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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1991
Filed:
May. 25, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael J Gaylor, Dunedin, FL (US);
John Hodges, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B02C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
241 65 ; 241 99 ; 2411017 ; 241154 ; 241D / ;
Abstract
Infectious medical waste is rendered non-infectious by an apparatus that includes a hopper into which the infectious waste is charged, a pair of grinders or other destruction devices that reduce the waste materials to small particles, a first heating station where harmful life forms are destroyed and a cooling station where the ground and heated materials are cooled to a level safe for handling by conventional trash removal personnel. Sharps containers are cut apart by an externally mounted sharps container cutter that cuts the containers apart before they reach the grinders.