CN110664211B

CN110664211B - Grapefruit peeling machine and method

Info

Publication number: CN110664211B
Application number: CN201911128052.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李婷玉; 高琦; 张乐; 王建青; 蒋嘉文
Original assignee: Shandong University
Current assignee: Shandong University
Priority date: 2019-11-18
Filing date: 2019-11-18
Publication date: 2020-12-11
Anticipated expiration: 2039-11-18
Also published as: CN110664211A

Abstract

The invention discloses a grapefruit peeling machine and a grapefruit peeling method, which solve the problems of difficult and incomplete peeling of grapefruit peel in the prior art, can complete grapefruit peeling work in a time-saving and labor-saving manner, and simultaneously keep the completeness of the grapefruit peel. The technical scheme is as follows: the grapefruit peeler comprises a shell and an upper end cover which are detachably connected, wherein an object carrying plate for supporting a grapefruit is arranged in the shell, the bottom of the object carrying plate is connected with a transmission mechanism, a limiting ring is arranged above the object carrying plate, and a plurality of cutters are circumferentially arranged on the limiting ring; the cutters are connected through cutting lines, the carrying disc moves up and down under the action of the transmission mechanism, and the pomelo peels are peeled off through a cutting structure formed by matching the cutters with the cutting lines.

Description

Grapefruit peeling machine and method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of living appliances, in particular to a grapefruit peeler and a method.

Background

The pomelo is a common fruit in life, has sweet and delicious taste, and is deeply loved by people. However, peeling grapefruit has been a relatively delicate task. Manual peeling of the shaddock peel is time-consuming and labor-consuming, and hands are easily soiled; on the other hand, the integrity of the peeled grapefruit is difficult to ensure. At present, some shaddock peeling machines appear in the market, and the inventor finds that the existing shaddock peeling machines are easy to scratch the pulp, incomplete in peeling, easy to break the shaddock peel and the like.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a grapefruit peeling machine and a grapefruit peeling method, which can finish the grapefruit peeling work in a time-saving and labor-saving manner and simultaneously keep the completeness of grapefruit peel.

The invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a shaddock peeling machine comprises a shell and an upper end cover which are detachably connected, wherein a carrying plate for supporting a shaddock is arranged in the shell, the bottom of the carrying plate is connected with a transmission mechanism, a limiting ring is arranged above the carrying plate, and a plurality of cutters are circumferentially arranged on the limiting ring; the cutters are connected through cutting lines, the carrying disc moves up and down under the action of the transmission mechanism, and the pomelo peels are peeled off through a cutting structure formed by matching the cutters with the cutting lines.

Further, the cutter is rotatably connected with the inner wall of the upper end cover, and the cutter is connected with the inner wall of the upper end cover through a spring.

Furthermore, the cutter is provided with a cutter point, the cutter point is provided with a cutter point hole for the cutting line to pass through, and the rear part of the cutter point is provided with a convex block.

Furthermore, the shell and the upper end cover are provided with guide rails for guiding the object carrying disc, and the object carrying disc is connected with the guide rails in a sliding manner; the upper surface of the carrying plate is provided with a plurality of thimbles.

Furthermore, the transmission mechanism comprises a bevel gear mechanism and a rocking handle connected with a bevel gear, and the bevel gear mechanism is connected with the loading disc through a screw rod.

Furthermore, the bevel gear mechanism comprises a large bevel gear, a small transmission bevel gear and an empty small bevel gear, and the small transmission bevel gear and the empty small bevel gear are respectively meshed with the large bevel gear; a hollow shaft is connected between the transmission bevel pinion and the hollow bevel pinion.

Furthermore, the hollow shaft is fixedly connected with the small transmission bevel gear, and the small hollow bevel gear is sleeved on the hollow shaft in an empty mode; the hollow shaft is in threaded connection with the screw rod.

Furthermore, the large bevel gear is connected with the rocking handle through a gear shaft.

Further, the cutting line is a fishing line.

A method for using a shaddock peeling machine comprises the steps that a shaddock with the head removed is fixed above a carrying plate through a thimble, a rocking handle is rotated clockwise, a lead screw drives the carrying plate to ascend, a cutter cuts into shaddock peel, and meanwhile a cutting line enters a gap between the shaddock peel and pulp, so that the peel is peeled from the pulp; after the peeling process is finished, the rocker is rotated anticlockwise, so that the screw rod drives the carrying disc to descend, and the grapefruit is taken out.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

(1) according to the lever type cutting structure, a cutter and a cutting line form a cutting structure, the cutter is hinged with a shell and is connected with a spring, and according to the lever principle, a cutter edge can be always cut into the shaddock peel, the shaddock peel cannot be cut off, and the cutting integrity is guaranteed;

(2) according to the invention, a plurality of bevel gears and screw rods are adopted, and the carrying disc can move up and down through bevel gear transmission and screw rod thread transmission, so that the shaddock peels are stripped in the moving process of the carrying disc in a manner of matching with a cutting structure, and the peeling efficiency is high;

