摘要 |
Apparatus for comminuting animal residues wherein front and rear clamping plates are provided which engage respective ends of the two fixed arrays of support plates, the connectors being received in the undercut portion of respective elongate recesses and passing through openings in the two clamping plates and being retained in position with respect to the front clamping plate by respective releasable fasteners, that actuating means act on the rear clamping plate and are selectively actuable to urge the rear clamping plate and thus the support plates towards the front clamping plate and that a removal device is provided which is selectively engageable in the elongate recess of at least one of the arrays of support plates and is operable to support the weight of the array of support plates and the associated fixed blades and to move them to a position remote from the associated cylindrical array of movable blades. |