Vertical Grinder
EIDAL, ROY EIDAL, THE EIDAL GRINDER, THE EIDAL SHREDDER AND MORE.
This is a very unique grinder-shredder to the recycling industry and the name brand has been around for a long time. Since the early 60’s from historical data and from a living historian of recycling equipment – Dan Burda
Dan Burda calls this design the Eidal vertical grinder, or the eidal vertical shredder. The name can not be taken away , this machine is a Vertical Grinder or a Vertical Shredder. It is often called an Eidal Vertical Grinder or the Eidal Vertical Shredder. Other historical names used for this machine are the Eidal Vertical Grinder or the Eidal Vertical Shredder, circa 1983. And, the Eidal-Hitachi Vertical Grinder or the Eidal-Hitachi Vertical Shredder, circa 1997.
It has evolved into even more name brands as it can be called the Shredderhotline Vertical Grinder or The Shredderhotline Vertical Shredder
No matter what the name, it’s still the Eidal shredder or the Eidal grinder. The product line was invented and patented by Roy Eidal of New Mexico and is owned by Dan Burda and his family group of recycling equipment companies.
Today is 2012, after 45 years the Eidal vertical grinder is still used to process waste materials, much like the Saturn shredder brand of slow speed high torque shear type shredder that was pioneered by the Burda family, the Eidal shredder brand of vertical grinders and vertical shredders has been refined and re-applied beyond Roy Eidal, by the Burda family.
HISTORY
The Eidal Vertical Grinder or the Eidal Vertical Shredder or the Vertical Grinder or the Vertical Shredder was invented in the early 1960’s and patented in 1966 by Roy Eidal of Eidal Heavy Industries of New Mexico.
It appears from documents collected over the years that Roy Eidal had the Dravo Shipyards in Pittsburgh design the concept for his company. The first placement of the original machine is not known but may have been involved with the Alter Company of St Louis for metal shredding as there is some connection to this group and the Eidal shredder.
The product line was not evolved from small machines to big machines. The product line was built big at first with a 750 hp and even a 2000 hp. Smaller models like the 400 and 200 and 100 series were made at a later date.
The machine was licensed in the early 1970 to the Marubeni Trading Group for waste shredding and scrap metal shredding
The machine was paired with the Panning Ripsteel unit for metal shredding and was a major pioneer in the first concept of pre-shredding and then densification shredding systems.
This Eidal International industrial conglomerate was put together under the leadership of the visionary direction of Roy Eidal starting in 1943. The primary business was heavy haul trailers for the oil field industry and for heavy haul trailers for military vehicles.
WHY DID ROY EIDAL DESIGN A SHREDDER?
That may be lost in time and in history. The answer was never found. Upon the death of Roy Eidal, his conglomerate was sold to various groups with the Eidal International Shredder Division being purchased by the Burda Group of Companies in 1983 from the Carborundum Pangborn Group of Hagerstown Maryland. At that time, there were about 150 Eidal Grinders in the USA and about 300 Eidal Grinders worldwide outside of the United States, mainly in Japan.
By 1990 there were about 450 Eidal Grinders in the USA processing wood waste and scrap metal for General Motors, general waste for Merck and RDF production for the City of Chicago and the City of Atlanta.
As outlined above, this product was licensed to the Hitachi Heavy Industries Group in Japan to build these machines for the Japanese environmental market. The basic history of the Eidal Shredders and Eidal Grinders or the Eidal or the Eidal-Hitachi Shredders has evolved over time.
Patent Documents show that the Eidal Vertical Grinder and Shredder technology came to life in 1966 with multiple patents and even the issuance of the Dravo patent confirmaing that there was bad blood between the two groups for the product lines success and money.
This unique and first patented machine using this special design was originally filed and issued to Roy Eidal and was included in a shredding system to process automobiles into scrap for the steel industry. Also shown in this patent is a car flattener, using a hinge concept that was also a pioneering design in this industry. That concept was successfully copied and commercialized by the Aljon group of Iowa.
Our data shows that Williams, Eidal and Newell were all pioneering patents and concepts for car shredding based on patent applications by these companies for processing scrap metal from cars.
