CA2777133A1 - Disk feeder for feeding used objects - Google Patents

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CA2777133A1
CA2777133A1 CA2777133A CA2777133A CA2777133A1 CA 2777133 A1 CA2777133 A1 CA 2777133A1 CA 2777133 A CA2777133 A CA 2777133A CA 2777133 A CA2777133 A CA 2777133A CA 2777133 A1 CA2777133 A1 CA 2777133A1
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Henrik Juhl Petersen
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/36—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/02—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors
    • B65G47/04—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles
    • B65G47/12—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles
    • B65G47/14—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
    • B65G47/1407—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding the articles being fed from a container, e.g. a bowl
    • B65G47/1442—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding the articles being fed from a container, e.g. a bowl by means of movement of the bottom or a part of the wall of the container
    • B65G47/1457—Rotating movement in the plane of the rotating part
    • B65G47/1464—Rotating movement in the plane of the rotating part using the centrifugal effect to arrange or orientate the articles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
    • G07F11/005—Special arrangements for insuring that only one single article may be dispensed at a time
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
    • G07F11/02—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines
    • G07F11/38—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which the magazines are horizontal
    • G07F11/42—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which the magazines are horizontal the articles being delivered by motor-driven means
    • 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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  • Feeding Of Articles To Conveyors (AREA)
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Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for feeding objects, such as used beverage containers, to a recording and/or sorting unit, comprising receiving means (21, 22, 23, 6, 3) and at least one feeding conveyor (2), wherein the objects are supplied on the receiving means (21, 22, 23, 6, 3) and forwarded one by one with a predetermined orientation to the at least one feeding conveyor (2).

Claims (49)

1. An apparatus for feeding objects, such as used beverage containers, to a recording and/or sorting unit, which apparatus comprises receiving means and at least one feeding conveyor (2,102), which objects (1) are supplied on the receiving means and forwarded one by one with a predetermined orientation to the feeding conveyor (2,102), characterised in that the receiving means comprises at least one receiving surface (3,103), the receiving means comprises a peripheral barrier (6,109) essentially circumscribing at least a portion of said at least one receiving surface (3,103), wherein the peripheral barrier (6,109) at least in one section forms an arc, the receiving means comprises a conveyor system (21-24,103-106) for moving the objects (1) along the are, which peripheral barrier (6;109) comprises an opening towards the feeding conveyor (2,102), through which opening objects are delivered one by one to the feeding conveyor (2,102).
2. An apparatus for feeding objects according to claim 1, wherein the conveyor system (21-24,103-106) comprises a curved conveyor.
3. An apparatus for feeding objects according to claim 2, wherein the curved conveyor substantially follows the are formed by the peripheral barrier (6.109) in the at least in one section that forms an are.
4. An apparatus for feeding objects according one of the claims 1-3, wherein the are is a circular arc.
5. An apparatus for feeding objects according to one of the claims 1-4, wherein the predetermined orientation is substantially in the longitudinal direction of the objects.
6. An apparatus for feeding objects according to claim 4, wherein the circular arc of the curvature is between 30° and 270°, preferably 150° to 210°.
7. An apparatus for feeding objects according to one of the claims 1-6, wherein the peripheral barrier (6,109) comprises at least one second section that is straight.
8. An apparatus for feeding objects according to claim 6, wherein the conveyor system for moving the objects (1) additionally moves the objects (1) straight along the second section.
9. An apparatus for feeding objects according to one of the claims 1-9, wherein the peripheral barrier (6,109) comprises a peripheral conveyor.
10. An apparatus for feeding objects according to one of the claims 1-10, wherein the conveyor system comprises a roller conveyor and/or a belt conveyor and/or a wire mesh conveyor (104,106).
11. An apparatus according to one of the claims 1-10, wherein the peripheral barrier (6,109) essentially circumscribing at least a portion of said at least one receiving surface (3,103) leaves the periphery open where the substantially tangential feeding conveyor is arranged.
12. An apparatus for feeding objects according to one of the claims 1-11, wherein the at least part of the feeding conveyor (2,102) is inclined in relation to the receiving surface.
13. An apparatus for feeding objects according to one of the claims 1-12, wherein the peripheral barrier (6,109) in the section that forms an are comprises a first part substantially perpendicular to the receiving surface (3,103).
14. An apparatus for feeding objects according to claim 11, wherein the peripheral barrier (6,109) in the section that forms an arc comprises a second part inclined in relation to the first part.
15. An apparatus for feeding objects according to one of the claims 1-14, wherein the feeding conveyor (2,102) is provided substantially tangential relative to the arc.
16. A sorting unit comprising an apparatus for feeding objects, according to one of the claims 1-15.
17. An apparatus for feeding objects according to one of the claims 1-15 wherein the receiving means comprises at least one receiving table comprising:
three or more rotating disks (21-24) wherein peripheries of adjacent rotating disks (21-24) are at least partly overlapping, at least one feeding conveyor (2,102) provided tangential relative to at least one rotat-ing disk (21), and a peripheral barrier (6,109) essentially circumscribing at least a portion of said at least one receiving table.
18. An apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the receiving table(s) comprises four or more, such as five or more, such as six or more rotating disks (21-24).
19. An apparatus according to the claims 17 or 18, wherein a first rotating disk (21-24) is overlapping a second rotating disk by maximum 10% of the diameter of the second disk, such as maximum 20% of the diameter of the second disk, such as maximum 30% of the diameter of the second disk, such as maximum 40% of the diameter of the second disk, such as maximum 50% of the diameter of the second disk.
20. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-19, wherein the centres of the ro-tating disks (21-24) are arranged substantially in line with each other.
21. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-20, wherein at least one point on the periphery of each rotating disks (21-24) are arranged substantially in line.
22. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-21, wherein a tangential feeding conveyor (2,102) is provided substantially to the peripheral part of the rotating disks (21-24).
23. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-22, wherein the rotating disks (21-
24) are rotating mostly in the same plane, such as rotating in the horizontal plane.

