CN218929934U - Waste material processing apparatus for food packaging machinery - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to the technical field of food packaging machines, in particular to a waste treatment device for a food packaging machine, which comprises a base, wherein the bottom of the base is provided with universal wheels, the top of the base is provided with an operation table, the top of the operation table is fixedly connected with a waste box, a sliding plate is horizontally and slidably matched in the waste box, the top of the sliding plate in the waste box is provided with a compression cavity, one side of the compression cavity is provided with a feed inlet through the waste box, the feed inlet is communicated with a feed pipe which is arranged in an upward inclined way, the extending end of the feed pipe is communicated with a feed hopper, the bottom of the sliding plate is fixedly connected with a sieve plate, the waste box is provided with a feed cavity between the sieve plates, one side of the feed inlet bottom of the feed cavity is provided with a discharge hole through the waste box, a feed mechanism is arranged in the feed cavity, the bottom of the sieve plate is provided with a dust collection cavity, and a treatment box with an upward opening is arranged in the dust collection cavity.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to the field of food packaging machines, in particular to a waste treatment device for a food packaging machine.
Background
The food packaging machine is a health care device for fresh-keeping and safety of packaged foods, adopts a stepping motor, is quiet in operation, stable in action and long in service life, works in a continuous automatic packaging mode, continuously generates waste materials cut off from packaging bags when the foods are packaged, directly discharges the waste materials from the food packaging machine and falls into a waste material collecting box in the prior art, and because a mechanism for compressing the waste materials is not provided, the waste material collecting box is filled up quickly, frequent cleaning is needed, time and labor are wasted, and the working efficiency is greatly reduced.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, the utility model aims to provide the waste treatment device for the food packaging machine, which has the advantages of having a waste compression mechanism, so that the volume of waste is reduced by compression, the unified treatment of workers is facilitated, and the working efficiency is greatly improved.
The technical aim of the utility model is realized by the following technical scheme:
the utility model provides a waste material processing apparatus for food packaging machinery, includes the base, the base top is equipped with the operation panel, operation panel top fixedly connected with waste material case, horizontal sliding fit has the slide in the waste material case, it establishes to the compression chamber to lie in the slide top in the waste material case, the feed inlet has been seted up to compression chamber one side through the waste material case, feed inlet department intercommunication has the inlet pipe that the upward slope set up, inlet pipe extension end intercommunication has feed hopper, compression intracavity is kept away from in feed inlet one side and is equipped with compressing mechanism, compressing mechanism includes first fixing base, second fixing base, first fixing base, equal fixed mounting in compression chamber inner wall of second fixing base, first fixing base is located the second fixing base top, it is connected with the lead screw to rotate between first fixing base and the second fixing base, the lead screw top runs through the compression chamber and extends to the waste material case outside, the lead screw extension end has driving motor through the coupling, lead screw outside fixedly connected with movable block is located between first fixing base and the second fixing base, movable block sliding fit in slide bar, movable block sliding fit is equipped with compressing mechanism in slide plate one side, movable block sliding connection has been located in the feed inlet one side, feed inlet one side is located the feed inlet, the feed inlet has been set up to be the feed inlet bottom in the feed chamber, the feed inlet bottom is located the feed inlet, the dust absorption chamber bottom has been set up.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, at first, the workman opens driving motor, driving motor drive lead screw rotation work, movable block and clamp plate cooperation slide bar on the movable block on the lead screw move to the compression chamber top this moment, then the workman cooperates the universal wheel with whole waste material processing apparatus to pass to the packing machine side, the waste material can slide into the inlet pipe through the feed hopper, slide into the compression intracavity through the feed pipe, when the waste material of compression intracavity is full, at this moment, the workman opens driving motor, driving motor drive lead screw rotation work, movable block and clamp plate cooperation slide bar on the movable block work of extruding downwards on this moment, compression shaping with the waste material through the cooperation of slide, then the workman slides the slide out, the waste material piece after the shaping can directly drop to the sieve of feed chamber on, then the workman slides the slide again and continues to cooperate and accomplish next waste material compression work in the waste material intracavity, compression shaping waste material passes through the feeding mechanism in the feed chamber with its propelling movement discharge gate, the unified collection of being convenient for handles, and some impurity can drop in the waste material piece propelling movement process after the shaping this moment, these impurity can drop through the sieve to the processing incasement.
Further set up: one end of the sliding plate extends to the outer side of the waste box, and the extending end of the sliding plate is fixedly connected with a handle.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the cooperation setting of handle and slide bar is convenient for the workman to pull out the slide.
Further set up: the feeding mechanism comprises a pushing cylinder horizontally arranged on the inner wall of the waste cavity, the output end of the pushing cylinder is arranged towards the discharge hole, and the output end of the pushing cylinder is fixedly connected with a push plate.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, through the cooperation setting of pushing cylinder and push pedal, the waste material piece propelling movement after the shaping to the discharge gate be convenient for workman unified centralized processing.
