Weighing baled material
AssigneeMGM Services, Inc.
InventorRichard E. Waitkus, Jr.
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Abstract
An apparatus, a method, and a system are provided for measuring and reporting the weight of bales in a baler. The weight may be determined by a variety of methods. The system may display or store the weight of the bale in the baler. The system may schedule the removal of bales or track the number of bales produced, weight of the bales produced, or value of the bales produced. The system may determine an appropriate time to accomplish the scheduling of the removal of the bales.
Claims33
A recyclable material management system for tracking one or more bound bales of material at one or more locations, the system including:
- one or more balers at one or more of the locations, each baler adapted to produce a bound bale of recyclable material and each baler including a vertical compression plate;
- one or more weight measurement devices in communication with one or more balers, each weight measurement device adapted to determine the weight of the bale within one of the one or more balers;
- one or more weight recording devices to record the weight of the bale.
A method for managing recyclable material at one or more locations, including, at one or more locations:
- aggregating recyclable material into a bale in a baler with a vertical compression plate;
- determining a weight of the bale in the baler;
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- determining when the baler will reach a target fullness based on baler usage and binding said bale for transport.
A baler adapted to prepare a bound bale of recyclable material, including:
- a vertical compression plate in communication with a piston, the compression plate and piston adapted to compact material in the baler;
- one or more sensors for measuring one or more quantities related to the weight of the bale in the baler, the sensors in communication with the baler;
- a computational device in communication with the sensor for determining the weight of the bale based on the measured quantity;
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- a weight recording device in communication with the computational device, where the weight recording device records the weight of the bale.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.