ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,197, issued on March 24, was assigned to CTPS LLC (Madison, Wis.).
"In-facility waste handling method" was invented by Ingo Gnuechtel (Morrison, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recycling apparatus for positioning within a canning facility receives pallets of damaged or otherwise unusable unfilled aluminum cans, and discharges the layers of cans within a depalletizer into a discharge chute which communicates with the hopper of a baler which compresses the cans and forms a compact bale which is then shipped to a recycled metal processor. The apparatus may be operated as a service to the canner charged on a per pound recovered b...