Trash compactor
AssigneeNorris Industries, Inc.
InventorMichael A. Nee
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Abstract
A trash compactor has trash compacting means attached to a chassis that is supported in the upper end of the housing for limited movement relative to its side walls and is detachable in a manner facilitating servicing of the trash compacting means. The chassis moves upwardly in response to reaction force developing on the application of compacting pressures to the trash by the compacting means and, at its upper limit of travel, it transfers the reaction forces to the side walls of the housing.
Claims11
A trash compactor comprising a housing including interconnected top, side and end walls, a base, and a door at the front of the compactor, the lower part of said housing being a compacting chamber, a chassis, means detachably supporting said chassis on said end walls in the upper end of the housing for limited upward movement relative to said end and side walls, and trash compacting means including a compacting head and means connected to said chassis and operable to reciprocate said head between an upper inoperative position and operative positions in which trash in said chamber is subjected to compacting pressures, said chassis moving upwardly in response to reaction forces developing on application of said compacting pressures to trash and at its upper limit of travel transferring said forces to said side walls transversely of a substantial part of each of them and substantially at their junction with said top wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.