CN113040522A

CN113040522A - Self-service tableware recovery unit

Info

Publication number: CN113040522A
Application number: CN202110513390.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杜红强; 周明慧
Original assignee: Beijing Chuangxiang Xinyu Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Chuangxiang Xinyu Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-05-11
Filing date: 2021-05-11
Publication date: 2021-06-29

Abstract

The invention relates to a self-service tableware recycling device which comprises a main cabinet body 1, a sub-vehicle 2 and a lifting module 3, wherein the main cabinet body is provided with a control module 4, a communication early warning module 5, a display screen 6, a dinner plate frame 7, a classification plate 8, an identification module 10 and an interaction module 9, the sub-vehicle 2 is accommodated in the main cabinet body 1 and can be separated from the main cabinet body 1, the sub-vehicle 2 is provided with a tableware collecting container 16 and universal wheels 17 for containing tableware, and the lifting module 3 is arranged below the main cabinet body 1 and the sub-vehicle 2. The recovery device has small floor area, can be flexibly arranged at different positions of a restaurant, is convenient for customers and service personnel to put back tableware nearby, and can collect dry and wet garbage and dinner plate tableware in a classified manner; the tableware collecting container realizes automatic expansion and lifting, and reduces the damage of tableware while storing in large capacity; the sub-vehicle can realize centralized and rapid carrying of tableware; the recovery device can give an alarm when being fully loaded; the recycling device also realizes the function of identifying the action of putting the tableware back to the customer in the collecting process, and attracts and stimulates the customer to recycle the tableware by combining the display screen and the interactive module. In conclusion, the invention greatly saves the labor cost for recovering and classifying the tableware and the dry and wet garbage for the restaurant.

Description

Self-service tableware recovery unit

Technical Field

The invention relates to a tableware recovery device, in particular to a self-service tableware recovery device in the catering industry.

Background

At present, in places where public tableware is used for dining, the tableware is basically recycled by service personnel.

Generally, service personnel manually carry dinner plates and tableware from a front hall to a washing room recycling point of a back kitchen, the carrying quantity is limited, the service personnel frequently work, and the labor intensity of the service personnel is high. In addition, the device generally has only one recycling point, and has large carrying distance from a front hall to a back kitchen, and low efficiency. Particularly, when the flow of people for dining at peak time is large, customers cannot get in place in time and the turnover rate is affected because the customers cannot pick up the dining table. The staff in washing room need wash after separately arranging the dinner plate tableware, according to the health standard, need classify dry and wet rubbish simultaneously, and visible classification has taken a large amount of manual works on the work.

In view of the above, there is a need to design a centralized recycling and sorting device for use in the front hall, which can be placed at different positions of a restaurant to serve as a buffer device for recycling tableware, thereby reducing the carrying distance of service staff and improving the efficiency of recycling dinner plates in rush hours.

In the prior art:

1. generally, a conveyor belt is adopted, the floor area of the conveyor belt is large, the device disclosed in CN108961103A needs to be combined with the decoration of a front cabinet and a back cabinet, the floor area of the conveyor belt is large and impractical and the price of the conveyor belt is high for most commercial spaces.

2. Generally, the device is only suitable for arranging a unified recycling position near a kitchen or fixing the device at a certain place, belongs to equipment used by kitchen staff, needs to be connected with a water source, such as a device published by CN107555191A, and is not suitable for being put in a large number of positions close to customers in a restaurant, so that more customers are attracted to recycle by themselves.

3. The device disclosed in CN108726188A, which only separates dinner plate and leftovers, is not suitable for the case with dishes, and the chopsticks are not classified.

4. The devices disclosed in CN108726188A all have limited capacity, the same floor space, and the depth space of the container is not fully utilized to automatically expand the capacity, so that the service personnel still need to go to and from the front hall and the kitchen cleaning room with high frequency.

5. Conventional tableware recovery unit, tableware fall highly high, fall easily and damage or collide with the damage tableware, cause unnecessary loss.

At present, the state encourages garbage classification, and most of the existing catering industry units lack active and effective measures and devices matched with the active and effective measures to guide customers to put back dinner plates by themselves, so that the labor cost is more effectively saved.

