CN217774761U - Organic fertilizer preparation facilities of secondary operation filters waste residue - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses an organic fertilizer preparation facilities of secondary operation filters waste residue, include: the compost case, be equipped with the compost chamber in the compost case, the discharge gate that runs through around the compost case antetheca is equipped with, the fixed feed inlet that is equipped with of compost case up end, the feed inlet run through from top to bottom and with the compost chamber communicates with each other, the fixed waste can that is equipped with of compost case up end. The sludge is filtered by the screen, the screen is vibrated to enhance the filtering effect, and water is not added for dilution in the whole filtering process, so that the water content of the sludge is not increased, the working cost is reduced, and the working efficiency is improved; the material pushing plate is arranged above the screen, impurities on the screen can be pushed away from the screen by the material pushing plate after a certain time, the pushing interval time of the material pushing plate can be automatically adjusted according to the quantity of the impurities contained in the sludge, and the filtering effect of the screen is guaranteed.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a fertilizer processing technology field especially relates to an organic fertilizer preparation facilities that filters secondary operation to the waste residue.
Background
The sludge is a substance generated after waste residues generated in daily life are decomposed, the substance is a natural organic fertilizer production raw material and is low in cost, but the garbage in the current life has a lot of non-degradable substances and harmful substances, so that the harmful garbage needs to be filtered firstly when the sludge is used for preparing the organic fertilizer, and the current filtering mode has the following problems: 1, the existing traditional filtering mode is to dilute sludge by adding a large amount of water, and then fish out garbage in the sludge after dilution, but the mode wastes a large amount of water resources, and the diluted sludge needs to be dried when organic fertilizer is manufactured, so that the water content in the sludge is reduced, the whole process is more, and the working efficiency is lower; some factories remove the garbage by a screen, but the garbage is accumulated on the filter screen when the garbage is filtered, and the filtering effect gradually decreases along with the accumulation of the garbage, so that the working efficiency is affected.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In order to solve the problem, the utility model provides an organic fertilizer preparation facilities of secondary operation filters the waste residue. In order to realize the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme, a secondary operation's organic fertilizer preparation facilities is filtered to the waste residue, include: the composting device comprises a composting box, wherein a composting cavity is arranged in the composting box, a front wall of the composting box is provided with a front and back through discharge hole, the upper end surface of the composting box is fixedly provided with a feed inlet, the feed inlet penetrates up and down to be communicated with the composting cavity, the upper end surface of the composting box is fixedly provided with a waste box, the waste box is tightly and fixedly connected with the right wall of the feed inlet, a waste cavity is arranged in the waste box, and the right wall of the waste box is provided with a left and right through waste discharge hole;
the utility model discloses a compost box, including feed inlet, wall symmetry, vibrations air pump pole, fixed pipe that runs through around the fixed pipe that runs through of bracing piece up end, vibrations air pump pole rear end face with the front side fixed connection between the terminal surface before the vibrations pole, vibrations air pump pole with the vibrations pole is all in slide in the fixed pipe.
As an optimal technical scheme of the utility model, the both sides inner wall symmetry is equipped with and pushes away the silo around the feed inlet, it is equipped with electronic slide rail, two to push away the silo internal fixation slide jointly in the electronic slide rail and be equipped with and push away the material slide bar, it is equipped with the lifting air pump to push away the material slide bar upside, the terminal surface is equipped with lifting air pump pole under the lifting air pump, lifting air pump pole with push away fixed connection between the material slide bar, the fixed pressure sensor that is equipped with of lifting air pump right-hand member face, the fixed scraping wings that is equipped with of pressure sensor right-hand member face, the feed inlet right-hand member wall is equipped with about runs through pushes away the material mouth, it is equipped with filtering baffle in the material mouth to push away, the feed inlet right-hand member wall be located push away the fixed filtration electronic hinge that is equipped with of material mouth upside, filter electronic hinge with filtering baffle between the fixed connection, through filtering electronic hinge makes filtering baffle can overturn upwards.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, evenly be equipped with in the screen cloth and run through from top to bottom the sieve mesh of screen cloth, both ends face about the screen cloth with the inner wall closely laminates about the feed inlet.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, pressure sensor can control the start-up frequency of electronic slide rail.
