CN114259009A

CN114259009A - Continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment

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Publication number: CN114259009A
Application number: CN202210085053.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郑建伟
Original assignee: Luohe Xinrui Machinery Co ltd
Current assignee: Luohe Xinrui Machinery Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-01-25
Filing date: 2022-01-25
Publication date: 2022-04-01

Abstract

The invention provides a continuous cereal steaming and cooling device, which relates to the technical field of food processing equipment. The continuous cereal steaming and cooling device comprises a feeding control mechanism, a steaming mechanism and a discharging mechanism which are connected in sequence. On one side of the steaming mechanism, the discharging mechanism is located on the opposite side of the steaming mechanism, and the feeding control mechanism is used to convey materials to the steaming mechanism. The mechanism is used to transport materials out. The whole process of the present invention is carried out continuously, realizing unmanned operation of processes such as feeding, cooking and discharging, saving manpower, improving production efficiency and reducing production cost.

Description

Continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of food processing equipment, in particular to continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment.

Background

The alcoholic fermentation is the main stage of brewing wine, and sugar raw materials such as fruits, molasses and the like contain rich components such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose and the like, and can be directly converted into alcohol through the action of microorganisms such as yeast or bacteria and the like. Raw materials required by wine brewing, such as sorghum, rice, sticky rice, wheat, corn and the like which meet the sanitary standard, are mixed according to a certain proportion and then are distilled and fermented. The raw materials are steamed to about 50 tons in a medium winery day, hundreds of even thousands of tons are needed in a large winery, and the traditional steaming and cooling process is difficult to complete.

The first process of producing foods such as rice crust, rice cake and the like is the same as that of brewing wine, and rice and other raw materials are steamed, scattered, cooled to room temperature and then subjected to the next production operation.

The central kitchen that large-scale enterprise, school etc. have dinner the number of people many and concentrate again is still the traditional rice steaming mode of artifical food steamer at present: the rice is boiled to half done, then fished out, then put into a steamer to be steamed, and cooled to room temperature after being steamed.

The traditional rice steaming modes in various industries have the disadvantages of large labor capacity, poor working environment (hot and cold), low efficiency, high manufacturing cost and difficult quality guarantee.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, the present invention provides a continuous grain steaming and cooling device, so as to solve the technical problems of high labor intensity of workers, poor working environment, low efficiency, high manufacturing cost and difficult quality assurance caused by manual grain processing in the prior art during food production such as central kitchen, wine making or rice crust, rice cake, etc.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment which comprises a feeding control mechanism, a material steaming mechanism and a discharging mechanism which are connected in sequence, wherein the feeding control mechanism is arranged on one side of the material steaming mechanism, the discharging mechanism is arranged on the opposite side of the material steaming mechanism, the feeding control mechanism is used for conveying materials to the material steaming mechanism, the material steaming mechanism is used for steaming the materials while conveying the materials, and the discharging mechanism is used for conveying the materials outwards.

According to an optional implementation mode, the material steaming mechanism comprises a rice steaming box, a rice steaming box conveyor belt and a first driving mechanism, the rice steaming box conveyor belt is in transmission connection with the first driving mechanism and is installed inside the rice steaming box, the conveying direction of the rice steaming box conveyor belt is arranged along the length direction of the rice steaming box, and a steam pipeline for providing steam for the rice steaming box is arranged on the side of the rice steaming box.

According to an optional implementation mode, the material steaming device further comprises a cooling mechanism arranged below the material steaming mechanism, the cooling mechanism comprises a cooling box, a cooling conveying belt arranged in the cooling box and used for receiving materials, and a second driving mechanism, the second driving mechanism is in transmission connection with the cooling conveying belt, the cooling conveying belt is arranged inside the cooling box, and the cooling conveying belt is arranged in a multi-layer serpentine shape.

According to an alternative embodiment, the first drive mechanism and the second drive mechanism are each provided as a reduced speed variable frequency motor.

According to an alternative embodiment, hot air exhaust fans are installed at opposite sides of the cooling box for exhausting the hot air in the cooling box to the outside.

