JPH09192525A - Crushing method of glass bottle and device therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the crushing efficiency without requiring labor by cleaning, dehydrating, drying and cooling a glass bottle as a primary crushed material, then classifying it as a secondary crushed material, and transporting a required crushed material outside and supplying an uncrushed material to a fourth transport device, and discharging an unnecessary article to the outside. SOLUTION: A glass bottle is received into a hopper 2, then is supplied to a first conveyor 13 and is supplied to a liquid cleaning machine 6 for cleaning by a second conveyor 20 after being fed to a primary crushing machine 3 on the downstream side and crushed as a primary crushed material. Next, the primary crushed material is supplied to a dehydrating machine 7 and a drying/transport device 8 for dehydration and drying, and after these steps, is transported to a cooling machine 9 for cooling. Further, the primary crushed material is supplied to a secondary crushing machine 4 to obtain a secondary crushed material, and is supplied to a classifier 10 by a fifth conveyor 41 to classify the secondary crushed material into a required crushed material, an uncrushed material and an unrequired material. In addition, the required crushed material is transported to the outside by a sixth conveyor 48 and a seventh conveyor 49. On the other hand, the uncrushed material is supplied to a fourth conveyor 35 by an eighth conveyor 50, while the unrequired material is discharged to the outside.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a glass bottle crushing method and apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for recycling glass bottles, the caps are manually removed, the labels and the like are removed manually by washing with water, and then the glass bottles with the caps and labels and the like removed are melted together with the materials for the new glass bottles. It is used as a material for some new glass bottles.

[0003]

However, the above-mentioned conventional device has a problem that it requires a lot of manual work and imposes a simple heavy labor on the worker, resulting in low work efficiency.

In view of this, an object of the present invention is to provide an efficient method for crushing glass bottles and an apparatus therefor, which requires no manual labor.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the present invention receives a glass bottle in a receiving and supplying section and supplies it to a first conveying device, and is provided on the downstream side of the first conveying device. After supplying the primary crushed material to the primary crusher and making the glass bottle into the primary crushed material, the second crusher supplies the primary crushed material to the downstream fluid washer for cleaning, and then the dehydrator and drying on the downstream side. Dehydration and drying of the primary crushed material supplied to the transport device, and the dehydrated and dried primary crushed material is transported to the cooler on the downstream side by the third transport device to be cooled and the fourth transport device on the downstream side. After the primary crushed product cooled by the above is supplied to the secondary crusher to form the secondary crushed product, it is supplied to the fifth transfer device and supplied to the downstream classifier, and the secondary crushed product is the required crushed product. , The uncrushed material and the unnecessary material are classified to the necessary crushed material by the sixth conveying device and the seventh A method of crushing a glass bottle, which is characterized in that it is carried out to the outside by a feeding device, an uncrushed material is supplied to the fourth transportation device by an eighth transportation device, and unnecessary substances are discharged to the outside. A glass bottle receiving and supplying section, a first transfer device, a primary crusher provided downstream of the first transfer device, a second transfer device, and a second transfer device.
Fluid washing machine provided on the downstream side of the transport apparatus, a dehydrator and a drying transport apparatus provided on the downstream side of the fluid washing machine, a third transport apparatus, and a downstream side of the third transport apparatus. A cooling device, a fourth transfer device, a secondary crusher provided on the downstream side of the fourth transfer device, and a magnetic separator.
A fifth transfer device, a classifier provided on the downstream side of the fifth transfer device, and a sixth device provided on the downstream side of the classifier.
And a seventh transfer device, and an eighth transfer device provided between the classifier and the fourth transfer device.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION One embodiment of a crushing apparatus for carrying out the glass bottle crushing method of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIGS. Crushing device 1 has a total length of about 30
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a hopper (about 3 m ³ ) 2 as a receiving and supplying section, 8 conveyors as a conveying device, a primary crusher 3, It has a secondary crusher 4, a magnetic separator 5, a fluid cleaner 6, a dehydrator 7, a drying and conveying device 8, a cooler 9 and a classifier 10.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the hopper 2 is provided on the pedestal 11 and has a width of about 2.3 m, a length of about 3.2 m, and a depth of about 2 m, and is located at the bottom of the hopper 2. The opening 12 is adapted to be located on the first conveyor 13.

