JPH10180194A - Goods-receiving device for drying, preparation and storage facility - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the mixture of grains of different quality by providing a goods- receiving device with a charge control section actuated by a quality judging output of a quality meter, operating a charging machine based on control signals and classifying grains of equal quality into one tank. SOLUTION: In a goods-receiving preliminary inspection device 12, samples are taken out of a standby box 15 and husked to prepare brown rice, and the waste husked gain selection and separation is carried out, and the quality measurement is carried out for a part of samples by a quality meter 13, while the taste judgment is performed for other samples by a taste member 14. Based on the water content percentage of grains and the result of the preliminary inspection, the evaluation for received grains is performed and automatic shutters 10 of standing-by goods receiving flow adjustment tanks 8 are opened, and in the case of the good evaluation result, the grains are transferred to a charging machine 17 through a storage tank discharge elevator 16, and the grains are classified into the evaluation tanks based on the evaluation ranks of the quality and taste and charged into respective storage tanks 18. The storage tanks for storing the gains to be received can be decided by such arrangement.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a receiving device for a dry grain preparation and storage facility.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, at the time of receiving a grain, the moisture content of the grain is checked every time the grain is received.
In the drying step, uneven drying is prevented from occurring due to a difference in water content at the time of receiving the goods. However, regarding the characteristics of other grains, the quality and the taste of the grains were not particularly determined only by visually assessing the amount of damaged rice paddies and impurities at the time of receiving the cargo. The variability in the quality and taste of the varieties varies greatly depending on the farmers, and the quality may deteriorate during storage or at the time of shipping. Also,
If these inspections are performed at the time of receiving the goods, it takes a long time to complete the inspections, waiting for the goods to be received until the inspection results are obtained, and during this inspection, the equipment such as the receiving weighing machine is stopped, and the time loss and equipment The driving efficiency has been decreasing. Further, in order to perform these inspections at the time of receiving the goods, a special device (for example, a homogenizing device or the like) is required in order to suppress variations in the delivery lot.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, in the present invention, the quality and taste of grains received by sampling are previewed between the receiving paths conveyed from a receiving hopper to a storage tank. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a cargo inspection inspection device that controls a sorting machine to sort grains of the same quality into the same tank.

[0004]

According to the present invention, a receiving weighing machine is installed in a receiving path for transferring grains from a receiving hopper of a dry preparation storage facility to a storage tank, and a sample delivery side of a sample extractor provided in the receiving weighing machine is provided. A grade control unit is connected to a plurality of the storage tanks, and a setting machine for distributing grains to any one of the plurality of storage tanks is connected to the sending side of the receiving route, and a setting control unit operated by the quality judgment output of the grade meter is provided. The spreader is operated according to the control signal to distribute the grains of the same grade to the same storage tank.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a process diagram of a cargo receiving and transporting facility provided with a cargo inspection inspection device of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a system flow diagram of the cargo inspection inspection device. In FIG. 1, two receiving hoppers 1 having a predetermined capacity (for example, 4 tons) are provided in parallel at a receiving place, and automatic switching valves 2 are provided at the lower ends of the receiving hoppers 2 respectively. Nozomi. A roughing machine elevator 4 is provided at the end of the receiving conveyor 3, and from the upper end of the roughing machine elevator 4 to the roughing machine 5, from the roughing machine 5 to the receiving and weighing machine 6, from the receiving and weighing machine 6 to the storage tank elevator 7 To the cargo receiving flow control tank 8. The cargo receiving flow control tank 8 has two tanks on the left and right sides, each having a capacity (for example, 5 t) larger than the amount of grain received at one time, and an upper level meter 9a and a lower level meter 9b for detecting the filling level in each tank. When the inside of the tank is empty, it is detected by the lower limit level meter 9b to advance the filling, and when the tank is full, it is detected by the upper limit level meter 9a and switched to another tank. An automatic shutter 10 is provided at the lower end of each of the receiving flow control tanks 8 and temporarily stores the weighed grains received and received until a result of the self-inspection is obtained.

