B - Operations – Transporting – 30 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
30
B
B30B 9/32 (2006.01) B21D 5/01 (2006.01) B30B 9/30 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2560819
The bulk volume of large numbers of loose, separated, multiply bent, irregularly shaped scrap sheet metal is temporarily reduced, for transportation and storage of the metal for recycling purposes, by compressing the metal into temporary, compacted wafers formed of successively compacted layers. The apparatus includes a load chamber which is axially aligned with a compression chamber and a reciprocating ram which passes through the chambers towards an anvil plate which closes the discharge end of the compression chamber. A pre-determined quantity of loose pieces is placed within the load chamber. The reciprocating ram compresses the pieces of that batch into a thin layer. Successive batches are compressed into overlapping layers which are bound together, face-to-face, to form a unitary wafer. The ram may be closely fitted within the compression chamber, with at least portions of the peripheral edge of the ram spaced a short distance from the walls defining the compression chamber to provide a gap into which portions of the peripheral edges of the layers bend and intertwine to temporarily bind the layers together to form the wafer along with interlocked surface portions of adjacent layers. The wafers may be transported to a melt furnace. Before depositing the wafer into the furnace, the wafer layers and their pieces are separated for rapidly melting the pieces within the melt furnace for recycling the metal.
Little Jonathan A.
Schomisch Donald R.
Professional Management Disposal Systems Llc
Ridout & Maybee Llp
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