JP2006289186A - Device for preventing clogging of white rice in coin rice polisher - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device capable of preventing white rice from clogging in a bridge state inside the lower part of a white rice tank. <P>SOLUTION: In a coin rice polisher, the inside of a building (3) is partitioned into a machine chamber (1) and a guest chamber (2), unpolished rice fed from the guest chamber side is polished in the machine chamber, the white rice is fed into a white rice tank (7) provided on the lower part with a tapered cylinder (11a) whose diameter is gradually narrowed toward the lower part, the guest chamber is provided with a coin feeding port (5), an unpolished rice feeding port (4) and a discharge port (8) of the white rice tank, the discharge port is closed so as to be opened and closed by a shutter (12), a pedal (13) for opening and closing the shutter is provided on a floor, and the shutter is opened in linkage through a transmission mechanism (14) when the pedal is pressed down. For the white rice clogging preventing apparatus, a rice mixing member (28) is provided inside the tapered cylinder of the white rice tank, the rice mixing member is connected to the transmission mechanism, and the rice mixing member is linked accompanying the opening/closing operations of the shutter. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus for preventing white rice from clogging at a discharge port when a user tries to collect white rice collected in a white rice tank of a coin rice mill.

  The coin milling machine starts operation when the user inserts coins, polishes the brown rice brought in by the user himself to a desired milling degree, and stores the white rice in a white rice tank. As shown in FIG. 7, the white rice tank 91 has a funnel shape, and the lower end of the cylindrical body 92 at the lower end is a discharge port, and the discharge port is closed by a shutter 93. The shutter 93 is opened and closed by directly connecting the shutter 93 to a support shaft 94 that passes through the cylinder 92 so that the shutter 93 can swing, and the shutter 93 and the pedal 96 are connected by a link mechanism 95 that includes the support shaft 94 as a part. The action of the spring 97 is transmitted to the link mechanism 95, and the pedal 96 is floated during normal times. When collecting white rice, the user steps on the pedal. Then, if the shutter 93 is opened and the white rice in the white rice tank 91 falls normally under its own weight, the white rice is sometimes clogged above the cylinder 92 as shown in FIG. It may become a state (bridge state) and may not be discharged.

  This is due to the fact that white rice itself becomes warm due to the frictional action during milling. When the white rice becomes warm, condensation occurs on the inner surface of the white rice tank due to the temperature difference with the white rice tank, and the white rice adheres to the funnel-shaped inclined surface of the white rice tank, or the surface of the warm white rice becomes sticky and the white rice is This is because of sticking.

  When white rice is clogged, tap the white rice tank many times or step on the shutter opening / closing pedal many times to indirectly shake the white rice, thereby releasing the bridge state and eliminating the clogging. White rice is collected in the bag.

  Compared to the impact of hitting the white rice tank, the impact applied via the pedal is weak, so it is preferable to hit the white rice tank to cancel the bridge state. However, when collecting white rice, the user puts an empty bag under the white rice tank and presses the pedal while holding the bag with both hands to open the shutter, so both hands are blocked to hold the bag, hence It is cumbersome to take your hands off the bag to beat the white rice tank, and the bag filled with white rice may fall over. By the way, holding the bag with both hands is to prevent the bag from falling down with the momentum of white rice being discharged, so there is a pedal so that you can operate the shutter with only your free foot . Although it is easy to operate, the work of stepping on the pedal many times to eliminate the bridge is naturally complicated.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus capable of preventing clogging of white rice in a bridged state in the lower portion of the white rice tank.

  The invention of claim 1 divides a building into a machine room and a guest room, and in the machine room, polished rice is fed from the guest room side, and the lower part is provided with a tapered cylinder whose diameter gradually decreases downward. White rice is fed into the tank, and the guest room has a coin inlet, a brown rice inlet, and a white rice tank outlet. The white rice tank outlet is closed with a shutter, and a shutter opening / closing pedal is placed on the floor. It is assumed that the machine is a coin mill that opens when the pedal is depressed, and the shutter opens in conjunction with the transmission mechanism. And the rice rice clogging prevention device of the coin rice mill has a rice stirring member in the tapered cylinder of the white rice tank, and the rice stirring member is connected to the transmission mechanism, and the rice stirring member is interlocked with the opening / closing operation of the shutter. It is characterized by making it.

