KR100269858B1 - Disposer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An apparatus for processing foodwaste is provided to reuse the foodwaste as livestock feed or manure by completely crushing, cutting and drying the foodwaste and eliminating smell. CONSTITUTION: The apparatus comprises a plurality of hoppers(2,3,4) including water supplying pipes(5,6,7) in the center of a frame(10); a plurality of a couple of crushing rollers(8,8',9,9') in the hoppers(2,3,4); a compressing cutter(30) including a housing(11), a clamp, a couple or more of a first bushes(12,14...), a slanted pathway, a discharging guider and a compressing controlling part(30') for eliminating water by compressing a firstly crushed discharging materials and cutting as a chip-shape; and a heater(60) for drying the chip-shaped discharging materials and eliminating smell.

Description

Food Waste Processing Equipment

The present invention relates to a food waste processing apparatus, and in particular, completely removes moisture and odor contained in finely shredded food wastes using a pulverizing apparatus, and discharges a powdery discharge discharged to a constant size in a livestock feed. The present invention relates to a food waste processing apparatus which can be used as a fertilizer for agricultural products.

In general, as foods and foods are diversified and enriched, a lot of food waste is generated, and this food waste contains a lot of water, and when left at room temperature for a certain time, fermentation by microorganisms Smell and decay will not only cause severe odors, but also pollute the environment.

In the prior art, food waste was removed by pulverizing and treating food finely, selecting a predetermined place and reclaiming it or installing a separate combustion facility to burn it. As such, the method of crushing and treating food is to compress food waste to separate water and dust and discard it, and to manually squeeze food waste to remove moisture, and to use a motor to compress water to remove moisture. Will be used.

In other words, to press the food manually, put the support plate on the bottom of the barrel with a predetermined space, and fasten the cover by fastening the screw rod provided with the handle and the press plate on the cover, put the food waste on the support plate, close the cover and rotate the handle. If the pressing plate is lowered by the screw rod, it compresses the food on the support plate to remove moisture, but it only removes the water contained in the soft food waste, and there is a problem in that it can not process the hard bones such as fish bones. .

In addition, the use of a motor to remove the water contained in the food is to install a stirring member and a transfer screw having a plurality of blades inside the processing container, so that the stirring member and the transfer screw is rotated by each motor, The waste is mixed and crushed by the stirring member, and compressed to be discharged through the outlet while the water is removed, thereby minimizing its volume. However, the efficiency of reducing the volume as the crushed food is mixed by the stirring member is reduced. Lowered, there was a problem that the outlet is often blocked.

In addition, the landfill and combustion treatments have contaminated the soil, causing a lot of installation costs and space.

In order to solve this problem, the food waste processing apparatus of the Korean Utility Model Registration Application No. 97-53388 filed by the present applicant puts food waste together with water into a hopper, crushes the injected food with a roller, and then installs a screw installed on the bottom surface. It is to be able to remove the moisture while being compressed to, as described with reference to FIG.

13 is a longitudinal sectional view of a food waste processing apparatus according to the prior art. Three hoppers 110, 120 and 130, each of which is provided with water supply pipes 140, 150 and 160, are sequentially installed from an upper side of the center of the frame 100, and the hoppers 120 and 130 are provided. Inside the plurality of grinding rollers 180 are provided in pairs.

In addition, the lower portion of the hopper 130 is provided with a guide member 200 is inserted into the conveying screw 220 for compressing and discharging and transporting the food waste, the body of the guide member 200 is a myriad of drainage holes ( 210 is formed.

At one end thereof, a pressure adjusting means 300 is installed at the end of the spring to adjust the waste discharge pressure with an adjustment screw, and on the other side, a discharge pipe 400 having a heater 500 is coupled with a small amount of dried waste. A cutter 230 for crushing into particles is provided.

This invention requires a small volume of food waste to be dumped or discharged from the home. That is, by the grinding rollers, transfer screws, discharge control means, heaters and cutters installed in a plurality of pairs, it is possible to easily handle a large amount of bones contained in the food waste. However, the present invention relates to the simple treatment of food waste, and has the following disadvantages during the treatment.

First, complete drying of food waste could not be achieved.

Second, the smell of food waste could not be removed.

Third, there is no consideration about the utilization of the food waste that has been processed.

Fourth, it was difficult to replace the parts of the machine according to the treatment of food waste.

