With independent removable or detachable material receiver or receiver engaging means

A bottle crusher formed of an enclosed chute into which bottles are dropped, with a motor driven rotating plate arranged at the lower end of the chute to receive and break the bottles. The motor is located below the plate and mounted upon brackets arranged at spaced points around the periphery of the...     

A shaft which rotates at high torque and low speed has a plurality of upright plates which are slightly shorter than the inlet funnel in which it is fitted. Stripper fingers in fixed locations protrude towards the shaft and extend between the plates. A wall having a circular arc form emanates from the...     

A closure plate to close the open end of a feed chute for a bottle crusher or the like. The closure plate includes a plurality of sheets of relatively stiff but resilient material each having a plurality of equally spaced apart slits extending radially outwardly from the center thereof toward the outer...     

A portable solid waste shredder for automatically shredding refuse or waste materials including any kind of wet or dry trash, glass, metal cans, cartons, wood, cardboard and particularly synthetic plastics. The device comprises oppositely rotating pluralities of rotary shredding jaws, accessible through...     

A grinding mill arranged in a housing having a stone grinding wheel turned by a power source such that a face thereof moves over a fixed grinding stone. Grain deposited between faces thereof is ground into meal or flour and falls into a receptacle preferably in the housing that can be removed therefrom....     

A home flour mill for family use having a stationary stone supported by one wall of an outer housing, an electric motor driving a revolving stone cooperable with the stationary stone to accomplish the grinding, a threaded rod and double lock nut means for moving the electric motor and its associated...     

A food comminuting device comprises a bowl type receptacle in combination with a comminuting appliance designed to engage and fit over the open mouth of the bowl. The comminuting appliance has a frame which carries a plurality of comminuting units having different comminuting characteristics which can...     

A leaf collector and comminutor is disclosed having a collection receptacle in the form of a bag and a housing for delivery of comminuted tree leaves into the bag, the housing having thereon a motor driven rotary blade assembly, having a fan portion and a leaf comminuting portion resiliently mounted...     

In an upper portion of a housing is a material-receiving chamber below which is a lower portion that defines a comminution chamber. An apertured screen is disposed in the bottom of the latter for permitting the gravity discharge of material which has been comminuted. Mounted horizontally within the lower...     

A versatile food preparing machine which includes various attachments for selectively processing many different kinds of foods. The machine is characterized by incorporating a bottomless hopper and a food support pad for restingly supporting the food at various levels as it protrudes downwardly from...     

A document shredder which comprises a strip cutter to cut waste document into strips, a chip cutter to cut the strips into chips, and a minuting device disposed downstream of the chip cutters to cut the chips into pulp-like mass. The minuting device includes a housing having a conical surface formed...     

A mechanism is provided for crushing and grinding cremated remains and includes a vertical cylindrical housing, a stationary bearing plate positioned transversely across the shaft defined within the housing, and a rotatable perforated grinding disk. The weight of the bearing plate crushes the crematory...     

The slicer outlet extender for attachment to the outlet housing of a slicing machine, such housings opening downwardly and being larger at the lower ends, the extender comprising an elongated piece of material which wraps around the outside of the lower end of the outlet, and overlaps itself, and connecting...     

A hand-held pulverizer which is compact and efficient to use is provided to pulverize or grind a material. A cover is removably attached to a hollow cylindrical casing containing a mesh screen. A grinder disc is securely affixed to one end of a shaft rotatably mounted in the cover and is in frictional...     

Food processing unit adapted to include several processing devices to permit various foods to be sliced, grated, shredded or otherwise processed into a food receiving chamber, the top portion of which is designed to removably support a working platform. The working platform is designed with a two stage...     

An electrically driven desk-top shredder which comprises a housing, a drive motor secured within said housing, and a shredding mechanism driven by said drive motor. The shredding mechanism comprises a pair of rotary shafts driven in mutually opposite directions by said motor, a plurality of rotary disks...     

