Hitachi Kiden Kogyo, Ltd.

Tetuo Yamagata

Shigeki Kamei

Yoshinobu Imamura

Minoru Higuchi

Hiroshi Fujii

An empty can crusher for crushing and flattening empty cans, comprising an inlet, a chute, a stopper device, a pressing device and a forked chute. Empty cans supplied in the crusher are crushed and flattened by the pressing device and are sorted into aluminium cans and steel cans by means of a magnet embedded in the pressing device, which fall down into respective receptacles through the forked chute.

Empty can crusher

A machine for scraping up grit which has a girder extending over grit chambers, an elevating frame parallel with the girder and adapted to rise and descend, a bucket conveyor stretched around sprocket wheels arranged at both ends of the elevating frame and at proper places above the girder, and a movable sprocket wheel, whereby scraping, scooping up and discharging of grit can be performed by the bucket conveyor.

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Amagasaki, Japan

Tetuo Yamagata