COLORANT DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR ADDING COLORANT TO PRE-COMMINUTED MATERIAL AND METHOD OF COLORING SAME

摘要

The present invention is a system for adding colorant topre-comminuted material. The colorant dispensing system includes a supplyhopper toselectively retain and discharge dry colorant. The colorant dispensing systemfurtherincludes a colorant dispensing assembly to receive dry colorant from thesupply hopper anddispense dry colorant onto pre-comminuted material (M) before it is processedby a wastereducing section of a waste reducing machine. The present invention is also amethod ofdispensing colorant onto pre-comminuted material before processing by a wastereducingmachine. The method includes the steps supplying dry colorant from a supplyhopper to acolorant dispensing assembly and dispensing a controlled amount of drycolorant through theapertures onto pre-comminuted material prior processing the pre-comminutedmaterial by awaste reducing section of a waste reducing machine into colored mulch.