CA1085775A - Bottle deposit refund machines - Google Patents
Bottle deposit refund machinesInfo
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- CA1085775A CA1085775A CA266,180A CA266180A CA1085775A CA 1085775 A CA1085775 A CA 1085775A CA 266180 A CA266180 A CA 266180A CA 1085775 A CA1085775 A CA 1085775A
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- 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
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- 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
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A bottle deposit refund machine is disclosed which com-prises an identification system by shape recognition for the different bottles it receives, a carrier of said bottles between an entrance station in the machine and an exit station which is not accessible to the public after passage in front of said iden-tification system, as well as a mechanism for the distribution of a receipt or the like in correspondance of the number and type of different deposit bottles introduced into the machine. The iden-tification system is associated with means which enable the return to the operator of the machine a non-deposit bottle introduced by mistake into the machine, said means inducing the transfer of the non-deposit bottles from said carrier to an auxiliary con-veyor,at least one part of which is apparent on a face of the machine accessible to the public, said non-deposit bottles being then transferred by means of said auxiliary conveyor to a stock area.
A bottle deposit refund machine is disclosed which com-prises an identification system by shape recognition for the different bottles it receives, a carrier of said bottles between an entrance station in the machine and an exit station which is not accessible to the public after passage in front of said iden-tification system, as well as a mechanism for the distribution of a receipt or the like in correspondance of the number and type of different deposit bottles introduced into the machine. The iden-tification system is associated with means which enable the return to the operator of the machine a non-deposit bottle introduced by mistake into the machine, said means inducing the transfer of the non-deposit bottles from said carrier to an auxiliary con-veyor,at least one part of which is apparent on a face of the machine accessible to the public, said non-deposit bottles being then transferred by means of said auxiliary conveyor to a stock area.
Description
~085775 This invention relates to improvements in bottle deposit refund machines.
Various bottle deposit refund machines are already known, i.e., machines which automatically deliver in the form of to~ens, a ticket or the like, a receipt corresponding to the deposit value of the bottles introduced into the machine and with which the refund of the deposit is effected. Some of these known machines only accept bottles of a given type whereas others are provided with means for the identification by shape recognition of the different empty bottles which they receive in order to provide receipts which correspond both to the number of bottles introduced and the deposit value of each bottle.
In this latter type of machine, the non-deposit bottles which are not taken into account in the establishment of the refund receipt are, however, as in the case of the deposit bottles, evacuated by the machine into a basket or onto a storage table which is inaccessible to the public, so that it is not possible to retrieve non-deposit bottles introduced by error or inadvertently into the machine and which might either give rise to a deposit refund at a selling point other than that in which the machine is installed or, most simply, be kept by their owner.
An object of the invention is to provide improvements in machines of the above-defined type and which palliate the drawback mentioned.
Another object of the invention is, in this respect, to ~ , .
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provide a bottle deposit refund machine which, as opposed to known machines, allows the recovery by their owner of non-deposit bottles wrongly introduced into the machine.
An improved machine according to the invention comprising S an identification system by shape recognition for the different bottles which it receives, a conveyor of said bottles between an entrance station in the machine and an exit station which is not accessible to the public, after passage in front of said identification system, as well as a mechanism for the distribution of a receipt corresponding to the number and type of the different deposit bottles introduced into the machine, is characterized in that to the identification system is associated a means which induces the transfer of non-deposit bottles from said conveyor ; onto an auxiliary conveyor, a part of which is apparent on a face of the machine accessible to the public.
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According to another characteristic of the invention, the -~
auxiliary conveyor passes through the face of the machine ~ccessible to the public through two windows of which the inlet window in the machine is set up so as to prevent the evacuation of the non-deposit bottles as long as the number of bottles appearing on the face of the machine accessible to the public between the two windows is lower than a predetermined value.
When this value has been reached, the auxiliary conveyor draws the non-deposit bottles and those bottles not recovered by their owner one by one into the machine, thus freeing the auxiliary conveyor and allowing another use of the machine.
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1~857~5 If, in a complementary manner, the auxiliary conveyor is provided in order to evacuate non-deposit bottles and those bottles not recovered by their owner towards a storage area distinct from that of the deposit bottles, then the improved machine according to the invention separates, directly in the empty bottle storage zone, deposit and non-deposit bottles, thus correspondingly simplifying the work involved in the handling of bottles received by the personnel of the store in which the machine is installed.
