JP4228846B2 - Automatic rice milling machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an automatic rice milling apparatus.

There is an unmanned rice milling device in which a user brings raw brown rice or rice bran and performs whitening treatment as desired. (Patent Document 1)
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-79121

  In an unmanned rice milling device in which the user brings raw brown rice or rice bran and mills it as desired, it is an object to prevent the unmanned rice milling machine from accidentally throwing rice bran or brown rice into the feeding hopper during a failure. .

In order to solve the above problems, the invention according to claim 1, partition the building (A) the operating chamber (1) machine room (2), a hopper for introducing brown rice (4), hopper ( in an automatic rice apparatus provided 4) to put the rice mill to rice brown rice and (10), wherein provided a front wall (79) above the hopper (4), the lower the positive wall (79) A display board (78) is provided that connects the edges with hinges (80) and detachably fixes the upper edges with hooks (81) .
When the front surface of the display board (78) is marked “in operation” and the back side is “failed”, and the display board (78) is fixed with the hook (81), the surface of the display board (78) is the front wall. (79) in a state where the notation of “in operation” is raised toward the operation room side (1),
When the rice milling machine (10) breaks down, the display plate (78) disengages the hook (81) and rotates around the hinge (80) to close the loading port of the loading hopper (4). The notation is directed upward .

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the rice milling machine 10 breaks down, the display board 81 is configured to close the insertion port of the input hopper 4 by removing the hook 81 and rotating around the hinge 80. It is possible to make it impossible to put rice bran or brown rice into the hopper 4, and to prevent rice cake or brown rice from being mistakenly introduced into the feeding hopper 4.

In addition, when the front surface of the display board (78) is marked “in operation” and the back side is “failed”, and the display board (78) is fixed with the hook (81), the front surface of the display board (78) is front-facing. In the state along the wall (79), the notation “in operation” is raised toward the operation room side (1), and when the rice mill (10) breaks down, the display plate (78) is attached to the hook (81). Is turned around the hinge (80) to close the insertion port of the insertion hopper (4), and the "failing" notation faces upward so that the user is "in operation". Both of the notation and “not working” can be visually recognized.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
1 and 2, in the automatic rice milling apparatus, the operation room 1 and the machine room 2 side are partitioned by the partition wall 3 in the building A. The machine hopper 2 has a feeding hopper 4 and a stone removal elevator 5 on the machine room 2 side. , A stone remover 6, a foreign substance removing device 7, a rice milling elevator 8, a rice milling tank 9, a rice milling machine 10, and a white rice tank 11 are arranged in this order. An operation panel 31 is provided on the operation chamber 1 side so as to be operable from this side.

  A rotary valve 12 as a grain feeding means is provided at the lower part of the charging hopper 4 so that the raw brown rice of the charging hopper 4 is fed out. The feed-out side of the rotary valve 12 is connected to the hopper of the stone lifter 5 to selectively remove foreign matters having a relatively high specific gravity, such as stones contained in the raw brown rice into which the discharge port of the stone lifter 5 is inserted. It looks at the inlet of the stone remover 6

  The foreign matter removing device 7 has a sieve screen stretched, and sorts and separates swarf etc. contained in the input grain while swinging a properly tilted sorting frame and takes it out separately from the lower tilt side Then, the discharge port of the stone remover 6 is put on the inlet side of the foreign matter removing device, and the discharge port of the foreign matter removing device 7 is put on the hopper portion of the rice lift 8. Further, the discharge port of the rice lifting machine 8 is in communication with the rice polishing tank 9, and grains such as brown rice in the rice polishing tank 9 can be supplied to the lower rice polishing machine 10.

  The rice milling machine 10 has a conventionally known configuration in which a cerealing spiral and a whitening roll are integrated and rotated in a whitening cylinder to peel and remove surface rice cakes such as brown rice that are sequentially supplied. A compression plate 13 is provided at the exit of the rice mill 10 so that the whitening pressure can be adjusted, and the whitening degree can be changed and set in several stages.

