A. A. LOW.

WASTE PAPER RBOEPTAGLE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, 1909.

929,969. Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

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ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW, OF HORSESHOE, NEW YORK.
WASTE-PAPER RECEPTACLE.

No. eeaeco. Speci?cation oi. Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

Application ?led. February 2, 1909. Serial No. 475,661.

To all whom it may concern: mechanical e: iedient adapted to cut, tear or

Be it known that l, i-iBnc-r jinousr'us otherwise disintegrate the paper to such an
Low, a citizen of the United States, residing extent as to practically render it useless, ex
at Horseshoe, St. Lawrence county, and cepting as paper waste, and prevent its use
State of New York, have invented certain as a means of information or fraud. The
new and useful improvements in. Waste disintegrating device D, may be operated by 60
Paper Receptacles, of which the following is an electric motor M, a crank or any other
a speci?cation. suitable means, as may be found most ex
My invention relates to the provision of pedient.
10 improved means for disposing of waste paper In order to compress the waste paper in
and is designed more particularly for use in the bag B, I provide a packing follower F, 65
oflices and other places where not only the formed with a central opening f, through
collection and storage of waste paper is de which, ordinarily the waste paper falls into
sirable, but also its cancellation or mutila the bag. This opening f, may be closed
15 tion in such manner as to render it unavail however by a slide 8, when it is desired to
able or unintelligible for re-use or for infor compress the waste and the follower F, is 70
mation. then depressed. and lowered into the bag as
The invention consists primarily of a re far as may be desired by means of a rack K,
ceptacle having a cutting or cancelling de~ and pinion p, or other equivalent mechanism.
20 vice interposed between it and a receiving The slide 5, may be inserted. to close the hole
hopper, whereby the papers are disintegrated f, through the medium of a door g.
and rendered useless as such before they en I prefer to operate the device by means of
ter the body of the receptacle, in which latter the electric motor M, and to arrange for the
the fragments are stored temporarily in a automatic stopping of its operation when the
suitable bag to be removed from time to time feed of paper to the hopper His discontinued.
for the disposition of the waste. This I accomplish by inserting in the electric 80
My invention also includes a device for circuit 6, two switches e, and 02. The ?rst
compressing and packing the disintegrated c, is closed by hand to start the motor. The
paper within the receptacle; means for stop feed of paper between the feed rolls 1 and 2
30 ping the device automatically, and certain raises the upper roll 2 so that it raises and
other features in the construction and ar closes the switch 62, when the hand switch 6, 85
rangement of parts hereinafter described an d may be again opened, since the switch 62, will
claimed speci?cally. maintain a closed circuit through e3, as long
In the accompanying drawings, Figure as paper is passing between the rolls 1 and 2.
35 1, is an elevation of my improved waste When the paper has all been fed in the roll 2
paper receptacle; Fig. 2, a central vertical drops, causing the switch 62, to break the cir 90
section of the same; Fig. 3, a top view of the cuit and stop the apparatus. Thus the de
same ; Fig. e, a horizontal section upon plane vice is in operation only when required for
of line Zllillig. 2 ; and Fig. 5, a horizontal actual use.
section upon plane of line 55Fig. 2. lily device is especially advantageous for
A, is an inclosed boX or casing of any suit use in oflices, banks, counting houses, &c., 95
able shape and construction provided with a under conditions, where the practical de
door a. Attached to the upper part of the struction of correspondence, memoranda,
box, preferably on the door a, is a ring r, pro liquidatedbonds, accounts, books 850., and the
45 vided with hooks 1", or equivalent devices for like is a desideratum, in that it reduces the
the support of a waste paper bag lip-said paper and disintegrates it to such an extent 100
ring 7", holding the mouth of the bag extended that it can only thereafter be sold or used as
and open to receive the paper from above. paper waste,an article thus produced
H, is a receiving hopper situated. on the having a special market value, but serving no
50 top c2, of the receptacle. In the lower part of other purpose,since the particles of paper
this hopper H, or interposed between it and are useless for identi?cation, information, 105
the opening as, into the receptacle, is the can or fraudulent purposes of any character.
celing or disintegrating device D, consisting Furthermore the reduction and storage of
of a rotatable cutter, grinder or equivalent the paper waste is a safeguard against fire
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that might otherwise occur or be promoted. 1 after it leaves the disintegrator, substan
by the presence of papers scattered around tially in the manner and for the purpose- de
proiniscuously. scribed.
The axis of the roll 1, may be formed to re 5. In a waste paper receptacle of the char
ceive a crank which may be used in lieu of 1 acter designated, the combination of a recep
the motor, if desired, and the disintegrating j tacle, a rec iving hopper, a disintegrating de
device may also, as heretofore intimated be , vice interposed between said hopper and said
operated directly by a crank or other me- . receptacle, a detachable bag in said recepta
chanical expedient. ; cle arranged to receive the waste paper from
10 7hat I clann as my invention and. desire the disintegrator, a packing follower in said
to secure by Letters Patent 1s, receptacle formed with. a central opening, a
1. in a waste paper receptacle of the char- ,3 slide for closing said opening, and means for
ctcr dcsignated, the combination with the 1 actuating said packing follower, substan
receptacle and receiving: hopper, of a disinte- l tially in the manner and for the purpose de
grating device interposed between said recep- j scribed.
tacle and said receiving hopper, for the pur- ; 6. In a waste paper receptacle of the char
pose described. acter designated, the combination with the
2. In a waste paper receptacle of the char- \ receptacle of a receiving hopper, a disinte
acter designated, receptacle, a receiving; grating device interposed between said recep
hopper, a disintegrating device interposedv tacle and said hopper, an electric motor ar 60
between said hopper and the receptacle, a ranged to operate said disintegrating device,
packing follower 1n the receptacle, and means - and means for automatically stopping the
for actuating said packing follower, substan motor when the feed of paper is discontinued.
tially 1n the manner and for the purpose de 7. In a waste paper receptacle of the char
scribed. acter designated, the combination with the
3. .ln a waste paper receptacle of the char- 1 receptacle of a receiving hopper, a disinte
acter designated, the combination of recep i grating device interposed between said recep
tacle, a receiving hopper, a disintegrating de j tacle and said hopper, an electric motor ar
vice interposed between said. hopper and the ranged to operate said disintegrator, rolls in
receptacle, a packing follower in said. reccp~ the hopper arranged to feed the paper to the
tacle formed with a central opening, a slide disintcgrator, one of said rolls being free to
for closing said opennia, and means for actu- , yield to the paper fed to the disintegrator,
ating said packing follower, substantially in and a switch controlled by said yielding roll
the manner and for the purpose described. 1 in such manner as to open the circuit when
4-. In a waste paper receptacle of the chm. 3 the feed of paper is discontinued, for the pur
acter designated, the con'ibination of a recep pose described.
tacle, a receiving hopper, a disintegrating: de ABBOT AUGUSTUS LOW.
vice, interposed between said hopper and the Witnesses:
receptacle, and a detachable bag in said re- , D. W. GARDNER,
40 ceptacle arranged to receive the waste paper ; GEO. WM. MIAT'r.