The invention will be well understood in the light of the following description given by way of example and with reference to the appended drawing in which : :
- figure 1 is a perspective view of an improved machine according to the invention;
. - figure 2 is a highly schematic plan view;
- figure 3 is a view similar to that of figure 2 but for another embodiment;
- figure 4 is a front view of the embodiment shown in figure 3.
A machine designed for the automatic refund of bottle deposits comprises a chest 10, partly closed up by a front wall 11 and which, on its place of use, such as in a grocery store, a department store or supermarket,etc., is housed behind a partition 12 which extends from wall 11, figure 2.
In a way know~ per se, wall 11 has a window l3, partially , , . ~
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1~85~75 protected by a hood 14 through which is located a conveyor 15 driven by a motor, not shown. When a bottle B is placed on the end part of conveyor 15 surrounded by hood 14, said bottle is driven inside chest 10 in which is housed a bottle identification . system by shape recognition, advantageously an electronic system which is connected by logical means to a printer 17 which delivers a receipt or ticket representing the deposit value of the bottles introduced into the machine.
In the latter, the identification system of the bottles received by the machine, -bottles which differ from one another by their shape-, and the logical means are set, on the one hand, so as to take into account only those bottles actually on deposit,.and, on the other hand, to deliver a receipt or ticket the value of which corresponds to the deposit value of each type of bottle and to the number of deposit bottles introduced into the machine. Any bottle presented at the entrance of conveyor 15, whether it is on deposit or not, is evacuated by said conveyor towards a receptacle _, or similar device, placed in premises designed for the recovery of empty bottles, which are inaccessible to the public and where the personnel of the grocery store or shop sorts out the deposit and non-deposit bottles.
In order to obviate this drawback constituted by such sorting work, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, avoid any wrongful operations with respect to the owner of the bottles 3o .
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'; : ' by causing the disappearance of those introduced into the machine and which are not on deposit, the invention proposes that the latter be made to reappear on the front face of wall 11 which is accessible to the public so that their owner may retrieve them if he so wishes, whereas they are sent to the premises designed for the recovery of empty bottles if they are abandoned by their owner, but then into another receptacle or similar container, separate from that of the deposit bottles.
An improved machine according to the invention thus comprises, in a first embodiment, figures 1 and 2, an auxiliary conveyor 20, adjacent, at one of its ends, to the conveyor 15 the other end of which crosses wall 11 through two windows 21 and 22 partly protected by a casing 23. On its side located between window 21 and conveyor 15, conveyor 20 is edged by a plate 24, on the one hand, and by a shorter plate 25, on the other hand, the latter carrying photoelectric cells or similar devices on an angle bar which are part of the identification system by shape recognition for the bottles passing in front of said cells during their run on conveyor 15. Adjacent to the latter, opposite the interval defined between plates 24 ;
and 25, is located an ejector 30 comprising, most simply, an arm 31 mounted pivoting around a vertical axis 32 and on which acts a link 32a connected to an electromagnet 33 controlled from the bottle identification system. The side of conveyor 20 originating from window 22 is also edged by plates 3o -10857~75 34 and 35 which, while first in a parallel direction to said side, subsequently diverge from it to form a channel 36 leading to a receptacle b' which is also located in the premises designed to recover empty bottles but is distinct from the previously mentioned receptacle b.
Whereas window 21 is permanently open, the invention , provides to bar window 22 using an elastic member which may become eclipsed when it is subjected to a pressure of pre-determined force.
In the embodiment illustrated very schematically in figures 3 and 4, the machine comprises, at the lower end part of conveyor 15, two rollers 40 and 41 rotating in opposite ~ .
directions and which, with a coating of foam material on their periphery, facilitate the conveyance of the deposit bottles B
towards the receptacle _. In this embodiment, conveyor 20 associated with carrier 15 consists of two circular plates 42 and 43 which are tangent at 44 and which, rotating in opposite directions around vertical axes 45 and 46, cause the progression in a guiding channel 47 of the non-deposit bottles introduced into said channel by a plunyer 48, figure 4. The latter is pivotally mounted around a horizontal axis 49 and is actuated by an electromagnet 50 controlled by a signal originating from the bottle identification system, not shown. Channel 47, which crosses front wall 11 of the machine through a window 51, which is constantly open, comprises an elbow part 52 registering .' ., .
