CN210148784U - Squeezing device for producing ginger juice noni - Google Patents

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CN210148784U
CN210148784U CN201920578480.8U CN201920578480U CN210148784U CN 210148784 U CN210148784 U CN 210148784U CN 201920578480 U CN201920578480 U CN 201920578480U CN 210148784 U CN210148784 U CN 210148784U
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The utility model discloses a squeezing device for producing ginger juice noni, which comprises a hollow squeezing box, wherein a material receiving mechanism is arranged inside the squeezing box, a pressing mechanism is fixedly arranged on the position of the upper surface of the squeezing box corresponding to the material receiving mechanism, and a sealing cover mechanism is rotatably connected on the position of the squeezing box corresponding to the material receiving mechanism, when the squeezing device is used, a second driving motor is firstly started to drive a blade to rotate, meanwhile, the crushed noni fragments enter a material receiving box along a feeding pipe after the noni fragments are put into a crushing barrel to be crushed, a first driving motor is then started to drive a threaded sleeve to rotate and drive a pressing block to descend to press the noni in the material receiving box, and the squeezed juice falls from a filter screen plate and falls to the bottom of the squeezing box from a water outlet pipe, and output to next step process in through the discharging pipe, simple convenient improvement noni squeeze effect and efficiency.

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Squeezing device for producing ginger juice noni
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a squeeze the device, in particular to device is squeezed with producing to ginger juice noni belongs to ginger juice noni production technical field.
Background
In the production process of the ginger juice noni, the ginger juice noni needs to be squeezed, and when the existing squeezing device squeezes the noni, the squeezing effect is lower while the efficiency is lower, the enterprise requirement cannot be well met, and the squeezing device for producing the ginger juice noni needs to be designed.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The to-be-solved technical problem of the utility model is to overcome prior art's defect, provide a ginger juice noni production with squeezing device to solve the problem of mentioning in the above-mentioned background art.
In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model provides a following technical scheme:
the utility model relates to a squeezing device is used in production of ginger juice noni, be the press box of cavity setting including one, the inside of press box is equipped with a receiving mechanism, fixed mounting has a mechanism of pushing down on the upper surface of press box corresponds receiving mechanism's the position, it is connected with a closing cap mechanism to rotate on the position that the press box corresponds receiving mechanism, the broken mechanism of fixedly connected with on the top lateral wall of one side wherein of press box, broken mechanism communicates with the press box mutually.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, receiving mechanism includes a fixed plate, fixed plate fixed connection is on the corresponding inside wall of press box, a spout has been seted up to the upper surface of fixed plate, the spout is equipped with one rather than assorted slider, the notch that the spout was run through to the upper end of slider extends to outside the fixed plate, the slider is located one of the outer one end fixedly connected with of fixed plate and is the receiving box that upper end opening set up, receiving box is cylindric setting, just receiving box's the box bottom is slope form setting, filter plate is crossed to common fixedly connected with between four side inside walls of receiving box, receiving box fixes the cover on being close to one side lateral wall of bottom position and has connect an outlet pipe, the output of outlet pipe runs through receiving box's corresponding lateral wall and extends to outside receiving box.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, the pressing mechanism comprises a threaded sleeve with two openings, the threaded sleeve is rotatably connected to the side wall of the top end of the squeezing box through a first bearing, the upper end of the threaded sleeve penetrates through the upper surface of the squeezing box and extends upwards, a first bevel gear is fixedly sleeved on the outer cylinder wall of one end of the threaded sleeve positioned outside the squeezing box, the upper surface of the squeezing box is fixedly connected with a first driving motor, the output end of the first driving motor is fixedly connected with a second bevel gear through a coupler, the first bevel gear is meshed with the second bevel gear, the threaded sleeve is internally threaded with a threaded rod, the upper end of the threaded rod penetrates through the upper opening of the threaded sleeve and extends upwards, the lower end of the threaded rod penetrates through the lower opening of the threaded sleeve and extends into the squeezing box, the threaded rod is located the briquetting that is circular setting of one end fixedly connected with piece of squeezing box, the diameter of briquetting be less than with the inner chamber diameter of material receiving box, the last fixed surface of briquetting is connected with a dead lever, the position that corresponds the dead lever on the top lateral wall of squeezing box runs through and has seted up a fixed orifices, the upper end of dead lever runs through the fixed orifices and extends to outside the squeezing box.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, closing cap mechanism includes an opening, the opening runs through and sets up on the lateral wall of one side that the press box corresponds the material receiving box position, correspond the open-ended position on the lateral wall of press box and be connected with one through the hinge rotation with opening assorted switch door, switch door keeps away from a handle of fixedly connected with on the lateral wall of opening one side.
