EP3136357B1 - Verteiler von schüttgut-produkten, und entsprechendes verwendungsverfahren - Google Patents

Verteiler von schüttgut-produkten, und entsprechendes verwendungsverfahren Download PDF

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EP3136357B1
EP3136357B1 EP16184534.2A EP16184534A EP3136357B1 EP 3136357 B1 EP3136357 B1 EP 3136357B1 EP 16184534 A EP16184534 A EP 16184534A EP 3136357 B1 EP3136357 B1 EP 3136357B1
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Florent DEMONET
Michel MARKIEWICZ
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  • the present invention relates to a bulk product dispenser and method of use thereof.
  • Bulk products are products, whether forest, agricultural, industrial, food or other, manufactured or not, whether these products are identical or not.
  • Non-limiting examples include wood pellets (also known as pellets), wood chips, densified wood briquettes, pellet feed, food croquettes for animals, industrial products such as screws, nuts, washers, seals, rolling balls, food products such as rice, cereals, lentils or pharmaceuticals such as tablets or capsules .
  • the known solutions consist in providing a package previously filled with a given number or quantity of bulk products.
  • the package is no longer unitary, product by product, but grouped, that is to say that it corresponds to a number or a predefined quantity of products.
  • Such a solution does not take into account the needs of the user if the latter wants a number or a quantity of non-standardized products, that is to say non-prepacked products.
  • EP-A-2,608,164 a bulk food distributor having a hopper filled with products.
  • Under the hopper is a drawer with a bottomless box framed by two solid areas.
  • the drawer is movable, in a horizontal plane, in a direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the product to from the hopper.
  • a solid zone closes the exit of the hopper.
  • Pulling on the drawer brings the bottomless box under the hopper.
  • the bottomless box is brought over an outlet while another solid zone then closes the outlet of the hopper.
  • Such a dispenser does not make it possible to dispense a precise quantity. Indeed, it is de facto a sequential opening device, in step with the hopper.
  • the evacuation of the product is done by gravity according to the volume of the box and not of a final container used.
  • FR-A-3,004,168 a wood pellet dispenser where pellet reservoirs are connected to a funnel equipped with a weighing device.
  • the dispenser also includes a payment device and a control unit.
  • the control unit determines a quantity and quality of granules to be delivered.
  • the control unit opens the funnel supply valves from the tanks if necessary. Once the latter is filled according to the order, the control unit causes its opening and the user fills a bag with his command.
  • Such a system is of a complex manufacture and maintenance since at each change of products, the programming of the control unit must be reviewed.
  • the invention is more particularly to provide a distributor of bulk products, easy to manufacture, use and maintain, which can operate with or without a payment device and to manage not only products but also containers.
  • the subject of the invention is a distributor of bulk products comprising a feed hopper of products, from a product tank, the outlet of the hopper being placed above a receiving zone.
  • a container a shutter member being mounted between the hopper and the receiving zone, said member being movable between at least a first access position to the receiving and closing zone of the outlet of the hopper, a second position for closing the access to the zone for receiving and opening the outlet of the hopper and a third position for closing the access to the zone of reception and closure of the exit of the hopper, the shutter member being a rounded hood whose visible face is configured in an arc of circle and provided with an opening of shape complementary to that of the exit of the hopper, characterized in that an equalizing bar is mounted on the inner face of the hood, at the opening in the hood and in that the outlet of the hopper is provided with a spacer member adapted to avoid any jamming of product between the exit of the hopper and the opening of the hood during the displacement of the latter.
  • Such a dispenser allows, with a single shutter member, which can be entirely manual, to allow either access to the receiving area but no possible output of product, or to access the product but without access to the area reception.
  • the user can place a container on the receiving area but without access to it, so without access to the container during filling. Once the container is filled, the user can recover it but without the possibility of modifying the quantity of product already distributed since access to the hopper is forbidden.
  • the figure 1 represents a distributor 1 of bulk products according to a first embodiment of the invention.
  • the product dispensed is wood pellets. These granules are generally in the form of cylindrical rods with a generally circular base of 5 mm to 10 mm in diameter and 20 mm to 50 mm in length.
  • the vegetable origin of the product implies that, not only, all the sticks do not have strictly the same dimensions and / or shapes but two identical sticks can be of different weight or density, depending on the wood constituting them.
  • the dispenser 1 comprises a metal frame, in the form of a column with a square base.
  • the dispenser is provided with a base 2 allowing, if necessary, its attachment to the ground or on another support. In variant not illustrated, it is mounted on wheels or fixed on a trailer.
  • drawers 3 can store either specific equipment-and in this case they are advantageously locked-either accessories available to the user of the distributor. In this case, they are freely accessible or accessible after payment or identification.
  • the part of the dispenser that allows the user to obtain the product.
  • This part comprises a closure member 40 of a product receiving zone 4 placed under a hopper 5.
