Check-actuated control mechanisms – Control mechanism actuated by check – other than coin – which... – Having means to test physical characteristic of check
Patent
1996-07-03
1998-08-04
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Control mechanism actuated by check, other than coin , which...
Having means to test physical characteristic of check
209525, G07F 706
Patent
active
057880450
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an empty bottle collector having a housing, at least one intake chamber for empty bottles accessible from outside through a closeable intake opening, an empty bottle store following the intake chamber, a feeding mechanism, which can be driven by a motor, for the transport of individual empty bottles from the intake chamber into the empty bottle store, a mechanism provided in the area of the intake chamber for recognizing the bottles, and a control mechanism preferably reacting to outputs signals of the bottle-recognizing mechanism for controlling the feeding mechanism and, if desired, a ticket output, whereby the intake chamber has a placement surface for receiving an upright positioned empty bottle and the empty bottle store has a store floor at the level of the placement surface for receiving upright positioned empty bottles.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In a conventional empty bottle collector of this type (EP-A2-567 732), the empty bottles are fed at various planes through separately loadable intake chambers into stationary store compartments. Each intake chamber has a separate bottle-recognizing mechanism, with which the contour of the inserted empty bottle is scanned by mechanical scanning members within the intake chamber. The scanning is done with the help of a path indicator reacting to the movement of a sliding door, whereby a counter loaded with the output signals of the path indicator and storage means for storing of readings of the counter in the form of a value group defining the contour and size of the scanned empty bottle are provided. The scanning members are arranged on the sliding door and engage the intake chamber in order to trigger the path-measuring, counting and storing operations. The empty bottles are transported, after they have been scanned, with the help of a turnstile provided in the intake chamber through a bent feed channel into the empty bottle store. As soon as the store is full, it must be emptied right then and thereby individually removing the bottles.
To avoid this disadvantage, it is actually known in an empty bottle collector (DE-C-33 20 266) to arrange the empty bottle store in a carriage, which can be moved into a store chamber of the housing. The empty bottle store has therein a store floor elevationally movable in the carriage by a chain drive, the height of which floor can be adjusted by the uppermost bottle in the bottle store contacting a limit switch. The bottles are inserted into the intake chamber in a lying position and are placed by a receiving rotor onto a bottle pyramid forming on the store floor. The automatic adjustment of the floor height avoids glass breaks when the bottles hit the bottle pyramid. As soon as the movable bottle store is full, it is exchanged with an empty store. However, because of the lying bottle reception there exists the danger that residual fluid can run out of the bottles and can result in contamination of the bottle store. In addition, the random position of the bottles in the bottle store requires, during the removal and subsequent sorting, a considerable amount of work.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Starting out from this the basic purpose of the invention is to develop an empty bottle collector of the above-identified type, which enables an easy handling during loading and unloading and which, in spite of a high intake frequency, guarantees a reliable bottle recognition.
The basic idea behind the solution of the invention is that with a small path of movement between the intake chamber and the empty bottle store on a movement path, which is as rectilinear as possible, and with a contactless scanning of the bottle contour particularly short intake durations can be achieved. In order to accomplish this, it is suggested according to the invention that the empty bottle store be accessible from the stationary intake chamber through a closeable aperture aligned transversely with respect to the intake opening, and that the feeding mechanism has a transverse slide, which can be moved
REFERENCES:
patent: 4248334 (1981-02-01), Hanley et al.
patent: 4519307 (1985-05-01), La Barge et al.
Stiefel Richard
Trautwein Hans-Hermann
Bartuska F. J.
Trautwein SB-Technik GmbH
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