As a preferred technical proposal of the utility model, the crushing mechanism comprises a crushing barrel with an opening at the upper end, the inner barrel bottom of the crushing barrel is arranged in an inclined shape, the crushing barrel is fixedly connected on the side wall of the top end of one side of the squeezing box, a second driving motor is fixedly connected on the side wall of the squeezing box at the position below the crushing barrel, the lower surface of the crushing barrel is rotatably connected with a rotating rod through a second bearing, the lower end of the rotating rod penetrates through the lower surface of the crushing barrel and extends downwards and is fixedly connected with the output end of the second driving motor, the upper end of the rotating rod penetrates through the lower surface of the crushing barrel and extends into the crushing barrel, a plurality of crushing blades are symmetrically fixed on one end rod wall of the rotating rod in the crushing barrel, a feeding pipe is fixedly sleeved on the side wall of the crushing barrel close to one side of the squeezing box, the output end of the feeding pipe sequentially penetrates through the crushing barrel and the squeezing box and extends into the squeezing box.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, the inside bottom of the case of press box is the slope form setting, the fixed discharging pipe that has cup jointed on one side lateral wall that the press box is close to the bottom position, the output of discharging pipe runs through the corresponding lateral wall of press box and extends outside the press box.
The utility model has the advantages that: the utility model relates to a device is squeezed with production of ginger juice noni, when using, at first start second driving motor and drive the blade and rotate, put into broken bucket with noni simultaneously and carry out broken good noni piece after broken in the inlet pipe entering material receiving box, restart first driving motor drives threaded sleeve and rotates and drive the briquetting and descend and squeeze to the noni in the material receiving box, the stock that squeezes out falls down from filtering net board, and fall at the squeezing box bottom of the case by the outlet pipe, and export to process on next step in through the discharging pipe, simple convenient improvement noni squeeze effect and efficiency.
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The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention, and together with the description serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:
fig. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the present invention;
fig. 2 is an enlarged schematic structural view of a portion a in fig. 1 according to the present invention.
In the figure:
1. a press box;
2. a material receiving mechanism; 21. a fixing plate; 22. a chute; 23. a slider; 24. a material receiving box; 25. a filter screen plate; 26. a water outlet pipe;
3. a pressing mechanism; 31. a threaded sleeve; 32. a first bevel gear; 33. a first drive motor; 34. a second bevel gear; 35. a threaded rod; 36. briquetting; 37. fixing the rod; 38. a fixing hole;
4. a capping mechanism; 41. an opening; 42. opening and closing the door; 43. a handle;
5. a crushing mechanism; 51. a crushing barrel; 52. a second drive motor; 53. rotating the rod; 54. crushing the blade; 55. a feed pipe;
6. and (4) discharging the pipe.
Detailed Description
The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and it will be understood that they are presented herein only to illustrate and explain the present invention, and not to limit the present invention.
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As shown in fig. 1-2, the utility model relates to a squeezing device is used in production of noni of ginger juice, including a press box 1 that is the cavity setting, the inside of press box 1 is equipped with a receiving mechanism 2, and fixed mounting has a mechanism of pushing down 3 on the position that the upper surface of press box 1 corresponds receiving mechanism 2, and it is connected with a closing cap mechanism 4 to rotate on the position that press box 1 corresponds receiving mechanism 2, and press box 1 wherein is broken mechanism 5 of fixedly connected with on the top lateral wall of one side, and broken mechanism 5 is linked together with press box 1.
Receiving mechanism 2 includes a fixed plate 21, fixed plate 21 fixed connection is on the corresponding inside wall of press box 1, a spout 22 has been seted up to the upper surface of fixed plate 21, spout 22 is equipped with one and rather than assorted slider 23, the upper end of slider 23 runs through the notch of spout 22 and extends to outside fixed plate 21, slider 23 is located the outer one end fixedly connected with of fixed plate 21 and is the receiving box 24 that the upper end opening set up, receiving box 24 is cylindric setting, and the box bottom of receiving box 24 is slope form setting, common fixedly connected with filter plate 25 between the four sides inside wall of receiving box 24, it has a outlet pipe 26 to fix the cover on the side wall that receiving box 24 is close to the bottom position, the output of outlet pipe 26 runs through the corresponding side wall of receiving box 24 and extends to outside receiving box 24.
