CN210746976U - Cleaning mechanism for clam type treatment device - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a wiper mechanism for processing apparatus of clam type, select mechanism, conveying mechanism and wiper mechanism including frame, the sieve of setting in the frame, the sieve is selected the mechanism and is used for screening the impurity of mixing in clam type, and conveying mechanism sets up the below of selecting the discharge end of mechanism at the sieve, and conveying mechanism is used for selecting the clam type that the mechanism came out from the sieve and carries wiper mechanism, and wiper mechanism sets up the one side of selecting the discharge end of mechanism at the sieve, and wiper mechanism is used for the sand stone of clam type of degree of depth washing. The utility model discloses a screening is chosen mechanism, conveying mechanism and wiper mechanism's the setting of mutually supporting, and the structural design of whole device is reasonable, and the principle is simple easily to be realized, gets rid of the impurity of clam shell class, selects out other sieves such as the little trash fish of screw simultaneously, realizes the resource and recycles, can realize the washing of the system's degree of depth again after the quick screening of clam shell class simultaneously, and the practicality is strong, is worth using widely.

Description

Cleaning mechanism for clam type treatment device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a shellfish processing technology field, more specifically say that it relates to a wiper mechanism that is used for processing apparatus of clam shell class.

Background

The method has the advantages of wide water areas of the Hongze lake, proper water depth, excellent water quality, proper substrate and abundant natural bait resources, provides unique natural conditions for corbicula fluminea resources, and is a huge fresh water shellfish treasury in China. In recent years, the total amount of the corbicula fluminea resources in the Hongze lake exceeds 10 ten thousand tons, the corbicula fluminea is exported to Japan and Korea from 1994, the annual export amount of the fresh corbicula fluminea reaches 0.5 ten thousand tons in 2012, the corbicula fluminea processed product is exported more than 3000 tons, and the annual export earns about $ 1000 ten thousand. The Hongze lake corbicula fluminea with good quality and delicious taste has become a leading force army in the market of Korean and Japanese corbicula fluminea, and the class plays the role of the wind vane in the international corbicula fluminea market.

At present, the first link of processing corbicula fluminea in aquatic product enterprises is to screen the caught corbicula fluminea and remove impurities in the corbicula fluminea, the corbicula fluminea is traditionally sorted by a manual method, and the harvested corbicula fluminea is large in quantity, manual sorting is adopted, so that time and labor are wasted, the working intensity of workers is high, the working efficiency is low, the randomness is large, the classification is not standard, the labor cost is high, and meanwhile, a large amount of snails which can be recycled exist in the corbicula fluminea are also removed as impurities, so that resources are not favorably reasonably utilized, and the resource waste is; secondly, many processing enterprises adopt a manual cleaning method, but the method has the defects of high labor intensity, low production efficiency, high raw material loss rate and the like, so that the production cost is increased, and the profit is reduced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a wiper mechanism for processing apparatus of clam type solves one or more among the above-mentioned prior art problem.

According to an aspect of the utility model, a wiper mechanism for a processing apparatus of clam type is provided, including upper end open-ended washing case and be used for carrying the iron wire net conveyer belt of wasing the incasement clam type, the iron wire net conveyer belt passes and washs the case, the iron wire net conveyer belt is connected with iron wire net driving motor, wash the fixed horizontal pole that is provided with the level and places in top of case, be connected with agitating unit on the horizontal pole, agitating unit is used for the intensive mixing to wash the clam type on the iron wire net conveyer belt in the case, the top of wasing the case still be provided with the slide rail that the level set up and with slide rail matched with slider, be provided with the cleaning head device who is used for the water. From this, through the mutually supporting setting of screening mechanism, conveying mechanism and wiper mechanism, the structural design of whole device is reasonable, and the principle is simple easily to be realized, gets rid of the impurity of clam shell class, simultaneously with other sieves such as the little trash fish of screw, realizes the resource and recycles, can realize simultaneously that the practicality is strong to the washing of the system's degree of depth again behind the quick screening of clam shell class, is worth using widely.

