CN115261180A

CN115261180A - Brewing equipment, system and process

Info

Publication number: CN115261180A
Application number: CN202211015608.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄治国; 曾永仲; 刘学臻; 张世磊
Original assignee: Sichuan Gulin Xiantan Winery Co ltd
Current assignee: Sichuan Gulin Xiantan Winery Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-08-24
Filing date: 2022-08-24
Publication date: 2022-11-01

Abstract

The invention discloses a brewing device, comprising: the distilling equipment comprises a wine retort arranged below the retort loading robot, a retort cover with a sealing cover arranged on the wine retort and a wine steam collecting pipeline communicated with the retort cover; the retort loading robot comprises a first conveyor, one end of the first conveyor is hinged with a rotary lifting assembly, the other end of the first conveyor is a discharging end and is hinged with a swinging discharging mechanism, and thermal imaging equipment is further arranged on the swinging discharging mechanism; the swinging discharging mechanism can perform circumferential rotation and vertical swinging actions, change the thermal imaging position of the thermal imaging equipment in the wine retort and adjust the discharging direction of the swinging discharging mechanism in the wine retort based on the circumferential rotation actions, and adjust the discharging position of the swinging discharging mechanism in the wine retort based on the vertical swinging actions. The invention also discloses a wine brewing system and a wine brewing process. The invention shortens the connection gap between the retort feeding process and the distillation process, and improves the relevance, the overall efficiency and the effect of the retort feeding process and the distillation process.

Description

Brewing equipment, system and process

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of brewing equipment, in particular to brewing equipment, a brewing system and a brewing process.

Background

In the maotai-flavor liquor brewing process, fermented grains formed by moistening sorghum raw materials and rice hulls are mixed with rice hulls to form fermented grains, and the fermented grains enter a distillation device through a steamer to be distilled for brewing.

In the prior art, the retort loading process is generally carried out manually, the retort loading process follows the process of loading wine in the presence of gas, namely when steam is generated in the wine retort, a worker spreads a proper amount of fermented grains to the position where the steam is generated by using a tool, the steam is not emitted after the spreading, the steam is transferred to another steam generation position to spread the fermented grains until the whole retort loading process is completed, wherein the fermented grains loaded into the retort by the worker at one time need dozens of hundreds of jin, the fermented grains can be loaded into the retort several hundreds of jacks in one day, the labor intensity is high, and the subsequent wine yield is reduced due to the fact that the worker sees gas experience difference, the speed of loading the fermented grains into the retort is high and low, the uniform spreading degree of the fermented grains is influenced, and the retort loading effect is difficult to control.

The wine retort is taken as common distillation equipment, which is mainly a distillation container and is provided with a retort cover with a sealing structure, the retort cover needs to be opened when wine grains enter and exit from the wine retort, wherein when the wine grains are poured out, because the temperature of the retort cover after distillation is higher, the retort cover needs to be opened by manually wearing gloves or other tools for assisting opening when being opened, the wine retort is very inconvenient and easy to scald, the weight of the retort cover is heavier, the labor intensity of workers is high, the retort cover needs to be opened, closed and moved frequently, and other structures or pipelines cannot be installed, so that a plurality of structures such as a wine steam collecting pipeline (wine steam is required to be collected at any time through the wine steam pipeline during distillation) and the like can be only installed in the wine retort, the structure of the wine retort is complex, the wine retort is not beneficial to moving and pouring the wine grains, and a great deal of inconvenience exists in the whole wine retort structure during use.

As a more important brewing process, the retort loading process and the distillation process are used as two connected processes, the two processes have the defects respectively, and due to the limitation of manpower and equipment in the prior art, the operation time is required for entering the distillation stage after the retort loading process, so that the brewing time is prolonged, and the brewing quality is influenced because the fermented grains are not distilled in time.

Based on this, how better realization goes up rice steamer and distillation for the two can better link up and improve simultaneously go up rice steamer, distillation efficiency and effect be the problem that we are badly in need of solving.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide brewing equipment which can realize timely, accurate and controllable loading of fermented grains into a steamer, shorten the connection gap between a steaming process and a distillation process and improve the relevance, overall efficiency and effect of loading into the steamer and distillation.

The purpose of the invention is mainly realized by the following technical scheme: brewing apparatus comprising: the loading robot is used for loading the fermented grains into a distillation device; the distillation equipment is used for distilling the fermented grains fed into the retort of the feeding robot; the distillation equipment comprises a wine retort arranged below the retort loading robot, a retort cover with a sealing cover arranged on the wine retort and a wine steam collecting pipeline communicated with the retort cover; the retort loading robot comprises a first conveyor, one end of the first conveyor is hinged with a rotary lifting assembly which drives the first conveyor to rotate and lift, the other end of the first conveyor is a discharge end and is hinged with a swinging discharge mechanism, and the swinging discharge mechanism is also provided with thermal imaging equipment for detecting wine retort steam; the swinging discharging mechanism can execute circumferential rotation and vertical swinging actions, change the thermal imaging position of the thermal imaging equipment in the wine retort and adjust the discharging direction of the swinging discharging mechanism in the wine retort based on the circumferential rotation actions, and adjust the discharging position of the swinging discharging mechanism in the wine retort based on the vertical swinging actions.

Based on the technical scheme, the swing discharging mechanism comprises a material collecting barrel hinged with the discharging end of the first conveyor, a rotary barrel rotatably connected to the lower end of the material collecting barrel and a swing barrel hinged to the lower end of the rotary barrel; wherein the thermal imaging device is arranged outside the rotary drum, and the swinging drum can vertically swing around a position hinged with the rotary drum.

Based on the technical scheme, an auxiliary swing connecting rod assembly is further arranged in the swing cylinder; the auxiliary swing connecting rod assembly comprises a first connecting rod and a second connecting rod which are fixedly connected with the connecting shaft; the first connecting rod is hinged with a lifting connecting rod, and the lower end of the lifting connecting rod is hinged to the inner side of the lower end of the swinging cylinder; the second connecting rod is hinged with a connecting rod fixing plate, and the connecting rod fixing plate is fixed on the inner side of the upper end of the swinging cylinder.

Based on the technical scheme, the lower end of the swing cylinder is also rotatably connected with a material distribution mechanism; the distributing mechanism comprises a material collecting cylinder, a sleeve is arranged at the upper end of the material collecting cylinder and is sleeved at the lower end of a swinging cylinder, a rotating shaft which is rotatably connected with the swinging cylinder penetrates through the sleeve, a material collecting box is arranged at the lower end of the material collecting cylinder, the upper end of the material collecting box is opened and is communicated with the swinging cylinder, fermented grains discharging holes are further formed in two opposite sides of the material collecting box, and the thermal imaging equipment is positioned right above any fermented grain discharging hole;

the bottom of the inner side of the material collecting box is also provided with a plate chain feeder, two ends of the plate chain feeder are respectively positioned at the bottoms of the two fermented grains discharge holes, the power end of the plate chain feeder is arranged on the outer side of the material collecting box, and the power end adopts a forward and reverse rotating motor.

Based on the technical scheme, the two opposite sides outside the wine retort are respectively provided with a rotating assembly communicated with the interior of the wine retort, the rotating assemblies at the two sides are respectively communicated with a rotary joint, one rotary joint is communicated with a normal-temperature water supplementing pipeline and a tail wine supplementing pipeline which are connected in parallel, and the other rotary joint is communicated with a steam distribution pipeline;

the wine retort is internally separated into an upper cavity and a lower cavity through a retort grate, a steam outlet coil pipe and a medium supplementing pipe are arranged in the lower cavity, the steam outlet coil pipe is communicated with a rotating assembly communicated with a steam distribution pipeline, and the medium supplementing pipe is communicated with the other rotating assembly.

Based on the technical scheme, the rotating assembly comprises a fixing piece fixedly connected with the wine retort and a shaft piece fixedly sleeved in the fixing piece;

the fixing piece and the shaft piece are both provided with through holes, and the through holes of the fixing piece and the shaft piece are communicated with each other to form a communication hole; the position of the hole opening of the through hole in the fixing piece is communicated with a steam outlet coil pipe or a medium supplementing pipe, and the position of the hole opening of the through hole in the shaft piece is connected with the rotary joint in a sealing mode.

Based on the technical scheme, the distillation equipment further comprises a retort cover opening and closing assembly;

the retort cover opening and closing assembly comprises a fixed seat, a rotating arm is rotatably connected to the fixed seat, one end of the rotating arm is fixedly connected with the top of the retort cover, and a driving mechanism for driving the rotating arm to rotate so as to open and close the retort cover is fixed on the fixed seat;

still including being fixed in the sealed adapter on the fixing base, wine steam collection pipeline includes outlet duct and intake pipe, sealed adapter one end intercommunication the outlet duct, the sealed intercommunication of the other end the intake pipe just the intake pipe can rotate around sealed adapter, the intake pipe is inside walk the pipe and with rice steamer lid top intercommunication along the rotor arm.

Based on the technical scheme, a temperature sensor is further arranged at the position where the inner wall of the air inlet pipe is communicated with the retort cover.

