CN113142331A - Tea cake preliminary forming process - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a tea cake preliminary forming process, which comprises a feeding process, wherein a feeding mechanism supplies tea leaves to a storage area on a rotating disc; a rotating procedure, wherein the bearing mechanism and the forming mechanism are driven by the rotating disc to rotate; a tea leaf filling process, wherein when the material storage area of the bearing mechanism is loaded, tea leaves to be processed are filled and then continuously transferred backwards; a soft tea steaming procedure, wherein the soft tea steaming device is used for steaming and wetting the tea in the bearing mechanism; a pressing procedure, wherein the forming mechanism preliminarily presses the tea leaves in the bearing mechanism; a tea cake extraction procedure, wherein the material taking guide bar lifts the lifting rod in the bearing mechanism upwards to extract the tea cake; the tea cake transferring process comprises the following steps that the pushing assembly pushes the extracted tea cake to the transferring assembly; the tea cake is transferred and output by the transfer assembly, and the problems of low efficiency, poor continuity of the making process, high labor cost input, low accuracy, low automation degree and the like in the existing tea cake making process are solved.

Description

Tea cake preliminary forming process

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of tea processing, in particular to a tea cake primary forming process.

Background

In the existing tea cake making process, tea leaves are firstly put into a storage barrel manually, the storage barrel is placed on steam to steam the tea leaves to be soft and wet, and then the tea leaves are poured into a pressing barrel to be pressed into cakes one by one through a machine; in the process, tea leaves are easy to spill in the tea cake making process, and the problems of large tea leaf waste, low efficiency, poor continuity in the making process, high labor consumption, complex steps and the like exist in the tea cake making process.

The invention discloses a tea cake making machine and a tea cake making process, wherein the tea cake making machine comprises an angle iron bracket, a first cylinder, a second cylinder, a third cylinder, a tea cylinder, a support column and a guide rail; the first air cylinder is arranged in a sliding plate accessory positioned in the angle iron bracket, the upper end of the first air cylinder is connected with an air cylinder bracket, and the air cylinder bracket is connected with the sliding plate; the bottom end of the tea jar is fixed on the sliding plate; the tea cake making process comprises the following steps: step one, raw material purchasing; step two, primarily airing the tea leaves and overflowing tea fragrance; step three, completely airing the tea leaves; weighing the tea leaves, and steaming, softening and pressing; step five, packaging by adopting a special tea bag; the tea making machine adopts the design technical scheme of three cylinders and the tea jar, and finally realizes the automation of tea making.

But the equipment structure is single, and the problems of poor continuity, low automation degree, low efficiency and the like of the tea cake making process still exist.

Disclosure of Invention

One of the purposes of the invention is to provide a tea cake primary forming process aiming at the defects of the prior art and aiming at the problems of low automation degree, low making efficiency, poor continuity of the making process and the like in the making process of the existing tea cake.

Aiming at the technical problems, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:

a tea cake primary forming process comprises the following production steps:

step one, a feeding process, wherein a feeding mechanism supplies tea leaves into a storage area on a rotating disc;

step two, a rotating procedure, namely the bearing mechanism and the forming mechanism rotate under the driving of a rotating disc;

step three, a tea leaf filling process, namely, when the bearing mechanism passes through the material storage area in the step one, the bearing mechanism ascends under the action of the guide piece a, fills the tea leaves to be processed in the ascending process, and continuously transfers the tea leaves backwards after filling;

step four, a soft tea leaf steaming procedure, wherein when the bearing mechanism filled with tea leaves in the step three continues to rotate to a soft steaming station, a soft steaming device positioned at the soft steaming station is used for steaming, softening and wetting the tea leaves in the bearing mechanism;

step five, a pressing procedure, namely, continuously rotating the bearing mechanism bearing the tea leaves which are steamed, softened and moistened to a pressing station in the step four, pressing the forming mechanism positioned at the pressing station downwards under the action of the guide piece b, and preliminarily pressing the tea leaves steamed, softened and moistened in the bearing mechanism into tea cakes;

step six, a tea cake extraction procedure, wherein in the step five, the bearing mechanism bearing the tea cake which is pressed preliminarily continues to rotate to an extraction station, a material taking guide bar at the extraction station lifts a lifting rod in the bearing mechanism upwards, and the tea cake formed by preliminary pressing is extracted from the bearing mechanism;

step seven, a tea cake transferring process, wherein the pushing assembly positioned at the transferring station pushes the tea cake extracted from the bearing mechanism in the step six to the transferring assembly;

and step eight, an output process, namely, the transfer assembly transfers and outputs the tea cakes pushed in the step seven.

Preferably, in the first step, the feeding mechanism transfers the tea leaves to a feeding sloping plate through a conveying belt a, and the feeding sloping plate lowers the tea leaves into a storage area on a rotating disc.

Preferably, in the second step, the material storage cylinder in the bearing mechanism is slidably arranged on the rotary disc, the forming mechanism is correspondingly arranged above the material storage cylinder, and the material storage cylinder and the forming mechanism are driven by the rotary disc to rotate.

Preferably, the storage cylinder in the carrying mechanism in the third step is lifted upwards during the process of passing through the ascending section a of the guide a, the storage cylinder loads the tea leaves during the ascending process, the storage cylinder is reset downwards during the process of passing through the descending section a of the guide a, the storage cylinder loads the tea leaves again during the resetting process, and the storage cylinder continues to rotate backwards after the loading is completed.

