JP2500188B2 - Cigarette butts processing equipment - Google Patents

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Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is capable of continuously treating cigarette butts smoked by a large number of people in a wide range in a narrow place such as a playground such as a pachinko machine using the existing space. And cigarette butts to prevent air pollution due to smoke generated from smoked cigarettes on the ashtray
The present invention relates to a processing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a room where a large number of people gather, such as a playground such as a pachinko machine, a large number of ashtrays are installed at appropriate intervals for smokers, for example, for each amusement machine. However, a game machine having such a structure in which each ashtray is simply installed has a problem that it takes a lot of time to process the butts of each ashtray.

[0003] Therefore, in order to process the butts of each ashtray automatically, for example in Japanese Utility Model 62 - as described in 16 962 discloses, provided a conduit passage for discharging the butts,
There has been proposed a cigarette butts treatment device having a structure provided with a transfer means composed of an endless rope such as a chain for transferring butts and a scraping plate attached to the endless rope or an endless belt transfer means in the conduit.

[0004]

[SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION However, the conventional real HirakiAkira 62 - the device of the structure of the 16962 JP, when using a scraper with endless rope as the transport means, drives the Mutansaku in one direction, The scraping plate connected to this endless rope transfers to the collection container while scraping the butts, but since the endless rope is arranged horizontally and a wide space is required for the return path of the endless rope, the endless rope and the scraping board The conduit line accommodating the container is arranged all over the inside of the storage table, the internal structure of the storage table becomes complicated, and the scraping plate is blocked by foreign substances put in the storage line and the endless rope stops. If there, since it has a problem that there is no stability in the operation of Mutansaku, not yet been widely commercialized it is the real shape.

Further, when an endless belt is used as the transfer means, the butts moistened with water or the like has a problem that it is difficult for the butts to drop from the endless belt into the collection container and may not be collected in the collection container.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems. It requires only a small space for accommodating the transfer means, is easy to install, and is capable of efficiently carrying out an automatic treatment of butts, thereby eliminating foreign matter. It is an object of the present invention to provide a cigarette butts processing device that can perform stable automatic processing without being blocked, and that can reliably collect even butts moistened with water or the like in the collection device.

[0007]

A cigarette butts processing device according to the present invention has a plurality of cigarette butts inlets arranged at appropriate intervals above a hollow body provided in the front of a game machine or the like. In the cigarette butts processing device, a device for collecting cigarette butts is connected to one end inside the hollow body, and a transfer means is provided inside the hollow body for transferring the cigarette butts introduced from the charging port to the collection device. The transfer means is arranged along one side of the hollow body in the width direction thereof and reciprocates between both ends in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body, and the endless rope is centered on a vertical shaft body. Rotatably attached
Te, and substantially perpendicular to the moving direction of the free Tansaku to allow transfer to the collecting device while scraped the inserted cigarette butts from the inlet when moving the collecting device-side end portion of the hollow body Which is arranged in the width direction of the hollow body, and which is arranged along the longitudinal direction of the hollow body which is the moving direction of the endless rope when moving to the other end side of the hollow body. , Near both ends of the bottom plate of the hollow body
A lower end made of a flexible material provided on the lower part of the scraping plate.
Notch holes where the rubbing part falls are formed respectively, and one end side
The other edge of the notch hole is formed by the scraping plate at the other end of the hollow body.
When moving to the side of the scraping plate that fell into this notch
Engage the scraping part at the lower end to attach the scraping plate in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body.
And an inclined edge for inducing rotation so as to be arranged in a direction.
At one end edge of the notch hole on the other end side, the scraping plate is
When moving to the one end side, the scratch that has fallen into this notch hole
This scraping plate is engaged with the lower end rubbing part of the scraping plate and
It is an inclined edge that is guided and rotated so as to be arranged in the width direction .