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

1. the retort loading robot is used for automatically loading fermented grains into a retort, the rotary lifting assembly is used for driving the first conveyor to rotate and lift, so that the swinging discharging mechanism connected with the first conveyor can be moved to a wine retort position and enters or exits the wine retort through lifting, automatic loading of the fermented grains is facilitated, the first conveyor can quantitatively convey the fermented grains to the swinging discharging mechanism, the swinging discharging mechanism can rotate circumferentially to drive the thermal imaging equipment to rotate, steam in the wine retort is timely detected through the thermal imaging equipment so that gas can be seen into the retort, meanwhile, the swinging discharging mechanism changes the discharging direction and the discharging position of the fermented grains in the swinging discharging mechanism through circumferential rotation and vertical swinging motion, uniform discharging and retort loading can be carried out on any position in the wine retort, automatic and precise retort loading is achieved, manual participation is not needed in the whole process, labor cost is reduced, after loading is completed, wine can be directly sealed through a wine cover, generated steam can be directly collected through a distilled steam collecting pipeline, distillation time and retort loading efficiency can be improved, and the effect can be improved.

2. According to the invention, the swinging discharging mechanism collects the fermented grains through the material collecting cylinder and can directly enter the swinging cylinder for discharging through the rotating cylinder, the rotating cylinder is externally provided with the thermal imaging device and the rotation driving mechanism for driving the thermal imaging device to rotate, the rotating cylinder can rotate under the action of the rotation driving mechanism and synchronously drives the thermal imaging device to rotate to detect steam in the wine retort, the swinging cylinder is externally provided with the swinging driving mechanism, the swinging driving mechanism can drive the swinging cylinder to vertically swing so as to adjust the discharge port of the swinging cylinder, and thus the circular rotation and vertical swinging action of the swinging cylinder are combined, discharging and feeding can be carried out at any position in the wine retort, and automatic feeding into the wine retort are realized, and the feeding into the wine retort is more rapid and uniform.

3. In order to ensure that the vertical swinging action of the swinging cylinder can smoothly, continuously and quickly respond and avoid the influence on timely and accurate feeding due to the overlarge weight of the swinging cylinder, the swinging cylinder is internally provided with the auxiliary swinging connecting rod assembly, and the auxiliary swinging connecting rod assembly is utilized to assist the swinging of the swinging cylinder, so that the response speed of the swinging cylinder can be improved and the continuous swinging can be ensured.

4. The distributing mechanism can stack quantitative fermented grains and discharge the fermented grains from any fermented grain discharge port when needed, so that the fermented grains can be cached to ensure that the fermented grains can be discharged into the retort in time, the fermented grains can be adjusted to be discharged from a proper fermented grain discharge port according to the required positions of the fermented grains, the feeding area of the feeding robot is further increased to ensure that all positions in the fermented grains can be fed into the retort, and meanwhile, the distributing mechanism is provided with the flexible rotating plate to further evenly level the discharged fermented grains so as to facilitate the uniform feeding of the fermented grains into the retort.

5. The wine retort can vertically turn around the rotating assembly, so that the automatic discharging of the fermented grains can be completed after the distillation is completed, the process is simplified, the labor cost is reduced, and in the process of pouring the wine retort, the normal-temperature water supplementing pipeline, the tail wine supplementing pipeline and the steam distribution pipeline are always communicated with the wine retort, so that the continuous use of the wine retort can be ensured.

6. The invention can automatically open and close the steamer cover through the steamer cover opening and closing assembly, can ensure the communication of the wine steam collecting pipeline in the opening and closing process, and further simplifies the pipeline design of the wine steam collecting pipeline.

The second embodiment of the invention discloses a wine brewing system, which comprises an operation platform, wherein the wine brewing equipment is arranged on the operation platform; the operation platform is provided with a plurality of through hole grooves, each through hole groove is internally provided with a wine retort of the distillation equipment, and the wine retort can be vertically overturned in the through hole groove; the wine brewing platform is characterized in that a movable base is further arranged on the industry platform, a retort loading robot of the wine brewing equipment is arranged on the movable base, and the retort loading robot can move to any wine retort mounting position along with the movable base.

This making wine system is through setting up a plurality of wine rice retorts on the operation platform to through removing the base and drive the rice steamer robot and remove in order to go up the rice steamer operation to any wine rice steamer, and then can concentrate and accomplish and go up rice steamer and distillation, further simplify the project organization of going up rice steamer and distillation, improve the two associativity and shorten the two linking clearance, further improvement go up rice steamer and distillation effect.

The third embodiment of the invention is based on the brewing equipment or the brewing system, and also discloses a brewing process, which comprises the following steps:

s1, opening a normal-temperature water supplementing pipeline and a tail liquor supplementing pipeline, and supplementing normal-temperature water and tail liquor into a liquor retort, wherein the temperature of the tail liquor is 20-32 ℃, and the weight ratio of the normal-temperature water to the tail liquor is 10:150 to 200;

s2, opening a steam distribution pipeline to introduce steam into the wine retort, and starting to allow the fermented grains to be aerated and to be fed into the wine retort;

s3, driving the first conveyor to rotate and lift by the rotary lifting assembly, and adjusting the swinging discharging mechanism to the upper end of the wine retort;

s4, starting the rotary lifting assembly to drive the first conveyor to rotate and descend again, and adjusting the swinging discharging mechanism to the middle of the inner side of the wine retort and a designed distance from the bottom of the wine retort;

s5, starting the first conveyor to a designed time and then closing the first conveyor, quantitatively conveying the fermented grains to the discharge end of the first conveyor, discharging the fermented grains to the swing discharge mechanism, and accumulating the fermented grains on the material distribution mechanism;

s6, when the step S5 is executed, the thermal imaging device is synchronously started and the rotary drum is rotated, the thermal imaging device rotates along with the rotary drum to detect steam in the wine retort, and when the thermal imaging device detects that steam is generated at a certain position of the wine retort, the steps are executed:

stopping rotating the rotary drum, and starting the plate chain feeder to discharge fermented grains from a position corresponding to a fermented grain discharge port to lay steam;

or the like, or, alternatively,

stopping rotating the rotary drum, swinging the swinging drum to the position of steam, and then opening the plate chain feeder to discharge fermented grains from the position of the corresponding fermented grain discharge port where the steam is laid;

s7, repeatedly executing the steps S5 and S6 to perform gas-visible feeding, and when the thermal imaging device detects that the distance between the fermented grains in the wine retort and the thermal imaging device is smaller than a set value, synchronously starting the rotary lifting assembly to drive the first conveyor to ascend, driving the swing discharging mechanism to ascend until the distance between the fermented grains and the thermal imaging device meets the design height, and stopping the rotary lifting assembly;

s8, repeating the steps S5, S6 and S7 until the fermented grains in the wine retort are laid to the designed weight or thickness, finishing feeding the fermented grains into the wine retort, starting the rotary lifting assembly to drive the swinging discharging mechanism to withdraw the wine retort after the feeding is finished, covering the wine retort with a retort cover and ensuring the wine retort and the retort cover to be sealed;

s9, continuously opening the steam distribution pipeline, starting high-temperature distillation, and collecting wine steam generated in the distillation process through a wine steam collection pipeline;

s10, after distillation is finished, closing a steam distribution pipeline, discharging waste liquid at the bottom of the wine retort, opening a retort cover and driving the wine retort to vertically turn around a rotation assembly for pouring materials until fermented grains in the wine retort are completely poured, and resetting the wine retort after the fermented grains are poured;

s11, repeating the steps S1 to S10 and entering the next wine making cycle.

According to the brewing process, the fermented grains can be uniformly and quickly fed into the retort by automatically controlling the feeding robot, the liquor steam in the distillation process can be directly collected through the liquor steam collecting pipeline after the liquor is fed into the retort, the liquor collecting efficiency is ensured, the liquor retort can automatically and vertically turn over and pour materials after the distillation is finished, the automatic discharging of the fermented grains is further realized, the discharging time of the fermented grains is shortened while the process is simplified, and the whole brewing efficiency is improved.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the embodiments of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a brewing device of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the overall construction of the distillation apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the retort loading robot of the present invention, wherein the swing discharging mechanism is in a vertical state; (ii) a

FIG. 4 is another schematic structural view of the retort loading robot of the invention, wherein the swinging discharging mechanism is in a swinging positioning state;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a connecting structure of the swing discharging mechanism and the material distributing mechanism;

FIG. 6 is a side view of the structure shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a connecting structure of the swing discharging mechanism and the material distributing mechanism;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the structure of the distributing mechanism;

FIG. 9 is a top view of the structure shown in FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the rotary lift assembly;

FIG. 11 is a schematic view of a partial structure of a distillation apparatus;

fig. 12 is a side view of the structure shown in fig. 11, with the retort lid in an open state;

FIG. 13 is a front view of the structure shown in FIG. 11;

FIG. 14 is a schematic view of the construction of the wine retort;

FIG. 15 is a schematic view of the construction of the lid opening and closing assembly;

FIG. 16 is a top view of the structure shown in FIG. 15;

FIG. 17 is an exploded view of the wine vapor collection line;

figure 18 is a schematic structural view of a sealing adapter;

FIG. 19 is a schematic diagram of the construction of the wine brewing system;

FIG. 20 is a top view of the structure shown in FIG. 19 with portions of the structure omitted;