If you solve the above problems or shortcomings, it is very desirable, and it can be called a breakthrough invention.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a food waste processing apparatus which can be recycled as a feed or fertilizer of livestock by completely processing the food waste to solve such problems.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a food waste processing apparatus capable of sanitary treatment by completely crushing, cutting, and drying food waste to remove odors.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a food waste processing apparatus that facilitates replacement of a cutting device as used for processing food waste.

1 is an overall longitudinal cross-sectional view of a food waste processing apparatus according to the present invention;

2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the compression cutter and the heater according to the present invention;

3 is an exploded perspective view of a compression cutter and a heater according to the present invention;

4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of portion A of FIG. 2;

5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of portion B of FIG. 2;

6A and 6B are enlarged cross-sectional views of part C of FIG. 2;

7 is a rear view of the clamp device at the rear of the discharge guider;

8 is a top view of the clamp device at the rear of the discharge guider;

9 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A of FIG.

10 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of part D of FIG. 2;

11 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of portion E of FIG. 2;

12 is a cross-sectional view taken along line B-B of FIG. 5;

13 is a longitudinal sectional view of a food waste processing apparatus according to the prior art.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

2,3,4; hopper 5,6,7; water pipe

8,8 ', 9,9'; grinding roller 10; frame

11; housing 12, 14; first bushing

20; first feed screw 30; compression cutter

36; discharge guider 40; housing

46,48; 2nd bush 50; 2nd transfer screw

60; heater 61; heating member

67; 3rd bush 68; heater 69; odor removal filter 79; clamp

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a food waste processing apparatus in which a plurality of hoppers having a water supply pipe are provided in the center of the frame, and a plurality of grinding rollers are rotatably installed in a reverse direction. A compression cutter having a clamp for compressing the primary pulverized discharge from the hopper to remove water, and then cutting into a chip-like discharge, and for easy maintenance of the cutting means, and having a housing. And a food waste processing apparatus constituted by a heater which is installed in the housing and in contact with the outer and inner walls thereof to dry while moving the chipped discharge and remove odors.

The present invention configured as described above can be used as livestock feed or fertilizer as the final discharge processed food waste, and to remove the smell of food waste during processing, thereby preventing pollution of the natural environment.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, an example of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is an overall longitudinal sectional view of the food waste processing apparatus according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the compression cutter and the heater according to the present invention, Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view of the compression cutter and the heater according to the present invention, The same configuration as the conventional configuration will be briefly described and the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The center of the frame 10 is provided with hoppers 2, 3, 4, which are provided with water supply pipes 5, 6, 7, and a plurality of hoppers 3, 4, respectively, inwardly thereof. Paired grinding rollers (8) (8 ') and (9) (9') are provided so as to be rotatable in opposite directions to each other by a motor (not shown).

The lower part of the hopper 4 is provided with the compression cutter 30 and the heater 60 which are the characteristics of this invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the compression cutter 30 compresses the crushed food waste from the hopper to be discharged, and at the same time makes the powder into chips. Heater 60 is to remove the odor while drying the chips with a heater installed therein.

That is, the compression cutter 30 is coupled to the end of the hopper housing 11 formed in the upper end of the hopper 13 for introducing food waste, a plurality of the adjacent to the inner side of the housing 11 is inserted into the drainage function Ring-shaped first bushes 12, 14..., And first conveying screws 20 installed in the first bushes 12, 14... To compress and convey the remaining moisture of the food waste together with these bushes 20. ), Which is installed at the front end of the housing 11 to cut and guide the food waste into the chips of particles, and the pressure adjusting part 30 'installed at the rear end to adjust the compression force of the transfer screw 20. Equipped.

Here, the pressure regulator 30 'is described in detail in the application, and the rear end of the first transfer screw 20 is coupled with the spline inserted into the gear shaft in the gearbox and rotated as described in the first transfer. The rotational power is transmitted to the screw 20.

The housing 11 is supported by the housing 40 of the heater 60, which will be described later, is fixed horizontally to the lower end of the hopper 4, is formed in a tubular shape, and forms an inclined flow path 18 at the bottom of the water to form moisture. Allow it to flow in one direction.

Adjacent to the inner wall of the housing 11, a plurality of paired first bushes 12, 14 are inserted one after the other over the entire length.