Therefore, in view of the above disadvantages, there is a need for a self-service tableware recycling device, which has small floor space and large capacity, is convenient to be placed at different positions or exits of a restaurant, is convenient for waiters to recycle tableware, improves efficiency, is convenient and encouraged for customers to place tableware back when leaving, can classify dry and wet garbage and tableware dinner plates, and avoids damage and bruise when the tableware falls off.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the technical problems, the invention provides a self-service tableware recovery device which comprises a main cabinet body 1, a sub-vehicle 2 and a lifting module 3.

The main cabinet body 1 is provided with a control module 4, a communication early warning module 5, a display screen 6, a dinner plate frame 7, a classification plate 8, an identification module 10 and an interaction module 9; the control module 4 can be positioned at any suitable position in the main cabinet body 1 and is respectively connected with and controlled by the communication early warning module 5, the display screen 6, the identification module 10 and the interaction module 9; the communication early warning module 5 is used for sending out alarm information according to the total quantity or the total weight of dinner plates on the dinner plate rack 7 and/or the total quantity or the total weight of the tableware in the tableware collection container 16; the display screen 6 is used for displaying information; the dinner plate rack 7 is used for stacking dinner plates; the classification plate 8 is provided with a dry garbage inlet 11, a wet garbage inlet 12 and a tableware inlet 13; the identification module 10 is used for identifying whether a newly added dinner plate is arranged on the dinner plate rack 7; the interaction module 9 is configured to enable a customer to participate in interaction through the interaction module 9 after the identification module 10 identifies a new meal tray.

The sub-vehicle 2 is accommodated in the main cabinet 1 and is separable from the main cabinet 1, and the sub-vehicle 2 is provided with a tableware collecting container 16 and universal wheels 17 for containing tableware.

The lifting module 3 is disposed below the main cabinet 1 and the sub-cart 2, and is used for lifting or lowering the tableware collecting container 16 on the sub-cart 2 according to the total number or total weight of the dinner plates on the dinner plate rack 7 and/or the total number or total weight of the tableware in the tableware collecting container 16, so that the volume of the tableware collecting container 16 is reduced or enlarged.

The total number or total weight of the dinner plates on the dinner plate frame 7 is obtained by the identification module 10 or the control module 4, and the sub-vehicle 2 or the main cabinet 1 is provided with a dry garbage container 14 for containing dry garbage and a wet garbage container 15 for containing wet garbage.

Preferably, the interactive module 9, the dry garbage inlet 11 and/or the wet garbage inlet 12 are arranged on the left side and the right side of the classification plate 8.

Preferably, a chopstick and spoon container 18 for containing chopsticks and spoons is provided on the classification plate 8; alternatively, the chopstick and spoon container 18 is provided on the child cart 2, and the sorting plate 8 is provided with inlets for chopsticks and spoons.

Preferably, the chopstick and spoon container 18 and/or the inlets of the chopstick and spoon are provided at both left and right sides of the sorting plate 8.

Preferably, there are one or more of the dish inlets 13.

Preferably, the dry trash receptacle 14 and the wet trash receptacle 15 are detachable from the main cabinet 1 or the sub-cart 2.

Preferably, universal wheels 19 are arranged below the main cabinet 1.

Preferably, the tableware collecting container 16 is composed of a bottom frame 21 and a surrounding plate 20, the bottom frame 21 is a container with an upper opening and a periphery and a bottom sealing, the surrounding plate 20 is a sleeve structure with an upper opening and a lower opening and a periphery sealing, the surrounding plate 20 is placed in the bottom frame 21, the upper part of the surrounding plate 20 is fixed on the sub-cart 2, the bottom frame 21 is placed on the lifting module 3, and the bottom frame 21 can slide up and down along the peripheral outer wall of the surrounding plate 20.

Preferably, the lifting module 3 is in a motor or hydraulic mode, the tableware collecting container 16 has a plurality of surrounding plates, the innermost surrounding plate is fixed on the sub-cart 2, and the outermost surrounding plate is connected with the bottom frame 21.

Preferably, the communication early warning module 5 notifies the service staff of the alarm information through a signal lamp and/or a wearable device.

