Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a multistage crushing device and a multistage crushing method for producing waste regenerated polyester staple fibers, which solve the problems that the crushing effect of the traditional crushing roller on the polyester fibers is poor due to the adoption of rolling crushing, the crushing of the polyester fibers is not thorough enough, and the crushing of the polyester fibers due to the adoption of blade type arrangement is easy to be clamped between crushing blades arranged up and down, so that the abrasion of the crushing blades is aggravated, and the normal work of the crushing operation is influenced.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: multistage breaker is used in production based on old and useless regeneration polyester staple fiber, including the shell, fix the motor on the shell lateral wall through the motor case, fix the discharge gate in the shell bottom, be provided with in the shell and be used for broken polyester staple fiber's broken subassembly and be used for getting rid of the anti-blocking component of remaining polyester staple fiber in the broken subassembly, include in the broken subassembly:
The output shaft is fixed at the output end of the power motor and used for transmission, one end of the output shaft is fixed with a driving wheel, the driving wheel is connected with a driven wheel through belt transmission, a rotating shaft is fixed on the driven wheel, the output shaft and the rotating shaft are movably provided with a housing in a penetrating way, and the housing is fixed on the side wall of the housing;
The crushing cutter is fixedly arranged on the rotating shaft in a penetrating way and used for crushing polyester staple fibers, and an upper broken piece and a lower broken piece which are matched with the crushing cutter are arranged in the shell.
Preferably, a protective sleeve is fixed at the bottom of the housing, the protective sleeve is sleeved outside the rotating shaft, a guide sleeve in a funnel shape is fixed in the housing, and the guide sleeve is sleeved outside the protective sleeve.
Preferably, the anti-blocking assembly comprises a guide rod fixed on the rotating shaft, a sliding sleeve is fixed at the bottom of the guide rod, a limiting rod is arranged in the sliding sleeve in a sliding mode, a push plate which is also arranged in the sliding sleeve in a sliding mode is fixed on the limiting rod in a penetrating mode, a first spring is fixed at the top of the push plate, the other end of the first spring is fixed in the sliding sleeve, and the bottom of the push plate is obliquely arranged and in sliding butt with the top of an upper broken piece.
Preferably, one end of the guide rod is slidably penetrated with a guide sleeve, the bottom of the guide sleeve is fixed at the top of the upper broken piece, a baffle is fixed on the guide sleeve, the top of the upper broken piece is fixed with a lower fixing frame, an electromagnet I is fixed in the lower fixing frame, an upper fixing frame is slidably penetrated in the lower fixing frame, one end of the upper fixing frame is fixed in the shell, an electromagnet II is fixed on the upper fixing frame, the electromagnet I and the electromagnet II are mutually exclusive in magnetic attraction after being electrified, a spring II is fixed at the top of the lower fixing frame, and the other end of the spring II is fixed on the upper fixing frame.
Preferably, the shell internal fixation has the dead lever, the one end of dead lever is fixed with out the aerofoil, be connected with the air-out nest of tubes on the aerofoil, the intercommunication has the cross on the air-out nest of tubes, the one end intercommunication of cross has the air pump, the air pump is fixed at the motor incasement, the intercommunication has the collection ring on the air-out nest of tubes, the collection ring passes through the fixed block to be fixed in the shell, the collection ring cover is established in last broken piece, down broken piece outside, the top of collection ring is fixed with the reflow mouth, the air intake department of collection ring is fixed with the division board that triangle-shaped set.
Preferably, the collecting ring is internally provided with an auxiliary assembly for assisting in removing residual polyester staple fibers, the auxiliary assembly comprises a centralizing plate penetrating through the collecting ring in a sliding manner, the centralizing plate is in sliding abutting connection with the collecting ring, a water bag is fixed in the collecting ring, and the centralizing plate is in abutting connection with the water bag.
Preferably, the water bag is communicated with a water pipe, one end of the water pipe is communicated with a water bag, the top of the water bag is fixedly provided with a mounting plate, one end of the mounting plate is fixed in the shell, the bottom of the mounting plate is fixedly provided with a guide post, and the guide post is provided with an extrusion plate in a sliding way.
