Abstract

A hard drive recycling system and method receive a hard drive comprising a rare earth magnet in one or more peripheral corners or edges of the hard drive, moves the received hard drive along a guide track into a cutting position in which a plane of the cutting surface is transverse to a longitudinal axis of the guide track, in the cutting position, cuts the one or more peripheral corners or edges of the hard drive to form a rare earth magnet-containing portion and a hard drive body portion, removes by a first output the rare earth-magnet-containing portion, and removes by a different second output the hard drive body portion.

IPC Classes  ?

• B09B 3/35 - Shredding, crushing or cutting
• B21D 28/04 - Centering the workPositioning the tools
• B21D 43/08 - Advancing work in relation to the stroke of the die or tool by means in mechanical engagement with the work by rollers
• B21D 45/02 - Ejecting devices
• B23D 17/06 - Shearing machines or shearing devices cutting by blades pivoted on a single axis characterised by drives or gearings therefor actuated by fluid or gas pressure