The tableware recovery device is convenient to arrange in a restaurant and can be used as a temporary collection station of tableware, so that the tableware recovery efficiency is improved; the device is provided with dry and wet garbage and tableware and dinner plate classification inlets, so that the cost for classification in a kitchen cleaning room is reduced; the device is provided with a collecting container capable of automatically deepening and expanding the volume, the height can be automatically adjusted from shallow to deep along with the increase of the number of the tableware, the same floor area is adopted, the height space is fully utilized to expand the volume, and on the other hand, the problem that the tableware is easy to break and gouge when sliding down is effectively avoided as the depth is gradually deepened; the inside of the device is provided with the sub-vehicle, so that the replacement of an empty vehicle and a full vehicle can be conveniently realized, and the sub-vehicle can conveniently bear and transport the collected tableware and garbage to be quickly transported back to a kitchen cleaning room; the tableware recovery device has an alarm function, and can be communicated with wearable equipment on a service staff body before full load to remind of vehicle change; the tableware recovery device has the entertainment lottery function, can identify the action of putting back tableware by customers, can award lottery tickets or real objects to the customers in combination with the interactive multimedia game mode, has strong entertainment and participation, can effectively attract the customers to participate in activities to recover dinner plates by self, and saves the labor cost for restaurants; the upper part of the tableware recovery device is provided with a display screen which attracts more attention of customers and participates in tableware recovery; the tableware recovery device can be integrally and flexibly moved and fixed, and a dining room can be conveniently replaced temporarily according to needs.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages and effects:

1. the invention has larger capacity in the same floor area, can recycle more tableware and dry and wet garbage, and effectively utilizes space.

2. The invention can effectively reduce the breakage and abrasion of the tableware and save the cost of the tableware.

3. The invention realizes the stock sensing, forecasting and early warning and improves the working efficiency of tableware recovery by a wireless or wired network technology.

4. The invention is easy to put in and lay out due to cabinet design, small volume, appearance science and technology and self-service use.

5. The invention can reduce the running distance and workload of front desk service personnel when recovering tableware, thereby improving the working efficiency and reducing the labor cost of the front desk.

6. The invention can reduce the classification work of tableware, dry and wet garbage and the like in a kitchen cleaning room, thereby improving the working efficiency and reducing the kitchen labor cost.

7. The invention positively motivates, encourages and cultures the classified recovery of customers through the mode of game lottery, and is a powerful embodiment for advertising and responding to the national garbage classification policy.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a self-service tableware retrieving device according to the present invention in a use state;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of the main cabinet and the sub-vehicle of the self-service tableware recycling device of the present invention in a separated state;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the operation of the tableware collection container of the self-service tableware retrieving apparatus according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating the use of the self-service tableware retrieving device according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

Fig. 1 and 2 are views showing one embodiment of a self-service tableware recycling device according to the present invention, fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of the self-service tableware recycling device according to the present invention in a use state, and fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of the self-service tableware recycling device according to the present invention in a separated state of a main cabinet and a sub-vehicle.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the tableware retrieving apparatus includes a main cabinet 1, a sub-cart 2 and a lifting module 3, and of course, the lifting module 3 may be integrated in the main cabinet 1.

The main cabinet 1 is a main body part and an exterior part of the tableware retrieving apparatus, and an interface part used by a user. The main cabinet body 1 is provided with a control module 4, a communication early warning module 5, a display screen 6, a dinner plate frame 7, a classification plate 8, an identification module 10 and an interaction module 9. The main cabinet body 1 can be fixed at a certain position of a restaurant, and can also comprise universal wheels 19 for moving the main cabinet body 1 integrally and flexibly replacing the placing place of the tableware recovery device.

And the communication early warning module 5 is used for sending alarm information according to the total quantity or the total weight of dinner plates on the dinner plate rack 7 and/or the total quantity or the total weight of the tableware in the tableware collection container 16 so as to inform service personnel of the full-load condition of tableware collection. Specifically, this module includes alarm and wearable receiver, and can operate in the environment of wireless network, the alarm is installed in the tableware recovery unit of difference, after receiving the full-load signal that sends of control module 4, automatically send alarm information to on signal lamp and/or the wearable receiver, the signal lamp is through modes such as demonstration, wearable receiver passes through characters, sound, vibrations, remind service personnel tableware recovery unit promptly will be full-load, service personnel can find out which recovery unit promptly will be full-load, thereby accomplish quick replacement son car, prevent that the tableware from piling up full unable retrieving. The total number or total weight of the dishes on the dish rack 7 can be obtained according to the identification of the identification module 10 or the statistics of the control module 4.

