CN1692155A - Method and apparatus for malting - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and apparatus for carrying out a malting process on a mass of grain within a vessel 1 are disclosed. The apparatus includes a series of stripping plates 18 of incrementing height for moving grain towards a hopper 9 at the centre of the vessel, and means 10 for lifting grain from the hopper to an elevated discharge point 24. Loading arms 25 aid redistribution of the elevated grain onto the grain mass. The apparatus can be used for any stage of the malting process.

Description

Malting method and equipment

Technical field

The present invention relates to utilize cereal system bud, refer more particularly to barley system bud, its operation comprises five steps, i.e. oven dry is soaked, germinate, and kilning, and baking, the present invention also provides the equipment that is used to make the bud process.

Background technology

Brewing process comprises five clear and definite stages, i.e. oven dry is soaked, and germinates kilning, and baking.

Malting procedure the earliest can be traced back to ancient Egypt in the world.As time goes on, various wine brewing mode has been introduced in all mechanize day by day of each stage of system bud technology, comprises that nineteen sixty is for initial stage Saladin and Wanderhaufen germination system.These systems spin upside down machine (Bottom to Top Turners) in the germination stage use and produce high-quality Fructus Hordei Germinatus in long rectangle " groove " container or boxes.It is to stir or to mix grain that operation requires positioning machine, can move to another box or move to the machine of the other end from an end from a box.Positioning machine scoops up raw material from the bottom of stockpile (piece), throws from the top down so that stockpile can be fully ventilative in the germination stage, and volume increases.This process can be positioned over the heap bottom of germinateing by the Archimedean screw oar that will drive scoop or sealing and overturn, and after the germination heap of accumulation upset then and the positioning machine work formerly stockpile piece (increasing the volume of piling piece) is carried out illumination.At present, the system of all mechanize malting procedures all can not realize from bottom to top upset fully in germination stage and other four malting procedure stages.

Positioning machine (in the germination stage) must be realized illumination stockpile piece, isolates Fructus Hordei Germinatus inferior and fully ventilative.Good positioning machine can rise to 1/3rd from 1/4th with the volume of raw material block.(system bud and brewing science (Malting and Brewing Science), Briggs, Hough, Stevens, and Young).

In order to raise the efficiency, brewing process simplifies preceding four-stage (oven dry is soaked, and germinates kilning) with minimum unit cost, only once or two cylindrical chambers that comprise a plurality of different dynamic devices in can produce in enormous quantities.(common and preceding four-stage separate operation of last baking stage.) but the deflation of operation process but damaged the quality of Fructus Hordei Germinatus, particularly lost from the bottom to the benefit of flip-top raw material.If processing apparatus can not be handled grain equably, just can not produce the product of homogeneous.These large cylindrical type containers or mixing tank moves raw material by arranging regularly to one, or operate by in fixed raw material, driving row's mixing tank.Employed mixing tank is open spiral arm, and this spiral arm can prevent that Fructus Hordei Germinatus from tangling in the germination stage, but but can not arbitrary stage of the preceding four-stage of malting procedure with raw material from the bottom reversed to the top.Particularly, described mixing tank can not strengthen ventilation property, or makes the volume of raw material block be increased to 1/3 from 1/4 in the germination stage.Another defective of described equipment is to have increased cost, also needs other driving arrangement to load, and peels off and unload container.

An object of the present invention is to improve the equipment that uses in the malting procedure, eliminate or alleviate the deficiency of aforesaid present processing apparatus.

Another object of the present invention just provides a single multipurpose container, realizes arbitrary or all stages of malting procedure, i.e. oven dry is soaked, and germinates kilning, and baking.A further object of the present invention just provides five stages or arbitrary stage the equipment from cereal heap bottom reversed grain to top of a permission at malting procedure.Further object of the present invention is exactly by utilizing equipment of the present invention to realize that malting procedure improves the quality of Fructus Hordei Germinatus, particularly makes the grain quality even.

Summary of the invention

For reaching aforementioned purpose, the invention provides a single multifunction container, wherein can operate five stages of malting procedure effectively, avoid simultaneously owing to use the tun of present a plurality of former movers to produce the infringement of the quality product that product causes.

