Ara Services, Inc.

Herbert H Jamgochian

Joseph L Levasseur

A housing has an input hopper for receiving municipal trash items, particularly aluminum cans, which drop onto a conveyor and are carried to a crusher. The crushed items drop onto a second conveyor which carries the items past a magnetic separator station which recognizes and separates out any ferrous materials. The remaining material, including aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic cartons, paper and other items, are carried to an identification station which recognizes the aluminum items and signals a pusher mechanism to push the aluminum items off the conveyor. The pushed-off aluminum items drop into one of the pockets of a rotatable collector-and-wiper device. After a pre-selected number of items have been recognized and pushed off the conveyor, or if a time period of preselected length passes during which no additional items are received at the input hopper, a signal is generated which causes the collector-and-wiper device to be indexed, thereby to push the collector items onto the platform of a weighing scale. A signal is generated which is sent to a coin-payout mechanism to make payment for the weight of the aluminum items deposited on the scale.

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Wallingford, PA, United States of America

Herbert H Jamgochian