FIG. 21 is a side view of the structure shown in FIG. 19 with portions of the structure omitted;

the reference numerals in the drawings denote:

1. a retort loading robot; 2. a distillation apparatus; 3. carrying out wine retort; 4. a retort cover; 5. a wine vapor collection line; 6. a first conveyor; 7. a rotary lifting assembly; 8. a swinging discharging mechanism; 9. a thermal imaging device; 10. a material collecting barrel; 11. a rotating drum; 12. a swing drum; 13. a drive motor; 14. a connecting shaft; 15. a swing motor; 16. a first link; 17. a second link; 18. a lifting link; 19. a connecting rod fixing plate; 20. a material distribution mechanism; 21. a material collecting barrel; 22. a sleeve; 23. a rotating shaft; 24. a material collecting box; 25. discharging a fermented grain; 26. a plate link chain feeder; 27. a power end; 28. a flexible rotating plate; 29. a column; 30. a rotating arm; 31. a lifting assembly; 32. rotating the motor; 33. a supporting seat; 34. a rotating assembly; 35. a rotary joint; 36. supplementing a normal temperature water pipeline; 37. a tail liquor supplementing pipeline; 38. a steam distribution line; 39. steaming and grating; 40. discharging the steam coil; 41. a media replenishment pipe; 42. a sewage discharge pipe; 43. a fixing member; 44. a shaft member; 45. a through hole; 46. turning over a driving motor; 47. a driving gear; 48. a driven gear; 49. a water replenishing pipe; 50. a rotating arm; 51. sealing the adapter; 52. an air outlet pipe; 53. an air inlet pipe; 54. a rotating shaft; 55. fixing a motor; 56. a coupler supporting seat; 57. a hollow shaft body; 58. a flange plate; 59. a seal ring; 60. an operation platform; 61. a through-hole groove; 62. moving the base; 63. a support pillar; 64. a bearing seat; 65. a horizontal baffle.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to examples and accompanying drawings, and the exemplary embodiments and descriptions thereof are only used for explaining the present invention and are not meant to limit the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, a first embodiment of the present invention relates to a brewing apparatus, which mainly comprises: a retort loading robot 1 for loading the fermented grains into a retort to a distillation device 2; the distillation equipment 2 is used for distilling the fermented grains fed into the retort of the feeding robot 1; the distillation equipment 2 comprises a wine retort 3 arranged below the retort loading robot 1, a retort cover 4 with a sealing cover arranged on the wine retort 3 and a wine steam collecting pipeline 5 communicated with the retort cover 4; the retort loading robot 1 comprises a first conveyor 6, one end of the first conveyor 6 is hinged with a rotary lifting assembly 7 which drives the first conveyor 6 to rotate and lift, the other end of the first conveyor 6 is a discharging end and is hinged with a swinging discharging mechanism 8, and the swinging discharging mechanism 8 is also provided with thermal imaging equipment 9 for detecting wine retort steam; the swinging discharging mechanism 8 can perform circular rotation and vertical swinging actions, change the thermal imaging position of the thermal imaging device 9 in the wine retort 1 and adjust the discharging direction of the swinging discharging mechanism 8 in the wine retort 1 based on the circular rotation actions, and adjust the discharging position of the swinging discharging mechanism 8 in the wine retort 1 based on the vertical swinging actions.

The brewing equipment of the embodiment is mainly used for the retort loading and distillation processes, can improve the relevance and the connectivity of the two processes, improves the matching degree of the two processes, and improves the brewing efficiency and the brewing effect.

When the device is used specifically, the swinging discharging mechanism 8 of the retort loading robot 1 is hinged below the discharging end of the first conveyor 6, is mainly used for collecting and discharging the fermented grains falling from the discharging end of the first conveyor 6, can execute circumferential rotation and vertical swinging action, the circumferential rotation action can change the thermal imaging position of the thermal imaging device 9 and adjust the discharging direction of the swinging discharging mechanism 8, and the vertical swinging action can adjust the discharging position of the swinging discharging mechanism 8; the thermal imaging device 9 is arranged on the swinging discharging mechanism 8 and can rotate along with the swinging discharging mechanism, and is mainly used for detecting wine retort steam to determine the retort feeding position; the first conveyor 6 is mainly used for conveying fermented grains, and a rotary lifting assembly 7 is hinged below one end of the first conveyor far away from the discharging end; the rotary lifting assembly 7 is mainly used for driving the first conveyor 6 to rotate and lift, and supporting the first conveyor 6.

When the retort loading robot 1 is used, the rotary lifting assembly 7 rotates and lifts, the swinging discharging mechanism 8, the thermal imaging device 9 and the first conveyor 6 are driven to rotate and lift into a wine retort 3 needing to be loaded into the retort, the first conveyor 6 conveys wine grains on the first conveyor to the swinging discharging mechanism 8 through the discharging end, the swinging discharging mechanism 8 rotates circularly and further drives the thermal imaging device 9 to rotate, the position of steam in the wine retort 3 is detected, when steam is detected to appear at a certain position, the swinging discharging mechanism 8 adjusts the discharging direction of the swinging discharging mechanism 8 through rotation, the discharging position of the swinging discharging mechanism 8 is adjusted vertically when needed, the wine grains are laid at the position where the steam appears, the subsequent detection and material laying are continued until the whole wine retort 3 loading operation is completed, when the thickness and the swinging discharging mechanism 8 are close, the swinging lifting assembly 7 is started to lift and lift up to raise the swinging discharging mechanism 8, then the wine loading is carried out again, after the rotary lifting assembly 7 rotates and lifts to withdraw the swinging discharging mechanism 8 until the whole wine retort 3 is completed, the distilled grains can be unloaded, finally, the distilled wine can be collected through the whole distilled wine cover after the distilled wine is collected, and the whole distilled wine can be collected through a wine cover 4.

In the brewing equipment, the position of a swinging discharging mechanism 8 is adjusted by a lifting rotating assembly 7 through a lifting loading robot 1, the swinging discharging mechanism can be adjusted according to the position of a wine retort 3 and the laying height of the wine retort 3 so as to be adjusted correspondingly to the position of the wine retort 3, simultaneously, the wine retort is automatically conveyed to the swinging discharging mechanism 8 by a first conveyor 6 without manual feeding, finally, the swinging discharging mechanism 8 rotates to drive a thermal imaging device 9 to rotate to detect steam in all areas in the wine retort 3, the discharging direction of the swinging discharging mechanism 8 is adjusted during rotation to ensure that the discharging direction is consistent with the position of the detected steam, and the swinging discharging mechanism 8 vertically swings to further change the discharging position of the swinging discharging mechanism 8 when needed, the fermented grains are discharged in different positions in the wine retort 3, the fermented grains discharged each time can be laid at the steam position, the fermented grains can be automatically fed and fed to the wine retort in time, accurately and quantitatively through the cooperative operation of the structures, the feeding effect of the fermented grains on the wine retort 3 is improved, the labor cost can be greatly reduced, the wine retort 3 can be sealed by the retort cover 4 after the feeding is completed for distillation, the distilled wine steam can be directly collected through the wine steam collecting pipeline 5, the process retention interval between the feeding and the distillation can be shortened, the exposure time of the fermented grains is reduced, the fermented grains are prevented from entering other impurities, the process time of feeding and distillation can be shortened, and the wine brewing efficiency and quality are improved.

It should be noted that, when in use, the fermented grains are spread on the first conveyor 6, and after the conveying speed of the first conveyor 6 and the single conveying time are controlled, the quantitative output of the fermented grains can be ensured, or the single fermented grain discharging amount can be controlled by the swing discharging mechanism 8, or the fermented grain amount from the single pot to the first conveyor 6 can be controlled, because the fermented grain quantitative control mode is more, the description is not repeated here, and when the swing discharging mechanism 8 is described in detail later, the further fermented grain quantitative mode can be explained in this embodiment.

As shown in fig. 5 and 6, the swing discharging mechanism 8 mainly includes a material receiving cylinder 10 hinged to the discharging end of the first conveyor 6, a rotating cylinder 11 rotatably connected to the lower end of the material receiving cylinder 10, and a swing cylinder 12 hinged to the lower end of the rotating cylinder 11, wherein the material receiving cylinder 10, the rotating cylinder 11, and the swing cylinder 12 are all of a cylinder structure with an upper opening and a lower opening; wherein the thermal imaging apparatus 9 is disposed outside the drum 11, and the swing cylinder 12 is vertically swingable about a position hinged to the drum 11.

When the swinging discharging mechanism 8 is used, firstly, fermented grains are firstly guided into or quantitatively guided onto the first conveyor 6, the first conveyor 6 is opened, and then the fermented grains can fall from the discharging end to the receiving cylinder 10 and are discharged through the rotary cylinder 11 and the swinging cylinder 12 in sequence; before the ejection of compact, rotary drum 11 rotates around receiving cylinder 10, and thermal imaging device 9 rotates the condition that detects steam appears in wine rice steamer 3 promptly in step, and when detecting that steam appears in a certain position, rotary drum 11 stall, and the vertical swing of a swing section of thick bamboo 12 is swung its discharge gate to the position that appears steam and is fixed a position and carry out the ejection of compact behind this position, lays the unstrained spirits in this position and no longer has steam to produce, and a swing section of thick bamboo 12 playback is to vertical state, can detect once more and go up the rice steamer.