In some embodiments: agitating unit includes the main pivot that sets up in vertical direction and the stirring leaf of being connected with main pivot, and the upper end of main pivot is connected with first motor, and first motor drive main pivot rotates, and first motor slides through slider and horizontal pole and is connected, is connected with the horizontal pusher who is used for making main pivot horizontal reciprocating motion on the slider, still is connected with the first cylinder that is used for vertical direction motion between main pivot and the first motor. From this, the main pivot of first motor drive rotates, vertical motion about the main pivot of first cylinder drive, and in this embodiment, horizontal pusher is the propelling movement cylinder, and the slider sets up the sliding plate of being connected for sliding with the horizontal pole, and the one end of sliding plate is connected with the output of propelling movement cylinder, and first motor is connected to the lower extreme of sliding plate to realize main pivot limit through propelling movement cylinder propelling movement sliding plate and rotate edge horizontal motion down.

In some embodiments: the cleaning head device comprises an oil cylinder connected with the sliding block, the oil cylinder enables the sliding block to horizontally slide, a rotatable water spraying head is arranged on the sliding block, a plurality of nozzle holes are formed in the water spraying head, the water spraying head is connected with a water tank through a water pipe, and a water pump is connected between the water spraying head and the water tank. Therefore, the oil cylinder drives the water spraying head to horizontally move to spray water, and impurities are deeply removed.

In some embodiments: still include the oil drip device, the oil drip device is equipped with sealed lid including setting up the oil drip section of thick bamboo on wasing the case lateral wall and locating the second cylinder that drips oil section of thick bamboo top, the top of dripping an oil section of thick bamboo, is equipped with the sliding sleeve in the oil drip section of thick bamboo, and the piston rod of second cylinder passes sealed lid and is connected to on the sliding sleeve, and oil drip section of thick bamboo bottom is equipped with the oil drip mouth, and the tip of oil drip mouth is equipped with one-way outlet valve. Therefore, after a proper amount of oil is dripped into the cleaning tank after water is sprayed, the clam can easily spit sand in the clam, and the clam is deeply cleaned.

In some embodiments: the cleaning box is characterized by further comprising an oil dripping device arranged on the side wall of the cleaning box, the oil dripping device comprises an oil dripping bottle, an oil dripping hole is formed in the bottom of the oil dripping bottle, a speed regulating switch used for controlling the oil dripping speed is further arranged at the top of the oil dripping bottle, and the oil dripping bottle is transparent. From this, in the cleaning tank after the water spray, after instiling into the right amount of oil, let clam shell class be changeed and spit out clam shell class inside sand, the degree of depth is clean, and the oil drip bottle is the transparent colour and is convenient for observe the oil mass, and the speed governing switch makes things convenient for control oil drip speed more.

In some embodiments: the main rotating shaft is of a hollow structure, an oil outlet nozzle is arranged at the bottom of the main rotating shaft, the main rotating shaft is connected with an oil storage tank through a connecting pipe fitting, and a control valve is arranged on the oil outlet nozzle. Therefore, oil dripping control can be performed through the main rotating shaft, and the oil dripping range is more uniform.

To sum up, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:

the utility model discloses a screening is chosen mechanism, conveying mechanism and wiper mechanism's the setting of mutually supporting, and the structural design of whole device is reasonable, and the principle is simple easily to be realized, gets rid of the impurity of clam shell class, selects out other sieves such as the little trash fish of screw simultaneously, realizes the resource and recycles, can realize the washing of the system's degree of depth again after the quick screening of clam shell class simultaneously, and the practicality is strong, is worth using widely.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a cleaning mechanism for a clam type processing device according to the present invention applied to a clam type processing device;

fig. 2 is a top view of a conveying mechanism of a cleaning mechanism for a clam type processing apparatus according to the present invention;

fig. 3 is a top view of a cleaning mechanism for a clam type processing apparatus according to the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of an oil dripping device in a cleaning mechanism of a clam type processing device provided by the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of an oil dripping device according to another embodiment of the present invention for use in a cleaning mechanism of a clam type treating apparatus;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of a stirring device in a cleaning mechanism for a clam type processing device according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only partial embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It should be understood that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application described herein may be used. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

The terms "mounted," "disposed," "provided," "connected," and "sleeved" are to be construed broadly. For example, it may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or a unitary construction; can be a mechanical connection, or an electrical connection; may be directly connected, or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be in internal communication between two devices, elements or components. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the following description of the drawings.

