JPH065493U - Food cleaning equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] This is a device for cleaning vegetables and removing dust at the same time, and can safely perform cleaning and replacement of brushes even during work, while reducing manufacturing costs and running costs. Providing technology that can be done. [Structure] Water tank 1 containing wash water W; vegetable H at one end
And a drainage port 23 at the other end and a space 27 in the water storage tank 1 and the space is disposed in a horizontal direction. An air jet port 3 which is arranged along the direction and is inclined toward the discharge side; and a bristling portion is formed in a substantially flat plate shape, and is arranged on the discharge port side of the cleaning passage and in a baffle plate shape with respect to the running water upper part. And a brush 4 detachably attached to the cleaning passage 2.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to a food cleaning device for cleaning vegetables, seafood, seaweed, etc. and removing dust at the same time.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 When washing a large amount of vegetables, etc., that contain the vinyl string scraps and hair that had been bundled at the time of shipment with a washing machine, the hair etc. that are mixed in these vegetables must also be removed. Heretofore, a "food hair removing device" having a brush connected to a power source and rotating has been disclosed as a device for removing scraps and hair of vinyl strings at the same time as washing the vegetables. However, this hair removing device has a problem in that the brush must be forcibly rotated by a power source, and therefore, the cleaning must be interrupted for cleaning the brush, and the running cost is increased. The present applicant has developed and applied for a "food cleaning device" that solves such a problem (see Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 3-108395). This "food cleaning device" was configured with a rotating brush driven by a water flow on the discharge side of the cleaning passage that was laid horizontally inside the water tank.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 However, this "food cleaning device" has the advantages of not requiring a drive device for the rotating brush, reducing the manufacturing costs, and safely cleaning and replacing the rotating brush without stopping the cleaning operation. However, there was a problem that the cost of the rotating brush was still high. Further, although the rotating brush is formed by arranging a plurality of rod-shaped brushes in a cylindrical shape, there is a problem that it cannot be removed when dusts sew between the rod-shaped brushes.

The present invention has been made to solve the above conventional problems, and an object thereof is an apparatus for cleaning vegetables and removing dust at the same time. This is a food cleaning device that has a simple structure and can reduce the cost of brushes and running costs, and can safely clean and replace brushes without interrupting cleaning work. To provide.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 As a means for solving the above-mentioned object, in the food cleaning apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention, a water tank containing cleaning water; an inlet for the object to be cleaned at one end and an outlet for the other end, respectively. A cleaning channel that is opened, and has a space portion disposed horizontally in the water storage tank; an air lined in the cleaning channel along the length of the cleaning channel and inclined toward the discharge side. A blower port; a brush having a bristling part formed in a substantially flat plate shape, arranged on the discharge port side of the cleaning passage in a baffle shape with respect to the upper part of the flowing water, and detachably attached to the cleaning passage; It is configured to have. According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the food washing apparatus according to the first aspect, further comprising a floating garbage basket on the discharge port side of the washing passage. According to the third aspect of the present invention, in the food cleaning device, the brush is configured to be vertically movable with respect to running water and the tilt angle is adjustable. In the food cleaning device according to the fourth aspect, the brush has a circulation portion that allows only running water to pass from the upstream side to the downstream side.

[0006]

[Action]

 In the food cleaning device according to the first aspect, the food is conveyed to the discharge side while being cleaned by the air blown into the cleaning passage. In this cleaning path, the brush is placed on the upper side of the discharge side in the form of a baffle plate, so that the debris such as vinyl string scraps and hair that are separated from the food during cleaning are locked to the brush before the discharge side and removed. can do.

In the food cleaning device according to the second aspect, small floating dust that cannot be removed by the brush is not collected and reattached to the food.

In the food cleaning device according to the third aspect, only the floating dust can be selectively removed by adjusting the insertion depth and the inclination angle of the brush depending on the shape and specific gravity of the food.

In the food cleaning device according to the fourth aspect, since the brushes arranged in the form of a baffle with respect to the flowing water pass the flowing water to the downstream side without stagnation, the floating dust is firmly locked without stagnating. , Can be reliably removed.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional side view showing a food cleaning apparatus of this embodiment, FIG. 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional side view showing an essential part of the same, FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line MM of FIG. 1, and FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a brush and a mounting frame, FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line NN of FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a dust-removing basket. The food cleaning device A according to the present embodiment mainly includes a water storage tank 1, a cleaning passage 2, an air blowout port 3, a brush 4, and a dust removing basket 5.

