CN101602420B - Rice finished product container, supporting device thereof, and rice finished product fresh-keeping device and fresh-keeping method - Google Patents

Rice finished product container, supporting device thereof, and rice finished product fresh-keeping device and fresh-keeping method Download PDF

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CN101602420B
CN101602420B CN2009100724746A CN200910072474A CN101602420B CN 101602420 B CN101602420 B CN 101602420B CN 2009100724746 A CN2009100724746 A CN 2009100724746A CN 200910072474 A CN200910072474 A CN 200910072474A CN 101602420 B CN101602420 B CN 101602420B
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The present invention relates to a rice finished product container, a supporting device thereof, a rice finished product fresh-keeping device and a fresh-keeping method, wherein the rice finished product container consists of a hard packing container with an opening and a cover buckled on the opening of the container; and the bottom of the container is provided with a pressure container bottle which is filled with CO2 or N2 compressed gas and is communicated with the container through a gas tube, one end of the gas tube extending into the pressure container bottle is provided with a gas inlet, and the other end of the gas tube extending into the container is provided with a gas outlet, the gas tube is in threaded connection with the pressure container bottle, and the gas inlet can be closed or opened by rotating the pressure container bottle. The rice finished product container, the supporting device, the rice finished product fresh-keeping device and the fresh-keeping method can achieve the fresh-keeping and oxygen resisting functions for the rice finished product through the fresh-keeping container capable of performing gas adjustment matched with a deoxidation packaging mode; besides, in the process of consuming the rice finished product, the rice finished product container, the supporting device, the rice finished product fresh-keeping device and the fresh-keeping method can effectively prevent the rice finished product from contacting with air so as to prevent the rice finished product from oxidative deterioration and improve the storage quality of the rice finished product.

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Rice finished product container, its bracing or strutting arrangement and rice finished product preservation device and preservation method
One, technical field:
What the present invention relates to is the fresh-keeping packaging device, and what be specifically related to is rice finished product container, its bracing or strutting arrangement and rice finished product preservation device and the preservation method that is particularly useful for packing rice.
Two, background technology:
Existing rice finished product packing on manner of packing, belongs to flexible packaging more, and three kinds of packaged forms are arranged basically, is respectively ordinary packing, vacuum packaging and gas flush packaging.
Ordinary packing utilizes the Polywoven Bag of material such as polypropylene that rice finished product is packed, and adopts suture to seal.Do not apply any preservation technique in the packaging process, this packing is relatively poor relatively to the insect protected of rice finished product, mildew-resistant and fresh-keeping effect, generally can only play the effect of holding to rice finished product.But because the Polywoven Bag tensile strength is stronger, the rice finished product of package weight more than 5kg all adopts this kind packing, and the shelf-life is shorter, about three months.
Vacuum packaging is adopted in vacuum packaging, can reduce the O of storage environment 2Concentration suppresses the respiratory intensity of rice finished product and the breeding of mould, prevents the old change of rice finished product, mouldy, infested etc., better keeps the quality of rice finished product.As, the degree of vacuum that rice vacuum packaging is at present selected for use generally-0.07~-0.09MPa between.Because degree of vacuum is bigger, packing tightly wrap up rice, and the rice two ends are sharp, and packaging bag is easy to be punctured by the grain of rice, causes vacuum-packed the inefficacy.Packaging bag in circulation process bag with bag between friction, collide and fall and also be easy to cause broken bag.It is reported that the vacuum-packed diffusing leak rate in circulation process is up to 30%, even vacuum-packed static placement a period of time also has 16% broken bag rate.So when rice finished product is carried out fresh-keeping packaging, will combine, so just can obtain good effect with circulation environment.
That gas flush packaging, gas flush packaging generally charge into is CO 2And N 2, they all are colourless, odorless, non-poisonous gas, chemical property is more stable.Has CO absorption as rice 2Ability, form protective cover, make rice be in " sleep " state, thereby aliphatic acid, total acid, reducing sugar, viscosity variation are less relatively, have prolonged effective shelf-life; Fill N 2Reduced the O of storage environment 2Concentration has suppressed growth of microorganism in the rice, plays an important role for the variation that slows down quality.Studies show that mostly gas flush packaging can keep the rice finished product quality by actv., prevents going mouldy with infested of rice finished product.But, the ability of the dropping shock in the gas flush packaging tolerance transportation, the volume that occupies in the circulation process is bigger, increases traffic cost.
This shows, be that ordinary packing, vacuum packaging or gas flush packaging all can't solve rice finished product in the field of circulation preferably, comprises the variety of problems that occurs in the edible process of customer.Promptly allow to satisfy mildew-resistant, insect protected, rice finished product packing requirements such as fresh-keeping, bring new packaging Problems simultaneously.