  And the connection location of the rice stirring member and the transmission mechanism may be provided at a location different from the shutter opening / closing mechanism, but in that case the structure becomes complicated. In view of cost and the like, it is desirable that the structure is as simple as possible. For this purpose, it is desirable to make it like the invention of claim 2. That is, the lower part of the white rice tank is formed in the shape of a funnel that hangs down from the tapered cylinder, and the shutter is a U-shaped bent plate with side pieces rising from the left and right of the central piece. The left and right side pieces are arranged on the left and right outer sides of the cylindrical body, and the support shaft that is a part of the transmission mechanism penetrates the left and right sides of the cylindrical body, and the left and right sides with respect to the support shaft. By fixing the piece, the shutter is swingably supported, the lower end portion of the rice agitating member is directly connected to the support shaft in the cylinder, and the upper end of the rice agitating member is extended at least into the tapered cylinder.

  The rice stirring member may be, for example, a hard metal plate, but the white rice accumulated in the white rice tank becomes resistance, so that the rice stirring member can be easily moved as in the invention of claim 3. It is desirable to use a spring for the member. All of the rice stirring members may be springs, or only some of them may be springs.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the rice agitating member is interlocked in the tapered cylinder at the bottom of the white rice tank as the pedal is opened to open the shutter. As a result, the white agitating member is directly agitated by the rice agitating member. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the tapered tube from being clogged with rice and becoming a bridge state. Therefore, without taking steps such as stepping on the pedal many times or hitting the white rice tank, the conventional operation of stepping on the pedal to open the shutter can be discharged from the white rice tank without clogging the rice.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the rice stirring member is fixed to the support shaft as the shutter opening / closing mechanism, the structure is simple and the number of parts is small. Also, the rice stirrer is difficult to move because the rice accumulated in the white rice tank becomes resistance, but the rice in the cylinder will fall reliably when the shutter is opened, so the lower end of the rice stirrer is provided in the cylinder This makes it easier to move the rice stirring member.

  In the invention of claim 3, since the spring is used for the rice stirring member, the spring does not extend instantly with the movement of the transmission mechanism when the shutter is opened. Compared to the selection, the rice is stirred with a light force, and as a result, the pedal depressing force is light.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the coin milling machine is installed in a building 3 partitioned into a machine room 1 and a guest room 2. The cabin 2 has a hopper serving as a brown rice slot 4, an operation panel 6 having a coin slot 5, and the like, a discharge port 8 of the white rice tank 7, and a shutter opening / closing device 9 for opening and closing the discharge port 8. On the other hand, the machine room 1 has a rice mill 10. Then, when the user puts brown rice into the brown rice slot 4, and inserts a coin into the coin slot 5, and selects the desired milling degree with the operation panel 6 to drive the rice milling apparatus 10, After being taken into the machine room, it is polished and sent to the white rice tank 7. Finally, the user operates the shutter opening / closing device 9 to discharge the white rice from the white rice tank 7 and collects the white rice in a bag placed under the white rice tank 7.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the shutter opening / closing device 9 has a funnel-shaped lower part (a shape in which the cylindrical body 11 b is suspended from a tapered cylinder 11 a whose diameter is gradually narrowed downward), and a discharge port 8 of the white rice tank 7. Shutter 12 that opens and closes, pedal 13 that is installed on the floor of cabin 2, and transmission mechanism 14 that changes the movement of pedal 13 into the opening and closing operation of shutter 12.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the shutter 12 is formed by bending a plate into a U shape, and includes a central piece 15 that covers the lower part of the discharge port 8, and left and right side pieces 16 that extend from both sides of the central piece 15. Become. The left and right side pieces 16 are arranged on the left and right sides of the rectangular tube-shaped cylinder body 11b, the support shaft 17 is passed through the tip of both side pieces 16 and the upper portion of the cylinder body 11b, and the shutter 12 is shaken around the support shaft 17 as a center. It is supported movably.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the pedal 13 is configured such that one end of a pedal body 19 is swingably connected by a hinge 20 to a tip portion of a floor stopper plate 18 fixed to the floor.

  As shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, the transmission mechanism 14 connects the pedal 13 and the shutter 12 with a link mechanism 21, and the pulling spring 22 acts on the link mechanism 21, so that the pedal 13 can be tilted and depressed during normal times. And the shutter 12 is held closed. Further, the shutter 12 is opened by depressing the pedal 13 against the pulling force of the pulling spring 22.

