JPH05200318A - Controlling system for sorting grain in grain treating device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable classification of grain based on the rate of fatty acid in addition to classification thereof based on grade. CONSTITUTION:A controlling system for sorting grain in a grain treating device is constituted so that the rate of fatty acid of grain dried by a grain dryer 1 is detected by a detector 2 for the rate of fatty acid and working process after drying is performed every detected rate of fatty acid. Thereby, grain different in quality is prevented from being mixed. Further profitability of grain is enhanced by detecting the rate of fatty acid largely affecting taste.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a grain selection control system for grain processing equipment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, dried grains dried by a grain dryer are supplied to and stored in a grain storage tank, which is then supplied to a huller and brown rice to a sorting device. The finely selected brown rice is classified into high quality grains, standard grains and poor quality grains by a quality detection device and detected, and the quality is measured by a measuring device according to the detected quality and packaged and shipped. It was a method.

[0003]

In the grain processing apparatus, the dried grain dried by the grain dryer is supplied to and stored in the grain storage tank, and then supplied from this storage tank to the grain huller. Hulled and hulled brown rice is fed to a sorting device and selected carefully, and the carefully selected brown rice is fed to a grade detection device to control the content of sized grains, damaged grains, dead rice, colored grains, different grains and The total content of foreign matter, the content rate of dead rice only, the content rate of colored grains, the content rate of different grains only, the content rate of only foreign matter, etc. are detected, and the quality of this brown rice is good quality grain, standard grain Also, the particles are classified into coarse particles and detected, and the detected quality is measured by a measuring device, packed into bags, and shipped.

The quality of brown rice is detected during these series of operations, but the degree of fatty acid which has a great influence on the taste is not detected. However, the degree of fatty acid is detected and the degree of fatty acid is classified according to the degree of fatty acid other than this grade. It is intended to classify the quality of the grains by performing the work after drying the grains.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, the degree of fatty acid of dried grains dried by the grain dryer 1 is detected by a fatty acid degree detection device 2 and classified according to the rank of the fatty acid degree. It is characterized in that it is stored in the storage tank 3 and the subsequent hulling work in the hulling machine 4, the selection work in the sorting device 5, the weighing work in the weighing device 6, etc. are performed from each storage tank 3 for each rank. The grain selection control system of the grain processing device is configured.

[0006]

In the grain processing apparatus, the dried grain dried by the grain dryer 1 is supplied to the fatty acid degree detection device 2 to detect the fatty acid degree, and the detected fatty acid degree is classified by rank. It is sorted and supplied to each grain storage tank 3 and stored therein, and is supplied to the grain huller machine 4 according to the fatty acid degree sorted and stored in this storage tank 3 to be hulled and hulled. Brown rice is supplied to the sorting device 5 to be selected, and the selected brown rice is supplied to the quality detecting device to contain the content of sized particles, damaged particles, dead rice, colored particles, total content of foreign grains and foreign substances,
The content rate of dead rice only, the content rate of colored grains, the content rate of only different kinds of grains, the content rate of only foreign substances, etc. are detected, and the grade of brown rice according to the fatty acid degree is good quality grain, standard grain and bad grain. And the like, and the products are weighed by the weighing device 6 according to the detected grade of fatty acid degree, packed in bags, and shipped.

[0007]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, the quality of the grains can be classified by performing both the fatty acid degree detection and the quality detection, which greatly affect the eating quality of the grains, and therefore, the grains of different quality Mixing can be prevented, and the economical efficiency can be improved.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The example of a figure shows the grain processing device 7 of a grain processing facility. The grain processing device 7 is provided with a tension hopper 8 at a lower portion for receiving grains brought in for each customer, and a tension sublimation machine 9 having a bucket conveyor therein is provided therein.
A squeeze throw-out cylinder 10 is provided on one side of an upper end of the squeeze grain raising machine 9, and a stake-in switching valve 11 capable of switching grains in a plurality of directions is provided at a lower end of the squeeze throw-out cylinder 10. , This shunt switching valve 11
Depending on the switching position of the grain, the grain is transferred to a predetermined position by the squeeze transfer device 12 equipped with a conveyor or the like, and the predetermined number 1 or 2
No. 3, No. 3 ... are loaded into the grain dryer 1.

