JPH1076178A - Aluminum sorter with wheel - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To carry a sorter to a necessary place and to operate the sorter by providing the sorter with a conveyor which houses a magnet roller in a cylindrical roller at a terminal and making the sorter itself movable by means of wheels. SOLUTION: The magnetic materials attracted by a magnetic material removing conveyor 4 fall in the position where there are no more magnets 11. These materials are guided by a guide path 13 and are housed in a container 8 for steels. Aluminum cans are driven by the high-speed rotation of the magnet roller 5b, are jumped out of the terminal of the main conveyor 2 and are brought into collision against a curtain-like buffer body 6 and are housed in a lower container 10 for aluminum. On the other hand, bottles, plastic containers, etc., are dropped down from the terminal and are housed in a container 9 for nonmetals. When any of the container 8 for steels, the container 9 for nonmetals or the container 10 for aluminum is packed full, the full packing is optically detected by a full detecting sensor 12 and is announced by an alarm to a user. Further, the aluminum sorter itself has the wheels 7 and may be operated by carrying the sorter to the necessary place.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an aluminum sorting apparatus used for recycling aluminum cans.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various aluminum sorting apparatuses have been proposed, but there has been no aluminum sorting apparatus that can be carried to a required place and operated.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems and to provide an aluminum sorting apparatus which can be carried to a required place and operated.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a wheeled aluminum sorting apparatus which has a conveyor accommodating a magnet roller in a cylindrical roller at the end and which can be moved by a wheel. It is a suggestion.

[0005]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an aluminum sorting apparatus with wheels according to the present invention. FIG. 1 shows an aluminum sorting apparatus with wheels according to the present invention. The aluminum sorting apparatus has a main conveyor (2) for transporting a sorting object (1) in which aluminum cans, bottles, plastic containers, iron cans and the like are mixed. The main conveyor (2) is a single conveyor from the starting roller (5c) to the ending cylindrical roller (5a). The cylindrical roller (5) at the end of the main conveyor (2)
a) has a magnet roller (5b) as shown in FIG.
Is stored. That is, the magnet roller (5b) is housed with a gap rotatably separated from the rotation of the cylindrical roller (5a), and the N pole and the S pole are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction. Next, a magnetic substance removing conveyor (4) is provided in the middle of the main conveyor (2) as shown in FIG. The magnetic substance removing conveyor (4) has a magnet (11) on the back of the conveyor, sucks a magnetic substance such as an iron can or the like, conveys it by a conveyor or the like, and takes it out to the side. The magnetic material sucked by the magnetic material removing conveyor (4) falls at a position where the magnet (11) is removed, is guided by the guide path (13), and stored in the iron container (8) (see FIG. 1). Next, use the magnet roller (5
b) is rotated (high-speed rotation) separately from the movement of the main conveyor (2). That is, the magnet roller (5b) is connected to a dedicated motor and rotates at high speed. When the aluminum sorting apparatus is used, the sorting object (1) is supplied to the starting end of the main conveyor (2) and is conveyed. When passing through the position of the magnetic substance removing conveyor (4), magnetic substances such as iron cans are sucked and stored in the iron container (8). Other aluminum cans, bottles, plastic containers, etc. reach the end of the main conveyor (2). At the end of the main conveyor (2), the magnet roller (5b) is rotating at high speed, and eddy currents are generated in the non-magnetic, electrically conductive aluminum material due to a change in magnetic force (alternating magnetic field) to generate the magnet roller (5b).
A repulsive force is generated between the steel can and the aluminum can. As a result, the aluminum can is driven by the high-speed rotation of the magnet roller (5b) and jumps out from the end of the main conveyor (2). The protruding aluminum can collides with the good-quality buffer (6), loses kinetic energy, and is stored in the aluminum container (10) below. On the other hand, bottles, plastic containers, etc. are neither magnetic nor non-magnetic and electrically conductive, so they are conveyed while being placed on the main conveyor (2), fall down from the end and are stored in the non-metal container (9). . When adjusting according to the flying state of the aluminum can and the falling state of the bottle, plastic container, etc., the guide plate (1) shown in FIG.
What is necessary is just to adjust the inclination of 4). There are cases where a magnetic substance such as an iron can is not sucked when passing through the position of the magnetic substance removing conveyor (4) (for example, when the iron can contains sand and is heavy). In such a case, the iron can reaches the end of the main conveyor (2) but is attracted by the magnetic force of the magnet roller (5b) at the end. Since it is a magnetic substance, it is not blown off by eddy current, but is attracted by the magnetic force and is attracted to the magnet roller (5b) at the terminal end and wraps around it to the lower end. The wrapped iron can falls at the lower end of the magnet roller (5b) and is stored in the iron container (8) described above. Next, when any of the iron container (8), the non-metal container (9) or the aluminum container (10) becomes full, it is detected by an optical full detection sensor (12) as shown in FIG. And alert the user with an alarm. Furthermore, the aluminum sorting device itself has wheels (7) and can be brought into a required place and operated.

[0006]

The embodiments of the aluminum sorting apparatus according to the present invention are as described above, and the effects are listed below. (1) Since the aluminum sorting apparatus of the present invention is particularly movable by its own wheels, it can be brought to a required place and operated. (2) Since the aluminum sorting apparatus of the present invention can be moved by wheels in particular, no installation work is required.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual side view of an aluminum sorting apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed view of the main conveyor end of the apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a magnetic substance removing conveyor of the apparatus of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a side view of a fullness detection method of the apparatus of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Sorting object 2 Main conveyor 4 Conveyor for removing magnetic substances 5a Cylindrical roller 5b Magnet roller 5c Roller at start end 6 Buffer 7 Wheel 8 Iron container 9 Non-metal container 10 Aluminum container 11 Magnet 12 Full detection sensor 13 Guide path 14 Guide plate

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An aluminum sorting apparatus with wheels, which has a conveyor accommodating a magnet roller in a cylindrical roller at a terminal end and is movable by itself.