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US 5,287,803 AGranted
Can crushing apparatus
OwnerJoseph L. Coleinventor
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Abstract
A cylindrical housing includes a piston displaceable therewithin, wherein the piston includes a piston plate mounted to an opposed end of a piston rod, wherein the piston plate is in operative communication and directed through a guide tube having a tube floor to effect crushing of an associated can member directed between the piston plate and the guide tube floor. Feet structure is arranged to intersect the guide tube between the piston plate and the guide tube floor to properly position a can member to effect crushing thereof.
Claims5
A can crushing apparatus, comprising,
- a cylinder housing and a guide tube housing arranged in end-to-end relationship relative to one another, with the cylinder housing in communication with the guide tube housing, and the cylinder housing and guide tube housing symmetrically oriented about a predetermined axis,
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- the guide tube housing including a guide tube floor orthogonally oriented relative to the predetermined axis and spaced from the cylinder housing,
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- a piston reciprocatably mounted within the cylinder housing, the piston including a piston rod directed through the cylinder housing and including a piston plate arranged parallel relative to the piston positioned within the guide tube housing arranged for reciprocation relative to the guide tube floor, and drive means arranged for reciprocation of the piston within the cylinder housing,
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- the guide tube housing including an outlet opening positioned in adjacency to the floor,
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- a first solenoid mounted through the guide tube housing spaced from the outlet opening, with the first solenoid including a ram plate orthogonally oriented relative to the guide tube floor arranged for projecting a workpiece from the guide tube floor through the outlet opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.