CN221016429U - Even probiotic processing crushing apparatus smashes - Google Patents
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Abstract
The utility model relates to the technical field of probiotic production and processing, and discloses probiotic processing and crushing equipment capable of uniformly crushing, which comprises the following components: the lower parts of the two sides of the equipment shell are provided with discharge tanks; a crushing blade; the two sides of the top of the processing plate are provided with crushing side plates; the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate is uniformly provided with sieving holes; the guide box, the bottom guide pipe all communicates there is the auger, the auger is located the both sides of equipment casing, and one side discharge end of auger is linked together with the both sides upper portion center feed hole of equipment casing. This smash even probiotic processing crushing apparatus smashes the back through garrulous blade, crushing curb plate to caking probiotic, descends to the top of arc sieve along the processing board, smashes passing through that the size is qualified, and disqualified then rolls to both sides along the top of arc sieve, gets into the inside of auger through discharge groove and guide box to with disqualified department directly over the crushing blade again, adopt this kind of mode, guarantee that probiotic is smashed evenly.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of probiotic production and processing, in particular to a probiotic processing and crushing device capable of uniformly crushing.
Background
Probiotics are a class of active microorganisms beneficial to a host by colonizing the human body and altering the flora composition of a part of the host. By regulating the immune function of host mucous membrane and system or regulating the balance of flora in intestinal tract, the effect of promoting nutrient absorption and maintaining intestinal health is achieved, so that single microorganism or mixed microorganism with definite composition beneficial to health is produced. The beneficial bacteria or fungi in human body and animal body mainly comprise yeast, probiotic spore bacteria, clostridium butyricum, lactobacillus, bifidobacterium, actinomycetes and the like. The probiotics can synthesize digestive enzymes, and the digestive enzymes synthesized by animal bodies participate in the digestion of nutrient substances in intestinal tracts, so that the animal bodies are stimulated to secrete the digestive enzymes, the depth of crypt of the small intestine is reduced, the height of villus is increased, and the surface area of the small intestine is increased. The probiotic bacteria are produced and processed by crushing the dried and agglomerated probiotic bacteria by using crushing equipment.
Common probiotic processing crushing equipment, throw into inside drying caking's probiotic from crushing equipment's feed inlet, crushing structure (such as crushing blade etc.) of crushing equipment inner chamber is rotatory under driving equipment (such as driving motor) and transmission structure (such as belt or pivot etc.) effect to smash the probiotic of drying caking that passes through, and derive the probiotic after smashing, this is common probiotic processing crushing equipment structure and application method. Traditional probiotic processing crushing apparatus, crushing structure are multiunit blade usually, smash the back to the probiotic of dry caking when rotatory, and there is the inhomogeneous phenomenon emergence of smashing that exists in some probiotic existence usually, leads to the follow-up inconvenient subsequent processing of the probiotic of great piece to use. And part of probiotics processing and crushing equipment is provided with a plurality of groups of crushing structures in the equipment, so that the passing probiotics which are dried and agglomerated are crushed for a plurality of times. According to the method, though the plurality of groups of crushing structures can greatly separate the agglomerated probiotics, a certain gap is reserved between the crushing structures, so that part of the small agglomerated probiotics can pass through the crushing structures, and the phenomenon of nonuniform crushing of the probiotics still exists, so that the uniform probiotic processing crushing equipment is provided.
Disclosure of utility model
(One) solving the technical problems
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the utility model provides a probiotic processing and crushing device for uniformly crushing so as to solve the technical problems.
