JPH0829070B2 - Sponge washer washing machine - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present application relates to a sponge washing machine that efficiently and reliably removes sludge and debris of seaweed algae attached to a sponge for dewatering seaweed. .

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known in the conventional papermaking of seaweed, the seaweed attached to the cage is dehydrated by a sponge after the papermaking is completed, and then dried by a dryer. In this way, the sponge used for dehydrating seaweed adheres to the surface and enters the inside of the sponge such as sludge and pieces of seaweed after the end of the day's work, so wash it before reuse. These must be removed. Conventionally, the removal work of these has been carried out by putting a sponge in water, pressing and washing, and manually washing the surface by rubbing it with a piece of porcelain or the like. Also, as a method using a machine, a device in which a sponge is sent out by rollers and washed with a rotating brush while pouring water is also adopted, but this device cannot completely remove dirt inside the sponge.

In recent years, these efforts have been made to solve these conventional problems, and the number of the actual public is 61-33908 (A) The actual public 61-33909 (B)
The devices of 61-152293 and JP-A-57-74064 (C) have been proposed. In the above, both the devices A and B have a small processing capacity and are not always satisfactory in the cleaning effect, and further, in the device B, the operation when the sponge circulates is uncertain. Next, the device C has a great improvement from the above A and B in terms of processing capacity and cleaning effect, but it requires a lot of time to attach and detach the sponge, and the device requires a separate attaching and detaching member. There is a problem in operability such as a sponge without a seal that cannot be washed and the detachable member is peeled off during operation, so that all of them cannot be satisfied.

In view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional apparatus, the present application considers a large number (at a standard 5-line automatic paper machine currently in use, 20
A sheet of sponge is used, but about half of that is used for the purpose of quickly and surely cleaning the sponge.
A circulation transfer path capable of circulating transfer of the sponge by both a pair of dehydrating roller pairs, which are vertically opposed to each other with the sponge sandwiched therebetween, and a cleaning section including a water supply pipe disposed above the roller pairs. The opening for allowing the sponge to be taken in and out is provided in the middle of the circulation transfer path, and the sponge that is circulated and transferred while being sandwiched therebetween is repeatedly washed in the cleaning section during the circulation and transfer. .

EXAMPLES Next, the present application will be described in detail with reference to the drawings illustrating examples. As described above, the present application forms the transfer means 1 and the cleaning section 2 as essential parts, and constitutes the circulation transfer path 3 of the sponge 17 by both of them, which are as follows.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a transfer belt. A flat belt is suspended around a pair of left and right drums 6 pivotally supported by a machine base 5, and a lower portion thereof is lifted up by a tension pulley 7, and this portion becomes an idle section 8 of the transfer belt 4. ing. Next, the guide belt 9 which is another component of the transfer means 1 is the transfer belt 4 described above.
Are provided on the arcuate portion suspended on the drum 6 as follows. Fixed V pulleys 12a, 12b, and 12c correspond to the above-mentioned arcuate portions, and a plurality of shafts 11 are fixedly supported on the machine base 5 at a predetermined distance from the transfer belt 4 and are equidistant from each other. It is attached so as to be in phase.
Thus, the fixed V pulley 12b is positioned so as to correspond to the start end 8a of the idle section 8 of the transfer belt 4, and the fixed V pulley 12c is positioned so as to correspond to the end 8b. Next, reference numeral 12 is a floating V-pulley, and as shown in FIG. 1, both ends are projected from the floating groove 13 which is located outside the shaft 11 and bored in the machine base 5, and the protruding portion is rotated to the machine base 5. The fixed V pulley 12 is attached to a shaft 15 pivotally supported by a floating lever 14 which is movably attached.
Similar to a, 12b, 12c, a plurality of them are mounted in the same phase, and fixed and floating V pulleys 12a, 12b, 12c, 12
While suspending the belt, spring each floating lever 14
The floating lever 14 is urged in the direction of moving away from the transfer belt 4 by means of 16, so that the fixed V pulleys 12a, 12b,
On the guide belt 9 between 12 and 12a and 12c, tension is applied so that the portion always approaches the arcuate portion of the transfer belt 4,
When the sponge 17 is not fed, the above-mentioned part of the guide belt 9 and the arc-shaped part of the transfer belt 4 are in close contact with each other.

Next, the cleaning unit 2 will be described. The cleaning unit 2 is provided with a fixed pulley 12 in the idle section 8 of the transfer belt 4 described above.
a plurality of pairs of dehydrating rollers 18 provided so as to be positioned between b and 12c and pivotally supported on the machine base 5 so as to face each other in the vertical direction; The dewatering roller 18 is hollow, and a large number of drainage holes 20 are formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof. Lastly, 21 is a motor, and the rotation of the motor 21 is through the transmission mechanism 25 including a sprocket 22 chain 23 and the like, the transfer belt 4 and the upper dewatering roller 18 are clockwise, and the lower dewatering roller 18 is counterclockwise. The circulation means 3 for the sponge 17 is constituted by the transfer means 1 and the cleaning part 2.
In the figure, 26 is a tension wheel 27 and a water receiver.

