Mushroom compost compacting tamper

摘要

A mushroom compost compacting system and method includes a hydraulically activated tamper platen to compact compost held within a mushroom compost receptacle. The tamper platen has engageable arms extendable from opposite ends of the top surface of the platen and that each connect to a respective hydraulic piston or cylinder. The hydraulic pistons or cylinders link to respective ends of a brace bar disposed beneath the floor portion of the compost receptacle. Tamping compression of the tamper platen compresses compost between the tamper platen and the brace bar. In one embodiment, the hydraulic pistons are installed in or joined to fixtures, which fixtures may have trolley wheels therein to permit relative movement between the fixtures and guide rails supporting the fixtures so that the mushroom compost compacting system may be traversed along the length of all or a portion of the compost receptacle.

主权项

1. A mushroom compost compacting system, comprising:
a tamper platen with a top surface and a tamping surface opposite the top surface; a first engageable arm engaged to the top surface; a second engageable arm engaged to the top surface; a brace bar with a first end and a second end, wherein said bar is adapted for positioning under and in contact with an external surface of a bottom floor of a compost receptacle at a first location and for re-positioning under and in contact with the external surface of the bottom floor of the compost receptacle at a second location spaced apart from the first location; a first hydraulic piston removably coupled directly or indirectly at one end to the first engageable arm and at its opposite end to the first end of the brace bar; and a second hydraulic piston removably coupled directly or indirectly at one end to the second engageable arm and at its opposite end to the second end of the brace bar.