JP2016087952A - Recycling treatment apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently reproduce PET flakes with high purity from miscellaneous wastes mainly included with a bottle, a can and a PET bottle.SOLUTION: A recycling treatment apparatus 100 comprises: a bag breaking machine 110 breaking a garbage bag; an apron conveyor 130 transporting garbage stored in the garbage bag; a sorting line conveyor 140; a magnetic separator 150 and an aluminum sorter 160 disposed in the sorting line conveyor; a PET and bottle transporting conveyor 175 transporting garbage passed through the magnetic separator and the aluminum sorter; a bottle sorter 180; a PET bottle and residue sorting line conveyor 201; a washer 205; a label peeling machine 210; a hand-sorting line conveyor 231; a crusher 237 crushing charged garbage to a flaky state; screw conveyors 241, 245 transporting garbage crushed to the flaky state; a flake sorter 243; a sorting water tank 250; and flake collection screw conveyors 261, 262 raking out the flaky garbage precipitated in the sorting water tank.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a recycling apparatus for producing polyethylene terephthalate flakes from used PET bottles.

  Today, in order to recycle polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers, a method for producing PET flakes or pellets from polyethylene terephthalate containers, so-called PET bottles (hereinafter referred to as “PET bottles”) as raw materials for recycled products. Various devices have been proposed (for example, Patent Document 1) and put into practical use.

  Furthermore, a method for producing flakes or pellets that can increase the purity of PET flakes or pellets used as a raw material for recycled products and can mold high-quality recycled products has also been proposed (for example, Patent Document 2).

JP-A-11-105032 JP 2002-307436 A

  Today, with the enactment of the Recycling Law, separate collection of waste has become widespread, and PET bottles, glass containers, and the like are now subjected to separate disposal suitable for recycling.

  However, it is still called miscellaneous waste, and a large amount of mixed waste such as vinyl, plastic bottles, bottles (glass containers), cans, paper, etc. has been discharged. It was difficult to process in a close state.

  The present invention eliminates the above disadvantages and provides an apparatus for regenerating high-quality pet flakes while processing a large amount of miscellaneous waste.

  A recycling apparatus according to the present invention includes a bag breaker that crushes garbage bags, an apron conveyor that transfers garbage stored in the garbage bags, a sorting line conveyor that receives the garbage via the apron conveyor, Provided in the sorting line conveyor, a magnetic separator for sorting magnetic containers and an aluminum sorter for sorting aluminum containers, a pet / bottle transport conveyor for transporting the dust that has passed through the magnetic separator and the aluminum sorter, and A bottle sorter that receives the garbage conveyed by the pet / bottle conveyor, a PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor that receives the garbage that has passed through the bottle sorter, and a garbage that passes through the PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor Washing machine to be received, PET bottle transport conveyor for transporting garbage that has passed through the cleaning machine, and PET bottle transport conveyor A label peeling machine that receives the dust that has been conveyed; a hand sorting line conveyor that receives the dust that has passed through the label peeling machine; a crusher carry-in conveyor that carries the dust through the hand sorting line conveyor; A crusher that crushes garbage thrown in by a conveyor into a flake, a first screw conveyor that conveys the crushed waste into flakes, a flake sorter, and a flake sort that has been sorted by the flake sorter It has a second screw conveyor that conveys, a sorting water tank that receives the flaky garbage conveyed by the second screw conveyor, and a flake collecting screw conveyor that scrapes the flaky garbage that has settled in the sorting water tank. .

  The apron conveyor uses a conveyor belt with a cross and is a belt conveyor having a substantially horizontal flat portion and an inclined portion with an inclination angle of about 40 to 55 degrees.

  The magnetic separator has a magnet provided immediately above the sorting line conveyor and a discharge belt that circulates the upper and lower surfaces of the magnet in a direction perpendicular to the sorting line conveyor.

  Further, the aluminum sorter has a rotating magnet in an end roller of the sorting line conveyor, a first opening is provided below the tip of the sorting line conveyor, and a second opening is provided below the tip of the sorting line conveyor. It has a part.

  The bottle sorter includes a blower, and has a bottle discharge section below a tip of the pet / bottle transport conveyor, and has a bottle discharge section on the side of the bottle discharge section. Of the trash falling from the transport conveyor, trash having a light weight relative to its volume is dropped by the air blower from the blower onto the PET bottle discharge section removed from the lower end of the PET / bottle transport conveyor, It is discharged on the residue conveyor.

