chamber 180 at which time the now compressed set of springs 176 may fall down onto the set of rollers 192 or powered ram head 166 may be used to push the now compressed set of springs 176 down onto the set of rollers 192. Then the hydraulic pump 158 activates powered cylinder 168 and powered cylinder 168 moves powered ram head 166 upward back to the original position shown. Then the hydraulic pump 158 activates powered cylinder 182 moving movable vertical side enclosed compression chamber 180 back to its original position as shown and hydraulic pump 158 activates powered cylinder 184 moving movable resistance block 188 back along guide 185 to its original position as shown. The now compressed set of springs 176 roll down the set of rollers 192 towards their next processing step. This same cycle may be performed using any of the matched sets of the powered ram heads 160, 162, 164 and 166 and their corresponding sized movable vertical side enclosed compression chambers 170, 172, 174, and 180. Floor 190’s purpose is to keep compressed springs 176 from falling under the frame rather than going down rollers 192.
In further detail, still referring to the invention of Fig. 1A and Fig. 6, in order to enable loading the metal springs 176 into the movable vertical side enclosed compression chambers 170, 172, 174 and 180 the interior dimensions of the movable vertical side enclosed compression chamber 170 may be slightly larger than the exterior dimensions of the metal springs 176 which come from a twin sized bed mattress, the interior dimensions of the movable vertical side enclosed compression chamber 172 may be slightly larger than the exterior dimensions of the metal springs 176 which come from a full sized bed mattress, the interior dimensions of the movable vertical side enclosed compression chamber 174 may be slightly larger than the exterior dimensions of the metal springs 176 which come from a queen sized bed mattress, the interior dimensions of the movable vertical side enclosed compression chamber 180 may be slightly larger than the exterior dimensions of the metal springs 176 which come from a king sized bed mattress. The interior widths of the movable vertical side enclosed compression chambers 170, 172, 174 and 180 may be the width that maintains the angles 10 and 12 of the metal springs 176 as they are are being compressed. Further the lengths and widths of the face of movable powered rams 160, 162, 164, and 166 must be slightly less than the length and width of their corresponding matched movable vertical side enclosed compression chambers 170, 172, 174 and 180 in order not to damage said matched movable vertical side enclosed compression chambers 170, 172, 174 and 180 during operation.
Further the length of the movable resistance block 188 may be slightly more than the length of the movable vertical side enclosed compression chamber 180 and the width of the movable resistance block 188 may be slightly wider than the width of the movable vertical side enclosed compression chamber 180 as movable vertical side enclosed compression chamber 180 is the largest movable vertical side enclosed compression chamber of 170, 172, 174 and 180.
The construction details of the invention as shown in Fig. 6, the movable powered ram 166 and the movable resistance block 188 and the movable vertical side enclosed compression chambers 170, 172, 174 and 180 may be be constructed of material of adequate strength to withstand both the initial pressures of compressing the set of springs 176 and the increased pressures exerted by the set of springs 176 during the compaction operation as the movable powered ram 166 compacts the compressed set of springs 176 against the movable resistance block 188, preferably the material may be metal, more preferably the material may be metal harder than the metal of the set of springs 176, and more preferably the material may be machine finished metal harder than the metal of the