Patent ID: 6958110

Claim:
An apparatus for producing a cellulose paper pulp from a biological mass, the apparatus comprising: (a) a tower for sterilizing the biological mass to form a culture medium; (b) a first screw disposed at an outlet of the tower for mixing the culture medium from the tower with an inoculum in a sterile environment to create an inoculated mass; (c) a first conditioning and reaction chamber disposed adjacent the screw for receiving the inoculated mass and for mixing and handling the inoculated mass in a sterile environment with a controlled temperature, pH and atmosphere comprising CO 2 and O 2 , to form an enzyme; (d) a hydraulic pulper disposed at an outlet of the conditioning and reaction chamber for elementarizing the inoculated mass and soaking the inoculated mass with an enzyme extracting fluid to form a suspension; (e) a hammer mill connected to the hydraulic pulper for elementarizing a vegetative material, breaking up stem knots of the vegetative material, pulverizing leaves of the vegetative material and detaching bast from wood of the vegetative material; (f) a rotating tumbler connected to the pulper for separating a various fraction of the vegetative material wherein said rotating tumbler means comprises a reel and a counter reel; (g) a rotor compactor disposed at an outlet of the tumbler for reducing a volume of the vegetative mass and removing a majority of air contained in the vegetative mass to form a compacted vegetative mass; (h) a second screw connected to the rotor compactor for mixing the compacted vegetative mass with water and an extract containing the enzyme in a sterile environment; (i) a second conditioning and reaction chamber disposed adjacent the second screw means for mixing and handling a mixture of the vegetative mass and the extract containing the enzyme in a sterile environment with a controlled temperature, pH and atmosphere comprising CO 2 and O 2 to form a second conditioned and reacted vegetative mass; and (j) an apparatus connected with the second conditioning and reaction chamber for bleaching the second conditioned and reacted vegetative mass and for disposing of a refluent.