JP5874080B2 - Onion root cutting machine - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an onion root cutting machine for processing onion with roots (see reference numerals T1 to T3 in FIGS. 2 to 5) from which leaf portions have been removed . In addition, the onions which are the target of root cutting in the present invention include raccoon, garlic, lily root, bulb and the like in addition to the onion itself.

  The harvested onion must be dried for a predetermined period and then roots must be excised at the time of shipment. Conventionally, the onion root excision work is generally performed manually with scissors.

  By the way, at the time of onion shipment, it is necessary to perform a large amount of onion root cutting work in a short period of time, and the roots extend in an irregular direction. In the work, the work efficiency is very bad, and continuing the root cutting work for a long time is a very tired work.

  Therefore, the present applicant has already proposed an onion root cutting machine disclosed in Utility Model Registration No. 2568657 (Patent Document 1).

  This known onion root cutting machine has a pair of left and right brush rolls (the upper surface sides rotate inward from each other) arranged close to each other, and a root cutting device (a pair of disk blades) at the end of the brush roll. Is provided.

Then, known onion roots cutting machine this, by pressing lightly onion with roots were excised leaf part in his hand in a state where the roots facing down on the upper surface side valley portion between both brush roll, both sides of the The root of the onion is suspended downward with a brush roll, and the root of the root can be cut with the root cutting device (two disc blades) by moving the onion laterally to the root cutting device in the state of hanging down. ing.

Utility Model Registration No. 2568657

  However, in the onion root cutting machine of the above known example (Patent Document 1), after turning the onion root downward and pressing between both brush rolls, the onion root cutting machine can be cut horizontally by moving laterally to the root cutting device side. Therefore, although it can be done relatively lightly, it is necessary to manually operate the onions one by one, so there are many points to be improved in terms of efficiency and workability.

  Accordingly, the present invention aims to provide an onion root cutting machine that can automatically remove the onion roots by simply dropping the onions to be rooted from the input section and then automatically cutting off the onion roots. It is said.

The present invention has the following configuration as means for solving the above problems. Although the present invention is directed to an onion root cutting machine, the onion to be processed by the onion root cutting machine of the present application is a rooted one having a leaf portion removed. In addition, the onions to be rooted in the present invention include raccoon, garlic, lily root, bulb and the like in addition to the onion itself. In the following description, the onion itself will be described as an onion to be rooted.

Root cutting machine of this gun onset Akira of onions is,
Rooted onions with the leaves removed are treated,
A pair of rolls arranged in a horizontal position close to the left or right or in contact with each other between a charging part and a discharging part in a main body case provided with an onion charging part on the front side and an onion discharging part on the rear side, and between the two rolls Set up a transfer roll body that can be put onion on the top surface of the
Each roll is configured by spirally arranging a spiral portion having a function of feeding the onion on the outer periphery and a belt-like brush material having a function of hanging the onion root downward,
Each roll of the transfer roll body is rotated by the power unit so that the upper surfaces of the rolls face each other ,
By placing the onion on the upper surface between the rolls in a driving state of the transfer roll body, constituting the onion roots by lateral bristles of each roll so as to Koso onions by the right and left helical portion of each roll while reducing vertical And
Root cutting with a pair of left and right disc cutters capable of cutting the root portion of the onion root discharged from the end portion of the transfer roll body in a downward-downward posture on the lower surface side of the onion near the end portion of the transfer roll body While installing the equipment ,
A pair of left and right elastic rolls in a circular shape in plan view for elastically holding the onions discharged from the terminal end of the transfer roll body from the left and right sides and passing them on the cut portions of the respective disk cutters on the upper part of each disk cutter. Provided,
It is characterized by this.

  For example, a coil material can be used for the spiral portion provided in each roll. Further, the spiral portion may be a single one, or two ones may be installed with an interval in the roll length direction. The brush material is a belt-like material arranged in a spiral shape within the interval between the spiral portions.

  The spiral portion of each roll and the brush material are set so that their outer peripheral surfaces are substantially the same (the diameter of the coil material portion may be slightly smaller than the diameter of the brush material portion). And in the state which these both rolls adjoined (or contacted), while the spiral part outer ends of each side are in contact (or almost in contact or proximity) on the facing part, the brush material outer ends of each side Are in contact with each other. The outer ends of the brush materials on each side may be polymerized by a predetermined small length (for example, 1 to 2 mm).