A needle chopper apparatus having a rotor with radially extending blades disposed in and along the longitudinal axis of a tube member. While rotating, the blades are in immediate proximity to an inner smooth cylindrical surface of the tube member. A feed chute extends into an inlet of the tube member...     

An apparatus for crushing frangible articles, such as pill bottles, which includes a housing, a support plate mounted within the housing, and a roller movably positioned within the housing so as to be reciprocable in an arcuate path past the support plate and thereby crush any frangible articles located...     

A hand held granulator for peppercorns, salt, nuts, spices, foliage greens and the like with storage of unground and ground material. A first cylindrical container portion with removable cap stores unground material and a second cylindrical container portion stores ground material. Two sealingly engaged...     

A device for cleaning or refining herbage or herbal substances which operates to separate out twigs, seeds or other roughage by an agitating and straining process. The device includes a cylindrical main body internally divided into a pair of chambers by a fixed strainer or wire screen with a pair of...     

A device for disposing of garbage comprising a garbage dividing mechanism disposed within a garbage dividing chamber and driven by a motor for finely dividing garbage, a rotary draining cylinder provided within said garbage dividing chamber to receive finely divided garbage from the garbage dividing...     

A hand-held pulverizer has a grinding section and a flat, detachable collecting plate into which pulverized material falls as it is ground. The pulverized material may be transferred from the collecting plate to a relatively small jar by attaching the broad end of a funnel-like device to the collecting...     

A device for destructing needles and syringes includes a base housing (20) and an upper closure body (22). One side of the housing (20) is open to slidably receive a receptacle (21) to receive severed needles and associated parts. The body (22) includes a rotary die member (32,33) mounted therein for...     

A food processor has a container, a guide member having an upper surface on which a vegetable or a fruit is slided reciprocatingly, a semi-tubular connecting member connecting the container to the guide member, and a hollor rectangular parallelepiped frame rotatably surrounding the connecting member....     

A coffee grinder has a control circuit for its electric grinder motor which includes a three-position control switch having a resident "Off" position, a resident "On" position, and a non-resident or momentary "On plus Start" position. In the "Off" position power is interrupted to all circuits of the...     

A pulverizer for reducing cremated remains having a horizontally mounted fixed cylindrical drum having a top opening and a plurality of perforations over a lower sector of the drum. A free cylindrical reducing bar is disposed parallel to the axis of the drum over the perforate sector. A reciprocating...     

An automated fruit and vegetable peeler having a motor driven rotary cutter blade which is mounted in generally vertically spaced relationship with respect to a cutting guide opening which opening is adjustable so as to both regulate the depth of the cut made with respect to a particular fruit or vegetable...     

A comminuter apparatus for comminuting documents and the like in a manner to prevent their legible reconstruction includes a feed hopper having a closable access opening and a discharge opening such that materials introduced into the hopper pass by gravity to a cutter assembly having driven rough-cut...     

An electric cordless mill for grinding, for example peppercorns, comprising a first housing comprising an inner portion and an outer portion rotatably mounted thereon. Electrical switch means are provided in the housing and are operable upon relative rotary movement between the first and second portions....     

An apparatus for crushing multi cavity medication cards wherein each cavity serves as a receptacle containing individual doses of medication such as, for example, pills or tablets. The apparatus includes a frame with a reciprocally movable platen and changeable medication card support plates mounted...     

A base unit for a document shredding machine comprising a frame like supporting structure providing an open-fronted stand which provides a horizontal surface on which a shredding machine may be placed. A bin of the base unit comprises a rear portion and a front portion which is wider than the rear portion,...     

An apparatus for comminuting homogeneous or autogeneous bone fragments into substantially homogeneous particles for use in bone grafting wherein a housing is provided having separate compartments for a motor and a comminuter driven by the motor. A chute and ram are provided to feed bone fragments into...     

A bag-receiving chute combination for a coffee grinder which has a downwardly facing discharge opening from which different sized batches of ground coffee discharge into bags of correspondingly different heights. The combination comprises an elongated, channel-shaped chute body adapted to be mounted...     

