CN217103632U - Stirring and ventilating unit for organic fertilizer production - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a be used for fertilizer production stirring unit of ventilating, including fermentation cylinder and (mixing) shaft, the middle part of fermentation cylinder one side is provided with agitator motor, agitator motor's the output shaft and the one end fixed connection of (mixing) shaft, the inside circular spout of having seted up of (mixing) shaft, the one end of circular spout is provided with electric telescopic handle, electric telescopic handle's the flexible end and the middle part fixed connection of sliding tray one side, and the outside of sliding tray and the inboard sliding connection of circular spout, the both ends of sliding tray are respectively through square slider and the inboard both ends fixed connection of disc. The utility model relates to a be used for fertilizer production stirring unit of ventilating, this fertilizer production stirring unit of ventilating drives the (mixing) shaft through agitator motor and rotates, and electric telescopic handle drives disc and stirring vane uniform velocity reciprocating motion on the (mixing) shaft simultaneously to effectively stir and mix fermentation cylinder inside zymotic fluid, guarantee that biochemical process reaction rate distributes evenly in the fermentation cylinder, and then improve the quality that the fermentation goes out the fertilizer.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a stirring ventilation unit, in particular to be used for fertilizer production stirring ventilation unit belongs to fertilizer production technical field.
Background
Organic fertilizer, mainly from plants and/or animals, is applied to the soil to provide plant nutrition as a carbon-containing material with the main function. Is prepared from biological substances, animal and plant wastes and plant residues, eliminates toxic and harmful substances in the biological substances, and is rich in a large amount of beneficial substances, including: various organic acids, peptides and rich nutrient elements including nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The organic fertilizer not only can provide comprehensive nutrition for crops, but also has long fertilizer efficiency, can increase and update soil organic matters, promote microbial propagation, and improve the physicochemical property and the biological activity of soil, and is a main nutrient for green food production.
In the fertilizer production process, its inside aerobic microorganism need carry out dissolved oxygen operation, for improving dissolved oxygen efficiency, need stir and mix to the zymotic fluid, so need fertilizer production stirring ventilation unit to stir and mix the fertilizer zymotic fluid.
The stirring and ventilating unit for producing the organic fertilizer at present cannot effectively stir and mix the organic fertilizer fermentation liquor, so that the reaction rate distribution in the biochemical process in a fermentation tank is uneven, and the quality of the fermented organic fertilizer is low; the organic fertilizer fermentation liquor can produce toxic gas in the fermentation process, and the stirring and ventilating unit for producing the organic fertilizer at present is not provided with a purifying structure, so that the toxic gas easily threatens the physical health of operators.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a be used for fertilizer production stirring ventilation unit to being used for that the fertilizer production stirring ventilation unit that proposes in solving above-mentioned background art can't effectively stir the fertilizer zymotic fluid and mix, making biochemical process reaction rate distributes unevenly in the fermentation cylinder, and then leads to the lower problem of fertilizer quality that the fermentation goes out.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: the utility model provides a be used for fertilizer production stirring unit of ventilating, includes fermentation cylinder and (mixing) shaft, the middle part of fermentation cylinder one side is provided with agitator motor, agitator motor's the output shaft and the one end fixed connection of (mixing) shaft, the inside circular spout of having seted up of (mixing) shaft, the one end of circular spout is provided with electric telescopic handle, electric telescopic handle's the flexible end and the middle part fixed connection of sliding plate one side, and the outside of sliding plate and the inboard sliding connection of circular spout, the both ends of sliding plate are respectively through the inboard both ends fixed connection of square slider and disc, and two square sliders are respectively through the both ends sliding connection in square spout and the (mixing) shaft outside, the outside of disc evenly is provided with four stirring vane, fermentation cylinder discharge gate department is provided with the lid.
As an optimized technical proposal of the utility model, the feeding inlet of the fermentation tank is provided with a feeding hopper.
As the utility model discloses a preferred technical scheme, the gas outlet department screw thread intercommunication of fermentation cylinder has the purge tube, the inner wall of purge tube both sides is respectively through the both sides sliding connection of slider with the filter core, the filter core comprises a plurality of filtering layers, and is adjacent threaded connection between the filtering layer.
As an optimal technical scheme of the utility model, one side on fermentation cylinder top is provided with the air pump, two inlet ends of air pump are respectively through the fixed intercommunication of two inlet ports of trachea and fermentation cylinder.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, the bottom of fermentation cylinder is provided with the mounting panel, the both sides side on mounting panel top is respectively through the both sides fixed connection on bolt and regulating plate top, the one end of regulating plate both sides inner wall is rotated through the one end at pivot and connector both sides top respectively and is connected, one side on connector top evenly inlays and is equipped with three electric hydraulic cylinder, and three electric hydraulic cylinder's flexible end respectively with the middle part and the both ends fixed connection of regulating plate bottom one side.
