JP2003144945A - Automatic rice milling machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an outdoor type automatic rice milling machine in which a constitution that an unpolished rice throwing port is disposed at an upper part of a stone removing machine is adopted, an obstruction to a passenger can be inhibited to the minimum while a placement base can be provided and a throwing of the unpolished rice can be conveniently carried out and which is easily installed in a city. SOLUTION: In the automatic rice milling machine in which the unpolished rice throwing port 6 is provided at an upper part of the stone removing machine 2, the placement base 4 on which a container X filled with the unpolished rice to be treated is placed is ascended/descended between a lower position L for placement where a user places an unpolished rice accommodation container X and a higher position H for throwing where the unpolished rice is thrown to an unpolished rice throwing port 6. Thereby, even in the case where the user is not tall and has a weak force, the user can easily place the container X filled with the unpolished rice on the placement base 4 and can easily throw the unpolished rice to the unpolished rice throwing port 6.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic rice polishing apparatus, and more particularly to an automatic rice polishing apparatus which can be installed outdoors.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is known an automatic rice polishing apparatus which automatically performs rice polishing work by inserting coins or bills. As such an automatic rice polishing apparatus of a type to be installed outdoors, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-27237
As disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 3, etc.,
The partition wall (partition wall) separates the guest room where users can freely come and go from the machine room into which only a limited number of people such as managers and maintenance staff can enter, and actually performs rice polishing operation in the machine room. It is generally known that a rice milling machine and a stone removing machine for removing foreign matters such as stones are provided.

However, an automatic rice polishing apparatus of the type that is installed outdoors as described above, which has a machine room and a guest room inside the building, requires a large space for its installation, and therefore has a large installation space. While it is suitable for locations such as the suburbs where it is easy to secure a place, it has the drawback that it often becomes difficult to secure the installation space in areas such as densely populated cities.

As a solution to this drawback, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 1
There is an automatic rice polishing apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 1-5037.
The appearance of this automatic rice polishing machine is roughly in the shape of a vending machine, and when using it, pull out the opening from the front of the box-shaped body to the front side, and then open it from this opening. It is configured to add brown rice. Also,
A discharge port for discharging white rice is provided inside the main body,
The front side portion of this discharge port is pulled out to the front side, a bag for containing white rice is put in advance, and the rice-polishing operation is started in a state where the part for storing the bag is returned to the original position.

According to this type of automatic rice polishing apparatus, the width and depth can be minimized, so that the apparatus can be installed in a small installation area, and the installation space can be easily secured even in a densely populated city. .

However, in the automatic rice polishing apparatus disclosed in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-5037, since no stone removing device is provided inside, foreign matter such as stones is mixed in the brown rice introduced by the user. In this case, the foreign matter may be mixed in the discharged white rice, or the foreign matter may damage a part of the rice polishing machine.

In order to deal with this, it is considered that a stone removing machine is built in the automatic rice polishing apparatus. When the stone removing machine is arranged on the upstream side of the rice polishing machine as described above, foreign matter is mixed into the discharged white rice. It is also possible to prevent foreign matter from damaging a part of the rice polishing machine.

However, if an installation space for the built-in stone removing machine is separately provided, the installation space as an automatic rice polishing apparatus will be significantly increased. Therefore, as a method for coping with this, it is conceivable to install a stone removing machine below the brown rice feeding port to suppress an increase in installation space.

[0009]

However, if the stone removing machine is arranged below the brown rice feeding port, that is, if the brown rice feeding port is arranged above the stone removing machine, only the stone removing machine is provided. Since the height of the brown rice input port becomes high, the operation of lifting the brown rice storage bag containing the brown rice to be processed from a low position such as the ground to the height of the brown rice input port and putting it in It can be a pain for weak people. In particular, when such an automatic rice polishing apparatus is installed in a city or the like, it is considered that women and the like will have more opportunities to use it, and thus such a problem becomes remarkable.

As a method for improving such a problem as much as possible, it is conceivable to dispose the loading table in front of the brown rice feeding port so as to project. According to this, since the brown rice storage bag containing brown rice can be placed on the mounting table, there is an advantage that it is not necessary to keep the brown rice storage bag and that the distance for lifting the brown rice storage bag is reduced at one time. ,further,
There is also an advantage that it is hygienic because the brown rice storage bag does not have to be placed on the ground or floor.

In this case, in order to make it easy to put the brown rice storage bag on the placing table, it is desirable to arrange the placing table at a position lower than the brown rice feeding port. However, when the platform is placed at a low position in this way, the center of gravity of the brown rice storage bag containing brown rice is lower than the brown rice input port, so the opening of the brown rice storage bag is located near the top of the brown rice input port. Hold the brown rice storage bag from below, pull the lower part toward you, and insert it while tilting it so that the upper part is on the back side, and place the lower part even when the brown rice storage bag is tilted in this way. As a result, it is easier to use if the protrusion amount of the mounting table toward the front side is increased. However, if the amount of protrusion of the platform is increased, the amount of protrusion from the main part of the automatic rice polishing machine to the front side will increase, and when installed in a city, etc., the number of people passing by the platform will pass. It may get in the way.

