CN221181734U - Chicoric acid extraction device - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a chicoric acid extraction device, which belongs to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicine production equipment and comprises a spiral squeezing mechanism, a squeezing component and a driving oil cylinder. The top of the screw press mechanism is inserted with a piston screw, and the piston screw extends into the cylindrical inner cavity of the screw press mechanism, and the side part of the juice press component is communicated with the inlet of the circulating feeding device through the discharging component, so that a feed back circulation is formed. When the device is used, the piston screw rod can crush and convey the raw materials into the juicing component to squeeze juice, and then the residual residues enter the spiral squeezing mechanism again through the circulating feeding device and are continuously squeezed by using ethanol as an extractant. On the basis, the plant residues can be circularly squeezed for a plurality of times until the effective components in the chicory and the echinacea are completely squeezed, and under the condition that a discharging assembly is not opened, the discharging assembly is opened, the waste residues are discharged, and compared with the prior art, the device can effectively improve the extraction rate of the chicoric acid and reduce the extraction cost.

Description

Chicoric acid extraction device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicine production equipment, in particular to a chicoric acid extraction device.

Background

At present, the traditional chicoric acid extraction process is a thermal reflux extraction method, a squeezing method and a supercritical extraction method, wherein the thermal reflux extraction method is to change the interaction among molecules through the temperature of a heating medium to realize component separation, the squeezing method is to completely squeeze the chicoric acid through physical pressurization, and the supercritical extraction is carried out under the condition of CO ₂ in a critical state and under the condition of a lower temperature (35-40 ℃) and CO ₂ gas cover.

However, in actual production, the thermal reflux extraction method is easy to cause chicoric acid oxidation to lose efficacy due to high extraction temperature, and the simple pressing method is low in cost, but a large amount of chicory and echinacea are wasted due to low extraction rate, while the supercritical extraction method is high in equipment cost and complex in process, and industrial research is not completed completely.

Disclosure of utility model

Therefore, the utility model provides a chicoric acid extraction device, which combines a squeezing method and ethanol extraction to solve the problems of low chicoric acid extraction rate and high extraction cost in the prior art.

In order to achieve the above object, the present utility model provides the following technical solutions:

The utility model discloses a chicoric acid extraction device, which comprises:

One side of the spiral squeezing mechanism is provided with a feed inlet, the other side of the spiral squeezing mechanism is communicated with an outlet of the circulating feeding device, and the side surface of the circulating feeding device is provided with an auxiliary material port;

The top of the juice extracting component is fixedly communicated with the spiral squeezing mechanism, the left side part of the juice extracting component is communicated with the inlet of the circulating feeding device through a discharging component, and a pushing oil cylinder is arranged at a position, opposite to the discharging component, on the right side of the juice extracting component;

The driving oil cylinder, the output is connected with the driving medium transmission, the driving medium includes:

The guide rod is provided with a motor at the head end, the motor is suitable for driving a piston screw rod arranged in the screw squeezing mechanism to rotate, the tail end of the guide rod is provided with a blocking piston, and the blocking piston is inserted in the juice squeezing member in a sliding manner;

The driving oil cylinder is connected with the pushing oil cylinder in series, the middle part of the guide rod is connected with the output end of the driving oil cylinder, and the driving oil cylinder is suitable for driving the guide rod to do reciprocating motion.

Further, the auxiliary material port comprises a liquid storage bin, a regulating valve and a transfusion tube, wherein an extracting agent is arranged in the liquid storage bin, the bottom of the liquid storage bin is communicated with the circulating feeding device through the transfusion tube, and the regulating valve is arranged on the transfusion tube.

Furthermore, the feed inlet and the liquid storage bin are identical in structure and all are funnel-shaped.

Further, the circulating feeding device is a screw pump, and a one-way valve is arranged at the outlet of the circulating feeding device.

Further, the piston screw includes:

The top of the piston rod I is coaxially connected with the motor in a transmission way;

the shaft of the first piston rod is sleeved on the shaft of the screw rod;

the piston is arranged at the bottom end of the first piston rod and is provided with a force sensor.

Further, the juice extracting member includes:

the side part of the shell is provided with a juice extracting port;

the inner container is net-shaped, is arranged in the shell, and the inner wall of the inner container is suitable for sliding of the piston;

The top of the plugging pipe is communicated with the inner container, and a plugging piston is movably inserted at the bottom of the plugging pipe; the side part is provided with a discharge pipe, and the tail end of the discharge pipe is communicated with the discharge assembly.

