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US 4,303,010 AGranted
Refuse disposal system
AssigneeMurco Environmental Limited
InventorManus Coffey
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AssigneeMurco Environmental Limited
InventorManus Coffey
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The Specification concerns a refuse disposal system in which a refuse compacting unit located adjacent a wall of a building has a refuse input accessible from inside the building and a refuse output accessible from outside the building for discharging compacted refuse into a removable container. In order to permit a high degree of freedom in the placement of the container the unit is mounted on wheels for mobility and is located in an aperture in the wall, the aperture being substantially wider than the unit. The unit is disposed between a pair of sliding doors mounted for movement parallel to the wall, the doors being coupled to opposite sides of the unit by upwarding directed rollers on the doors engaging inverted channels along opposite sides of the unit. This arrangement permits free movement of the unit in a horizontal plane within the dimensional limitations of the arrangement, while ensuring that substantially the full width of the aperture in the wall is occupied by the combination of the unit and doors.
A refuse disposal system comprising a mobile refuse compacting unit located in an aperture in a wall of a building, the aperture being wider than the unit, a pair of sliding doors mounted for movement parallel to the wall and disposed one on either side of the unit, and means coupling the doors to opposite sides of the unit respectively so as to permit a degree of horizontal movement of the unit in directions both parallel and perpendicular to the wall respectively and also a degree of rotational movement of the unit about a vertical axis, the doors and the unit in any position of the latter occupying substantially the full width of the aperture, and the unit having a refuse input accessible from inside the building and a refuse output accessible from outside the building.
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