EP0396546A1 - Sorting pneumatically conveyed material. - Google Patents
Sorting pneumatically conveyed material.Info
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- EP0396546A1 EP0396546A1 EP88907557A EP88907557A EP0396546A1 EP 0396546 A1 EP0396546 A1 EP 0396546A1 EP 88907557 A EP88907557 A EP 88907557A EP 88907557 A EP88907557 A EP 88907557A EP 0396546 A1 EP0396546 A1 EP 0396546A1
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Classifications
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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
- B07C5/363—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution by means of air
- B07C5/365—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution by means of air using a single separation means
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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
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Definitions
- This invention relates to the sorting of pneumatically conveyed material, particularly but not exclusively loose fibrous material such as scoured wool, for example to separate urine stained or otherwise soiled tufts from the bulk of acceptable wool.
- the wool processing industry presently employs essentially manual techniques to separate out urine stained and otherwise soiled wool, and larger discrete contaminants such as baling twine, after the raw product has been scoured.
- This manual approach is presently labor intensive and it would be desirable to introduce a degree of automation.
- a mass of wool at this stage comprises tufts of many shapes and sizes, a number of which are loosely intertwined with each other.
- optical sorting has been proposed and employed in connection with a range of different products, the intertwining and size variation of these wool tufts has thus far rendered such an approach for wool either unsuitable or of very low productivity.
- Optical sorting arrangements are described, inter alia, in United States Patents 3382975 and 3914601, in European Patent publication 45576 and in an article by Farsaie et al in 1981 Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers at page 1372.
- a common feature of these systems is that the observed articles are singulated and move along a predictable path, for example on a conveyor or by being dropped under gravity down a transparent tube.
- a liquid may be employed as a transport medium, such as with the potatoes of U.S. Patent 3382975.
- Optically sorted articles to date have been solid and of a substantially predictable size and shape, and are in a substantially predictable position. The actual separation of the unacceptable articles is facilitated by their singulation in a stream of articles, and may be achieved. for example, by a transverse pulse of air.
- the invention provides, in a first aspect, apparatus for sorting material, for example, fibrous material, as it is pneumatically conveyed in a gas stream, wherein the material includes portions of darker or lighter shade to be sorted variably disposed across the stream as the material travels with the stream, the apparatus comprising: means defining a duct for the gas stream; a monitoring station for illuminating the material as it passes the station in the duct, and for monitoring the intensity of light reflected by the material; a lateral opening in said duct; and means responsive to a predetermined change in said intensity caused by a portion of said material of darker or lighter shade to deflect such portion through said lateral opening; wherein said monitoring station comprises an array of substantially monochromatic light sources arranged to illuminate the interior of the duct through a
- the material is a loose fibrous material such as wool which is entrained in the gas stream as a sequence of tufts.
- Other materials to which the invention may be applied include particulate materials such as wheat and rice which are of a density which permits pneumatic conveyance and are not unduly susceptible to damage during such conveyance, e.g. by bruising.
- the arrangement according to the first aspect of the invention relies upon the fact that urine, faeces or other staining, or other contamination, will be evidenced by a portion or region of off-white or dark colouring in the wool.
- the detector means may include a photosensitive detector, means to shield the detector from said light sources, and, arranged about said detector, light integrating means to focus said reflected light to said detector.
- a further monitoring station is advantageously displaced along the duct from the first mentioned monitoring station, the two stations being on opposite sides of the duct.
- the invention further provides, in a second aspect, apparatus for sorting material, for example, fibrous material, as it is pneumatically conveyed in a gas stream, wherein the material includes portions to be sorted variably disposed across the stream as the material travels with the stream, the apparatus comprising: means defining a duct for the gas stream; a monitoring station for monitoring a parameter of the material as it passes the station in the duct; a lateral opening in the duct; a chamber in communication with the interior of the duct via said lateral opening therein but otherwise substantially gastight; and means responsive to a predetermined change in said monitored parameter caused by any one of said portions of said material to discharge a gas pulse transversely of the duct, said pulse being timed and said pulse discharging means and lateral opening being positioned so that said pulse deflects said one portion of said material through said lateral opening into said chamber; wherein said opening extends across substantially the full width of the duct an is dimensioned to be large enough to accept portions of said material deflected by said
- the gastight chamber advantageously includes baffle or other means in the chamber to direct material deflected into the chamber to a collection zone, and means such as a double door gaslock system for periodically or continuously emptying said chamber of its contents without disturbing the gas stream in said duct.
