JPH11333315A - Automatic separation/pulverization device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically separate mainly packed food whose shelf life has expired into packaging material and waste food and also to pulverize the waste food and to enable separately discharging the pulverized waste food and the packaging material. SOLUTION: In a case 2 provided with a feeding port 5 on one end side thereof, a split drum like body 15 in which a lot of holes 14 are made is installed. In the split drum like body 15, a rotating shaft 16 provided with rotary blades 26 rotated by a driving means is installed, and also on the feeding port 5 side of the rotary blades 26 a protruding member 28 is installed. Furthermore, in the open, upper part of the split drum like body 15, a split drum like cover 36 provided with the feeding port 5 and a discharge port 35 on the opposite side thereof is installed so that it can be opened and closed. Moreover, on the inner surface of the split drum like cover 36, guide members 37 are provided so that the separated packaging material is led to the discharge port 35.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic separating and crushing apparatus, and more particularly to a packaging material and a food for disposing various packed foods sold in a supermarket or a convenience store after the expiration date. The present invention relates to an automatic separation / pulverization device used for automatically separating food and simultaneously pulverizing the separated food.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in food stores such as supermarkets, convenience stores, and department stores, a wide variety of foods such as fish, meat, and prepared foods are sold side by side on display stands and refrigerated cases. Considering the appearance and convenience of handling when displaying these foods, put an appropriate amount (or number) in a tray or the like and package it with a plastic resin sheet or the like, or directly with transparent wrapping paper or the like. They are sold wrapped. In addition, trays and packaging materials for these foods,
A sticker describing each expiration date (or expiration date) is affixed.

[0003]

By the way, all of these foods are not necessarily sold within the expiration date, and many supermarkets and the like generate a large amount of unsold products whose expiration date has expired almost every day. I have. Therefore, after the store closes, these unsold products are collected and collected by a collection company. Collecting companies burn these unsold products as they are. As a result, chemical products such as trays are incinerated together with food, and there is a great concern that they will have an adverse effect on the environment.

Therefore, in order to safely dispose of these packed foods in consideration of the adverse effect on the environment, a garbage disposal apparatus which can aerobicly decompose waste foods by microorganisms is installed in the premises of each store such as a supermarket. Is installed,
Some stores use this device to process waste food.

However, in this case, before the food is put into the garbage disposal apparatus, it must be manually separated into the food and the packaging material each time. Was very difficult to separate. In addition, there is a problem that it takes time and effort, and the cost burden on the store side for disposal of the packed food increases.

[0006] The present invention has been developed in view of such a point, and its purpose is mainly to manually separate a packed food product whose expiration date has passed into a food material and a packaging material in advance. And an automatic separation / pulverization device capable of automatically separating food and packaging material without causing the pulverized food to be simultaneously pulverized, and collecting the pulverized food and packaging material separately. Is to do.

[0007]

The present invention has the following configuration in order to effectively achieve the above object. That is, the automatic separation / crushing apparatus of the present invention according to claim 1 includes a half-drum-shaped main body having a large number of holes formed in a case provided with an input port on one end side. A rotating shaft provided with rotating blades rotated by a driving means is provided in the main body, and a protruding member is provided on the inlet side of the rotating blades, and further, on an open upper portion of the half-drum body, opposite to the inlet. A half-drum-shaped lid having a discharge port on the side is provided so as to be openable and closable, and a guide member is provided on an inner surface of the half-drum-shaped lid to guide the separated packaging material to the discharge port. It has a configuration.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an automatic separating / pulverizing apparatus according to the present invention, wherein a half-drum-shaped main body having a large number of holes is provided in a case provided with an input port on one end side, and a driving means is provided. A rotating shaft is provided in the half-drum-shaped main body, a plurality of rotating blades are provided on the rotating shaft, and a protruding member is provided at an end of the at least one rotating blade on the input port side. On the open upper portion of the split drum-shaped main body, a half-drum-shaped lid provided with a discharge port on the opposite side to the above-mentioned inlet is provided so as to be openable and closable, and the separated packaging material is provided on the inner surface of the half-drum-shaped lid. A plurality of guide members are provided to guide to the discharge port, and further, a pulverized material receiver is provided below the half-drum-shaped main body so as to be able to be drawn out of the case, and the above-mentioned half-drum-shaped lid is provided at an open upper part of the case. Can be opened and closed with a case lid formed so that the body outlet can be guided to the outside Provided are a configuration, characterized in that the.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 6 are views showing an example of an automatic separation / crushing apparatus according to the present invention.
The crushing device 1 automatically separates the packed food that is discarded after the expiration date into a packaging material and a food, simultaneously crushes the separated food, and separates the crushed food and the packaging material from different places. It is one that can be discharged.

