Ecocompatible container for the recycling of cigarette butts
OwnerStefano BOLLA, Manfredi MANCINELLI SCOTTIinventors
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An ecocompatible container for recycling cigarette butts is constituted by a cylinder including an openable upper cover (300), a base (200) and an intermediate portion (100) which houses a common hopper (110) in external communication with ashtrays (119) through which the cigarette butts are introduced, wherein via the hopper (110), the butts are introduced into a screening basket (130) with balls (131), in which the rotation of the screening basket (130) allows, by mutual impact and friction of the balls (131), crushing the cigarette butts and hence effectively separating the organic portion, i.e. the filter paper and the residual tobacco that fall by gravity through holes (139) into an underlying suitable collection container (150), from the resistant, fibrous portion constituted only by the filters of the cigarettes which, when sucked by a small suction motor (140), will fall into an underlying filter accumulation chamber (160).
Ecocompatible container for the recycling of cigarette butts, constituted by a cylinder comprising the openable upper cover (300), the intermediate portion (100) housing the internal devices and the base (200) fixed to the ground and characterized in that inside said intermediate portion (100), a common hopper (110) is present on the upper part with off-centered lower hole (115), the upper part of which enters into external communication with at least two openings, constituting the ashtray (119), obtained in the upper part of said intermediate portion (100) and through which the cigarette butts or that which remains of a cigarette after its use are introduced, in that the off-centered lower hole (115) directly introduces the contents of said hopper (110), i.e. the cigarette butts, in the screw (120) placed horizontally and driven by the small motor of the hopper (125), characterized in that the operation of said screw (120), carried out at predetermined time intervals, ensures that the material present in said hopper (110), i.e. the cigarette butts, is introduced, by means of the opening (137) obtained on the side of said screening basket (130), into the same screening basket (130), in that said screening basket (130) is constituted by a totally perforated hollow cylinder capable of constituting by means of said holes (139) the screen of the substance to be separated, in that the rotation of said screening basket (130) will move the balls (131) contained and the relative cigarette butts, allowing by means of mutual impact and friction the crushing of said cigarette butts and hence the effective separation of the delicate portion, i.e. the organic portion or the filter paper and the residual tobacco, from the resistant and fibrous portion constituted only by the cigarette filters, in that the aforesaid delicate portion, i.e. the organic portion, when it reaches a suitable mincing size will be forced by the pressure exerted by the aforesaid balls (131) to pass through the holes (139) of the aforesaid screening basket (130) and falling by gravity will be accumulated in the underlying suitable collection container (150), in that once said passage through the holes (139) is completed, always maintaining the rotation of the screening basket (130) activated, the suction of the residual cigarette filters will occur by means of the driving of the small suction motor (140), in that said cigarette filters will be sucked into the superolateral opening (134) of said screening basket (130) and directed into the duct (145) and finally in that said sucked cigarette filters will fall, being accumulated in the underlying filter accumulation chamber (160).
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