CN113275244B

CN113275244B - Hot pepper sorter

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Publication number: CN113275244B
Application number: CN202110560282.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李洋; 王咏麒; 丁广文; 霍宁宁; 乔锋; 韩美婷; 杜世龙
Original assignee: Xingtai Polytechnic College
Current assignee: Xingtai Polytechnic College
Priority date: 2021-05-21
Filing date: 2021-05-21
Publication date: 2022-08-09
Anticipated expiration: 2041-05-21
Also published as: CN113275244A

Abstract

The invention provides a pepper separator, which belongs to the technical field of pepper separation and comprises a feeding mechanism, a conveying mechanism and a discharging mechanism which are sequentially connected, wherein the feeding end of the conveying mechanism is provided with a first separating mechanism, and the discharging end of the conveying mechanism is provided with a second separating mechanism. According to the pepper sorting machine provided by the invention, pepper mixture enters the conveying mechanism through the feeding mechanism, impurities in the pepper mixture are separated through the first sorting mechanism, the pepper with the separated impurities is sorted again through the second sorting mechanism, the mildewed pepper and the small-size pepper are sorted, and finally the high-quality pepper with the normal size is stored in the discharging mechanism, so that the sorting of the pepper mixture is completed. The hot pepper sorting machine provided by the invention can be used for sorting hot peppers, and sorting sundries, mildewed hot peppers, small-size hot peppers and normal-size hot peppers in a hot pepper mixture instead of manual sorting, so that the efficiency is improved, and the labor consumption and the labor cost are reduced.

Description

Hot pepper sorter

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of pepper sorting, and particularly relates to a pepper sorting machine.

Background

China is a world-wide hot pepper production country, and the yield of hot peppers accounts for 46% of the world. Meanwhile, the fresh chili is also the first country of international export of the chili, the chili is divided into fresh chili and dry chili, the fresh chili is mainly used as fresh vegetable food, and the picked chili is dried to meet the annual requirement of people on the chili. Under the general condition, hot pepper is mainly taken plastic bag, sack in the transportation, and the size is uneven, and the quality is different, and thoughtlessly have debris such as dry branch, and hot pepper is when selling, and the bright and lustrous colour, the hot pepper of even size is deeply liked by customer and trade company.

The traditional pepper sorting is mainly selected manually, firstly, workers dump peppers in plastic bags or sacks in the open space, dry branches and sundries mixed in the peppers are removed by using tools such as a sieve, then, the peppers with different sizes are sorted manually, and the peppers with dark colors and mildewed are selected in the sorting process.

In the aspect of large yield, the traditional manual sorting cannot meet the efficiency requirement, the pepper is accumulated, and the excessive accumulation of the pepper can cause the deterioration of a large amount of peppers under the condition of high temperature, so that the economic loss is caused; in addition, the whole sorting process is complicated, a large amount of manpower is consumed, and higher labor cost is generated.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a hot pepper sorting machine, and aims to solve the problems of complicated manual sorting process, high labor consumption and high labor cost in the prior art.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that: the pepper separator comprises a feeding mechanism, a conveying mechanism and a discharging mechanism which are connected in sequence, wherein a first separating mechanism is arranged at the feeding end of the conveying mechanism, and a second separating mechanism is arranged at the discharging end of the conveying mechanism;

the feeding mechanism comprises a feeding frame arranged on the front side of the conveying mechanism, a feeding tray hinged to the feeding frame and used for containing the pepper mixture, and a jacking assembly used for overturning the feeding tray;

the discharging mechanism comprises a discharging frame arranged at the rear side of the conveying mechanism and a discharging tray arranged above the discharging frame and used for containing the qualified hot peppers;

the first sorting mechanism comprises a winnowing component arranged at the feeding end of the conveying mechanism and a first hopper arranged below the feeding tray, and the winnowing component blows dry branch sundries in the pepper mixture into the first hopper through the pepper mixture which is separated from the feeding tray and enters the conveying mechanism;

second sorting mechanism is including locating the image acquisition subassembly of transport mechanism discharge end, locating the transport mechanism discharge end with second hopper between the ejection of compact tray and locating second hopper top with the shower nozzle subassembly that the image acquisition subassembly electricity is connected, image acquisition subassembly gathers hot pepper image information, according to hot pepper self size in the image, colour and the mould point rate generate the position information that mildenes and rot and the hot pepper of unidimensional distributes, the image acquisition subassembly with this position information transmission extremely the control unit of shower nozzle subassembly, the shower nozzle subassembly basis the position information jetting corresponds the position's mildenes and rot hot pepper and small-size hot pepper extremely the second hopper.

In a possible implementation manner, the conveying mechanism comprises a first conveying assembly and a second conveying assembly, the discharge end of the first conveying assembly is higher than the feed end of the second conveying assembly, a guide sliding plate is obliquely arranged between the first conveying assembly and the second conveying assembly, the first sorting mechanism is arranged at the feed end of the first conveying assembly, and the second sorting mechanism is arranged at the discharge end of the second conveying assembly.

