CN219886018U - Spin-deposition impurity removal tank - Google Patents
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Abstract
The utility model discloses a rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank, which belongs to the technical field of beer brewing and comprises a treatment tank, wherein a U-shaped feed pipe is arranged on the treatment tank in a communicating way, two discharge ports of the two U-shaped feed pipes extend into the treatment tank and are obliquely distributed, two first valves are fixedly arranged on the U-shaped feed pipe, a connecting pipe is arranged on the U-shaped feed pipe in a communicating way, two discharge pipes are arranged on the outer surface of the treatment tank in a communicating way, a second valve is fixedly arranged on the discharge pipe, a waste material pipe is arranged on the lower surface of the treatment tank in a communicating way, and a third valve is fixedly arranged on the waste material pipe; through setting up the motor, drive the pivot and make a plurality of stirring board rotate when the motor starts, drive the inside beer stoste of treatment jar and rotate when the stirring board rotates, cooperate two discharge gates that slope was laid simultaneously to increase effort to beer stoste, whole increase beer stoste pivoted duration, guarantee that beer stoste and malt granule and floccule separation are thorough.
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Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of beer brewing, and particularly relates to a rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank.
Background
Beer is an alcoholic beverage which is prepared by taking wheat malt and barley malt as main raw materials, adding hops, carrying out liquid gelatinization and saccharification, and then carrying out liquid fermentation, wherein in the beer brewing process, the beer liquid after primary fermentation is filtered by a rotary sedimentation treatment tank, and the filtered beer liquid is subjected to secondary fermentation.
The prior patent (publication number: CN 211896881U) discloses a rotary sedimentation tank, relates to the technical field of fermentation equipment, and comprises a tank body and a feeding pipe, wherein the feeding pipe vertically stretches into the tank body from the bottom of the tank body, the end part of the feeding pipe is provided with a spraying pipe, the spraying pipe is in a turned L shape, the lower end of a vertical section of the spraying pipe is elastically connected with the upper end of the feeding pipe, and an adjusting device is arranged between a horizontal section of the spraying pipe and the tank body. The utility model aims to solve the problem of fixed position of a discharge hole of a feed pipe of a conventional rotary sedimentation tank, and provides the rotary sedimentation tank; the following technical problems are considered to exist in practice for the technical proposal disclosed in the patent document: the existing equipment generally adopts acting force generated during feeding of the beer stock to drive the internal beer stock to rotate to perform rotary sedimentation impurity removal operation when the rotary sedimentation impurity removal is performed on the beer stock, but the acting force during feeding is difficult to achieve a good impurity removal effect, floccules and malt particles in the beer stock cannot be thoroughly separated in use, the production and the use of beer are not facilitated, meanwhile, liquid level display is not arranged in the existing equipment in use, and good judgment cannot be performed on the liquid level in the beer stock when the beer stock is fed.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims to provide a rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank, which aims to solve the problems that in the prior art, when the conventional equipment is used for rotary sedimentation impurity removal of beer stock, acting force generated during feeding of the beer stock is usually adopted to drive the rotation of the beer stock to carry out rotary sedimentation impurity removal operation, but good impurity removal effect is difficult to achieve only by the acting force during feeding, floccules and malt particles in the beer stock cannot be thoroughly separated in use, the production and the use of beer are not facilitated, and meanwhile, liquid level display is not arranged in the conventional equipment, and good judgment of the liquid level in the beer stock cannot be carried out during feeding of the beer stock.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present utility model provides the following technical solutions: the utility model provides a rotatory heavy edulcoration jar, includes the treatment jar, the intercommunication is installed the U-shaped inlet pipe on the treatment jar, two discharge gates of U-shaped inlet pipe all extend to the treatment jar in and slope is laid, fixed mounting has two valve I on the U-shaped inlet pipe, the intercommunication is installed the connecting pipe on the U-shaped inlet pipe, the treatment jar surface intercommunication is installed two and is arranged the material pipe, fixed mounting has valve II on the material pipe, the treatment jar lower surface intercommunication is installed the useless material pipe, fixed mounting has valve III on the useless material pipe, the pivot is installed to the treatment jar internal rotation, pivot surface fixed mounting has a plurality of stirring board, a plurality of through-hole has been seted up on the stirring board, treatment jar upper surface fixed mounting has the motor, the one end of pivot extends to the treatment jar outside and with the output shaft fixed connection of motor, treatment jar surface fixed mounting has the liquid level display frame, sliding mounting has same U-shaped on liquid level display frame and the treatment jar, the one end fixed mounting that the U-shaped slide bar is located treatment jar inside has the liquid level, another solid support frame, slide bar fixed mounting has a plurality of slide bar.
