A process for the collection, treatment and disposition of domestic garbage, wherein the garbage is dehydrated in a hydraulic press to remove excess fluids therefrom, and the dehydrated garbage is hermetically sealed in compact cases for subsequent transportation and handling. The containers are formed in two parts, one of which is placed in the cylinder end of a ram-type press and the other in the piston end so that the garbage is compressed and dehydrated between the two parts of the container...

A mobile mechanical raking apparatus for gathering, shredding and loading into a receptacle scattered debris both on lawns and paved surfaces or selectively from less accessible places such as around bushes or roof gutters. The apparatus normally sucks the debris upwardly from the ground through an upper opening into a receptacle. The apparatus may be converted into a stationary stacker by reversing the drive and feeding debris through the upper opening, the debris being shredded and sucked down...

A container having a bottom, a continuous side wall, and an open top with a rim including an inwardly and downwardly inclined flange and an abutment terminating the flange; with a rigid flat closure of the shape of the rim and flange, said closure having a diameter greater than that of the flange at its inner edge and less than the diameter of the rim, said closure distorting the flange and having a friction fit therewith when pressed into it, the abutment serving to prevent the closure from bei...

A device for removing debris from sidewalks, roads, curbs, grass, rugs, floors and other areas including a container portion with an opening, a lip portion, a door or cover in the form of a kickplate with appendages, and a handle means.

An improved blood collection container having a reduced portion disposed between its closed longitudinal ends and a stopper means disposed therein and adopted under the influence of centrifugal force to be securely received in the reduced portion is described.

A system for transferring information from a plurality of data stations to a central station such as a computer. A novel data controller couples the computer to a plurality of master stations, some of which may in turn be coupled to a set of slave stations, for communicating with the master stations. The data controller operates in three phases -- a load phase in which a station address and instructions are loaded into the controller either from the computer or an internal memory within the data...

A coin collection device for use in self-service parking lots and like establishments which allows a first authorized person visibility of the money received for determining which parking spaces or the like have been paid for, and which allows a second authorized person access to the money. A transparent inner wall and a cover plate prevent the first authorized person from having access to the money received.

An improved refuse collection vehicle is disclosed which a single operater can both steer and load without dismounting from the driver's seat. The present vehicle has a boom assembly mounted on the vehicle at a position where it can be observed by the driver and is arranged to grasp either bags or containers and deposit the bags or the contents of the containers into a front loading bin. The front loading bin is adapted to be contracted to initially compact the collected refuse and then dump the...

A ticket system for public transport vehicles based on the use of tickets which require to be of a predetermined length when presented for checking as the passenger leaves the vehicle, this length being determined on issue of the ticket by mechanism which allows for the issue point in relation to the complete journey and also in accordance with the fare paid: thus all tickets checked at any particular point should be of the same length irrespective of their several issue points, and any short ti...

In a system for twisting together several ends of heavy treated glass yarns, an improved means for feeding the ends and maintaining constant tension thereon, comprising multiple power driven feed rolls whose speed is continuously varied in response to the tension in the strand between the feed rolls and the twister, to maintain the strand tension at a desired level. Strand tension is sensed by a pivotally mounted member which is biased into strand-deflecting contact with the strands, and whose a...