As an optimal technical scheme of the utility model, push away material mouthful lower terminal surface with the screen cloth up end flushes.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, the compost case antetheca is located the fixed hinge that is equipped with in discharge gate right side, be equipped with discharge baffle in the discharge gate, the hinge with discharge baffle fixed connection, through the hinge makes discharge baffle can for the compost case outwards overturns, be equipped with the waste material discharge baffle who agrees with completely in the waste material discharge gate, waste material discharge baffle with the friction is less between the waste material discharge gate.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, electronic slide rail is the U-shaped, just electronic slide rail is kept away from the terminal surface of the one end of feed inlet with the feed inlet inner wall is in the coplanar, around the scraping wings terminal surface with the feed inlet inner wall is in the coplanar.
As an optimized technical scheme of the utility model, the size of scraping wings with the size of filtering baffle is the same.
The utility model provides an organic fertilizer preparation facilities that filters secondary operation to the waste residue. The method has the following beneficial effects:
1. the utility model discloses a screen cloth filters silt, shakes simultaneously to the screen cloth and makes its filter effect strengthen, need not add water to it and dilute simultaneously in whole filtering process, has guaranteed that the water content of silt can not increase, has reduced working cost and has improved work efficiency simultaneously.
2. The utility model discloses set up the scraping wings above the screen cloth, the scraping wings will push away the impurity on the screen cloth from the screen cloth after every fixed time to can be according to the interval time that how many automatically regulated scraping wings of impurity that contains in the silt promoted, guaranteed the filter effect of screen cloth.
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The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples.
Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic plan view of the present invention.
Fig. 3 isbase:Sub>A schematic view of thebase:Sub>A-base:Sub>A direction three-dimensional cutting structure of fig. 2 of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of the present invention at a part enlarged in fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of the right-side view structure of fig. 2 of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is a schematic view of the structure of the present invention cut in a direction from B-B in fig. 5.
Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of the present invention in a partially enlarged structure at B in fig. 6.
Fig. 8 is a schematic view of a partially enlarged structure at C in fig. 4 according to the present invention.
Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the structure of fig. 5 in the direction C-C.
Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of a partially enlarged structure of fig. 9D according to the present invention.
In the figure: 1. composting; 101. a feed inlet; 102. a discharge baffle; 103. a waste bin; 104. a support bar; 105. a waste discharge baffle; 107. a filtering baffle; 108. a filtering electric hinge; 109. pushing a material port; 110. a material pushing plate; 111. a material pushing slide bar; 112. lifting the air pump rod; 113. lifting the air pump; 114. vibrating the air pump; 115. a fixed tube; 117. screening holes; 118. screening a screen; 119. an electric slide rail; 120. a filtering chute; 121. a material pushing groove; 122. vibrating the air pump rod; 123. a vibration rod; 124. a composting cavity; 125. a discharge port; 126. a hinge; 127. a waste chamber; 128. a waste material outlet; 129. a pressure sensor.
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In order to make the technical means, creation characteristics, achievement purpose and efficacy of the utility model easy to understand and understand, the utility model is further explained by combining with the specific figure below. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.
Referring to fig. 1, 5 and 6, a filter secondary operation's organic fertilizer preparation facilities to waste residue, including compost case 1, be equipped with compost chamber 124 in the compost case 1, the discharge gate 125 that runs through around the 1 antetheca of compost case is equipped with, the fixed feed inlet 101 that is equipped with of 1 up end of compost case, feed inlet 101 run through from top to bottom with compost chamber 124 communicates with each other, the fixed waste can 103 that is equipped with of 1 up end of compost case, waste can 103 with the inseparable fixed connection of the right wall of feed inlet 101, be equipped with waste chamber 127 in the waste can 103, waste can 103 right wall is equipped with the waste discharge gate 128 that runs through about.
