JP2000024597A - Grain sorter - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the whole height of the machine body of a grain sorter to make the sorter compact by providing feed devices respectively feeding sorted mixed rice and brown rice discharged to the outside almost laterally and a shaking sorting device sorting grain into mixed rice of unhulled rice and brown rice to the re-sorted and brown rice discharged to the outside. SOLUTION: A hulling sorter is constituted of a hulling part A, a falling hulled rice winnowing part B winnowing the hulled rice falling from the hulling part A, a mixed rice sorting part C separating and sorting mixed rice after winnowing into unhulled rice and brown rice and a grain lifting feed part D. The mixed rice sorting part C has a shaking sorting device 15. In this case, a mixed rice/small rice sorting feed device 29 consisting of a spiral shaft 31 and a small rice sorting screen receiving trough 33 is arranged under the mixed rice flow-down area of the shaking sorting device 15 and a brown rice/small rice sorting feed device 34 consisting of the spiral shaft 31 and the small rice sorting screen receiving trough 33 is arranged under the brown rice distributing flow area of the sorting device 15. An immature unhulled rice feed device 36 receiving immature unhulled rice from an immature unhulled rice receiving trough to feed the same to an unhulled rice lifter 27 is arranged to one lateral side part of the falling hulled rice winnowing part B.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a grain sorter for separating mixed rice of unpolished rice and brown rice from mixed rice of unpolished rice and brown rice and brown rice discharged outside the machine by a rocking sorter.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A grain sorter that removes brown rice selected by an oscillating sorter from a machine outside through a brown rice fryer and supplies the mixed rice of paddy and brown rice to the oscillating sorter again to sort the rice is Widely known.

[0003]

However, in the prior art, the kernels selected by the rocking sorting apparatus are conveyed by natural flow, and therefore require an inclination to flow the kernels, and the tilt is required. Needed a height of the airframe. An object of the present invention is to make the whole grain sorter compact by lowering the height of the whole body of the grain sorter.

[0004]

The present invention takes the following technical means in order to solve such technical problems.
That is, in the invention of claim 1, the grain supplied to the rocking sorting device 15 is supplied to the rocking sorting device 15 again, and the mixed rice of paddy / brown rice to be re-sorted, and the brown rice discharged outside the machine. In the grain sorter for sorting the mixed rice and the brown rice to be taken out of the machine, which are separated by the swing sorting device 15, are provided below the swing sorting device 15. And a grain sorter.

[0005] Further, in the invention according to claim 2, the transport device is formed of a spiral, and the spiral is configured to transport the mixed rice and the brown rice discharged to the outside of the machine substantially horizontally in opposite directions. The grain sorter according to claim 1, wherein the spirals are driven by the same drive source.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention shown in the drawings will be described below. First, the configuration of the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 4 will be described. This rice hulling sorter includes a rice hulling unit A that performs hulling, a rice hulling wind selection unit B that air-selects rice hulled from the rice hulling unit A,
It is composed of an oscillating sorting type mixed rice sorting section C for separating and sorting the mixed rice after the wind selection in the rubbed rice wind sorting section B into paddy and brown rice, and a frying transport section D for frying and transporting grains. The rice hulling unit A is arranged on the front upper part of the fuselage, the crushed rice wind selection unit B is arranged in the lower front part of the fuselage, and the suction duster 1 of the crushed rice wind selection unit B is connected to the hulling part A. , The mixed rice frying machine 2 of the fry transporting unit D is arranged on one side of the rice hulling unit A and the sliding rice breeze selecting unit B, and the mixed rice sorting unit C is arranged at the rear. Then, behind the mixed rice sorting section C, the brown rice frying machine 3 of the frying transport section D is arranged.