By adopting the scheme, through setting up two valves I of U-shaped inlet pipe cooperation, after connecting pipe and external feeder are connected, utilize the discharge gate of co-altitude not to carry out the material loading to the treatment tank inside, make the material receive effort to rotate in the treatment tank inside under the effect that the slope was laid, realize sinking the edulcoration operation soon of beer stoste, through setting up two row material pipe cooperation valves II, the row material pipe that is located the top realizes the play effect to the floc, the row material pipe that is located the below carries out effective discharge to the beer stoste, the last waste material pipe of cooperation and valve three carry out the unloading processing to the malt granule, through setting up the motor, drive the pivot and make a plurality of stirring board rotate when the stirring board rotates, it is thorough to drive the beer stoste of treatment tank inside to increase beer stoste pivoted duration, guarantee that beer stoste and malt granule and floc separation are thoroughly, realize the liquid level display to the treatment tank inside through setting up liquid level gasbag cooperation U-shaped slide bar and display piece, effectively provide convenience for material loading and unloading.
In the above scheme, it should be noted that the motor is electrically connected with the external power supply.
As a preferable implementation mode, one end of the discharging pipe positioned below and positioned in the treatment tank is fixedly provided with a waste blocking filter drum, and the other end of the discharging pipe is fixedly provided with a filter through a flange.
By adopting the scheme, the effect of blocking the solid waste when the discharge pipe below is used is realized by arranging the waste blocking barrel, and meanwhile, the further filtering operation is carried out on the beer stock after impurity removal by arranging the filter, so that the complete removal of the impurities in the beer stock is ensured.
As a preferred implementation mode, the treatment tank is fixedly provided with a water inlet pipe, both ends of the water inlet pipe extend into the treatment tank and are fixedly provided with a spray head, and the water inlet pipe is provided with a water inlet interface in a communicating manner.
By adopting the scheme, the water inlet connector is connected with the external water pump, the external water pump inputs water into the water inlet pipe and ejects the water through the spray head, so that the cleaning effect on the inside of the treatment tank is realized, and the pollution of residual beer stock which is subjected to subsequent impurity removal in the treatment tank is avoided.
As a preferred embodiment, the upper surface of the treatment tank is provided with a breather valve in a communicating manner.
By adopting the scheme, through setting up the breather valve, avoid inside the condition of appearing high pressure when feeding to the inside material loading of treatment tank, carry out the pressure release to the inside treatment tank, keep the inside sealed effect of treatment tank after the pressure release, avoid beer stoste to receive the oxidation, carry out the pressure boost in the treatment tank through the breather valve when the unloading simultaneously, avoid influencing going on smoothly of unloading.
As a preferred implementation mode, scale marks are arranged on the bit display frame, a liquid level pointer is fixedly arranged on the display block, and the liquid level pointer and the scale marks are matched for use.
By adopting the scheme, the liquid level display is dataized by setting the scale marks and the liquid level pointer, so that the liquid level judgment is more accurate.
As a preferable implementation mode, the bottom end threads of the supporting legs are provided with fixing screws, and the bottom ends of the fixing screws are fixedly provided with supporting blocks.
By adopting the scheme, the integral leveling effect of the device is realized by arranging the fixing screws and the supporting blocks, and the stability of the device is ensured.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects that:
according to the rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank, the motor is arranged, the rotating shaft is driven to enable the stirring plates to rotate when the motor is started, beer stock in the treatment tank is driven to rotate when the stirring plates rotate, meanwhile, the action force is added to the beer stock by matching with the two obliquely arranged discharge ports, the duration of rotation of the beer stock is integrally prolonged, and the beer stock is thoroughly separated from malt particles and floccules;
this rotatory edulcoration jar realizes the liquid level display to the processing jar inside through setting up liquid level gasbag cooperation U-shaped slide bar and display piece, cooperation scale mark and liquid level pointer simultaneously realize the data display to liquid level display, makes the liquid level judge more accurate, and it is convenient effectively to provide for material loading and unloading.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the present utility model;
FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a treatment tank according to the present utility model;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the structure of the liquid level display frame, U-shaped slide bar, liquid level air bag and liquid level pointer of the present utility model;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the structure of FIG. 3A according to the present utility model;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of the water inlet interface and the water inlet pipe of the present utility model;
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the structure of the discharge pipe, the waste blocking filter drum and the filter of the present utility model;
fig. 7 is a schematic view showing the structure of the support legs, the support blocks and the fixing screws according to the present utility model.