The display screen 6 is normally used as a propaganda large screen, displays a propaganda picture, and displays pictures and texts of ' putting back dinner plate winning free form ', ' putting back dinner plate drawing large prize ' or a wonderful lottery drawing game picture in the picture, thereby attracting more customers ' attention, attracting customers to draw lottery and participating in tableware recycling by self. When receiving the switching signal of the control module 4, the display screen 6 switches the publicity picture into an interactive picture to display the game or the reward information. After the interaction is finished and the switching signal of the control module 4 is received, the display screen 6 switches the interactive picture back to the publicity picture.

The dish rack 7 is used for stacking dishes, and after the customers classify and recycle the dishes and garbage, the dishes are placed on the dish rack 7.

And the identification module 10 is used for identifying whether a newly added dinner plate is arranged on the dinner plate rack 7, and the specific identification module can be an image identification module, a weight sensor or any other sensor which can be identified, and sends an identification result to the control module 4 after identification. The identification module 10 can also be used to identify the total number or weight of the dishes on the dish rack 7 and send the identification to the control module 4.

The classification plate 8 is used for throwing dry garbage, wet garbage and tableware, a dry garbage inlet 11, a wet garbage inlet 12 and a tableware inlet 13 are formed in the classification plate 8 and are respectively used for throwing the dry garbage, the wet garbage and the tableware, and classification of the garbage and the tableware is realized by utilizing different inlets. In particular, the dish inlet 13 may be one or more. In addition, a chopstick and spoon container 18 specially used for containing chopsticks and spoons is arranged on the classification plate 8; alternatively, the chopstick and spoon container 18 may be provided on the sub-cart 2, and the sorting plate 8 may be provided with inlets for chopsticks and spoons. On the left or right side of the sorting plate 8, a chopstick and spoon container 18, inlets of the chopsticks and spoon, a dry waste inlet 11 and/or a wet waste inlet 12 are provided; alternatively, a chopstick and spoon container 18, inlets of the chopstick and spoon, a dry garbage inlet 11 and/or a wet garbage inlet 12 are provided on both left and right sides of the sorting plate 8.

The interactive module 9 is a module for positively motivating the customer to put back the dishes, so that the customer can participate in interaction through the interactive module 9 after the identification module 10 identifies that the dish rack 7 has a new dish. Specifically, the left side or the right side of the main cabinet body 1 is provided with the interactive module 9, or the left side and the right side of the main cabinet body 1 are both provided with the interactive module 9. The interactive module 9 comprises interactive keys and a prize-giving system. After receiving the activation signal sent by the control module 4, the interactive key is in an activated and lighted state, and the customer can participate in interaction, game or lottery through the interactive key. The award-sending system is used for printing the award tickets, the specific award includes one or more of physical award tickets, electronic award tickets, member points, physical awards and the like, the entertainment and the participation are strong, customers can be effectively attracted to participate in activities to automatically recover dinner plates, and the labor cost is saved for restaurants.

The control module 4 is used for controlling the whole tableware recovery device, and the control module 4, the communication early warning module 5, the display screen 6, the interaction module 9 and the recognition module 10 are respectively connected and controlled, and are specifically realized by using a PLC or a single chip microcomputer. The control module 4 mainly comprises three functions: firstly, the control module 4 acquires the identification result of the identification module 10 through interaction with the identification module 10, if a new dinner plate is added on the dinner plate rack 7, the control module communicates with the interaction module 9 and the display screen 6, and customers can interact with each other to play games or draw lottery; secondly, the control module 4 is connected with the lifting module 3 and controls the lifting module to ascend or descend, so that the tableware collecting container 16 is always at a proper height in the tableware collecting process; thirdly, the control module 4 can interact with the identification module 10 to obtain the total amount or total weight of the dinner plates on the dinner plate rack 7; or the control module 4 can interact with the sensing module to acquire the total quantity or the total weight of the tableware in the tableware collection container 16; or the control module 4 can count the total quantity or total weight of the dinner plate or tableware by itself according to the interaction with the identification module 10 or the sensing module; therefore, the control module 4 compares the total quantity or the total weight of the dinner plate or the tableware with a specific numerical value, judges whether the dinner plate or the tableware is fully loaded, and after the total quantity or the total weight of the dinner plate or the tableware exceeds a certain numerical value, the control module 4 communicates with the communication early warning module 5 to inform a service person to replace the overhead sub-vehicle 2 as soon as possible.

