KR100664700B1 - Brown rice germination device - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus for preparing sprouted unpolished rice to allow a series of process from the sprouting of unpolished rice to the drying and the packaging to be performed automatically and efficiently. The apparatus comprises a series of unpolished rice sprouting device(10) which is provided with warm water and washing water supply and drainage units to wash unpolished rice to sprout it; a bucket transfer device(20) which injecting the sprouted unpolished rice into a drying device uniformly and receiving and discharging the dried sprouted unpolished rice; a drying device which is provided with a warmed conveyer installed in zig-zag up and down to dry the sprouted unpolished rice; and a conveyer transfer device(40) which injects the sprouted unpolished rice discharged from the terminal conveyer to a packaging room.

Description

Germinated Brown Rice Production Equipment {Brown Rice Germination Device}

1 is a block diagram of a germinated brown rice production apparatus according to the present invention

Figure 2 is a plan view of the germinated brown rice production apparatus according to the present invention

Figure 3 is a side cross-sectional configuration of the germinated brown rice production apparatus according to the present invention

Figure 4 is an embodiment of the germination according to the present invention

5a and 5b is an embodiment of the stirring machine according to the present invention

6 is a structural diagram of a deodorizing apparatus according to the present invention

*. Explanation of Major Codes

a. Production space b. Upper space

10. Brown rice germination 11. Germination box 12. Hot water and washing water supply and drainage means

13. Stirrer 20. Bucket feeder 21. Bucket

22. Bottom feed hopper 23. Top outlet 24. Top feed hopper

25. Lower outlet 30. Drying device

40. Conveyor Conveyer 41. Cover 42. Deodorizer

50. Packing room

The present invention relates to a germinated brown rice manufacturing apparatus, and more particularly to the production of a series of germinated brown rice by germinating brown rice in a series of germination machine equipped with a water supply and drainage means of hot water and washing water, and then supplying it to a drying apparatus of a conveyor structure for drying. An apparatus for effectively carrying out a process.

Germinated brown rice is sprouted about 1mm ~ 5mm by supplying proper moisture, temperature and oxygen to brown rice stripped rice husk, and commercialized germinated brown rice is packaged through drying process for distribution.

The sprouted brown rice contains useful ingredients for the body such as vitamins, amino acids, enzymes, and superoxide dismutase (SOD), and these nutrients enhance the body's natural healing power, prevent adult diseases, and detoxify the body's toxins. In addition, it is rich in nutrients, but it is effective in eliminating the shortcomings of brown rice, which is difficult to digest and rough, and also eliminates the shortcomings of white rice in which most of the nutrients contained in the embryo are lost during the process. It is very useful.

Conventional germination brown rice manufacturing process comprises a washing step of washing the rice husk stripped about 3 to 8 times; Germination step of putting brown rice into 1-5mm size by putting brown rice in germination container and adding water of 20 ~ 30 ℃ and repeating water exchange and stirring for 3 ~ 8 times for 1 ~ 3 days at 5 ~ 10 hour intervals. Wow; Drying the germinated brown rice to have a water content of 10 to 14%; A packing step of packing the dried germinated brown rice to a certain standard; Is made of.

In the germination step of the process, the stirring process of exchanging and mixing warm water at intervals of 5 to 10 hours in order to prevent the decay and deterioration of brown rice caused by lack of oxygen in the germination process that takes 1 to 3 days is a core process. Depending on the agitation, stirring or mechanical agitation is performed.

As a brown rice germination device using a mechanical device, Patent No. 0347063 is provided with a heater, an air supply means, and an automatic water supply means in a container to provide a device for collectively performing cleaning, germination, water exchange, stirring, and oxygen supply. Patent No. 0329012 discloses a structure in which washing, germination, and drying are collectively performed in a drum by combining oxygen, water, and hot air supply means with a rotating drum. The germinated brown rice manufacturing device using such a mechanical device may be seen as a mass-produced structure compared to manual work, but it takes about one to three days to produce the final germinated brown rice after filling the first brown rice. There was a disadvantage in that production efficiency compared to manpower production was reduced because germinated brown rice production was limited, and there was a limit in obtaining high quality germinated brown rice by separating and leaving young shoots during mechanical processing.

The method by manpower arranges germination tanks provided with means for discharging hot water and washing water in the space at regular intervals to wash brown rice by manpower, exchange hot water automatically or by manpower, and periodically germinate brown rice by manpower. It is a method to prevent corruption and deterioration by inverting the most of the process depends on manpower and has a high labor intensity.However, it is possible to obtain high quality germinated brown rice by adjusting the degree of agitation while visually checking the germination status. It has advantages, and the installation is made in the form of arranging the rectangular box-shaped germs in the space inside the germination room, and the installation is simple. This had a high advantage.