As an embodiment for driving the rotating drum 11 to rotate, the present embodiment further includes a rotation driving mechanism for driving the rotating drum 11 and the swinging drum 12 to rotate synchronously; the rotation driving mechanism comprises a driving motor 13 fixed on the material receiving barrel 10, and a first transmission assembly in transmission connection with the driving motor 13 is arranged outside the rotary drum 11. After the driving motor 13 is started, the first transmission assembly drives the rotating drum 11 to rotate, so that the circumferential rotation of the rotating drum 11 is realized. Specifically, first transmission assembly is including being fixed in the ring gear of the rotary drum 11 outside and setting up in the drive gear of driving motor 13 output, and drive gear and ring gear intermeshing can realize the transmission and connect.

As an embodiment for driving the swing drum 12 to swing, the present embodiment further includes a swing driving mechanism for driving the swing drum 12 to swing vertically; the swinging cylinder 12 is rotationally connected with the rotary cylinder 11 through a connecting shaft 14; the swing driving mechanism comprises a swing motor 15 fixed on the rotary drum 11, and a second transmission assembly in transmission connection with the swing motor 15 is arranged on the connecting shaft 14. The connecting shaft 14 is fixed on the swing cylinder 12, after the swing motor 15 is started, the second transmission assembly drives the connecting shaft 14 to rotate, and when the connecting shaft 14 rotates, the swing cylinder 12 is driven to swing in the vertical direction, so that the vertical swing action of the swing cylinder 12 is realized, and the position of a discharge hole of the swing cylinder is adjusted. Further, the connecting shaft 14 is a shaft body fixed at the upper end of the swing cylinder 12 and extending through the swing cylinder 12, and the shaft body extending through the swing cylinder 12 is rotatably connected to the rotating cylinder 11 so as to swing around the connecting shaft 14 at the lower end of the rotating cylinder 11. Specifically, the second transmission assembly comprises a driven wheel fixed on a connecting shaft 14 penetrating through the outer side of the swing cylinder 12 and a driving wheel fixed at the output end of the swing motor 15, and the driving wheel and the driven wheel are meshed with each other to realize transmission connection.

In practical application, the swing drum 12 needs to swing vertically, but because the swing drum 12 is long in length and heavy in weight, the swing drum 12 needs large power and supporting force to swing vertically and keep the corresponding position for discharging when swinging, so that the power device of the swing drum 12 needs large power and supporting force to realize, and the design difficulty and cost of the power device are undoubtedly increased.

Based on this, in order to ensure that the swing barrel 12 can better perform the vertical swing action, as shown in fig. 7, an auxiliary swing link assembly is further disposed in the swing barrel 12 in the embodiment; the auxiliary oscillating linkage assembly comprises a first link 16 and a second link 17 fixedly connected to the connecting shaft 14; the first connecting rod 16 is hinged with a lifting connecting rod 18, and the lower end of the lifting connecting rod 18 is hinged to the inner side of the lower end of the swing cylinder 12; the second connecting rod 17 is hinged with a connecting rod fixing plate 19, and the connecting rod fixing plate 19 is fixed on the inner side of the upper end of the swing cylinder 12. When the connecting shaft 14 rotates, the first connecting rod 16 and the second connecting rod 17 respectively pull the lower end and the upper end of the swing cylinder 12 to rotate through the lifting connecting rod 18 and the connecting rod fixing plate 19, so that the stress of the connecting shaft 14 is integrally reduced, the power output requirement of the swing motor 15 is lowered, the swing cylinder 12 can stably and rapidly execute vertical swing action and can better keep stable, and the discharging position of fermented grains is ensured. Furthermore, the connecting rod fixing plate 19 is two plate bodies arranged at a certain included angle, so that the supporting force of the connecting rod fixing plate 19 can be increased to share the gravity of the swing cylinder 12 borne by the connecting shaft 14, and the connecting shaft 14 can be ensured to be used for a long time.

In order to ensure that the oscillating drum 12 can distribute the material more completely and uniformly in the wine retort 3, as shown in fig. 5-9, the lower end of the oscillating drum 12 is also rotatably connected with a material distributing mechanism 20. The distributing mechanism 20 is mainly used for buffering fermented grains discharged from the oscillating drum 12 and ensuring uniform distribution of the fermented grains during discharging.

Specifically, the distributing mechanism 20 comprises a material collecting barrel 21, a sleeve 22 is arranged at the upper end of the material collecting barrel 21 to be sleeved at the lower end of the oscillating barrel 12, a rotating shaft 23 rotatably connected with the internal oscillating barrel 12 penetrates through the sleeve 22, a material collecting box 24 is arranged at the lower end of the material collecting barrel 21, the upper end of the material collecting box 24 is opened and communicated with the oscillating barrel 12, fermented grains discharging ports 25 are further formed in two opposite sides of the material collecting box 24, and the thermal imaging device 9 is located right above any fermented grain discharging port 25; the bottom of the inner side of the material collecting box 24 is also provided with a plate chain feeder 26, two ends of the plate chain feeder 26 are respectively positioned at the bottoms of the two fermented grains discharging holes 25, a power end 27 of the plate chain feeder 26 is arranged at the outer side of the material collecting box 24, and the power end 27 adopts a forward and reverse rotating motor.

The whole distributing mechanism 20 is rotationally connected with the oscillating cylinder 12 through the rotating shaft 23, when the oscillating cylinder 12 oscillates, the whole distributing mechanism 20 is always kept in a horizontal state under the action of gravity, fermented grains drop on the plate chain feeder 26 from the oscillating cylinder 12 in advance or when needed, and further scattered due to mutual collision with the plate chain feeder 26 when dropping, then the power end 27 is started to drive the plate chain feeder 26 to rotate, and the fermented grains can be uniformly discharged from the fermented grain discharge port 25 close to the steam generation position under the driving of the plate chain feeder 26.

It should be noted that the plate chain feeding machine 26 is provided with two fermented grain discharge ports 25 in total, when the thermal imaging device 9 detects steam, any fermented grain discharge port 25 can be selected according to the steam position to discharge, and only the forward and reverse rotation motor needs to be controlled to rotate forward or reverse. Further, the thermal imaging device 9 is arranged right above any fermented grain discharging port 25, the rotation of the rotary drum 11 can be stopped when steam is detected, the fermented grain discharging port 25 can face the position of the steam, the discharging direction of the fermented grain can be directly determined, and then the fermented grain laying at the position of the steam can be rapidly realized through discharging from any fermented grain discharging port 25.

In order to further increase the uniformity of fermented grains in each feeding, and ensure that the fermented grains can be horizontally paved to the position of steam, the positions of the two fermented grain discharge ports 25 of the material collecting box 24 in the embodiment are both provided with flexible rotating plates 28 which partially shield the fermented grain discharge ports 25. The flexible rotating plate 28 partially shields the fermented grain discharge port 25, fermented grains can be discharged through the fermented grain discharge port 25 between the flexible rotating plate 28 and the plate chain feeder 26, the flexible rotating plate 28 can further shield the fermented grains and enable the fermented grains to be more uniformly paved on the plate chain feeder 26 for discharging, the flexible rotating plate 28 is flexible and rotatable, the fermented grain discharge amount in unit time can be prevented from being influenced due to the fact that the fermented grains are excessively shielded, and the fermented grains can be slightly pushed away from the flexible rotating plate 28 while being paved for discharging. Further, the flexible rotating plate 28 is a rubber plate rotatably connected to the fermented grain discharging port 25.

With continued reference to fig. 3, the thermal imaging device 9 is primarily used for thermal imaging detection to determine the location of the vapor by thermal imaging of the detection. The thermal imaging device 9 may employ a thermal imaging sensor, a thermal imaging camera, a thermal imager, or the like, in a particular application.

With reference to fig. 3 and 4, the first conveyor 6 is mainly used for conveying fermented grains, and after the fermented grains are conveyed to the first conveyor 6 through the outside, the first conveyor 6 is started to convey the fermented grains to the discharging end of the fermented grains to be discharged to the swing discharging mechanism 8 for discharging.

In order to guarantee that the fermented grains on first conveyer 6 can evenly tile and discharge in a quantitative manner, a transverse baffle plate is arranged at a position, close to the starting end, on first conveyer 6, a material opening is reserved between the transverse baffle plate and the conveying surface of first conveyer 6, and when the fermented grains are tiled after being shielded by the transverse baffle plate and pass through in a quantitative manner, the fermented grains can be guaranteed to be discharged from the discharging end of the fermented grains in unit time in a quantitative manner. Concretely, horizontal striker plate transversely sets up on first conveyer 6 and perpendicular rather than direction of delivery mutually, and active structure swing joint such as accessible bolt, draw-in groove is in order to adjust height on first conveyer 6, and then changes material mouthful size to change the ration size of fermented grain based on the fermented grain demand of difference.