Referring to fig. 1, fig. 3, fig. 4, fig. 5 and fig. 8, the wall symmetry is equipped with the filtration spout 120 that runs through around the feed inlet 101, it is equipped with screen cloth 118 to slide in the filtration spout 120, the fixed vibrations pole 123 that is equipped with of terminal surface symmetry around the screen cloth 118, compost case 1 up end is located the fixed bracing piece 104 that is equipped with in feed inlet 101 front side, the fixed vibrations air pump 114 that is equipped with of bracing piece 104 up end, the fixed vibrations air pump pole 122 that is equipped with of vibrations air pump 114 rear end, the fixed pipe 115 that runs through around being equipped with of bracing piece 104 up end, vibrations air pump pole 122 rear end with the front side fixed connection between the preceding terminal surface of vibrations pole 123, vibrations air pump pole 122 with vibrations pole 123 all slide in fixed pipe 115.
Referring to fig. 7 and 10, material pushing grooves 121 are symmetrically arranged on the inner walls of the front side and the rear side of the feed port 101, electric slide rails 119 are fixedly arranged in the material pushing grooves 121, material pushing slide bars 111 are jointly slidably arranged in the two electric slide rails 119, a lifting air pump 113 is arranged on the upper sides of the material pushing slide bars 111, a lifting air pump rod 112 is arranged on the lower end face of the lifting air pump 113, the lifting air pump rod 112 is fixedly connected with the material pushing slide bars 111, a pressure sensor 129 is fixedly arranged on the right end face of the lifting air pump 113, a material pushing plate 110 is fixedly arranged on the right end face of the pressure sensor 129, the material pushing plate 110 is lifted upwards by a certain distance when the material pushing plate 110 moves back and forth to prevent waste materials from being clamped between the material pushing plate 110 and the inner wall of the feed port 101 and cannot be pushed out when the material is pushed next time, a left-right through opening 109 is arranged on the right wall of the feed port 101, a filtering baffle 107 is arranged in the material pushing opening 109, a filtering electric hinge 108 is fixedly arranged on the upper side of the right wall of the feed port 101, the filtering electric hinge 108 is fixedly connected with the filtering baffle 107, and the filtering electric hinge 108 can enable the filtering baffle 107 to be turned upwards.
Referring to fig. 4 and 7, the sieve mesh 117 penetrating through the sieve mesh 118 vertically is uniformly arranged in the sieve mesh 118, the left and right end faces of the sieve mesh 118 are tightly attached to the left and right inner walls of the feed inlet 101, so that it is ensured that the sieve mesh 118 does not come off when the vibration air pump 114 vibrates, the lower end face of the material pushing port 109 is flush with the upper end face of the sieve mesh 118, filtered waste materials are better pushed into the waste material cavity 127 through the waste material outlet 128, the pressure sensor 129 can control the starting frequency of the electric slide rail 119, when the electric slide rail 119 is started, the electric slide rail 119 drives the material pushing plate 110 to move, the pressure sensor 129 receives pressure, when the pressure is within a normal range, the moving frequency of the electric slide rail 119 is normal, when the pressure exceeds the normal range, it indicates that more waste remains in the period of time, the moving frequency of the electric slide rail 119 is increased, the pressure returns to the normal range again, it is ensured that the remaining waste is not accumulated excessively, the efficiency is ensured, and when the pressure is lower than the normal range, the moving frequency of the electric slide rail 119 is reduced, and the loss is reduced.
Referring to fig. 1, 2, 5 and 6, the front wall of the compost bin 1 is located on the right side of the discharge port 125 and is fixedly provided with a hinge 126, the discharge port 125 is internally provided with a fully fitted discharge baffle 102, the hinge 126 is fixedly connected with the discharge baffle 102, the discharge baffle 102 can be turned outwards relative to the compost bin 1 through the hinge 126, the waste discharge port 128 is internally provided with a fully fitted waste discharge baffle 105, friction between the waste discharge baffle 105 and the waste discharge port 128 is small, so that the waste discharge baffle 105 can be better taken out for waste discharge, when more waste or forgetting to be cleaned, the waste discharge baffle 105 can be automatically extruded out of the waste discharge port 128 for waste discharge, and the waste accumulation in the waste cavity 127 is prevented from causing the reduction of subsequent filtering efficiency.
