Abstract: A vertical baler comprises a piston having two brackets attached to the rear thereof, the brackets extending through slots between panels in the rear wall of the baler. Chains are attached to the floor of the baler near the front thereof, pass through the slots in the rear wall of the baler, and are attached to a horizontal bar. The bar has two legs extending downwardly therefrom, the legs having slots in the ends thereof. The rear wall of the baler has a pair of dog members pivotally attached thereto. When it is desired to remove a bale from the baler, the door of the baler is opened, the horizontal bar is manually placed onto the brackets extending from the rear of the piston, and the piston is raised. As the piston raises, it lifts up the chains and throws the bale out of the baler. The dog members present no resistance to the upward movement of the horizontal member, since they pivot upwardly out of the way of the horizontal member.

Abstract: Apparatus for crushing waste containers such as cans, oil filters, and the like. The apparatus includes a platform having a drain leading to a reservoir below the platform; a vertical support frame secured to the platform and having two spaced apart vertical columns joined together, near the top thereof, by a horizontal member; a hydraulic ram mounted on said horizontal member, a ram head secured to the lower end of the hydraulic ram adapted for downward and upward movement; and a compartment for receiving waste containers. The base of the compartment is secured to the platform and the sidewalls thereof are secured to the vertical support frame. The compartment has an opening for introducing a waste container onto the platform and removing the container after crushing and a piercing device for puncturing containers placed in the compartment. A hydraulic pump mounted on the platform and connected to the hydraulic ram causes upward and downward movement of the ram head.

Abstract: An improved aircraft trash compactor having an elongated inner chamber which is separated into front and rear chamber sections by means of a movable door or wall disposed transversely across the width of the chamber. The movable door or wall supports the rear panel of the trash container in the front chamber section during the compaction of trash therein and may be moved to an out-of-the-way position to allow the filled trash container to be moved into the rear chamber section for storage or disposal. The filled trash container in the rear chamber section supports the rear panel of a trash container in the front chamber section during the compaction of trash therein.

Abstract: A compact, heavy duty trash compactor is provided for compacting trash in locations where space is limited. The compactor includes a C-shaped frame mounted on a skid. A cylindrical container is mounted on a tilt table attached to the skid such that the container is within the C-shaped frame. A telescoping ram is mounted on the frame to compact trash within the container. A foot guard is provided around the bottom of the container to prevent objects from being placed under the container when it is tilted forward.

Abstract: A trash compactor is disclosed which has a wheeled bin within a trash compactor cabinet. The bin is adapted to contain a trash bag and the trash compacted therein and then may be withdrawn partially from the cabinet so that a handle may be inserted downwardly into vertical apertures in the front of the bin. A fixed pin and latches provide a reaction means to secure the handle in a downward position in the bin front, and this also secures the front wheels of the bin in a downward position of a lost motion between the front wheels and the bin. The wheeled bin may then be completely removed from the cabinet and wheeled to the disposal site. The container front may be unlatched and hinged forwardly and downwardly so that the trash bag may be pulled horizontally out of the wheeled bin for ready removal.

Abstract: Module builder having a generally rectangular framework with an open top side and with spaced apart side walls and spaced apart front and rear walls. The rear wall is formed by a door movable between open and closed positions. A carriage is mounted on the framework for movement longitudinally of the framework between the front and rear walls. A motor is provided for causing movement of said carriage between the front and rear walls. A tramper mechanism is carried by the carriage and has a tramper foot. A hydraulic actuator is provided for moving said tramper foot vertically within said framework for forming a module of material which is dumped into the framework. Wheels are mounted on opposite sides of said framework to permit the module builder to be transported from one location to another. The side walls have upwardly and outwardly flared portions so that imaginery vertical lines depending from the outer upper margins of the side walls clear the wheels on the sides of the rectangular framework.