In a possible implementation manner, the first conveying assembly comprises a first conveying belt and first material blocking plates arranged on two sides of the first conveying belt, the upper end of the guide sliding plate is connected to the tail ends of the first material blocking plates, the winnowing assembly is arranged on one side, close to the feeding end, of the first conveying belt, a plurality of convex edges are arranged on the first conveying belt and are arranged along the conveying direction of the first conveying belt in sequence at equal intervals, and the convex edges form a containing groove used for containing hot peppers transversely.

In a possible implementation mode, the first conveying belt comprises a horizontal conveying belt and an inclined conveying belt which are connected in sequence, the protruding edges are arranged on the horizontal conveying belt and the inclined conveying belt respectively, the winnowing component is arranged on one side, close to the horizontal conveying belt, of the inclined conveying belt, a storage box is arranged below the horizontal conveying belt, and a feeding end of the horizontal conveying belt and the inner wall, opposite to the storage box, of the storage box form a blanking port.

In a possible implementation mode, the winnowing component comprises two connecting arms and two winnowing boxes, the two connecting arms are connected to the upper portion of the first striker plate respectively, the winnowing boxes are connected to the upper ends of the two connecting arms, and the winnowing boxes are internally provided with a plurality of spray holes facing the feeding mechanism.

In a possible implementation manner, the second conveying assembly comprises a second conveying belt and second material blocking plates arranged on two sides of the second conveying belt, and the lower end of the guide sliding plate is overlapped at the feeding end of the second conveying belt.

In a possible implementation mode, the image acquisition assembly comprises a U-shaped plate with an opening downwards, a plurality of cameras and at least one light supplement lamp, wherein the U-shaped plate is arranged at the tail end of the second baffle plate, the cameras are arranged on the inner top surface of the U-shaped plate, the light supplement lamp is arranged on the inner top surface of the U-shaped plate, a processing module is arranged on the U-shaped plate, the processing module is electrically connected with the cameras and the control unit of the spray head assembly, and the spray head assembly is connected with the U-shaped plate close to one side of the discharge end of the second conveying belt.

In a possible implementation manner, the nozzle assembly comprises a blowing box connected to one side of the U-shaped plate close to the discharge end of the second conveyor belt, the lower portion of the blowing box is provided with a plurality of nozzles facing the second hopper, and the nozzles are arranged in a stepped matrix.

In a possible implementation mode, two the end-to-end connection of second fender board selects separately the baffle, it is located to select separately the baffle the jetting case with between the second hopper, it follows to select separately the baffle the direction of transfer of second conveyer belt is equipped with two sorting ports in proper order, the second hopper corresponds two the sorting port is equipped with two ascending separation chamber of opening in proper order for connect divide the moldy hot pepper of electing and the hot pepper of small-size greatly.

In a possible implementation manner, the jacking assembly is a telescopic hydraulic cylinder, the cylinder body part at the lower part of the telescopic hydraulic cylinder is fixed on the feeding frame, and the piston end at the upper part of the telescopic hydraulic cylinder is hinged to the bottom of the feeding tray.

The pepper separator provided by the invention has the beneficial effects that: compared with the prior art, the pepper mixture enters the conveying mechanism through the feeding mechanism, dry branch sundries in the pepper mixture are separated through the first sorting mechanism, the pepper with the separated sundries is sorted again according to quality and size specifications through the second sorting mechanism, and finally the high-quality pepper is stored in the discharging mechanism, so that the sorting of the pepper mixture is completed.

The hot pepper mixture is placed in a feeding tray on a feeding frame, workers use an external button to drive a telescopic hydraulic cylinder to ascend so as to turn over the feeding tray, the hot pepper mixture falls onto a conveying mechanism, a winnowing component winnowing the hot pepper mixture in the falling process of the hot pepper mixture, dry branch sundries in the hot pepper mixture are blown to a first hopper, and primary separation is completed; the pepper sorted for the first time is transmitted to an image acquisition assembly of a second sorting mechanism through a transmission mechanism, the image acquisition assembly acquires position images of the transversely arranged peppers and generates position information of the distribution of the mildewed and small-size peppers, the image acquisition assembly transmits the position information of the distribution of the peppers to a control unit of a spray head assembly, because a belt of a second transmission belt has a certain initial speed when the peppers leave the tail end of the second transmission belt, the peppers finish horizontal throwing motion above a sorting partition plate, when the peppers pass through a first partition plate of the sorting partition plate, the spray head assembly of the second sorting mechanism is driven by the control unit to spray the mildewed peppers to a first sorting cavity of a second hopper, and when the peppers pass through a second partition plate of the sorting partition plate, the spray head assembly of the second sorting mechanism is driven by the control unit, and the small-size hot peppers are sprayed to the second sorting cavity of the second hopper, and the final high-class hot peppers with normal sizes fall onto the discharging tray of the discharging frame through the sorting partition plate.

