DD294408A5 - COLLECTING AND SORTING DEVICE FOR BUDGET WASTE - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a collection and sorting device for household waste, which can be accommodated in an existing kitchen equipment, preferably below the spout, and in which the resulting household waste is divided into at least four fractions. In such a device according to the invention it is provided that it consists of two containers (4, 5) of roughly parallelepiped shape whose height is smaller than the diagonal of their base. The lower container (4) is open at its end face facing the furniture door (20), the upper container (5) is open at the top in the manner of a storage tray. Two juxtaposed, with Moebeltuere closed above the upper container befindele Kuebel (6, 8) are removably attached to the Moebeltuere (20), z. B. eingaengt. Fig. 1 {collecting and sorting device; Household waste; Kitchen equipment; Kitchen sink; Container; Tray; Bucket; Moebeltuer}

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Field of application of the invention

The invention relates to a collecting and sorting device for household waste, which can be accommodated in an existing, provided with a door kitchen furniture, preferably below a sink, and in which the resulting household waste is divisible into at least four fractions.

Characteristic of the known state of the art

At present, around 1,700,000 t of domestic waste per year is rising in Austria, and the number of used substances - generally and with annual fluctuations - is increasing.

The collective result of existing substances for the year 1988 can be seen from the table, which contains all existing substances, which can be sensibly collected from a technical and economic point of view. There are also organic waste. Possible advances in plastics recycling can make a plastic collection economically sensible in the future.

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Collected quantity 1988 (in tonnes)

clustering result Sammf Altstoffgruppe 127091 paper 97800 Glass 8058 Textile 1790 metal 4218 miscellaneous 238957 total

The composition of household waste is different from household to household, as well as seasonal, the following tables (Univ.Doz.Dr.Vogel, Waste Collection Vienna) can thus only averages zur züen.

-2- 294 Table II Composition of household waste

weight substance group volume percentage percentage 27 paper 40 • 23 organ. scraps 12 11 Glass 5 6 plastics 19 8th metals 10 8th . textiles 8th 2 Wood 2 15 Mineral. scraps 4

Paper, organic waste, glass and metals account for around 70% of household waste. A comparison with the collection result

1988 shows that the previous collection results could be increased by 100% (waste glass) to 300% (waste paper), much more even with metals. The potential for additional waste to be collected can be estimated at 1 billion schillings a year, so this amount is still "thrown away" by the households, although a separate collection for

Old paper, glass and metals in Austria is set up nationwide. For the reasons mentioned above, especially in recent years, devices for collecting and separating waste are all Art have become widely known. Thus, DE-OS 3510472 sine device for separating waste disposal, which realizes the basic idea, the separation of

to carry out different waste as directly as possible at the site of the seizure, since the segregation can be carried out cost-effectively and completely when seizure.

The device that proposes this document has the form of a mobile furniture and is therefore for households

not suitable.

From DE-PS 3516547 a waste collector is known which can be installed in a kitchen furniture, wherein it is in a support frame

hangs, which can be pulled out of the furniture and with control strips on the furniture or the support frame when pulling out of the

Waste container whose lid automatically lift and release two successively arranged standing waste container. These Construction has the disadvantage that when installed in a kitchen furniture, the door before each use of the two Waste container swung by at least 90 ° and then the support frame must be extended from the furniture. Practically appears in this waste bin, that the lid automatically lifts off when extending the support frame, but

This construction tends to get stuck in rough kitchen operation. Furthermore, you need through the extractor one

Kitchen furniture of certain width, z. B. a cabinet, which is completely filled. For existing kitchen furniture !,

especially the cabinet with the sink and thus with the siphon, this device is completely unsuitable. ,

From DE-OS 37 20817 a device is known, in derzwei waste collection container side by side in a cabinet, for. B.

a kitchen device are provided which pivot when opening the cabinet door forward, automatically the

Container lid rises. This device makes it possible to divide the waste into two or three fractions, with a cuboid container for each fraction

is provided, whose largest dimension is the height.

Due to the pivot and lid opening mechanism, this device is also prone to failure, expensive to manufacture, Assembly and adjustment and also requires a lot of space. From DE-AS 3038170 it is known under the sink of a kitchen furniture through a recess of the furniture floor

Provide protruding manure bucket to increase the volume of the manure bucket. A garbage sorting is not provided.