The first conveyor 13 is a chain type and has a total length of about 7 m, and about 5.2 m of the front side 14 forms an inclination of about 45 ° with the downstream side as the upper part, and the rear side 1 following this.
5 is approximately 1.7 m and is installed horizontally. The downstream side of the rear side 15 is located above the primary crusher 3. Further, on the upstream side of the first conveyor 13, an automatic fixed quantity feeder (not shown) is installed so that a fixed quantity of glass bottles can be automatically supplied to the conveyor.

The primary crusher 3 has a length of about 3 m as shown in FIG.
It is an impact type, which is provided on a pedestal 16 having a height, and is provided with a casing 17 and a blade 18. The blade 18 is driven by a motor 19 and the glass bottle carried by the first conveyor 13 is A second conveyor 20 provided below the primary crusher 3 is formed by being crushed by the impact of the plate loaded in the upper part and provided in the casing 17 and the rotating blade 18 to be crushed to form a primary crushed material. It is supposed to fall.

The second conveyor 20 is of a belt type and has a total length of about 2 m and is disposed above the charging port 21 of the fluid cleaning machine 6 in a direction orthogonal to the first conveyor 13.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the fluid washing machine 6 is a suspension type in which a fluid is water and is hung on a pedestal 22, and has a cylindrical shape with an outer diameter of about 1 m and a length of about 3.3 m. The casing 23 is provided with an input port 21 on the upstream side, and a screw-type transfer blade (not shown) for transferring the input primary crushed material to the downstream side inside. Further, a water supply pipe and a nozzle are provided substantially in the center of the casing 23, and the motor 2 is provided outside the casing 23.
5 and a drive mechanism 26 are provided, and the outer peripheral surface of the casing 23 is driven. By doing so, the primary crushed material thrown into the feeding section 24 is sent to the dehydrator 7 on the downstream side after mud and dirt are dropped by the injection and stirring of water. In addition, 27 has shown the drainage port.

The dehydrator 7 is of a type in which air is blown, so that the water droplets of the primary crushed material washed by the fluid washing machine 6 are blown off (see FIG. 6).

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the drying and conveying device 8 is provided on the downstream side of the dehydrator 7, and has a body 28 having an outer diameter of about 1.5 m and a length of about 3 m, and a net chain conveyor 29.
And an infrared heater 30. The net chain conveyor 29 is provided inside the body 28, and the body 2
The upper half side of the body 8 extends over the entire length of the body 28.
An infrared heater 30 for adjusting the internal temperature to about 130 ° C. is provided so that the primary crushed material on the net chain conveyor 29 is dried while the net chain conveyor 29 is running.

On the outlet side of the drying / conveying device 8, a third conveyor 31 having a belt length of about 3.5 m is provided in a direction orthogonal to the axis of the drying / conveying device 8.

The cooler 9 shown in FIG. 5 is of a screw type and is provided on the downstream side of the third conveyor 31. The drum 32 has an outer diameter of about 1.5 m and a length of about 2.5 m, and a blower (not shown). It is provided with a device and a driving device 33 for the drum 32. Then, the drum 32 is supported by bearing portions 34 provided on both sides in the axial direction of the drum 32 and is driven by a drive device 33 to rotate to convey the primary crushed material from the inlet side to the outlet side of the cooler 9, and During this time, the drum 32 is cooled by blowing cold air by a blower.

A fourth conveyor 35, which is a belt conveyor with fins and has a total length of about 6 m, is provided on the outlet side of the cooler 9 in a direction orthogonal to the axis of the cooler 9. Since the fourth conveyor 35 is arranged between the outlet of the cooler 9 and the inlet of the secondary crusher 4 provided on the downstream side of the fourth conveyor 35, as shown in FIG. The central portion is an upslope portion 36 of about 60 °.

The secondary crusher 4 has a length of about 2 m as shown in FIG.
It is an impact type, which is provided on a pedestal 37 at a height and has a casing 38 and blades 39 similar to those of the primary crusher 3, and the blades 39 are driven by a motor 40 and carried by a fourth conveyor 35. The primary crushed material is the casing 38.
The secondary crushed product is formed by being crushed by the impact of the blade provided in the upper part of the casing and provided in the casing 38 and the rotating blade 39, and the secondary crushed product is formed. It is designed to fall through the magnetic separator 5 to the 5 m conveyor 41 of 3 m. The magnetic separator 5 is designed to remove the iron content in the secondary crushed material by adsorbing it to a magnet.