According to the present invention, an advantage of the invention is provides a driving arrangement (driving mechanism) that the center is provided with, as mentioned below with reference to the accompanying drawings.Described driving arrangement can provide power so that loading and smooth arm are realized the device that scatters once more for loading peaceful finishing equipment, " flip-arm and peel plate " and the cereal that mechanism for stripping is collected being risen to the top from the bottom of piling piece.According to the present invention, the driving arrangement that provides comprises: drive unit, uprightly be provided for handling the drive shaft of heap piece, a plurality of radially be provided with the certain altitude oblique arrangement and on cereal heap plane, piece place around the abundant vertical plate of rotation of described axle, wherein preferred mode is, utilize the radial compensation optimum relevant that each described plate is set with the inner radial adjacent component, to be used to providing certain angle to lag behind, thereby, some peel plate are provided, these peel plate have constituted from axle and extend out and have a cleaning arm of curved shape, thus the arm terminal hang behind relevant with the installation end of arm in each axle rotary course.

The function of cleaning arm is to drive peel plate back and forth movement in grain mass, under this mode, fully near the cereal thin layer of container bottom (specifically being the macropore base plate), utilize peel plate to collect, and utilize their power to push be arranged on the funnel of container bottom central position to.

According to the present invention, the heap block transfer equipment that is provided with for the cereal heap piece that promotes above-mentioned funnel collection also is provided, it rises to the unloading position level with cereal, and with described equipment and put, be reloaded into the heap piece with the cereal heap that will collect unloading, provide be installed on the drive shaft with the parallel plane plane of heap piece in abundant many loading arms of rotation.In a preferred embodiment, each loading arm has warp architecture, thus in each axle rotary course the terminal hang behind of the installation end of arm.Described bending is preferably corresponding to the bending of above-mentioned peel plate arm.Heap block transfer device preferably is arranged to the transport unit of Archimedean screw shape.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, peel plate arm and loading arm are arranged on the public drive shaft, and corresponding and cereal heap piece maximum height separates the space of certain distance, to prevent that loading arm pulled the heap piece in operation.In an optimum example of the present invention, loading arm can with the distance of peel plate arm in move, thereby in each stage of operation, they can suitably regulate the top in order to close adaptation heap piece, in order to uniformly dispersing cereal.

According to of the present invention one other examples, a container of realizing operation is provided, container is provided with the cylinder arm portion of vertically placing usually, this part is provided with superposed driving arrangement, that can move is connected on the drive shaft of erectting the central position, the upper end is provided with the loading arm of many bendings, the lower end is provided with the arm of peeling off of many respective curved, peeling off arm is made of with the certain altitude oblique arrangement many axial plates, described container is provided with a heap piece that is used for receiving processing, and the heap piece collection funnel that is provided with of central position, described axle is arranged at the top of described funnel and is contained in of length direction and is used for that cereal is piled piece and rises to heap block transmission device near the last unloading portion of the axle of loading arm from funnel.Container can suitably be provided with ventilative and heating unit as required, as known in the art, require in malting procedure.

From the container bottom funnel part, utilize heap piece transmission equipment or device that cereal is promoted to container top, this heap piece transmission equipment or device are preferably placed at the spiral transmitting device (described sleeve is as axial plane) in the sleeve, realize the distribution once more of cereal heap piece by the assistance of loading arm at container top.Like this, by realizing cereal upset from top to bottom in conjunction with the lift technique of bottom flip-arm, elevated peel plate and central position and the acting in conjunction of top loading arm.

Peel plate can be arranged on any amount of flip-arm, and this depends on the size and batch quality of system bud container.Comprise two arms that oppositely are provided with in the preferred embodiment, shown in example and accompanying drawing.The peel plate material adopts metal or other suitable material, it is installed on flip-arm or the vertical usually arm that is provided with, utilize certain way that its size and shape are set, make when arm rotates, peel plate is used as deflection component or plough sheet, and the plough sheet is pushed the thin layer of cereal to by cereal heap piece the central position of container bottom repeatedly.

Part cereal is partly guided or deflected to outermost peel plate into next innermost peel plate from the outermost of container bottom.The arm that has a peel plate when the next one by the time, aforementioned outer by container bottom and cereal that move into moves a unit (utilizing the peel plate radial to scan) to container center once more.Simultaneously because on the plate height to the increase of container center direction, follow the peel plate that the peel plate of front is passed through, the part cereal that falls in portion's grain mass is herein also shifted to inside from it.Utilize this method, flip-arm that passes through in succession or lever arm are shifted to the center funnel with the thin layer of cereal from the bottom of entire container.Whole a collection of cereal is realized taking out of from container bottom by above-mentioned the repetition in the container, and utilizes lifting dress system to transmit to the top of grain mass.This operation can be in malting procedure any stage with the frequency of needs, overturn continuously, Xie Song, ventilation, or boosting and cooling cereal heap piece.