In order to clean the contaminated sponge 17 after the work of the day is completed, the sponge 17 is sequentially moved one by one from the opening 28 above the machine base 5 on the transfer belt 4 while the motor 21 is inching or rotated at an extremely low speed. When it is placed on, the sponge 17 is sent by the transfer belt 4 to reach the guide belt 9 on the right side in FIG. 1, is sandwiched between the upper fixed V pulley 12a and the transfer belt 4, and is sent to the arc-shaped portion of the transfer belt 4. However, as described above, part of the guide belt 9 is the floating V-pulley 12
Since the sponge 17 is inserted between the transfer belt 4 and the guide belt 9, each of the floating pulleys 12 is pulled against the spring 16 and the guide belt 9 in the arc-shaped portion is Transfer belt 4 as shown in FIG.
The sponge 17 separated from and sent from the transfer belt 4
The guide belt 9 is sandwiched between the guide belt 9 and the guide belt 9 which are separated from each other, and is fed to the lower portion of the transfer belt 4. At this time, the guide belt 9 naturally rotates in a driven manner. The sponge 17 that came in this way
When it reaches the cleaning unit 2, it is sent out by being sandwiched between the dehydrating rollers 18 which face each other in the vertical direction, and when reaching the guide belt 9 on the left side in FIG. 1, it is transferred to the upper side of the transfer belt 4 in the same manner as described above. While the sponge 17 is being set in this way, it is not always necessary to supply water from the water supply pipe 19.

When a predetermined number of sponges 17 (10 sheets in the embodiment) have been set as described above, the motor 21, which has been jogging or rotating at a low speed, is rotated at a constant speed and water supply is started at the same time. As a result, the sponge 17 set in the above is circulated and transferred continuously over the circulatory transfer path 3 constituted by the transfer means 1 and the cleaning section 2. When the sponge 17 thus transferred passes through the cleaning section 2, the sponge 17 containing water by the water supply from the water supply pipe 9
As shown in FIG. 3, the upper and lower dewatering rollers 18 are pressed and compressed to squeeze out the water content inside, and when the pressing force is released, water absorption expansion is performed again, and this compression expansion is continued. By doing so, not only the pieces of seaweed adhering to the surface of the sponge 17 but also the sludge invading the inside of the sponge 17 floated up to the surface by a kind of pump action and was reliably washed and removed, and was squeezed out from the sponge 17. Sewage drains 20
Since it flows through the inside of the dehydration roller 18 and is drained,
The sponge 17 will not be contaminated again by the squeezed sewage. The wash water is discharged to the outside of the machine from the water receiver 27 provided at the lower part.

When cleaning is completed after the preset time has elapsed, the motor
21 is again switched to inching or low speed operation, the sponge 17 on the transfer belt 1 is taken out, and then setting is performed again in the same manner as described above to perform the work. In the drawings showing the embodiment, the dewatering roller 18 is 3 to 6, and the water supply pipe 19 is 2, and the number of sponges 17 to be treated is 10. However, this can be changed appropriately and the guide can be used. The belt 9 is not limited to the one shown in the figure, and any structure may be used as long as it guides the transfer of the sponge 17 by the arc-shaped portion of the transfer belt 4.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a circulation transfer path capable of circulating transfer with a sponge sandwiched therebetween is provided, and an opening through which the sponge can be taken in and out is provided in the middle of the circulation transfer path to circulate the sponge that is cyclically transferred. Since the cleaning section located in the middle of the transfer path is used for repeated cleaning, even during the cleaning operation, the sponge cleaning section can be repeatedly cleaned by simply inserting the sponge into the circulation transfer path from the opening, and the cleaning is completed. The sponge can be easily taken out from the opening during the washing operation,
The sponge can be washed easily and quickly. Further, by continuously inserting the sponge into the circulation transfer path, a large number of sponges can be repeatedly washed, and the washing ability can be increased. Since a part of the circulation transfer path is used as the cleaning section and the sponge is positioned on the circulation transfer path, the apparatus can be downsized despite the large processing capacity.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show the embodiments of the present application, FIG. 1 is a front view in which a part of a machine side wall is cut away, and FIG. 2 is a side view in which a side wall is similarly cut out,
FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged sectional view of the dewatering roller. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Transfer means, 2 ... Cleaning part, 3 ... Circulation transfer path, 4 ... Transfer belt, 8 ... Idle section, 9 ... Guide belt, 12 ... Floating V pulley, 12a, 12b, 12c ... Fixed V pulley, 13 ... Floating Groove, 14 ... Floating lever, 16 ... Spring, 17 ... Sponge, 18 ... Dehydration roller, 19 ... Water supply pipe

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A transfer means comprising a belt or the like capable of transferring with a sponge sandwiched therebetween, a plurality of pairs of dewatering rollers vertically opposed to each other capable of transferring with a sponge sandwiched therebetween, and arranged above the roller pair. A circulation transfer path that allows the sponge to be circulated and transferred is configured by both the installed water supply pipe and the cleaning section, and an opening that allows the sponge to be taken in and out is provided in the middle of the circulation transfer path, and the sponge is circulated in a state sandwiched between them. A washing machine for sponge for dewatering seaweed, which is configured to repeatedly wash the sponge to be transferred in a cleaning section during the circulation transfer. 2. The transfer means comprises a flat belt suspended between a pair of left and right drums, and a lower portion thereof is pulled upward to provide an idle section, and a transfer belt suspended around the drum has an arc shape. Corresponding to the part, a plurality of V-belts are suspended on the fixed pulley and the floating pulley, and by biasing the floating pulley with a spring, the V-belt imparts a tension for approaching the arc-shaped portion of the transfer belt, The sponge washing machine for laver dewatering according to claim 1, further comprising a guide belt having an end on the lower side of the V-belt located on one end of the idle section. 3. The washing machine for dewatering sponge for laver according to claim 1, wherein the dewatering roller forming the washing section is a hollow roller having a plurality of drainage holes formed in the outer peripheral surface thereof. .