FI112195B - Return dispenser for receiving return packages and the procedure for returning packages such as bottles and jars - Google Patents

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112195

Automatic return receipt and method of returning packaging such as bottles and cans Returautomat för mottagning av returförpackningar och förfarande vid retumering av förpackningar säsom flaskor och burkar 5

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The invention relates to a recovery machine for receiving return packages and a method for returning packages such as bottles, cans.

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Bottle return and can return machines are known in the art that receive a return package such as a return bottle and can from a customer and provide a return money, receipt, deposit or the like corresponding to that package. On the basis of the identification made by the said recovery machine, the person returning the packaging receives a refund amount corresponding to the return packaging or, if the packaging is not approved, the known solution is further transferred to the device outlet or omitted from the feeding station.

This application discloses a completely new type of handling device for return packages 20, wherein the return package is fed from the inlet of the recovery machine preferably to a conveyor of the input station, whereby the return station is identified at the input station! package shape / bar code, package color, material and weight. Thus, the device of the invention can identify the characteristics of the package and its type. When the recovery package is placed in the recovery machine 25 feeding station, the conveyor forwards it to a sorting station, which according to the invention comprises a sorter for transferring the recovery package to a desired * storage station. On the basis of identification, the packages can be sorted according to the invention! * sorted to the desired storage stations.

According to the invention, the sorter comprises a trough or the like which is obliquely relative to the vertical plane. Thus, it gravitatively guides the bottle transferred from the inlet conveyor i · 2 112195 so that it drops from the end of the trough to the storage position ΠΙ or first remains at the lower end of the trough portion against the counter portion there. According to the invention, the sorting body comprises a conveyor which moves the stop member to the end of the trough by blocking the end of the trough and preventing the return bottle from falling from the end of the trough to the lower storage station III. The stop member is then moved by means of a conveyor so that the stop member moves the return package, such as a bottle or can, to the upper end of the trough and further drops it into the so-called sorting port. a pivotable guide wall which sorts the return package into two different storage stations IVa or IVb. These storage or sorting stations IVa and IVb are, in one embodiment of the invention, crushing stations in which the recovery package is crushed by a crusher such as a crushing drum.

Each sorting station IVa and IVb may comprise a separate crusher or one and the same crusher comprising separate crushers for each of the 15 sorted crushable products such as plastic bottles or aluminum cans. The function of the sorting wall is to sort the recovery pack into either of the two sorting paths leading to the sorting station IVa or IVb.

According to the invention, the sorting station IVa will include crushed cans and the sorting station IVb ... 20 will contain crushed plastic bottles.

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According to the invention, the trough comprises at its lower end preferably movable inclination. ··. listable sorting part, which is a trough part which is used to sort the tongue and groove part ..: gravity drop recovery kit ** dropped against the lower end of the trough **. 25 sorting stations I or II. The following is a preferred sorting option, where color sorting is performed. However, sorting may be carried out; ·· based on any identifier or combination of identifiers. Thus, the sorting or storage stations I, II and III are, for example, for return bottles, and the sorting stations can be used to sort the return bottles, for example, by their color.

• ·. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, clear color return bottles are sorted into sorting station III; sorting station II sorting return bottles »» 3 112195 green sorting station and sorting station I sorting recycling bottles brown. Bottles falling into sorting station III fall gravely when the stop member is not at the lower end of the trough but is moved to another position at the top of the conveyor.

Turning the tiltable sorting section of the lower end of the trough drops the return-5 bottle into either storage position I or storage position II. This sorting section, which consists of a trough section, is moved by a tilting mechanism 20.

The recovery machine according to the invention for receiving return packages and the method of returning packages such as bottles, cans is characterized by what is claimed.

The invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which some preferred embodiments of the invention are shown, but are not intended to be limited thereto.

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Fig. 1A shows a recovery machine according to the invention for returning recovery packages such as bottles and cans.

Figure IB schematically illustrates an object of the invention, i.e. a sorter of return packages 20.

• ·,. ·. Fig. 1C is a schematic and axonometric representation of the invention *. sort.

; Fig. 2A shows the position of the tilting trough portion of the sorter, in which the return package, such as a bottle or can, is gravely dripped through the end of the trough: · · against the storage portion or end of the trough end.

,:, Fig. 2B shows the position of the sorter in which the trough is turned over to another tilt · · ·. 30 to the extreme position of the list where sorting is performed to storage station I.

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Fig. 2C shows the position of the sorter in which the trough is inclined to the second extreme position of the inclination where the sorting is performed to the storage station II.