  In addition, the washing machine includes an inclined net and a water sprinkler for discharging water on the net, and moves the garbage on the net along the inclination by vibrating the net to select the PET bottle / residue. It is discharged on the line conveyor.

  The label peeling machine has a cylindrical drum case that covers the rotating drum, has a plurality of rotating blades on the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum, and has a plurality of fixed blade pins on the inner surface of the drum case, By damaging the outer surface of the bottle, the label or surface print wound around the PET bottle is peeled off, and the air in the rotating drum is sucked from the suction port above the end position to one of the rotating drums by a suction blower, It has a discharge port below the one end of the rotating drum, and transports broken PET bottles falling from the discharge port to the manual sorting line conveyor by a bottle discharge conveyor.

  Further, the crusher crushes and discharges the PET bottles into pieces of several millimeters square, and the flake sorter collects the PET bottle fragments on the vibrating filter screen by vibration and discharges them to the second screw conveyor. To do.

  The recycling apparatus according to the present invention crushes a garbage bag with a bag breaker and takes out the miscellaneous waste stored in the garbage bag from the garbage bag, and transfers it to a sorting line conveyor with an apron conveyor. The machine can remove garbage from can containers and large non-container garbage such as vinyl on the sorting line by hand, and the bottle sorter eliminates bottle containers to leave mainly plastic bottle containers. It is possible to manually remove conspicuous trash other than PET bottle containers from garbage such as PET bottle containers moving on the residue sorting line conveyor, and further remove trash other than PET bottle containers with a washing machine and use a label peeling machine to remove PET bottles. Remove the label and paint adhering to the outer periphery of the container, and manually sort the garbage that has become only the PET bottle body. The plastic bottle containers that are colored when transferred to the crusher carrying conveyor by the bear can be removed manually, and only transparent plastic bottle containers are put into the crusher to form a flake. Highly regenerated pet flakes can be easily removed and a large amount of miscellaneous waste can be processed.

  And, in order to transfer the garbage to the sorting line conveyor through the flat part and the inclined part using a conveyor belt with a cross as an apron conveyor, the miscellaneous garbage introduced intermittently through the bag breaking machine Retained at the lower end, the trash that falls down (rear) on the belt due to the angle at the inclined part is prevented from falling down by a bar provided on the conveyor belt, and a predetermined amount of trash per hour is transferred upward, It is possible to remove garbage such as non-containers manually by making a continuous and average fixed amount of garbage to be placed on the sorting line conveyor.

  In addition, since the magnetic separator is provided with a magnet directly above the sorting line conveyor, the lower surface of the discharge belt that attracts the magnetic container with the magnet and moves around the lower surface position of the magnet among the dust moving on the sorting line conveyor. On the sorting line conveyor by moving the magnetic container to the side of the sorting line conveyor by rotation of the discharge belt and dropping it from the discharging belt on the side of the sorting line conveyor away from the magnet. It can remove magnetic containers such as steel cans from trash that moves.

  Furthermore, since the aluminum sorter is provided with a rotating magnet in the end roller of the sorting line conveyor, non-magnetic metal containers such as aluminum cans can be removed from the sorting line conveyor. A non-magnetic metal container that can be separated from a plastic bottle or the like without causing the non-magnetic metal container to fall off the first opening provided below the tip of the sorting line conveyor. is.

  The bottle sorter applies wind from the blower to the trash that falls from the end of the pet / bottle transport conveyor, and places heavy bottles directly below the end of the pet / bottle transport conveyor and light plastic bottles leeward by the wind. By dropping it in a flowing manner, it can be dropped into the PET bottle discharge section removed from the lower end of the PET / jar transport conveyor and separated into bottles and PET bottles.

  The washing machine sprays garbage mainly from plastic bottles, cans, bottles, and other noticeable garbage from miscellaneous waste, and at the same time removes miscellaneous garbage by vibration of the net and cleans the plastic bottle. It is something that can be done easily.

  In addition, the label affixed to the outer periphery of the PET bottle container is removed by a label peeling machine, characters drawn on the outer surface of the PET bottle are also removed by damaging the surface of the PET bottle, and the label and bottle fragments are aspirated. It can be easily separated and separated into only plastic bottle containers.

  And, when the waste discharged from the label peeling machine is transferred to the crusher loading conveyor by the manual sorting line conveyor, it is possible to remove the garbage other than colorless PET bottles by manual sorting. Removes those that are not suitable for PET bottles, and can easily obtain colorless pet flakes that are close to virgin raw materials.

