Patent ID: 8342084

Claim:
A compactor device, comprising: a housing comprising an elongate cylindrical channel therein, a sidewall, a first opening through the sidewall for providing access to the channel, and diametrically opposed elongate guide slots defined through the sidewall and along a portion of a length of the housing; an end cap located at a first end of the housing for capping the channel and seating a neck end of a bottle therein, the cap defining a cylindrical neck end protecting portion open to the channel and having a diameter less than a diameter of the channel, the neck end protecting portion protecting a portion of the neck end of the bottle from compaction; a piston slidably disposed within the channel and having a forward ram protrudes from a face of the piston, the ram having a diameter smaller than the diameters of the channel and the piston, and the bottle to be compacted such that the ram stuffs a bottom of the bottle into the protected portion of the neck end of the bottle as the ram is driven in the direction of the end cap; and a lever operably connected to the piston through the guide slots for actuating linear movement of the piston within the channel.