- the chamber should provide a large enough space to allow the forces associated with the pulse of gas to be dissipated in the chamber without disturbing the flow of material, other than the material to be deflected, along the duct and without creating sufficient turbulence in the chamber to cause any deflected wool to re-enter the duct.
- the profile of the downstream edge of said opening should preferably be rounded in order to facilitate immediate shedding of any stringy tufts which could occasionally and/or inadvertently become wrapped around this edge.
- the entraining gas stream is preferably air and the gas pulse is preferably a pulse of compressed air.
- a third aspect of the invention is concerned with the entraining of loose fibrous material such as wool in a gas stream for a purpose such as sorting in accordance with the first or second aspect of the invention. That purpose is facilitated if the wool tufts are substantially singulated, i.e. essentially travel along the duct in single file.
- the dimensions of the duct are preferably selected to just receive the largest tufts normally formed at the stage of processing involved, typically after scouring and when the wool passes through a lattice feeder. It is found that a duct which meets this requirement, e.g. a duct with a rectangular cross-section of about 90 x 160 mm, has a maximum throughput of 150 to 200 kg of wool per hour.
- the invention accordingly further provides, in its third aspect, a duct segment, e.g. a duct junction, for incorporation in a pneumatic conveyance system for loose fibrous material such as wool, wherein the interior of the segment is provided with a rotati ⁇ nally mounted roller which extends transversely to the direction of material flow and is inclined to rotate in favour of any weight imbalance of wool lodged on the roller.
- a duct segment e.g. a duct junction
- means is provided to positively oscillate the roller to dislodge any fibrous material which lodges thereon.
- Figure 1 is a schematic axial cross-section of apparatus constructed in accordance with all three aspects of the invention.
- FIG. 2 is an enlargement of the portion A of Figure 1;
- Figure 3 is an enlarged cross-section on the line 3-3 in Figure 2;
- Figures 4, 5 and 6 are cross-sections on the respective lines 4-4, 5-5 and 6-6 in Figure 1 or 2.
- the illustrated apparatus 10 was designed for the sorting of stained or otherwise contaminated product from the wool output by a scouring machine.
- the apparatus includes several ducts 12 along which the wool is pneumatically conveyed in substantially singulated tufts.
- the wool output by the scouring machine is entrained in an air stream travelling along a primary duct 11 which is divided to form secondary ducts 12 by a series of duct branching junctions, one of which is shown at 14.
- Each secondary duct 12 is fitted with one or more sorters 16.
- Each of the ducts 12 is conveniently of rectangular cross-section dimensioned to just admit the largest typical tufts of the wool and thus to facilitate the aforementioned singulation.
- a convenient cross-section for admitting and processing an optimum range of wools is ' found to be 90 x 160mm.
- a rectangular cross-section is - * -
- the resultant narrow section is easier to optically inspect. There is less likelihood of screening of one tuft by another, and the wool is more spread out.
- the ejection distance is a minimum for the whole width of the duct.
- Each sorter 16 includes a pair of monitoring stations 18, 19, one or more compressed air nozzles 20 located downstream of stations 18, 19 for directing one or more respective pulses 35 of compressed air transversely downwardly across the interior of duct 12, and, generally opposite but extending downstream from the location of nozzles 20, a lateral rectangular opening 22 into an otherwise substantially gastight chamber 24 adjacent and indeed immediately under duct 12.
- Monitoring stations 18, 19 are advantageously a co-operating optical arrangement for monitoring the whiteness of the travelling wool and are arranged to inspect the contents of the duct from opposite sides. To achieve high performance, and notwithstanding the substantial singulation of the tufts of wool in the ducts, it is desirable to have more than one optical detector for each duct for those cases where contamination is predominantly evident from only one direction.
