Check-actuated control mechanisms – Control mechanism actuated by check – other than coin – which... – Having means to mutilate check
Patent
1993-03-04
1994-09-20
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Control mechanism actuated by check, other than coin , which...
Having means to mutilate check
194213, G07F 706
Patent
active
053481283
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention concerns a process for fighting against environmental pollution caused by waste. The application of this process towards the recuperation of recyclable waste and the apparatus to perform this process.
Despite numerous anti-litter and environmental-protection campaigns, and despite the presence of an ever-increasing number of waste receptacles intended for public use, it must still be said that public places, especially those in proximity to take-away food premises, are becoming more and more dirty. The phenomenon does not exclude cinemas and theaters either where, after the performance, the floor is littered with rubbish (ice-cream wrappers and sticks, sweet-wrappers, tickets. etc.), nor race-courses where betting-slips find their way more easily onto the ground than into the bins.
The result spoils the environment, is a health and safety hazard in the case of food waste (chicken bones, for example). and involves considerable expense to the taxpayer for cleaning.
It would therefore be advantageous to incite that section of the public responsible for this situation, and clearly unconcerned about public welfare in general, to use waste bins by providing them with an immediate and personal incentive to do so.
This is the goal set by the invention. The goal is reached in the sense that it offers a process which consists in fitting existing waste units with: (a) the means of approximate identification of the waste intended to be or actually introduced into the said access orifice, (b) the means of conveying the said waste beyond the access orifice, and (c) the means adapted to the issue of a waste deposit slip, such as a gift-voucher, controlled by the said means of identification in combination, as the case may be, with the said means of conveying.
The aim of the means of identification is to avoid having any indiscriminate type of object being introduced into the waste unit, and provide evidence the waste has been deposited. The means will depend upon the type of waste the unit is intended for, and upon the location of the said unit. They could also depend upon other goals such as collecting waste specific in terms of origin or type. This point shall be explored below.
The waste deposit slip could, for example, represent a fraction of a free-entry voucher for the cinema or race-course, or a discount voucher for the purchase of a product of the same origin as the waste deposited, etc.
In an initial embodiment of the invention, waste identification is performed, partially at least, by comparison of a dimension of at least one part of the waste and with those of the said access orifice. This type of identification will prevent waste of a size clearly incompatible with the type intended to be introduced into the waste unit.
In the case of consumer products generating thin waste such as that generally found littering the floors of cinemas and race-courses, according to the invention, the process includes the following: added to the consumer product sold is a bag specially adapted to enclosing the said product and/or waste resulting from its use wherein the bag already bears the said waste deposit slip and the waste unit is fitted with means of separating, marking and returning the said waste deposit slip, the operations taking place on the bag while it is introduced and/or conveyed within the waste unit.
It is clear that, in the above case, a fragment of the bag will act as waste deposit slip. To prevent fraud, the bag could be untearable by hand (bag in woven or unwoven fibers or with reinforced fibers woven in). The marking carried out by the waste unit would be by stamping, perforation, or by a characteristic mark left by the means of separation and will confirm the waste deposit slip has indeed been issued by the waste unit.
In the case of larger waste such as drinks containers, metal cans, hereinafter called "cans", or paralleloliped-shaped cartons or packs with an inner layer of metal foil, hereinafter called "packs", the use of waste bags way be dispensed with and more specific identification
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Bartuska F. J.
Litman Richard C.
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