For further guaranteeing that the unstrained spirits can evenly tile on first conveyer 6, the region between discharge end and horizontal striker plate still is provided with the board of drawing in on first conveyer 6, draw in the board and set up in the two inside walls of first conveyer 6 transport surface, two draw in and form material passageway between the board promptly, the unstrained spirits is sheltered from and is tiled the back by horizontal striker plate, the material passageway that diminishes through the width is further drawn in, and then the unstrained spirits tiling is more completely even, can the quantitative discharge end from first conveyer 6 fall down at last. Specifically, the furling plate is formed by connecting two parallel plate bodies, the two plate bodies opposite to the furling plate are vertically arranged, and the material channel is formed between the two plate bodies.

Referring to fig. 10, the rotary lifting assembly 7 mainly includes a vertical column 29, a rotating arm 30 rotatably connected to the vertical column 29, and a lifting assembly 31 disposed on the rotating arm 30; the upper end of the rotating arm 30 is hinged to the starting end of the first conveyor 6, and the lifting end of the lifting assembly 31 is hinged to the first conveyor 6 between the rotating arm 30 and the swinging discharging mechanism 8; the upright column 29 is further provided with a rotating motor 32, and the rotating arm 30 is provided with a third transmission component in transmission connection with the rotating motor 32.

When using, the swinging arm 30 accessible rotates motor 32 and third drive assembly and drives and rotate on stand 29, and then drives swing discharge mechanism 8 through first conveyer 6 and rotate to adjust the operating position of swing discharge mechanism 8, simultaneously, lifting unit 31 liftable rotate around the articulated department with the swinging arm 30 in order to drive first conveyer 6, and then adjust the height of swing discharge mechanism 8, lay with the wine unstrained spirits that adapt to different thickness.

In a specific application, the rotating arm 30 may be directly sleeved on the upright 29, a supporting seat 33 may be fixed on the top of the rotating arm 30, and the first conveyor 6 may be hinged on the supporting seat 33 to be properly supported by the supporting seat 33. Further, the lifting assembly 31 is mainly used for lifting to change the heights of the first conveyor 6 and the swing discharging mechanism 8, and may adopt a hydraulic cylinder, an air cylinder, an electric push rod or a motor-driven screw lifting pair. Furthermore, the third transmission assembly can adopt the same structure as the first transmission assembly or the second transmission assembly to realize transmission, and the embodiment will not be described in detail.

As shown in figures 11-13, the distillation apparatus 2 is mainly used for distilling fermented grains, when the wine retort 3 is put into the retort, the wine retort 3 is sealed by the retort cover 4, and then the distillation is started, and wine steam is automatically collected through the wine steam collecting pipeline 5 in the distillation process.

When the wine retort 3 is used specifically, the two opposite sides outside the wine retort 3 are respectively provided with a rotating assembly 34 communicated with the interior of the wine retort 3, the rotating assemblies 34 at the two sides are respectively communicated with a rotating joint 35, one rotating joint 35 is communicated with a normal temperature water supplementing pipeline 36 and a tail wine supplementing pipeline 37 which are connected in parallel, and the other rotating joint 35 is communicated with a steam distribution pipeline 38; the wine retort 3 is internally separated into an upper chamber and a lower chamber through a retort grate 39, a steam outlet coil 40 and a medium supplementing pipe 41 are arranged in the lower chamber, the steam outlet coil 40 is communicated with the rotating assembly 34 communicated with the steam distribution pipeline 38, and the medium supplementing pipe 41 is communicated with the other rotating assembly 34.

When the device is used, the fermented grains are loaded into the upper cavity of the wine retort 3 by the loading robot 1, then the fermented grains are sealed through the retort cover 4, normal-temperature water, tail wine and steam are respectively supplemented through the normal-temperature water supplementing pipeline 36, the tail wine supplementing pipeline 37 and the steam distribution pipeline 38 before or during distillation, wine steam generated in the distillation process is continuously collected through the wine steam collecting pipeline 5, after distillation is completed, the wine retort 3 is controlled to vertically turn around the rotating assembly 34, then the fermented grains in the wine retort 3 are automatically poured out, and the fermented grains 3 are reset after the distillation is completed, and then the next loading and distillation cycle can be carried out.

In the embodiment, the rotating assembly 34 and the rotary joint 35 are used for communicating a normal temperature water supplementing pipeline 36, a tail liquor supplementing pipeline 37 and a steam distribution pipeline 38 required by the wine retort 3 to the wine retort 3 in a rotating mode, so that the wine retort 3 can be used for rotatable and automatic material pouring after distillation, the wine unstrained spirits can be automatically discharged from the wine retort, meanwhile, one rotary joint 35 is used for communicating the steam distribution pipeline 38, and the other rotary joint 35 is used for communicating the remaining pipelines, so that high-temperature steam, normal-temperature water and tail liquor can be supplied separately, normal-temperature water and tail liquor are guaranteed to meet the supply temperature before entering the wine retort 3, normal-temperature water and tail liquor can be slowly heated and evaporated in the wine retort 3 to guarantee the distillation effect, and the normal-temperature water supplementing pipeline 36, the tail liquor supplementing pipeline 37 and the steam distribution pipeline 38 can realize the communication of the wine retort 3 without complex structures and guarantee the rotation communication relationship, the pipeline arrangement difficulty and the cost of the three are reduced, the use of the distillation equipment 2 is integrally facilitated, and the distillation is more convenient.

It should be noted that, because the normal temperature water supplementing pipeline 36 and the tail liquor supplementing pipeline 37 need to supplement normal temperature water and tail liquor into the wine retort 3, the normal temperature water and the tail liquor still have a small amount of residual liquid after being consumed in the distillation process, and the residual liquid needs to be removed before the wine unstrained spirits are poured so as not to pollute the wine unstrained spirits, in this embodiment, the normal temperature water supplementing pipeline 36 and/or the tail liquor supplementing pipeline 37 may be set as a residual liquid recovery pipeline, which is communicated with the lower chamber of the wine retort 3 through the medium supplementing pipe 41 so as to adsorb the residual liquid through a pump and the like as needed, but the residual liquid may pollute the normal temperature water supplementing pipeline 36 and the tail liquor supplementing pipeline 37 in the design, so further, the bottom of the wine retort 3 may be provided with a drain pipe 42 communicating with the wine retort 3, the drain pipe 42 is opened after the distillation is completed to discharge the residual liquid, and the drain pipe 42 may be further provided with a corresponding electronic switch valve and the like to control the opening and closing of the drain pipe 42.

The rotating assembly 34 is mainly used for the rotation of the wine retort 3 and is used as a communicating piece between the wine retort 3 and a normal temperature water supplementing pipeline 36, a tail wine supplementing pipeline 37 and a steam distribution pipeline 38.

As shown in fig. 14, in a specific application, the rotating assembly 34 includes a fixing member 43 fixedly connected with the wine retort 3, and a shaft member 44 fixedly sleeved in the fixing member 43; the fixing piece 43 and the shaft piece 44 are both provided with through holes 45, and the through holes 45 of the fixing piece 43 and the shaft piece 44 are communicated with each other to form a communication hole; the opening position of the through hole 45 on the fixing piece 43 is communicated with the steam outlet coil 40 or the medium supplement pipe 41, and the opening position of the through hole 45 on the shaft piece 44 is in sealing connection with the rotary joint 35.

When the wine retort 3 is used, the rotating assemblies 34 are integrally fixed on two opposite sides of the wine retort 3, for example, any rotating assembly 34 is used, the fixing piece 43 is fixed outside the wine retort 3 to form a shaft connecting piece or a sleeve piece fixed with the wine retort 3, in actual application, a fixing groove is formed in the outer wall of the wine retort 3 and used for fixing the fixing piece 43, meanwhile, the steam outlet coil pipe 40 or the medium replenishing pipe 41 can be communicated with the fixing groove through the inside of the wine retort 3, so that the fixing piece 43 is communicated with the fixing piece 43, the fixing piece 43 can be fixed through a bolt, a corresponding sealing piece is arranged in the fixing groove to keep the communication hole 45 sealed, the shaft piece 44 is of a long shaft piece structure, one end of the shaft piece is fixedly and hermetically connected with the inside of the fixing piece 43, the other end of the shaft piece extends out of the fixing piece 43 and then is hermetically connected with the rotating joint 35, and is communicated with the normal temperature water replenishing pipeline 36, the tail wine replenishing pipeline 37 and the steam distribution pipeline 38 through the rotating joint 35, so that when the fixing piece 43 and the shaft piece 44 of the rotating assembly 34 rotate freely, the wine retort 3 can also ensure the pipeline communication.

With continued reference to fig. 14, in a specific application, one of the rotation assemblies 34 is further connected to a turning drive system for driving the wine retort 3 to vertically turn around the rotation assembly 34.

The overturning driving system mainly comprises an overturning driving motor 46, an output end of the overturning driving motor 46 is connected with a driving gear 47, a driven gear 48 is further fixed on the shaft 44 of one of the rotating assemblies 34, and the driven gear 48 is meshed with the driving gear 47. When the fermented grains need to be poured out after the distillation of the wine retort 3 is finished, the overturning driving motor 46 starts to drive the driving gear 47 and the driven gear 48 to drive, and at the moment, the shaft piece 44 can drive the wine retort 3 to vertically overturn, so that the fermented grains can be directly poured out.