A bottle breaking apparatus comprising a bottle breaking member including a plate, and a punch extending outwardly from the plate, a V-shaped wall for supporting a bottle opposite the punch, and a pneumatic assembly for moving the plate toward the bottle so that the punch shatters the bottle and the...     

An apparatus is disclosed for comminuting gypsum board and winding elongate bendable members. The apparatus includes a support structure and a comminuting mechanism, including a housing mounted to the support structure. The housing has an intake portion for receiving gypsum board to be comminuted, an...     

A rotary grinder is described including a hopper for receiving waste through a door, which door when closed, provides a fluid tight seal. A movable waste receptacle is provided beneath the grinder and is locked in place and weighed during the operation of the grinder. An iris diaphragm valve mates with...     

A shredder has two intake sections through which paper to be shredded can be fed through cutting rollers. Detectors for detecting presence or absence of paper in each sections are provided such that the maximum number of sheets of paper that can be transported through the first intake section to the...     

An apparatus for breaking a bottle having opposite ends and a portion intermediate the ends, the apparatus comprising a pair of V-shaped walls having respective apexes extending transversely relative to each other for supporting the bottle only adjacent the ends of the bottle so that the intermediate...     

A paper shredding device for separating and shredding a carbon paper sheet from a credit card invoice slip having a first original copy separated by a carbon paper sheet from a second copy has a rectangular housing which encloses a rotationally driven cutter roller and a pair of adjacent idling anvil...     

An owl-mill crusher with stationary grinding rollers (6) inside a housing (1) that roll over a grinding bowl (3) resting on a rotating grinding-bowl support (5). An air box (8) is provided below the grinding bowl (3). A circular-conical disk (17) is secured to the grinding-bowl support (5) with its outer...     

A portable pocket size paper shredder housing having a paper entrance slot on the front end with an enclosed trough leading to a pair of shredding rollers and an exit slot on the back end. A first shredding roller comprising a circular drive shaft covered with a compressible, fractional material. The...     

An improved shredder has a closing device stored inside of its housing or inside a door. As the door is opened to pull out a bag filled with shredded paper, the bag closing device automatically protrudes and the operator has only to grab the top parts of the bag and press them through a groove made in...     

In a high-speed sorter, single documents such as banknotes are successively withdrawn from a stack and tested according to various criteria. Banknotes which are authentic but no longer fit for circulation are fed to a cutting means a shredder and destroyed therein. The shredder, which has a simple construction...     

A system for the treatment of infectious waste including apparatus for receiving, shredding, disinfecting, and separating waste material. A manually operated entry device provides input for quantities of solid waste into a feeding channel wherein a feeding ram moves the waste onto a series of shredding...     

A rotary grinder is described including a hopper for receiving waste through a door, which door when closed, provides a fluid tight seal. A movable waste receptacle is provided beneath the grinder and is locked in place and weighed during the operation of the grinder. An iris diaphragm valve mates with...     

A fully automatic coffee maker comprises a roasting portion which heats raw coffee beans placed therein by heating means so as to roast the raw coffee beans, a grinding portion which grinds the roasted coffee beans which have been roasted in the roasting portion, a transferring portion which is connected...     

A machine for crushing wood pallets having a stationary table with a grid providing vertical passages therethrough, a ram mounting above the table and reciprocable towards and away from the table and having an array of downwardly extending cutters which, when the ram is fully advanced towards the table,...     

A machine is capable of cutting into small pieces the thin wall material of a plurality of disposable containers such as plastic bottles or metal cans fed in a first direction one at a time to a cutting section. The cutting section includes a pair of parallel shafts mounted for rotation in opposite directions...     

A beverage container crusher adapted to receive for crushing beverage containers holding liquids, the beverage container crusher having an upper feed hopper to receive a plurality of beverage containers, the beverage containers directed to a pair of synchronized, counter-rotating crushing drums. The...     

A specialized crusher has an upright compartment sized to receive an individual oil filter resting on a grate at the bottom. A crusher plate above the filter is guided for vertical sliding movement in the compartment and is moved up and down by a hydraulic jack. Downward movement of the crusher plate...     

