KR101191339B1 - disposer - Google Patents

Abstract

Disposer according to the present invention, the hopper 20 is connected to the bucket of the sink and the bottom surface is open form, the grinder 22 is built in the hopper so as to rotate horizontally, and disposed below the grinder and the grinder Auxiliary cutter 26 rotated together and composed of a plurality of blades 261, a drive motor for the rotation operation of the grinder and the auxiliary cutter, and the hopper to be coupled to the hopper to support the bottom surface of the hopper and the drain port 341 It has a structure having a including the drain 34 to allow the sewage flowing into the hopper to be stored by a certain level.

According to the present invention, food waste containing a lot of fiber components are also finely ground, so that convenience and hygiene according to food waste treatment at home are greatly improved, and additionally, a separate sealing means in the configuration of the sink The cost of producing the sink is also reduced because it is not needed.

Description

Disposer

The present invention relates to a disposer for crushing and discharging food waste.

In general, disposers are used to dispose of food wastes and discharge them through sewers, and in recent years, the use of disposers has been restricted or prohibited by law to prevent environmental pollution.

On the other hand, recently, environmentally friendly methods for separating and collecting food wastes, grinding, drying, and compressing them, and then recycling them as organic fertilizers have been widely implemented.

However, since the separate collection of food wastes takes a lot of work and causes a lot of hygiene problems, in households where food wastes are not much generated, food is crushed using a disposer, dried using a dryer, and the like. Efforts have been made to dispose of the discharger again.

In general, a conventional disposer includes a hopper 10 connected to a bucket (not shown) of a sink, a crushing tank 12 and a crushing tank 12 provided below the hopper 10. Grinder 14 is mounted and rotated by the drive motor 18, the cutter rim 16 surrounding the edge of the grinder 14 in the grinding tank 12.

The grinder 14 is in the form of a disc and has indent holes 14a formed at regular intervals at its edges, and the cutter rim 16 has a plurality of cutting slots 16a formed at regular intervals. It consists of a structure.

 The upper surface of the grinder 14 is provided with a pair of crushing blades 141 configured to be unfolded by a centrifugal force during rotation of the grinder 14 by being mounted in a hinged structure so as to be freely rotatable.

One side of the grinding tank 12 is provided with a drain port 121 for discharging filthy water and crushed food waste.

According to such a prior art, the grinder 14 is rotated by the drive motor 18, the shredding blade 141 of the grinder 14 is rotated the food waste introduced into the grinding tank 12 through the hopper 10. To be crushed by a blow.

The crushed food waste is diffused in the direction of the edge of the grinder 14 by centrifugal force to pass through the indent hole 14a of the grinder 14, while the grinder 14 is rotated while the cutter rim 16 is fixed. Due to the characteristics, the cutting part 16a is more cut in the process of passing through the cutting slot 16a of the cutter rim 16 via the indent hole 14a.

As described above, the conventional disposer performs various kinds of so-called multiple grinding operations in which a crushing action made by the crushing blade 141 and a cutting action made by the interaction of the grinder 14 and the cutter rim 16 are combined. It can be seen that it is possible to respond relatively effectively to food wastes caused by food.

However, according to the conventional disposer, there is a problem that the grinding treatment is not properly performed on food wastes containing a large amount of fiber, such as Chinese cabbage, herbs, vegetables, and the like.

First, in the crushing action, as described above, the food waste is crushed by the impact of the crushing blade 141, so that the fiber is not crushed by the crushing blade 141, and caught by the crushing blade 141. Or flows to the indent hole 14a side as it is.

When the fiber is wound around the crushing blade 141, since the impact impact by the crushing blade 141 is weakened, the crushing action on the food waste is not properly performed.

 In addition, although the fiber is partly passed through the indent hole 14a and the cutting slot 16a by the cutting action, the indent hole 14a and the cutting slot 16a are repeatedly repeated while moving up and down the grinder 14. As a result, the fibers are not chopped finely, and thus the fibers are kept in a long form and are not smoothly discharged through the drain port 121.

Thus, according to the prior art, since the grinding action on food wastes containing a lot of fiber is not properly performed, problems such as clogging of pipes accumulated without discharge of finely ground fiber wastes occur. will be.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a disposer for effective grinding of the food waste of the fiber component.