The hot pepper separator provided by the invention can be used for separating hot peppers, separating dry branch sundries, mildewed hot peppers, small-size hot peppers and normal-size hot peppers in a hot pepper mixture, replacing manual separation, improving the efficiency and reducing the labor consumption and labor cost.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed for the embodiments or the prior art descriptions will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a first schematic structural diagram of a pepper separator according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a pepper separator according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a bottom view of an image capturing assembly of the pepper sorter according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a second hopper of the pepper sorter provided by the embodiment of the invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a nozzle assembly of a pepper separator according to an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an air separation assembly of the pepper separator provided by the embodiment of the invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of a second hopper and a hinged telescopic partition plate of the pepper separator provided by the embodiment of the invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a blanking port of the pepper separator provided in the embodiment of the invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic view of a pepper horizontal throwing line of the pepper sorter provided by the embodiment of the invention;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural view of a first conveyor belt of the pepper sorter according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a state diagram of the pepper sorter provided in the embodiment of the present invention during the conveying of the peppers in the first conveyor, the guide slide, and the second conveyor.

Description of reference numerals:

100. a feeding mechanism; 110. a feeding frame; 120. a feeding tray; 130. a jacking assembly; 200. a transfer mechanism; 210. a first transfer assembly; 211. a horizontal conveyor belt; 212. an inclined conveyor belt; 213. a first striker plate; 201. a rib; 202. a storage tank; 203. a blanking port; 204. a blanking gap; 220. a second transfer assembly; 221. a second conveyor belt; 222. a second retainer plate; 230. a guide slide plate; 300. a discharging mechanism; 310. a discharging frame; 320. a discharge tray; 400. a first sorting mechanism; 410. an air separation component; 411. a connecting arm; 412. a winnowing box; 413. spraying a hole; 420. a first hopper; 500. a second sorting mechanism; 510. an image acquisition component; 511. a U-shaped plate; 512. a light supplement lamp; 513 a camera; 520. a second hopper; 521. a sorting chamber; 530. a showerhead assembly; 531. a blowing box; 532. a spray head; 600. a sorting partition plate; 610. a sorting port; 620. a partition plate; 700. an electromagnetic valve; 800. an electromagnetic directional valve; 900. a touch screen.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present invention more clearly apparent, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2 together, a pepper separator according to the present invention will now be described. Hot pepper sorter, including feed mechanism 100, transport mechanism 200 and the discharge mechanism 300 that connects gradually, transport mechanism 200's feed end is equipped with first sorting mechanism 400, and transport mechanism 200 discharge end is equipped with second sorting mechanism 500:

the feeding mechanism 100 comprises a feeding frame 110 arranged on the front side of the conveying mechanism 200, a feeding tray 120 hinged to the feeding frame 110 and used for containing the pepper mixture, and a jacking assembly 130 used for overturning the feeding tray 120; the discharging mechanism 300 comprises a discharging rack 310 arranged at the rear side of the conveying mechanism 200 and a discharging tray 320 arranged above the discharging rack 310 and used for containing high-quality peppers with normal sizes; the first sorting mechanism 400 comprises an air separation component 410 arranged at the feeding end of the conveying mechanism 200 and a first hopper 420 arranged below the feeding tray 120, wherein the air separation component 410 blows dry branch sundries in the pepper mixture into the first hopper 420 through the pepper mixture which is separated from the feeding tray 120 and enters the conveying mechanism 200; the second sorting mechanism 500 comprises an image collecting component 510 arranged on the horizontal side of the discharging end of the conveying mechanism 200, a second hopper 520 arranged between the discharging end of the conveying mechanism 200 and the discharging tray 320, and a nozzle component 530 arranged above the second hopper 520 and electrically connected with the image collecting component 510, wherein the image collecting component 510 collects image information of peppers, position information of mildewed peppers and pepper distribution with different sizes is generated according to the sizes, colors and mildew point rates of the peppers in the images, the image collecting component 510 transmits the position information to a control unit of the nozzle component 530, and the nozzle component 530 blows the mildewed peppers and the small-size peppers at corresponding positions to the second hopper 520 according to the position information.

Compared with the prior art, the pepper separator provided by the invention has the advantages that pepper mixture enters the conveying mechanism 200 through the feeding mechanism 100, dry branch sundries in the pepper mixture are separated through the first separating mechanism 400, the pepper with the separated sundries is separated again through the second separating mechanism 500 according to the quality and size specification, and finally, high-quality pepper is stored in the discharging mechanism 300, so that the separation of the pepper mixture is completed.

Specifically, the pepper mixture is placed in the feeding tray 120 on the feeding frame 110, a worker drives the telescopic hydraulic cylinder to ascend by using an external button to turn over the feeding tray 120, the pepper mixture falls onto the conveying mechanism 200, the air separation component 410 carries out air separation on the pepper mixture in the falling process of the pepper mixture, and dry branch sundries in the pepper mixture are blown to the first hopper 420, so that primary separation is completed; the primarily sorted peppers are conveyed to the image acquisition assembly 510 of the second sorting mechanism 500 through the conveying mechanism 200, the image acquisition assembly 510 acquires position images of horizontally arranged peppers and generates position information of distribution of mildewed and small-sized peppers, a processing module in the image acquisition assembly 510 transmits the position information of the distribution of the peppers to a control unit of the spray head assembly 530, because the belt of the second conveying belt 221 has a certain initial speed when the peppers leave the tail end of the second conveying belt 221, the pepper completes horizontal throwing motion above the sorting partition 600, when the peppers pass through a first partition of the sorting partition 600, the spray head assembly 530 of the second sorting mechanism 500 blows the mildewed peppers to a first sorting cavity 521 of the second hopper 520 under the driving of the control unit, when the remaining peppers pass through a second partition of the sorting partition 600, the nozzle assembly 530 of the second sorting mechanism 500 is driven by the control unit to blow the small-sized peppers to the second sorting chamber 521 of the second hopper 520, and finally the regular-sized excellent peppers fall onto the discharge tray 320 of the discharge frame 310 through the sorting partition 600.

