WO2019038795A1 - Récipient pour collecter des poudres de café épuisées et/ou des dosettes de café épuisées - Google Patents

Récipient pour collecter des poudres de café épuisées et/ou des dosettes de café épuisées Download PDF

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WO2019038795A1
WO2019038795A1 PCT/IT2018/050161 IT2018050161W WO2019038795A1 WO 2019038795 A1 WO2019038795 A1 WO 2019038795A1 IT 2018050161 W IT2018050161 W IT 2018050161W WO 2019038795 A1 WO2019038795 A1 WO 2019038795A1
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Giulia DE TUONI
Giorgio Guadagnin
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Inventhia S.R.L.
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F1/00—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor
    • B65F1/10—Refuse receptacles; Accessories therefor with refuse filling means, e.g. air-locks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F9/00—Transferring of refuse between vehicles or containers with intermediate storage or pressing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65F—GATHERING OR REMOVAL OF DOMESTIC OR LIKE REFUSE
    • B65F2210/00—Equipment of refuse receptacles
    • B65F2210/188—Vacuum drawing means

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  • the present invention refers, generally, to a container for the collection of exhausted coffee powder, capsules and coffee pods.
  • the invention further relates to a method for collecting used coffee powder and used coffee pods and capsules, according to which the used coffee powder and the capsules and the pods are subsequently processed for recycling and for a new use.
  • the invention relates to a smart vase for household, which incorporates a vacuum system for the collection of grounds and/or coffee powder (exhausted coffee), or capsules and coffee pods, as well as a protocol that defines precisely times, technical equipment and operational methodologies for each single phase, which preside over the operations of collection, separation, processing of the types of waste, sale of products generated with the processing activities of the used coffee powder and the capsules and coffee pods used ( recycling).
  • a vacuum system for the collection of grounds and/or coffee powder (exhausted coffee), or capsules and coffee pods
  • the smart vase is composed of a cylindrical component or other forms, preferably made of plastic material, divided into two parts and closed in the lower part; a cover with magnetic closure, always preferably made of plastic material, is suitable for closing the upper part of the cylindrical component.
  • the cylindrical or other form is housed on a base support, also preferably made of plastic material, on which a "vacuum” motor is inserted for the suction of the air inside the cylindrical component or other form and various electronic components for system management and/or other functionalities.
  • the function of the smart vase is to allow the user to have a suitable container for the collection of grounds and/or coffee powder (exhausted coffee) and/or pods or capsules, when, for example in the house, the classic "Moka" coffee maker is used to make coffee drinks and/or when used, in the house or office, coffee capsules or coffee pods within the electric machines dedicated to the delivery of coffee.
  • the problem that to be solve with this type of "smart" vase is to have a container for the collection of grounds and/or coffee powder (exhausted coffee) and/or coffee capsules and/or pods, to be installed at home (for families) and/or in offices, as the first element of an industrial process (protocol), whose purpose, is the disposal of the above mentioned materials and the reuse of both the used coffee and the plastic parts and/or in aluminum capsules or pods to create electricity or heat or pellets to power heating systems or with other functions such as the production of energy gas.
  • a container for the collection of grounds and/or coffee powder (exhausted coffee) and/or coffee capsules and/or pods to be installed at home (for families) and/or in offices, as the first element of an industrial process (protocol), whose purpose, is the disposal of the above mentioned materials and the reuse of both the used coffee and the plastic parts and/or in aluminum capsules or pods to create electricity or heat or pellets to power heating systems or with other functions such as the production of energy gas.
  • technologically advanced activities are also planned in the planning and management of purchases of the coffee product, and, in particular, of the portioned coffee in capsules and pods, by the user.
  • the function and purpose of the present invention are to establish a method that becomes a procedural and process standard for the collection and subsequent processing of a type of waste (exhausted coffee powder, capsules and coffee pods used), which currently, due to its friction, is not managed in an appropriate and consistent way to protect the environment.
  • the coordinated and circular activities provided therein are instead in line with the UNI EN ISO 14040: 2006 standards, related to the life cycle of a product, designed to help quantify, interpret and evaluate the environmental impacts of a specific product or service, during the whole lifespan; the assessment includes the entire life cycle of the product, including the extraction and processing of raw materials, manufacture, transport, distribution, use, reuse, recycling and final disposal, as well as the transformation into energy in its different forms.
  • the international normative reference for the execution of the LCA studies is represented by the following ISO standards of the 14040 series: - UNI EN ISO 14040: 2006 standard - Environmental management - Life cycle assessment - Principles and reference framework;
  • EPD Environmental Product Declaration
  • the present protocol uses activities and procedures already in place in the collection of waste by specialized companies in industrialized countries and partly by individual activities carried out for the processing of waste in order to reuse and recycle them (for example, plastic reuse and recycling processes), but it assumes a specific value as it defines for the first time innovative methodologies and tools related to the phase of collection of the used coffee powder and the used coffee pods and capsules (phase more critical because fractional), involving all the stakeholders of the life process of these products, starting from the producers, to the users, to the companies specialized in the collection of waste, to the companies or to the individual subjects, who can directly collect these products, is classified as a "secondary by-product", and then re-use the by-products realized with the new processing and/or with the recycling of exhausted coffee powders and used coffee pods and capsules.
  • the packaging material of the capsules or pods be it plastic or aluminium, most often ends up in rubbish dump, because it is not possible to activate a recycling process of the packaging material, since the used coffee packages (capsules and/or pods) ) do not have a subdivision between the packaging and the coffee.
  • a "smart" vase which is the object of the present invention, represents the first link of a procedure (or protocol) already defined and also object of the invention, which involves the use of different machines in its different phases, in order to achieve the goals of recycling and intelligent reuse of used coffee powders and their packaging.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to obviate the above- mentioned technical and environmental problems and, in particular, to create an "smart" container for the collection of exhausted coffee powder and/or coffee pods and/or pods, to offer in use to each family and/or to be placed in offices, which allows an easy and organized collection of the used coffee powders and coffee capsules and/or coffee pods, without causing the formation of microorganisms (thanks to the vacuum function), and before the same exhausted coffee powders and the used coffee pods or capsules are subsequently poured into appropriate collection containers for the subsequent recycling and reuse activities.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a method, organized in a standard protocol, which allows an easy and organized collection of the used coffee powder and of the coffee capsules and/or pods used, then using a sequence of successive processing operations for the reuse and recycling, in order to create electrical or thermal energy or pallets, in order to feed, for example, heating systems.