  • the hopper 5 is connected to a product supply tank, for example by gravity.
  • a valve ensures the filling of the hopper 5, as required, for example automatically by the action of a level sensor.
  • the hopper is replaced by a container or container having a given volume and connected by a chute to the receiving zone 4. The chute allows to deliver the product to be dispensed from this container.
  • the closure member 40 is raised, so as to allow the vision of the receiving zone 4.
  • a control box and / or a payment system such as a coin mechanism, identified by the reference 6, also equips the distributor 1, in the vicinity of the zone 4.
  • the dispenser is equipped with different hoppers connected to a tank, each benefiting from a means of distribution and control of the independent distribution, for example, to be able to distribute several types of products.
  • the figure 2 represents the shutter member alone. It is formed by a rounded cap 40 whose visible face 7, in use, is curved in an arc.
  • This hood 40 is pivotally mounted in a circular path represented by the double arrow F, around a rotation shaft 8.
  • a handle 9 ensures the operation of the cover 40 by a user.
  • the hood is motorized to facilitate the operation by automating.
  • the summit region the hood 40 is provided with an opening 10 allowing the passage of the product.
  • the opening 10 is of shape and dimensions complementary to those of the outlet 50 of the hopper 5.
  • An equalization strip 11 is placed on the inner face of the cover 40, tangent to the opening 10 and oriented perpendicularly to the radius of curvature of the cover 40.
  • the opening 10 is illustrated without a temporary closure device, such as a movable lid or shutter, it being understood that these elements are, in some embodiments, present.
  • the light 13 is located substantially at the opening 10 and the light 14 is positioned generally midway between the bar 11 and the handle 9.
  • These lights 13, 14 are intended to receive organs of the electric cylinder type, pneumatic or electromagnetic lock which block or allow, according to their positions, the passage between the different positions of the closure member 40, when pivoting it according to the double arrow F.
  • the figure 3 illustrates a first position, namely that where the user has free access to the reception area 4 but not to the product.
  • the user can position a container 15 on a plate 41.
  • the plate 41 is advantageously a weighing plate. It rests on feet 42 in the frame of the dispenser 1.
  • the container 15 is illustrated here by a square.
  • this container is rigid and of a predefined volume. Alternatively, it is flexible and held in position on a rigid support.
  • the container 15 is of shape and dimensions adapted to the zone 4 in order to avoid any loss of the product during its filling. In other words, the container 15 is specific to the zone 4 and therefore to the distributor.
  • the handle 9 is in the up position while looking at the figure 3 in the vicinity of the hopper 5.
  • the opening 10 is in turn low position, closer to the plate 41.
  • the solid portion 43 of the cover 40 closes the outlet 50 of the hopper 5, preventing the product P from flowing by gravity from the hopper 5 towards the container 15.
  • This position of the cover 40 allows the introduction or removal of the container by the user. It corresponds to a position where the control unit of the distributor does not generate any action, except that it is to put the whole device in working order if one is at the beginning of distribution of the product P or of turn off the device if it is at the end of distribution.
  • the next position of the hood 40 is illustrated by the figure 4 . It corresponds to a position of either closing the dispenser or, in an advantageous embodiment, weighing the empty container.
  • the opening 10 of the cover 40 is brought opposite the opening 50 of the hopper 5.
  • the product P then flows into the container 15, in the direction of the arrow F1.
  • the solid portion 43 of the hood 40 prohibiting it.
  • the user can at any time stop the filling by raising the cover 40, in a reverse movement from that described, which brings the solid part of the cover 40 opposite the opening 50.
  • the locking member in the light 13 prohibits maneuvering the cover 40 until the filling is complete. Because the container 15 is adapted to the receiving zone 4, there is no risk of overflow. Moreover, it is possible, alternatively, to provide a delay acting on a shutter of the opening 50 of the hopper 5. When the filling of the container 15 is completed, the weighing itself is carried out, before, by example, billing the distributed product.
  • the bar 11 during the return movement of the cover 40, according to F2, that is to say during the ascent of it to move away from each other the openings 10 and 50, plays an equalizer role.
  • the bar 11 pushes the surplus of product present in the container 15 and clears a space E above the plane P15 tangential to the opening of the container 15. In this way, no pressure is exerted on the product P present in the containing 15 and weighing can be performed.
  • there is a position of the hood 40 corresponding to that illustrated in FIG. figure 4 , the user can not intervene on the reception zone 4, which avoids any fraud on the weighing.
  • a spacing member 51 participates in preventing any overflow of the container while facilitating the closure of the opening 50 by the solid portion 43, without risk of jamming by jamming of the product P between the hopper 5 and the container 15.
  • This member 51 shaped wedge, rectangle or other, is fixed on a wall 52 of the opening, the outlet of the latter.
