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US 5,181,463 AGranted
Integrated precompacting trash compactor
AssigneeM. Glosser & Sons, Inc.
InventorRaymond F. Lackner
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Abstract
A trash compactor is provided that has a single ram that simultaneously precompacts trash in an auxiliary precompacting chamber and compacts trash that has already been precompacted in a main compacted and storage chamber. The ram has a single actuating device and efficiently provides for both precompacting in the auxiliary precompacting chamber and for compacting in the compacting and storage chamber with each stroke of the ram.
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A trash compactor comprising:
- a rigid main compacting and storage chamber;
- an auxiliary precompacting chamber that is in unrestricted communication with said main compacting and storage chamber except when communication is blocked by a compacting ram;
- a compacting ram having a first portion that compacts material within said main compacting and storage chamber, a second portion that compacts material within said auxiliary precompacting chamber and a third portion that blocks entry from said auxiliary precompacting chamber to said main compacting and storage chamber while said ram is compacting material in said auxiliary precompacting chamber;
- means to reciprocate said ram relative to said main and auxiliary chambers to first compact material within said chambers when said ram is moving in a first direction and to thereafter permit unrestricted ingress of precompacted material from said auxiliary precompacting chamber to said main compacting and storage chamber after material is precompacted in said auxiliary precompacting chamber and said ram is retracted in a direction opposite to said first direction.
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A trash compactor comprising:
- a main compacting and storage chamber having an opening on its upper side to receive trash;
- an auxiliary precompacting chamber having a side opening to receive trash, said auxiliary precompacting chamber selectively communicating with said main compacting and storage chamber;
- a unitary ram having a first portion that compacts material within said main compacting and storage chamber, a second portion that compacts material within said auxiliary precompacting chamber and a third portion that blocks entry from said auxiliary precompacting chamber to said main compacting and storage chamber while said ram is compacting material in said auxiliary precompacting chamber;
- a hydraulic piston and cylinder to reciprocate said unitary ram vertically so that said ram moves downwardly to precompact and to compact trash within said auxiliary and main chambers respectively with said ram third portion blocking ingress from said auxiliary precompacting chamber to said main compacting and storage chamber and so that said ram moves upwardly to permit precompacted material to enter said main compacting and storage chamber;
- said auxiliary precompacting chamber having a pivoting liner actuated by said ram, said liner having a bottom wall and two side walls pivotingly secured t the body of said trash compactor so that said bottom wall tilts upward when said ram moves upwardly to dump precompacted material from said auxiliary precompacting chamber into said main compacting and storage chamber.
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