[0007] The hulling unit A includes a hulling hopper 4, a hulling roll 5,
5, including a hulling room 6 in which a diffusion plate is provided. Next, a description will be given of the rice crushed rice selection section B. The rice spilled from the rice hulling room 6 above flows down, and is located on the sorting start end side of the rice crushed rice selection path 8 of the rice crushed rice selection box 7. The crushed rice is supplied to the crushed rice wind selection path 8 which is inclined at a higher position toward the end, and the crushed rice is wind-selected. Below the starting end of the sloping rice-style selection path 8, there is provided a sloping rice receiving trough 9 for receiving the smashed rice of the selected paddy and brown rice, and at the lower end of the sloping rice receiving path, pity rice is received. Pity rice trough 1
0 is provided. The sorting air that has flowed from the start end to the end side on the smashed rice wind selection path 8 is discharged to the outside through the suction duster 1 and the dust tube 11. The crushed rice dropped and sorted into the rubbed rice receiving gutter 9 is conveyed to one side side by the rubbed rice spiral 13 and flows into the lower part of the mixed rice fryer 2, where it is fried by the mixed rice fryer 2. Grain is supplied to the mixed rice hopper 14.

Next, the mixed rice sorting section C constituted by the swing sorting device 15 will be described. Multi-stage swing sorting plate 1
, 16,... Have a configuration in which both the vertical direction (direction perpendicular to the paper surface of FIG. 1), which is the flow direction of the grain, and the horizontal direction, which is the sorting direction, which is orthogonal to the vertical direction, are inclined. It is arranged at the rear part of the fuselage along the longitudinal direction of the fuselage (left-right direction in FIG. 1), and reciprocates up and down in a horizontal direction by a swing arm (not shown). The mixed rice in the mixed rice hopper 14 passes through the distribution gutter 17 and the distribution case 18 and is arranged on the high supply side in the vertical direction of the oscillating sorting plates 16, 16,. Are supplied to the swing sorting plates 16, 16,. The brown rice partition plate 1 is provided on the discharge side in the vertical direction of the swing sorter plates 16, 16,.
9 and the paddy partition plate 20 are provided, and the swing sorting plate 1
The grains distributed in the brown rice distribution basin on the horizontal swinging up side, the mixed rice distribution basin in the middle in the horizontal direction, and the paddy distribution basin on the horizontal swinging down side of the brown rice partitioning plates 19 and 16, respectively. In the configuration, the rice is partitioned into brown rice, mixed rice and rice by the rice partition plate 20.

The brown rice thus partitioned flows down into the brown rice trough 21 and flows into the brown rice small rice sorting / conveying device 34 through the brown rice flow passage 22, where small rice and blue rice are sorted and removed, and the rear brown rice is lifted. It flows into the lower part of the grain machine 3, is fried by the brown rice grain machine 3, and is taken out of the machine from the rear of the machine. Further, the mixed rice separated by the brown rice partition plate 19 and the paddy partition plate 20 flows into the mixed rice small rice sorting and conveying device 29 through the mixed rice receiving gutter 23 and the mixed rice flow passage 24, and is mixed by the small rice sorting and conveying device 29. The small rice and the blue rice are conveyed to the sliding rice receiving trough 9 while being sorted and removed, and then conveyed by the sliding rice transfer spiral 13 of the sliding rice trough 9 to flow into the lower part of the mixed rice fryer 2. And fried,
The mixed rice hopper 14, the distribution trough 17, and the distribution case 18 are supplied to the oscillating sorting plates 16, 16,.

[0010] Further, the paddy separated by the paddy partitioning plate 20 flows from the paddy receiving trough 25 through the paddy flow path 26 into the paddy grain mill 27,
This is a configuration in which the hulling is performed by the hulling machine 27, returned to the hulling unit A via the hulling return flow path 28, and hulling is performed again.

Next, the mixed rice small rice sorting / conveying device 29 and the brown rice small rice sorting / conveying device 34 provided on the lower lateral side of the body of the hulling sorter will be specifically described. A mixed rice comprising a helical shaft 31 on which a helical blade 30 is attached and a small rice sorting net trough 33 arranged close to the outer periphery of the helical blade 30 below the downstream region of the mixed rice flow of the swinging sorting device 15. A small rice sorting / conveying device 29 is arranged, and a spiral shaft 31 to which a spiral blade 30 is attached and an outer peripheral portion of the spiral blade 30 are disposed below the brown rice distribution basin of the swing sorting device 15. A brown rice small rice sorting / conveying device 34 comprising a small rice sorting net gutter 33 is disposed. And a spiral transport device 36 composed of a spiral wing 30, a spiral shaft 31, and a spiral trough 35 for transporting the spiral. The pity conveying device 36, the mixed rice / small rice sorting / conveying device 29, and the brown rice / small rice sorting / conveying device 34 are sequentially arranged from the front to the rear, and the ends of the spiral shafts 31, 31,. A motor 32 for driving is connected to the front of the helical shaft 31 of the device 36, and the helical shafts 31, 31,... Are integrally driven.