  Furthermore, since the PET bottle is broken into several millimeters with a crusher and the broken pieces are collected with a flake sorter, fine foreign matter such as powder can be removed with a flake sorter to obtain high-purity recycled pet flakes. is.

The plane schematic diagram which shows the whole outline | summary of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The side surface schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of the bag breaker and apron conveyor of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The side surface schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of the crusher of the recycle processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The side surface schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of the apron conveyor of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The perspective view which shows typically the connection part from the flat part to the inclination part in the apron conveyor of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The side surface schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of arrangement | positioning from the sorting line conveyor of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention to a sorting water tank. The schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of the magnetic separator of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The side surface schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of the aluminum sorter of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The plane schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of the aluminum sorter of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The cross-sectional side view which shows the outline | summary of the bottle sorter of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The plane sectional view showing typically the inside of the bottle sorter of the recycling processing device concerning the present invention. The front view which shows the outline | summary of the label peeling machine of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The side view which shows the outline | summary of the label peeling machine of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The plane schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of the sorting water tank of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The side surface schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of the sorting water tank of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention. The front schematic diagram which shows the outline | summary of the sorting water tank of the recycling processing apparatus which concerns on this invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the embodiment of the recycling processing apparatus according to the present invention arranges a bag breaker 110 that breaks garbage bags near a stock yard 105 that collects miscellaneous waste and conveys miscellaneous waste. Apron conveyor 130, sorting line conveyor 140 for manually removing large garbage other than garbage bag fragments and paper containers, magnetic separator 150 for removing steel cans, aluminum sorting machine 160 for removing aluminum cans, Bottle sorter 180 for removing bottle containers, PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor 201 for removing residues other than PET bottles manually from miscellaneous waste from which can containers and bottle containers, conspicuous vinyl pieces, etc. have been removed, PET bottles Cleaning machine 205 to clean the label, label peeling machine 210 to remove the label attached to the PET bottle, hand sorting line co Bear 231, crusher 237 to break bottles into flakes, it is what comprises a sorting aquarium 250 to separate the bottle different from resin such as a bottle cap.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the bag breaker 110 has a charging hopper 111 above the bag breaker main body 113, and a lower portion of the bag breaker main body 113 as an outlet 115 on the apron conveyor 130. The outlet 115 is open.

  The bag breaker main body 113 and the control panel 117 are set near the height of the ground surface 121, the bag breaker main body 113 and the discharge port 115 are provided in the space defined as the semi-basement 123, and the stock hopper 111 is opened in the upper portion. The height is such that the garbage bags stacked in yard 105 can be easily thrown in by a bucket forklift.

  The mirror 119 makes it easy to check the internal state of the loading hopper 111 when a driver such as a forklift truck loads a garbage bag of miscellaneous waste.

  The bag-breaking machine main body 113 includes a rotating drum having nail-like protrusions (not shown) inside, and is rotated by a driving motor 118 when the miscellaneous waste charged from the charging hopper 111 is dropped from the discharge port 115. The trash bag is crushed by a large number of nail-like projections provided on the surface of the rotating drum, and the can containers and bottle containers stored in the trash bag are discharged and dropped on the apron conveyor 130 in a piled state. is.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the apron conveyor 130 includes a flat portion 131 and an inclined portion 133. The apron conveyor 130 receives miscellaneous waste falling from the bag breaker 110 by the flat portion 131, and the flat portion 131 is substantially horizontal. After moving garbage, which is miscellaneous waste such as containers, to the sorting line conveyor 140, the miscellaneous waste is conveyed by an inclined portion 133 having an inclination angle of about 50 degrees.

The apron conveyor 130 is a belt in which a long conveyor belt 135 is moved around by a drive motor 138 and a drive roller 139. As shown in FIG. In the inclined portion 133 having an inclination angle close to 50 degrees, the horizontal rail 136 prevents the dust on the conveyor belt 135 from sliding down on the belt. 136 prevents falling and conveys garbage as miscellaneous waste as an approximately equal amount for each cross.
The inclination angle is an appropriate steep inclination of about 40 to 55 degrees.

  In this way, the waste that has been intermittently thrown into the bag breaker 110 by a bucket forklift or the like and piled up on the conveyor belt 135 of the flat portion 131 is prevented from slipping down by the horizontal rail 136 at the inclined portion 133. Is transferred to the sorting line conveyor 140, and the piled-up state collapses, and the dust that is not crushed by the cross rail 136 accumulates at the lower end of the inclined portion 133.