Further, the row material pipe head end links to each other with pushing ram, pushing ram includes:

The tail end of the cylinder barrel is communicated with the driving cylinder, and a piston rod II is inserted in the cylinder barrel in a sliding manner;

The pushing block is arranged at the two ends of the piston rod and is suitable for being inserted into the discharging pipe.

Further, the discharge assembly includes:

The head end of the main feeding pipe is communicated with the discharge pipe, and the tail end of the main feeding pipe is provided with a discharge valve;

And the feed back pipe, the bottom end and the main feed pipe are integrally formed, and the top end is communicated with the circulating feeding device.

The utility model has the following advantages:

The chicoric acid extraction device disclosed by the utility model mainly adopts a squeezing method to extract, simultaneously, an ethanol extraction agent is injected in the squeezing process, and the plant raw materials are repeatedly squeezed for a plurality of times through the circulating feeding device, so that the chicoric acid can be fully extracted.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present utility model or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below. It will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that the drawings in the following description are exemplary only and that other implementations can be obtained from the extensions of the drawings provided without inventive effort.

The structures, proportions, sizes, etc. shown in the present specification are shown only for the purposes of illustration and description, and are not intended to limit the scope of the utility model, which is defined by the claims, so that any structural modifications, changes in proportions, or adjustments of sizes, which do not affect the efficacy or the achievement of the present utility model, should fall within the ambit of the technical disclosure.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a chicoric acid extraction device provided by the utility model;

FIG. 2 is a top view of the chicoric acid extracting apparatus provided by the utility model;

FIG. 3 is a top view of FIG. 2 at A-A provided by the present utility model;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the juice extracting member provided by the utility model;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a driving member provided by the present utility model;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a piston screw structure provided by the present utility model;

In the figure: 1a spiral squeezing mechanism; 2a feed inlet; 3, a juice extracting component; 31 a housing; 32 juice squeezing ports; 33 inner containers; 34 discharge pipes; 35 plugging the pipe; 4, a circulating feeding device; 4a one-way valve; 5, driving an oil cylinder; 6, an auxiliary material port; 7, a transmission piece; 71 guide bars; a 72 motor; 73 plugging the piston; 8, a discharging assembly; 81 main feed pipe; 82 feed back pipe; 83 a discharge valve; 9 piston screw rod; 91 first piston rod; 92 screw rods; 93 pistons; 10, a pushing oil cylinder; 101 cylinder barrel; 102, a piston rod II; 103 a pusher block.

Detailed Description

Other advantages and advantages of the present utility model will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description, which, by way of illustration, is to be read in connection with certain specific embodiments, 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 discloses a chicoric acid extraction device, which is mainly used for extracting effective components in chicory and echinacea, and mainly comprises a screw press mechanism 1, a juice pressing component 3 and a driving oil cylinder 5. The spiral squeezing mechanism 1 is of a cylindrical structure, a cylindrical inner cavity is formed in the spiral squeezing mechanism, a piston screw 9 is inserted into the top of the spiral squeezing mechanism 1, the piston screw 9 can extend into the cylindrical inner cavity of the spiral squeezing mechanism 1, and when the piston screw 9 rotates, chicory and Echinacea can be directly crushed and conveyed to the bottom of the spiral squeezing mechanism 1. At the bottom of the circulation feed device 4, a juice extracting member 3 is mounted, whereby crushed chicory and echinacea can be fed into the juice extracting member 3. The left side of the juice extracting component 3 is communicated with the inlet of the circulating feeding device 4 through a discharging component 8, a pushing oil cylinder 10 is arranged on the right side opposite to the discharging component 8, and a one-way valve 4a is arranged at the outlet of the circulating feeding device 4 so as to prevent the problem of backflow of materials. In addition, the pushing cylinder 10 is connected in series with the driving cylinder 5, when the residue is required to be discharged, the driving cylinder 5 is firstly extended outwards, the pushing cylinder 10 is extended outwards again, when the device is reset, the pushing cylinder 10 is firstly contracted, and then the pushing cylinder 10 is retracted.

In this embodiment, the pushing cylinder 10 includes a cylinder 101 and a pushing block 103, where the tail end of the cylinder 101 is communicated with the driving cylinder 5, a piston rod two 102 is slidably inserted into the cylinder, and the pushing block 103 is disposed at an end of the piston rod two 102 and is adapted to be inserted into the discharge pipe 34.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the side of the juice extracting member 3 is communicated with the inlet of the circulation feeding device 4 through the discharging assembly 8, the outlet of the circulation feeding device 4 is communicated with the side of the screw press mechanism 1, thereby forming a feed back circulation, when chicory and echinacea enter the screw press mechanism 1 again through the circulation feeding device 4 after juice is extracted by the juice extracting member 3, the residual residues can be squeezed twice, in this process, since the side of the circulation feeding device 4 is provided with the auxiliary material opening 6, the auxiliary material opening 6 is filled with ethanol as an extracting agent, and the residues infiltrate into the residues in the process of entering the circulation feeding device 4 and finish the secondary squeezing along with the residues.