On the other hand, to prevent the deterioration of germinated brown rice and commercial distribution, it is necessary to dry the shoots and then dry them to a moisture content of about 10 to 14%. For this purpose, natural drying or forced drying using a hot air blower is used. Low efficiency, continuous mixing by manpower or mechanical method during drying process, and in the production of fermented brown rice, the packaging after drying does not consist of a series of continuous processes without intermediate breaks, and is divided into stages, resulting in lower overall manufacturing efficiency. There was this.

The present invention is to efficiently proceed the process of manufacturing and drying germinated brown rice, to obtain a high quality germinated brown rice, and to configure the device so that the germination step and the drying step of the brown rice organically related to the overall efficiency of germinated brown rice manufacturing process The purpose of the present invention is to propose a germinated brown rice manufacturing apparatus that can improve the efficiency and use the space effectively.

To this end, the present invention provides a facility for washing and germinating brown rice, a series of brown rice germinators installed in a planar space to have water supply and drainage means of hot water and wash water; A bucket transporting device which is configured to constantly feed germinated brown rice produced from the brown rice germinating machine into a drying apparatus installed in the upper space, and to receive and discharge the germinated brown rice dried by the drying apparatus; A drying device for drying the germinated brown rice by continuously transferring and stirring the germinated brown rice put in a heated state by a conveyor installed in a space up and down zigzag in order to receive the germinated brown rice input from the bucket transfer device and dry it; A conveyor conveying apparatus installed on a flat space to receive the dried germinated brown rice discharged from the end conveyor of the drying apparatus and to put it into the packaging chamber; It provides a germinated brown rice manufacturing apparatus comprising a.

In addition, the present invention constitutes a germination box in a rectangular box shape with the germination, the germination bucket is combined with hot water and washing water supply and drainage means, and provided with a stirring working machine for stirring the brown rice in the germination box, the stirring The work machine constitutes a handle at both ends of the “┖┚” type work rod, and connects an air supply hose to the work rod, and the air supplied through the air supply hose is discharged through the air hole formed in the lower part of the work rod. An apparatus for producing germinated brown rice of a structure is presented.

In addition, the present invention is provided with a cover covering the upper portion of the conveyor conveying apparatus used for the final transfer of dried germinated brown rice, the cover to install a deodorizing device at regular intervals to separate and remove the yeast odor unique to germinated brown rice before packing It also suggests a configuration to help you.

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

1 shows a spatial arrangement of the germinated brown rice production apparatus according to the present invention, Figure 2 shows a planar arrangement of the germinated brown rice production apparatus according to the present invention, Figure 3 shows a vertical structure of the present invention It is.

Referring to the present invention as shown, the present invention is a series of brown germination 10 is continuously installed as a stand-alone structure, respectively, in the production space (a) of a certain form, the bucket transfer device 20 on the same space, The conveyor transporting device 40 and the packing room 50 are installed, and the drying device 30 is installed in the upper portion of the production space a, which is the discharge position of the bucket transporting device 20.

The brown rice germination machine 10 is an element for germinating brown rice under a certain condition, and the present invention is configured by arranging a plurality of box-shaped germination boxes 11 on a planar space, and supplying hot water and washing water to each germination box. It has a structure in which the means 12 are combined.

As shown in Fig. 4, the germination barrel is made of a simple box-shaped box having a flat bottom, and after the introduction of brown rice in each germination barrel, washing and germination are independently performed.

Hot water and washing water supply and drainage means (12) It is a function for supplying the washing water required in the washing process to the germination barrel, and supplying and discharging hot water in the germination process, and is carried out with a structure in which a water supply and drainage network is installed to be connected to the germination bucket. In this case, the water supply and drainage valve may be configured as an automatic control valve, and the movable hose may be equipped with a movable hose to provide washing water and hot water while moving every germination.

The present invention proposes a stirring machine 13 to be able to efficiently perform the periodic stirring operation to determine the quality of the germinated brown rice is demanding and careful in the brown rice germination process.

5A and 5B illustrate a structure and a working form of the stirring machine, in which a handle 13b is formed at both ends of a “┖┚” type work rod 13a, and a plurality of air holes 13c are formed below the work rod. The air supply hose 13d is coupled to the air hole. In addition, it has a structure in which around the lower air hole of the work rod a brown rice induction plate 13e made of a plurality of inclined plates.

Stirring machine according to the above structure is used as a method of repeating the stirring operation by gradually pulling the bottom of the germination barrel in the state of holding each handle to the bottom of the rod to the bottom of the germination barrel holding each handle in a pair of two people.

The brown rice on the bottom of the rod is in contact with the rod and floats in contact with the air and is naturally mixed. The brown rice induction plate acts to induce the rise of brown rice and mix it more evenly.

Such a stirring machine is capable of efficient stirring without having high working strength by moving the germination tanks arranged continuously, and can make stirring while visually checking the germination or agitation state of brown rice and high quality germinated brown rice. It provides an effect that can be prepared.

