Patent ID: 9623421
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: A24F,B02C,B07B,B30B

Claim:
1. An ecocompatible container for the recycling of cigarette butts, constituted by a cylinder comprising an openable upper cover, an intermediate portion housing internal devices and a base fixed to the ground, the internal devices inside of the intermediate portion comprising a common hopper, a conveying screw, a plurality of ashtrays, a collection container, a small suction motor, a filter accumulation chamber, and a rotating screening basket including a plurality of balls, wherein the common hopper is present on an upper part of said intermediate portion with off-centered lower hole, the upper part of which enters into external communication with at least two openings, constituting the ashtrays, obtained in the upper part of said intermediate portion and through which the cigarette butts or that which remains of a cigarette after its use are introduced, wherein the off-centered lower hole directly introduces the cigarette butts of said hopper, in the screw placed horizontally and driven by a small motor of the hopper, wherein an operation of said screw, carried out at predetermined time intervals, ensures that the cigarette butts present in said hopper, is introduced, by means of an opening obtained on a side of said screening basket, into the screening basket, wherein said screening basket is constituted by a totally perforated hollow cylinder capable of constituting by means of a plurality of holes the screening of a substance to be separated, wherein the rotation of said screening basket will move the balls contained and the relative cigarette butts, allowing by means of mutual impact and friction a crushing of said cigarette butts and hence an effective separation of a delicate portion of said cigarette butts, from a resistant and fibrous portion constituted only by cigarette filters, wherein the delicate portion, when it reaches a suitable mincing size will be forced by a pressure exerted by the balls to pass through the holes of the screening basket and falling by gravity will be accumulated in the underlying collection container, wherein once a passage through the holes is completed, always maintaining the rotation of the screening basket activated, a suction of the cigarette filters will occur by means of a driving of the small suction motor, wherein said cigarette filters will be sucked into a superolateral opening of said screening basket and directed into a duct and wherein said sucked cigarette filters will fall, being accumulated in the underlying filter accumulation chamber.