From DE-OS 3630336 it is known a garbage can with a cross-shaped subdivision below a sink in a Kitchen box to provide an extendable plate, wherein wound up in the low space in the area of the siphon Garbage bags are provided, with which the einolnen compartments of the garbage can be lined. Even with this device, when installed in an existing element, the box door must be opened more than 90 degrees

before the bin can be extended. In an embodiment shown in the figure, a pseudo door is attached to the extendable plate and drives out with the garbage bin, which has the disadvantage that the garbage can be difficult from their

Place to remove is when it must be evacuated. Another major disadvantage of this device is that from the garbage can either only the full bag - the only

bad to transport is - is removed or that the unfilled compartments must be transported.

Another significant disadvantage is that arise through the cross-shaped subdivision of the garbage bin compartments whose height Multiple of their area diagonal is. For example, it is impossible to use a manure scoop in such tubular compartments

Empty without waste in the neighboring compartments. This bin is also completely unsuitable for paper, as no

It is possible to adapt the individual compartments to the substance to be collected. From DE-OS 3435666 a waste collection and sorting system in the form of a drawer box is known in which either

a separate furniture is needed or in which after opening the box door nor the right drawer is pulled out, as an additional disadvantage, there is no way to collect the individual containers to the in them

Abfallstoffa / adapt. ' A Schublaaenförmiges Müllaufbewahrungs- and separation vessel is also known from DE-OS 3712435. It is in this Container provided, the drawers with two, only half the drawer area, but about 2 to 3 times drawer height

Combining containers to accommodate bulky or not well stored flat trash. This vessel is not suitable for the practice because of its size.

From DE-OS 3542 252 a piece of furniture is known which contains a variety of shop and inserts, the length of the dresser

up to 1,20m, the height is about 70cm and the depth is about 39cm. Although this dresser on the different

The needs of individual households is adaptable and can accommodate up to twelve types of waste, but it has significant disadvantages. It is impossible to accommodate such a piece of furniture in the kitchen, the traditional place for the manure bucket, and even when building a new kitchen, nobody will sacrifice such a large space for a garbage collection system. From DE-OS 3502467 a Müllsortenbox is known in which a round or square refuse container is divided into a star shape. Also, this container has the disadvantage that either half full compartments must be transported when one of the compartments is full or that inevitably garbage bags must be used, in addition, the individual compartments have a compared to their cross-sectional area too high a height to practice to be usable. Finally, from EP-A 20275495 a waste collection device for a built-in sink is known, in which a rotatable container is permanently installed under the sink and is fed through a corresponding opening in the sink with waste. The garbage container itself is round and is turned like a carousel, with each of the desired section comes under the opening. This device is extremely expensive and unsuitable for retrofitting, as in the sink surface, which is usually made of stainless steel, appropriate openings and approaches must be appropriate.

Explanation of the essence of the invention It is the object of the invention compared with the known prior art to provide a waste collection and separation system which

in the usual place of the manure bucket in a kitchen furniture below the sink place takes place thereby on the usual, with the

Garbage-related, habits in the home account. According to the invention it is proposed that in a device of the type defined above two superimposed

arranged, are provided substantially cuboidal container whose height is smaller than the diagonal of its base, the lower container is open at its door facing the furniture door and the upper container in the manner of a

Tray is designed to be open at the top, and that further two juxtaposed, with closed furniture door

arranged above the upper container, preferably in a known manner each having a rectangular base surface and removably attached to the furniture door, z. B. hinged, buckets are provided.

The inventive measures a number of advantages is achieved: So it is, as experiments have shown

possible to accommodate this device in a kitchen furniture under the sink, whereby the space below the siphon of the sink can be used at least from the bottom, lying directly on the furniture bottom container.

The lower container is preferably used for collecting bottles and / or cans, preferably one of User inserted at a selected location by him vertical partition plate separates the two types of waste. The upper container is advantageously used for collecting paper, which is easy to incorporate its shell shape and

can be seen. These two containers are in the kitchen furniture at the otherwise occupied by the trash can body.

In addition there are the two tubs attached to the door, one for fruit and vegetable waste and others

Compostable materials, the other is intended for non-recyclable waste. Although this residual waste container is slightly smaller than a manure bucket usually housed in the kitchen, the light and clear separation of the

Garbage with the available volume of the residual waste container longer Auslangen found than without Voroortieren

with the usual manure bucket. Fittingly, the diagonal of the filling opening of the residual waste container is longer than one in the

Household conventional sweeping scoop to allow easy emptying of such a blade. In a preferred Variant j is provided that the lying on the lower container or in one piece with this

formed upper, open-topped container has a base area that exceeds the paper size A4 at least slightly, and that preferably this paper collection container at three edges of its upper side projections or profiles for attachable dachshund, wherein on one of the narrow sides of this container a mounting bracket is provided.