In the figure: 1. a treatment tank; 2. a U-shaped feed tube; 3. a connecting pipe; 4. a discharge pipe; 5. a waste material pipe; 6. a water inlet pipe; 7. a water inlet port; 8. a liquid level display frame; 9. a U-shaped slide bar; 10. a liquid level air bag; 11. a display block; 12. support legs; 13. a waste blocking filter drum; 14. a filter; 15. a rotating shaft; 16. a stirring plate; 17. a motor; 18. a respiratory valve; 19. a liquid level pointer; 20. a fixing screw; 21. and a supporting block.
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Referring to fig. 1-7, the utility model provides a rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank, which comprises a treatment tank 1, wherein a U-shaped feed pipe 2 is arranged on the treatment tank 1 in a communicating way, two discharge ports of the two U-shaped feed pipes 2 extend into the treatment tank 1 and are obliquely arranged, two first valves are fixedly arranged on the U-shaped feed pipe 2, a connecting pipe 3 is arranged on the U-shaped feed pipe 2 in a communicating way, two discharge pipes 4 are arranged on the outer surface of the treatment tank 1 in a communicating way, a second valve is fixedly arranged on the discharge pipe 4, a waste material pipe 5 is arranged on the lower surface of the treatment tank 1 in a communicating way, and a third valve is fixedly arranged on the waste material pipe 5;
one end of the lower discharge pipe 4 positioned in the treatment tank 1 is fixedly provided with a waste blocking filter drum 13, the other end of the discharge pipe 4 is fixedly provided with a filter 14 through a flange, the effect of blocking solid waste when the lower discharge pipe 4 is used is realized through arranging the waste blocking filter drum, and meanwhile, the filter 14 is arranged to further filter the purified beer stock, so that the impurities in the beer stock are completely removed;
the treatment tank 1 is fixedly provided with a water inlet pipe 6, two ends of the water inlet pipe 6 extend into the treatment tank 1 and are fixedly provided with a spray head, the water inlet pipe 6 is communicated and provided with a water inlet interface 7, the water inlet interface 7 is connected with an external water pump, the external water pump inputs water into the water inlet pipe 6 and sprays the water through the spray head, the cleaning effect on the interior of the treatment tank 1 is realized, and the pollution caused by residual beer stock solution for subsequent impurity removal in the treatment tank 1 is avoided;
the breather valve 18 is arranged on the upper surface of the treatment tank 1 in a communicating manner, the breather valve 18 is arranged, the condition of high pressure in the treatment tank 1 is avoided when the treatment tank 1 is fed and fed, the pressure in the treatment tank 1 is relieved, the sealing effect in the treatment tank 1 is kept after the pressure is relieved, the beer stock solution is prevented from being oxidized, meanwhile, the treatment tank 1 is pressurized through the breather valve 18 during discharging, and the smooth proceeding of discharging is prevented from being influenced;
a rotating shaft 15 is rotatably arranged in the treatment tank 1, a plurality of stirring plates 16 are fixedly arranged on the outer surface of the rotating shaft 15, a plurality of through holes are formed in the stirring plates 16, a motor 17 is fixedly arranged on the upper surface of the treatment tank 1, and one end of the rotating shaft 15 extends out of the treatment tank 1 and is fixedly connected with an output shaft of the motor 17;
the outer surface of the treatment tank 1 is fixedly provided with a liquid level display frame 8, one end of the liquid level display frame 8, which is positioned in the treatment tank 1, of a U-shaped slide bar 9,U-shaped slide bar 9 is fixedly provided with a liquid level air bag 10, the other end of the U-shaped slide bar 9 is fixedly provided with a display block 11, scale marks are arranged on the liquid level display frame, the display block 11 is fixedly provided with a liquid level pointer 19, the liquid level pointer 19 is matched with the scale marks for use, and the data display of liquid level display is realized by arranging the scale marks and the liquid level pointer 19, so that the liquid level judgment is more accurate;
a plurality of supporting legs 12 are fixedly arranged on the treatment tank 1, fixing screws 20 are arranged at the bottom end threads of the supporting legs 12, supporting blocks 21 are fixedly arranged at the bottom ends of the fixing screws 20, and the whole leveling effect on the device is realized by arranging the fixing screws 20 and the supporting blocks 21, so that the stability of the device is ensured.
