EP2083401A1 - Automate de reprise pour bouteilles consignées - Google Patents

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EP2083401A1
EP2083401A1 EP08021778A EP08021778A EP2083401A1 EP 2083401 A1 EP2083401 A1 EP 2083401A1 EP 08021778 A EP08021778 A EP 08021778A EP 08021778 A EP08021778 A EP 08021778A EP 2083401 A1 EP2083401 A1 EP 2083401A1
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conveyor belt
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Axel Fischer
Lioubov Jokhovets
Wolfgang Keller
Matthias Sommer
Stephan Springsguth
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    • 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 is based on a device for detecting identification features of empties containers in reverse vending machines.
  • Empties reverse vending machines serve to receive individual empty containers, especially bottles or cans, and issue a deposit to the user depending on the characteristics of the entered empty containers.
  • Empties take-back machines are known from the prior art record the individual empty containers in a horizontal orientation and determine the characteristic features of the individual empty containers in this position by means of a detection device. Characteristic features include, for example, the shape, the material, a bar code and a DPG logo recognition.
  • Characteristic features include, for example, the shape, the material, a bar code and a DPG logo recognition.
  • the empty containers are rotated about their axis by means of rollers or rollers. Subsequent to the detection of the characteristic features, the empty containers are transported on to collect them or to feed the further processing.
  • the empty containers can be taken only individually and examined by means of a detection device. Only when an empty container is scanned and transported away by the detection device, the next empty container can be supplied to the detection device. Since the examination of the individual empty containers takes some time, the speed with which empty containers can be taken up is low. The speed can be increased by a higher sampling rate. However, this is only possible with a complex and expensive lighting.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a device for detecting empties containers in reverse vending machines available that allows the determination of the characteristics of the empty containers with less effort, is inexpensive to manufacture, is not prone to wear, and faster with the empty container be picked up and recorded by the reverse vending machine.
  • the object is achieved by a device having the features of claim 1.
  • the device is characterized in that it is equipped with an inclined plane and at least one optical detection device for detecting the empty containers.
  • the inclined plane is also called inclined plane. It connects a first, higher level with a second, lower level. Due to the inclination, a transport direction of the empty containers is specified.
  • the empty containers are aligned at the upper end of the inclined plane with its longitudinal axis horizontal and perpendicular to the transport direction of the inclined plane.
  • the slope-down force acting on the oblique plane on the empty containers ensures that the horizontal empty containers are transported downwards in the direction of transport on the inclined plane.
  • the inclination and surface of the inclined plane are predetermined so that the empty containers experience a frictional force when moving along the surface of the inclined plane, which causes a rotation about its longitudinal axis in the empty containers.
  • the empty containers do not slip down the inclined plane but they roll down the inclined plane. If the inclined plane is long enough, the empty containers make at least one complete turn about their longitudinal axis during their transport on the inclined plane.
  • the at least one above the inclined plane arranged optical detection device can scan its entire surface during the transport of an empty container on the inclined plane and thereby capture the characteristic features of the identification of the empty container. This includes in particular a bar code arranged on the empty container. For empty containers that have no have round cross-section, a rotation on the inclined plane can be omitted. In this case, for example, a bar code on the outside of the empty container is not detected by an optical detection device. This can lead to a rejection of the empty container.
  • the inclined plane can consist of a rigid plate.
  • the surface must have some roughness so that empty containers made of different materials such as glass, metal and plastic, when moved on the inclined plane, experience a frictional force causing the empty containers to rotate about their longitudinal axis.
  • the inclination angle of the inclined plane is further to be chosen so that the resulting from the weight of the empty container slope force is not so large that a rotation of the empty containers despite the rough surface of the inclined plane is omitted.
  • the weight of the empty containers can be divided into a force component parallel to the surface of the inclined plane and perpendicular to the surface of the inclined plane. The component perpendicular to the surface of the inclined plane ensures that the empty containers experience a frictional force when moving on the inclined plane.
