B - Operations – Transporting – 02 – C
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
02
C
B02C 19/00 (2006.01) B01D 53/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2178045
A portable unitary apparatus is provided herein for disposing of light bulbs, e.g., fluorescent bulbs. The apparatus includes an open-topped, multi-compartmented container of circular cylindrical cross-section. The container includes an upper operating compartment, an intermediate collection compartment, and a lower exhaust compartment having an axial inlet and a radial outlet port. A lid is hingedly-connected to, and is adapted to cover, the top of the container. The lower surface of the lid is connected to a reduction chamber, which is disposed within the upper operating compartment. The reduction chamber has an axial inlet means for a bulb to be pulverized and an axial outlet means leading to the collection chamber. An electric motor provided with an on/off switch is disposed in the upper operating compartment by being secured to the reduction chamber, and has a drive shaft extending into the reduction chamber. A rigid unitary pulverizing blade is secured to the drive shaft. A light bulb feed chute extends through the lid and is attached thereto. The chute has an inlet opening which is disposed above the upper surface of the lid and an outlet opening which is disposed within the reduction chamber. A disposable pulverized light bulb collection bag is selectively-disposed within the collection chamber in air-sealed relationship to the axial outlet means of the reduction chamber. A vacuum motor is operatively-disposed within the lower exhaust chamber. It has an axial inlet at sub-atmospheric pressure connected to an axial outlet from the intermediate collection compartment to draw gases and particulates from the collection compartment into the lower exhaust compartment. The vacuum motor expels gases into the exhaust compartment at an overpressure.
Emmerson Dana
Environmental Disposal Concepts Incorporated
Na
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