As an optimal technical scheme of the utility model, the bottom of connector is provided with the bottom plate, the bottom of bottom plate is provided with the slipmat.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, the front of fermentation cylinder is provided with agitator motor switch, air pump switch, electric hydraulic cylinder switch and electric telescopic handle switch, agitator motor, air pump, three electric hydraulic cylinder and electric telescopic handle are respectively through agitator motor switch, air pump switch, electric hydraulic cylinder switch and electric telescopic handle switch and external power supply electric connection.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that: the utility model relates to a be used for fertilizer production stirring ventilation unit, this fertilizer production stirring ventilation unit drives the (mixing) shaft through agitator motor and rotates, and electric telescopic handle drives disc and stirring vane at the uniform velocity reciprocating motion on the (mixing) shaft simultaneously to effectively stir and mix fermentation liquid in the fermentation cylinder, guarantee that biochemical process reaction rate distributes evenly in the fermentation cylinder, and then improve the quality of fermenting out the fertilizer; this fertilizer production stirring ventilation unit purifies the toxic gas that produces when the fermentation broth fermentation through filter core in the purifying tube, can prevent that toxic gas from causing the threat to operating personnel is healthy.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic front view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of the connector of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of the filter element of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the front structure of the stirring shaft of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the stirring shaft of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. a fermentation tank; 2. a feed hopper; 3. a purifier; 4. a filter element; 5. an air pump; 6. a stirring motor; 7. a cover body; 8. mounting a plate; 9. an adjusting plate; 10. a linker; 11. a base plate; 12. a non-slip mat; 13. an electric hydraulic cylinder; 14. a filtering layer; 15. a stirring shaft; 16. a square chute; 17. a disc; 18. a stirring blade; 19. a circular chute; 20. an electric telescopic rod; 21. a slide plate.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1-5, the utility model provides a stirring and ventilating unit for organic fertilizer production, which comprises a fermentation tank 1 and a stirring shaft 15, wherein a stirring motor 6 is arranged in the middle of one side of the fermentation tank 1, the output shaft of the stirring motor 6 is fixedly connected with one end of the stirring shaft 15, a circular chute 19 is arranged in the stirring shaft 15, one end of the circular chute 19 is provided with an electric telescopic rod 20, the telescopic end of the electric telescopic rod 20 is fixedly connected with the middle of one side of a sliding disc 21, the outer side of the sliding disk 21 is connected with the inner side of the round sliding chute 19 in a sliding way, two ends of the sliding disk 21 are respectively fixedly connected with two ends of the inner side of the round disk 17 through square sliding blocks, and the two square sliding blocks are respectively connected with two ends of the outer side of the stirring shaft 15 in a sliding way through square sliding chutes 16, the outer side of the disc 17 is evenly provided with four stirring blades 18, and the discharge port of the fermentation tank 1 is provided with a cover body 7.
Preferably, a feed hopper 2 is arranged at a feed inlet of the fermentation tank 1, so that feeding is facilitated; the air outlet of the fermentation tank 1 is in threaded communication with a purification pipe 3, the inner walls of two sides of the purification pipe 3 are respectively in sliding connection with two sides of a filter element 4 through a sliding block, the filter element 4 consists of a plurality of filter layers 14, and the adjacent filter layers 14 are in threaded connection and can purify toxic gas generated by fermentation liquor; an air pump 5 is arranged on one side of the top end of the fermentation tank 1, two air inlet ends of the air pump 5 are respectively and fixedly communicated with two air inlet holes of the fermentation tank 1 through air pipes, and oxygen can be introduced into the fermentation tank 1; the bottom end of the fermentation tank 1 is provided with a mounting plate 8, two side edges of the top end of the mounting plate 8 are fixedly connected with two sides of the top end of a regulating plate 9 through bolts respectively, one end of the inner wall of two sides of the regulating plate 9 is rotatably connected with one end of the top of two sides of a connecting body 10 through a rotating shaft respectively, three electric hydraulic cylinders 13 are uniformly embedded in one side of the top end of the connecting body 10, the telescopic ends of the three electric hydraulic cylinders 13 are fixedly connected with the middle part and two ends of one side of the bottom end of the regulating plate 9 respectively, and the inclination angle of the fermentation tank 1 can be regulated so as to facilitate discharging; the bottom end of the connecting body 10 is provided with a bottom plate 11, and the bottom end of the bottom plate 11 is provided with an anti-slip mat 12, so that the stability of the stirring and ventilating unit for producing organic fertilizer can be improved; the front of fermentation cylinder 1 is provided with agitator motor switch, air pump switch, electric hydraulic cylinder switch and electric telescopic handle switch, and agitator motor 6, air pump 5, three electric hydraulic cylinder 13 and electric telescopic handle 20 are respectively through agitator motor switch, air pump switch, electric hydraulic cylinder switch and electric telescopic handle switch and external power supply electric connection.
