JPH0838135A - Facility for drying and grading bulb of flowering plant - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the grading capacity of the flowering plant bulb-drying and grading facility by judging whether bulbs separated with a stock-separating machine have roots or not and subsequently delivering only bulbs having the roots to a root-removing machine. CONSTITUTION:A judging means for judging the presence or absence of the roots of flowering plant bulbs, a means for carrying the bulbs having the roots to a root-removing machine 14 for removing the roots on the basis of the result of the judgment for the presence or absence of the roots, and a means for carrying the bulbs not having the roots to a roughly grading machine 13 are disposed in processes behind the stock-separating machine 12 for separating the bulbs.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facility for drying and selecting flower bulbs.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of flower bulb drying and sorting facility has a receiving section, a washing section, a temporary drying section, a pretreatment section, a sorting and sorting section, a main drying section, a shipping and sorting section, and ancillary equipment. , And the pretreatment unit has a strain separator for separating bulbs and a rough sorter for sorting large and small bulbs, but in the past, the bulbs separated by the strain separator had no root in it. All of them were configured to be supplied to a rough sorter for rough sorting.

[0003]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention distinguishes bulbs separated by a strain separator into those with and without roots,
Bulbs without roots are treated with a rough sorter, but only those with roots are sent to a root remover for treatment to eliminate conventional defects. Therefore, the following technical measures were taken.

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems] That is, the technical means according to the present invention is a determination means for determining the presence or absence of a root of a bulb and a result of determining the presence or absence of a root in a subsequent step of a strain separator for separating the bulb. On the basis of the above, it is characterized in that means having a root is provided with a means for carrying to a root removing machine for removing this root, and means having a root is provided with means for carrying to a coarse sorter.

[0005]

[Function] Bulbs separated by the strain separator are discriminated by the presence / absence detector of the roots of the bulbs, those with roots are transferred to the root removing machine, and those without roots are transferred to the rough sorter for processing. .
Then, the rooted bulbs and the large bulbs selected by the rough selection are conveyed to the inspection table conveyor, and the small bulbs are conveyed to the small-ball conveying conveyor.

[0006]

As described above, according to the present invention, since only bulbs with roots are conveyed and supplied to the removing machine, the capacity of the sorting line can be greatly improved.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Figure 1 is an outline of the flower bulb dry sorting facility.
The facility is an automated process for commercializing the flower bulbs shipped from the producer, and includes a cargo receiving section A, a washing section B, a temporary drying section C,
It comprises a pretreatment section D, a sorting and sorting section E, a main drying section F, a shipping sorting section G, and an auxiliary facility H.

The cargo receiving section A is composed of a ventilation duct 3 having a placing section 2 for accumulating the containers 1 containing the bulbs, and is placed on the placing section 2 from the truck 4 via a lifting device as appropriate. The containers 1 are sequentially stacked and provided so that the container 1 can be ventilated arbitrarily during the mounting period. The washing section B dips and transfers all the flower bulbs supplied while reversing the bulb storage container 1 sequentially transferred from the cargo receiving section A via the container transport conveyor 2A by the container damper-5. It is a structure that can remove adhered mud. 7
Is a draining conveyor for supplying and transferring these washed products to the temporary drying section C.

The temporary drying section C is carried out in order to smoothly carry out the root removing action in the subsequent process, and the moisture content is 50%.
It is configured to dry to a certain degree. That is, the temporary drying unit C includes an upper buffering tank 8, a mesh conveyor 9 having a zigzag-shaped inclined guide surface inside the apparatus, a dehumidifier 10, and the like, and is slowly dried by dehumidifying air appropriately supplied to the apparatus. This is a possible configuration.

The tank 8 is composed of air tubes 8a, 8 arranged in the vertical direction.
It is composed of a and air tubes 8b, 8b adjacent to it, and these are arranged with their phases shifted in the vertical direction. Wind tube 8a,
8a is connected to the dry air intake duct through a triangular opening 8c that opens on the side wall. The air ducts 8b, 8b are connected to an exhaust duct via an air exhaust port 8d formed on the rear side wall. Exhaust air from the exhaust port 8d can be discharged to the outside of the machine through an exhaust duct. Both of the air ducts 8a and 8b are provided so as to extend right above, and the extending plate 8e is extended.
Is provided close to the lower side of the wind pipe located immediately above, and has a configuration capable of preventing the bulb from separating from the flowing zigzag route to the adjacent route side. 8f is the exit portion 8g
It is a shutter that can arbitrarily set the flow rate regulation from
8h is a flow regulating plate. A bulb detecting pressure sensor-8i is attached to the flow rate regulating plate 8h. This flow control plate 8
By attaching the bulb detecting pressure sensor-8i to h, a constant pressure can be constantly applied to the bulb and damage can be prevented. 8j is a lower limit leveler, and 8k is a vibration generator. The vibration generator 8k includes a bulb detection pressure sensor-8i and a flow detection sensor provided at the bottom of the tank.
(Not shown). When the bulb remains in the tank, turn on the vibration generator,
By discharging by the vibration of the tank itself, it is possible to prevent the bulb from being damaged and supply smoothly.

