Patent ID: 7488148

Claim:
A waste compaction system adapted to the compaction of a volume of compactable material; the system comprising: (a) a container structure including floor, roof, and opposing side wall structures, arranged such that the container structure is closed at a rearward end, (b) a loading aperture in the roof for introducing the compactable material into the container structure, (c) an incrementing urging structure adapted to traversing substantially the length of the container structure from a fully retracted position at the rearward end of the container structure, to a fully advanced position at a discharge end of the container structure, (d) a discharge gate at the discharge end of the container structure for the ejection of the compactable material, characterized in that the incrementing urging structure is urged into incremental horizontal motion within the container structure by a first and a second cooperating mechanical systems, wherein the first mechanical system includes a pair of reciprocating beams extending substantially along an outside of each opposing side wall structure such that the beams engage at each of a plurality of incrementing cycles with engaging elements of the incrementing urging structure, where each incrementing cycle of the first mechanical system directed towards the discharge end of the container structure induces the incrementing urging structure to advance a predetermined distance towards the fully advanced position at the discharge end.