The present invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is possible to minimize the obstruction of people who pass by the platform and to conveniently put brown rice in a city or the like. The purpose is to provide an automatic rice polishing apparatus that is easy to install.

[0013]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 can be installed in a state where the rice-polishing apparatus main body itself having a rice-polishing machine is exposed to an external space such as outdoors, An automatic rice polishing device for performing rice polishing work on
A feature of the rice milling apparatus main body is that a customer table exposed to an external space is provided with a vertically movable loading table on which a brown rice storage container containing brown rice to be processed is placed.

In this structure, when the container containing brown rice is placed on the mounting table, the mounting table is set to the low position, and when the brown rice is loaded from the container, the mounting table is raised to the high position.
This makes it possible to easily put a container containing brown rice on the mounting table, and when adding brown rice from the container,
Since the distance to lift the container can be reduced,
Brown rice can be easily introduced.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the automatic rice polishing apparatus according to the first aspect, a brown rice charging port is provided above the stone removing machine for removing foreign matters such as stones from the brown rice, and the loading table is provided on the rice polishing apparatus main body. It is arranged so as to project forward from the place where the brown rice input port is provided, and this mounting table is at a low position for placing the brown rice storage container by the user and a high position for inputting brown rice into the brown rice input port. It is characterized in that an elevating means for elevating and lowering over the position is provided.

According to this construction, since the brown rice feeding port is provided above the stone removing machine, the brown rice can be easily fed into the brown rice feeding port even when the brown rice is placed at a high position. Further, at the time of loading, it is only necessary to tilt the container toward the brown rice loading port side, so that there is no problem even if the loading table is not largely projected to the front side.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the automatic rice polishing apparatus according to the second aspect, ascending instruction means for manually instructing to elevate the loading platform from the loading low position to the loading high position, and lifting. When instructed by the instructing means, when the money is inserted, the loading platform is raised, while when the money is not loaded, the loading platform is controlled not to be raised, and the loading platform is raised. Then, after this, a control means for controlling to automatically lower the mounting table at a predetermined timing is provided.

According to this structure, only when the user of the automatic rice polishing apparatus desires to raise the platform, the user can manually instruct the platform by the ascending instruction means to raise the platform. it can. In addition, even if a passerby who is not a user touches the rising instruction means by mischief, etc., the rising operation is not performed unless money is inserted,
The lifting operation is not performed unnecessarily. Further, since the lowering operation of the mounting table is automatically performed, the user does not have to give an instruction for the lowering operation, which saves the trouble.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the automatic rice polishing apparatus according to the third aspect, there are provided an opening / closing door for opening / closing the brown rice inlet and a detecting means for detecting that the opening / closing door is closed. The provision and control means are characterized by detecting that the opening opening / closing door which has been opened is closed, and controlling to automatically lower the mounting table.

According to this structure, when the user closes the opening / closing door of the loading slot, the platform is automatically lowered, so that the user does not have to give the instruction of the lowering operation, and the labor can be saved.
Further, it is safe because the loading table is not lowered when the user is near the brown rice inlet or the loading table and is not lowered when a person other than the user is touching the loading table.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the automatic rice polishing apparatus according to the third aspect, the control means detects that the rice polishing operation is completed and controls to lower the platform.

According to this structure, even when the brown rice is charged from the container in plural times through the brown rice charging port, the brown rice can be charged without any trouble. The invention according to claim 6 is the automatic rice polishing apparatus according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein a foreign substance storage portion for storing foreign substances removed by a stone removing machine is provided inside the mounting base, and the mounting base is It is characterized in that the foreign matter storage portion can be taken out only when in the raised position.

The invention according to claim 7 is an automatic rice polishing apparatus which can be installed in a state where the main body of the rice polishing apparatus having a rice polishing machine and a stone removing machine is exposed to an external space such as outdoors, and which automatically performs rice polishing work. Then, in the customer service part exposed to the external space of the rice milling machine body, a platform for mounting the brown rice storage container containing the brown rice to be processed is provided so that it can be raised and lowered, and the foreign matter removed by the stone removing machine is stored inside the platform. It is characterized in that the foreign matter storage section is disposed so that the foreign matter storage section can be taken out only when the platform is in the raised position.

According to the sixth and seventh aspects of the invention, the foreign matter container cannot be taken out unless the platform is raised.
It is possible to prevent passers-by other than users from collecting foreign objects without permission.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the automatic rice polishing apparatus according to any of the first to seventh aspects, the user operates a lifting instruction means for instructing to forcibly perform the lifting operation of the platform. The feature is that it is provided in a place that cannot be done.

According to this structure, when maintenance of the mounting table is required, or when foreign matter is collected, the staff can operate the lifting instruction means to move the mounting table up and down.

The invention according to claim 9 is the automatic rice polishing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the placing table is formed such that the front side is high and the rear side is low. According to this configuration, even when the protruding amount on the front side of the mounting table is configured to be small, it is possible to prevent the container from falling forward when the container is placed on the mounting table.