Abstract: A trash compactor and collapsible box for use therewith to handle waste material generated during flight of passenger-carrying aircraft. The trash compactor includes a housing formed with front and rear box chambers to receive first and second collapsible trash-receiving boxes. A front door is provided for the housing having a trash-receiving chute in its upper portion. The first box is initially disposed in the front box chamber. When it is filled, the front door is opened and the first box is pushed to the rear box chamber. The second box is then positioned within the front box chamber to receive trash, and the front door is shut. The collapsible boxes have a front wall disposed at the same elevation as the lower edge of the chute, while the tops of the side and rear walls are at a higher elevation than the top of the front wall to permit the boxes to receive a maximum amount of trash for their size. The bottom portion of the wall is of liquid-tight construction.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for crushing aluminum beverage cans after the contents have been emptied. The can crusher includes a frame having an anvil mounted at one end thereof and a movable ram positioned on the frame and facing the anvil, a crushing chamber is affixed to the frame for supporting the can between the anvil and the ram and a means is provided for moving the ram toward the anvil and then away from the anvil.

Abstract: A stock baler comprising a container having a bottom floor, two side walls, a stationary end wall and a movable end wall and a pair of side rams positioned in the side wall adjacent to the stationary end wall. Both the movable end wall and the pair of side rams include means to advance and retract one another respectively. The stationary end wall and the movable end wall have mating V-shaped grooves in which the open portion of the groove mates with the open end of the other groove, and the apex of each V-shaped groove is positioned on substantially the same horizontal plane. The pair of side rams are shaped to advance and retract within the mating V-shaped grooves.

Abstract: A charge door assembly for automated operation of a baler utilizes a truncated wedge-shaped door pivotally mounted to the baler at a point beneath the lowest point of travel of a conventional movable platen. The door pivots outwardly to admit a charge of material onto the platen from a feed apparatus. Intermeshing teeth are provided along the door assembly fact to separate any material extending outwardly of the door as the door closes. Sufficient space is provided between the door and the passageway therefor to allow material stringing from the teeth to be attenuated and subsequently entrained by the action of the baler.

Abstract: An integrated system for the treatment of waste products such as domestic, industrial, or commercial trash comprises the placement of waste in barrel-shaped, self-supporting containers, compaction of the waste in the containers in an especially adapted waste compactor, and the fitting of covers to the containers to provide sealed readily transportable and disposable packages of compacted waste.

Abstract: An apparatus for compacting refuse providing an ability to compact refuse in a drum or in a bag or providing for the compaction of drums themselves which are unwanted. The apparatus provides a supportive frame having a platform on the frame upon which a drum or bag can be supported at its bottom. A provided jacket assembly can be opened for placement about the drum or bag, the jacket after closure supporting the drum or bag about its sides during compaction. A hydraulic ram having an attached compacting disk is supported vertically above the support platform and during operation compacts refuse within the jacket and in the drum or bag as desired maximizing the quantity of trash contained within a particular drum or bag for later disposal. During the compacting operation, a drum or bag is supported on its bottom by the platform on its side by the jacket and the trash is compacted from above by the compaction disk. When a bag is used, the jacket assembly supports compaction. By leaving the lid on a drum (as e.

Abstract: A baling chamber for a fiber press utilizing rigid upright doors pivotally mounted along their lower portions to contain fibers compressed thereinto by a moving platen. The doors separate slightly at the upper portion thereof responsive to the final compression of the bale thereby reducing the lateral pressure on the bale. One of the doors has rollers thereon to cooperatively engage a track parallel therewith such that the door may be displaced for removal of the bale.

Abstract: Equipment for compacting trash consisting of packaging materials and easily compressed wastes, such as cardboard, light plastic and wood packings, paper, wastes of blanks and wood, plastic and metal chips held in containers open at the top using a compacting roller entering the container and therein circularly revolving on the trash and held by a post reaching above the container, this roller performing a relative motion with respect to the container during the compaction while the contents are rising is desired to be so designed as to suffice with relatively few parts, that it be resistant to malfunction and suited to receive bulky trash.

