Device for manually compacting waste

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for manually compacting waste contained in a container, including a frame having a support plate that is intended to be positioned and/or fastened to the ground, and two lateral uprights, a left-hand lateral upright and a right-hand lateral upright, respectively, that are secured to the support plate and extend perpendicularly thereto, with the support plate and the lateral uprights delimiting a central space that is able to receive a container containing waste. The device also includes two manually actuable levers, namely a left-hand lever fastened to the left-hand lateral upright so as to pivot about a left-hand pivot axis and a right-hand lever fastened to the right-hand lateral upright so as to pivot about a right-hand pivot axis, with the left-hand and right-hand pivot axes being parallel and defining a plane parallel to a plane defined by the support plate. The device further includes at least one push bar, at the lower end of which a compression plate is fastened, with the push bar being connected to the left-hand lever and/or the right-hand lever by way of at least one connecting member that is able to slide along the left-hand lever and/or right-hand lever and which is configured to act on the push bar under the action of the left-hand lever and/or right-hand lever so as to move it towards the ground or away from the ground, thus making it possible to move the compression plate towards or away from the support plate from an equilibrium position in which it rests on the waste to be compacted.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.