ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,728, issued on Jan. 13.
"Conveyor drum chipper with screen" was invented by Richard Rainwaters Fincher (Lucedale, Miss.), Marshall Ennis Rainwaters (Mobile, Ala.) and Alex Clark Paulsen (Wilmer, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wood chipper and a method of using the wood chipper are provided. The wood chipper has a rotating chipping drum with blades for reducing the size of wood fed to the chipping drum. The chipper also includes a sizing screen positioned below the chipping drum and a discharge conveyor positioned below the sizing screen. The discharge conveyor mechanically conveys wood chips from the chipping drum to a dischar...