The sub-cart 2 is a tool for carrying and transporting tableware and garbage, is accommodated in the main cabinet 1, and is separable from the main cabinet 1. When the cabinet is used, after the empty sub-vehicle 2 is pushed into the main cabinet 1 from the front side, the shielding covers 23 on the two sides of the main cabinet 1 are closed, as shown in fig. 1, and the sub-vehicle 2 and the main cabinet 1 are combined into a whole in appearance. When the sub-vehicle 2 needs to be replaced, as shown in fig. 2, the sub-vehicle 2 is pulled out from the main cabinet body 1, so that the replacement of an empty vehicle and a full vehicle can be conveniently realized, and the sub-vehicle 2 can conveniently bear and transport the collected tableware and garbage to be quickly transported back to a kitchen cleaning room. When accomplishing like this to retrieve the tableware, switch fast, remove in a flexible way, convenient high-efficient.

The sub-cart 2 is provided with a dry garbage container 14 for containing dry garbage, a wet garbage container 15 for containing wet garbage and a tableware collecting container 16 for containing tableware, and of course, the dry garbage container 14 and the wet garbage container 15 can also be arranged on the main cabinet 1 and can be separated from the main cabinet 1 or the sub-cart 2. The universal wheels 17 are arranged below the sub-vehicle 2, so that the sub-vehicle can be pushed conveniently.

The lifting module 3 is arranged below the main cabinet 1 and the sub-cart 2, and is used for lifting or lowering the tableware collecting container 16 on the sub-cart according to the total number or total weight of the dinner plates on the dinner plate rack 7 or the total number or total weight of the tableware in the tableware collecting container 16, so that the volume of the tableware collecting container 16 is reduced or enlarged. Specifically, the lifting module adopts a motor or hydraulic mode. Wherein, the total quantity or the total weight of the dinner plate is obtained according to the identification of the identification module 10 or the statistics of the control module 4; the total quantity or the total weight of the tableware in the tableware collection container 16 can be obtained according to an independently arranged sensing module, the sensing module can be arranged on the sub-vehicle 2 or the main cabinet body 1, and the control module 4 can acquire the sensing result of the sensing module in a wireless or wired mode, acquire the total quantity or the total weight of the tableware, or count the total quantity or the total weight of the tableware by itself.

The dinner plate is used for placing tableware and food when a customer has dinner; the tableware specifically comprises various dining tools such as bowls, plates, dishes, cups, chopsticks, spoons, knives and forks.

To achieve a greater capacity in a limited footprint, the greater the capacity of the cutlery collection container 16, the better the limited footprint, but the greater the depth, the greater the height drop will gouge and damage the cutlery. The present invention contemplates and employs an automatically progressively deepened cutlery receptacle 16. The cutlery collecting container 16 is placed above the lifting module 3, with a lower frame with a plurality of enclosing panels inside. The upper part of the innermost coaming is suspended and fixed on the sub-vehicle 2, and the outermost coaming is connected with the bottom frame 21. When the lifting module 3 descends, other layers of enclosing plates and the bottom frame move downwards under the action of gravity and pulling force, so that the depth of the container is increased, and the capacity expansion is realized. Meanwhile, the depth is gradually deepened, so that the damage of the tableware in the sliding process can be effectively avoided. The bottom of the container is sealed, so that the liquid garbage is convenient to collect and store. This will be described in detail with reference to fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the working principle of the tableware collection container 16, and the tableware collection container 16 is composed of a bottom frame 21 and a surrounding plate 20, which gives an example of one layer of surrounding plate, and further, the surrounding plate 20 may also comprise multiple layers. The bottom frame 21 is a container with an upper opening, a periphery and a bottom sealing, and the enclosing plate 20 is a sleeve-shaped structure with an upper opening, a lower opening and a periphery sealing. The coaming 20 is placed in the underframe 21, the upper part of the coaming 20 is hung on the sub-vehicle 2, the underframe 21 is placed on the lifting module 3, and the underframe 3 can slide up and down along the peripheral outer wall of the coaming 20. As a first step in figure 3, the base frame 21 and shroud 20 are almost coincident when empty. In use, as shown in the second step of fig. 3, when the lifting module 3 descends, the base frame 21 moves downwards gradually under the action of gravity as the boarding 20 is suspended from the sub-truck and fixed, and when the lifting module 3 continues to descend, as shown in the third step of fig. 3, the base frame 21 finally descends to the support plate 22 of the sub-truck 2. When the lifting module 3 continues to descend, the lifting module is finally separated from the bottom frame 21, namely, the sub-vehicle 2, so that the sub-vehicle 2 can be conveniently pulled out of the main cabinet body 1. Because the depth deepening or the depth reducing is controlled by the lifting module 3, the fall can be controlled at a proper distance according to the total number or the total weight of dinner plates on the dinner plate rack 7 or the total number or the total weight of the tableware in the tableware collecting container 16, so that the purpose of capacity expansion along with the increase of the depth of the tableware collecting container 16 is realized, and simultaneously, the tableware can be effectively prevented from being gouged or damaged due to the fall when entering the tableware collecting container 16.