Preferably, the top of stripper plate is fixed with magnet, the bottom of mounting panel is fixed with the electro-magnet III, the electro-magnet is three to be electrified the back with magnet between magnetism inhale the setting mutually.
The invention also provides a using method of the multistage crushing device for producing the waste regenerated polyester staple fibers, which comprises the following steps:
s1, adding polyester staple fibers to be crushed into a shell;
S2, starting a power motor to drive a crushing assembly to run so as to crush the polyester staple fibers in three stages;
s3, removing residual polyester staple fibers in the crushing assembly through the operation of the anti-blocking assembly;
S4, discharging the polyester staple fibers subjected to three-stage crushing from the discharge port.
Preferably, the rotating speed of the power motor is between 2600r/min and 4500 r/min.
The invention provides a multistage crushing device and method for producing regenerated polyester staple fibers based on waste. Compared with the prior art, the method has the following beneficial effects:
(1) According to the multistage crushing device and the multistage crushing method for producing the waste regenerated polyester staple fibers, the shell, the power motor, the output shaft, the driving wheel, the belt, the driven wheel, the housing, the rotating shaft, the protective sleeve, the guide sleeve, the crushing cutter, the upper broken piece, the lower broken piece and the discharge port are arranged, the polyester staple fibers to be processed are quantitatively put into the shell from the guide sleeve, the crushing cutter, the upper broken piece and the lower broken piece are mutually matched, so that the polyester staple fibers are crushed, the three-layer crushing cutter, the upper broken piece and the lower broken piece are crushed, the materials are further thinned, the materials are enabled to reach smaller granularity, the crushed polyester staple fibers are discharged to the outside of the shell from the discharge port for collection and use, the size of the materials can be gradually reduced through multistage crushing, each stage of cutter is responsible for different crushing tasks, the number of material transfer is reduced, the overall crushing efficiency is improved, the overlarge or undersize particle proportion is also helped, and the granularity of crushed products is more uniform.
(2) According to the multistage crushing device and the multistage crushing method for producing the waste regenerated polyester staple fibers, the guide rod, the sliding sleeve, the first spring, the limiting rod, the push plate, the guide sleeve, the baffle, the lower fixing frame, the upper fixing frame, the second spring, the first electromagnet, the second electromagnet, the fixing rod, the air outlet plate, the air pump, the four-way, the air outlet pipe group, the collecting ring, the return port, the fixing block and the flow dividing plate are arranged, when the rotating shaft drives the crushing cutter to rotate for crushing operation, the rotating shaft synchronously drives the guide rod to rotate, the guide rod synchronously drives the sliding sleeve to rotate, the sliding sleeve drives the limiting rod to rotate, the limiting rod drives the push plate to rotate, the spring provides elasticity for the push plate far away from the side where the sliding sleeve is located, so that the push plate can slide and abut against the top of an upper broken piece, and simultaneously the push plate rotates along with the rotating shaft, and when the guide rod extrudes the guide sleeve to move upwards, the residual polyester staple fibers can enter between the upper broken piece and the crushing cutter for crushing operation; meanwhile, the polyester staple fibers can be prevented from remaining between the upper broken piece, the breaking knife and the lower broken piece, the abrasion of the breaking knife is aggravated, the phenomenon that the inside of the breaking assembly is blocked is avoided, the normal operation of crushing operation is influenced, part of materials after single-stage crushing can be crushed again, the crushing effect and the product quality of the waste regenerated polyester staple fibers can be remarkably improved, the spinnability of the regenerated polyester staple fibers and the quality of final products can be improved, and meanwhile, the production cost and the energy consumption can be reduced.