  • it forms an obstacle which, on the one hand, partly closes the opening 10, as illustrated in FIG. figure 6 and, on the other hand, reduces the flow rate of the product, the latter being retained by the member 51 while defining a space E51 in the container 15, under the member 51, wherein the product P can not flow.
  • the space E51 extends from the lower face of the member 51 to the plane P15, which implies that the movement of the cover 40, in the vicinity of the opening 10, takes place in the space E51.
  • the user Continuing the movement according to the arrow F2, the user returns the hood 40 to the position he occupied at the figure 3 that is, where free access to the reception zone 4 is possible. The user can then recover the container 15 with the product P.
  • the user can order containers of different sizes or more containers.
  • the containers may be rigid or flexible. In the latter case, they fit on a specific bag holder.
  • the containers advantageously but not necessarily, are reusable and, for example, recorded.
  • At least one window is formed in the cover 40, thus making it possible to follow the filling of the container.
  • the distribution is, for example, according to a given volume.
  • the payment system makes it possible to have access to a container 15 of a defined volume, allowing, for example, the opening of a given drawer 3.
  • a horizontal mesh grid such as to allow the passage of the product, but not the fingers or a tool, is positioned under the container, between the latter and the tray.
  • a safety valve is mounted on the opening 50 of the hopper and closes the latter in case of insufficient amount of the product or in case of mechanical failure, for example, under the action of level sensors. It is conceivable that, in case of insufficient product stock, an alert, for example audio, visual or by telephone message, mail or other is issued to the head of the distributor to trigger a restocking.
  • Such a dispenser can be refrigerated, positive or negative, depending on the product to be dispensed.

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  1. Verteiler (1) von Schüttgutprodukten, der einen Trichter (5) zur Versorgung mit Produkten ab einem Produktevorratsbehälter (P) umfasst, wobei der Ausgang (50) des Trichters (5) über einem Empfangsbereich (4) eines Behältnisses (15) platziert ist, wobei ein Verschlussorgan (40) zwischen dem Trichter (5) und dem Empfangsbereich (4) angebracht ist, wobei das Organ zwischen mindestens einer ersten Zugangsposition zu dem Empfangsbereich (4) und Verschlussposition des Ausgangs (50) des Trichters (5), einer zweiten Verschlussposition des Zugangs zu dem Empfangsbereich (4) und Öffnungsposition des Ausgangs (50) des Trichters (5) und einer dritten Verschlussposition des Zugangs zu dem Empfangsbereich (4) und Verschlussposition des Ausgangs (50) des Trichters (5) beweglich ist (F), wobei das Verschlussorgan eine abgerundete Abdeckung (40) ist, deren sichtbare Fläche (7) kreisbogenförmig konfiguriert und mit einer Öffnung (10) einer Form versehen ist, die zu der des Ausgangs (50) des Trichters (5) komplementär ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass ein Ausgleichsstab (11) auf der Innenfläche der Abdeckung (40) im Bereich der in der Abdeckung (40) ausgebildeten Öffnung (10) angebracht ist und dass der Ausgang (50) des Trichters (5) mit einem Beabstandungsorgan (51) versehen ist, das ausgebildet ist, um jedes Verklemmen von Produkt (P) zwischen dem Ausgang (50) des Trichters (5) und der Öffnung (10) der Abdeckung (40) bei der Verlagerung dieser Letzten zu vermeiden.
  2. Verteiler nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Empfangsbereich (4) mit einer Wägeplatte (41) ausgestattet ist.
  3. Verteiler nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Verteiler (1) mit einem Zahlungssystem (6) ausgestattet ist.
  4. Verteiler nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Abdeckung (40) motorisiert ist.
  5. Verfahren zur Benutzung eines Verteilers nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es mindestens die folgenden Schritte umfasst:
    - a) Führen der Abdeckung (40) in eine erste Position, in welcher nur der Ausgang (50) des Trichters (5) verschlossen ist, wobei der Zugang zu dem Empfangsbereich (4) gestattet ist,
    - b) Positionieren eines Behältnisses (15) auf dem Empfangsbereich (4) unter dem Ausgang (50) des Trichters (5),
    - c) Führen der Abdeckung (40) in eine zweite Position, in welcher der Zugang zu dem Empfangsbereich (4) untersagt ist und in welcher der Ausgang (50) des Trichters (5) freigelegt ist,
    - d) Warten auf das Füllen des Behältnisses (15),
    - e) Zurückführen der Abdeckung (40) in die Position des Schritts a), um das Behältnis (15) zu entfernen.
  6. Benutzungsverfahren nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es mindestens den folgenden Schritt umfasst:
    - f) nach dem Schritt b) und vor dem Schritt c), Führen der Abdeckung (40) in eine dritte Position, in welcher der Zugang zu dem Empfangsbereich (4) untersagt ist und in welcher der Ausgang (50) des Trichters (5) verschlossen ist, wobei dieser Schritt das Wiegen des leeren Behältnisses (15) erlaubt.
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