Preferably, when the air supply assembly in the steaming and softening device in the fourth step rotates to the position of the steaming and softening station along with the bearing mechanism, the air supply assembly is communicated with the steam generation assembly, the air supply assembly provides steam for tea leaves in the storage barrel in the corresponding bearing mechanism, and the tea leaves in the storage barrel are steamed, softened and wetted.

Preferably, when the material storage cylinder filled with tea leaves in the bearing mechanism in the fifth step rotates to the pressing station, the pressing plate arranged in the forming mechanism above the bearing mechanism preliminarily presses the tea leaves in the material storage cylinder in the process of passing through the descending section c in the guide b, and the pressing plate after finishing preliminary pressing continuously rotates along with the rotating disc and is separated from the material storage cylinder in the process of passing through the ascending section c in the guide b to finish resetting.

Preferably, in the sixth step, the lifting rod in the bearing mechanism ascends in the process of passing through the arc-shaped guide rail in the material taking guide bar, and the tea cake is extracted from the storage barrel by the material containing plate arranged at the bottom end of the lifting rod.

Preferably, the cylinder in the pushing assembly in the seventh step drives the pushing block to push the tea cake extracted from the storage cylinder to the material receiving plate c in the transferring assembly after receiving the signal sent by the sensor.

As a further preference, the material receiving plate c in the transfer assembly of the step eight transfers the tea cake to the conveying belt b to output the tea cake.

The invention aims at the defects of the prior art and provides a tea cake production line, wherein a rotating disc is arranged for containing tea leaves and driving a bearing mechanism arranged in a plurality of sliding grooves in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc to transmit, a steaming and softening device is arranged below the rotating disc, a plurality of forming mechanisms are arranged above the bearing mechanism in a one-to-one correspondence manner, a guide piece a and a guide piece b are also arranged for guiding the bearing mechanism and the forming mechanisms respectively, a storage area and a steaming and softening pressing area are also sequentially arranged on the rotating disc, a feeding mechanism is arranged on one side of the rotating disc for supplying tea leaves to be processed to the storage area on the rotating disc, the steaming and softening device is used for steaming and softening the tea leaves in the bearing mechanism passing through the steaming and softening pressing area, the forming mechanism is used for primarily pressing the tea leaves in the bearing mechanism passing through the steaming and softening pressing area, a material taking guide strip is arranged on the moving path of the bearing mechanism for taking out the primarily formed tea cake in the bearing mechanism, the setting is exported on taking out the propelling movement subassembly of tea biscuit one side with tea biscuit propelling movement to transfer assembly, has solved among the current tea biscuit manufacture process inefficiency, manufacture process continuity poor, the human cost input is big, the accuracy is not high and degree of automation is low scheduling problem.

Aiming at the technical problems, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:

a tea cake production line comprises a rotating disc, wherein a plurality of sliding grooves are formed in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc, a bearing mechanism is arranged in the sliding grooves in a sliding mode, a plurality of forming mechanisms are arranged above the bearing mechanism in a one-to-one correspondence mode, a steaming device is arranged below the rotating disc and comprises a steam generating assembly and a gas supply assembly which is rotatably arranged on the steam generating assembly and connected with the bearing mechanism in a one-to-one correspondence mode, the gas supply assembly is discontinuously communicated with the steam generating assembly under the driving of the rotating disc, a guide piece a is arranged below a moving path of the bearing mechanism, a guide piece b is arranged above the moving path of the forming mechanism, the bearing mechanism and the forming mechanism ascend and descend under the action of the guide piece a and the guide piece b respectively, a material storage area and a steaming pressing area are sequentially arranged on the rotating disc along the circumferential direction of the rotating disc, a material taking guide bar is further arranged on the moving path of the bearing mechanism, an output mechanism is arranged on one side of the rotating disc, and the output mechanism comprises a pushing assembly and a transferring assembly; the storage area is used for loading tealeaves in bearing the mechanism to passing through the storage area in proper order, evaporate soft device and be used for evaporating soft the wetting with tealeaves to the tealeaves release steam in evaporating soft bearing the mechanism according to the nip through steaming, forming mechanism is used for evaporating soft tealeaves of wetting in the bearing the mechanism according to the nip through evaporating and preliminarily presses into the tea cake, it is used for extracting the tea cake in the bearing the mechanism to get the material gib block, the propelling movement subassembly is used for exporting the tea cake through getting the tea cake propelling movement that the material gib block drawed to the transfer subassembly on.

Preferably, the rotating disc is driven by a motor box fixedly arranged on the rotating base; the rotating disc is characterized in that a feeding mechanism is further arranged on one side of the rotating disc and comprises a support frame, a motor a and a feeding inclined plate which are fixedly arranged on the support frame, a transmission belt a driven by the motor a, and a baffle a and an arc-shaped baffle b which are fixedly arranged at one end of the feeding inclined plate, wherein a hollow groove is formed in the baffle a, the arc-shaped baffle b blocks tea leaves from outwards falling, and the baffle a divides the rotating disc into a storage area and a soft steaming pressing area.