The pressing mechanism 3 comprises a threaded sleeve 31 with two openings at two ends, the threaded sleeve 31 is rotatably connected to the side wall of the top end of the squeezing box 1 through a first bearing, the upper end of the threaded sleeve 31 penetrates through the upper surface of the squeezing box 1 and extends upwards, a first bevel gear 32 is fixedly sleeved on the outer cylinder wall of one end of the threaded sleeve 31, which is positioned outside the squeezing box 1, a first driving motor 33 is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the squeezing box 1, the output end of the first driving motor 33 is fixedly connected with a second bevel gear 34 through a coupler, the first bevel gear 32 is meshed with the second bevel gear 34, a threaded rod 35 is connected with the threaded sleeve 31 in a threaded manner, the upper end of the threaded rod 35 penetrates through the upper opening of the threaded sleeve 31 and extends upwards, the lower end of the threaded rod 35 penetrates through the lower opening of the threaded sleeve 31 and extends into the squeezing box 1, and a pressing block 36 which is arranged in a circle is fixedly, the diameter of the pressing block 36 is smaller than the diameter of the inner cavity of the material receiving box 24, the upper surface of the pressing block 36 is fixedly connected with a fixing rod 37, a fixing hole 38 is formed in the position, corresponding to the fixing rod 37, on the side wall of the top end of the squeezing box 1 in a penetrating mode, and the upper end of the fixing rod 37 penetrates through the fixing hole 38 and extends out of the squeezing box 1.
The cover closing mechanism 4 comprises an opening 41, the opening 41 penetrates through the side wall of the side of the squeezing box 1 corresponding to the position of the material receiving box 24, a switch door 42 matched with the opening 41 is rotatably connected to the position of the outer side wall of the squeezing box 1 corresponding to the opening 41 through a hinge, and a handle 43 is fixedly connected to the side wall of the switch door 42 far away from the opening 41.
Crushing mechanism 5 includes a broken bucket 51 that is the upper end opening setting, the inside barrel head of broken bucket 51 is the slope form setting, broken bucket 51 fixed connection is on the top lateral wall of squeeze box 1 one of them side, be located squeeze box 1 lateral wall of broken bucket 51 below position and go up fixedly connected with a second driving motor 52, the lower surface of broken bucket 51 rotates through the second bearing and is connected with a dwang 53, the lower extreme of dwang 53 runs through the lower surface of broken bucket 51 and downwardly extending and fixed connection runs through the lower surface of broken bucket 51 and extend to broken bucket 51 in the upper end of the output dwang 53 of second driving motor 52, dwang 53 is located to be the symmetry form on the one end pole wall of broken bucket 51 and is fixed with a plurality of broken blades 54, broken bucket 51 is close to fixed the cup joint on the lateral wall of squeeze box 1 one side has a feed pipe 55, the output of feed pipe 55 runs through broken bucket 51 and squeeze box 1 in proper order and extends to squeeze box 1.
The inside bottom of the case of press box 1 is the slope form setting, and fixed the cover on the side lateral wall that press box 1 is close to the bottom position has connect a discharging pipe 6, and the output of discharging pipe 6 runs through the corresponding lateral wall of press box 1 and extends outside press box 1.
Specifically, the utility model relates to a squeezing device for producing ginger juice noni, when using, at first start second driving motor 52, second driving motor 52 drives crushing blade 54 through dwang 53 and rotates, put into broken bucket 51 simultaneously and carry out the breakage with noni, later broken noni piece gets into in the material receiving box 24 along inlet pipe 55, when the noni piece in material receiving box 24 reaches about four fifths of a degree of coverage, restart first driving motor 33, first driving motor 33 drives threaded sleeve 31 through the cooperation of first bevel gear 32 and second bevel gear 34 and rotates, briquetting 36 and threaded rod 35 can not rotate under the cooperation of dead lever 37 and fixed orifices 38 simultaneously, make threaded sleeve 31 can drive briquetting 36 through threaded rod 35 and descend when rotating, and squeeze the noni in material receiving box 24 through briquetting 36, meanwhile, the squeezed raw juice falls on the box bottom of the material receiving box 24 from the filter screen plate 25, falls on the box bottom of the squeezing box 1 from the water outlet pipe 26, is output to the next step through the discharging pipe 6, and finally the switch door 42 is opened, and the material receiving box 24 is taken out to be replaced and cleaned, so that the squeezing effect and efficiency of noni are simply and conveniently improved.
Finally, it should be noted that: although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the embodiments described in the foregoing embodiments, or equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a squeezing device is used in production of ginger juice noni, a serial communication port, including a press box (1) that is the cavity setting, the inside of press box (1) is equipped with a receiving mechanism (2), fixed mounting has a mechanism of pushing down (3) on the position that the upper surface of press box (1) corresponds receiving mechanism (2), it is connected with a closing cap mechanism (4) to rotate on the position that press box (1) corresponds receiving mechanism (2), one crushing mechanism (5) of fixedly connected with on the top lateral wall of one side wherein of press box (1), crushing mechanism (5) are linked together with press box (1).
