JP2012000666A - Volume reduction facility for beverage containers - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a volume reduction facility which can be loaded onto or unloaded from the back or so on of a truck and can effectively reduce the volume of many empty PET bottles and empty beverage cans.SOLUTION: An empty can press machine 10 and a PET bottle crusher 50 are placed in parallel on a mounting platform 2. The empty can press machine 10 comprises a vertical type press cylinder 11, and a press piston 18 which presses many empty cans C stowed between the press piston 18 and a sliding door 13 located at the lower end of the press cylinder 11. Crushed cans Q result by depressing the press piston 18 and fall under their own weight by opening the sliding door 13. The PET bottle crusher 50 crushes empty PET bottles P charged into a casing 51 through a PET bottle charging port 53, by means of a rotary knife 56 and a stationary knife 57. Fragments R are discharged from a front discharge port.

Description

  The present invention relates to a crushing machine for crushing plastic bottles and a large number of beverage cans at a time in an empty beverage container collection place such as a convenience store in which a large number of empty beverage cans and empty plastic bottles are collected. It is related to the volume reduction equipment for beverage containers placed on a bed with an empty can press machine that presses into one lump, and in particular, it can be transferred to a truck bed and is empty when mounted on the truck bed. The present invention relates to a volume reduction facility for a beverage container capable of pressing a beverage container and crushing a plastic bottle.

  As one flow of resource recovery, for example, empty cans collected from a resource recovery box installed beside a soft drink vending machine and collection containers such as empty plastic bottles are packed in a large collection bag in a mixed state. Collected in one place, a large number of the collection bags are loaded onto a truck and collected in the next collection place, sorted into cans and PET bottles, and cans are sorted into steel cans and aluminum cans.

  As a sorting device that mechanically sorts mixed empty cans and empty PET bottles, etc., empty cans, PET bottles and empty bottles are supplied to the lower end of the inclined conveyor, and the steel can first be picked up by a steel can sorter during the transfer. The cans are attracted and sorted by magnetic force, and then an eddy current is generated for the aluminum cans discharged from the transport conveyor by the aluminum can sorter. The magnetic field generated by the eddy current and the magnetic field generated at the transport end of the transport conveyor Repel and sort the aluminum can by flipping forward. The remaining empty bottles and empty PET bottles fall from the conveyor, but in the meantime, the lightweight PET bottles fly away by the wind from the blower and are separated from the empty bottles and collected in their respective collection chutes. (Patent Document 1).

  This sorting device sorts steel cans and aluminum cans before crushing empty cans, and also sorts empty cans and PET bottles before crushing.

As a volume reduction device that reduces the volume by crushing an empty can, a pair of automobile tires having a rotating shaft in the horizontal direction is rotatably supported, and one tire is in contact with the outer peripheral surfaces of both tires. Is rotated and the other tire is driven to rotate. Then, when an empty can was introduced from above into the nip portion where both tires were in pressure contact, the empty can was inserted into the nip portion and crushed, and the flat empty can dropped downward and was continuously supplied from above. Empty cans continuously fall downward (Patent Document 2).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-334397 JP 2005-046845 A

  The conventional volume reduction device continuously crushes empty cans and empty plastic bottles, but the collapsed empty plastic bottles return to a shape close to the original shape due to their elastic restoring force, and large volume reduction cannot be achieved. . In addition, the crushed empty cans must be collected and packaged one by one, necessitating troublesome bagging work.

  Further, in the inventions described in the cited documents 1 and 2, a volume reducing device is arranged in one place, and empty cans and PET bottles are once transported from a collection place such as empty cans to a place where the volume reducing device is located, and the volume is reduced there Will be processed. In this case, the transfer efficiency of empty cans and the like by truck is not necessarily good because the empty empty cans are transported as they are.

  In view of such a point of view, the present invention can be mounted on a truck bed so that it can be transferred, the empty PET bottles are crushed, and a large number of empty cans for beverages are pressed at once to increase the transfer efficiency. An object of the present invention is to provide a beverage container volume reduction facility that can be enhanced.