Preferably, the bearing mechanism comprises a storage barrel, a limiting strip fixedly arranged on the storage barrel, a guide wheel a rotatably arranged at the lower end of the limiting strip, a lifting rod arranged in the limiting strip in a sliding manner, a material containing plate fixedly arranged on the lifting rod, a plurality of round holes a and a plurality of round holes b respectively arranged on the bottom surface of the storage barrel and the material containing plate, and a groove arranged at the top end of the lifting rod, wherein a reset spring a is arranged between the bottom end of the lifting rod and the limiting strip, and the round holes a and the round holes b are in one-to-one correspondence.

Preferably, the forming mechanism comprises a plurality of sliding seats fixedly arranged on the circumferential direction of the rotating disc, a sliding sleeve fixedly arranged on the sliding seats, a sliding arm arranged in the sliding sleeve in a sliding mode, a guide wheel b rotatably arranged at the upper end of the sliding arm, a supporting rod a with one end fixedly arranged on the sliding arm and a pressing plate fixedly arranged at the other end of the supporting rod a, and a return spring b is arranged between the sliding arm and the bottom surface of the sliding sleeve.

Preferably, the steam generating assembly comprises a steam generator, an air storage cylinder, a limiting ring fixedly arranged on the circumferential direction of the outer wall of the air storage cylinder and a strip-shaped air outlet a arranged on the outer wall of the air storage cylinder, a gas pipe is connected between the steam generator and the air storage cylinder, and a heat insulation layer wraps the gas pipe.

Preferably, the gas supply assembly comprises a gas supply ring rotatably arranged on the outer wall of the gas storage cylinder, a plurality of gas outlets b arranged in the circumferential direction of the gas supply ring, a gas supply pipe a fixedly arranged on the gas outlets b, a gas supply pipe b slidably arranged on the gas supply pipe a and a gas delivery cover fixedly arranged on one end of the gas supply pipe b, and the gas delivery cover is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the material storage cylinder.

Preferably, the guide member a comprises an ascending section a, a descending section a, a smooth section a, an ascending section b, a descending section b and a smooth section b; the guide b includes a smooth section c, a descending section c, and an ascending section c.

Preferably, the material taking guide bar comprises a support rod b fixedly arranged on the baffle a and an arc-shaped guide rail fixedly arranged on the support rod b, and the groove slides on the arc-shaped guide rail.

Preferably, the pushing assembly comprises a cylinder fixedly arranged in the empty groove and a pushing block driven by the cylinder, an arc surface is arranged at one end of the pushing block, the arc surface is more attached to the tea cake, and a sensor used for detecting the tea cake is further arranged on the cylinder.

As another preferred, the transfer assembly includes a motor b, a conveying belt b driven by the motor b, barrier strips fixedly disposed on two sides of the conveying belt b, and a material receiving plate c fixedly disposed on one side of the conveying belt b.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

1. the invention is provided with a rotating disc, a material storage area and a soft steaming and pressing area are sequentially arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc, a plurality of sliding grooves are arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc, a bearing mechanism is arranged in each sliding groove, a forming mechanism is correspondingly arranged above each bearing mechanism, a feeding mechanism is arranged on one side of the rotating disc, each feeding mechanism supplies tea leaves to be processed to the material storage area in the rotating disc, each bearing mechanism slowly descends under the action of a guide piece a when passing through the material storage area to load the tea leaves to be processed and conveys the tea leaves backwards, a soft steaming device is arranged below the rotating disc, a steam generating assembly in the soft steaming device supplies steam to a gas supply assembly, each gas supply assembly steams and wets the tea leaves in the bearing mechanism passing through the soft steaming and pressing area one by one, and in the process of steaming and wetting the tea leaves in the bearing mechanism, the bearing mechanisms also slowly ascend under the action of the guide pieces a, in this in-process, forming mechanism slowly descends to steaming soft tealeaves of wetting in bearing mechanism and tentatively pressing down under guide b's effect, still be provided with on bearing mechanism's moving path and get the material conducting bar, it is used for drawing out in bearing mechanism the fashioned tea cake of tentatively pressing from bearing mechanism to get the material conducting bar, the propelling movement subassembly will draw out the tea cake propelling movement to the transfer subassembly on, the transfer subassembly exports the tea cake, the automation of tea cake preparation has been realized and production efficiency has been improved, mechanized production has been reached.

2. According to the tea leaf steaming and pressing device, the bearing mechanism and the guide piece a are arranged, when the bearing mechanism passes through the material storage area, the tea leaves to be processed are slowly descended to be filled into the material storage barrel in the bearing mechanism and conveyed backwards under the action of the guide piece a, when the bearing mechanism reaches the subsequent steaming and soft pressing area, the bearing mechanism slowly ascends under the action of the guide piece a so as to be matched with the forming mechanism to press the tea leaves in the bearing mechanism, and on the basis of manually filling the tea leaves to be processed into the pressing barrel one by one and then pressing the tea leaves, the bearing mechanism and the guide piece a are arranged, so that the waste of the tea leaves is reduced, and the labor intensity of workers is relieved.

3. According to the tea cake pressing device, the forming mechanism and the guide piece b are arranged, the pressing plate in the forming mechanism slowly descends under the action of the guide piece b, tea leaves steamed soft and wet in the storage barrel in the corresponding bearing mechanism are preliminarily pressed into cakes, and the forming mechanism and the guide piece b are arranged on the basis that tea leaves are poured into the pressing barrel to be pressed one by one in response to manual work, so that the continuity in the tea cake making process is better, and the made tea cake is more attractive in appearance and more standard.