  • the force component parallel to the surface of the inclined plane leads to a transport of empty containers along the inclined plane in the transport direction down. Due to the frictional force round empty containers are rotated about their longitudinal axis. If the frictional force is too low, the rotational movement is prevented and the empty containers only slide down the inclined plane.
  • the advantage of the device according to the invention is that only an inclined plane is necessary for rotation of the empty container about its longitudinal axis. On rollers and rollers is omitted.
  • the device therefore has a much lower structural dimension than known devices, is cheaper to manufacture and less susceptible to wear.
  • An essential advantage of the device is also that the scanning of the empty containers can be done in the flow and the simultaneous scanning of several Empty container is possible. Thereby, the speed with which empty containers can be recorded, examined and collected, substantially increased over known devices. All empty containers, which are located in the viewing window of the optical recognition device, can be scanned simultaneously.
  • the length of the inclined plane is greater than or equal to the product of ⁇ and the predetermined maximum diameter of a accepted by the reverse vending machine, round empty container.
  • the length of the inclined plane corresponds to the extension in the transport direction, which is predetermined by the slope output forces.
  • the characteristic data of all empties containers accepted by the reverse vending machine are stored in a storage element of the reverse vending machine. This includes, among other things, the diameter and the height of the accepted empty containers. These diameters are used to determine the largest diameter and the associated circumference.
  • the length of the inclined plane is chosen so that it corresponds at least to the circumference of the container with the largest volume.
  • the width of the inclined plane is greater than or equal to the maximum height of an empties container accepted by the reverse vending machine.
  • the width corresponds to the extent of the inclined plane perpendicular to the transport direction predetermined by the slope output forces. If the width of the inclined plane is greater than the maximum height of one of the reverse vending machines accepted empty container, it is ensured that the empty containers are supported by the inclined plane and can not fall from the inclined plane laterally.
  • a first conveyor belt with a first transport direction is arranged on the inclined plane at the higher level.
  • the first conveyor belt can be aligned with its first transport direction perpendicular or parallel to the transport direction of the inclined plane. If the first transport direction runs perpendicular to the transport direction of the inclined plane, the empty containers are aligned with their longitudinal axis parallel to the first transport direction.
  • At the first conveyor belt can be arranged laterally retaining strips, which prevent the empties container leave the first conveyor belt before they have reached the inclined plane. If the first transport direction runs parallel to the transport direction of the inclined plane, the empty containers are aligned with their longitudinal axis perpendicular to the first transport direction.
  • holding strips can be integrated into the conveyor belt perpendicular to the first transport direction, which prevent the empty containers on the conveyor belt from rolling in an uncontrolled manner in the first transport direction or in the opposite direction. Moreover, it is advantageous if the empty containers reach each other on the inclined plane with temporal and spatial distance. In this way it is ensured that the optical detection device can scan the entire surface and this is not hindered by further empty containers.
  • an impeller for pushing the empty containers is arranged on the inclined plane on the first conveyor belt. This ensures that the empty containers reach the inclined plane from the first conveyor belt.
  • the impeller is advantageously equipped with two or three blades. It turns around an axis, which is arranged next to or above the first conveyor belt. The axis is aligned perpendicular to the transport direction of the inclined plane.
  • a second conveyor belt with a second transport direction is arranged on the inclined plane on the lower level.
  • the second conveyor belt may be arranged with its second transport direction perpendicular or parallel to the transport direction of the inclined plane. If the second transport direction runs parallel to the transport direction of the inclined plane, then the empties containers are aligned with their longitudinal axis perpendicular to the second transport direction.
  • retaining strips can be integrated into the second conveyor belt perpendicular to the second transport direction, which prevent the empty containers on the conveyor belt from rolling in an uncontrolled manner in the second transport direction or in the opposite direction.
  • the empty containers are aligned with their longitudinal axis parallel to the second transport direction.
