Plastic Bottle Crusher
OwnerLothar Budike, JR.inventor
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Abstract
The invention is a plastic bottle crusher that includes a vacuum nozzle creating suction to compress the bottle via a manual pump or electric motor and a series of cutting blades in order to chop and shred plastic bottles of multiple sizes. The invention also includes an excess water chamber as well as variable sized detachable sleeves based on bottle size with mechanical blades to remove bottle labels as well as a vertical guide to provide maximum compression for air removal, plastic preparation for recycling and placement of crushed bottles into a recyclable housing.
Claims20
A device for crushing plastic bottles comprising:
- a main assembly having a top and bottom with a vacuum means and a suction head at the bottom of the main assembly.
A device for crushing plastic bottles comprising:
- a main assembly having a detachable shell, a top and bottom with a vacuum means and an adjustable suction head at the bottom of the main assembly where the vacuum means is a vacuum motor attached to a vacuum motor shaft which attaches to vacuum fan blades where the vacuum motor drives the vacuum motor shaft which turns the vacuum fan blades creating an upward air flow towards the top of the main assembly, having an exhaust air flow vent at the top of the main assembly, having a chopping motor where the chopping motor is attached to a chopping shaft which is connected to a plurality of chopping blades and where the power supply is separated from the vacuum motor by an exhaust vacuum filter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.