Next, FIG. 5 will be described. On the lateral side of the body of the hulling sorter, a crushed rice small rice sorting / conveying device 37 composed of a spiral wing 30, a spiral shaft 31, and a small rice sorting net gutter 33 is disposed, and a driving motor is provided. The rice that has flowed into the front of the small rice sorting gutter 33 from the sliding rice trough 9 is conveyed rearward while small rice and blue rice are leaked and sorted, and the rear part of the machine Is fed to the mixed rice frying machine 2 arranged in the hopper, and is fried and supplied to the swinging sorting device 15 via the mixed rice hopper 14. In this way, the crushed rice small rice sorting and conveying device 37 can be configured for a relatively long time from the crushed rice gutter 9 of the crushed rice wind selection section B at the front of the machine to the mixed rice fryer 2 at the rear of the machine. In addition, relatively small and blue rice can be selectively removed from the rubbed rice. Reference numeral 38 denotes a small rice receiving box.

Next, a modification of the brown rice fryer 3 will be described with reference to FIGS. The brown rice fryer 3 is hung on a brown rice frying case 39, a pulley (not shown) mounted on the upper and lower ends of the brown rice frying case 39, and upper and lower pulleys. A belt (not shown) with a bucket, a motor 40 for driving an upper pulley (not shown), a discharge port 41, and a take-out cylinder 42 whose take-out position can be freely changed. The front and rear side plates 43, 4 located in front and rear of the pulley (not shown) in the axial direction are located below the brown rice frying case 39.
4, openings 45, 46 having the same shape are formed. When a tank 47 is attached to one opening 45, the other opening 46 is closed by a lid 48. With this configuration, when it is desired to take out the brown rice from the brown rice fryer 3 at the rear left side of the machine, the brown rice sorted by the rocking sorting device 15 is arranged as shown by the solid line in FIG. Flows from the tank 47 into the lower part of the brown rice mill 3 and is fried by a belt with a bucket (not shown). The outlet position of the take-out cylinder 42 is changed in the direction of the arrow through the outlet 41 at a desired position. Can be taken out.

When it is desired to take out brown rice from the rear right side of the fuselage, the tank 47 and the lid 48 are connected to the other opening 4.
6 and 45, the brown rice fry case 39 is flipped back and forth around the vertical axis, attached to the rear of the fuselage as shown by the imaginary line in FIG. 7, and the take-out cylinder 42 is operated in the direction of the arrow to the desired position. Can take out brown rice.

Next, a description will be given of a wind power adjusting device of the suction / dust exhauster 1 with reference to FIG. The suction port of the adjustment air passage 49 communicating with the suction / dust extractor 1 is disposed near the front end of the paddy hopper 4 of the hulling unit A. 50 are arranged. Therefore, the wind force of the suction and exhaust device 1 can be adjusted by the wind force control valve 50, and when the air is sucked from the adjustment air passage 49, dust near the paddy hopper 4 can be sucked, resulting in a sanitary environment. .

Next, the pity raising machine 51 will be described with reference to FIG. On the trailing end side of the pity receiving trough 10 in the sliding rice breeze selection section B, a slower pity plowing machine 51 is provided. The pity raising machine 51 includes a pity case 52 and a pity raising cylinder 5.
3, is constituted by a thrower blade 55 that rotates integrally with a pity spiral 54 of the pity receiving trough 10. When the pity lifting cylinder 53 of the pity raising machine 51 is turned to the right in FIG. Is communicated with the paddy channel 26 of the rocking sorter 15, and pity is
It is returned to the hulling unit A through the hulling machine 27 and is hulled again. Also, the pitiful hull 53 of the pity hulling machine 51 is made to extend along the vertical direction, and Is swung horizontally and outwardly, pity can be taken out of the machine by the pity panning machine 51, and in the state where the pity bin 53 is along the vertical direction,
When the tip bent portion of the pity-pumping cylinder 53 is swung inward and communicates with the communication port of the suction / discharge device 1, pity can be discharged out of the machine together with the chaff by the suction / discharge device 1.