According to an optional implementation mode, the material steaming mechanism further comprises a rice ball scattering assembly, the rice ball scattering assembly is located at the discharge end of the rice steaming box and used for scattering materials falling from the rice steaming box conveying belt to the cooling conveying belt.

According to an optional embodiment, the rice ball scattering assembly comprises a third driving mechanism and a rice ball scattering shaft, the third driving mechanism is in driving connection with the rice ball scattering shaft, and the rice ball scattering shaft is located below the discharge end of the rice steaming box and extends along the width direction of the rice steaming box.

According to an alternative embodiment, the moving speed of the steamer belt is coordinated with the rotation speed of the rice ball scattering shaft.

According to an optional embodiment, the feeding control mechanism comprises a feeding box and a rice feeding control assembly installed in the feeding box, and the rice feeding control assembly is used for controlling the speed of materials entering the rice steaming box.

The continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment provided by the invention has the following technical effects:

this kind of continuous type cereal evaporates cool equipment, mainly by feed control mechanism, evaporate material mechanism and discharge mechanism and constitute, feed control mechanism, evaporate material mechanism and discharge mechanism and connect in order, feed control mechanism installs in the one side of evaporating material mechanism, be used for to evaporating material mechanism transported substance material, discharge mechanism installs in the opposite side of evaporating material mechanism, be used for outside transported substance material, evaporate material mechanism then realize steaming cooked material when conveying the material, whole process goes on in succession, realized the feeding, cook and the unmanned operation of processes such as the ejection of compact, the manpower has been practiced thrift, the production efficiency is improved, and the production cost is reduced.

Drawings

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

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a continuous grain steaming and cooling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a portion of the continuous grain steaming device of FIG. 1 along the line of separation A-A;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the rice steaming box and the cooling box of the continuous grain steaming and cooling device in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a cycle diagram of the cooling system of FIG. 3 after the continuous grain steaming device is broken up (only a two-level representation is shown);

FIG. 5 is a front view of a rice intake control assembly of the feed control mechanism of the continuous grain steaming device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a section A-A of the rice intake control assembly of FIG. 5.

Wherein, fig. 1-6:

1. a feed control mechanism; 11. a feeding box; 12. a rice feeding control component; 121. a fourth drive mechanism; 122. distributing the transmission shafts; 123. an isolation block; 124. isolating the shaft;

2. a material steaming mechanism; 21. steaming the rice box; 22. a first drive mechanism; 23. a steam box conveyor belt; 24. a steam line; 241. a pipe joint; 28. a hot air exhaust fan; 29. a rice ball breaking-up component; 291. a third drive mechanism; 292. breaking the rice ball into a shaft; 293. breaking up the rods;

3. a discharging mechanism; 31. an output mesh belt; 32. a discharging box;

4. a cooling mechanism; 41. a second drive mechanism; 42. a mesh belt transmission shaft; 43. cooling the conveyor belt; 44. and a cooling tank.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the technical solutions of the present invention will be described in detail below. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the examples given herein without any inventive step, are within the scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise specified, "a plurality" means two or more; the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "inner", "outer", "front", "rear", "head", "tail", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, are only for convenience in describing and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

In the description of the present invention, it should also be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood as appropriate to those of ordinary skill in the art.

As described in the background art, the central kitchen in the prior art, which has a large number of dining people and is centralized, still is the traditional rice steaming mode of the manual food steamer: the rice is boiled to half done, then fished out, then put into a steamer to be steamed, and cooled to room temperature after being steamed. The traditional rice steaming mode has the disadvantages of large labor capacity, poor working environment (hot and cold), low efficiency, high manufacturing cost and difficult quality guarantee.

Based on the above, the invention provides continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment which mainly comprises a feeding control mechanism, a steaming mechanism and a discharging mechanism, wherein the feeding control mechanism, the steaming mechanism and the discharging mechanism are sequentially connected, the feeding control mechanism is arranged on one side of the steaming mechanism and used for conveying materials to the steaming mechanism, the discharging mechanism is arranged on the opposite side of the steaming mechanism and used for conveying the materials outwards, the steaming mechanism is used for steaming the materials while conveying the materials, the whole process is continuously carried out, unmanned operation of the processes of feeding, steaming, discharging and the like is realized, manpower is saved, the production efficiency is improved, and the production cost is reduced.

