JP2006015057A - Dental therapeutic waste disposal system and sludge reservoir device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an environment-friendly dental therapeutic waste disposal system and a sludge reservoir device, which enable recovery of noble metals from a cutting treatment at the time of dental treatment etc., and mitigate processing burdens, on a purge, a sewage treatment equipment, or the like. <P>SOLUTION: A sludge reservoir device 13 which reserves the sludge and discharges lessened sanitary sewage is mounted at the rear of a separator 7, to recover the sludge including the noble metals. The noble metals such as gold are extracted from the recovered sludge. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a dental treatment waste treatment system and a sludge storage device for sucking out and discarding the waste during dental treatment in the oral cavity, which is made up of cuts, tooth pieces, saliva, blood, meat pieces, drugs, washing water, etc., produced during tooth treatment About.

A conventional dental treatment waste treatment system includes an intraoral suction terminal device that sucks in dirt generated during dental treatment in the oral cavity, and a discharge unit that collects the dirt sucked in the oral suction terminal device and discharges it to a purification device and sewage It is configured.
JP-A-10-174692

In the above-mentioned prior art, expensive and precious metals such as platinum, gold, silver, palladium, and titanium, which are tooth catching materials, are scraped off during treatment and discarded as filth, and valuable resources are thrown away. There was a problem.
Moreover, in order to discharge sludge as it is, there is a problem that the processing load of a purification device (including a septic tank) and a sewage treatment facility is increased.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems of the prior art, and enables the recovery of precious metals generated during cutting treatment during tooth treatment and the like, and reduces the processing burden on a purification device, a sewage treatment facility, and the like. An object is to provide an environmentally friendly dental treatment waste disposal system and sludge storage device.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is configured as follows.
<Structure of Invention of Claim 1>
Tooth treatment generated filth treatment comprising an intraoral suction terminal device for sucking filth generated at the time of dental treatment in the oral cavity, and a discharge unit for sending the filth generated at the time of tooth treatment sucked by the intraoral suction terminal device to a purifier or sewage A sludge collecting device to be attached to a system, the container main body for collecting sludge set at an attachment site of the dental treatment generating waste disposal system, and the waste generated at the time of tooth treatment provided on the upper side of the container main body. A state in which the inlet is introduced into the main body and the outlet for discharging the sewage except for the sludge of the stored filth provided in the container body, and the container body stores and stores sludge. The sludge collecting device is configured so that it can be removed from the attachment site of the dental treatment generating waste disposal system and recovered.
<Structure of Invention of Claim 2>
An intraoral suction terminal device that sucks in filth generated during dental treatment in the oral cavity, a discharge unit that sends out the filth generated during dental treatment sucked in the oral suction terminal device to a purification device, sewage, and the like, A dental treatment waste treatment system is constituted by a sludge collecting device that collects sludge containing noble metals such as platinum, gold, silver, palladium, and titanium among the waste generated at the time of dental treatment provided in a site.
It goes without saying that a dental treatment waste treatment system in which a sludge collecting device is provided at an appropriate site of an existing dental treatment waste treatment system and the sludge can be collected is also included in the technical category of the present invention.
<Structure of Invention of Claim 3>
3. The dental treatment waste treatment system according to claim 2, wherein a separation device for separating the gas and sludge generated during tooth treatment is provided in the discharge portion, and a sludge storage device is provided on the discharge side of the separation device. Is configured.
<Structure of Invention of Claim 4>
In the configuration of the invention according to any one of claims 2 and 3, the sludge collecting device is provided with a collecting container body, and the collecting container body in which the sludge is accumulated is removed from the device in a state in which the sludge is stored and collected. It constitutes a dental treatment waste disposal system.

