WO1995012182A1 - Grading device for a return machine for empty containers - Google Patents

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WO1995012182A1
WO1995012182A1 PCT/NO1994/000171 NO9400171W WO9512182A1 WO 1995012182 A1 WO1995012182 A1 WO 1995012182A1 NO 9400171 W NO9400171 W NO 9400171W WO 9512182 A1 WO9512182 A1 WO 9512182A1
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Henning Bergsagel
Per Kverneland
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/0033—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor specially adapted for segregated refuse collecting, e.g. receptacles with several compartments; Combination of receptacles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
    • B07B13/00—Grading or sorting solid materials by dry methods, not otherwise provided for; Sorting articles otherwise than by indirectly controlled devices
    • B07B13/04—Grading or sorting solid materials by dry methods, not otherwise provided for; Sorting articles otherwise than by indirectly controlled devices according to size
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/10—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor with refuse filling means, e.g. air-locks
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/06—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by returnable containers, i.e. reverse vending systems in which a user is rewarded for returning a container that serves as a token of value, e.g. bottles
    • G07F7/0609—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by returnable containers, i.e. reverse vending systems in which a user is rewarded for returning a container that serves as a token of value, e.g. bottles by fluid containers, e.g. bottles, cups, gas containers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F2210/00—Equipment of refuse receptacles
    • B65F2210/176—Sorting means
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02W—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT
    • Y02W30/00—Technologies for solid waste management
    • Y02W30/10—Waste collection, transportation, transfer or storage, e.g. segregated refuse collecting, electric or hybrid propulsion

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  • the present invention relates to a grading device for a return machine for empty containers in the form of seizable (deposit) bottles and, possibly, cans, said containers being conveyed within an insertion and transport pipe, in which an air flow is established by means of at least one fan.
  • a return machine of the introductorily indicated kind wherein the insertion and transport pipe for the containers is assigned a fan-driven ejector establishing a container-feeding air flow within the insertion and transport pipe.
  • the insertion and transport pipe Downstream the ejector, the insertion and transport pipe is branched and comprises a separate pipe branch for cans and a separate pipe branch for empty plastic bottles, a pivotable flap being disposed at the branching point, said flap having a substantially vertical rotation axis and being adapted to alternately close one pipe branch while the other is kept open.
  • This grading or sorting device downstream the ejector in the known return machine for seizable bottles and cans has been found not to function satis actory, substantially due to the fact that large plastic bottles are allotted a higher speed than the smaller bottles and, thus, will be disposed tightly up against small bottles possibly positioned in front of them, end to end, such that said pivotable flap does not manage to slip past the smaller bottle positioned in front, without then also giving space to the following, large bottle.
  • this known return machine for seizable bottles and cans one has renounced the grading/sorting downstream the ejector and, here, collected the bottles and cans in a common container for subsequent manual sorting. This is very time-consuming and laborious.
  • the object of the present invention has been to provide a grading device for a return machine of the kind defined introductorily, having automatic operation and with which one can sort two or more different container sizes.
  • the container is, as known per se, inserted into and conveyed forwardly in an insertion and transport pipe, in which an air flow is established by means of at least one fan.
  • the insertion and transport pipe is provided with at least one, preferably downwardly facing opening having a circumferential shape and size that only allows the passage of one container size.
  • said pipe may be provided with two or more, preferably downwardly facing openings having mutually differing circumferential shape/ size, each corresponding to one container size only, in order to allow the discharge thereof from the insertion and transport pipe.
  • the smallest opening is positioned most upstream in relation to the direction of the air flow within the pipe, and the largest, most downstream.
  • the downstream-opening may be constituted by the pipe's downstream end opening, which in this case is adapted to discharge the largest container, e.g. in the form of a large plastic bottle.
  • the insertion and transport pipe at the downstream end portion thereof in which said opening(s) is/are formed, may open into a closable housing which, by means of one or more partition walls, dependent on the number of container sizes to be sorted, is divided into two or more chambers, one for each container size.
  • said fan In a wall, said fan is disposed, the fan being adapted to establish a depression within the housing during operation and, thus, effect a suctation action within the insertion and transport pipe for the containers.
  • each chamber tapers suitably in a downward direction in both or each chamber, respectively, and each chamber may be assigned a pivotable flap or bottom shutter.