  As long as the accumulated debris is squeezed out by the horizontal crosspiece 136 for a single horizontal crosspiece 136 and the debris is accumulated on the flat portion 131 at the lower end of the inclined portion 133, the horizontal crosspiece It is possible to continuously transfer the waste as an almost constant amount in 136, and the subsequent processing is facilitated by quantitative transfer, and the waste is accumulated at the lower end of the inclined portion 133, so that it becomes an intermittent charging hopper It is also possible to make it easier to put trash bags into 111.

  In this way, the miscellaneous waste, which is garbage transferred to the high place by the inclined portion 133 of the apron conveyor 130, is selected on the first work table 146 that is the high work platform supported by the column 145. It is moved to 140 (see Figure 1 and Figure 2).

  This sorting line conveyor 140 is a belt conveyor horizontally arranged about 15 meters long, and a magnetic separator 150 that removes steel cans in miscellaneous waste along the way, and aluminum that removes aluminum cans at the end. The sorter 160 is the one to be placed.

  The sorting line conveyor 140 has a work table arranged on the upstream side of the magnetic separator 150 and downstream of the magnetic separator 150 so that one or several sorting workers can be arranged on both sides of the belt conveyor. As shown in Fig. 2, safety fences 147 are provided on both sides of the first workbench 146.

  This work table is used to manually remove bottles, cans, plastic pieces such as broken garbage bags that are conspicuous garbage other than bottles, and paper pieces mixed in miscellaneous waste from the sorting line conveyor 140. is.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the magnetic separator 150 has a magnet 151 disposed right above the sorting line conveyor 140, and passes around the upper surface and the lower surface of the magnet 151. The circulating conveyor belt 153 is placed so as to be orthogonal to the sorting line conveyor 140.

  The magnetic separator 150 is a discharge conveyor disposed on the lower surface of the magnet 151 by sucking a magnetic material container such as a steel can moving on the sorting line conveyor 140 by a magnet 151 provided immediately above the sorting line conveyor 140. It can be adsorbed on the lower surface of belt 153.

  Further, a receiving port 157 is provided on the side of the sorting line conveyor 140 and in the vicinity of the end of the discharging conveyor belt 153, and the drive motor 155 moves the belt of the discharging conveyor belt 153 on the lower surface side of the magnet 151 to the receiving port 157 side. By rotating the belt of the discharge conveyor belt 153 in such a manner that the steel can, etc. adsorbed on the lower surface of the discharge conveyor belt 153 is moved to the upper side of the sorting line conveyor 140.

  In this way, the magnetic material container that has been attracted to the lower surface of the discharge conveyor belt 153 and moved to the side of the sorting line conveyor 140 falls to the receiving port 157 by its own weight due to the increased distance from the magnet 151, and is sorted. It is removed from the line conveyor 140.

  The steel cans that have fallen to the receiving port 157 are collected into a block having a length, width, and height of several tens of centimeters by collecting a large number of steel cans so as to be conveyed to a press machine (not shown). To do.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the aluminum sorter 160 has a transfer belt 164 that can circulate between the tension roller 165 and the end roller 161, and is placed on the transfer belt 164 in the vicinity of the tension roller 165. A receiving port 167 is provided, and this receiving port 167 is positioned below the end of the sorting line conveyor 140 so that the transfer belt 164 receives dust from the sorting line conveyor 140.

  The transfer belt 164 is disposed so as to be orthogonal to the direction of the sorting line conveyor 140. The end roller 161 disposed in the end position of the transfer belt 164 includes a rotating magnet 162 and the end roller 161. Has a first opening 168 and a second opening 169 below.

  In this aluminum sorter 160, the rotary magnet 162 disposed inside the end roller 161 is rotated by the magnet drive motor 163, and the tension roller 165 is rotated by the belt drive motor 166 to drive the transfer belt 164. When the dust on the 164 moves to the end roller 161 side, an eddy current is generated in the metal when the nonmagnetic material container such as an aluminum can moves in the magnetic field of the magnet incorporated in the end roller 161. It repels the rotating magnet 162, and when falling from the end of the transfer belt 164, it jumps forward and falls.

  A first opening 168 is provided immediately below the end roller 161, and a second opening 169 is provided below the end roller 161 in front of the first opening 168. Magnetic material containers fall into the second opening 169, and plastic containers such as plastic bottles and glass containers such as bottles fall into the first opening 168.