It should be noted that, in order to facilitate installation of the tumble drive system, in the rotating assembly 34 on the side where the tumble drive system is installed, the length of the shaft 44 may be longer than that of the shaft 44 on the other side, so that more space may be left for installation and use of the tumble drive system, thereby avoiding inconvenience in installation and use of the tumble drive system, and by this design, the tumble drive system may also be prevented from affecting the pipeline connection of the rotary joint 35 on the side.

In order to ensure the stability of the wine retort 3 in the distilling process and the pouring process of the fermented grains, the overturning driving motor 46 is a braking motor. The output end of the brake motor can be locked after the brake motor is stopped and can not rotate freely, so that the brake motor can fix the rotating assembly 34 to prevent the wine retort 3 from rotating when the wine retort 3 is distilled, the wine retort 3 is kept in a vertical state to ensure the distillation effect, and meanwhile, the motor is braked to ensure the stable and uniform turnover of the wine retort 3 in the pouring process.

In specific application, the wine retort 3 is also provided with an electronic liquid level meter in the lower cavity. During distillation, because steam can liquefy and form water, the liquid in the wine retort 3 can be more and more, can influence the distillation of wine unstrained spirits after liquid surpasses certain height and contacts with the wine unstrained spirits, consequently, the electronic level gauge of this embodiment can detect the liquid level height of normal atmospheric temperature water and tail-wine in the lower chamber, and when liquid level was higher than the setting value in it, the staff can in time discharge unnecessary liquid medium in it according to the reading. Further, the discharged liquid medium may be discharged through the soil discharge pipe 42. Specifically, the electronic liquid level meter can be connected with an external display device in a wired or wireless mode for displaying the liquid level in real time, and can be connected with an alarm device such as an audible and visual alarm lamp and the like for alarming to remind a worker to drain water.

Referring to fig. 15, the retort lid 4 is conical as a whole; the inner side wall of the steamer cover 4 is spirally provided with a water replenishing pipe 49, one end of the water replenishing pipe 49 extends out of the outer side wall of the upper end of the steamer cover 4, and the water replenishing pipe 49 is provided with a plurality of water replenishing holes. The retort cover 4 is wholly conical, be convenient for wine steam to gather to its top along the retort cover, and then wine steam collection pipeline 5 can communicate in retort cover 1 top, it is more high-efficient to collect wine steam, and still can carry out moisturizing to wine unstrained spirits in the wine retort 3 behind the setting moisturizing pipe 49 in the retort cover 4 (some technology as following sand, in the brown sand, the operation of moisturizing needs to carry out in the wine unstrained spirits distillation process), it is required to satisfy the moisturizing, the function of retort cover 4 has further been increased, and can evenly moisturizing to wine unstrained spirits in order to guarantee moisturizing pipe 49 when moisturizing, consequently moisturizing pipe 49 is whole from the bottom up and is snakelike the bending and coils in covering 14, form spiral coil pipe structure, and then even moisturizing to wine unstrained spirits through a plurality of moisturizing hole on the body, improve the moisturizing effect. It should be noted that the part of the water replenishing pipe 49 extending out of the steamer cover 4 should be designed in a sealing manner so as to prevent wine steam from leaking, and the part of the water replenishing pipe 49 extending out of the steamer cover 4 can be connected with an external water replenishing hose, so that the opening and closing of the steamer cover 4 are not influenced, and the connection of the water replenishing pipe 49 is also not influenced.

It should be noted that, in order to ensure the sealing effect of the retort cover 4, a sealing ring can be arranged on the end face of the retort cover 4 in butt joint with the wine retort 3, a sealing groove can be arranged on the wine retort 3 correspondingly, and the sealing ring is matched with the sealing groove to form a sealing structure.

Referring to fig. 15 and 16, in order to facilitate opening and closing of the retort lid 4, the distillation apparatus 2 further includes a retort lid opening and closing assembly; the retort cover opening and closing assembly comprises a fixed seat, a rotating arm 50 is rotatably connected to the fixed seat, one end of the rotating arm 50 is fixedly connected with the top of the retort cover 4, and a driving mechanism for driving the rotating arm 50 to rotate so as to open and close the retort cover 4 is fixed on the fixed seat; the wine steam collecting device is characterized by further comprising a sealing adapter 51 fixed on the fixed seat, the wine steam collecting pipeline 5 comprises an air outlet pipe 52 and an air inlet pipe 53, one end of the sealing adapter 51 is communicated with the air outlet pipe 52, the other end of the sealing adapter 51 is communicated with the air inlet pipe 53 in a sealing mode, the air inlet pipe 53 can rotate around the sealing adapter 51, and the air inlet pipe 53 is communicated with the top of the retort cover 4 along the inner part of the rotating arm 50.

The steamer cover opening and closing assembly is connected with the steamer cover 4 through a rotating arm 50 which is connected to the fixing seat in a rotating mode, so that the steamer cover 4 can be automatically rotated by driving the rotating arm 50 to rotate through the driving mechanism, opening and closing of the steamer cover 4 are completed, automatic opening and closing of the steamer cover 4 are achieved, meanwhile, due to the effect of the sealing adapter 51, the air inlet pipe 53 is communicated with the steamer cover 4 all the time, the steamer cover 4 can also ensure that the air inlet pipe 53 is communicated with the air outlet pipe 52 through the sealing adapter 51 when rotating, the air outlet pipe 52 can be communicated with a wine collecting system to conduct wine steam liquefaction collection, and therefore the steam collecting pipeline 5 formed by the air inlet pipe 53 and the air outlet pipe 52 can be used for collecting steam, the connecting state can be still kept after the steamer cover 4 is opened and closed, and wine steam collection can be achieved on the premise that opening and closing of the steamer cover 4 are not affected.

Referring to fig. 16 and 17, a rotating shaft 54 is fixed at one end of the rotating arm 50, and the rotating shaft 54 is rotatably disposed on the fixing base; the rotating shaft 54 is hollow, and the air inlet pipe 53 extends into the rotating shaft 54, bends and extends out of the rotating shaft 54 to be rotatably connected with the sealing adapter 51. The axis of rotation 54 can be fine drive rotor arm 50 rotate and be fixed in on the fixing base, and for the convenience of intake pipe 53 installation and rotation, axis of rotation 54 can set to inside hollow axle body structure, and then intake pipe 53 rotates with sealed adapter 51 after the inside pipe of walking of axis of rotation 54 and is connected when can guaranteeing axis of rotation 54 to rotate, intake pipe 53 remains throughout and rice steamer lid 4 and outlet duct 52 intercommunication, the inside cavity of axis of rotation 54 also can further reduce its weight simultaneously, required power when reducing actuating mechanism rotates. Specifically, the middle of the rotating shaft 54 is provided with a notch communicated with the inside of the rotating shaft, and the air inlet pipe 53 can extend into the rotating shaft 54 from the notch, be bent and extend out of the end of the rotating shaft, and then be rotatably connected with the rotating joint 35, so that the structure is further simplified.

On this basis, as an embodiment, the driving mechanism is a fixed motor 55; the fixing seat is further provided with a coupling supporting seat 56, a coupling is supported on the coupling supporting seat 56 through a bearing, and the rotating shaft 54 is connected with an output shaft of the fixed motor 55 through a coupling. The fixed motor 55 drives the rotating shaft 54 to rotate through the coupler, so that the rotating arm 50 rotates, the opening and closing of the retort cover 4 can be well realized, the control technology of the fixed motor 55 is also relatively conventional, and the opening and closing of the retort cover 4 can be well controlled.

As shown in fig. 18, as a specific structure, the sealing adapter 51 includes a hollow shaft body 57 and flanges 58 fixed to both ends of the hollow shaft body 57; the flange plate 58 at one end of the sealing adapter 51 is fixed with the fixed seat through bolts, and the flange plate 58 at the other end is connected with the air outlet pipe 52 in a flange manner; the air inlet pipe 53 extends into the hollow shaft body 57 and can rotate, and a plurality of sealing rings 59 sealed on the outer wall of the air inlet pipe 53 are further arranged in the hollow shaft body 57. When the air inlet pipe 53 rotates, the air inlet pipe extends into the hollow shaft body 57 and is sealed through the sealing ring 59, so that the air inlet pipe can rotate and can ensure sealing, and wine steam cannot leak when the retort cover 4 is opened and closed.

In specific application, a temperature sensor is further arranged at the position where the inner wall of the air inlet pipe 53 is communicated with the steamer cover 4. Intake pipe 53 is used for wine steam to collect to when it collects wine steam, can detect wine steam temperature through temperature sensor, and then can judge this moment wine steam belongs to first wine, well wine or tail wine through its temperature value, can judge the wine body that the wine body classification realized different classes when can conveniently follow-up receipts wine and collect.

In a specific application, the outlet pipe 52 and the inlet pipe 53 are both stainless steel pipes. Because outlet duct 52 and intake pipe 53 constitute the pipeline and are used for collecting wine steam, and wine steam is high-temperature gas, it can liquefy in the cooling when collecting, consequently, outlet duct 52 and intake pipe 53 need design into high temperature resistance body, and can not be corroded by high-temperature softening and wine steam, avoid influencing steam and collect or cause the pollution to the wine body, so this embodiment is the nonrust steel pipe structure of stereoplasm through design outlet duct 52 and intake pipe 53, can guarantee the collection and the pipeline of wine steam and use for a long time, and nonrust steel pipe also can not corrode because of the influence of wine steam.

