Wall mounted can crusher

Can crushing apparatus comprising:

• a back section including a back wall and a back tubular peripheral wall;
• a cover section including a front wall and a front tubular peripheral wall complementally shaped to receive the back tubular peripheral wall in female relationship thereover for shifting of the front wall from an extended position to a retracted crushing position;
• a crush chamber mounted from the back wall, opening forwardly and configured with a bottom wall including a discharge slot;
• a can chute carried from the back section for conveying cans to the crush chamber;
• a guide device interposed between the cover and back sections for guiding travel of the cover section from the extended to the crushing position;
• pairs of spring mounts on the respective cover and back sections;
• coil compression springs interposed between the spring mounts for biasing the cover section away from the back section to the extended position;
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• a crush piston mounted from the cover section, projecting rearwardly to, upon the cover section being shifted from the extended to the crushing position, engage a can in the crush chamber to crush it to a crushed configuration to be ejected through the discharge slot.

Can crushing apparatus for crushing a can from a predetermined configuration to a reduced configuration, comprising:

• a vertically elongated back section for mounting to a structural wall and a cover section complementally shaped to receive the back section therein;
• a crush chamber on the back section for receiving the can and including a bottom wall formed with a discharge opening having horizontal cross section smaller than a length of the can and configured to pass the can in the reduced configuration;
• a piston is rigidly mounted to a front wall of the cover section, the piston including a driving end and a working end aligned with the chamber and reciprocable from a retracted position to a crushing position projecting into the chamber to, upon shifting to the crushing position, contact a can in the chamber to crush it to the reduced configuration to fit through the discharge opening;
• a punch pad extending over a front surface of the front wall of the cover section, the punch pad to be struck directly by a user to drive the piston from the retracted position to the crush position;
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• the back and cover sections formed with respective complementally shaped peripheral walls which are received in sliding, inter-fitting relationship for sliding of the cover section from the retracted position to the crushing position and the punch pad is in the form of a compressible pad extending over the front surface of the cover section.

Can crushing apparatus for crushing a can from a predetermined configuration to a reduced configuration, comprising:

• a vertically elongated back section for mounting to a structural wall and a cover section complementally shaped to receive the back section therein;
• a crush chamber on the back section for receiving the can and including a bottom wall formed with a discharge opening having horizontal cross section smaller than a length of the can and configured to pass the can in the reduced configuration;
• a piston is rigidly mounted to a front wall of the cover section, the piston including a driving end and a working end aligned with the chamber and reciprocable from a retracted position to a crushing position projecting into the chamber to, upon shifting to the crushing position, contact a can in the chamber to crush it to the reduced configuration to fit through the discharge opening;
• a punch pad extending over a front surface of the front wall of the cover section, the punch pad to be struck directly by a user to drive the piston from the retracted position to the crush position;
• the cover and back sections constructed with peripheral walls slidably fitted together to shift from the retracted position to the crushing position;
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• wherein the piston is carried from cover section to be, upon the cover section being driven from the retracted position to the crushing position, drive the piston into the crush chamber.

Can crushing apparatus for crushing a can from a predetermined configuration to a reduced configuration, comprising:

• a vertically elongated back section for mounting to a structural wall and a cover section complementally shaped to receive the back section therein;
• a crush chamber on the back section for receiving the can and including a bottom wall formed with a discharge opening having horizontal cross section smaller than a length of the can and configured to pass the can in the reduced configuration;
• a piston is rigidly mounted to a front wall of the cover section, the piston including a driving end and a working end aligned with the chamber and reciprocable from a retracted position to a crushing position projecting into the chamber to, upon shifting to the crushing position, contact a can in the chamber to crush it to the reduced configuration to fit through the discharge opening;
• a punch pad extending over a front surface of the front wall of the cover section, the punch pad to be struck directly by a user to drive the piston from the retracted position to the crush position;
• a holder on the back section for holding a pressure actuated audio card;
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• an actuator mounted on the cover section, the actuator responsive to the piston being shifted from its retracted position to its crushing position to activate the card.