CN220905374U - Canned device is used in pet grain production - Google Patents

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CN220905374U
CN220905374U CN202322760885.2U CN202322760885U CN220905374U CN 220905374 U CN220905374 U CN 220905374U CN 202322760885 U CN202322760885 U CN 202322760885U CN 220905374 U CN220905374 U CN 220905374U
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The utility model discloses a canning device for pet food production, which comprises a mounting frame, wherein a driving mechanism is arranged in the mounting frame and comprises support columns arranged on two sides of the bottom end in the mounting frame, a driving rotating shaft is arranged between the two groups of support columns in a penetrating manner, a discharge hopper is arranged on one side of the top end in the mounting frame, a rotating table is arranged on the top end of the mounting frame, fixing sliding rods are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the rotating table, a mounting plate is arranged on the top end of the fixing sliding rods, a feed hopper is arranged on one side of the top end of the mounting plate, and a stirring mechanism is arranged on one side of the top end of the mounting frame. The utility model has scientific and novel structure, can ensure uniform mixing, packaging and sealing of pet food, keeps the sanitation and safety of products in the canning process, avoids external pollution and bacterial breeding, ensures the consistency of the quality and the taste of the products, can realize continuous and high-speed canning process, greatly improves the production efficiency and meets the market demand.

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Canned device is used in pet grain production
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of canning equipment, in particular to a canning device for producing pet food.
Background
With the improvement of attention and care degree of people on pets, the market of pet foods is expanding continuously, canned pet foods, including cat foods and dog foods, are gradually convenient choices for pet owners to feed pets, and the trend promotes the increase of demands of corresponding pet food canning equipment. The quality of the pet food is very important for the health of the pets, the traditional manual canning mode cannot meet the requirement of large-scale production, and a manufacturer can rapidly finish canning, sealing and other procedures through modern canning equipment, and meanwhile, the tightness and freshness retaining property of foods in the canning process can be ensured, so that the quality and taste of the pet food are ensured, the manpower input and the production time are reduced, and the production efficiency is improved; therefore, the efficient and automatic canning device gradually becomes the first choice of pet food manufacturers such as cat food, dog food and the like, can provide an efficient, accurate, sanitary and reliable canning solution, meets the continuously expanding market demand, not only improves the production efficiency, but also ensures the quality of the pet food, and meets the requirements of consumers on the safety of pet foods.
For example, chinese patent CN211685697U discloses a pet food filling machine, including the frame, the up end swing joint of frame has the conveyer belt, both sides fixedly connected with workstation around the up end of frame, and two pneumatic cylinders are installed to the up end of workstation, and the mounting is all installed to the lower terminal surface of two head rods, and it can automatic conveying jar body and carry out canning to pet food, improves the effect of canning pet food. However, the pet food filling machine has the following defects in the specific application process: the pet food can be filled in a single tank body each time, the pet food can be refilled after stopping each time of filling, and then procedures such as sealing and labeling are carried out, so that the production time and the labor cost can be increased, the requirement of mass production can not be met, and the production efficiency is low; in addition, the device lacks rabbling mechanism, when making pet grain, generally need to mix different raw materials evenly to ensure that every portion pet grain all contains suitable nutrient composition, if do not have rabbling mechanism, the raw materials probably can not fully mix, leads to the uneven distribution of some components in the pet grain, influences its nutrition equilibrium, and the circumstances of caking or inhomogeneous appears easily simultaneously, and quality control is difficult, influences the taste and the accepted degree of pet to pet grain.
For the problems in the related art, no effective solution has been proposed at present.
Disclosure of utility model
Aiming at the problems in the related art, the utility model provides a canning device for pet food production, which aims to overcome the technical problems in the prior art.
For this purpose, the utility model adopts the following specific technical scheme:
The utility model provides a pet grain production is with canning device, includes the mounting bracket, and the inside actuating mechanism that is provided with of mounting bracket, one side on the inside top of mounting bracket is provided with out the hopper, and the top of mounting bracket is provided with the revolving stage, and the equal symmetry in both sides of revolving stage is provided with fixed slide bar, and the top of fixed slide bar is provided with the mounting panel, and one side on mounting panel top is provided with the feeder hopper, and one side on mounting bracket top is provided with rabbling mechanism.