In addition, in diet structure diversified today, rice remains human staple food, and according to the pertinent data introduction, it is staple food with the rice that there are 39 countries in the whole world, the strongest to the dependence of rice with the Asia especially.Paddy shells and obtains brown rice, and brown rice grinds pericarp again and embryo becomes rice.Rice is owing to lost the protection of shell, and endosperm directly is exposed to the space, is subject to the influence of external factor.Therefore how wet, compare with paddy, the storage stability of rice is poor, easilier become sour in high temperature summers especially, ageing, so provide a kind of packing that especially is fit to rice to seem even more important.And also all there is a problem in above-mentioned flexible packaging, and promptly in case packing is opened ediblely, rice has just lost protection.
Three, summary of the invention:
An object of the present invention is to provide a kind of rice finished product container, second purpose provides the bracing or strutting arrangement of described rice finished product container, the 3rd purpose provides the rice finished product preservation device, the 4th purpose provides the preservation method of described rice finished product preservation device, it is bad that the present invention is used to solve the barrier that existing rice finished product flexible packaging exists, and opens bag problem that back gas once discharges.
The technical solution adopted for the present invention to solve the technical problems is: a kind of rice finished product container is made of hard packing container, the lid of band mouth, and lid buckles on vessel port; Container bottom is equipped with a pressure container bottle, dress CO in the bottle 2Or N 2Pressure gas, the pressure container bottle is communicated with by the ventilation flue with container, and the end that the ventilation flue stretches into the pressure container bottle is provided with admission port, and the end that the ventilation flue stretches into container sets out gas port, the ventilation flue is threaded with the pressure container bottle, can seal or open admission port by the rotational pressure container bottle.
A kind of bracing or strutting arrangement of above-mentioned rice finished product container is a support, mounting ball valve on the support, ball valve interface and rice finished product vessel port flush fit.
A kind of rice finished product preservation device comprises a rice finished product container, and the bracing or strutting arrangement that is used to support the rice finished product container, the rice finished product container is made of hard packing container, the lid of band mouth, and lid buckles on vessel port, container bottom is equipped with a pressure container bottle, dress CO in the bottle 2Or N 2Pressure gas, the pressure container bottle is communicated with by the ventilation flue with container, and the end that the ventilation flue stretches into the pressure container bottle is provided with admission port, and the end that the ventilation flue stretches into container sets out gas port, the ventilation flue is threaded with the pressure container bottle, can seal or open admission port by the rotational pressure container bottle; Bracing or strutting arrangement is a support, mounting ball valve on the support; When taking off the lid of rice finished product container, the rice finished product container is upside down on the support ball valve interface flush fit on vessel port and the support.
The inner upper limb of lid in the such scheme is the deoxidation reagent sheet fixedly.
Hard packing container in the such scheme is barrel-shaped, adopts theRMOPLASTIC RESINS to make, and covers to be vinyl cover.
Further be that the hard packing container adopts polycarbonate to make, the profile of staving is that cylinder is tiltedly takeed on shape, three ring-type convex tendons of staving design, and round-corner transition is all adopted in the bucket end, ladle body, convex tendon, bucket shoulder corner.
Utilize the above-mentioned rice finished product preservation device method fresh-keeping, rice finished product is packed in the container, lid is buckled on vessel port rice finished product, screw, cover in-to-in deoxidation reagent sheet this moment consumes internal tank oxygen rapidly, then the rotational pressure container bottle, open the admission port on the ventilation flue, make CO 2Or N 2Enter in the packing container, carry out fresh-keeping the rice finished product in the container; When edible rice finished product, the lid of container is taken off, container is upside down on the support, open the ball valve switch, rice finished product flows down from container, after having got, closes the ball valve switch, and the rotational pressure container bottle is opened the admission port on the ventilation flue then, makes CO 2Or N 2Enter in the packing container, the rice finished product in the container is carried out fresh-keeping, thereby realize rice finished product from being packaged into the omnidistance fresh-keeping of edible process.
Beneficial effect:
1, the present invention cooperates the Deoxygen Packaging mode by the antistaling container that can carry out controlled atmosphere, can realize that rice finished product is fresh-keeping, resistance oxygen function, in addition, rice finished product is in edible process, the present invention can also prevent effectively that rice finished product from contacting with air, thereby prevent the rice finished product oxidation deterioration, improve the rice finished product storage quality.
2, the present invention packs barrier and significantly improves.Because the material thickness of hard packing is bigger, almost can intercept gas, moisture and extraneous germ fully.
3, packaging protecting of the present invention significantly improves.The hard packing container has very high strength and stiffness, almost can avoid fully because of falling in the transport and storage process, impact, vibration, friction etc. to the mechanical damage that packing produces, reduce the breakage of packages rate to greatest extent.