[0006] The receiving and weighing machine 6 has a sample extractor 23, which extracts a sample at the time of weighing and measures the moisture content using the sample. At the same time, a part of the sample is pneumatically conveyed to the cargo inspection inspection device 12 by the conveyance blower 11. The cargo inspection inspection device 12 includes a hulling / grain sorting device (not shown), a grade meter 13 and a taste meter 14. The receiving inspection system 12 is provided with two waiting boxes 15 for temporarily waiting the conveyed sample, and while inspecting the sample in one of the waiting boxes 15, a blower for conveying the next sample to the other waiting box 15. 11 to carry the air. The outlet of the automatic shutter 10 of the receiving flow regulating tank 8 is connected to a storage tank discharge elevator 16, and the upper end of the storage tank discharge elevator 16 is connected to a plurality of storage tanks 18 by an embedding machine 17. On the other hand, when the result of the self-inspection is defective, the storage tank discharge elevator 19 transfers the defective product to the defective product tank 20. FIG. 3 is a control block diagram showing the control means of the present invention. The control blocks are a central processing unit 21, a ranking information setting unit 22, a receiving and weighing machine 6, a taste meter 14, a quality meter 13, a receiving inspection and inspection device 12, and a transporter. A central processing unit 21 comprising a blower 11 and other transporting equipment.
Each device is driven by a command from. Central processing unit 21
, A preset grain quality rank is input from the ranking information setting device 22 as ranking information.

Next, the operation will be described. Grains brought in by trucks or the like by the supplier (farmer) are two receiving hoppers 1
To one of the two. The two receiving hoppers 1 are used alternately for each delivery to avoid confusion between the suppliers. The automatic switching valve 2 of the previously loaded receiving hopper 1 is opened, the grains fall onto the receiving conveyor 3, and are sequentially sent to the roughing machine elevator 4 by the receiving conveyor 3, and coarsely selected from the upper end of the roughing machine elevator 4. It is put into the machine 5. The grain introduced into the roughing machine 5 is used to remove large contaminants by a rotary sieve, remove light dust by an air current, and remove a slightly large foreign matter by a vibrating sieve. I do.

The coarsely selected firs are accurately weighed by a constant amount by the receiving and weighing machine 6 to determine the mass of the roughly selected firs, and at the same time, a sample (about 800 g) is collected by the sample extractor 23. The coarsely weighed fir weighed at the receiving position is sent to the receiving flow regulating tank 8 by the storage tank elevator 7. Two load receiving flow adjustment tanks 8 are arranged in parallel, and the weighed coarsely selected firs are stored in one of the load receiving flow adjusting tanks 8 and wait until a result of the inspection of the receiving inspection is obtained. As shown in FIG.
Of the sample (approximately 8
00g), and the moisture content is measured as a voluntary test. A part (400 g) of the sample is pneumatically conveyed by the conveying blower 11 to the standby box 15 of the cargo inspection inspection device 12. Next, in the cargo inspection inspection device 12, a sample is taken out from the waiting box 15 and crushed into brown rice, and crushed granules are sorted. A part of the sample is measured for quality by the grade meter 13, and the other sample is used to measure the taste. Then, the taste is determined according to No. It takes about 7 to 8 minutes for the measurement and determination including replacement of the sample. The result of the measurement / judgment is sent to the central processing unit 21 and displayed on the CRT of the central processing unit 21. The comprehensive judgment by the operator is input to the central processing unit 21 by manual input or automatic judgment to determine the evaluation rank of the grain. A signal is sent from the central processing unit 21 to the filling control unit 24 to determine the storage tank 18 to be stored. In addition, the overall evaluation of the received grain is performed together with the measurement result of the moisture content and the measured mass of raw rice.

Based on the moisture content of the grain and the result of the inspection of the cargo receiving inspection, the received grain is evaluated, the automatic shutter 10 of the waiting receiving flow control tank 8 is opened, and if the evaluation is good, the storage tank discharge elevator 16 is used. The sheet is sent to the setting machine 17 and is assigned to each of the evaluation ranks according to the quality and the taste evaluation rank, and is set in the storage tank 18. In the case of an evaluation failure, the storage tank discharge elevator 16 switches and sends the defective product to the defective product tank 20 to perform the process of returning the defective product. The grain filled in the storage tank 18 is continuously sent to a dryer (not shown), and in accordance with the moisture content detected by the self-inspection, the moisture content suitable for storage by the dryer (for example, about 16%). , And stored in the storage tank 18 for storage.

FIG. 4 is a control flowchart of the present invention. The details will be described below with reference to the control block diagram and control flowchart of FIG. The coarsely selected firs from the roughing machine 5 are taken into the load receiving and weighing machine 6 and subsequently into the load receiving flow control tank 8. Next, a sample is extracted from the coarsely selected firs passing through the receiving and weighing machine 6 (ST-1). The moisture content of a part of the sample is measured, and it is checked whether there is an empty space in the waiting box 15 on either the left or right side of the cargo inspection inspection device 12. (ST-2) When there is an empty space in the standby box 15, the transport blower 11 is driven to transport the rest of the sample to the standby box 15 by air. (ST-3) Further, it is confirmed that the inspection inspection device 12 is in an operable state (ST-4), there is no sample remaining on the quality meter 13, and the quality meter 13 is reset (ST-3). ST-5).
Next, a part of the sample is put in from the standby box 15 and a measurement process is performed by the quality meter 13 (ST-6). When the measurement process of the quality meter 13 is completed, the quality data is sent to the central processing unit 21 (ST-7). Next, the sample used for the quality data is discharged, and the rest of the sample is continuously supplied from the standby box 15 (ST-8), and the taste meter 14 performs a determination process. When the determination process of the taste meter 14 is completed, the taste data is sent to the central processing unit 21 (ST-9). Further, the sample processing of the quality meter 13 and the taste meter 14 may be performed simultaneously to shorten the processing time.

