CN217222906U - Cultivate auxiliary material processingequipment - Google Patents

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CN217222906U
CN217222906U CN202220541575.4U CN202220541575U CN217222906U CN 217222906 U CN217222906 U CN 217222906U CN 202220541575 U CN202220541575 U CN 202220541575U CN 217222906 U CN217222906 U CN 217222906U
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The utility model relates to an edible mushroom cultivates auxiliary material technical field, specifically disclose a cultivate auxiliary material processingequipment, including letter sorting pond and the controller that is used for the drainage, be equipped with the conveyer belt that is used for carrying food waste behind the letter sorting pond in proper order, be used for the centrifugal roll with food waste centrifugal dehydration, be used for squeezing food waste's squeezing mechanism and the dry rubbing crusher who is used for processing food waste, the conveyer belt both sides still are equipped with the first drainage groove that is used for filtering food hot water, the conveyer belt top still is equipped with the pinch roller that is used for extruding food waste in proper order and can holds the first logical groove that food waste passes through, squeezing mechanism one end still is equipped with the pushing equipment who is used for pushing dry rubbing crusher with food waste, still including the actuating mechanism who is used for driving conveyer belt, centrifugal roll and pinch roller, actuating mechanism is connected with the controller electricity, the rice bran of having solved traditional domestic fungus, Wheat bran and other culture auxiliary materials are replaced by kitchen waste, and the kitchen waste can be utilized after being processed.

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Cultivate auxiliary material processingequipment
Technical Field
The application relates to the technical field of edible mushroom culture auxiliary materials, and particularly discloses a culture auxiliary material processing device.
Background
The cultivation of edible fungi needs a large amount of culture medium containing energy auxiliary materials of essential nutrients for the growth of the edible fungi, and the culture medium is generally prepared from rice bran, straws, wheat bran and the like, however, the price of the energy auxiliary materials is too high, so that the cultivation cost of the edible fungi is increased. In life, the kitchen waste generated by people contains a large amount of organic matters such as starch, protein and the like, and also contains rich mineral trace elements and amino acids necessary for human bodies, which can be decomposed and absorbed by edible fungi, so that the edible fungi are cultivated by using the kitchen waste to replace auxiliary materials such as wheat bran, rice bran and the like, and the waste is changed into valuable.
However, food residues, food soup and other impurities in the kitchen waste need to be processed and treated to be used as energy auxiliary materials for cultivating edible fungi, so that the inventor provides a cultivation auxiliary material processing device in view of the above problem so as to solve the above problem.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims to solve the problem that the rice bran, wheat bran and the like of traditional edible fungi are cultivated with auxiliary materials and are replaced by kitchen waste, and the kitchen waste needs to be processed and then can be utilized.
In order to achieve the aim, the utility model discloses a basic scheme provides a cultivate auxiliary material processingequipment, including letter sorting pond and the controller that is used for the drainage, be equipped with the conveyer belt that is used for carrying food waste in the letter sorting pond in proper order, be used for the centrifugal roll with food waste centrifugal dehydration, be used for squeezing food waste's squeezing mechanism and the dry rubbing crusher who is used for processing food waste's dry rubbing crusher, the conveyer belt both sides still are equipped with the first drainage groove that is used for filtering food hot water, the conveyer belt top still is equipped with the pinch roller that is used for extruding food waste in proper order and can holds the first logical groove that food waste passes through, squeezing mechanism one end still is equipped with the pushing equipment who is used for pushing dry rubbing crusher with food waste, still including the actuating mechanism who is used for driving conveyor belt, centrifugal roll and pinch roller, actuating mechanism is connected with the controller electricity.
The principle and the effect of the basic scheme are as follows:
1. the utility model is provided with the conveyor belt, the pinch roller and the first through groove, the food residue is extruded by the pinch roller and the conveyor belt, the preliminary extrusion and dehydration of the food residue are realized, and the food residue is conveniently conveyed by the conveyor belt so as to complete the next processing procedure; the centrifugal roller drives the food residues to do high-speed centrifugal motion, so that the food residues are further dehydrated and crushed conveniently.
