Patent ID: 7780011

Claim:
A mobile scrap metal recovery apparatus adapted to recover scrap metal from scrap metal-contaminated soils, said apparatus comprising: (a) a first wheeled component having a screener adapted to separate scrap metal-contaminated soil into at least a coarser fraction and a finer fraction; (b) a second wheeled component having a magnetic separator, an eddy current separator, a manual picking station, and a first conveyor belt adapted to transport at least one of said coarser fraction and said finer fraction from said eddy current separator to said manual picking station; and (c) a second conveyor belt adapted to transport at least one of said coarser fraction and said finer fraction from said first wheeled component to said second wheeled component; wherein each of said first and said second wheeled components is configured to be road transportable and said magnetic separator is adapted to remove magnet attractable scrap metal from at least one of said coarser fraction and said finer fraction.