4. According to the tea cake taking device, the material taking guide strip is further arranged on the moving path of the bearing mechanism, when the lifting rod in the bearing mechanism passes through the arc-shaped guide rail in the material taking guide strip, the groove at the top end of the lifting rod slides on the arc-shaped rail to drive the material containing plate on the lifting rod to ascend, so that tea cakes on the material containing plate are extracted from the material storage barrel, and in the process of manually taking out the pressed tea cakes one by one, the material taking guide strip is arranged, so that the link of manually extracting the tea cakes is omitted, and the completeness of the extracted tea cakes is better.

5. The tea leaf steaming machine is provided with the air supply assembly, an air supply pipe b in the air supply assembly slides on the air supply pipe a, an air delivery cover at one end of the air supply pipe b is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the storage cylinder, the air supply pipe b synchronously ascends and descends in the ascending and descending process of the storage cylinder, the air storage cylinder provides steam for the air supply pipe a and the air supply pipe b in the process that an air outlet b on the air supply ring passes through a strip-shaped air outlet a on the outer wall of the air storage cylinder, the steam is used for steaming and softening tea leaves in the storage cylinder through the air delivery cover, and on the basis that the tea leaves to be processed are placed on a steaming device one by one to steam the tea leaves, time is saved and steam loss is avoided.

6. According to the tea cake processing device, the transfer assembly is further arranged on the other side of the rotating disc, the material receiving plate c in the transfer assembly is used for receiving tea cakes pushed by the pushing assembly and conveying the tea cakes to the conveying belt b in the transfer assembly, the conveying belt b is driven by the motor b to output the tea cakes, and in the process of manually taking out and transferring the tea cakes one by one, the transfer assembly is arranged to output the tea cakes, so that the tea cake processing efficiency is improved, and the tea cake manufacturing automation degree is greatly improved.

In conclusion, the tea cake making machine has the advantages of high making efficiency, high accuracy in the making process, labor cost investment saving, continuity improvement in the tea cake making process, waste reduction of tea in the tea cake making process, good tea cake integrity, high automation control process degree and suitability for the technical field of tea processing.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a process flow diagram of a tea cake preliminary forming process;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a tea cake making line;

FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of the position of the carrier mechanism and the forming mechanism;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view at A in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a rotary disc and a feeding mechanism;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of the carrying mechanism;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged schematic view at B of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged schematic view at C of FIG. 6;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the position of the return spring a in the carrier mechanism;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the forming mechanism;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view showing the position of a return spring b in the molding mechanism;

FIG. 12 is a schematic view of the steam generating assembly;

FIG. 13 is an enlarged schematic view at D of FIG. 12;

FIG. 14 is a schematic view of the gas supply assembly;

FIG. 15 is a schematic view of the structure of the guide member a;

fig. 16 is a schematic structural view of a guide b;

FIG. 17 is a schematic view of the position of the take-off guide bar, baffle a and curved baffle b;

FIG. 18 is an enlarged schematic view at E of FIG. 17;

FIG. 19 is a schematic structural view of a pushing assembly;

fig. 20 is a schematic structural view of the transfer unit.

Detailed Description

The technical scheme in the embodiment of the invention is clearly and completely explained by combining the attached drawings.

Example one

As shown in fig. 1, a tea cake primary forming process comprises the following production steps:

step one, a feeding process, wherein a feeding mechanism 9 supplies tea leaves into a storage area 12 on a rotating disc 1;

step two, a rotating procedure, namely the bearing mechanism 2 and the forming mechanism 3 are driven by the rotating disc 1 to rotate;

step three, a tea leaf filling process, namely when the bearing mechanism 2 passes through the material storage area 12 in the step one, the bearing mechanism ascends under the action of the guide piece a5, the tea leaves to be processed are filled in the ascending process, and the tea leaves are continuously transferred backwards after the filling is finished;

step four, a soft tea leaf steaming process, wherein when the bearing mechanism 2 filled with tea leaves continues to rotate to a soft steaming station in the step three, a soft steaming device 4 positioned at the soft steaming station is used for steaming, softening and wetting the tea leaves in the bearing mechanism 2;

step five, a pressing procedure, namely, the bearing mechanism 2 bearing the tea leaves which are steamed, softened and moistened in the step four continuously rotates to the pressing station, the forming mechanism 3 positioned at the pressing station presses downwards under the action of the guide piece b6, and the tea leaves steamed, softened and moistened in the bearing mechanism 2 are preliminarily pressed into the tea cake 14;

step six, a tea cake extraction procedure, wherein in the step five, the bearing mechanism 2 bearing the tea cake which is pressed preliminarily continues to rotate to an extraction station, the material taking guide strip 7 at the extraction station lifts the lifting rod 24 in the bearing mechanism 2 upwards, and the tea cake 14 formed by pressing preliminarily is extracted from the bearing mechanism 2;

step seven, a tea cake transferring process, in which the pushing component 81 positioned at the transferring station pushes the tea cake 14 extracted from the bearing mechanism 2 in the step six to the transferring component 82;

and step eight, an output process, namely, the transfer component 82 transfers and outputs the tea cakes 14 pushed in the step seven.

Further, in the first step, the feeding mechanism 9 transfers the tea leaves to the feeding sloping plate 93 through the conveyor belt a94, and the feeding sloping plate 93 lowers the tea leaves into the storage area 12 on the rotating disc 1.