(3) the invention has good self-locking performance by adopting thread transmission, and can prevent the object carrying disc from falling down by self-locking when the object carrying disc rises for a part of distance and stops working.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiments of the application and, together with the description, serve to explain the application and are not intended to limit the application.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a transmission mechanism according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an internal structure of an upper end cap according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a tool structure according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

the device comprises a shell 1, a shell 2, a rocking handle 3, a large bevel gear 4, a small transmission bevel gear 5, a small hollow bevel gear 6, a screw rod 7, a carrying disc 8, a base 9, a thimble 10, a limiting ring 11, a cutter 12, an upper end cover 13, a spring 14, a cutting line 15, a cutter point hole 16, a convex block 17, a transmission box 18, a hollow shaft 19 and a guide rail.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that the following detailed description is exemplary and is intended to provide further explanation of the disclosure. Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an", and/or "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof;

for convenience of description, the words "up", "down", "left" and "right" in this application, if any, merely indicate correspondence with the directions of up, down, left and right of the drawings themselves, and do not limit the structure, but merely facilitate the description of the invention and simplify the description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the application.

The terms "mounted", "connected", "fixed", and the like in the present application should be understood broadly, and for example, the terms "mounted", "connected", and "fixed" may be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrated; they may be indirectly connected through an intermediate, or they may be connected internally or in an interactive relationship, and those skilled in the art can understand the specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention according to specific situations.

The large bevel gear and the small bevel gear are relative concepts, and the specific size is not limited.

A small transmission bevel gear and a bevel gear playing a transmission role; the hollow bevel pinion and the bevel gear which is in non-transmission connection with the shaft.

As introduced in the background art, the prior art has the defects of difficult peeling and incomplete peeling of the shaddock peel, and the invention provides a shaddock peeling machine and a method for solving the technical problems.

The first embodiment is as follows:

the present invention is described in detail below with reference to fig. 1 to 4, and specifically, the structure is as follows:

the embodiment provides a grapefruit peeler which comprises a shell 1, a transmission mechanism, an object carrying disc 7 and a plurality of cutters 11, wherein the transmission mechanism is arranged in a transmission box 17 in the shell 1, is connected with the object carrying disc 7 and drives the object carrying disc 7 to move up and down through the transmission mechanism; cutter 11 follows annular evenly distributed in carrying thing dish 7 top, and cutter 11 rotates with the 1 inner wall of casing to be connected, reciprocates through placing the shaddock on carrying thing dish 7 and realizes the cutting of cutter 11 to the shaddock skin.

Specifically, the bottom of the shell 1 is provided with a base 8, the top of the shell is provided with an upper end cover 12, the shell 1, the base 8 and the upper cover plate 12 form a closed structure, and an installation cavity is formed inside the closed structure. In order to adapt to the shape of the grapefruit, in this embodiment, the cross section of the housing 1 is circular, and meanwhile, in order to save space and make the structure compact, the diameter of the upper portion of the housing 1 is larger than that of the lower portion, so that a diameter-variable structure is formed. It will be appreciated that in other embodiments, the housing 1 may be of other shapes.

As shown in fig. 3, a plurality of guide rails 19 are uniformly installed inside the upper end cover 12, and the limiting ring 10 penetrates through the guide rails 19 and is in a circular ring shape for bearing a grapefruit. The cutters 11 are mounted between the adjacent guide rails 19, the number of the cutters 11 can be selected according to actual conditions, and in the embodiment, 8 cutters 11 are arranged. The cutter 11 is hinged with the inner wall of the upper end cover 12 at the position close to the tail end, and the tail end of the cutter 11 is connected with the inner wall of the upper end cover 12 through a spring 13; by utilizing the lever principle, the knife 11 is always cut into the shaddock skin.

The guide rail 19 is divided into an upper part and a lower part, and is respectively arranged on the upper end cover 12 and the shell 1. The middle of the upper guide rail is provided with a bulge, the lower guide rail is of a hollow structure, and the two parts are buckled with each other when the upper end cover 12 is installed. The object carrying disc 7 is uniformly provided with a plurality of notches, the number of the notches corresponds to the number of the guide rails 19, and the notches are used for enabling the upper guide rails to penetrate through the positions of the object carrying disc 7 so as to enable the object carrying disc 7 to only ascend or descend along the guide rails 19.

The transmission case 17 is fixed above a base 8 of the shell 1, the transmission mechanism comprises a rocking handle 2, a large bevel gear 3, a transmission small bevel gear 4, an empty sleeve small bevel gear 5, a hollow shaft 18 and a screw rod 6, the large bevel gear 3 is fixed at one end of a gear shaft, the gear shaft horizontally penetrates through the transmission case 17 and the shell 1, and the other end of the gear shaft is connected with the rocking handle 2. The upper side of the big bevel gear 3 is meshed with the small transmission bevel gear 4, and the lower side is meshed with the small hollow bevel gear 5.

