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This is every Palme d'Or nominee since the festival began in 1946.…
2011 Directed by Markus Schleinzer
A drama focused on five months in the life of pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement.
A film with such a challenging and sensationalist subject matter as this (a man keeps a child locked in his basement) would lend itself to being exploitative yet director Markus Schleinzer's, Michael, is far from trashy and is all the more disturbing as a result whilst its timely connection to the Josef Fritzl case makes it frighteningly believable.
The film documents, in cold aloofness, the banality and routine of their 'relationship'. There is little emphasis on character histories, how long the boy has been Michael's prisoner and sex slave nor even any moral outrage aimed towards the lead. Instead it is detached with static framing forcing the audience to focus on every little detail and imprisoning the characters within the…
This is a very disturbing movie. Michael is a middle aged man that has a good job....seems normal.....yet he has a boy locked up in his cellar. Movie is mostly told through the eyes of Michael the monster. Based on his setup, this is something he has been doing for a very long time. Not really sure what the point of the movie was.....maybe it was to show some monsters are walking around right now....and most people are too busy to notice. I guess the movie was well done.....but the subject makes it hard to give a recommendation.
Part of the 30 countries festival. Austria
I have no clue why this film works.
Michael is one sick puppy, that much we know right from the beginning.
He is the worst of the worst.
Considering that the film is basically a two-hander with Michael being the centre of it all, it is unimaginable that this film could hold your attention for more than 10 minutes. Why didn't I leave in disgust? Why was I so engaged? How did writer/director Markus Schleinzer pull that off?
I think it has to do with two things: our fascination with evil and the 'fly-on-the-wall' camera.
We all know evil people don't have fangs. We know this, but it doesn't change the fact that…
Although the similarities to Haneke have been noted in other reviews, the film this most reminded me of was Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Both films throw out any preconceptions of their subject and cast them in a unemotional, non-judgemental light and allow you to really get inside the mind of their central figure.
Away from the captive child he keeps locked in his basement, Michael is largely portrayed as a very boring, very normal man and it's easy to see how someone like him could largely go under the radar. However, as we see more and more of Michael and his day to day life, the cracks begin to appear and knowing his secret gives you a different…
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The first thing that surprised me about Michael is that I didn't immediately want to leave the room. If I had known anything about the story ahead of time, I probably would have passed on this screening. I'm a parent, and this is the worst possible nightmare. Hell, I'm so skittish that I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch The Sweet Hereafter, and my son is an adult now.
Schleinzer's dispassionate eye, combined with the incredible understated performances by both Michael Fuith and the young David Rauchenberger act like an anesthetic. The most horrific parts are…
The story of a man going about his day completing mundane tasks like going to work, eating dinner, grocery shopping, cleaning, and oh by the way he's a pedophile who has a 10 year old boy locked in his basement.
My problem wasn't with the subject matter, it was with how the subject matter was presented. I can handle a film about a pedophile. I've seen The Woodsmans and it's a good film. The way this film goes about telling it's tale just made me very very uncomfortable. I'm not sure what point director Markus Schleinzer was trying to make. Did he want me to sympathize with this guy? Was I supposed to hate him? (which I did) None of…
This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
La austeridad estilo Haneke podría hacer pensar que se trata de una historia que elude los juicios, pero están todos ahí, desde la selección de elementos en apariencia poco importantes como los colores predominantes y las estaciones del año, hasta las rutinas obsesivo-compulsivas y meticulosas de un pedófilo narcisista y sádico que procura todos sus recursos y talentos a mantener cautivo a un niño en el sótano de su casa.
No podría escoger el momento más perturbador: tal vez la total falta de represión de la perversidad sexual durante el cínico chiste sobre el "pene o cuchillo", o los últimos minutos en el calabozo.
This could be happening in your neighborhood without anyone noticing.Creepy.This is a great film because the makers avoid explicit scènes, but you get the message...
Lenta y realmente no sucede mucho, pero hay dos que tres escenas que son geniales.
El final hace que valga la pena la película.
There is a slow, creeping inevitability about this film that keeps you watching. You want to be aghast but director, Markus Schleinzer, allows us glimpses of the normal and every day which dilute the horror, making it all the more shocking when we are reminded of it. Michael Fuith is excellent as the monster in plain sight and the newcomer David Rauchenberger is wonderful as the captive, Wolfgang. And the ending - the ending is just perfect.
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Monstrous yet painfully mundane, with the world's bleakest ever Christmas.
This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Pedophilia is usually a ticklish subject to explore in film, for it demands a certain stoical approach from its audience. And if one broadens their realm of endurance, it makes for a rather mesmerizing viewing. While last year's riveting Danish drama, "The Hunt," merely tinkered with its uninvited savageries, here is a scrupulous plunge into into the demented mind of a seemingly ordinary pedophile and his young victim.
