Equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in high building

Information

  • Patent Grant
  • 6196240
  • Patent Number
    6,196,240
  • Date Filed
    Friday, February 12, 1999
    25 years ago
  • Date Issued
    Tuesday, March 6, 2001
    23 years ago
Abstract
An equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building comprises a conveyer, a guide track, gathering barrels, and a cleaning mechanism. The conveyer further comprises a driving motor, a conveyer belt, a driving gear wheel, and a driven gear wheel, wherein the driving motor is to drive the conveyer belt to revolve via the driving gear wheel and the driven gear wheel. A guide track is covered with the conveyer belt for stable revolution, and the gathering barrel attached to the conveyer belt externally is provided with a reception opening for garbage collection of each story. A bracket and cantilevers are supplied to the gathering barrel to keep the same upright when circulating. The gathered garbage is conveyed to base story of a building and ejected through outlet at bottom of the gathering barrel. The used gathering barrel will be cleaned by the cleaning mechanism for immediate subsequent use.
Description




BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION




This invention relates to an equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building, particularly to an equipment that facilitates dumping garbage for each story instead of carrying the same down to the first floor individually for time and trouble saving, as well as tidy environment keeping.




A resident in a high building usually has to carry garbage down to the first floor for disposal that is not only laborious and troublesome but also disgusting in the case of leaking to contaminate environment in carrying process to degrade living quality.




SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION




In view of above demand, this invention is proposed to provide an equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building to save trouble and to further improve living quality of resided people to substantiate environmental protection of a community.




The main object of this invention is to provide an equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building by arranging a disposal entrance in each story and gathering barrels moving between stories for conveying dumped garbage. The on-story treatment and automatic conveyance of garbage is especially convenient for people residing in a 30-story down building.




Another object of this invention is to provide an equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building by concentration treatment without contaminating each story in the building, and the gathering barrels can be cleaned and sterilized with a cleaning mechanism to keep tidiness of the environment.




A further object of this invention is to provide an equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage automatically in a high building with least manpower.




One more object of this invention is to provide an equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building that can be applied also to clean and transport any work waste in addition to household garbage.




A furthermore object of this invention is to provide an equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building cooperative with building management by disposing a collection barrel at each story and setting a garbage gathering and conveying time period every day, 2-4 hrs for example, to facilitate an aggregate treatment that can save time, power consumption, and trouble of residents.




A final object of this invention is to provide an equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building by arranging a card reading machine at each story beside garbage entrance to avoid accident of children, and by way of rubbish assortment and retrieval of resource, a profit feedback to the residents is possible.











BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS




For better understanding to the present invention, together with further advantages or features thereof, at least one preferred embodiment will be elucidated below with reference to the annexed drawings in which:





FIG. 1

is an embodiment schematic view of this invention;





FIG. 2

is a lateral schematic view of the embodiment of this invention;





FIG. 3

is a structural schematic view showing a driving motor and a driving gear wheel of this invention;





FIG. 4

is a structural schematic view showing a chain belt and a track of this invention;





FIG. 5

is a schematic view showing adjustment action of a driven gear wheel of this invention;





FIG. 6

is an exploded schematic view showing disposition example of a gathering barrel of this invention;





FIG. 7

is a schematic view showing a disposed gathering barrel of this invention;





FIG. 8

is a schematic view showing a gathering barrel of this invention under operation;





FIG. 9

is a schematic view showing a cleaning mechanism of this invention; and





FIG. 10

is an altered-structural schematic view of gathering barrel of this invention.











DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT




As shown in

FIG. 1 and 2

, an equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of this invention comprises a conveyer


1


, a guide track


2


, gathering barrels


3


, and a cleaning mechanism


4


. The conveyer


1


is provided with a driving motor


11


, which can rotate in forward or reverse direction, is located at somewhere proper on top of a building. A shaft


111


of the driving motor is penetrating a driving gear wheel


12


and fixed therein (as shown in FIG.


3


). A driven gear wheel


13


is located at base story of the building somewhere corresponding to the driving gear wheel


12


, and a conveyer belt


14


is geared onto the driving gear wheel


12


and the driven gear wheel


13


externally. The conveyer belt


14


is mainly composed of a chain belt


141


with internal rollers


142


and external fixing strips


143


enclosed. The driven gear wheel


13


and the conveyer belt


14


are driven by the driving gear wheel


12


(as shown in FIG.


4


), and the driven gear wheel


13


is movable up and down for adjusting length, stress, and height from floor of the conveyer belt


14


for better operational conditions (as shown in FIG.


5


).




The guide track


2


is laid on inner face of roller of the conveyer belt


14


with a narrower width to contact with rollers for keeping the conveyer belt


14


to revolve without offset, so that it can exactly pass through a garbage dumping entrance


5


at each story of the building (as shown in FIG.


1


).




As shown in

FIG. 6 and 7

, at least one gathering barrel


3


disposed on outer-lateral side of the conveyer belt


14


for conveying garbage or work waste, wherein a reception opening


31


is formed on top of the gathering barrel


3


to serve as a dumping entrance of garbage. Each of two lateral faces of the gathering barrel


3


is fixed with a rivet


32


at upper position respectively, which is collared with a cantilever


33


extending backwards to be fixed at the fixing strips


143


of the conveyer belt


14


. The gathering barrels


3


are thus moving with the conveyer belt


14


from story to story in an upright posture without worry of being skewed owing to the revolvable cantilever


33


. A dumping outlet


34


prepared at bottom face of the gathering barrel


3


for dumping out the garbage is sealed with a cover


35


when conveying, and in a pivot at rear end of the movable cover


35


, an open/close hole


351


is arranged for opening or closing the movable cover


35


by inserting a tool in the open/close hole


351


. In addition, on each lateral face of the gathering barrel


3


, a support hole


36


is preserved at proper position serving as a handgrip for holding the gathering barrel


3


when dumping. A bracket


37


fixed at the conveyer belt


14


is further provided underneath the gathering barrel


3


to hold the same for stability enhancement when moving; and a reinforced beam


38


can be added to increase loading ability of the gathering barrel


3


.




