Apparatus for crushing glassware
OwnerJohn Michael Gregginventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for crushing and storing product, especially glassware such as fluorescent lights and mercury vapor lamps, which when crushed, produces injurious substances, particularly mercury compounds, broken glass, and phosphorous powder. A flat funnel depending from a crushing chamber communicates with a round drum lid that has an opening coterminous with the narrow end of the flat funnel, so that crushed product is directed to the drum. A suction source is connected via the drum, through an opening in the lid, to the funnel-shaped compartment.
Claims10
An apparatus for crushing a product which produces injurious substances upon crushing, comprising:
- a housing for accommodating the product including a chamber for receiving the product;
- means operable in said chamber for crushing the product comprising a plurality of blades in said chamber and a lid for said chamber containing a plurality of blades which are closeable onto product placed in said chamber, thereby crushing said product;
- a flat funnel compartment depending from said chamber having a wide end on said chamber and a narrow end distal therefrom, the wide end being integral with the chamber;
- a lid for a storage drum integral with the narrow end of said flat funnel and having an opening therethrough coterminous with the narrow end of said flat funnel;
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- an opening in said drum lid through which a source of suction can be applied.
An apparatus for crushing a product which produces injurious substances upon crushing, comprising:
- a housing for accommodating the product including a chamber for receiving the product;
- means operable in said chamber for crushing the product;
- a flat funnel compartment depending from said chamber having a wide end at said chamber and a narrow end distal therefrom;
- said crushing means comprising a plurality of blades in said chamber and a lid for said chamber containing a plurality of blades offset from said chamber blades at least partially overlapping said chamber blades, and which are closeable onto product placed in said chamber when said lid is closed on said chamber, thereby crushing said product;
- a storage drum;
- a lid for said storage drum, sealing said storage drum, said drum lid being integral with the narrow end of said flat funnel and having an opening therethrough coterminous with the narrow end of said flat funnel;
- a source of suction;
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- an opening in said drum lid through which said source of suction can be applied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.