The pepper sorting machine provided by the invention can be used for sorting peppers, and sorting sundries, mildewed peppers, small-size peppers and normal-size peppers in pepper mixtures instead of manual sorting, so that the efficiency is improved, and the labor consumption and the labor cost are reduced.

Wherein, the pepper mildew rate is judged to be unqualified when being between 5 and 10 percent, and the pepper mildew rate is judged to be qualified when being more than 10 percent; on the basis of qualified peppers, the peppers are judged to be small peppers when the size is between 3cm and 8cm, and high-quality peppers with normal specifications when the size is between 8cm and 16 cm.

As an embodiment of the pepper separator provided by the present invention, referring to fig. 1 to 2, the conveying mechanism 200 includes a first conveying assembly 210 and a second conveying assembly 220, a discharge end of the first conveying assembly 210 is higher than a feed end of the second conveying assembly 220, a slide guide plate 230 is obliquely disposed between the first conveying assembly 210 and the second conveying assembly 220, the first separating mechanism 400 is disposed at the feed end of the first conveying assembly 210, and the second separating mechanism 500 is disposed at the discharge end of the second conveying assembly 220.

In this embodiment, the first conveying assembly 210 and the second conveying assembly 220 are connected by the guide sliding plate 230, and the guide sliding plate 230 is disposed obliquely, so that the peppers at the discharge end of the first conveying assembly 210 can be smoothly conveyed to the feed end of the second conveying assembly 220.

Wherein, first sorting mechanism 400 is located on first conveying component 210, the hot pepper after sorting for the first time, the hot pepper after getting rid of debris promptly is horizontal and has certain interval to convey to guide slide 230 through first conveying component 210, because guide slide 230 slope sets up, the hot pepper slides down on second conveying component 220 from guide slide 230 under the effect of self gravitational potential, conveying mechanism 200 and second sorting mechanism 500 are the setting of 90 degrees of right angle, make the hot pepper that slides down on second conveying component 220 from guide slide 230 be vertical orderly arrangement, the information acquisition of follow-up image acquisition subassembly 510 is changeed. The second sorting mechanism 500 is arranged on the second conveying assembly 220, and the final sorting of the peppers is completed by the second sorting mechanism 500 at the discharge end of the second conveying assembly 220, so that the mildewed peppers and the small-size peppers in the peppers are removed, and the high-quality peppers with qualified sizes are reserved.

Specifically, the guide plate 230 is an arc-shaped plate, so that the hot pepper can slide down smoothly along the arc surface of the arc-shaped plate.

As a specific embodiment of the pepper separator provided by the present invention, referring to fig. 1 to 2, the first conveying assembly 210 includes a first conveyor belt and first material blocking plates 213 disposed at two sides of the first conveyor belt, the upper end of the guide sliding plate 230 is connected to the ends of the two first material blocking plates 213, the air separation assembly 410 is disposed at one side of the first conveyor belt close to the feeding end, the first conveyor belt is provided with a plurality of ribs 201, the plurality of ribs 201 are sequentially arranged at equal intervals along the conveying direction of the first conveyor belt, and adjacent ribs 201 form accommodating grooves for transversely accommodating peppers.

In this embodiment, the first material blocking plates 213 are respectively installed on two sides of the first conveyor belt, the two first material blocking plates 213 are arranged in parallel, and the two blocking plates are also installed on two sides of the guide sliding plate 230.

Specifically, the two baffle plates and the two first striker plates 213 are respectively connected through bolts, and the baffle plates and the first striker plates 213 are connected through a single bolt at the same side, and at the moment, the bolts can be unscrewed to adjust the inclination angle of the guide sliding plate 230 so as to match the second conveying assemblies 220 with different heights. Two bolts can be used on the same side of the baffle plate and the first striker plate 213 to improve the stability of the guide slide plate 230. In a specific operation process, one bolt can be installed first, after the angle of the guide sliding plate 230 is adjusted, the second bolt is matched with the first bolt for positioning, at this time, an arc-shaped hole is formed in the installation hole matched with the second bolt, so that the second bolt can be fixed after the guide sliding plate 230 is matched and rotates to the angle.

Specifically, the gap between the guide plate 230 and the inclined conveyor belt 212 is 2-3cm, which is not enough to allow the peppers to fall.

The plurality of accommodating grooves formed by the plurality of ribs 201 arranged on the first conveyor belt are in reciprocating circular transmission along with the conveying surface of the first conveyor belt, and the peppers subjected to first sorting are gradually conveyed onto the guide sliding plate 230.