A hollow shaft 18 is connected between the small transmission bevel gear 4 and the small hollow bevel gear 5, the small transmission bevel gear 4 is in key connection with the hollow shaft 18, and the small hollow bevel gear 5 is sleeved on the hollow shaft 18 in an empty mode so as to keep the balance of the hollow shaft 18. The upper part of the hollow shaft 18 is provided with threads, and the screw rod 7 is in threaded connection with the hollow shaft 18. The rocking handle 2 is rotated, the gear shaft transmits power to the small transmission bevel gear 4 through the large bevel gear 3, the small transmission bevel gear 4 drives the hollow shaft 18 to rotate, and the hollow shaft 18 drives the screw rod 6 to ascend along the guide rail 19 through the thread transmission and the guide effect of the guide rail 19.

The top of the screw rod 6 is connected with an object carrying disc 7, and the screw rod 6 can drive the object carrying disc 7 to ascend or descend. In order to adapt to the shape of the grapefruit, the cross section of the carrying plate 7 is circular; the upper surface of the object carrying plate 7 is provided with a plurality of thimbles 9. In this embodiment, the thimble 9 is disposed at a position close to the edge of the object carrying tray 7 for assisting in fixing the grapefruit, and the number of the thimble 9 may be determined according to actual conditions. It is understood that in other embodiments, the thimble 9 may be disposed at the center of the carrier tray 7.

As shown in fig. 4, the knife 11 is arc-shaped, and preferably, the knife 11 is hook-shaped to facilitate the fit of the grapefruit shape. The head end of the cutter 11 has a narrow and sharp point to ensure the cutting of the shaddock peel. The tool nose is provided with a tool nose hole 15, a cutting line 14 penetrates through the tool nose hole 15, the cutting line 14 sequentially penetrates through the tool nose holes 15 to form a circle in a surrounding mode, and the cutting structure is formed by matching with the tool 11. In the present embodiment, the cutting line 14 is a fishing line. The rear part of the tool nose 15 is provided with a convex block 16 to prevent the tool 11 from penetrating too deep.

The use method of the grapefruit peeler comprises the following steps:

when in use, the upper end cover 12 is taken down, the grapefruit with the head removed is fixed above the carrying plate 7 through the thimble 9, and the upper end cover 12 is closed. The rocking handle 2 is rotated clockwise, so that the screw rod 6 drives the carrying disc 7 to ascend, the cutter 11 cuts into the shaddock peel, and meanwhile, the cutting line 14 enters a gap between the shaddock peel and the pulp, so that the peel is peeled from the pulp. After the peeling process is finished, the rocker 2 is rotated anticlockwise, so that the lead screw 6 drives the carrying disc 7 to descend, the upper end cover 12 is taken down, and the grapefruit is taken out.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A shaddock peeling machine is characterized by comprising a shell and an upper end cover which are detachably connected, wherein a carrying plate for supporting a shaddock is arranged in the shell, the bottom of the carrying plate is connected with a transmission mechanism, a limiting ring is arranged above the carrying plate, and a plurality of cutters are circumferentially arranged on the limiting ring; the cutting tools are connected through cutting lines, a plurality of notches are uniformly distributed on the carrying disc, the number of the notches corresponds to the number of the guide rails, the upper guide rail penetrates through the position of the fixed carrying disc, the carrying disc moves up and down under the action of the transmission mechanism, and the cutting structure formed by the cutting tools and the cutting lines is matched to peel the shaddock peels; the cutter is rotationally connected with the inner wall of the upper end cover, and the cutter is connected with the inner wall of the upper end cover through a spring; the shell and the upper end cover are provided with guide rails for guiding the object carrying disc, and the object carrying disc is connected with the guide rails in a sliding mode.

2. The grapefruit peeler as claimed in claim 1, wherein the knife has a knife tip, the knife tip is provided with a knife tip hole for a cutting line to pass through, and a protrusion block is provided at the rear part of the knife tip.

3. The grapefruit peeler as claimed in claim 1, wherein said carrying tray has a plurality of ejector pins on an upper surface thereof.

4. The grapefruit peeler as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission mechanism comprises a bevel gear mechanism and a rocking handle connected with a bevel gear, and the bevel gear mechanism is connected with the carrying plate through a screw rod.

5. The grapefruit peeler according to claim 4, wherein the bevel gear mechanism comprises a large bevel gear, a small transmission bevel gear and an empty small bevel gear, and the small transmission bevel gear and the empty small bevel gear are respectively engaged with the large bevel gear; a hollow shaft is connected between the transmission bevel pinion and the hollow bevel pinion.

6. The grapefruit peeler as claimed in claim 5, wherein the hollow shaft is fixedly connected with a small transmission bevel gear, and the small transmission bevel gear is sleeved on the hollow shaft in an empty manner; the hollow shaft is in threaded connection with the screw rod.

7. The grapefruit peeler as claimed in claim 5, wherein said large bevel gear is connected to the rocking handle through a gear shaft.

8. The grapefruit peeler of claim 1, wherein said cutting line is a fish line.

9. The use method of the grapefruit peeler as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the grapefruit with the head removed is fixed above the carrying plate by a thimble, the rocking handle is rotated clockwise, so that the screw rod drives the carrying plate to ascend, the cutter cuts into the grapefruit peel, and the cutting line enters the grapefruit peel and pulp gap, thereby peeling the peel from the pulp; after the peeling process is finished, the rocker is rotated anticlockwise, so that the screw rod drives the carrying disc to descend, and the grapefruit is taken out.