The water storage tank 1 is a water tank having an open top surface for storing the wash water W. In this embodiment, an overflow hole 10 for keeping the water surface constant, a discharge valve 11, and a moving caster 12 are provided. Is equipped with. Further, reference numeral 13 in the drawing is a water jet nozzle for smoothly feeding the introduced food product H into the cleaning passage 2. Reference numeral 14 is a communication path connecting the overflow hole 10 and the injection nozzle 13, and a pump 15 and a filter 16 are provided in the communication path. The injection nozzle is also provided with a tap water connection port.

The cleaning passage 2 efficiently cleans cucumber, ginger, eggplant, radish, or vegetables H on which they are chopped by intensively exposing air bubbles to vinyl strings, straws, animal hair and hair, etc. This is a flow path for removing dust, and in this embodiment, it is formed in a U-shaped groove in cross section, and the upper surface of the one end opening end face 20 side thereof is not the inlet 22 equipped with the hopper 21, and the other side opening is formed. The end face side serves as a discharge port 23, and the upper surface opening portion is closed by a lid 24 so as to be openable and closable. Further, an inclined surface 25 is formed on the inner bottom portion of the cleaning passage 2.

The cleaning passage 2 is horizontally extended in the water storage tank 1 by two gate-shaped angle members 26 attached so as to straddle both side opening edges of the water storage tank 1. In this case, the upper portion of the cleaning passage 2 is exposed slightly above the water surface L of the cleaning water W, and the space portion 27 communicating with the outside air is formed in the upper portion of the cleaning passage 2.

The air blowout port 3 is an air blowout port for cleaning the vegetables H in the cleaning passage 2 by intensively blowing air bubbles and moving the vegetables H to the discharge port 23 side. In this embodiment, a nozzle pipe 30 having an inclined air jet port 3 at its tip is provided at fixed intervals on the upper surface side of an air delivery pipe 31 which is provided along the longitudinal direction of the bottom rear surface of the cleaning passage 2. A large number of nozzle pipes 30 are installed vertically, and the tip end of each nozzle pipe 30 is inserted into the through hole 28 formed at the bottom of the cleaning passage 2 so that each inclined air jet port 3 is cleaned. A large number of rows are provided in the inner bottom portion of 2 along the lengthwise direction of the opening. Then, by tilting the nozzle pipe 30 toward the discharge port 23 side, the air jet port 3 is opened in an inclined shape toward the discharge port 23 side of the cleaning passage 2.

Further, by making the through hole 28 larger in diameter than the outer diameter of the nozzle tube 30, the annular hole 28a formed on the outer periphery of the nozzle tube 30 serves as a drop port for sand or the like. In the figure, B is a blower connected to the air delivery pipe 31.

The brush 4 is for removing dust D detached from the vegetables H that have been intensively bubbled with bubbles from the water surface L. In this embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 6, It is formed by implanting bristles on one entire surface of one side of the substrate 40 having a size substantially the same as the width of the cleaning passage 2. Through holes 41 are opened on the entire surface of the substrate 40 by sewing between the flocked portions. The brush 4 is formed in a rectangular shape so that it can be used upside down, and is detachably attached to the cleaning passage 2 via an attachment frame 42. The mounting frame 42 includes a holding portion 44 into which the side edge portion 43 of the substrate 40 is inserted from the upper end and slidably fitted therein, and an adjusting portion provided on the rear surface side of the holding portion 44 so as to project from the holding hole 44. 46 and.

A large number of mounting holes 29 are formed at predetermined intervals on both upper sides of the cleaning passage 2 on the discharge port 23 side, and the mounting frame 42 has bolts 47 inserted into the elongated holes 45 in the mounting holes 29. It is fixed so that it can be adjusted by mounting it. As shown in FIG. 4, the brush 4 can be adjusted in the vertical direction and the angle with respect to the water surface L by the adjusting portion 46 and the bolt 47. In this embodiment, vegetables having a large specific gravity such as cucumber and ginger are kept in the whole form. For cleaning, the four rows of brushes 4 are inclined so that the upper end is rearward (see the solid line in FIG. 4).

