Apparatus and method of separating heavy materials in garbage from light ones and classifying the heavy garbage for collection
AssigneeSteven Tse
InventorSteven Tse
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Abstract
An apparatus and method of separating heavy materials in garbage from light ones is taking advantage of water as a means for carrying floated garbage and submerged garbage and sinking the heavy materials in garbage by considering specific weight, buoyancy, and flow rate of water so as to remove the light materials in garbage and the heavy materials in garbage from the water container at different elevations and then to classify the heavy materials in garbage prior to collection.
Claims13
A method of separating heavy materials in garbage from light materials in garbage and classifying the heavy materials in garbage for collection, comprising the steps of:
- taking advantage of water as a means for carrying floated garbage and submerged garbage and sinking the heavy materials in garbage at different elevations in the water container;
- removing the light materials in garbage and the heavy materials in garbage from the water container wherein the light materials in garbage and the heavy materials in garbage at different elevations in the water container are continuously removed respectively so as to separate the heavy materials in garbage from the light materials in garbage;
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- classifying the heavy materials in garbage prior to collection wherein a separation of different types of the heavy materials in garbage based on size, metal, and non-metal is performed to classify the heavy materials in garbage for respectively collecting.
An apparatus of separating heavy materials in garbage from light materials in garbage and classifying the heavy materials in garbage for collection, comprising:
- a water container containing water and including a top inlet opening for garbage feeding;
- an inclined first division means extended from above surface of water in the water container into water therein, a top edge of the first division means being proximate the inlet opening , and a first injection nozzle at the top edge of the first division means for spraying water along the surface of the first division means;
- a light garbage outlet opening provided at one side of the water container aligned with the first division means;
- an inclined second division means extended downward from the front bottom edge of the light garbage outlet opening into water in the water container proximate and being angled with respect to the first division means;
- a flushing pool defined by the first and second division means;
- a heavy garbage inlet formed between a lower end of the first division means and a lower portion of the second division means being in fluid communication with the flushing pool and the water container;
- a heavy garbage conveyor obliquely extended from outside the water container into a position adjacent the heavy garbage inlet, the heavy garbage conveyor being driven for carrying heavy garbage out of the water container;
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- a heavy garbage separation mechanism coupled to the heavy garbage conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.