The LS02 Glass Compactor
The “little smasher” Mark II machine was developed from the experience gained by three years ‘on site’ operation of its predecessor units at customer locations throughout the UK (including Young’s Breweries, Fullers and Lock Fyne restaurants).
It retains the small footprint of the original; 500mm x 600mm x 1200mm and runs from a standard single phase 3 pin power socket, but introduces a unique double chamber hopper, for which a patent has been applied for. This adds to the two existing patents granted on the machine.
The main, or upper, hopper can take up to 18 full sized wine bottles in one load which are deposited in the lower hopper on closing the lid. Almost immediately the operator can lift the lid; whilst the machine is still running and processing this load and fill the upper hopper once more, so improving considerably the work flow. Before embarking on this redesign, we asked all our customers what they would like to see in the new version and all said “the ability to load even more bottles in one go ...”, and that’s exactly what we have achieved.
A full load of bottles; wine, beer, champagne, chunky spirit bottles and mixers takes approximately 6 – 8 seconds to process and the fragments are deposited in an integrated, tough, plastic waste crate in the base of the machine. The machine is set to fill this crate to 20 Kilos only (approximately 50 wine bottles, or 80 beer bottles), whereupon it will not run until the crate is either emptied into a wheelie bin to await collection, or a snap lid is fitted to the box, sealing in the smells, and replaced by an empty one in the unit.
The LS02 reduces the volume of waste bottles by 80%
The machine is easy to use and provides a number of benefits for hospitality companies:
- Releases valuable storage area in the back of the premises
- Reduces the number of collections required for any given period by up to 80%
- Reduces substantially the disturbance to neighbours when collection are made; the noise of tipping crushed glass is akin to that made by pouring gravel; not the very loud noise generated by tipping whole bottles into the top of a large truck
- Reduces, or eliminates, the odours associated with the storage of waste bottles
- Uses a minimal amount of energy; on average the machines are run for less than 15 minutes per week
- Saves costs as against the frequent collections needed for whole bottles