Abstract: A shearing apparatus for breaking railroad type rails into small segments with a standard rail section including a base formed from a bottom flange on each side of the head connecting web. The apparatus includes a sequential rail feed mechanism comprised of an inclined vibratable supply table, a driven conveyor and means to move rails from the supply table to the conveyor. The rails are conveyed to an advancing mechanism located adjacent the breaker head assembly. Predetermined lengths of the conveyed rails are fed into the breaker head assembly where the rail is initially clamped. Following clamping, one bottom flange, on one side of the web, is sheared through and the rail is then contacted by a breaker head positioned beyond the shear plane established by the sheared flange.

Abstract: A method for operating a dewatering press wherein a mass for wet fibrous material is dewatered on all six sides by compressing the mass with a second ram against a plurality of liners arranged on a front face of the second ram, on a rear face of a door, and on a top wall, a bottom wall, and two opposing side walls of a press box. Before entering the press box, a quantity of the mass of wet fibrous material is selected by a first ram which is guided a predetermined distance beneath a hopper of wet fibrous material by a pair of piston rods and cylinders arranged on opposite external sides of the first ram. On one side edge of the front face of the second ram and also on one side wall of the press box, there are positioned four-edged knives which cut off a selected quantity of wet fibrous material after such material is fed into the compression chamber but before such material is pushed into the press box by the second ram.

Abstract: A waste baling machine having a baling or compression chamber of generally parallelopiped configuration is provided with a charging passage leading thereto with the head of a charging ram reciprocable in the passage and normally forming, in one position, a wall of the chamber. A discharge passage leads from the chamber at right angles to the charging passage and the head of a discharge ram, which when retracted forms a wall of the chamber, is advancable through the chamber and the discharge passage to eject waste material compressed in the chamber by the charging ram, i.e. a bale. If the bale is oversize and protrudes back into the charging passage, a portion of the wall of the discharge passage which forms a part of the charging passage is moved to enlarge the discharge passage sufficiently to permit ejection of the oversize bale.