In one of the spookiest scenes I have seen in film in recent memory, a pedophile calmly watches a movie on television and we hear a dialogue from it. A sadist, we presume, asks a woman, "This is my knife and this is my cock. Which one should I stick into you?"…
Michael's studiously low key approach makes its shocking material even more powerful.
The banal, mundane details only emphasis the horror and remind us that these monsters live among us.
Originally a list made prior to Cannes 2014.
This is every Palme d'Or nominee since the festival began in 1946.…
In my opinion, of course!
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Chromosomes - long, linear DNA molecules – are capped at their ends with special DNA structures called telomeres and an assortment of proteins, which together act as a protective sheath. Telomeres are maintained through the interactions between an enzyme, telomerase, and several accessory proteins. Researchers at The Wistar Institute have defined the structure of one of these critical proteins in yeast.
Understanding how telomeres keep chromosomes – and by extension, genomes – intact is an area of intense scientific focus in the fields of both aging and cancer. In aging, the DNA of telomeres eventually erodes faster than telomerase and its accessory proteins can maintain it, and cells die. In cancer, tumor cells hijack the process, subverting the natural method by which our bodies limit cell growth; cancer cells, then, can grow and multiply unchecked.
One of these accessory proteins, Cdc13, is integral to telomere maintenance and essential for cell viability in yeast, according to researchers at The Wistar Institute. In a study published in the journal Structure, available online now, a team of scientists led by Emmanuel Skordalakes, Ph.D., an associate professor in The Wistar Institute Cancer Center's Gene Expression and Regulation Program, has determined how mutations in a particular region of Cdc13 can lead to defects in telomeres that could jeopardize DNA.
Cdc13 normally functions as a matched-set, where two copies of the protein form what is known as a dimer. Skordalakes found that mutations in a region of Cdc13 (called OB2) prevent Cdc13 copies from binding to each other. The findings help explain the biology of this key telomere maintenance protein, and may eventually lead to novel anticancer therapeutic if their findings translate to a similar molecular system used to maintain human telomeres, Skordalakes says.
"If we could target the OB2 region of Cdc13, for example, it would throw a wrench in the works of telomere maintenance," said Skordalakes. "If you can disrupt recruitment of telomerase in humans, you could potentially drive cells to death."
Cdc13 serves a dual function in telomere replication. First, it keeps the cells' natural DNA repair mechanisms from mistaking the telomere for a broken stretch of DNA, which could cause genetic mayhem if such repair proteins fuse the ends of two chromosomes together, for example. Secondly, Cdc13 recruits telomerase and related proteins to place in order to lengthen the telomeres.
In yeast, telomeres are decorated by a multi-protein complex called CST, which contains the proteins Cdc13 (C), Stn1 (S), and Ten1 (T). Cdc13 is a key member of that complex and serves both to cap the telomere structure and recruit key enzymes.
Skordalakes' newly determined structure demonstrates that, like three of the other four regions of Cdc13, OB2 adopts what is called an oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding fold (OB). These folds normally allow proteins to bind DNA or sugars, but OB2 does neither; its crystal structure indicates that this fold actually forms a large binding surface that helps two Cdc13 proteins to form a dimeric complex.
The authors then used biochemical analyses to determine that OB2 also does not directly bind the protein Stn1. Nevertheless, full-length Cdc13 OB2 mutants deficient in dimerization are also deficient in Stn1 recruitment. When the team inserted strategic Cdc13 mutations into yeast, they found that the cells had abnormally long telomeres, probably as a result of disrupted CST complex assembly caused by impaired Cdc13 dimerization.
"The dimerization of OB2 is required for the proper assembly of the CST complex at the telomeres," Skordalakes says. "When you disrupt oligomerization of this domain, you disrupt assembly of this complex, and thus regulation of telomere length."
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... 50 pm we were on our way, the top beds still empty. Near departure time they released the seats at 30% discount we found out but when the purser rolled up the top mattresses we figured we had the compartment to ourselves. The toilets are sit-down variety, but I wouldn't sit down on them for love nor money. It is hosed down in there but somehow they can't get rid of the smell. On one end of the car is hot and cold water ...
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I went that way this morning to find the stairs up onto the wall but you can't go right round. At one point it ends in a precipitous drop of 30 feet or more where they have chopped a hole in the wall to build a new market, no fence either!
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We just found yet another reason to love Oreos! The company has posted a photo on Facebook of the iconic cookie with a rainbow filling, along with the message, "Proudly support love!"