The bulbs discharged from the temporary drying section C are
It is adapted to be transferred and stored in the relay tank 11 which also serves as tempering. Next, the pretreatment unit D is a stock separator 12,
A coarse sorter 13, a root remover 14, a wax machine 15, and a wax dryer 16 are arranged in this order, and pretreatment for selection, main drying, and storage is performed.

The stock separator 12 is, for example, 5 mm in diameter and 2 in height.
A configuration in which a pair of endless belts 12b and 12c, each having a rubber projection 12a of about 0 mm, are provided so as to face each other, both belts are rotated in mutually opposite directions, and a rubbing action is imparted by a speed difference to separate bulb stocks. I am trying. Since the coarse sorter 13 is less likely to commercialize bulbs (hereinafter referred to as small spheres) having a smaller outer diameter than the predetermined outer diameter, the rough sorter 13 attempts to separate and remove in advance so as to omit a part of the pretreatment. For example, a selection hole having a predetermined size may be formed in the rotary drum. The small spheres that have leaked through the sorting hole are treated as reducing spheres that are returned to the producer, and the bulbs from the discharge side end of the rotary drum are processed as shipping spheres. 13A is a small sphere transport conveyor, and 13B is a small sphere processing conveyor.

The root remover 14 inherits the root portion of the bulb, which is locked to the rotary brushes 14b and 14c, among the bulbs from the supply rotary body 14a, and the pair of rotary rollers 14d and 14c.
It is configured to be removable between d or 14e, 14e.
Although details are shown in FIG. 4, the rotary brush 14b,
The root entanglement action of 14b can be expanded and the root removal ratio can be expanded. 14A is an inspection table conveyor, 14
B is a shipping ball processing conveyor.

The bulbs separated by the stock separator 12 are discriminated by a bulb root presence / absence determiner KS. Those having roots are conveyed to the root remover 14, and those having no roots are roughly sorted 13
It is transported to and processed. Then, the removed bulbs and the large bulbs selected by the rough selection are conveyed to the inspection table conveyor 14A, and the small bulbs are conveyed to the small ball conveyor 13A.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 8, an aligning / conveying device 17 for conveying the bulbs in a row is provided in the rear stage of the stock separator 12, and the outlets 17b of the passages 17a, 17a ... Of the aligning / conveying device 17 are provided. Is provided with a discharge passage for discharging the bulbs in two directions, and a camera KS for determining the presence or absence of the roots of the bulbs falling while rolling above the aligning and conveying device 17 is provided.
The discharge direction is controlled in two directions by the determination detection signal of the camera KS, that is, the rooted bulb is blown with, for example, air to drop it on the supply conveyor 17A to the root removing machine 14,
The bulbs without roots are controllable so as to be dropped onto the supply conveyor 17B to the rough sorter 13. Each passage 17
A roller 17 is provided on the bottom of a to improve the rolling property of the bulb.
c is provided.

9 and 10 show a bulb identifying device 17 'as another embodiment. This bulb discrimination device 1
7'is a pair of rolls 17e, 1 with a brush 17d.
7e are opposed to each other and are inclined in the vertical direction. Opposing rolls 17e and 17e are configured so as to rotate in opposite directions and outward. The bristles of the brush 17d are protruded in the direction (axial direction) of the bulb, and the pair of rolls 17e and 17e are forcedly vibrated by the vibration motor 17m. 17f is a scraper. According to the bulb discriminating apparatus 17 'having such a configuration, the bulbs having roots are carried around the rolls 17e, 17e toward the outer side in the rotational direction of the rolls due to the entanglement of root hairs and the bulbs having no roots are ejected. It will roll down along the direction of the downward slope. As described above, since it is easy to select the rooted and non-rooted bulbs, this device is attached in the subsequent stage of the stock separator 12, and the rooted ones are not supplied to the coarse sorter. By doing so, it is possible to improve the capacity of the sorting line.

A moisture detector WS is provided in the preceding stroke of the root removing machine 14, that is, in the middle of the route from the rough screening 13 to the root removing machine 14. The detection result of the moisture detector WS is taken into the control unit 18, and a drive command signal is output to the humidifier 19 provided above the entrance of the root remover 14 to drive the humidifier 19 or calculate the amount of supplied water. ing. The humidifier 19 is a shower type and is a type that humidifies by spraying a bulb nozzle passing below.

The small spheres and the root-removed shipping spheres are collected and put into the wax machine 15. Here, the bulbs on the surface of the conveyor belt can be waxed by the upper wax coating nozzle. The wax dryer 16 is configured to receive dehumidified air from a connected dehumidifier and gradually dry it. The sorting / sorting section E has a sorting machine 20 and pull-out conveyors 21, 21 ... Which are provided corresponding to each sorting class. The sorting machine 20 adopts a belt-conveying type sorting section having sorting holes, and the class is 2S. , S, M, L are classified into four ranks. Each of the drawer conveyors 21 provided for each class is provided with a ball number counter 22, and the grade-specific bulbs discharged from the end of the conveyor 21 are contained in a fixed quantity in a container transferred by a container transfer conveyor 23. It is designed to be possible. The bulb storage container is loaded in the container. Unloading conveyor 24 and palletizing robot 25
And is transferred to the unmanned forklift 26 and stored in the main drying section F.

