JP3109293B2 - Garbage processing machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a garbage disposer for drying and crushing household garbage.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the diversification of daily life, the variety of kitchen waste generated from homes has increased, and there has been a demand for easy and hygienic disposal of kitchen waste.

Conventionally, this type of garbage processing machine includes a disposer for crushing garbage and flowing it to sewage, and a garbage dewatering machine for further dewatering crushed garbage.

FIG. 8 shows a conventional disposer. In FIG. 8, when a power source (not shown) of the disposer 2 attached below the sink 1 of the sink is turned on, the rotary blade 4 is rotated by the electric motor 3. When the kitchen waste is poured little by little into the crushing chamber 6 from the input port 5 while the tap water is flowing little by little, the kitchen waste is crushed by the rotary blade 4 and the fixed blade 7, and passes through the gap between the rotary blade 4 and the fixed blade 7. The water is discharged from the discharge port 8 to the sewage.

[0005]

In such a conventional disposer, crushed garbage flows into sewage, so that in areas where there is no sewage treatment facility, rivers are polluted, causing environmental pollution. In addition, even in an area where a sewage treatment facility is located, there is a problem that an excessive load is applied to the sewage treatment facility.

Further, in the case of a garbage dewatering machine that performs dehydration treatment and recovers the garbage without draining the sewage, there is a problem that the recovered garbage and the garbage remaining in the details of the apparatus are spoiled and give off a bad smell.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, it is a first object of the present invention to provide a garbage disposer for treating garbage in a dry state so as not to rot.

It is a second object of the present invention to provide a garbage disposer capable of effectively treating even garbage that may be wound.

It is a third object of the present invention to provide a garbage disposer which is designed to facilitate the operation of putting garbage.

A fourth object of the present invention is to provide a garbage disposer capable of effectively stirring and drying garbage.

[0011]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the first object, the present invention relates to a heating and drying means such as hot air, a drying chamber which communicates with the heating and drying means to store and dry garbage, and an inner wall of the drying chamber. A plurality of fixed blades provided to protrude, a hollow rotary drum rotating in the drying chamber and conducting between the inside and the outside by an outer peripheral opening, and a plurality of rotary blades protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the rotary drum and intersecting with the fixed blade. A garbage disposal machine having the following.

[0012] To achieve the second object, the present invention provides:
In addition to the first means, the gap between the outer peripheral surface of the rotary drum and the peak of the fixed blade is increased by the gap between the outermost end of the rotary blade and the valley of the fixed blade or the inner wall of the drying chamber, and the side of the rotary blade. And a kitchen waste disposal machine having a gap equal to or less than the gap between the fixed blade and the side surface of the fixed blade.

[0013] To achieve the third object, the present invention provides:
In addition to the first means, the area of the opening of the rotary drum is set to be equal to or larger than the area of the input port of the kitchen waste provided in the drying chamber, and at the end of the operation, the position of the opening of the rotary drum is set to the input port. Garbage disposal machine which is stopped almost in accordance with the position of the garbage.

[0014] To achieve the fourth object, the present invention provides:
In addition to the first means, an opening is also provided in the side plate of the rotating drum to provide a garbage disposal machine in which the inside and outside of the rotating drum are electrically connected.

[0015]

According to the first means of the present invention, the garbage put into the hollow rotary drum is pulverized by the rotary blade and the fixed blade while moving between the inside and the outside of the rotary drum through the opening on the outer periphery of the rotary drum. Stirred. Therefore, the garbage is heated and dried up to the center, so that the garbage is less likely to rot and its volume is reduced. Also, during drying, it is agitated by the rotary blade,
High drying speed and no drying unevenness. And since the rotating drum in the drying chamber is hollow, long things such as udon and kanpyo contained in the kitchen garbage may wrap around,
The starchy material becomes sticky and has no sticking parts. Further, since the rotating blade portion performs a crossing motion with the fixed blade, even if winding or sticking occurs, it does not accumulate.

Further, according to the second means, since the crest portion of the fixed blade passes near the outer peripheral surface of the rotary drum, the garbage wound around the outer periphery of the rotary drum through the opening on the outer periphery of the rotary drum is: It is peeled off by the peak of the fixed blade and does not accumulate.