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Since Jan. 12 I have lost:
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Biceps ~ 1½"
Forearm ~ 1"
Chest ~ 1½"
Waist ~ 10" (wow)
Thigh ~ 5"
Calf ~ 2"
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The Unusual Suspect: Layouts for sleeker KDE applications Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho Eduardo Madeira Fleury July 6th, 2009 Who are we? • Nokia research institute in Brazil – INdT • openBossa – FOSS stream at INdT • Collaborating with Qt Software / KDE: - Qt Kinetic ← that's us :-) - Qt Webkit - Plasma Netbook - ItemViews-NG Background • Fluid and Rich UIs have become a standard • Collaborative work: designers and developers • Several initiatives to enhance KDE looks - High level - Low level • Layouting tools needed to evolve Layouts in Qt • Engine that handles geometry of items • Widgets can use layouts to manage its children • Today: Linear, Grid, Stacked and Form Covered in this presentation • Flexible Layouts • Custom Layouts • Application of Layouts and Widgets • Multiple Layouts • Integration with Declarative UI FLEXIBLE LAYOUTS Flexible Layouts • Layout behavior based on its configuration • Designers can interact with the layout • More power, less layouts • AnchorLayout available at Qt Gitorious • Edje relative positioning is similar CUSTOM LAYOUTS Custom Layouts • Layout behavior rules based on its engine • Developers implement custom algorithms • Abstract / Hide internal decisions • Powerful handling of item addition / removal • Internal animations Usage of Flexible vs Custom • C++: Call methods x Create subclass • Call methods: Good for high level tool or QML • Subclasses: More control, require a developer LAYOUTS OR CONTAINER WIDGETS Container Widgets • Also responsible for children geometries • Usually create its own items • ItemViews: "delegates" or "item creators" • Can be flexible too (e.g. ItemViews-NG) • Container Widget = Engine + Widget Factory Layouts or Container Widgets? • Layouts handle child widgets • Container Widgets handle data (e.g. models) • Container Widget = Layout + Widget Factory MULTIPLE LAYOUTS Multiple Layouts • Application screens are dynamic • Different states associated to the interface • Single set of widgets, multiple layouts • Animate from one layout to another DECLARATIVE UI INTEGRATION Declarative UI Integration • Layouts are declarative! • Layout integration still in discussion • Use property propagation to "anchor" items • Support for layouts would be useful: - Different layouts - Optimization Thank you! :-) Qt Labs America • Qt / KDE place in America, starting in Brazil • Promotion and mentoring of FOSS projects • Tech-days in universities • Working together with KDE Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho email@example.com Eduardo Madeira Fleury email@example.com http://eduardofleury.com Freenode #qt-kinetic
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Is it common for water to get under the driveway?
I have an 2.5 year old asphalt driveway and water seems to make its way under the areas where the ground alongside the driveway is higher (several inches more elevated) than the driveway itself. It especially happens when we have a bad (snowy) winter like this and extra snow is piled up along the side of the driveway. Does water drain straight down through the soil or is it normal for it the move horizontally as well and get into the soil below my driveway? My driveway has rised up considerably this winter. I hope it will go down. Is there anything I can do about this?
No. Your asphalt has frost heaved.
The only solution is to remove it and install a european style insulated/drained underlayment system. This isn't inexpensive.
"Your driveway is only 2.5 years old and showing signs of failure. You have a claim against the contractor for a faulty installation."
Not in the least. Read your contract.
I'm willing to bet this homeowner didn't pay for the excavation of soil, the installation of insulation and stone for drainage which would have prevented the frost heave, but cost 3 times as much.
When you lay asphalt on dirt, you're going to get heave. If that's the case, the homeowner has gotten exactly what he's paid for.
"I'm willing to bet this homeowner didn't pay for the excavation of soil, the installation of insulation and stone for drainage which would have prevented the frost heave, but cost 3 times as much ... the homeowner has gotten exactly what he's paid for."
And who is supposed to know how to lay a driveway? Contractor is responsible for scoping the job for what needs to be done and how, and his workmanship in executing. He sold his customer a bad job for which he is responsible, unless the HO agreed to chance something else to cut costs.
Gryd, did you have an agreement to skimp and not lay the driveway correctly, in a way appropriate for the weather conditions and to last a good while? Was this a cheap project? Did you get multiple bids and choose an outlying low baller?
This post was edited by snookums2 on Sat, Mar 22, 14 at 23:15
Actually, as far as him getting what he paid for, re-reading this thread, we don't know anything about this house and whether he hired someone, had a new build or bought someone else's house.