Further, in order to realize accurate canning and complete sealing of pet food, the canning process of the pet food is ensured to be carried out smoothly, meanwhile, the quality and freshness of products are ensured, the driving mechanism comprises supporting columns arranged at two sides of the bottom end inside the mounting frame, a driving rotating shaft is arranged between the two groups of supporting columns in a penetrating way, a first bevel gear is sleeved outside the middle part of the driving rotating shaft, rotating arms are arranged at two ends of the driving rotating shaft, one end of each rotating arm is provided with a connecting arm, a connecting frame matched with a fixed sliding rod is arranged between the two groups of connecting arms, a plurality of connecting rods are arranged at the bottom ends of the connecting frames, and round pressing blocks are arranged at the bottom ends of the connecting rods; the top of revolving stage is provided with the rotation disc, and a plurality of circular standing grooves have been seted up on the top of rotation disc, and the bottom of revolving stage runs through the mounting bracket and is provided with biax motor, and the output on biax motor top and the bottom fixed connection of rotation disc, and the output of biax motor bottom is provided with the second helical gear with first helical gear matched with.
Further, in order to realize carrying out intensive mixing with the various components in the pet grain for taste of pet grain is more even and delicious, improve the acceptance level of pet to the pet grain, rabbling mechanism is including setting up the mounting at the inside top of mounting bracket, the bottom of mounting is provided with driving motor, driving motor's output is provided with runner one, one side of mounting is provided with runs through the rolling table that sets up at the inside top of mounting bracket, the bottom of rolling table is provided with runner two, and runner one passes through the belt with runner two and rotates to be connected, runner two's top is provided with the rotation axis that runs through the rolling table, the top of rotation axis is provided with the stirring rod, the top of rolling table is provided with the agitator with rotation axis matched with, the feed opening has been seted up to one side on the agitator top.
The beneficial effects of the utility model are as follows:
1. The utility model has scientific and novel structure, can ensure uniform mixing, packaging and sealing of pet food, keeps the sanitation and safety of products in the canning process, avoids external pollution and bacterial breeding, ensures the consistency of the quality and taste of the products, can realize continuous and high-speed canning process, greatly improves the production efficiency and meets the market demand; in addition, the device can be adjusted and adapted according to different product requirements, and the diversified requirements of consumers are met.
2. By arranging the driving mechanism and the rotary table, stable power is provided for the rotary disc and the circular pressing block through the driving mechanism, the rotary disc can smoothly move and position pet food in the canning process through rotary motion, and the circular pressing block tightly connects the tank cover with the container mouth through applying proper pressure, so that the tightness and freshness of the pet food tank body are ensured; meanwhile, the reasonable design and coordination of the two can ensure the normal operation of the pet food canning device and improve the production efficiency and canning quality.
3. By arranging the stirring mechanism, the stirring rod is used for fully mixing various raw materials of the pet food, so that various components in the pet food are uniformly distributed, the problem of uneven components is avoided, and meanwhile, for some additives or nutritional components which need to be uniformly mixed, the stirring mechanism can fully mix the additives or the nutritional components in the pet food, and the absorbability of the nutritional components is improved; through the use of the stirring mechanism, the quality and the taste of the pet food can be improved, and the requirements of consumers on the pet food are met.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present utility model or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are needed in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present utility model, and other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a canning device for pet food production according to an embodiment of the present utility model;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing a partial structure of a canning device for pet food production according to an embodiment of the present utility model;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a partial structure of a canning device for pet food production according to an embodiment of the present utility model at another angle;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 1 at A;
FIG. 5 is a partial enlarged view at B in FIG. 2;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 3 at C;
Fig. 7 is a partial enlarged view at D in fig. 3.
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1. A mounting frame; 2. a driving mechanism; 201. a support column; 202. driving the rotating shaft; 203. a first helical gear; 204. a rotating arm; 205. a connecting arm; 206. a connecting frame; 207. a connecting rod; 208. a round pressing block; 3. discharging a hopper; 4. a rotary table; 401. rotating the disc; 402. a circular placement groove; 403. a biaxial motor; 404. a second helical gear; 5. fixing the slide bar; 6. a mounting plate; 7. a feed hopper; 8. a stirring mechanism; 801. a fixing member; 802. a driving motor; 803. a first rotating wheel; 804. a rotating table; 805. a second rotating wheel; 806. a belt; 807. a rotation shaft; 808. a stirring rod; 809. a stirring barrel; 810. and a feed opening.