Any one of a plurality of butts inlets
The cigarette butts thrown in from the
The scraping plate that reciprocates inside the hollow body faces one end of the hollow body.
When moving along, the scraping board moves in the direction of movement of the endless rope.
It is placed in the width direction of the hollow body, which is almost vertical.
Therefore, the recovery device connected to one end inside the hollow body is scratched.
It is collected and transferred to the collection device. On the other hand, the scraping board is medium
When moving to the other end side of the empty body, the scraping plate moves the endless rope
The longitudinal direction of the hollow body, which is the
The husks move without scraping to the opposite end of the recovery device
I do. In addition, the endless rope runs along one side in the width direction inside the hollow body.
As it is moved, the scraping board is an endless rope and a vertical shaft.
Since it is attached, the scraping plate is on the other end side of the hollow body.
When moving, the butts thrown in through the throwing holes are scraping boards,
Without being caught on endless ropes and vertical shafts,
The butts are not moved to the other end side of the hollow body.

Then, the scraping plate moves to the other end side of the hollow body.
To time, scraping plate of the lower sliding I write fallen to notch hole of one end side
The scraping plate engages the inclined edge of the cutout hole, and
It is guided and rotated so that it is arranged in the longitudinal direction, and the scraping plate is in the middle.
When moving to one end of the empty body, it falls into the notch hole on the other end
The bottom edge of the scraping plate engages with the slanted edge of the cutout hole.
The scraping plate is guided and rotated so that it is placed in the width direction of the hollow body.
It is.

[0010] 請 Motomeko 2 cigarette butts processing apparatus in the embodiment described is the butts processor of tobacco of claim 1 Symbol placement,
A movable blocking plate is attached to the upper part inside the hollow body so as to be held downward without contacting the endless rope and prevent the butts from moving to the other end side of the hollow body so as to be vertically rotatable. When the scraping plate moves toward one end of the hollow body, the movable blocking plate is pushed by the scraping plate arranged in the width direction of the hollow body and rotated upward. When moving to the other end side of the hollow body, the scraping plate arranged in the longitudinal direction moves between the movable blocking plate and the hollow body.

The scraping plate is directed toward the other end of the hollow body.
When moving, the scraping plate is oriented in the longitudinal direction.
Moves between the movable blocking plate and the hollow body, and
The moving stop plate is a collection device that blocks the butts inside the hollow body.
To prevent the transfer to the opposite end. In addition, movable blocking plate
When the scraping plate moves to the one end side of the hollow body,
It is pushed by the scraping plate arranged in the width direction of the empty body.
It was rotated upwards and placed in the width direction of the hollow body.
The scraping plate moves under the movable blocking plate without any trouble.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cigarette butt treatment device of the present invention, wherein in the cigarette butt treatment device of the first or second aspect , the scraping plate is arranged in a width direction and moved to one end side of the hollow body. When this is done, the scraping plate is provided with alarm means for detecting a state in which the foreign matter in the hollow body prevents the movement and is rotated in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body to display and warn the presence of the foreign matter. Is.

The scraping plate is arranged in the width direction and is hollow.
When moving to the one end side of the body, this scraping plate
A foreign object prevents the movement of the hollow body and directs it in the longitudinal direction.
To detect the presence of foreign matter and display an alarm
The alarm means is activated and the presence of foreign matter is displayed and alarmed.

[0014] cigarette butts processing apparatus of the invention of claim 4, wherein, in the butts processor cigarette according to any of claims 1 to 3, a flexible non-combustible a lower sliding portion of the take-out plate It is formed of a member.

Then, the non-combustible flexible member of the scraping plate is used.
The bottom end rubbing part formed effectively scrapes the butts
And the friction between the bottom of the hollow body and the scraping plate is light.
It reduces the movement of the scraping board.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, an embodiment of cigarette butts processing apparatus of the present invention with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a hollow such as a storage stand provided in parallel in the parallel direction of the pachinko machines 3 on the lower front of the pachinko machines 3 as game machines installed in plurals on an installation table 2 called an island. As a body, the hollow body 1 is formed of a stainless steel plate or the like in a hollow shape having a substantially rectangular cross section, and an upper surface of the hollow body 1 can hold pachinko balls, coins, belongings, and the like.

