Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Plural – diverse separating operations – Including sorting of special items or sorting by methods or...
Patent
1992-09-02
1994-05-24
Dayoan, D. Glenn
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Plural, diverse separating operations
Including sorting of special items or sorting by methods or...
209522, 209524, 209580, 209588, 209589, B07C 5342
Patent
active
053140729
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for sorting plastic bottles for recycling wherein if it is first determined that a bottle is clear, the bottle will be ejected. If the bottle is not determined as being clear, the apparatus or method next determines if the bottle is colored. If the bottle is colored, the bottle will be ejected. The above method may also be accomplished by use of a truth table which analyzes the characteristics of a bottle. Also provided is a detector for detecting the presence of chlorine in a plastic bottle by means of X-ray fluorescence. A sorter device sorts the bottles into small diameter and large diameter bottles.
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Frankel Henry
Miroshnichenko Sergey
Whitlock Jonathan B.
Dayoan D. Glenn
Reichard Dean A.
Rutgers The State University
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