Further, according to the third means, when putting the garbage into the drying chamber, the garbage can be smoothly introduced by considering the area of the opening of the rotary drum and the stop position thereof.

Further, according to the fourth means, when the dried kitchen garbage adheres to the side plate of the rotary drum, the adhesion area is small, the amount of residual adhesion is reduced, and conduction between the inside and outside of the rotary drum on the side plate is reduced. By measuring, the stirring effect by the side plate is added.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the first means of the present invention is shown in FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in the figure, a drying chamber 9 for storing and drying kitchen waste has a hot air inlet 9a, a hot air outlet 9b, and an input port 9c for feeding kitchen waste. Inside the drying chamber 9, a hollow rotary drum 10 is rotatably provided. The rotary drum 10 includes a side plate 10a and a horizontal skewer 10 between the side plates 10a.
b, a rotary shaft 10c provided on the side plate 10a, a plurality of strip-shaped rotary blades 10d protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the drum,
An opening 10e is formed on the outer peripheral surface by the horizontal skewer 10b,
The inside and outside of the rotating drum are conductive spaces.

A plurality of fixed blades 11 are provided on the inner wall of the drying chamber 9 so as to protrude in a comb shape.
Are arranged at the valley positions of the fixed blade 11, and the rotating drum 1
Intersect with 0 rotation.

At the bottom of the drying chamber 9, there is an outlet 12 for discharging the dried garbage, which is normally closed by a lid. The discharged garbage is housed in a removable garbage container 17. The rotating drum 10 is
The belt 13 is driven to rotate.

The heater 15 and the blower fan 16 constitute heating and drying means such as hot air communicating with the drying chamber 9, and supply hot air to the garbage in the drying chamber 9.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described.
Rotating drum 1 through the opening 10e from the kitchen waste input port 9c
The garbage thrown into 0 is pulverized by the rotating blade 10d and the fixed blade 11 while moving between the inside and the outside of the rotating drum 10 through the opening 10e. Heat drying of the crushed garbage by hot air from the heating and drying means is started, and at the same time, the rotary blade 10d also continues to rotate to stir the garbage. The pulverizing operation and the heating and drying operation can be performed simultaneously.

As described above, in order to dry while stirring, the garbage is heated and dried to the center, so that it becomes hard to putrefaction and its volume is reduced. Also, since the stirring is performed by the rotary blade 10d during the drying, the drying speed is high and there is no drying unevenness.
And since the rotating drum 10 in the drying chamber 9 is hollow, a portion where long things such as udon, kangyo etc. contained in kitchen garbage wrap around, or a starchy substance becomes sticky and sticks. There is no. Rotary blade 10d
Since the portion has a crossing motion with the fixed blade 11, the portion does not accumulate even if winding or sticking occurs.

When drying is completed as described above, the discharge port 12 is opened, the rotary blade 10d is rotated, and the
Dust and crushed garbage are discharged. Since the dried garbage is roughly pulverized to an appropriate size by the rotating blade 10d and the fixed blade 11, even the strip-shaped rotating blade 10d as in this embodiment has its rake-type scraping action and rotation. It can be discharged by momentum.

Next, an embodiment of the second means of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG.
The gap A between the outer peripheral surface of the fixed blade 11 and the peak
The gap B between the outermost end of the fixed blade 11 and the valley of the fixed blade 11 or the inner wall of the drying chamber 9 and the gap C between the side surface of the rotary blade 10d and the side surface of the fixed blade 11 are equal to or smaller than the gap B.

Other configurations and operations are the same as those of the first means. However, since the crest of the fixed blade 11 passes near the outer peripheral surface of the rotary drum 10, the opening 10e on the outer circumference of the rotary drum 10 is closed. The kitchen garbage that passes through and wraps around the outside,
It is peeled off by the crests of the fixed blade 11 and does not accumulate.

Next, an embodiment of the third means of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in the figure, the opening 10e on the outer periphery of the rotary drum 10 has a cross-sectional area equal to or larger than the kitchen refuse inlet 9c. The lead switch 18b is mounted on the side surface of the drying chamber 9, and the magnet 18a is mounted on the rotary shaft 10c via an arm so as to rotate together with the rotary drum 10.

