Presses – With additional treatment of material – Cutting – breaking – piercing – or comminuting
Patent
1991-09-27
1993-05-18
Coe, Philip R.
Presses
With additional treatment of material
Cutting, breaking, piercing, or comminuting
100172, 100173, 100176, 100902, 241 99, B30B 932, B30B 304
Patent
active
052111091
ABSTRACT:
A beverage can crusher has a pair of rollers which rotate toward one another to crush a can between them. The crusher has a deposit window and chute which place the cans above the rollers and ensure that the cans are flattened from the sides rather than smashed from the top. This provides for a repeatable, baleable crushed can. An actuator placed less than one can length above the rollers in the chute energizes the drive motor to rotate the rollers and continues to have the rollers rotating as long as there is a can engaging the actuator The rollers have a special receiving surface and engaging surfaces which grip the sides of the can to minimize slipping so that the can will be pulled down between the rollers. In addition, pins extend radially outward from the outer surface of the rollers to further grip the can.
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Chin Randall E.
Coe Philip R.
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