First, the packed food mainly processed by the automatic separating / crushing apparatus 1 is, for example, a food such as meat, seafood or processed food placed on a styrene foam tray and packaged in a transparent wrap. . Of course, the packed food is also a food packaged with other packaging materials.

In the illustrated automatic separation / crushing apparatus 1, 2
Is a case for installing a drum and the like described later,
It is a square box with an open top. Partitions 3 and 4 are formed on both sides of the upper part of the case 2, and one partition 3 is formed with an inlet 5 (see FIG. 4) for a packaged food having a semicircular opening. On the outside of the input port 5, the input port 5
An auxiliary slide section 6 for feeding a packed food is provided which is inclined to the side. In addition, a sheet-like member 8 is provided on the upper surface 7 of the auxiliary slide 6 so as to be easily embossed.

A support plate 9 is provided above the vicinity of the entrance of the charging port 5.
(See FIG. 6). A plurality of rubber curtains 11 are provided along the front end 10 of the support plate 9 so as to hang down to the vicinity of the upper surface of the auxiliary slide 6 at the front end 10 of the support plate 9. The curtain 11 serves to prevent the hands from being pushed all the way into the case when the packed food is inserted into the insertion opening 5 side, and to block odors and the like from coming out of the case.

The upper opening 12 of the case 2 is covered by a case lid 13 which is provided in the case 2 so as to be openable and closable, which will be described later.

Inside the case 2 (see FIG. 4), a half-drum-shaped main body 15 having a large number of holes 14 formed in its entirety has a rectangular open side facing upward and one semicircular open side facing upward. Is fixedly provided below the above-mentioned inlet 5 side. The half-drum-shaped main body 15 has a shape obtained by halving a perfect circular drum. The hole 14 is provided for dropping the pulverized food downward, and has a small circular shape with a diameter of about 20 mm. The shape of the hole 14 is 12 mm × 40
The design can be freely changed to various shapes such as a rectangle of about mm, another rectangle, a square, an ellipse, and the like. Of course, the size of the hole is not limited to the above-mentioned size, and the design may be freely changed.

Bearings 18 and 19 are provided on both sides 17 of the case 2.
(See FIG. 1), and the rotating shaft 16 is fitted to the bearings 18 and 19. The rotating shaft 16 is a dual bearing 18,
19 to support rotation. The rotating shaft 16 is provided so as to pass through the upper center of the half drum-shaped main body 15 in the left-right direction in FIG.

The rotating shaft 16 (see FIG. 4, or FIGS. 1, 3) is provided with four rotating blades 26. That is, a rectangular metal plate 20 is provided on the rotating shaft 16 at every 90 ° in the circumferential direction. At the tip of each metal plate 20,
An elongated rectangular rubber plate 23 is provided by a backing plate 21 and a plurality of bolts and nuts 22. The metal plate 20 is preferably a stainless material, but may be another metal material or a hard member. The rubber plate 23 has a metal plate 20 and a half-drum-shaped main body 15 and a guide member 37 of a half-drum-shaped lid 36 to be described later when a metal object or a hard object is included in the input material. Between the metal plate 20 and the guide member 25.
In addition to reducing the contact noise inside, when the packaging material of the packed food separated to the discharge port 35 described later is sent by the rotating blade 26 or the like, the packaging material is not damaged. It also has the function of preventing it from being crushed finely. There is a gap of about 10 mm between the tip of the rubber plate 23 and the inner peripheral surface of the half drum-shaped main body 15. One rotating blade 26 is constituted by the metal plate 20, the contact plate 21, the plurality of bolts / nuts 22, and the rubber plate 23.

At the ends of the two rotating blades 26 of the four rotating blades 26, that is, at the end 27 of the case 2 on the charging port 5 side, a projecting member 28 made of an angle steel material is provided. It is provided so as to protrude to the side. The projecting member 28 is provided for hooking the food pack introduced into the half-drum-shaped main body 15 from the introduction port 5 to forcibly break the packaging material, and is also provided for crushing the introduced hard object. I have.