The fifth conveyor 41 is a belt type and is provided below the magnetic separator 5 in a direction orthogonal to the fourth conveyor 35. And this fifth conveyor 41
A classifier 10 is provided on the downstream side of the.

As shown in FIG. 7, the classifier 10 includes a first classifying section 42, a second classifying section 43, and a recycling section 44.
And an air classification unit 45.

The classifier 10 is of a screw type and has an outer diameter of about 1
A body 46 having a length of m and a length of about 3 m and a driving device 47 are provided. Inside the body 46, a thin screen constituting the first classifying section 42 is arranged on the upstream side, and a second classifying section 43 is arranged on the downstream side. A rough screen is provided. Then, the secondary crushed material sent from the fifth conveyor 41 by the rotation of the body 46 by the drive device 47 is first screened by the first classifying unit 42 as a necessary crushed material into a glass piece of 0.6 mm or less. Then, in the second classifying section 43 on the downstream side, a glass piece of 1.5 mm to 0.6 mm is sieved as a necessary crushed material. Then, these are carried out to predetermined positions by a belt type sixth conveyor 48 and a belt type seventh conveyor 49, respectively.

Further, the secondary crushed material which has not been screened in the first classifying section 42 and the second classifying section 43 is an uncrushed material in the recycle section 44 upstream of the two belt type eighth conveyors 50. Side conveyor 51 (total length of about 4.5 m), and is sent to the fourth conveyor 35 again by the downstream side conveyor 52 (total length of about 7 m) provided so as to be orthogonal to the upstream side conveyor 51. It is designed to be sent to the secondary crusher 4.

Unnecessary wood pieces, aluminum pieces, paper and the like in the secondary crushed material are blown by a blower (not shown) of the air classification section 45 and discharged to the outside.

Next, the operation of the glass bottle crushing device 1 of the present invention will be described. When the glass bottle is put into the hopper 2, the glass bottle is weighed by the automatic constant quantity feeder and the constant amount is always the first.
And is conveyed to the primary crusher 3 by the first conveyor 13. The glass bottle is impact-crushed by the primary crusher 3 and becomes a primary crushed product, which is sent to the fluid washing machine 6 by the second conveyor 20. Then, after the mud and dirt are dropped by jetting water in the fluid washing machine 6, water droplets of the primary crushed material are blown out by the dehydrator 7 and dried by the infrared heater of the drying and conveying device 8, and the third conveyor 31 It is placed and conveyed to the cooler 9.

The primary crushed material is cooled by the cooler 9 and is conveyed to the secondary crusher 4 by the fourth conveyor 35 to be a secondary crushed material. The label of the glass bottle is peeled off and the secondary magnetic separator 5 is used for the secondary crushed material. The iron content of the crushed material is recovered.

After that, the second crushed material is conveyed to the classifier 10 by the fifth conveyor 41, and the second crushed material is fed to the first classifying unit 4
2. The glass pieces classified by the second classifying unit 43, the recycling unit 44, and the air classifying unit 45, and classified by the first classifying unit 42 are used as building materials and the like. Further, the glass pieces classified by the second classifying unit 43 are used as materials for tiles and the like. Then, the secondary crushed material in the recycle section 44 is conveyed to the fourth conveyor 35 by the eighth conveyor 50 and is crushed again by the secondary crusher. Further, the paper, aluminum pieces, etc. classified by the air classifying unit 45 are discharged to the outside.

It should be noted that all of these are performed by unmanned automatic operation.

Although the fluid cleaning device in the present invention uses water, any device other than water that has a cleaning action may be used and is not particularly limited.