Further, a plurality of butts inlets 4 for the butts are formed on the upper surface of the hollow body 1 at appropriate intervals, and an ashtray 5 which can be opened and closed is provided at the upper portion of the inlet 4, and the upper portion of the ashtray 5 is provided. Is provided with a cover 6. The bottom of the ashtray 5 is opened by, for example, pressing the operation lever 7,
The cigarette butts placed on the top are designed to drop from the charging port 4 into the inside 8 of the hollow body.

Further, the hollow body 1 is attached to one end of the hollow body 1.
A device 9 for collecting cigarette butts communicating with the inside 8 of the container is connected, and a water tank 10 is provided in the device 9.

In FIGS. 1 to 5, reference numeral 11 denotes a transfer means made of a heat resistant material or a metal.
Is formed of, for example, an endless rope 12 made of a chain and a scraping plate 13 attached to the endless rope 12, and the hollow body 1
Is disposed in the interior 8. The endless rope 12 is arranged substantially parallel to the installation base 2 along one side in the width direction of the hollow body 1 which is the installation base 2 side (the rear side of FIGS. 2 and 3), that is, the rear side. It is suspended by gears 14 and 15 provided at both ends of the body 1. Then, an electric motor 17 is driven through a drive shaft 16a provided with the gear 14 so as to reciprocate between both ends of the hollow body 1. The drive shaft 16a and the subordinate shaft 16b provided with the gear 15 are attached to the bottom plate of the hollow body 1 by the attachments 18, respectively.

Further, the scraping plate 13 is attached via a connecting member 21 connected and fixed to the endless rope 12, and reciprocates between both ends of the hollow body 1 as the endless rope 12 is driven. The scraping plate 13 is horizontally rotatably supported by a vertical shaft body 22 attached to the connecting member 21. The scraping plate 13 is arranged in the width direction of the hollow body 1 which is substantially perpendicular to the moving direction of the endless rope 12 as shown in FIGS. 2 (b) and 5, and FIG. ), (F)
As shown in FIG. 3, the endless ropes 12 are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1, which is the moving direction, and the scraping plates 13 can be locked and fixed in the respective arrangement directions.

Further, the scraping plate 13 is made of a heat-resistant material or a metal, and has a substantially rectangular main body portion 23 having a notch on one side as shown in FIG. 4 and a lower end edge of the main body portion 23. It is formed by, for example, a broom-shaped lower end rubbing portion 24 attached, and the lower end rubbing portion 24 is formed of a non-combustible flexible material having good sliding property, for example, a heat resistant resin, and the bottom surface of the hollow body 1. It comes in contact.

2 (a), 2 (c) and 3 (d),
As shown in (f), the substantially trapezoidal notched holes 25 and 26 for guiding rotation so that the arrangement direction of the scraping plate 13 with respect to the moving direction of the endless rope 12 are respectively changed, are the bottom plates of the hollow body 1. The recovery devices 9 are provided in the vicinity of the attachments 18 at both ends of the above, and the recovery device 9 is disposed below the cutout hole 25 on one end side. Then, the lower end rubbing portion 24 made of a flexible material provided in the lower portion of the scraping plate 13 is designed to fall into the notch holes 25 and 26. The other end edge 25a of the notch hole 25 on the one end side is formed substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1, and the one end edge 26a of the notch hole 26 on the other end side with respect to the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1. It is formed substantially vertically.

The one end edge 25b of the cutout hole 25 on the one end side is such that when the scraping plate 13 moves to the other end side of the hollow body 1, the scraping plate 13 is on the other end side of the hollow body 1. The lower end sliding friction part 24 of the scraping plate 13 which has fallen into the notch hole 25 when it is moved to the position is engaged to guide the scraping plate 13 to be arranged in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1. It becomes an inclined edge, and the inclined edge of the one end edge 25b of the cutout hole 25 is inclined toward the other end side from the front side to the rear side of the installation table 2. One end edge 26b of the notch hole 26 on the other end side is formed when the scraping plate 13 moves to one end of the hollow body 1 when the scraping plate 13 moves to one end of the hollow body 1. An inclined edge that engages with the lower end sliding portion 24 of the scraping plate 13 that has fallen into the notch hole 26 to guide the scraping plate 13 to be arranged in the width direction of the hollow body 1 is formed. The inclined edge of the one end portion 26b of the notch hole 26 is inclined from the front side to the rear side of the installation table 2 toward the other end side.

