Patent ID: 6527208
Filing Date: 2003-03-04
Classification: B02C,B29B,B29K,B29L,Y02W

Abstract:
A process for separating the economic components of scrap rubber tires, including the steps ofshredding the tires to yield particulate tire strips in a first stage; conveying said particulate tire strips to a second stage; washing the particulate tire strips in the second stage in a rotating drum unit while separating and retaining the waste wash water, contaminates, and freed particulates in a collection means and then drying said particulate tire strips; separating the particulates and contaminates from the waste wash water and properly disposing the particulates and contaminates; filtering the waste wash water to remove pollutants yielding a processed water; reusing the processed water in the second stage; conveying the particulate tire strips to a third stage; rasping the particulate tire strips yielding varying size crumb and mesh particles in the third stage while separating out steel and fiber materials from the tire strips wherein said steel and fiber are removed and used as a by-product and wherein the crumb and mesh particles are used as end product.