DE19911071C2 - Collection device for used food containers - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a collecting device for used food containers made of glass, plastic or metal, comprising an optionally clad frame construction, a opening adapted to the size of the food containers, a separator for separating glass used food containers, especially bottles and Glasses and used non-glass ones Food containers, especially plastic bottles or Cans, as well as a smashing device for the Food containers, with the smashing device over a foot pedal mechanism is actuated.

Collecting devices, in particular waste glass containers, or Tinplate containers are well known. These devices are not part of a functioning recycling process more without it and serve as an interim storage facility for the addressed materials. The above Collection devices are mostly installed in metropolitan areas and cannot be emptied often enough for cost reasons become. The result is mostly overfilled containers as well as a Wild growth on stacked bottles, glasses and cans. the Problem can be caused by frequent emptying or by a corresponding processing of the used Food containers are countered. Especially with glass it would be a good idea to add the bottles or glasses accordingly smash, thereby a much better utilization of the To reach container volume and the required Extend drainage intervals. Collecting devices with one corresponding smashing mechanisms are also known. For example, the German patent discloses DE 195 19 115 C1 an old glass collecting container, which with a electrically operated, rotating impact element.  

Also in the German utility model DE 77 33 465 a Collection container described, which with a manually operated Percussion hammer is equipped. However, it turns out to be problematic in both cases the drive of the striking element. In particular is an electrical supply, which for the electric motor from the Patent specification DE 195 19 115 is required at the installation sites mostly not guaranteed. Operation of the hammer DE 77 33 465 requires a high effort, which is not of all fellow citizens, especially the elderly and children, can be applied. The hand lever also sets one unsanitary type of activity because it is mostly organic Residues of the bottles and glasses, especially through Spray water is wetted.

GB 2 239 784 discloses a can collecting device comprising one Smashing device operated via a foot pedal for Compacting the cans. The use of a Foot pedal mechanism allows everyone, especially also older or weaker people, this collecting device to operate accordingly. Also from a hygienic point of view is the actuation of the smashing device with a foot pedal advantageous because impurities do not come into contact with the skin can come.

From DE 197 09 858 a device for collecting is used Food containers made of glass, plastic or metal are known become a pressing device for pressing the Has recycled products, facilities being provided the recycling products according to their product groups separate from each other. Such a collecting device is spared the user the complex pre-sorting of the recycling products and also enables them to be largely sorted according to type.  

This device also separates the recycling products Help of a complicated system, which one not described in detail Detection device and several connected to it Includes actuators on pivotable walls attack.

The object of the present invention is a collecting device of the type mentioned at the beginning, with which it is possible different types of used food containers even before Reliably separate and separate crushing Feed areas of the collecting device. The separator should be as simple and therefore inexpensive as possible and also do not need electrical supply.

This object is achieved in that the separating device a downward inclined one located below the opening Slide and a longitudinal trap door, the trap door by a corresponding spring mechanism in the horizontal is held so that light used Food containers, essentially canned or Plastic bottles can roll over and through an opening in a designated container for plastic bottles or Cans can get through, whereas glass bottles get through their heavier weight open the trap door and into one for it intended container for bottles or glasses fall. On this way becomes an unproblematic and effective way to Separation of glass or plastic as well as metal containers created, which is only due to the different weight of the based on different containers and therefore purely mechanical is made. The separator therefore does not need any separate power supply. This allows the operation of the Collecting device at almost any location. With this  Device can handle all used food containers were thrown through a slot before the Storage or smashing separated with regard to the valuable material become. Furthermore, the supply of plastic bottles or Cans to the smashing device avoided could clog them.

Using an emptying flap makes it easy Possibility to empty the collecting device provided.

Another advantageous embodiment of the invention, the Use of a container for plastic bottles or Cans represent which is outside the frame construction is appropriate. A separate throw-in of the materials mentioned in this container is made possible in this way.

By using a glass container, which roughly from the side walls of the frame structures as well as from the area below the separator and above the emptying flap is formed, there is an inexpensive and easy to assemble alternative, which is no other Containers inside the collection device needed.

By equipping the collecting device with a lifting eye in the upper area, on the one hand becomes the possibility for a simple one Transport and secondly a mechanical emptying by lifting the entire device via a truck provided for this purpose or Trailer allows.

Furthermore, the collecting device can by the advantageous Design of an attached in the floor area  Emptying flap, which is opened with a lever mechanism can be easily emptied.

Due to the special design of the guide plates in the area of Emptying flap, this can be done by simply putting the Collection device can be closed automatically and it is required no further locking mechanism.

Furthermore, simple maintenance of the functional elements, in particular the separating and smashing device, by a easy disassembly, here by simply hanging in the Frame construction, guaranteed.

In the following the present invention is based on a Embodiment with reference to the accompanying Drawings described in more detail. Show

Figure 1 is a side sectional view of a collecting device according to the invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a collection device according to the invention;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of an emptying flap according to the invention.

First, reference is made to FIG. 1. A collecting device for used food containers made of glass, plastic or metal essentially comprises a frame construction 19 consisting of metal profiles, which is clad with wooden panels 20 and thus gives the overall construction, together with the gable-shaped roof 21 , the appearance of a small house.

