Patent ID: 7343852

Claim:
A loose media compacting system comprising: a. a charging chamber with retractable walls, the charging chamber mounted to and aligned along and about a framework, the framework including a hydraulic power means, a main hydraulic actuating cylinder, a compression ram connected to and positionable by the main hydraulic actuating cylinder along a lower guide plate, the charging chamber having variable geometry, wherein the retractable walls of the charging chamber are actuatable and forcibly pivotable opposed rear and front retractable charging chamber walls, each of the retractable charging chamber walls is pivotably mounted to a pivot mount adjacent the lower guide plate, the retractable charging chamber walls of the charging chamber have media contact surfaces that are vertical in a closed and compacted condition of the charging chamber and inclined in an open and expanded condition of the charging chamber, the media contact surfaces of the retractable walls of the charging chamber contact and transform loose media to a precompressed condition as they forcibly pivot to vertical in the closed and compacted condition, each of the actuatable and forcibly pivotable opposed retractable charging chamber walls having a side plate intersecting a top plate, an arcuate top cover plate, and a serrated knife at an inner edge of the top plate, the side plate having the media contact surface, the side plate intersecting and securing to the top plate in perpendicular fashion and delineates a division of the top plate into an outwardly directed top plate section and an inwardly directed top plate section, and the arcuate top cover plate is positioned above the top plate; and, b. a loading chamber having straight and vertically aligned walls aligned above the charging chamber having variable geometry.