Gryd, you are correct there shouldn't be water pooling on or around the drive, to avoid frost heave. See link below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Asphalt drives
Thanks for everyone's comments. I had a 2 year warranty though I did notice some minor problems prior to the warranty running out this past November. I emailed the contractor at that time but he didn't respond. I wasn't too bad and I had no idea it would heave up so much this winter. It is not a new construction and the contractor was aware I had problems in this area in the past and said it was cause there were cracks in the old driveway. I paid for the addition of base but not for excavation of the soil. I'll need to look but most of my estimates were for regrading the existing base, not excavation. This guy claimed it wasn't necessary to remove the old soil and base but that part wasn't in writing. On the other hand I never agreed to skimp, expressed all my concerns to the contractor and was told it should last 15 years unless I had an underground stream (which I don't). Can I still call him after the warranty ran out if I can prove the problems began to a lesser degree last year?
I don't know what it should have cost but that is a whole lot of money. Who would intentionally pay all that for some bandaid 3 year duration driveway. Rip off. Hope it holds up. Document in case you need to go to small claims. He's being a real jerk to you.
I have never seen a driveway heave. If that happens regularly that asphalt is going to come apart.
I cant imagine blaming the homeowner for this problem unless you said "I dont care if it lasts 2 years, give me the cheapest fix you can that will make it look nice for a little while."
Sounds like it needs to be torn out, more base added, and redone. A fair solution to me would be for the contractor to pay for the tear out and new asphalt and for the homeowner to pay for the additional base.


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Walking into an exhibition by Jamal Abdul Rahim, you'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a group show. The artist's works vary wildly: calligraphic abstracts sit alongside stone and bronze sculptures, while portraits of icons such as the Mona Lisa or the Statue of David, given an edge with Middle Eastern influences and bright colour, contrast with Miró-esque monochrome canvases dashed with splashes of colour.
'I believe in the moment,' explains the philosophical Bahraini. 'My heart is the compass for my life and my work. If I feel like working on a figurative, I will do so; if I feel like working on an abstract, I will do so. The key in making any form of art is to first know the basics of drawing and how to do it well – the pencil is the master. A doctor can try any kind of medicine, but he must know the theory behind all of it first. That said, once I was asked to critique the works of children in a school , but I said I couldn't. They have a freedom that I don't have, and that's important.'
Despite believing a person must obtain a level of skill to be an artist, Jamal still says he 'destroys' his canvases in order to transform them from documentation to art. 'I will do something so it's perfect, but then I destroy it with lines and colours. I'm not a photographer, so I have to give the canvas my mark.'
Perhaps best known as a printmaker, Jamal's home houses one of the largest printmaking workshops in the Gulf. Interestingly, he doesn't use chemicals in his printmaking process. 'Instead of kerosene for cleaning, I'll use cooking oil,' he explains. 'I try not to go against nature in my processes.'
The reason he chooses to produce his artworks in print form is also very noble. 'Printmaking for art came about in the 1500s with Albrecht Dürer, and he made it easier for people to have beauty in their homes. When Rembrandt produced an oil painting that took him five or six years, only the aristocrats could afford it, but his work in print form is something many people could and can afford. My print works are more affordable for people. The beauty is that in creating my art I'm always searching for my happiness, and when someone puts a work in their home, it will become a part of their happiness.'
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As part of your registration, all players aged between under 6s-12s are entitled to attend FREE the Carss Park Football Academy. Essentially, this Academy will be conducting training sessions on a Monday evening during the normal school term designed to improve a player's football technique and understanding of the game.
WHEN: Consecutive Monday evenings during the school term, this will commence on Monday 23rd March.
Under 6s-8s 6.00-7.00
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WHERE: Charles Pirie (Carss Park Home ground)
WHO: Any Carss Park registered player in u6 through to u12s
COACHES: Jason Marks, current holder of a senior licence and accredited through the AFC.
ENQUIRIES: Text enquires only Jason Marks on 0412536272.
BAD WEATHER: In case of inclement weather keep an eye on our website, team APP or Facebook for cancellations.
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As the season will be commencing on Sat 11 April and 12 Sun for most teams, we would like to update you on important club news:
Registrations, Photos & Payment
Thank you to our fantastic 2015 sponsors who have continued with or joined our club. Please support them – details of their businesses will be available on the CPFC website. Some of them offer specials to Carss Park families such as Lifefit Physio who offer a 10% discount to all CPFC members and their families.
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Sat 28 Mar – Carss / Connells Cup (U6 – U9) – see website for further details. Please bring a spare shirt to wear home as Jerseys will be recollected.
Mon 30 Mar- Coaches & Managers Mtg 7:30pm sharp
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Sat 18 Apr – Con's (CPFC secretary) wedding!!!