This makes it possible to collect the paper collected in the household in the collection container up to the waste paper collection point

transport, eliminating at least one refilling process.

If the device is to be accommodated in a furniture with a low-lying lower siphon end, the upper one is preferred Container provided entirely in front of the siphon transverse, whereby even in this confined space a separation into four Waste fractions is achieved. Preferably, the lower, intended for collecting glass or metal waste container, of a preferably adjustable Divided dividing area, about 12cm high and preferably with a hinged, mounted in the front area Mounting bracket equipped. This ensures on the one hand that the container almost always geschober under the lower end of the Spülsiphons.

On the other hand, it is still possible to accommodate even large cans and even cucumber glasses in it.

By the mounting bracket, the handling of the container is facilitated. In one embodiment of the invention is advantageously provided with sufficiently high siphon that the Base area of the upper container is substantially larger than the paper size A4, and that a subdividing this container,

preferably adjustable partition is provided.

It is of course possible, in addition to the collection containers for compost and residual waste on the furniture door one or more

small, preferably closable collecting container for problem substances, such as batteries or medicines od. Like.

to arrange.

Due to the core idea of the invention, it becomes possible, as in the usual waste tub about 10 to 15I in total four to

to collect five times the volume of waste, without the need for additional control or cabinet surface, in addition to the

Waste is sorted. It is this result by & o more surprising than the inventive system compared to the Suggestions of the prior art is cheap and easy. Ausführungsbelsplel The invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the drawing Fig. 1: a device according to the invention in a kitchen furniture below the sink, the Fig. 2: a section along the line INI of Fig. 1, the

and Fig. 6 show containers according to the invention located at the bottom of the cabinet

Fig. 5: shows a detail and the Fig. 7: a test arrangement. According to the invention are in a kitchen furniture 1, lying below the sink 2 at the bottom of the cabinet 1, two superimposed

arranged, approximately cuboid-shaped container 4.5 provided. Both containers have on their side facing the door 20 of the furniture hinged handle 9. It is also possible to carry out the containers in one piece and to provide only one handle.

The lower container 4 extends below the lower end 3 of the siphon of the sink 2 to the rear almost to the rear furniture wall. The Container 4 is open only at the front and serves to hold glass and / or metal waste, such as bottles, Preserving jars, tin cans, etc. Variants dos lower container are shown in Figures 3, 4 and 6. In this case, a vertical partition 10 is preferred

provided by the user of the device at a location in the container 4,14,24 attached, z. B. can be inserted, which is consistent with his garbage attack.

In Fig. 5 a possible embodiment of the walls of the lower container is shown, which is a slight adjustment of the partition 10th

allows.

The upper container is shown in Fig. 1 with shallow depth as the lower container, which makes it possible even before

to arrange lower end 3 of the siphon. The measurement of a larger number of kitchen furniture has shown that in almost all kitchens, in front of the lower end 3 of the siphon is enough space to accommodate a paper collection container, in which the A4 format has transverse space comfortably. The upper container 5, 25 shown in Figures 3 and β is for such

Room situation provided. In this case, the container 5 is much wider than the format A4 in the longitudinal direction, which makes it possible

is, by means of a, preferably adjustable, vertical partition wall 10 to divide a collecting tank Sa, in the example, plastic waste or aluminum etc. can be collected.

For kitchen furniture, which has only a very limited width, the container is provided according to Fig.β, which allows Paper in A4 format can be conveniently placed in the upper container 25, leaving no room for additional space

upper container is provided.

In a large number of kitchen furniture, the lower end 3 of the siphon is so high that it is possible, an upper Provide container 15, which reaches as far back as the lower container 4. It can then, for example, two A4 · Formats are stored side by side in the longitudinal direction, which may still have room for 'compartments Plastic collection container remains. Also in this case, a partition wall 10 is preferred, as shown in Fig.5,

provided removable.

