EP0572841A2 - Dispositif pour récupération bouteilles vides et restitution de la consigne - Google Patents

Dispositif pour récupération bouteilles vides et restitution de la consigne Download PDF

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EP0572841A2
EP0572841A2 EP93107870A EP93107870A EP0572841A2 EP 0572841 A2 EP0572841 A2 EP 0572841A2 EP 93107870 A EP93107870 A EP 93107870A EP 93107870 A EP93107870 A EP 93107870A EP 0572841 A2 EP0572841 A2 EP 0572841A2
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Günther Buch
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    • 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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  • the invention relates to a device for collecting empties bottles of a predetermined type and / or size and for returning deposit, with an input opening for introducing the bottles to be collected, with a collection container arranged behind the input opening, according to length and cross section Dimensions of the bottles to be collected adapted slide-in unit with releasable in a bottle receiving space, axially spaced buttons arranged as a means for recognizing each inserted bottle and with one of these buttons depending on whether a bottle in the slot is recognized as correct or incorrect or locked and otherwise manually operable bottle dropping device and with a deposit return device which is in operative connection with the bottle dropping device.
  • a device of this type is already known from DE-OS 14 74 874. This is a device for accepting packaging, in particular bottles, which compares the typical design features of the items to be accepted with a preset spatial shape by means of buttons which act on the items and, if they match, issues a predetermined deposit.
  • the counterweight hits objects already accumulated in the collecting space and pivots in such a way that the mounting of the transport trough is omitted and this pivots out the object previously picked up by pivoting.
  • the structure of the known device is extremely complicated and therefore complex, but especially in view of the large number of lever mechanisms acting together or depending on one another, they are highly susceptible to failure.
  • the invention is therefore intended to provide a device which is simple in construction and is not susceptible to faults, for collecting reusable deposit bottles of a predetermined type and / or size, and for returning the deposit charge for such empties.
  • the bottle-ejecting device is designed as a drawer which can be moved transversely to a bottle-receiving space into a bottle-ejecting position, in that the pushbuttons act as probe pins projecting into the bottle-receiving space of the insert unit from above, which are guided through recesses on the top of the drawer and resettable against spring force into a position releasing this drawer, that longitudinal slots adjoin the recesses penetrated by the feeler pins, which extend in the direction of the displaceability of the drawer into the bottle-dropping position and whose width is smaller than the thickness of the styli, that each stylus is provided with at least one transverse notch arranged in such a way that the latter stands in the region of the upper recess of the drawer designed as a slide, penetrated by the respective stylus, and its displacement into the bottle n ejection position enables when a bottle received in the slide-in unit corresponds to the type and / or size of
  • the invention is a collection container for accepting a specific type and / or size of empties bottles.
  • a bottle inserted into the insertion unit through the input opening is sensed by mechanical means to determine whether it corresponds to the type or size of bottle intended for acceptance in this device. If a pushed-in bottle is recognized as belonging to the bottle type or size to be received in this device, the detection means release the bottle-ejecting device, which then, operated by hand, mediates the ejection of the bottle recognized as acceptable from the feed unit.
  • the deposit return device is operatively connected to this bottle dropping device and, corresponding to the actuation of the bottle dropping device, ejects the deposit corresponding to the type of bottle received.
  • the means from above into the bottle receiving space of the plug-in unit serve as means for recognizing a bottle that is inserted protruding stylus pins, which are in the position when receiving a bottle to be accepted via the respective slide-in unit, in which the transverse displacement of the drawer provided with recesses on the top and subsequent longitudinal slots in the direction of displacement into the bottle-ejecting position is possible.
  • the edges of the longitudinal slots engage in the transverse notches of the styli.
  • the invention relates to a device for bottle return and deposit refund which is extremely simple in construction and is not susceptible to faults and which is inexpensive to produce and can be operated purely mechanically. Since no electrical supply connections are required, the device according to the invention can be set up at any location.