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The hotel offers a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Event facilities measuring 80 square feet (7 square meters) include a conference center and a meeting room. This Beaux Arts hotel also offers a 24-hour fitness center, a rooftop terrace, and a terrace. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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A bottle crushing machine having a feed chamber, at the bottom of which is located a crusher disk. The disk includes a set of beater bars extending upward into the feed chamber to intercept falling bottles and initially shatter them. Near the surface of the disk are cross bars that further crush the glass fragments. The disk is situated in a portion of the feed chamber under the upper surface of an expanded portion of the chamber. The only route for glass fragments to exit the chamber is between the disk and the upper surface of the expanded portion, between the side walls of the expanded portion and the outer edge of the disk, to an area below the disk. By relative movement of the disk in the vertical direction, the gap between the disk and the upper surface will be varied, adjusting the size of fragments that are created.
1. A bottle crushing device for crushing bottles into small fragments, comprising:
a feed chamber having a first portion and a second portion below said first portion;
a crushing disk rotatably mounted within said second portion such that a first gap exists between the outer edge of the disk and said second portion;
at least one beater bar mounted normal to a first surface of said disk and extending into said first portion;
at least one elongated cross bar mounted parallel to said first surface of said disk; and
an exit chamber below said disk for receiving glass fragments only after said fragments have passed through said first gap.
2. A bottle crusher as in claim 1, where said feed chamber further comprises an inlet communicating with said first portion and positioned away from said second portion, said inlet having a diaphragm for preventing fragments from leaving the chamber through said inlet.
3. A bottle crusher as in claim 2, wherein said diaphragm comprises a plurality of flaps hinged within the feed chamber about the inlet and resiliently biased toward each other so as to normally close the inlet, but being moved against the bias by the force of a bottle entering the inlet.
4. A bottle crusher as in claim 1, wherein said first portion is formed of rubber to reduce operating noise of the bottle crusher.
5. A bottle crusher as in claim 1, wherein said second portion has a larger radius than said first portion, said disk being mounted on a shaft within said second portion such that the position of said disk may be varied with respect to an upper surface of said second portion, thereby varying the distance between said cross bar and said upper surface, whereby the size of particles exiting the feed chamber is controlled.
6. A bottle crusher as in claim 5, further including a band in the feed chamber adjacent the outer edges of the disk, whereby the size of particles existing the feed chamber is controlled by the thickness of the band.
7. A bottle crusher as in claim 1, further comprising fan blades connected to said disk within said exit chamber, said blades creating airflow from said feed chamber to said exit chamber when said disk is rotated.
8. A bottle crusher as in claim 7, further comprising a fragment collection bag in communication with said exit chamber, said bag being inflated by said airflow.
9. A bottle crusher as in claim 8 wherein said blades are mounted on a second surface of said disk, said second surface being opposite said first surface.
10. A bottle crusher as in claim 1 further comprising an outlet pipe communicating with and extending from said exit chamber, said pipe receiving said fragments from said exit chamber.
11. A bottle crusher as in claim 10 further comprising an air outlet vent extending upwardly from said outlet pipe, said vent having a dust filter bag attached thereto, said bag being formed of a mesh material.
12. A bottle crusher as in claim 1 wherein said cross bars have a length equal to the diameter of said disk.
13. A bottle crusher as in claim 1 further comprising:
a spout extending downwardly from the exit chamber; and
a collector with a plurality of bins, said collector being mounted on casters such that various ones of said bins can be positioned beneath the spout.
14. A bottle crusher as in claim 13, wherein said bottle crusher is pivotably mounted on said collector such that the exit chamber and spout can be rotated over various ones of said bins.
15. A bottle crusher as in claim 1, further including:
a spout extending downwardly from the exit chamber; and
a sorter with an entrance attached to the spout, a plurality of outlets, and control doors located within the sorter for directing fragments entering the entrance to various ones of said outlets.
16. A bottle crushing disk for crushing bottles impinging thereupon in an axial direction into small fragments, comprising:
a circular disk base having a pair of opposing surfaces;
an elongated beater bar mounted normal to one of said surfaces of said disk;
an elongated cross bar having an axial height less than that of said beater bar, said cross bar mounted parallel to said surfaces, such that said bottle will be engaged first by said beater bar and subsequently by said cross bar;
wherein said cross bar extends across a diameter of said disk; and
fan blades mounted on the other of said surfaces, said blades creating airflow generally from said one of said surfaces toward said other of said surfaces when said disk is rotated about its axis.
17. A device for comminuting glass articles into glass fragments and sorting said fragments, comprising:
a fragment collector having a plurality of bins positioned around a vertical axis; and
an article crusher rotatably mounted on top of said collector, substantially coaxial with said axis, said crusher comprising:
a feed chamber having a substantially vertical axis;
a crushing disk rotatably and coaxially mounted within said feed chamber;
an exit chamber attached to said feed chamber, said exit chamber mounted below said crushing disk, said crushing disk adapted such that only fragments smaller than a predetermined size will be able to pass into said exit chamber;
an exit spout communicating with said exit chamber and spaced from said vertical axis, such that when said crusher is rotated, glass fragments will exit said spout into a selected one of said plurality of bins.
