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US 4,786,000 AGranted
Bottle breaking apparatus
AssigneeGalland Henning Nopak, Inc.
InventorsEric P. Weil, Matthew T. Boswell
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Abstract
A bottle breaking apparatus comprising a bottle breaking member including a plate, and a punch extending outwardly from the plate, a V-shaped wall for supporting a bottle opposite the punch, and a pneumatic assembly for moving the plate toward the bottle so that the punch shatters the bottle and the plate further breaks the bottle.
Claims11
A bottle breaking apparatus comprising
- means for supporting a bottle,
- a bottle breaking member,
- means for applying to said member alternative first and second forces respectively moving said member toward and away from said supporting means, said force applying means including a cylinder, a piston connected to said member, said piston being slideably received in said cylinder and dividing said cylinder into first and second chambers, and means operating at a certain frequency for alternatingly supplying fluid to said first and second chambers, and
- manually operable means for selectively increasing said first force, said means for increasing said first force including means for decreasing said frequency.
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