Patent ID: 7958820

Claim:
A compactor construction comprising a housing having an inlet for receiving material to be compacted; a compaction chamber in communication with said inlet for receiving said material and in which said material may be compacted, said chamber having an outlet through which compacted material may be discharged; a pair of adjacent forwarding augers within said housing having interleaved helical vanes, said augers being spaced from one another a distance to avoid contact between said augers, including bearing means carried by said housing and underlying the vanes of the respective augers for engagement by said vanes, thereby supporting said augers from below; drive means coupled to said forwarding augers for driving the latter in a direction to forward material in said housing along a path toward said compaction chamber and said outlet; and resistance means at the outlet of said compaction chamber comprising a wall formed of elastic material having an opening therein through which compacted material from said chamber may pass for imposing a compaction force on said material as such material moves along said path through said compaction chamber and through said outlet thereby enabling material in said housing enroute to and through said outlet to be compacted by said forwarding augers.