A cleaning mechanism for a clam class processing device is applied to the clam class processing device and comprises a rack 1, a screening mechanism 2 arranged on the rack 1, a conveying mechanism 4 and a cleaning mechanism 3, wherein the screening mechanism 2 is used for screening impurities mixed in the clam class, the conveying mechanism 4 is arranged below a discharge end 22 of the screening mechanism 2, the conveying mechanism 4 is used for conveying the clam class discharged from the screening mechanism 2 to the cleaning mechanism 3, the cleaning mechanism 3 is arranged on one side of the discharge end 22 of the screening mechanism 2, and the cleaning mechanism 3 is used for deeply cleaning sand and stones of the clam class;

the screening mechanism 2 comprises a rotary screen 21, the rotary screen 21 is arranged on the rack 1, a feeding end 23 and a discharging end 22 are arranged on the rotary screen 21, a rotary driving device 24 is fixedly arranged on the rack 1, the driving device 24 is used for driving the rotary screen 21 to rotate, the rotary screen 21 comprises two connected cylinders with relative fall, screen meshes are arranged in the cylinders, the screen mesh of one cylinder is a grid-shaped screen mesh 25, the screen mesh of the other cylinder is a regular hexagonal screen mesh 26, a first receiving pool 251 is arranged below the grid-shaped screen mesh 25, and a second receiving pool 261 is arranged below the regular hexagonal screen mesh 26; in the embodiment, the drum screen comprises two sections of connected cylinders with relative fall, the arrangement of the grid-shaped screen 25 and the regular hexagon screen 26 is convenient for screening the small fish or the screw impurities, and meanwhile, in the screening process, the drum screen 21 comprises two sections of connected cylinders with relative fall, the clam type can be alternated in the drum screen 21 at the fall, the impurities and the clam type can be sufficiently screened, the screening effect is good, the structure is simple and easy to realize, the problem caused by insufficient screening capacity when the feeding amount of the drum screen 21 is changed too much can be avoided, and the service life of the equipment is longer;

cleaning mechanism 3 includes upper end open-ended washing case 31 and is used for carrying the iron wire net conveyer belt 32 who washs the interior clam type of case 31, iron wire net conveyer belt 32 passes and washs case 31, iron wire net conveyer belt 32 is connected with iron wire driving motor 33, wash the fixed horizontal pole 34 that is provided with the level and places in top of case 31, be connected with agitating unit 35 on the horizontal pole 34, agitating unit 35 is used for the fully mixing to wash the clam type on the iron wire net conveyer belt 32 in the case 31, the top of wasing case 31 still is provided with the slide rail 36 that the level set up and with slide rail 36 matched with slider 37, be provided with the cleaning head device that is used for the water spray on the slider 37. From this, through the mutually supporting setting of screening mechanism 2, conveying mechanism 4 and wiper mechanism 3, the structural design of whole device is reasonable, and the principle is simple easily to be realized, gets rid of the impurity of clam species, simultaneously with other sieves such as the little trash fish of screw, realizes the resource and recycles, can realize simultaneously that the practicality is strong, is worth using widely again to the washing of the system's degree of depth after the quick screening of clam species.

The drum driving device 24 is a second motor, an output end of the second motor is connected with a rotating shaft of the drum screen 21, and the second motor is connected with a speed reducer 28 through a coupler 27. In this embodiment, the second motor is an asynchronous motor, and the asynchronous motor is connected to a speed reducer 28 through a coupling 27, so that the asynchronous motor can more stably drive the main body of the drum screen 21 to normally rotate.