[0028]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An automatic rice polishing apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 7, the rice milling apparatus main body 1 of this automatic rice milling apparatus does not have a building, and has a structure that does not include a guest room. The rice milling machine 3 and the stone removing machine 2 for removing foreign matter are installed so that the rice milling apparatus main body 1 itself is exposed outdoors. In addition, 100 in FIG. 1 is a bran hut which collects the bran discharged from the rice-polishing apparatus main body 1.

The rice milling apparatus main body 1 is formed in a substantially rectangular shape, and at the center height of the front surface portion on the right side of the rice polishing apparatus main body 1, from the front surface portion 1a serving as the customer service portion of the rice polishing apparatus main body 1 An injection space 5 is provided which is recessed into a substantially V shape so as to be narrow. In addition, a brown rice input port 6 for the user to input brown rice is provided at the lower surface of the input space portion 5, and a transparent input / output opening / closing door 7 for opening / closing the brown rice input port 6 is provided. Has been. Below the brown-rice input port 6 inside the rice-polishing apparatus main body 1, a stake hopper 8 for receiving the input brown rice is disposed, and below the stake hopper 8, a stone for removing foreign matters such as stones from the brown rice. An extractor 2 is provided. A brown rice chute 9 for collecting brown rice from which foreign matters such as stones have been removed is provided on the back side of the stone removing machine 2.

On the lower right side of the front part 1a as a customer service part of the rice milling machine body 1, there is a mounting table 4 for mounting a brown rice storage bag X containing brown rice as brown rice brought by a user.
However, they are attached in close contact with each other in such a posture that they protrude from the front surface portion 1a of the rice milling machine body 1. Inside the mounting table 4, a foreign matter storage box 10 for discharging foreign matters such as stones collected by the stone removing machine 2 is provided.

An elevator 11 consisting of a screw conveyor for feeding the brown rice sent from the brown rice chute 9 upward is arranged adjacent to the brown rice chute 9, and the brown rice discharged from the upper end opening of the elevator 11 is the rice polishing apparatus main body. 1 is discharged to a brown rice tank 12 disposed on the upper left side, and the brown rice from the brown rice tank 12 is polished by a rice polishing machine 3 disposed below the brown rice tank 12 to be white rice, and then the rice polishing machine. Polished white rice is stored in a white rice hopper 13 disposed below 3. Below the white rice hopper 13, there is a white rice storage portion 15 in which a white rice storage bag Y (which may also be used as the brown rice storage bag X) brought by a user is placed on the back side of the front surface 1a of the rice polishing apparatus body 1. It is provided in a state of being exposed to the outside by denting into the outside. When the white rice storage bag Y is placed in the white rice storage portion 15, the white rice discharging pedal 40 disposed near the lower end of the mounting table 4 is depressed. The white rice stored in the white rice hopper 13 is discharged into the white rice storage bag Y.

As shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of whiteness selection push buttons 16, glutinous rice selection buttons 17, coin insertion slot 1 are provided on the upper left side of the front surface of the rice polishing apparatus body 1.
8, an operation control panel 20 having a display unit 14 and the like and a control unit built therein is provided.

Hereinafter, each part of the rice polishing apparatus body 1 will be described in detail. As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the brown rice inlet 6
Is formed so as to be opened in the lower-injection-portion inclined plate 21 that forms the lower surface of the in-use space 5, and the lower-injection-portion inclined plate 21 is arranged so as to be inclined so that the front side thereof faces downward. A rotation support shaft 22 of a horizontal shaft is rotatably supported on both sides of the back of the insertion part lower inclined plate 21, and the insertion opening opening / closing door 7 is centered on the rotation support shaft 22 in the insertion space 5. In FIG. 8A, it is possible to open and close from a closed posture shown by a solid line to an open posture shown by a virtual line.

Further, the upper sloped plate 23 of the charging section forming the upper surface of the charging space 5 is magnetically attached when the charging door 7 is opened to maintain the charging door 7 in an open state. A state maintaining magnet 24 is attached. On the front surface of the opening / closing door 7, a handle 25 for the user to open the opening / closing door 7 is provided.
Is attached, and a locking hook 26 that is bent and extends obliquely downward is attached to the rear surface of the front surface of the opening / closing door 7, and further than the front end portion of the brown rice input port 6 in the lower input part inclined plate 21. On the lower surface of the front side, a solenoid 27 is attached as a locking means for locking the insertion opening opening / closing door 7 in the closed posture by the engaging / disengaging rod 27a engaging the locking hook 26 (see FIG. 8B). ). Further, a closed state detection sensor 28 for detecting that the opening / closing door 7 is closed is attached so as to face the rear end of the brown rice opening 6, and the solenoid 27 is used to open the opening / closing door 7. When locking in the closed posture, the closed state detection sensor 28
In the state where it is detected that the insertion opening opening / closing door 7 is closed, the withdrawal rod 27a of the solenoid 27 is projected and engaged with the locking hook 26.