2. The utility model extrudes the food residue by arranging the squeezing mechanism, dehydrates the food residue again, and lays a cushion for the crushing and drying of the food residue, thereby improving the efficiency of drying and crushing; the pushing mechanism can push the squeezed food residues into the next mechanism so as to realize the operation of the next procedure.
3. The utility model discloses a dry rubbing crusher constructs, makes food waste dewater completely to smash it, with the last process of accomplishing food waste processing, make it use in the cultivation of domestic fungus.
4. Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses an effect of wheel pair food waste has been realized, food waste's preliminary extrusion dehydration, high-speed centrifugal dehydration to food waste through centrifugal roller, further reach the purpose of food waste dehydration, set up squeezing mechanism, not only can dewater food waste, and its preliminary kibbling purpose has been reached, combine current drier and cocatalyst through dry rubbing crusher at last, dewater food waste completely and smash, processing is the auxiliary material that can be used to the domestic fungus to cultivate, the rice bran of having solved traditional domestic fungus, the cultivation auxiliary material such as wheat bran is replaced by kitchen garbage, and kitchen garbage need be by the problem that just can utilize after the processing.
Further, the squeezing mechanism comprises an operation box communicated with the centrifugal roller, a first electric push rod vertically arranged at the top in the operation box and a pressing plate arranged at the bottom of the first electric push rod, and the first electric push rod is electrically connected with the controller. Compare in artifical dehydration and squeeze, adopt first electric putter and clamp plate to squeeze the dehydration to food waste, improved work efficiency widely.
Further, pushing equipment establishes the second electric putter of fixed case one side and sets firmly the push pedal at the second electric putter end including establishing fixed case, the level in the control box outside, and the control box both sides all are equipped with the second that can hold the push pedal and pass through and lead to the groove, and the push pedal bottom surface can slide bottom surface and second lead to the groove bottom surface in the control box, and second electric putter is connected with the controller electricity. Through setting up second electric putter and push pedal, realized food waste's transport and transfer, through the second logical groove, the squeezing mechanism of being convenient for when squeezing food waste, second electric putter can park in the second logical groove, avoids the structural damage that the motion interference arouses.
Further, dry rubbing crusher constructs including establishing the processing case of the one end of keeping away from the fixed case at the operation panel, with the processing incasement top rotate the agitator be connected, be located the agitator below and with the crushing sword of processing incasement inside wall rotation be connected and establish between agitator and crushing sword and with processing case sliding connection's baffle, the agitator top is stretched out processing case coaxial coupling and is had first motor, crushing sword one end is stretched out processing case coaxial coupling and is had the second motor, first motor and second motor all are connected with the controller electricity. Can realize food waste and current drier and cocatalyst intensive mixing and contact through the agitator, can smash food waste through smashing the sword, the cultivation of the domestic fungus of being convenient for is absorbed, through setting up the baffle, can be divided into two with the processing case, combines push pedal and second through-groove, makes the processing incasement form a confined space, makes food waste's drying effect more.
Further, the processing case is equipped with the spout that is located between agitator and the crushing sword, and the baffle can be sliding connection on the spout, and the baffle stretches out the processing case and still is equipped with the riser outward, is equipped with third electric putter between riser and the processing case lateral surface, and third electric putter is connected with the controller electricity. Through the sliding connection of the partition plate and the processing box, the third electric push rod is more convenient to drive the vertical plate and the partition plate to move.
Further, the conveyer belt below is equipped with the catch basin, and one side that the operation panel is close to the catch basin is equipped with the second drainage groove, and first drainage groove and second drainage groove all are equipped with the filter screen, and first drainage groove and second drainage groove all communicate with the catch basin. Through setting up first drainage tank and second drainage tank and catch basin intercommunication, be convenient for collect food hot water to the workman is to its unified processing or reutilization.
