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.
Claims39
A recycling system comprising:
- a compactor for producing a generally rectangular bale of recyclable material;
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- a scale that weighs the recyclable material in the compactor at any point from the loading step to the finished compacted bale and independently of the force applied to the bale by the compactor.
A weighed, identified bale of recyclable material that is ready for immediate container shipment or for a mill.
A recycling method comprising:
- compacting recyclable material in a compactor into a bale while concurrently weighing the material in the compactor and independently of the force that the compactor applies to the material or to the bale.
A recycling method that is particularly suitable for old corrugated containers (OCC) at retailers, the method comprising
- compacting OCC into a fixed bale of OCC 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;
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- sending the fixed identified bale to a destination selected from the group consisting of shippers and mills.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.