EP0802511A2 - Dispositif pour le retournement de bouteilles vides - Google Patents

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EP0802511A2
EP0802511A2 EP97111001A EP97111001A EP0802511A2 EP 0802511 A2 EP0802511 A2 EP 0802511A2 EP 97111001 A EP97111001 A EP 97111001A EP 97111001 A EP97111001 A EP 97111001A EP 0802511 A2 EP0802511 A2 EP 0802511A2
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empty bottle
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Richard Stiefel
Hans-Hermann Trautwein
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Trautwein SB Technik GmbH
Hans Hermann Trautwein SB Technik GmbH
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    • G07CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07FCOIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/06Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by returnable containers, i.e. reverse vending systems in which a user is rewarded for returning a container that serves as a token of value, e.g. bottles
    • G07F7/0609Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by returnable containers, i.e. reverse vending systems in which a user is rewarded for returning a container that serves as a token of value, e.g. bottles by fluid containers, e.g. bottles, cups, gas containers

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  • the invention relates to an empty bottle return device with a housing, with at least one input chamber for empty bottles accessible from the outside through a closable input opening, with an empty bottle magazine adjoining the input chamber, with a motor-driven conveying device for the transport of individual empty bottles from the input chamber into the empty bottle magazine, with a device for bottle detection located in the area of the input chamber and with a control device, preferably responsive to output signals from the bottle detection device, for controlling the conveying device and possibly a deposit payment, the input chamber having a storage space for receiving an upright empty bottle and the empty bottle magazine one located at the level of the storage space Have magazine bottoms for holding upright empty bottles.
  • an empty bottle return device DE-C-33 20 266
  • the empty bottle magazine has a magazine bottom which can be moved in height by a chain drive in the chassis, the height of which can be adjusted in the bottle magazine by the top bottle touching a limit switch.
  • the bottles are placed horizontally in the input chamber and placed on a bottle pyramid formed on the magazine base by an acceptance rotor.
  • the automatic adjustment of the floor height prevents the glass from breaking when it hits the bottle pyramid.
  • the mobile bottle magazine is full, it is exchanged for an empty magazine. Due to the lying bottle holder, however, there is a risk that residual liquid may leak out of the bottles and lead to contamination of the bottle magazine.
  • the bottles which are randomly confused in the bottle magazine require a considerable amount of work during removal and subsequent sorting.
  • the invention has for its object to develop an empty bottle return device of the type specified, which is easy to use enables when loading and emptying.
  • the empty bottle magazine is arranged in a chassis that can be inserted into a magazine chamber of the housing, the magazine bottom of the empty bottle magazine being aligned with the footprint of the associated input chamber when the chassis is set in the magazine chamber.
  • guide or support rollers are provided on the chassis and / or on the housing at least on one side on the side of the input chambers, by means of which the chassis at least with its input-chamber-side castors from the floor into a defined one when entering the magazine chamber Position within the housing can be lifted off.
  • a further preferred embodiment of the invention provides that the housing has at least two input chambers arranged one above the other, each with a sensor slide and a cross slide, and the chassis has a corresponding number of empty bottle magazines arranged one above the other.
  • the magazine bottoms expediently have an essentially rectangular boundary edge as a stop for the empty bottles.
  • a sensor element that responds to a pushed-on empty bottle and is preferably fixed to the housing can be arranged in the boundary edge area opposite the passage opening, which can be designed, for example, as a lever that can be pivoted about a vertical axis and that carries a reflector arranged in the beam path of a reflection light barrier or actuates a microswitch .
  • the empty bottle return device shown in the drawing consists essentially of a housing 10, two superimposed in the housing, at an input opening 11, each of which can be closed by a sliding door 12, input chambers 14 for upright empty bottles 16, a chassis 20 which can be adjusted into a magazine chamber 18 of the housing which is open to the front and has two empty bottle magazines arranged one above the other 22, and a control panel 24 with receipt key 26, receipt 28 and display 30.
  • the stationary input chambers 14 contain a footprint 32 which is fixed to the housing and which is bounded at the front and rear by an adjustment threshold 34 and a rear stop wall 36.