Further, the centrifugal roller lateral wall evenly is equipped with a plurality of filtration pores that are used for drainage, and the centrifugal roller outer lane is equipped with the drainage section of thick bamboo of connection between letter sorting pond and control box dismantled, and drainage section of thick bamboo below is equipped with the basin with the catch basin intercommunication. Through setting up a drainage section of thick bamboo and basin, be convenient for introduce the food hot water that obtains of centrifugal roller dehydration in the catch basin, do unified processing.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without creative efforts.
FIG. 1 is a front view of a culture adjuvant processing device according to an embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 2 is a right side sectional view of an operation box of a culture auxiliary material processing device according to an embodiment of the present application.
Detailed Description
To further illustrate the technical means and effects of the present invention adopted to achieve the objects of the present invention, the following detailed description of the embodiments, structures, features and effects according to the present invention will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments.
Reference numerals in the drawings of the specification include: sorting pond 1, conveyer belt 2, conveyer belt driven shaft 3, first water strainer 4, first logical groove 5, pinch roller 6, centrifugal cylinder 7, catch basin 8, basin 9, operation box 10, fixed case 11, second electric putter 12, push pedal 13, second lead to groove 14, processing case 15, agitator 16, smash sword 17, baffle 18, second water strainer 19, filter screen 20, riser 21, third electric putter 22, first motor 23, first electric putter 24, clamp plate 25.
A culture auxiliary material processing device, the embodiment is shown in figure 1: including letter sorting pond 1 and the controller that is used for the drainage, 1 bottom in letter sorting pond is equipped with the conveyer belt 2 that is used for carrying food waste, conveyer belt 2 includes the belt, left conveyer belt driving shaft and the conveyer belt driven shaft 3 on right side, 2 below of conveyer belt are equipped with catch basin 8, both sides wall all is equipped with the first drainage groove 4 that is located 2 both sides face of conveyer belt around letter sorting pond 1, 1 right-hand member in letter sorting pond is equipped with the first logical groove 5 that is located 2 right-hand member tops of conveyer belt, 1 internal rotation in letter sorting pond is connected and is equipped with the pinch roller 6 that is located first logical groove 5 top, still including being used for driving conveyor belt 2, the actuating mechanism of pinch roller 6 and centrifugal roller 7, actuating mechanism is connected with the controller electricity. 1 outside of letter sorting pond is rotated and is connected with the centrifugal cylinder 7 that communicates with first logical groove 5, 7 lateral walls of centrifugal cylinder evenly are equipped with a plurality of filtration pores that are used for the drainage, 7 right-hand members of centrifugal cylinder intercommunication is equipped with control box 10, 7 outer lanes of centrifugal cylinder are equipped with and can dismantle the drainage section of thick bamboo of connection between letter sorting pond 1 and control box 10, the bottom of drainage section of thick bamboo is equipped with the drainage groove that is used for flowing the food hot water that obtains behind the food waste centrifugal dehydration, be equipped with the basin 9 with the 8 intercommunication of catch basin under the drainage groove of drainage section of thick bamboo, the top is equipped with the squeezing mechanism who is used for squeezing food waste in the control box 10, squeezing mechanism includes vertical first electric putter 24 of establishing top in control box 10 and establishes the clamp plate 25 in first electric putter 24 bottom, first electric putter 24 is connected with the controller electricity.
