Solid material comminution or disintegration – Apparatus – With means to protect operator from injury
Patent
1995-11-06
1997-08-26
Rosenbaum, Mark
Solid material comminution or disintegration
Apparatus
With means to protect operator from injury
241 99, 241100, 241193, B02C 1914
Patent
active
056603380
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus is provided herein for disposing of light bulbs, e.g., fluorescent bulbs. The apparatus includes an open-topped cylindrical container covered by a removable lid. A hollow cylindrical light bulb feed chute is perpendicularly attached to, and extends through the lid along the central longitudinal axis of the lid and has an inlet opening which is and an outlet opening disposed below the lower surface of the lid. An electric motor is mounted upon the upper surface of the lid and has a downwardly-extending rotatable shaft, projecting through the lid and terminating below the lower surface of the lid. An "on-off" electrical switch operates the electric motor. Inventive structure is provided for pulverizing a light bulb, e.g., a fluorescent tube, as it emerges from the outlet opening of the feed chute. That structure comprises a hub at the terminal end of the shaft. At least two equiangularly-disposed, multi-stranded, braided, wire cables are secured to the clamp. Each multi-stranded, braided, wire cable is provided with a terminal weight. When the shaft is rotating, each multi-stranded, braided, wire cable extends by centrifugal force across the outlet opening of the chute into the path of the bulb and strikes the hollow cylindrical light bulb at right angles to the direction of feeding of the hollow cylindrical light bulb as the shaft rotates. The cables pulverize the bulb by the combined initial breaking and subsequent abrasive action of the multi-stranded, braided, wire cables.
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Rosenbaum Mark
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