JPS621708B2 - - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (Field of Industrial Application) This invention is a pretreatment device for automatically transferring, cutting, washing, dehydrating, ripening, and preparing raw seaweed collected from a seaweed farm. It belongs to the field of manufacturing and sales of raw seaweed processing equipment.

(Prior art) Conventionally, regarding processing equipment for raw seaweed, there has been a transfer device to a cutting machine (Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 58-17436), a washing and dehydrating device (Special Publication No. 13987, 1977), and a ripening machine (Japanese Publication No. 33916, 1983).
No.) and a compounding machine (Utility Model Publication No. 58-20150) are known, but each of the above-mentioned processing devices had an independent machine box and each independently performed a predetermined function.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) Each of the above-mentioned conventional devices is individually independent, and when used, they are connected, so not only do they require a separate connecting device. ,
Whether it is the control system or the operation system, each has to be started, requires a large installation area, is inevitably expensive, and further improved versions are announced one after another.
Even if we seek this individually, the capabilities of each device will be unbalanced, and even if we connect highly efficient, state-of-the-art devices,
There were a number of problems, including overall efficiency being limited by the capabilities of older equipment.

(Means for solving the problem) However, in this invention, various devices including an automatic raw seaweed feeding device are installed in the same machine box, and the raw seaweed that has been processed by one device is transferred to an independent connecting device. By making it possible to supply the liquid to the next process equipment without going through the process, they succeeded in overcoming all of the conventional problems.

That is, in this invention, an automatic raw seaweed feeding device is installed on one side of the machine box, a hopper of a cutting machine faces the discharge side of the automatic raw seaweed feeding device, and the cutting machine is placed on the other side of the machine box. A cleaning tank is installed facing the lower part of the discharge side of the machine, and one end of a transfer hose for washed raw seaweed is connected to the washing tank, and the other end of the transfer hose is connected to the bottom of the dewatering cylinder. The upper discharge port of the dewatering cylinder faces the ripening tank, and the lower part of the ripening tank is connected to the upper part of the blending machine to form a raw seaweed refining and processing apparatus.

The raw seaweed feeding device is composed of two coil screws laid on the bottom of the tank and a pushing device, and the raw seaweed transferred to the cutting machine side by the coil screws is cut by the pushing plate. It is designed to be pushed into the hopper of the machine.

In the cleaning tank, the discharge side of the cutting machine faces the upper part of one side of the tank body, and a rotating shaft is vertically and rotatably installed in the center of the tank body, and a stirring blade is protruded from the rotating shaft. A fresh water inlet is provided on one side of the tank body, and a sewage outlet and a hose attachment port for removing washed raw seaweed are provided on the other side.

In the dewatering cylinder, an inner cylinder (for example, a mesh cylinder or a cylinder made of punched metal) through which water passes is installed concentrically at a predetermined distance into an outer cylinder (for example, a cylinder), and a rotating cylinder is installed inside the inner cylinder. A shaft is installed vertically, and a spiral hair flock is applied to the rotating shaft. The spiral flocking described above has a slight cut in each cycle to prevent the amount of the mixed solution of raw seaweed and water from becoming excessive. The fibers used for the flocking are:
For example, synthetic resin fibers such as nylon fibers are used.

The ripening machine has a cylindrical tank in which a rotary shaft having stirring blades is installed vertically in the center of the tank, and a quantitative discharge device is installed in the lower part. This ripening machine is designed to ripen raw seaweed by retaining washed and dehydrated raw seaweed for a certain period of time, and to achieve a uniform degree of ripeness at all times.

Next, the above-mentioned blending machine is constructed by connecting a measuring chamber with a dividing wheel installed in the lower part of the hopper, and a stirring chamber connected to the lower part of the measuring chamber.

(Operation of the Invention) Since the present invention has the above-mentioned configuration, when raw seaweed is put into the raw seaweed automatic feeding device all at once, the feeding device transfers the appropriate amount to the cutting machine, so that the raw seaweed can be fed into the cutting machine. will be cut to a certain amount. In other words, the exact amount fed in, no excess or deficiency, will be cut.

The raw seaweed cut as described above is stirred with fresh water in a washing tank, and foreign matter and dirt are separated from the raw seaweed and discharged together with the waste water. After being thoroughly washed, the mixed liquid of washed raw seaweed and water is transferred to a dehydration cylinder, where it is efficiently dehydrated. This dehydrated raw seaweed enters the aging tank from the top of the dehydration cylinder and is agitated while descending in proportion to the amount discharged. The required residence time can be obtained by dividing the amount of raw seaweed to be stored in the aging tank by the amount discharged per unit time. Therefore, if the residence time is determined based on the properties of the raw seaweed, if the required amount is initially stored in the tank, then a certain amount is discharged, and a corresponding amount is supplied, the raw seaweed that is supplied sequentially can be is supplied to the blender after the required residence time. Then, in a compounding machine, it is divided and transferred to a certain amount,
It is sent to the seaweed machine along with a predetermined amount of fresh water.

