Balanced comminuting, vacuum and loading system

摘要

The system of the invention includes: a self propelled vehicle having a bed for receiving debris after comminution has occurred. The bed includes a cover. The cover has a filter of filter area A connected across an output opening of the cover; a frame attached to the self propelled vehicle and including ground engaging wheels defining a datum line; a comminuting chamber attached to the frame, an input opening in the comminuting chamber and an output opening, disc means having a shaft extending horizontally across the chamber and a driven pulley attached at one end thereof, a series of hammers attached to the disc means and movable therewith, and a grate at the periphery of the disc means; a vacuum chamber attached to the frame having an input opening attached to the output opening of the comminuting chamber and an output opening, an engine mounted to the frame at an end opposite to said comminuting chamber having a drive shaft including a drive pulley and an endless drive belt, the drive belt being attached to a pulley of the vacuum chamber and providing rotation of the shafts of both the comminuting and vacuum chambers in unison.