Apparatus for manufacture of synthetic fuel log

Claim 1

IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SYNTHETIC FUEL LOGS USING ELONGATE SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL BAGS WITH A SIDE WALL AND A CLOSED END AND WITH ONE OPEN END, A MIXING APPARATUS, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING MEASURED QUANTITIES OF COMBUSTIBLE PARTICLES AND MELTED WAX TO THE MIXING APPARATUS, MEANS FOR CAUSING THE MIXING APPARATUS TO MIX THE COMBUSTIBLE PARTICLES AND WAX INTO A SUBSTANTIALLY HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURE, A PACKING APPARATUS HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL ELONGATE SPOUT, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING THE HOMOGENOUS MIXTURE FROM THE MIXING APPARATUS TO THE PACKING APPARATUS, SAID PACKING APPARATUS INCLUDING MEANS FOR FORCING THE MIXTURE THROUGH THE SPOUT, A BAG HOLDER ADAPTED TO RECEIVE A BAG, SAID BAG HOLDER HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL CAVITY OPEN AT ONE END FOR SUPPORTING THE SIDE WALL AND THE CLOSED END OF THE BAG, SAID BAG HOLDER BEING DIMENSIONED SO THAT THERE IS SUFFICIENT CLEARANCE BETWEEN THE SPOUT AND THE BAG HOLDER TO RECEIVE THE BAG AND TO PERMIT THE BAG TO RECEIVE THE SPOUT DURING THE TIME THE BAG IS SUPPORTED BY THE BAG HOLDER AND MEANS MOUNTING SAID BAG HOLDER ON SAID PACKING APPARATUS PERMITTING RESTRAINED RELATIVE AXIAL MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE SPOUT AND THE BAG HOLDER, WHEREBY SAID MIXTURE IS PACKED UNDER SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTANT PRESSURE IN THE BAG AS THE MIXTURE IS FORCED FROM THE SPOUT.