Abstract: The subject matter of the present invention is a feed door for a baling press with a vertical work direction, where at one press case there is fastened a press door tiltably at hinges, in order to bring material to be pressed into the work room of the baling press. The invention has the object to improve the feed door such that a large dimensioned feed opening is created upon formation of a lower support table attached horizontally tiltable at the press case, without that the feed door required for this purpose leads to a hindrance for the user of the press. For resolving the object set forth, the invention is characterized in that the feed door is separated along a horizontal line and comprises a lower and an upper part.

Abstract: A transfer vehicle with a special clamping mechanism for clamping a stack of signatures supported on a stacker, and for maintaining clamping engagement with the stack as the transfer vehicle moves the stack to a delivery position. The clamping mechanism can bring an end board over to the stacker, and deposits the end board on the stacker as the clamping mechanism engages a stack. The clamping mechanism also has independently movable clamp members that can move to different coextents in applying pressures to different portions of a stack of signatures during the clamping process. Still further, the clamping mechanism is designed to positively contain a signature stack that is removed from a stacker.

Abstract: An apparatus for compacting refuse in a drum or in a bag, or of drums themselves, is provided with a frame mounted above a platform. The platform provides a base supporting a cylindrical jacket which encloses the media to be compacted. The jacket is mounted upon a movable platform, which is positioned under a compaction disk connected to a hydraulic ram during the compacting operation and removed from under the compaction disk, when the refuse is loaded into the jacket or removed from it. The platform slides from the operating zone eliminating hazardous conditions for an operator in case if the compaction disk accidentally descends during a non-operation. The jacket can be opened for loading of refuse within its walls and can be closed prior to positioning of the jacket under the compaction disk.

Abstract: The recycling machine is provided with a baling chamber having a cyclable hydraulic ram. The ram cycles continuously, and each time it retracts, no more than a predetermined number of cans are admitted to the baling chamber for crushing and adding to the bale therein. A counting mechanism is provided as well as a mechanism for separating steel cans before baling.

Abstract: A baling press for fibrous materials, such as textile fibers, is equipped with a baling box into which a baling ram is movable under hydraulic or pneumatic pressure. The baling box is supported on a base and has hinged walls which are hinged to one another and/or to the base. These hingeable box walls are locked to each other in the box closing position by a piston cylinder locking device in which the piston rod is provided at its free end with a locking member which cooperates with a respective locking element attached to the adjacent wall.

Abstract: An improved, hydraulically controlled, cotton harvesting apparatus comprising: cotton receiving and containing means; means for feeding cotton to a cotton boll breaking means; cotton boll breaking means comprising a roller and a brush operatively associated with said roller; cotton cleaning and ginning means comprising a plurality of cleaning saws each of said saws having a brush operatively associated therewith and on one side thereof and a rotary stripper adjacent and opposite of bottom portion of each of said saws; cotton condensing means for receiving cleaned and ginned cotton comprising a plurality of rollers and means for exhausting air therefrom; a piston horizontally mounted below the condensing means and movable between first and second positions to provide cotton to a compressing and baling means comprising an enclosure having a piston vertically mounted in the upper portion thereof and being movable from an upper to a lower position to compress and bale cotton.

Abstract: An airborne refuse compactor to compact liquid laden trash for storage until the end of the flight. The compactor relies on the difference between pressure within the pressurized passenger cabin and outside pressure at operating altitude. The compactor also discharges to outside atmosphere liquid which has collected on the bottom of the receptacle in which the trash is collected. Liquid is discharged while compaction is taking place.

Abstract: A clampable closure device for the press door (3) of a baling press comprises a lever (5) nonrotatably connected to a shaft (13) the other end of which is fixed to an end of eccentric lever (12). The other end of the eccentric lever (12) is fixed to a shaft (14) mounted on spaced apart bearing members (2) secured to the top of the press housing (1). Beams (6) each have one end rotatably connected to a shaft (13) and the other end of each beam (6) has an angled guide recess (10) receiving a traverse shaft (7) connected to the press door (3). Rotation of the lever (5) effects a clampable closure and locking of the press door (3) to the press housing (1). The device for the press door (3) may be used on conjunction with a filler slide (19) having an angle lever (20). Lever arm (22) effects retraction movement of a closure bolt (24 ) against the resistance of spring (26) to effect opening of the filler slide (19).

