B - Operations – Transporting – 02 – C
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
02
C
341/52
B02C 25/00 (2006.01) G07F 7/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1225136
ABSTRACT Apparatus for the collection and storage of empty glass bottles, and for dispensing refund payments therefor, including a laser scanner and microprocessor preselection mechanism for determining whether a bottle offered by a customer in the bottle access area of the apparatus is an acceptable refundable bottle, two panels together forming a V-shaped base portion of the bottle access area for accepting the accepted refundable bottle, a sole- noid and latch mechanism for tilting one of the two panels in- wardly toward a crushing area in response to a determination by the preselection mechanism of the color of the accepted refundable bottle to sort the bottles by color, one or more crushing wheels positioned beneath each panel for receiving the acceptable refundable bottles deposited by gravity from the in- wardly tilted panel, the crushing wheels having a plurality of extending bars capable of smashing the accepted refundable bottle into glass cullet; a collection hopper positioned beneath the crushing wheels located under each panel for storing the glass cullet, and a coin dispensing means for dispensing payment for the bottles accepted.
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Dewoolfson Bruce H.
Flowers Stanley
Freund Robert F.
Environmental Products Corporation
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
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