The technical scheme of the invention is explained in detail in the following with specific attached figures 1-6.

The grain of the invention is sorghum, rice, glutinous rice, wheat or corn, and the like, and can be other types of grains, and the invention is not limited to the specific types of grains.

The embodiment of the invention takes rice as an example, and the specific structure of the continuous grain steaming and cooling device is described in detail.

As shown in fig. 1, the continuous grain steaming and cooling device comprises a feeding control mechanism 1, a steaming mechanism 2 and a discharging mechanism 3 which are connected in sequence.

The feeding control mechanism 1 is used for conveying rice to the steaming mechanism 2, and as shown in fig. 1, 5 and 6, the feeding control mechanism comprises a feeding box 11 and a rice feeding control assembly 12, the rice feeding control assembly 12 is installed in the feeding box 11, and the rice feeding control assembly 12 is used for controlling the speed of the rice entering the rice steaming box 21, so that ordered distribution is realized, and the rice is prevented from being gathered in the steaming mechanism 2.

The rice feeding control assembly 12 comprises a fourth driving mechanism 121, a distribution transmission shaft 122, an isolation block 123 and an isolation shaft 124, wherein the fourth driving mechanism 121 is in driving connection with the distribution transmission shaft 122, that is, 360-degree rotation of the distribution transmission shaft 122 is realized through the fourth driving mechanism 121, the isolation shaft 124 is arranged on the distribution transmission shaft 122, isolation of rice is realized through the isolation shaft 124, ordered distribution of the rice is realized, the isolation shaft 124 is arranged along the length direction of the distribution transmission shaft 122 and can rotate 360 degrees along with the distribution transmission shaft 122, and the isolation block 123 is arranged between the distribution transmission shaft 122 and the isolation shaft 124 and used for supporting the isolation shaft 124.

The steaming mechanism 2, which is used for conveying the rice and steaming the rice in the process, as shown in fig. 1-4, comprises a rice steaming box 21, a first driving mechanism 22 and a steaming box conveyor belt 23.

Rice steaming box 21, as shown in FIG. 1, is a cuboid structure, feeding box 11 is located on one side of rice steaming box 21 and is communicated with rice steaming box 21, discharging box 32 is located on the opposite side of rice steaming box 21 and is communicated with rice steaming box 21 through output mesh belt 31, rice enters rice steaming box 21 through feeding box 11, is conveyed and steamed through rice steaming box 21, and is conveyed to discharging box 32 through output mesh belt 31.

The specific shape of the rice steaming box 21 is not limited in the present invention, and for example, the rice steaming box may have an elliptical spherical structure, and the present invention is within the scope of the present invention as long as the purpose of steaming rice is achieved.

First actuating mechanism 22, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, is connected with steam ager conveyer belt 23 transmission, and first actuating mechanism 22 starts, drives steam ager conveyer belt 23 conveying to realize the conveying of rice, first actuating mechanism 22 is preferably the inverter motor of second grade speed reduction, and the inverter motor through the second grade speed reduction realizes that the steamed rice speed is adjustable, and different steamed rice speeds are set according to the different or demand difference to cereal of the kind of cereal.

As shown in fig. 2, the steam box conveyor belt 23 is installed inside the rice steaming box 21, and the steam box conveyor belt 23 is provided along the longitudinal direction of the rice steaming box 21 so as to convey rice.

It should be noted that the specific structure of the steam box conveyor belt 23 is not limited in the present invention, and the present invention is within the protection scope of the present invention as long as the purpose of conveying the rice can be achieved.

As shown in fig. 1, in order to provide steam to the rice steaming box 21, a steam pipe 24 is provided outside the rice steaming box 21, the steam pipe 24 is provided near the top of the rice steaming box 21 along the length direction of the rice steaming box 21, the rice steaming box 21 is provided with a pipe connector 241, the pipe connector 241 extends from the outside of the rice steaming box 21 to the inside of the rice steaming box 21 and is connected with the steam pipe 24, and the steam is delivered to the inside of the rice steaming box 21 through the steam pipe 24 and the pipe connector 241, wherein the steam in the steam pipe 24 is intensively supplied by an external boiler.