In the standby state, the retracting rod 27a of the solenoid 27 is projected and engaged with the locking hook 26, and the insertion opening opening / closing door 7 is kept in the open state. Is also not done. Therefore, when the rice polishing operation is not performed, the opening / closing door 7 cannot be opened, so that a foreigner such as dust is prevented from being thrown into the opening 6 by a passerby other than the user.

Further, when a coin is inserted from the coin insertion slot 18, the withdrawal rod 27a of the solenoid 27 is retracted and the lock is released. In this state, the user is allowed to open the insertion slot opening / closing door 7. To be done. When the user opens the opening / closing door 7 and puts brown rice into the brown rice opening 6 and then closes the opening / closing door 7, this closing operation is detected by the closed state detection sensor 28. , When the opening / closing door 7 is closed, the opening / closing door 7 is locked in the closed state,
The rice polishing operation is started by the user pressing the whiteness selection push button 16 or the like.

As shown in FIG. 4, in the vicinity of the lower end of the tension hopper 8, a tension level detector 29 for detecting the presence of brown rice in the tension hopper 8 is provided in the tension hopper 8. It is attached to the back side. Further, the opening area of the discharge port 8a provided at the lower end of the tension hopper 8 can be adjusted by an adjustment door 19 which can be manually moved up and down.
It can be adjusted according to the processing capacity of.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 10, the stone removing machine 2 is
A screen 31 that is oscillated in a state of being inclined so that the front stone removal port 31a side is upward, and a drive mechanism such as a oscillating drive motor 32 that oscillates the screen 31, and a lower part of the screen 31 A windmill 33, a windmill box 34, and the like for blowing air from above are provided. And, one stone outlet 31a side is raised and the other brown rice outlet 3
By supplying brown rice onto the screen 31 in a state where the air is blown upward from the bottom of the screen 31 which is oscillated in an inclined posture in which the side 1b is lowered and oscillated, the stone removing operation in the closed state is performed. While collecting foreign matters such as stones contained in brown rice on the mouth 31a side, the brown rice overflowing from the brown rice outlet 31b side on the back side is discharged. Further, by opening the stone discharging shutter 35 provided at the stone removing port 31a so as to be openable and closable, for example, when the supply of brown rice is completed, the foreign matters collected on the stone removing port 31a side are discharged together with the brown rice.

Here, the stone removing machine 2 is arranged so that the stone removing port 31a of the screen 31 is on the front side and the brown rice removing port 31b of the screen 31 is on the rear side. Then, the foreign matter discharged when the stone discharging shutter 35 is opened is fed into the foreign matter storage box 10 while being guided by the stone discharging guide 39 attached so as to continue in front of the stone removing port 31a. There is.

On one side of the screen 31, a residual rice return passage 36 for discharging the residual rice remaining on the screen 31 is defined by a partition plate 37, and the partition plate 37 is formed after the stone discharging operation described above. By opening the remaining rice discharging shutter 38 provided at a position close to the stone removing port 31a of 37, the remaining rice remaining on the screen 31 is removed from the remaining rice returning passage 3
It is configured to be discharged from the remaining rice outlet 36a via the nozzle 6.

As described above, in front of the lower right part of the rice-polishing apparatus main body 1, as shown in FIG. 4, the loading table 4 on which the brown rice storage bag X containing the brown rice brought by the user is placed is the rice-polishing table 4. It is arranged in close contact with the front surface of the apparatus body 1.
The mounting table 4 is formed of an inclined surface on which the mounting surface 4a on which the brown rice storage bag X is mounted is lowered toward the rear side. The mounting table 4 covers the foreign matter discharge port 81, the stone discharge guide 39, and the foreign matter storage box 10. Foreign matter such as stones from the stone removing machine 2 is discharged through the stone discharge guide 39 to the foreign matter storage box 10 arranged inside the mounting table 4. Stand 4
An opening / closing door 4 for discharging foreign matter is provided on the front surface of a (base 82 described later).
2 is provided, and by removing the foreign matter discharge opening / closing door 42, the foreign matter storage box 10 in which foreign matter such as stones is stored can be taken out to the outside.

As shown in FIG. 12 to FIG.
Is in a low position L for placement in which the center of gravity O of the brown rice storage bag X containing brown rice is lower than the brown rice inlet 6 when the rice polishing device body 1 is not in operation. In the state in which is operated, from the mounting low position L to the charging high position H (see FIGS. 15 and 16) where the center of gravity O of the brown rice storage bag X containing brown rice is higher than the brown rice input port 6 It is configured so that it can be raised and lowered.