The debris basket 5 is formed of a stainless steel insect net having small meshes on the sides and bottom so as to scoop out small debris that could not be removed by the brush 4. In this embodiment, the vegetables H are transferred on the water surface. Therefore, the front surface 50 facing the cleaning passage 2 is largely opened, and when the lower portion of the front surface 50 is appropriately lower than the water surface L, the rear of the bottom surface is higher than the water surface L, and the brush 4 is It is removably attached to the water tank 1 at the rear of the. Further, 6 is a lifting net conveyor, which is provided in an inclined state with its lower end inserted into the water storage tank 1 on the discharge port 23 side of the cleaning passage 2.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. Since the present embodiment is configured as described above, the vegetables H such as ginger thrown in from the throwing port 22 are smoothly sent into the cleaning passage 2 by the jet water jetted from the jet water nozzle 13. become. In the inside of the cleaning passage 2, air bubbles are generated by the air ejected from the air ejection port 3, and the air bubbles are ejected from the air ejection port 3 which is opened in an inclined shape toward the discharge port 23 side. Since the flow of the wash water W in the washing passage 2 from the inlet 22 side toward the outlet 23 side is generated, the vegetables H sent into the washing passage 2 are intensively exposed to bubbles in a state of being submerged in water. It is transferred to the discharge port 23 side while being washed. Then, among the dust D separated from the vegetables H during washing, those having a low specific gravity are sent to the discharge port 23 side while floating on the water surface L.

On the side of the discharge port 23, since the brush 4 is arranged so as to block the upper part of the flow of the cleaning water W, it is possible to lock all the dust floating above the vegetables H to prevent the cleaning water W from flowing. Removed from In this case, the brush 4 allows only the cleaning water W to flow to the downstream side through the through hole 41, so that the dust D is strongly caught, so that the dust does not come off the brush and circulates in the cleaning passage 2 again.

Further, small dust and vegetable scraps that have passed through the brush 4 enter the cage from the front surface 50 of the dust-removing cage 5 and are removed from the cleaning water W by being locked by a net of small meshes on the bottom and side surfaces. After the settling, the dust D having a large specific gravity is guided by the inclined surface 25 of the cleaning passage 2 in the direction of the annular hole 28a and is dropped into the water tank 1 through the annular hole 28a. Then, the vegetables H that have been sufficiently washed in the washing passage 2 as described above are discharged from the discharge port 23, and are sequentially pulled up to the outside of the water tank 1 by the lifting net conveyor 6.

When the amount of dust attached to the brush 4 increases during the work, the brushes having a large amount of dust attached are pulled out one by one from the mounting frame 42, and the brushes are mounted upside down for continued use. In addition, after using the entire surface, pull out and clean or replace it in sequence regardless of the work.

When washing the chopped vegetables such as the cucumber, ginger, radish, and cabbage, in order to prevent the vegetables that are light and are transported near the water surface from climbing up, the brush 4 is used as shown by the one-dot chain line in FIG. It is used by inclining it so that the lower end side faces the downstream side with respect to the flow direction of the wash water W. In this case, as shown in FIG. 8, the front surface of the dust-removing basket 5 is provided with vertical lattice-like dams 51 with a suitable interval so that the cut vegetables cannot enter. Then, only the dust is selectively removed by adjusting the brush angle and the insertion depth of the brush into the cleaning water W.

As described above, in the food cleaning apparatus of this embodiment, it is possible to simultaneously wash vegetables and remove dust such as vinyl strings, straws, animal hair and hair mixed in vegetables. Since the brush does not require a drive unit and need not be rotated by running water, the structure is simple and the brush can be manufactured at low cost. Also, the running cost can be reduced. Since the brush is detachably installed, it is possible to safely replace and clean the brush without interrupting the cleaning work and the dust removing work. It is economical because it can be used upside down. Since the brush is formed so that the insertion depth and inclination angle can be adjusted with respect to the cleaning water W, it can be adjusted to the optimum state depending on the type of vegetables and the presence or absence of processing, and only the dust can be selectively and well removed. it can. Since the brush has a through hole that allows the wash water to flow from the upstream side to the downstream side, the dust can be strongly caught without stagnation. In addition, this dust can be efficiently removed without being separated from the brush and circulating in the cleaning passage. The debris basket removes small debris that cannot be removed with a brush, which can improve debris removal efficiency. In addition, it is possible to separately use the case where the whole vegetables are washed and the case where the chopped vegetables are washed.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the specific configuration of the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and even if there are design changes and the like within the scope not departing from the gist of the invention. Included in the present invention. For example, in the embodiment, the brush 4 is formed by implanting the bristles on the substrate 40. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and rod-shaped brushes (twisting brushes) or the like may be arranged in a line to form a weir plate. Can be formed.