Referring to fig. 7 and 8, the electric slide rail 119 is U-shaped, an end face of one end of the electric slide rail 119, which is far away from the feed inlet 101, and an inner wall of the feed inlet 101 are located on the same plane, front and rear end faces of the material pushing plate 110 and the inner wall of the feed inlet 101 are located on the same plane, so that waste materials are prevented from being mixed in a gap between the material pushing plate 110 and the feed inlet 101 and cannot be removed, the size of the material pushing plate 110 is the same as that of the filtering baffle 107, the size of the material pushing plate 109 can be completely matched when material pushing is performed, and waste materials cannot be completely pushed out.
The working process comprises the following steps: viscous sludge is thrown into the feed inlet 101, the sludge is piled on the screen mesh 118 through the feed inlet 101, the vibration air pump 114 is started to rapidly move the screen mesh 118 back and forth through the vibration air pump rod 122 to form vibration, the viscous sludge on the screen mesh 118 falls into the composting cavity 124 through the screen holes 117 for composting, solid waste in the sludge is remained on the screen mesh 118, after a certain time, the lifting air pump 113 is started to shrink the lifting air pump rod 112, the lifting air pump 113 moves to drive the material pushing plate 110 to fall down, the lower end face of the material pushing plate 110 is flush with the upper end face of the screen mesh 118, the electric slide rail 119 is started to drive the material pushing slide rod 111 to move rightwards to drive the material pushing plate 110 to move rightwards so as to push the waste accumulated on the screen mesh 118 to move rightwards, the waste pushed rightwards in the process of the material pushing plate 110 can gradually jack up the filtering baffle 107, at the moment, the electric filtering hinge 108 gradually turns the filtering baffle 107 upwards, so that waste pushed by the pushing plate 110 gradually enters the waste cavity 127 through the pushing opening 109 to be stacked, when the pushing plate 110 moves to the rightmost end, namely, the pushing plate 110 is overlapped with the pushing opening 109, the electric sliding rail 119 drives the pushing slide rod 111 to move leftwards, the lifting air pump 113 starts to extend the lifting air pump rod 112, the electric filtering hinge 108 starts to drive the filtering baffle 107 to turn downwards to return to the initial position to be overlapped with the pushing opening 109, and simultaneously, the pushing plate 110 moves upwards under the action of the lifting air pump 113, so that the situation that the waste is pushed leftwards in the process that the pushing plate 110 is clamped by the pushing plate 110 and the inner wall of the feeding opening 101 to cause that the waste cannot be cleaned subsequently, and the subsequent filtering effect is influenced is avoided, in the process that when the electric sliding rail 119 starts, the electric sliding rail 119 drives the pushing plate 110 to move, the pressure sensor 129 receives pressure, when the pressure is in a normal range, the moving frequency of the electric sliding rail 119 is normal, when the pressure exceeds the normal range, the amount of the garbage remained in the period is indicated to be large, the moving frequency of the electric sliding rail 119 is increased, the pressure returns to the normal range again, the situation that the amount of the remained garbage is not excessive is guaranteed, the filtering efficiency is guaranteed, when the pressure is lower than the normal range, the moving frequency of the electric sliding rail 119 is reduced, the loss is reduced, when the waste in the waste bin 103 is piled up for a certain time, the waste discharging baffle 105 is taken out to clean the waste in the waste bin 103, the space in the waste bin 103 is enough during the subsequent filtering, and when the sludge composting in the compost bin 1 is completed, the discharging baffle 102 is opened to take out the sludge which is already composted through the discharging port 125 to prepare for the next filtering.
The foregoing illustrates and describes the principles, general features, and advantages of the present invention. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and the description in the above embodiments and the specification is only for explaining the principle of the present invention, and that the present invention can also have various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, and that these changes and modifications all fall into the scope of the claimed invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.