When the device is used, the utility model relates to a be used for fertilizer production stirring ventilation unit, put fertilizer fermentation raw materials into fermentation tank 1 through feeder hopper 2, start agitator motor 6 simultaneously, electric telescopic handle 20 and air pump 5, air pump 5 lets in oxygen to fermentation tank 1 through the trachea, agitator motor 6 drives (mixing) shaft 15 and rotates, drive disc 17 and stirring vane 18 rotate when (mixing) shaft 15 rotates, so as to stir and mix fermentation liquid and oxygen in fermentation tank 1, electric telescopic handle 20 drives disc 17 and stirring vane 18 on (mixing) shaft 15 at uniform velocity reciprocating motion through slide plate 21, circular spout 19 and square spout 16, can fully and evenly stir and mix fermentation liquid and oxygen in fermentation tank 1, in this fermentation process, the gas that the fermentation liquid produced discharges through the gas outlet of fermentation tank 1, filter core 4 can purify toxic gas in the purge tube 3 of gas outlet department simultaneously, after fermentation of fermentation liquid in the fermentation tank 1 is completed, the electric hydraulic cylinder 13 is started to incline the fermentation tank 1, and the cover body 7 is opened simultaneously to pour out the fermented organic fertilizer in the fermentation tank 1.
In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the indicated orientation or positional relationship is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and does not indicate or imply that the indicated device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
In the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, for example, it may be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrated; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and may be connected through the inside of two elements or in an interaction relationship between two elements, unless otherwise specifically defined, and the specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention will be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.
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1. The stirring and ventilating unit for producing the organic fertilizer comprises a fermentation tank (1) and a stirring shaft (15), and is characterized in that a stirring motor (6) is arranged in the middle of one side of the fermentation tank (1), an output shaft of the stirring motor (6) is fixedly connected with one end of the stirring shaft (15), a circular sliding chute (19) is formed in the stirring shaft (15), an electric telescopic rod (20) is arranged at one end of the circular sliding chute (19), the telescopic end of the electric telescopic rod (20) is fixedly connected with the middle of one side of a sliding disc (21), the outer side of the sliding disc (21) is slidably connected with the inner side of the circular sliding chute (19), the two ends of the sliding disc (21) are fixedly connected with the two ends of the inner side of a disc (17) through square sliding blocks respectively, and the two square sliding blocks are slidably connected with the two ends of the outer side of the stirring shaft (15) through square sliding chutes (16) respectively, the outer side of the disc (17) is uniformly provided with four stirring blades (18), and a cover body (7) is arranged at the discharge outlet of the fermentation tank (1).
2. The stirring and ventilating unit for producing organic fertilizer as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the feed inlet of the fermentation tank (1) is provided with a feed hopper (2).
3. The stirring and ventilating unit for producing organic fertilizer as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the air outlet of fermentation cylinder (1) department screw thread intercommunication has purifying tube (3), the inner wall of purifying tube (3) both sides is respectively through the both sides sliding connection of slider with filter core (4), filter core (4) comprise a plurality of filtering layers (14), and are adjacent threaded connection between filtering layer (14).
4. The stirring and ventilating unit for producing organic fertilizer as claimed in claim 1, wherein: an air pump (5) is arranged on one side of the top end of the fermentation tank (1), and two air inlet ends of the air pump (5) are fixedly communicated with two air inlet holes of the fermentation tank (1) through air pipes respectively.
5. The stirring and ventilating unit for organic fertilizer production according to claim 4, wherein: the bottom of fermentation cylinder (1) is provided with mounting panel (8), the both sides side on mounting panel (8) top is respectively through the both sides fixed connection on bolt and regulating plate (9) top, the one end of regulating plate (9) both sides inner wall is rotated through the one end at pivot and connector (10) both sides top respectively and is connected, one side on connector (10) top evenly inlays and is equipped with three electric hydraulic cylinder (13), and the flexible end of three electric hydraulic cylinder (13) respectively with the middle part and the both ends fixed connection of regulating plate (9) bottom one side.
6. The stirring aeration unit for organic fertilizer production according to claim 5, wherein: the bottom end of the connecting body (10) is provided with a bottom plate (11), and the bottom end of the bottom plate (11) is provided with an anti-skid pad (12).
7. The stirring and ventilating unit for organic fertilizer production according to claim 5, wherein: the front of fermentation cylinder (1) is provided with agitator motor switch, air pump switch, electric hydraulic cylinder switch and electric telescopic handle switch, agitator motor (6), air pump (5), three electric hydraulic cylinder (13) and electric telescopic handle (20) are respectively through agitator motor switch, air pump switch, electric hydraulic cylinder switch and electric telescopic handle switch and external power supply electric connection.
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