That is, on the mounting table 4, a base 82 installed on the floor, a linear head motor 83 as an ascending / descending means attached on the upper surface of the base 82, and a linear head motor 83 move up and down. The lifting table 85 attached to the upper end of the lifting shaft 84, the two guide shafts 86 extending below the lifting table 85, and fixed inside and above the base 82 so as to extend vertically. At the same time, the guide shaft 86 is inserted into the guide cylinders 87 and 88 for guiding the elevating table 85 to move up and down, and the positions extending downward from the elevating table 85 and penetrating into the base 82. When the detection rod 89 and the lifting platform 85 are raised to the top dead center position corresponding to the loading high position H, the detection rod 89 comes into contact with the position detection contact portion 89a of the position detection rod 89 to move the lifting platform 85. Is the top dead center position The upper limit position detection sensor 90 that detects that the position is raised and the lift table 85 is brought into contact with the position detection contact portion 89a of the position detection rod 89 when the lift table 85 is moved down to the bottom dead center position. The lower limit position detection sensor 91 that detects that 85 has been lowered to the bottom dead center position, and the lift table 85 and the base 82 that are covered from above the lift table 85.
And a cover body 92 having a mounting surface 4a formed on the upper surface thereof and a foreign matter discharge opening / closing door 42 that is detachably attached to the base 82 in the forward position when the lifting platform 85 is raised. .

Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the rice polishing apparatus body 1
At a position near the center of the front surface 1a of the above, a lift push button 93 is provided as a lift instructing means for lifting the lift table 85 of the mounting table 4 and the cover body 92 to the top dead center position (high position H for insertion). ing. And the coin slot 18
Only when the coin is inserted from the upper side and it is in the operable state, when the raising push button 93 is pushed, the lifting table 8 of the loading table 4 is pushed.
5 and the cover body 92 are controlled so as to be elevated to the high position H for closing. Therefore, in the state where no coin is inserted, even if the push-up button 93 is pushed, the platform 4
The elevating table 85 and the cover body 92 do not rise. Also,
The brown rice is introduced by the user from the brown rice inlet 6 and the inlet opening / closing door 7 is closed. This closing operation is the closed state detection sensor 2
When it is detected by 8, it is determined that the closing operation is completed, and the lifting table 85 of the mounting table 4 and the cover body 92 are controlled to descend to the bottom dead center position (mounting low position L). .

The brown rice take-out port 31b of the screen 31 of the stone removing machine 2 plunges into the brown rice chute 9 and the brown rice from which foreign matters such as stones have been removed is lifted from the brown rice chute 9 to the elevator 11.
Will be introduced in.

The brown rice tank 12 to which brown rice is supplied from the elevator 11 is arranged at the lower limit level so that the operation of supplying the brown rice to the brown rice tank 12 has started or the brown rice has disappeared from the brown rice tank 12. A lower limit level sensor 43 for detecting a supply state such as the above, and an upper limit level sensor 44 arranged at an upper limit level position for detecting an overflow state in the brown rice tank 12 are attached.
A return passage 45 is provided between the brown rice tank 12 and the brown rice chute 9 to return the overflow amount exceeding the upper limit level of the brown rice tank 12 to the brown rice chute 9.

The rice milling machine 3 has a structure as shown in FIG. A hollow rotary shaft 54 rotated by a drive motor 52 (see FIGS. 5 and 6) of a rice milling machine 3 via a drive pulley 53 in a main body casing 51 arranged in the vertical direction.
And a feed roll 55 is attached to the upper part of the rotary shaft 54, and a rice milling roll 56 having a ridge is attached to the lower part of the rotary shaft 54. These feed roll 55 and rice milling roll 56 together with the rotary shaft 54 Rotate integrally. Further, 57 is a feed roll 55 and a rice polishing roll 56.
Is a net made of metal which is arranged on the outer peripheral side of the rice milling chamber 58 and forms the outer shell of the rice polishing chamber 58. The bran in the net 57 is a blower for bran 59 (FIG. 5, FIG. (See Figure 6)
Thus, it is sucked together with air and discharged into the bran hut 100. Further, a supply screw 60 and a supply casing 61, which feed the brown rice from the brown rice tank 12 into the rice polishing chamber 58, are arranged above the main body casing 51.

At the lower end of the main body casing 51, an opening control member 62 for adjusting the pressure at the time of rice polishing by adjusting the opening from the rice polishing chamber 58, the opening control member 62 and the rice polishing roll 56. And a discharge tube 63 that guides the white rice discharged downward between the two. Then, the drive motor 5 for driving the milled rice roll 56
By detecting the load of the rice polishing roll 56 from the electric power of 2 and operating the opening adjusting motor 64 to change the vertical position of the opening restricting member 62 via the opening adjusting arm 65 Whiteness control is performed so that rice with a whiteness that matches the whiteness of the rice selected by the customer can be obtained.

A white rice hopper 1 disposed below the rice polishing machine 3.
3 is to make the rice polishing apparatus body 1 itself compact,
A small-sized one that does not project forward of the rice-polishing device body 1 is used. Further, on the upper left side of the rice polishing apparatus body 1, a front door 5 as a cover that can be opened and closed laterally is provided.
0 is provided, and the rice milling machine 3 is
The space between the rice and the white rice hopper 13 is covered from the front. At the lower portion of the front door 50, a confirmation window portion 66 in which a transparent plate material is fitted is provided so that the white rice discharged from the rice milling machine 3 can be seen.
The whiteness of the white rice discharged from the rice milling machine 3 can be confirmed through the confirmation window portion 66. Also, while checking the whiteness of white rice,
By pressing the whiteness selection push button 16 again during rice polishing,
From that point, it is also possible to change and adjust the whiteness of the rice.