Abstract: A horizontal baling apparatus including a horizontally reciprocally movable compression ram for compressing material into a totally enclosed baling chamber where the side and top walls of the baling chamber may be opened providing access thereto for wrapping of a formed bale. The side walls have two pairs of interengageable elements for locking and unlocking same with respect to the baling chamber. One of the interengageable elements of each pair is secured to one side wall and the other of the interengageable element of each pair is secured to a fluid-operated cylinder piston arrangement which in turn is secured to the other of said side walls. One of said pairs of interengageable elements is located adjacent the outer lower end of the side walls and the other pair of interengageable elements is located atop the side walls. Fluid control means are provided for sequential operation of the two cylinder piston arrangements for improved opening and closing procedures.

Abstract: A conventional Webb cotton press is modified to change the path of bale movement 90.degree.. In additon, an improved debander is located adjacent the new entry location to the press. At the end of one cycle of press operation, a pusher associated with the debander advances a debanded bale into the press which pushes the finished bale out of the press. A heading mechanism is provided to square an unbanded bale push into the press.

Abstract: A vertical baler includes a housing defining a compacting chamber which receives a vertically moveable and power operated horizontal platen. The chamber has a front opening, and the lower portion of the chamber is closed by a pivotal door member which is secured to the cabinet by a latch mechanism including two separate pivotal members releasably connected by an over-center lock element. The upper part of the opening is closed by a vertical safety gate member which retracts upwardly and is partially counterbalanced by a torsion coil spring having one end portion secured to the housing. The other end portion of the coil spring is connected to a shaft supporting a pair of winch members around which are wrapped corresponding cables connected to the lower portion of the gate member.

Abstract: A baling apparatus and method utilizes a reciprocable ram which cooperates with a baling chamber having a fixed wall platen at one end and having movable side wall means which is locked in its closed wall forming position during baling strokes of the ram but which is movable to an open position so as to afford access to baled material thereby to facilitate enveloping the baled material with a bagging sheet on the ram and by another bagging sheet mounted on the fixed platen toward which and away from which the ram is movable during baling, the bagging sheet which is associated with the ram being arranged with its central portion overlying the baling face of the ram and with its peripheral portion disposed in a bagging chamber disposed about the periphery of the ram and having vertical and horizontal doors which during baling operations are closed but which are opened after a bale is formed in order to allow manual access to the bagging sheets whereby the bagging sheets are wrapped and tied about the baled mate

Abstract: An apparatus for crushing tin cans for convenient disposal, the apparatus including an enclosure fitted with a door for placing cans therein, a crank operated pressure plate inside the enclosure for pressing downward against the cans and a stepped conical seat upon which cans are placed so to not slip during crushing operation.

Abstract: A baling machine having a cabinet provided with a central baling chamber and a closet on opposite sides of the baling chamber. A pressure platen operates in the baling chamber and fluid-pressure operated means located in one closet imparts up and down movement to the platen by connection to one side thereof. Two sets of cables and sheaves are arranged in respective closets and connect opposite sides of the platen for equalizing the platen pressure in each direction of movement. The cables can be adjusted not only to take up slack but also to level the platen.

Abstract: A baling machine is disclosed having a single ram means horizontally spaced from the baling chamber to reduce the overall height of the baling machine, while avoiding the complications of two side-mounted ram means. The baling machine includes a vertically movable platen which is supported on a sleeve which is mounted around and supported on a vertically extending support column horizontally spaced from the baling chamber. The ram means is preferably located between the support column and the baling chamber in a position which extends substantially below the top of the baling chamber.