Specifically, auxiliary material mouth 6 includes funnel-shaped stock solution storehouse 61, governing valve 62 and transfer line 63, and the extractant is equipped with in stock solution storehouse 61, and stock solution storehouse 61 bottom communicates with circulation material feeding unit 4 through transfer line 63, install governing valve 62 on the transfer line 63, adjust the quantity of use of extractant through governing valve 62 to avoid medicine residue material to get into in the stock solution storehouse 61.

On the basis, in principle, the chicory and the echinacea residues can be circularly squeezed for a plurality of times without opening the discharging component 8 until the effective components in the chicory and the echinacea are completely squeezed, and finally the discharging component 8 is opened to discharge the waste residues.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the pressing process is specifically performed:

Firstly, the driving oil cylinder 5 is an oil cylinder or a hydraulic cylinder, and the output end of the driving oil cylinder 5 is in transmission connection with the transmission piece 7 so as to drive the transmission piece 7 to linearly move.

On this basis, the transmission piece 7 comprises a guide rod 71, a motor 72 and a blocking piston 73, wherein the motor 72 is arranged at the head end of the guide rod 71, the motor 72 is suitable for driving a piston screw 9 arranged in the screw press mechanism 1 to rotate, when the piston screw 9 rotates, a large amount of chicory and echinacea are gathered into the juice press member 3, the juice of plants is pressed out along with the increasing accumulation, then the blocking piston 73 is continuously extruded along with the increasing pressure, when the pressure is constant, the driving cylinder 5 drives the transmission piece 7 to move towards the juice press member 3, the blocking piston 73 is arranged at the tail end of the guide rod 71, the blocking piston 73 is slidingly inserted in the juice press member 3, and at the moment, the blocking piston 73 exits from the blocking pipe 35, so that the juice press member 3 is communicated with the circulating feeding device 4, and residues are re-input into the screw press mechanism 1 through the circulating feeding device 4.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 4, the middle part of the guide rod 71 is connected with the output end of the driving oil cylinder 5 and is suitable for driving the guide rod 71 to reciprocate, meanwhile, the circulating feeding device 4 is a screw pump, and the circulating feeding device 4 is driven by a servo motor, and when the discharging assembly 8 is opened to discharge waste residues outwards, the circulating feeding device 4 keeps a stop state.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2 and 5, the piston screw 9 includes a first piston rod 91, a screw 92 and a piston 93, where the top of the first piston rod 91 is coaxially connected with the motor 72 in a transmission manner, the screw 92 is sleeved on the shaft of the first piston rod 91, when the motor 72 is started, the screw 92 can be driven to rotate together, and at the same time, the outer edge of the screw 92 abuts against the inside of the screw press mechanism 1, so that plant raw materials can be input into the juice pressing member 3 along the threads. Further, as an alternative, the screw 92 is provided with a variable pitch screw, that is, the screw 92 is provided with a screw pitch gradually reduced from top to bottom, whereby the plant material can be extruded through the screw, and thus the efficiency of squeezing juice can be improved.

In this embodiment, the bottom end of the first piston rod 91 is provided with a piston 93, the piston 93 is suitable for moving in the inner container 33, and meanwhile, a force sensor is further installed on the piston 93 or the sealing piston 73, and when the force sensor detects that the pressure of the inner container 33 reaches a preset value, the sealing piston 73 is driven to move downwards by the driving cylinder 5, so that the juice extracting member 3 is communicated with the discharging assembly 8.

Specifically, in some embodiments, as shown in fig. 3, the juice extracting member 3 includes a housing 31, an inner container 33 and a blocking tube 35, a juice extracting opening 32 is formed on the outer side of the housing 31, a net-shaped inner container 33 is disposed on the inner side of the housing 31, a certain gap is formed between the inner container 33 and the housing 31, and the juice extracting opening 32 is connected with the gap so as to collect extracted plant juice at the position of the juice extracting opening 32. On the other hand, the inner container 33 is communicated with the top of the plugging tube 35, the bottom of the plugging tube 35 is movably inserted with a plugging piston 73, the lateral part of the plugging tube 35 is provided with a discharging tube 34, the discharging tube 34 is communicated with the discharging assembly 8, and when the driving oil cylinder 5 drives the plugging piston 73 to move downwards, the discharging tube 34 is communicated with the main feeding tube 81.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the discharging assembly 8 includes a main feeding pipe 81 and a return pipe 82, wherein the discharging pipe 34 is communicated with the head end of the main feeding pipe 81, the discharging valve 83 is installed at the tail end of the main feeding pipe 81, the bottom end of the return pipe 82 is integrally formed with the main feeding pipe 81, and the top end of the return pipe 82 is communicated with the circulation feeding device 4, and when the circulation feeding device 4 stops running and the discharging valve 83 is opened, the waste residue after being pressed is discharged out of the device.

