Method and system for processing and recycling infill material of artificial turf

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9505033
APP PUB NO 20150209830A1
SERIAL NO

14608049

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A method and system for processing and recycling infill material of artificial turf. The invention includes drying extracted infill material through a fluid bed dryer, the fluid bed dryer passes a process gas through a bed of solids via a perforated plate. The dried infill material is processed using a plurality of vibrating screens to remove excessively large or small particles from the infill material. The plurality of vibrating screens may be a set of progressively finer mesh screens. The processed infill material is separated by density. The density of the infill material may be determined by a high intensity, uniform sheet of laminar airflow. The separated infill material is discharged and is ready to be used again in another artificial turf. In one embodiment, the infill material includes at least one of graded sand, granulated styrene-butadiene rubber, cork, organic infill, thermoplastic elastomers, or ethylene propylene diene monomers.

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TARKETT INCFARNHAM QUEBEC J2N 1J7

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Bissonnette, Alain Montreal, CA 7 14

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