Further set up: the exhaust fan is arranged on the outer wall of the waste box, an exhaust pipeline is communicated with the exhaust opening of the exhaust fan, and one end of the exhaust pipeline penetrates through the waste box and extends into the dust collection cavity.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, when the waste material piece after the shaping falls on the sieve, can produce certain impurity, the workman opens the air exhauster this moment, cooperates the exhaust line convulsions work, pumps unnecessary impurity to the processing incasement.
Further set up: the treatment box is internally provided with a filter screen cover at the exhaust pipeline.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, exhaust duct is at cooperation air exhauster during operation, plays certain filtration through the setting of filtering the screen panel, avoids impurity direct suction air exhauster in causing the damage.
Further set up: one side of the dust collection cavity is hinged with a cabinet door.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the setting of cabinet door is convenient for the workman to take the processing case, collects the impurity of handling in the case and handles.
Further set up: be equipped with elevating system between base and the operation panel, elevating system includes the lift cylinder of fixed connection in the base top, lift cylinder output fixedly connected with lifter plate, lifter plate fixed connection is in the operation panel bottom, the lift cylinder both sides are equipped with the direction telescopic link respectively, the equal fixed connection in base top surface in direction telescopic link bottom, the equal fixedly connected with deflector in direction telescopic link top, deflector all with operation panel bottom fixed connection.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, through lift cylinder and direction telescopic link cooperation lift operation panel, go up and down to suitable high convenient feeding to the feed hopper of waste bin on the operation panel.
In summary, the utility model has the following beneficial effects:
1. when the waste in the compression cavity is full, a worker starts the driving motor at the moment, the driving motor drives the screw rod to rotate and work, the moving block on the screw rod and the pressing plate on the moving block are matched with the sliding rod to press downwards and work, the waste is compressed and molded through the matching of the sliding plate, the molded waste is matched with the moving sliding plate to fall into the feeding cavity, the next waste compression work is continuously completed in the compression cavity, the size of the compressed waste is reduced, unified centralized processing of workers is facilitated, and the working efficiency is greatly improved.
2. The utility model is provided with a lifting mechanism, and the lifting cylinder and the guiding telescopic rod are matched with the lifting operation table until the feeding hopper of the waste box on the operation table is lifted to a proper height, so that feeding is convenient.
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The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the utility model and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate and together with the description serve to explain the utility model, if necessary:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the present utility model;
FIG. 2 is a front view of the present utility model;
in the figure, 1, a base; 2. an operation table; 3. a waste bin; 4. a slide plate; 5. a compression chamber; 6. a feed inlet; 7. a feed pipe; 8. a feed hopper; 9. a compression mechanism; 10. a first fixing seat; 11. the second fixing seat; 12. a screw rod; 13. a driving motor; 14. a moving block; 15. a slide bar; 16. a pressing plate; 17. a sieve plate; 18. a feed cavity; 19. a discharge port; 20. a feeding mechanism; 21. a dust collection cavity; 22. a treatment box; 23. a handle; 24. a pushing cylinder; 25. a push plate; 26. an exhaust fan; 27. filtering the net cover; 28. a cabinet door; 29. a lifting mechanism; 30. a lifting cylinder; 31. a lifting plate; 32. a guiding telescopic rod; 33. a guide plate; 34. and a universal wheel.
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The foregoing and other features, aspects and advantages of the present utility model will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the embodiments, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying figures 1-2. The following embodiments are described in detail with reference to the drawings.
Exemplary embodiments of the present utility model will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example 1: the utility model provides a waste treatment device for food packagine machine, as shown in figure 1, 2, including base 1, base 1 top is equipped with operation panel 2, operation panel 2 top fixedly connected with waste bin 3, horizontal movable fit has slide 4 in waste bin 3, slide 4 one end extends to waste bin 3 outside, slide 4 extension end fixedly connected with handle 23, it establishes as compression chamber 5 to lie in slide 4 top in waste bin 3, compression chamber 5 one side runs through waste bin 3 and has seted up feed inlet 6, feed inlet 6 department intercommunication has feed pipe 7 that the upward sloping set up, feed pipe 7 extension end intercommunication has feed hopper 8, compression chamber 5 is interior to be kept away from feed inlet 6 one side and is equipped with compression mechanism 9, compression mechanism 9 includes first fixing base 10, second fixing base 11, first fixing base 10, second fixing base 11 is all fixed mounting in compression chamber 5 inner wall, first fixing base 10 is located second fixing base 11 top, a screw rod 12 is rotationally connected between the first fixing seat 10 and the second fixing seat 11, the top of the screw rod 12 penetrates through the compression cavity 5 to extend to the outer side of the waste bin 3, the extending end of the screw rod 12 is connected with a driving motor 13 through a coupling, the outer side of the screw rod 12 is connected with a moving block 14 in a matching way, one side of the screw rod 12 is fixedly connected with a sliding rod 15 between the first fixing seat 10 and the second fixing seat 11, the moving block 14 is in sliding fit with the sliding rod 15, one side of the moving block 14 is fixedly connected with a pressing plate 16, one end of the pressing plate 16 extends to one side of the feeding hole 6, when waste in the compression cavity 5 is filled, a worker starts the driving motor 13 at the moment, the driving motor 13 drives the screw rod 12 to rotate, the moving block 14 on the screw rod 12 and the pressing plate 16 on the moving block 14 are matched with the sliding rod 15 to press downwards, the waste is compressed and molded through the matching of the sliding plate 4, the formed waste material is matched with the movable sliding plate 4 to fall into the feeding cavity 18, the next waste material compression work is continuously completed in the compression cavity 5, the volume of the compressed waste material is reduced, and unified and centralized processing of workers is facilitated.
