Patent ID: 8667894
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: B30B,B65B

Abstract:
1. A system for piling and compressing pieces of compressible material, wherein said system comprises a piling tower for receiving and piling said pieces in batches comprising a number of piled pieces and means for compressing said batches, wherein the system further comprises: a first and a second compression plate having a plane and smooth upper and lower surface, whereby the compression plate can be slid out from between two compressed pieces, said first and second compression plate being positioned on different sides of said piling tower whereby respectively said first and said second compression plate can be moved independently along said piling tower, said compression plates being adapted for receiving a batch between said compression plates and compressing said batch by moving one compression plate towards the other, wherein the sides of said piling tower are defined by flexible sidewalls, said flexible sidewalls comprising sliding drawers and said sidewalls extend around said sliding drawers and said sliding drawers being adapted to move upwards and downwards parallel to the piling tower while the compression plates maintain access to the piles in the piling tower.