  • Each flap is balanced by means of an angle arm having a weight keeping the flap in a closed position irrespective of the pressure within the chambers of the housing, provided that no containers occupy the chambers, the flaps being kept in the closed position through the depression as long as the fan runs.
  • the fan stops the depression within the chambers then being equalized through air coming from the pipe. Then, the weight of the containers within each chamber will rotate the associated flap downwardly, so that the chamber bottoms are opened and the containers fall size-sortedly down into an underlying vessel or the like.
  • the return machine according to the invention may, as the aforesaid return machine, be controlled by a programmeable logical controller mounted at the insertion place for the containers into the pipe.
  • a printer for return scraps is disposed.
  • the logical controller and the associated printer do not constitute subject matter of the present invention.
  • the electronics function such that the fan is activated and started upon the insertion of a seizable bottle into the pipe and is kept in operation as long as bottles/cans occupy the pipe.
  • Figure 1 shows an axial section through parts important to the invention of a return machine for seizable bottles (deposit bottles) and, possibly, cans, especially through the inserting transport pipe of the return machine as well as a grading device during operation.
  • Figure 2 shows, on a larger scale than figure 1, the grading device occupying a discharge position.
  • reference numeral 1 denotes a wall, to which is coupled a return machine for deposit bottles and, possibly, cans.
  • the return machine is described the way the grading device functions when sorting two differently large deposit bottles 2 and 3, small or medium-sized bottles 2 and large bottles 3, e.g. of plastics.
  • plastic bottles are unstable and unfit to be conveyed in a standing position.
  • an insertion and transport pipe 4 is disposed in a known manner.
  • said pipe 4 from a convenient inserting height for the customer, extends along a curved course, such as shown in figure 1.
  • the curved course shown is not critical for the invention, but the pipe 4 shall in principle extend itself from a place representing a convenient insertion height for deposit bottles to a grading level positioned so high that sorting, collection and discharging are allowed by gravity.
  • the pipe 4 opens into a housing 5, the housing 5 being divided into two chambers 5' and 5" by means of a partition wall 6. If more than two bottle sizes 2, 3 are to be graded, the housing will be correspondingly divided into the desired number of separate chambers by means of partition walls.
  • a fan 7 is disposed, said fan 7 being adapted to establish a depression within the interior of the housing 5, said depression propagates to the insertion and transport pipe 4, feeding the bottles 2 and 3 from the inserting place at 1 to the pipe's 4 end portion 4', which is situated within the housing 5 and, consequently, is influenced by the same depression as the latter.
  • the fan 7 is adapted to be activated and started upon insertion of a bottle into the inlet opening of the pipe at 1, through a programmeable logical controller diagrammatically indicated at 8. Likewise, a printer for deposit receipts is disposed at 8.
  • the pipe's 4 end portion ' 4' which is located within the housing 5, is formed with at least one substantially downwardly facing opening 4a for the smallest bottle size 2.
  • This opening 4a has a circumferential shape and size allowing the passage of the smallest bottles 2 only.
  • a flexible flap 9 is disposed, extending into the feeding path of the bottles 2, 3 and so adapted as to brake and influence the small bottles 2 in the area of the opening 4a, in order to secure that the small bottles 2 leave the pipe 4,4' through the assigned opening 4a.
  • a f rther downwardly facing opening 4b for the large bottles 3 is formed downstream the opening 4a, in the end portion 4 ' of the pipe 4, but, in principle, there is nothing to prevent discharge of the large bottles 3 out through the end opening of the pipe 4,4'.
  • the fan 7 is adapted to rotate as long as there are bottles 2 , 3 in the pipe 4,4'.
  • the opening 4a for the small bottles 2 is placed above one chamber 5* in the housing 5, the opening 4b for the large bottles 3 being placed above the other chamber 5" in the housing 5.
  • Each chamber 5' and 5" is assigned a pivotable flap 10' and 10", the horizontal pivot axes being denoted 11' and 11", respectively.
  • Each pivotable flap 10', 10" carries a rigid angle lever 12' and 12", respectively, having a weight 13' and 13", respectively, for balancing respective flap 10', 10" in closed position, wherein the flaps are not loaded through the weight of bottle(s) and without depression within the housing 5; even the weight of one bottle 2 or 3 will, in this position, be capable of rotating respective flap 10", 10" to the open position thereof, figure 2.