Since the present invention is configured as described above, the following effects can be obtained.
<Effects of the Inventions of Claims 1 and 2>
A sludge collecting device that collects sludge containing noble metals such as platinum, gold, silver, palladium, titanium, etc. in the filth generated during dental treatment is provided at an appropriate part of the discharge section. In addition to extracting precious and expensive precious metals such as platinum, gold, silver, palladium, and titanium, do not allow sludge to flow into the septic tank or sewage, even if it does not contain sludge or contain only a small amount of sewage Since it is made to flow into a septic tank or sewage, it is possible to obtain an effect of reducing a processing burden on a purification layer or a sewage treatment facility and realizing an environment-friendly system.
<Effect of the Invention of Claim 3>
Since the same effect as that of the second aspect of the invention can be obtained and the sludge collecting device is provided at a position that is not affected by the negative suction pressure on the rear side of the separating device, the suction of the dental treatment waste disposal system is provided. An effect of not affecting the operation can be obtained.
<Advantageous Effects of Invention>
The same effect as that of the first aspect of the invention can be obtained.

  The best mode for carrying out the invention shown in the drawings will be described below. However, it is only an Example and this invention is not limited to them.

In the first preferred embodiment for carrying out the present invention shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a dental treatment waste treatment system, and this dental treatment waste treatment system 1 is waste generated during dental treatment in the oral cavity. In order to send out the intraoral suction terminal devices 2a, 2b and 2c for sucking in the septic tank 3 (including the purification device) and the sewage 4 etc. Discharge comprising terminal tube 5, aggregation tube 6, separator 7 for separating sucked filth generated during tooth treatment into suction gas and liquid + solid, and suction motor 9 connected by providing filter 8 between separators 7 10 and platinum, gold, silver, palladium, titanium in the waste generated at the time of dental treatment by collecting sludge 17 discharged through the sludge introduction pipe from each separator provided after the separator 7 of the discharge unit 10 Such as precious metals Precipitating the free sludge 11 recoverable in reservoir and has become a sewage 18 which is not or less free of sludge 11 from the sludge reservoir device 13 for discharging the purified water tank 3 from the dirty water discharge pipe 16.
The collected sludge is sent to a precious metal processing facility where platinum, gold, silver, palladium, titanium, etc. are extracted.
Reference numerals 14a, 14b, and 14c are open / close valves that are opened when the intraoral suction terminal devices 2a, 2b, and 2c are set to the suction mode.
During the dental treatment, the suction motor 9 separator 7, the collecting pipe 6, and the terminal pipe 5 are always in a negative pressure state by the suction operation of the suction motor 9.
Reference numeral 15 is a sludge introduction pipe, and 16 is a sewage discharge pipe.
It is also possible to collect all the sludge with the sludge storage device. In this case, it is possible to realize an extremely clean dental treatment waste disposal system that does not dispose of waste in a septic tank or sewage. In this case, sludge falls within the sludge category.

In FIG. 2, the sludge collecting device 13 is connected to a container body 21 having an opening 20 in the upper part, a lid 22 that closes the opening 20, and a sludge introduced into the sludge introduction pipe 15 provided on the upper side of the side wall of the container body 21. The inlet 23, the sewage outlet 24 connected to the sewage outlet pipe 16 provided at the bottom of the container body 21 on the opposite side of the sludge inlet 23, and the sludge arranged in the container body 21 from upstream to downstream. It comprises first, second, and third partition walls 28, 29, and 30 that are appropriately provided with drain holes 31 that form reservoirs 25, 26, and 27, respectively.
The sludge 11 is collected by collecting the sludge reservoir 13 itself and replacing it with a new sludge reservoir.
Further, it is also possible to provide an outer container that accommodates the container main body 21 as a whole, and to provide a hanging metal fitting or a handle on the container main body 21 so that the container main body 21 can be taken out from the outer container main body.
Further, a collection box may be provided in each of the sludge reservoirs 25, 26, and 27, and sludge is stored in the collection box to collect each collection box.
Moreover, what provided one to several collection boxes without providing a partition wall is also good.
A configuration in which the drain hole 31 is not provided is also good.
In the description of the embodiments described below, the same components as those described in the above-described embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted.