Further, in FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, 31 is a thin movable blocking plate, and this movable blocking plate 31 is a small amount of butts dragged by the scraping plate 13 as shown by the solid line in FIG. To prevent the butts from moving to the other end side (the left side in FIGS. 2 and 3) opposite to the collecting device 9 and is made of a heat resistant material or metal. The movable blocking plate 31 is vertically supported by a horizontal shaft 32 mounted on the upper part of the hollow body 1 and spaced apart from the front side of the endless rope 12 at the upper part of the inner part 8 of the hollow body 1. It can be freely rotated.

When the scraping plate 13 moves toward the other end of the hollow body 1, the scraping plate 13 is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1 so as not to hinder the movement of the scraping plate 13. The scraping plate 13 moves between the rear side of the movable block plate 31 and the rear surface of the hollow body 1, and the downward movable block plate 31 blocks the butts in the inside 8 of the hollow body 1. There is. The movable blocking plate 31 is pushed upward by the scraping plate 13 arranged in the width direction of the hollow body 1 when the scraping plate 13 moves toward one end of the hollow body 1. The scraping plate 13 arranged in the width direction of the hollow body 1 is rotated toward, and moves under the movable blocking plate 31 without any trouble.

An intake port (not shown) is provided near the ashtray 5 provided on the upper surface of the hollow body 1, and an exhaust duct (not shown) communicating with the intake port is provided in the hollow body 1. than transfer feed means 11 of the internal 8 provided on the installation base 2 side (rear side in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3), the vicinity of the recovery device 9 provided with exhaust fan 33 for discharging air from the exhaust air duct Further, an air filter 34 is arranged on the front surface of the exhaust fan 33.
Then, due to the exhaust air of the exhaust fan 33, the inside of the duct becomes negative pressure, and the dirty air including smoke and ash from the smoked cigarette placed on the ashtray 5 is sucked from the intake port and discharged from the exhaust fan 33 to the outside of the room. Alternatively, it is recirculated into the room through an air purifying device (not shown) provided separately.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

As the endless rope 12 is driven, as shown in FIG. 2 (b), when the scraping plate 13 moves to one end side of the hollow body 1 to the recovery device 9 side (right side in FIG. 2), the scraping plate 13 is moved. Is held in a state of being arranged in the width direction of the hollow body which is substantially perpendicular to the moving direction of the endless rope 12, and moves toward the recovery device 9 side while scraping the butts put in from the input port 4.

Next, as shown by the solid line in FIG. 2 (c), when the scraping plate 13 reaches the notch hole 25 on the one end side, the butts are notched hole.
It falls from 25 to the water tank 10 of the recovery device 9. Then, the butts are reliably transferred while being scraped off by the scraping plate 13, so that even the butts moistened with water can be reliably collected by the collecting device 9.

Next, as shown by the broken line in FIG. 2 (c), the lower end of the scraping plate 13 is reached before the scraping plate 13 reaches one end 25a of the cutout hole 25 (the right end of FIG. 2 (c)). The rubbing portion 24 falls into the cutout hole 25, and when the scraping plate 13 reaches the vicinity of the cutout hole end portion 25a, the electric motor 17 is stopped and the endless rope 12 is stopped.

Next, as shown in FIG. 3 (d), an electric motor
When the rotation direction of 17 is driven in the opposite direction, the scraping plate 13 is in the state where the lower end sliding portion 24 of the scraping plate 13 has fallen into the notch hole 25, and the scraping plate 13 is at the other end of the hollow body 1 on the side opposite to the collecting device 9 ( 3) and move to the lower end rubbing portion 24 at one end 25b of the inclined cutout hole 25.
3 is stopped, the scraping plate 13 is gradually rotated as shown by the arrow finger A, and approaches the endless rope 12 side in the substantially same direction as the endless rope 12 as shown in FIG. 3 (e). The hollow body 1 is arranged so as to face the longitudinal direction.

