Separated waste collection system for multi-story building
OwnerMark Shantzisinventor
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Abstract
A system uses a single chute in a multi-story building to collect into separate large receptacles different categories of wastes already separated by the tenant for recycling. A turntable carries a large receptacle for each category of waste. Control means on each floor enables a tenant to operate the turntable to position a selected receptacle beneath the turntable to receive a particular category of waste. A microprocessor controller and interlocks on the access doors prevent conflicts between floors.
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A system for selective, separated collection of waste that has been separated into a plurality of categories in a building having a plurality of stories or floors that employs a chute with an access door that accesses said chute at each floor from which waste is to be collected, the system comprising:
- (A) receptacle moving means for moving a selected one of a plurality of waste collection receptacles beneath said chute to receive a particular category of waste deposited through an access door;
- (B) control means for controlling said receptacle moving means, said control means including selection means for selecting said particular category and indicating means for indicating the selected category, said selection means and said indicating means located in the proximity of each said access door, said control means operatively connected to said receptacle moving means for selectively controlling said moving means;
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- (C) door locking means connected to each said door for locking said door while said receptacle moving means is in motion, said door locking means operatively connected to said control means.
A system for selective, separated collection of waste that has been separated into a plurality of categories in a building having a plurality of stories or floors, the system comprising:
- (A) a vertical waste chute with an access door that communicates with said chute at each floor from which waste is to be collected;
- (B) receptacle moving means for moving a selected one of a plurality of waste collection receptacles beneath said chute to receive a particular category of waste deposited through an access door;
- (C) control means for controlling said receptacle moving means, said control means including selection means for selecting said particular category and indicating means for indicating the selected category, said selection means and said indicating means located in the proximity of each said access door, said control means operatively connected to said receptacle moving means for selectively controlling said moving means;
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- (D) door locking means connected to each said door for locking said door while said receptacle moving means is in motion, said door locking means operatively connected to said control means.
A system for selective, separated collection of waste that has been separated into a plurality of categories in a building having a plurality of stories or floors that employs a chute with an access door that accesses said chute at each floor from which waste is to be collected, the system comprising:
- (A) receptacle moving means for moving a selected one of a plurality of waste collection receptacles beneath said chute to receive a particular category of waste deposited through an access door;
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- (B) control means for controlling said receptacle moving means, said control means including selection means for selecting said particular category and indicating means for indicating the selected category, said selection means and said indicating means located in the proximity of each said access door, said control means operatively connected to said receptacle moving means for selectively controlling said moving means.
A system for selective, separated collection of waste that has been separated into a plurality of categories in a building having a plurality of stories or floors that employs a chute with an access door that accesses said chute at each floor from which waste is to be collected, the system comprising:
- (A) receptacle moving means for moving a selected one of a plurality of waste collection receptacles beneath said chute to receive a particular category of waste deposited through an access door;
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- (B) control means for controlling said receptacle moving means, said control means including selection means for selecting said particular category;
- said selection means located in the proximity of each said access door, and said control means operatively connected to said receptacle moving means for selectively controlling said moving means.
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