JP2001317104A - Garbage disposing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a garbage disposing device preventing garbage from leaking outside an inlet when the garbage is thrown into the inlet arranged to communicate with the garbage disposing tank. SOLUTION: A bottom part 7 of a drain part 5 accumulating garbage on its inside for dewatering is constituted of a plurality of opening/closing plates 20. When a gate 14 is slid and the inlet 15 is opened, a plurality of the opening/ closing plates 20 are turned in the outer circumference direction around a bent part 8 by their own weight respectively. Then, below the inlet 15, the opening/ closing plates 20 open the bottom part 7 on the inside of a passage forming member 17. In this way, garbage can be thrown into the inlet 15 from the opened bottom part 7 without any leakage to the outside of the inlet 15.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a garbage processing apparatus for processing garbage discharged from a kitchen or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a prior art, for example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No.
There is a garbage processing apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 7043. In this garbage disposal apparatus, a cylindrical drain section having a plurality of small holes is disposed below a drain port of a kitchen sink. A garbage disposal tank and a crushing unit for crushing garbage and transferring the garbage to the garbage disposal tank are provided below the draining unit. The upper end of the pulverizing section is an input port for garbage, and a spherical gate is provided above the input port, and the gate opens and closes the input port. A lip seal is provided above the gate so as to contact the upper surface of the gate.

[0003] The drain section can temporarily store garbage introduced from the drain port of the sink. Then, when the user treats the garbage collected in the draining section, the gate is operated to open the input port, the lip seal is used to scrape the garbage on the top of the gate in the draining section, and crushed from the input port. Send to department. When the garbage is sent to the crushing unit, the gate is operated to close the input port, and the crushing unit can crush the garbage and send it to the garbage processing tank.

[0004]

However, in the above garbage disposal apparatus, when the gate is operated to open the inlet, a part of the garbage leaks out of the inlet from between the gate and the lip seal. Waste garbage may be mixed in the wastewater, causing clogging of the wastewater. In order to reduce the leakage of garbage out of the inlet, there is also a means to increase the pressing force of the lip seal against the gate and increase the margin of the lip seal against the gate, but the resistance when opening and closing the gate increases. , Very large operating force is required.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a garbage processing apparatus in which garbage does not leak out of the input port when the garbage is input into the input port.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the bottom part (7) of the draining part (5) has a movable member (20) and the drain part (5) has a movable member (20). It is characterized in that the movable member (20) opens and closes the bottom (7) of the drainer (5) within the diameter range of the inlet (15) in response to the opening and closing operation.

According to this, when the gate (14) opens the input port (15), the garbage can be surely input into the input port (15) without leaking out of the input port (15).

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the gate (14) has the opening (15) open, the movable member (20) has its own weight and the bottom (7) of the draining portion (5). Opening.

According to this, no operation force transmission mechanism for opening the movable member (20) is required, and no operation force for opening operation is required.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when the gate (14) opens the input port (15), the lowermost portion of the movable member (20) is located inside and below the input port (15). It is characterized by:

According to this, the movable member (20) does not open to the outside of the input port (15), and the garbage is more reliably injected into the input port (15) without leaking out of the input port (15). can do.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the movable member (20) comprises a plurality of blade-like members (20), and when the gate (14) moves in the direction to close the inlet (15), Due to the urging force accompanying the movement of the gate (14), the blade-like members (20) are respectively moved to the other adjacent blade-like members (2).
The structure is characterized in that the bottom (7) of the drainer (5) is moved in the closing direction by applying a stress to 0).

According to this, a special operating force transmission mechanism for closing the movable member (20) is not required, and the urging force at the time of closing the gate (14) does not require the bottom (7) of the drainer (5). Can be closed.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, when the gate (14) moves in the direction to close the slot (15), the blade-like member is first subjected to a biasing force with the movement of the gate (14). (201) is characterized in that a stress is applied to a plurality of adjacent blade-like members (202, 203).

According to this, after the blade-like member (201) which receives the urging force at the beginning with the movement of the gate (14) starts to move, the adjacent blade-like members (202 to 21) are sequentially moved.
6) to apply a stress to the last moving blade-like member (21).
The time until the stress is transmitted to 6) can be shortened. That is, the bottom part (7) of the drain part (5) can be quickly closed.

Further, in the invention according to claim 6, the movable member (20) is characterized by having a fine hole (20c).

According to this, the drainage of the garbage can be reliably performed.

The reference numerals in parentheses attached to the respective means indicate the correspondence with specific means described in the embodiments described later.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(First Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a garbage processing apparatus 1 to which the present invention is applied.