  The link mechanism 21 connects the lower end of the trunk 23 with the lower pin P2 to the swinging end of the pedal 13, and connects the upper end of the trunk 23 with one end of the swinging arm 24 with the upper pin P1. The other end of the swing arm 24 is directly connected to the support shaft 17, and the swing of the swing arm 24 is changed to the rotation of the support shaft 17. The upper pin P1 and the lower pin P2 are portions where the upper and lower ends of the trunk 23 are bent. Then, the front end of the side piece 16 of the shutter 12 is directly connected to the support shaft 17 by a rotation-preventing screw 25, and the shutter 12 is opened and closed as the support shaft 17 rotates. Further, the side frame 26 of the white rice tank 7 supports the support shaft 17 in a rotatable manner, and protrudes a support pin 27 above the swing arm 24, so that an intermediate portion of the length between the support pin 27 and the swing arm 24 is provided. Is pulled over the pull-back spring 22.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the white rice clogging prevention device connects the rice stirring member 28 to the support shaft 17 of the transmission mechanism 14 in the white rice tank 7 so that the rice stirring member 28 is connected to the cylindrical body 11b. The rice stirring member 28 is reciprocated along the opening and closing operation of the shutter 12 extending into the upper tapered cylinder 11a.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the rice stirring member 28 is a member in which a lever 29 and a spring 30 (coil spring) are connected so as to be able to be bent. More specifically, the lower end portion of the lever 29 extending upward is passed through the support shaft 17 and fixed via a rotation-preventing screw N, and the hook at the lower end portion of the spring 30 is hooked on the hole formed in the upper portion of the lever 29. A hook at the upper end of 30 is hung on a rod 31 installed in the white rice tank 7, and the upper end of the spring 30 is used as a fixed end. Accordingly, the lever 29 and the spring 30 are refracted outwardly and inwardly in the shape of a “<” and reciprocate with the rotation of the support shaft 17 that opens and closes the shutter 12.

  As another example of the rice stirring member 28, as shown in FIG. 6, one end of a spring 30 is fixed to the support shaft 17 by welding or the like, and the other end of the spring 30 is extended upward. . In this case, the spring 30 swings (reciprocates) around the support shaft 17 as a fulcrum.

  The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, all of the rice stirring members 28 may be hard, and specifically, the lever 29 shown in FIG. 1 may be long until it enters the tapered cylinder 11a.

It is an AA line expanded sectional view of FIG. It is a front view which shows the white rice clogging prevention apparatus of a coin rice mill. It is a side view which shows a transmission mechanism. It is a top view which shows a building. It is a front view which shows a guest room. It is sectional drawing which shows another example of a white rice clogging prevention apparatus. It is a front view which shows the conventional transmission mechanism. It is sectional drawing which shows the state where white rice was jammed.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Machine room 2 Guest room 3 Building 4 Brown rice insertion port 5 Coin insertion port 7 White rice tank 8 Discharge port 11a Tapered cylinder 11b Cylindrical body 12 Shutter 13 Pedal 14 Transmission mechanism 15 Central piece 16 Side piece 17 Support shaft 28 Rice stirring member 30 Spring

Claims (3)

The building (3) is partitioned into a machine room (1) and a guest room (2). In the machine room (1), the brown rice that is thrown in from the guest room side is polished, and a tapered tube ( 11a) the white rice is fed into the white rice tank (7) provided at the bottom, the guest room is provided with a coin inlet (5), a brown rice inlet (4), and a white rice tank (7) outlet (8), The discharge port (8) is closed with a shutter (12) so that it can be opened and closed, and a shutter opening / closing pedal (13) is provided on the floor. When the pedal (13) is depressed, the shutter (12) is connected via a transmission mechanism (14). In the coin milling machine that opens in conjunction,
The rice stirring member (28) is provided in the tapered cylinder (11a) of the white rice tank (7), and the rice stirring member (28) is connected to the transmission mechanism (14), and the shutter (12) is opened and closed. A rice rice clogging prevention device for a coin rice mill characterized by interlocking the rice stirring member (28). The white rice tank (7) has a lower part formed in a funnel shape that hangs the cylindrical body (11b) from the tapered cylinder (11a),
The shutter (12) is a U-shaped bent plate in which side pieces (16) stand up from the left and right of the central piece (15). The central piece (15) opens the discharge port (8) at the lower end of the cylinder (11b). In addition to closing, the left and right side pieces (16) are arranged on the left and right outer sides of the cylinder (11b), the support shaft (17) which is a part of the transmission mechanism (14) is penetrated to the left and right of the cylinder (11b), The left and right side pieces (16) are fixed to the support shaft (17) to support the shutter (12) so as to be able to swing, and the lower end portion of the rice stirring member (28) is supported in the cylindrical body (11b). The apparatus for preventing clogging of white rice in a coin milling machine according to claim 1, characterized in that it is directly connected to (17) and the upper end of the rice stirring member (28) extends at least into the tapered cylinder (11a).   The apparatus for preventing clogging of white rice in a coin milling machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a spring (30) is used for the rice stirring member (28).

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