JP2000198521A - Grain elevating and metering machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To supply grains from any direction without shifting a grain elevating and metering machine when it is used combined with other grain elevating and metering machine in particular by making it possible to supply grains from any direction to the grain elevating and metering machine without limiting only to from the rear direction. SOLUTION: This grain elevating and metering machine is provided with a grain elevating cylindrical body 3 in which an elevating means is arranged, a supply hopper 4, which is secured in a lower part of the rear wall face of the grain elevating cylindrical body 3, and a reservoir tank 6 which is installed at an upper part of the front wall face of the grain elevating cylindrical body 3 to reserve the grains to be elevated. In this case, a second supply hopper 5 is detachably secured to a lower portion of the front wall face of the grain elevating cylindrical body 3 so as to oppose to the supply hopper 4 through a second supply hole so that grains can be supplied from either the supply hopper 4 or the second supply hopper 5 according to the mode of the use of a grain elevating and metering machine 1.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a frying weighing machine for frying cereal grains such as rice cereal and packing them in weighing bags.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 5, a conventional frying weighing machine for grain such as rice grain is provided at a lower portion of the fried cylinder 103 for receiving the grain. A supply hopper 104, a frying means 120 disposed in the fryer cylinder 103 for frying the supplied grains, a storage tank 105 for temporarily storing the fried grains, And a weighing device 108 installed below the storage tank 105, and the grains to be weighed are packed in the supply hopper 104.
Is transported upward by the frying means 120, and then temporarily stored in the storage tank 106. Then, bagging of grains into the grain bag 110 is performed by placing the grain bag 110 on the measuring instrument 108 and opening and closing a shutter provided at the outlet 106 of the storage tank 105, The grains discharged from the outlet 106 are stored in a grain bag 110, and the weight of the grains is measured by a weighing instrument 108, whereby a predetermined amount of grains is packed in a measuring bag.

[0003] This type of frying weighing machine 101 is often used in combination with a rice mill, a sorter, and the like.
When the grains (sized) selected by the horizontal sorter are packed in weighing bags, as shown in FIG.
1 and the horizontal sorter 130, and
The supply hopper 104 of the horizontal sorter 130 is disposed below the discharge port 133 for discharging the grains (sized) selected by the horizontal sorter 130.
Is supplied from a sorting cylinder 132, and the crushed particles are discharged to the outside of the machine through a trash discharge port 134, and the selected grains (sized) are discharged from a discharge port 133 to a grain-weighing machine. It is sent to the supply hopper 104 of 101.

[0004] In addition, the grains are sorted into sieving and swarf, and the shards are discharged to the outside of the machine through a swarf discharge port, and the sieving is fried and temporarily stored in a storage tank. There is also known a vertical sorter that can appropriately pack sized granules in a weighing bag. Is placed below the dust discharge port of the vertical sorter, and the dust discharged from the dust discharge port is received from the supply hopper of the fry weighing machine, and is fried and packed in a measuring bag. Things have also been done.

[0005]

By the way, when a fried weighing machine is used in combination with various processing apparatuses in a fried weighing machine, for example, the fried weighing machine 101 is used in combination with a horizontal sorter 130. In this case, as shown in FIG. 5, the supply hopper 104 for receiving the grains of the frying weighing machine 101 is connected to the sizing outlet 1 of the horizontal sorter 130.
33 and positioned below. If it is intended to use the filing weighing machine 101 arranged as described above for frying and weighing bags other than the selected sized grains of the horizontal sorting machine 130, the filing weighing machine 101 Is moved above the supply hopper 104 in order to change the position and the direction of the supply hopper 104 of the frayer weighing machine 101 because the sizing discharge port 133 of the horizontal sorter 130 is located above the supply hopper 104 of the fryer. Alternatively, the horizontal sorter 130 needs to be moved.

When it is desired to fry the small grains (second mouth) sorted by the vertical sorter and pack them in a weighing bag, a combination of the flour weighing machine and the vertical sorter is used. In order to receive the second opening of the mold sorter directly into the feed hopper, a frying weighing machine is arranged and used for the vertical sorter. Even in the case of arrangement in this way, if it is attempted to fry other grains using this fried weighing machine, it is necessary to move either the fried weighing machine or the vertical sorter similarly. .

