Sonic compactor
AssigneeContainer Products Corp.
InventorJoel Hughes
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Abstract
A waste compactor utilizing the combined forces of compression and vibration for reducing, leveling and compacting waste within a container. The pressure force is expelled through a guided hydraulic ram assembly, the pressurized movement of which is coordinated with an applied vibrating energy developed through a mechanical vibrator and/or sonic frequency emitter, the rate and intensity of which encompasses a varying range. The sonic vibrating energy generator may be carried by and movable with the compacting ram or it may be embedded in the base platform of the compactor.
Claims18
An apparatus for disintegrating, leveling and compacting waste material within a waste container, comprising,
- (a) a cabinet providing internal access through a lockable door for the reception of a waste container,
- (b) a movable waste compression member within said cabinet and movable in contact with the waste material within the waste container, positioned within said cabinet,
- (c) means moving said compressing member through reciprocal directions within said cabinet,
- (d) a platform within said cabinet for supporting the waste container,
- (e) means creating vibrational forces upon the waste within the waste container during compaction threof by said compressing member,
- (f) means resiliently mounting said platform within said cabinet so as to prevent vibrational forces from being transmitted from said platform to said cabinet, and
- (g) means resiliently connecting said compressing member to said moving means so as to prevent vibrational forces from being transmitted from said waste material within the container through the compressing member onto said moving means.
In a method for treating contained waste masses, the steps consist of disposing the waste in an open container, placing the container in a cabinet and exhausting the atmosphere therefrom so as to create a negative pressure chamber surrounding the open container, subjecting the waste within the container to compression forces while simultaneously imparting vibratory energy to the waste in varying frequencies beginning with low frequency, high intensity vibrational forces during initial compression of the waste mass within the container.
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