  • On the second conveyor belt holding iron can be arranged laterally, which prevent the empty containers can leave the conveyor belt due to a rolling motion.
  • a collecting device is arranged on the second conveyor belt to decelerate the empties container arriving from the inclined plane.
  • This may be, for example, a retaining strip which extends perpendicularly upwards on the second conveyor belt.
  • the catching device counteracts the acceleration resulting from the downhill force. It prevents the empty containers from rolling over the second conveyor belt.
  • a segregation device is arranged on the second conveyor belt, which removes individual empty containers from the second conveyor belt.
  • the empty containers can be sorted as a function of the characteristic features determined by the optical recognition device above the inclined plane.
  • the rejection device can be, for example, a drive of the second conveyor belt, which moves the second conveyor belt in two different transport directions, for example in a forward and a return direction.
  • the second conveyor belt is mounted at least partially pivotable or rotatable.
  • the section of the second conveyor belt arranged directly on the inclined plane is pivoted downwards in order to release the empty container. Subsequently, the second conveyor belt is pivoted back into the horizontal to receive the next empty container. If this meets the criteria for further processing, the pivotable section of the second conveyor belt remains in the horizontal orientation until the respective empty container is fed for further processing.
  • an impeller is arranged on the second conveyor belt, which actively pushes the empties containerlitis
  • the first and / or second conveyor belt strips to keep the empty containers during their transport on the conveyor belt in a lying position.
  • the round empty containers experience in their lying position in a transport direction of the conveyor belt perpendicular to its longitudinal axis a Acceleration that can cause them to roll forward or back on the conveyor belt in the direction of transport. Whether and how strong the roller movement is depends on the one hand on the accelerating force and on the other hand on the frictional force between the empty containers and the conveyor belt.
  • the strips integrated into the conveyor belt prevent an uncontrolled rolling movement of the empties containers on the conveyor belt.
  • Each of the empty containers can only move in the available space between two adjacent bars. An accumulation of multiple empty containers on the conveyor belt is thereby avoided.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 a first embodiment of a device for detecting identification features of empty containers with an inclined plane 1, an optical detection device 2, a first conveyor belt 3 and a second conveyor belt 4 is shown.
  • Empty containers 5 are fed on the first conveyor belt 3, the first transport direction is perpendicular to the transport direction of the inclined plane, the inclined plane.
  • the first conveyor belt 3 is aligned horizontally.
  • the empty containers are on the first conveyor belt 3. Its longitudinal axis is parallel to the first transport direction.
  • an impeller 6 is arranged to push the empty container 5 from the first conveyor belt 3 on the inclined plane 1, above the first conveyor belt 3, above the first conveyor belt 3.
  • an impeller 6 is arranged to push the empty container 5 from the first conveyor belt 3 on the inclined plane 1, above the first conveyor belt 3, an impeller 6 is arranged. Once the empty containers 5 are on the inclined plane 1, they roll down the inclined plane due to the force acting on them downhill force and the frictional force.
  • the above the inclined plane arranged optical detection device 2 has such a large viewing window, or such a large viewing angle 7, that they can scan all empty containers 5, which are located on the inclined plane 1.
  • the empty containers fall into a shaft 8, which together with the upwardly projecting retaining strip 9 represents a collecting device for the empty containers 5.
  • the second conveyor belt 4 At the bottom of the shaft 8 is the second conveyor belt 4.
  • the arranged in extension of the inclined plane 1 section 10 of the second conveyor belt 4 is pivotally mounted.
  • the pivotable portion 10 may, as indicated by the arrow in FIG FIG. 1 indicated to be rotated about an axis not visible in the drawing and release a located in the slot 8 empties container down.
