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US 9,352,366 B2Granted
Plastic bottle processing apparatus and vehicle having same mounted thereon
OwnerSusumu Yamadainventor
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Abstract
A plastic bottle processing apparatus includes: an apparatus body having a conveying path section in which a plastic bottle is conveyed; and a label separating unit arranged in a middle of the conveying path section so as to separate a label from the plastic bottle. The label separating unit includes: a label cutting member that cuts the label of the plastic bottle, which is conveyed in the conveying path section along the axial direction of the plastic bottle; a heating member that heats the label cut by the label cutting member; and a brush member disposed so as to be able to make contact with the label heated by the heating member and remove the label from the plastic bottle body by making contact with the label.
Claims18
A plastic bottle processing apparatus that processes a plastic bottle including a plastic bottle body having a label wound thereon and a cap screwed to the plastic bottle body, comprising:
- an apparatus body having a conveying path section in which the plastic bottle is conveyed along a predetermined conveying direction;
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- a label separating unit arranged in a middle of the conveying path section so as to separate the label from the plastic bottle body,
- the conveying path section allowing the plastic bottle to be conveyed in a state where an axial direction of the plastic bottle is parallel to the conveying direction, and
- the label separating unit including:
- a label cutting member that cuts the label of the plastic bottle that is conveyed in the conveying path section along the axial direction of the plastic bottle, the label cutting member is provided so as to be displaced between a cutting position at which the label cutting member enters the conveying path section and a retracted position located on a position further toward an outer side than the cutting position;
- a biasing member that biases the label cutting member toward the cutting position to cause the label cutting member to make contact with an outer circumferential surface of the plastic bottle body conveyed along the conveying path section;
- a heating member that heats the label cut by the label cutting member;
- a brush member disposed so as to be able to make contact with the label heated by the heating member and remove the label from the plastic bottle body by making contact with the label, the brush member being a rotary brush member including a shaft portion extending along the axial direction of the plastic bottle body and a brush bristle arranged on an outer circumference of the shaft portion, the brush bristle being arranged in a spiral form along the axial direction of the shaft portion;
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- a rotating device that causes the plastic bottle body and the brush member to rotate relative to each other in a state where the plastic bottle body and the brush member are in contact with each other, the rotating device rotates the rotary brush member by applying rotational driving force to the shaft portion.
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A plastic bottle processing apparatus that processes a plastic bottle including a plastic bottle body having a label wound thereon and a cap screwed to the plastic bottle body, comprising:
- an apparatus body having a conveying path section in which the plastic bottle is conveyed along a predetermined conveying direction;
- and
- a label separating unit arranged in a middle of the conveying path section so as to separate the label from the plastic bottle body,
- the conveying path section allowing the plastic bottle to be conveyed in a state where an axial direction of the plastic bottle is parallel to the conveying direction, and
- the label separating unit including:
- a label cutting member that cuts the label of the plastic bottle, which is conveyed in the conveying path section along the axial direction of the plastic bottle, the label cutting member being provided so as to be displaced between a cutting position at which the label cutting member enters the conveying path section and a retracted position located on a position further toward an outer side than the cutting position,
- a heating member that heats the label cut by the label cutting member,
- a brush member disposed so as to be able to make contact with the label heated by the heating member and remove the label from the plastic bottle body by making contact with the label, and
- a biasing member that biases the label cutting member toward the cutting position to cause the label cutting member to make contact with an outer circumferential surface of the plastic bottle body conveyed along the conveying path section.
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A vehicle mounted with a plastic bottle processing apparatus, comprising:
- a carrier;
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- a plastic bottle processing apparatus mounted on the carrier, and adapted for processing a plastic bottle including a plastic bottle body having a label wound thereon and a cap screwed to the plastic bottle body, and comprising:
- an apparatus body having a conveying path section in which the plastic bottle is conveyed along a predetermined conveying direction;
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- a label separating unit arranged in a middle of the conveying path section so as to separate the label from the plastic bottle body,
- the conveying path section allowing the plastic bottle to be conveyed in a state where an axial direction of the plastic bottle is parallel to the conveying direction, and
- the label separating unit including:
- a label cutting member that cuts the label of the plastic bottle that is conveyed in the conveying path section along the axial direction of the plastic bottle, the label cutting member being provided so as to be displaced between a cutting position at which the label cutting member enters the conveying path section and a retracted position located on a position further toward an outer side than the cutting position;
- a heating member that heats the label cut by the label cutting member;
- a brush member disposed so as to be able to make contact with the label heated by the heating member and remove the label from the plastic bottle body by making contact with the label;
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- a biasing member that biases the label cutting member toward the cutting position to cause the label cutting member to make contact with an outer circumferential surface of the plastic bottle body conveyed along the conveying path section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.