Disposer of the present invention having the above object, the hopper is connected to the bucket of the sink and the bottom surface is open, the grinder is built in the horizontally rotatable in the hopper, disposed below the grinder rotates with the grinder Auxiliary cutter composed of a plurality of blades, a drive motor for rotating operation of the grinder and the auxiliary cutter, coupled with the hopper to support the bottom surface of the hopper and surround the side, and having a drainage port, the wastewater flowing into the hopper It includes a drain to allow a certain level of water to be stored.

The drain box includes a housing part in which a driving motor is built, and a cover part formed along an upper edge of the housing part, and the hopper is inserted into and coupled to the inside of the cover part of the drain box so that the bottom of the hopper and the drain box An oil passage is formed between the upper surface of the housing portion of the housing, and a reservoir space is formed between the cover portion and the side surface of the hopper.

The drain port of the sump is formed at a position to allow the auxiliary cutter to be immersed in the sewage stored at all times and to prevent the level of the sewage stored in the drainage from exceeding the grinder.

The blade of the auxiliary cutter forms a flow in which the wastewater in the hopper is circulated up and down during the rotation operation of the auxiliary cutter so that the food waste flows with the waste water so that the cutting action for food waste is repeated in a downwardly inclined form. Is done.

On the upper surface of the housing portion of the drain container is formed a partition wall portion protruding upward and spaced apart from the oil passage gap inside the hopper.

According to the disposer according to the present invention, food waste containing a lot of fibrous components is also finely ground, thereby greatly improving convenience and hygiene according to food waste treatment at home, and consequently, a separate seal in the configuration of the sink. Since no means are required, the cost of producing the sink is also reduced.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying Figures 2a to 4 will be described in detail as follows for the practice of the invention.

Disposer according to the present invention is a hopper 20 connected to the bucket (not shown) of the sink, as shown in Figure 2a, 2b, the grinder 22 is built in the hopper 20 so as to rotate horizontally, and A cutter rim 24 surrounding the edge of the grinder 22, an auxiliary cutter 26 formed below the grinder 22 to be rotated together with the grinder 22, the grinder 22 and the auxiliary cutter ( It comprises a drive motor for the rotation operation of 26, and a drain box 30 surrounding the hopper (20).

The hopper 20 has an open bottom surface, and as shown in FIG. 3, the drain box 30 includes a housing 32 in which a driving motor is built, and an upper surface of the housing 32. It consists of a cover portion 34 that the hopper 20 is built.

The hopper 20 is inserted into and coupled to the cover portion 34 of the drain container 30, and the bottom of the hopper 20 and the drain container 30 in a state where the hopper 20 and the drain container 30 are coupled to each other. Oil passage 20a is formed between the upper surface of the housing portion 32 of the (), and the reservoir 30a is formed between the cover portion 34 and the hopper 20.

In addition, a partition wall part 321 is formed on the upper surface of the housing part 32 of the drain box 30 so as to be spaced apart from the oil passage 20a inside the hopper 20.

Here, the cover 34 of the sump 30 is provided with a drain port 341, the drain port 341 is disposed so that the lower end of the inlet is a height similar to the height of the grinder 22, the hopper It is configured so that the water level of the water stored in 20 does not exceed the grinder 22. (See FIG. 4).

On the opposite side of the drain port 341 is an overflow port 342 for directly receiving the wastewater into the reservoir 30a of the drain container 30 when the wastewater discharge from the bucket to the hopper 20 side is not smooth. Equipped.

The overflow port 342 should be formed at the same or higher position as the drain port 341 so that sewage stored in the storage space 30a is not introduced back into the overflow port 342. In consideration of the working efficiency of the drain port 341 and the overflow port 342 is preferably made of the same position and form.

That is, when the drain port 341 and the overflow port 342 are made in the same position and shape, the direction is set to match the position of the drain pipe and the overflow pipe in the process of installing the disposer according to the present invention in the sink. There is no need, and the port connected to the drainage pipe becomes the drainage port, and the port connected to the overflow pipe becomes the overflow port.

The grinder 22 has a disc shape as in the related art, and has an indent hole 22a formed at regular intervals at the edge thereof. The grinder 22 also hinges on the upper surface of the grinder 22 to allow free rotation. A pair of crushing blades 221 configured to be unfolded by the centrifugal force at the time of rotation of the grinder 22 by being mounted in a structure is provided.

In addition, the auxiliary cutter 26 includes a plurality of blades 261 arranged in a symmetrical form, each of the blades 261 is a wastewater in the hopper 20 during the rotation operation of the auxiliary cutter 26 Forming a circulating flow up and down is made so that the food waste flows with the sewage so that the cutting action for the food waste is repeated.