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with plate 42 and two parallel sides 53 and 54 connected through an incurved loop 55 eccentric with respect to axis 46 of plate 43, a crescent shaped supporting strip 56 being adjacent to the periphery o plate 43 plumb with loop 55 of channel 47. The latter also crosses wall 11 through a .
window 57 similar to window 22 of the previously described embodiment.
In both embodiments of the improved machine according to the invention, the passage of the non-deposit bottles in front of the identification system by shape recognition gives rise to an electric signal which, on the one hand, controls the electromagnet 33 or 50 and, after a delay corresponding to the arrival of said bottle at right angles to ejector 30 or 48, transfers said non-deposit bottles onto the conveyor 20 and, on the other hand, controls the lighting up of a ~ , .
time delay light signal 58, on the front wall 11 of the machine, said signal bearing an inscription indicating that the bottle ~-has been rejected and that it should be recovered.Notwithstanding ¦
the continuous motion of conveyor 20, the bottles which appear across windows 21 or 51 are stopped either by the elastic member barring window 22 or by friction in loop 55 at the entrance to window 57 so that these bottles can be recovered by their owner. The restraining force of the elastic member which may be eclipsed as well as the shape of loop 55 are chosen so that the bottles which appear on the part of conveyor . I
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- - 10857~5 20 which is external to the machine remain immobilized as long as their number is lower than a predetermined number .'whereas the arrival of an additional bottle, for example, the fifth one, causes the penetration, one by one, inside the machine, of the non-deposit bottles not retrieved by their owner, said bottles being then sent on, through channel 36 or side 54 of channel 47, towards receptacle b'.
A strip 60, fastened to the front wall 11 of the machine between the entrance station and the exit window of the auxiliary conveyor 20, facilitates the handling of the bottles.
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Various bottle deposit refund machines are already known, i.e., machines which automatically deliver in the form of to~ens, a ticket or the like, a receipt corresponding to the deposit value of the bottles introduced into the machine and with which the refund of the deposit is effected. Some of these known machines only accept bottles of a given type whereas others are provided with means for the identification by shape recognition of the different empty bottles which they receive in order to provide receipts which correspond both to the number of bottles introduced and the deposit value of each bottle.
In this latter type of machine, the non-deposit bottles which are not taken into account in the establishment of the refund receipt are, however, as in the case of the deposit bottles, evacuated by the machine into a basket or onto a storage table which is inaccessible to the public, so that it is not possible to retrieve non-deposit bottles introduced by error or inadvertently into the machine and which might either give rise to a deposit refund at a selling point other than that in which the machine is installed or, most simply, be kept by their owner.
An object of the invention is to provide improvements in machines of the above-defined type and which palliate the drawback mentioned.
Another object of the invention is, in this respect, to ~ , .
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provide a bottle deposit refund machine which, as opposed to known machines, allows the recovery by their owner of non-deposit bottles wrongly introduced into the machine.
An improved machine according to the invention comprising S an identification system by shape recognition for the different bottles which it receives, a conveyor of said bottles between an entrance station in the machine and an exit station which is not accessible to the public, after passage in front of said identification system, as well as a mechanism for the distribution of a receipt corresponding to the number and type of the different deposit bottles introduced into the machine, is characterized in that to the identification system is associated a means which induces the transfer of non-deposit bottles from said conveyor ; onto an auxiliary conveyor, a part of which is apparent on a face of the machine accessible to the public.
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According to another characteristic of the invention, the -~
auxiliary conveyor passes through the face of the machine ~ccessible to the public through two windows of which the inlet window in the machine is set up so as to prevent the evacuation of the non-deposit bottles as long as the number of bottles appearing on the face of the machine accessible to the public between the two windows is lower than a predetermined value.
When this value has been reached, the auxiliary conveyor draws the non-deposit bottles and those bottles not recovered by their owner one by one into the machine, thus freeing the auxiliary conveyor and allowing another use of the machine.
