Apparatus for the fermentation of solid organic materials

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR MAKING COMPOST FORM NON-FLUID WASTE MATERIALS CONTAINING FERMENTABLE ORGANIC SUBSTANCE, WHICH COMPRISES A SOLID WALLED ELONGATED CONTAINER, SAID CONTAINER COMPRISING A SHELL AN END PLATE FOR CLOSING SAID CONTAINER AT ONE END THEREOF, CONNECTING MEANS BETWEEN SAID END PLATE AND SAID SHELL, SECURED TO THE PERIPHERAL WALL OF SAID SHELL AND TO SAID END PLATE FOR SECURING SAID PLATE TO SAID SHELL, SAID CONNECTING MEANS HAVING A CONSIDERABLE LENGTH SO AS TO HOLD THE SAID END PLATE IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP WITH RESPECT TO THE NEIGHBORING ENS OF SAID SHELL IN THE AXIAL DIRECTION OF SAIS CONTAINER, MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID SHELL TOGETHER WITH SAID END PLATE FOR PORING ABOUT A HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED AXIS, A CYLINDRICAL RING MEMBER BEING POSITIONED IN THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID SHELL AND SAID END PLATE IN SUBSTANTIALLY COAXIAL REALTIONSHIP WITH RESPECT RO SAID SHELL AND SAID PLATE, MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID CYLINDERICAL RING MEMBER NON-ROTATABLY IN SAID POSITION, THE SAID CYLINDERICAL RING MEMBER HAVING A DIAMETER SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE DIAMETER OF SAID SHELL AND A LENGTH SUBSTINTIALLY EQUAL TO THE AXIAL LENGTH OF SAID SPACE, A FEEDING OPENING FOR SAID MATERIALS ARRANGED IN THE PERIPHERAL WALL OF THE SAID CYLINDERICAL RING MEMBER IN THE UPPER HALF-PART THEREOF WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF SAID CONTAINER, AND DISCHARGE MEANS AT THE OPPOSITE END OF SAID CONTAINER FROM SAID FEEDING OPENING.