4, the present invention packs the feature of environmental protection and significantly improves.Novel hard packing container is former material with polycarbonate (PC), in case after the moulding, can recycle repeatedly, reduces the pollution of rice flexible packing material to environment to greatest extent.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of rice finished product container among the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of Fig. 1 middle cover;
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of bracing or strutting arrangement among the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the structural representation of ball valve core among Fig. 3;
Fig. 5 is the structural representation that the rice finished product preservation device eats fresh-keeping state in the process among the present invention.
Inner bend 14 air extractor ducts of 1 container, 2 container bottom, 3 vessel port, 4. convex tendons, 5 pressure container bottles, 6. ventilation flues, 7 admission ports, 8 supports, 9 ball valves, 10 ball valve switches, 11 lids, 12 deoxidation reagent sheets, 13 ball valve cores
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The present invention is described further below in conjunction with accompanying drawing:
Embodiment 1:
Fig. 1 provides rice finished product structure of container scheme drawing among the present invention, this rice finished product container is made of the hard packing container 1 and the lid 11 of band mouth, lid 11 buckles on vessel port 3, hard packing container 1 is barrel-shaped, adopt polycarbonate, through the injection blow molding moulding, the container material adopts polycarbonate (PC), PC has good shock strength and rigidity, in order to opposing falling in transportation, shock and vibration; The profile of staving is that cylinder is tiltedly takeed on shape, and for the rigidity that strengthens staving and be convenient to rolling transport, at three ring-type convex tendons 4 of staving sidewall design, round-corner transition is all adopted in the bucket end, ladle body, convex tendon, a bucket shoulder corner, with the stress concentration of avoiding the container acute angle to produce.The bucket end, be embedded with a pressure container bottle 5 when the injection moulding of jar base, dress CO in the bottle in the present embodiment 2Pressure gas, pressure container bottle 5 is communicated with by ventilation flue 6 with barrel containers 1, for ventilation flue 6 is installed, a cylindrical depression has also been designed at the bucket end, the depression center promptly is used to place metal airway 6, the inserts of metal airway 6 during as blow molding, ventilation flue 6 processes the reticulate pattern projection with barrel containers 1 junction outside face, to guarantee anchoring strength; The end that ventilation flue 6 stretches into pressure container bottle 5 is provided with admission port 7, the end that ventilation flue 6 stretches into barrel containers 1 sets out gas port 14, the part threading of ventilation flue 6 outside barrel containers 1, ventilation flue 6 is threaded with pressure container bottle 5, can seal or open admission port 7 by rotational pressure container bottle 5.Turn pressure container bottle 5 makes pressure gas charge into barrel containers 1, CO by the ventilation flue 6 who stretches into internal tank when getting meter 2Finished product cadelle evil can be suppressed, the rice finished product oxidation deterioration can be effectively prevented simultaneously.Consult Fig. 2, covering 11 inwalls has screw thread, covers fixedly deoxidation reagent sheet 12 of 11 inner upper limbs, deoxidation reagent sheet 12 is bonding with lid 11 tops, behind the barrel containers 1 filling rice finished product, will cover 11 and buckle on barrel containers mouth 3, deoxidation reagent sheet 12 can make container 1 inner oxygen consume rapidly in the lid 11.
Fig. 3 is a support device structure scheme drawing among the present invention, the bracing or strutting arrangement of this rice finished product container is a support 8, ball valve made of plastic 9 is installed on the support 8, ball valve made of plastic 9 passes through screw thread fit with support 8, consult Fig. 4, the valve core inside bend 14 of ball valve 9 is 90 degree circular arc bends, also can change the quantity of taking rice finished product by the diameter that changes bend 14; The interface of the ball valve 9 on the support 8 has outside thread, and this outside thread matches with the negative thread of the vessel port 3 of rice finished product container, and when the rice finished product container was upside down on the support 8, the interface of ball valve 9 was threaded with vessel port 3, to guarantee sealing.
The rice finished product preservation device comprises a rice finished product container among the present invention, and the bracing or strutting arrangement that is used to support the rice finished product container, consult Fig. 1, the rice finished product container is made of hard packing container 1, the lid 11 of band mouth, lid 11 buckles on vessel port 3, covers fixedly deoxidation reagent sheet 12 of 11 inner upper limbs.Container bottom 2 is equipped with a pressure container bottle 5, dress CO in the bottle 2Pressure gas, pressure container bottle 5 is communicated with by ventilation flue 6 with container 1, the end that ventilation flue 6 stretches into pressure container bottle 5 is provided with admission port 7, the end that ventilation flue 6 stretches into container sets out gas port 14, ventilation flue 6 is threaded with pressure container bottle 5, can seal or open admission port 7 by rotational pressure container bottle 5; Consulting Fig. 3 bracing or strutting arrangement is a support 8, and mounting ball valve 9 on the support 8; Consult Fig. 5, in edible process, when taking off the lid 11 of rice finished product container, the rice finished product container is upside down on the support 8, vessel port 3 cooperates with ball valve 9 interface threads on the support 8.As getting Mi Kaiguan, open valve by rotary ball valve switch 10 with ball valve made of plastic 9, rice finished product just falls, take very convenient, got rice finished product after valve-off get final product, owing to when getting rice finished product, simultaneously with CO 2Charge in the barrel containers 1, can in edible process, realize fresh-keeping to rice finished product.