Based on the above brewing equipment, the second embodiment of the present invention further provides a brewing system, as shown in fig. 19-21, the brewing system includes an operation platform 60, and the above brewing equipment is disposed on the operation platform 60; wherein, a plurality of through hole grooves 61 are arranged on the working platform 60, a wine retort 3 of the distillation equipment 2 is arranged in each through hole groove 61, and the wine retort 3 can be vertically turned in the through hole groove 61; the industry platform 60 is also provided with a movable base 62, the movable base 62 is provided with a retort loading robot 1 of the brewing equipment, and the retort loading robot 1 can move to any wine retort 3 installation position along with the movable base 62.

This making wine system is through setting up a plurality of logical mouthful grooves 61 that are circumference or linear arrangement, all according to wine rice steamer 3 in every logical mouthful groove 61, thereby move retort robot 1 through removing base 62 and can go up the rice steamer to arbitrary wine rice steamer 3, not only further made things convenient for and gone up rice steamer and distillation, ensure that the two can closely link up, the distillation efficiency has also been increased simultaneously, it can be continuous go up the rice steamer to a plurality of wine rice steamer 3 to go up rice steamer robot 1, be convenient for the wine unstrained spirits concentrate go up the rice steamer distillation and be convenient for the collection after the wine unstrained spirits distill, also be convenient for the collection after the distillation, and whole process is the completion of automizing, it also has reduced and has gone up rice steamer and distillation cost to go up rice steamer.

In specific application, the operation platform 60 is mainly used for operation of workers, and is convenient for the workers to go to a steamer and observe fermented grains or distillation conditions in each distillation device 2. Specifically, the whole level of operation platform 60 is laid, and set up corresponding through-hole groove 61 according to 2 quantity of distillation plant and position, distillation plant 2 wholly is located through-

hole groove

61, 3 lower parts of the wine rice steamer of distillation plant 2 include that runner assembly 34 all is located operation platform 60 below, thereby can keep apart runner assembly 34 in operation platform 60 below, avoid the staff to touch and arouse the accident, and simultaneously, 3 upper portions of the wine rice steamer of distillation plant 2 are located operation platform 60 top, be convenient for the staff to go up the rice steamer and observe the interior wine unstrained spirits condition of wine rice steamer 3.

In a specific application, referring to fig. 21, a plurality of support columns 63 are arranged below the work platform 60 at intervals, and bearing seats 64 are arranged at the upper ends of the support columns 63; two of the support columns 63 are in one group, a through hole groove 61 is formed between each group of support columns 63, and the two side rotating assemblies 34 of the distillation equipment 2 in the through hole groove 61 are respectively and rotatably connected to the bearing seats 64 of the two support columns 63 in the group. Through a plurality of support column 63 intervals according to a plurality of distillation plant 2 to set up a plurality of distillation plant 2 side by side, be convenient for the unstrained spirits concentrate go up the rice steamer and pour the collection, can reduce the distillation field demand, and the spaced department of a plurality of support column 63 belows of accessible after the unstrained spirits are poured collects, does not influence the rice steamer and the distillation on the distillation plant 2 of upper portion yet, has practiced thrift man-hour, has also made things convenient for the unstrained spirits to go up the rice steamer and has gone out the rice steamer.

It should be noted that the bearing seat 64 is a supporting seat structure fixed on the top of the supporting column 63, a bearing is disposed in the supporting seat structure, and the shaft 44 of the rotating assembly 34 penetrates through the bearing and is then rotatably disposed on the bearing seat 64 and positioned. Furthermore, the lower end of the supporting column 63 can be fixed to the ground through embedding, or a cement foundation is poured, and a metal horizontal plate and the like are arranged for supporting.

In order to further facilitate the operation of the working personnel on the operation platform 60, a horizontal baffle plate 65 is further arranged on the outer side of the wine retort 3, and the horizontal baffle plate 65 is arranged in the middle of the wine retort 3 and used for shielding the port groove 61 outside the wine retort 3. During the design of opening groove 61, owing to need guarantee that wine rice steamer 3 can accomplish the upset action in it, consequently, the maximum dimension requirement when its opening size needs satisfy the upset of wine rice steamer 3, so when the installation is accomplished to wine rice steamer 3, the opening groove 61 in its outside leaves more space when it does not overturn, the staff just has the risk of dropping from opening groove 61 when the operation, consequently, this embodiment can shelter from opening groove 61 through horizontal baffle 65, and when wine rice steamer 3 rotates, also can ensure wine rice steamer 3 ability free rotation. Specifically, the horizontal baffle 65 is configured to fit the through-hole groove 61. Specifically, the through groove 61 is a rectangular notch structure, the four side joint positions are set to be oblique corners, the horizontal baffle 65 is also a rectangular plate body, and the four corners are chamfered to form structures matched with the oblique corners.

In the specific application, when the wine retort 3 is turned over and the material is poured, in order to avoid that the turning angle of the wine retort 3 is too large and the resetting of the wine retort 3 is influenced, the operation platform 60 is positioned in the through-hole groove 61 and is further fixed with an air spring (not shown in the figure), and a piston rod of the air spring is hinged to the lower end of the horizontal baffle plate 65. Through the arrangement of the gas spring, the maximum overturning angle of the wine retort 3 can be controlled when the wine retort 3 is overturned, and the influence on the pouring position of the fermented grains caused by the reverse overturning of the wine retort 3 can be avoided.

When the wine retort loading robot is specifically applied, the movable base 62 is a movable plate with a pulley mechanism arranged at the bottom, the plurality of wine retorts 3 are arranged on the operation platform 60 at intervals along a straight line, the movable base 62 is arranged on the outer side of the wine retort 3, a slide rail set is arranged on the operation platform 60 and arranged in parallel along the arrangement direction of the wine retort 3, so that the movable base 62 can be translated to any position of the wine retort 3 along the slide rail set, and the retort loading robot 1 is ensured to be capable of loading any wine retort 3 into the retort.

The third embodiment of the present invention is based on the brewing equipment or the brewing system, and discloses a brewing process, which includes the following steps:

s1, opening a normal temperature water supplementing pipeline 36 and a tail liquor supplementing pipeline 37, and supplementing normal temperature water and tail liquor into a liquor retort 3, wherein the temperature of the tail liquor is 20-32 ℃, and the weight ratio of the normal temperature water to the tail liquor is 10:150 to 200;

s2, opening a steam distribution pipeline 38 to introduce steam into the wine retort 3, and starting to allow the fermented grains to be aerated and enter the wine retort;

s3, driving the first conveyor 6 to rotate and lift by the rotary lifting assembly 7, and adjusting the swinging discharging mechanism 8 to the upper end of the wine retort 3; in this step, most of the rotary lifting assembly 7 drives the first conveyor 6 to rotate and lift, and the swinging discharging mechanism 8 is adjusted to a high position, so that the swinging discharging mechanism can rotate circularly and translate into the rest of the wine retorts 3.

S4, starting the rotary lifting assembly 7 to drive the first conveyor 6 to rotate and descend again, and adjusting the swinging discharging mechanism 8 to the middle of the inner side of the wine retort 3 and a designed distance from the bottom of the wine retort 3; in this step, most of the rotary lifting assembly 7 drives the first conveyor 6 to rotate and descend, and the swing discharging mechanism 8 is adjusted to be at a low position, so that the swing discharging mechanism can be directly used for feeding into a retort.

S5, starting the first conveyor 6 to a designed time and then closing the first conveyor 6, quantitatively conveying the fermented grains to the discharging end of the first conveyor 6, discharging the fermented grains to the swing discharging mechanism 8, and accumulating the fermented grains on the distributing mechanism 20; the step is mainly used for storing quantitative fermented grains on the distributing mechanism 20 in advance so as to discharge the fermented grains timely, and synchronous feeding can be executed when the thermal imaging device 9 detects that steam is generated at a certain position on the premise of ensuring rapid supply of the fermented grains.

S6, synchronously starting the driving motor 13 and the thermal imaging device 9 when the step S5 is executed, detecting steam in the wine retort 3 by the thermal imaging device 9 along with the rotation of the rotary drum 11, and executing when the thermal imaging device 9 detects that steam is generated at a certain position:

turning off the driving motor 13, stopping the rotation of the rotary drum 11, and starting the plate chain feeder 26 to discharge the fermented grains from the positions corresponding to the fermented grain discharge holes 25 where the steam is laid;

or the like, or, alternatively,

turning off the driving motor 13, stopping the rotation of the rotary drum 11, starting the swing motor 15 to swing the swing drum 12 to the position where the steam is located, and then turning on the plate chain feeder 26 to discharge the fermented grains from the position where the steam is laid from the corresponding fermented grain discharge hole 25;

in this step, when different areas in the wine retort 1 are paved, the distribution mechanism 20 can only realize the distribution of the fermented grains in a certain diameter of a circumferential area under the rotation action of the rotary drum 11, so that after the diameter is exceeded, the swing motor 15 can be started to swing the swing cylinder 12, the radial discharging position of the distribution mechanism 20 is changed, and the distribution of the fermented grains in different diameter positions of the wine retort 1 is met.