24 An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-23 , wherein the conveying direc-tion of the tangential feeding conveyor (2,102) is substantially equal to the tangential direction of rotation of a disk (21-24) where said feeding conveyor (2,102) is located.
25. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-24, wherein the rotating disks (21-24) rotate in the same direction of rotation.
26. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-25, wherein three rotating disks (21-24) are arranged substantially in a triangle with a rotating disk (21-24) located in each corner of said triangle.
27. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-26, wherein at least four of the rotating disks (21-24) are arranged substantially in a rectangle with a rotating disk lo-cated in each corner of said rectangle.
28. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-27, wherein the diameter of the rotating disks (21-24) are substantially alike.
29. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-28, wherein the diameter of at least one of the rotating disk (21-24) is larger than the diameters of the other rotating disks.
30. An apparatus according to one of the claims 17-29, wherein the diameter of the rotating disk (21-24) adjacent to the feeding conveyor is larger than the diameter of the other rotating disks.
31. A method of feeding objects (1), such as used beverage containers, to a recording and/or sorting unit, by supplying the objects (1) on receiving means and forwarding the objects (1) one by one with a predetermined orientation to at least one feeding conveyor (2,102), characterised in that once supplied on the receiving means, the objects (1) are moved in an are by a conveyor system and thereby aligned along a barrier (6,109) circumscribing at least a portion of the are so that the objects (1) are aligned and forwarded to a feeding conveyor (2,102).
32. A method according to claim 31 whereby once supplied on the receiving means, the objects (1) are rotated on at least one rotating disk (21-24) and thereby aligned along a barrier (6,109) circumscribing at least a portion of said at least one delivery disk (21-24) so that the objects are aligned and forwarded on a feeding conveyor (2,102) which is tangentially arranged relative to a rotating disk (21-24).
33. A method according to claim 32, whereby the objects are rotated on at least one of four or more, such as five or more, such as six or more rotating disks (21-24).
34. A method according to claim 32 or 33, whereby objects are moved from one rotat-ing disk (21-24)to an adjacent overlapping rotating disk (21-24) at least partly by means of centrifugal force acting on the objects (1).
35. A method according to one of the claims 32 to 34, whereby objects (1) are trans-ported to and fed to the feeding conveyor (2,102).
36. A method according to one of the claims 32 to 35, whereby objects (1) are trans-ported between rotating disks (21-24) arranged substantially in line.
37. A method according to one of the claims 32 to 360, whereby the rotating disks (21-24) rotate in the same direction of rotation.
38. A method according to one of the claims 32 to 37, whereby objects (1) are fed to the feeding conveyor (2,102) from a rotating disk (21-24) with a diameter that is larger than the diameters of the other rotating disks (21-24).
39. A method according to one of the claims 32 to 38, wherein the at least one feeding conveyor (2,102) is inclined relative to the substantially horizontal receiving table.
40. A method according to one of the claims 32 to 39, wherein the objects (1) enter the feeding conveyor(s) (2,102) through a peripheral opening in the barrier (6,109) cir-cumscribing the receiving table.
41. A method according to one of the claims 32 to 40, wherein feeding conveyors (2,102) are provided tangential relative to all rotating disks (21-24) and wherein the feeding conveyors (2,102) are inclined relative to the substantially horizontal receiving table.
42. A method according to one of the claims 32 to 41, wherein the objects (1) are guided towards the periphery of a rotating disk (21-24) by means of conical inner por-tion of said rotating disk (21-24).
43. A method according to any of the claims 32 to 42, whereby the speed of the feed-ing conveyor(s) (2,102) and/or the speed of the rotating disk(s) (21-24) can be ad-justed.
44. A method according to one of the claims 32 to 43, wherein the objects (1) are maintained in the predetermined orientation by means of a substantially V-shaped transverse cross-section of the feeding conveyor(s) (2,102).
45. A method according to any of claims 32 to 44, whereby at least a part of the ob-jects (1) that are not lying horizontal are detected.
46. A method according to any of claims 32 to 45, whereby at least a part of the ob-jects (1) inclined compared to the longitudinal axis of the feeding conveyor(s) (2,102) are detected.
47. A method according to any of claims 32 to 46, whereby at least a part of the ob-jects (1) inclined compared to the longitudinal axis of the feeding conveyor(s) (2,102) are detected by means of at least one photocell arrangement (16) located at the feeding conveyor(s) (2,102).
48. A method according to claim 47, wherein the photocell arrangement (16) is located below the line of motion of objects at the feeding conveyor(s) (2,102).
49. A method according to any of claims 32 to 48, whereby the speed of at least one feeding conveyor (2,102) and/or rotating disk (21-24) is reduced temporarily when an object (1') inclined compared to the feeding conveyor (2,102) is detected.
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