[0007] However, this kind of fried weighing machine, vertical sorter, horizontal sorter and the like have a considerable weight,
Even if wheels are provided, the movement requires considerable labor and time for the movement, and it has been difficult to work continuously and quickly.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned unresolved problems of the prior art, and the supply of grains to a fryer and weighing machine is not limited to only one place. Lifting machine, so that the grain can be supplied from all directions without moving the machine, especially when the machine is used in combination with other equipment. It is intended to provide a grain weighing machine.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a frying weighing machine according to the present invention. A supply hopper attached to a lower portion of the rear wall surface of the grain body, and a storage tank attached to an upper portion of the front wall surface of the grain body for temporarily storing the grain that has been fried. In the provided frying weighing machine, a second supply hopper is detachably attached to a part below the front wall surface of the fried cylindrical body and opposed to the supply hopper.

In the frying weighing machine of the present invention, the second
It is preferable that a second supply hole provided in the front wall surface is configured to be openable and closable by a lid so that the supply hopper communicates with the inside of the fried cylindrical body.
It is preferable that the supply hopper is formed to be vertically higher than the supply hopper.

[0011] Further, in the fried weighing machine of the present invention,
It is preferable that a weighing device is installed below the openable and closable outlet provided in the storage tank.

[0012]

According to the fry meter of the present invention, the fry cylinder is opposed to a supply hopper mounted on a lower portion of a rear wall surface of the fry cylinder body in which fry means is disposed. By detachably attaching the second supply hopper to the lower part of the front wall surface of the body, without changing the orientation of the fried weighing machine itself,
It becomes possible to supply and supply the grains to any one of the two supply hoppers from all directions without difficulty. And
When using a weighing and weighing machine in combination with other sorters and rice milling machines, use the weighing and weighing machine selectively using one of two supply hoppers according to various usage modes. Because it is possible, without changing the positional relationship of the frying weighing machine and other devices according to various usage modes,
Various operations can be performed quickly and continuously.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a fried weighing machine of the present invention as viewed from the front, and FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view showing a fried cylinder of the fried weighing machine of the present invention, partially cut away. FIGS. 3A and 3B are schematic perspective views of the lower part of the fried cylinder of the fried weighing machine of the present invention, and FIG.
It is a schematic perspective view of the upper part of the frying weighing machine of this invention, (b) is sectional drawing which fractures | ruptures and shows the branch pipe | tube along the AA line in (a).

The frying weighing machine 1 of the present invention is shown in FIGS.
As shown in the figure, a frying cylinder 3 erected on the machine base 2 and having a frying means 20 disposed therein, and a lower portion of a rear wall of the frying cylinder 3 for supplying grains such as rice grains. A supply hopper 4 attached to the storage tank 6, a storage tank 6 attached above a front wall surface of the fried cylindrical body 3 for temporarily storing the fried grains, and a storage hopper 4 provided below the storage tank 6. A second supply hopper 5 is detachably mounted on the front wall surface of the weighing machine 8 so as to face the supply hopper 4 below the fried cylindrical body 3 and to remove the ground kernels. A discharge pipe 35 for discharging to another part outside the machine is disposed adjacent to the storage tank 6 at an upper part of the graining cylinder 3.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a supply hole 12 is provided below the wall surface so as to communicate with the supply hopper 4, and a supply hole is provided below the front wall surface. A supply hole 13 is provided to face the second supply hopper 5 so as to face the second supply hopper 5. Above the front wall surface of the fried cylindrical body 3, a discharge hole 15 for discharging the fried grains is provided. Further, an arc-shaped bottom plate 27 is provided at the bottom of the fried cylindrical body 3, and the supply hole 1 is supplied from the supply hopper 4 or the second supply hopper 5.
2. The grain supplied through the second supply hole 13 is the bottom plate 2
7 is temporarily deposited.

