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Refuse compacting device

  • US 4,256,035 A
  • Filed: 01/02/1979
  • Issued: 03/17/1981
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/02/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A refuse compaction device, comprising:

  • a housing having at one end a hopper section for receiving refuse material to be compacted and at the other end a compaction section for compacting refuse into a densified plug;

    said compaction section communicating with said hopper section for receiving refuse material therefrom and having a refuse material discharge opening;

    a rotatable auger screw extending through said hopper section and at least partly into said compaction section for compacting refuse material therein, said auger screw being mounted in cantilever fashion in an end wall of said hopper remote from said compaction section;

    means mounting said auger screw in said housing for limited angular movement in all directions from its normal axis of rotation;

    said auger screw being adapted to be drivingly connected to power means for rotatably driving said auger screw.

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