While the utility model has been described in detail in the foregoing general description and specific examples, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications and improvements can be made thereto. Accordingly, such modifications or improvements may be made without departing from the spirit of the utility model and are intended to be within the scope of the utility model as claimed.

Claims (8)

1. A chicoric acid extraction device, comprising:

one side of the spiral squeezing mechanism (1) is provided with a feed inlet (2), the other side of the spiral squeezing mechanism is communicated with an outlet of the circulating feeding device (4), and the side surface of the circulating feeding device (4) is provided with an auxiliary material opening (6);

the top of the juice squeezing component (3) is fixedly communicated with the spiral squeezing mechanism (1), the left side part of the juice squeezing component is communicated with the inlet of the circulating feeding device (4) through a discharging component (8), and a pushing oil cylinder (10) is arranged at the position, opposite to the discharging component (8), of the right side of the juice squeezing component;

The driving oil cylinder (5), the output is connected with the driving medium (7) transmission, driving medium (7) include:

the device comprises a guide rod (71), a motor (72) and a blocking piston (73), wherein the motor (72) is arranged at the head end of the guide rod (71), the motor (72) is suitable for driving a piston screw (9) arranged in the screw press mechanism (1) to rotate, the blocking piston (73) is arranged at the tail end of the guide rod (71), and the blocking piston (73) is slidably inserted into the juice press member (3);

The driving oil cylinder (5) is connected with the pushing oil cylinder (10) in series, the middle part of the guide rod (71) is connected with the output end of the driving oil cylinder (5), and the driving oil cylinder (5) is suitable for driving the guide rod (71) to do reciprocating motion.

2. Chicoric acid extraction device according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary material port (6) comprises a liquid storage bin (61), a regulating valve (62) and a transfusion tube (63), an extracting agent is arranged in the liquid storage bin (61), the bottom of the liquid storage bin (61) is communicated with the circulating feeding device (4) through the transfusion tube (63), and the regulating valve (62) is arranged on the transfusion tube (63).

3. Chicoric acid extraction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the feed inlet (2) and the reservoir (61) are of the same structure and all funnel-shaped.

4. Chicoric acid extraction device according to claim 1, characterized in that the circulation feeding device (4) is a screw pump and that a one-way valve (4 a) is mounted at the outlet of the circulation feeding device (4).

5. Chicoric acid extraction device according to claim 1, characterized in that the piston screw (9) comprises:

A first piston rod (91) and the top of which is coaxially connected with the motor (72) in a transmission way;

the shaft of the first piston rod (91) is sleeved on the shaft of the screw (92);

And the piston (93) is arranged at the bottom end of the first piston rod (91) and is provided with a force sensor.

6. Chicoric acid extraction device according to claim 5, wherein the juice extracting member (3) comprises:

A shell (31), the side part of which is provided with a juice extracting port (32);

An inner container (33) which is net-shaped, is arranged inside the outer shell (31), and the inner wall of which is suitable for the sliding of the piston (93);

A blocking pipe (35), the top of which is communicated with the inner container (33), and the bottom of which is movably inserted with a blocking piston (73); the side part is provided with a discharge pipe (34), and the tail end of the discharge pipe (34) is communicated with the discharge assembly (8).

7. Chicoric acid extraction device according to claim 6, wherein the head end of the discharge pipe (34) is connected to a pushing cylinder (10), the pushing cylinder (10) comprising:

The tail end of the cylinder barrel (101) is communicated with the driving oil cylinder (5), and a piston rod II (102) is inserted in the cylinder barrel in a sliding manner;

A pushing block (103) is arranged at the end part of the second piston rod (102) and is suitable for being inserted into the discharging pipe (34).

8. A chicoric acid extraction device according to claim 5, characterized in that the unloading assembly (8) comprises:

A main feeding pipe (81), the head end of which is communicated with the discharging pipe (34), and the tail end of which is provided with a discharging valve (83);

And the feed back pipe (82) is integrally formed with the main feed pipe (81) at the bottom end and communicated with the circulating feeding device (4) at the top end.