As shown in fig. 2, the bottom of the operation box 10 is provided with a pushing mechanism for pushing food residues, the pushing mechanism includes a fixed box 11 disposed on the left side of the operation box 10, a second electric push rod 12 horizontally disposed on the left side of the fixed box 11, and a push plate 13 fixedly disposed at the end of the second electric push rod 12, both sides of the operation box 10 are provided with a second through slot 14 for allowing the push plate 13 to pass through, the bottom surface of the push plate 13 can slide on the bottom surface of the second through slot 14 in the operation box 10, the second electric push rod 12 is electrically connected with the controller, the right end of the operation box 10 is provided with a drying and pulverizing mechanism for processing food residues, the drying and pulverizing mechanism includes a processing box 15 disposed at one end of the operation box 10 away from the fixed box 11, a stirrer 16 rotatably connected with the top of the processing box 15, a pulverizing knife 17 disposed under the stirrer 16 and rotatably connected with the inner side wall of the processing box 15, and a partition plate 18 disposed between the stirrer 16 and the pulverizing knife 17 and slidably connected with the processing box 15, one side that operation box 10 is close to catch basin 8 is equipped with second water strainer 19, first water strainer 4 and second water strainer 19 all are equipped with filter screen 20, first water strainer 4 and second water strainer 19 all communicate with catch basin 8, processing box 15 is equipped with the spout that is located between agitator 16 and the crushing sword 17, baffle 18 can be sliding connection on the spout, baffle 18 stretches out processing box 15 and still is equipped with riser 21 outward, be equipped with third electric putter 22 between riser 21 and the 15 lateral surfaces of processing box, third electric putter 22 is connected with the controller electricity, 15 coaxial coupling of processing box are stretched out at agitator 16 top has first motor 23, processing box 15 top still is equipped with the pouring hole of being convenient for feed in raw material and reacting with food waste, crushing sword 17 one end stretches out processing box 15 coaxial coupling has the second motor, first motor 23 all is connected with the controller electricity with the second motor.
In the specific implementation process of the utility model, the kitchen waste is poured into the sorting tank 1, the food residues move rightwards through the conveyor belt 2, the food residues moving rightwards are extruded when the pressing wheel 6 rotates, the food residues are extruded into the first through groove 5, and meanwhile, the food soup in the kitchen waste enters the water collecting tank 8 through the first water filtering grooves 4 on the two sides of the conveyor belt 2; food residues after primary extrusion and dehydration enter a centrifugal roller 7 through a first through groove 5, the centrifugal roller 7 is driven to rotate at a high speed by a driving mechanism controlled by a controller, and after the food residues are centrifugally moved at a high speed, food soup carried by the food residues is thrown away, flows to a water tank 9 below the food residues through a drainage cylinder and finally flows into a water collecting tank 9; after the food waste is dehydrated for the second time, the food waste is rotated by the centrifugal roller 7 and sent into the operation box 10, the controller controls the first electric push rod 24 to extend downwards, the food waste sent into the operation box 10 is extruded and dehydrated for the second time, and the squeezed food soup flows into the water collecting tank 8 through the second water filtering groove 19.
After several passes of back and forth pressing by the first electric push rod 24, the food soup in the food waste is almost dried and a preliminary crushing effect is obtained. Then the second electric push rod 12 starts to move from the second through groove 14 on the left side, at the same time, the partition plate 18 divides the processing box 15 into an upper space and a lower space, the second electric push rod 12 pushes the food residues into the upper space of the processing box 15 from the left side to the right side, the second electric push rod 12 is stopped at the second through groove 14 on the right side, a worker adds a drying agent for finally dehydrating the food residues and a cocatalyst which is beneficial to the reaction of the food residues and the drying agent into the processing box 15 from a material pouring port, then the first motor 23 is started to drive the stirrer 16 to fully contact and react the drying agent and the cocatalyst with the food residues, after the reaction is completed, the controller controls the third electric push rod 22 to drive the partition plate 18 to move rightwards, so that the dried food residues fall into the bottom of the processing box 15, then the second motor is started to drive the crushing knife 17 to rotate, and cut and crush the dried food residues, the crushed food waste is finally collected and bagged by workers for subsequent use in cultivating edible fungi, and the food water in the collecting tank 8 is collected by workers for refining bio-oil.