As shown in FIG. 4, the bushes 12 and 14 are configured to discharge the woven water to the outside of the first bushes 12 and 14 while being compressed by the rotation of the first transfer screw 20. A plurality of grooves 12a, 14a and ridges 12b, 14b (shown in FIG. 4) are formed adjacent to each other in the circumferential circumference of the side surface, and the inner wall of the housing 11 and predetermined The first ribs 12c and 14c which have a distance are integrally provided.

Therefore, moisture is permeated into the grooves 12a and 14a and collected in the inclined flow path 18 at the bottom of the housing 11 along the guide path 13 'formed by the ribs 12c and 14c. And discharged to the outside.

The housing 11 is provided with a cylindrical support 16 for supporting the first transfer screw 20 adjacent to the hopper 15 which is connected to the inlet crushed food from the hopper 4 at the top, As shown in FIG. 5, the support 16 has an inlet 16a formed at the top thereof to coincide with the hole of the hopper 15 to guide the discharge to the first transfer screw 20, and at the bottom thereof, an inclined flow path ( A projection 16b (shown in FIG. 3) inserted into 18 is formed to prevent the support 16 from interlocking with the first transfer screw 20.

The cutting part 22 is to be cut by a rotation of the first transfer screw 20 to cut to a certain size while the discharge of the food waste from which water is removed is discharged in a compressed state, and is predetermined at the tip of the transfer screw 20. Is installed on the support shaft 24 having a length and diameter of, the outer side (circumferential surface) of the gear-like protrusions 22a, 22b parallel to the longitudinal direction is formed integrally so that the discharge is extruded in the longitudinal direction .

The discharge guide 36 is fixed to the end of the housing 11, the flange 17 of the housing 11 and the flange 37 of the discharge guide 36 by the clamp 70 as shown in FIG. Are integrally coupled to each other.

The discharge guide 36 has an end 32 of the first transfer screw 20 and a cutting section 22 formed therein, and a conveyance port 32 serving as a nozzle is formed adjacent to the flange 17. It extends to form the shaft hole 33, the bush 38 is inserted into the biaxial hole 33 to support the support shaft 24 to be rotatable.

The bush 38 has a rib-shaped cutting blade 39 opposed to the cutting portion 22 to be fixed to the upper portion so that the discharge compressed and discharged therefrom is cut into a very small chip shape.

This bush 38 is fixed to the other end thereof so that the stopper 31 supports him.

Further, the discharge guide 36 extends in the lower portion thereof so as to coincide with the hopper 42 of the heater 60 to be described later, and the discharge hole 34 is formed therein, and the shaft hole 33 6) maintains a gap L between its walls so that a jet of water passing through the support shaft 24 is made to flow out (see Figs. 6A and 6B and 9).

The clamp 70 easily installs the discharge guider 30 with respect to the housing 11 as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, or recovers it from the cutting part 22 and the cutting blade 39 so as to freely replace and repair the cutting guide 22. .

That is, the clamp 70 is installed in the frame 71, the flame 71, the fixed guide 72 and the movable guide 73 for fixing the housing flange 17 and the discharge guide flange 37 in contact with each other to fix it It is composed of fasteners 79 that are coupled to the movable guider 73 to move the frame 71 in the left and right directions.

Frame 71 is formed with a screw hole 75 for inserting the fastener 79 is coupled to the movable guider 73 on one side thereof.

The fixing guide 72 is fixed to one side of the frame 71, and both ends thereof have a c-shape, and have an inclined surface 72a so that the inclined surface 37a of the flange 37 and the inclined surface 17a of the flange 17 are fixed. ) (See Figure 3) at the same time.

The movable guide 37 also has an inclined surface 73a formed at its c-shaped end to contact the inclined surfaces of the flanges 37 and 17 to engage the housing 11 and the discharge guider 30, and to the fixture 78. In this way, the separation prevention piece 74 formed on both sides thereof is engaged with the screw shaft 76 so as to span the frame 71.

The fastener 78 is composed of a screw shaft 76 of a predetermined length, the screw shaft 76 penetrates the screw hole 75 of the frame 71 so that one end thereof is movable guided by the fastener 78 ( 73, the handle 77 is fixed to the other end.

Therefore, the clamp 70 moves the guide 77 to the left and the right along with the frame 71 as the handle 77 is rotated to the left and the right, and the housing 17 together with the fixed guide 72. ) And the flanges 37 and 17 of the discharge guider 30 may be coupled to each other or dismantled.

The heater 60 is configured to further dry the chip-like discharge of fine powder from the discharge guider 30 and remove odors.