(Example) Next, an example of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. Two coil screws 3, 3 are attached to one side of the machine box 1 at the bottom of a raw seaweed tank 2 which is rectangular in plan and has a funnel-shaped cross section.
are laid horizontally and in parallel so that they can rotate.
The coil screws 3, 3 are made by molding a round wire into a spiral hollow cylinder shape, one end of which is fixed to the drive shaft via a boss, the other end is a free end, and faces the raw seaweed delivery port 6. I have it.

The coil screws 3, 3 are set at an angle of about 4 degrees so that their tips are close to each other and slightly intersect with each other, so that the raw seaweed can enter smoothly into the delivery port 6, and the coil screws 3, 3 The pitch is made dense on the proximal side and sparse on the distal side (approximately 1.5 times that on the proximal side), so that the feed amount (unit time) on the proximal and distal sides is the same.

A rotating shaft 7 is installed at the top of the tip side (feeding side) of the coil screws 3, 3 at right angles to the moving direction of the raw seaweed, and an adjusting plate for pushing back the raw seaweed is attached to the rotating shaft 7. The upper end of 8 is attached.

A lever 9 is fixed to one end of the rotation shaft 7, one end of a connecting rod 10 is rotatably connected to the lever 9, and the other end of the connecting rod 10 is connected to the shaft of a motor 57. There is. Therefore motor 57
The adjustment plate 8 is caused to reciprocate when the engine is started. The swing width is from near vertical to outlet 6
The angle is preferably about 30 to 45 degrees to the side, and is adjusted depending on the mounting position of the connecting rod 10 to the lever 9.

A raw seaweed cutting machine 4 is installed outside the raw seaweed outlet 6.
A feed screw 11 is installed horizontally, and the feed screw 11
The push plate 12 is placed at an eccentric position (on the outlet 6 side)
is installed so that it can be raised and lowered.

The upper part of the pushing plate 12 has its base end connected to the tip of an interlocking rod 13 fixed to the rotating shaft 7 via a joint plate 60, and as the rotating shaft 7 rotates, the pushing plate 12 12 is arranged to move up and down.

One side of a cleaning tank 5 faces below the discharge side 4a of the cutting machine 4, and raw seaweed discharged from the discharge side 4a falls into the cleaning tank 5 one after another. A rotating shaft 1 is provided in the center of the cleaning tank 5.
The upper part of the rotating shaft 14 is connected to the shaft of a motor 15, and the lower part of the rotating shaft 14 has stirring blades 16 (3 to 4 blades) protruding radially. The rotation of 14 stirs and mixes the water in the washing tank and the fresh seaweed. In the figure, reference numerals 17 and 18 are fresh water faucets, and necessary fresh water is supplied by appropriately opening and closing a solenoid valve 19 and a manual valve 20. In addition, 21 is a drain pipe, 22 is an outlet for washed raw seaweed, 23 is a punching metal (water passage wall) installed inside the cleaning tank with a small gap between the tank wall and the tank wall, 24 is a weir plate, and 25 is sewage water. This is the discharge pipe.

The outlet 22 is connected to the lower part of the dewatering cylinder 27 via a hose and a pump (not shown). Inside the dewatering cylinder 27, an inner cylinder 28 made of punched metal is installed concentrically at a predetermined interval, and a rotating shaft 29 is rotatably installed inside the cylinder 28, and the outer wall of the rotating shaft 29 is made of synthetic resin fibers. A hair body 30 consisting of the following is grafted in a spiral manner. The spiral flocking is discontinuous at predetermined intervals. For example, it is a two-end screw-like spiral, and the hair is implanted at 190 degrees to form a 170-degree non-flocked portion, and the non-flocked portions are arranged so as not to be adjacent to each other and overlap. The tip of the bristles 30 is long enough to slide against the inner wall of the inner cylinder 28 to prevent clogging and to effectively lift the raw seaweed.

A chute 31 is connected to the upper end of the dewatering cylinder 27, and a guide piece 32 is attached to the mouth of the chute 31.
is provided. In the figure, 33 is a drainage hose provided on the outer cylinder, 34 is an interlocking shaft connected to the rotating shaft, and 35 is a pulley fixed to the interlocking shaft.

Next, a cylindrical tank 36 is installed below the chute 31 of the dewatering cylinder, and a mesh tube 39 is installed concentrically inside the cylindrical tank 36. A rotating shaft 37 is installed vertically in the center of the bottom plate of the cylindrical tank 36, and the rotating shaft 3
7, stirring blades 38 are provided radially protruding at upper and lower positions.