Preferred heights for the two shelves 4, 5 are in the range of 12 to 14cm, as these heights accommodate

allow large-volume cans or glass jars in the lower container with good utilization of the free height and on the other hand allow it to collect in the paper collection container a sufficiently large amount of paper and store. It remains at an overall height of about 25 to 28cm for the two shelves 4.5 enough height below the sink 2 to

Available to provide in this free space container 6,8 on the furniture door 20. As already stated, on the furniture door 20 by means of a frame or a holder 7 two juxtaposed Waste bins 6, 8 are provided, which are provided for the compostable waste and residual waste. These two containers

can be common trash can, taking only the available residual height to take care, but it has been shown that with a bucket height of about 22cm not only in all cakes an accommodation is possible, but it is thus enough room door These two fractions of household waste are available at the usual intervals of household waste

To be able to comply with waste emptying. It is of course possible to cover one or both of these buckets coverable, where it may be advantageous to Covers, as known, automatically opening, provide. The invention can be variously varied and modified. So it is possible, for example, the container with 4.5 To provide roles to facilitate removal and insertion. It is of course possible on the Floor of the furniture or on top of the lower container guide rails to arrange. The upper container can with

be provided a clip-on cover, which facilitates the transport of the paper from the furniture to the collection. The size design of the bucket 6,8 is advantageously chosen so that a conventional Haushaltskehrrichtschaufel can be emptied easily on the diagonal of the bucket, without the risk of Danebenleerens. To this

Purpose, at least one of the two buckets have an upwardly widening horizontal cross-section, as in Fig. 12 is shown. As already stated, in addition to the two buckets 6,8 on the door of the furniture 1 more small, possibly

lockable container 19 for receiving, for example, hazardous waste, such as medicines, batteries, etc. may be provided.

In summary, it can be said that the invention makes it possible to reduce household waste in at least four, Separate factions without having to change the habits of household members when collecting garbage and

without, that for the collecting and separating device a special or additional space must be available.

For the production of the various containers, it is possible to use a large number of materials. Prefers

the containers 4,14,24,5,15,25 are made of plastic, but it is, as shown in Fig. 7, also possible, this

To produce containers of wire.

The buckets β, 8 are preferably also made of plastic, but also the use of metal is possible. The attachment of the bucket 6,8 to the furniture door 20 can be done by means of a frame 7, but it is also conceivable to provide the bucket with a special bar, which cooperates with a holder on the furniture door. In the figures, the containers were shown in sharp-edged, but it depends on the particular material and manufacturing process, whether and how the edges are rounded. The handles 9 of the containers 14, 15 shown in FIG. 4 may, of course, be arranged differently or designed to be removable.

For furniture with a higher height or high siphon end 3, it is of course possible to provide a third shelf between the containers 4 and 5, for example, to be able to collect more glass or metal waste. The invention provides the teaching for such action at hand.

Claims (5)

1. Collection and sorting device for household waste, which is housed in an existing, provided with a door kitchen furniture, preferably below a sink, and in which the resulting household waste is divisible into at least four fractions, characterized in that two superposed, essentially cuboidal containers (4, 5, 14, 15; 24, 25) are provided whose height is smaller than the diagonal of their base surface, the lower container (4; 14; 24) being open at its end face facing the furniture door (20) and the upper container (5; 15; 25) is designed to be open at the top, and that two adjacent, arranged with closed furniture door above the upper container (5; 15; 25), preferably in a known manner each having a rectangular base surface and on the furniture door (20) detachably fastened, z. B. hinged, buckets (6.8) are provided. 2. collecting and sorting device according to claim 1, characterized in that on the lower container (4; 14; 24) lying or integrally formed with this upper, upwardly open container (5; 15; 25) has a base surface which at least slightly exceeds the paper size A4, and that preferably this paper collection container (5; 15; 25) has projections or profiles for an attachable cover at three edges of its upper side, wherein on one of the narrow sides of this container a support bracket (9) is provided. 3. collecting and sorting device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the upper container (5; 25) is disposed entirely transverse to the siphon (3). 4. collecting and sorting device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the lower, provided for collecting glass or metal waste, in particular of a preferably adjustable separating surface (10) divided container (4; 14; 24), about 12cm high and preferably with a hinged, mounted in the region of its front support bracket (9) is equipped. 5. collecting and sorting device according to one of claims 1 or 4, characterized in that the base surface of the upper container (5; 15; 25) is substantially larger than the paper size A4, and that a partition dividing this, preferably adjustable partition (10 ) is provided.