  A guide chute 15 for discharging and guiding the polished rice discharged from the discharge port to the white rice tank 11 is provided at the discharge port of the rice mill 10. The guide chute 15 communicates with the white rice tank 11. An opening / closing valve 16 is provided at the bottom of the guide chute 15, and the opening / closing valve 16 is configured to be able to rise and fall around a support shaft 16a orthogonal to the flow direction of the white rice, and dams the white rice flowing down when it rises around the support shaft 16a. It stops and it is set as the structure discharged | emitted from the bottom part opening 16b. The circulation guide chute 17 is looked into the bottom opening 16b, and the lower end side of the chute 17 is looked into the charge tank 18.

  That is, the circulation guide chute 17 is formed in a square cylinder shape in cross section, and is mounted on the lower surface of the opening 16b portion of the guide chute 15. On the other hand, the upper surface of the charge tank 18 is provided with a lid member 19 formed in a partially bulging shape, and the lower end side of the circulation guide chute 17 is connected to the bulging portion of the lid member 19. The lid member 19 is formed with vent holes 20 and 21 on the top surface of the bulging portion and the top surface of the non-bulging portion, respectively, and the tank from the vent hole 21 by the action of the suction fan 22 communicating with the opening on one side wall of the charge tank 18 is formed. The outside air is circulated in 18, and the air enters into the chute 17 from the ventilation net 23 provided on the lower side of the circulation guide chute 17, and then escapes from the one side 20 of the vent hole to the outside. With this configuration, the cooling action is imparted to the white rice in the charge tank 18 and the white rice in the circulation guide chute 17. 18a is a breathable net that is stretched over the opening of the tank.

  The charge tank 18 is formed such that one of the front, rear, left, and right side surfaces is substantially vertical and the other is constricted. A rotary valve 25 having the same form as the rotary valve 12 of the charging hopper 4 is disposed below the charge tank 18. A valve motor 26 rotates the rotary valve 20 in conjunction with rotation.

  The integrated unit of the charge tank 18 and the rotary valve 25 / valve motor 26 is connected to the side wall of the lower support shaft 28 of the lower pulley shaft 27 of the elevator 8 on the lower side of the rice lift 8. It is detachably mounted via a character-shaped connecting bracket 29 and is provided with a return chute 30 from the rice milling elevator 8 with openings on the lower side of the elevator 8 and the connecting bracket 29. Therefore, the configuration is such that the white rice in the charge tank 18 is returned to the milling elevator 8 as the valve motor 26 is fed out. With such a configuration, the milled rice once passed through the milling machine 10 is brought into a white rice state and waits until the first milling process for one loading port is completed in the charge tank 18, and again from the charge tank 18. When returned to the rice mill elevator 8 and circulated, the rice mill 10 separates and removes the moss adhering to the surface of the white rice. In addition, as described above, in order to apply cooling air to the polished rice in the charge tank 18 and the circulation guide chute 17 provided to be supplied to the charge tank 18, the rice polishing process in the rice milling machine 10 set for the rice polishing process is performed. At this time, by receiving cooled white rice from the charge tank 18, it is possible to perform the rice polishing treatment without causing excessive temperature rise. Therefore, the above-described automatic rice milling apparatus with a rice polishing function can suppress quality deterioration due to excessive temperature rise while continuously and rapidly processing from rice polishing to rice polishing.

  In the operation chamber 1, an operation panel 31 is provided on the partition wall 3. As shown in FIG. 8, a coin insertion slot 32, a bill insertion slot 33, a rice polishing switch 34 for selecting the “ken rice course”, and a “rice milling course” selection in which no rice polishing processing is performed are provided on the operation panel 31. White degree selection switches 35, 36, and 37 (upper white, standard, and eight steps are provided, but may be arbitrarily set), and the like. The operation panel 31 includes a microcomputer for controlling the drive output of each part drive motor.

