Waste sorting device having an improved rotary screen
AssigneeGreen Creative Ltd.
InventorRemi Gomez
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Abstract
A processing equipment for collecting matter adhering to a surface of packages to be processed, the equipment including: a rotary cylindrical drum provided with orifices forming a screen for retaining the packages and for allowing the matter for collection to pass through; a brush roller mounted in the drum in order to brush the inside surface of said drum; a motor for driving the brush and the rotary drum in rotation; an outer casing for collecting the matter that has passed through the wall of the rotary drum during processing; a compression device against the inside face of the drum mounted inside the rotary drum in the immediate vicinity of the inside surface of the drum.
Claims13
A processing equipment for collecting matter adhering to a surface of packages to be processed as waste, said equipment comprising:
- a rotary cylindrical drum provided with orifices forming a screen for retaining the packages and for allowing the matter for collection to pass through;
- a brush roller mounted inside the rotary drum in order to brush the inside surface of said rotary drum;
- motor means for driving the brush roller and the rotary drum in rotation;
- an outer casing for collecting the matter that has passed through the wall of the rotary drum during processing;
- compression means for compressing against an inside face of the rotary drum, which compression means are mounted inside the rotary drum in the immediate vicinity of the inside surface of said drum so that the packages and the matter are compressed against the inside face of the rotary drum and that the matter is pushed through the orifices of the rotary drum;
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- resilient return means for returning the compression means to a normal operating position in order to flatten the packages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.