Disposal installation for domestic waste

Claim 1

A disposal installation for recycling of domestic waste for use in or near kitchens of houses, hotels and the like, said waste being selectively collected in four different containers and disposal installation comprising in combination, four separate chutes for receiving and holding respectively food remains, synthetic material, tins, and glass for separate recycling; said four chutes being essentially parallel to each other, vertical, and of rectangular section; said chute for food remains and said chute for synthetic material being adjacent to each other and each having a rotating grinder, both driven by a common driving means; said chute for glass and said chute for tins being adjacent to each other and each having a pressing installation, both driven by a common driving means; said chute for food remains having a drying installation under said grinder in which ground food remains are received and dried for a predetermined time, and a receiving container provided under said drying installation into which fall the ground food remains after drying; said chute for synthetic material including a grinding compartment, a cylindrically bent perforated plate closing said synthetic material chute grinding compartment at its underside, a horizontal shaft arranged along a cylinder shaft of said bent plate a rotor in said compartment which can rotate around said horizontal shaft along said cylinder shaft and provided with a number of rotating edge knives regularly distributed over its circumference, said edge knives cooperating with two oppositely situated fixed edge knives arranged at both sides above said bent plate that when rotating, cutting edges of said rotating knives pass close by cutting edges of said fixed knives so that sufficiently reduced synthetic parts are pressed subsequently through holes in said perforated plate; each of said chutes for glass and for tins including a plate press in each said chutes, said plate press comprising two parallel, vertical press plates, a first of which is fixed to a wall of said chute and a second of which is mobile towards and away from said first by means of a jack driven by a threaded shaft, said second plate being guided along two oppositely situated walls of said chute by means of a system of bearings and rollers, a closing plate just under said plate press adjacent and parallel to said fixed plate having a slot through which crushed glass or flattened tins can fall down.