In umklapp process, when with cereal when container bottom promotes, lifting gear also can be realized ventilating or increase the volume of cereal heap piece.Shown in the example, during the Archimedean screw arm that turns round in using sleeve, will exceeding in peel plate of the enhancing rate setting of spiral arm transmits the former speed that flows into funnel of expecting.This has increased ventilation property and can have been avoided offense of damage to corn trees and vegetable products in the transmission.Lift technique also is applicable at the operation end or selects the operation stage to realize the unloading of cereal by the relief passage.

Loading arm loads and use in the process of container cereal upset at container.In a preferred embodiment, they are positioned at the trailing edge over against flip-arm, and follow same bending or contour structure.Preferably, loading arm can promote or descend with the volume of a collection of grain mass in the coupling container, so that loading arm is used for effectively scattering and uniform cereal materials.

Container of the present invention also be provided with other the characteristic parts in case all aspects of malting procedure can realize.Comprise: insulation, the turnover of empty G﹠W, heat transmit exchange board and air humidifying equipment.Different step according to the malting procedure of realizing is sent in the container air of suitable humiture.For example, the system bud baking stage, if desired, can in container, realize easily, follow germination stage system closely after, the structure bottom by container provides warm air, the cereal that overturns simultaneously heap piece.

Therefore, be appreciated that, according to the present invention, the method of the upset cereal that provides heap piece comprises: a collection of cereal is put into container form heap piece, container and be provided with that vertical drive shaft, axle are provided with the crooked flip-arm that comprises certain altitude state radial skew plate, bending in the bottom of axle corresponding to axle top is provided with the collection loading arm, described axle carries length direction and is provided with the heap block transmission device, is provided with in the bottom and is used for that cereal is piled piece and guides the funnel of transmission equipment into, be provided with the unloading part that the cereal that is used for unload lift is piled piece in the upper end; The operation drive shaft rotates the lever arm of upper and lower respectively, under this mode, cereal piles up the bottom of axle and radially shifts to collection funnel, promote cereal heap piece to the unloading part, collect cereal heap piece and also scatter same heap piece, described step circulates in some cycles and finishes purpose with abundant realization malting procedure.

Description of drawings

Said mechanism, container and method in theory, are used for realizing all system bud processes at a container that this use-pattern is described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in follow-up example:

Fig. 1 show carry out malting procedure the cross section of tankage in steps;

Fig. 2 shows the flip-arm of one embodiment of the invention and the vertical view of high-end trim peel plate.

Embodiment

As shown in Figure 1, the cross-sectional view of container shows the container that is used for malting procedure.Main vessel 1 is made of stainless material.Be provided with air input tube 2 in the bottom of container.This pipe is arranged at a side of container, is higher than water shoot 3 and connection with it, to be used for the auxiliary immersion liquid of discharging.After also being used in drying, kilning, baking residue and sedimentary ashes bar stem are removed.The air input tube is by bottom input air in container of high pressure chest 6 and punching.Air heating and/or according to the suitable equipment humidification of the needs utilization of malting procedure.Be arranged at the top of container with the air output tube 4 of spline structure.(air input and output pipe inside is provided with the characteristic equipment that does not indicate in figure below: air heat exchanger, many skylights damper, butterfly valve, spray chamber and centrifugal many speed fan sheets).

Be provided with heap piece transmission equipment in the container, this heap piece transmission equipment comprises the lever arm 12,25 that is used for inswept container upper and lower, and described lever arm is installed on the drive shaft 17 of central position, also is provided with for example heap piece lift technique of spiral transfer equipment 10 on this.This mechanism is used for following purpose.

In the germination stage of malting procedure, the carbonic acid gas of high compression suppresses to suck air, and causes " focus " at heap piece 5.Upset heap piece makes the heap piece loose to increase ventilation property from top to bottom, in immersion and germination process, handles this problem and makes the more even of its finishing.The airflow that is provided with in the container can circulating to be used for removing the carbonic acid gas composition of germination process by heap piece property performance period.This process also can improve subsequently the kiln degree of uniformity that exsiccant degree of uniformity and color constitute in roasting and baking stage.This has significantly improved the quality and the degree of uniformity of system bud product.