There were two basic designs that evolved from these original three technologies: The horizontal hamermill, the vertical hamermill and the car flattener.
The Eidal is the vertical hamermill or vertical grinder or vertical shredder. The Williams and the Newell are horizontal hamermills or horizontal grinders or horizontal shredders. Car Shredders are a common name today in the recycling equipment field.
The Car Shredder owes its history and evolution mainly to the Eidal and Williams and Newell Family Groups of the United States.
Others have followed but most have evolved from these original designs being copied or stolen from the original owners and inventors and then made by others who claim the stolen technology as their own.
The shear shredder industry evolved much in the same way with the INVENTION and COMMERCIALIZATION of the slow speed shear shredder by the Burda Family in the early 1970 era.
Today the original design is copied by 500 companies around the world.
The Eidal Vertical Grinder or the Eidal Vertical Shredder is copied by only three other companies. It uses the concept of a ring mill or hamermill for shredding of material, the big difference in this basic technology is that the rotating member is built on a vertical shaft rather than the traditional horizontal mounting common to these machines.
Features that are unique to this machine that have evolved over time are as follows:
Basic Concept – The design allows the material being processed to flow from top to bottom using gravity while being shredded.
This unique feature almost eliminates the need for a sizing screen or screen assembly in the machine but there are designs that we have used where a screen or choke ring in the machine has been used much in the same manner as other types of sizing screens or grate systems.
One main feature of this machine is that its designed to process scrap metal as well as other waste materials that were often difficult to shred or process in other types of shredders.
These machines were originally applied to the processing of scrap metal and solid waste materials. Today they can process, almost anything that the world makes: metal, plastic, wire, paper, wood, etc.
Today they are Combined with Pre-Shredders that have greatly expanded the use of these to include WEEE and Auto Scrap and ASR and Electronic Waste as well as Green Waste and Garbage.
The new field of “scrap tire wire cleaning” is one of the best and new fields for this technology.
ASR or Auto Shredder Residue processing is also a perfect application for this machine.
The Eidal Grinder or the Eidal Shredder, combined with automated sorting systems and gravity separation systems and eddy current separation systems has extended its success for full processing lines.
The Eidal Shredders and Grinders have a place in history as being a major design innovation and technology and new invention of this modern century, for waste processing equipment, along with the Granulator and the Shear Type Shredder .
The hamermill is also in this category although it has been in the field of crushing and pulverizing materials for many years before the advent of the Vertical Grinder and the Shear Type Shredder into the commercial world of shredding.
The machines that have been invented since the 1900’s for application in the recycling of products are in five main groups.
These new inventions and major innovations and commercialization of shredders for recycling applications are the Fred M Roddy Granulator, the Williams-Eidal-Newell Car Shredder, the Vern Burda – Dan Burda Shear Type Shredder, the Roy Eidal – Dan Burda Vertical Grinder and the Shred-Pax – Dan Burda G 12 Rasper and the Euro – Sotsky Single Shaft Grinder.
But, there are many more. The Panning-Eidal Pre Ripper, The Holmann Rouse Shredder, The Coats-Burda Mini Shredder, The Voigts-Burda Debeader, The Farrell-Burda Tire Cutter and many more inventions and pioneers in this field.
Today the Eidal Burda Shredderhotline Shredding Systems are built around project requirements and customer preferences.
Everything down to the colour.
HOW DOES THE VERTICAL GRINDER WORK?
The machine has a spinning centre core rotor that has an upper section, or knocker section that in the early days of this industry pre sized the material before transition of materials down through the main grinding or shredding assembly.
Today this upper knocker section is provided in single and dual knocker designs as well as other type fluff and whipper designs that assist with the pre-shredding and feeding of the unit.
Today Pre-Shredding is a major key to the increased success of the Vertical Grinder.
Pre-Shredders process materials to the proper size before introduction into the machine for final sizing.
The V100 the V200 the V400 the V750 the V1000 the V1500 and the V2000 are some of the models in the Eidal Vertical Shredder product lines.
The rotor turns at 500 rpm with a tip speed of over 120 miles per hour and the massive design of rotating steel rotor, mashes and twists and knarles and wraps and tears anything that is thrown into the machinery.