This invention relates generally to comminution devices. More specifically, this invention relates to a machine for reducing the volume of glass bottles by shattering them into smaller, safer pieces.
Glass has long been known as one of the most recyclable materials for containers. Glass bottles have been returned for re-use or recycling since their inception. When shipping large volumes of stacked or loosely packed empty glass bottles to a reprocessing plant, large amounts of air are shipped with them. This resulting increase in the volume of goods moved, over the volume of actual glass, multiplies freight costs. By crushing the bottles into small fragments, known as comminution, the overall volume of shipped bottles approaches that of only the glass itself.
Of course, breaking bottles manually is a difficult and dangerous task, so devices have been designed for automatically crushing bottles. As more states adopt bottle deposit laws and recycling becomes more widespread, the need for simple, effective and inexpensive machines to perform the bottle crushing has become greater.
Problems that have plagued earlier machines include the ability to quickly reduce a bottle to safe size fragments while guaranteeing that no large fragments survive the process and threaten any subsequent handler of the fragments. If a large fragment survives, the edges of its facets can become knives, potentially cutting not only the sack or container holding the fragments, but the operator who must move that sack. To date, only complex and expensive machines have managed to fulfill this need, such as that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,733,826 of Komori et al.
It is thus an object of the present invention to provide a bottle crushing machine that can quickly reduce bottles to fragments smaller than a selected size.
It is a further object of the invention that the bottle crushing machine be quickly and easily adjustable and maintainable.
Another object of the invention is to provide a bottle crushing machine that prevents the release of fine glass dust from the machine avoiding operator contact with the dust, especially the inhaling thereof.
It is a still further object of the invention that the glass fragments be conveniently packaged for disposal and sanitary purposes.
It is yet another object of the invention to form a bottle crushing machine that is simple and cost effective to manufacture.
In accordance with the foregoing objects, a bottle crushing machine is provided having a feed chamber at the bottom of which is located a crusher disk. The disk includes a set of beater bars extending upward into the feed chamber to intercept falling bottles and initially shatter them. Near the surface of the disk there are cross bars that further crush the glass fragments.
The disk is situated in the interior of the feed chamber under the upper surface of an expanded portion thereof. The only route for glass fragments to exit the chamber is between the disk and the upper surface of the expanded portion of the interior of the chamber, around the outer edge of the disk, to an area below the disk. By relative movement of the disk in the vertical direction, the gap between the disk and the expanded portion will be varied, adjusting the size of fragments that are created.
The foregoing and other objects and advantages of this invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon reading the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment in conjunction with a review of the appended drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a broken side partial cross-sectional view of a bottle crusher machine according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a top view of a crusher disk according to the invention;
FIG. 3 is a detail cross-sectional view of the crusher disk and feed chamber;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a bottle crusher and glass fragment collector;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a bottle crusher and an alternate glass fragment collector;
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a glass sorter according to the invention.
Referring now to the drawings, FIG. 1 shows a broken partial cross-section of a bottle crusher 10. Preferably near or at the top of the crusher 10 there is an inlet 12 for receiving bottles (not shown) to be crushed. The inlet 12 leads into a feed chamber 14, which is preferably vertical and cylindrical, although some deviation from vertical, to form a slide, is possible. Covering the inlet 12, preferably from the inside, is a diaphragm 16 for allowing bottles to enter the feed chamber 14, but preventing any glass fragments from being ejected in the reverse direction through the inlet 12. The diaphragm 16 is preferably embodied by two opposing and butting resilient flaps 56 that are separated by a bottle passing through them in the direction shown by the arrows in FIG. 1, but quickly return to butting configuration. Other mechanical devices having the same result will work similarly.
The feed chamber 14 is preferably formed with a rubber upper portion 18 attached to a harder lower portion 20, formed for example, from steel or other metal. The rubber 18 reduces the operating noise level of the crusher 10. The upper portion of the feed chamber is a relatively narrow cylindrical portion 15 and the bottom of the feed chamber has an expanded portion 28.
A crushing disk 22, containing two sets of different crushing elements 24,26, is located just below the upper interior surface 27 of expanded portion 28. Normal to the surface of the disk are beater bars 24 that extend upwardly into the narrow portion 15 of feed chamber 14. Preferably, there are four beater bars 24, positioned at various points on the disk 22, although other configurations will work similarly. Extending parallel to and mounted on the surface of the crushing disk 22 are cross bars 26. In the preferred embodiment, there are two bars 26 that are equal in length to the diameter of the crushing disk 22 and form right angles (see FIGS. 2 and 3). However, again, other numbers, heights, lengths, and configurations of the bars 26 are possible.