[0028]

As described above, the glass bottle crushing method according to the present invention is the first method in which the glass bottle is received in the receiving / supplying section.
To the primary crusher provided downstream of the first transport device to form the glass bottle as the primary crushed material, and then the second crusher transports the primary crushed material to the downstream fluid washer. To the dehydrator and the drying and conveying device on the downstream side to dehydrate and dry the primary crushed material, and the dehydrated and dried primary crushed material to the downstream side by the third conveying device. Of the primary crushed material cooled by the fourth transfer device on the downstream side to the secondary crusher to be the secondary crushed material, and then supplied to the fifth transfer apparatus. To the classifier on the downstream side, classify the secondary crushed material into necessary crushed material, uncrushed material and unnecessary material, and carry out the necessary crushed material to the outside by the sixth transfer device and the seventh transfer device, The uncrushed material is supplied to the fourth transfer device by the eighth transfer device, and unnecessary materials are externally supplied. Since to discharge it can be disrupted automatically glass bottles without requiring human intervention,
Workers can be freed from heavy labor such as washing glass bottles with water.

Further, the glass bottle crushing device of the present invention comprises a glass bottle receiving and supplying section, a first carrying device, a primary crushing machine provided on the downstream side of the first carrying device, and a second carrying device. A fluid cleaning machine provided downstream of the second transfer device, a dehydrator and a drying transfer device provided downstream of the fluid cleaning device, a third transfer device, and a third transfer device. , A fourth transfer device, a secondary crusher provided on the downstream side of the fourth transfer device, a magnetic separator, a fifth transfer device, and a fifth transfer device. A classifier provided on the downstream side of the transport device, and a sixth transport device and a seventh transport device provided on the downstream side of the classifier,
Since the eighth transport device provided between the classifier and the fourth transport device is provided, each work can be reliably performed while the glass bottle is transported by the transport device, and Since these operations can be automatically performed unattended, there is an excellent effect that work efficiency is greatly improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall plan view showing an embodiment of a glass bottle crushing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall side view of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged plan view showing the receiving and supplying unit, the primary crusher and the fluid cleaning unit shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. 3;

5 is an enlarged plan view showing the drying and conveying device and the cooler portion of FIG. 1. FIG.

6 is a side view of FIG.

7 is an enlarged plan view showing the secondary crusher and the classifier part of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 8 is a side view of FIG. 7;

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Crusher 2 Hopper 3 Primary crusher 4 Secondary crusher 5 Magnetic separator 6 Fluid washer 7 Dehydrator 8 Drying conveyor 9 Cooler 10 Classifier 13 First conveyor 20 Second conveyor 31 Third conveyor 35 4th conveyor 41 5th conveyor 48 6th conveyor 49 7th conveyor 50 8th conveyor

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A glass bottle is received by a receiving / supplying unit and supplied to a first conveying device, and then supplied to a primary crusher provided on the downstream side of the first conveying device to make the glass bottle into a primary crushed product. The first crushed material is supplied to the fluid washing machine on the downstream side to be washed by the second transfer device, and then is supplied to the dehydrator and the drying transfer device on the downstream side to dehydrate and dry the first crushed material, and then dehydrated. The dried primary crushed material is conveyed to the cooler on the downstream side by the third conveyor to be cooled, and the primary crushed material cooled by the fourth conveyor on the downstream side is supplied to the secondary crusher to After making it into the next crushed material, it is supplied to the fifth conveying device and supplied to the classifier on the downstream side, and the secondary crushed material is classified into necessary crushed material, uncrushed material and unnecessary material, and the necessary crushed material is The transfer device and the seventh transfer device carry out to the outside, and the uncrushed material is transferred to the eighth transfer device by the above-mentioned method. 4 is supplied to the conveying apparatus, glass bottles methods crushing, characterized in that so as to discharge the unnecessary substances to the outside. 2. A glass bottle receiving and supplying unit, a first transfer device, a primary crusher provided on the downstream side of the first transfer device, a second transfer device, and a second transfer device. A fluid washing machine provided on the downstream side; a dehydrator and a drying conveyance apparatus provided on the downstream side of the fluid washing machine; a third conveyance apparatus; and a cooling machine provided on the downstream side of the third conveyance apparatus. , A fourth transfer device, a secondary crusher provided downstream of the fourth transfer device, a magnetic separator, a fifth transfer device, and a classification provided downstream of the fifth transfer device. A transfer machine, a sixth transfer device and a seventh transfer device provided on the downstream side of the classifier, and an eighth transfer device provided between the classifier and the fourth transfer device. Glass bottle crushing device.