In order to cool the cooked rice for the next process, as shown in fig. 1-4, the cooling mechanism 4 is further included, and the cooling mechanism 4 includes a cooling box 44, a second driving mechanism 41, a mesh belt transmission shaft 42 and a cooling transmission belt 43, and the second driving mechanism 41, the mesh belt transmission shaft 42 and the cooling transmission belt 43 are located at the edge of the cooling box 44.

The second driving mechanism 41 is preferably an inverter motor with two-stage speed reduction.

And a cooling conveyor belt 43 which is in transmission connection with the second driving mechanism 41 through a mesh belt transmission shaft 42 and is arranged inside the cooling box 44, wherein the cooling conveyor belt 43 is slightly shorter than the steam box conveyor belt 23 and is positioned inside the steam box conveyor belt 23, and can receive the cooked rice falling off due to gravity after being scattered.

The cooling conveyer belt 43 is arranged in a multi-layer serpentine shape, four layers of cooling conveyer belts 43 are preferred in the embodiment, each layer of cooling conveyer belt 43 is driven by a chain wheel and a chain which are arranged on a mesh belt transmission shaft 42, the mesh belt transmission shaft 42 is arranged in a UC-shaped spherical outer surface bearing on the machine frame and is driven by a frequency conversion motor with a two-stage speed reduction function.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the cooling box 44 includes a two-stage speed-reducing inverter motor, a 4-stage mesh belt transmission shaft 42 and a cooling transmission belt 43, the mesh belt transmission shaft 42 is driven by the two-stage speed-reducing inverter motor to rotate 360 degrees, the cooling transmission belt 43 is mounted on the mesh belt transmission shaft 42, the mesh belt transmission shaft 42 rotates to transmit the mesh belt, so as to realize the circulation cooling of rice, the rotation speed of the two-stage speed-reducing inverter motor is adjusted, and the moving speed of the cooling transmission belt 43 can be controlled.

In order to efficiently cool the cooling box 44, as shown in fig. 1, hot air exhaust fans 28 are installed at opposite sides of the cooling box 44, and the hot air exhaust fans 28 are used for exhausting hot air in the cooling box 44 to the outside, mainly cooling the steamed rice circularly conveyed on the cooling conveyor belt 43 for other uses.

In order to prevent the rice from being lumped from falling from the steamer belt 23 onto the cooling belt 43, the steaming mechanism 2 further includes a rice lump breaking assembly 29, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the rice lump breaking assembly 29 is located at the discharging end of the rice steaming box 21 for breaking the boiled rice conveyed outward by the steamer belt 23.

Further, the rice ball scattering assembly 29 comprises a third driving mechanism 291 and a rice ball scattering shaft 292, the third driving mechanism 291 is preferably a one-stage speed reduction variable frequency motor, and is in driving connection with the rice ball scattering shaft 292, and the rice ball scattering shaft 292 is located at the discharge end of the rice steaming box 21 and extends along the width direction of the rice steaming box 21.

The rice ball scattering shaft 292 is provided with scattering rods 293, the scattering rods 293 are vertically and crossly embedded on the rice ball scattering shaft 292, two ends of the rice ball scattering shaft 292 are arranged on the machine body through UC-type spherical outside surface bearings, the rice ball scattering shaft 292 is driven by a one-level speed reduction variable frequency motor to drive the scattering rods 293 to synchronously rotate, the rotating speed of the motor is changed to control the uniform degree of cooked rice, and the cooked rice falling down can be uniformly distributed and rapidly cooled after multi-stage transmission.

The specific process is as follows:

(1) the cooked rice ball falling down by the steam box conveyor belt 23 along the gravity falls onto the cooling conveyor belt 43 below through the rice ball scattering assembly 29, and at the moment, the rice ball scattering shaft 292 drives the scattering rod 293 to synchronously rotate under the driving of the first-stage speed-reducing variable frequency motor for scattering the cooked rice ball;

(2) the cooling conveyer belt 43 carries the scattered cooked rice grains to move rapidly to the other end of the cooling box 44 at a set speed, and the grains fall to the next cooling conveyer belt 43 at the end point for circulating transmission;

(3) the circulation is repeated until 4 layers of circulation are finished, finally the cooked rice falls onto the output mesh belt 31, and the cooked rice is conveyed to the discharging box 32 through the output mesh belt 31.

