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US 6,425,487 B1Granted
Waste depository
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsStephen J. Emmott, Sarah Woods
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Abstract
A depository for waste articles includes a chamber for storing waste articles and a control unit for determining a characteristic of a waste article presented to the depository for storage in the chamber.
Claims33
A depository for receiving waste articles from a user comprising:
- a plurality of chambers for correspondingly storing different types of said waste articles;
- a lid covering said chambers, and having a plurality of apertures providing access to corresponding ones of said chambers;
- a sensor adjacent said apertures;
- a control unit operatively joined to said sensor for identifying a waste article presented by said user within range of said sensor;
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- means operatively joined to said control unit for visually indicating to said user which of said chambers is intended to receive said waste article identified by said control unit.
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A depository for waste articles comprising:
- a lid assembly having a plurality of apertures for receiving waste articles,
- a sensor adjacent said apertures,
- a control unit operatively joined to said sensor for determining a characteristic of a waste article presented to the depository for storage upon the basis of information detected by said sensor,
- a plurality of chambers disposed below corresponding ones of said apertures for storing waste articles having a predetermined respective characteristic and received via the aperture;
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- means operatively joined to said control unit for visually indicating which of said plurality of chambers corresponds to a given waste article identified by said control unit from said predetermined characteristic.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.