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1~857~5 If, in a complementary manner, the auxiliary conveyor is provided in order to evacuate non-deposit bottles and those bottles not recovered by their owner towards a storage area distinct from that of the deposit bottles, then the improved machine according to the invention separates, directly in the empty bottle storage zone, deposit and non-deposit bottles, thus correspondingly simplifying the work involved in the handling of bottles received by the personnel of the store in which the machine is installed.
The invention will be well understood in the light of the following description given by way of example and with reference to the appended drawing in which : :
- figure 1 is a perspective view of an improved machine according to the invention;
. - figure 2 is a highly schematic plan view;
- figure 3 is a view similar to that of figure 2 but for another embodiment;
- figure 4 is a front view of the embodiment shown in figure 3.
A machine designed for the automatic refund of bottle deposits comprises a chest 10, partly closed up by a front wall 11 and which, on its place of use, such as in a grocery store, a department store or supermarket,etc., is housed behind a partition 12 which extends from wall 11, figure 2.
In a way know~ per se, wall 11 has a window l3, partially , , . ~
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1~85~75 protected by a hood 14 through which is located a conveyor 15 driven by a motor, not shown. When a bottle B is placed on the end part of conveyor 15 surrounded by hood 14, said bottle is driven inside chest 10 in which is housed a bottle identification . system by shape recognition, advantageously an electronic system which is connected by logical means to a printer 17 which delivers a receipt or ticket representing the deposit value of the bottles introduced into the machine.
In the latter, the identification system of the bottles received by the machine, -bottles which differ from one another by their shape-, and the logical means are set, on the one hand, so as to take into account only those bottles actually on deposit,.and, on the other hand, to deliver a receipt or ticket the value of which corresponds to the deposit value of each type of bottle and to the number of deposit bottles introduced into the machine. Any bottle presented at the entrance of conveyor 15, whether it is on deposit or not, is evacuated by said conveyor towards a receptacle _, or similar device, placed in premises designed for the recovery of empty bottles, which are inaccessible to the public and where the personnel of the grocery store or shop sorts out the deposit and non-deposit bottles.
In order to obviate this drawback constituted by such sorting work, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, avoid any wrongful operations with respect to the owner of the bottles 3o .
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'; : ' by causing the disappearance of those introduced into the machine and which are not on deposit, the invention proposes that the latter be made to reappear on the front face of wall 11 which is accessible to the public so that their owner may retrieve them if he so wishes, whereas they are sent to the premises designed for the recovery of empty bottles if they are abandoned by their owner, but then into another receptacle or similar container, separate from that of the deposit bottles.
An improved machine according to the invention thus comprises, in a first embodiment, figures 1 and 2, an auxiliary conveyor 20, adjacent, at one of its ends, to the conveyor 15 the other end of which crosses wall 11 through two windows 21 and 22 partly protected by a casing 23. On its side located between window 21 and conveyor 15, conveyor 20 is edged by a plate 24, on the one hand, and by a shorter plate 25, on the other hand, the latter carrying photoelectric cells or similar devices on an angle bar which are part of the identification system by shape recognition for the bottles passing in front of said cells during their run on conveyor 15. Adjacent to the latter, opposite the interval defined between plates 24 ;
and 25, is located an ejector 30 comprising, most simply, an arm 31 mounted pivoting around a vertical axis 32 and on which acts a link 32a connected to an electromagnet 33 controlled from the bottle identification system. The side of conveyor 20 originating from window 22 is also edged by plates 3o -10857~75 34 and 35 which, while first in a parallel direction to said side, subsequently diverge from it to form a channel 36 leading to a receptacle b' which is also located in the premises designed to recover empty bottles but is distinct from the previously mentioned receptacle b.
Whereas window 21 is permanently open, the invention , provides to bar window 22 using an elastic member which may become eclipsed when it is subjected to a pressure of pre-determined force.
In the embodiment illustrated very schematically in figures 3 and 4, the machine comprises, at the lower end part of conveyor 15, two rollers 40 and 41 rotating in opposite ~ .
directions and which, with a coating of foam material on their periphery, facilitate the conveyance of the deposit bottles B
towards the receptacle _. In this embodiment, conveyor 20 associated with carrier 15 consists of two circular plates 42 and 43 which are tangent at 44 and which, rotating in opposite directions around vertical axes 45 and 46, cause the progression in a guiding channel 47 of the non-deposit bottles introduced into said channel by a plunyer 48, figure 4. The latter is pivotally mounted around a horizontal axis 49 and is actuated by an electromagnet 50 controlled by a signal originating from the bottle identification system, not shown. Channel 47, which crosses front wall 11 of the machine through a window 51, which is constantly open, comprises an elbow part 52 registering .' ., .