In FIG. 2, 67 is a visual check window provided on the front door 50 for confirming the remaining state of the brown rice in the brown rice tank 12, and 68 is a locking device with a lever provided on the front door 50. By inserting a key (not shown) into the locking device 68 with lever to unlock it and opening the front door 50, maintenance work of the rice polishing machine 3 can be easily performed. That is, as shown in FIG. 17, the front door 50
An input display panel 46 having the display unit 14 is provided at a rear portion of the input display panel 46. The input display panel 46 is exposed when the front door 50 is opened by unlocking. The input display panel 46 is provided with a plurality of input buttons 47 for performing input operations for various data settings, adjustments, and maintenance, and also serving as a lifting instruction means. By performing a predetermined input operation, it is possible to forcibly perform the lifting operation of the mounting table 4.

Further, above the polished rice hopper 13, a polished rice upper limit level sensor 69 for detecting that the polished rice has reached the upper limit level of the polished rice hopper 13 is provided. And
When the white rice reaches the upper limit level of the white rice hopper 13 during the rice polishing operation and this is detected by the white rice upper limit level sensor 69, in order to prevent the white rice from overflowing the white rice hopper 13, The brown rice supply operation and the rice polishing operation of the rice polishing machine 3 are temporarily interrupted. After this, the user steps on the white rice discharging pedal 40,
White rice is stored in a white rice storage bag Y, and the white rice is put in the white rice hopper 13.
When the amount of rice is reduced below the upper limit level, the operation of supplying brown rice to the rice polishing machine 3 and the rice polishing operation of the rice polishing machine 3 are restarted.

The rice discharging pedal 40 for opening the discharging opening of the polished rice hopper 13 is linked with the discharging gate 72 provided at the discharging opening of the polished rice hopper 13 by the wire cable 71 which is passed through the inside of the rice polishing apparatus main body 1. It is designed to be opened. The white rice discharging pedal 40 is disposed near the left side of the platform 4, as shown in FIG. A tray (not shown) can be placed on the bottom surface of the white rice accommodating portion 15, and when rainwater or the like is accumulated, it can be taken out and drained.

According to the above configuration, since the mounting table 4 for mounting the brown rice storage bag X is provided, the user can mount the brought-in brown rice storage bag X on the mounting base 4, and the brown rice storage bag X can be placed. It is not necessary to keep the X, and it is sanitary because the brown rice storage bag X is not placed on the ground or floor.

When the user mounts the brown rice storage bag X containing the brown rice on the mounting table 4, since the mounting table 4 is in the mounting low position L, the user is a short person. However, the brown rice storage bag X can be easily placed on the placing table 4.

When a user pushes the ascending push button 93 with coins inserted from the coin insertion slot 18,
As shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 16, the lifting table 85 of the mounting table 4 and the cover body 92 are raised to the high position H for loading, which is the top dead center position, and the center of gravity O of the brown rice storage bag X containing brown rice is fed with brown rice. Higher than mouth 6. Therefore, even if the user is short or weak and does not lift the brown rice storage bag X further, the opening of the brown rice storage bag X is located at the brown rice insertion opening 6 Just tilt it to the side,
Brown rice can be easily charged into the brown rice charging port 6. in this way,
Since the brown rice feeding port 6 is arranged on the stone removing machine 2 and the stake hopper 8, the brown rice feeding position is high. However, by adopting the above configuration, it is possible to favorably feed brown rice. .

Further, at the time of loading, it is only necessary to tilt the upper part of the brown rice storage bag X toward the brown rice loading port 6 side, so that the loading table 4
It does not hurt even if you do not project it to the front side.
Further, since the mounting table 4 is formed so that the front side is high and the back side is low, it is possible to prevent the lower part of the brown rice storage bag X from slipping to the front side when the brown rice storage bag X is tilted. Therefore,
While the amount of protrusion of the mounting table 4 can be minimized,
The brown rice storage bag X can be placed well. In this way, the amount of protrusion from the front part 1a of the rice milling machine body 1 to the front side can be minimized, so that even when this automatic rice milling machine is installed in a city or the like, the part of the loading platform 4 can pass through. It is possible to minimize the interruption of those who do.

Also, when the brown rice is thrown in by the user and the opening / closing door 7 is closed, the lowering operation of the mounting table 4 is automatically performed, so that the user does not instruct the lowering operation. It is convenient and saves time and effort. Also, when the user is in front of the brown rice inlet 6 and the loading table 4, the loading table 4
Therefore, it is possible to prevent the platform 4 from being lowered while a person other than the user is in front of the platform 4, and the safety is kept good. Furthermore, since the opening opening / closing door 7 is locked in the closed state, it is possible to prevent a person other than the user from inserting a foreign substance or the like into the brown rice insertion opening 6 during the rice polishing operation and during standby.