The tableware recovery device can be arranged at different positions or entrances and exits of a restaurant, and is convenient for customers to recover dinner plates nearby in a self-service manner. The self-service recovery device can realize the simultaneous use of a left customer and a right customer, and refer to the use flow of fig. 4:

step 1, before a customer holds a dinner plate and arrives at a recovery device, dry garbage such as paper scraps, paper cups and the like is poured into a dry garbage inlet 11, and wet garbage such as leftovers and the like is poured into a wet garbage inlet 12;

step 2, pouring the tableware into the tableware inlet 13;

and step 3, placing the dinner plate on the dinner plate frame 7. At this time, the identification module 10 identifies that a new dinner plate is arranged on the dinner plate rack 7, the identification result is transmitted to the control module 4, under the control of the control module 4, the interactive key of the interactive module 9 is lightened, the display screen 6 enters the interactive picture from the publicity picture, a customer needs to take a key and play a game within a countdown time to carry out interaction to complete reward and lottery drawing, if the prize is won, a prize sending system of the interactive module 9 sends out a physical reward ticket, a two-dimensional code winning the prize can be displayed above the display screen 6, and the customer scans the code to obtain member points, electronic reward tickets and physical rewards.

Step 4, along with the increase of tableware or dinner plate quantity, when dinner plate total quantity or total weight, perhaps tableware total quantity or total weight exceed certain numerical value, under control module 4's control, communication early warning module 5 sends alarm information, and the signal lamp scintillation that discolours, the wearable receiver that the attendant wore simultaneously shakes and shows recovery unit's serial number.

Step 5, the service personnel receiving the alarm pushes the empty sub-vehicle to arrive quickly, pulls out the full-load sub-vehicle 2 in the main cabinet body 1 and switches the empty sub-vehicle quickly; then the dinner plate is moved down from the dinner plate frame 7 and is placed on the upper surface (a cover plate is placed on the sub-vehicle 2) or the bottom layer of the sub-vehicle 2; if the dry garbage container 14 and the wet garbage container 15 are arranged in the main cabinet body 1, the shielding covers 23 on the two sides of the main cabinet body 1 are opened, and the dry garbage container 14 and the wet garbage container 15 are taken out of the main cabinet body 1 and hung at the two ends of the sub-truck 2; if the chopstick and spoon container 18 is arranged on the classification plate 8, the chopstick and spoon container 18 is also taken out and placed on the upper surface or the bottom layer of the sub-vehicle 2; so that the sorted tableware and the dry and wet garbage can be quickly and conveniently conveyed to a kitchen for centralized treatment through the sub-vehicle 2.

The invention can classify the dry and wet garbage and collect the tableware in the sub-vehicle in the main cabinet, the collecting container on the sub-vehicle is specially designed, thereby realizing large-capacity storage and reducing the damage of the tableware. By adopting the sub-vehicle design, the sub-vehicle can automatically send alarm information before being fully loaded, and service personnel can very conveniently switch the empty vehicle and send the fully loaded sub-vehicle back to a kitchen. The tableware recycling device realizes the function of identifying the action of putting back the tableware by customers in the collecting process, and stimulates the customers to recycle the tableware by self in a lottery mode through interactive games. The tableware sorting machine can be used by service personnel or customers, so that the labor cost for tableware recycling and sorting is greatly saved for restaurants.