  • the grading (sorting) /collection of the bottles 2 and 3 it is the depression within the housing 5 that keeps the pivotable flaps 10', 10" in the closed position, figure 1.
  • the grading/sorting device occupies the collecting condition, i.e. that the bottles 2 and 3, as they are sorted, are collected in the associated chamber 5', 5".
  • the fan will be deactivated and stop. Then, the internal depression of the housing 5 is equalized, the weight of the bottles 2 and 3, respectively, within the respective chamber 5', 5" causes a downwardly directed rotation of the flaps 10', 10", so that the bottles by gravity land in a vessel 14, 14' of their own or a similar container, to be carried away.
  • a downwardly facing opening corresponding to the openings 4a and 4b and intended for the smallest containers will always occupy a position most upstream; the opening for the largest container will always be situated most downstream in the transport pipe 4,4', upstream/downstream referring to the direction of the air flow within the pipe 4,4' caused by the fan 7.

Abstract

The invention relates to a grading/sorting device for a return machine for empty containers, preferably in the form of deposit bottles (2, 3) and, possibly, cans, said containers (2, 3) being intended to be inserted into and conveyed forwardly within an insertion and transport pipe (4, 4'), in which an air flow can be established by means of at least one fan (7). One has aimed at providing an efficient and reliable grading/sorting of two or more different container sizes. This is achieved in that said insertion and transport pipe (4, 4'), within a downstream area, is formed with at least one substantially downwardly facing opening (4a), which is shaped in order to slip through one smaller container size (2) only.

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GRADING DEVICE FOR A RETURN MACHINE FOR EMPTY CONTAINERS
The present invention relates to a grading device for a return machine for empty containers in the form of seizable (deposit) bottles and, possibly, cans, said containers being conveyed within an insertion and transport pipe, in which an air flow is established by means of at least one fan.
From NO patent application No. 924036, a return machine of the introductorily indicated kind is known, wherein the insertion and transport pipe for the containers is assigned a fan-driven ejector establishing a container-feeding air flow within the insertion and transport pipe. Downstream the ejector, the insertion and transport pipe is branched and comprises a separate pipe branch for cans and a separate pipe branch for empty plastic bottles, a pivotable flap being disposed at the branching point, said flap having a substantially vertical rotation axis and being adapted to alternately close one pipe branch while the other is kept open.
This grading or sorting device downstream the ejector in the known return machine for seizable bottles and cans has been found not to function satis actory, substantially due to the fact that large plastic bottles are allotted a higher speed than the smaller bottles and, thus, will be disposed tightly up against small bottles possibly positioned in front of them, end to end, such that said pivotable flap does not manage to slip past the smaller bottle positioned in front, without then also giving space to the following, large bottle. In this known return machine for seizable bottles and cans, one has renounced the grading/sorting downstream the ejector and, here, collected the bottles and cans in a common container for subsequent manual sorting. This is very time-consuming and laborious.
Therefore, the object of the present invention has been to provide a grading device for a return machine of the kind defined introductorily, having automatic operation and with which one can sort two or more different container sizes. The container is, as known per se, inserted into and conveyed forwardly in an insertion and transport pipe, in which an air flow is established by means of at least one fan.
In accordance with the invention, this object has been realized in that the insertion and transport pipe is provided with at least one, preferably downwardly facing opening having a circumferential shape and size that only allows the passage of one container size. Dependent on the number of different container sizes to be sorted, said pipe may be provided with two or more, preferably downwardly facing openings having mutually differing circumferential shape/ size, each corresponding to one container size only, in order to allow the discharge thereof from the insertion and transport pipe.
If a plurality of such openings differing in size are disposed along the length of the pipe, the smallest opening is positioned most upstream in relation to the direction of the air flow within the pipe, and the largest, most downstream. Also, the downstream-opening may be constituted by the pipe's downstream end opening, which in this case is adapted to discharge the largest container, e.g. in the form of a large plastic bottle.
In a preferred embodiment of a grading/sorting device for seizable bottles (deposit bottles) and, possibly, cans in accordance with the present invention, the insertion and transport pipe, at the downstream end portion thereof in which said opening(s) is/are formed, may open into a closable housing which, by means of one or more partition walls, dependent on the number of container sizes to be sorted, is divided into two or more chambers, one for each container size.
