Patent Application
20240239599
The invention relates to the field of waste handling.
Conventionally waste is inserted into a bag, and discarded together with the bag upon being filled.
However, the user must repeat the discarding again and again.
Shredding for delaying the discarding raises a problem of odors produced by the shredded waste.
There is a long felt need to provide a solution to the above-mentioned and other problems of the prior art.
A waste apparatus, including:
Embodiments, features, and aspects of the invention are described herein in conjunction with the following drawings:
The drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale.
The invention will be understood from the following detailed description of embodiments of the invention, which are meant to be descriptive and not limiting. For the sake of brevity, some well-known features are not described in detail.
The reference numbers have been used to point out elements in the embodiments described and illustrated herein, in order to facilitate the understanding of the invention. They are meant to be merely illustrative, and not limiting. Also, the foregoing embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated in conjunction with systems and methods thereof, which are meant to be merely illustrative, and not limiting.
A waste apparatus 10 according to the invention includes a top compartment 20A including a manually openable roof 12A and an openable floor 12B.
At the first step, being while openable floor 12B is open, the user manually opens top compartment 20A, inserts waste 50A thereinto, and then closes top compartment 20A, several times.
At the second step being once top compartment 20A is full or before being full or upon manual operation, openable floor 12B is being opened, thus functioning as a transfer device 73, thus waste 50A falls from top compartment 20A into a middle compartment 20B by gravity.
At the third step, roof 12A is closed, thus showing the top of middle compartment 20B. Middle compartment 20B is full.
At the fourth step, a shredder 32 shreds waste 50A of
At the fifth step, a pump 30 pumps shredded waste 50B, and a directing device 26 directs shredded waste 50B from middle compartment 20B to a bottom compartment 20C, being separated from middle compartment 20B, thus consequently, opening of roof opening 12 does not expose undesired odors of shredded waste 50B to the top environment 52A.
According to one embodiment, directing assembly constitutes a compartment 53 including a top valve 34A being openable to middle compartment 20B; a bottom valve 34B being openable to bottom compartment 20C; and a side opening 36 being opened to pump 30.
At the first step (“step A”) of the fifth step, top valve 34A is open and bottom valve 34B is closed, and pump 30 rotates to draw air (55A) out of compartment 53. Thus, pump 30 draws shredded waste 50B out of middle compartment 20B onto the floor 51 of compartment 53.
At the second step (“step B”) of the fifth step, top valve 34A is closed and bottom valve 34B is open, and pump 30 rotates to insert air (55B) into compartment 53. Thus, pump 30 presses shredded waste 50B from floor 51 of compartment 53 to bottom compartment 20C.
Bottom compartment 20C is shrinkable, e.g., constitutes a shrinkable disposable bag.
At the sixth step, pump 30 or another pump deflates bottom compartment 20C, thus bottom compartment 20C shrinks from size 28A of
The sixth step of
At the seventh step, pump 30 inserts air 54 into bottom compartment 20C to inflate it. Shredded compressed waste 50C remains having size 28B, thus providing additional space of air to bottom compartment 20C.
The seventh step of
The eighth step includes repeating step 1 to 7 several times to fill bottom compartment 20C, until bottom compartment 20C contains shredded compressed waste 50C of size 28A.
At the ninth step bottom compartment 20C, being typically a bag is removed to a waste bin 58.
Package 80 of compartments 20A,20B and 20C includes legs 62 including weighing scales 62.
The weight of bag 20C is measured by weighing scales 62, and upon exceeding a certain weight, door or drawer 37 is opened for removing bag 20C.
An infra-red detector 60 may detect presence of trash bag 20C.
Trash bag 20C may be folded (70) inside a disposable cardboard cartridge 72. Rollers 74 together with a fan 78 deploy trash bag 20C from cartridge 72. Rollers 74 are rotate about brackets 76, which hang and seal bag 20C.
A water tank 78 is disposed at the bottom of package 80. Water tank 78 includes a filling opening 80.
A water pump 82 is disposed within water tank 78 for lifting the water upwards through a pipe 84.
Nozzle 86 of pipe 84 is used to clean shredder 32; and nozzle 88 is used to clean openable roof 12A.
New bags will be supplied in in a tough cardboard holder. Middle oval shaped area will be a hole and we store the bags on the outer area. When reloading of the bag is set, the user must remove the garbage first. The system will not allow user to load a new set of bags without removing the garbage bag. This ensures correct bag counting. Once a bag is absent, it will be notified and then user must remove the garbage first. And then the old bag container will come down and come out with the drawer 37 so user can replace the bags. Once the bags are loaded the drawer 37 will close, automatic loading process will start. When drawer 37 is closed the system will pull up the bag container towards the grinding rolls. The bag container will come up using the rails placed in package 80. The sealing system will be placed on the bottom of the bag container.
The weight of the bags together with the weight of the garbage are supported by the 4 rolls 74 installed on the four sides, beneath the bag container. There will be same kind of rolls in grinder level and when the bag container goes up, the bags are tightened between the rolls 74, sufficiently to hold 10 kg of weight, for example. Rolls 74 are supported by brackets 76. Fans 78 on the grinder level open the bags wider. Volume sensor 84 are disposed at the same height of fans 78 to open the bags. Waster apparatus 10 includes a sealing and cutting mechanism, including a cutting heat coil and a sealing heat coil. Whenever the user removes a bag, these two coils will come together and one coil will seal the bag while the other coil cuts the bag. A proximity sensor supplies the opposite sealing bar.
Thus, in one aspect, the invention is directed to a waste apparatus (10), including:
The processing device (71) may further include a waste diminishing device (32,30), thereby the waste (50A) stored within the second compartment (20C) separated from the environment (52A) is diminished (50B,50C), thereby allowing plural transfers of the waste (50A) to second compartment (20C) for each discarding thereof.
The waste diminishing device (32,30) may include a shredder (32).
The waste diminishing device (32,30) may include an air deflating device (30), for deflating the second compartment (20C) onto the waste (50A), thereby to diminish the waste (50A).
The waste diminishing device (32,30) may include an air inflating device (30), for inflating (54) the second compartment (20C) for providing empty space to add waste.
The waste diminishing device (32,30) may include:
In another aspect, the invention is directed to a waste handling method, including the steps of:
The step of transferring the waste (50A) from the first compartment (20A) to the second compartment (20C) may include shredding (32) the waste (50A), thereby allowing plural transfers of shredded waste (50B) to second compartment (20C) for each discarding thereof.
The waste handling method may further include the steps of:
The waste handling method may further include the steps of:
In the figures and/or description herein, the following reference numerals (Reference Signs List) have been mentioned:
Any term that has been defined above and used in the claims, should be interpreted according to this definition.
The reference numbers in the claims are not a part of the claims, but rather used for facilitating the reading thereof. These reference numbers should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any form.