The preservation method of above-mentioned rice finished product preservation device is packed rice finished product in the container 1 into, and lid 11 is buckled on vessel port 3, screw, cover 11 in-to-in deoxidation reagent sheets 12 this moment consumes container 1 inner oxygen rapidly, and the rotational pressure container bottle 5 then, open the admission port 7 on the ventilation flue 6, make CO 2Enter in the packing container 1, carry out fresh-keeping the rice finished product in the container 1; When edible rice finished product, the lid 3 of container is taken off, container 1 is upside down on the support 8, open ball valve switch 10, rice finished product flows down from container 1, after having got, closes ball valve switch 10, and the rotational pressure container bottle 5 then, open the admission port 7 on the ventilation flue 6, make CO 2Enter in the packing container 1, the rice finished product in the container is carried out fresh-keeping, thereby realize rice finished product from being packaged into the omnidistance fresh-keeping of edible process.
Dress CO in the pressure container bottle 5 in the foregoing description 2Pressure gas certainly, can also be adorned N in the pressure container bottle 5 2Pressure gas; Hard packing container 1 among the present invention can also be designed to jar shape, box-type.The present invention can be widely used in as graininess such as rice, millet, glutinous millet, the fresh-keeping of the rice finished product of dispersion.

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1. rice finished product container is characterized in that: this rice finished product container is made of hard packing container (1), the lid (11) of band mouthful, and lid (11) buckles on vessel port (3); Container bottom (2) is equipped with a pressure container bottle (5), dress CO in the bottle 2Or N 2Pressure gas, pressure container bottle (5) is communicated with by ventilation flue (6) with container (1), the end that ventilation flue (6) stretches into pressure container bottle (5) is provided with admission port (7), the end that ventilation flue (6) stretches into container (1) sets out gas port (14), ventilation flue (6) is threaded with pressure container bottle (5), can seal or open admission port (7) by rotational pressure container bottle (5).
2. rice finished product preservation device, it is characterized in that: it comprises a rice finished product container, and the bracing or strutting arrangement that is used to support the rice finished product container, the rice finished product container is made of hard packing container (1), the lid (11) of band mouth, lid (11) buckles on vessel port (3), container bottom (2) is equipped with a pressure container bottle (5), dress CO in the bottle 2Or N 2Pressure gas, pressure container bottle (5) is communicated with by ventilation flue (6) with container (1), the end that ventilation flue (6) stretches into pressure container bottle (5) is provided with admission port (7), the end that ventilation flue (6) stretches into container sets out gas port (14), ventilation flue (6) is threaded with pressure container bottle (5), can seal or open admission port (7) by rotational pressure container bottle (5); Bracing or strutting arrangement is a support (8), and support (8) is gone up mounting ball valve (9); When the lid that takes off the rice finished product container (11), the rice finished product container is upside down on the support (8) the ball valve interface flush fit on vessel port (3) and the support (8).
3. rice finished product preservation device according to claim 2 is characterized in that: the inner upper limb of described lid (11) is deoxidation reagent sheet (12) fixedly.
4. one kind is utilized the described rice finished product preservation device of claim 3 that rice finished product is carried out fresh-keeping method, it is characterized in that: rice finished product is packed in the container (1), lid (11) is buckled on vessel port (3), screw, lid (11) in-to-in deoxidation reagent sheet this moment (12) consumes internal tank oxygen rapidly, rotational pressure container bottle (5) is opened the admission port (7) on the ventilation flue (6) then, makes CO 2Or N 2Enter in the packing container (1), carry out fresh-keeping the rice finished product in the container (1); When eating rice finished product, the lid (11) of container is taken off, container (1) is upside down on the support (8), open ball valve switch (10), rice finished product flows down from container (1), after having got, close ball valve switch (10), rotational pressure container bottle (5) is opened the admission port (7) on the ventilation flue (6) then, makes CO 2Or N 2Enter in the packing container (1), the rice finished product in the container is carried out fresh-keeping, thereby realize rice finished product from being packaged into the omnidistance fresh-keeping of edible process.
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