This garbage processing apparatus 1 is installed in a kitchen, and is installed below a sink 3. This sink 3
Is provided with a drain port 4 for drainage. A drain portion 5 having a plurality of pores is provided in the drain port 4. The draining section 5 is configured so that the bottom 7 can be opened below a diameter range of an inlet 15 described later.
The drainer 5 will be described later in detail.

Below the drain port 4, a cylindrical passage forming member 17 forming a transfer path 10 for transferring garbage to the garbage processing tank 9 is provided. A garbage disposal tank 9 is provided downstream (lower) of the transfer path 10 for accommodating a microbial carrier carrying hot aerobic bacteria that decompose garbage. A gate 14 serving as a blocking member is disposed between the drain port 4 and an input port 15 for inputting garbage at the upper end of the passage forming member 17.

At the upper end of the passage forming member 17, a lip seal 18 is arranged so as to be in contact with the lower surface of the gate 14 so that the splash of the wastewater flowing out from the drainer 5 does not enter the garbage disposal tank 9. Have been. Passage forming member 17
A drainage channel 12 for discharging the drainage flowing out from the draining part 5 is provided inside the drainage case 2 which is a drainage channel forming member at an outer peripheral portion of the drainage channel forming member. A drain trap 13 and a drain pipe 16 are connected to a downstream portion of the discharge path 12.

The gate 14 is formed of a resin such as polypropylene into a spherical shape, and is rotatable about a rotary shaft 36 disposed in the drain case 2 via the gate support arm 11 integrally formed with the gate 14. It is supported by. Gate 14
Turns or opens or closes the communication between the drain port 4 and the charging port 15. Gate 14 is drain 4 and inlet 1
When communicating with the gate 5, the discharge path 12 also functions as a storage section in which the gate 14 is stored.

The gate 14 is opened and closed by a user's own operating force with a foot pedal 40. When the user steps on the foot pedal 40, the operating force is transmitted by the wire member 41, and at the end of the wire member 41 opposite to the end connected to the foot pedal 40 via the link mechanism. The rotation shaft 36 is rotated. Thus, the gate 14 opens the input port 15. When the user releases the foot pedal 40, the gate 14 returns to a position where the gate 15 is closed by a spring member (not shown) provided on the link mechanism.

Next, the garbage disposal apparatus 1 based on the above configuration
The operation of will be described.

The garbage is poured from the drain port 4 of the sink 3,
As the garbage accumulates in the draining section 5, the water in the garbage naturally flows out from the plurality of pores formed in the draining section 5 to the discharge path 12, and the garbage is drained. Done. At this time, the gate 14 shuts off the space between the drain 4 and the inlet 15.

When the user disposes of the garbage accumulated in the draining part 5, the foot pedal 40 operates the gate 14 so as to open the inlet 15, and the bottom part of the draining part 5 is operated. 7 is opened downward within the diameter range of the inlet 15, and the garbage in the draining section 5 is sent from the inlet 15 to the garbage disposal tank 9 through the transfer path 10. After the garbage has been sent to the garbage disposal tank 9, the gate 14 is operated and the drain 4
And the inlet 15 are shut off.

In the garbage processing tank 9, a stirring motor (not shown) is driven to rotate a stirring blade (not shown).
The garbage sent into the garbage processing tank 9 and the microorganism carrier in the garbage processing tank 9 are stirred. Thereby, the garbage is decomposed by the microorganisms in the microorganism carrier into decomposed gas and decomposed water.

Next, the structure of the drainer 5 will be described with reference to FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 2, the drainer 5 comprises a cylindrical part 6 made of stainless steel and a bottom part 7. The cylindrical portion 6 is provided with a flange portion 6a on the outer periphery of the upper end thereof. The flange portion 6a has an outer peripheral edge of the drain port 4 when the drain portion 5 is installed in the drain port 4 of the sink 3 as shown in FIG. Are arranged on the flat portion. The side surface portion 6b of the cylindrical portion 6 is a mesh-like plate material (expanded metal in this example) so that mixed water of garbage accumulated in the draining portion 5 can be discharged to the outside.

The drain portion 5 has a plurality of bottoms 7 (18 in this example).
(Open / close plate) 20 which is a blade-shaped member. As shown in FIG. 4, the opening / closing plate 20 is a fan-shaped stainless steel piece, and has pores (holes having a diameter of 3 mm in this example) 20c on almost the entire surface except for the vicinity of the upper end. The pores 20c allow the water mixed with the garbage deposited in the draining section 5 to be discharged to the outside.

