Ricky D Beardslee

Address:

120 Lena Dr, Crane, TX 79731

VIN:

1GKFK63817J158414

Make:

GMC

Model:

YUKON

Year:

2007

US Patent:

42612594, Apr 14, 1981

Filed:

Jan 21, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/113915

Inventors:

Ricky D. Beardslee - Odessa TX

International Classification:

B30B 504

US Classification:

100152

Abstract:

A beverage container crusher which flattens beverage containers to reduce the volume thereof so that the resultant crushed containers require very little storage room. The crushing apparatus includes spaced shafts arranged parallel to one another, and an endless belt is supported by the shaft in such a manner that the belt describes an oval track. A fixed plate is arranged at an acute angle with respect to the oval track. A lower portion of the plate continues about one end of the track so that when a beverage container is dropped into the space between the plate and the track, the container gravitates into a position where it is engaged by the traveling belt, so that the belt forces the container through the narrow space formed between the curved part of the plate and one curved end of the oval track. The flattened container drops into a storage container located below the container crusher apparatus where the containers may be accumulated and subsequently recycled.