  • the present invention relates to a multi-component container, including a system for creating the vacuum inside, in order to:
  • the invention relates to a relative procedure or collection protocol, which accurately defines the times, technical equipment and operating methods for each single phase that presides the procedure in question, from the collection, separation, processing of the types of waste, the sale of products generated by the processing of used coffee powder and the packaging of the capsules and coffee pods used (recycling); there are also technologically advanced activities in the planning and management of purchases of the coffee product, in particular, that portioned into capsules and/or pods, so as to create a virtuous relationship between producer and end user, as well as an amplification and enhancement of actions aimed at protecting environment.
  • the collection process according to the present invention provides the following steps: 1 ) use by households and/or staff employed at the offices of the "smart" container or vase, according to the invention, which has a vacuum system designed to prevent the proliferation of microorganisms and to perform safely the collection of exhausted coffee powder and coffee capsules and coffee pods used;
  • figure 1 is a perspective overall view of the container for the collection of used coffee powder and/or coffee capsules and/or pods, with all its components, according to the present invention
  • figure 2 is an exploded view of the container of figure 1 , in which the various components, such as the cover, the two cylindrical parts of the container and the base support, according to the present invention, are visible in detail;
  • FIG. 3A, 3B and 3C show three views of three variants or versions of the base support of the container according to figure 1 , according to the invention
  • FIG. 4 shows a generic view of the steps and instruments used in the collection process, according to the present invention
  • FIG. 5 shows a view of the phases of collection of exhausted coffee powders and/or coffee capsules and coffee pods used by households, offices, bars or public establishments with bars, with the use of dedicated related items referred to in previous figures and a software application for families and offices, according to the invention
  • FIG. 6 shows a generic view of the collection phase of exhausted coffee powders and/or coffee capsules and pods used at a collection point where the dedicated containers are stored and a generic view of the equipped truck of the specialized collection company of waste, according to the present invention
  • FIG. 7 shows a view of the withdrawal phases, by a third-party company, of the used coffee powders and/or coffee capsules and coffee pods used, which are collected by the company specializing in the collection of waste, and processing of two types of waste for the production of pallets, recycled plastic granules, recycled aluminium and biogas, according to the present invention.
  • the container for the collection of exhausted coffee powder and/or coffee capsules and/or coffee pods or "intelligent" vase (smart) 100 includes: - an upper cover 50, preferably made of plastic material, where an elastic gasket 51 is fixed inside, in order to render hermetic the container 100 when the cover 50 is fixed to a first cylindrical element 10 of the container 100 by means of an interlocking hinge 60 so as to create the vacuum inside the vase 100 by means of the motor for creating vacuum or the "vacuum" motor 32 inserted in the base 30;
  • the first (upper) cylindrical element 10 is hollow and has an inner thread 1 1 at its bottom, adapted to couple with a counter-thread 23 formed on the upper wall of the second cylindrical element (lower) 20 of the container 100, so as to achieve a complete closure between the cylindrical elements 10 and 20;
  • the second cylindrical element 20 of the container 100 is open in the upper part, in correspondence of the section 23, while in the lower part there is formed a closed section 22, shaped like an inverted funnel, which has micro-holes, in order to allow the extraction of the air inside the cylindrical elements 10, 20 when the vacuum is formed inside the container 100;
  • a bar code or QR Code 24 is positioned to identify the container 100 during the operation of emptying by the user in the appropriate collection containers and above the closed section 22 there is a removable water-repellent membrane 21 , shaped like the section 23, suitable to prevent the obstruction of the
  • a base support 30 preferably made of plastic material and having a cylindrical or other form, which externally presents various seats which can be perfectly coupled with the shape of the container 100 or of another form for housing an ignition pushbutton 31 and a USB2 36 socket that can be used to charge mobile devices; on the support 30, holes 37 can be made alternatively or in combination with the above-mentioned seats, to allow an ionization function of the environment and/or a series of LEDs 38 which function as emergency lights and/or a clock and/or o timer and/or environmental thermometer 39; the base support 30 has the vacuum motor 32, powered by an electric cable 40 and its current socket 41 or by rechargeable batteries or batteries, a sensor 34, suitable for checking the existence of pressure in the cylindrical elements 10, 20 or another form, of the container 100, and the electronic control 35, with relative firmware, to activate the operation of carrying out the vacuum inside the container 100 on the basis of the data sent by the sensor 34 and according to the functions managed by a special software; inside the support 30, centrally and towards the upper part, a
  • the operation of the container for collecting used coffee powder and/or coffee pods and/or pods according to the invention is substantially the following.
  • the user after having consumed the coffee (produced by a Moka coffee maker and/or an electric machine for capsules or portioned pods), can open the container or cylindrical vase 100 by acting on the release button 52, present on the upper part of the cover 50, which activates the atmospheric air intake valves 53 to allow the atmospheric pressure to be restored in the cylinder 10; consequently, the release of the elastic gasket 51 and the consequent opening of the cover 50 is activated.
  • the container 100 Once the container 100 has been opened, it is possible to insert inside it both the used coffee grounds and/or coffee powder or the previously used coffee pods.
  • the management software of the vacuum engine 32 provides, at predetermined times, to verify, by means of the pressure sensor 34, the existence of the correct internal depression at the container 100 and, if this pressure value is unsatisfactory, starts the vacuum motor 32 until a predetermined pressure value is reached.
  • the user proceeds to extract the cylindrical elements 10, 20 from the base support 30, so as to be able to bring the aforesaid cylindrical elements 10, 20 to a suitable collection container for the subsequent recycling and reuse.
  • the user can easily wash the vase 100 by extracting the support 30, unscrewing the cylindrical elements 10, 20 and removing the water-repellent membrane 21 ; both elements 10, 20 can be washed in the dishwasher, just as the membrane 21 can be hand washed.
  • the basic support 30 can be extremely useful as the user can choose one of the additional functions, such as the recharging function and/or the emergency light function and/or the room ionizer function and/or clock or timer, etc.
  • UV-irradiation lamps ultraviolet-violet
  • devices that emit ultrasounds which are placed in the support 30 and/or in the cylindrical elements 10, 20; all this, similarly to what has been achieved by the vacuum motor 32, in order to eliminate the micro-organisms present in the remains of used coffee and/or inside the capsules or coffee pods.
  • Method 100A of collection organized in a standard protocol in accordance with the UNI EN ISO 14040: 2006 standard, according to the invention, comprises:

