THE AGITATOR AND CUT COMPONENTS, SAID TRAVELING SCREEN BEING SUBSTATIALLY PERVIOUS TO THE FIBER-AIR STREAM AND SUBSTANTIALLY IMPERVIOUS TO OTHERS OF THE COMPONENT MATERIAL DIRECTED TO THE SCREEN SO THAT SAID OTHERS OF THE COMPONENTS WILL BE RECEIVED ON THE FRONT REACH OF THE TRAVELING SCREEN, MEANS INCLUDING A HOOD TO COLLECT THE AIR-FIBER STREAM PASSING THROUGH THE FRONT REACH OF THE TRAVELING SCREEN, MEAS TO INTERCEPT AND REMOVE THE SAID OTHER COMPONENTS MATERIAL OF THE WAST MATERIAL AS SAID OTHER COMPONENTS TRAVEL ON THE SCREEN AND MEANS COMMUNICABLE WITH SAID HOOD TO RECEIVE THE FRESH-AIR STREAM AND SEPARATE THE FIBERS RECEIVED IN SAID HOOD FROM THE FIBER-AIR STREAM, SAID AGITATOR MEANS INCLUDING A HOUSING HAVING AN INLET FRONTING TOWARD THE CUTTER MEANS AND AN OUTLET OPENING TOWARDS THE FRONT REACH OF THRE TRAVELING SCREEN, AND SAID HOUSING INCORPORATING AIR JET MEANS MOUNTED BETWEEN THE INLET AND THE OUTLET FOR PHEUMATICALLY AGITATING AND SUSPENDING THE SAID CUT PIECES AND PNEUMATICALLY CONVEYING THEM TO THE FRON REACH OF THE SCREEN THRPUGH SAID OUTLET, WHILE PROVIDING A DIFFERENTIAL AIR PRESSURE ACROSS THE FRONT REACH OF THE SCREEN..