  The non-magnetic material container such as an aluminum can that has fallen into the second opening 169 is conveyed to a press machine (not shown) to collect a large number of aluminum cans, and the vertical, horizontal, and height are several tens of centimeters by the press machine. Compressed into blocks.

  Then, garbage such as PET bottles that have fallen into the first opening 168 is transported above the bottle sorter 180 by the PET bottle / bottle transport conveyor 175 as shown in FIGS. Is put into the bottle sorter 180.

  This bottle sorter 180 has a blower 198 on the side of the bottle sorter 180, and blows air from the side to falling garbage such as bottles and PET bottles, so that bottles with a large mass relative to the volume are almost It is dropped directly below, and it is dropped by letting trash with a large area and volume relative to the mass, such as plastic bottles and plastic pieces, flow down to the leeward side.

  For this reason, as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, the bottle sorter 180 includes a first receiving member 183 that extends upward from the front side wall 194 inside the cylindrical body in the vertical direction. A second receiving member 184 extending from the left side wall 196 and the right side wall 197 is provided below the 183, and the introduced dust is guided so as to hit the first receiving member 183 in the immediate vicinity of the upper insertion port 181. It has an introduction plate 182.

  The first receiving member 183 is a plate-like body having elasticity that protrudes from the front side wall 194 that is the side opposite to the introduction plate 182. The first receiving member 183 is a bottle or plastic bottle that is inserted and falls inside the bottle sorter 180. Is once received and then dropped again.

  In addition, the front side wall 194 provided with the first receiving member 183 is provided with a blower opening 185 for blowing air from the blower 198 (see FIG. 6).

  A second receiving member 184 extending from the left side wall 196 and the right side wall 197 of the bottle sorter 180 is provided below the first receiving member 183, and the second receiving member 184 also has elasticity. As shown in FIG. 11, a plate-shaped body, a gap is provided between the two second receiving members 184 so that the front end sides provided with a plurality of cuts face each other, and the plastic bottle is received, Passing between the two second receiving members 184 so as to reduce the falling speed of the bottles, or separating the plastic bottles and some bottles from the rear side wall 195 side end of the second receiving member 184 It is something that is made to fall.

  Further, below the second receiving member 184, a gap is formed between the front side wall 194 and the rear side wall 195 inside the bottle sorter 180, and the left side wall 196 and the right side wall 197 of the bottle sorter 180 are formed. It has a separating plate 187 provided in contact with both ends, and has a partition plate 188 below the separating plate 187 to form a bottle discharging part 192 and a plastic bottle discharging part 191.

  Accordingly, garbage such as bottles and PET bottles that are input from the input port 181 is dropped in the bottle sorter 180 by the first receiving member 183 and the second receiving member 184, and the falling speed is reduced. The plastic bottle is blown to the plastic bottle discharge part 191 by the wind blown from the outlet 185 and discharged from the exhaust outlet 186, and the glass container such as the bottle falls to the bottle discharge part 192.

  The bottle discharge section 192 is provided with a bottle receiving section in which an elastic plate (not shown) is arranged obliquely so that the bottle falling on the bottle discharge section 192 is received so as not to be damaged and discharged from the bottle sorter 180. It is what makes it possible to do.

  The trash that has fallen to the bottle discharge unit 192 is discharged to the bottle processing line 199, and the trash that has dropped to the PET bottle discharge unit 191 is discharged to the PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor 201.

  The PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor 201 is arranged on the second work table 203 together with the bottle sorter 180, and is a belt conveyor arranged horizontally with a length of about 5 to 6 meters.

  And there are spaces where several workers can be placed on both sides of this PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor 201, large garbage such as vinyl pieces and bottles and cans have already been removed, mainly PET bottles It is designed to remove small garbage other than plastic bottles contained in the trash.

  In this way, this recycle processing device is used to manually remove unnecessary garbage other than PET bottles from the PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor 201 where conspicuous miscellaneous garbage, bottles and cans have been removed and mainly PET bottles remain. With 100, it is easy and reliable to leave only plastic bottles from miscellaneous waste.

  Then, after removing small garbage mixed with the PET bottles manually by the PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor 201, as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 205 is to put garbage such as plastic bottles.

  This washing machine 205 has a substantially vertical cylindrical shape with an inlet at the top, and has a slightly inclined net inside, and this net can be received in many sizes without allowing the PET bottle to pass through. It has a water sprayer that sprays water on the net.

