Compacting system and apparatus

Claim 1

MATERIAL HANDLING AND COMPACTING APPARATUS COMPRISING A CONTAINER HAVING A RAMMING PORT THEREIN AND MEANS FOR DETACHABLY SECURING AN INJECTING AND RAMMING DEVICE TO SAID CONTAINER IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID PORT, SAID PORT BEING OF SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR CROSS SECTION, AND THE INJECTING AND RAMMING DEVICE INCLUDING A RAM HAVING LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING SIDE AND TOP WALLS AND OF SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR CROSS SECTION AND PROJECTING THROUGH SAID PORT FROM A RETRACTED POSITION SPACED FROM THE PORT TO A PROJECTED POSITION IN WHICH SAID WALLS LIE IN SAID PORT, THE RAM SUBSTANTIALLY CONFORMING IN WIDTH TO THE WIDTH OF THE PORT WHEREBY THE SIDE WALLS OF THE RAM WHEN IN THE PROJECTED POSITION LIE CLOSELY AGAINST THE SIDES OF THE PORT, AND THE RAM BEING OF MATERIALLY LESSER HEIGHT THAN THE PORT AND LOCATED AND TRAVELING IN A PATH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PORT TO LEAVE A CLEAR SPACE BETWEEN THE TOP OF THE RAM AND THE TOP OF THE PORT OF A HEIGHT WHICH IS A SUBSTANTIAL PROPORTION OF THE VERTICAL HEIGHT OF THE RAM, THEREBY PROVIDING CLEARANCE FOR ITEMS OF SUBSTANTIAL BULK OVERLYING THE RAM.