(3) According to the multistage crushing device and the multistage crushing method for producing the waste regenerated polyester staple fibers, the collecting plate, the water bag, the mounting plate, the guide post, the extruding plate, the electromagnet III and the magnet are arranged, the air flow entering the collecting ring can push the collecting plate to slide along the annular sliding groove, the residual polyester staple fibers inside the collecting ring are pushed to the position of the backflow port, when the air flow enters the collecting ring and is shunted to two sides under the action of the shunting plate, the polyester staple fibers at the backflow port are driven to return to the top of broken pieces on the layer from the backflow port again, the pushed polyester staple fibers in the resetting process of the collecting plate can enter between the upper broken pieces and the crushing cutter under the driving of the air flow blown into the collecting ring, the situation that the polyester staple fibers in the collecting ring need to be manually cleaned can be avoided, meanwhile, the polyester staple fibers between the upper broken pieces and the crushing cutter can flow towards the crushing cutter through bidirectional blowing at the position, the crushing effect is improved, the situation that the polyester staple fibers are mixed between the upper broken pieces and the crushing cutter is avoided, the collecting ring is in a usable state at any time, and the whole production line efficiency is improved.
Detailed Description
The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
Referring to fig. 1 to 13, the present invention provides the following technical solutions:
embodiment one: multistage breaker is used in production based on old and useless regeneration polyester staple fiber, including shell 1, through motor case fixed mounting power motor 11 on shell 1 lateral wall, fixed mounting in the discharge gate 113 of shell 1 bottom, be provided with in the shell 1 and be used for breaking the broken subassembly of polyester staple fiber and be arranged in getting rid of the anti-blocking component of remaining polyester staple fiber in the broken subassembly, include in the broken subassembly: the power motor 11, the output shaft 12, the driving wheel 13, the belt 14, the driven wheel 15, the housing 16, the rotating shaft 17, the protective sleeve 18, the guide sleeve 19, the crushing knife 110, the upper crushing piece 111 and the lower crushing piece 112;
One end of an output shaft 12 is fixedly arranged on the output end of a power motor 11 through a coupler and used for transmission, one end of the output shaft 12 is fixedly provided with a driving wheel 13, the driving wheel 13 is in transmission connection with a driven wheel 15 through a belt 14, the diameter of the driven wheel 15 is one fourth of the diameter of the driving wheel 13, the bottom of the driven wheel 15 is fixedly provided with a rotating shaft 17, the output shaft 12 is movably arranged in a housing 16 through a bearing I and a rotating shaft 17 in a penetrating manner through a bearing II, and the bottom of the housing 16 is fixedly arranged on the side wall of a shell 1;
A rotating shaft 17 is fixedly arranged in the crushing cutter 110 in a penetrating manner and used for crushing polyester staple fibers, an upper broken piece 111 and a lower broken piece 112 which are matched with the crushing cutter 110 are arranged in the shell 1, a protective sleeve 18 is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the housing 16, the protective sleeve 18 is sleeved outside the rotating shaft 17, a funnel-shaped material guiding sleeve 19 is fixedly arranged in the shell 1, and the material guiding sleeve 19 is sleeved outside the protective sleeve 18;
The number of the crushing blades 110, the upper crushing blades 111 and the lower crushing blades 112 is three, and the crushing blades are uniformly distributed on the rotating shaft 17.
When in use, polyester staple fibers to be processed are quantitatively put into the shell 1 from the material guiding sleeve 19, the protective sleeve 18 is sleeved outside the rotating shaft 17, so that the polyester staple fibers which just enter the first layer of crushing assembly along the material guiding sleeve 19 are prevented from being directly wound on the rotating shaft 17, the power motor 11 is started, the output shaft 12 is driven by the power motor 11 to rotate, the driving wheel 13 is driven by the output shaft 12 to rotate, the driven wheel 15 is driven by the driving wheel 13 to rotate through the belt 14, the driving wheel 13, the belt 14 and the driven wheel 15 are protected through the housing 16, the diameter of the driven wheel 15 is set to be one fourth of the driving wheel 13, the rotation speed of the driven wheel 15 is faster than that of the driving wheel 13, the driven wheel 15 drives the rotation shaft 17 to rotate, the rotation shaft 17 drives the crushing cutter 110 to rotate, the crushing cutter 110 is matched with the upper crushing piece 111 and the lower crushing piece 112 to crush the polyester staple fibers, the length of each layer of crushed product is controlled by adjusting the distance between the crushing cutter 110 and the upper crushing piece 111 and the lower crushing piece 112, the length of the product is shortened from top to bottom, the materials are further thinned after the three layers of crushing cutters 110, the upper crushing piece 111 and the lower crushing piece 112 are crushed, the materials reach smaller granularity, and the crushed polyester staple fibers are discharged to the outside of the shell 1 from the discharge hole 113 for collection and use.
