| 摘要 |
PCT No. PCT/NO97/00178 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 1, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 1, 1997 PCT Filed Jul. 10, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98/02371 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 22, 1998A device for a reverse vending apparatus which has a conveyor (102, 201) for moving containers of different shapes and sizes, e.g., cans or bottles of glass or plastic, past a detector station (100) in order to produce characteristic data about the containers (B). Such data determines how the containers shall be handled thereafter, e.g., sorted out, compacted, further treated or recycled. At the downstream end of the conveyor (201) there is located a bottle raiser (301) for putting transported bottles (B) which arrive bottom (B2) first into a standing position, and wherein the bottle raiser comprises a, preferably curved, guide duct or shaft (302) which guides the bottle in standing position down towards a shock-absorbing rest (303). The device also comprises a bottle stabilizer (304-307, 309-310) which on the basis of said data is held with the aid of a motor (305) in a first position (FIG. 13) in contact freedom with the bottle (B) as a function of data regarding the bottle (B), such as its diameter, height and weight, so that the bottle is fed freely down towards the rest (303), and which is then adjusted in order to be brought into a second position (FIG. 15) for contact against a portion of the bottle and for pushing the bottle against a back wall (308) in the duct or shaft (302), and a bottle ejector (304-307, 309-310) which is moveable out of said back wall (308) in order to push the bottle (B) in standing position onto a further conveyor (311). The bottle stabilizer and the bottle ejector are made of a common rotating unit (304, 306-307, 309-310) consisting of at least one vertical wing, preferably three (306, 309, 310), which are secured to a vertical spindle (307), and which on one rotational movement (FIG. 15) are rotatable in towards the bottle for stabilization thereof against said back wall (308), and on an opposite rotational movement (FIGS. 17 and 18) are moveable out through said back wall for ejection of the bottle (B). |