  As shown in FIG. 9, the whiteness selection information from the whiteness selection switches 35 to 37, the selection information of the sharpening switch 34, and the like are input to the control unit 38 of the microcomputer. . On the other hand, a control signal to the rotary valve 12 drive motor 41 of the charging hopper 4, a control signal to the drive motors 42 and 43 for the stone cutter / rice milling elevator, the stone cutter drive motor 44, the rice mill drive motor 45, and the foreign substance removing device In addition to the control signals for the drive motor 47 and the grain conveying system of the charge valve rotary valve 25 drive motor 26 and the grain processing motor, there are control signals for the control motor drive output of the on-off valve 16 motor 16c and the like. 49 is a load current display meter.

  In FIG. 10, reference numeral 50 denotes a waste tank provided outside the building A, which is configured to be able to supply the rice cake separated through the milling cylinder of the rice mill 10 by the air conveying means 51. Below the waste tank 50, kneading means 52 for receiving waste and kneading is configured. The kneading means 52 includes a horizontal shaft 53, a spiral strip 54, and a cylindrical body 55 surrounding the spiral strip 54 in the illustrated example. When the horizontal shaft 53 is forcibly rotated, the waste is gradually fed out from the waste tank 50. Is configured to receive water supplied from a water supply tank 56 disposed in the middle while being transported in the horizontal direction, and the moderately replenished soot is kneaded into a pellet form in combination with rotary stirring. A granulating means 57 is formed at the outlet of the cylindrical body 55. The granulating means 57 is formed of a lid body having a plurality of holes 58, 58... With appropriate diameters, and is pelletized to be extruded from the plurality of holes 58, 58. This is a configuration in which the wrinkles are cut into fine pieces and discharged.

  Dehumidifying means 59 is connected to the water supply tank 56. That is, the dehumidifying means 59 has a known configuration and is configured to capture moisture from the outside air with a built-in cooler, and configured to store the moisture. The dehumidifying means 59 may be provided exclusively, or may be configured to also serve as the dehumidifying function of the air conditioner 60 provided to dehumidify the operation room 1 in the building A or the machine room 2.

  Since the dehumidifying means 59 is configured to supply water to the water supply tank 56 as described above, the structure of the water supply means, for example, a dedicated water faucet, is not necessary, and the movement of the waste tank 50 and the building This is convenient because it is not subject to restrictions on the installation location.

  In addition, if the device for air-conditioning the operation room 1 or the machine room 2 in the building is also used, it is not necessary to configure a special dehumidifying means, and efficient operation can be achieved by the combined use. The running cost is not bulky due to the spread.

  FIG. 12 shows a modification of the spiral strip. That is, the spiral pitch P of the spiral strip 54 near the discharge port of the waste tank 50 is formed larger than the standard spiral pitch p (for example, P = 2p). If comprised in this way, the distance of a spiral blade part and a spiral blade part becomes long, the wrinkles adhering to the spiral strip 54 can be decreased, and the conveyance capability does not fall. Similarly, in FIG. 13, in order to prevent the conveyance lowering due to the adhesion of the soot, a sub-spiral 61 that is parallel to the normal spiral 54 and has different front-rear transport is provided in the lower part of the waste tank 50. If comprised in this way, the parallel spiral stripe 54 and the spiral stripe 61 will act on the wrinkles which mutually adhered, and can be scraped off. Note that the sub-spiral strip 61 may be located at any position on the spiral strip 54 in the vertical and horizontal directions. 12 and 13 are not limited to the example of the waste tank 50 provided with the kneading means 52, and the same effect can be obtained even when applied to a straw transporting spiral that waits for the straw bag.

The operation of the above example will be described.
When raw brown rice is put into the feeding hopper 4 and the grinding switch 34 is pushed, the drive motor 41 of the rotary valve 12, the stone remover 6, the rice milling machine 10, etc. are rotated. At this time, the pressing plate 13 of the rice mill 10 is automatically set to the upper white setting state.

