JP2002045716A - Rice polisher provided with rotation type measure shutting apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent rice grains remaining in an outlet and in the inside of a measure from flowing outside in the case of disassembling a shutting structure part 5, a rotation type measurement part 2, and a quantitative receiving part 3 in a rice polisher provided with a rotation type measure shutting apparatus. SOLUTION: The rice polisher is provided with a rotation type measure shutting apparatus comprising a rice storage tank 1 having a shutting structure part composed of a slanting dropping wall 6 and a discharge port 8 at the end of the wall, a rotation type measurement part 2 having a bottomless measure 17 installed under the tank and opened in the upper and the lower sides, and a quantitative receiving part 3 composing the bottom of the rotation type measurement part 2 for discharging the measured rice downward. The measure shutting structure part 5, the rotation type measurement part 2, and the quantitative receiving part 3 are made possible to be disassembled upward. The outer circumferential wall 41 surrounding them are continuously disposed on a treatment tank (a bran container 25 and a polished rice hopper 26) and the upper end of the wall is joined to the main body part 4 of the rice storage tank 1.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement in a rice mill having a rotary weighing device. In the present invention, the term “milling machine” means both a so-called milling machine for milling brown rice and a milling machine for further milling milled rice.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A rotary type measuring and dividing device for measuring and discharging a predetermined amount of rice from a rice storage tank is a rice storage tank having a bottom structure having an inclined downflow wall and an outlet formed at an end thereof. It consists of a rotary measuring unit which is disposed below and has a bottomless measuring box which is opened up and down, and a measuring tray which constitutes the bottom of the measuring unit and has an opening for discharging the measured rice downward. In this rotary measuring and cutting device, by rotating a rotary measuring unit, rice flows into the measuring box from the rice storage tank through the outlet, and the rice filled in the measuring box is cut at the bottom of the rice storage tank. Then, it flows downward through the opening.

Japanese Patent Application No. 2000-69 filed earlier by the applicant
No. 559 discloses a stirring type non-washing rice machine (a kind of rice polishing machine) equipped with the above-mentioned rotary measuring and dividing device. Hereinafter, this stirring type riceless rice washing machine will be described with reference to FIGS. The rotary measuring and dividing device includes a rice storage tank 1, a rotary measuring unit 2 and a weighing receptacle 3, and the rice storage tank 1 includes a tank body 4 and a dividing structure 5 separate from the tank body 4. The section structure 5 is detachable upward from the tank body 4. When the section structure 5 is detached, the rotation measuring section 2 and the weighing receiver 3 are also detachable upward.

As shown in FIG. 8, the section structure 5 constitutes a part of the bottom structure of the rice storage tank 1, and has a mortar-shaped falling wall 6 and a bearing formed at the center thereof to project upward. An outlet 8 is opened in the downflow wall 6 on both sides of the bearing 7. A cylindrical wall 9 is formed downward on the lower surface of the falling wall 6, and the outlet 8 has a predetermined thickness formed radially from a part of the cylindrical wall 9 and the bearing 7 to the cylindrical wall 9. The periphery is defined by a part of the side walls 10 and 11 and a part of the wall constituting the bearing 7 to form a cylindrical shape.
On one horizontal plane.

[0005] As shown in FIG. 9, the rotation measuring section 2 includes a horizontal top plate 12 abutting on the lower end surface of the outlet 8, an upper cylindrical portion 13 formed around the top plate 12, and a top plate 12. A lower cylindrical part 14 formed in the lower part and a gear 15 formed on the entire outer periphery of the upper cylindrical part 13 are provided. A shaft hole 16 is formed in the center of the top plate 12, and around the shaft hole 16. Four holes of the measuring box 17 are opened in a circle. The measuring box 17 has a hole formed in the top plate 12 as an upper opening 17 a, and a part of the lower cylindrical portion 14 and both side walls 18, 19 formed radially from the shaft hole 16 to the lower cylindrical portion 14. A part of the wall constituting the shaft hole 16 defines a circumference and forms a cylindrical shape, and its lower end is in a horizontal plane. The gear 15 meshes with a gear 20 installed on the motor M (see FIG. 7), and rotates by driving the motor M.