- Each monitoring station includes a pair of axially separated arrays 25a, 25b of substantially monochromatic light sources 26, typically light emitting diodes and most satisfactorily green or blue light emitting diodes, arranged to diffusely illuminate the interior of the duct through a transparent window 27 on the wide dimension of the duct.
- These arrays 25a, 25b are disposed so as to uniformly illuminate the area centrally behind the window and to minimise their influence on the opposite monitoring station.
- the arrays 25a, 25b are substantially identical: a representative elevational view of array 25a is to be found in Figure 3.
- Diodes 26 are located in holes 40 arranged in offset rows at equispaced intervals in a respective 160 X 70 X 6 mm flat plate 42 of opal perspex for each array.
- Green or blue light sources are employed to optimise the contrast between unstained and stained wool.
- the interior walls of the duct opposite and adjacent each window 27 are white, thereby placing the acceptable white wool against a white background.
- the aim is to minimise the range of white wool signals ("noise") as much as possible so that (a) signals from stained clumps mostly exceed the dark-side envelope of the white wool noise and (b) when a white and a stained clump are viewed simultaneously, any light signal from the white wool is less likely to swamp that of the stained wool.
- a photosensitive detector 28 with the aid of a surrounding semi-elliptical mirror 29, or other suitable integrating light collecting arrangement 29, in a light-sealed cavity 31 defined by side walls 33 and mirror 29, monitors the light reflected from the illuminated zone of the duct.
- the mirror produces a substantially constant signal for a uniformly coloured tuft irrespective of its trajectory along the duct.
- the detector 28 is of course shielded against direct receipt of light from diodes 26 and is located at one of the foci of the elliptical mirror. If the intensity of the detected integrated light falls below a predetermined threshold, a darkened tuft of wool is considered to have passed and should be ejected from the duct.
- monitoring stations 18, 19 are offset from each other along the duct so as to minimise optical interference with each other, and are separated by an internally blackened duct portion 30.
- the monitoring stations and associated transparent window sections 27 of duct are also shielded to eliminate ambient light.
- the sorter is arranged to respond, by control circuitry not shown, to a change in the detected intensity level to a value below the predetermined threshold by actuating nozzles 20.
- the compressed air pulses 35 are timed and positioned so as to strike the tuft which caused the reduction of intensity and to deflect it through opening 22 into chamber 24.
- the typical trajectory of such a tuft is shown by a broken lines 32 in Figure 1.
- the opening 22 should extend substantially the full width of duct 12 and be dimensioned longitudinally of the duct so as to be large enough to accept any tuft deflected by the compressed air pulses, from any transverse position in the duct, but not large enough to inadvertently capture other material entrained in the air stream but not struck by an air pulse from nozzles 20.
- Chamber 20 also serves to dissipate the forces associated with the pulses of compressed air without disturbing the flow of acceptable wool along the duct or creating such disturbance in the bottom of the chamber as to cause rejected wool to reenter the duct.
- the rejected contaminated wool which collects in chamber 24 is readily recovered from the chamber by a suitable air lock valve such as rotary valve 34.
- the profile of the downstream edge 23 of opening 22 is rounded, at least hemi-cylindrical, in order to facilitate immediate shedding of any stringy tufts which could occasionally and/or inadvertently become wrapped around this edge.
- the air stream in duct 12 would travel at about 16m/sec.
- the entrained wool is transported at about lOm/sec depending on tuft size.
- the actuating nozzles would typically be supplied with compressed air at 700Kpa pressure.
- the duration of the pulses at full force is typically 30 msec but this may be extended by the control circuit as the size of the detected clump increases.
- the response time of the air valves in turning on should be 10 msec or less; the shorter this time is, the closer may nozzles 20 be to the monitoring stations to minimise the adverse effects of the wool tufts travelling at different velocities. This separation may be as little as 80 mm.
- a dividing edge 15 at duct junction 14 would normally provide an ideal edge to snag the long stringy segments which are typical of scoured wool. In a very short time, this snagged wool would matt across the duct with other tufts and completely block one or both ducts.