S7, repeatedly executing the steps S5 and S6 to perform gas-visible feeding, and when the thermal imaging device 9 detects that the distance between the fermented grains in the wine retort 3 and the thermal imaging device 9 is smaller than a set value, synchronously starting the rotary lifting assembly 7 to drive the first conveyor 6 to ascend, driving the swing discharging mechanism 8 to ascend until the distance between the fermented grains and the thermal imaging device 9 meets the design height, and stopping rotating the lifting assembly 7; in this step, after the fermented grains are laid to a certain thickness, if the distance between the distributing mechanism 20 and the upper surface of the laid fermented grains is too small, the swinging of the swinging discharging mechanism 8 and the discharging of the distributing mechanism 20 are affected, therefore, the distance between the thermal imaging device 9 and the thermal imaging device 9 is used as a detection object during thermal imaging detection, and when the distance is smaller than a set value, the swinging discharging mechanism 8 can be increased to the designed height, so that the smooth operation of feeding the fermented grains and the interference of the fed fermented grains are avoided. The set value in the step can be 80-120 cm, and the design height can be 130-150 cm.

S8, repeating the steps S5, S6 and S7 until the fermented grains in the wine retort 3 are laid to the designed weight or thickness, finishing feeding the fermented grains into the wine retort 3, starting the rotary lifting assembly 7 to drive the swinging discharging mechanism 8 to withdraw from the wine retort 3 after the feeding is finished, covering the wine retort 3 with a retort cover 4 and ensuring that the wine retort 3 and the retort cover 4 are sealed; in this step, the design weight may be the total fermented grain loading amount of the wine retort 3, and the design thickness may be the overall rising height of the swing discharging mechanism 8.

S9, continuously opening the steam distribution pipeline 38, starting high-temperature distillation, and collecting wine steam generated in the distillation process through the wine steam collecting pipeline 5;

s10, after distillation is finished, closing the steam distribution pipeline 38, discharging waste liquid at the bottom of the wine retort 3, opening the retort cover 4 and driving the wine retort 3 to vertically turn over and pour materials around the rotating assembly 34 until fermented grains in the wine retort 3 are completely poured, and resetting the wine retort 3 after the fermented grains are poured;

s11, repeating the steps S1 to S10 and entering the next wine making cycle.

This making wine technology is through the cooperation of going up each structure of rice steamer robot 1 and distillation plant 2, can accomplish the automation of wine unstrained spirits, evenly, the ration goes up the rice steamer, and go up rice steamer in-process automatic collection wine steam, automatic pouring after the distillation is accomplished, whole process automation is accomplished, the human cost has been saved, and it is more reasonable effective to make to go up rice steamer and distillation process to link up, it is consuming time to shorten to go up rice steamer and distillation process, last rice steamer and distillation efficiency have been improved, it goes up rice steamer and distillation quality to have improved.

In the brewing process, because steam can not be generated in the wine retort before the fermented grains are laid in many times, the fermented grains are firstly laid in advance, the fermented grains with the thickness of 3-5 cm are uniformly laid in advance, and then the steam generation condition is detected.

Based on this, a fermented grain pre-spreading step is also included between the step S5 and the step S6, and the fermented grain pre-spreading step comprises the following steps:

A. the first conveyor 6 conveys the fermented grains to the discharging end of the fermented grains, discharges the fermented grains to the swinging discharging mechanism 8 and accumulates the fermented grains on the distributing mechanism 20;

B. synchronously starting the driving motor 13 and the plate chain feeder 26 to perform first round tiling on the circumference of the fermented grains;

C. after the first round of tiling is finished, starting the swing motor 15 to swing the swing cylinder 12 to a position staggered with the first round of tiling in the wine retort 1, and starting the driving motor 13 and the plate chain feeder 26 to carry out second round of tiling on the circumference of the wine grains;

D. and C, repeating the step C, and staggering the paving positions of each round until the bottom of the wine retort 1 is uniformly paved with the fermented grains with the thickness of 3-5 cm, so as to finish the pre-paving of the fermented grains.

The above-mentioned embodiments are intended to illustrate the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention in further detail, and it should be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are merely exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. Brewing apparatus, characterized in that it comprises:

the loading robot is used for loading the fermented grains into a distillation device;

the distillation equipment is used for distilling the fermented grains fed into the retort of the feeding robot;

wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the distillation equipment comprises a wine retort arranged below the upper retort robot, a retort cover with a sealing cover arranged on the wine retort and a wine steam collecting pipeline communicated with the retort cover;

the retort loading robot comprises a first conveyor, one end of the first conveyor is hinged with a rotary lifting assembly for driving the first conveyor to rotate and lift, the other end of the first conveyor is a discharge end and is hinged with a swinging discharge mechanism, and the swinging discharge mechanism is also provided with thermal imaging equipment for detecting wine retort steam; the swinging discharging mechanism can perform circumferential rotation and vertical swinging actions, change the thermal imaging position of the thermal imaging equipment in the wine retort and adjust the discharging direction of the swinging discharging mechanism in the wine retort based on the circumferential rotation actions, and adjust the discharging position of the swinging discharging mechanism in the wine retort based on the vertical swinging actions.

2. The brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the swing discharging mechanism comprises a material collecting barrel hinged with the discharging end of the first conveyor, a rotary barrel rotatably connected with the lower end of the material collecting barrel, and a swing barrel hinged with the lower end of the rotary barrel;

wherein the thermal imaging device is arranged outside the rotary drum, and the swinging drum can vertically swing around a position hinged with the rotary drum.

3. The brewing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein an auxiliary oscillating linkage assembly is further arranged in the oscillating drum;

the auxiliary swing connecting rod assembly comprises a first connecting rod and a second connecting rod which are fixedly connected with the connecting shaft;

the first connecting rod is hinged with a lifting connecting rod, and the lower end of the lifting connecting rod is hinged to the inner side of the lower end of the swing cylinder;

the second connecting rod is hinged with a connecting rod fixing plate, and the connecting rod fixing plate is fixed on the inner side of the upper end of the swing cylinder.

4. The brewing apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that the lower end of the oscillating drum is also rotatably connected with a material distribution mechanism;

the distributing mechanism comprises a material collecting cylinder, a sleeve is arranged at the upper end of the material collecting cylinder and is sleeved at the lower end of a swinging cylinder, a rotating shaft which is rotatably connected with the swinging cylinder penetrates through the sleeve, a material collecting box is arranged at the lower end of the material collecting cylinder, the upper end of the material collecting box is opened and is communicated with the swinging cylinder, fermented grains discharging holes are further formed in two opposite sides of the material collecting box, and the thermal imaging equipment is positioned right above any fermented grain discharging hole;

5. The brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the two opposite sides of the outside of the wine retort are respectively provided with a rotating assembly communicated with the inside of the wine retort, the rotating assemblies at the two sides are respectively communicated with a rotating joint, one rotating joint is communicated with a normal temperature water supplementing pipeline and a tail wine supplementing pipeline which are connected in parallel, and the other rotating joint is communicated with a steam distribution pipeline;

6. The brewing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the rotating assembly includes a fixing member fixedly connected with the wine retort, and a shaft member fixedly sleeved in the fixing member;

7. The brewing apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the distillation apparatus further comprises a retort lid opening and closing assembly;

8. The brewing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein a temperature sensor is further arranged at a position where the inner wall of the air inlet pipe is communicated with the steamer cover.

9. A wine brewing system is characterized by comprising an operation platform, wherein the operation platform is provided with wine brewing equipment according to any one of claims 1 to 8;

wherein, the first and the second end of the pipe are connected with each other,

the operation platform is provided with a plurality of through hole grooves, each through hole groove is internally provided with a wine retort of the distillation equipment, and the wine retort can be vertically overturned in the through hole groove;

the wine brewing platform is characterized in that a movable base is further arranged on the work platform, an upper steamer robot of the wine brewing equipment is arranged on the movable base, and the upper steamer robot can move to any wine steamer installation position along with the movable base.

10. A wine brewing process is characterized by comprising the following steps:

s4, starting the rotary lifting assembly to drive the first conveyor to rotate and descend again, and adjusting the swinging discharging mechanism to the middle of the inner side of the wine retort and to a designed distance away from the bottom of the wine retort;

stopping rotating the rotary drum, and starting the plate chain feeder to discharge fermented grains from the positions corresponding to the fermented grain discharge ports and lay steam;

or the like, or, alternatively,

stopping rotating the rotary drum, swinging the swing drum to the position of steam, and opening the plate chain feeder to discharge fermented grains from the corresponding fermented grain discharge port to the position of steam laying;

s8, repeating the steps S5, S6 and S7 until the fermented grains in the wine retort are laid to the designed weight or thickness, finishing feeding the wine retort, starting the rotary lifting assembly to drive the swinging discharging mechanism to withdraw the wine retort after the feeding is finished, and covering the wine retort with a retort cover to ensure that the wine retort and the retort cover are sealed;

s9, continuously opening the steam distribution pipeline, starting high-temperature distillation, and collecting wine steam generated in the distillation process through a wine steam collecting pipeline;

s11, repeating the steps S1 to S10 and entering the next wine making cycle.