2. The squeezing device for producing the ginger juice noni as claimed in claim 1, wherein the material receiving mechanism (2) comprises a fixing plate (21), the fixing plate (21) is fixedly connected to the corresponding inner side wall of the squeezing box (1), a sliding groove (22) is formed in the upper surface of the fixing plate (21), the sliding groove (22) is provided with a sliding block (23) matched with the sliding block, the upper end of the sliding block (23) penetrates through the groove opening of the sliding groove (22) and extends out of the fixing plate (21), one end of the sliding block (23) located outside the fixing plate (21) is fixedly connected with a material receiving box (24) with an opening at the upper end, the material receiving box (24) is arranged in a cylindrical shape, the box bottom of the material receiving box (24) is arranged in an inclined shape, and a filter screen plate (25) is fixedly connected between the inner side walls of four sides of the material receiving box (24), a water outlet pipe (26) is fixedly sleeved on the side wall of one side of the material receiving box (24) close to the bottom end, and the output end of the water outlet pipe (26) penetrates through the corresponding side wall of the material receiving box (24) and extends out of the material receiving box (24).
3. The squeezing device for producing the noni ginger juice as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pressing mechanism (3) comprises a threaded sleeve (31) with two open ends, the threaded sleeve (31) is rotatably connected to the side wall of the top end of the squeezing box (1) through a first bearing, the upper end of the threaded sleeve (31) penetrates through the upper surface of the squeezing box (1) and extends upwards, a first bevel gear (32) is fixedly connected to the outer cylinder wall of one end of the threaded sleeve (31) located outside the squeezing box (1), a first driving motor (33) is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the squeezing box (1), the output end of the first driving motor (33) is fixedly connected with a second bevel gear (34) through a coupler, the first bevel gear (32) is engaged with the second bevel gear (34), a threaded rod (35) is connected to the threaded sleeve (31) in an internal thread manner, the upper end opening of threaded sleeve (31) is run through and upwards extends in the upper end of threaded rod (35), the lower extreme of threaded rod (35) runs through the lower extreme opening of threaded sleeve (31) and extends to squeeze box (1), one end fixedly connected with piece that threaded rod (35) are located squeeze box (1) is briquetting (36) of circular setting, the diameter of briquetting (36) is less than and connects the inner chamber diameter of magazine (24), the last fixed surface of briquetting (36) is connected with a dead lever (37), the position that corresponds dead lever (37) on the top lateral wall of squeeze box (1) runs through and has seted up a fixed orifices (38), the upper end through fixed orifices (38) of dead lever (37) extends to outside squeeze box (1).
4. The squeezing device for producing the ginger juice noni as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cover sealing mechanism (4) comprises an opening (41), the opening (41) penetrates through a side wall of the squeezing box (1) corresponding to the position of the material receiving box (24), a switch door (42) matched with the opening (41) is rotatably connected to a position corresponding to the opening (41) on the outer side wall of the squeezing box (1) through a hinge, and a handle (43) is fixedly connected to a side wall of the switch door (42) far away from the opening (41).
5. The squeezing device for producing the ginger juice noni as claimed in claim 1, wherein the crushing mechanism (5) comprises a crushing barrel (51) with an upper end opening, the inner barrel bottom of the crushing barrel (51) is arranged in an inclined manner, the crushing barrel (51) is fixedly connected to the top side wall of one side of the squeezing box (1), a second driving motor (52) is fixedly connected to the side wall of the squeezing box (1) below the crushing barrel (51), the lower surface of the crushing barrel (51) is rotatably connected with a rotating rod (53) through a second bearing, the lower end of the rotating rod (53) penetrates through the lower surface of the crushing barrel (51) and extends downwards and is fixedly connected to the output end of the second driving motor (52), the upper end of the rotating rod (53) penetrates through the lower surface of the crushing barrel (51) and extends into the crushing barrel (51), dwang (53) are located one end pole wall in broken bucket (51) and are fixed with a plurality of broken blades (54) of symmetry form, fixed a feed pipe (55) of having cup jointed on the lateral wall that broken bucket (51) are close to press box (1) one side, the output of feed pipe (55) runs through in broken bucket (51) and press box (1) and extend to press box (1) in proper order.
6. The squeezing device for producing the ginger juice noni as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bottom of the internal box of the squeezing box (1) is arranged in an inclined manner, a discharging pipe (6) is fixedly sleeved on the side wall of the squeezing box (1) close to the bottom end, and the output end of the discharging pipe (6) penetrates through the corresponding side wall of the squeezing box (1) and extends out of the squeezing box (1).
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