With Top, and Middle, and Bottom Bearings, the design has changed over the years into an engineering marvel.
The applications for this machine today are expanding and the base of use for this machine is dedicated to processing difficult to shred materials
This machine can take scrap metal and turn it into high density frag. This machine can take electronic scrap and rip the metal off of any component, and densify it into metal balls for separation from the tramp fraction
The machine has an outer Tub that has four basic design configurations..
INTERNAL CONE DESIGN
INTERNAL VERTICAL WALL DESIGN OR INTERNAL CYLINDER DESIGN
INTERNAL INVERTED CONE DESIGN
EXTERNAL CONE DESIGN
EXTERNAL VERTICAL WALL DESIGN OR EXTERNAL CYLINDER DESIGN
The Main Rotor has many designs of which there are three primary designs
CHRISTMAS TREE DESIGN
STANDARD ROTOR DESIGN
INVERTED CHRISTMAS TREE DESIGN
THE MAIN ROTOR HAS MANY TYPES OF HAMMER OR GRINDER CONFIGURATIONS
THIN OR THICK SWING HAMMERS
THIN OR THICK FIXED HAMMERS
THIN OR THICK RING HAMMERS
THIN OR THICK ROUND RINGS
THIN OR THICK TRIANGULAR RINGS
The machine is built like an old battleship or an old battle tank.
The main rotating section is made from 3 inch plate steel and 6 inch plate steel
The main tub section is made from 3 inch plate steel and also 6 inch plate steel
Various alloy steels are used for the machine and various types of wear parts and wear steel are used in the design.
The design includes a ballistic hopper and tub and discharge assembly. The design includes explosion and unshreddable ejection hoppers and tubs. The design is made for heavy duty shredding . We process ammunitions in this machine, live ammunitions, that explode and do not damage the machinery.
These machines meet all demilitarization standards, which is for 100% mutilation of components.
We use Top quality components in this machine such as Siemens motors, SKF bearings, Siemens PCLs and Telemechanic electronics to ensure reliability, ease of maintenance and worldwide component availability.
This is more data on this Eidal Grinder or Eidal Shredder..
The key is to know what we call this machine…
We often call this machine by many names….
VERTICAL SHAFT GRINDERS OR VERTICAL SHAFT SHREDDERS
This is an industrial category machine that is used in the recycling field for the industrial applications of shredding a wide range of materials and products for recycling
WE CALL THESE MACHINES BY MANY NAMES
The invention was brought to market in the 1960 era with very large designs. The large rotors were used for processing construction and demolition materials and the smaller machines were used for processing plastic materials and other items such as paper and cardboard and wood
WE CALL THEM….THE EIDAL VERTICAL GRINDER OR THE EIDAL VERTICAL SHREDDER.
THERE ARE ALSO TILT AXIS SHREDDERS AND ALSO HORIZONTAL AXIS SHREDDER IN THIS CATEGORY OF EIDAL SHREDDERS AND GRINDERS
We call them shredders or industrial shredders of a vertical shaft variety design
INDUSTRIAL LOW, MEDIUM AND HIGH SPEED, VERTICAL SINGLE SHAFT AND DUAL SHAFT GRINDERS AND SHREDDERS
This is one category that we use for this type of design as it simplifies the process of calling them by other names
INDUSTRIAL SINGLE SHAFT VERTICAL SHREDDERS
This is another name category that we use for this type of design as it simplifies the process of category recognition in the industrial shredder or industrial grinder field
SINGLE SHAFT VERTICAL ROTARY GRINDERS
This is the most popular of our name brands for our single shaft industrial grinder or single shaft industrial grinder
SINGLE SHAFT VERTICAL ROTARY SHREDDERS
This is our generic shredder name for the single shaft grinder or single shaft shredder