Further, in the second step, the material storage cylinder 21 in the bearing mechanism 2 is slidably disposed on the rotary disc 1, the forming mechanism 3 is correspondingly disposed above the material storage cylinder 21, and the material storage cylinder 21 and the forming mechanism 3 are driven by the rotary disc 1 to rotate.

Further, the storage cylinder 21 in the loading mechanism 2 of step three is lifted upwards during the process of passing through the rising section a51 of the guide a5, the storage cylinder 21 loads the tea leaves during the rising process, the storage cylinder 21 is reset downwards during the process of passing through the falling section a52 of the guide a5, the storage cylinder 21 loads the tea leaves again during the resetting process, and the storage cylinder continues to rotate backwards after the loading is completed.

Further, when the air supply assembly 42 in the soft steaming device 4 in the fourth step rotates to the soft steaming station along with the bearing mechanism 2, the air supply assembly 42 is communicated with the steam generation assembly 41, the air supply assembly 42 provides steam for tea leaves in the storage barrel 21 in the corresponding bearing mechanism 2, and the tea leaves in the storage barrel 21 are steamed, softened and wetted.

Further, when the storage cylinder 21 filled with tea leaves in the carrier mechanism 2 in the fifth step rotates to the pressing station, the pressing plate 36 in the forming mechanism 3 above the carrier mechanism 2 preliminarily presses the tea leaves in the storage cylinder 21 while passing through the descending section c62 in the guide b6, and the pressing plate 36 after completing the preliminary pressing continuously rotates along with the rotating disk 1 and is separated from the storage cylinder 21 while passing through the ascending section c63 in the guide b6 to complete the resetting.

Further, in the sixth step, the lifting rod 24 in the carrying mechanism 2 ascends in the process of passing through the arc-shaped guide rail 72 in the material taking guide bar 7, and the tea cake 14 is extracted from the storage cylinder 21 by the material containing plate 25 arranged at the bottom end of the lifting rod 24.

Further, the cylinder 811 of the pushing assembly 81 in step seven receives the signal from the sensor and drives the pushing block 812 to push the tea cake 14 extracted from the storage cylinder 21 to the material receiving plate c824 of the transferring assembly 82.

Further, the material receiving plate c824 in the transferring assembly 82 of the eighth step transfers the tea cake 14 to the transmission belt b822 to output the tea cake 14.

Example two

As shown in fig. 2 to 20, a tea cake production line comprises a rotating disc 1, wherein a plurality of sliding grooves 11 are formed in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc 1, bearing mechanisms 2 are arranged in the sliding grooves 11 in a sliding manner, a plurality of forming mechanisms 3 are arranged above the bearing mechanisms 2 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, a steaming device 4 is arranged below the rotating disc 1, the steaming device 4 comprises a steam generating assembly 41 and a gas supply assembly 42 which is rotatably arranged on the steam generating assembly 41 and is connected with the bearing mechanisms 2 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, the gas supply assembly 42 is discontinuously communicated with the steam generating assembly 41 under the driving of the rotating disc 1, a guide piece a5 is arranged below the moving path of the bearing mechanism 2, a guide piece b6 is arranged above the moving path of the forming mechanism 3, and the bearing mechanism 2 and the forming mechanism 3 respectively ascend and descend under the action of a guide piece a5 and a guide piece 6, the rotating disc 1 is sequentially provided with a material storage area 12 and a soft steaming pressing area 13 along the circumferential direction, a material taking guide bar 7 is further arranged on the moving path of the bearing mechanism 2, an output mechanism 8 is arranged on one side of the rotating disc 1, and the output mechanism 8 comprises a pushing assembly 81 and a transferring assembly 82; the storage area 12 is used for filling tealeaves to in the bearing mechanism 2 through the storage area 12 in proper order, evaporate soft device 4 and be used for evaporating soft the wetting tealeaves to tealeaves through evaporating in the bearing mechanism 2 of soft according to nip 13 steam, forming mechanism 3 is used for preliminarily pressing into tea cake 14 through evaporating soft tea that wets in the bearing mechanism 2 of soft according to nip 13, it is used for extracting the tea cake 14 in the bearing mechanism 2 to get material gib 7, propelling movement subassembly 81 is used for will getting the tea cake 14 that material gib 7 drawed out and carry out the output with tea cake 14 on transferring the subassembly 82.

It should be mentioned that, in this embodiment, a rotating disc 1 is provided, a storage area 12 and a soft steaming pressing area 13 are sequentially provided in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc 1, a plurality of chutes 11 are provided in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc 1, a carrying mechanism 2 is provided in each chute 11, a forming mechanism 3 is correspondingly provided above each carrying mechanism 2, a feeding mechanism 9 is provided at one side of the rotating disc 1, the feeding mechanism 9 provides tea leaves to be processed into the storage area 12 in the rotating disc 1, the carrying mechanism 2 slowly descends under the action of a guide a5 to load the tea leaves to be processed and conveys the tea leaves backward when passing through the storage area 12, a soft steaming device 4 is provided below the rotating disc 1, a steam generating component 41 in the soft steaming device 4 provides steam to a gas supply component 42, the gas supply component 42 steams the tea leaves passing through the carrying mechanism 2 of the soft steaming pressing area 13 one by one to one, and in the soft steaming and wetting process of the tea leaves in the carrying mechanism 2, bearing mechanism 2 still slowly rises under guide a 5's effect, in this process, forming mechanism 3 slowly descends to steaming soft wet tealeaves in bearing mechanism 2 and preliminarily presses under the effect of guide b6, still be provided with on bearing mechanism 2's the moving path and get material conducting bar 7, it is used for extracting the fashioned tea cake 14 of preliminary press from bearing mechanism 2 in with bearing mechanism 2 to get material conducting bar 7, propelling movement subassembly 81 is on transferring subassembly 82 with tea cake 14 propelling movement, transferring subassembly 82 exports tea cake 14, the automation of tea cake 14 preparation has been realized and production efficiency has been improved, mechanized production has been reached.