Specifically, the intervals between the ribs 201 are the same, so that the widths of the accommodating grooves are the same. The holding tank is used for transversely holding the hot pepper. The width of the accommodating tank is 5-10cm, 3-4 peppers can be accommodated in the accommodating tank in a transverse arrangement mode, but the accommodating tank cannot accommodate peppers in a vertical arrangement mode, so that the peppers can be conveyed on the first conveying belt in a transverse manner by means of the width distance of the accommodating tank, the peppers are prevented from being stacked in a cross mode, and preparation is made for secondary sorting.

In addition, first conveyer belt is installed on moving movable support, and a plurality of universal wheels are installed to this moving movable support's bottom, and the universal wheel below is equipped with the braking device, the fixed position after being convenient for remove.

As a specific embodiment of the pepper separator provided by the present invention, referring to fig. 1 to 2, the first conveyor includes a horizontal conveyor 211 and an inclined conveyor 212 connected in sequence, a plurality of ribs 201 are respectively disposed on the horizontal conveyor 211 and the inclined conveyor 212, the air separation assembly 410 is disposed on one side of the inclined conveyor 212 close to the horizontal conveyor 211, a storage box 202 is disposed below the horizontal conveyor 211, and an inner wall of the feeding end of the horizontal conveyor 211 opposite to the storage box 202 forms a blanking port 203.

In this embodiment, the first conveyor belt includes a driving wheel and two driven wheels, and the three are connected through the chain, and the driving wheel is connected with the motor and provides power for it, and drives first conveyor belt work. Wherein, the first conveyer belt is a carrier roller conveyer belt, the width of the belt is 3-8cm less than that of the carrier roller, and the belt covers the middle part of the carrier roller.

In addition, referring to fig. 10, blanking gaps 204 of 2-4cm are formed on two sides of the belt, when peppers are conveyed on the inclined conveyor belt 212, the blanking gaps 204 on the two sides form a slide way, polishing and grinding are carried out on the bottom of the slide way in the initial stage, the damping coefficient of the bottom of the slide way is low, and if the peppers are piled on the two sides in the conveying process, the peppers slide to the horizontal conveyor belt 211 under the action of the gravity potential energy of the peppers.

The peppers dropped from the feeding tray 120 and passed through the air separation unit 410 are dropped onto the horizontal conveyor 211, aligned in a horizontal direction by means of the receiving groove, transferred onto the inclined conveyor 212, and finally transferred to the guide plate 230 by the inclined conveyor 212.

Referring to fig. 8, when a large number of peppers are dropped onto the horizontal conveyor 211, the peppers are introduced into the reserve tank 202 through the drop opening 203. The plurality of ribs 201 are respectively arranged on the outer surfaces of the horizontal conveyor belt 211 and the inclined conveyor belt 212, so that a continuous and uninterrupted holding tank is formed, and the holding tank can transversely arrange the peppers stacked disorderly in the storage box 202 and then convey the peppers to the inclined conveyor belt 212 through the horizontal conveyor belt 211. In addition, a vent is arranged in the storage tank 202, so that the pepper is prevented from being mildewed due to long accumulation time in the storage tank 202.

As an embodiment of the pepper separator provided by the present invention, referring to fig. 1, 2 and 6, the air separation assembly 410 includes two connecting arms 411 respectively connected above the two first material blocking plates 213 and an air separation box 412 connected to upper ends of the two connecting arms 411, and the air separation box 412 is provided with a plurality of spray holes 413 facing the feeding mechanism 100.

In this embodiment, the air separation box 412 is connected to the upper ends of the two connecting arms 411 through bolts, the plurality of spray holes 413 formed in the air separation box 412 face the feeding mechanism 100, and the plurality of spray holes 413 form an enough air curtain which passes through a falling path of the pepper mixture to blow the dry branch sundries mixed in the pepper mixture to the first hopper 420, and the separated pepper mixture directly falls onto the horizontal conveyor belt 211.

Specifically, the winnowing box 412 is connected to an air pump, and the air pump is installed on the electromagnetic directional valve 800 on the outer side of the first striker plate 213, and the air pump ensures a sufficient air source through an air pipe. When the feeding tray 120 inclines, the pepper is dumped, and the air separation box 412 provides gas with a continuous pressure of 10-20 Pa to the plurality of spray holes 413. A plurality of electromagnetic valves 700 are installed on the gas passage, and the electromagnetic valves 700 are used for controlling the flow rate and on-off of gas in the pipeline, so as to control the pressure and on-off of high-pressure gas ejected through the plurality of spray holes 413.

Preferably, the first hopper 420 is a moving cart disposed below the feeding tray 120. The universal wheels are installed at the lower part of the movable lower cart, so that sundries can be moved and transported conveniently.

The pepper mixture is characterized in that impurities in the pepper mixture are mainly dry branches or dust, the mass of the pepper mixture is lighter than that of a pepper body, and the pepper mixture can be removed by winnowing.

As an embodiment of the pepper separator provided by the present invention, referring to fig. 1 to 2, the second conveying assembly 220 includes a second conveying belt 221 and second baffle plates 222 disposed at both sides of the second conveying belt 221, the lower end of the guide plate 230 is overlapped at the feeding end of the second conveying belt 221, and the image capturing assembly 510 is disposed at the ends of the two second baffle plates 222.

