Rapid composting

Claim 1

IN A PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOST COMPOSED OF FERMENTED ORGANIC WASTE MATERIAL BY RAPIDLY AEROBICALLY FERMENTING MUNICIPAL ORGANIC WASTE MATERIAL, THE STEPS CONSISTING OF ELEVATING SAID WASTE MATERIAL AN APPRECIABLE DISTANCE ABOVE THE GROUND, SHREDDING SAID WASTE MATERIAL WHILE ELEVATED TO FORM COARSE PARTICLES THEREOF, ALLOWING SAID COARSE, SHREDDED PARTICLES TO FALL, BY GRAVITY, AND DEPOSIT ON THE GROUND IN THE FORM OF A POROUS WINDROW PILE, SPARYING MOSITURE ON SAID COARSE SHREDDED PARTICLES DURING THEIR FALL TO THE GROUND, SAID MOSITURE BEING SPRAYED ON SAID FALLING PARTICLES TO ADJUST THE MOISTURE CONTENT THEREOF TO WITHIN THE RANGE OF FROM ABOUT 40 TO 60 PERCENT BY WEIGHT, ALLOWING SAID MOIST, POROUS WINDROW PILE TO FERMENT AEROBICALLY WHILE MAINTAINING SAID PILE AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM ABOUT 50*C. TO 70*C. AND A PH OF FROM ABOUT 6.5 TO 7.5, UNTIL PRIMARY FERMENTATION IS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE AND THE MOSITURE CONTENT OF SAID POROUS WINDROW PILE IS REDUCED TO ABOUT 35 PERCENT, THEN REPROCESSING SAID COARSE, SHREDDED WASTE MATERIAL BY RE-ELEVATING, RESHREDDING AND REDEPOSITING SAID RESHREDDED WASTE MATERIAL, BY GRAVITY FALL ONTO THE GROUND, IN THE FORM OF A POROUS WINDROW PILE, AND RESPRAYING SAID RESHREDDED WASTE MATERIAL WITH MOISTURE DURING THE FALL THEREOF TO READJUST THE MOISTURE CONTENT THEREOF TO WITHIN THE RANGE OF FROM ABOUT 40 TO 60 PERCENT BY WEIGHT, AEROBICALLY FERMENTING SAID REFORMED MOIST WINDROW PILE AGAIN UNDER SAID FERMENTATION CONDITIONS UNTIL PRIMARY FERMENTATION IS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE, SAID RE-ELEVATING, RESHREDDING, REDEPOSITING AND RESPRAYING STEPS BEING EACH CARRIED OUT EACH TIME THE MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE REFORMED POROUS WINDROW PILE OF SHREDDED WASTE MATERIAL IS REDUCED TO ABOUT 35 PERCENT BY WEIGHT, SAID REPROCESSING BEING CONTINUED UNTIL SAID AEROBIC FERMENTATION OF SAID WINDROW PILE IS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE, AND RECOVERING SAID COMPLETELY FERMENTED ORGANIC WASTE MATERIAL COMPOST.