The protruding member 28 is provided on all the rotating blades 26.
Or on one or three rotating blades 26. The position at which the protruding member 28 is provided may be freely changed without being limited to the illustrated example as long as it is the end of the rotary blade 26 on the side of the inlet 5 of the case 2. Further, the number of the rotating blades 26 provided on the rotating shaft 16 is not limited to four, and the design can be freely changed to a desired number.

The rotating shaft 16 is rotated by a driving means 29 (see FIG. 1) provided below the auxiliary slide 6. The driving means 29 includes a motor 30 and a small gear 3 fitted to a driving shaft 31.
2 (or pulley) and a large gear 33 fitted to the rotating shaft 16
(Or pulley), and a chain 34 (or belt) stretched over the small gear 32 and the large gear 33. At the time of driving, the rotating shaft 16 is configured to rotate rightward when viewing the inside of the half-drum-shaped main body 15 from the charging port side. The driving means for rotating the rotating shaft 16 is not limited to the above example, and may be freely designed and changed to any known driving means.

At the open upper portion of the half-drum-shaped main body 15 (see FIGS. 4 and 5), a discharge port 35 is provided on the side opposite to the input port 5.
Is provided so as to be openable and closable.

That is, the half-drum lid 36 is formed to have a semi-elliptical shape when viewed from the end face side in order to provide a crescent-shaped guide member 37 on the inner surface. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, three guide members 37 are provided at predetermined intervals in an oblique direction so that the separated packaging material can be guided to the discharge port 35 side. Of course, four or more guide members 37 may be provided on the inner surface of the half-drum lid 36 at predetermined intervals. The inclination angle of the guide member 37 with respect to the half-drum cover 36 is preferably the angle shown in the figure, but may be any other angle. Further, the guide member 37 may be detachably provided on the half-drum cover 36 so that the guide member 37 can be replaced.

In the front part outside the half drum-shaped lid 36,
A grip 38 is provided to easily open and close the half-drum body 15, and hooks 39 are provided on both sides of the grip 38. The hook 39 is locked by a locking portion 41 provided at the front open end 40 of the case 2 when the half-drum-shaped main body 15 is closed, and can be fixed to the half-drum-shaped lid 36. .

Further, a discharge port 35 is provided at a front portion of the half drum-shaped lid 36 opposite to the input port 5. Outlet 3
Reference numeral 5 denotes a configuration in which a rectangular cylinder 42 communicating with the inside of the half-drum-shaped main body 15 is provided so as to protrude forward from the half-drum-shaped lid 36.

Outside the half-drum cover 36, a case lid 13 is provided on the case 2 so as to be openable and closable so as to cover the half-drum cover 36. The case lid 13 is provided with a rectangular cylinder 42, which is a discharge port 35 provided in the half drum-shaped lid 36, when the case lid 13 is closed, so that the square cylinder 42 can protrude forward. A notch opening 43 (see FIG. 6) slightly larger than the cross-sectional area is provided on the upper front side.

Further, a drawer-shaped pulverized material receiver 44 is provided in the case 2 below the half-drum-shaped main body 15. The pulverized material receiver 44 can be pulled out of the case 2 as needed.

A drain pipe 45 (see FIG. 1) capable of discharging water such as washing water is provided below the case 2. A grip 46 is provided at the upper center of the case lid 13 near the front. Further, at the front portion of the case 2, locking receiving members 47 are provided at predetermined intervals on the left and right sides, and locking members 48 which are detachably locked to the locking receiving members 47 are provided. By engaging the locking receiving members 47 with the locking members 48, the case lid 13 can be closed and securely fixed to the case 2. In addition, casters 49 are provided at the four lower corners of the case 2 so that the automatic separating / crushing device can be easily moved.

In order to separate the packaging material of the packed food from the food and to pulverize the separated food by using the automatic separating / pulverizing apparatus according to the present invention having the above-described configuration, first, a half-drum is used. The lid 36 is closed and the lid 13 for the case is closed. Next, the motor 30 is driven to rotate the rotary blade 26 via the drive shaft 31, the small gear 32, the chain 34, the large gear 33, and the rotary shaft 16.