  • the footprint 32 of the input chambers 14 is connected to the adjacent empty bottle magazine 22 of the chassis 20 via a passage opening 38 and is flush with the magazine bottom 40 thereof.
  • the passage opening 38 can be closed by the arm 42 of the sensor slide 44, which is also designed as a sliding door.
  • a bracket 46 of the sensor slide opposite the first bracket 42 carries, in the vicinity of its front end, a plurality of sensors 48 which are designed as optoelectronic transceivers and which, together with the mirrors 50 on the bracket 42, form reflection light barriers for scanning the bottle contour.
  • the sensor slide 44 is by means of a gear motor 52, a gear 54 and a rack 56 between a front input position shown in solid lines and a rear one in dashed lines Lines shown end position horizontally in the direction of the double arrow 58 to and fro.
  • the empty bottle 16 remains on its footprint 32 in the input chamber 14 when the sensor slide 44 is moved.
  • the sensors 48 move past the bottle and scan its diameter at different heights above the footprint 32.
  • the geared motor 52 drives with its output shaft 60 an incremental displacement sensor designed as a gear 62 made of magnetizable material and a magnetic probe 64, which in cooperation with the sensors 48 contributes to bottle detection.
  • the sliding door arm 42 of the sensor slide 44 clears the passage opening 38.
  • the empty bottle 16 located in the input chamber 14 can be pushed out through the passage opening 38 into the empty bottle magazine 22 with the aid of the cross slide 68 driven by a motor 66, which crosses the displacement path of the sensor slide 44 in the area of the input chamber 14.
  • the input chamber 14 is delimited in the lower part by the slide stamp 116, while in the upper part it is delimited either by a housing wall or by a sensor slide fixed wall. If necessary, sensor blinds (not shown) for the passage of the sensor light are left out in the stamp 116 and in the boundary wall located above.
  • the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 4 differs from that according to FIG. 3 primarily in that the sensors 148 designed as optoelectronic transceivers and their mirrors 50 are arranged fixed to the housing in the region of the displacement path of the cross slide 68, so that the sensor slide 44 is omitted.
  • the cross slide 68 can be pushed back and forth horizontally in the direction of the double arrow 69 with the aid of the gear motor 66, a gearwheel 67 and a toothed rack 68 between a rear input position shown in solid lines and a front end position shown in broken lines.
  • the geared motor 66 drives with its output shaft 160 an incremental displacement transducer designed as a gear 162 made of magnetizable material and a magnetic probe 164, which works in cooperation with the sensors 148 contributes to bottle detection.
  • the cross slide 68 has a slide-proof platform 120, which serves as a footprint for the empty bottle 16 to be adjusted.
  • a sliding wall 116 is provided on the side of the drive motor 66, while the rear wall 36 of the input chamber is arranged fixed to the housing. With the bottle 16 located on it, the platform 120 reaches the empty bottle magazine 22 via the displacement path through the passage opening 38 and is scanned contactlessly along the displacement path for bottle detection by the sensors 148.
  • a scraper 124 which, when the cross slide 116 is extended, is moved over the platform 120 in front of the passage opening 38 with the aid of a drive motor 126, so that when the cross slide 116 is subsequently withdrawn, the empty bottle 16 from the platform 120 is stripped.
  • the bottle scraper 124 also serves as a closing door for the passage opening 42.
  • a partition 128 is additionally provided, which is rigidly connected to the stripper 124 and together with this can be moved.
  • the magazine bottoms 40 have an essentially rectangular boundary edge 118, which in the exemplary embodiments shown has the vertical outer walls of the chassis 20 is formed.
  • the passage openings 38 are each formed by a wall opening in the input-side wall area of the chassis 20, which are automatically closed under the action of a spring, not shown, when the chassis is removed from the magazine chamber 18.
  • the reflective light barrier 122 or a microswitch is triggered by the sensor element 120 fixed to the housing by an impacting empty bottle 16 and a "full" signal is emitted and the sliding door 12 of the relevant input chamber 14 is blocked.
  • the chassis 20 is provided with relatively large casters 110.
  • the bottles 16 are first removed from the top magazine bottom 40 from above and, if necessary, sorted into the bottle crates provided.
  • the previously emptied upper magazine bottom 40 is folded up, for example on a hinge joint, in order to be able to freely access the bottles 16 in question from above.
  • the invention relates to an empty bottle return device with an input chamber 14 for empty bottles 16 and a chassis 20 as an exchangeable magazine 22.
  • the empty bottle magazine 22 is via a closable through opening 38 oriented transversely to the input opening 11 accessible from the stationary input chamber 14.
  • a conveyor device is provided which has a cross slide 68 which can be pushed back and forth transversely to the input direction through the input chamber 14 in the direction of the passage opening 38.