In this embodiment, the second conveyor belt 221 is installed on the support frame, and the stability of the overall structure can be ensured.

Specifically referring to fig. 11, a conveying direction of the second conveying belt 221 is perpendicular to a conveying direction of the first conveying belt, the peppers on the first conveying belt are transversely conveyed to the second conveying belt 221 through the accommodating grooves, so that the peppers slide on the second conveying belt, a sliding direction of the peppers is perpendicular to the conveying direction of the second conveying belt 221, a position direction of the fallen peppers is consistent with the conveying direction of the second conveying belt 221, and a cross stacking phenomenon does not occur, so that the image acquisition assembly 510 can clearly and effectively acquire position information of the peppers.

As a specific embodiment of the pepper separator provided by the present invention, referring to fig. 1 to 3, the image collecting assembly 510 includes a U-shaped plate 511 having a downward opening and disposed at the ends of the two second material blocking plates 222, a plurality of cameras 513 disposed on the inner top surface of the U-shaped plate 511, and at least one light supplement lamp 512 disposed on the inner top surface of the U-shaped plate 511, the U-shaped plate 511 is provided with a processing module, the processing module is electrically connected to the plurality of cameras 513 and the nozzle assembly 530, and the nozzle assembly 530 is connected to one side of the U-shaped plate 511 close to the discharging end of the second conveyor belt 221.

In this embodiment, the opening of the U-shaped plate 511 is downwardly installed on two second material baffles 222, thereby make the discharge end of the second conveyor belt 221 constitute the channel with two open ends by means of the U-shaped plate 511, the light filling lamp 512 is located in the middle of the inner top surface of the U-shaped plate 511, the plurality of cameras 513 are distributed around the light filling lamp 512, the plurality of cameras 513 jointly collect the position information of the peppers conveyed by the second conveyor belt 221, the light filling lamp 513 improves the illuminance, and the definition of shooting by the cameras 512 is ensured.

The processing module is STM32F103 model singlechip, plus ESP8266 model WIFI module on this singlechip. The processing module is installed on one side of the U-shaped plate 511, and in special cases, the external TPC1061Ti Kunlun Tongtai touch screen 900 can be adopted for human intervention, and the touch screen 900 displays the speed of the second conveyor belt 221 and the sorting mode of the peppers, wherein the sorting mode comprises the sorting modes according to the size specification, the color, the mildew point rate and the mixture of the size specification, the color, the mildew point rate and the like. Or a remote control mode is adopted to carry out human intervention by connecting the WIFI module on the processing module under the same WIFI through the mobile phone APP. The processing module is used for controlling the opening and closing of the cameras 513 and the light supplement lamps 512, meanwhile, the opening and closing of the nozzle assembly 530 can be controlled, synchronous operation of the cameras and the light supplement lamps is guaranteed, the images of the peppers are collected by the image collection assembly 510, position information of the distributed mildewed peppers and the distributed position information of the small-size peppers are transmitted to the nozzle assembly 530, the nozzle assembly 530 is controlled to blow the mildewed peppers and the small-size peppers at the corresponding positions according to the position information, and therefore the mildewed peppers and the small-size peppers are selected to enter the second hopper 520.

Specifically, the number of the light supplement lamps 512 is one, the shape of the light supplement lamps is circular, and the number of the cameras 513 is four, and the four cameras are uniformly arranged around the light supplement lamps 512.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 5, as an embodiment of the pepper separator provided by the present invention, the nozzle assembly 530 includes a blowing box 531 connected to a side of the U-shaped plate 511 near the discharging end of the second conveyor 221, a plurality of nozzles 532 facing the second hopper 520 are disposed at a lower portion of the blowing box 531, and the plurality of nozzles 532 are arranged in a matrix ladder manner.

In this embodiment, the blowing box 531 is hinged to one side of the U-shaped plate 511 by a hinge, so that the blowing box 531 can be stored when not in use, thereby saving space, and the angle of the blowing box 531 can be rotated by the hinge, so that the positions of the plurality of nozzles 532 can be well matched with the positions of the peppers.

Specifically, four rows of matrix grooves are formed in the bottom of the blowing box 531, the front two rows and the rear two rows are arranged in a stepped manner, eight spray heads 532 are arranged in each row of matrix grooves respectively, so that the spray heads 532 are arranged in a matrix manner, and the spray heads 532 enable the corresponding spray heads 532 to release compressed gas under the action of the control unit of the blowing box 531 according to the position information sent by the receiving and processing module, so that the mildewed peppers and the small-size peppers can be blown into the second hopper 520.

Preferably, the plurality of nozzles 532 and the plurality of injection holes 413 are connected to the electromagnetic directional valve 800 through air pipes, respectively, and the electrical directional valve is connected to an air pump, so that the operation and stop of the plurality of nozzles 532 and the plurality of injection holes 413 are controlled by the respective electromagnetic valves 700.