Fig. 1A schematically illustrates a recovery machine 5,100 for receiving recovery packages such as bottles and cans. It consists of two adjacent and interconnected body members R1 and R2, the body member R1 comprising a return package receiving station A and a return carrier Hi conveyor such as a belt conveyor. Input station A, when the recovery kit 10 is conveyed by the conveyor Hi, identifies the color, weight, material or type of the recovery package 10 either by profile on the camera or scanner and reads the bar code from that package. Sorting can be performed on the basis of identification at the identification station based on one or a combination of the properties of the packaging. The input station measures the weight of the package and compares it with the identification data in the hardware memory and the weight of the empty package. If the identification data for that compression type does not match the data stored in the memory, the compression will not be accepted and passed on. Return packages, such as bottles and cans, are fed into the return slot of the return dispenser. The return vending machine identifies the package with the identification devices and provides cash and / or receipt and / or pledge or the like against the identification. Based on the identification you can ··. Thus, the return vending machine will issue money and receipt or just receipt or money or pledge i · · or some other return document in both paper and / or electronic form.

··: Figure IB shows a sorting performed by a sorter in a schematic representation. In the device solution according to the invention, after the identification, the recovery package is transferred to a sorter 10 by conveyor Hi 1. The sorter 10 according to the invention is sorted into five different sorting or storage stations in one embodiment of the invention. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the species:. the winding stations I, II and III are for returning bottles and sorting into these stations is standard; 30 toast based on color. Sorting stations IVa and IVb are crushing stations and return cans and plastic bottles are led to these stations. Said cans are distinguished by identification of 112195 5 by a controller 25 in front of the inlet of the sorting stations IVa and IVb which directs the return packages to either sorting station IVa or IVb. The guide 25 may consist of a motor driven wall guiding the passage of the package. The engine is marked with M2.

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As shown in Fig. 1C, the sorter 10 comprises a sorting trough 11 which is sloping obliquely with respect to the vertical, whereby the gravity drop of the conveyor returned to the sorting trough 11 of the reconditioning machine is gravitationally dropped and further gravitationally to the lower end.

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The sorter comprises a conveyor 12 preferably a chain conveyor, the conveyor loop 120 preferably of which is guided through the folding wheels 14aj and 14a2 at both ends of the elongate body 13, preferably via the chain wheels. The other impeller is coupled to a chain electric motor Mi. The conveyor 15 is conveyed as a conveyor loop through the sprockets and preferably comprises a stop member 15 which is located against the bottom of the bottle and which, when located at the lower end of the trough 11, prevents the return package such as the bottle or can. The roller and storage station III and the said part also serve, when sorting to the crusher, to the sorting station IVa, IVb to move the return package along the trough 11 ···, 20 obliquely upwards through the top of the trough and optionally through the sorting wall:

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Advantageously, there are two counterparts 15 on opposite sides of the conveyor link 120 and protrusions sideways in the same direction from the chain 12. The counterpart 15 thus acts as a stopper for the package or for moving it. Coupled to the chain 12 by moving the chain by the motor M1, the stop member 15 moves the lower end of the trough 11, 110 to its upper end. The retaining member 15 with its arms is shaped such that it extends from the side 12 of the chain 12 to the trough 11, 110. It is thus movable on the side of the trough portion 110 and the trough 11 in an upwardly sloping manner in the transfer of the package.

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According to the invention, the trough 11 comprises a downwardly tilting trough portion 110, the tilt direction of which is adjustable by the tilting mechanism 16. The tilting mechanism 16 rotates the arm portion 17 associated with the movable trough portion 110 by a mechanism comprising a wheel 18 and a pivot 19 pivotally by means of a joint 21 to a shaft portion 22 which is pivoted by a joint 23 to the body 13. The electric motor 24 is used to rotate the wheel 18 and move the associated shaft 20 and further the intermediate shaft 22 and associated shaft portion 17 engaging the trough portion 110. pivoting the trough portion 110 such that the return package against the counter-piece 15 is sorted into sorting station I or sorting station II.

Figure 2A illustrates the operation of the tilting mechanism of the movable trough portion 110. The tilting mechanism 16 thus comprises a pivoting articulated arm portion 22 which is pivotable to the body 13 and a pivotally articulated arm portion 20 which is eccentrically connected at one end to a wheel 18 driven by an electric motor 24. As shown in the figure, a third fixed arm portion 17 is provided. Fig. 2A illustrates the position of the mechanism in which the tilting trough portion 110 is above and extending a short distance from it, parallel to the stationary trough portion 11 and obliquely. with respect to the vertical. The trough portion 110 pivots with respect to the upper trough 11 and is »·. ·. adjustable obliquely to the vertical.

j,, ··· Figure 2B shows the position of the mechanism in which the movable trough portion 110 is

. 25 tilted by rotating an electric motor 24 wheels 18 in the direction of Li. 2B

At the stage shown, the recovery package, such as a bottle, is dropped into sorting and storage ·: station II.

Fig. 2C illustrates a sorting 1 · 30 step of the trough pivot mechanism of the invention, with wheel 18 rotated by electric motor 24 in direction L2, whereby the wheel 110 receives a reverse tilt assembly and sorts the return package therein, such as bottle sorting. and storage station I.