The opening / closing plate 20 has a rectangular opening 20d near its upper end. As shown in FIG. 2, the opening 20 d loosely fits a claw-shaped bent portion 8 provided substantially at equal intervals at the lower end of the cylindrical portion 6 to form a hinge structure. Then, as shown in FIG.
The right end 20a as viewed from the outer peripheral direction of 0 is disposed so as to overlap the outside of the left end 20b of the opening / closing plate 20 adjacent to the right. Here, the pores 20c are omitted in FIG.

The opening / closing plate 20 is slightly curved inward, and as shown in FIG. 2, when the bottom 7 is closed, the plurality of opening / closing plates 20 form a substantially spherical surface projecting downward. ing. Then, as shown in FIG. 3, when the bottom 7 is opened, the lowermost lower ends of the plurality of opening / closing plates 20 open downward inside the inlet 15. The opening / closing plate 20 is a movable member in the present embodiment.

Next, the operation of the drainer 5 will be described with reference to FIGS.

When the user does not step on the foot pedal 40, as shown in FIG.
Is in the position to close. At this time, the plurality of opening / closing plates 20 are gathered at the center side by a hinge structure centering on the bent portion 8, and the bottom portion 7 of the draining portion 5 is closed. Here, when the garbage is put into the draining section 5 from the drain port 4 and accumulated, the mixed water that has entered the draining section 5 together with the garbage is meshed with the mesh on the side surface portion 6 b of the cylindrical portion 6 and the opening / closing plate 20. The garbage flows out from the pores 20c into the discharge path 12, and the garbage is drained.

When the user steps on the foot pedal 40, the gate 14 can slide to the right in the figure to open the slot 15 as shown in FIG. When the gate 14 opens the inlet 15, each of the plurality of opening / closing plates 20 rotates in the outer peripheral direction around the bent portion 8 by its own weight.

Then, the lower end of the opening / closing plate 20 enters the transfer path 10 from the input port 15, and the opening / closing plate 20
Lip seal 18 provided at the upper end of passage forming member 17
To stop rotating. Thereby, the opening / closing plate 20 is located below the inlet 15 and the passage forming member 1.
The bottom 7 is opened inside 7.

From the opened bottom 7, the garbage deposited in the draining section 5 falls into the transfer path 10 and is sent to the lower garbage processing tank 9. Here, the bottom 7 is opened downward inside the input port 15, so that garbage is discharged from the input port 15.
It does not leak outside.

When the foot pedal 40 is released after the garbage drops, the gate 14 slides leftward in FIG. 3 to return to the position where the slot 15 is closed. Then, the gate 14 is moved to the opening / closing plate 2 located closest to the gate 14.
0 and is rotated toward the center.

Since the opening / closing plate 20 is overlapped with the opening / closing plate 20 adjacent thereto as shown in FIG.
The 0 right end 20a pushes the left end 20b of the adjacent opening / closing plate 20 in the center direction. Thus, the adjacent opening / closing plate 20 is also rotated toward the center.

Since the plurality of opening / closing plates 20 are all in substantially the same positional relationship with the adjacent opening / closing plates 20,
The left end 20b is sequentially pushed toward the center, and is turned toward the center. Then, when the gate 14 returns to the position where the inlet 15 is closed, the plurality of opening / closing plates 20 gather at the center side and close the bottom 7 of the drainer 5.

According to this, the garbage can be introduced into the inlet 15 without leaking out of the inlet 15. When the gate 14 opens the input port 15, the opening / closing plate 20
Due to its own weight, the bottom 7 of the drainer 5 is opened, so that garbage can be thrown in only by the opening operation force of the gate 14, and a large operation force is not required.

Further, when the gate 14 closes the inlet 15, since the bottom 7 of the draining section 5 is closed only by the urging force accompanying the movement of the gate 14, a special operation force for closing the bottom 7 by the opening / closing plate 20 is used. No transmission mechanism is required. Therefore, it is easy to remove the drainer 5 from the drain port 4 of the sink 3 in order to wash the drainer 5.

(Second Embodiment) Next, a second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

The second embodiment is partially different from the first embodiment in the positional relationship between the open / close plate and the open / close plate adjacent thereto. The same parts as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof will be omitted.

The bottom portion 7 of the drainer 5 of this embodiment has a plurality of (in this example, 16) opening / closing plates 2 which are blade-like members.
01 to 216. Opening / closing plate 20
1 to 216 are movable members in the present embodiment.