As a specific embodiment of the pepper separator provided by the present invention, referring to fig. 1, fig. 2 and fig. 4, the end of each of the two second baffle plates 222 is connected to a separation partition plate 600, the separation partition plate 600 is located between the blowing box 531 and the second hopper 520, the separation partition plate 600 is sequentially provided with two separation openings 610 along the conveying direction of the second conveyor belt 221, and the second hopper 520 is sequentially provided with two separation cavities 521 with upward openings corresponding to the two separation openings 610, for containing the separated moldy pepper and the small-sized pepper.

In this embodiment, the separation partition plate 600 is a rectangular frame and is connected to the ends of the two second material baffles 222, and one side of the separation partition plate 600 is provided with an inner window which is hinged to open and can be manually opened or closed.

Referring to fig. 7, a hinged telescopic partition 620 is further fixed at the end of the second conveyor belt 221, and the hinged telescopic partition 620 can adjust the telescopic length to divide the sorting partition 600 into two sorting ports 610. The second hopper 520 is mounted below the telescopic partition 620 by means of a latch.

The hinged telescopic partition 620 is installed at the end of the second conveyor belt 221 through a fixing plate, and includes two sets of hinged crosses hinged to each other, and two partitions 620 hinged to the ends of the two sets of hinged crosses, respectively, and the two partitions 620 move along with the adjustment of the two sets of hinged crosses, thereby changing the width of the corresponding sorting port 610.

Specifically, the belt surface of the second conveyor belt 221, the upper ends of the two partition plates 620 arranged in sequence, and the upper end surface of the discharging tray 320 are distributed in a gradient manner, and the height is gradually reduced. When the peppers are separated from the second conveyor belt 221, the peppers are horizontally thrown forward by inertia. Referring to fig. 9, the horizontal throwing direction is a direction, during the horizontal throwing process, the peppers fly forward along the conveying direction of the second conveyor belt 221 and move downward due to self-weight, and the spraying range of the plurality of spraying holes 413 arranged in a stepped matrix passes through the moving track of the peppers during the horizontal throwing process. During the horizontal throwing process, when the peppers pass through the first partition plate of the sorting partition plate 600, the spraying holes 413 at the corresponding positions spray b directional airflow, the peppers (mildewed peppers) with unqualified quality are sprayed to the first sorting cavity 521 of the second hopper 520, when the peppers pass through the second partition plate of the sorting partition plate 600, the spraying holes 413 at the corresponding positions spray c directional airflow through the collected information, the small-sized peppers are sprayed to the second sorting cavity 521 of the second hopper 520, and the excellent peppers fall into the discharge tray 320 of the discharge frame 310 through the sorting partition plate 600.

Specifically, when the pepper is horizontally thrown, the locus is an arc, and through calculus calculation, when the initial speed of the pepper during horizontal throwing reaches a preset value, the arc can be approximate to a straight line, and the pepper position information acquired by the image acquisition assembly 510 is ensured to be matched with the corresponding action of the spray head 532 between the position pepper on the curved surface and the position pepper on the flat surface which are basically consistent (the error is 3% -5%). The area of the image acquisition assembly 510 is the same as the area of the sorting partition 600, so that when the pepper is flatly thrown, the speed of the second conveyor belt 221 is at a preset value, which is a precondition for efficient identification.

Preferably, the upper end of the partition 620 is further provided with a guide slope to facilitate the pepper to slide down from the corresponding partition 620 into the corresponding sorting port 610.

When the peppers of sorting baffle 600 appear piling up the jam, the inner window that can open will play self effect, and the accessible is opened the manual mediation of inner window, ensures the normal operating of hot pepper sorting operation.

When the peppers pass through the upper portion of the telescopic partition 620, the image acquisition assembly 510 correspondingly ejects compressed gas by controlling the plurality of spray heads 532 through the control unit after analysis processing, so that the peppers with the quality of the mildewed peppers and the small-size peppers are sprayed with the compressed gas, and the mildewed peppers and the small-size peppers are usually small-size peppers which do not meet the standard. According to the weight difference between the mildewed peppers and the small-size peppers, the two types of peppers with different qualities fall to two different sorting openings 610 divided by the telescopic partition plate 620, so that the peppers enter different sorting cavities 521 of the second hopper 520, and the sorted peppers enter the discharge tray 320 at the tail part.

Referring to fig. 1 to 2, as an embodiment of the pepper separator provided by the present invention, the lifting assembly 130 is a telescopic hydraulic cylinder, a cylinder body portion of a lower portion of the telescopic hydraulic cylinder is fixed on the feeding frame 110, and a piston end of an upper portion of the telescopic hydraulic cylinder is hinged to a bottom portion of the feeding tray 120.

In this embodiment, a mounting plate is fixed to the upper portion of the feeding frame 110, the mounting plate is located below the feeding tray 120, the telescopic hydraulic cylinder is fixed to the mounting plate by a lower cylinder portion thereof, and a piston end of the upper portion of the telescopic hydraulic cylinder is hinged to a middle position of the bottom of the feeding tray 120.