  And it has a mechanism that can give vibration to the net by the motor and link mechanism, and while spraying water to the plastic bottle that has fallen on the net, the plastic bottle is moved along the inclination of the net by vibration and washed with water The bottle is dropped from the end of the net and discharged to the PET bottle conveyor 209.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the PET bottle transporting conveyor 209 is a belt conveyor that transports the PET bottles discharged from the washing machine 205 so as to enter the label peeling machine 210 from the upper part of the label peeling machine 210.

  As shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, the label peeling machine 210 covers a rotating drum 215 having a horizontal rotating shaft with a cylindrical drum case 213, and has an inlet 211 above one end of the drum case 213. The PET bottle that has been introduced through the inlet 211 is dropped between the drum case 213 and the rotating drum 215.

  Further, at the other end of the drum case 213, an air outlet 217 is provided above, and the air in the drum case 213 is discharged by a suction blower 218 (see FIG. 6) disposed near the label peeling machine 210. The air is sucked through the air intake duct 220, and the drum case 213 has a discharge port 219 below the other end so that the plastic bottle can be discharged.

  And, inside this drum case 213, it has a number of nail-shaped protruding fixed blade pins, and on the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum 215, a number of elongated plate-shaped rotating blades are protruded, The clearance between the tip of the fixed blade pin and the tip of the rotary blade is set to several centimeters.

  Therefore, when the driving motor 223 provided at the position of the base is driven, and the rotation of the motor pulley 224 rotated by the driving motor 223 is transmitted to the drum pulley 225 to rotate the rotating drum 215, the PET bottle put into the drum case 213 Can be agitated and moved in accordance with the rotation of the rotary drum 215 in the drum case 213 so as to be sandwiched between the tip of the rotary blade and the tip of the fixed blade pin. The label attached to or wrapped around the PET bottle is peeled off, and the paint applied to the outer surface of the PET bottle can be peeled off along with the outer surface of the bottle.

  Then, suck the outside air into the drum case 213 from the inlet 211 or the inlet side end, and suck the air inside the drum case 213 from the inlet 217, and the label peeled off from the outer surface of the plastic bottle, and the paint At the same time, the PET debris scraped from the outer surface of the PET bottle is sucked out of the label peeling machine 210 from the air inlet 217, and the container body of the PET bottle whose outer surface is damaged is dropped from the outlet 219 and is discharged by the bottle discharge conveyor 229. It is transferred to the manual sorting line conveyor 231.

  In addition, the recycling processing device 100 shown in FIG. 1 is a system in which each device after the hand sorting line conveyor 231 is divided into two lines in accordance with the processing capacity of the crusher 237 that crushes PET bottles into flakes.

  This manual sorting line conveyor 231 is also arranged to have a working space as a sorting work place 233 in which one or two workers can be placed on the side of the manual sorting line conveyor 231.

  This manual sorting line conveyor 231 is a PET bottle that has been washed and the label has been peeled off, and is not suitable for PET flakes because foreign substances such as tobacco remain in the colored PET bottle or PET bottle container. It is removed and removed manually by the operator.

  In this way, the waste (pet bottle) from which the PET bottle that is not suitable for PET flakes close to the virgin raw material has been removed and passed through the hand sorting line conveyor 231 is transported to the crusher 237 by the crusher charging conveyor 235, and is supplied to the crusher. It will be put into 237.

  The crusher 237 crushes the PET bottle main body into a flake shape of about several millimeters square. The crusher 237 can also crush the PET bottle cap together to dissipate the heat of crushing. It is what sprays cleaning water inside.

  The shards of PET bottles in the form of flakes are transferred to the flake sorter 243 by the first screw conveyor 241 together with the washing water (see Fig. 6), and the pet flakes are collected by the flake sorter 243.

  The flake sorter 243 vibrates a filter mesh of about 100 mesh, moves pet flakes remaining on the filter mesh by vibration, and discharges them to the second screw conveyor 245 from the edge of the filter mesh. Foreign matter such as powder is filtered with washing water, and only pet flakes are discharged to the second screw conveyor 245.

  This second screw conveyor 245 transfers the pet flakes discharged by the flake sorter 243 to the sorting water tank 250 (see Fig. 6).

