Patent ID: 7111802

Claim:
An apparatus for parallel pressing and crushing and sieving of catalysis materials, the apparatus comprising a press body comprising four or more spatially discrete apertures or wells, each of the four or more apertures or wells defining a pressing zone, and one or more pressing elements adapted to simultaneously agglomerate smaller particles of each of four or more catalysis materials in the four or more pressing zones into larger particles in a pressing mode, wherein the press body is adapted in a crushing and sieving mode of operation, such that the press body can, in the crushing and sieving mode of operation, be a crusher body comprising four or more spatially discrete apertures or wells, each of the four or more apertures or wells defining, together with a primary sieve, a crushing zone having an interior crushing surface, and the apparatus further comprising four or more crushing elements, each of the four or more crushing elements being at least partially within one of the crushing zones and being adapted for crushing catalysis materials residing in one of the four or more crushing zones in the crushing and sieving mode.