As shown in fig. 1, the bottom of the sliding plate 4 is fixedly connected with a sieve plate 17, a feeding cavity 18 is formed between the sliding plate 4 and the sieve plate 17 in the waste bin 3, a discharge hole 19 is formed in one side of the feeding cavity 18, which penetrates through the waste bin 3, of the bottom of the feeding hole 6, a feeding mechanism 20 is arranged in the feeding cavity 18, the feeding mechanism 20 comprises a pushing cylinder 24 horizontally arranged on the inner wall of the waste cavity, the output end of the pushing cylinder 24 is arranged towards the discharge hole 19, the output end of the pushing cylinder 24 is fixedly connected with a push plate 25, and the pushing cylinder 24 is matched with the push plate 25 to push the waste after compression molding to the discharge hole 19.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the bottom of the sieve plate 17 in the waste bin 3 is provided with a dust collection cavity 21, the dust collection cavity 21 is internally provided with a treatment box 22 with an upward opening, one side of the dust collection cavity 21 is hinged with a cabinet door 28, workers are convenient to treat impurities in the treatment box 22, an exhaust fan 26 is arranged on the outer wall of the waste bin 3, an exhaust fan 26 exhaust port is communicated with an exhaust pipeline, one end of the exhaust pipeline penetrates through the waste bin 3 and extends into the dust collection cavity 21, and a filter screen 27 is arranged at the exhaust pipeline in the dust collection cavity, so that the impurities are prevented from being sucked into the exhaust fan 26 to be damaged in the exhaust process.
As shown in fig. 2, a lifting mechanism 29 is arranged between the base 1 and the operating platform 2, the lifting mechanism 29 comprises a lifting cylinder 30 fixedly connected to the top of the base 1, the output end of the lifting cylinder 30 is fixedly connected with a lifting plate 31, the lifting plate 31 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the operating platform 2, two sides of the lifting cylinder 30 are respectively provided with a guiding telescopic rod 32, the bottoms of the guiding telescopic rods 32 are fixedly connected to the top surface of the base 1, the tops of the telescopic ends of the guiding telescopic rods 32 are fixedly connected with a guiding plate 33, the guiding plate 33 is fixedly connected with the bottom of the operating platform 2, the lifting cylinder 30 and the guiding telescopic rods 32 are matched with the lifting operating platform 2, and the feeding hopper 8 of the waste bin 3 on the operating platform 2 is lifted to a proper height for convenient feeding, and the bottom of the base 1 is provided with a universal wheel 34 for a worker to move the whole device.
In the embodiment of the utility model, firstly, a worker starts a driving motor 13, the driving motor 13 drives a screw rod 12 to rotate, at the moment, a moving block 14 on the screw rod 12 and a pressing plate 16 on the moving block 14 move to the top of a compression cavity 5 in cooperation with a sliding rod 15, then the worker pushes the whole waste treatment device to the side of a packaging machine in cooperation with a universal wheel 34, at the moment, a lifting cylinder 30 is started to lift and work in cooperation with a waste bin 3 on a workbench until a feeding funnel 8 on the waste bin 3 is lifted to a proper height to cooperate with a packaging machine for discharging, waste can slide into a feeding pipe 7 through the feeding funnel 8, slide into the compression cavity 5 through the feeding pipe 7, when the waste in the compression cavity 5 is full, at the moment, the worker starts the driving motor 13 drives the screw rod 12 to rotate, at this time, the movable block 14 on the screw rod 12 and the pressing plate 16 on the movable block 14 are matched with the slide rod 15 to press downwards, waste materials are compressed and formed through the matching of the slide plate 4, then a worker slides out the slide plate 4, the formed waste material blocks can directly fall onto the sieve plate 17 of the feeding cavity 18, then the worker slides the slide plate 4 into the waste material box 3 to continuously match and finish the next waste material compression work, the formed waste material blocks are pushed to the discharge hole 19 through the matching arrangement of the pushing cylinder 24 and the pushing plate 25, so that the worker can uniformly and intensively process the waste material blocks, when the formed waste material blocks fall onto the sieve plate 17, certain impurities can be generated, at this time, the worker opens the exhaust fan 26 to match with the exhaust pipeline to exhaust, redundant impurities are pumped into the processing box 22, and finally the worker opens the cabinet door 28 to take out the impurities in the processing box 22 to uniformly and intensively process the waste material blocks.
