| 摘要 |
Volume reducing apparatus (10, 11), particularly for use with a wheeled bin (43) for receiving cullet (54) reduced from empty waste glass bottles, comprises a machine (10) carried below a Hd (11) for closing the bin (43), the machine (10) including a cassette (12) extending an angle to the vertical downwardly inside the Hd (11), the cassette (12) housing a hammer assembly (31) which is secured to a shaft (28) of a motor (27) mounted on an upper surface of the cassette (12) and also located inside of the lid (11), the shaft (28) projecting into the cassette (12) through a central aperture in a casing thereof. The lid (11) and the casing are each provided with eccentric apertures for locating a tube (30) extending through the lid (11) parallel to a longitudinal axis of the shaft (28) so that, in operation, bottles fed successively into the tube (30) pass down the tube (30) and the glass of the bottles, on emerging from the tube (30) into the cassette (12), is struck by hammers of the hammer assembly (31 ) and is reduced to cullet (54), which passes through an outlet (18) of the cassette (12) and collects in the bin (43). The arrangement provides for an inexpensive and compact bottle breaking machine having low bottle entry access. |