As shown in

FIG. 9

, the cleaning mechanism


4


located at base story of a building comprises at least a downward nozzle


41


disposed in a terminal plate


42


. Rear end of the nozzle


41


connects to a cleaning duct


43


which can be a water hose, air duct, or steam pipe, or concurrently disposed to provide different cleaning ways. In the case of a steam pipe, the cleaning mechanism will provide a mixture of steam and detergent to spray in the gathering barrel


3


for cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing at one time, and the sprayed mixture will evaporate soon enough for a gathering barrel


3


to resume its job immediately. The other end of the terminal plate


42


connects to a lifting equipment


44


of hydraulic of pneumatic type adopted according to weight of load, which is used to adjust height of the nozzle for easy cleaning of the gathering barrels


3


.




Please refer to

FIG. 1 and 2

again. We suggest installing the equipment of this invention nearby an elevator, so that a resident can dump or dispose garbage at ease without wasting any extra time. When applying the equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of this invention, the driving motor


11


has to be switched “ON” at first, then the conveyer belt


14


is driven to revolve by the driving gear wheel


12


and the driven gear wheel


13


to carry the gathering barrels


3


to each story respectively. After a user has dumped garbage or workwaste into the gathering barrel


3


through dumping entrance


5


, the conveyer belt


14


will be started again to revolve and carry the gathering barrel


3


down to base story of the building. Two pushing rods


6


are used to prop at the support holes


36


to stabilize the gathering barrel


3


from swinging, and a spanner


7


is employed to open the cover


35


for dumping the garbage into a dumpcart


8


for subsequent treatment; then, the cleaning mechanism


4


is moved down for the nozzle


41


to clean and sterilize the gathering barrel


3


.




The above work process can be completed by respective control of conveyer


1


, gathering barrel


3


, and cleaning mechanism


4


, or by linking devices on-line for automatic operation that shall require a sensor


9


at each story to make sure if the gathering barrels


3


stop at right positions.




As shown in

FIG. 10

, an reception opening


39


with a cover


391


can be arranged at front face of the gathering barrel


3


as an alternative.




In the above described, at least one preferred embodiment has been elucidated with reference to relating drawings annexed, it is apparent that numerous variations or modifications may be made without departing from the true spirit and scope thereof, as set forth in the following claims.



Claims
  • 1. An equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building, comprising:a conveyer further comprising a driving motor, a conveyer belt, a driving gear wheel, and a driven gear wheel, wherein said driving motor located on top of a building can rotate in forward and reverse directions, and shaft thereof is penetrating and fixed in said driving gear wheel; said driven gear wheel is located at base story in the same building; said conveyer belt is geared onto said driving gear wheel and said driven gear wheel to enable said driving motor to drive said conveyer belt and said driven gear wheel; a guide track with a narrower width laid against inner face of conveyer rollers to guide said conveyer moving without offset; at least one gathering barrel installed at said conveyer belt externally, wherein a reception opening is formed in top face of said gathering barrel; a rivet is fixed in each of two lateral faces at upper portion respectively, and said rivet is collared with a cantilever extending backwards to be fixed at said conveyer belt; a dumping outlet with a movable cover is provided to said gathering barrel at bottom face for opening and sealing purpose, and an open/close hole is formed in a pivot at rear end of said movable cover; and a bracket placed underneath said gathering barrel has its tail end been fixed at said conveyer belt and front end supported said gathering barrel; a cleaning mechanism located at base story containing a downward oriented nozzle, wherein said nozzle is disposed in a terminal plate, and rear end of said nozzle is connected to at least one cleaning duct for providing detergent; the other end of said terminal plate is coupled to a movable equipment for adjusting height of said nozzle.
  • 2. The equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of claim 1, wherein said driven gear wheel can be moved up or down for adjusting length, stress, and working height of said conveyer belt.
  • 3. The equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of claim 1, wherein a chain is the main body of said conveyer belt; said chain comprises a plurality of rollers and fixing strips; in virtue of contact of said rollers to said guide track, said conveyer belt can be stabilized when revolving; said fixing strips are used to lock said cantilevers and/or said brackets.
  • 4. The equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of claim 1, wherein a support hole is formed in each lateral face of said gathering barrel, and a push rod may be inserted in said support hole to stabilize said gathering barrel to facilitate garbage cleaning.
  • 5. The equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of claim 1, wherein a spanner can be put in said open/close hole to open or close said movable cover.
  • 6. The equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of claim 1, wherein each face of said gathering barrel can be reinforced with an extra support beam to increase strength.
  • 7. The equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of claim 1, wherein said reception opening of said gathering barrel can be provided with a sanitary cover for raising environmental quality.
  • 8. The equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of claim 1, wherein said cleaning duct can be a water pipe, an air duct, or a steam pipe.
  • 9. The equipment for conveyance and treatment of garbage in a high building of claim 1, wherein each story of a building may be equipped with a sensing device to detect and control said gathering barrels to stay at due positions.
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