Wherein, the rotation speed of the scattering rod 293 and the moving speed of the cooling conveyor belt 43 are used in coordination, the transmission speed of the cooling conveyor belt 43 is controlled by a plurality of sets of two-stage speed reduction variable frequency motors, as shown in fig. 3, the rice ball scattering shaft 292 is controlled by a set of one-stage speed reduction variable frequency motor, and the whole system is controlled by a PLC.

The invention provides continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment for improving the production efficiency of the wine making industry, the food production industry and the centralized catering of a central kitchen, reducing the labor cost, improving the production environment and improving the economic benefit.

The device is characterized in that rice (or other grains) is fed into a feeding box 11 and then is orderly distributed into a rice steaming box 21 (shown in figure 1) by a rice feeding control assembly 12; the rice in the rice steaming box 21 is moved by the steaming box conveyor belt 23 in the direction indicated by the arrow (as shown in fig. 1); when the steamed rice moves to the left edge of the rice steaming box 21 and falls down on the cooling conveyor belt 43 by gravity, the random cooked rice may be loose or rice ball shape, the cooked rice ball should be scattered and uniformly distributed on the cooling conveyor belt 43, and the cooked rice is gradually circulated and cooled in the circulating movement process to obtain cool cooked rice for other uses.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. a continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment, is characterized in that, comprises feeding control mechanism, steaming mechanism and discharging mechanism that are connected in sequence, and described feeding control mechanism is arranged on one side of described steaming mechanism, The discharging mechanism is arranged on the opposite side of the steaming mechanism, the feeding control mechanism is used for conveying the material to the steaming mechanism, and the steaming mechanism is used for steaming the material while conveying the material, The discharging mechanism is used for conveying materials outward.

2. The continuous grain steaming and cooling device according to claim 1, wherein the steaming mechanism comprises a steaming box, a steaming box conveyor and a first driving mechanism, and the steaming box conveyor and the first driving mechanism The transmission is connected and installed inside the steaming box. The conveying direction of the steaming box conveyor belt is arranged along the length direction of the steaming box. The side of the steaming box is provided with steam for providing steam for the steaming box. pipeline.

3 . The continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment according to claim 2 , further comprising a cooling mechanism arranged below the steaming mechanism, the cooling mechanism comprising a cooling box and a cooling box arranged in the cooling box. 4 . A cooling conveyor belt for receiving materials, and including a second driving mechanism, the second driving mechanism is drivingly connected with the cooling conveyor belt, the cooling conveyor belt is installed inside the cooling box, and the cooling conveyor belt is multi-layered in a serpentine shape arrangement.

4 . The continuous grain steaming and cooling device according to claim 3 , wherein the first driving mechanism and the second driving mechanism are both decelerated frequency conversion motors. 5 .

5 . The continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment according to claim 3 , wherein the opposite sides of the cooling box are installed with hot air exhaust fans for discharging the hot air in the cooling box to the outside. 6 .

6 . The continuous grain steaming and cooling device according to claim 3 , wherein the steaming mechanism further comprises a rice ball breaking assembly, and the rice ball breaking assembly is located at the discharge end of the steamed rice box, and is used for Disperse the material falling from the steam box conveyor belt to the cooling conveyor belt.

7. The continuous cereal steaming and cooling device according to claim 6, wherein the rice ball breaking assembly comprises a third driving mechanism and a rice ball breaking shaft, the third driving mechanism and the rice ball breaking shaft Drive connection, the rice ball breaking shaft is located below the discharge end of the steamed rice box, and extends along the width direction of the steamed rice box.

8 . The continuous grain steaming and cooling device according to claim 7 , wherein the moving speed of the steamer conveyor belt is coordinated with the rotation speed of the rice ball breaking shaft. 9 .

9. The continuous grain steaming and cooling equipment according to any one of claims 2-8, wherein the feeding control mechanism comprises a feeding box and a rice feeding control assembly installed in the feeding box, so that the The rice entry control assembly is used to control the speed of materials entering the rice steaming box.