  The raw brown rice reaches from the charging hopper 4 to the stone lifter 5 as the rotary valve 12 rotates, and the stone remover 6 separates and separates foreign substances such as stones from the brown rice that flows down and flows downward. The brown rice is supplied to the foreign substance removing device 7 to capture and separate the sawdust on the rough surface, and the final brown rice is supplied to the rice mill lift 8 and lifted to reach the brown rice tank of the rice mill 10.

  The brown rice in the brown rice tank is sequentially supplied into the main body of the rice mill 10 and is set to upper white and is subjected to whitening treatment by the resistance action of the compression plate 13. When the amount of subsequent brown rice increases, the compression plate 13 is opened to reach the guide chute 15 parts. At the start of whitening, it is discharged without being whitened. The open / close valve 16 of the guide chute 15 is in an upright position to pass some unpolished rice from the circulation guide chute 17 to the charge tank 18, and then returned to the rice lifting elevator 8 through the rotary valve 25 in a driven state together with new brown rice. Supplied to the rice mill 10 (initial rice milling cycle).

  When the initial milling process for a predetermined time has elapsed, the rotary valve 25 stops. The milling process by the rice mill 10 is continued, and the milled rice is stored and accumulated in the charge tank 18 (rice milling process). Here, if the number of inserted coins is less than 3, the whitening processing amount is less than the payout amount corresponding to 3 unit prices. Therefore, the whitening processing is performed until the driving time T corresponding to the number of inserted coins elapses, and the whitening processing is performed. All the polished rice is stored in the charge tank 18.

  In addition, when the amount of input to the input hopper 4 is large and the number of input coins is 4 or more and the processing amount is 4 unit prices or more, the raw brown rice input restriction process is performed. That is, the raw material brown rice corresponding to three unit prices is continuously processed, but at this point, the rotary valve 12 is stopped. Further, the remaining amount obtained by subtracting the number of coins consumed (three in this example) from the number of inserted coins is returned from the return port. In addition, a message indicating that coins cannot be inserted is displayed.

  The polished rice from the rice mill 10 reaches the charge tank 18 through the circulation guide chute 17. The polished rice stored in the charge tank 18 and the polished rice in the middle of the circulation guide chute 17 are exposed to the outside air by the action of the suction fan 22. Ventilated and cooled.

  The milled rice stored in the charge tank 18 is supplied to the rice mill lift 8 when the rotary valve 12 on the charge tank 18 side is activated after a predetermined time has elapsed after the rotary valve 12 on the charging hopper 4 side is stopped and output. . It is supplied again from the brown rice tank to the rice milling machine 10 and receives a rice polishing action. The compression plate 13 stands by in the above white position and separates and removes the potatoes adhering to or remaining on the surface layer of the polished rice supplied to the inside.

  The polished rice at the initial stage of polishing has unpolished rice, and the same initial polishing process as that described above is performed, and the initial unpolished rice is stored in the charge tank 18 and waited. When this initial polishing cycle is performed for a predetermined time, the open / close valve 16 stands up and discharges the treated rice to the circulation guide chute 17 side.

  When the above-described initial polishing process of the rice polishing has passed, the guide chute 15 on the discharge side of the rice milling machine 13 is switched from the standing state to the state where the opening of the lodging is closed, and the polished rice that has been subjected to the rice polishing is the white rice tank. 11 is taken out to the side. Just before the end, the initial polished rice stored in the uncharged rice tank in the previous charge tank 18 is returned to the rice milling machine 10 together with the polished rice, and is finally brought into the fully polished state.

