Presses – Compacting ensilage within silo
Patent
1994-10-05
1996-02-20
Gerrity, Stephen F.
Presses
Compacting ensilage within silo
100210, B30B 930
Patent
active
054920566
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an arrangement for a compacting plant for refuse and similar material, which comprises a drivable rotating roller for compacting the material inside a receiver vessel and capable of moving in an essentially horizontal direction about an essentially vertical shaft, preferably driven in a rotary fashion, which roller can be supported enabling it to be moved in a direction between the bottom of the vessel and its upper part.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A problem associated with compacting plants of the kind referred to above is the need to be able to achieve even compaction along essentially the whole of the material accommodating space of a vessel, and to be able to support a compaction roller by simple, yet effective and reliable means.
Previously disclosed in, for example, European Patents 0 106 268 and 0 315 674 are compactors with a compaction roller pivotally mounted about a vertical central shaft, in conjunction with which said roller runs on the same path and leaves an area free of compaction, i.e. beneath the central shaft and peripherally around the path of the roller.
In addition, the supports for the roller in these previously disclosed compactors are unnecessarily complex and temperamental in use, for example arms capable of being transported on carriages in upright guide tracks, with the result that large spaces are required in the area above the material receiver vessel.
The principal object of the present invention is thus, in the first place, to enable at least one of the problems and disadvantages referred to above to be solved by simple and efficient means.
Said object is achieved by means of an arrangement in accordance with the present invention, which is characterized essentially in that the vertical, and preferably rotatable shaft is capable of lateral displacement and/or is supported telescopically.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention is described below as a number of preferred illustrative examples, in conjunction with which reference is made to the drawings, in which
FIG. 1 shows a first illustrative embodiment of a compacting plant;
FIG. 2 shows the arm arrangement;
FIG. 3 shows a section along the line III--III in FIG. 2;
FIGS. 4 and 5 show a second illustrative embodiment of a plant viewed from the side and in elevation;
FIGS. 6-8 show a section along the lines VI--VI, VII--VII and VIII--VIII in FIG. 4;
FIGS. 9 and 10 show different forms of plants;
FIG. 11 shows a third illustrative example of a plant;
FIG. 12 shows a detail adapted for the plant in FIG. 11; and
FIG. 13 shows a last embodiment of the plant.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
An arrangement 1 for use in a compacting plant 2 intended for refuse T or similar material which comprises at least one drivable rotating roller 32 for compacting the material inside a receiver vessel 4 in an essentially horizontal direction, in conjunction with which the roller 32 is capable of moving about an essentially vertical shaft 5, preferably driven in a rotary fashion so that the material is compacted by the roller 32, which roller is so arranged as to be supported enabling it to be moved in a vertical direction 6, 7 between the bottom 8 of the vessel and its upper part 9, in conjunction with which said vertical rotating shaft 5 is supported so as to be capable of lateral displacement.
As an alternative or as a complement, said vertical, preferably rotating shaft 5.sup.4 can be supported telescopically, as shown in FIG. 13, by a telescope 150.
In accordance with the first illustrative example of the invention, which is shown in FIGS. 1-2 in the drawings, the vertical, preferably rotating shaft 5, which supports a roller support arm 10 extending laterally and preferably obliquely downwards towards the outside 4A of the vessel, is supported by a pivot arm arrangement 11. Said pivot arm arrangement 11 is formed preferably by pairs of arms 12, 13, which can be divided laterally into double arm parts 12, 12B; 13A, 13B situated at a mutual distance X and displaced laterally from one
REFERENCES:
patent: 3720052 (1973-03-01), Anderson et al.
patent: 4426925 (1984-01-01), Bergmann
patent: 4524685 (1985-06-01), Bergmann
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