Abstract: A vehicle towable cotton module compacter (10) is disclosed for use in the cotton field on seed cotton. A rigid framework (12) has upper and lower rectangular frames (28, 22). The upper frame (28) has a hopper (88) with an open top mouth (90). The hopper (88) has a collection box (92) with a push plate (96) for discharging collected cotton rearwardly through an opening (94) into a vertical compaction chamber (30). The chamber (30) is formed by a stationary vertical front wall (32) and a pair of L-shaped doors (40, 42) hinged along vertical axes at their forward edges. The longitudinal sides (44, 46) of the doors (40, 42) form the right and left sidewalls of the compaction chamber (30), and the lateral sides (48, 50) of the doors (40, 42) each form half of the rear wall of the chamber (30). The left, right and rear chamber walls are tapered outwardly as they extend downwardly. The upper frame (28) includes tamper means (108) mounted above the compaction chamber (30).

Abstract: A lid unit for a portable refuse bin adapted to be engaged and inverted, by the lift mechanism of a refuse truck, to discharge a load of refuse from the bin and into the receiving body of the truck; the lid unit being hinged to the bin and normally but releasably latched in closed position, and a hinged loading lid is included in the lid unit and normally but releasably latched in closed position; the loading lid--when unlatched--being manually swingable, relative to the remainder of the lid unit, to open position to permit manual deposit of refuse in the bin, and the entire lid unit gravitationally swinging to open position when unlatched and upon such inversion of the bin, whereupon the load of refuse dumps from the bin and into the receiving body of the truck; the loading lid remaining in latched, closed position during said inversion of the bin.

Abstract: Seed cotton is built into a module to be picked up and moved to a gin by dumping and tromping the cotton into a short box to form a first segment. After this first section of the module is formed the rear gate of the builder is opened and the box moved forward. Then, an additional segment is built, tramping the cotton of the additional segment into that of the segment already built. Then the box is again moved forward. After packing the first segment the rear gate remains open. The cotton is tramped with a pipe having a circular cross section for better packing. Weight is transferred from the tractor to the box while packing.

Abstract: Apparatus for making modules in which material is deposited in an open-bottom rectangular bin. A tamping mechanism is mounted at the open top of the bin for compressing the material into a module. At each end of the bin 15 is a door that is pivotal about a horizontal axis at the upper section of the bin. While the doors are closed, the material is compressed into a module. The doors are alternately opened for the removal of modules through alternate ends of the bin. At each side of the bin are hydraulic jacks for raising and lowering the bin. While the bin is lowered, the material is compressed into a module. When the bin is raised, a module is removed from the bin. Forming the floor or base of the bin is a movable transfer table that travels over a rectilinear path through the ends of the bin. When a module is formed at one end of the table within the bin, the other end of the table is outside of the bin for the removal of a module.

Abstract: Bank out module builder with unloading mechanism having a generally rectangular framework formed by spaced apart sidewalls and spaced apart front and rear walls with the top and bottom being open, the rear wall being formed by a door being movable between open and closed positions. Ground engaging wheels are carried by the framework to facilitate movement of the framework over the ground. A bottom structure is secured within the lower extremity of the rectangular framework for closing the bottom side. A carriage is mounted in the framework for movement longitudinally along the framework between the front and rear walls. A tramper mechanism is carried by the carriage and is movable vertically in the framework for tramping material introduced into the rectangular framework through the top side to form a module within the rectangular framework.

Abstract: There is disclosed a waste compacter including a ruggedly constructed cage structure with a heavy lower door and lighter upper doors and a ram mounted for downward movement to compact waste in the bottom of the cage structure. A portion of the floor structure of the cage serves as an ejector; it is hinged near the front, connected at the back to a link which extends up the rear of the compacter cage, and is fitted with a hook that engages a moveable finger on the ram. The finger on the ram is arranged to be restored to an inoperative position upon downward motion of the ram. Channels or grooves are provided in the bottom surface of the ram, the rear of the compacter cage, and the floor of the compacter cage which effectively interconnect so that a fish tool may be pushed through such channels and grooves to permit a wire or cord to be drawn around three sides of the bale and tied at the front of the compacter.