Description of the embodiments
For the purpose of further illustrating the various embodiments, the present utility model provides the accompanying drawings, which are a part of the disclosure of the present utility model, and which are mainly used to illustrate the embodiments and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the embodiments, and with reference to these descriptions, one skilled in the art will recognize other possible implementations and advantages of the present utility model, wherein elements are not drawn to scale, and like reference numerals are generally used to designate like elements.
According to an embodiment of the utility model, a canning device for pet food production is provided.
The present utility model will be further described with reference to the drawings and the specific embodiments, as shown in fig. 1-7, a canning device for pet food production according to the embodiments of the present utility model includes a mounting frame 1 (in addition, in specific applications, a control panel is disposed on one side of the mounting frame 1, and a PLC controller is included in the interior of the control panel, a dual-shaft motor 403 and a driving motor 802 are electrically connected sequentially through the control panel, which is not shown in the drawings, and is not illustrated in the drawings), a driving mechanism 2 is disposed in the mounting frame 1, a discharge hopper 3 is disposed on one side of the top end of the interior of the mounting frame 1, a rotary table 4 is disposed on the top end of the mounting frame 1, fixed sliding rods 5 are symmetrically disposed on both sides of the rotary table 4, a mounting plate 6 is disposed on the top end of the fixed sliding rods 5, a feed hopper 7 is disposed on one side of the top end of the mounting plate 6, and in specific applications, pet food suitable for the canning device for pet food production provided by the present utility model includes, but is not limited to cat food, dog food and the like.
By means of the technical scheme, the pet food packaging machine is scientific and novel in structure, uniform mixing, packaging and sealing of pet food can be ensured, sanitation and safety of products are maintained in the packaging process, external pollution and bacterial breeding are avoided, quality and taste consistency of the products are ensured, a continuous and high-speed packaging process can be realized, production efficiency is greatly improved, and market demands are met.
In one embodiment, for the driving mechanism 2 and the rotating table 4, the driving mechanism 2 includes support columns 201 disposed at two sides of the bottom end inside the mounting frame 1, a driving shaft 202 is disposed between the two groups of support columns 201, a first bevel gear 203 is sleeved outside the middle of the driving shaft 202, two ends of the driving shaft 202 are respectively provided with a rotating arm 204, one end of each rotating arm 204 is provided with a connecting arm 205, a connecting frame 206 matched with the fixed slide bar 5 is disposed between the two groups of connecting arms 205, a plurality of connecting rods 207 are disposed at the bottom ends of the connecting frames 206, and round press blocks 208 are disposed at the bottom ends of the connecting rods 207; the top of revolving stage 4 is provided with rotary disk 401, a plurality of circular standing grooves 402 have been seted up on the top of rotary disk 401 (in addition, when specifically using, the bottom of one of them circular standing groove 402 runs through rotary disk 401, and the bottom of revolving stage 4 and the top of mounting bracket 1 all have been seted up with this circular standing groove 402 matched with circular through-hole, this circular through-hole is located directly over the play hopper 3), the bottom of revolving stage 4 runs through mounting bracket 1 and is provided with biax motor 403, and the output on biax motor 403 top and rotary disk 401's bottom fixed connection, the output on biax motor 403 bottom is provided with first helical gear 203 matched with second helical gear 404 (in addition, when specifically using, first helical gear 203 and second helical gear 404 intermeshing), thereby realized providing stable power for rotary disk 401 and circular briquetting 208, rotary disk 401 passes through rotary motion, make pet grain can remove and fix a position smoothly at canning in-process, circular briquetting 208 is closely connected with container grain through applying appropriate pressure, ensure the leakproofness and the fresh-keeping of pet jar body.
