Waste treatment system
OwnerErich H. Pearsoninventor
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Abstract
A system for the treatment of infectious waste including apparatus for receiving, shredding, disinfecting, and separating waste material. A manually operated entry device provides input for quantities of solid waste into a feeding channel wherein a feeding ram moves the waste onto a series of shredding disintegrators which achieve material size reduction. Following shredding, the waste is gravitationally transferred into disinfecting fluid contained within an enclosed decontamination and separation device. Solid waste is continuously separated from the disinfecting fluid. The decontaminated solid waste is then deposited into a storage device.
Claims11
A contaminated waste treatment system for treating contaminated waste, comprising:
- batch input means for receiving the contaminated waste;
- disintegrator means connected to said input means and for reducing the contaminated waste into small pieces;
- decontamination means including:
- (1) mixing means disposed in a position to receive contaminated waste from said disintegrator means and rotatable for transferring said waste to a discharge position;
- (2) a conduit surrounding said mixing means;
- and (3) a disinfectant fluid housed in said conduit and surrounding a portion of said mixing means, said mixing means transferring the contaminated waste through said fluid at a predetermined rate for decontaminating the waste.
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