The beater bars 24, by extending into and being moved in narrow portion 15, form a shatter or pre-comminuting zone 13. In this zone, the bottles are initially broken into pieces, which may be relatively large. This pre-comminuting zone 13 improves the efficiency of a subsequent comminuting zone 34 by delivery to it of glass pieces that have already been reduced in size.
As shown in FIG. 3, the crushing disk 22 preferably has a larger diameter than the narrow upper portion 15 of the feed chamber 14. Consequently, the comminuting zone 34 of the feed chamber 14 is defined by the upper surface 27 and the side walls 29 of expanded portion 28 that are opposite the outer edge 35 of disk 22. Since the comminuting zone 34 has a larger radius than the crushing disk 22, there is a gap 32 between the walls 29 of the expanded portion 28 and the disk 22. As can be seen in FIG. 1, if a bottle enters the feed chamber 14 from the top, the only exit route is around the outer edge 35 of the crushing disk 22. Therefore, only fragments of glass that can fit between both an upper gap 33 between the surface 27 and the top of the cross bars 26, and the lower gap 32 between the outer edge 35 of the crushing disk 22 and the side walls 29 of expanded portion 28 will be able to exit the feed chamber 14. Any larger fragments will remain in the comminuting zone 34 to be further crushed.
Powering the crushing disk 22 is a motor 36, preferably below the disk 22 and directly connected by a shaft 38, although other linkages are possible. The disk includes a collar 37 and a retention screw 39 for attachment to the shaft. Mounted below the disk 22, preferably attached to the lower surface of the disk 22 and the outer edge of the collar 37, are a plurality of fan blades 40. These blades 40 spin with the crushing disk 22 and create a downward flow of air from the feed chamber 14 past the disk 22 and into the area below the disk 22, which is an exit chamber 42 (FIG. 3). The exit chamber 42 then extends horizontally into an outlet pipe 43 that eventually leads to a fragment spout 44, where fully crushed fragments are ejected from the crusher 10 (FIG. 1). Extending off of the outlet pipe 43 is an air outlet vent 46, having a dust filter bag 48 attached to the vent 46 on the exterior the pipe 43. The bag is formed of a fine filtering material that allows air to be expelled, but not glass dust. By the air currents created by the fan blades 40, glass dust is pulled downward out of the feed chamber 14, into the exit chamber 42 and out the vent 46.
The dust might remain in the filter bag 48 while the crusher 10 is on, but some will fall into a non-permeable fragment bag 50 attached to the fragment spout 44. Once the fragment bag 50 is inflated by the fan, the air from the exit chamber 42 will flow out the vent 46. Moreover, only dust will be carried out the vent 46 because the glass fragments are too heavy to be carried upward through vent 46 and instead will fall through spout 44 into the fragment bag 50. It is advantageous that the fragment bag 50 remains inflated during crushing to prevent abrasion of the sides of the bag 50 by the falling fragments. Once the crusher 10 is turned off, any dust fragments remaining in the filter bag 48 will automatically drop into the fragment bag 50 or the bag 48 can be shaken to facilitate this action. The vent 46 is preferably sized to alternatively receive a standard shop vacuum tube (not shown) that aids in gathering dust before it exits the fragment spout 44. The airflow created by the fan blades 40 also causes liquid that may have remained in a bottle to be ejected into fragment bag 50 or quickly evaporated.
The construction and positioning of the crushing disk 22 creates significant advantages over known crushing machines. The set of beater bars 24 that extend upward tend to "pre-crush" the bottles through two actions. First, by being positioned at the bottom of a spacious feed chamber 14, some bottles will enter the chamber 14 and fall unhampered directly on to the tops 52 of the beater bars 24, showering the disk 22 and cross bars 26 below with large size fragments. Thus, the force of gravity is added to any force provided by the spinning disk 22 to increase the effect of the initial shattering. Second, should a bottle not hit the top surface of the beater bars 24 as it falls down the chamber, the long side surfaces 54 of the beater bars 24 will hit the bottle, shattering it.
As seen in FIG. 2, the beater bars have different orientations and are at different distances from the axis of rotation so as to spread the area of potential contact with falling bottles. Due to the high rotation rate of the disk 22 and the location of the beater bars 24, there is reasonable assurance that a beater bar 24 will hit a bottle as it falls through the pre-comminuting area 13 before it can reach the disk 22 and cross bars 26 below. Because the glass fragments will be shattered at high speed within the feed chamber 14, the diaphragm 16 prevents fragments from leaving the chamber 14 through the inlet 12.