(II) technical scheme
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present utility model provides the following technical solutions: a probiotic processing comminuting device for comminuting a homogeneous probiotic comprising:
the device comprises a device shell and a feeding box arranged at the top end of a top feeding hole, wherein discharging grooves are formed in the lower parts of two sides of the device shell, and a material guide cone plate is arranged at the bottom of the device shell;
The crushing blades are arranged at the front and rear ends of the upper part of the inner cavity of the equipment shell, and the center positions of the crushing blades are provided with rotating shafts;
the processing plate is arranged at the center of the inner cavity of the equipment shell, blanking holes are uniformly formed in the top of the processing plate, and crushing side plates are additionally arranged on two sides of the top of the processing plate;
the arc-shaped sieve plate is arranged at the lower part of the inner cavity of the equipment shell, and screening holes are uniformly formed in the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate;
The guide box is arranged at the outer end of the discharge groove and is communicated with the discharge groove, the bottom guide pipes of the guide box are all communicated with the packing auger, the packing auger is positioned at two sides of the equipment shell, and one discharge end of one side of the packing auger is communicated with the center feed holes at the upper parts of the two sides of the equipment shell. After the crushing blade and the crushing side plate crush the caking probiotics, the caking probiotics descend to the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate along the blanking hole of the processing plate, pass through the crushing size, roll to two sides along the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate if the crushing size is unqualified, enter the inside of the auger through the discharge groove and the guide box, and convey the unqualified probiotics to the position right above the crushing blade again, so that on one hand, the crushed probiotics can be screened, and the crushing non-uniformity is screened out; on the other hand, the probiotics which are not uniformly crushed are crushed again for secondary processing, so that the probiotics are uniformly crushed.
Preferably, the front end and the rear end of the upper part of one side of the equipment shell are both transversely provided with a first driving motor, and rotors of the first driving motor extend inwards through the side wall of the equipment shell and are coaxially connected with corresponding ends of the rotating shaft of the crushing blade. The first driving motor drives the crushing blade and the rotating shaft to rotate, so that the agglomerated probiotics are treated and crushed.
Preferably, the front end and the rear end of the center position of one side of the equipment shell are respectively provided with a second driving motor, rotors of the second driving motors are respectively and coaxially connected with a bidirectional screw rod, and the bidirectional screw rods are respectively positioned at the front end and the rear end of the top of the processing plate. The second driving motor drives the bidirectional screw rod to rotate in the inner cavity of the equipment shell, and the steering of the bidirectional screw rod is adjusted.
Preferably, sliding blocks are sleeved on two sides of the outer surface of the bidirectional screw rod, the bottom ends of the sliding blocks are respectively connected with the front end and the rear end of the top of the crushing side plate, and crushing tips are uniformly arranged on the inner side surface of the crushing side plate. When the bidirectional screw rod rotates, the corresponding crushing side plates are driven to move in opposite directions through the sliding blocks, so that the primarily crushed probiotics are crushed secondarily through the crushing tips.
Preferably, the interception fan blade is installed at the center of the inner cavity of the feeding box, the rotating end of the interception fan blade is coaxially connected with a fourth driving motor, and the fourth driving motor is located at the center of the front face of the feeding box. The fourth driving motor drives the interception fan blade to rotate in the inner cavity of the feeding box, so that caking probiotics entering the feeding box are quantitatively led into the shell of the equipment to be crushed, the phenomenon that the probiotics are crushed unevenly or even incompletely is avoided, and the phenomenon that the probiotics are crushed is avoided.
Preferably, a third driving motor is longitudinally arranged at the center of the top of the auger, a rotating rod is additionally arranged at the center of the inner cavity of the auger and is coaxially connected with a rotor of the third driving motor, and spiral conveying blades are additionally arranged on the outer surface of the rotating rod. The third driving motor drives the rotating rod and the spiral conveying blade to rotate in the cavity of the auger, so that probiotics entering the bottom of the cavity of the auger are transported to the upper part of the cavity of the auger and discharged through the discharge end.
(III) beneficial effects
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides the probiotic processing and crushing equipment which is uniform in crushing, and has the following beneficial effects:
1. According to the uniformly crushed probiotic processing crushing equipment, after the agglomerated probiotics are crushed by the crushing blades and the crushing side plates, the crushed probiotics fall to the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate along the blanking holes of the processing plate, pass through the crushing size, roll to two sides along the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate if the crushed probiotics are unqualified, enter the inside of the auger through the discharge groove and the guide box, and are conveyed to the position right above the crushing blades again, so that the crushed probiotics can be screened out by adopting the mode, and the non-uniform crushing is screened out; on the other hand, the probiotics which are not uniformly crushed are crushed again for secondary processing, so that the probiotics are uniformly crushed.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of the present utility model;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the sectional internal part of the feed box and auger of the present utility model;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the right side view of the device housing of the present utility model with the interior portion cut away.
In the figure: 1. an equipment housing; 2. a feed box; 3. a first driving motor; 4. a crushing blade; 5. processing a plate; 6. a second driving motor; 7. a bidirectional screw rod; 8. crushing the side plates; 9. arc-shaped sieve plates; 10. a guide box; 11. an auger; 12. a third driving motor; 13. a fourth driving motor; 14. intercepting fan blades; 15. and the material guide cone plate.
