Apparatus for washing grossly soiled products of plastic material for subsequent re-use

Washing apparatus for washing soiled comminuted products of plastic material, such as sheets, bands, sacks or the like, comprising an elongated container having at least one downwardly extending funnel-shaped bottom portion closed at a lower end thereof by a valve, said elongated container having a pair of opposite end walls;

• means for feeding soiled comminuted plastic material in the region of one of said end walls into said container;
• means for maintaining in said container a bath of washing solution of a specific weight greater than that of said comminuted plastic material fed thereinto;
• a partition adjacent the other end wall extending into the bath of washing solution and dividing the interior of said container in a washing zone and a discharge zone adapted to communicate with each other adjacent the container bottom;
• means for agitating the washing solution and the comminuted plastic material in said washing zone;
• and means for removing said comminuted plastic material from said discharge zone.