Since the lifting operation of the platform 4 is performed by a manual operation of pushing the lifting push button 93, for a person who does not feel the need to raise the platform 4, such as a tall user, It is not necessary to force the raising operation of the mounting table 4, and unnecessary raising operation can be omitted.

In addition, even if this automatic rice polishing apparatus is installed in a crowded place in a city and the like, and the push button 93 for raising the platform 4 is pushed by a mischief such as a passerby, the rice polishing is performed. Since the ascending operation is not performed unless money is thrown into the apparatus main body 1, the ascending / descending operation is not performed unnecessarily.

Further, according to the above construction, when the automatic rice polishing apparatus is not in operation, the placing table 4 is in the placing low position L, the cover body 92 covers the foreign matter discharge opening / closing door 42, and the foreign matter is removed. Since the opening / closing door 42 for discharge is held in a state in which it cannot be opened, it is possible to prevent a passerby other than the user from opening the opening / closing door 42 for foreign matter and collecting foreign matter.

When collecting a foreign substance, the manager or the staff unlocks the lever locking device 68 to open the front door 50, and performs a predetermined input operation with the input button 47 of the input display board 46. The mounting table 4 is set to the high position H for loading. As a result, since the foreign matter discharge opening / closing door 42 is exposed to the front surface, the foreign matter discharge opening / closing door 42 can be opened and the foreign matter storage box 10 can be taken out to collect foreign matters such as stones. After collecting the foreign matter, the reverse operation is performed to set the mounting table 4 to the mounting low position L with the foreign matter storage box 10 stored. As a result, the manager or the staff can collect the foreign matter. Also, when performing maintenance such as inspection and repair of the mounting table 4,
By performing the same operation by the staff, the platform 4 can be forcibly moved up and down.

In the above embodiment, the case where the lowering operation of the loading platform 4 is automatically performed when the user closes the loading port opening / closing door 7 after loading the brown rice has been described, but the invention is not limited to this. Not a thing. For example, the opening / closing door 7 can be opened and closed even after the user instructs the start of the rice polishing operation,
When the rice-polishing operation is completed, the lowering operation of the loading table 4 may be automatically performed. In this case, after the rice-polishing operation is started and before the rice-polishing operation is finished,
Even when the user inputs brown rice from the brown rice storage bag X in plural times into the brown rice input port 6, the brown rice can be input without any trouble. Further, it is also possible to manually instruct the lowering operation of the mounting table 4, and the push-up button 93 for raising is used.
Alternatively, it may be configured to be used by pressing again.

In the above embodiment, the vertical type rice milling machine 3 is used, but it goes without saying that it can be applied to other types of rice milling machines such as a horizontal type. Further, in the above embodiment, the front door 5
The case where the confirmation window portion 66 in which the transparent plate member is fitted is provided in the lower part of 0 has been described.
In addition, a transparent door that can be opened and closed is provided, and by opening this door and inserting your hand, you can touch and see the white rice discharged from the rice polishing machine 3. You may.

[0064]

As described above, according to the present invention, a stand for mounting a brown rice storage container containing brown rice to be processed is provided in a liftable manner in a customer service portion exposed to the external space in the main body of the rice polishing apparatus. With this, even if the user is a short person or a weak person, a container containing brown rice can be easily placed on the mounting table and brown rice can be easily put into the brown rice inlet, which is convenient. Becomes In addition, it does not cause any trouble even if the loading platform does not protrude significantly from the rice milling machine to the front side, so even if this automatic rice polishing machine is installed in a city, the loading platform will interfere with people passing by. Can be minimized.

In addition, by raising the loading platform from the loading low position to the loading high position by manually instructing it by the raising instructing means, it is possible to meet the user's request.
The platform can be raised. In addition, by not raising the platform when coins are not inserted, it is possible to prevent unnecessary movement of the platform by a passer-by person who is not a user. Further, when the platform is lifted, the platform is automatically lowered at a predetermined timing thereafter, so that the user does not have to manually instruct the descending operation, which saves labor.

Furthermore, by detecting that the opened opening / closing door of the opening has been closed and controlling the platform to automatically lower, the user is not required to instruct the lowering operation. In addition to being able to do so, it is safe because no one other than the user descends when touching the platform.

Further, by detecting the end of the rice polishing operation and automatically lowering the loading table, brown rice can be thrown in without trouble even when the brown rice is thrown in from the container in plural times through the brown rice feeding port. be able to.

Further, by disposing the foreign matter containing section for containing the foreign matter removed by the stone removing machine inside the placing table, and making it possible to take out the foreign matter containing section only when the placing table is in the raised position, It is possible to prevent passers-by other than users from collecting foreign objects without permission.

Further, since the elevating and lowering instruction means for instructing to forcibly perform the elevating and lowering operation of the platform is provided in a place where the user cannot operate, the maintenance staff of the platform is required when maintenance is required. It is possible to prevent the passerby other than the user from freely moving up and down the platform while operating the up-down instruction means to raise and lower the platform.