Next, as shown in FIG. 3 (e), the scraping plate 13 is held in a state of being oriented in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1 toward the endless rope 12 side, and the hollow body is scratched without scratching. 1 moves to the other end side. When the scraping plate 13 moves to the other end side of the hollow body 1, the scraping plate 13 is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1 which is the moving direction of the endless rope 12, and the butts are collected by the collecting device 9.
Move to the opposite end without scraping. Further, since the endless rope 12 is moved along one side in the width direction inside the hollow body 1, and the scraping plate 13 is attached to the endless rope 12 by the vertical shaft body 22, the scraping plate 13 is a hollow body. 1, when moving to the other end side,
13, the endless rope 12 and the vertical shaft body 22 are not caught, and the butts are not moved to the other end side of the hollow body 1. As shown in FIG. 3 (f), before the scraping plate 13 reaches the vicinity of the other end 26a of the notch hole 26, the driving direction of the electric motor 17 is changed to the opposite direction, and the moving direction of the scraping plate 13 is changed. On the contrary, it is converted and moved toward one end of the hollow body 1.

Then, as shown in FIG. 2 (a), the scraping plate 13
With the lower end rubbing portion 24 of the
Is moved toward the one end of the hollow body 1, the slanted notch hole 26
Since the movement direction of the lower end rubbing portion 24 is stopped at the one end portion 26b of the end, the scraping plate 13 is gradually rotated as shown by the arrow finger B, and the endless cord 12 of the endless rope 12 is moved as shown in FIG. 2 (b). Arranged in the width direction of the hollow body 1 which is substantially perpendicular to the moving direction, the scraping plate 13 moves to one end side of the hollow body 1 while being held in this state, and this operation is repeated.

The direction change of the moving direction (left-right direction) of the scraping plate 13 may be carried out by presetting so that the rotating direction of the electric motor 17 is changed every predetermined time. It may be carried out by detecting that it has reached the vicinity of the cutout hole end portions 25a, 26a by a microswitch or the like.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3 (e), when the scraping plate 13 moves to the left side, the scraping plate 13 moves toward the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1 toward the endless rope 12 side. , The butts move without scraping, and the butts do not drop from the notch hole 26.

Since the lower end rubbing portion 24 of the scraping plate 13 is a broom-like member made of a non-combustible flexible member having good sliding property,
The butts can be scraped efficiently, the friction between the bottom surface of the hollow body 1 and the scraping plate 13 is reduced, and the scraping plate 13 can move smoothly, and the cutout holes 25 and 26 of the scraping plate 13 can pass smoothly. To be done.

When the scraping plate 13 moves to the other end (on the left side in FIGS. 2 and 3) opposite to the collecting device 9, the lower end of the movable blocking plate 31 moves as shown by the solid line in FIG. The movable blocking plate 31 is arranged diagonally downward so as to contact the bottom surface of the hollow body 1, and a small amount of butts dragged by the scraping plate 13 is blocked by the movable blocking plate 31, and the notch hole 26 on the other end side is formed. Is prevented from falling. At this time, since the scraping plate 13 is held in the state of being oriented toward the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1 toward the endless rope 12 side, the scraping plate 13 can move on the rear side of the movable blocking plate 31 without any trouble. On the other hand, the scraping plate 13 is located on one side of the hollow body 1 on the side of the collecting device 9 (see FIG. 2).
3 and the right side of FIG. 3), the movable blocking plate 31 is pushed by the scraping plate 13 and rotated upward, so that the inside 8 of the hollow body 1 is moved.
Since it jumps up to the upper part of the movable scraping plate 13, the scraping plate 13 is arranged in the width direction which is substantially perpendicular to the moving direction of the endless rope 12.
The lower part of 31 can be moved without hindrance.

