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US 5,205,417 AGranted
Sanitary trash recycling apparatus
OwnerJohn T. Herreninventor
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Abstract
A sanitary trash recycling apparatus includes a pit for receiving unsorted refuse, a electromagnetic device for removing ferrous materials and stations for permitting manual sorting of recyclable materials. The stations for manually sorting materials includes a device for moving the material to be sorted out toward the sorting operators as it moves through the station. A plurality of chutes are provided for each one of a number of recyclable products and bins are provided for receiving the sorted materials.
Claims17
A sanitary trash recycling apparatus comprising:
- a conveyor belt means for receiving refuse at one end thereof and moving it toward the other end thereof, said conveyor belt means being disposed along a longitudinal center line;
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- progressively tapered means disposed above and extending along the entire remaining length of said conveyor belt means for causing said refuse to move continuously outwardly from said longitudinal centerline as the refuse is moved from said one end to said other end of said conveyor belt means, whereby said refuse is more easily manually sorted as it is moved on said conveyor belt means;
- due to the fact that as refuse is removed along the conveyor belt means, at least a portion of the remaining refuse is forced outwardly along the remaining length of the conveyor belt means by continued contact with said progressively tapered means.
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