After doing so, the packed foods whose expiration date has expired are sequentially slid from the auxiliary slide unit 6 to the input port 5.
And into the half-drum main body 15. The packaged food placed in the main body is hooked on the projecting member 28 provided on the side of the rotating rotary blade 26 to break the packaging material,
The food inside spills out into the half-drum-shaped main body 15 and is separated into the packaging material and the food. The separated packaging material is lifted by the rotating rotary blades 26 and soars toward the half drum-shaped lid 36, and is discharged by the rotation of the rotary blades 26 and the guide member 37 provided on the inner surface of the half drum-shaped lid 36. It is guided to the outlet 35 side, and is discharged to the front of the case 2 from the rectangular cylinder 42 which is the discharge port 35. The discharged packaging material may be collected by placing a bag or box at the outlet of the rectangular cylinder 42.

On the other hand, the food separated from the packaging material is pulverized by the contact between the rotating rotary blades 26, the half-drum-shaped main body 15, the half-drum-shaped lid 36, and the guide member 37, and the half-drum-shaped It is discharged downward from many holes of the main body 15 and is placed on the pulverized material receiver 44. After processing a predetermined amount of packed food in this way, the pulverized material receiver 4
4 is pulled out of the case 2 and the pulverized food is taken out of the case 2.

The automatic separating / pulverizing device of the present invention can be designed to be a device having a large processing capacity or a device having a small processing capacity in accordance with the amount of packed food to be processed. Further, the present invention is not limited to the disposal of packed foods whose expiration date has passed, but can also be used to separate / crush and dispose of other foods. Further, the automatic separation / crushing device of the present invention
In place of the configuration in which the pulverized material receiver 44 is provided, the design is changed so that the pulverized material falling below the half-drum-shaped main body 15 is conveyed by a conveyor, or the design is changed so that the pulverized material is received in a bag. The configuration is free.

Further, the discharge port 35 is not limited to the front of the case 2, but may be at the end of the half-drum-shaped main body 15 and the half-drum-shaped lid 36 (opposite to the inlet 5) or at the rear or the half-drum-shaped lid. It is also possible to freely change the design so that it is provided on the upper part of the body 36 and can be discharged out of the case 2.

[0032]

As described above, in the automatic separating / pulverizing apparatus of the present invention, the packaged food having expired expiration date is automatically separated from the food and the packaging material without being manually separated into the food and the packaging material. In addition, the packaging material and the separated food can be ground at the same time, and the packaged food can be disposed sanitarily and efficiently.

By covering the case with the case lid, the internal noise and odor can be sealed as much as possible.
Further, by receiving the pulverized material falling from the half-drum-shaped main body by the pulverized material receiver, the pulverized material can be collected hygienically without scattering under the case.

[0034]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an automatic separation / crushing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the automatic separation / crushing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the automatic separation / crushing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a main part of the automatic separation / crushing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a state in which a case lid 13 and a half drum-shaped lid 36 are opened.

FIG. 6 is an overall perspective view of an example of an automatic separation / crushing apparatus according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Automatic separation / crushing apparatus 2 Case 5 Input port 13 Case lid 14 Hole 15 Half drum-shaped main body 16 Rotation shaft 26 Rotating blade 28 Projecting member 29 Driving port 35 Discharge port 36 Half drum-shaped lid 37 Guide member 44 Crushed object receiver

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A half-drum-shaped main body having a large number of holes formed therein is provided in a case having an input port provided on one end side, and a rotary blade rotated by a driving means is provided in the half-drum-shaped main body. A half-drum cover having a rotating shaft, a protruding member provided on the inlet side of the rotary blade, and a discharge port on the open upper side of the half-drum body opposite to the inlet. And a guide member is provided on the inner surface of the half-drum lid so as to guide the separated packaging material to the discharge port. 2. A half-drum-shaped main body having a large number of holes formed in a case having an input port provided on one end side, a rotary shaft rotated by a driving means is provided in the half-drum-shaped main body, and A plurality of rotating blades are provided on the rotating shaft, a protruding member is provided at an end of the at least one rotating blade on the side of the charging port, and further, at an open upper portion of the half-drum-shaped main body, on a side opposite to the charging port. A half-drum-shaped lid having a discharge port is provided so as to be openable and closable, and a plurality of guide members are provided on the inner surface of the half-drum-shaped lid to guide the separated packaging material to the discharge port. A case lid formed so that a pulverized material receiver is provided below the drum-shaped body so as to be able to be pulled out of the case, and a discharge opening of the half-drum-shaped lid is guided to the outside at an open upper portion of the case. Automatic separation, characterized in that it can be opened and closed
Crushing equipment.