As shown in FIG. 10, the weighing receiver 3 comprises a horizontal receiving plate 21 with which the lower end of the measuring box 17 contacts, a central shaft 22 erected at the center thereof, and a cylindrical portion 23. An opening 24 is formed in both sides of the central shaft 22 and inside the cylindrical portion 23. The center shaft 22 is loosely fitted in the shaft hole 16 of the rotation measuring unit 2 and the bearing 7 of the
The rotation measuring unit 2 is rotatable about the center axis 22, the division structure unit 5 is positioned at the center position with respect to the center axis 22, the upper protrusion 22 a of the center axis 22 and the groove 7 a of the bearing 7. There is no relative rotation between the two due to the fitting.

[0007] The stirring type rice-free washing machine comprises a processing tank comprising a bran container 25 and a rice hopper 26 installed inside the rice bran container 25, and a stirring member 27 installed inside the same. It is arranged as the top lid of the rice-free rice washing machine. Almost the entire side wall and bottom wall of the rice polishing hopper 26 is a bran removing portion having a large number of small holes formed therein, and a paste layer or the like peeled from the milled rice falls into the rice bran container 25 through the small holes. The rice discharge opening 28 of the rice hopper 26 is normally closed by a valve element 29 which moves forward and backward by a solenoid (not shown). In a place corresponding to the above-mentioned rice discharge opening 28 of the bran container 25, a rice polishing opening 31 serving as a rice discharge passage is formed, and in another place, a rice bran opening 32 serving as a rice discharge passage is formed, which is not shown. Connected to suction device.

The stirring member 27 includes a disk-shaped seat 33, a rotating bearing 34 formed upward at the center thereof, and a cylindrical stirring blade connected to the rotating bearing 34 via a radial connecting portion 35. A rotating shaft of a motor (not shown) is fitted to the rotating bearing 34. The outer diameter of the seat 33 is set to be slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the rice polishing hopper 26 (there is a small gap that does not allow the rice to bite), and the rice is constantly stirred on the seat 33, and the upper surface thereof is the same as the rice discharge opening 28. The height is set slightly higher. In addition, the cut-off structure unit 5, the rotary measuring unit 2, the measuring receiver 3, and the processing tank are indicated by an outer box 3 shown by a virtual line.
7.

In this apparatus, when the rotation measuring unit 2 is rotated by a predetermined angle in a state where the rice is stored in the rice storage tank 1 (the rotation direction is indicated by an arrow in FIG. 8), the outlet 8 of the cut-out structure unit 5 is turned off. Opened, the polished rice flows down into the measuring box 17 and the measuring box 1
The milled rice filling the inside 7 is moved along the upper opening 17a along with the rotation of the rotation measuring unit 2 to the cell cutting section (the outlet 8) of the cell cutting structure section 5.
Are cut off by the lower end of the side wall 10 on the front side in the rotation direction of the rotation measuring unit 2 among the both side walls constituting. At this time,
The lower end opening of the measuring box 17 is closed by the receiving plate 21 of the measuring tray 3. When the rotation measuring unit 2 further rotates and the measuring box 17 moves over the opening 24 of the measuring receiver 3, the measuring box 17
The milled rice inside flows down through an opening 24 into a milled rice hopper 26 of a stirring type riceless washing machine below.

Here, the motor of the stirring member 27 is operated,
When the suction device is operated at the same time, the rice is polished
The paste layer and the like, which have been stirred and polished in 6 and removed from the polished rice, enter the bran container 25 through the small holes of the polished rice hopper 26 by the suction device and are sucked and discharged from the bran opening 32. When the rice polishing level reaches a predetermined level, the valve body 29 is retracted, and the rice milled in the rice milling hopper 26 is subjected to centrifugal force to remove the rice from the rice milling opening 2.
8 and the rice is discharged through the milling opening 31.