Abstract: A trash compactor is especially designed for industrial and commercial usage. A compacting unit is driven by an electricity-free drive unit for allowing applications in hazardous environments, such as offshore drilling rigs. Specifically, a hydraulic pump is pneumatically driven for powering the compactor. A container used in the compactor is specially designed for facilitating removal of the relatively bulky and heavy compacted trash.

Abstract: A vertical baler has a generally rectangular compacting chamber defined by vertical wall members extending from a base, and the chamber is closed by pivotal front doors and a vertically retractable safety gate. A vertically movable horizontal platen is suspended within the chamber by a hydraulic cylinder, and batches of scrap material compacted within the chamber are held down by dog members some of which are pivotally supported. A set of flexible bale ejecting members are coupled to the pivotal dog members and bias the dog members inwardly into the chamber when compacting material, and the ejecting members are then coupled to the platen to provide for ejecting a tied bale in response to upward retraction of the platen.

Abstract: A compactor device for large round bales is disclosed comprising a horizontally disposed cylindrical housing containing a plunger, a double toggle mechanism connected to the plunger, a hydraulic cylinder connected to the double toggle mechanism for driving the plunger, and a stabilizer linkage connected to the plunger and the double toggle mechanism for maintaining the plunger in a vertical position during compaction of a bale.

Abstract: A stack-forming machine has a telescoping container defined by a vertically reciprocable, downwardly concave press that is received within an upwardly concave lower section that remains stationary during reciprocation of the press. When the press is raised and an upper door on the press and a lower gate on the lower section are opened, the stack may be discharged from the container. The upper door is normally held closed by an overlapping portion of the lower gate, the latter in turn being releasably latched in place, and while the lower gate is swung downwardly by gravity to its opened position as the press is raised, the upper door is powered to its open position through linkage that interconnects the door with the lower section of the container so as to utilize the upward movement of the press as the source of opening power for the door.

Abstract: A lid unit for a refuse compactor which includes a bin having a power-actuated compacting blade therein; the lid unit comprising a flat, dual-section lid supported on the bin in normally closing relation thereto, the lid embodying a front section and a rear section transversely hinged together at adjacent edges, the lid being longitudinally shiftable a limited distance on the bin to different selective positions, and instrumentalities provided between the lid and the bin arranged to prevent opening of either of the lid sections when the lid is in one position, to permit the front lid section only to be opened when the lid is in a second position, and to permit the rear lid section to be folded onto the front lid section and the folded-together sections then swung to depend in front of the bin when the lid is in a third position.

Abstract: Apparatus for increasing the densichamber driven by a compression ram having a preset stroke and preferably being hydraulic, and a movable backplate facing the piston and being provided with means for producing a reaction force in opposition to the compression force of the ram and less than the maximum compression force exertable by the ram. Means for binding the compressed bales is also provided. Preferably the reaction force is maintained constant regardless of displacement of the backplate and this can be achieved by using a second hydraulic ram to which fluid is supplied at a constant pressure.

Abstract: A horizontal piston-type compactor is mounted in a housing, having an open end, that is diagonally joinable to a trash container, also having an open end, the open ends coinciding in horizontal alignment to form the unit. A trash receiving port, surrounded by a combing, is defined in the top of the housing and overhangs the bottom of the trash container owing to diagonal joint between the housing and the container, to provide an interior spillage area and use of higher trash compacting pressure in the container. Side liners are pivoted to the respective sides of the container adjacent its open end and extend oppositely therefrom short of an opposite closed end thereof.

Abstract: A filter press, e.g. for the manufacture of insulation products from an aqueous slurry, which has a number of movable platen portions. The platens have individual actuating means which are adjustable relative to one another but are controlled by a common drive which can move all the portions simultaneously as one platen.Also the method of using the press for the manufacture of insulation products. SUThe present invention relates to the manufacture of sheet or slab form insulation products from relatively free flowing slurries, for example containing calcium silicate and/or fibre. In particular it relates to a filter press which can be used to make such products. It also relates to a method of making sheet or slab form insulation products.Such products may be made by paper and/or board making techniques, they may also be made by filter pressing in which a measured volume of slurry is poured into a foraminous mould cavity and then de-watered by pressing.

