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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Otto Muller-Girard, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Dextrite, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B02C / ; B02C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
241 36 ; 241 375 ; 241 99 ; 241100 ; 241D / ;
Abstract
As each tube is fed into the feed chute of a fluorescent lamp tube crusher, and regardless of the size of the tube, a sensor switch in the chute immediately sends a count signal to an associated tube counter, and also produces an inhibit signal which prevents a second count signal from being applied to the counter for a predetermined interval of time that is greater than the time it takes to grind up a tube of a first size and that is less than the time it takes to crush a tube of larger size. If at the end of the interval a tube of larger size is still being crushed, a second count signal is applied to the counter.