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L'invention concerne un récipient (100) pour collecter de la poudre de café épuisée et des capsules ou des dosettes de café épuisées, comprenant un couvercle supérieur (50) à fermeture magnétique, qui a un joint d'étanchéité élastique (51), qui est utilisé pour sceller au moins un élément cylindrique (10, 20), qui est associé au couvercle supérieur (50) et qui forme une partie du récipient (100), et un support de base (30), qui est associé à l'élément cylindrique (10, 20); le support de base (30) et/ou les éléments cylindriques (10, 20) comprennent des moyens pour éliminer les micro-organismes présents dans les restes de poudre de café épuisée et/ou de capsules ou de dosettes de café épuisées. L'invention concerne également une procédure de collecte associée, organisée selon un protocole de collecte standard selon des réglementations préétablies, qui utilise le récipient (100) mentionné ci-dessus.
PCT/IT2018/050161 2017-08-25 2018-08-24 Récipient pour collecter des poudres de café épuisées et/ou des dosettes de café épuisées WO2019038795A1 (fr)

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IT102017000096148A IT201700096148A1 (it) 2017-08-25 2017-08-25 Contenitore per la raccolta di polvere di caffe' esausto e/o di capsule da caffe'
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IT102017000096148 2017-08-25
IT102017000096120A IT201700096120A1 (it) 2017-08-25 2017-08-25 Procedimento per la raccolta di polvere di caffe' esausto e di capsule o cialde da caffe' utilizzate

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