In the central processing unit 21, the sent quality data and taste data are displayed on the CRT (ST-10).
Search whether the rank corresponding to 8 is set (ST-1
1) When the setting is made, the storage tank 18 is displayed (ST-12). Then, if there is a rank correction by the operator for the quality data and the taste data (ST-13), the correction is manually made. Determine the rank (ST-14). The flow control tank discharge elevator 16 and the sorting machine 17 are driven toward the storage tank 18 corresponding to the rank to convey the coarsely selected firs in the load receiving flow control tank 8. Storage tank 1 of the corresponding rank
When 8 is not set, it is confirmed whether or not there is a rank correction by the operator (ST-15), the corrected rank is determined, the storage tank 18 is searched, and the storage tank 18 of the corrected rank is directed. Transport. If the storage tank 18 of the target rank does not exist, a new storage tank 18 of the target rank is provided as an abnormal process (ST-16), or the received lot is re-input to the inspection inspection device 12. Take action.

FIG. 5 is a process chart of a cargo receiving and transporting facility according to another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a system flow diagram of a cargo receiving inspection apparatus. A sample is collected by the sample extractor 23 in the on-vehicle state at the stage of loading the receiving grain, and the transport blower 1
1 to send to the standby box 15 of the cargo inspection inspection device 12, hulling, as brown rice, perform quality measurement by the quality meter 13 and taste evaluation by the taste meter 14, send the quality data and taste data to the central processing unit 21, Central processing unit 21
Is compared with the data of the ranking information setting device 22, and CR
T is displayed, and the overall judgment by the operator is manually input to set the rank. In addition, data on moisture content,
The rank of the grade and taste, and the producer code as others,
The barcode label is written, the signal is read by the barcode reader, and the grain transported to the receiving hopper 2 is loaded. In this way, by setting the rank by evaluating the quality and taste in the loading stage, it is possible to determine the storage tank 18 that stores the grain to be received. In addition, the receiving and weighing machine 7 does not particularly need to extract a sample, so that a continuous receiving and weighing operation can be performed. Further, the quality and taste rank at the loading stage are printed on a barcode label with a barcode, and following the received grain, pass through the roughing machine 5 and the receiving and weighing machine 6, and are stored in the storage tank 18 by a barcode reader. By reading the rank and selecting the corresponding storage tank 18, this process control can be ensured.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, the sample is taken out by the sample extractor provided in the receiving and weighing machine, the quality is judged by the quality meter, and the control signal of the filling control unit is determined based on the judgment output. Is output to control the setting machine to distribute grains of the same grade to the same storage tank, thereby avoiding mixing of grains of different qualities. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the deterioration of the quality of high-quality grains and to eliminate the waste of mixing high-quality grains with low-quality grains.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a process diagram of a receiving and carrying facility equipped with a receiving inspection system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a system flow diagram of the cargo inspection inspection device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a control block diagram showing control means of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a control flowchart of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a process chart of a load receiving and transporting facility of another embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a system flow diagram of a cargo inspection inspection device according to another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Receiving hopper 2 Automatic switching valve 3 Receiving conveyor 4 Elevator for roughing machine 5 Rough screening machine 6 Receiving weighing machine 7 Storage tank elevator 8 Receiving flow regulating tank 9 Level meter 10 Automatic shutter 11 Conveyance blower 12 Receiving inspection inspection device 13 Grade meter Reference Signs List 14 Taste meter 15 Stand-by box 16 Flow control tank discharge elevator 17 Filling machine 18 Storage tank 19 Storage tank discharge conveyor 20 Defective tank 21 Central processing unit 22 Ranking information setting unit 23 Sample extractor 24 Filling control unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claims: 1. A receiving weighing machine is installed in a receiving path for transferring grain from a receiving hopper of a dry preparation storage facility to a storage tank, and a grade meter is connected to a sample sending side of a sample extractor provided in the receiving weighing machine; An embedding machine for distributing grain to any one of the plurality of storage tanks is connected to the delivery side of the receiving route, and an embedding control unit that operates according to the quality judgment output of the quality meter is provided, and the embedding is performed by the control signal. A receiving apparatus for a dry preparation storage facility, wherein the apparatus operates a machine to sort grains of the same grade into the same storage tank.