A bucket conveyor 20 as a means for raising the grain is provided in the cylinder 3 and the bucket conveyor 20 is provided on both side walls of the cylinder 3 as shown in FIG. A drive pulley 23 and a driven pulley 24 rotatably supported at lower and upper portions, respectively, and an endless belt 21 stretched between the pulleys 23 and 24.
And a plurality of buckets 22, 22 attached to the endless belt 21 at predetermined intervals. The driving pulley 23 is connected to a driving motor 25 (FIG. 1), and the driven pulley 24 is connected to the endless belt. The upper part of the fried cylindrical body 3 is supported so as to be movable in the vertical direction so that the tension of 21 can be adjusted. In addition, the arc-shaped bottom plate 27 provided at the bottom of the hulling cylinder 3 substantially follows the movement trajectory of the outer tip of the bucket 22 when the bucket 22 of the bucket conveyor 20 moves around the drive pulley 23. Each bucket 22 is supplied from the supply hopper 4 or the second supply hopper 5 when the plurality of buckets 22 move in the arrow direction by the operation of the bucket conveyor 20. It is configured so that grains deposited on the bottom plate 27 can be scooped.

The supply hopper 4 is mounted corresponding to a supply hole 12 (FIGS. 2 and 3) provided below the rear wall surface of the fried cylindrical body 3, and the second supply hopper 5 is provided in FIG. (A)
1, as shown in FIG. 1, it is detachably attached to the second supply hole 13 provided below the front wall surface of the fried cylindrical body 3 so as to face the supply hole 12. The second supply hopper 5 is formed to have substantially the same width as the width of the front wall surface of the fried cylindrical body 3, and the length in the vertical direction is larger than that of the supply hopper 4 in order to increase the capacity of the grains to be received. Are also formed vertically long.

The relationship between the supply hopper 4 and the second supply hopper 5 is as follows: the normal use state of the frying weighing machine 1 (that is, the state in which grains such as rice grains are supplied from the supply hopper 4).
, The second supply hopper 5 is not used,
The supply hole 13 is closed by a lid 14 (see FIG. 3A) or a lid 14A (see FIG. 3B). The lid 14 shown in FIG. 3A is provided so as to be vertically movable along a pin 14a fixed to the front wall surface of the fried cylindrical body 3, and when the second supply hopper 5 is not used. The second supply hopper 5 is removed from the front wall surface of the fried cylindrical body 3, the lid 14 is slid downward to close the second supply hole 13, and the second supply hopper 5 is removed from the second supply hopper 5. When supplying the grains, the lid 14 is slid upward to open the second supply hole 13. The lid 1
The slide movement of 4 can also be configured so that it can be performed in a state where the second supply hopper 5 is attached to the front wall surface of the hulling cylinder 3. The other lid 14A shown in FIG. 3B is attached to the front wall surface of the fry cylinder 3 by bolts 14b or the like after removing the second supply hopper 5 from the fry cylinder 3. , The second supply hole 13 is closed.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the discharge hole 15 provided in the upper part of the front wall surface of the fried cylinder 3 has a downward and lateral direction from the discharge hole 15 (FIG. 4B). (In the figure, leftward), an inclined outlet pipe 31 is connected, and a leading end of the inclined outlet pipe 31 is communicated with a branch pipe 32 that branches downward in a forked shape. One first outlet 32a of the bifurcated branch pipe 32 is connected to the storage tank 6 attached to the front wall surface of the fried cylindrical body 3, and a discharge pipe 35 is connected to the other second outlet 32b. You. A flow switching plate 33 is rotatably supported at the center branch portion 32c of the forked branch pipe 32. The flow switching plate 3 is provided outside the branch pipe 32.
1 and 4 (a) of FIG. 1 and FIG. 4, and by operating the lever 34, the flow path switching plate 33 is rotated to release the discharge hole of the fried cylindrical body 3. The grains discharged from the storage tank 15 are stored in the storage tank 6 and the discharge pipe 35.
Is configured to be able to be selectively sent to any one of. In FIGS. 1 and 4, the flow path switching plate 33 is turned to the second outlet 32 b side to close the second outlet 32 b, and the discharge hole 1
The grains released from 5 are discharged from the first outlet 32 a of the forked branch pipe 32 to the storage tank 6 via the inclined outlet pipe 31.

As shown in FIG. 1, the storage tank 6 attached to the front wall surface above the fry cylinder 3 has a fry cylinder 3 as shown in FIG.
For temporarily storing the grains that have been fried by the bucket conveyor 20 as the frying means in the inside, the upper part of which is communicated with the first outlet 32a of the forked branch pipe 32, An outlet 7 is provided at the end, and this outlet 7
Is provided with a shutter 7a driven to be opened and closed by a shutter operating member 7b such as a solenoid.