[0011]

In the above-mentioned stirring-type non-washing rice machine, for example, when cleaning or repairing in a processing tank, the rice in the rice storage tank 1 is withdrawn from above, and the cell structure 5 is removed with upward. , And the rotary measuring unit 2, and then the measuring receiver 3
Must be removed upwards. At this time, the rice that has entered the outlet 8 and the measuring box 17 cannot be removed,
When the section structure 5 and the rotary weighing unit 2 were removed, the rice inside overflowed onto the rotary weighing unit 2 and the weighing pan 3,
This causes a problem in that the rice spills out of the processing tank, or the rice on it when the measuring receiver 3 is removed spills out of the processing tank and is scattered inside the outer box 37. Outer box 37
A motor, control unit, wiring, suction device, etc. (not shown) are housed below the processing tank inside, so it is difficult to take out the rice that entered here. Problems occur

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the conventional rice milling machine having a rotary measuring and measuring device, and even if the measuring device 5 and the rotary measuring device 2 are to be removed, the rice can be removed. The purpose is to prevent scattering and spilling out of the processing tank.

[0013]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a rice storage tank having a bottom structure having an inclined flow-down wall and an outlet formed at an end thereof, and a bottomless measuring box arranged below and opened vertically. A rotary measuring section having a rotary measuring section having a bottom for rotating the measuring section and an opening for discharging the measured rice downward. In a rice mill in which a processing tank is installed below, and the weighing tray also serves as a lid of the processing tank, and at least a part of a bottom structure, a rotary weighing unit and a weighing receptacle are detachable upward, An outer peripheral wall surrounding at least a part of the rotation measuring unit and the bottom structure is continuously provided on the processing tank. This outer peripheral wall prevents the rice from spilling out of the processing tank, and all the overflowing rice can be put into the processing tank through the opening of the measuring pan or by removing the measuring pan.

In the above rice mill, a conventional rice-free rice washing machine (FIG. 6)
Similarly to the above, it is preferable that a part of the bottom structure including the outlet of the rice storage tank is formed separately from the tank main body, and is detachable from the tank main body. However, it is also possible to integrate the tank main body portion and the bottom portion structure, and to remove both upward integrally at the same time. Further, the upper end of the outer peripheral wall continuously connected to the processing tank is connected to the rice storage tank, and the periphery of the weighing receiver and the rotary measuring unit can be sealed between the processing tank and the rice storage tank.

[0015]

1 and 2 show a rice-free washing machine (rice-milling machine) according to the present invention. The difference from the rice-free washing machine shown in FIGS. This is the point that the outer peripheral wall 41 surrounding the 2 and the box structure 5 is continuously provided on the bran container 25 which is a part of the treatment tank. The outer wall 41 has a lower end in contact with the upper surface of the bran container 25 and an upper end in the rice storage tank 1.
And is integral with the tank body 4. In FIGS. 1 and 2, FIGS.
The same numbers are given to the parts that are essentially the same as the structure of the rice-free rice washing machine shown in FIG. 0 (the same applies to FIGS. 3 to 5). The outer peripheral wall 41 prevents rice from spilling out of the processing tank (inside the outer box), and all overflowing rice is put into the processing tank through the opening 24 of the measuring receiver 3 or by removing the measuring receiver 3. be able to.

In the rice-free rice washing machine shown in FIG. 3, the outer peripheral wall 42 surrounding the weighing receiver 3, the rotary
1 is similar to the rice-free rice washing machine shown in FIG. 1 in that the rice bran container 25 is a part of the processing tank, but an edge 25a extending upward is formed on the outer periphery of the upper end of the rice bran container 25. The difference is that the lower end of the outer peripheral wall 42 is accommodated in the inner periphery. In addition, if the upper end of the edge 25a extends a little further upward (to the extent that it surrounds at least a part of the box structure 5, for example, around the outlet 8), the edge 25a can be formed without the outer peripheral wall 42. Functions as an outer peripheral wall. This is also included in the outer peripheral wall according to the present invention, in which case the upper end of the edge 25a does not need to be connected to the rice storage tank 1.