Thus, when the rice polishing process for 3 unit prices is completed, the raw brown rice remaining in the input hopper 4 is processed in the same manner as described above.
In the selection of the polishing course by the above-described polishing switch 34, in the case of the first milling process or the polishing process by circulation, the compression plate 13 is configured to perform the process in the upper white position, but these are arbitrarily changed and set. May be. Also, whiteness sensors 50a and 50b are provided in the circulation path of the circulation guide chute 17 or the charge tank 18, and the pressure of the compression plate 13 is gradually increased to determine whether the whiteness is above a predetermined level. It is good also as a structure which sets the pressure board 13 pressure. Thus, if it comprises to a means which can adjust the pressure setting of the compression board 13 while comprising a circulation path | route and checking whiteness, it can always carry out the rice polishing process by a suitable pressure setting.

  As described above, when the polishing switch 34 for polishing the raw brown rice from the whitening process is operated, the polishing switch 34 in the form of an illumination switch blinks during the polishing process. That is, the user can be notified that the whitening process is in progress. During the studying process, the lighting will continue. In addition to the above, the light may be turned off during the rice polishing process and may be flashed or continuously illuminated during the rice polishing process. In addition, as an effect of notifying that the rice milling process is in progress, it can be notified that it takes more than the polishing time until the processing is completed. In addition to this, it is possible to notify whether the polishing process or the polishing process is performed by an audio device, and it is possible to provide a process display function to notify the current state by lighting the lamp.

When the polishing process is not required and only the whitening process is performed, the polishing switch 34 is not operated, and any one of the whiteness selection switches 35 to 37 having a desired whiteness is operated.
The rice cake that is separated from the whitening cylinder in both the whitening process and the rice polishing process by the rice mill is sent to the outdoor waste tank 50 through the air conveying means 51 by the duct and the rice fan. The pre-stored soot is fed to the start end side of the kneading means 52 by rotational driving of the horizontal shaft, and is transferred toward the discharge side while being compressed by the spiral strip 54. In the middle of the kneading means 52, a water supply tank 56 is connected, and water is gradually supplied. Therefore, when the moisture is increased to form a paste, and the granulation means 57 at the end portion is submerged, a granule having a predetermined shape is formed. Obtainable. This cocoon granule is provided as a fertilizer.

  The water supply tank 56 is connected to an air conditioner 60 provided to cool and heat the operation room 1 of the building, and is configured to receive and store water generated as the air conditioner 60 is operated. Since each water supply means, for example, a water faucet is not required and water work is not involved, restrictions on building installation can be reduced.

In the above example, the raw material grain is brown rice, but the same applies to the case of rice bran.
That is, the raw material mash from the charging hopper 4 a disposed on the operation chamber 1 side is configured to be supplied to the palletizer 64 through the pallet lifter 63. The hulling machine 64 is composed of a detaching part 65 composed of a pair of detaching rolls, a wind selecting part 67 for selecting the wind by the suction action of the suction fan 66, etc. It is the structure which is discharged | emitted and collect | recovered suitably. On the surface of the operation panel 31a, a rice bran / brown rice selection switch (not shown) is arranged, or on the basis of the automatic discrimination result of the rice bran / brown rice discriminating means arranged in the raw material charging unit such as the charging hopper 4a ( In the case of (or determination), the above-mentioned detaching roll gap is made a predetermined hulling gap, and in the case of brown rice selection (or determination), the detaching roll gap is widened to be a gap that allows the grain to flow down. The configuration can be set to the state. In addition, the same structure as FIG. 1 attaches | subjects the same code | symbol.

  In addition, the structure of the selection part 67 is formed as follows in general. The wind sorting unit 67 disposed below the de-rolling unit 65 composed of a pair of de-rolling rolls obliquely moves the sorting air path 68 in which the sorting wind generated by the suction fan 66 on the rear side of the machine body is provided in an inclined posture. It is comprised so that it may rise, It is the structure which wind-sorts the sliding rice from the said detachment roll. The brewed rice reaches a wind sorting section 67 through a predetermined squeezing path 69, brown rice and rice bran are taken out from a take-out outlet 70 below the slope, and the shiina is introduced into a shiina discharge port 71 and a suction fan 66 on the upper slope. After that, it is sorted and separated into rice husks which are discharged from the machine through a dust removal cylinder 68.