A raw seaweed discharge port 40 is provided on the bottom plate 42 inside the mesh tube 39, and cover plates 41 are provided above the discharge port 40 at predetermined intervals. Further, a feed rod 43 that slides on the bottom plate 42 is provided at the lower part of the rotating shaft 37.
are protruded radially and at equal intervals, and the feed rods 43
is set to a height that allows passage between the bottom plate and the cover plate 41. A hopper 45 of the blending machine 44 is facing below the discharge port 40, and a dual inner and outer rotating shaft 4 is connected to the center of the bottom plate 46 of the hopper 45.
7 and 48 are installed vertically, a stirring blade 49 is fixed to the upper part of the inner rotating shaft 47, and dividing plates 50 are provided protruding radially at equal intervals to the outer rotating shaft 48.
The dividing plate 50 constitutes a dividing wheel 51. The stirring blade 49 is arranged above the dividing wheel 51 and above the hopper 4.
It is bent so as to come into sliding contact with the inner wall of 5. Said bottom plate 4
A part of 6 is provided with a droplet 52 for raw seaweed.
The drop opening 52 is slightly narrower than one section of the split car 51, and a fan-shaped cover plate 53 is fixed above it. A water supply pipe 54 is exposed below the center of the drop port 52, and the water supply pipe 54 is provided with an upward fountain.

To explain the operation of the above embodiment, when the collected raw seaweed 55 is put into the raw seaweed tank 2 and the motor (not shown) that rotates the coil screw 3 is turned on, a normal interlocking device is activated. As the coil screws 3, 3 rotate, the raw seaweed 55 in the raw seaweed tank 2 is fed as indicated by the arrow 56 in FIG. In this case, since the motor 57 that drives the rotary shaft 7 is also started, the rotary shaft 7 is reciprocated via the connecting rod 58 and the lever 9. Therefore, the adjusting plate 8 fixed to the rotating shaft 7 is also
It reciprocates as indicated by the arrow 59 in the figure, and pushes back the excess raw seaweed 55 that is sent. Further, as the interlocking rod 13 reciprocates as shown by the arrow 61 due to the reciprocating movement of the rotating shaft 7, the pushing plate 12 moves up and down vertically as shown by the arrow 62 via the connecting plate 60, cutting the raw seaweed. Push it into the biting side of the feed screw 11 of the machine 4 as shown by the arrow 63. Therefore, the feed screw 11 continuously and quantitatively feeds raw seaweed into the cutting machine and cuts it into a predetermined length. In the figure, 64 is an input pulley for rotating the feed screw 11.

The raw seaweed cut by the cutter 4 as described above is discharged from the outlet side 4a as shown by the arrow 65 and falls into the cleaning tank 5 (FIG. 5). In this case, fresh water is supplied to the washing tank from the faucet 17 or 18 through the water supply pipe 66 as shown by the arrow 67, so that the fresh seaweed is mixed into the fresh water and stirred by the rotation of the rotating shaft 14. The wastewater is sufficiently agitated by the blades 16, passes through the punching metal 23, passes over the weir plate 24, and is drained from the drain pipe 25 as shown by the arrow 68.

In the above, the supply of cut raw seaweed is stopped after a certain amount (for example, the rotation of the cutting machine and coil screw is stopped by a timer), but the supply of fresh water is continued, so the raw seaweed is washed in running water. . Once the water has been sufficiently washed in this way, the water supply is stopped and a pump (not shown) is started, so that the mixed liquid of the washed water and fresh seaweed is pumped through the hose 26 as shown by the arrow 69. It is then fed into the dewatering cylinder 27 (FIG. 2). Since the rotating shaft 29 in the dehydration cylinder 27 is rotated via the pulley 35 and the interlocking shaft 34, the mixed liquid is subjected to centrifugal force,
Water is extracted from the inner cylinder 28 as indicated by the arrow 70 and is discharged as indicated by the arrow 71 through the discharge hose 33. Further, the dehydrated raw seaweed is sequentially sent upward as shown by the arrow 72 by the spirally planted hair body 30, dehydrated efficiently, and passed through the chute as shown by the arrow 73. It falls into the cylindrical tank 36 as shown at 74. This cylindrical tank 36 can hold 4 to 5 times the amount of fresh seaweed that can normally be washed at one time, so the amount is detected by a measuring device 75 (or a float), and the washing is started or stopped based on the command. In this way, a predetermined amount of fresh seaweed can be retained and ripened at all times. The raw seaweed in the cylindrical tank is slowly stirred by a stirring blade protruding from the rotary shaft 37, matured appropriately, and then supplied from the lower discharge port 40 into the hopper 45 of the blending machine for a fixed amount. The raw seaweed falls into the hopper 45 of the blending machine as shown by the arrow 76, is measured by the dividing wheel 51 into a fixed amount, falls from the drop opening 52 as shown by the arrow 77, and is filled with an appropriate amount of fresh water (salt water). ) to form a mixed liquid with a predetermined concentration, which is then supplied to the nori paper machine.