A food processor includes a hollow shredder member having food cutting elements, an open mouth container removably insertable within the shredder member for collecting food processed by the cutting elements and a hollow handle member for guiding food into engagement with the cutting elements. The shredder...     

A shredder for cutting carbon paper of the type used for credit purchases into indiscernible pieces by a high speed cutting blade safely located within an enclosed housing having a lower collection receptacle. A pair of feed rolls moves the carbon paper at a controlled rate through a chute generally...     

A shredding device uses a plurality of interleaving, counter-rotating discs to reduce sheets of material into longitudinal strips. One or more notches, formed in the periphery of each disc, cut the longitudinal strips into segments. Deflectors disposed in the spaces between each disc clear unwanted material...     

A coffee grinder in which coffee beans can be selectively fed by gravity to the grinder mechanism from either of two hoppers. Separate reciprocable slides close off or open separate discharge openings communicating between the bottom of each hopper and the grinder inlet for beans. The slides are operated...     

A housing for a paper shredder with a slit-like paper feed disposed on one side of the housing and a slit-like paper discharge disposed on the opposite side of the housing. The housing has an elongated shape, the dimension of length being a multiple of the dimension in width, where on each narrow side...     

A waste sterilizing and crushing apparatus includes a heating chamber adapted to receive wastes therein, and a heater for heating the interior of the heating chamber. The bottom of the heating chamber is formed with a discharge port, and a cover plate driven by a driving device to open and close the...     

Pulverizers, which are driven by motors and have an inlet chute and a pulverizing device connected to a collecting reservoir for minimizing of the created amount of dust are, in order to assure with a simple and safe design and easy operation, constructed such that the pulverizer (1) is arranged in a...     

A knife assembly having a mounting flange defining an abutting surface and knives extending radially outwardly from the mounting flange. A first knife defines a first distal point extending in a direction circumferentially around the mounting flange. A second knife extends radially outwardly from the...     

An apparatus for grinding hypodermic syringes or needles, IV needles and other medical waste into relatively fine particles. The apparatus includes a housing having a case therein defining an inlet and an outlet. A plurality of rotors are disposed in the case, and each of the rotors has a plurality of...     

A coffee grinder discharge chute for use with a coffee grinder operatively attached to a discharge opening in the grinder. The chute is comprised of a generally vertical elongate channel-shaped body having a generally tubular upper section and a channel-shaped lower portion. A grind directing cover is...     

A portable device for pulverizing pills, tablets and the like to form a minute substantially uniform powder therefrom. The device includes a cam-driven spring biased ram which reciprocates once on a vertical axis into and out of engagement with a pill disposed therebeneath with sufficient localized force...     

A device for crushing glass bottles and other glass containers. This comprises a rectangular housing having an intake slot at the top which directs the intake containers down an inclined plane to an abutment in the interior of the housing which defines a chute for directing the intake containers into...     

A kitchen article having a body, the body having a bottom sidewalls, a supporting structure formed in the body for supporting a kitchen implement over a top of the body, a bowl formed in an upper portion of the body, a spout formed at one location in an upper portion of a wall of the bowl and extending...     

A device for skiving and roller burnishing a workpiece (6) including a cutter (8) and a chip crusher (14) for crushing strings of chips (10). The crusher is positioned beneath the cutter such that low pressure coolant directs the chips from the end (12) of the workpiece and cutter directly into the crusher....     

An adjustable measuring apparatus for repeatably measuring a selected volume. The adjustable measuring apparatus includes a hollow sleeve having two sleeve apertures formed through opposed spaced apart surfaces of said sleeve. A first sleeve aperture formed on a top side of the sleeve is formed for receiving...     

There is disclosed a garbage disposer which pulverizes kitchen garbage, drys it and discharges only the yield water into a sewage system. This apparatus includes a garbage pulverizing segment and a garbage drying segment, both of which are driven by a common motor. The garbage drying segment includes...     