Wherein, the lower end of the grid-shaped screen mesh 25 is provided with a first chute 252, and the lower end of the regular hexagon screen mesh 26 is provided with a second chute 262. Thus, the grid-shaped screen 25 is used for screening other impurities mixed in corbicula and the regular hexagonal screen 26 is used for screening particles such as screws mixed in corbicula.

The conveying mechanism 4 comprises a support frame 41, a conveying groove 42 arranged at the top end of the support frame 41 and a crawler 43 conveyed along the bottom of the conveying groove 42, a through hole is formed in the crawler 43, an air box 44 is arranged on the lower side of the conveying groove 42, and the air box 44 is communicated with an air compressor 45. Meanwhile, a plurality of rotating shafts 46 are erected between the side walls of the conveying grooves 42, the rotating shafts 46 are arranged at intervals along the advancing direction of the crawler 43, the crawler 43 is connected with a power driving device 431, a plurality of stirring grooves 47 are arranged in the axial direction of the rotating shafts 46, each stirring groove 47 is provided with a plurality of cleaning brushes 471, the stirring grooves 47 are distributed on two sides of the rotating shafts 46, the rotating shafts 46 are rotatably connected with the side walls of the conveying grooves 42 through bearings, one end of each rotating shaft 46 penetrates through the side walls of the conveying grooves 42 and is provided with a chain wheel 461, a driving motor 48 is arranged on the supporting frame 41, and the driving motor 48 drives the chain wheels 461 on the rotating shafts 46 through chains. Therefore, a conveying groove 42 is fixedly arranged at the top end of the supporting frame 41, a rotating crawler belt 43 is arranged at the bottom of the conveying groove 42, the crawler belt 43 is provided with a power driving device 431 and conveys clam type materials from the top to the bottom of the conveying groove 42, in the embodiment, through holes are uniformly distributed on the crawler belt 43, an air box 44 is arranged at the lower side of the conveying groove 42, the air box 44 is communicated with an air compressor 45, therefore, air in the air box 44 is blown upwards from the through holes, a plurality of rotating shafts 46 are erected between the side walls of the conveying groove 42, the rotating shafts 46 are distributed at intervals along the advancing direction of the crawler belt 43, a plurality of stirring grooves 47 are arranged along the axial direction of the rotating shafts 46, each stirring groove 47 is provided with a plurality of cleaning brushes 471, the stirring grooves 47 are distributed at two sides of the rotating shafts 46, the rotating shafts 46 are rotatably connected with the side walls of the conveying groove 42 through bearings, one end of the rotating shafts, be provided with driving motor 48 on support frame 41, driving motor 48 passes through sprocket 461 on the multiple axis of rotation 46 of chain drive, realize that the synchronous rotation of multiple axis of rotation 46 drives track 43 motion again, also can drive track 43 motion through power drive unit 431, can get rid of impurity such as sand in clam species as far as possible like this at clam species pivoted in-process, all be provided with a plurality of washing brushes 471 on every stirred tank 47, a plurality of stirred tanks 47 distribute in axis of rotation 46 both sides, like this can be more abundant with clam species contact, brush down the adhesion at the impurity on clam species surface, rotate while brush and blow simultaneously, improve and remove miscellaneous decontamination effect.

In this example, the height of the caterpillar 43 is higher than that of the iron mesh conveyor belt 32, and the driven wheel at the output end of the caterpillar 43 is meshed with the driven wheel of the iron mesh conveyor belt 32 through the auxiliary wheel. The transfer slot 42 is provided obliquely downward on the support bracket 41. From this, track 43 excessively links up the transport to iron net conveyer belt 32, the height of track 43 is higher than iron net conveyer belt 32, the transport of the clam shell class material of also being convenient for, the driven driving wheel of track 43 output connects the auxiliary wheel, the auxiliary wheel meshes with iron net conveyer belt 32 from the driving wheel mutually, can drive the track 43 pivoted by power drive device from this simultaneously, the driven driving wheel of track 43 output passes through auxiliary wheel and meshes with iron net conveyer belt 32 from the driving wheel mutually, also drive iron net conveyer belt 32's motion, need not launch iron net driving motor 33 that iron net conveyer belt 32 itself connects. In this embodiment, a material barrel for receiving sundries is further arranged below the crawler 43.