Next, FIG. 10 will be described. On the discharge side of the swing sorting plate 16 in the swing sorting device 15,
A safety cover 54 is provided. This safety cover 54
Is configured as a vertically elongated rectangle in side view, and is a brown rice partition plate adjusting lever 5 for adjusting the brown rice partition plate 19 and the paddy partition plate 20.
5, a partition plate operating portion 57 for adjusting and operating the paddy partition adjusting lever 56 and a handle operating portion 59 for adjusting and operating an angle adjusting handle 58 for adjusting the lateral inclination angle of the swing sorting plate 16 are swing sorting. A low plate portion 54a along the side wall of the frame of the device 15 is provided around the safety cover 54 and the low plate portion 54a.
The other portion is constituted by a high plate portion 54b protruding outward from the side wall of the frame of the swing sorting device 15. This low plate part 5
4a, a brown rice partition plate adjusting lever 55, a paddy partition plate adjusting lever 56, and an angle adjusting handle 58 are provided with a safety cover 54.
Is arranged so as to fit within the height of the high plate portion 54b. Accordingly, since the levers and the handles do not protrude from the safety cover 54, the levers and the handles can be removed from the outside of the safety cover 54 while they do not collide during transportation and are not damaged. It can be easily operated.

Referring to FIG. The hulling sorter is
A rice milling section A, a rice milling wind selection section B, a mixed rice sorting section C composed of an oscillating sorting device 15, and a mixed rice fryer 2, which is a frying transport section D
It is composed of a rice hulling machine 27 and a brown rice hulling machine 3, and the sides of the rice hulling unit A and the rice hulling unit B are covered with a cover 60 via a storage space 59. The cover 60 can be opened and closed by an opening / closing door, and a multi-stage storage shelf 61 capable of storing the hulling rolls 5 and the like can be formed in the cover 60, or a foldable shelf 62 can be provided to provide hulling. Articles such as the roll 5 can be stored, and hulling work can be performed efficiently.

Next, the operation of the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 will be described. When performing the hulling sorting work with the hulling sorter, by driving the rotating parts of the machine, supplying the chaff to the chaff hopper 4, and opening the chaff supply control valve (not shown) of the hulling unit A,
The paddy is supplied to the paddy rolls 5,5, the paddy is padded by the paddy rolls 5,5 rotating in opposite directions, and the paddy rice diffused by the diffusion plate is the paddy rice wind selection unit B below. Nosuri rice-style route 8
The rice husks are supplied to the crushed rice wind selection path 8 and are sorted by the sifting wind. Pity rice which is discharged outside the machine and is relatively light is dropped and sorted in a pity rice receiving trough 10, and mixed rice of heavy paddy and brown rice is dropped and sorted in a sliding rice receiving trough 9. Next, the polished rice sorted in the polished rice receiving gutter 9 is conveyed to one side by the polished rice spiral 13 and flows into the lower part of the mixed rice frying machine 2 where it is fried and mixed. Rice hopper 1
4 and then the distribution trough 17 and the distribution case 18
Are supplied to the swing sorting plates 16, 16,...

In this manner, the swinging sorting plates 16, 16,
The mixed rice supplied to the... Is reciprocated up and down in the horizontal direction by a swinging arm (not shown), and is sorted according to the size of the granules, the size of the specific gravity, the difference in frictional resistance, and the like. Brown rice unevenly distributed in the brown rice distribution basin on the upper side is separated by a brown rice partition plate 19 and taken out, and the brown rice trough 21,
After passing through the brown rice channel 22 and the brown rice small rice sorting and conveying device 34, the small rice
After the blue rice is removed, it flows into the lower part of the brown rice fryer 3, is fried by the brown rice fryer 3, and is taken out of the machine. Further, the mixed rice having a drift distribution in the mixed rice distribution basin, which is the intermediate portion in the horizontal direction of the swing sorting plates 16, 16,..., Is separated by the brown rice partition plate 19 and the paddy partition plate 20, and is taken out. Flows into the mixed rice small rice sorting and conveying device 29 through the mixed rice receiving gutter 23 and the mixed rice channel 24, and after the small rice and the blue rice are removed by the mixed rice and small rice sorting and conveying device 29, the lower part of the mixed rice fryer 2 The rice is flowed into the rice fry, and then further mixed rice hopper 14, distribution gutter 17,
.. Are supplied to the swinging sorting plates 16, 16,... And are sorted again. In addition, the swing sorting plates 16, 16,
The paddy distributed unevenly in the paddy distribution basin on the laterally swaying side is taken out by being partitioned by the paddle partition plate 20, passing through the paddle receiving gutter 25, the paddy channel 26, and the paddy grain mill 27, and the paddy section A. It is returned to the hulling and is hulled again.