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with plate 42 and two parallel sides 53 and 54 connected through an incurved loop 55 eccentric with respect to axis 46 of plate 43, a crescent shaped supporting strip 56 being adjacent to the periphery o plate 43 plumb with loop 55 of channel 47. The latter also crosses wall 11 through a .
window 57 similar to window 22 of the previously described embodiment.
In both embodiments of the improved machine according to the invention, the passage of the non-deposit bottles in front of the identification system by shape recognition gives rise to an electric signal which, on the one hand, controls the electromagnet 33 or 50 and, after a delay corresponding to the arrival of said bottle at right angles to ejector 30 or 48, transfers said non-deposit bottles onto the conveyor 20 and, on the other hand, controls the lighting up of a ~ , .
time delay light signal 58, on the front wall 11 of the machine, said signal bearing an inscription indicating that the bottle ~-has been rejected and that it should be recovered.Notwithstanding ¦
the continuous motion of conveyor 20, the bottles which appear across windows 21 or 51 are stopped either by the elastic member barring window 22 or by friction in loop 55 at the entrance to window 57 so that these bottles can be recovered by their owner. The restraining force of the elastic member which may be eclipsed as well as the shape of loop 55 are chosen so that the bottles which appear on the part of conveyor . I
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- - 10857~5 20 which is external to the machine remain immobilized as long as their number is lower than a predetermined number .'whereas the arrival of an additional bottle, for example, the fifth one, causes the penetration, one by one, inside the machine, of the non-deposit bottles not retrieved by their owner, said bottles being then sent on, through channel 36 or side 54 of channel 47, towards receptacle b'.
A strip 60, fastened to the front wall 11 of the machine between the entrance station and the exit window of the auxiliary conveyor 20, facilitates the handling of the bottles.
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Claims (8)
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A bottle deposit refund machine comprising an identification system by shape recognition for the different bottles it receives, a carrier of said bottles between an entrance station in the machine and an exit station which is not accessible to the public, after passage in front of said identification system, as well as a mechanism for the distribution of a receipt corresponding to the number and type of different deposit bottles introduced into the machine, said machine comprising a means associated to the identification system which enables to return to the operator of the machine a non-deposit bottle introduced by mistake into the machine, said means inducing the transfer of the non-deposit bottles from said carrier to an auxiliary conveyor, at least one part of which is accessible to the public on a face of the machine.
2. A machine according to Claim 1, wherein said non-deposit bottles, if not removed from the auxiliary conveyor on said face of the machine, are transferred by means of said auxiliary conveyor to a stocking means.
3. A machine according to Claim 1, wherein means for transferring non-deposit bottles from the carrier onto the auxiliary conveyor is an ejector controlled by the identification system by shape recognition of the bottles and which pushes the non-deposit bottles transversely relatively to the motion of the carrier.
4. A machine according to Claim 1, characterized in that the auxiliary conveyor crosses the face of the machine accessible to the public through two windows of which the entrance window into the machine is set up so as to prevent the evacuation of non-deposit bottles as long as the number of bottles appearing between the two windows is lower than a predetermined value.
5. A machine according to Claim 3, characterized in that the entrance window into the machine is barred by an elastic member which may become eclipsed.
6. A machine according to Claim 3, characterized in that the auxiliary conveyor consists of two tangent circular plates rotating in opposite directions around vertical axes and of a guiding channel having on the face of the machine accessible to the public, a part which is eccentric with respect to the axis of rotation of the plate appearing between the two windows.
7. A machine according to Claim 2 characterized in that the auxiliary conveyor is provided with guiding means directing the non-deposit bottles not recovered by their owner, after presentation on the face of the machine accessible to the public, towards a receptacle or similar con-tainer distinct from that which collects deposit bottles sent on by the carrier.
8. A machine according to Claim 1 characterized in that it com-prises on the face of the machine accessible to the public, a time-delay light signal which is made operative upon actuation of the means for trans-ferring the non-deposit bottles of the carrier onto the auxiliary conveyor.
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