In the above, a water supply pipe 54 is installed at the drop-off port, and water is sprayed upward from the water supply pipe as shown by the arrow 78, so that all the raw seaweed in one compartment of the divided car is washed away and the water is poured into the divided compartment. There is no risk that it will remain. Therefore, measurements can be made accurately.

(Effect of the invention) That is, according to this invention, the automatic raw seaweed feeding device, cutting machine, washing tank, dehydration cylinder, ripening tank, and blending machine are installed in the same machine box, so the whole can be compacted and streamlined. control, and since each device is connected based on pre-designed capabilities,
There is no imbalance in abilities and the effect can be used efficiently. Furthermore, when operating the equipment, the operator can check all the equipment at a glance, which makes management easier, and there are also benefits such as sharing of power and the ability to adopt a common control system. In addition, the raw seaweed automatic feeding device, cutting machine, and washing tank, dewatering cylinder, ripening tank, and blending machine are connected to each other by giving a vertical relationship to the raw seaweed delivery parts, so pumps and hoses are used to transfer the raw seaweed between each device. This eliminates the need for conveying means such as the above, and therefore there is no damage to the raw seaweed during conveyance, and it is possible to prevent deterioration in quality due to pressurization, kneading, etc.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a plan view of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a side view, Fig. 3 is an enlarged partial cross-sectional view of the raw seaweed feeding device, and Fig. 4 is a diagram of the rotating shaft, motor, and pushing plate. A partially enlarged diagram showing the interlocking relationship,
Fig. 5 is an enlarged plan view of the cleaning tank, Fig. 6 is a partially sectional view of the dehydration cylinder, Fig. 7 is a partially enlarged front view of the rotating shaft, and Fig. 8 is an enlarged front view of the aging tank. , Figure 9 is a front view of the blending machine, and Figure 10 is a front view of the blending machine.
Figure 11 is a partially cutaway front view of the blender, Figure 12 is a partially enlarged perspective view of the dividing wheel of the blender, and Figure 13 is the drop opening of the blender. FIG. 2 is an enlarged partial cross-sectional view showing the relationship between the water pipe and the water supply pipe. 1... Machine box, 2... Raw seaweed tank, 3... Coil screw, 4... Cutting machine, 5... Washing tank, 6...
Outlet port, 7...rotating shaft, 8...adjustment plate, 11...
Feed screw, 12... Push plate, 14... Rotating shaft,
16... Stirring blade, 21... Drain pipe, 22... Discharge port, 23... Punching metal, 24... Weir plate, 25... Discharge pipe, 27... Dewatering cylinder, 29...
Rotating shaft, 30... hair body, 36... cylindrical tank, 37...
...Rotating shaft, 38...Stirring blade, 39...Mesh cylinder, 4
4...Mixing machine, 45...Hopper, 49...Stirring blade, 50...Dividing plate, 51...Dividing wheel, 52...
...Fall opening.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An automatic raw seaweed feeding device with a coil screw installed on the bottom of the tank is installed horizontally along one side wall of a box having a rectangular planar shape, and on the discharge side of the automatic raw seaweed feeding device. A hopper of a cutting machine installed along a side wall substantially perpendicular to one side wall of the machine box faces the hopper, and the discharge side of the cutting machine faces the upper part of one side of the washing tank. is connected to one end of a hose for transferring washed fresh seaweed, and the other end of the transfer hose is connected to the lower part of a vertical dewatering cylinder, and the dewatering cylinder has an inner cylinder for passing water into an outer cylinder concentrically. A rotating shaft is inserted into the inner cylinder, and a spiral flock is intermittently implanted on the rotating shaft to make sliding contact with the inner wall of the inner cylinder. It is set above;
The raw seaweed refining and processing equipment is equipped with a blender at the bottom of the aging tank. 2. The cleaning tank is configured by having a stirring device, a fresh water inlet, a sewage outlet, and a washed raw seaweed outlet in the tank body, and a liquid volume adjustment float. raw seaweed purification processing equipment. 3. The raw seaweed refining and processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ripening machine is configured such that a rotating shaft having a stirring blade is installed vertically in the center of the cylindrical tank, and a quantitative discharge device is installed in the lower part. 4. The raw seaweed refining and processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the blending machine is constructed by connecting a measuring chamber with a dividing wheel installed in the lower part of the hopper, and a stirring chamber connected to the lower part of the measuring chamber.