The frame construction 19 houses the essential functional elements which allow the collecting container to separate glass and other materials, store them separately and continue to smash the used food containers made of glass.

Here, first of all all used food containers are thrown in through a lateral insertion opening 1 in order to then roll down or slide on a slide 2 and then get into the second collecting container 4 located outside the frame construction 19 through the opening 25 .

It is different with bottles or glasses. Through a spring-loaded trap door 3 , which is mounted in an approximately rectangular recess on the slide, these containers fall due to their weight into a funnel-shaped trough 6 provided for this purpose and arranged below the slide and come to rest on the end face of a hammer 7 .

A smashing device 5 consists essentially of the aforementioned hammer 7 , which is suspended on a horizontal axis 8 and which in turn is rotatably mounted in the frame structure 19 . The hammer 7 has a half-funnel shape in cross section, so that it adapts to the funnel-shaped trough 6 located below in its horizontal starting position. As already described above, it forms, together with its end face and the remaining part of the funnel-shaped trough 6, a collecting space for the used food containers made of glass sorted out by the spring-loaded trap door 3 . Furthermore, a lever 9 is attached to the end of the horizontal axis and protrudes from the frame construction and runs parallel to the top of the hammer 7 .

The end of the lever is provided with a recess 10 in the shape of a four-part circle in longitudinal section, into which a vertical push rod 11 engages, which in turn is held by a spring 12 and a horizontal rocker 13 . The combination of the quarter-circular recess 10 and the tapered end of the vertical push rod 11 form an abutment, which is triggered by lifting the vertical push rod 11 and thus also the lever 9 and the hammer 7 at a defined point and the hammer by gravity in its starting position falls behind. Only when the vertical push rod 11 is returned to its starting position can the pointed end engage in the quarter-circular recess 10 again and the hammer 7 can be raised.

As already indicated, the vertical push rod 11 is rotatably connected to one end of the horizontal rocker 13 . This rocker 13 is rotatably attached to an elevation 14 outside the actual frame construction. The pivot point of the rocker 13 lies approximately in the middle of the same. At the other end of the rocker 13 , a pedal 15 is attached for foot-appropriate operation.

For easier maintenance, the roof of the collecting device can be removed and the separating device, consisting of the slide 2 and the spring-loaded trap door 3 and the smashing device 5, can be unhooked and removed from the head. For this purpose, the elements mentioned above are only hooked into the frame construction. A collecting device according to the invention is further equipped with a lifting eye 22 which is located approximately in the middle of the roof. This eyelet is used for the transport of the collection device and for lifting during emptying. The collecting device can be opened at the bottom by an emptying flap 23 , so that the shattered glass can be easily removed. The emptying flap 23 is equipped with an unlocking lever 26 which can be operated from the outside via an extension tube 28 . Due to the special combination of a weight attached to the unlocking lever 26 and a guide plate 27 , the flap 23 closes and locks automatically after the collecting device has been parked on the floor.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

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deposit slot

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slide

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trap

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Collection containers for plastic bottles or cans

5

bursting apparatus

6

funnel-shaped tub

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hammer

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axis

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lever

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quarter-circular recess

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vertical push rod

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feather

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horizontal seesaw

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elevation

15

pedal

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axis

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axis

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Collecting container for smashed glass

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frame structures

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wood Furniture

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gable roof

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Lifting eye

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discharge flap

24

opening

25

release lever

26

baffle

27

extension tube

28

Weight

Claims (8)

1.Collecting device for used food containers made of glass, plastic or metal, comprising an optionally clad frame construction ( 19 ), an insertion opening ( 1 ) adapted to the size of the food containers, a separating device for separating used food containers made of glass, in particular bottles and glasses and not Used food containers made of glass, in particular plastic bottles or cans, as well as a smashing device for the food containers ( 5 ), the smashing device being actuable via a foot pedal mechanism ( 15 ), characterized in that the separating device is inclined downwards from a slot below the insertion opening ( 1 ) Slide ( 2 ) and a longitudinally attached trap door ( 3 ), the trap door ( 3 ) being held horizontally by a corresponding spring mechanism, so that easy Used food containers, essentially canned goods or plastic bottles, can roll over them and can pass through an opening ( 24 ) into a designated container for plastic bottles or food tins ( 4 ), whereas glass bottles open the trap door ( 3 ) and into one for their greater weight intended container for bottles or glasses fall. 2. Collection device according to claim 1, characterized in that an emptying flap ( 23 ) is provided. 3. Collecting device according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that a collecting container for plastic bottles or cans ( 4 ) is attached outside the frame structure ( 19 ). 4. Collecting device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that a collecting container for bottles or glasses approximately from the side walls of the frame structure ( 19 ) and from the area below the separating device (slide 2 , spring-loaded trap door 3 ) and above the emptying flap ( 23 ) is formed. 5. Collecting device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the frame structure ( 19 ) in the upper region describes the shape of a gable-shaped roof which is equipped with a lifting eye ( 22 ) in the central region. 6. Collecting device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the emptying flap ( 23 ) can be actuated with an unlocking lever ( 26 ). 7. Collecting device according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the emptying flap ( 23 ) is equipped with guide plates ( 27 ). 8. Collecting device according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the separating and shattering device ( 2 , 3 , 5 ) can be suspended in the frame structure ( 19 ).