The heater 60 is provided with a hollow tubular housing 40, second bushes 46 and 48 and second bushes 46 and 48 which are installed on the inner wall of the housing 40 to discharge water or gas. 2) a second transfer screw 50 installed in the inside of the chip) to transfer the discharge on the chip, and a third bush 67 installed in the longitudinal direction on the inner wall of the transfer screw 50 to discharge the gas. A heating member 61 is installed to penetrate the inside of the bush 67 of 3 to remove the odor of the discharge.

This heater 60 is installed in the lower part of the housing 11, and the housing 40 is arrange | positioned so that the hopper 42 may match the discharge part 36 of the discharge guider 30. As shown in FIG.

The housing hopper 42 has an inclined surface 42a formed at its back to induce the discharge on the chip to fall in a constant direction.

Moreover, this housing 40 is provided with the gas discharge guider 49 in the lower part so that a chip-like discharge | emission may discharge | emit the gas produced in a drying process. Adjacent to this gas discharge guider 49, a discharge port 49a is formed in the housing so as to store the chipped discharge in the container 51 as will be described later.

The second bushes 46 and 48 are ring-shaped and inserted in pairs over the entire length of the housing inner wall.

In addition, each of the second bushes 46 and 48 has one side formed with protrusions 46a and 48a and grooves 46b and 48b, and ribs 46c and 48c contacting the inner surface of the housing. Are formed.

Accordingly, as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11, the projections 46a and the grooves 46b are arranged toward the inside of the housing while the ribs 46c and 48c are in contact with each other on the inner side of the housing 40. A cavity 43 is formed between the 46c and 48c, so that water and gas which are evaporated through the grooves 46b and 48b and the cavity 34 are discharged to the drain groove 49 as described later. do.

When installed in the housing 40 of the second bushes 46 and 48, the second transfer screw 50 is formed in the center of the boss 52 on one side thereof so as to be rotatable therein. The rotation shaft 53 in the gearbox is fixed.

The conveying screw 50 is formed in a hollow shaft around the circumference of the longitudinal direction to the low-speed transfer of the chip-like discharge flowing from the hopper 42, the outer wall of the helical shape for moving the discharge to the right in the drawing A thread 54a is formed, and a helical thread 54b for moving the discharge to the left in the drawing is also formed on the inner wall.

The transfer screw 50 is adjacent to the maintenance 52, the discharge inlet hole 56 guided from the outside of the transfer screw 50 is formed to allow the discharge into the interior.

The boss 52 has a gas inlet guide hole 57 formed therein to allow the exhaust gas to be transported to the outside of the discharge through the passage 54 on the rear surface of the housing 40 and into the transfer screw 50.

A plurality of third bushes 67 are inserted in the conveying screw 50 in the longitudinal direction thereof.

The third bush 67 has the projections 67a and the grooves 57b formed on one side toward the inner side of the circumference, and ribs 67c are formed around the inner circumference of the one side.

The heating structure 61 has a stopper assembly 66 having a gas outlet hole 66b at a center thereof fitted at one end of the housing 40 at one end thereof, and a deodorizing body 62 extending in the longitudinal direction at the middle thereof. ) Is inserted into and fixed to the third bush 67, and the cover 80 of the stopper assembly 66 is fixed to the other end.

Here, the deodorizing structure 62 is a structure integrally extended to the intermediate assembly 66, the heater 68 is inserted into the resistive heating line in the longitudinal direction at a predetermined position around the circumference, the gas outflow at the top Outflow groove (66c) for guiding the is formed, the deodorizing filter 69 of the network is installed inside the hollow.

The deodorizing filter 69 may be a deodorizing network for absorbing odors, or may be a gas ignition filter made of metal.

Further, in order to completely remove the odor, filters made of platinum catalyst net or ceramic net may be used as the deodorizing filter 69. The filter may allow the power of the heater 68 to be applied to the outlet groove 66c or the gas discharge. It may be installed in the guider 49.

Cover 80 provided at the end is fixed to the filter 69 and at the same time the connection groove 88 is connected to the outlet groove (66c) is formed, the gas inlet through hole 82 is formed.

This heater 60 transfers the chip-like discharge flowing into the hopper 42 by the second transfer screw 50 to the right in the drawing between the second bush 46 and 48 and the inlet hole. It is introduced into the 56 and positioned between the third bushes 57 to be transferred to the left side in the drawing to be collected in the container 51.