In the second embodiment, the technical solution of the present embodiment different from the first embodiment includes: the anti-blocking assembly comprises: the anti-blocking device comprises a guide rod 2, a sliding sleeve 21, a first spring 22, a limiting rod 23, a push plate 24, a guide sleeve 25, a baffle 26, a lower fixing frame 27, an upper fixing frame 28, a second spring 29, a first electromagnet 210, a second electromagnet 211, a fixing rod 212, an air outlet plate 213, an air pump 3, a four-way joint 31, an air outlet pipe group 32, a collecting ring 34, a backflow port 35, a fixing block 36 and a flow dividing plate 37, wherein the number of anti-blocking components except the air pump 3 and the four-way joint 31 is three, and the anti-blocking components are correspondingly distributed at the positions of broken pieces 111 on the three groups;
The connection relation of each part in the single group is as follows: one end of the guide rod 2 is fixedly arranged on the rotating shaft 17, a sliding sleeve 21 is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the guide rod 2, a limiting rod 23 is arranged in the sliding sleeve 21 in a sliding manner, a push plate 24 which is also arranged in the sliding sleeve 21 in a sliding manner is fixedly arranged on the limiting rod 23, a first spring 22 is fixedly arranged at the top of the push plate 24, the other end of the first spring 22 is fixedly arranged in the sliding sleeve 21, and the bottom of the push plate 24 is obliquely arranged and in sliding abutting connection with the top of the upper broken piece 111;
One end of the guide rod 2 is slidably penetrated through a guide sleeve 25, a sliding groove is formed in the outer wall of the inner ring of the guide sleeve 25, the bottom of the guide sleeve 25 is fixedly arranged at the top of an upper broken piece 111, a baffle 26 is fixedly arranged on the guide sleeve 25, two lower fixing frames 27 are fixedly arranged at the top of the upper broken piece 111, an electromagnet I210 is fixedly arranged in the two lower fixing frames 27, an upper fixing frame 28 is slidably penetrated in the two lower fixing frames 27, one ends of the two upper fixing frames 28 are fixedly arranged in the shell 1, an electromagnet II 211 is fixedly arranged on the two upper fixing frames 28, the electromagnet I210 and the magnetism of the electromagnet II 211 are mutually exclusive after being electrified, a spring II 29 is fixedly arranged at the top of the two lower fixing frames 27, and the other ends of the two springs II 29 are fixedly arranged on the upper fixing frames 28;
A fixed rod 212 is fixedly arranged in the shell 1, one end of the fixed rod 212 is fixedly provided with an air outlet plate 213, the air outlet plate 213 is communicated with the air outlet pipe group 32, the air outlet pipe group 32 is communicated with the four-way valve 31, one end of the four-way valve 31 is communicated with the output end of the air pump 3, the outer wall of the air pump 3 is fixedly arranged in a motor case, the air outlet pipe group 32 is communicated with a collecting ring 34, the collecting ring 34 is fixedly arranged in the shell 1 through two fixing blocks 36, the collecting ring 34 is sleeved outside the upper broken piece 111 and the lower broken piece 112, the top of the collecting ring 34 is fixedly provided with a reflux port 35, and the air inlet of the collecting ring 34 is fixedly provided with a triangle-shaped splitter plate 37.