While the utility model has been described in connection with certain embodiments, it is not intended that the utility model be limited thereto; for those skilled in the art to which the present utility model pertains and the related art, on the premise of based on the technical scheme of the present utility model, the expansion, the operation method and the data replacement should all fall within the protection scope of the present utility model.
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1. Waste material processing apparatus for food packaging machinery, including base (1), its characterized in that: the utility model discloses a screw compressor, including base (1), compression mechanism (9) are located in base (1), base (1) bottom is equipped with universal wheel (34), base (1) top is equipped with operation panel (2), operation panel (2) top fixedly connected with waste bin (3), level moving fit has slide (4) in waste bin (3), be located slide (4) top and establish as compression chamber (5) in waste bin (3), feed inlet (6) have been seted up in compression chamber (5) one side run through waste bin (3), feed inlet (6) department intercommunication has inlet pipe (7) of upwards slope setting, feed hopper (8) have been linked together to inlet pipe (7) extension, compression mechanism (9) are equipped with in compression chamber (5) in feed inlet (6) one side, compression mechanism (9) are including first fixing base (10), second fixing base (11), first fixing base (10) and second fixing base (11) are all fixed mounting in compression chamber (5) inner wall, first fixing base (10) are located second fixing base (11) top, first fixing base (10) and second fixing base (11) rotate and are connected with screw (12) outside extension screw (3) to compression chamber (12), the utility model discloses a dust collection device, including feed screw (12), feed screw (12) outside fixedly connected with movable block (14), fixedly connected with slide bar (15) between first fixing base (10) and second fixing base (11) are located to screw (12) one side, movable block (14) sliding fit is in slide bar (15), movable block (14) one side fixedly connected with clamp plate (16), clamp plate (16) one end extends to feed inlet (6) one side, slide (4) bottom fixedly connected with sieve (17), be located in waste bin (3) and establish between slide (4) and sieve (17) for pay-off chamber (18), feed inlet (6) bottom is located pay-off chamber (18) one side and runs through waste bin (3) and offer discharge gate (19), be equipped with feeding mechanism (20) in pay-off chamber (18), be located in waste bin (3) bottom (17) and establish to dust absorption chamber (21), still be equipped with ascending processing case (22) of opening in dust absorption chamber (21).
2. The waste disposal device for a food packaging machine according to claim 1, wherein: one end of the sliding plate (4) extends to the outer side of the waste box (3), and the extending end of the sliding plate (4) is fixedly connected with a handle (23).
3. The waste disposal device for a food packaging machine according to claim 1, wherein: the feeding mechanism (20) comprises a pushing cylinder (24) horizontally arranged on the inner wall of the waste cavity, the output end of the pushing cylinder (24) is arranged towards the discharge hole (19), and the output end of the pushing cylinder (24) is fixedly connected with a push plate (25).
4. The waste disposal device for a food packaging machine according to claim 1, wherein: an exhaust fan (26) is arranged on the outer wall of the waste bin (3), an exhaust pipeline is communicated with an exhaust port of the exhaust fan (26), and one end of the exhaust pipeline penetrates through the waste bin (3) and extends into the dust collection cavity (21).
5. The waste disposal device for a food packaging machine according to claim 4, wherein: a filter screen (27) is arranged in the treatment box (22) and positioned at the exhaust pipeline.
6. The waste disposal device for a food packaging machine according to claim 1, wherein: one side of the dust collection cavity (21) is hinged with a cabinet door (28).
7. The waste disposal device for a food packaging machine according to claim 1, wherein: be equipped with elevating system (29) between base (1) and operation panel (2), elevating system (29) are including lifting cylinder (30) of fixed connection in base (1) top, lifting cylinder (30) output fixedly connected with lifter plate (31), lifter plate (31) fixed connection is in operation panel (2) bottom, lifting cylinder (30) both sides are equipped with direction telescopic link (32) respectively, equal fixed connection in base (1) top surface in direction telescopic link (32) bottom, equal fixed connection in direction telescopic link (32) telescopic end top deflector plate (33), deflector plate (33) all are with operation panel (2) bottom fixed connection.
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