  • FIG. 1 Although suggests that in the shaft 8, two empty containers 5 are, however, is from the illustration according to FIG. 2 Clear that the two empty containers 5 are located at different positions on the second conveyor belt 4. A downwardly through the pivotable portion 10 of the second conveyor belt 4 segregated empties container 5 passes through a second inclined plane 11 on a third conveyor belt 12, which supplies the segregated empty container 5 further processing. In those empty containers that meet certain criteria according to the result of the scanning by the optical detection device 2, the portion 10 of the second conveyor belt is not pivoted downwards. These empty containers 5 remain rather on the second conveyor belt and we are in FIG. 2 shown supplied for further processing.
  • FIG. 4 a second embodiment of a device for detecting identification features of empty containers is shown.
  • the device corresponds to the inclined plane 1, the optical detection device 2, the first conveyor belt 3, the second conveyor belt 4, the empty containers 5, the impeller 6, the viewing window 7 of the optical detection device 2, the shaft 8, and the retaining strip 9 of the embodiment according to FIG. 1 .
  • the second conveyor belt 4 is not pivotally mounted.
  • the separation of certain empty containers depending on their Characteristic features determined by the optical recognition device 2 are provided by different transport directions of the second transport belt 4 FIG. 4 shown. If an empties container meets certain criteria with regard to its characteristic features, it is guided by the second conveyor belt in a transport direction. On the other hand, if he does not fulfill these criteria, he will be guided in the opposite direction of transport. This is in FIG. 4 represented by an arrow with two arrowheads.
  • FIG. 5 a third embodiment of a device for detecting identification features of empty containers is shown.
  • This third embodiment is consistent with the first embodiment with respect to the inclined plane 1, the optical detection device 2, the second conveyor belt 4, the empty containers 5, the viewing window 7, the optical detection device 2, the shaft 8, the retaining strip 9, the pivotable portion 10 of second conveyor belt 2, the second inclined plane 11 and the third conveyor belt 12 match.
  • the difference from the first embodiment according to FIG. 1 consists in that the first conveyor belt 13 is arranged with its first transport direction not perpendicular as in the first and second embodiments, but parallel to the transport direction of the inclined plane.
  • the strips also fulfill the task of pushing the empty containers 5 on the inclined plane 1. While in the first and second embodiments, the first transport direction of the first conveyor belt and the second transport direction of the second conveyor belt parallel to each other and perpendicular to the transport direction of the inclined plane, so are in the Third embodiment, the first transport direction of the first conveyor belt and the transport direction of the inclined plane parallel to each other and perpendicular to the second transport direction of the second conveyor belt.
  • FIG. 7 shows a fourth embodiment of an apparatus for detecting identification features of empty containers is shown.
  • This embodiment corresponds essentially to the third embodiment according to Figures 5 and 6 , It differs only from the third embodiment, that the separation of certain empty containers 5 on the second conveyor belt 15 is not done by a pivotable portion of the second conveyor belt, but by a not shown in the drawing impeller or distributor, which pushes certain empty containers from the second conveyor belt 15 , This is in FIG. 7 indicated by the arrow 16.
  • FIGS. 8 and 9 a fifth embodiment of a device for detecting identification features of empty containers is shown. It corresponds with respect to the first conveyor belt 13, the inclined plane 1 and the optical detection device 2 according to the third embodiment according to the Figures 5 and 6 , It differs from the third embodiment in that on the second conveyor belt 17, a flap 18 is arranged. The flap is pivotable about an axis 19. If it is vertically aligned, it serves as a catching device and brakes the empties container 5 arriving from the inclined plane 1. These are then on the second conveyor belt 17, as in FIG. 9 shown, transported.
  • the empties containers 5 lying on the second conveyor belt 17 can be transported in two different directions as a function of their identification features and thus sorted according to two different criteria. If the flap 18 is in a horizontal orientation, the empties containers 5 arriving from the inclined plane can leave the second conveyor 17 in the direction of transport of the inclined plane and onto a second inclined plane 19 reach. From there, they are fed to a third conveyor belt 20 due to their downgrade force.
  • the device according to the fifth embodiment thus makes it possible to assign the empties containers in dependence on the identification features detected by the optical recognition device in three different transport directions.

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