  As shown in FIG. 14 to FIG. 16, the sorted water tank 250 includes a flake throwing portion 251 near one short side of the water tank whose planar shape is substantially rectangular, and the other short side is the other three sides. The overflow part 252 has a lower side wall than the overflow part 252 so that the water in the aquarium overflows, and a collection tray 253 that collects the overflow water from the overflow part 252 is provided to form a collection port 254. It is what.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 15 and 16, the sorted water tank 250 is a water tank bottom part 257 inclined from both side walls on the long side so as to lower the center of the water tank bottom part 257, and extends along the long side of the water tank. The first flake collecting screw conveyor 261 is disposed at the center of the aquarium bottom 257, settled in the sorting water tank 250 by the first flake collecting screw conveyor 261, and flakes gathered in the center due to the inclination of the aquarium bottom 257 overflow the sorting water tank 250. It has a second flake collecting screw conveyor 262 that collects pet flakes collected by the first flake collecting screw conveyor 261 from the sorting water tank 250, collected at the bottom of the short side where the section 252 is provided.

  Further, this sorting water tank 250 has a stirring plate 255 at the water surface position, and the stirring plate 255 is rotated at a low speed by the stirring motor 256 to mix the flaky substance introduced from the flake introduction part 251 with water and also in the water tank. The water is rippled and the amount of water overflowing from the overflow part 252 is changed periodically.

  The sorting water tank 250 precipitates the PET resin of the PET bottle body crushed by the crusher 237, collects the pet flakes precipitated by the first flake collecting screw conveyor 261, and collects the PET flakes from the sorting water tank 250 by the second flake collecting screw conveyor 262. The flakes that have been taken out and crushed from the bottle cap are floated on the water surface of the aquarium, discharged from the overflow section 252, and collected at the collection port 254 separately from the pet flakes.

  Then, the pet flakes taken out from the water tank by the second flake collecting screw conveyor 262 are transferred to the dehydrator 267 by the flake carrier conveyor 265, dehydrated by the dehydrator 267, and then dried by the drier. To do.

  In addition, flakes such as caps discharged from the overflow section 252 and collected at the collection port 254 are separately dehydrated by the dehydrator 268 and then dried by the dryer.

  As described above, the recycling apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment transfers miscellaneous wastes, mainly bottles, cans, and PET bottles, as a substantially fixed amount per unit time on the apron conveyor 130. It enables efficient mechanical processing to remove garbage other than PET bottles and human processing, which is manual work.

  And steel cans, aluminum cans and glass containers are removed mechanically, and other kinds of garbage such as plastic pieces, paper, cigarette butts, etc. are manually removed. It can be removed.

  In addition, the plastic bottles are cleaned to remove debris adhering to the PET bottles, and the label and paint attached to the PET bottles are also removed by the label peeling machine 210. Residual PET bottles can also be removed manually when transported by hand sorting line conveyor 231, so when crushing PET bottles, leave only colorless and clean PET bottles and crush them into crusher 237 It is something that can be processed.

  For this reason, the pet flakes generated by this recycling processing apparatus 100 can be made into high-quality pet flakes that are close to virgin raw materials, and a large amount of miscellaneous waste processing is efficiently performed by a combination of human processing and mechanical processing. Is something that can be done.

  The recycling apparatus 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention facilitates and reliably removes garbage other than PET bottles from miscellaneous waste including bottles, cans, and bottles, and easily crushes only colorless PET bottles. Therefore, a large amount of miscellaneous waste can be processed to easily recycle PET bottles, resulting in PET flakes with high reuse value.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Recycling processing apparatus 105 Stockyard 110 Bag breaker 111 Loading hopper 113 Bag breaker main body 115 Discharge port 117 Control panel 118 Drive motor 119 Mirror 121 Ground surface 123 Semi-basement 130 Apron conveyor 131 Flat part 133 Inclined part 135 Conveyor belt 136 Horizontal Crosspiece 138 Drive motor 139 Drive roller 140 Sorting line conveyor 145 Column 146 First workbench 147 Safety fence 150 Magnetic separator 151 Magnet 153 Discharge conveyor belt 155 Drive motor 157 Receiving port 160 Aluminum sorter 161 End roller 162 Rotating magnet 163 Magnet drive Motor 164 Transfer belt 165 Tension roller 166 Belt drive motor 167 Receiving port 168 First opening 169 Second opening 175 Pet / bottle transport conveyor 1 80 Bottle sorter 181 Input port 182 Introduction plate 183 First receiving member 184 Second receiving member 185 Blower port 186 Exhaust port 187 Separation plate 188 Partition plate 191 PET bottle discharge unit 192 Bottle discharge unit 194 Front side wall 195 Rear side wall 196 Right side wall 197 Left side wall 198 Blower 199 Bottle processing line 201 PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor 203 Second work table 205 Washing machine 209 PET bottle transport conveyor 210 Label peeling machine 211 Input port 213 Drum case 215 Rotating drum 217 Intake port 218 Suction blower 219 Discharge port 220 Intake duct 221 Base 223 Drive motor 224 Motor pulley 225 Drum pulley 229 Bottle discharge conveyor 231 Manual sorting line conveyor 233 Sorting work place 235 Crusher loading conveyor 237 Break Machine 241 first screw conveyor 243 flake sorter 245 the second screw conveyor 250 selected water tank 250
251 Flakes throwing section 252 Overflow section 253 Collection tray 254 Collection port 255 Stirring plate 256 Stirring motor 257 Water tank bottom 259 Base 261 First flake collecting screw conveyor 262 Second flake collecting screw conveyor 265 Flake conveying conveyor 267, 268 Dehydrator