Each of the dryers 1, 2, 3, ...
Is dried by being exposed to hot air while the grains circulate in each of the dryers 1, and the moisture of the grains is detected by the moisture sensor,
When the finish target moisture is reached, the dryers 1 are stopped and controlled, the drying of the grains is stopped, and the dried grains are sequentially transferred from the respective dryers 1 to the discharge transfer device 13 in which a conveyor or the like is installed. It is discharged, transferred by this discharge transfer device 13 and supplied to the fatty acid content detection device 2.

The fatty acid content detection device 2 is constructed so as to detect the fatty acid content that greatly affects the taste and the like of the grain in three stages, for example, low, standard and high, and the fatty acid content is detected. Grains of the grain are placed at the bottom of the tank hopper 14
Is provided and is supplied to the tank cradle hopper 14 of the tank grain submersion machine 15 having a bucket conveyor installed therein. 16 is provided, and at the lower end portion of the tank ejection cylinder 16, there is provided a tank ejection switching valve 17 capable of switching grains in a plurality of directions.

Depending on the switching position of the tank throw-out switching valve 17, for example, grains having a low fatty acid content are transferred by a tank squeezing transfer device 18 equipped with a conveyor, and the grain storage tank 3 of No. 1 is transferred. The standard grains having a high fatty acid content are supplied to the storage tank 3 of No. 2 and the grains having a high fatty acid content are supplied to the storage tank 3 of No. 3. Stored.

A switchable tank switching valve 19 is provided at the lower end of each of the storage tanks Nos. 1 to 3, and below each storage tank 3, each fatty acid discharged from each storage tank 3 is provided. A tank discharge and transfer device 19 ′ is provided, which is equipped with a conveyer for transferring grains for each time and supplying them to the huller 4. The huller 4 is provided with a pair of hull rolls that hull the grain according to the degree of fatty acid and hull the hull, and the hulled grain is sorted by a hull sorting device into hulled rice and hulls. Is discharged to the outside of the machine through the hulling air exhaust tube 21, and the brown rice is hulled grain raising machine 2
2 is configured to be conveyed to the upper part by a bucket conveyor installed inside, and a hulling throwing pipe 23 is provided on one side of an upper end part of the hulling grain submersible machine 22, and a lower end part of the hulling throwing pipe 23. An opening / closing throwing-out switching valve 24 for hulling is provided in the.

The brown rice conveyed to the upper part by the grain hulling and raising machine 22 is supplied to the sorting device 5, and at the lower end of the sorting device 5, a switching valve 25 for sorting which can be opened and closed is provided.
Is a structure for performing selective selection into sized particles and crushed particles. The selected crushed particles are discharged to the outside of the machine and the sized particles are supplied to the quality detecting device 26. The quality detection device 26 is composed of a detection device, a color sorter, etc., which further detects brown rice supplied according to fatty acid content by classifying it into classified particles, damaged particles, dead rice, colored particles, different kinds of grains, foreign substances, and the like. , Content of these detected sized particles, damaged grain, dead rice, colored grains, total content of foreign grains and foreign substances, content of dead rice only, content of colored grains only, foreign grains only The content rate and the content rate of only foreign substances are detected, and the quality of brown rice is detected, for example, by being classified into good quality grains, standard grains and poor quality grains, and the quality detection device 26 has a lower end that can be opened and closed. A free quality opening / closing valve 27 is provided, and brown rice classified by grade according to fatty acid level is supplied from the quality detecting device 26 to the brown rice tank loading hopper 29 under the grain-raising machine 28 for brown rice tank.

The brown rice tank grain submersion machine 28 is provided with a bucket conveyor installed therein, a brown rice tank throwing pipe 30 is provided on one side of the upper end portion, and a plurality of brown rice tank throwing pipes 30 are provided at the lower end portion. A brown rice tank discharge switching valve 31 capable of switching brown rice in the direction is provided. Discharge switching valve 3 for the brown rice tank
Depending on the switching position of 1, for example, brown rice with a low degree of fatty acid,
In addition, good quality good quality brown rice is transferred by the brown rice tank loading transfer device 32 and is supplied to and stored in the first brown rice storage tank 33.
Also, the standard grain brown rice is grade 2 of the brown rice storage tank 33.
The unpolished brown rice having a high fatty acid content and poor quality grain brown rice is supplied to and stored in the unpolished brown rice storage tank 33 of No. 12 and is classified according to the fatty acid content and the grade. No. 1 to No. 12 of each brown rice storage tank 3
It is divided into 3 and supplied and stored.