VERTICAL SHAFT ROTARY GRINDERS
Some groups wish to use industrial rotary grinder as the descriptive name for the product
VERTICAL SHAFT ROTARY SHREDDERS
This is another derivation of the single shaft industrial grinder name using the shredder designation rather than the grinder designation
GRINDERS
Rotary Shredder or Rotary Grinder is another way to describe the single shaft VERTICAL industrial grinder or single shaft VERTICAL industrial shredder
ROTO GRINDER OR ROTO SHREDDERS
This is one more in the names used to describe the single shaft VERTICAL industrial shredder or single shaft VERTICAL rotary grinder
UNI SHAFT VERTICAL GRINDERS
European name recognition for this type of description of the single shaft VERTICAL grinder or single shaft VERTICAL shredder as a uni VERTICAL shredder or uni VERTICAL grinder or one shaft VERTICAL grinder or two shaft VERTICAL shredder
UNI SHAFT VERTICAL SHREDDERS
This is another derivation of the single shaft VERTICAL shredder in the industrial field of Europe
THEY ARE ALL THE SAME MACHINE JUST DIFFERENT NAMES FOR THE SAME MACHINE
No matter what the engineering name attached to the design it is very common to the recycling equipment industry and the use of this machine with single and even dual shaft VERTICAL GRINDER design is common today
BUT THE DESIGN IS DIFFERENT FOR OUR INDUSTRIAL SINGLE SHAFT VERTICAL OR VSG GRINDERS OR DSVS SHREDDERS
WE CALL THIS THE EIDAL VSG SERIES OR THE EIDAL DSVG FOR THE SAME MACHINE WITH ONE OR TWO SHAFTS USING THE VSG DESIGN
This is the standard layout for these industrial grinders of a single VERTICAL shaft or double VERTICAL shaft design with outboard LINERS WITH cutting bars
WE ARE THE ONLY GROUP TO USE THE THREE LETTER WORD VSG OR DSVG
Single Shaft VERTICAL Grinder and Double Shaft VERTICAL Grinders are common to our branding of the Eidal Industrial Shredders and the Global Recycling Equipment Group
Dan Burda and Ian Weston are pioneers in this design and have taken the steps of making this a very versatile machine that has been common to the industry using one or two basic design forms
We have over 1,000 design forms of this machine in use today for our industrial grinder and industrial shredder lines
WE OFFFER MORE DESIGNS IN OUR INDUSTRIAL SHREDDERS
We have thousands of different industrial shredders and industrial grinders in our product mix and we make and design new designs every year
WE OFFER MORE DESIGNS IN OUR INDUSTRIAL GRINDERS
Most Shredder or Grinder Groups offer one or two basic designs within their main single shaft grinder product mix. We offer thousands of designs.
WE OFFER DIFFERENT DIAMETER ROTORS
We offer rotor diameters from 40 inches to 400 inches in diameter
WE OFFER DIFFERENT LENGTH ROTORS
We offer rotor lengths from 60 inches to 15 feet or more in length for industrial applications
WE OFFER DIFFERENT CUTTING HEADS
We offer different cutting heads with different designs to handle a wide range of materials from paper to scrap metal
WE OFFER DIFFERENT CUTTING SEGMENTS
We offer different cutting segments or knives or hammers on our rotors to handle almost everything encountered in the recycling field that needs to be shredded or ground up into smaller particle sizes
OPEN AND SOLID ROTOR DESIGNS
The most common of the rotor designs is the OPEN OR SOLID rotor design made from forged steel and allows for more inertia to be used by the rotor during grinding or shredding of waste materials
HOLLOW ROTOR DESSIGN
This is another design of the main rotor of the unit and is made to reduce weight and cost in most machines but also allows for high outboard inertia of the rotor when high speed rotation is needed or used.