Further, the rotating disc 1 is driven by a motor box 16 fixedly arranged on a rotating base 15; the rotary disc is characterized in that a feeding mechanism 9 is further arranged on one side of the rotary disc 1, the feeding mechanism 9 comprises a supporting frame 91, a motor a92 and a feeding inclined plate 93 which are fixedly arranged on the supporting frame 91, a conveying belt a94 driven by a motor a92, a baffle a95 and an arc baffle b96 which are fixedly arranged at one end of the feeding inclined plate 93, and a hollow groove 97 is formed in the baffle a 95.

Further, the bearing mechanism 2 includes a storage barrel 21, a limiting strip 22 fixedly arranged on the storage barrel 21, a guide wheel a23 rotatably arranged at the lower end of the limiting strip 22, a lifting rod 24 slidably arranged in the limiting strip 22, a material containing plate 25 fixedly arranged on the lifting rod 24, a plurality of round holes a26 and a plurality of round holes b27 respectively arranged on the bottom surface of the storage barrel 21 and the material containing plate 25, and a groove 28 arranged at the top end of the lifting rod 24, wherein a return spring a29 is arranged between the bottom end of the lifting rod 24 and the limiting strip 22.

It should be further noted that, in the embodiment, the carrying mechanism 2 and the guide a5 are provided, when the carrying mechanism 2 passes through the storage area 12, the carrying mechanism 2 is slowly lowered to load the tea leaves to be processed into the storage barrel 21 in the carrying mechanism 2 under the action of the guide a5 to be conveyed backwards, when the tea leaves reach the subsequent steaming and soft pressing area 13, the carrying mechanism 2 is slowly raised under the action of the guide a5 to cooperate with the forming mechanism 3 to press the tea leaves in the carrying mechanism 2, and on the basis of dealing with manual work of loading the tea leaves to be processed into the pressing barrel one by one and then pressing the tea leaves, the carrying mechanism 2 and the guide a5 are provided to reduce the waste of the tea leaves and reduce the intensity of manual work.

Further, the forming mechanism 3 includes a plurality of sliders 31 fixedly disposed in the circumferential direction of the rotating disc 1, a sliding sleeve 32 fixedly disposed on the sliders 31, a sliding arm 33 slidably disposed in the sliding sleeve 32, a guide wheel b34 rotatably disposed at the upper end of the sliding arm 33, a support rod a35 fixedly disposed on the sliding arm 33, and a pressing plate 36 fixedly disposed at the other end of the support rod a35, wherein a return spring b37 is disposed between the sliding arm 33 and the bottom surface of the sliding sleeve 32.

In addition, be provided with forming mechanism 3 and guide b6 in this embodiment, press the board 36 under guide b 6's effect in the forming mechanism 3, slowly descend, evaporate soft wet tealeaves in the storage cylinder 21 among the bearing mechanism 2 that will correspond and tentatively press into the cake, pour tealeaves into the basis that presses the bucket to tealeaves one by one in dealing with artifical single, it is better to set up forming mechanism 3 and guide b6 makes continuity in the tea cake manufacture process, the tea cake 14 outward appearance of preparation is more pleasing to the eye, more standard.

Further, the steam generating assembly 41 comprises a steam generator 411, an air storage cylinder 412, a limiting ring 413 fixedly arranged on the circumferential direction of the outer wall of the air storage cylinder 412, and a strip-shaped air outlet a414 formed on the outer wall of the air storage cylinder 412, wherein an air pipe 415 is connected between the steam generator 411 and the air storage cylinder 412.

Further, the air supply assembly 42 includes an air supply ring 421 rotatably disposed on the outer wall of the air storage cylinder 412, a plurality of air outlets b422 opened in the circumferential direction of the air supply ring 421, an air supply pipe a423 fixedly disposed on the air outlets b422, an air supply pipe b424 slidably disposed on the air supply pipe a423, and an air delivery cover 425 fixedly disposed on one end of the air supply pipe b424, wherein the air delivery cover 425 is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the storage cylinder 21.

It should be mentioned that, in the present embodiment, the air supply assembly 42 is provided, the air supply pipe b424 in the air supply assembly 42 slides on the air supply pipe a423, the air delivery cover 425 at one end of the air supply pipe b424 is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the storage barrel 21, during the ascending and descending processes of the storage barrel 21, the air supply pipe b424 synchronously ascends and descends, when the air outlet b422 on the air supply ring 421 passes through the strip-shaped air outlet a414 on the outer wall of the storage barrel 412, the storage barrel 412 provides steam to the air supply pipe a423 and the air supply pipe b424, the steam evaporates and softens the tea leaves in the storage barrel 21 through the air delivery cover 425, on the basis of dealing with manually placing the tea leaves to be processed one by one on the steam equipment to soften the tea leaves, time is saved, and meanwhile, loss of the steam is avoided.

