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box wrangler
a wringer that flat packs boxes to fully load the recycle cage. | |
Those unruly boxes, always sitting up, not conforming to
order and, with help from the wind, escaping down the street.
The wringer box wrangler comes to the rescue. With a turn of
the handle the box in question is turned into a neat flat sheet
ready to be layered into the recycling cage. The
toothed
rollers both flatten and perforate the box, like those non glue
blade staplers, to produce neat orderly piece of trash.
The wrangler can be mounted to your paper recycling bin for
quick and easy disposal of your cardboard boxes. No mess, no
fuss.
Mangle
http://en.wikipedia...ki/Mangle_(machine)
Does exactly what it says on the box ... [8th of 7, Jul 05 2009]
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Baked - it's called a "mangle" and they've been around for well over 100 of your Earth years. |
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Yes, but not used, or mounted to street paper
recycling bins. |
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Not sure, but I don't think mangles have teeth, either. Of course, you could also put it through a woodchipper that feeds into a trash compactor. I think that would be more fun... |
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People like to see damage. I did have an unposted
idea for a rubbish bin, industrial blender cross . Of
course, heavy duty glass to show the action. |
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+ and another for that bin/blender cross when you post it. |
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I'm not sure how you expect a mangle to turn a cardboard box into something that will *stay* flat. |
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Now if you mean something with four arms that descends into the box, cuts the folds then slices and dices the box into a manageable pile... yeah, I'm there. |
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[Flying Toaster] I was imagining a mangle that has a
random pattern of teeth on the rollers. These teeth
create perforated weld spots in the flatten sheet
therefore holding form. |
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The boxes would probably come out looking like a
thin waffle. |
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Just wondering, but am I the only one to obsessively rip off all traces of tape and plastic from a cardbox box and then cut it into A4 sized chunks with a stanley knife ? |
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I hasten to add that the effort is for recycling purposes. I wouldn't want to appear a bit 'weird'. |
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I just remembered working at Wal-Mart a few years ago, they
had a machine called the baler, and you fiilled it with boxes and
it squashed them flat, like a car crusher, then ejected a cube
which got wrapped in baling twine. Kinda makes this
unnecessary. |
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since cardboard is often corrugated, most efficient would be something that munched it up into itty bitty pieces, breaking the corrugation and producing cellulose confetti. |
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The thing about confetti-izing any product is that
it is good to pour but if there is an error, a
large time consuming mess is made. |
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True, for a large volume of boxes, a baling
system would be ideal. |
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[bigsleep] I fall into that weird category. I hope
that, with my efforts, the industrial process will
produce a product that is just that little bit
better. Better the input => better the output.
Sadly my heart knows this isn't really the case. |
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All the real money/precision goes into getting the
word/sound bites just right. The ass end jobs
don't really get due diligence. |
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