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US RE29,425 EGranted
Trash compactor and bag system
AssigneeHobart Corporation
InventorEinar O. Engebretsen
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AssigneeHobart Corporation
InventorEinar O. Engebretsen
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A trash compactor includes a container and a ram for compacting waste materials deposited therein, and a reusable liner positioned within the container receives the waste material, and facilitates removal of the waste material after compaction thereof. The liner has interfitting sections each with upstanding sidewalls and a bottom wall with one side wall of each of the sections being shortened to permit their ready assembly and disassembly. A tubular bag of seamless plastic sheet material having one sealed end is placed in the liner. The bag has a cuff portion which folds over the upper end of the liner and the container. Holes in the cuff portion engage buttons on the exterior of the container. The bag is longer than the liner depth to permit the sealed bag end to bunch in the bottom of the liner, and when a bag of compacted trash is removed, the material drops to the sealed end of the bag leaving an excess at the cuff portion for closing the open end of the bag. The holes may then provide a means for engaging a tie to close the bag.
[For use in] In a trash compactor having a housing, a ram mounted in said housing and including a reciprocating drive therefor, and a container having rigid walls positionable in said housing beneath said ram to receive items of trash for compaction in said container by movement of the ram into said container, said container having outwardly projecting buttons on the exterior of opposite sides thereof;
In a trash compactor having a housing, a ram mounted in said housing and including a reciprocating drive therefor, an access door opening to the interior of the housing in the region beneath said ram, and an open top container having rigid walls positionable in said housing beneath said ram to receive and restrain items of trash for compaction in said container by movement of the ram into said container, said container having retainer projections directly outwardly from the exterior of its top on opposite sides thereof;
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