Presses – Methods
Patent
1998-02-04
2000-09-26
Gerrity, Stephen F.
Presses
Methods
100 43, 100 50, 100 99, 100229A, 702 43, 702140, 702188, B30B 1516, B30B 1526
Patent
active
061230170
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for determining the fullness of a large capacity waste container (20). Each time the a compactor (22) is used to compress the waste in the container a monitoring unit (24) determines the highest hydraulic pressure generated by the compactor during a selected period of compactor use. The monitoring unit also maintains a count of how often the compactor is used. After the container is filled and emptied a number of times, the monitoring unit then divides the highest hydraulic pressures for the uses by the number of uses to obtain a pressure/use value. This pressure/use value is used as a variable to determine a maximum uses value representative of the number of times the compactor can be used before a container is filled. Once a container data representative of how full a container is, and how many compactor uses remain, is calculated by comparing the number of times the container has been used since it was emptied to the maximum uses value. The system can also forecast when, at a time in the future, the container will be filled.
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Little Jonathan A.
Schomisch Donald R.
Smith Shaun W.
Gerrity Stephen F.
PMDS, L.L.C.
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