High pressure chest 6 is provided with drop to input tube, to help draining-off sewage and impurity.Be provided with a circular arm 7 and be used for, also can be used in the injection of immersion process air so that fermentation of heap piece and ventilation at vessel cleaning inject high pressure water.Can also be used for soaking at bake process.Static, stainless steel punching bottom 8 is provided with the conical loading hopper 9 of a punching.Raw material is the heap piece lift technique feed of Archimedean screw shape 10 by this funnel, in umklapp process, perhaps for the final stage of each steps of five operations in container, realizing or any step to emptying point 11 feed.The rate of peeling off (removing cereal from container) that the volume fraction that the spiral transmission equipment promotes is selected to exceed container to be increasing the ventilation property of the heap piece that overturns in the germination process, to avoid damaging starting material or flip-arm 12 transships.The centre portions 13 of perforated bottom is the part of flip-arm, and flip-arm rotates above conical hopper.This centre portions is provided with two curved peel groove 14 (as shown in Figure 2).These grooves are used to receive the cereal of being collected by the disengaging plate action, and it is passed to funnel 9.The suitable skirting board (not marking) of groove utilization realizes that protection is to prevent that the cereal in the container from sinking because of gravity.That is to say that cereal in fact only utilizes the action of flip-arm to realize collecting, and disengaging plate provides the transmission material to the spiral transfer equipment.

The outside of container scribbles insulating material 15.For five stages of operation, this insulation is useful, and high-quality production needs suitable temperature control.

Centre-driven 16 is positioned at the top of container, and provides power for upset and loading arm and Archimedean screw lifting gear.Archimedean screw lifting gear and outer sleeve 17 rotate with the same center of circle.The drive shaft of outer sleeve conduct rotation simultaneously and loading arm.Pivot arm also drives peel plate 18 actions, and the described peel plate of content as above of the present invention promotes the center of raw material to container.In the present embodiment, stripping plate plate is the rectangular plate of vertical fixing in pivot arm, and angled to container bottom center pushing direction with cereal.The height of peel plate increases so that aforementioned required action to be provided with the close of container center direction.Apart from the nearest peel plate of container center, its height is corresponding to the height of peel groove 14, and the edge from a plate to another plate to container reduces, and the reduction amplitude increases progressively.

The energy that is used for pivot arm is that its upset is needed.For example, in the germination stage, upset fluffy heap piece well is than the action of the intensive easier realization flip-arm of heap piece.Any stage in operation is passed through suitable automatic system controller, and for example microcontroller is used automatic lifting or reduction that above-mentioned relation is realized the flip-arm speed of rotation.According to the different state of cereal heap piece that utilizes the power monitoring that drives flip-arm, can realize that equally also the control air of appropriateness flows and air themperature.When flip-arm increases resistance, show that the heap piece is in compact state, therefore need further action to realize the fluffy of heap piece, and when the resistance that monitors reduces, illustrate that the heap piece is fluffy.

Archimedes's sleeve is positioned at 20 of top bearing 19 and bottom bearings.The horizontal support of container circumference 21 and bottom 22 is realized the protection of bottom bearing.These support also the support as perforated floor.Carrying circumferentially is installed takes out and hold safety guard/distance block 23, be used to prevent that peel plate from running into perforated floor.Archimedes's sleeve is provided with two grooves that embed top 24.These grooves as in the container end of to the emptying point of the raw material of last lifting.Scatter skewed slot and allow raw material before loading arm 25, to spill, thereby realized that raw material evenly drops on the top of heap piece.These loading arms are located immediately at the tail end edge of pivot arm and have same warp architecture.Thereby this structure has kept the appropriate degree of depth of raw material to avoid the formation of air channels.These loading arms utilize shelf and gear 27 to realize supporting bracket 26.These employed liftings or reduction loading arm are realized the suitable control of cereal distribution in batches.In five different stepss of operation, the grade of this batch cereal changes according to the variation of humidity and the density of raw material block.The more high quality upset from top to bottom that equipment provides has realized the increase of material volume in the fluffy operation, and this rotary movement is in any one operation stage, and is accomplished in the germination stage especially.

The driving of support and gear is by the drive shaft transmission, and in order to realize the lifting of loading arm, drive shaft is provided with key web member 28.The drive end of drive shaft is engaged in double sided gear 29, and this gear is installed on the bearing 30 that container top freely turns round.When driving the required lifting of drive shafts 31 realization loading arms by manual or demarcation specified number engine 32 or descending, double sided gear externally rotates.Being positioned at the transmitter of reprinting arm tip 33 is that engine transmits signal so that loading arm promotes or descends.Lack under the situation of signal at the demarcation engine, driving bearing and double sided gear rotate freely, to keep the setting height of loading arm.

In the initial stage of the pending material of each batch, raw material is by input tube 34 inputs.

Whole five stages of the malting procedure of describing in this example realize in a container.Yet, need many containers to realize output efficiently according to the scale of system bud operation.Can imagine simultaneously that many equipment that leave sideshake and running each other are installed in a space to be handled to carry out operation on the bigger surface of heap piece, this arrangement stays in the heap piece easily and promotes or overturn invalid or inefficient " dead band ".Therefore, utilizing the ways to restrain of cylindrical wall part around lifting and the tipping arrangement should be this operation best choice pattern.