  As for the diameter of each roll, one having an appropriate thickness can be employed depending on the type (size) of onions to be rooted. For example, for onions, a roll having a diameter of about 10 cm to 12 cm is suitable. For example, a small roll such as a rakkyo is suitable for a roll having a diameter of about 3 cm to 4 cm. Regardless of the size of the roll diameter, it is the same that the spiral portion and the brush material are arranged spirally on the outer periphery of the roll.

In the onion root cutting machine of the present invention , by simply dropping the onion with root without a leaf from the input part of the main body case, the onion with the root cut is automatically discharged from the discharge part as follows. It has become so.

That is, in the state where the transfer roll body is driven by the power unit , when the rooted onion is dropped without a leaf from the input part of the main body case, the onion rolls in a state where it is placed between both rolls of the transfer roll body. At this time, a part of the onion root is drawn into the contact portion between the brush materials of both rolls. As a result, the entire root of the onion is sequentially drawn between the brush materials, so that the onion is changed to a posture in which the root is directed downward (upright posture). In addition, although the root of an onion is comparatively thin, when each brush material outer end of both rolls is contacting (or superposing | polymerizing only small length), even if a root is thin, it can draw in reliably. In the state where the onion is in the upright posture, the entire root is swung downward with the left and right brush materials, so that each root is extended to a state close to a straight line.

On the other hand, the onions in the upper side valley between both rolls are suspended on the transfer roll body while the roots are suspended downward as described above, and the left and right spiral parts remain in an upright posture (roots downward). It is sent from the section side to the discharge section side. The onions are discharged from the end portion of the transfer roll body in the upright posture, and the onions discharged from the end portion of the transfer roll body are elastically formed by the left and right elastic rolls in the upright posture. The onion roots are accurately and cleanly cut at the root portions by the two disc cutters by passing the discs on the cutting portions of the disc cutters. In addition, since both disk cutters cut | disconnect a root on the lower surface side of an onion, the cut | root cut root will fall below a main body case as it is.

As described above, the onion root cutting machine of the present application can automatically perform the onion root cutting operation by simply dropping the rooted onion without a leaf from the input part of the main body case.

The onion root cutting machine of the present invention uses, as each roll of the transfer roll body, a material in which a brush material having a spiral part and a pendulum function is arranged in a spiral shape on the outer periphery, and a leaf Without dropping the rooted onion from the input section, it can be automatically performed until the root cutting operation is completed.

Therefore, the onion root cutting machine of the present invention has an effect that the onion root cutting work can be efficiently processed (a large amount can be processed in a short time) and only light work can be performed.

Further, the onion root cutting machine of the present invention is a disc cutter with the onion discharged from the end portion of the transfer roll body being elastically clamped between the left and right elastic rolls in an upright position (roots downward). Since the onion is maintained in an upright posture, a root cutting operation with a disk cutter can be performed on the lower surface side of the onion .

Therefore, in the onion root cutting machine of the present invention, the onion can be rooted accurately (at the root) and reliably (without failure) by the root cutting device (disk cutter) , and the cut root can be used as it is. There is an effect that it can be dropped below .

It is a top view of the root cutting machine of the onion of an example of this application. It is an II-II arrow line view of FIG. FIG. 3 is an enlarged arrow view of a III-III portion (a spiral portion corresponding portion) in FIG. 1. FIG. 4 is an enlarged arrow view of the IV-IV part (brush material corresponding part) of FIG. 1. It is an enlarged arrow view of the VV part (root cutting device corresponding | compatible part) of FIG.

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Hereinafter, the onion root cutting machine according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. In the state in which the right side of the plan view of FIG. 1 is down , the left side is the “front” side, which is the onion input side, the right side is the “rear” side, which is the onion discharge side, and the upper side is viewed from “front”. On the “left” side, the lower side is the “right” side viewed from “front”. In each figure, onions are marked with T1 to T4, and onion roots are marked with N, and T1 to T4 indicate the onions at their respective positions. In addition, as shown by T1-T3 in FIGS. 2-5, the onion processed with the onion root cutting machine of this Example is the rooted onion which cut the leaf part in the root part and left the root. .

Root cutter onion such this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the root processor configured one and onions transfer device 2 at one root cutting device 4 to the right and left 2箇locations in the main body case 1 One set is arranged (two sets in total). The two sets of root processing devices (each composed of an onion transfer device 2 and a root cutting device 4) are the same as each other. In the following description, the root processing device on the “right” side is mainly used. explain.