In a wall, said fan is disposed, the fan being adapted to establish a depression within the housing during operation and, thus, effect a sucktion action within the insertion and transport pipe for the containers.
The bottom of the housing tapers suitably in a downward direction in both or each chamber, respectively, and each chamber may be assigned a pivotable flap or bottom shutter. Each flap is balanced by means of an angle arm having a weight keeping the flap in a closed position irrespective of the pressure within the chambers of the housing, provided that no containers occupy the chambers, the flaps being kept in the closed position through the depression as long as the fan runs. When no containers occupy the insertion and transport pipe any longer, the fan stops, the depression within the chambers then being equalized through air coming from the pipe. Then, the weight of the containers within each chamber will rotate the associated flap downwardly, so that the chamber bottoms are opened and the containers fall size-sortedly down into an underlying vessel or the like.
The return machine according to the invention may, as the aforesaid return machine, be controlled by a programmeable logical controller mounted at the insertion place for the containers into the pipe. Here, also a printer for return scraps is disposed. The logical controller and the associated printer do not constitute subject matter of the present invention.
The electronics function such that the fan is activated and started upon the insertion of a seizable bottle into the pipe and is kept in operation as long as bottles/cans occupy the pipe.
In order to secure a correct discharge of a certain container size from an opening assigned therefore in said pipe, it has be found to be very suitable to dispose a flexible flap opposite the opening, said flap braking og influencing the container concerned whenever it enters the area for its associated opening in the pipe.
An example of a possible embodiment of a grading device for a return machine acording to the invention is closer explained in the following, reference being made to the drawings, wherein:
Figure 1 shows an axial section through parts important to the invention of a return machine for seizable bottles (deposit bottles) and, possibly, cans, especially through the inserting transport pipe of the return machine as well as a grading device during operation.
Figure 2 shows, on a larger scale than figure 1, the grading device occupying a discharge position.
In the drawings, reference numeral 1 denotes a wall, to which is coupled a return machine for deposit bottles and, possibly, cans.
In the following, the return machine is described the way the grading device functions when sorting two differently large deposit bottles 2 and 3, small or medium-sized bottles 2 and large bottles 3, e.g. of plastics. Such plastic bottles are unstable and unfit to be conveyed in a standing position.
For the insertion of the two bottle sizes 2, 3 into the return machine and transport within the same, an insertion and transport pipe 4 is disposed in a known manner. said pipe 4 , from a convenient inserting height for the customer, extends along a curved course, such as shown in figure 1. The curved course shown is not critical for the invention, but the pipe 4 shall in principle extend itself from a place representing a convenient insertion height for deposit bottles to a grading level positioned so high that sorting, collection and discharging are allowed by gravity.
With a relatively long end portion 4 ' , the pipe 4 opens into a housing 5, the housing 5 being divided into two chambers 5' and 5" by means of a partition wall 6. If more than two bottle sizes 2, 3 are to be graded, the housing will be correspondingly divided into the desired number of separate chambers by means of partition walls.
In one wall of the housing, a fan 7 is disposed, said fan 7 being adapted to establish a depression within the interior of the housing 5, said depression propagates to the insertion and transport pipe 4, feeding the bottles 2 and 3 from the inserting place at 1 to the pipe's 4 end portion 4', which is situated within the housing 5 and, consequently, is influenced by the same depression as the latter.
The fan 7 is adapted to be activated and started upon insertion of a bottle into the inlet opening of the pipe at 1, through a programmeable logical controller diagrammatically indicated at 8. Likewise, a printer for deposit receipts is disposed at 8.
In order to grade/sort two different bottle sizes 2 and 3, the pipe's 4 end portion '4', which is located within the housing 5, is formed with at least one substantially downwardly facing opening 4a for the smallest bottle size 2. This opening 4a has a circumferential shape and size allowing the passage of the smallest bottles 2 only.
Opposite the opening 4a, a flexible flap 9 is disposed, extending into the feeding path of the bottles 2, 3 and so adapted as to brake and influence the small bottles 2 in the area of the opening 4a, in order to secure that the small bottles 2 leave the pipe 4,4' through the assigned opening 4a.
