Beverage container crusher

Details Beverage container crusher Beverage container crusher

1980-01-21

1981-04-14

Wilhite, Billy J.

Presses

Concurrent pressing and conveying

Endless conveyer type

100DIG2, 100210, 241 99, 241200, B30B 504

Patent

active

042612594

ABSTRACT:
A beverage container crusher which flattens beverage containers to reduce the volume thereof so that the resultant crushed containers require very little storage room. The crushing apparatus includes spaced shafts arranged parallel to one another, and an endless belt is supported by the shaft in such a manner that the belt describes an oval track. A fixed plate is arranged at an acute angle with respect to the oval track. A lower portion of the plate continues about one end of the track so that when a beverage container is dropped into the space between the plate and the track, the container gravitates into a position where it is engaged by the traveling belt, so that the belt forces the container through the narrow space formed between the curved part of the plate and one curved end of the oval track. The flattened container drops into a storage container located below the container crusher apparatus where the containers may be accumulated and subsequently recycled.

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patent: 969720 (1910-09-01), Pickett
patent: 1140676 (1915-05-01), Gray
patent: 2844184 (1958-07-01), Vollmer
patent: 3077827 (1963-02-01), Bunke
patent: 3151814 (1964-10-01), Morgan
patent: 3691942 (1972-09-01), Wagley
patent: 4195562 (1980-04-01), Mickler

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