A disposal apparatus for breaking and shattering glass containers wherein a housing includes a device for shattering the glass, and there are at least two different receptacles for receiving the shattered glass positioned below the housing. The housing is located in different positions over the containers...     

A piston-and-cylinder retarder delays the switch opening of a switch actuated by a sensor in the path of paper introduced through the paper-feed shaft or chute of a paper shredder, thereby eliminating the need for more expensive and complex electronic time-delay systems to ensure that the shredding unit...     

A material flow inducing device for use in a material grinding apparatus. The grinding apparatus includes a grinding mechanism for grinding material, a motor for driving the grinding mechanism, and a hopper portion for holding a quantity of material for grinding in the grinding mechanism during a grinding...     

A receiving container includes a lid plate thereon mounting a cylindrical receiving tube, with the cylindrical receiving tube including rotating blade members to effect crushing of glass jars and the like directed through the receiving tube from a delivery chute, with the delivery chute including a chute...     

In the disposal device for paper documents according to the present invention, the feeding of paper that is to be disposed can be done either automatically with a feeding unit or manually from a manual inlet. Therefore, the disposal of sensitive paper documents can be carried out sheet by sheet by placing...     

A coffee grinder mount assembly for mounting a coffee grinder to a housing by a support member. The assembly located adjacent a coffee bean storage bin for receiving coffee beans therefrom for grinding. The assembly having a mounting bracket for supporting the coffee grinder and fixedly attaching it...     

A coffee grinder comprises a bin for holding a supply of coffee beans to be ground, a grinding assembly for receiving beans from the bin and grinding the same to a desired grind size, and a collection receptacle for receiving the ground coffee from the grinding assembly. The grinding assembly comprises...     

A lamp crusher housing is mounted on the removable cover of a replaceable waste container to discharge crushed lamps into the waste container through an opening in the cover. An elongate, plastic sleeve is removably and sealingly secured at one end over the upper end of the waste container, and at its...     

This invention relates to a coffee mill which comprises two grinding devices, each device being formed of a fixed annular grinder (1,1') and a rotary annular grinder (3,3') which are mounted in opposition the one to the other. The grinding devices are coaxially superposed. The rotary grinders (3,3')...     

For use with coffee bean grinders, a safety switch is actuated by a pivot arm having a pivot point located below a contact area at which a removeable container engages the pivot arm. The pivot arm pivots about the pivot point on a substantially horizontal axis between a forward and a retracted position....     

A household compactor and separator utilizes linear motion in crushing glass and metal refuse for comminution and separation. A crushing element disposed on a worm shaft crushes refuse against a steel grate, broken glass falling therethrough into a glass receptacle. Crushed metal cans fall into a metal...     

The present invention is an apparatus for pulverizing empty glass bottles into small fragments of a predetermined maximum size to reduce greatly the storage and handling problems associated in the past with empty bottles. The apparatus comprises a cabinet having a vertical passageway with spaced diaphragms...     

A coffee dispensing and brewing apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention comprises components for dispensing a predetermined amount of coffee to a brew basket, the components including a hopper for holding a supply of coffee beans and an auger device communicating with the...     

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for safe disposal of hypodermic syringes, needles and other small, contaminated instruments such as, for example, scalpel blades, stitch cutters etc. (Commonly referred to as "sharps"). The apparatus firstly comprises a collection container having...     

A field transportable battery disposal unit comprises a storage drum containing a neutralizing fluid and a cutting apparatus adapted to sit on top of the drum, the cutting apparatus including a cutting wheel, a driving apparatus for rotating the cutting wheel, an oscillating apparatus for oscillating...     

In chipper/shredder apparatus, an inlet extension secured to the inlet of the chipper/shredder, the extension being selectively movable toward and away from the chipper/shredder to effect a lowered position and a substantially upright position extending from the chipper/shredder inlet.

This disclosure relates to a coffee maker having the capability of shortening the length of time from the grinding of the roasted coffee beans to the brewing of the coffee, thus shortening the length of time required to obtain the brewed coffee, and wherein there is no large difference in the brewing...     

