Abstract:
In compacting straw and other fibrous material into blocks or briquettes the material is precompressed into a length L of compressed material before feeding to compacting apparatus for compacting the length into the blocks or briquettes.The compacting apparatus includes a pair of rotary members 10, 11 rotatable about relatively inclined axes 12, 13. A row of pockets 19, 20 extends around each rotary member and the pockets define spaces in which the material is received. The rotary members converge during rotation so that the material is compacted in the spaces.
Abstract:
A motor driven rotary compactor table carries a circumferential series of material-receiving pockets, each bottomed by an ejector cam-operated during the table rotation to eject a shaped and compacted product from its pocket. A compactor plate of the same diameter is journaled above the table on an axis at an acute angle to the table axis, and theoretically intersecting the latter at the table surface. The plate carries an annual series of compactor plungers equal in number and circumferential spacing to the table pockets, and the inclination and vertical relationship of table and plate to one another are such that the plungers enter into the respective table pockets at the apex of an acute angle theoretically defined by planes of the convergent, mutually facing plate and table surfaces. Thus, in compacting material in the pockets, the plungers also effect a cog and wheel-like drive of the compactor plate.
Abstract:
Can crushing apparatus wherein mutually angularly disposed convex and flat conical disks are rotated to define an open, wedge-shaped receiving region which progressively diminishes about a circular locus to an exit position of close adjacency of the surfaces. Cans are introduced into the receiving region whereupon they are progressively longitudinally flattened, thus facilitating the expulsion of any liquids remaining within the cans while carrying out flattening. By introducing cans from an upwardly disposed trough structure, inherent safety is achieved such that the operator cannot reach into the crushing components of the apparatus. The slope of the disk member engaging surfaces preferably is about 9.degree., while the included angle therebetween at the receiving region preferably is about 33.degree.. By operating the disks at about 60 rpm, improved silent operation is achieved.
Abstract:
An apparatus for the production of pressings from bulk material in powder, piece, swarf or fiber form, in which the bulk material is fed to rotating working elements, wherein two similar disc dies (1, 2) having conical surfaces (15, 16) in the region of a ring are rotatingly mounted by means of shafts (10, 11) opposite to one another in similarly mutually opposite machine bodies (3, 4) in such manner that the axes of the shafts (10, 11) intersect at an obtuse angle, preferably greater than 150*, and the disc dies (1, 2) come into contact with one another on a common generatrix of their conical surfaces (15, 16) and roll on one another on rotation in the same direction, while a feed device (13) and a discharge device (14) are associated with the disc dies (1, 2) and the machine bodies (3, 4) are connected with one another by elements which produce a force-operated engagement.
Abstract:
Loose hay or the like is delivered into a progressively narrowing axial space between two rows of identical teeth which project towards each other from side locations on a pair of obliquely related wheels. The hay or other material is simultaneously compressed and advanced by the teeth as they come together. The teeth form axial boundaries for pockets or chambers in which the hay or other material is compressed into blocks. The radial boundaries of such pockets or chambers are formed by an annular outer wall carried by one of the wheels and an annular inner wall carried by the other wheel. One of the wheels is mounted for rotation in a fixed position. The other wheel is mounted for rotation by mounting means which can be shifted in position for the purpose of varying the axial space between the two wheels, for adjustment of the pocket size.
Abstract:
Containers made of various materials, such as aluminum and steel beverage cans, and glass beverage bottles, are crushed and separated to permit recycling of the metallic materials by a method and apparatus comprising crushing the containers in a container crushing means having two cone shaped members being rotationally frictionally engageable with each other, one of the cone shaped members being displaceable from the other against the resistance of a spring means, wherein the containers are crushed as they pass between the cone shaped members, conveying the crushed containers away from the crushing means on a container conveyor and separator means comprising an endless belt member having a first end portion for receiving crushed containers from the crushing means and a second end portion, separating the magnetic from the non-magnetic crushed containers by subjecting the containers to a magnetic field at the second end portion of the belt member whereby the non-magnetic containers are discharged from the belt member at the second end portion and the magnetic containers are retained on the belt member around and beyond the second end portion by the magnetic field, and discharging the separated metallic materials into separate collecting means. The apparatus of the invention may be supported on trailer means for convenient transportation of the apparatus between various metallic container collection sites.
Abstract:
A pressure roller for an apparatus for compaction of empty (disposable) hollow bodies (beverage containers), particularly plastic bottles or tin cans, having at least one rotating roller that is disposed at a distance from a counter-bearing, forming a gap, has an essentially cylindrical mantle surface that possesses multiple profiled partial regions of the same type and the same width in its working region, following one another in the axial direction. These profiled partial regions are separated from one another, in each instance, by a circumferential recess. Each of these profiled partial regions—viewed axially—has multiple sections that follow one another. At least one cam-shaped projection that projects radially away from the mantle surface is disposed in one of these sections.