JPH0747493A - Structure of empty can throw-in port in empty can crashing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To surely drop an empty can into a chuter, and to obtain a throw-in port of the empty can by sliding simultaneously a door plate and a supporting plate. CONSTITUTION:In front of a casing which is formed on a side wall 6 of the crashing device main body and has a space 7, an opening 3 for throwing in an empty can C is formed. A door plate 5 for covering the opening 3 is fixed so as to be freely slidable in the left and the right directions between a position for covering the opening 3 and a position for opening it. A supporting plate 8 which has size for covering the upper end of a chuter extended and provided in the opening 3, and can mount the empty can thrown in from the opening 3 is provided so as to be free slidable in the horizontal direction. The lower part of the rear end in the sliding direction of the door plate 5 and the front end part in the sliding direction of the supporting plate 8 are fixed so that the door plate 5 and the supporting plate 8 slide simultaneously. To one side end of the opening 3 positioned in the direction for closing the door plate 5, a control member extended in the depth direction of the casing is fixed. In such a way, a clogging phenomenon of the chuter can be prevented.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement in the structure of an empty can inlet used in a device for crushing empty cans.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A crushing device for empty cans is a crusher for an empty can that is connected to a crushing mechanism provided in a casing of the device by a shooter when the empty can is supplied to a crushing mechanism of a proper structure. There are many structures that do. And
The opening of such a crushing device is generally of an open type in which an opening sufficient to insert an empty can is formed in the casing of the device body, and the upper end of the shooter is connected to the inner edge of this opening.

However, in such a structure, since the charging port is exposed, foreign matters such as dust and stones are likely to be thrown in, and a user who forcibly pushes in these foreign matters from an easy feeling. May cause clogging of the shooter. The same problem arises when an openable / closable lid that covers the opening is attached to the inlet. On the other hand, if a special device is attached between the charging port and the shooter to solve the above problem, the cost of the crushing device becomes high.

In view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the object of the present invention is to realize a simple structure at a low cost by always blinding the upper open end of the shooter and surely dropping the empty can into the shooter if necessary. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a structure of an empty can input port.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides an empty can crushing mechanism housed in an empty can crushing device, and an empty can via a shooter from above the crushing mechanism. In the empty can input port for supplying the container, an opening for empty can input is formed on the front surface of the casing of the crushing device, and a door plate that covers this opening is provided between the position that covers the opening and the position that opens it. A support plate that is slidably fixed in the left-right direction and has a size that covers the upper end of the shooter extended in the opening and that can mount an empty can inserted from the opening is positioned at the above-mentioned position that covers the upper end of the shooter. And a position where it is opened so that it can be slid horizontally, and the lower rear end of the door plate in the sliding direction and the front front part of the supporting plate in the sliding direction are fixed and the door plate and the supporting plate slide simultaneously. And close the door plate The opening one end located toward, and fixed restriction member extending in the depth direction of the casing, characterized by a point.

In this structure, when the empty can is placed on the supporting plate and the door plate is locked when the door plate is closed, the lock is released after the empty can is crushed by the crushing mechanism. It is advisable to provide a lock mechanism and its control unit.

[0007]

When the door plate is opened, the support plate moves to the position where the support plate covers the upper end of the shooter, and the support plate appears in the opening. In this state, the support plate is an obstacle and it is not possible to directly insert an empty can or foreign matter into the shooter.

When the door plate is closed, the support plate also moves in the opposite direction as it appears in the opening, opening the upper end of the shooter. At this time, the empty can placed on the support plate cannot be moved in the moving direction of the door plate and the support plate by being restricted by the restriction member, and as a result, the empty can is moved downward from the upper end of the shooter being opened. Dropped.

When a lock mechanism and a control unit for controlling the lock mechanism are provided, once the door plate is opened, the empty can is placed on the support plate, and then the door plate is closed, the door plate is locked. The mechanism works. Therefore, until the empty can is crushed and disposed, the next empty can is not inserted from the charging port.

[0010]

The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the illustrated embodiments. FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of an empty can crushing device to which an input port according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a processing chamber for crushing the empty cans C, and 2 is a containing chamber for containing the crushed empty cans C ′.

Reference numeral 3 denotes an opening for inserting an empty can formed in the front surface of the casing 1a of the processing chamber 1. Inside the opening 3, FIG.
As can be seen in FIG. 2, the upper end of the shooter 4 for guiding the empty can C is located in the crushing mechanism 9.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a door plate having a size that covers the opening 3, and is fixed so as to be slidable in the left-right direction between a position where the opening 3 is covered and a position where the opening 3 is opened. Reference numeral 6 denotes a side plate having a U-shaped cross section fixed to the inside of the opening 3 so as to cover just around the upper end of the shooter 4. A space surrounded by these side plates 6 becomes a space 7 into which the empty can C is charged. In the present embodiment, this charging space is limited to a volume capable of charging one empty can.