Claims (8)

A bag breaker for crushing garbage bags;
An apron conveyor for transferring garbage stored in the garbage bag;
A sorting line conveyor for receiving the waste through the apron conveyor;
Provided on the sorting line conveyor, a magnetic separator for sorting magnetic containers and an aluminum sorter for sorting aluminum containers,
A pet / bottle transport conveyor for transporting the dust that has passed through the magnetic separator and the aluminum separator;
A bottle sorter for receiving the garbage transported by the pet / bottle transport conveyor;
PET bottles / residue sorting line conveyor for receiving garbage that has passed through the bottle sorter;
A washing machine for receiving garbage via the plastic bottle / residue sorting line conveyor;
A plastic bottle transport conveyor for transporting the dust that has passed through the washing machine;
A label peeling machine for receiving the dust transported by the plastic bottle transport conveyor;
A hand-sorting line conveyor that receives the dust that has passed through the label peeling machine;
A crusher carry-in conveyor that conveys garbage through the manual sorting line conveyor;
A crusher that crushes the trash introduced by the crusher carry-in conveyor into flakes,
A first screw conveyor that conveys crushed garbage into flakes, a flake sorter, a second screw conveyor that conveys flake-shaped garbage sorted by the flake sorter, and
A sorting water tank for receiving the flake-shaped waste conveyed by the second screw conveyor;
A flake collecting screw conveyor that scrapes flaky trash precipitated in the sorting water tank;
A recycling apparatus characterized by comprising:   The apron conveyor uses a conveyor belt with a cross, and is a belt conveyor provided with a substantially horizontal flat portion and an inclined portion with an inclination angle of about 40 to 55 degrees. Recycling processing equipment.   2. The magnetic separator according to claim 1, further comprising: a magnet provided immediately above the sorting line conveyor; and a discharge belt that circulates the upper and lower surfaces of the magnet in a direction orthogonal to the sorting line conveyor. Item 2. The recycling apparatus according to item 2.   The aluminum sorter has a rotating magnet in an end roller of the sorting line conveyor, and has a first opening below the tip of the sorting line conveyor and a second opening below the tip of the sorting line conveyor. The recycling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the recycling apparatus is provided.   The bottle sorter includes a blower, and has a bottle discharge section below a tip of the pet / bottle transport conveyor, and has a plastic bottle discharge section on the side of the bottle discharge section, and the pet / bottle transport conveyor Among the trash falling from the container, the trash having a light weight relative to its volume is dropped by the air blower from the blower onto the PET bottle discharge section which is removed from the lower end of the PET / bottle transport conveyor, and the PET bottle / residue transport The recycling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the recycling apparatus is discharged onto a conveyor.   The washing machine includes an inclined net and a sprinkler that discharges water on the net, and moves the garbage on the net along the inclination by vibrating the net, so that the PET bottle / residue sorting line conveyor The recycling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the recycling apparatus is discharged upward.   The label peeling machine has a cylindrical drum case that covers a rotating drum, has a plurality of rotating blades on the outer peripheral surface of the rotating drum, a plurality of fixed blade pins on the inner surface of the drum case, and an outer surface of a plastic bottle The label and the surface print wound around the PET bottle are peeled off by damaging the air, and the air in the rotating drum is sucked into one of the rotating drums from the intake port above the end position by a suction blower. A broken PET bottle having a discharge port below the one end of the bottle and falling from the discharge port is transferred to the hand sorting line conveyor by a bottle discharge conveyor. The recycling processing apparatus described in any of the above.   The crusher crushes and discharges PET bottles into pieces of about several millimeters square, and the flake sorter collects PET bottle fragments on a vibrating filter and discharges them to the second screw conveyor. The recycling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

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