[0021]

As described above, the mixed rice and the brown rice to be discharged to the outside which are sorted by the rocking sorting device 15 and supplied to the rocking sorting device 15 again are transported substantially horizontally by the transporting device.
It is not necessary to incline the grains to flow down, and the height of the machine can be reduced accordingly, and the whole grain sorter can be made compact.

Further, the transport device is formed of a spiral, and the spiral is configured to transport the mixed rice and the brown rice discharged to the outside of the machine substantially in opposite directions, respectively, while the spiral is the same. , The configuration of the transport device can be simplified.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cutaway side view.

FIG. 2 is a front view

FIG. 3 is a plan view

FIG. 4 is a cut side view.

FIG. 5 is a cut side view.

FIG. 6 is a cut side view.

FIG. 7 is a plan view

FIG. 8 is a cut side view.

FIG. 9 is a cut side view and a cut front view.

FIG. 10 is a side view and a cut plan view.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Rice hulling unit B Sliced rice wind selection unit C Mixed rice sorting unit D Frying transport unit 1 Suction duster 2 Mixed rice fryer 3 Brown rice fryer 4 Rice hopper 5 Rice hulling roll 6 Rice hulling room 7 Slide Falling rice style box 8 Sliding rice style path 9 Sliding rice trough 10 Pity trough 11 Dust cylinder 13 Sliding rice spiral 14 Mixed rice hopper 15 Swing sorting device 16 Swing sorting plate 17 Distribution gutter 18 Distributing case 19 Brown rice partition plate 20 Rice partition plate 21 Brown rice trough 22 Brown rice channel 23 Mixed rice trough 24 Mixed rice channel 25 Rice trough 26 Rice channel 27 Rice fry machine 28 Rice reduction channel 29 Mixed rice small rice Sorting and conveying device 30 Spiral blade 31 Spiral shaft 32 Motor 33 Small rice sorting net trough 34 Brown rice small rice sorting and conveying device 35 Spiral trough 36 Pity conveying device 37 Sliding rice small rice sorting and conveying device 38 Small rice receiving box 39 Brown rice frying case 40 motor 41 outlet section 42 take-out cylinder 3 Front plate 44 Rear plate 45 Opening 46 Opening 47 Tank 48 Lid 49 Adjusting air path 50 Wind control valve 51 Pity lifting machine 52 Pity case 53 Pity lifting cylinder 54 Safety cover 54 a Low plate 54 b High plate 55 Brown rice Partition plate adjustment lever 56 Rice paddy plate adjustment lever 57 Partition plate operation part 58 Angle adjustment handle 59 Storage space 60 Cover 61 Storage shelf 62 Shelf

Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Kosaku Maeda 1 Yachikura, Tobe-cho, Iyo-gun, Ehime Prefecture, Iseki Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A grain to be supplied to the swing sorting apparatus 15 and sorted again into a mixed rice of paddy / brown rice to be re-sorted by being supplied to the swing sorting apparatus 15 and a brown rice to be discharged outside the machine. In the sorting machine, a grain sorting machine is provided below the rocking sorting device 15 with a transport device for substantially horizontally transporting the mixed rice sorted by the rocking sorting device 15 and brown rice to be taken out of the machine. . 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the conveying device is formed of a spiral, and the spiral is configured to substantially horizontally convey the mixed rice and the brown rice discharged to the outside of the machine in opposite directions. The grain sorter according to claim 1, wherein the grain sorter is configured to be driven by a drive source.