Wherein, install the control cabinet on feeding frame 110, be equipped with on this control cabinet and open and stop the button for the flexible of control pneumatic cylinder. When the telescopic hydraulic cylinder extends, the telescopic hydraulic cylinder upwards abuts against the bottom of the feeding tray 120, and the feeding tray 120 rotates by virtue of a hinge structure close to one side of the first conveying belt, so that the pepper mixture supported in the feeding tray 120 slides onto the first conveying belt by virtue of self weight. When the discharge is completed, the telescopic hydraulic cylinder is contracted while using the button, and returned to the initial position, and the feeding tray 120 is charged again.

Specifically, the both sides of ejection of compact tray 320 are equipped with upwards extending guardrail, and its afterbody articulates there is the adjustable fender that can open, through the bolt location, and manual upwards extracts the bolt, can make the adjustable fender of afterbody open, and this ejection of compact tray 320 afterbody does not have and shelters from, and the workman can pack into the bag of accomodating after accomplishing the selection and pack and store.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents and improvements made within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A hot pepper separator is characterized by comprising a feeding mechanism, a conveying mechanism and a discharging mechanism which are sequentially connected, wherein a first separating mechanism is arranged at the feeding end of the conveying mechanism, and a second separating mechanism is arranged at the discharging end of the conveying mechanism;

the second sorting mechanism comprises an image acquisition component arranged at the discharge end of the conveying mechanism, a second hopper arranged between the discharge end of the conveying mechanism and the discharge tray, and a nozzle component arranged above the second hopper and electrically connected with the image acquisition component, wherein the image acquisition component acquires pepper image information, generates position information of mildewed peppers and pepper distribution with different sizes according to the size, color and mildew point rate of the peppers in the images, transmits the position information to a control unit of the nozzle component, and the nozzle component sprays the mildewed peppers and small peppers at corresponding positions to the second hopper according to the position information;

the conveying mechanism comprises a first conveying assembly and a second conveying assembly, the discharge end of the first conveying assembly is higher than the feed end of the second conveying assembly, a guide sliding plate is obliquely arranged between the first conveying assembly and the second conveying assembly, the first sorting mechanism is arranged at the feed end of the first conveying assembly, and the second sorting mechanism is arranged at the discharge end of the second conveying assembly;

the first conveying assembly comprises a first conveying belt and first material blocking plates arranged on two sides of the first conveying belt, the upper end of the guide sliding plate is connected to the tail ends of the two first material blocking plates, the winnowing assembly is arranged on one side, close to the feeding end, of the first conveying belt, a plurality of convex edges are arranged on the first conveying belt, the convex edges are sequentially arranged at equal intervals along the conveying direction of the first conveying belt, and adjacent convex edges form accommodating grooves for transversely accommodating peppers; the width of the accommodating groove is 5-10cm, 3-4 peppers can be accommodated and transversely arranged, but the pepper accommodating groove cannot be accommodated and vertically arranged;

the second conveying assembly comprises a second conveying belt and second material blocking plates arranged on two sides of the second conveying belt, and the lower end of the guide sliding plate is lapped at the feeding end of the second conveying belt;

the image acquisition assembly comprises a U-shaped plate with a downward opening arranged at the tail ends of the two second material blocking plates, a plurality of cameras arranged on the inner top surfaces of the U-shaped plates and at least one light supplement lamp arranged on the inner top surfaces of the U-shaped plates, a processing module is arranged on the U-shaped plate and electrically connected with the plurality of cameras and a control unit of the nozzle assembly, and the nozzle assembly is connected with one side of the U-shaped plate close to the discharge end of the second conveyor belt;

the spray head assembly comprises a spraying and blowing box connected to one side, close to the discharge end of the second conveyor belt, of the U-shaped plate, the lower portion of the spraying and blowing box is provided with a plurality of spray heads facing the second hopper, and the spray heads are arranged in a stepped matrix;

two the end-to-end connection of second striker plate has the separation baffle, the separation baffle is located the jetting case with between the second hopper, the separation baffle is followed the direction of delivery of second conveyer belt is equipped with two sorting ports in proper order, the second hopper corresponds two the sorting port is equipped with two ascending separation chambeies of opening in proper order for connect the moldy hot pepper of branch election and the hot pepper of small-size greatly.

2. The pepper separator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first conveyor comprises a horizontal conveyor and an inclined conveyor which are connected in sequence, the plurality of ribs are respectively arranged on the horizontal conveyor and the inclined conveyor, the air separation assembly is arranged on one side of the inclined conveyor, which is close to the horizontal conveyor, a storage box is arranged below the horizontal conveyor, and the inner wall of the feeding end of the horizontal conveyor, which is opposite to the storage box, forms a blanking port.

3. The pepper separator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the air separation assembly includes two connecting arms respectively connected above the two first striker plates, and an air separation box connected to upper ends of the two connecting arms, the air separation box having a plurality of spray holes formed therein to face the feeding mechanism.

4. A pepper separator as claimed in any one of the claims 1-3, wherein the lifting assembly is a telescopic hydraulic cylinder, the cylinder part of the lower part of the telescopic hydraulic cylinder is fixed on the feeding frame, and the piston end of the upper part of the telescopic hydraulic cylinder is hinged to the bottom of the feeding tray.