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1. The utility model provides an organic fertilizer preparation facilities of secondary operation filters waste residue, includes compost case (1), be equipped with compost chamber (124) in compost case (1), its characterized in that: a front wall of the compost box (1) is provided with a front and rear penetrating discharge port (125), the upper end surface of the compost box (1) is fixedly provided with a feed port (101), the feed port (101) penetrates through the compost cavity (124) from top to bottom and is communicated with the compost cavity, the upper end surface of the compost box (1) is fixedly provided with a waste box (103), the waste box (103) is tightly and fixedly connected with the right wall of the feed port (101), a waste cavity (127) is arranged in the waste box (103), and the right wall of the waste box (103) is provided with a left and right penetrating waste discharge port (128);
feed inlet (101) front and back wall symmetry is equipped with filtration spout (120) that runs through around, it is equipped with screen cloth (118) to slide in spout (120), the fixed vibrations pole (123) that is equipped with of terminal surface symmetry around screen cloth (118), compost case (1) up end is located fixed bracing piece (104) that are equipped with in feed inlet (101) front side, bracing piece (104) up end is fixed and is equipped with vibrations air pump (114), vibrations air pump (114) rear end face is equipped with vibrations air pump pole (122), fixed pipe (115) that run through around bracing piece (104) up end is fixed to be equipped with, vibrations air pump pole (122) rear end face with the front side fixed connection between vibrations pole (123) the front end face, vibrations air pump pole (122) with vibrations pole (123) all are in slide in fixed pipe (115).
2. The apparatus for preparing organic fertilizer by filtering and secondary processing of waste residue as claimed in claim 1, wherein: feed inlet (101) front and back both sides inner wall symmetry is equipped with and pushes away silo (121), it is equipped with electronic slide rail (119), two to push away silo (121) internal fixation common slip in electronic slide rail (119) is equipped with and pushes away material slide bar (111), it is equipped with lifting air pump (113) to push away material slide bar (111) upside, the terminal surface is equipped with lifting air pump pole (112) under lifting air pump (113), lifting air pump pole (112) with push away fixed connection between material slide bar (111), lifting air pump (113) right-hand member face is fixed and is equipped with pressure sensor (129), pressure sensor (129) right-hand member face is fixed and is equipped with scraping wings (110), what feed inlet (101) right wall was run through about being equipped with pushes away material mouth (109), it is equipped with in material mouth (109) and filters baffle (107), feed inlet (101) right-hand member is located material mouth (109) upside is fixed and is equipped with and filters electronic hinge (108), filter electronic hinge (108) with filter between baffle (107), through filter electronic hinge (108) and make it makes to filter baffle (107) upset upwards.
3. The apparatus for preparing organic fertilizer by filtering and secondary processing of waste residue as claimed in claim 1, wherein: and sieve holes (117) which vertically penetrate through the sieve screen (118) are uniformly formed in the sieve screen (118), and the left end surface and the right end surface of the sieve screen (118) are tightly attached to the left inner wall and the right inner wall of the feed port (101).
4. The apparatus for preparing organic fertilizer by filtering and secondary processing of waste residue according to claim 2, wherein: the pressure sensor (129) may control the frequency of activation of the motorized slide rail (119).
5. The apparatus for preparing organic fertilizer by filtering and secondary processing of waste residue as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the lower end face of the material pushing opening (109) is flush with the upper end face of the screen (118).
6. The apparatus for preparing organic fertilizer by filtering and secondary processing of waste residue as claimed in claim 1, wherein: compost case (1) antetheca is located fixed hinge (126) that are equipped with in discharge gate (125) right side, be equipped with discharging baffle (102) that agree with completely in discharge gate (125), hinge (126) with discharging baffle (102) fixed connection, through hinge (126) make discharging baffle (102) can for composting case (1) outwards overturns, be equipped with waste material discharging baffle (105) that agree with completely in waste material discharge gate (128), waste material discharging baffle (105) with friction is less between waste material discharge gate (128), can make waste material discharging baffle (105) are taken out and are carried out the waste material and discharge.
7. The apparatus for preparing organic fertilizer by filtering and secondary processing of waste residue as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the electric sliding rail (119) is U-shaped, the end face of one end, away from the feed inlet (101), of the electric sliding rail (119) is located on the same plane with the inner wall of the feed inlet (101), and the front end face and the rear end face of the material pushing plate (110) are located on the same plane with the inner wall of the feed inlet (101).
8. The apparatus for preparing organic fertilizer by filtering and secondary processing of waste residue according to claim 2, wherein: the size of the material pushing plate (110) is the same as that of the filtering baffle (107).
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