Wherein, trommel screen 21 slope sets up on frame 1, and feed end 23 is higher than discharge end 22. Therefore, the clam material conveying and picking device is convenient for conveying and picking clam material.

Wherein the end of the feed end 23 extends into the trommel 21 and the end of the discharge end 22 extends into the transfer chute 42. In this embodiment, the discharge end of 22 is slightly higher than the highest point of the conveying trough 42, and the conveying trough 42 is arranged obliquely for downward conveying, so that the arrangement structure is simple, and screening and conveying are facilitated.

The stirring device 35 includes a main rotating shaft 351 arranged in the vertical direction and a stirring blade 354 connected with the main rotating shaft 351, the upper end of the main rotating shaft 351 is connected with a first motor 352, the first motor 352 drives the main rotating shaft 351 to rotate, the first motor 352 is connected with a cross bar in a sliding manner through a sliding piece, the sliding piece is connected with a horizontal pushing device 353 used for enabling the main rotating shaft 351 to horizontally reciprocate, and a first air cylinder 355 used for moving in the vertical direction is further connected between the main rotating shaft 351 and the first motor 352. From this, first motor 352 drive main pivot 351 rotates, and first cylinder 355 drives main pivot 351 vertical motion from top to bottom, and in this embodiment, stirring leaf 354 is the arc column structure of tip epirelief, and horizontal pusher 353 is the propelling movement cylinder, and the slider is the sliding plate of setting up being connected with the horizontal pole slides, and the one end and the output of propelling movement cylinder of sliding plate are connected, and first motor 352 is connected to the lower extreme of sliding plate to realize main pivot 351 limit rotation limit horizontal motion from top to bottom through propelling movement cylinder propelling movement sliding plate.

Wherein, the cleaning head device includes the hydro-cylinder 38 of being connected with slider 37, and hydro-cylinder 38 enables slider 37 and enables the slider horizontal slip, is provided with rotatable sprinkler bead 371 on the slider 37, is equipped with a plurality of nozzle holes 372 on the sprinkler bead 371, and sprinkler bead 371 has the water tank through water piping connection, is connected with the water pump between sprinkler bead 371 and the water tank. Thus, the oil cylinder 38 drives the water spray head 371 to horizontally move to spray water, thereby deeply removing impurities.

In this embodiment, still include oil drip device 5, oil drip device 5 is including setting up the second cylinder 52 of oil drip section of thick bamboo 51 and locating oil drip section of thick bamboo 51 top on wasing the case 31 lateral wall, and the top of oil drip section of thick bamboo 51 is equipped with sealed lid 53, is equipped with sliding sleeve 54 in the oil drip section of thick bamboo 51, and the piston rod of second cylinder 52 passes sealed lid 53 to be connected to sliding sleeve 54 on, and oil drip section of thick bamboo 5 bottom is equipped with oil drip mouth 55, and the tip of oil drip mouth 55 is equipped with one-way oil outlet valve 56. Therefore, after a proper amount of oil is dripped into the cleaning tank after water is sprayed, the clam can easily spit sand in the clam, and the clam is deeply cleaned.

In this embodiment, the cleaning device further includes an oil dripping device 5 'disposed on the side wall of the cleaning box 31, the oil dripping device 5' includes an oil dripping bottle 51 ', an oil dripping hole 55' is disposed at the bottom of the oil dripping bottle 51 ', a speed regulating switch 52' for controlling the oil dripping speed is further disposed at the top of the oil dripping bottle 51 ', and the oil dripping bottle 51' is transparent. Therefore, after a proper amount of oil is dripped into the cleaning box 31 after water is sprayed, sand inside clam type is easier to be spit out by clam type, the cleaning is deep, the oil dripping bottle 51 'is transparent, oil quantity can be observed conveniently, and the speed regulating switch 52' can control oil dripping speed more conveniently.