  Here, the shiner discharge port 71 is configured to receive a shiner that is selectively separated over the entire width in the width direction of the fuselage, and is provided with a shiner chute 72 so that it can be collected and taken out on the left and right sides. Similarly, the brown rice chute 73 that collects brown rice partially containing rice cake is configured to receive the grains from the outlet 70 in the width direction and collect them on the left and right sides and take them out.

  Conventionally, the transfer spiral is configured to collect the take-out of the thinner across the left and right width direction on one side. However, in the above configuration, the shiner chute 72 is configured to be collected on one side. Are arranged alternately on the left and right sides with respect to the brown rice chute 73, so that they do not interfere with each other and the arrangement positions can be dispersed without being bulky. In addition, the grain from the brown rice chute 73 is supplied to the other side of the lower side receiving part of the lifting machine 5 for removing stones installed in the vicinity, and the thinner from the shiner chute 72 is supplied to the other side of the receiving part, respectively. It is the structure transferred to. Therefore, the tip of the chute is symmetrically disposed on the left and right parts of the elevator, and a compact configuration can be realized. A configuration may be adopted in which the shiina is switched to be taken out of the machine. Since the above-mentioned shiner chute 72 is connected to the hulling elevator 63 and is returned to the removal unit 65, it is subjected to the removal process again. 74 is a dust exhaust cylinder.

  The brown rice containing part of the rice cake obtained by passing through the above-described rice huller 64 passes through the stone removal elevator 5, and then reaches the rice mill 10 through the stone removal machine 6, the foreign matter removing device 7, and the rice lifting elevator 8. After the processing, the rice milling machine 10 is again passed through the white rice tank 11 and the rice milling elevator 8 to undergo the polishing process.

  FIG. 16 shows a configuration in the case where raw material grains are used as a koji, and a hulling machine 64 is provided inside the machine room 2, and the raw material from the charging hopper 4 a is lifted by the elevator 5 and connected to the hulling machine 64. It is the structure which supplies the brown rice mainly processed by the rice-brushing process to the rice milling machine 10. In FIG. 16, in the improved configuration, a hood 75 is provided so as to surround the upper surface of the charging hopper 4, and the hood 75 is connected to the suction fan 66 part that acts on the wind sorting part 67 of the huller 64. . Further, a detecting means 76 for detecting the presence / absence of a user is provided on the operation panel 31a surface, and configured so that the hulling machine 56 or the suction fan 66 is operated in advance in accordance with the user's detection.

  With this configuration, when the user stands facing the operation panel 31, the detection unit 76 is activated, and the hulling machine 64 automatically starts the preceding operation, and dust that rises when the grain is put into the throwing hopper 4 is collected. It can be sucked and discharged through the hood 75. For this reason, the operation room side atmosphere at the time of raw material grain injection | throwing-in can be maintained cleanly.

  In addition, when the suction fan 66 is operated in accordance with the operation of the hulling machine 64, the inside of the machine chamber 2 is in a negative pressure state in accordance with this fan operation, which causes a sorting failure. The negative pressure state is eliminated by the construction, and selection failure does not occur.

  FIG. 17 shows an example of data printing in an unmanned rice mill facility. That is, there is a configuration for displaying the conventional operation time and the usage fee. In the printing example of FIG. 17, after (1) power on, (2) power on time display, user A's (3) rice milling start time and end time, (4) rice milling required time and amount display ... However, conventionally, printing of items (3) and (4) has been limited.

