3 in 1 reverse vending machine
OwnerKareem Casadyrell Dowdell, Shirley Robena Baker +1inventors
InventorsKareem Casadyrell Dowdell, Shirley Robena Baker, Roosevelt Dowdell, Jr.
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Abstract
A 3 in 1 reverse vending machine. A vending machine that is solar powered and accepts bottles and cans made of plastic, aluminum, and glass. The machine includes a conveyor system, barcode reader and cleaning system, this prepares the bottle and cans to be shredded and then granulated into small pieces. The machine houses a delivery system that carries the smaller pieces of processed material to its predetermined receptacle for storage. Each bottle and can has a monetary value once received by the machine that will be issued to the user once all bottles and cans are received and calculated per user per transaction.
Claims3
A reverse vending machine, said machine comprising of:
- a plastic transparent front face cover for housing the machine that allows a visual interpretation of the machine operation;
- a receptacle feeding cone that allows the user to scoop or place bottle and cans into a receptacle feeding cone structure to feed the machine bottle and cans in multiples instead of one at a time;
- a shredder to shred the bottles and cans when said bottles and cans are dropped from a conveyor into the shredder mouth;
- one or more rotating shredder blades that rotate simultaneously within the shredder housing to shred said bottles and cans to produce granulated material;
- a delivery system that catches the granulated material, said delivery system collecting the granulated material as the granulated material falls from the shredder and comprising a circular discharge wheel that rotates after collecting the granulated material to deliver the granulated material to one or more recycled materials receptacles;
- a color detector that detects the color of the granulated material produced from the bottles and cans placed into the machine for recycling;
- said one or more recycled materials receptacles store the granulated material based on color;
- one or more material waste screens of mesh design that screen large waste from being recycled with a material cleaning solution;
- one or more liquid waste sponges to absorb the material cleaning solution and filter waste.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.