Bucket transfer device 20 is a device for vertically transferring the germinated brown rice to a drying device installed in a vertical space, attached to the bucket 21 on the endless rotating chain, the germination put into the lower feed hopper 22 It is a structure that discharges the brown rice vertically in a certain amount and discharges it to the upper discharge port 23, using a drive motor capable of forward and reverse rotation, and installing a separate upper injection hopper 24 on the upper side, and a lower discharge port 25 on the lower side. It is constructed to be able to transfer germinated brown rice after drying during reverse rotation driving.

Drying apparatus 30 is installed on the upper space (b), the space has a structure of a conventional drying chamber equipped with heating means such as hot air for drying germinated brown rice and means for discharging steam generated during the drying process. .

The drying apparatus receives the germinated brown rice supplied from the upper discharge port 23 of the bucket transfer device and horizontally transports the first conveyor 31 installed at the bottom and the germinated brown rice dropped from the first conveyor to receive the germinated brown rice. The second conveyor 32, which is installed at the lower portion and the third conveyor 33 is horizontally transferred in the reverse direction after receiving the germinated brown rice falling from the second conveyor, and the lower portion is dropped from the third conveyor A fourth conveyor 34 or more conveyor, which receives germinated brown rice and horizontally moves it in the reverse direction again, is installed in the upper and lower zigzag to stir while transferring the germinated brown rice, and is dried by hot air in the drying chamber while stirring.

The embodiment has a structure in which the upper input hopper 24 of the bucket transfer device is located at the dropping position of the fourth conveyor constituting the last conveyor, and as a result, the upper discharge hopper 22 is raised to the lower input hopper 22. By discharging it back at, the work module repeats the drying process.

Conveyor transporting device 40 is to receive the dried germinated brown rice discharged from the bucket transporting device 20 to the packing room 50, installed on the production space (a) of the lower outlet 25 of the bucket transporting device do.

The upper portion of the conveyor transporting device 40 is provided with a cover 41 as shown in Figure 6 to block the odor generated after drying, the deodorizing device 42 is installed at a predetermined interval on the cover. The deodorizer has a structure in which a perforated network 42a is formed on a cover and a filter layer 42b filled with charcoal or a moisture remover is formed on the other side and connected to the external exhaust pipe 42c.

The deodorizing device removes odors such as yeast contained in dried germinated brown rice before packing, and serves to effectively prevent the odor from being released to the outside.

Put the rice husk peeled by the above composition into the brown rice germination to wash 3 ~ 8 times to complete the washing, put the 20 ~ 30 ℃ hot water into the germination bucket and start germination, and then as a pair of two people Repeat the water exchange and agitation 3 to 8 times for 1 to 3 days at intervals of 5 to 10 hours using the stirring machine described above, and when the shoots of brown rice grow to a size of 1 to 5 mm, the water is discharged and the bucket transfer device The germinated brown rice is discharged to the conveyor feeder by using a bucket feeder, and dried by the drying device to the required water content while being transferred to the hopper of the hopper and transferred to the top. Drying and packaging can be carried out in a series of processes.

By the time difference in each of the brown rice germination, by working to complete the brown rice germination process, it is possible to continue the operation of the bucket transfer device and drying device can continue to operate each device, the overall germination brown rice production capacity is improved.

The present invention according to the above configuration can proceed with the process of preparing and drying germinated brown rice efficiently, and the germination process, which is a process affecting the quality, can be carried out while checking the degree of germination and the agitation degree by manpower By using germination container of simple structure for germination of brown rice, it is possible to increase / decrease production capacity and use space efficiently, and to complete the germination with time difference and continue operation of transfer device and drying device. The efficiency is improved.

Claims (3)

A facility for washing and germinating brown rice, comprising: a series of brown rice germs installed on a planar space to have water supply and drainage means of hot water and washing water; A bucket transporting device which is configured to constantly feed germinated brown rice produced from the brown rice germinating machine into a drying apparatus installed in the upper space, and to receive and discharge the germinated brown rice dried by the drying apparatus; A drying device for drying the germinated brown rice by continuously transferring and stirring the germinated brown rice put in a heated state by a conveyor installed in a space up and down zigzag in order to receive the germinated brown rice input from the bucket transfer device and dry it; A conveyor conveying apparatus installed on a flat space to receive the dried germinated brown rice discharged from the end conveyor of the drying apparatus and to put it into the packaging chamber; Germinated brown rice manufacturing apparatus comprising a. The method of claim 1, wherein the brown germination machine constitutes a germination box in a rectangular box shape, the germination barrel is combined with hot water and washing water supply and drainage means, and provided with a stirring machine for stirring the brown rice in the germination box, Stirring machine is composed of handles at both ends of the "┖┚" type rod, connecting the air supply hose to the rod, the air supplied through the air supply hose is discharged through the air hole formed in the lower part of the rod Germinated brown rice manufacturing apparatus characterized by one configuration According to claim 1 or 2, wherein the cover covering the upper portion of the conveyor conveying apparatus used for the final transfer of dried germinated brown rice, and the cover is installed in a deodorizing device at regular intervals to remove and remove the smell Germinated brown rice manufacturing apparatus, characterized in that made.

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