The trough portion 110, such as a fixed trough, is preferably U-shaped, comprising a base portion 5b and side wall portions a1 and a2. The gutter 11,110 is open at the top. 1 · i I · »·

Claims (17)

112195 δ Ρ claims A recovery machine (100) for receiving recovery packages to which the recovery packages are fed to an input station (A), which recognizes 5 returned packages and provides money and / or receipt and / or pledge or the like, characterized in that the recovery machine (100) comprises: a sorter (10) comprising a sorting chute (11) obliquely relative to a vertical plane, the gravity return container being dropped into the lower end of the chute (11) and the sorting device comprising a chute (110) tilted at its lower-10 end the recovery package leading to said trough section (110) is identifiable by dropping into a sorting station (I) or another sorting station (II) and that there is a trough (11) comprising a conveyor (12) forming a conveyor loop (120) and ), and that there is a third 15 sorting stations at the bottom end of the trough section (11) a (III), whereby sorting is performed on said third sorting station (III), keeping the lower end of the trough (110) of the trough (11) free and allowing the return packages (11) through the trough (110) to gravity downwardly to the sorting station (III) . A recovery machine according to claim 1, characterized in that The arrangement is such that the stop member (15) prevents the return package from dripping from the lower end of the trough (11) when the stop member (15) is brought into position by a conveyor where it blocks the lower end of the trough (11). Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the stop members (15) are two on opposite sides of the conveyor loop. Apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the tiltable trough portion (110) is rotatable by rotating an electric motor; · 30 wheels (18) with wheels (18) having a link (20) connected to the hinge (19), which: "· is connected at one end by a link (21) to an intermediate link (22) hinged by a link (23); ) in the body (13) of the sorter (10) and that the intermediate arm portion (22) further comprises a shaft portion (17) integral with the trough portion (110), thereby changing the tilt position of the trough portion (110) by changing the direction of rotation of the electric motor (24). (I or II) 5 Apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the conveyor loop (120) of the conveyor (12) comprises at its end folding wheels (14ai), (14a2), wherein a motor (Mi) is preferably coupled to the second folding wheel. 10 Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the diverting pulleys (14ai), (14a2) are sprockets and the conveyor link (120) is a chain link comprising laterally extending stop members (15) on opposite sides of the conveyor run, While (15) is located at the lower end of the conveyor 15, a second stop portion (15) is located at the upper end of the conveyor and when the second stop portion is located downstream of the conveyor, another stop portion (15) is located at the upper end of the conveyor. 112195 Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the inlet station (A) comprises a conveyor (Hi) on which the return package such as a bottle or can is first placed and that the conveyor (Hi) transfers the return package to the sorter (10). 5 Apparatus according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the conveyor (Hi) is a belt conveyor. Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the sorting stations (I, II and III) are on the return bottles and are sorted according to the color of the return bottles after identification on their inlet belt (Hi) and the sorting stations (IVa and IVb) are crushing stations, which are returned to the sorting facility by identification and that the packages returned to these stations are plastic bottles or cans. 15 A method for treating return packages, characterized in that the return package is brought to the return station (A) of the returning machine and, after identification, to the trough (11) of the sorting machine (10) and the trough (11) (110) the derived return v * 20 pack can be moved to the sorting station (I or II) by tilting the trough portion (110) and using a sorting device with a sorting trough. (11) is provided with a conveyor (12) which comprising a movable stop member (15) and further comprising a sorting station (III) at the end of the trough portion (110), wherein the method leads to a return package such as a bottle or can to said sorting station 25 (ΙΠ) from the end of the trough portion (110) counter part (15) does not prevent ': return of the return packaging to the sorting station (ΙΠ). The method according to claim 12, characterized in that the method moves the return package from the connection of the tilting trough portion (110) to the upper end of the trough portion (11) by a stop member (15) which blocks the lower end of the trough portion (11). in the step of returning the return package to the trough section (110) and not guiding the lower end of the trough (11) to the storage station (III). Method according to Claim 12 or 13, characterized in that the sorting is carried out at the sorting stations (I or II or III) on the basis of the color of the package, if the return package is a plastic bottle or can. ) to crush a plastic bottle or can. Method according to one of Claims 12 to 14, characterized in that the return bottle is moved to the sorting station (I, II or III) so that the return bottles are sorted by color so that the bright colored return bottles arrive at one sorting station and the brown bottles to the third sorting station. green recovery bottles. Method according to one of the preceding claims 12 to 15, characterized in that in the method the recovery package is first moved in a sorter. · In the lower end of the trough (11) and, in the case of a glass return bottle, drop the return container directly from the end of the trough (110) into the sorting box (III) or sort by the bottom trough (110) into the sorting station (II or I) or, in the case of a plastic bottle or can, transfer the recovery package (15) to the upper end of the trough (11) and from there to either the sorting passage (IVa or IVb), whereby a second passage 25 takes the plastic bottles to a crusher and another sorting pass takes the return cans to the crusher, which crushes them before being dropped into the storage station. The method of handling return packages according to any one of claims 12 to 16, characterized in that the method identifies the return package 112195 in connection with a conveyor (Hi) at the arrival station (A) and, after identification, transfers the return package with a conveyor (Hi). ) to the sorter (10). 112195