Abstract A trash compactor with a housing having a head space at its top, a trash container at its bottom and a trash loading space between the head space and the trash container, a trash loading port in the side of the housing aligned with the trash loading space, a pressure platen and a lazy tong or scissors extension linkage mounted at the top of the housing and operable to move the platen between one or more advanced positions in which the extension linkage spans across the trash loading space and the platen is imposing compacting pressure on trash within the container, and a retracted position in which the extension linkage and platen are withdrawn into said head space, thus leaving the intervening trash loading space open for loading trash into the container through said loading port and without having to withdraw the container from the housing for loading purposes.
In a trash compactor of the character described the combination with a housing for a trash basket and ram assembly of a double door therefor, one of said doors comprising an innermost service door having a loading port above the level of the basket, said housing having an unobstructed chuting space above said basket and opposite said loading port and a loading door over said loading port, said loading door having a hinge by which it is connected to the service door and about which the loading door may be swung away from the service door to open said loading port to admit trash through the loading port and said unobstructed chuting space into the basket, said loading door having a panel which projects inwardly through said loading port in the service door and which overhangs the rim of the trash basket when both the loading door and the service door are closed.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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In a trash compactor of the character described the combination with a housing for a trash basket and ram assembly of a double door therefor, one of said doors comprising an innermost service door having a loading port above the level of the basket, said housing having an unobstructed chuting space above said basket and opposite said loading port and a loading door over said loading port, said loading door having a hinge by which it is connected to the service door and about which the loading door may be swung away from the service door to open said loading port to admit trash through the loading port and said unobstructed chuting space into the basket, said loading door having a panel which projects inwardly through said loading port in the service door and which overhangs the rim of the trash basket when both the loading door and the service door are closed.