US 7,320,344 B2
Device for compacting a flowable solid material
Petrus Johannes Van Doormaal, Arendonk (Belgium); and Hendricus Adrianus Mariën, Arendonk (Belgium)
Assigned to Arodo BVBA, Arendonk (Belgium)
Filed on Feb. 08, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/52,230.
Claims priority of application No. 1025445 (NL), filed on Feb. 09, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0189032 A1, Sep. 01, 2005
Int. Cl. B65B 1/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 141—12  [141/71] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for compacting a flowable solid material, comprising a compacting space provided with a supply opening for supplying material to be compacted to the compacting space and a discharge opening for discharging compacted material from the compacting space, closure means for effecting a gastight seal of the compacting space and pressure means for creating a reduced pressure inside the compacting space in the hermetically sealed condition of the compacting space, the pressure means including volume means for changing the volume of the compacting space.