  • the drawer is designed as a U-shaped slide, seen in cross section, the legs spaced apart from one another running horizontally and the upper leg with the recesses penetrated by the feeler pins and with them subsequent longitudinal slots is provided, while part of the lower leg forms the bottom of the bottle receiving space, i.e. supports the bottles inserted into the false receiving space, and the part of the lower leg adjoining the floor is provided with a bottle discharge opening which, when the slide is actuated, is in the dropping position comes under the bottle receiving space with the result that a bottle received in the latter falls down through the discharge opening and thus falls into the collecting container.
  • the deposit return device operatively connected to the bottle dropping device has at least one coin tube and a coin slide which is longitudinally movable under its dispensing opening and is provided with a continuous perforation adapted to the deposit and in view of its operative connection with the bottle dropping device when it is actuated into the
  • the bottle dropping position is shifted from a position with the perforation under the delivery opening of the coin tube to a coin dropping position, taking the bottom coin of the coin tube with it, on the other hand, when the bottle dropping device is returned to its starting position, its perforation returns to the position under the coin tube.
  • a plurality of coin tubes arranged next to one another can be assigned to a coin slide provided with corresponding perforations, so that the return of several and possibly different coins as deposit when a bottle recognized as correct is thrown into the collecting container and when the coin slide is actuated as a result succeed in a coin delivery position.
  • a further important embodiment of the invention provides that the collecting container is equipped with a bottle sorting arranged under the slide-in unit in the form of bars running in the direction of the slide-in longitudinal extension and parallel to one another in superimposed tiers, each at a distance from one another larger than the bottle cross-section and in each case on the next floor are offset by half a pitch between adjacent bars. This measure ensures that a deposit bottle dropped from the bottle ejection device into the collection container reaches the parallel bars of the top floor of the coin sorting after a short fall distance and then gradually falls from one bar to the next floor without being damaged or damage bottles when they hit bottles already in the collection container.
  • the collecting container is equipped with a bottle removal device on the underside in such a way that when empty bottles are removed in the area of the bottom floor, the bottles picked up between the bars of the floors above them roll automatically from floor to floor without risk of damage and so on reach the removal area of the collection container.
  • the device 10 illustrated in its entirety in FIGS. 1 and 2 is intended for the collection of beverage bottles in two sizes that differ from one another and therefore consists of two departments separated from one another by a vertical central plane which, apart from their design, have the same design for different bottle sizes are.
  • the right half of the device can be used for collecting half-liter bottles, while the left half for beverage bottles with a capacity of 0.33 liters.
  • Each of these device halves has a bottle collecting container 11 and in the upper part behind an input opening 12 which can be closed by means of a flap, which is not further illustrated, an insertion unit 14 which extends perpendicularly from the input opening and whose dimensions are adapted to the bottles to be accepted in this insertion unit.
  • the slide-in unit has a bottle receiving space 15 extending from the input opening in the front wall of the collecting container 11, the bottom of which is formed by part of a lower leg 16 of a U-shaped drawer 18, which in turn is designed as a slide which is displaceably guided transversely to the bottle receiving space.
  • touch pins 24 protrude into the bottle receiving space 15, which are vertically movable in a manner not of interest here and not shown in detail, but are held in their positions projecting into the bottle receiving space by spring force and when a bottle is inserted 21 are pushed up into the bottle receiving space from its outer contour.
  • the upper ends of these styli which are arranged between the already mentioned locking plates 20, are passed through the stylus cross section adapted recesses 26 in the upper leg 17 of the drawer 18 forming the slide and extend from these guide recesses in the direction of the two legs 16, 17th of the drawer 18 connecting web longitudinal slots 27, the width of which is smaller than the cross section of the stylus pins and the guide recesses 26 penetrated by them.
  • the lower ends of the styli 24 protrude into the bottle receiving space.
  • the bottle contour gradually hits the feeler pins 24 and urges them upwards against the action of the return springs 25.