  The structure of the beverage container volume reducing device that realizes the object of the present invention is a beverage container volume reducing equipment in which an empty can press machine and a PET bottle crusher are arranged in parallel on an installation table, the empty can press The machine is arranged with the vertical direction as the axial direction, and has a cylindrical press cylinder with an empty can insertion port formed in the upper part, and can be opened by sliding horizontally from a state where the lower end opening of the press cylinder is closed, and the lower end A sliding door that is restricted from moving downward with the opening closed, and the press cylinder can be moved in the vertical direction, and a large number of empty cans supplied between the sliding door are directed toward the sliding door. A press piston for forming a lump of empty can crush, and by pressing the empty can crush with its own weight by opening the slide door The plastic bottle crusher can be dropped onto the mounting table, and has a crushing piece discharge port for discharging crushing pieces of crushed plastic bottles out of the apparatus. A casing disposed in the casing, a rotating shaft disposed in the casing, a rotating blade fixed to the rotating shaft, and a plastic bottle fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the casing and placed in the casing. And a fixed blade for crushing.

  According to the beverage container volume reducing equipment according to the present invention, for example, an empty beverage container stacking place which is mounted so as to be able to be loaded and unloaded on a truck bed with a crane and which accumulates a large number of empty PET bottles and empty empty cans. When collecting a plurality of (for example, convenience stores) while collecting, it is possible to reduce the volume of PET bottles and empty cans at each beverage container collection location. For this reason, it becomes possible to dramatically improve the collection amount of the beverage containers that can be loaded on the truck bed. In the past, it has become unnecessary to go back to the collection site once during the collection, unload the load, and collect again at the uncollected beverage container collection site.

  According to the invention which concerns on Claim 2, an empty can can be automatically supplied to an empty can press machine, and the empty PET bottle can be manually supplied to a PET bottle crusher in the meantime.

  According to the invention which concerns on Claim 3, the operation | work on the loading platform of a truck becomes easy, for example by arrange | positioning the fragment discharge port of the said crusher in the front side.

The front view which shows embodiment of the volume reduction apparatus of the container for drinks by this invention. (a) is a right side view of FIG. 1, and (b) is a right side view of FIG. 1 showing a schematic configuration of an upper portion of an empty can conveyor and an empty can supply slope. The top view of FIG. 1A is a cross-sectional view taken along the arrow A in FIG. 1A, and FIG. 1B is a cross-sectional view taken along the line BB in FIG.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on embodiments shown in the drawings.

  1 to 4 show an embodiment of a beverage container volume reducing device according to the present invention, FIG. 1 is a front view, FIG. 2 is a right side view of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a plan view of FIG. It is a figure which shows the plastic bottle crusher of FIG.

  1 to 4, a beverage container volume reducing device 1 according to this embodiment includes an empty can press machine 10, a vertical empty can conveyor 30, a plastic bottle crusher 50, and these devices on an installation base 2. The hydraulic unit 70 serving as the driving source is fixed, and empty cans discharged from the upper end of the empty can conveyor 30 are supplied to the empty can press 10 via the empty can supply slope 90. The hydraulic unit 70 drives a device that generates hydraulic pressure using an electric motor driven by an external power source as a drive source.

  This volume reduction equipment is mounted on a loading platform of a truck (not shown) with a crane, for example, by the crane, crushing a large number of empty plastic bottles on the loading platform and pressing a large number of empty cans at once, To reduce the volume. In addition, for example, hooks (not shown) for hanging are attached to the four corners of the mounting base 2, and a wire is hung on the hook so that the crane can be mounted and unloaded by the crane.

  In the mounting table 2, an empty can press machine 10 is arranged on the right side of the front surface, a plastic bottle crusher 50 installed upward by the legs 3 is arranged on the left side, and an empty can conveyor 30 is arranged in the center of the front surface. The hydraulic unit 70 is disposed below the plastic bottle crusher 50.

  In the empty can press 10, a box cylinder 11, which is a square iron press cylinder arranged in the vertical direction, is fixed to the installation table 2 by legs 12 fixed to the front and rear sides of the left and right sides of the box cylinder 11. An iron sliding door 13 that can slide horizontally along the front-rear direction is disposed at the lower end opening of the box cylinder 11.

  The sliding door 13 has a lateral groove 14a of the guide rail 14 horizontally extending in the front-rear direction fixed to the leg part 12 arranged in the right-back direction and the front-rear direction fixed to the leg part 12 arranged in the left-hand front-rear direction. Both left and right end portions are fitted in the horizontal groove 15a of the guide rail 15 extending horizontally, and can slide in the front-rear direction. The slide door 13 is slidable rearward to a position where the lower end opening of the box cylinder 11 is fully opened.