Further, by forming the mounting table so that the front side is high and the rear side is low, the container falls on the front side when the container is placed on the mounting table or the lower part of the container is tilted when the container is tilted. It is possible to prevent slipping to the front side.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a schematic configuration of an automatic rice polishing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a rice milling apparatus main body in the same automatic rice milling apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a front view schematically showing a rear part of the rice milling apparatus main body with respect to the front part.

FIG. 4 is a right side cross-sectional view of the same rice-polishing apparatus main body, showing a state in which the mounting table is in the mounting low position.

FIG. 5 is a left-side sectional view of the same rice polishing apparatus body.

FIG. 6 is a view of a front portion of the rice milling apparatus main body as viewed from the rear surface of the rear surface.

FIG. 7 is a schematic plan view of a lower portion of the rice milling apparatus body.

FIG. 8 (a) is a side sectional view of a space portion for charging of the rice milling apparatus main body, and FIG. 8 (b) is an enlarged side sectional view of an essential part thereof.

FIG. 9 is a schematic plan view of an opening / closing door of the rice polishing apparatus body and its vicinity.

FIG. 10 is a plan view of a screen of a stone removing machine in the rice milling apparatus body.

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view of a rice polishing machine in the rice polishing apparatus body.

FIG. 12 is a side cross-sectional view of a platform and its vicinity in the same rice-polishing apparatus main body, showing a state where the platform is in a low position for mounting.

FIG. 13 is a front cross-sectional view of a platform and its vicinity in the rice milling apparatus body.

FIG. 14 is a plan cross-sectional view of a placing table and a portion in the vicinity thereof in the rice polishing apparatus body.

FIG. 15 is a right side cross-sectional view of the rice milling apparatus main body, showing a state in which the platform is raised to a loading high position.

FIG. 16 is a side cross-sectional view of the platform and its vicinity in the rice milling apparatus main body, showing a state in which the platform is raised to a loading high position.

FIG. 17 is a front view of an input display panel of the rice milling apparatus body.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Rice milling equipment body 2 stone removing machine 3 rice mill 4 platform 6 Brown rice input port 8 stake-in hopper 10 Foreign object box 14 Display 20 Operation control panel 46 Input display board 47 input button 82 base 83 Linear head motor (elevating means) 85 Lift 90 Upper limit position detection sensor 91 Lower limit position detection sensor 92 cover body 93 Push button for raising (elevating instruction means) X Brown rice storage bag (container)

Continued front page    (72) Inventor Kazuki Matsushita             2-35 Jimmucho, Yabu City, Osaka Prefecture             Bota Kyuhoji Factory F-term (reference) 4D043 DA03 HA00 HB01 HB07 JC01                       JF07 MA30 MB01 MB30

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. An automatic rice polishing apparatus which can be installed in a state where the rice polishing apparatus main body having a rice polishing machine itself is exposed to an external space such as outdoors, and which automatically performs the rice polishing operation. An automatic rice polishing apparatus characterized in that a stand for placing a brown rice storage container containing brown rice to be processed is provided in an exposed customer service section so that it can be raised and lowered. 2. A brown rice input port is provided above the stone removing machine for removing foreign matters such as stones from the brown rice, and the loading platform is projected forward from a place where the brown rice input port of the rice milling apparatus main body is provided. Arranged and provided with an elevating means for elevating and lowering the platform between a low position for placing a brown rice container for a user and a high position for placing brown rice into a brown rice inlet. Item 1. The automatic rice polishing apparatus according to item 1. 3. Ascending instruction means for manually instructing to elevate the loading platform from the loading low position to the loading high position,
When instructed by the ascending instruction means, the platform is raised when money is thrown in, while it is controlled not to be raised when money is not thrown, and the platform is raised. The automatic rice polishing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising: a control unit that controls to automatically lower the loading table at a predetermined timing after that. 4. An opening / closing door for opening and closing a brown rice input opening,
The control means detects that the opening / closing door of the opening has been closed, and the control means automatically lowers the platform by detecting that the opening / closing door of the opening has been closed. It controls, The automatic rice-polishing apparatus of Claim 3 characterized by the above-mentioned. 5. The automatic rice polishing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the control means detects that the rice polishing operation has been completed and controls to lower the platform. 6. A foreign matter storage section for storing foreign matter removed by a stone removing machine is provided inside the mounting table, and the foreign matter storage section can be taken out only when the mounting table is in a raised position. The automatic rice polishing apparatus according to any one of claims 2 to 5. 7. An automatic rice polishing apparatus which can be installed in a state where the rice polishing apparatus main body having a rice polishing machine and a stone removing machine itself is exposed to an external space such as outdoors, and which automatically performs rice polishing work. In the customer service area exposed to the external space, a platform for mounting the brown rice storage container containing the brown rice to be processed is provided so that it can be moved up and down. The automatic rice polishing machine is characterized in that the foreign matter storage section can be taken out only when the mounting table is in the raised position. 8. The automatic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an elevating / lowering instruction means for instructing to forcibly perform the elevating / lowering operation of the platform in a place where the user cannot operate. Rice milling equipment. 9. The automatic rice polishing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the placing table is formed such that the front side is high and the rear side is low.