Abstract: A portable bale press for tobacco and the like. The press includes a wheeled support and a compression chamber on a pivotable frame on the support. A press head attached to the rod of a hydraulic cylinder is also on the frame and is movable into the compression chamber to form a compressed mass of tobacco in the compression chamber. Power is supplied for driving the press head. The pivotable frame which supports the compression chamber, hydraulic cylinder and press head and is shiftable between an inactive position for transportation of the bale press and an active position where the compression chamber of the press is in position for compression of tobacco. Releasable holding and shifting structure is provided for transferring the frame between positions and holding the frame in the active and inactive positions for tobacco compression and transportation of the bale press respectively.

Abstract: The specification discloses apparatus for baling fibers in which the baling chamber is defined at least in part by one wall mounted for movement from a first position relative to an opposite wall to a second position farther from the second wall. There is means for moving the movable wall away from the second wall after the platen has entered the baling chamber but prior to final compression of the bale therein or means to move the wall in response to a predetermined bale compressing position of the movable platen. Further, the wall may be moved in response to a predetermined compressive force exerted by the platen on the bale. Still further, means is provided to overcompress the bale to some extent thus to destroy some of the inherent spring-back of the bale of fibers.

Abstract: A manual trash compactor that comprises a housing adapted to receive therein a bag having upstanding walls terminating in an open top for depositing the trash, and formed having a base with vertically extending panels extending upwardly from the base and terminating in an upper open end such that a rectangular configuration is formed to gain access to the housing. Pressure applying means for compacting the trash within the bag is provided with weighting means associated with the pressure applying means to increase the weight thereof to facilitate the compacting of the trash within the bag. Retaining means for releasably securing the open top of the bag within the housing during operation of the pressure applying means is utilized and comprises a plate operatively associated with each one of the panels to provide retention of the open top of the walls of the bag in fixed relationship to each one of the panels.

Abstract: A refuse compactor with an upright mechanical ram actuated by an electrical power unit interconnected to the ram by a linkage assembly including upright scissor arm pairs. Slots of the compactor container receive the forks of a front loader-type refuse truck. A latching assembly automatically unlatches a dump lid when the forks are fully inserted. A smaller refuse loading lid is provided in the dump lid which is automatically locked when the ram is in motion.

Abstract: A device for compacting trash and the like comprises a bin having an open top through which the material to be compacted can be passed and walls which define a volume into which the material is deposited. A horizontally disposed, rectangular pressure plate for compacting the material is horizontally driven from a zone horizontally removed from the open top into a region above the volume. The pressure plate is vertically driven between the region and the volume to compact the material in the bin and is returned to the region. The plate is vertically driven by first and second vertical pistons that are respectively positioned to drivingly engage opposite, straight, parallel edges of the pressure plate. The pistons are separately driven by fluid pressure until the fluid pressure acting on one of the pistons reaches a predetermined value.

Abstract: An improved receptacle for a trash compactor is mounted on a drawer for movement into and out of the compactor along rails on the drawer. The receptacle is spaced from the rails so that dents or deformations of the receptacle do not affect the rails. The rear end wall of the compactor may be slanted so as to accommodate the arcuate travel of the ram of the compacting mechanism and the receptacle has a pyramidal shape to facilitate removal of the compacted trash.

Abstract: A manual trash compactor that has housing means that is adapted to receive therein an exchangeable bag for containing the trash with access means to gain entrance to the bag for depositing of trash within the bag. To compact the trash pressure applying means is provided with a plunger having a compacting head for engagement with the contents of the bag, with gripping means extending outwardly of the housing for moving the plunger axially to reciprocate the head in a compacting direction. Weighting means is associated with the pressure applying means to add weight to the compacting head, and exit means is provided on the housing to permit removal of the compacted bag.