The driving mechanism 2 and the rotary table 4 work according to the following principles: firstly, placing an empty can body in a circular placing groove 402, starting a double-shaft motor 403 after the pet food is mixed in a stirring mechanism 8, enabling a top end output shaft of the double-shaft motor 403 to drive a rotating disc 401 to rotate, enabling the circular placing groove 402 to rotate to the lower side of a feed opening 810 at a constant speed, enabling the pet food to fall into the can body in the circular placing groove 402 under the action of gravity, enabling the rotating disc 401 to continuously rotate after the can body is filled with the pet food, enabling the circular placing groove 402 to rotate to the lower side of a circular pressing block 208 at a constant speed (in the rotating process, enabling a plastic can cover to be manually placed above the filled can body); meanwhile, the bottom output shaft of the double-shaft motor 403 drives the second bevel gear 404 to rotate, so that under the meshing action of gears, the second bevel gear 404 drives the driving rotating shaft 202 to rotate through the first bevel gear 203, the driving rotating shaft 202 drives the rotating arms 204 at two ends to rotate, the rotating arms 204 further drive the connecting frame 206 to move back and forth along the direction of the fixed sliding rod 5 through the connecting arm 205, and finally the connecting frame 206 drives the round pressing block 208 to press and seal the plastic tank cover and the tank body through the connecting rod 207, and the tank body after sealing is covered is rotated to the upper part of the discharging hopper 3 under the continuous rotation of the rotating disc 401 and falls into the discharging hopper 3 under the action of gravity.
In one embodiment, for the stirring mechanism 8, the stirring mechanism 8 includes a fixing member 801 disposed at the top end inside the mounting frame 1 (in addition, when in specific application, the top end of the fixing member 801 is linked with the mounting frame 1 through bolts), a driving motor 802 is disposed at the bottom end of the fixing member 801 (in addition, when in specific application, the driving motor 802 is set to be a servo motor), a first rotating wheel 803 is disposed at the output end of the driving motor 802, a rotating table 804 penetrating through the top end inside the mounting frame 1 is disposed at one side of the fixing member 801, a second rotating wheel 805 is disposed at the bottom end of the rotating table 804, the first rotating wheel 803 is rotationally connected with the second rotating wheel 805 through a belt 806, a rotating shaft 807 penetrating through the rotating table 804 is disposed at the top end of the second rotating wheel 805, a stirring rod 808 is disposed at the top end of the rotating table 807, a stirring barrel 809 matched with the rotating shaft 807 is disposed at the top end of the rotating table, a discharging port 810 is disposed at one side of the top end of the stirring barrel 809, thus, various raw materials in the food grains are sufficiently mixed, the food are uniformly distributed, the problem of the food is avoided, quality of the pet and the pet's demand for the pet are satisfied is avoided.
The working principle of the stirring mechanism 8 is as follows: firstly, a driving motor 802 is started to drive a first rotating wheel 803 to rotate, the first rotating wheel 803 drives a second rotating wheel 805 to rotate through a belt 806, so that the second rotating wheel 805 drives a rotating shaft 807 to rotate, the rotating shaft 807 drives a stirring rod 808 to rotate, pet grains are rapidly stirred and mixed, and the mixed pet grains fall from a feed opening 810 into a tank body at the top end of a rotary table 4 under the action of gravity to be subsequently packaged;
When it is desired to mix pet food having different particle diameter requirements, the mixing can be made more uniform by changing different stirring bars 808 to meet the corresponding mixing requirements.
In order to facilitate understanding of the above technical solutions of the present utility model, the following describes in detail the working principle or operation manner of the present utility model in the actual process.
In practical application, firstly, the stirring mechanism 8 is started through the control panel (the working principle of the stirring mechanism 8 is described above), the pet food raw materials are poured into the stirring mechanism 8 from the feed hopper 7 for stirring and mixing, and then enter the tank body at the top end of the rotary table 4 after being mixed, then the tank body is packaged through the starting driving mechanism 2 and the rotary table 4 (the working principle of the driving mechanism 2 and the rotary table 4 is described above), and finally, the packaged pet food tank body falls from the discharge hopper 3 and enters the subsequent assembly line operation such as labeling.
