Bin Inversion Apparatus Using Segmented Guide Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing bin lifting apparatuses for emptying rubbish bins into larger receptacles pose safety hazards due to pinch points created by the goose neck mechanism, which can cause occupational health and safety issues.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus with a support system that uses a first and second guide, where the first tracking device moves along a fixed guide and the second tracking device moves along a pivotally mounted guide, allowing the support to tilt without creating pinch points, ensuring safe inversion of bins.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a goose neck mechanism is used to lift and invert the bin, then the bin can be emptied effectively, but pinch points are created causing safety hazards
Solution Approach 1:
The guide mechanism is divided into multiple sections: a first guide for the first tracking device and a second guide for the second tracking device. This segmentation allows the bin to be lifted and inverted through coordinated movement of separate guide components, eliminating the pinch points created by the traditional goose neck mechanism while maintaining effective bin emptying capability.
2Ease of operation
If operators position the bin and operate the lifting apparatus, then bin inversion can be performed, but operators are exposed to moving parts creating safety risks
Solution Approach 1:
The dual tracking device system acts as an intermediary mechanism between the operator and the bin inversion process. The first and second tracking devices move along their respective guides to coordinate the lifting and inversion, allowing operators to control the process from a safe distance without direct exposure to moving parts, while maintaining ease of operation through controlled coordination of the tracking devices.
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AI summary
An apparatus for at least partly inverting an object. The apparatus having a support for supporting the object, a first guide, a pivotally mounted second guide, and a first and second tracking device each positioned in fixed location relative to the support. In operation, a drive unit moves the first tracking device in a first direction along or within the first guide and continued operation of the drive unit in the first direction causes the second tracking device to enter the second guide, and further continued operation of the drive unit in the first direction causes the first tracking device to continue moving in the first guide in the first direction and causes the second tracking device to move along the second guide and to cause pivotal movement of the second guide to thereby tilt the support.