The main body case 1 is enclosed by a two-dot chain line in FIG. The one in the front portion of the main body case 1 is provided with the two turned portions 11, 11 at a position spaced to the left or right, of the rear portion of the main body case 1 two at positions corresponding to-projecting join the club 11 and 11 discharge Parts 12 and 12 are provided. Note that the charging unit 11 may be referred to as a charging chute, and the discharging unit 12 may be referred to as a discharging chute.

  Between the input unit 11 and the discharge unit 12 in the main body case 1, a transfer roll body 20 including two rolls 21 and 22 as a set, and a root N of the onion T that is fed later by the transfer roll body 20. A root cutting device 4 is installed. In addition, two sets of root processing apparatuses which use this transfer roll body 20 and the root cutting device 4 as one set are used on the left and right.

  Also, the rolls 21 and 22 (four in total) of the left and right transfer roll bodies 20 and 20 are a common power unit 3 as shown in FIG. It can be rotated. In other words, the pair of rolls 21 and 22 are rotated by the power unit 3 so that the upper surfaces of the rolls face each other. The transfer roll body 20 composed of a pair of rolls 21 and 22 and the power unit 3 constitute an onion transfer device 2 for feeding onions as described later. In this embodiment, There are two onion transfer devices 2 on the left and right (see FIG. 1). The power unit 3 for the transfer roll bodies 20 and 20 includes a single motor 31 and a power transmission member 32 composed of a sprocket and a chain.

  In this embodiment, each of the left and right rolls 21 and 22 constituting the transfer roll body 20 has a coil-like spiral portion 24 having an onion feed function on one rotating shaft 23 and a strip-like shape having an onion hanging function. Each of the brush members 25 is spirally wound. That is, in each roll 21, 22, the spiral portion 24 and the brush material 25 appear alternately in the roll length direction in a plan view (FIG. 1) and a side view (FIG. 2). In this embodiment, the spiral portion 24 provided on each of the rolls 21 and 22 is configured by winding a coil material. Therefore, in the following description, the spiral portion 24 may be referred to as a coil material.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the pair of rolls 21 and 22 is reverse to the one in which the coil material (spiral portion) 24 and the brush material 25 are spirally wound so as to advance in the clockwise direction (the roll denoted by reference numeral 21). The coil member 24 and the brush member 25 are spirally wound so as to advance in the counterclockwise direction (roll of reference numeral 22). In this embodiment, only one coil member 24 is wound around one rotating shaft 23. However, in another embodiment, two coil members 24 are wound around one rotating shaft 23. It can be attached.

  The coil material 24 and the brush material 25 in each of the rolls 21 and 22 are set so that their outer peripheral surfaces are substantially the same. In another embodiment, the diameter of the coil material 24 portion may be slightly smaller than the diameter of the brush material 25 portion.

The thickness of each of the rolls 21 and 22 (each diameter of the coil material 24 and the brush material 25) is preferably about 10 cm to 12 cm (not particularly limited) for onions. for example those directed to those small like shallot is that the diameter of the roll 21, 22 is about 3cm~4cm are preferred. Regardless of the roll diameter, it is the same that the coil material (spiral part) 24 and the brush material 25 are spirally arranged on the outer periphery of the roll.

  As shown in FIG. 1, both the rolls 21 and 22 are arranged close to each other (or in contact) between the input portion 11 and the discharge portion 12 in the main body case 1. That is, in the arrangement shown in FIG. 1, the outer ends of the coil members 24, 24 on each side are in contact with each other at the facing portion (may be in a slightly spaced proximity state), while the brush members 25 on each side, The outer ends of 25 are in contact at the facing portion. It should be noted that the outer ends of the brush members 25 on each side may be polymerized by a predetermined small length (for example, 1 to 2 mm).

  Left and right guide plates 13 and 13 that are inclined downward toward the upper surface near the outer periphery of each of the rolls 21 and 22 are provided on the left and right positions on the upper side of the transfer roll body 20 including both rolls 21 and 22. Each of the guide plates 13 and 13 prevents the onion from falling off left and right.

  In the transfer roll body 20, the rolls 21 and 22 are rotated by the power unit 3 in the directions indicated by the arrows in FIGS. 1 to 4 (inward directions relative to each other). It acts as follows on the onions on the part.

That is, when a rooted onion is dropped onto the transfer roll body 20 without a leaf from the charging unit 11 in the operating state (position of T1), the onion rolls at the upper side valley between the rolls 21 and 22. The posture of the onion at this time is unspecified. When the onion rolls, first, a part of the root N of the onion T1 is drawn downward by the left and right brush members 25, 25, and then the entire root N of the onion T1 is drawn by the two brush members 25, 25. Drooped in between. At this time, the onions are maintained in an upright posture with the roots facing downward as indicated by reference numeral T1 in FIG. 2 when the roots N are biased downward . Although the onion root N is relatively thin, if the outer ends of the brush members 25, 25 of both rolls 21, 22 are in contact with each other (or a small length is polymerized), the root is thin. Can be reliably pulled in.