Usually, except some special baked products, drying stage keeps separating with follow-up four-stage.Immersion, germination and kilning stage can realize or utilize being transferred in other containers to maximize the handiness and the save energy of operation in container continuously.Maximize output if desired, can realize that a plurality of containers are used for two or more stages.Obtain other special outcome except the baking raw material behind the drying stage, as mentioned above, after the germination stage, begin usually the baking stage, and simply utilize the air of higher temperature to add the replacement kilning stage in the system bud raw material.

Claims (16)

1, a kind of method that realizes malting procedure, it is characterized in that, cereal is piled piece put into container, under the mode that volume increases, by radially be installed on pivot arm tilt the plate of high-end trim of height will be near the part cereal of container bottom, shift to container bottom intermediary collection funnel, described flip-arm is at the horizontal plane internal rotation and be positioned at the lower end of axial drive shaft; The cereal utilization heap piece transmission equipment that is collected in described collection funnel is thus lifted to the top of cereal heap piece, and the loading arm by being positioned at axial drive shaft top scatters once more above the cereal heap and loads cereal, thereby whole action realizes cereal heap piece once inside out from top to bottom in the container, described upset circulates continuously in one-period and finishes, to be used to realize the purpose of malting procedure.

According to the method for the described realization malting procedure of claim 1, it is characterized in that 2, described operation is an exsiccant operation, and provide air with suitable humiture for container.

According to the method for the described realization malting procedure of claim 1, it is characterized in that 3, described operation is the operation of an immersion, and be provided for providing and remove water and equipment for container with air of suitable humiture.

According to the method for the described realization malting procedure of claim 1, it is characterized in that 4, described operation is the operation of a germination, and provide empty G﹠W with suitable humiture for container.

According to the method for the described realization malting procedure of claim 1, it is characterized in that 5, described operation is the operation of a kilning, and provide air with suitable humiture for container.

According to the method for the described realization malting procedure of claim 1, it is characterized in that 6, described operation is the operation of a barbecue, and provide empty G﹠W with suitable humiture for container.

According to the method for the described realization malting procedure of claim 1, it is characterized in that 7, described operation comprises any array mode of drying, immersion, germination, kilning, five steps of baking.

8, a kind of equipment that is used to realize malting procedure, it is characterized in that, comprise: the container that has driving arrangement, what uprightly be provided with uses relevant drive shaft with cereal heap piece, a plurality of flip-arms that pivot in the heap piece plane that are arranged on, described flip-arm comprises the upright plate that many modes that radially reduce highly successively are provided with, thereby all these provide a series of peel plate that move that make cereal do to increase gradually at container bottom, be positioned at the collection funnel that container bottom is provided with, be used for cereal is piled piece rises to the eminence position from collection funnel heap block transfer equipment, a plurality of be installed on the drive shaft and at the loading arm of the plane internal rotation of heap piece, the cereal that promotes is spread on the cereal heap piece once more.

9, the described according to Claim 8 equipment that is used to realize malting procedure, it is characterized in that, described a plurality of upright plate that radially is provided with utilizes the certain angle value to realize each radial compensation, form one from axle cleaning arm that extend and that have certain curved shape, thus in each rotation of axle corresponding to the terminal hang behind of arm of the installation end of arm.

10, according to Claim 8 or the 9 described equipment that are used to realize malting procedure, it is characterized in that described heap block transmission device is arranged at the drive shaft that is used for driving loading arm and peel plate.

11, the equipment that is used to realize malting procedure according to claim 10 is characterized in that, described heap block transmission device is a spiral transmission equipment that is arranged in sleeve.

12, the described equipment that is used to realize malting procedure of any one claim in 11 according to Claim 8 is characterized in that described reprinting arm is in fact at the plane internal rotation that is parallel to cereal heap piece.

13, according to Claim 8 to the described equipment that is used to realize malting procedure of 11 any one claim, it is characterized in that, described loading arm has the cleaning arm of certain curved shape, thereby corresponding to the terminal hang behind of the arm of the installation end of arm, described bending is corresponding to the curved shape of above-mentioned cleaning arm in each rotation of axle.

According to Claim 8 to the described equipment that is used to realize malting procedure of 14 any one claim, it is characterized in that 14, described loading arm can move having in the scope of certain distance with cleaning arm.

15, according to the described equipment that is used to realize malting procedure of any one claim in aforementioned, it is characterized in that, described container is in fact cylindrical in the cross section, but also is provided with base plate, the insulated part of punching, input and output pipe, heat exchanger and the air humidifying equipment of empty G﹠W.

16, main as previously mentioned and with reference to the device of figure 1 and Fig. 2.

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