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  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Sorting Of Articles (AREA)
  • Control Of Vending Devices And Auxiliary Devices For Vending Devices (AREA)
  • Glass Compositions (AREA)
  • Producing Shaped Articles From Materials (AREA)
  • Magnetic Ceramics (AREA)
  • Branching, Merging, And Special Transfer Between Conveyors (AREA)
  • Centrifugal Separators (AREA)
  • Processing And Handling Of Plastics And Other Materials For Molding In General (AREA)
  • Sink And Installation For Waste Water (AREA)
  • Optical Measuring Cells (AREA)
  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
  • Looms (AREA)
  • Refuse Collection And Transfer (AREA)
EP97111001A 1994-01-07 1994-12-07 Dispositif pour le retournement de bouteilles vides Expired - Lifetime EP0802511B1 (fr)

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DE4400251 1994-01-07
DE4400251 1994-01-07
EP95904432A EP0738409B1 (fr) 1994-01-07 1994-12-07 Appareil de reprise des bouteilles vides

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EP95904432A Division EP0738409B1 (fr) 1994-01-07 1994-12-07 Appareil de reprise des bouteilles vides
EP95904432.2 Division 1995-07-13

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EP0802511A2 true EP0802511A2 (fr) 1997-10-22
EP0802511A3 EP0802511A3 (fr) 1997-11-19
EP0802511B1 EP0802511B1 (fr) 2002-04-10

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US (1) US5788045A (fr)
EP (2) EP0738409B1 (fr)
JP (1) JP2997317B2 (fr)
AT (2) ATE216109T1 (fr)
CA (1) CA2179806A1 (fr)
DE (3) DE59410102D1 (fr)
ES (1) ES2115354T3 (fr)
FI (1) FI962760L (fr)
NO (1) NO314864B1 (fr)
WO (1) WO1995019020A1 (fr)

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DE59405496D1 (de) 1998-04-23
EP0738409A1 (fr) 1996-10-23
JPH09507323A (ja) 1997-07-22
EP0738409B1 (fr) 1998-03-18
FI962760A0 (fi) 1996-07-05
FI962760A7 (fi) 1996-07-05
ES2115354T3 (es) 1998-06-16
NO314864B1 (no) 2003-06-02
DE4443406A1 (de) 1995-07-13
EP0802511A3 (fr) 1997-11-19
ATE216109T1 (de) 2002-04-15
NO962851L (no) 1996-08-22
EP0802511B1 (fr) 2002-04-10
FI962760L (fi) 1996-07-05
NO962851D0 (no) 1996-07-05
DE59410102D1 (de) 2002-05-16
JP2997317B2 (ja) 2000-01-11
CA2179806A1 (fr) 1995-07-13
US5788045A (en) 1998-08-04
WO1995019020A1 (fr) 1995-07-13

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