  In the second preferred embodiment for carrying out the present invention shown in FIG. 3, the sludge reservoir device 34 communicates with the container main body 21 and the sludge introduction pipe 15 provided at the center of the lid 22 of the container main body 21. The formed sludge inlet 23, the sewage outlet 24 connected to the sewage outlet pipe 16 provided at the bottom edge of the container body 21, and the cylindrical shape provided immediately below the sludge inlet 23 in the container body 21. The first sludge reservoir 35 and the second sludge reservoir 36 that accumulates sludge 11 that receives the sludge overflowing from the 35 installed so as to surround the first sludge reservoir 35.

In the third preferred embodiment for carrying out the present invention shown in FIG.
The container main body 21, the sludge introduction port 23 communicated with the sludge introduction pipe 15 provided at the center of the lid 22 of the container main body 21, and the sewage discharge pipe 16 provided at the bottom center of the container main body 21 were communicated. A sludge discharge port 24, a sludge 17 from the sludge introduction port 23 suspended from the lid 22, and a first sludge reservoir portion 39, which is a mesh container for accumulating sludge 11, and the first sludge reservoir portion 39 are enclosed. And a second sludge reservoir 40 made of a finer mesh container than the 39 provided in the container.
The sludge 11 is recovered together with the first sludge reservoir 39 and the second sludge reservoir 40 by lifting or lifting the lid 22.
In this way, solids obtained by rinsing sewage also fall within the sludge category.

In the fourth preferred embodiment for carrying out the present invention shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, 75 is a sludge reservoir device, and this sludge reservoir device 75 is slightly on the opposite side of the sludge introduction pipe 15 and the 15. The container body 21 accommodated in the frame 76 having the sewage discharge pipe 16 at a low position, the sludge introduction port 23 for introducing the sludge together with the sludge introduction pipe 15 provided on the upper side wall of the 21, and slightly lower A sewage discharge port 24 that discharges sewage together with the sewage discharge pipe 16 provided at a position, and partition plates 77 and 78 provided in a floating state at appropriate intervals in the 21 provided on the side wall of the container body 21. 79, and handles 80, 80, which are provided inside the upper portion of the container main body 21 and are gripped by the operator during collection.
When one person lifts the sludge 11 with the maximum amount stored, the weight is about 15 kg to 50 kg, and the weight is about 40 kg to 100 kg which can be exchanged and collected by about two workers with the sludge fully retracted. Things are appropriate.
Needless to say, the frame 76 may be provided in the ground or may be provided on the ground. When installed on an existing system, many are installed on the ground.
In the case of installation on the ground, the side wall of the frame body 76 does not have to be four side walls, and the two side walls on the downstream side and the upstream side are used, and the sludge storage device 75 is taken in and out from the side. The body itself can be made cheaper.

In the fifth preferred embodiment for carrying out the present invention shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, reference numeral 82 denotes a sludge reservoir device. The sludge reservoir device 82 includes a sealed container body 83, and the container body 83. A sludge inlet 84 connected to the sludge inlet pipe 15 and an outlet 85 for discharging sewage connected to a sewage outlet pipe 16 provided at a slightly lower position on the opposite side of the 84, sludge Screwed into a valve 86 provided on the base side of the introduction port 84, a valve 87 provided on the base side of the discharge port 85, and an internal screw threaded inside the 84 when provided in the sludge introduction port 84 An extension port 88 for turning in and out, an extension port 89 for turning in and out screwed into an inner screw threaded inside the 85 when provided in the discharge port 85, and an upper portion The handle 90 is made up of.
In FIG. 12, in the set, the sludge collecting device 82 is lowered and stored in a frame 76 having a sludge introduction pipe 15 and a sewage discharge pipe 16 in which packings 91 and 92 projecting inward are set.
The valves 87 and 88 are opened, and the extension port 87 is turned around, covered with the sludge introduction pipe 15 and pressed against the packing 91.
The extension port 89 is turned around, covered with the sewage drain pipe 16 and pressed against the packing 92.
In the recovery, the valves 87 and 88 are closed, the extension port 87 and the extension port 89 are routed to be removed from the sludge introduction pipe 15 and the sewage drain pipe 16, and the handle 90 is pulled up.
Since it can be collected and transported in a completely sealed state, the work can be performed quickly and hygienically.