Although the brushes 4 are provided in four rows, the number of brushes to be attached can be set arbitrarily.

The shape of the cleaning passage 2, the mounting position and the number of rows of the air jet ports 3, the shape and mounting of the injection nozzle 13 are arbitrary. In addition, the washing water can be sterilized by using hot water or the like outside the room temperature.

The shape of the garbage basket 5 is arbitrary, and for example, as shown in FIG. 9 (a), the front lattice 50 has a horizontal lattice-like blocking portion 52 and the same figure (b) according to the chopped shape of vegetables. A large net-like damming portion 53 may be provided as shown in FIG. Also, the mounting position and the presence / absence of the mounting are arbitrary.

[0029]

[Effect of device]

 As described above, in the food cleaning device according to the first aspect of the present invention, since it has the above-mentioned configuration, it is possible to simultaneously clean the food and remove the dust mixed in the food. Since the brush is used in a fixed state without rotating, it has a simple structure and can be manufactured at low cost. In addition, running costs can be reduced. By providing the brush detachably, it is possible to safely replace the brush without interrupting the cleaning work and the dust removing work.

In the food cleaning device according to the second aspect of the present invention, because of the above-mentioned configuration, it is possible to remove small dust and the like that cannot be removed with a brush, in addition to the above effects. Therefore, it is possible to obtain an effect that the dust removing effect can be enhanced without causing small dusts and the like to circulate and reattach to the food being washed.

In the food cleaning device according to the third aspect of the present invention, because of the above configuration, the brush is adjusted to the optimum state in accordance with the effect and the shape and specific gravity of the food to be cleaned. The effect that only the dust can be selectively removed well is obtained.

In the food cleaning device according to the fourth aspect of the invention, because of the above-mentioned configuration, the cleaning water is circulated from the upstream side of the brush to the downstream side of the brush in addition to the above effects, so that the dust is strongly caught. Can be taken. Therefore, the dust does not come off from the brush and circulates in the cleaning path, and the dust can be efficiently removed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical side view showing a food cleaning device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged vertical side view showing the main part of the above.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line MM in FIG.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a mounting state of a brush.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a brush and a mounting frame.

6 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line NN of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a garbage basket used when, for example, washing whole vegetables.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a garbage basket used for washing chopped vegetables and the like.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing another shape of the blocking portion by (a) and (b).

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Food cleaning device D Garbage W Washing water H Vegetables 1 Water storage tank 2 Washing channel 3 Air fumes 4 Brush 5 Garbage can 22 Inlet 23 Outlet 27 Space 40 Substrate (Flocking) 41 Through hole (Washing water distribution) 45) Slotted hole (brush adjustment part) 46 Brush adjustment part 47 Bolt (brush adjustment part)

Claims (4)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A water tank containing cleaning water; an inlet for an object to be cleaned is opened at one end, and an outlet is opened at the other end,
And a cleaning passage in which a space portion is arranged in the water storage tank to be laterally crossed; an air blowout port that is arranged in the cleaning passage along the length direction thereof and is inclined toward the discharge side; A brush which is formed in a substantially flat plate shape, is arranged on the discharge port side of the cleaning passage in a baffle shape with respect to the upper portion of the flowing water, and is detachably attached to the cleaning passage. A characteristic food cleaning device. 2. The food cleaning device according to claim 1, further comprising a basket of floating dust on the discharge port side of the cleaning passage. 3. The food cleaning apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the brush is formed so as to be vertically movable and tiltable with respect to running water. 4. The food cleaning device according to claim 1, wherein the brush has a circulation portion that allows only flowing water to pass from the upstream side to the downstream side.