Further, the guide a5 includes a rising section a51, a falling section a52, a smooth section a53, a rising section b54, a falling section b55, and a smooth section b 56; the guide b6 includes a smooth section c61, a descending section c62, and an ascending section c 63.

Further, the material taking guide bar 7 comprises a support bar b71 fixedly arranged on the baffle a95 and an arc-shaped guide rail 72 fixedly arranged on the support bar b71, and the groove 28 slides on the arc-shaped guide rail 72.

In addition, still be provided with in this embodiment and get material conducting bar 7 on the moving path of bearing mechanism 2, in the in-process of the arc guide rail 72 of lifter 24 through getting in the material conducting bar 7 among the bearing mechanism 2, the recess 28 on lifter 24 top slides on arc track 72, it rises to drive flourishing flitch 25 on the lifter 24, thereby draw out the tea cake 14 on the flourishing flitch 25 from the storage cylinder 21, in the manual in-process of taking out one by one with the tea cake 14 of pressing down the shaping of reply, it has saved the link that the manual work was drawed to tea cake 14 to set up and has got material conducting bar 7, and make the tea cake 14 complete degree of drawing better.

Furthermore, the pushing assembly 81 comprises an air cylinder 811 fixedly arranged in the empty groove 97 and a pushing block 812 driven by the air cylinder 811, wherein an arc 813 is arranged at one end of the pushing block 812.

EXAMPLE III

As shown in fig. 20, in which the same or corresponding components as those in embodiment two are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in embodiment two, only the points of difference from embodiment two will be described below for the sake of convenience. The third embodiment is different from the second embodiment in that: the transfer assembly 82 comprises a motor b821, a transmission belt b822 driven by the motor b821, barrier strips 823 fixedly arranged at two sides of the transmission belt b822, and a material receiving plate c824 fixedly arranged at one side of the transmission belt b 822.

In addition, in this embodiment, a transfer assembly 82 is further disposed on the other side of the rotating disc 1, a material receiving plate c824 in the transfer assembly 82 receives the tea cake 14 pushed by the pushing assembly 81, and conveys the tea cake 14 to a conveying belt b822 in the transfer assembly 82, the conveying belt b822 outputs the tea cake 14 under the driving of a motor b821, and in the process of manually taking out and transferring the tea cake 14 one by one, the transfer assembly 82 is disposed to output the tea cake 14, so that the processing efficiency of the tea cake 14 is improved, and the automation degree of making the tea cake 14 is greatly improved.

The working process is as follows:

firstly, the feeding mechanism 9 transfers tea leaves to be processed to a storage area 12 on the rotating disc 1 through a feeding inclined plate 93;

then, the rotating disc 1 drives the carrying mechanism 2 to convey backwards, the storage cylinder 21 rises upwards to load tea leaves into the storage cylinder 21 when the carrying mechanism 2 passes through the ascending section a51 in the guide piece a5, the storage cylinder 21 descends to the initial height when the carrying mechanism 2 continues to convey the tea leaves backwards through the descending section a52 in the guide piece a5, and then the storage cylinder 21 leaves the storage area 12 through the smooth section a53 in the guide piece a5 and conveys towards the soft steaming pressing area 13;

then, in the process that the storage barrel 21 filled with tea leaves passes through the steaming and softening pressing area 13, the air supply ring 421 in the air supply assembly 42 rotates along with the storage barrel 21, during the passage through the strip-shaped air outlet a414 formed on the outer wall of the air storage tube 412 in the steam generating module 41, the air storage cylinder 412 supplies steam to the air supply pipe a423 and the air supply pipe b424 through the strip-shaped air outlet a414, the steam is conveyed into the storage cylinder 21 through the air conveying cover 425 fixedly arranged at the bottom surface of the storage cylinder 21 to steam, soften and wet the tea leaves, in the process, the storage cylinder 21 slowly rises under the action of the rising section b54 in the guide piece a5, at the same time, the air supply pipe b424 rises along with the storage barrel 21, and during the rising process of the storage barrel 21, the pressing plate 36 in the forming mechanism 3 descends into the storage cylinder 21 to press the tea under the action of the descending section c62 in the guide b6, and the sliding arm 33 returns the pressing plate 36 by virtue of the return spring b37 between the sliding arm and the sliding sleeve 32 after pressing;

then, in the process that the storage barrel 21 is continuously conveyed backwards, the groove 28 at the top end of the lifting rod 24 on the storage barrel 12 slowly rises under the action of the arc-shaped guide rail 72, the tea cake 14 in the storage barrel 21 is taken out in the process of rising, then the air cylinder 811 arranged on the baffle a95 drives the pushing block 812 to push the tea cake 14 to the material receiving plate c824 after receiving a signal sent by the sensor, and after the pushing is completed, the lifting rod 24 is reset by the reset spring a 29;

finally, the material receiving plate c824 drops the tea cake 14 onto the transmission belt b822 in the transfer assembly 82, and the transmission belt b822 outputs the tea cake 14 under the driving of the motor b 821.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "front-back", "left-right", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience in describing the present invention and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred device or component must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus should not be construed as limiting the invention.