When in use, the whole device is leveled by the supporting block 21 and the fixing screw 20, then the connecting pipe 3 is connected with the external feeder, the connecting pipe is connected with the external water pump through the water inlet 7, then the external feeder is started and the valve I positioned below is firstly opened, beer stock solution is input into the treatment tank 1 when the feeder is started, the beer stock solution in the treatment tank 1 is driven to rotate by the obliquely arranged feed inlet in the feeding process, the liquid level air bag 10 drives the U-shaped slide bar 9 to move upwards under the ascending action of a page, the U-shaped slide bar 9 drives the display block 11 and the liquid level pointer 19 to move upwards to display the liquid level when moving upwards, the valve I positioned below is closed when the liquid level reaches a proper position is waited for starting the valve I positioned above, the respiratory valve 18 discharges gas on the inner wall in the feeding process, then the motor 17 is started, the motor 17 drives the rotating shaft 15 to rotate a plurality of stirring plates 16 when being started, the stirring plates 16 drive beer stock in the treatment tank 1 to rotate when rotating, the duration of rotation of the beer stock is prolonged, the motor 17 is closed, the valve II positioned above is firstly opened to discharge floccules after waiting for a period of precipitation, the valve II positioned below is opened to discharge beer stock after discharging, the waste blocking filter drum 13 blocks solid particles, the beer stock is discharged after being subjected to secondary impurity removal through the filter 14, at the moment, the breather valve 18 inputs air into the treatment tank 1, finally the two valves II are closed, the valve III is opened to feed and discharge solid waste, finally the external water pump is started, water is input into the water inlet pipe 6 when the external water pump is started and is sprayed out through the spray head to clean the interior of the treatment tank 1, finally, the impurity removal operation is completed.
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1. The utility model provides a rotatory sediment edulcoration jar which characterized in that: comprises a treatment tank (1), a U-shaped feeding pipe (2) is arranged on the treatment tank (1) in a communicating manner, two discharging holes of the U-shaped feeding pipe (2) are all extended into the treatment tank (1) and are obliquely distributed, two first valves are fixedly arranged on the U-shaped feeding pipe (2), a connecting pipe (3) is arranged on the U-shaped feeding pipe (2) in a communicating manner, two discharging pipes (4) are arranged on the outer surface of the treatment tank (1) in a communicating manner, a second valve is fixedly arranged on the discharging pipe (4), a waste pipe (5) is arranged on the lower surface of the treatment tank (1) in a communicating manner, a third valve is fixedly arranged on the waste pipe (5), a rotating shaft (15) is arranged in the treatment tank (1), a plurality of stirring plates (16) are fixedly arranged on the outer surface of the rotating shaft (15), a plurality of through holes are formed in the stirring plates (16), one end of the rotating shaft (15) extends to the outer side of the treatment tank (1) and is fixedly connected with an output shaft of the motor (17), a liquid level display frame (8) is fixedly arranged on the outer surface of the treatment tank (1), a liquid level display frame (8) is fixedly arranged on the liquid level display frame (8), one end of the U-shaped sliding rod (9) positioned in the treatment tank (1) is fixedly provided with a liquid level air bag (10), the other end of the U-shaped sliding rod (9) is fixedly provided with a display block (11), and the treatment tank (1) is fixedly provided with a plurality of supporting legs (12).
2. The rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank of claim 1, wherein: the waste blocking filter drum (13) is fixedly arranged at one end of the discharge pipe (4) positioned below and positioned in the treatment tank (1), and a filter (14) is fixedly arranged at the other end of the discharge pipe (4) through a flange.
3. The rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank of claim 1, wherein: the treatment tank (1) is fixedly provided with a water inlet pipe (6), two ends of the water inlet pipe (6) extend into the treatment tank (1) and are fixedly provided with a spray head, and the water inlet pipe (6) is communicated with a water inlet interface (7).
4. The rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank of claim 1, wherein: the upper surface of the treatment tank (1) is communicated with a breather valve (18).
5. The rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank of claim 1, wherein: the liquid level display frame (8) is provided with scale marks, the display block (11) is fixedly provided with a liquid level pointer (19), and the liquid level pointer (19) and the scale marks are matched for use.
6. The rotary sedimentation impurity removal tank of claim 1, wherein: the screw is characterized in that a fixing screw (20) is arranged at the bottom end of the supporting leg (12) in a threaded mode, and a supporting block (21) is fixedly arranged at the bottom end of the fixing screw (20).
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