- this dividing edge 15 is fitted with a rotatable roller 40. The roller is disposed in a funnel-like duct segment which is of enlarged cross-section relative to each of the downstream ducts 12, indeed relative to the sum of the cross-sections of ducts 12.
- Roller 40 need not be driven but should be freely and smoothly rotatable so that the roller will tend to begin spinning as soon as it snags travelling wool and there is any resultant imbalance of weight on one side or the other of the roller. Such an imbalance would generally be inevitable and the subsequent spinning action is found to be sufficient to shed the snagged wool before any significant matting across one or both ducts has occurred. In some cases, especially if the throughput rate is very high, it may be desirable to positively and continuously oscillate the roller by means of an external drive to ensure shedding of snagged wool. It is also helpful for the roller width to occupy only a small proportion of the duct cross-section at the junction, as clearly seen in Figure 6.
- an oscillatable or oscillated roller such as roller 40 need not be immediately in advance of a dividing edge but may be employed to divide a stream within a single duct into separated flows of wool to either side of the duct.
- a roller may also be provided at the downstream edge 23 of ejection opening 22.
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- Treatment Of Fiber Materials (AREA)
Abstract
L'appareil décrit, qui sert à trier un matériau, par exemple fibreux, pendant qu'il est transporté pneumatiquement dans un courant de gaz, comprend un conduit (12) pour le courant de gaz et une station de contrôle (18, 19) servant à éclairer le matériau pendant son passage dans le conduit et à contrôler l'intensité de la lumière réfléchie par le matériau. Une ouverture latérale (22) est ménagée dans le conduit et un organe (20) réagissant à une variation prédéterminée de l'intensité causée par une partie du matériau ayant une nuance plus sombre ou plus claire, sert à dévier cette partie à travers l'ouverture latérale (22). La station de contrôle (18, 19) comprend un réseau (25a, 25b) de sources lumineuses sensiblement monochromatiques (26), destinées à éclairer l'intérieur du conduit à travers une fenêtre transparente (27) ménagée dans le conduit permettant ainsi un éclairage diffus sensiblement uniforme du matériau passant dans le conduit, et un détecteur (28) réagissant à une modification de l'intensité de la lumière réfléchie due au passage d'une partie du matériau ayant une nuance plus sombre ou plus claire, de façon à produire un signal de sortie qui reflète cette modification. Dans une autre construction, n'importe quel paramètre du matériau peut être contrôlé et un organe (26), qui réagit à une modification prédéterminée du paramètre contrôlé causée par n'importe quelles parties spécifiques du matériau, émet un jet de gaz transversalement au conduit. Le jet est synchronisé et positionné de façon à dévier la partie du matériau à travers l'ouverture latérale (22). L'ouverture (22) s'étend sensiblement à travers toute la largeur du conduit (12) et est suffisamment grande pour accepter les parties du matériau déviées par le jet de gaz mais pas suffisamment grande pour laisser passer d'autres parties du matériau en l'absence de jet.The apparatus described, which is used to sort a material, for example fibrous material, while it is pneumatically transported in a gas stream, comprises a conduit (12) for the gas stream and a control station (18, 19) used to illuminate the material as it passes through the conduit and to control the intensity of the light reflected by the material. A lateral opening (22) is provided in the duct and a member (20) reacting to a predetermined variation in the intensity caused by a part of the material having a darker or lighter shade, serves to deflect this part through the lateral opening (22). The control station (18, 19) comprises a network (25a, 25b) of substantially monochromatic light sources (26), intended to illuminate the interior of the duct through a transparent window (27) formed in the duct thus allowing lighting substantially uniform diffuse of the material passing through the conduit, and a detector (28) reacting to a change in the intensity of the reflected light due to the passage of a part of the material having a darker or lighter shade, so as to produce an output signal that reflects this change. In another construction, any parameter of the material can be controlled and a member (26), which reacts to a predetermined change in the controlled parameter caused by any specific parts of the material, emits a jet of gas transverse to the conduit . The jet is synchronized and positioned so as to deflect the part of the material through the lateral opening (22). The opening (22) extends substantially across the entire width of the conduit (12) and is large enough to accept the parts of the material deflected by the gas jet but not large enough to allow other parts of the material to pass through. no spray.
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