Environmentally safe apparatus for storage of discarded tire rubber
AssigneeInterstate Recycling Corp.
InventorJoseph J. Solon
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Abstract
Flat strips cut from discarded tires are stacked and stored as bulk rubber on pallets for easy handling, transport by fork lift trucks and storage in outside compacted storage space without accumulating water where mosquitos can breed. Typically flat rectangular longitudinal tread strips are folded and stacked in a plurality of abutting stacks about five feet high for rubber-to-rubber engagement in configurations extending substantially to opposite edges of a pallet platform, thus storing about a ton of bulk rubber per pallet. The pallets then may be transported and stored in compact stacks at outside locations without accumulating water and breeding mosquitos.
Claims6
Environmentally safe, low assembly cost apparatus for storing and handling rubber tread strips from discarded tire carcasses in a compact configuration for bulk storage on a pallet at an outdoor site in a configuration that precludes accumulation of water for breeding of mosquitos, comprising in combination:
- said pallet comprising a loading platform of specified width and length dimensions, and having a configuration for transport by a fork lift truck, and
- a plurality of reclaimed treaded tire carcass strips cut from an annular portion of the discarded tire carcasses with removed opposing sidewalls, wherein the annular portions are flat treaded longitudinal strips stacked at said outdoor site in several side by side abutting multi-layer stacks of individual said rubber tread strips substantially covering the loading platform in an interlocked self-supporting configuration that retains a multiplicity of treaded strips in said multilayer stacks having rubber-to-rubber pattern configuration providing impediment to lateral movement of the strips on said platform thereby tending to stably retain said stacks in place on said pallet when the stacks are transported upon said pallet by a fork lift truck, said strips being of similar length and width stacked in said rubber-to-rubber contact pattern disposed longitudinally upon said platform along one of the specified dimensions, wherein said rubber-to-rubber pattern further constitutes configuration means in said stacks that precludes said accumulation of water.
The environmentally safe low cost bulk storage configuration of reclaimed flat rubber tread strips with sidewall portions removed which are cut from a plurality of discarded tire carcasses and stored in said bulk storage configuration on a pallet loading platform at an outside storage site in a format precluding accumulation of water in which mosquitos breed comprising in combination:
- a plurality of flat treaded strips without sidewalls cut from annular strips of the carcasses, with said flat treaded strips stacked in a plurality of side-by-side abutting multi-layer stacks upon said pallet loading platform,
- means for providing frictional impediment to lateral movement of the strips upon the pallet comprising stable stacks of treaded strips stacked in a rubber-to-rubber configuration precluding bolts and cages, which rubber-to-rubber configuration in the stacks further constitutes means for precluding accumulation of water in which mosquitos are bred, and said abutting stacks further constituting means for stably riding upon loading platforms of pallets without lateral movement of the tire tread strips when transported by fork lift trucks both to and from said storage site.
The environmentally safe low cost configuration of reclaimed flat rubber tread strips with sidewall portions removed from a plurality of discarded tire carcasses and stored at an outside storage site in a format precluding accumulation of water comprising in combination:
- a plurality of said flat treaded strips without sidewalls cut from annular strips of the carcasses with laterally movable flat treaded strips stacked in several side-by-side abutting multi-layer bulk form stacks upon a pallet loading platform transportable by fork lift trucks,
- means for providing frictional impediment to lateral movement of the strips upon the pallet loading platform as stable bodies in which the strips are in a rubber-to-rubber configuration precluding bolts and cages, which bodies constitute means for precluding accumulation of water, and said bodies further constituting means for stably riding upon loaded platforms of the pallets without lateral movement of the strips, wherein said configuration stored at the outside storage site further comprises a compact arrangement stacking one loaded pallet platform on top of another at said outdoor storage site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.