Further, the scraping plate 13 which is moving to one end side of the hollow body 1 to the side of the collecting device 9 (right side in FIGS. 2 and 3) is blocked by the large foreign matter 35 introduced from the above-mentioned inlet 4. ,
If an abnormal situation occurs where the movement is stopped,
Scraper 13 is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body 1 by being rotated in Mutansaku 12 side at the large forces abnormally applied from the foreign object 35 to Mutansaku 12 side as indicated by a broken line in FIG. 5 The hollow body 1 is converted into the open state, and the foreign body 35 can be avoided to move to the one end side of the hollow body 1 continuously. At this time, the presence of the foreign matter 35 is detected by a pressure sensor (not shown) attached to the scraping plate 13 or a micro switch (not shown) to give a display alarm, and the electric motor 17 is stopped if necessary. . The presence of the foreign matter 35, that is, the detection of an abnormal situation is detected by the electric motor 17
Alternatively, the abnormal torque may be detected electrically.

Since the endless rope 12 and the scraping plate 13 reciprocate, the transfer means 11 has a small width and height in the front-rear direction and can be formed compactly. Therefore, the hollow body in which the transfer means 11 is housed is housed. 1 space can be designed compactly. It is also possible to house the transfer means 11 in a duct (not shown) and insert this duct into a part of the hollow body 1 which is designed to be relatively large, but in this structure, the scraping plate 13 is of the hollow body 1. Since it moves not by contacting the bottom surface but the bottom surface of this duct, the exhaust duct is arranged on the side of the installation base 2 of the hollow body 1 (rear side in FIG. 1) and the duct for accommodating the transfer means 11 is arranged on the front side. Will be installed. In either case, since the space occupied by the transfer means 11 is small, the installation work of the transfer means 11 on the pachinko machine 3 becomes easy.

[0041] In the above SL each embodiment, although game machine has been described pachinko machine, not limited to the pachinko machine, it can be applied to the hollow body such as stillage provided on the front surface of various game machine, also play Not limited to machines, it can be applied to various hollow bodies.

[0042]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a means for transferring cigarette butts can be compactly housed inside a hollow body such as a storage table of a game machine, and an extra space can be used in a narrow playground. Instead, it is possible to continuously and efficiently treat cigarette butts emitted from a large number of people present at appropriate intervals over a wide range, and, moreover, the scraping plate moves in the direction of movement of the endless rope when moving to the recovery device side. It moves in a widthwise arrangement of the hollow body, which is almost vertical, and can reliably transfer the butts to the collection device while scraping them, and when the scraping plate moves in the direction opposite to the collection side of the butts, the scraping plate is an endless rope. The longitudinal arrangement of the hollow body, which is approximately the same as the direction of movement, does not block the inlet and can move without scraping the butts, and the endless rope is one side in the width direction of the hollow body. Along with being moved along Since the scraper mounted in the vertical direction of the shaft body in an endless search, when the scraper is moved to the other end side of the hollow body, butts are scraper inserted from input hole,
Without being caught on endless ropes and vertical shafts,
The butts are not moved to the other end side of the hollow body. In addition, it is possible to perform processing with stable operation without being blocked by foreign matter or the like. Further, the cigarette butts moistened with water or the like can be reliably collected in the collection device.

[0043] Then, the arrangement direction of the scraper is induced rotation by provided near an end portion of the hollow body in accordance with the movement direction of the switching of the scraper notch hole, substantially perpendicular to the moving direction of the Mutansaku And the arrangement in the width direction of the hollow body and the arrangement in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body that are substantially the same with respect to the moving direction of the endless rope.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the cigarette butts processing device according to the first aspect , when the scraping plate moves to the side opposite to the collecting device, the device moves in an upright or oblique direction. The movable blocking plate disposed downward can block the butts inside the hollow body and prevent the butts from being transferred to the side opposite to the collecting device.

[0045] According to the third aspect of the present invention, claim 1 or
In addition to the cigarette butts processing device described in Paragraph 2 , when the movement of the scraping plate is hindered by a foreign substance, the scraping plate is rotated in a direction to avoid the foreign substance and can continue to move, and the direction of the scraping plate is changed. The presence of foreign matter can be displayed and alarmed with.