In the embodiment shown, downstream the opening 4a, in the end portion 4 ' of the pipe 4, a f rther downwardly facing opening 4b for the large bottles 3 is formed, but, in principle, there is nothing to prevent discharge of the large bottles 3 out through the end opening of the pipe 4,4'.
The fan 7 is adapted to rotate as long as there are bottles 2 , 3 in the pipe 4,4'. The opening 4a for the small bottles 2 is placed above one chamber 5* in the housing 5, the opening 4b for the large bottles 3 being placed above the other chamber 5" in the housing 5.
Each chamber 5' and 5" is assigned a pivotable flap 10' and 10", the horizontal pivot axes being denoted 11' and 11", respectively.
Each pivotable flap 10', 10" carries a rigid angle lever 12' and 12", respectively, having a weight 13' and 13", respectively, for balancing respective flap 10', 10" in closed position, wherein the flaps are not loaded through the weight of bottle(s) and without depression within the housing 5; even the weight of one bottle 2 or 3 will, in this position, be capable of rotating respective flap 10", 10" to the open position thereof, figure 2. During the grading (sorting) /collection of the bottles 2 and 3, it is the depression within the housing 5 that keeps the pivotable flaps 10', 10" in the closed position, figure 1.
In figure 1, the grading/sorting device occupies the collecting condition, i.e. that the bottles 2 and 3, as they are sorted, are collected in the associated chamber 5', 5".
As soon as no more bottles occupy a position within the pipe 4,4', the fan will be deactivated and stop. Then, the internal depression of the housing 5 is equalized, the weight of the bottles 2 and 3, respectively, within the respective chamber 5', 5" causes a downwardly directed rotation of the flaps 10', 10", so that the bottles by gravity land in a vessel 14, 14' of their own or a similar container, to be carried away.
When grading/sorting three or more containers according to size, a downwardly facing opening corresponding to the openings 4a and 4b and intended for the smallest containers, will always occupy a position most upstream; the opening for the largest container will always be situated most downstream in the transport pipe 4,4', upstream/downstream referring to the direction of the air flow within the pipe 4,4' caused by the fan 7.

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1. A grading device for a return machine for empty containers, preferably in the form of deposit bottles (2, 3) and, possibly, cans, said containers (2, 3) being intended to be inserted into and conveyed forwardly within a insertion and transport pipe (4,4'), in which an air flow can be established by means of at least one fan (7) , c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said insertion and transport pipe (4,4') , within a downstream area, is formed with at least one preferably downwardly facing opening (4a) , which is formed to slip through one smaller container size (2) only.
2. A grading device as set forth in claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the insertion and transport pipe (4,4') is formed with two or more, preferably downwardly facing openings (4a, 4b) of mutually different sizes, the smallest opening (4a) for the smallest container' size (2) being positioned most upstream in the pipe (4,4'), the largest opening (4b) being positioned most downstream in the pipe (4,4') , upstream/downstream referring to the feeding direction of the containers (2, 3) in the pipe (4,4')
3. A grading device as set forth in claim 1 or 2, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that, opposite at least one opening (4a) , a flexible flap (9) is disposed in the feeding path of the containers (2, 3) and adapted to brake and influence the containers in the area of the opening (4a) , in order to secure that the container size (2) in question leaves the pipe (4,4') through said opening (4a).
4. A grading device as set forth in one or more of the preceding claims, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the downstream end portion (4') of the insertion and transport pipe (4,4') , in which the opening(s) (4a; 4a, 4b) is/are formed, is enclosed within a closable housing (5) which, by means of partition wall(ε) (6), is divided into two or more chambers (5', 5") , corresponding to the number of differing container sizes (2, 3), into each of said chambers (51, 5") one of said downwardly facing openings (4a, 4b) opens, each of said chambers (5', 5") having a pivotable flap or bottom hatch (10', 10") .
5. A grading device as set forth in any one of the preceding claims, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that, in a wall of the housing (5) , a fan (7) is disposed, said fan (7) being adapted to establish a depression within the interior of the housing (5) and within the insertion and transport pipe (4, 4') .
6. A grading device as set forth in claims 4 and 5, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that each pivotable flap (10', 10") has a weight-loaded, balancing angle lever (12', 12") , adapted to balance the associated pivotable flap (10', 10") in unloaded condition and when normal pressure prevails within the housing (5) .
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