In summary, by means of the technical scheme, the pet food packaging machine is scientific and novel in structure, can ensure uniform mixing, packaging and sealing of pet food, keeps sanitation and safety of products in the canning process, avoids external pollution and bacterial breeding, ensures consistency of quality and taste of the products, can realize continuous and high-speed canning process, greatly improves production efficiency, and meets market demands; by arranging the driving mechanism 2 and the rotary table 4, the normal operation of the pet grain canning device is ensured and the production efficiency and canning quality are improved through the reasonable design and coordination of the driving mechanism and the rotary table 4; through setting up rabbling mechanism 8 to realized guaranteeing the various ingredient evenly distributed in the pet grain, avoided appearing the inhomogeneous problem of ingredient, simultaneously, to some additive or the nutrient composition that need even mix, rabbling mechanism 8 can improve the absorbability of nutrient composition in the pet grain, and then improve the quality and the taste of pet grain, satisfy the demand of consumer to the pet grain.
In the present utility model, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "configured," "connected," "secured," "screwed," and the like are to be construed broadly and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intermediaries, or in communication with each other or in interaction with each other, unless explicitly defined otherwise, the meaning of the terms described above in this application will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art in view of the specific circumstances.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the utility model is not intended to be limiting, but rather is intended to cover all modifications, equivalents, alternatives, and improvements that fall within the spirit and scope of the utility model.

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1. The utility model provides a pet grain production is with canning device, includes mounting bracket (1), its characterized in that, inside actuating mechanism (2) that is provided with of mounting bracket (1), one side on the inside top of mounting bracket (1) is provided with out hopper (3), the top of mounting bracket (1) is provided with revolving stage (4), the equal symmetry in both sides of revolving stage (4) is provided with fixed slide bar (5), the top of fixed slide bar (5) is provided with mounting panel (6), one side on mounting panel (6) top is provided with feeder hopper (7), one side on mounting bracket (1) top is provided with rabbling mechanism (8).
2. The canning device for pet food production according to claim 1, wherein the driving mechanism (2) comprises supporting columns (201) arranged on two sides of the bottom end inside the mounting frame (1), a driving rotating shaft (202) is arranged between the two groups of supporting columns (201) in a penetrating mode, a first bevel gear (203) is sleeved on the outer side of the middle of the driving rotating shaft (202), and rotating arms (204) are arranged at two ends of the driving rotating shaft (202).
3. The canning device for pet food production according to claim 2, wherein one end of the rotating arm (204) is provided with a connecting arm (205), a connecting frame (206) matched with the fixed sliding rod (5) is arranged between two groups of connecting arms (205), a plurality of connecting rods (207) are arranged at the bottom ends of the connecting frames (206), and round pressing blocks (208) are arranged at the bottom ends of the connecting rods (207).
4. The canning device for pet food production according to claim 2, wherein a rotating disc (401) is arranged at the top end of the rotating disc (4), a plurality of circular placing grooves (402) are formed in the top end of the rotating disc (401), a double-shaft motor (403) is arranged at the bottom end of the rotating disc (4) in a penetrating mode through the mounting frame (1), an output end at the top end of the double-shaft motor (403) is fixedly connected with the bottom end of the rotating disc (401), and a second bevel gear (404) matched with the first bevel gear (203) is arranged at the output end at the bottom end of the double-shaft motor (403).
5. The canning device for pet food production according to claim 1, wherein the stirring mechanism (8) comprises a fixing piece (801) arranged at the top end inside the mounting frame (1), a driving motor (802) is arranged at the bottom end of the fixing piece (801), and a first rotating wheel (803) is arranged at the output end of the driving motor (802).
6. The canning device for pet food production according to claim 5, wherein one side of the fixing piece (801) is provided with a rotating table (804) penetrating through the top end inside the mounting frame (1), the bottom end of the rotating table (804) is provided with a rotating wheel two (805), and the rotating wheel one (803) is rotationally connected with the rotating wheel two (805) through a belt (806).
7. The canning device for pet food production according to claim 6, wherein a rotating shaft (807) penetrating through the rotating table (804) is arranged at the top end of the rotating wheel II (805), a stirring rod (808) is arranged at the top end of the rotating shaft (807), a stirring barrel (809) matched with the rotating shaft (807) is arranged at the top end of the rotating table (804), and a discharging opening (810) is formed in one side of the top end of the stirring barrel (809).
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