  However, in the example of FIG. 17, the apparatus is further configured to print a stop condition of the apparatus and a failure condition when a failure occurs. Explaining according to the display example, in item (5), the stop state of the apparatus is printed with a code together with the number of unit prices used. The number “3” in item (5) indicates the number of unit prices used, and the symbol “G1” indicates “normal termination of brown rice use”. The code representing the end of the apparatus is set in advance as shown in FIG. 18, and “G2” is set to “end of use of brown rice”.

  Items (6) and after relate to the following user B. Item (8) indicates the unit price usage frequency “2”, “G2” stop, that is, “brown rice usage out of money”. Immediately thereafter, the operation is continued in item (9), and it is estimated that the same user B is in operation. From the result that “G2” ends in item (11) and an error (failure) is displayed in item (13), it is estimated that some failure has occurred in the apparatus.

  When an error (failure) is displayed in item (12), characters are displayed in item (13) in the next column, the time of occurrence is displayed in item (14), and the detailed content is displayed in code in item (15). The contents are displayed. FIG. 19 shows an example of error (failure) display contents. The determination of these errors (failures) is based on the detection results of the abnormality detection means disposed at each site in the apparatus. For example, a thermal trip by a load detection device of a power source, a whitening degree detection means, and the like. In addition, the code | symbol display of the item (15) of a figure example is "E0", and it determines with a thermal trip according to FIG. The error is displayed again (16). Item (17) displays the collection, item (18) displays the date and time of collection, and item (19) displays the total amount of the current collection from the previous collection.

  As described above, the data printer is configured to print out the operation stop conditions as shown in items (5) and (11) in addition to the conventional operation time and usage fee when printing this data. It is possible to determine whether it is normal stop or stop due to failure, and in the case of failure stop, the contents are displayed as shown in items (13) to (15). Can be easily determined, the cause of the failure can be promptly performed, and troubles with the user can be prevented.

  In addition, various sensors are arranged to determine the abnormality of each part, but even if there is a sensor abnormality, it is possible to operate by operating the facility and when it is necessary to stop the operation of the facility It is possible to categorize the failure and repair the failure part while continuing the business.

  FIG. 20 relates to an improvement in the vicinity of the charging hopper 4 of the present invention. A net 77 is stretched over the loading port 4b of the loading hopper 4, and “open” is displayed on the front and back surfaces of the display board 78 that informs whether it is “in operation” or “being broken” for any reason. ”And“ being out of order ”, the lower edge portion is connected to the front wall 79 in the upper space of the charging hopper 4 by a hinge 80, and the upper edge portion is appropriately detachably fixed by a hook 81 or the like. Constructed in this way, when fixed with the hook 80, the surface of the display board 78 is lifted along the front wall 79 so that the user can visually recognize the notation of “in operation” (FIG. 20 (A)). On the other hand, when the use is refused due to any failure, the hook 81 is removed and the display board 78 is rotated around the hinge 80 and placed on the surface of the net 77, and the back side visible to the user indicates “failing”. This is indicated ((b) in the figure).

If comprised in this way, the net | network 77 surface can be concealed especially at the time of "being out of order", and the wrong input | introduction of raw material brown rice and rice bran can be prevented.
FIG. 21 shows a different example of the present invention, which is provided with a display plate 82 that slides up and down in a state along, for example, the partition wall 3 located on the front side of the insertion port 4 c of the insertion hopper 4. When the display plate 82 is slid downward, the inlet 4c is closed, and the raw brown rice and rice bran can be input by sliding upward and holding. On the display panel 82, “not working” and “in operation” are indicated in two upper and lower stages, and when the slide is lifted and hooks (not shown) are stopped, the indication “in operation” is confirmed from the display window 83. In the state where the hook is removed and the front surface of the insertion port 4c is blocked, the “not working” mark is placed in the corresponding position on the display window 83. With this configuration, during the “failure” period, the charging port 4c of the charging hopper 4 is blocked, and the raw brown rice and rice bran cannot be input, thereby preventing erroneous input.