In this embodiment, main pivot 351 is hollow structure, and the bottom of main pivot 351 is provided with out oil shower nozzle 356, connects the batch oil tank through connecting the pipe fitting on the main pivot 351, sets up control valve 357 on the shower nozzle 356 that produces oil. Therefore, oil dripping control can be performed through the main rotating shaft 351, and the oil dripping range is more uniform.

The present embodiment is only for explaining the present invention, and it is not limited to the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make modifications to the present embodiment without inventive contribution as required after reading the present specification, but all of them are protected by patent laws within the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims (6)

1. A cleaning mechanism for a clam class treatment device, characterized in that: wiper mechanism (3) include upper end open-ended wash case (31) and be used for carrying wash the iron wire net conveyer belt (32) of the interior clam type of case (31), iron wire net conveyer belt (32) pass wash case (31), iron wire net conveyer belt (32) are connected with iron wire net driving motor (33), wash fixed horizontal pole (34) that are provided with the level and place in the top of case (31), be connected with agitating unit (35) on horizontal pole (34), agitating unit (35) are used for the intensive mixing to wash the clam type on iron wire net conveyer belt (32) in case (31), the top of wasing case (31) still be provided with slide rail (36) that the level set up and with slide rail (36) matched with slider (37), be provided with the cleaning head device that is used for the water spray on slider (37).

2. A cleaning mechanism for a clam like processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the stirring device (35) comprises a main rotating shaft (351) arranged in the vertical direction and a stirring blade (354) connected with the main rotating shaft (351), a first motor (352) is connected to the upper end of the main rotating shaft (351), the first motor (352) drives the main rotating shaft (351) to rotate, the first motor (352) is connected with the cross rod in a sliding mode through a sliding piece, a horizontal pushing device (353) used for enabling the main rotating shaft (351) to horizontally reciprocate is connected to the sliding piece, and a first air cylinder (355) used for moving in the vertical direction is further connected between the main rotating shaft (351) and the first motor (352).

3. A cleaning mechanism for a clam like processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the cleaning head device include with hydro-cylinder (38) that slider (37) are connected, hydro-cylinder (38) enable slider (37) enable the slider level and slide, be provided with rotatable sprinkler bead (371) on slider (37), be equipped with a plurality of nozzle holes (372) on sprinkler bead (371), sprinkler bead (371) have the water tank through water piping connection, sprinkler bead (371) with be connected with the water pump between the water tank.

4. A cleaning mechanism for a clam like processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: still include oil drip device (5), oil drip device (5) is including setting up wash a oil drip section of thick bamboo (51) on case (31) lateral wall and locate second cylinder (52) that oil drip section of thick bamboo (51) top, the top of oil drip section of thick bamboo (51) is equipped with sealed lid (53), be equipped with sliding sleeve (54) in oil drip section of thick bamboo (51), the piston rod of second cylinder (52) passes sealed lid (53) are connected to on sliding sleeve (54), oil drip section of thick bamboo (51) bottom is equipped with oil drip mouth (55), the tip of oil drip mouth (55) is equipped with one-way oil outlet valve (56).

5. A cleaning mechanism for a clam like processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the cleaning device is characterized by further comprising an oil dripping device (5 ') arranged on the side wall of the cleaning box (31), wherein the oil dripping device (5') comprises an oil dripping bottle (51 '), the bottom of the oil dripping bottle (51') is provided with an oil dripping hole (55 '), the top of the oil dripping bottle (51') is also provided with a speed regulating switch (52 ') used for controlling the oil dripping speed, and the oil dripping bottle (51') is transparent.

6. A cleaning mechanism according to claim 2 for a clam like processing apparatus, wherein: the main rotating shaft (351) is of a hollow structure, an oil outlet spray head (356) is arranged at the bottom of the main rotating shaft (351), the main rotating shaft (351) is connected with an oil storage tank through a connecting pipe fitting, and a control valve (357) is arranged on the oil outlet spray head (356).

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