The main drying section F is mainly for preventing spoilage at the distribution stage because of its high water content. In this embodiment, the main drying section F is divided into three chambers, and is arbitrarily divided according to the shipping time, product type, etc. Although they can be selectively accommodated, they are both configured so that dehumidified air from a dehumidifier can be introduced, and by controlling the cooling air, cooling storage can be performed subsequent to drying.

The shipping and sorting section G includes an unmanned forklift 26.
In reverse, the product relay conveyor 2 that accepts the storage containers returned to the transfer conveyor 24 separately into small balls and shipping balls
7. Product conveyors 28 are provided, and each conveyor 27,
A semi-automatic damper 29 is provided at the end of 28. The bulbs discharged from the shipping ball damper 29 are subjected to a ball number counting process by a ball number counter 32 via a final inspection table conveyor 30, and are molded by a box making machine 33 to form an empty box supply suit 34.
It is housed in a corrugated ball box that descends at. Three
Reference numeral 1 is an inspection conveyor. Reference numeral 35 denotes a storage unit for storing a container, which is configured to be supplied to the empty container supply conveyor 36. Reference numeral 37 is a product shipping container, and 38 is a box-sealing machine for sealing the corrugated ball box containing the shipping balls.

The equipment provided between the cleaning section B and the sorting / sorting section E is provided in two lines so that the processing can be expanded. Of the incidental equipment H, the main one is a management computer 39, which is used for the production code, the amount of cargo received,
In addition to storing information such as sorting results in association with each other, it is provided with functions such as operation control of each operation section from the washing section B to the sorting and sorting section E, and calculation of payment amount to the producer, and necessary information is printed out. .

In the figure, reference numeral 40 designates a storage warehouse, which is provided with a humidifier, a dehumidifier, a refrigerator, etc., in which secondary bulb drying, tempering and refrigeration are carried out in the warehouse to maintain the bulb quality and store it. To do. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 11, a cleaning unit B for cleaning bulbs
A feed conveyor 41 that can be driven in the direction orthogonal to the machine in the next stroke of the above, and can be driven in forward and reverse directions in the arrow (a) direction and the arrow (b) direction
Is installed in one direction (arrow (a) direction) to convey to the temporary drying section C via the draining conveyor 7, and in the other direction (arrow (b) direction) the bulb is received by the container 1 or the like. It is configured to be carried into a ventilation device. When the drying line is full or trouble occurs, cleaning and loading into a ventilation device can prevent accidents such as stuffy bulbs.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the entire facility.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a sorting / sorting unit.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the facility.

FIG. 4 is a front sectional view of a main part.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing a partial cross section of a main part.

FIG. 6 is a side view of a main part of the stock separator.

FIG. 7 shows a flow chart.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a main part.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of a bulb identifying device.

FIG. 10 is a partially cutaway side view of the essential part of the same.

FIG. 11 is an enlarged plan view of a part of the facility.

[Explanation of symbols]

A cargo receiving section B washing section C temporary drying section D pretreatment section E sorting section F main drying section G shipping sorting section H incidental equipment KS bulb root presence / absence detector WS moisture detector 1 bulb storage container 2 mounting section 3 aeration Duct 4 Truck 5 Container Damper 6 Water Tank 7 Draining Conveyor 8 Buffering Tank 9 Mesh Conveyor 10 Dehumidifier 11 Tempering / Relay Tank 12 Stock Separator 13 Progenitor Sorter 13A Small Ball Conveyor 13B Small Ball Processing Conveyor 14 Root Removal Machine 14A Inspection table conveyor 14B Shipping ball processing conveyor 15 Wax machine 16 Wax dryer 17 Aligning and conveying device 17 'Bulb discriminating device 18 Control unit 19 Humidifier 20 Sorter 21 Drawer conveyor 22 Ball counter-23 Container transfer conveyor 24 Container loading. Unloading conveyor 25 Palletizing robot 26 Unmanned fore
Clift 27 Product relay conveyor 28 Product transfer conveyor 29 Semi-automatic damper 30 Final inspection table conveyor Inspection conveyor 31 Inspection conveyor 32 Ball count counter 33 Box making machine 34 Empty box supply boot 35 Storage section 36 Empty container supply conveyor 37 Product Shipping Conveyor 38 Sealing Machine 39 Management Computer 40 Storage Warehouse 41 Feed Conveyor

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a subsequent step of a strain separator for separating bulbs,
Based on the determination means for determining the presence or absence of roots of the bulb, based on the result of the presence or absence determination of the root, means for carrying roots to the root removing machine to remove this root, and those without roots to the coarse sorter A flower bulb drying and sorting facility characterized by having means.