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The following description of the embodiments of the present utility model will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present utility model, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the utility model without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the utility model.
The utility model provides a technical scheme, a probiotic processing crushing device for uniformly crushing, which comprises: referring to fig. 1, an apparatus housing 1 and a feeding box 2 disposed at the top of a top feeding port, wherein discharge slots are formed at the lower parts of two sides of the apparatus housing 1, and a material guiding cone plate 15 is mounted at the bottom of the apparatus housing 1;
Referring to fig. 3, a crushing blade 4 is disposed at front and rear ends of an upper portion of an inner cavity of the equipment housing 1, and a rotating shaft is mounted at a central position of the crushing blade 4;
The processing plate 5 is arranged at the center of the inner cavity of the equipment shell 1, blanking holes are uniformly formed in the top of the processing plate 5, and crushing side plates 8 are additionally arranged on two sides of the top of the processing plate 5;
The arc-shaped sieve plate 9 is arranged at the lower part of the inner cavity of the equipment shell 1, and sieving holes are uniformly formed in the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate 9;
Referring to fig. 1, a material guiding box 10 is disposed at an outer end of a material discharging groove and is communicated with the material discharging groove, auger 11 is respectively communicated with a material guiding pipe at the bottom of the material guiding box 10, the auger 11 is disposed at two sides of a device housing 1, and a material discharging end at one side of the auger 11 is communicated with a central material feeding hole at two upper sides of the device housing 1. After the agglomeration probiotics are crushed by the crushing blades 4 and the crushing side plates 8, the agglomeration probiotics descend to the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate 9 along the blanking holes of the processing plate 5, pass through the crushing size, roll to two sides along the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate 9 if the crushing size is unqualified, enter the inside of the auger 11 through the discharge groove and the guide box 10, and are conveyed to the position right above the crushing blades 4 again if the crushing size is unqualified, so that the crushed probiotics can be screened out and the crushing non-uniformity is screened out; on the other hand, the probiotics which are not uniformly crushed are crushed again for secondary processing, so that the probiotics are uniformly crushed.
Referring to fig. 3, a first driving motor 3 is transversely mounted at front and rear ends of an upper portion of a side of the apparatus housing 1, and rotors of the first driving motor 3 extend inward through a sidewall of the apparatus housing 1 and are coaxially connected with corresponding ends of a rotating shaft of the crushing blade 4. The first driving motor 3 drives the crushing blade 4 to rotate with the rotating shaft, so that the agglomerated probiotics are treated and crushed. The front end and the rear end of the center position of one side of the equipment shell 1 are respectively provided with a second driving motor 6, the rotors of the second driving motors 6 are respectively and coaxially connected with a bidirectional screw rod 7, and the bidirectional screw rods 7 are respectively positioned at the front end and the rear end of the top of the processing plate 5. The second driving motor 6 drives the bidirectional screw rod 7 to rotate in the inner cavity of the equipment shell 1, and adjusts the steering direction of the bidirectional screw rod 7. The both sides of the outer surface of the bidirectional screw rod 7 are sleeved with sliding blocks, the bottom ends of the sliding blocks are respectively connected with the front end and the rear end of the top of the crushing side plate 8, and crushing tips are uniformly arranged on the inner side surface of the crushing side plate 8. When the bidirectional screw rod 7 rotates, the corresponding crushing side plates 8 are driven to move in opposite directions through the sliding blocks, so that the primarily crushed probiotics are crushed secondarily through the crushing tips.
Referring to fig. 2, an interception fan blade 14 is installed at the center of the inner cavity of the feeding box 2, and a rotation end of the interception fan blade 14 is coaxially connected with a fourth driving motor 13, wherein the fourth driving motor 13 is located at the front center of the feeding box 2. The fourth driving motor 13 drives the interception fan blades 14 to rotate in the inner cavity of the feeding box 2, so that the agglomeration probiotics entering the feeding box 2 are quantitatively led into the shell 1 of the equipment to be crushed, the phenomenon that the probiotics are crushed unevenly or even incompletely is avoided due to excessive entering amount is avoided. The third driving motor 12 is longitudinally arranged at the center of the top of the auger 11, a rotating rod is additionally arranged at the center of the inner cavity of the auger 11 and is coaxially connected with a rotor of the third driving motor 12, and spiral conveying blades are additionally arranged on the outer surface of the rotating rod. The third driving motor 12 drives the rotating rod and the spiral material conveying blade to rotate in the inner cavity of the auger 11, so that probiotics entering the bottom of the inner cavity of the auger 11 are transported to the upper part of the inner cavity of the auger 11 and discharged through the discharge end.