At this time, the chip-like discharge is heated by the heater 61 or the filter 69 is ignited and heated to generate an odor (odor).

This odor gas is exhausted between the grooves 46b and 48b of the second bushes 46 and 48 to ride on the inner wall or collected in the gas discharge guider 49 to pass through the rear passage 57. It is then introduced into the deodorizing structure 62 to the gas inlet hole (57).

The gas thus introduced is deodorized by the filter 69 in the deodorizing structure 62 or burned by the heater 68 and then exhausted from the discharge hole 66b.

The operation of the present invention configured as described above is as follows.

The food waste flowing into the hopper (2) is a grinding roller installed in the hopper (3) (4) driven by external power, as in the prior art, with the water supplied to the water supply pipes (5), (6) and (7). It is easily crushed in turn by (8) (8 ') and (9) (9').

The pulverized waste discharged in this way is introduced into the compression cutter 30, and when it is introduced into the housing 11, it is compressed again by the first transfer screw 20 and discharges moisture contained therein.

This water permeates into the grooves 12b, 14b of the first bushes 12, 14 installed on the inner wall of the housing 11, flows to the bottom on the inner wall, and is collected in the inclined flow path 18. It is discharged to the outside.

Thus, the food waste discharge from which water was removed is sent to the cutting part 22 formed on the front-end | tip support shaft 24 of the 1st conveying screw 20, and a cutting blade (A) while passing this cutting part 22 in a longitudinal direction. 39) is cut into chips of powder and guided to the heater 60.

In the heater 60, the chipped discharge is completely dried by the heater 68 or the filter 69 in the process of being transferred by the second transfer screw 40, and at the same time, the odor is removed and collected in the container 51. .

Emissions of food waste on the chips thus collected are readily available for fertilizer of livestock feed or crops.

Therefore, in the present invention, the food waste processing apparatus can be used as feed or fertilizer by processing the food waste in a batch process, and in particular, to cut the discharge of the food waste into chips, and to allow the repair of the cutting part to be made, As it removes odors from food waste completely, it eliminates the sense of rejection when used and is also friendly to the natural environment.

Claims (5)

In the food waste processing apparatus in which a plurality of hoppers provided with a water supply pipe is provided in the center of the frame, and a plurality of grinding rollers are rotatably installed in the reverse direction. A compression cutter having a housing, compressing the primary pulverized discharge from the hopper to remove moisture, and then cutting it into chipped discharge, and having a clamp which facilitates maintenance of the cutting means; An apparatus for processing food waste, comprising a housing, which is installed in the housing and which contacts the outer and inner walls of the housing and moves the chip-like discharge while drying and removes odors. The method of claim 1, wherein the compression cutter is installed adjacent to the inner wall of the housing to remove the moisture of the pulverized discharge with the first transfer screw, and to the first bushes The inclined flow path formed on the bottom surface of the housing to collect and discharge the water flowing through the outer wall of the housing and the tip of the first feed screw and the first feed screw to compress the discharge to remove water to guide the discharge in the longitudinal direction. And a discharge guider for cutting the discharge into chips on a cutting blade provided opposite to the tip, and a compression regulator for controlling the compression of the discharge of the first transfer screw. The method of claim 1, A housing; One or more bushes in close contact with the inner wall of the housing to direct odor gas through the recesses to the wall; A second conveying screw which causes the chipped discharge to be moved between the bush and its outer surface and then flows into the inside, and is transported to discharge the chipped discharge to the outside; A plurality of third bushes installed adjacent to the wall in the second conveying screw and having grooves formed at one side thereof to guide the gas of the chip-like discharge onto the wall to be discharged to the gas passage adjacent to the conveying screw; An apparatus for processing food waste, which is provided inside the bushes, a deodorizing filter is installed in the middle thereof, and is composed of heating members arranged so that a heater is arranged around the circumference to remove gas odors. The method of claim 1 wherein the clamp, A frame; A fixed guider fixed to one side of the frame; A movable guider fixed to the other side of the frame to move with the frame; It is provided with a fastener fixed to the movable guider through a through hole formed with a threaded portion on one side of the frame, and the handle of the fastener rotates so that the movable guider and the fixed guider separate the discharge guider from the housing of the compression cutter. Processing equipment. The food waste processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 3, wherein a gas guiding groove is formed at the upper side of the heating member.