As described above, if the display plates 78 and 83 are movable and the raw brown rice and rice bran are not allowed to be input during a failure, erroneous input can be prevented and erroneous operation can be prevented.
Also, the feeding hopper 4 is provided with a shutter 84 for feeding raw brown rice and rice bran, and this shutter 84 is always in a closed position to restrict the feeding of the raw brown rice and rice bran, and the user opens this shutter 82 to remove the raw brown rice. When the shutter 84 is closed and the shutter 84 is closed, each part can be operated, and the system is operated substantially based on a predetermined operation switch operation. That is, a detecting means 85 (for example, a proximity switch that is turned on when the shutter 84 is approached) that detects the closed state of the shutter 84 is provided and connected to the control unit 38. When the control unit 38 cannot determine the shutter closing detection of the shutter detecting means 85 even if the whiteness setting switch operation or the operation of each part start switch means replaced by a polishing switch is performed, the control section 38 outputs the start output. First, the restraining means is configured to output a start when the shutter closing is detected. Therefore, the operation is not started with the shutter 84 opened, and safety is ensured. Furthermore, since the amount of raw brown rice (or rice cake) brought in by the user is mixed and there is no means of confirmation in the unmanned rice mill facility, that is, whether the raw rice brown rice (or rice cake) contained in the input hopper is small Since it is impossible to judge whether there is any, the control is complicated or the detection means for confirming the amount has been forced to be added. However, as described above, the operation of opening and closing the shutter 84, particularly the closing operation, is left to the user. Only the detection means for detecting the amount can reliably determine the end of charging, thus simplifying the control.

It is the whole building top view. It is a side view of a machine room interior. It is the front view which carried out the partial cross section of the machine room interior. It is a sectional side view of a rice mill discharge part. It is a disassembled perspective view of a charge tank. It is a perspective view which shows the mounting structure of a charge tank. It is a side view which shows the mounting structure of a charge tank. It is a front view which shows an example of an operation panel. It is a control block diagram. It is a schematic diagram of a rejection process part. It is sectional drawing of an exclusion process part. It is a sectional side view which shows the example from which a spiral differs. It is a plane sectional view showing still another example of a spiral. It is the whole building top view. It is sectional drawing of a hulling machine. It is the whole building top view. It is a figure which shows an example of printing. It is a table | surface which shows an example of a driving | running completion state display. It is a table | surface which shows an example of an abnormal code display. (A) (B) It is a perspective view of an insertion part. (A) (b) It is a perspective view of a charging portion of a different example of the present invention. It is a throwing-part perspective view of another example.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 4 ... Feeding hopper, 8 ... Elevator for rice milling, 9 ... Rice milling tank, 10 ... Rice milling machine, 11 ... White rice tank, 50 ... Waste tank, 51 ... Air conveyance means, 52 ... Kneading means, 53 ... Horizontal axis, 54 ... Spiral strip, 55 ... cylindrical body, 56 ... water supply tank, 57 ... granulating means, 58, 58 ... hole, 59 ... dehumidifying means, 60 ... air conditioner

Claims (1)

Partitioning building (A) is operated chamber (1) machine room (2), a hopper for introducing brown rice (4), hopper (4) to put the rice mill to rice brown rice and (10) in an automatic rice apparatus provided, hook the upper edge portion together with the above the feeding hopper (4) is provided with a front wall (79), the positive wall (79) connects the lower edge portion at a hinge (80) (81) is provided with a display board (78) that is detachably fixed;
When the front surface of the display board (78) is marked “in operation” and the back side is “failed”, and the display board (78) is fixed with the hook (81), the surface of the display board (78) is the front wall. (79) in a state where the notation of “in operation” is raised toward the operation room side (1),
When the rice milling machine (10) breaks down, the display plate (78) disengages the hook (81) and rotates around the hinge (80) to close the loading port of the loading hopper (4). An automatic rice milling apparatus characterized in that the notation is facing upward .

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