An openable and closable brown rice tank switching valve 34 is provided at the lower end of each brown rice storage tank 33, and the brown rice according to the grade of fatty acid in each brown rice storage tank 33 is measured by a weighing device 6.
Is supplied to and weighed, and the weighed brown rice is supplied to the bagging device 36 to be bagged. Reference numeral 37 denotes a central operating device, and the central operating device 37 is configured to start and stop the respective machines and the respective devices, and the inside thereof has a detection value detected by the fatty acid content detecting device 2 and the quality. A CPU 38 to which a detection value detected by the detection device 26 is input is provided, and the CPU 38 controls opening / closing of the tank output switching valve 17 and the brown rice tank switching valve 31 so that the dried grains are classified according to fatty acid content. It is supplied to the predetermined No. 1 to 3 storage tanks 3, and the hulled brown rice is supplied to and stored in the predetermined No. 1 to 12 brown rice storage tanks 33 according to fatty acid content and grade. .

The fatty acid content of the grain is detected by the fatty acid content detecting device 2 by, for example, detecting from 30 to 50 stone grains in one block. As shown in FIG. 3, within the variation of the detected fatty acid content. Average value β of high acidity range α above the specified value
Is calculated, and the overall average value χ of the detected fatty acid degrees is calculated, and the calculated overall average value χ
Is added to the calculated average value β of the high acidity range α, and the numerical value obtained from the both is set as the fatty acid degree. That is,
As shown in FIG. 4, the relationship between the value of β and the correction value γ is determined in advance, and the χ value is corrected depending on the magnitude of β, and the fatty acid average is obtained by χ + γ.

The operation of the above embodiment will be described below. In the grain processing device 7, the tension hopper 8 of the tension grain raising machine 9
The incoming grain that has been thrown into is conveyed to the upper portion by the squeeze grain raising machine 9 and is transferred by the squeeze transfer device 12 to the predetermined No. 1,
No. 2, No. 3, ... Is supplied to the grain dryers 1, and the dried grains dried by the respective dryers 1 are transferred by the discharge transfer device 13 and supplied to the fatty acid degree detection device 2. For example, the dried grains are detected by the fatty acid content detection / detection device 2 by being classified into low, standard, and high fatty acid content, conveyed to the upper portion by the tank grain raiser 15, and transferred to the tank. It is transferred by the device 18 and is supplied and stored in the predetermined grain storage tanks Nos. 1 to 3 according to the degree of fatty acid.

The grains stored in the storage tanks No. 1 to No. 3 according to the fatty acid content are supplied to the huller 4 according to the fatty acid content and hulled, and the chaff is sucked by the hulling and discharging device 20. It is then discharged to the outside of the machine through the hulling air exhaust tube 21, and the brown rice is conveyed to the upper part by the hulling and grain raising machine 22 and supplied to the sorting device 5 where it is carefully selected for grain sizing and grain polishing. Are discharged to the outside of the machine, and the grading is supplied to the quality detection device 26, and the quality is detected by being classified into, for example, good quality grain, standard grain and poor quality grain, and conveyed to the upper portion by the grain elevator 28 for brown rice tank. Then, the unpolished rice is transferred by the brown rice tank squeeze transfer device 32, and the unpolished rice classified according to grade according to fatty acid is supplied and stored in the predetermined No. 1 to No. 12 brown rice storage tanks 33.

The brown rice stored in the brown rice storage tanks 33 of Nos. 1 to 12 according to the grade according to the degree of fatty acid is supplied to the weighing device 6 according to the grade according to the fatty acid degree and weighed. Be packed.

[Brief description of drawings]

 The figure shows an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a grain processing apparatus.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram.

FIG. 3 is a graph showing the relationship between fatty acid content and frequency.

FIG. 4 is a relationship diagram between an average value (β) and a correction value (γ).

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Grain Dryer 2 Fatty Acid Level Detection Device 3 Grain Storage Tank 4 Hulling Machine 5 Sorting Device 6 Weighing Device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A fatty acid content of a dried grain dried by a grain dryer 1 is detected by a fatty acid content detection device 2 and classified by rank of the fatty acid content and stored in each grain storage tank 3. Grains of a grain processing device characterized by performing subsequent hulling work in a hulling machine 4, hulling work in a sorting device 5, weighing work in a weighing device 6, etc., from each storage tank 3 for each rank. Sorting control method.