When the operation of the rotary drum 10 is completed, the rotary drum 10 stops at a position where the magnet 18a coincides with the lead switch 18b, and the opening 10e of the rotary drum 10 is opened.
Is located directly below the kitchen waste inlet 9c. Therefore, when throwing the kitchen waste into the drying room 9, the kitchen waste can be smoothly introduced. Other configurations and operations are the same as those of the first means.

Next, an embodiment of the fourth means will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG.
In addition to 0e, an opening 10f is provided in the side plate 10a.

In this configuration, the side plate 10 of the rotary drum 10
For the adhesion of the dried kitchen garbage to a, the adhesion area is small, the amount of the adhesion residue is reduced, and the inside and outside of the rotating drum 10 is conducted on the side plate 10a, whereby the stirring effect by the side plate 10a is added. It is. Other configurations,
The operation is the same as that of the first means.

[0032]

According to the first means of the present invention, since the garbage is crushed and dried by heating, the garbage is dried to the center, becomes less likely to rot, and is reduced in volume. In addition, the drying speed is fast because the stirring is performed by the rotary blade. Also,
A series of operations of crushing and stirring can be performed by the rotary blade. And since there is no rotating shaft in the center of the drying chamber, long ones do not wrap around and sticky starch does not stick and accumulate.

According to the second means, the garbage wound around the inside and outside of the outer peripheral surface through the opening on the outer periphery of the rotary drum is peeled off by the crest portion of the fixed blade in consideration of the size of the gap between each part, It does not accumulate.

According to the third means, by taking into account the size of the opening and the stop position thereof, kitchen waste can be smoothly introduced into the drying chamber, and the outer periphery of the rotating drum does not hinder the introduction. Can be prevented.

According to the fourth means, since the opening is also provided in the side plate of the rotary drum, the remaining amount of the dried garbage adhered to the side plate is reduced, and the stirring state in the vicinity of the side plate is improved, so that it is effective. It can be dried and pulverized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front sectional view of a kitchen waste treatment machine showing an embodiment of a first means of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side sectional view of the kitchen waste disposal machine.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a rotating drum of the kitchen waste disposal machine.

FIG. 4 is a front sectional view of a kitchen waste disposal machine showing an embodiment of the second means of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a front sectional view of a kitchen waste treatment machine showing an embodiment of a third means of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side sectional view of the kitchen waste disposal machine.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a rotating drum of a garbage disposal machine showing an embodiment of the fourth means of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a front sectional view of a conventional kitchen waste treatment machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 9 drying room 9c kitchen refuse inlet 10 rotating drum 10a rotating drum side plate 10d rotating blade 10e opening 10f opening 11 fixed blade 15 heater 16 blower fan 18a magnet 18b lead switch

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Hiroshi Nishida 1006 Kadoma Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Prefecture Inside Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (72) Hideaki Sakitani 1006 Kadoma Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (56) References JP-A 55-107244 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) B02C 18/00-18/44 B02C 21/00 E03C 1/266 B09B 3/00 301 B09B 5/00 B65F 1/00 102

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A heating / drying means such as hot air, a drying chamber which communicates with the heating / drying means to store and dry kitchen waste, a plurality of fixed blades protruding from an inner wall of the drying chamber, and rotating in the drying chamber. A garbage disposer having a hollow rotary drum that is electrically connected between the inside and outside through an outer peripheral opening, and a plurality of rotary blades projecting from the outer peripheral surface of the rotary drum and intersecting with the fixed blade. 2. The gap between the outer peripheral surface of the rotary drum and the peak of the fixed blade, the gap between the outermost end of the rotary blade and the valley of the fixed blade or the inner wall of the drying chamber, and the side surface of the rotary blade and the fixed blade. 2. The garbage disposer according to claim 1, wherein the gap between the garbage disposal machine and the side of the kitchen waste is equal to or less than the gap. 3. The area of the opening of the rotary drum is equal to or larger than the area of the kitchen refuse input port provided in the drying chamber, and at the end of operation, the position of the rotary drum opening is set to the input port position. The kitchen waste disposal machine according to claim 1, wherein the kitchen waste is stopped at substantially the same time. 4. The garbage disposal machine according to claim 1, wherein an opening is also provided in a side plate of the rotating drum, and the inside and outside of the rotating drum are electrically connected.