On the other hand, the onions placed on the upper side valleys between the two rolls 21 and 22 are successively fed by the coil members 24 and 24 of the both rolls 21 and 22 while keeping the upright posture (the root is in a downward posture). . In other words, the onion is sent back from the position of the symbol T1 in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 to the position of the symbol T2 in an upright posture (or while facing the upright posture). The onion back-feeding function also works with the brush members 25 and 25 together with the coil members 24 and 24.

  A root cutting device 4 having a pair of left and right disk blades 41, 41 is provided in the vicinity of the terminal end of the transfer roll body 20. The root cutting device 4 has disk cutters 41, 41 attached to two longitudinal shafts 40, 40, respectively, and the disk cutters 41, 41 are connected to the roots of the onion root N at positions near the terminal end of the transfer roll body 20. The height is set so that the part can be cut (see FIG. 5). Further, the vertical shafts 40, 40 are moved by the power unit 5 in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG. It can be rotated. In addition, each set of the disk blades 41 and 41 of the root cutting device 4 is installed in the vicinity of the end portions of the two sets of transfer roll bodies 20 and 20, respectively. As the power unit 5, a single motor 51 and a power transmission member (sprocket and chain) 52 hung around each of the longitudinal shafts 40 (four in total) on both sides are used.

In this embodiment , elastic rolls 42, 42 having a circular shape in plan view are attached to the upper portions of the respective disc blades 41, 41, respectively. Each of the elastic rolls 42, 42 can be made of a soft sponge that compresses and recovers in the radial direction, but a brush roll can also be used. The diameters of both elastic rolls 42 and 42 are set so that the distance between the opposing portions of both elastic rolls 42 and 42 is considerably smaller than the diameter of the onion (for example, set to an interval of about 2 to 3 cm). The function of the elastic rolls 42 will be described later.

  Below both the disk cutters 41, 41, a root receiving chute 14 for guiding the roots of the onion cut by the disk cutter as described later is provided. Further, below this root receiving chute 14 is installed a root receiver X that accommodates the cut onion.

  A discharge chute 12 serving as a discharge portion is attached to the “rear” side of both the disk cutters 41, 41 (two on the left and right). In addition, an onion receiver Y is installed below the discharge chute 12 to accommodate the onion T4 having undergone root cutting.

  In the onion root cutting machine of this embodiment, the onion T4 in a state in which the roots are cut as follows is automatically obtained by simply dropping the onion with the roots sequentially from the input part (input chute) 11 of the main body case 1. It is discharged from a discharge part (discharge chute) 12.

  That is, when the power device 3 on the onion transfer device 2 side and the power device 5 on the root cutting device 4 side are operated, the rolls 21 and 22 of the transfer roll body 20 (two sets) rotate inward with respect to each other. On the other hand, the pair of disc blades 41, 41 (and the elastic rolls 42, 42 thereon) rotate. Then, when the rooted onion is dropped from the charging chute 11 (two places) of the main body case 1 in this operating state, the onion is placed on the upper surface side trough between the rolls 21 and 22 at a position near the starting end of the transfer roll body 20. Mounted (position of reference T1). Then, when both rolls 21 and 22 rotate, the onion rolls. At this time, a part of the root N of the onion is at the contact portion between the brush materials 25 and 25 of both rolls 21 and 22. The entire onion root is drawn in between the brush members 25 and 25 in turn, and the onion is changed to an upright posture with the root downward (the posture indicated by T1 in FIG. 2). At this time, in the upright posture of the onion T1, the entire root N is scraped downward by the left and right brush members 25, 25, so that each root N is extended to a state close to a straight line.

  On the other hand, the onion T1 in the upper surface side trough between both rolls 21 and 22 has the root N hanging downward as described above, and at the same time the left and right coil members 24 and 24 remain in an upright posture. 2 is sent back from the input unit 11 side to the discharge unit 12 side. At this time, since the root N of the onion is drawn downward by the both brush members 25, 25, the lower surface of the onion reliably comes into contact with the coil members 24, 24, thereby ensuring the onion feed function. .