  The sliding drive of the sliding door 13 is performed by the hydraulic pressure from the hydraulic unit 70 in the sliding door opening / closing hydraulic cylinder device 16. The sliding door opening / closing hydraulic cylinder device 16 opens and closes the sliding door 13 fixed to the tip of the piston rod 16a by the movement of the piston rod 16a. The sliding door opening / closing hydraulic cylinder device 16 is fixed to a mounting plate 17 that is interposed between the rear ends of the left and right guide rails 14 and 15.

  A flat press piston 18 is inserted into the box cylinder 11 so as to be movable in the vertical direction, facing the slide door 13. A piston driving hydraulic cylinder device 20 is fixed along a vertical direction to a fixed arm 19 fixed to the upper opening of the box cylinder 11, and a press piston 18 is attached to a lower end of a piston rod 21 of the piston driving hydraulic cylinder device 20. It is fixed. The hydraulic cylinder device 20 for driving the piston is driven by the hydraulic pressure from the hydraulic unit 70 and pushes the press piston 18 downward from the uppermost position (standby position) of the box cylinder 11 shown in FIG. A large number of empty cans C supplied inside are pressed together between the slide door 13 and the press piston 18 and formed into a lump crush Q. When the slide door 13 is slid rearward after the formation of the collapsed product Q, the collapsed product Q falls on the installation table 2 by its own weight.

  The empty can C is supplied into the box cylinder 11 from the outside through an empty can inlet 11b formed in the upper part of the rear side wall 11a of the box cylinder 11. In addition, the empty can C is supplied into the box cylinder 11 from the empty can inlet 11b in a state where the press piston 18 is waiting at the standby position.

  The empty can conveyor 30 of the present embodiment has a belt conveyor structure, and has a vertical configuration arranged in a vertical direction with a steep slope. The empty can conveyor 30 has magnet sheets 32 made of a flexible sheet such as a rubber sheet attached to the surface of an endless belt 31 that rotates endlessly at regular intervals along the conveying direction.

  By the way, in recent years, convenience stores and the like are sorting aluminum cans separately from steel cans and packing them from the viewpoint of resource recovery. For this reason, most empty cans discarded together with empty plastic bottles are steel cans.

  From this, in this embodiment, the empty can conveyor 30 makes steel empty can C the object of conveyance. Further, as described above, the empty can packed in the bag is supplied to the empty can press 10 on the loading platform to the volume reduction equipment of the present embodiment mounted on the loading platform of the truck. At that time, it is troublesome to manually put a large number of empty cans C into the empty can inlet 11b of the box-type cylinder 11. Therefore, the empty cans C are collected at the lower part of the empty can conveyor 30, magnetically attached to the magnet sheet 32 and conveyed upward, and transferred to the empty can supply slope 90.

  As shown in FIG. 2B, when the upper portion of the empty can C magnetically attached on the endless belt 31 of the empty can conveyor 30 is folded back, it is peeled off from the magnet sheet 31 by the separation plate 91 of the empty can supply slope 90 and supplied to the empty can. Slope 90 is supplied.

  The empty can supply conveyor 30 according to the present embodiment rotationally drives the driving roller 35 via the speed reduction mechanism 34 including a gear, a chain, and the like, using the driving force of the hydraulic motor 33. The hydraulic motor 33 is driven by the hydraulic unit 70.

  The empty can conveyor 30 may have a bucket conveyor structure. In this case, an aluminum can can also be supplied from the empty can supply slope 90 to the empty can press 10.

  The empty can supply slope 90 is disposed behind the empty can conveyor 30, and has a slope surface 92 that slopes downward from the upper end of the empty can conveyor 30 to the empty can inlet 11 b of the box cylinder 11. Further, side walls 93 are provided on both sides of the slope surface 92, respectively, and the empty can C supplied from the empty can supply slope 90 is guided to the empty can inlet 11b without sliding off the slope surface 92.

  The PET bottle crusher 50 has a rotating shaft 52 rotatably mounted in a longitudinal direction in a cylindrical casing 51 arranged sideways. The casing 51 has a plastic bottle charging opening 53 formed in an upper portion thereof, and a plastic bottle charging hopper 54 is detachably attached to the plastic bottle charging opening 53. In addition, a discharge port 55 for discharging the crushed pieces R of the plastic bottle to the outside of the casing 51 is formed in the lower front portion of the casing 51.