When the rotary shaft 17 drives the crushing cutter 110 to rotate for crushing operation, the rotary shaft 17 synchronously drives the guide rod 2 to rotate, the guide rod 2 synchronously drives the sliding sleeve 21 to rotate, the sliding sleeve 21 drives the limiting rod 23 to rotate, the limiting rod 23 drives the pushing plate 24 to rotate, the first spring 22 provides the pushing plate 24 with elastic force to the side far away from the sliding sleeve 21, so that the pushing plate 24 can be in sliding contact with the top of the upper broken piece 111, and meanwhile, the pushing plate 24 rotates along with the rotary shaft 17, so that residual polyester staple fibers at the top of the upper broken piece 111 are pushed to move to the side of the rotary shaft 17, and when the guide rod 2 extrudes the guide sleeve 25 to move upwards, the residual polyester staple fibers can enter between the upper broken piece 111 and the crushing cutter 110 for crushing operation;
Through sliding fit between the guide rod 2 and the guide sleeve 25, the guide rod 2 can move along a guide groove formed in the guide sleeve 25, when the guide rod 2 moves along the guide groove to extrude the guide sleeve 25 to move upwards, the guide sleeve 25 drives the upper broken piece 111 to synchronously move, the upper broken piece 111 drives the lower fixing frame 27 to move, the lower fixing frame 27 can linearly move along the upper fixing frame 28 under the driving of the upper broken piece 111 through sliding fit between the lower fixing frame 27 and the upper fixing frame 28, the upper broken piece 111 can extrude the push plate 24 to move in the upward moving process, the push plate 24 linearly retracts into the slide sleeve 21 through sliding fit between the push plate 24 and the slide sleeve 21, the polyester staple fibers pushed by the push plate 24 can enter between the upper broken piece 111 and the crushing knife 110 to perform crushing operation, after the guide rod 2 moves along the guide groove to fall back to the initial height again, the push plate 24 is again ejected from the slide sleeve 21 under the action of the first spring 22, and the upper broken piece 111 is reset to the initial height under the self gravity and the action of the second spring 29;
The upper fixing frame 28 provides supporting force for the electromagnet two 211, the lower fixing frame 27 provides supporting force for the electromagnet one 210, the electromagnet one 210 and the electromagnet two 211 are mutually exclusive in magnetism after being electrified, the distance between the upper fixing frame 28 and the lower fixing frame 27 is adjusted by controlling the repulsive force between the electromagnet one 210 and the electromagnet two 211, so that the distance between the upper broken piece 111 and the breaking knife 110 is adjusted, the polyester staple fibers are broken into initial lengths between the upper broken piece 111 and the breaking knife 110, and then the polyester staple fibers are broken again between the lower broken piece 112 and the breaking knife 110, so that the polyester staple fibers are changed into final output lengths of the layer;
When the upper broken piece 111 moves upwards under the action of the guide rod 2, the upper broken piece 111 drives the guide sleeve 25 to move upwards synchronously in the upward moving process, the guide sleeve 25 drives the baffle 26 to move synchronously, one end of the baffle 26 is abutted against the side wall of the air outlet plate 213, the output power of the air pump 3 is controlled to be increased, the air pump 3 respectively conveys air to the air outlet plate 213 and the collecting ring 34 through the four-way 31 and the air outlet pipe group 32, the air is blown to the upper broken piece 111 and the breaking blade 110 through the air outlet plate 213, residual polyester staple fibers at the upper broken piece 111 can smoothly enter between the upper broken piece 111 and the breaking blade 110, and the polyester staple fibers mixed between the upper broken piece 111 and the breaking blade 110 can be blown into the collecting ring 34 and cannot leak into the shell 1, and meanwhile part of the polyester staple fibers between the lower broken piece 112 and the breaking blade 110 are blown to the top of the upper broken piece 111 in the next-stage breaking assembly;
The air is conveyed into the collecting ring 34 through the air outlet pipe group 32, and the air flows to the two sides of the flow dividing plate 37 through the flow dividing plate 37, so that the polyester staple fibers in the collecting ring 34 flow to the reflow opening 35 under the drive of the air flow, fall to the upper broken piece 111 again from the reflow opening 35, and are close to the central position under the drive of the push plate 24, and the polyester staple fibers collected in the collecting ring 34 are secondarily broken.