Of course, in this disclosure, those skilled in the art will understand that the terms "a" and "an" should be interpreted as "at least one" or "one or more," i.e., in one embodiment, a number of an element may be one, and in another embodiment, a number of the element may be plural, and the terms "a" and "an" should not be interpreted as limiting the number.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily made by those skilled in the art in light of the technical teaching of the present invention should be included within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (9)

1. A tea cake primary forming process is characterized in that: comprises the following production steps:

step one, a feeding process, wherein a feeding mechanism (9) supplies tea leaves into a storage area (12) on a rotating disc (1);

step two, a rotating procedure, wherein the bearing mechanism (2) and the forming mechanism (3) rotate under the driving of the rotating disc (1);

step three, a tea leaf filling process, namely when the bearing mechanism (2) passes through the material storage area (12) in the step one, the bearing mechanism ascends under the action of the guide piece a (5), fills tea leaves to be processed in the ascending process, and continuously transfers the tea leaves backwards after filling;

step four, a soft tea steaming procedure, namely when the bearing mechanism (2) filled with tea leaves continuously rotates to a soft steaming station in the step three, a soft steaming device (4) positioned at the soft steaming station is used for steaming, softening and wetting the tea leaves in the bearing mechanism (2);

step five, a pressing procedure, namely, continuously rotating the bearing mechanism (2) bearing the tea leaves which are steamed, softened and moistened to a pressing station in the step four, pressing the forming mechanism (3) positioned at the pressing station downwards under the action of the guide piece b (6), and preliminarily pressing the tea leaves steamed, softened and moistened in the bearing mechanism (2) into tea cakes (14);

step six, a tea cake extraction procedure, wherein in the step five, the bearing mechanism (2) bearing the tea cake which is pressed preliminarily continues to rotate to an extraction station, a material taking guide bar (7) at the extraction station lifts a lifting rod (24) in the bearing mechanism (2) upwards, and the tea cake (14) which is pressed and formed preliminarily is extracted from the bearing mechanism (2);

seventhly, in the tea cake transferring process, the pushing component (81) positioned at the transferring station pushes the tea cake (14) extracted from the bearing mechanism (2) in the sixth step to the transferring component (82);

and step eight, an output process, namely, the transfer component (82) transfers and outputs the tea cakes (14) pushed in the step seven.

2. The tea cake preliminary forming process as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the first step, the feeding mechanism (9) transfers the tea leaves to a feeding sloping plate (93) through a conveying belt a (94), and the feeding sloping plate (93) puts the tea leaves down into a storage area (12) on the rotating disc (1).

3. The tea cake primary forming process according to claim 1, wherein in the second step, the material storage cylinder (21) in the bearing mechanism (2) is slidably arranged on the rotating disc (1), the forming mechanism (3) is correspondingly arranged above the material storage cylinder (21), and the material storage cylinder (21) and the forming mechanism (3) are driven by the rotating disc (1) to rotate.

4. The tea cake primary forming process according to the claim 1, wherein the storage cylinder (21) in the bearing mechanism (2) in the third step is lifted upwards in the process of passing through the ascending section a (51) of the guide piece a (5), the storage cylinder (21) loads tea leaves in the ascending process, the storage cylinder (21) is reset downwards in the process of passing through the descending section a (52) of the guide piece a (5), the storage cylinder (21) loads tea leaves again in the resetting process, and the storage cylinder continues to rotate backwards after the loading is finished.

5. The tea cake primary forming process according to claim 1, wherein when the air supply assembly (42) in the steaming and softening device (4) in the fourth step rotates to the steaming and softening station along with the bearing mechanism (2), the air supply assembly (42) is communicated with the steam generation assembly (41), and the air supply assembly (42) provides steam for tea leaves in the storage barrel (21) in the corresponding bearing mechanism (2) to steam, soften and moisten the tea leaves in the storage barrel (21).

6. The tea cake primary forming process according to claim 1, wherein when the material storage cylinder (21) filled with tea leaves in the bearing mechanism (2) in the fifth step rotates to the pressing station, the pressing plate (36) arranged in the forming mechanism (3) above the bearing mechanism (2) performs primary pressing on the tea leaves in the material storage cylinder (21) in the process of passing through the descending section c (62) in the guide b (6), the pressing plate (36) after the primary pressing continues to rotate along with the rotating disc (1), and the pressing plate is separated from the material storage cylinder (21) in the process of passing through the ascending section c (63) in the guide b (6) to complete resetting.

7. The tea cake primary forming process according to the claim 1, wherein in the sixth step, the lifting rod (24) in the bearing mechanism (2) rises in the process of passing through the arc-shaped guide rail (72) in the material taking guide bar (7), and the tea cake (14) is extracted from the storage barrel (21) by the material containing plate (25) arranged at the bottom end of the lifting rod (24).

8. The tea cake preliminary forming process as claimed in claim 7, wherein the cylinder (811) in the pushing assembly (81) of the seventh step drives the pushing block (812) to push the tea cake (14) extracted from the storage cylinder (21) to the material receiving plate c (824) in the transferring assembly (82) after receiving the signal sent by the sensor.

9. The tea cake preliminary forming process as claimed in claim 8, wherein the receiving plate c (824) in the transferring assembly (82) of the step eight transfers the tea cake (14) to the conveying belt b (822) to output the tea cake (14).

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