In the first embodiment, the plurality of opening / closing plates 20 are all in the same positional relationship with the adjacent opening / closing plates 20, but in the second embodiment, as shown in FIG. The right end 201a of the opening / closing plate 201 viewed from the outer peripheral direction overlaps the left end 202b of the opening / closing plate 202 adjacent to the right side.
Is the right end portion 20 of the opening / closing plate 203 adjacent to the left side.
It is arranged so as to overlap the outside of 3a.

The positional relationship between the open / close plate 202 and the open / close plate 204 (not shown in FIG. 6) adjacent to the right side of the open / close plate 202 is the same as the positional relationship between the open / close plate 201 and the open / close plate 202. The positional relationship between the opening / closing plate 203 and the opening / closing plate 203 that is adjacent to the left side of the opening / closing plate 203 and not shown in FIG.

On the right and left sides of the opening / closing plate 201, a plurality of opening / closing plates 20 have the same positional relationship.
2 to 216 are arranged and overlap as shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is a view of the drain portion 5 in the present embodiment as viewed from below. Note that all the opening / closing plates 201 to 216 in the present embodiment have the same structure as the opening / closing plate 20 of the first embodiment by itself, and the pores 20c are omitted in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 7, the flange 6a of the drainer 5 has a notch 61 on the upper side in the figure.
The notch 61 constitutes a positioning means for the draining part 5 together with a projection (not shown) provided on the outer periphery of the drainage port 4 of the sink 3. When the draining part 5 is installed in the drainage port 4, the notch 61 is formed. When the gate 14 closes the inlet 15, the opening / closing plate 201 is positioned closest to the gate 14 so that the gate 14 first contacts the opening / closing plate 201 when the opening 14 is closed. .

Next, the operation of the draining section 5 having the above configuration will be described.

As in the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1, when the user does not step on the foot pedal 40, the gate 14 is in a position to close the input port 15, and the drainage is performed as in the first embodiment. The bottom 7 of the part 5 is closed. When the user steps on the foot pedal and the gate 14 opens the input port 15, the opening / closing plates 201 to 216 rotate by their own weights, respectively, as in the first embodiment, below the input port 15 and in the passage. The bottom 7 is opened inside the forming member 17, and the garbage deposited in the draining section 5 is dropped.

When the foot pedal 40 is released after the garbage falls, the gate 14 slides from the right in FIG. 7 in the direction of the arrow (left in the figure) to return to the position where the inlet 15 is closed. I do. Then, the gate 14 becomes the most gate 14
It contacts the opening / closing plate 201 located on the side, and rotates it toward the center.

Since the opening / closing plate 201 overlaps with the opening / closing plates 202 and 203 adjacent thereto as shown in FIG. 6, the right end 201a of the opening / closing plate 201 rotated by the gate 14 is connected to the adjacent opening / closing plate. The left end 202b of the 202 is pushed toward the center. The left end 201b of the opening / closing plate 201 is
The right end portion 203a of the adjacent opening / closing plate 203 is pushed toward the center. Thereby, the adjacent opening / closing plate 2
02 and 203 are also rotated toward the center.

The opening / closing plate 202 of the opening / closing plate 201
As shown in FIG. 7, a plurality of opening / closing plates 202 to 216 are arranged on the side and the opening / closing plate 203 side in a similar positional relationship. Therefore, starting from the opening / closing plate 201, the opening / closing plate 202 → 204 → 206 → 208 → 210 → 212 clockwise.
→ 214 → 216 are sequentially rotated toward the center, and the opening / closing plate 203 → 205 → 20 is rotated counterclockwise.
7 → 209 → 211 → 213 → 215 → 216 are sequentially rotated toward the center.

As described above, the plurality of opening / closing plates 201 to 201
216 is sequentially rotated toward the center by two stress transmission paths. Then, when the gate 14 returns to the position where the inlet 15 is closed, the opening / closing plates 201 to 216
Gather at the center side to close the bottom 7 of the drainer 5.

According to this, after the opening / closing plate 201 which receives the urging force at the beginning with the movement of the gate 14 starts to move, the stress is sequentially applied to the adjacent opening / closing plate, and the opening / closing plate 216 which moves lastly is moved. The time until the stress is transmitted can be shorter than in the case of the single stress transmission path as in the first embodiment. That is, the bottom part 7 of the drain part 5 can be quickly closed. Therefore, it is difficult to form a gap between the opening and closing plates.
It is also unlikely that a problem such as that the end of 4 is pinched between the open / close plates will occur.