Below the outlet 7 of the storage tank 6, a weighing device 8 for measuring the weight of the grains stored in the bag is installed, and the weighing device 8 is mounted inside the bag placed thereon. When the measured value reaches a predetermined value, a signal is sent to the shutter operation member 7b, and the shutter 7a is operated to close the discharge port 7. .

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 6a in the storage tank 6 denotes a plurality of small holes provided on both inclined surfaces of the upper wall surface of the storage tank 6 (a glass window).
The purpose of this is to allow the inside of the storage tank 6 to communicate with the outside to allow air to flow therethrough. In particular, this is caused when the grain is discharged from each bucket 22 to the storage tank 6 by the operation of the bucket conveyor 20. The flow of air can be released to the outside, the influence on the grains already stored in the storage tank 6 can be eliminated, and the discharge of the grains from the discharge port 7 can be performed smoothly. I do. Code 6
Reference numerals b and 6b denote viewing windows provided so that the inside of the storage tank 5 can be viewed. Reference numeral 9
Is a guide member attached around the discharge port 7 of the storage tank 6 to guide the grains discharged from the discharge port 7 to the bag and to prevent the scattering of the grains. The display operation panel includes a setting switch for the weight to be packed in the weighing bag and a display for displaying the set value of the weight and the weighing result of the weighing device 8.

As described above, the supply hopper 4 and the second supply hopper 5 are disposed opposite to each other at the lower part of the fryer cylinder 3, so that the supply of the kernels to the fryer weighing machine is performed backward. The method is not limited to this, and can be performed from all directions.
Further, when the milling and weighing machine is used as a set in combination with a rice mill, a horizontal sorter or a vertical sorter, the grains sent from the rice mill and the sorter arranged adjacent to each other are used for the milling and weighing machine 1. In the case where it is used so as to be received in the supply hopper 4 and is used to fry small grains (second mouth) of the vertical sorter, the small grains of the vertical sorter are fried and weighed. In this arrangement, for example, when another grain is to be fried and packed in a weighing bag, or when the second opening of the horizontal type sorting machine is to be used, If you want to fry and pack into a weighing bag, or if you want to re-fring and process the selected grains (the first mouth) of a vertical sorter, the conventional The feed hopper is the second mouth of the horizontal sorter and the grain of the vertical sorter (first mouth) Although it was necessary to move the filing weighing machine, the horizontal sorter or the vertical sorter each time in order to position it for receiving, the second aspect of the present invention relates to the frying weighing machine in addition to the feed hopper 4. , The second feeder of the horizontal sorter and the grains (first mouth) of the vertical sorter are supplied to the second feeder without moving the heavy grain weighing machine 1. It can be used by supplying it to the hopper 5. Further, since the second supply hopper 5 is provided detachably, the second supply hopper 5 is used when the second supply hopper 5 is not used.
Is removed, and the second supply hole 1 is opened by the lids 14 and 14A.
3 can be kept closed.

Furthermore, since the forked branch pipe 32 having the flow path switching plate 33 is provided so as to communicate with the discharge hole 15 of the fried cylindrical body 3, it is fried by the frying means 20 and discharged from the discharge hole 15. The transport direction of the grain to be transported can be selectively changed as appropriate by switching the flow path switching plate 33. That is, the transfer to the storage tank 6 for weighing bagging and the transfer to the next processing device outside the machine can be appropriately selected and performed. In addition, the present invention can be used together with the transfer of the grain to the frying, and the range of use of the frying weighing machine can be expanded.

Next, the operation of the above-structured frying weighing machine will be described.

The grains are supplied to the supply hopper 4 of the fry meter 1 and supplied from the supply hopper 4 into the fried cylinder 3 through the supply holes 12. In addition, when the feeding of the grains to the supply hopper 4 is not easy due to the positional relationship of various devices or from the viewpoint of operation or operation, or when the feeding of the grains is not possible, the first opposing portion is provided at a portion opposed to the feed hopper 4. The second supply hopper 5 is attached, and the grains are supplied from the second supply hopper 5 into the fried cylindrical body 3 through the second supply hole 13. Then, by driving the drive motor 25 to rotate the drive pulley 23, the bucket conveyor 2 is rotated.
0, each bucket 22 is also sequentially transferred, and each bucket 32 stores the grains supplied from the supply hopper 4 or the second supply hopper 5 through the supply holes 12 and 13 or already stores the bottom plate. The grain deposited on 27 is scooped and transferred upward.

