摘要 |
An automated multi-grade wastepaper recycle center and sorting system is provided. The center is a multi-acre fenced-in complex having security that allows for recycling trucks to deliver multiple grades of wastepaper for separating and sorting to one location prior to pulp processing and deinking type processes. Collection tracks leave their loads in one of four drop pits where different conveyor systems start the sorting process. A novel swivel conveyor system can remove papers from the drop pit for temporary storage on various locations on a primary segregation floor where plied papers can later be recycled into main pit area when needed. Alternatively, loads from the drop pits can be conveyed to the main pit area directly and then presorted onto different conveyor systems. One conveyor can then send wastepaper through a star-wheel sorter system that can separate desired grades of paper. Another conveyor can pass papers through an x-ray station and then hand separated through specialized waste collection stations and drops. Sorted papers can later be sent to a bailer system for bailing and/or separated papers can also be resorted through the various sorters over and over as needed. The bailed papers can later be sent to additional outside recycling processes such as but not limited to deinking and the like. The complex allows for the bailed papers to be delivered to the additional recycling locations such as ones for pulp processing and deinking operations by railroad lines and/or also by trucks.
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