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses a pinch roller 6, conveyer belt 2 and the first interact who leads to groove 5 to food waste, food waste's preliminary extrusion dehydration has been realized, through centrifugal cylinder 7 to food waste's high-speed centrifugal dehydration, further reach the purpose of food waste dehydration, set up squeezing mechanism, not only can dewater food waste, and its preliminary kibbling purpose has been reached, at last agitator 16 through dry rubbing crusher constructs, smash sword 17 and baffle 18, and combine current drier and cocatalyst, dewater food waste completely and smash, processing is the auxiliary material that can be used to the domestic fungus to cultivate, the rice bran of having solved traditional domestic fungus, the cultivation auxiliary material such as wheat bran is replaced by kitchen garbage, and kitchen garbage need be processed the problem that just can utilize after handling.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the above description, and although the present invention has been disclosed by the preferred embodiment, it is not limited to the present invention, and any person skilled in the art can make modifications or changes equivalent to the equivalent embodiments by utilizing the above disclosed technical contents without departing from the technical scope of the present invention, but all the modifications, changes and changes of the technical spirit of the present invention made to the above embodiments are also within the scope of the technical solution of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a cultivate auxiliary material processingequipment which characterized in that: including letter sorting pond and the controller that is used for the drainage, be equipped with the conveyer belt that is used for carrying food waste in proper order in the letter sorting pond, a centrifugal roller for with food waste centrifugal dehydration, a squeezing mechanism for squeezing food waste and the dry rubbing crusher who is used for processing food waste, the conveyer belt both sides still are equipped with the first drainage groove that is used for filtering food hot water, the conveyer belt top still is equipped with the pinch roller that is used for extrudeing food waste in proper order and can holds the first logical groove that food waste passes through, squeezing mechanism one end still is equipped with the pushing equipment who is used for pushing food waste dry rubbing crusher, still including being used for driving the conveyer belt, the actuating mechanism of centrifugal roller and pinch roller, actuating mechanism is connected with the controller electricity.
2. The culture adjuvant processing device according to claim 1, wherein the squeezing mechanism comprises an operation box communicated with the centrifugal drum, a first electric push rod vertically arranged at the top in the operation box and a pressing plate arranged at the bottom of the first electric push rod, and the first electric push rod is electrically connected with the controller.
3. The auxiliary culture material processing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the pushing mechanism comprises a fixing box arranged outside the operation box, a second electric push rod horizontally arranged on one side of the fixing box, and a push plate fixedly arranged at the end of the second electric push rod, wherein the two sides of the operation box are respectively provided with a second through groove for the push plate to pass through, the bottom surface of the push plate can slide on the bottom surface of the second through groove in the operation box, and the second electric push rod is electrically connected with the controller.
4. The culture auxiliary material processing device of claim 3, wherein the drying and crushing mechanism comprises a processing box arranged at one end of the operation box far away from the fixed box, a stirrer rotatably connected with the top in the processing box, a crushing knife positioned below the stirrer and rotatably connected with the inner side wall of the processing box, and a partition plate arranged between the stirrer and the crushing knife and slidably connected with the processing box, wherein the top of the stirrer extends out of the processing box and is coaxially connected with a first motor, one end of the crushing knife extends out of the processing box and is coaxially connected with a second motor, and the first motor and the second motor are both electrically connected with the controller.
5. The culture adjuvant processing device according to claim 4, wherein the processing box is provided with a chute between the stirrer and the crushing knife, the partition board can be connected on the chute in a sliding manner, the partition board extends out of the processing box and is further provided with a vertical board, a third electric push rod is arranged between the vertical board and the outer side surface of the processing box, and the third electric push rod is electrically connected with the controller.
6. A processing device for cultivation auxiliary materials according to claim 3, wherein a collecting tank is arranged below the conveyor belt, a second water filtering groove is arranged on one side of the operation box close to the collecting tank, a filter screen is arranged on each of the first water filtering groove and the second water filtering groove, and the first water filtering groove and the second water filtering groove are communicated with the collecting tank.
7. A processing device for culture auxiliary materials according to claim 6, characterized in that the side wall of the centrifugal roller is uniformly provided with a plurality of filter holes for filtering water, the outer ring of the centrifugal roller is provided with a drainage tube which is detachably connected between the sorting pond and the operation box, and a water tank which is communicated with the water collecting pond is arranged below the drainage tube.
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