Systems and methods for recycling waste material from a pencil
OwnerBenjamin TISDALEinventor
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Abstract
A system for recycling waste material from a pencil sharpener includes: a collector being configured for holding the waste material from the pencil sharpener, the waste material including a mixture of pigment shavings and shell shavings; a sizer being configured for reducing the size of the pigment shavings relative to the size of the shell shavings; and a separator being configured for separating the pigment shavings from the shell shavings based on the difference in the size of the pigment shavings relative to the size of the shell shavings.
Claims20
An apparatus for recycling waste material from a pencil sharpener, comprising
- a collector configured to hold the waste material from the pencil sharpener, the waste material comprising a mixture of pigment shavings and shell shavings;
- a sizer configured to reduce the size of the pigment shavings relative to the size of the shell shavings;
- and
- a separator configured to separate the pigment shavings from the shell shavings based on the difference in the size of the pigment shavings relative to the size of the shell shavings.
A method for recycling waste material from a pencil sharpener, comprising the steps of:
- collecting the waste material, the waste material comprising pigment shavings and shell shavings;
- reducing the size of the pigment shavings;
- and
- separating the pigment shavings from the shell shavings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.