  Thus, each roll 21, 22 of the transfer roll body 20 has both the onion hanging function by the brush material 25 and the onion post-feed function by the coil material 24, so the onion on the transfer roll body 20. The onions can be sequentially postponed in an appropriate posture (upright posture) simply by dropping the.

Then, the onion is transferred to the end portion of the transfer roll body 2 in an upright position (position T2), and then is discharged to the disk cutter 41, 41 side. , 41 is passed over the cutting part (blade edge overlapping part) (reference numeral T3), the root portion of the root N of the onion T3 is cut by the two disc blades 41, 41. At this time, the disk cutters 41 and 41 cut the root N on the lower surface side of the onion T3, so the roots N cut by the disk cutters 41 and 41 remain unchanged (guided to the root chute 14). Fall down).

  By the way, when cutting the onion root with the disc blades 41, 41, it is desirable to keep the onion in an upright position as much as possible in order to cut the root N cleanly. Therefore, in this embodiment, when the onion is discharged from the end portion of the transfer roll body 20, the onion is directly held between the elastic rolls 42 and 42 on the disk blades 41 and 41, respectively. . In the state where the onion T3 is sandwiched between the two elastic rolls 42, 42, the sandwiched portions of the two elastic rolls 42, 42 are recessed along the outer shape of the onion as indicated by reference numerals 42a, 42a in FIG. (This dent 42a returns to its original state when the onion passes).

  When the onion is sandwiched between the elastic rolls 42 and 42 in this way (reference numeral T3 in FIGS. 1 and 5), the onion T3 can be maintained in an upright posture, and the root N is surely suspended downward. And when this onion T3 is passed over the cutting part (blade edge superposition | polymerization part) of the disk blades 41 and 41, with both elastic rolls 42 and 42 clamped, the root N of this onion T3 can be correctly cut | disconnected by a root part.

  The root N cut by the disk blades 41 and 41 passes through the root receiving chute 14 and is accommodated in the root receiver X, while the onion T4 having undergone the root cutting that has passed through the disk blade cuts the discharge chute 12. And is accommodated in the onion receiver Y.

  As described above, the onion root cutting machine of this embodiment simply drops the onion onto the transfer roll body 20 from the charging chute 11, and the onion root hanging operation and the onion post-feeding operation are automatically performed. Further, after the root cutting operation by the root cutting device 4, the rooted onion can be automatically recovered. Accordingly, there is an advantage that the onion root cutting work can be efficiently performed and the root cutting work is light.

  1 is a main body case, 2 is an onion transfer device, 3 is a power device, 4 is a root cutting device, 5 is a power device, 11 is an input portion (input chute), 12 is a discharge portion (discharge chute), and 20 is a transfer roll body 21 and 22 are rolls, 23 is a rotating shaft, 24 is a coil material, 25 is a brush material, 41 is a disk cutter, 42 is an elastic roll, T1 to T4 are onions, and N is a root.

Claims (1)

Rooted onions (T) with the leaves removed, are treated.
The input part (11) and the discharge part (12) in the main body case (1) provided with the input part (11) for the onions (T) on the front side and the discharge part (12) for the onions (T) on the rear side. In between, it consists of a pair of rolls (21, 22) arranged in the horizontal position in close proximity or in contact with each other, and onions (T) are placed on the upper surface portion between the rolls (21, 22) for later feeding. Install the transfer roll body (20) that was made available,
Each of the rolls (21, 22) has a strip-like shape having a function of hanging down the root (N) of the helix (24) and the onions (T) downwardly with the function of feeding the onions (T) to the outer periphery. The brush material (25) and each are arranged in a spiral shape,
The rolls (21, 22) of the transfer roll body (20) are configured such that the upper surface sides of the rolls are rotated inward from each other by the power unit (3).
By putting the onions (T) on the upper surface between the two rolls (21, 22) in the driving state of the transfer roll body (20), the roots of the onions (by the left and right brush members (25, 25) of each roll) N) is configured so that the onions (T) can be fed later by the left and right spirals (24, 24) of each roll while hanging down ,
Near the end of the transfer roll body (20), the root (N) of the onion (T) discharged from the end of the transfer roll body (20) in a downward-downward posture is the lower surface of the onion. While installing a root cutting device (4) having a pair of left and right disk cutters (41, 41) that can be cut on the side ,
Onions (T) discharged from the terminal end of the transfer roll body (20) are elastically sandwiched from the left and right above the disk cutters (41, 41), and the disk cutters (41, 41). A pair of left and right elastic rolls (42, 42) are provided in a circular shape in plan view for passing over the cut portion,
An onion root cutting machine.

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