Further, since the notch 61 and a projection (not shown) provided on the outer periphery of the drain port 4 of the sink 3 constitute a positioning means for the drain section 5, the gate 14 closes the inlet 15 when the gate 14 closes. The opening / closing plate 201 can be easily installed at the position where it comes into contact with the gate 14 first.

Further, similarly to the first embodiment, garbage can be introduced into the input port 15 without leaking out of the input port 15. When the gate 14 opens the input port 15,
Since the bottom 7 of the drainer 5 is opened by the weight of the opening / closing plate 20, garbage can be thrown in only by the opening operation force of the gate 14, and a large operation force is not required.

Further, when the gate 14 closes the inlet 15, since the bottom 7 of the drainer 5 is closed only by the urging force accompanying the movement of the gate 14, a special operation force for closing the bottom 7 by the opening / closing plate 20 is used. No transmission mechanism is required. Therefore, it is easy to remove the drainer 5 from the drain port 4 of the sink 3 in order to wash the drainer 5.

(Other Embodiments) In each of the above embodiments, the opening / closing plate 20 is fan-shaped, but is not limited to this shape.
Any shape may be used as long as the bottom 7 of the drainer 5 can be closed, and when the bottom 7 is opened, it overlaps the adjacent opening / closing plate 20.

In each of the above embodiments, the hinge structure is formed by loosely fitting the claw-shaped bent portion 8 into the opening 20d of the opening / closing plate 20, but other structures may be used as long as the structure is a hinge structure. Good.

In each of the above embodiments, the opening operation of the gate 14 is performed by applying the operating force from the foot pedal 40 to the wire member 4.
Although the transmission is performed in step 1 and the closing operation is performed by a spring member, the gate 14 may be opened and closed by electric power such as a servomotor.

In the second embodiment, the notch 6
1 and a projecting portion (not shown) provided on the outer periphery of the drain port 4 of the sink 3 constitute a means for positioning the draining portion 5.
Opening / closing plate 2 when gate 14 closes inlet 15
Other configurations may be used as long as the drainer 5 can be positioned at a position where the first abutment is made on the gate 14.

Further, in each of the above embodiments, the garbage disposal tank 9 decomposes garbage with microorganisms. However, the garbage disposal tank 9 is not limited to this, and may be of a type for drying garbage. It may be a simple garbage stocker.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a garbage processing apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an essential part enlarged view showing a closed state of a gate in the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a main part showing an open state of a gate according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a front view of an opening / closing plate.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a positional relationship between an opening / closing plate and an opening / closing plate adjacent thereto in the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a positional relationship between an opening / closing plate that receives a biasing force first when a gate closes an input port and an opening / closing plate adjacent thereto in the second embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a view of a drainer in the second embodiment as viewed from below.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 4 Drain port 5 Drain section 6 Cylindrical section 7 Bottom section 8 Bend section 10 Transfer path 14 Gate 15 Input port 20, 201-216 Opening / closing plate (movable member, wing-like member) 20d Opening

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A drain (4) of a sink (3) communicating with a drain (4);
An input port (15) for inputting garbage into the garbage processing tank (9), a gate (14) capable of opening and closing the input port (15), and a garbage container above the input port (15). A drainer (5) for draining water; a bottom (7) of the drainer (5) has a movable member (20); ) Is configured to open and close the bottom portion (7) within the diameter range of the input port (15). 2. The gate (14) is connected to the input port (1).
The garbage disposal device according to claim 1, wherein when the movable member (20) is opened, the movable member (20) opens the bottom portion (7) by its own weight. 3. The gate (14) is connected to the input port (1).
The garbage disposal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when 5) is opened, a lowermost portion of the movable member (20) is located inside and below the input port (15). 4. The movable member (20) is composed of a plurality of blade-like members (20), and when the gate (14) moves in a direction to close the inlet (15), the movable member (20) is connected to the gate (14). The wing-like member (20) is configured to urge the adjacent other wing-like member (20) to move in a direction to close the bottom portion (7) by a biasing force accompanying the movement. The garbage disposal apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein 5. The gate (14) is connected to the input port (1).
5) When the gate is moved in the closing direction, the gate (1) is closed.
The blade-like member (201) which is first subjected to the urging force with the movement of 4) is a plurality of adjacent blade-like members (20).
The garbage disposal apparatus according to claim 4, wherein a stress is applied to (2, 203). 6. The movable member (20) has a pore (20c).
The garbage disposal apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, comprising: