Abstract: This disclosure is directed to an economical system for the pyrolysis of municipal solid waste to recover valuable by-products while reducing the putrefaction and bulk of the residue requiring disposal. Prior to this treatment, the solid waste has been processed to remove most of the metallic components, and shredded, which steps are not part of the invention disclosed. The pyrolysis and by-product recovery technology is complicated by (a) the inherent variability of the chemical and physical characteristics of the shredded solid waste as received at the pyrolysis plant and (b) the relatively low heat value of said waste as thus received.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to an economical system for the pyrolysis of municipal solid waste to recover valuable by-products while reducing the putrecibility and bulk of the residue requiring disposal. Prior to this treatment, the solid waste has been processed to remove most of the metallic components, and shredded, which steps are not part of the invention disclosed. The pyrolysis and by-product recovery technology is complicated by (a) the inherent variability of the chemical and physical characteristics of the shredded solid waste as received at the pyrolysis plant and (b) the relatively low heat value of said waste as thus received.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to an economical system for the pyrolysis of municipal solid waste to recover valuable by-products while reducing the putrecibility and bulk of the residue requiring disposal. Prior to this treatment, the solid waste has been processed to remove most of the metallic components, and shredded, which steps are not part of the invention disclosed. The pyrolysis and by-product recovery technology is complicated by (a) the inherent variability of the chemical and physical characteristics of the shredded solid waste as received at the pyrolysis plant and (b) the relatively low heat value of said waste as thus received.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for uncoupling the cars of model trains travelling on tracks assembled on conventional cork roadbeds. The uncoupler disclosed and claimed operates from a normal, inactivated position in which no parts extend between the track rails, to an activated state in which a pair of wings rotate to fold towards one another between the track rails and engage the depending fingers of car couplers between cars indexed at the car uncoupling position.

Abstract: My invention relates to the method and apparatus for printing stripe patterns on the outside surface of cylindrical objects such as glass tumblers with their axes vertical during the printing operation, the stripes being printed substantially circularly about the axis of the cylinder as the center. The cylinder being striped is supported at a printing station for free rotation about its vertical axis. A stripe printing head provided with a stripe printing roller and an ink applicator drum, both rotating about substantially vertical axes, is moved to bring the printing roller in tangential printing contact with the tumbler surface. The printing head includes an enclosed ink (or pigment) supply well adjacent a segment of the perimeter of the applicator drum and means for maintaining the supply well full from a supply reservoir.