  • Each stylus as shown in Fig. 6, is provided with a transverse notch 28 in the form of a circumferential groove, which is then exactly at the level of the upper leg 17 of the drawer 18 designed as a slide when the bottle 21 received in the bottle receiving space 15 corresponds to certain bottle size for the accumulation via this plug-in unit 14.
  • the cross section remaining in the region of the annular grooves 28 forming the transverse notches 28 is the width of the width extending in the upper leg 17 of the drawer Longitudinal slots 27 adapted. In the position shown in Fig.
  • the slide 18 designed as a slide can be moved in the direction of arrow 30, whereby the Bottom of the bottle receiving room bil
  • the end of the lower leg 16 of the drawer is pushed away from under the bottle and the bottle in the drawer comes into the region of an ejection opening 31 which is located between the rear web of the drawer 18 and the part forming the bottom in the lower leg 16.
  • the deposit return device 34 shown in FIG. 7 is directly mechanically coupled to the drawer 18 of the plug-in unit 14, which is designed as a slide.
  • an elongated coin slide 35 is firmly connected to the upper leg 17 of the U-shaped drawer 18
  • the insertion unit distal end extends under two coin tubes 36, 36 'with coin discharge openings on the underside.
  • This coin pusher is equipped at the end remote from the insertion unit with two through holes which, in the position shown in FIG. 7, which corresponds to the position shown in FIG. 3 of the drawer 18 designed as a pusher, are located directly below the coin discharge openings of the coin tubes.
  • the thickness of the coin slide is equal to the thickness of the coins received in the coin tube, so that in the position of the coin slide 35 shown in FIG. 7, the lowest coin of each coin tube is received in the recess of the coin slide.
  • the coin slide 35 When the drawer 18, which is designed as a slide, of the plug-in unit is actuated into the bottle dropping position, the coin slide 35 experiences a corresponding actuation in the direction of the arrow 36 such that the recesses in the coin slide, each loaded with a coin, pass through a funnel 37 and are dropped there.
  • a coin guide channel 38 adjoins this funnel and extends to a deposit return pocket 40 in the front cover of the collecting container. After a bottle inserted into the insertion unit has been ejected and the coin ejected as a result, the deposit can be removed from the return compartment 40.
  • a bottle sorting 42 is arranged under the slide-in unit 14 within the collecting container 11, which consists of rods 43 running parallel to one another in superimposed floors.
  • the distance between the bars in the individual floors is slightly larger than the cross section of the bottles to be collected and the bars on the next floor are arranged exactly between the bars of the floor above and / or below.
  • the vertical distance between the individual levels is also larger than the bottle cross-section.
  • This configuration of the bottle sorting 42 ensures that each bottle ejected from the insertion unit 14 by actuating the drawer 18 designed as a slide falls in the longitudinal direction of the bars 42, in each case between adjacent bars on one floor and then onto the one below it arranged rod of the next floor. The bottle then rolls to one side or the other, in order to then gradually fall through the individual levels in the same way until it hits bottles already accumulated in the collecting container 11. This braked falling of the accumulated bottles in the collection container ensures that the bottles do not suffer any damage during the ejection process and that bottles already accumulated in the collection container are not damaged.
  • the collecting container 11 is equipped in its lower area with a bottle removal device, through which bottles accumulated in the area of the lower level of the bottle sorting 42 can be removed.
  • a bottle removal device through which bottles accumulated in the area of the lower level of the bottle sorting 42 can be removed.
  • bottles that have accumulated in the area of the upper floors gradually come down by means of a slowed down falling movement, so that bottle damage cannot occur even when the bottle is removed.

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EP93107870A 1992-05-30 1993-05-14 Dispositif pour récupération bouteilles vides et restitution de la consigne Expired - Lifetime EP0572841B1 (fr)

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DE4217925A DE4217925C2 (de) 1992-05-30 1992-05-30 Vorrichtung zum Ansammeln von Leergut-Flaschen und zur Rückgabe von Pfandgeld

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CN103213795A (zh) * 2012-01-19 2013-07-24 大丰环保科技股份有限公司 资源回收系统

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WO1995019020A1 (fr) * 1994-01-07 1995-07-13 Trautwein Sb-Technik Gmbh Appareil de reprise des bouteilles vides
CN103213795A (zh) * 2012-01-19 2013-07-24 大丰环保科技股份有限公司 资源回收系统

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NO304716B1 (no) 1999-02-01
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