Finally, the above embodiments and the accompanying drawings are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention and not to limit, and although the present invention has been described in detail by the above embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined by the claims.

Claims

1. A self-service tableware recovery device, which is characterized in that,

the tableware recovery device comprises a main cabinet body 1, a sub-vehicle 2 and a lifting module 3;

the main cabinet body 1 is provided with a control module 4, a communication early warning module 5, a display screen 6, a dinner plate frame 7, a classification plate 8, an identification module 10 and an interaction module 9;

the control module 4 is respectively connected with the communication early warning module 5, the display screen 6, the identification module 10 and the interaction module 9 and controls the connection;

the communication early warning module 5 is used for sending out alarm information according to the total quantity or the total weight of dinner plates on the dinner plate rack 7 and/or the total quantity or the total weight of the tableware in the tableware collection container 16;

the display screen 6 is used for displaying information; the dinner plate rack 7 is used for stacking dinner plates;

the classification plate 8 is provided with a dry garbage inlet 11, a wet garbage inlet 12 and a tableware inlet 13;

the identification module 10 is used for identifying whether a newly added dinner plate is arranged on the dinner plate rack 7;

the interaction module 9 is used for enabling a customer to participate in interaction through the interaction module 9 after the identification module 10 identifies the newly-added dinner plate;

the sub-vehicle 2 is accommodated in the main cabinet 1 and is separated from the main cabinet 1, and a tableware collecting container 16 and universal wheels 17 which are used for containing tableware are arranged on the sub-vehicle 2;

the lifting module 3 is arranged below the main cabinet 1 and the sub-cart 2, and is used for lifting or lowering the tableware collecting container 16 on the sub-cart 2 according to the total number or total weight of the dinner plates on the dinner plate rack 7 and/or the total number or total weight of the tableware in the tableware collecting container 16, so that the volume of the tableware collecting container 16 is reduced or enlarged;

2. The tableware collecting device according to claim 1, wherein said interactive module 9, dry garbage inlet 11 and/or wet garbage inlet 12 are provided on both left and right sides of said classification plate 8.

3. The tableware collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a chopstick and spoon container 18 for containing chopsticks and spoons is provided on the classification plate 8; alternatively, the chopstick and spoon container 18 is provided on the child cart 2, and the sorting plate 8 is provided with inlets for chopsticks and spoons.

4. A tableware collecting device according to claim 3, wherein the chopstick and spoon container 18 and/or the entrance of the chopstick and spoon are provided on both left and right sides of the classification plate 8.

5. The cutlery recycling apparatus of any of claims 1-4, wherein there are one or more of the cutlery inlets 13.

6. The tableware retrieval apparatus of any one of claims 1-4, wherein said dry garbage container 14 and said wet garbage container 15 are detachable from the main cabinet 1 or the sub-cart 2.

7. The tableware collecting apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein universal wheels 19 are provided under the main cabinet 1.

8. The tableware collecting container 16 according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein said tableware collecting container is composed of a bottom frame 21 and a surrounding plate 20, said bottom frame 21 is an open-top and sealed-all-around and bottom container, said surrounding plate 20 is a sleeve-shaped structure open-top and sealed-all-around, said surrounding plate 20 is placed in the bottom frame 21, said surrounding plate 20 is fixed on the sub-vehicle 2 at the upper part, said bottom frame 21 is placed on the lifting module 3, and said bottom frame 21 can slide up and down along the outer wall of the surrounding plate 20.

9. The tableware collection apparatus of claim 8 wherein: the lifting module 3 adopts a motor or hydraulic mode, the tableware collecting container 16 is provided with a plurality of enclosing plates, the innermost enclosing plate is fixed on the sub-vehicle 2, and the outermost enclosing plate is connected with the bottom frame 21.

10. The tableware collection apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein: the communication early warning module 5 informs the alarm information to service personnel through a signal lamp and/or wearable equipment.