Patent ID: 7137335
Filing Date: 2006-11-21
Classification: B29B,B29C,B29K,B30B,Y02W

Abstract:
1. A plastics waste processor comprising: a base; a frame having a top end, and a bottom end attached to said base; a hinge arm assembly movably attached to the frame comprising a hinge fixed to said frame, and a handle portion attached to said hinge; a waste containment chamber attached to said frame, said waste containment chamber comprising a waste chamber having a chamber entrance port therein, said chamber entrance port defining a chamber entrance port outer circumference; a breech-lock door assembly rotatably attached to said hinge arm and adjacent to said chamber entrance port, said breech door lock assembly comprising: (i) a waste containment chamber door adjacent to and in rotatable communication with the chamber entrance port, and attached to the handle portion of the hinge arm assembly, said waste containment chamber door having: (ii) a linear actuating means having a first end fixably attached to the hinge and a second end movably attached to the waste containment chamber door, and positioned so as to be able to rotatably move the waste containment chamber door; and (iii) a waste containment chamber door damper means having a first end, a second end, and a damper there between, the first end of the waste containment chamber door damper means fixably connected to the hinge, and the second end of the waste containment chamber door damper means movably connected to the waste containment chamber door, the damper means positioned so as to oppose rotary motion of the waste containment chamber door; two or more of said receptor blocks affixed to the frame, and positioned adjacent to the outer circumference of the waste containment chamber entrance port; a pneumatically driven waste compaction means interactively adjacent to said waste containment chamber, said pneumatically driven waste compaction means comprising: (iii) one or more dampers positioned between the pneumatically driven ram and the base, and parallel to the pneumatically driven ram; a user control means conductively connected to one or more of the the waste containment chamber heating means, the pneumatically driven waste compaction means, and the processor temperature monitoring means.