STACKED SEGMENT ROTOR DESIGN
This is another design of the rotor using plates that stack together to form an entire rotor assembly
HORIZONTAL FRAME DESIGN OR HORIZONTAL RAM DESIGN
VERTICAL FRAME DESIGN OR VERTICAL RAM DESIGN
TILT FRAME OR V FRAME DESIGN OR ANGLE RAM DESIGN
WATER SPRAY ASSIST
SINGLE SIDE FLYWHEEL DRIVE
DUAL SIDE FLYWHEEL DRIVE
SINGLE DRIVE DESIGN
DUAL OR SPLIT DRIVE DESIGN
SPLIT HOUSING DESIGNS
MODULAR CONSTRUCTION DESIGN
SINGLE SCREEN DESIGNS
MULTIPLE SCREEN DESIGNS
STATIONARY SCREEN DESIGNS
RECIPROCATING SCREEN DESIGNS
SCREEN HOLE CONFIGURATIONS
SMALL TO LARGE HOLE SCREENS
LARGE TO SMALL HOLE SCREENS
SMALL TO LARGE TO SMALL HOLE SCREENS
LARGE TO SMALL TO LARGE HOLE SCREENS
VACUUM DISCHARGE ASSISTS
VACUUM DISCHARGE OUTSIDE OF CHAMBER DESIGNS
VACUUM DISCHARGE INSIDE OF CHAMBER DESIGNS
AMPERAGE SENSING OF UNIT VIA ELECTRONICS
RPM SENSING OF UNIT VIA ELECTRONICS
HEAT SENSING OF UNIT VIA ELECTRONIC SENSORS
PRESSURES SENSING OF UNIT VIA ELETRONICS AND HYDRAULICS
ELECTRIC DRIVEN DRIVES
HYDRAULIC DRIVEN DRIVES
FLUID COUPLING CLUTCH DESIGNS
BELT COUPLING CLUTCH DESIGNS
DIRECT DRIVE ELECTRIC DRIVES
INDIRECT DRIVE ELECTRIC DRIVES
DIRECT DRIVE HYDRAULIC DRIVES
INDIRECT DRIVE HYDRAULIC DRIVES
MULT SPEED ROTORS
CONSTANT SPEED ROTORS
HIGH SPEED ROTORS
LOW SPEED ROTORS
TOP OR BOTTOM EXPOSED ROTOR DESIGN
TOP OR BOTTOM HIDDEN ROTOR DESIGN
HYDRAULIC CHOKE RING DESIGN
QUICK ROTOR CHANGE DESIGN
QUICK LINER AND KNIFE CHANGE DESIGN
MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS OF ROTOR
MUTIPLE V SPIRAL CONFIGURATION LINER DESIGN
MULTIPLE S SPIRAL CONFIGURATIONS LINER DESIGN
MULTIPLE SPRIAL CONFIGURATION LINER DESIGNS
MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS OF ROTOR FOR CUTTING
SEGMENTED ROTOR ASSEMBLY FOR EASY CHANGOUT
NON SEGMENTED ROTOR ASSEMBLY
GRANULATOR OR RASPER TYPE ROTOR ASSEMBLY
HAMMER TYPE ROTOR ASSEMBLY
SHEAR SHREDDER TYPE ROTOR ASSEMBLY
PUNCH AND DIE TYPE ROTOR ASSEMBLY
THESE ARE A FEW OF THE INNOVATIVE FEATURES WE OFFER ON OUR SINGLE SHAFT VERTICAL GRINDERS OR SINGLE SHAFT VERTICAL SHREDDERS
WE HAVE BEEN DESIGNING SHREDDERS SINCE 1966 WITH OUR EIDAL SHREDDER LINE AND THE BURDA FAMILY HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS FIELD FOR OVER 45 YEARS
THE DISCHARGE OF MATERIAL CAN VARY IN SIZE
SQUARE AND TRIANGULAR SEGMENTS
CONCAVE AND CONVEX AND FLAT BLADE SEGMENTS
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF COMBINATIONS OF DESIGNS THAT CAN BE USED TO MAKE YOUR SINGLE SHAFT VERTICAL GRINDER AND SINGLE SHAFT VERTICAL SHREDDER WORK WELL FOR YOU…
THE USE OF LOW AND MEDIUM AND HIGH SPEED ON THESE MACHINES IS A DESIGN FEATURE ONLY WE OFFER IN THE INDUSTRY
MOST OF THE DATA LISTED ABOVE ARE UNIQUE TO OUR DESIGNS
YOU CAN SHRED ALMOST ANYTHING IN THESE THINGS
WE CONSIDER THIS TO BE A GRINDER OR RIPPER TYPE OF MACHINE
LOW SPEED OR MEDIUM SPEED OR HIGH SPEED GRINDING IS OUR SPECIALTY
DESIGN OF THESE MACHINES BEGAN IN FULL FORCE WITH THE SHREDDING OF SCRAP METAL AND SOLID WASTE IN 1966