In the sixth preferred embodiment for carrying out the present invention shown in FIG. 9, 94 is a sludge reservoir device. The sludge reservoir device 94 is replaced with the extension ports 88 and 89 of the sludge reservoir device 82, and hose. Connecting metal fittings 95 and 96 for connecting the connecting metal fittings are provided.
The sludge introduction pipe 97 made of a flexible pipe has a connection fitting 98 connected to the connection fitting 95 at the tip, and the sewage drain pipe 99 made of a flexible pipe has a connection fitting 100 connected to the connection fitting 96 at the tip.

In the seventh preferred embodiment for carrying out the present invention shown in FIG. 10, reference numeral 103 denotes a sludge reservoir device. This sludge reservoir device 103 is a sludge comprising a container body 104 and an upper opening of the container body 104. The inlet 105 and the valve 106 provided above the side part of the container main body 104 are provided at the base, and are composed of a sewage discharge port 107 in a downwardly descending form.
Sludge is introduced directly into the sludge introduction port 105 with the sludge introduction pipe 15 directly above, or a detachable auxiliary pipe 108 is attached to the 15 as shown in the figure.
The sewage discharge port 107 is inserted when the container body 104 is placed and installed in the sewage drain pipe 16 in the form of an upward rising port.
It is also possible to provide a screw on the outer peripheral portion or the inner peripheral portion of the sludge inlet 105 and seal it with a screwed lid.
For example, it is preferable to suspend the flexible hose with the suspension means when the sludge collecting device 103 is removed, for example, by providing a suspension means using the sludge introduction pipe as a flexible hose.

In the eighth preferred embodiment for carrying out the present invention shown in FIG. 11, reference numeral 110 denotes a sludge reservoir device. This sludge reservoir device 110 includes a sludge inlet 23 which is a constituent part of the sludge reservoir device 75. The configuration of the sewage discharge port 24 provided at a slightly lower position is formed by screwing an inner screw (not shown) on the container body 21 side, and an outer screw (not shown) screwed into the inner screw. This is a configuration in which a screwed cylindrical form pressing body 111 is provided.
A rubber packing 112 is attached to the end portion of the pressing port body 111 so that the inner side can be closed with the pressing cap 113.
The sludge introduction pipe 15 is provided with a valve 115. When replacing the sludge reservoir 110, the valve 115 is closed to stop the sludge from flowing out.
Once the frame 76 is set at a predetermined position, the pressing ports 111 and 111 are turned to press the packing 112 against the sludge inlet 23 and the sewage discharge port 24, and the valve 115 is opened. For removal, the valve 115 is closed, the pressing mouths 111 and 111 are turned away, and then removed.
The frame 76 is configured such that the side walls are provided only on the upstream side and the downstream side, and the side walls on both sides are not provided, and the sludge collecting device 110 is set while being placed on the carriage 114.
The upper opening of the sludge reservoir device 110 can be closed with a lid 116.
In such a configuration, the sludge inlet 23 and the sewage outlet 24 may be supported in a simple column form, and can be made cheaper by stopping with an anchor or by burying the root in the ground.

  The present invention is used in the waste disposal system industry generated during dental treatment and the precious metal recovery industry.