Reference numeral 8 is a support plate that partitions the bottom of the charging space 7.
It has a size large enough to cover the upper end of the shooter 4 and mount an empty can, and is horizontally slidable between a position where the shooter 4 is covered and a position where the shooter 4 is opened.
The support plate 8 and the door plate 5 are integrated with each other so that they can slide in the left and right directions in the figure at the same time. However, as shown in FIG. 1, they are displaced by a predetermined length in the sliding direction. It is fixed. That is, the lower portion of the rear end 5a of the door plate 5 in the sliding direction and the lower portion of the front end 8a of the supporting plate 8 in the sliding direction are fixed to each other, and the both do not simultaneously occupy the charging space 7 including the opening 3.

Further, an electric lock mechanism (not shown) is attached to the door plate 5 and the bottom plate 8. The lock mechanism and the control unit that controls the lock mechanism prevent the plates 5 and 8 from sliding while the crushing mechanism 9 is operating.

A crushing mechanism 9 is disposed below the shooter 4 as shown in the sectional view of the crushing device of FIG. The crushing mechanism 9 stores the empty canister C in the crushing space 12 between the movable plate 10 and the fixed plate 11 which face each other, and moves the movable plate 10 toward and away from the fixed plate 11 to thereby move the empty canister C.
It is a structure that crushes. An electromagnet 13 is attached to the movable plate 10, and the flattened iron empty can C after crushing is continuously magnetized to a retracted position, and when the current is cut off, the iron empty can C is dropped downward. Aluminum can C is movable plate 10
Is moved forward in the direction of the fixed plate 11 and then retracted, the fixed plate 1
It directly drops below 1.

First, when the user of the present crushing device opens the door, the supporting plate 8 located outside the charging space will occupy the bottom of the charging space, as shown in FIG.
The support plate 8 covers the upper end of the shooter 4. Therefore, when the empty can C is placed on the support plate and the door plate 5 is closed, as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 4, the opening 3 is closed by the door plate 5, but the bottom of the charging space is opened. When the support plate 8 slides to the left in the figure, the empty can C on the support plate is pushed relatively to the left side plate in the figure, and when the support by the support plate 8 is lost,
The inside of the shooter drops from the opened upper end of the shooter 4.

The left side plate or the other side plate that surrounds the charging space does not have to have a plate surface, and may be a fence-like member in which bar members are arranged at intervals.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, the support plate covers the upper end of the shooter when the empty can can be placed, and the empty can on the support plate loses the support base when the door plate is closed. Automatically falls into the shooter, there is no danger of foreign matter being directly pushed into the shooter, and the clogging phenomenon of the shooter can be prevented.

Further, the appearance is improved, and the user only has to place the empty can on the support plate, so that the feeling of throwing away the empty can is eliminated and it is possible to contribute to the resource recovery.

Further, since the present invention has an extremely simple structure as described above, its manufacturing cost can be kept as low as possible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a crushing device using an input port according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which a door plate is opened and an empty can is placed on a support plate.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which a door plate is closed and an empty can is dropped.

4 is a cross-sectional view of the device of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols in the figure]

 1 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Processing room 2 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Accommodation room 3 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Opening 4 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Shooter 5 ・ ・ ・・ ・ ・ ・ Door plate 6 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Side plate 7 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Loading space 8 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Support plate 9 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・... Crushing mechanism

Claims (2)

[Claims] Claim: What is claimed is: 1. An empty can crushing mechanism housed in an empty can crushing device, at an empty can inlet for supplying an empty can via a shooter from above the crushing mechanism, at the front of the casing of the crushing device main body. An opening for inserting an empty can is formed, and a door plate that covers the opening is slidably fixed in the left-right direction between a position where the opening is covered and a position where the opening is opened, and the shooter is extended into the opening. A support plate that has a size that covers the upper end of the can and can mount an empty can that is thrown in through the opening, and is slidably mounted horizontally between the position that covers the upper end of the shooter and the position that opens it. By fixing the sliding direction rear end lower part of the door plate and the sliding direction front end front part of the supporting plate so that the door plate and the supporting plate slide at the same time, at one end of the opening located in the closing direction of the door plate, Depth direction of the casing Structure of empty cans inlet in empty cans crushing device regulating member is fixed, characterized in that to extend. 2. The structure of the empty can inlet according to claim 1, wherein when the empty can is placed on the support plate and the door plate is closed, the door plate is locked, and the empty can is the crushing mechanism. The structure of the empty can inlet in the empty can crushing device, which comprises a lock mechanism and a control unit for unlocking the lock after being crushed in.