In the rice-free rice washing machine shown in FIG.
1 is the same as that of the rice-free rice washing machine shown in FIG. 1 except that an outer peripheral wall 43 extends upward from the weighing receiver 3 and is connected to the tank main body 4. Concatenate,
It differs from the rice-free rice washing machine shown in FIG. Further, the cut-off structure 5 is arranged inside the upper end of the outer peripheral wall 43. In this case, the outer peripheral wall 43 can be removed together with the weighing receiver 3.

In the rice-free rice washing machine shown in FIG.
1 in that it is connected to a bran container 25 which is a part of a treatment tank, but the outer peripheral wall 44 is separate from the tank body 4 and The difference is that the cutting structure 5 is a structure integrated with the tank body 4. In the rice-free rice washing machine shown in FIG. 1, the cut-out structure 5 is removed (that is, only a part of the bottom structure of the rice storage tank 1 is removed). In this case, when the rice storage tank 1 is removed, All of its bottom structure will be removed.

[0019]

According to the rice mill of the present invention, when cleaning or repairing the inside of the processing tank, even if the rice remaining in the outlet of the rice storage tank or the measuring box of the rotary measuring unit cannot be completely removed. When the bottom structure of the rice storage tank (particularly the section structure structure), the rotary measuring unit and the weighing receiver are removed, the rice does not spill out of the processing tank and is scattered.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a rice-free rice washing machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of another cross-section of the stirring type rice-free rice washing machine.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of another stirring type rice-free rice washing machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of another stirring type rice-free rice washing machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of another stirred riceless rice washing machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a conventional stirring-type non-washing rice machine.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of another cross-section of the stirring type rice-free washing machine.

FIG. 8 is a plan view (a) and a bottom view (b) of the box structure structure of the rice storage tank.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of a rotation measuring unit.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a weighing receiver.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Rice storage tank 2 Rotation measuring part 3 Measuring receptacle 4 Tank main part 5 Dividing structure part 8 Outlet 17 Weighing measure 24 Opening 25 Bran container 25a Edge of bran container 26 Rice hopper 37 Outer box 41-44 Outer wall

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Fumiya Asano 447 Shimoichi, Sanyo-cho, Akaiwa-gun, Okayama Prefecture Inside Minoru Sangyo Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hatsuhiko Matsushita 1006 Kadoma Oaza, Kadoma-shi, Osaka Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Masatoshi Yagi 1006 Kazuma Kadoma, Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture Inside Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. BB01 CA02 CA09 CB04 CB12 CC04 CC11 CC23 CD02 4D043 HB02 JF08 JF09

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A rice storage tank having a bottom structure with an inclined downflow wall and an outlet formed at an end thereof, a rotary measuring section disposed below and having a vertically open bottomless measuring box, A rotary measuring and dividing device comprising a measuring tray which constitutes the bottom of the measuring section and has an opening for allowing the measured rice to flow downward is provided, and a processing tank is provided below the rotary measuring and dividing device. And the weighing receiver also serves as a lid of the processing tank, and in a rice mill in which at least a part of the bottom structure, the rotation weighing unit and the weighing receiver can be removed upward, at least the weighing receiver and the rotation weighing unit and the bottom structure A rice mill having a rotary weighing and dividing device, wherein an outer peripheral wall surrounding a part thereof is continuously provided on a processing tank. 2. The rice storage tank according to claim 1, wherein a part of a bottom structure including an outlet of the rice storage tank is formed separately from the tank main body, and is detachable from the tank main body. A rice mill with the described rotary weighing and cutting device. 3. The rice milling machine according to claim 1, wherein an upper end of the outer peripheral wall is connected to a rice storage tank.