The working principle of the device is as follows: after crushing the caking probiotics through crushing blade 4, crushing curb plate 8, descend to the top of arc sieve plate 9 along the unloading hole of processing board 5, smash passing through that the size is qualified, the disqualification then rolls to both sides along the top of arc sieve plate 9 to get into the inside of auger 11 through discharge groove and guide box 10, and carry the disqualification department directly over crushing blade 4 again. The fourth driving motor 13 drives the interception fan blades 14 to rotate in the inner cavity of the feeding box 2, so that the agglomeration probiotics entering the feeding box 2 are quantitatively led into the shell 1 of the equipment to be crushed.
It is noted that relational terms such as first and second, and the like are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Moreover, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
Although embodiments of the present utility model have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made therein without departing from the principles and spirit of the utility model, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.
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1. A probiotic processing comminuting device for comminuting a homogeneous probiotic, comprising:
The device comprises a device shell (1) and a feeding box (2) arranged at the top end of a top feeding hole, wherein discharge grooves are formed in the lower parts of two sides of the device shell (1), and a material guide cone plate (15) is arranged at the bottom of the device shell (1);
The crushing blades (4) are arranged at the front and rear ends of the upper part of the inner cavity of the equipment shell (1), and rotating shafts are arranged at the central positions of the crushing blades (4);
The processing plate (5) is arranged at the center of the inner cavity of the equipment shell (1), blanking holes are uniformly formed in the top of the processing plate (5), and crushing side plates (8) are additionally arranged on two sides of the top of the processing plate (5);
The arc-shaped sieve plate (9) is arranged at the lower part of the inner cavity of the equipment shell (1), and sieving holes are uniformly formed in the top of the arc-shaped sieve plate (9);
The material guide box (10) is arranged at the outer end of the material discharge groove and is communicated with the material discharge groove, auger (11) is communicated with the material guide pipe at the bottom of the material guide box (10), the auger (11) is positioned at two sides of the equipment shell (1), and one discharging end of one side of the auger (11) is communicated with the center feeding holes at the upper parts of two sides of the equipment shell (1).
2. A uniformly comminuted probiotic processing comminuting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the front end and the rear end of the upper part of one side of the equipment shell (1) are transversely provided with a first driving motor (3), and rotors of the first driving motor (3) extend inwards through the side wall of the equipment shell (1) and are coaxially connected with the corresponding end of a rotating shaft of the crushing blade (4).
3. A uniformly comminuted probiotic processing comminuting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the front end and the rear end of the center position of one side of the equipment shell (1) are respectively provided with a second driving motor (6), rotors of the second driving motors (6) are respectively and coaxially connected with a bidirectional screw rod (7), and the bidirectional screw rods (7) are respectively positioned at the front end and the rear end of the top of the processing plate (5).
4. A uniformly comminuted probiotic processing comminuting apparatus according to claim 3, characterized in that: the two-way screw rod (7) is characterized in that sliding blocks are sleeved on two sides of the outer surface of the two-way screw rod (7), the bottom ends of the sliding blocks are respectively connected with the front end and the rear end of the top of the crushing side plate (8), and crushing tips are uniformly arranged on the inner side surface of the crushing side plate (8).
5. A uniformly comminuted probiotic processing comminuting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the inner cavity center position of the feeding box (2) is provided with an interception fan blade (14), the rotating end of the interception fan blade (14) is coaxially connected with a fourth driving motor (13), and the fourth driving motor (13) is located at the front center position of the feeding box (2).
6. A uniformly comminuted probiotic processing comminuting device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the top center of the auger (11) is longitudinally provided with a third driving motor (12), the center of the inner cavity of the auger (11) is additionally provided with a rotating rod, the rotating rod is coaxially connected with a rotor of the third driving motor (12), and the outer surface of the rotating rod is additionally provided with spiral conveying blades.
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