Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Signalling – indicating – or display means
Patent
1982-07-30
1984-06-12
Scherbel, David A.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Signalling, indicating, or display means
194 4C, 194 4E, 209551, 209556, 209557, 209570, 209595, 209632, 209666, 209698, 209910, B07C 500, G07F 706
Patent
active
044540280
ABSTRACT:
An article or can sorting apparatus for separating articles having a recycle value from articles having no recycle value is defined by an annular article supporting surface positioned at about 45 degrees to horizontal, a cylindrical wall positioned in relation to the surface to define an article processing chamber, a feed hopper into which a plurality of the articles are deposited for feeding into the chamber, and an article conveying disc or wheel positioned in parallel relation to the surface and having a plurality of outwardly extending article pusher arms for separating the articles, such as discarded beverage cans, from the plurality of articles and conveying the articles one at a time about the annular surface to a material discriminator and a weight scale and toward an accept door or a reject door. The material discriminator or metal detector, the scale, and the accept and reject doors form segments of the article conveying surface. The apparatus is preferably controlled by a computer; and on the basis of the material and weight determinations, each article is either accepted for recycling or rejected and returned to a customer. The number of accepted articles is counted, and a printer is provided for printing out a tape documenting the money payout due the customer for the recycled articles.
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Wacyra Edward M.
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