  Three rotary blades 56 are fixed to the rotary shaft 52 at an angle of 120 ° around the axis, and a set of three rotary blades 56 is attached at regular intervals in the axial direction. In addition, the fixed blade 57 is disposed between the rotary blades 56 from the inner peripheral surface of the casing 51 toward the center of the casing. The rotary blade 56 is formed in a hook shape in which the front end portion 56a is curved in the rotation direction, and the barrel portion of the plastic bottle P is hooked by the front end portion 56 and is reliably cut by the sharp blade of the fixed blade 57 to be crushed. To do. The fragment R is discharged from the discharge port 55 to the outside of the machine.

  On the outside of the casing 51, a discharge chute 58 is inclined downward so as to surround the discharge port 55. By fixing the mouth portion of the bag 59 to the discharge chute 58 so as to be replaceable, the shredded piece R is placed in the bag 59. Can be bagged. The plastic bottle crusher 50 continuously crushes empty plastic bottles P by continuously charging the empty plastic bottles P into the hopper 54, and discharges the plastic bottles P from the discharge port 55 to the outside. For this reason, an automatic supply device such as an empty can supply conveyor 30 is not used to supply a certain amount of empty PET bottles to the PET bottle crusher 50 within a predetermined time, and an operator manually enters the hopper 54. The height of the hopper 54 is set to a height at which charging can be performed.

  The rotating shaft 52 is rotationally driven by a driving force of a crusher hydraulic motor 60 via a speed reduction mechanism 61 including a gear, a chain, and the like. The hydraulic motor 60 is driven by the hydraulic unit 70.

  In the configuration of the above-described embodiment, the hydraulic control of the hydraulic motors 60 and 33 and the hydraulic cylinder devices 20 and 16 is performed by the operator operating the control panel 4 attached to the front surface of the box cylinder 11.

Q Crush C Empty can P Plastic bottle 1 Beverage container volume reduction equipment 2 Mounting base 3 Leg 4 Control panel 10 Empty can press 11 Box cylinder 11a Rear side wall 11b Empty can inlet 12 Leg 13 Slide door 14, 15 Guide Rail 14a, 14b Horizontal groove 16 Hydraulic cylinder device for opening / closing slide door 16a Piston rod 17 Mounting plate 18 Press piston 19 Fixed arm 20 Piston driving hydraulic cylinder device 30 Empty can conveyor 31 Endless belt 32 Magnet sheet 33 Hydraulic motor 34 Deceleration mechanism 35 Driving roller DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 50 Plastic bottle crusher 51 Casing 52 Rotating shaft 53 Plastic bottle injection opening 54 Plastic bottle injection hopper 55 Discharge port 56 Rotary blade 56a Tip part 57 Fixed blade 58 Discharge chute 59 Bag 60 Hydraulic motor 6 for crusher 1 Deceleration mechanism 70 Hydraulic unit 90 Empty can supply slope 91 Separator plate 92 Slope surface 93 Side wall

Claims (3)

A beverage container volume reduction facility in which an empty can press machine and a PET bottle crusher are arranged in parallel on a mounting table,
The empty can press machine is arranged such that the vertical direction is an axial direction, and a cylindrical press cylinder having an empty can insertion port formed in the upper part, and the lower end opening of the press cylinder can be horizontally slid and opened from the closed state. A slide door that is restricted from moving downward with the lower end opening closed, and a plurality of empty cans that can be moved in the vertical direction in the press cylinder. A press piston for forming a lump of empty can crushing material by pressing down toward the door, and dropping the empty can crushing material by its own weight onto the mounting table by opening the sliding door Made possible
The PET bottle crusher has a PET bottle inlet opening at an upper part thereof, a horizontally disposed casing having a crushing piece discharge port for discharging a crushing piece of the crushed PET bottle to the outside of the machine, and the inside of the casing A rotating blade that is fixed to the rotating shaft, and a fixed blade that is fixed to the inner peripheral surface of the casing and crushes the PET bottle put into the casing with the rotating blade. Volume reduction equipment for beverage containers characterized by the above.   An empty can inlet of the empty can press machine is provided on the back side of the press cylinder, and an empty can conveyor that conveys empty cans arranged between the empty can press machine and the PET bottle crusher upward, and by the empty can conveyor 2. The capacity reduction facility for beverage containers according to claim 1, further comprising an empty can supply slope that guides the transferred empty can by sliding down to the empty can inlet of the press cylinder. The volume reduction equipment for beverage containers according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the crushing piece discharge port of the crusher is arranged on the front side.

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