Compactor system and related baling and recycling method
AssigneeBace, LLC
InventorsFrederick Waite, Drew Sigmund, Jr., Matthew Perry
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Abstract
A recycling method is disclosed that includes the steps of compacting recyclable material into a fixed bale of recyclable material while concurrently weighing the OCC in the compactor and independently of the force that the compactor applies to the material or to the bale, assigning an individual identifier to the fixed bale in which the identifier includes at least the weight of the bale, and sending the fixed identified bale to a destination selected from the group consisting of shippers, mills, rebalers, or a customers for the baled recyclable material.
Claims27
A recycling method for old corrugated containers (OCC) at retailers, the method comprising:
- compacting multiple pieces of discarded OCC in a compactor at a retail site into a fixed bale of OCC at that retail site, wherein the fixed bale is a solid rectangle;
- while concurrently weighing the compactor and the OCC in the compactor and independently of the force that the compactor applies to the discarded OCC or to the bale during compacting;
- assigning an individual identifier to the fixed bale in which the identifier includes at least the weight of the identified bale;
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- sending the fixed identified bale in an intermodal container from the retail site to a destination without any rebaling step,
- wherein at least one scale is positioned under the compactor to support the weight of the compactor and the OCC during the compacting step and during the concurrent weighing step in order to perform the concurrent weighing step.
A system for recycling a recyclable material, comprising:
- a compactor with a press head that reciprocates under a compacting force to compact the recyclable material into a fixed bale having a generally rectangular shape;
- at least one scale that weighs the combination of the compactor and the recyclable material in the compactor concurrently during the reciprocating operation of the compactor press head and independently of the compacting force applied to the recyclable material by the compactor press head, wherein the at least one scale is positioned under the compactor to support the weight of the compactor and the recyclable material during the reciprocating operation of the compactor press head and during the concurrent weighing of the compactor and the recyclable material by the at least one scale;
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- at least one anchoring system including an anchor element that is configured to anchor a base frame element of the compactor in place during the reciprocating operation of the compactor press head without the anchoring system interfering with the support of the weight of the compactor and the recyclable material by the at least one scale during the concurrent weighing by the at least one scale.
A system for recycling old corrugated containers (OCC), comprising:
- a baler with a press head that reciprocates under a compacting force to compact the OCC into a fixed bale having a generally rectangular shape;
- at least one load cell that weighs the combination of the baler and the OCC in the baler concurrently during the reciprocating operation of the baler press head and independently of the compacting force applied to the OCC by the baler, wherein the at least one load cell is positioned under the baler to support the weight of the baler and the OCC during the reciprocating operation of the baler press head and during the concurrent weighing of the baler and the OCC by the at least one load cell;
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- at least one means for anchoring the baler in place during the reciprocating operation of the baler press head without interfering with the support of the weight of the baler and the OCC by at least one load cell during the concurrent weighing by the at least one load cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.