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US 3,986,845 AGranted
Fuel compacting apparatus
OwnerArch Hotchkissinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for compacting sheet or other burnable material into log-like form including means for severing the sheet into small chips, applying glue to the chips and then compactng the chips in a chamber dimensioned to form a log-shaped compacted unit.
Claims16
Apparatus for compacting cardboard sheet material which comprises
- means for advancing the sheet material and for completely severing the same during such advance in two different directions to form chips of the material,
- a chamber disposed to receive the advancing material chips, and
- means for compacting the material chips in said chamber.
Apparatus for compacting cardboard cartons or the like which comprises
- means for feeding and collapsing the cartons into flat substantially sheet form,
- means for completely severing the sheets in two different directions to form material chips,
- a chamber disposed to receive the chips, and
- means for compacting the chips in said chamber.
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Apparatus for severing cardboard sheet material which comprises
- a plurality of pairs of parallel narrow endless belts supported in vertically-opposed relation to receive and frictionally advance the sheet material, and
- a plurality of knife pairs supported for powered rotation in overlapping adjacent relation between said pairs of belts.
Compacting apparatus for small chips of cardboard material which comprises
- an elongated housing having an entrance opening above a compacting chamber formed at one end thereof,
- a hydraulic ram in said housing and operative to exert pressure against chips in said chamber,
- means for energizing said hydraulic ram repetitively, and
- means for successively delivering a plurality of groups of chips into said chamber until repetitive energization of such ram produces a compacted unit of predetermined length.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.