The block diagram which shows the 1st Embodiment of this invention. Sectional drawing and perspective view of the sludge reservoir device of the 1st Embodiment of this invention. Sectional drawing and perspective view of the sludge reservoir apparatus of the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. Sectional drawing and perspective view of the sludge reservoir apparatus of 3rd Embodiment of this invention. Sectional drawing of the sludge accumulation apparatus of the 4th Embodiment of this invention. The top view of the sludge accumulation apparatus of the 4th Embodiment of this invention. The front view of the sludge accumulation apparatus of the 5th Embodiment of this invention. The set state figure of the sludge accumulation apparatus of the 5th Embodiment of this invention. The front view of the sludge accumulation apparatus of the 6th Embodiment of this invention. Sectional drawing of the sludge accumulation apparatus of the 7th Embodiment of this invention. Sectional drawing of the portable sludge reservoir apparatus of the 8th Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1: Dental treatment waste treatment system,
2a, 2b, 2c: Intraoral suction terminal device,
3: Septic tank,
4: Sewage,
5: Terminal tube,
6: Aggregation pipe,
7: Separator,
8: Filter,
9: Suction motor,
10: discharge part,
11: Sludge,
13: Sludge collecting device,
14a, 14b, 14c: on-off valve,
15: sludge introduction pipe,
16: Sewage discharge pipe,
17: Sludge
18: Sewage,
20: opening,
21: Container body,
22: lid,
23: Sludge inlet
24: Sewage outlet
25: sludge reservoir,
26: sludge reservoir,
27: Sludge reservoir,
28: first partition wall,
29: Second partition wall,
30: Third partition wall,
31: drain hole,
34: Sludge collecting device,
35: 1st sludge reservoir,
36: Second sludge reservoir,
38: Sludge collecting device,
39: 1st sludge reservoir,
40: Second sludge reservoir,
75: Sludge collecting device,
76: Frame,
77: Partition plate,
78: Partition plate
79: Partition plate,
80: handle,
82: Sludge collecting device,
83: Container body,
84: Sludge inlet,
85: discharge port,
86: Valve,
87: Valve,
88: Extension port,
89: Extension port,
90: handle,
91: Packing,
92: Packing,
94: Sludge collecting device,
95: Connecting bracket,
96: Connecting bracket,
97: sludge introduction pipe,
98: Connecting bracket,
99: sewage drain pipe,
100: connecting bracket,
103: sludge collecting device,
104: Container body,
105: sludge inlet,
106: valve,
107: Sewage outlet
110: Sludge collecting device,
111: Pressing mouth,
112: Packing,
113: 113,
114: Bogie,
115: valve,
116: Lid.

Claims (4)

Tooth treatment generated filth treatment comprising an intraoral suction terminal device for sucking filth generated at the time of dental treatment in the oral cavity, and a discharge unit for sending the filth generated at the time of tooth treatment sucked by the intraoral suction terminal device to a purifier or sewage A sludge reservoir device installed in the system,
A container main body for storing sludge set at an attachment site of the dental treatment generating waste disposal system, an introduction port for introducing the waste generated during tooth treatment into the container main body provided on the upper side of the container main body, It consists of a discharge port that discharges sewage except the sludge of the filth stored in the container body,
A sludge reservoir device characterized in that it can be removed from the attachment site of the dental treatment-generating waste disposal system and collected while the sludge is accumulated and stored in the container body. An intraoral suction terminal device for sucking in filth generated during dental treatment in the mouth
A discharge part that sends out the filth generated at the time of dental treatment sucked by this intraoral suction terminal device to a purifier or sewage,
It is characterized by comprising a sludge reservoir device that collects sludge containing noble metals such as platinum, gold, silver, palladium, titanium among the filth generated at the time of dental treatment provided in an appropriate part of the discharge section. Tooth treatment waste disposal system.   3. The dental treatment waste treatment system according to claim 2, wherein a separation device for separating the gas and sludge generated during tooth treatment is provided in the discharge portion, and a sludge collecting device is provided on the discharge side of the separation device.   4. The tooth according to claim 2, wherein the sludge collecting device is provided with a collecting container body, and the collecting container body in which the sludge is collected is removed from the device in a state in which the sludge is stored and collected. Treatment waste treatment system.

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