When each bucket 22 rotates around the upper driven pulley 24, the grains in each bucket 22 are discharged to the inclined outlet pipe 31 through the discharge hole 15 by the centrifugal force. Is done. When the flow path switching plate 33 of the forked branch pipe 32 closes the second outlet 32b as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. It flows out to the storage tank 5 through one outlet 32a, and is sequentially stored in the storage tank 5.

The flow path switching plate 3 of the bifurcated branch pipe 32
3 is in a state of closing the first outlet 32a,
The grains are discharged from the discharge pipe 35 to the outside through the second outlet 32b. That is, it is possible to transfer the grains that have been fried by the filing weighing machine to a processing device that performs some other processing.For example, it is possible to continuously re-sort by feeding the grain again to the sorter. Become.

Then, the grains stored in the storage tank 5 are placed on a scale 8 after a bag for storing the grains is placed on the scale 8.
By opening the discharge port 7 of the storage tank 5 by operating the shutter 7a, the storage tank 5 is discharged from the discharge port 7, stored in a bag, and packed in a bag. The grains stored in the bag are weighed by the weighing device 8, and when the weight reaches a predetermined value,
The scale 8 sends a signal to the shutter operating member 7b, operates the shutter 7a, closes the discharge port 7, and can perform weighing bag packing of grains.

[0031]

As described above, according to the frying weighing machine of the present invention, hoppers for supplying grains such as rice grains are provided on opposing front and rear wall surfaces of the fry cylinder body. , Without changing the orientation of the weighing and weighing machine itself, it is possible to load and supply grains from all directions without any difficulty. In particular, the weighing and weighing machine can be combined with other sorters, rice mills, and other devices. When used, it is possible to use any one of the two supply hoppers appropriately according to various use modes of the filing weighing machine. It is not necessary to change the positional relationship of the apparatus, and various operations can be performed quickly and continuously.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a fried weighing machine of the present invention as viewed from the front.

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view showing a partially-fractured fry cylinder of the fried-weighing machine of the present invention.

FIG. 3 (a) is a schematic perspective view showing a relationship between a lower part of a fried cylinder of a fried weighing machine of the present invention and two supply hoppers, with a side wall cut away, and (b). FIG. 9 is a schematic perspective view showing another mode in which one supply hopper is removed and a second supply hole is closed.

FIG. 4 (a) is a schematic perspective view of the upper part of the frying weighing machine of the present invention, and FIG. 4 (b) is a cross-sectional view of the branch pipe taken along line AA in FIG. FIG.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an embodiment in which a conventional frying weighing machine is used in combination with a sorting machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Frying measuring machine 3 Frying cylinder 4 Supply hopper 5 Second supply hopper 6 Storage tank 7 Discharge port 7a Shutter 8 Scale 10 Display operation panel 12 Supply hole 13 Second supply hole 14, 14A Lid 15 Discharge Hole 20 Bucket conveyor 21 Endless belt 22 Bucket 23 Drive pulley 24 Follower pulley 31 Inclined outlet pipe 32 (Bifurcated) branch pipe 32a First outlet 32b Second outlet 33 Flow switching plate 35 Discharge pipe

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Seizi Kawashima 4290 Fujioka-cho, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan 4290 Fujioka, Inc. Inventor Toshiyuki Abe 4290, Fujioka-cho, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi Pref.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A fried cylinder having a frying means disposed therein, a supply hopper mounted on a lower portion of a rear wall surface of the fried cylinder for supplying grains, and And a storage tank attached to an upper portion of the front wall of the fried cylinder to temporarily store the kernels, wherein the lower portion of the front wall of the fried cylinder is And a second supply hopper is detachably attached to a portion opposite to the supply hopper. 2. A second supply hole provided in the front wall surface so that the second supply hopper communicates with the inside of the fried cylinder, and is configured to be openable and closable by a lid. The fried weighing machine according to claim 1, wherein 3. The frying weighing machine according to claim 1, wherein the second supply hopper is formed vertically higher than the supply hopper. 4. The frying weighing machine according to claim 1, wherein a weighing machine is installed below an openable and closable outlet provided in the storage tank.