In the third embodiment, the technical solution of the present embodiment different from the second embodiment includes: the collection is provided with the auxiliary assembly of supplementary remaining polyester staple fiber of getting rid of in the ring 34, and auxiliary assembly's quantity and the quantity looks adaptation of anti-blocking assembly include in the auxiliary assembly: the collecting plate 4, the water bag 41, the water pipe 42, the water bag 43, the mounting plate 44, the guide post 45, the extrusion plate 46, the electromagnet three 47 and the magnet 48;
The connection relation of all parts in the single auxiliary assembly is as follows:
One end of the collecting plate 4 is slidably arranged on the top of the inner wall of the collecting ring 34 in a penetrating manner, the side wall of the collecting plate 4 is slidably abutted in the collecting ring 34, two water bags 41 are fixedly arranged on the top of the inner wall of the collecting ring 34, the side wall of the collecting plate 4 is abutted on the water bags 41, two water bags 41 are communicated with one water pipe 42, one ends of the two water pipes 42 are communicated with the water bags 43, a mounting plate 44 is fixedly arranged on the top of the water bags 43, one end of the mounting plate 44 is fixedly arranged in the shell 1, a guide post 45 is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the mounting plate 44, an extruding plate 46 is slidably arranged on the guide post 45, a magnet 48 is fixedly arranged at the top of the extruding plate 46, an electromagnet III 47 is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the mounting plate 44, and the electromagnet III 47 is in magnetic attraction with the magnet 48 after being electrified.
When in use, by arranging an annular chute at the top of the inside of the collecting ring 34 and fixedly arranging two water bags 41 at the top of the inner wall of the annular chute, sliding the collecting plate 4 to penetrate into the annular chute, controlling the electromagnetic valve to be opened when air flow blows into the collecting ring 34 and flows to two sides under the action of the splitter plate 37, pushing the collecting plate 4 to slide along the annular chute, the collecting plate 4 can squeeze the water bags 41, so that water in the water bags 41 flows into the water bags 43 through the electromagnetic valve and the water pipes 42, the water bags 43 are inflated, when the collecting plate 4 moves to the position of the backflow port 35, the water in the water bags 41 completely flows into the water bags 43, and residual polyester staple fibers in the collecting ring 34 are pushed to the position of the backflow port 35, and after the air flow enters the collecting ring 34 and is split to two sides under the action of the splitter plate 37, the polyester staple fibers at the position of the return opening 35 are driven to return to the top of the broken piece 111 on the layer from the return opening, at the moment, the electromagnet III 47 is controlled to attract the magnetism of the magnet 48, the electromagnetic valve is opened again, the magnet 48 drives the extrusion plate 46 to move to the side where the electromagnet III 47 is located, the extrusion plate 46 only moves linearly through sliding fit between the extrusion plate 46 and the guide post 45, the water bag 43 is extruded through the extrusion plate 46, water in the water bag 43 returns to the water bag 41 again through the water pipe 42, the water bag 41 expands and extrudes the collecting plate 4, the collecting plate 4 slides to the position of the distributing plate 37 along the annular sliding groove again, then the electromagnet III 47 is powered off, the magnet 48 and the extrusion plate 46 are reset to the initial state again under the action of self gravity, and the polyester staple fibers pushed away in the reset process enter between the broken piece 111 and the broken piece 110 under the driving of the air flow blown into the collecting ring 34.
The embodiment of the invention also provides a using method of the multistage crushing device for producing the waste regenerated polyester staple fibers, which comprises the following steps:
s1, adding polyester staple fibers to be crushed into a shell 1;
s2, starting a power motor 11 to drive a crushing assembly to run so as to crush the polyester staple fibers in three stages;
s3, removing residual polyester staple fibers in the crushing assembly through the operation of the anti-blocking assembly;
S4, discharging the polyester staple fibers subjected to three-stage crushing from the discharge port 113.
Wherein the rotational speed of the power motor 11 is between 2600r/min and 4500 r/min.
In another embodiment, the upper fixing frame 28, the lower fixing frame 27, the electromagnet one 210, the electromagnet two 211 and the spring two 29 are also arranged at the lower broken piece 112 of each layer, so that the distance between the lower broken piece 112 and the breaking blade 110 is also adjustable, and the distance between the upper broken piece 111 and the breaking blade 110 and the distance between the lower broken piece 112 and the breaking blade 110 are the same.
And all that is not described in detail in this specification is well known to those skilled in the art.
It is noted that relational terms such as first and second, and the like are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Moreover, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made therein without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.