A combination pulverizer and container closure device includes a pestle and mortar for crushing tablets, pills and the like, and is adapted to be incorporated within a bottle cap or other container closure. The combination device is adaptable for use in combination with container closures with or without...     

A blender has a container shaped in an oblong cross-section with the opposite ends of semi-circular shape and parallel straight walls inbetween these ends. The rotary cutter is positioned at the center at one of the semi-circular ends giving the container an off-center heavier side. The power base on...     

A pan rack for a mixing machine is mounted to the mixing machine independent of dimensional and locational variances from machine to machine of typical bowl support mounting pins and hole. The pan rack has a mounting section which includes a hook that engages the lower surface of the bowl support, and...     

Waste disposal mechanisms, particularly a glass grinding machine for disposal of glass bottles or the like. The glass bottles are advanced through an inclined feeding chute onto a rotor having transverse blades which shatter the glass into fragments, and urge the glass fragments through a lower, arcuate...     

A waste disposer comprises a shredder section for shredding waste material and a water remover section coupled integrally with the shredder section for removing water from the waste material, in which the waste material is shredded with the shredder section and the shredded waste material is carried...     

An apparatus for reprocessing special waste of photocrosslinkable scrap material is composed of a housing equipped with a feed hopper, one or more UV emitters arranged in the housing to irradiate the scrap material, and a chopper arranged in the housing to comminute the scrap material by chopping. The...     

A medical waste disposal system includes an assembly for superheating a quantity of untreated medical waste which is partially saturated with water to an internal temperature of at least 275 degrees Fahrenheit for at least thirty minutes. After such superheating the vessel is rotated to cool the same...     

A sharps disposal apparatus is provided for reducing contaminated medical sharps into unrecognizable, ordinary waste. The disposal apparatus comprises a disposal unit including a disposer, disposable waste receptacle, and sterilant recycling system. During the destruction and sterilization operation,...     

A vegetable grating apparatus has a housing with a plurality of sides and a top and a supporting stand attached to and supporting the housing. A shaft is rotatably mounted to the housing and has a vegetable grating blade attached to one end thereof and a handle to the other end for rotating the shaft...     

A waste disposer comprises a shredder section for shredding waste material and a water remover section coupled integrally with the shredder section for removing water from the waste material, in which the shredded waste material is carried upward throughout a cylindrical screen member mounted in the...     

The apparatus for recycling glass containers comprises an enclosure having at least one customer access opening and a rotatable carousel mounted in the enclosure. The rotatable carousel defines a plurality of glass container receiving recesses for subsequently receiving glass containers through the customer...     

A waste paper processing system includes an upper shredding portion and a lower compressing portion. The shredding portion includes to horizontally parallel shafts mounting thereon a plurality of circular blades. The shafts are rotated to spin outwardly of a space between the shafts from a paper feeding...     

An apparatus for destroying medical waste material is provided including a transportable container member, a processor having rotatably driven roller members for breaking the medical waste materials into smaller particles, a removable receptacle for containing the medical waste particles, and a loading...     

A solid waste recycling system for use in recycling containers containing residual liquids. The recycling system includes a housing having an inlet for receiving the containers. Two pluralities of oppositely rotating rotary knives shred the containers into shreds. A conveyor transports the shreds toward...     

The object of the invention is to provide a food processor, which can be compact in size and can be easily washed. In the food processor, a tray accommodates processed food, and an upper face thereof is opened. A cutter plate is provided to an upper section of the tray and capable of reciprocatively...     

An elongate object cutting apparatus which can cut an elongate object finely and at a high speed while production of vibrations or noises is reduced is disclosed. The elongate object cutting apparatus is suitably used to cut a flexible elongate object such as a terminal carrier having a plurality of...     

A coffee mill with two bins for holding two types of coffee. The bins slope downwardly and inwardly to provide two adjacent bin outlets. These outlets feed into the entrance to a coffee grinder. A slider plate and a baffle plate are slidingly mounted between the outlets and the entrance, and can be used...