According to a fourth aspect of the invention, in addition to the cigarette butts processing device according to any one of the first aspect and the third aspect ,
Since the lower end rubbing part of the scraping plate is made of a non-combustible and flexible member, the butts can be scraped efficiently, and the friction between the bottom of the hollow body and the scraping plate is reduced, so that the scraping plate moves smoothly. Become.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory front view showing a cigarette butts processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention with a part cut away.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing the operation of the scraping plate, in which (a) is a plan view in which a part of the hollow body is cut away except for the upper surface of the end (left side), and (b) is the central portion of the hollow body. Plan view with a part cut away,
(c) shows a plan view in which a part of the end (right side) of the hollow body is cut away.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing the operation of the scraping plate following FIG. 2, (d)
Is a plan view with part of the hollow body excluding the upper surface of the end (right side), (e) is a plan view with part of the center of the hollow body cut away, and (f) is the end of the hollow body The top view which notched a part of (left side) is shown.

FIG. 4 is a side sectional view of FIG. 3 (f).

FIG. 5 is an explanatory side sectional view showing the operation of the movable blocking plate.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Hollow body 3 Game machine 4 Input port 8 Inside of hollow body 9,39 Collection device 11 Transfer means 12 Endless rope 13 Scraping plate 22 Shaft body 24 Lower end sliding rubbing part 25, 26 Notch hole 31 Movable blocking plate 35 Foreign matter

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A plurality of butts inlets are arranged at appropriate intervals above a hollow body provided in the front of a game machine or the like,
In the cigarette butts processing device, a device for collecting cigarette butts is connected to one end inside the hollow body, and a transfer means is provided inside the hollow body for transferring the cigarette butts introduced from the charging port to the collecting device. The means includes an endless rope that is arranged along one side in the width direction of the hollow body and reciprocates between both ends of the hollow body in the longitudinal direction, and the endless rope is rotated about a vertical shaft body. With respect to the moving direction of the endless rope, it is movably attached, and when it moves to one end of the hollow body toward the collection device, it can be transferred to the collection device while scraping the butts put in from the input port. Is arranged in the width direction of the hollow body, which is substantially vertical, and is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body, which is the moving direction of the endless rope when moving to the other end side of the hollow body. and a scraper, In the vicinity of both end portions of the bottom plate of the serial hollow body, the lower part of the scraper
Notch hole where the lower end rubbing part made of flexible material falls
And the other end edge of the notch hole on one end side is
Before falling into this notch when moving to the other end of the body
The lower end of the scraping plate is engaged with the scraping plate so that the scraping plate is hollow.
And a slanted edge that induces rotation so that it is placed in the longitudinal direction of the body.
And one end edge of the other end of the notch hole, said scraper said hollow
Before falling into this notch when moving to one end of the body
The lower end of the scraping plate is engaged with the scraping plate so that the scraping plate is hollow.
As an inclined edge that is guided and rotated so as to be arranged in the width direction of the body
A cigarette butts processing device characterized in that 2. A movable blocking plate, which is held downward in the upper part of the hollow body at all times without contacting the endless rope, to prevent the butts from moving to the other end side of the hollow body in the vertical direction. The movable blocking plate is rotatably attached, and is pushed upward by the scraping plate arranged in the width direction of the hollow body when the scraping plate moves toward one end side of the hollow body. The scraping plate which is turned toward and is arranged in the longitudinal direction when moving to the other end side of the hollow body moves between the movable blocking plate and the hollow body. claim 1 Symbol placement cigarette butts processor. 3. When the scraping plate is arranged in the width direction and moves to the one end side of the hollow body, the scraping plate is prevented from moving by foreign matter in the hollow body and is moved in the longitudinal direction of the hollow body. the claim 1, characterized in that a warning means for detecting the state of being rotated to display warning of the presence of foreign matter toward
Is a cigarette butt processing device described in 2 . 4. A scraper cigarette butts processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 3 lower sliding portion, characterized in that formed at incombustible flexible member.