Machine and method for reclaiming tin cans and the like to be made into alloyed billets of tin and metal

Claim 1

IN A MACHINE OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED FOR RECLAIMING TIN CANS, COMPRISING MEANS FOR SLITTING SAID CANS TRANSVERSELY THEREOF IN ONE DIRECTION AT INTERRUPTED INTERVALS TO HOLD THEM INTACT AFTER THE SAME HAVE BEEN COMPRESSED AND REDUCED TO RELATIVELY FLAT PIECES; MEANS FOR SEVERING SAID PIECES TRANSVERSELY OF SAID SLITS TO SEPARATE THE SAME INTO A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY COARSE PARTICLES; AND MEANS FOR SUBSTANTIALLY PULVERIZING SAID PARTICLES SO THAT SELECTED QUANTITIES THEREOF CAN BE PLACED IN CONTAINERS AND HEATED TO THE APPROXIMATE FUSION TEMPERATURE OF THE TIN AND METAL CONTAINED THEREIN TO ALLOY THE SAME AND PROVIDE BILLETS THEREOF, ALL OF THE RECITED MEANS BEING SO COOPERATIVELY AND CORRELATIVELY ASSOCIATED, ARRANGED AND CONSTRUCTED SUCH THAT SAID TIN CANS ARE SILTTED TRANSVERSELY IN ONE DIRECTION AT INTERRUPTED INTERVALS, SAID TIN CANS ARE SEVERED TRANSVERSELY OF SAID SLITS INTO A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY COARSE PARTICLES AND SAID COARSE PARTICLES ARE PULVERIZED.