Adjusting the size of fragments that are produced by the crusher 10 is accomplished in two ways. Initially, in the construction of the crusher 10, the lower gap 32 between the side walls 29 and the outer edge 35 of the disk 22 is set by their respective sizes. The size of this gap 32 can not be altered unless the disk 22 or chamber 14 is altered, so the gap 32 dictates the maximum size fragment that will be able to exit the feed chamber. A change in the size of the chamber may be affected by fastening a metal or other hard material band 41 (shown in dotted line in FIG. 3) in the chamber adjacent the outer edge 35 of the disk so as to reduce the size of gap 32.
It is possible that fragments can avoid the lower gap 32 by moving into the pipe 43 at position A (FIG. 3), although the upper gap 33 is unavoidable. If desired, the outlet pipe 43 can be made narrower or with a narrowed entrance (shown in dotted line), so as to provide gap 32 completely around the disk 32.
The upper gap 33 between the top 56 of the cross bars 26 and the upper interior surface 27 of the expanded portion 28 is set by their relative position during mounting on the motor's shaft 38. This gap 34 can be easily altered by simply loosening the mounting screw 39 and altering the relative position of the disk 22, collar 37 and shaft 38. Of course, if this upper gap 34 is larger than the lower gap 32, larger fragments will after the pipe 43 at possission A. However, by making the upper gap 34 smaller than the lower gap 32, the size of the fragments exiting the crusher 10 through the spout 44 can be reduced according to any specific desires of the operator. For known recycling operations, the preferred fragment size is a 1/4" width or diameter.
Obviously, other known ways of adjusting the size of gap 32 can be used besides a screw. Also, access to the interior of the crusher 10 can be gained through the feed chamber 14 by removing the upper rubber portion 18 of the chamber 14, followed by removal of the portion 20, exposing the crushing disk 22 and any adjustment mechanism.
With the configuration of the preferred embodiment, there is essentially only one moving part besides the motor 36--the crushing disk 22. The fan blades 40 are mounted to the disk 22 and both sets of crushing elements 24,26 are mounted on the disk 22. Thus, there is reduced risk of failure or other maintenance problems. Repair of the disk 22 is easily affected by simply removing the disk on site and replacing it.
It is also known that there are different colors of glass. Recycling mixed colors of glass is undesirable, so it is necessary to divide the separate colors of glass. This is accomplished by storing bottles of different color glass in different bins. Then only bottles of one color at a time are fed through the crusher 10. As they exit the crusher 10, the fragments of one color are directed into a particular bin 60 of a segmented collector 58 (FIG. 4). Depending on which color glass is being fed into the crusher 10, a fragment bag 50 situated in the appropriate bin 60 having the same color glass can be attached to the fragment spout 44. This collector 58 preferably rides on casters for rotation and transportation of the bags 50 at will. Alternatively, the crusher 10 can be mounted on top of the collector 58 at its center and rotated to dispense fragments into the proper bins 60, as shown in FIG. 5.
It is also preferred that the fragment bags 50 be transparent so that an operator can mount the proper bag having fragments matching the color of the next bottle to be crushed. Preferably, the bags are clear plastic, at least 5 mils thick, and sized such that when full, they can be hand-carried to a disposal site. This size is preferably 12" wide and 30" high. Since the bags are plastic, they can be easily sealed to prevent the release of odors, which might attract insects. This is particularly important when the bags must be stored before pickup or disposal.
FIG. 6, a glass color sorter 62 is shown that can be attached to spout 44 at its inlet pipe 64 with bolts 66 or other attachment means. The sorter preferably has three exit spouts 68a, 68b, 68c onto which three fragment collecting bags 50 can be attached, respectively. The sorter 62 includes selection doors 70a, 70b for directing the glass to a particular spout, the doors 70a, 70b being pivoted at points B. Actuating rods 72a, 72b are attached to the doors 70a, 70b, respectively, and penetrate the walls of the sorter 62 for moving doors 70a, 70b.
In operation, as shown in FIG. 6, door 70b has been pivoted to abut door 70a. It can be seen that any glass fragments entering the inlet pipe 64 will exit the sorter 62 through exit spout 68c. Similarly, if rod 72b were moved in the direction of the arrow to the right in FIG. 6, door 70b would return to a vertical position and glass fragments would only flow through exit spout 68b. Likewise, actuation of rod 72a to the right would cause door 70a to move in the direction of the arrow so fragments flow through exit spout 68a.
While the embodiments of the invention shown and described are fully capable of achieving the results desired, it is to be understood that these embodiments have been shown and described for purposes of illustration only and not for purposes of limitation.
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