For my garbage separator project, I need to submit items one at a time. This is a problem because I have no idea how to do this. If I submit items in bulk, the sorter will not be able to properly sort the garbage.
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I need to create a device that will submit individually items like lumps of paper, plastic bottle caps, batteries. By serving them one at a time, I mean that they should be placed on the tape individually. i have a lot , such as the servo, the 3D printer, and several other items.
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With no experience whatsoever, I’d be thinking you need a couple of steps…
A ‘primary separator’ to sort generic ferrous, metal, plastic, glass, woods etc. liquids can drip through to a tank.
A feeder mechanism to output each of those toward a separate bin,…and… before the end of the feeder,
A sifter to remove small, unsorted items to another bin.
You may wan to add a ‘sniffer’ to look for flammable odours to shutdown the process.
Just my 2c worth,
Yes, it will work well, but the question is how to separate the items. My question is not about how to divide the items for sorting, but rather how to feed them individually into the sorting line. Obviously, the garbage we want to sort will be mixed together, and my sorter won't be able to sort a pile of mixed garbage.
You are not the first to do this. I did a google search for "garbage sorting devices" and looked briefly at a couple of videos, mainly conveyor belt type solutions.
You could do the same and maybe link to some which are practical for your task.
a conveyor style feeder would be the most flexible, as the size and orientation of each object is less critical.
for separating, i’d be thinking about air jets, magneto sensors and light.
Yes, I have seen those videos, but none of them are fully automated. There is still a human who sorts the garbage one by one, and if there's a person doing the sorting, then what's the point of having an automatic sorter
this is closer, metal can be captured with a magnet, but I think that plastic bottle caps will deflate just as well as paper
Yes, it's quite possible that I also use machine vision in my project, but I still can't automate it 100 percent
Yes, but I want it to be done automatically.
plastic bottle caps ? deflate ? wth ?
That sounds like you’ve solved the difference between hard plastics and paper !
Think about adding blowers, weight scales and more - depending on the range of opproducts you want to identify.
Maybe you should prepare a matrix of materials and methods to plan your attackl
I think I don't imagine the sorter like you do, I imagine it to be a cylinder about 20 cm in diameter and about 25 cm high, the garbage is filled in from above, then the magnet turns on and attracts the metal, then the bottom opens and the fans turn on, blowing away the plastic along with the paper. I just imagined how it would work, tell me what your version of it is.
First, how large are the items you’re sorting ?
How much space do you have for the mechanism ?
You need to build a scale prototype of each unit - to see how they work and interact with each other,
My initial visualisation was fiori a mesh conveyor that allow chaff to fall through, probably fans to one sipide, and a ‘rollover’ mechanism that lets items fall a short distance so the magnets and other sensors can do,their thing.
Combinations or variations may be needed after you’ve tested them ipout.
The size is about the size of half a 250 ml plastic cup - paper, plastic caps, metal scraps and batteries
it sounds complicated, but the harm will work, but I can't imagine it.
The very first step will be to get the items into a single line. Can you do that?
This would be feasible if the objects were similar in size, but the plastic lids, paper lumps, and batteries are too different to line them up.
Nonsense! Spend some time thinking about how to make it happen. Think of a v-shaped vibrating table with a downward slope.
How many millions of dollars do you have to reach 100%?