For example, the blade 261 may have a shape in which the front end is inclined downward so that water flowing through the blade 261 flows upward.

In the drawing, the number of blades 261 is exemplified as two, but the number of blades is not limited, and the blades 261 need only be formed in a structure capable of rotating operation by dividing each blade at equal angles.

According to the present invention as described above, the food waste of the fiber component can also be easily pulverized, the operation of the present invention will be described as follows.

First, as shown in FIG. 4, the food waste introduced into the hopper 20 is crushed by the crushing blade 221 of the grinder 22 which is rotated at a high speed, and the indent hole 22a and the cutter rim of the grinder 22 are crushed. It is cut while passing through the cutting slot (24a) of (24) is to be lowered down.

The food dregs that are lowered down the grinder 22 are finely cut by the auxiliary cutter 26 which is rotated together with the grinder 22. At this time, the operation of the auxiliary cutter 26 is caused by the food dregs of the fiber component. Cutting grinding is also possible.

That is, in the water, since a stronger liquid resistance occurs in the air, the flexibility of the fiber is slowed down by the liquid resistance, so that the blade 261 of the auxiliary cutter 26, which rotates at a high speed, can cut the fiber. will be.

In addition, the blade 261 is formed in the shape of the tip is inclined so that during the operation of the auxiliary cutter 26, since the sewage stored in the hopper 20 circulates up and down, the food waste flowing together with the sewage is the auxiliary cutter ( 26) is repeatedly cut by the auxiliary cutter 26, the so-called micro-cutting action is that the particles of the crushed food waste is between the bottom of the hopper 20 and the upper surface of the housing 30 of the sump (30) It continues until the size is enough to escape to the outside of the hopper 20 through the oil passage gap (20a).

Here, the partition wall portion 321 in which the oil passage 20a formed between the upper surface of the drain container 30 and the lower end of the hopper 20 protrudes from the upper surface of the drain container 30, the housing part 32. Due to the characteristic of being indirectly blocked by the side, the phenomenon that the circulating sewage suddenly escapes to the storage space 30a side through the oil passage 20a is prevented.

In this way, the food waste ground through the crushing action by the crushing blade 221, the cutting action by the grinder 22 and the cutter rim 24, and the microcutting action by the auxiliary cutter 26 are additionally discarded. As it flows into the hopper 20, it is pushed out into the water storage space 30a between the hopper 20 and the drain container 30 cover portion 34 through the oil passage 20a, and the water level is increased in the water storage space 30a. If a predetermined value or more is discharged to the outside through the drain port 341.

And, in the hopper 20 and the storage space (30a), the sewage is always stored by a certain level due to the position structure of the drain port 341, according to this characteristic through the drain port 341 from the drain pipe Odor gas, etc. that is introduced into the back is blocked by the water stored in the water storage space 30a, so that the water-sealing action is performed without providing a separate water-sealing means such as a u-trap on the drain pipe.

1 is an exploded perspective view showing the configuration of a disposer according to the prior art.

Figure 2a is an exploded top perspective view showing the configuration of the disposer according to the present invention.

Figure 2b is an exploded bottom perspective view showing the configuration of the disposer according to the present invention.

3 is a partial cross-sectional perspective view showing the main portion of the disposer according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is an exemplary cross-sectional view showing an operating state of the disposer according to the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

20: Hopper 20a: Oil clearance

22: grinder 22a: indent hole

221: crushing blade 24: cutter rim

26: auxiliary cutter 261: blade

30: sump 30a: reservoir

32: housing portion 321: partition wall portion

34: cover 341: drain port

342: overflow port

Claims (6)

Hopper connected to the bucket of the sink and having an open bottom, A grinder embedded in the hopper so as to rotate horizontally; The auxiliary cutter which is disposed below the grinder and rotates together with the grinder and consists of a plurality of blades A drive motor for rotating the grinder and the auxiliary cutter; Combined with the hopper to support the bottom surface of the hopper and surround the side, and having a drain port to drain the waste water flowing into the hopper by a certain level By being made including The food waste introduced into the hopper is crushed by the grinder and cut by the auxiliary cutter in the stored sewage to be discharged together with the sewage through the drain port of the sump. Disposer characterized in that. The method of claim 1, The drain box includes a housing part in which a driving motor is embedded and a cover part formed along an upper edge of the housing part. The hopper is inserted into the cover portion of the drain container is coupled between the lower end of the hopper and the upper surface of the housing portion of the drain container is formed, the reservoir space is formed between the cover portion and the side of the hopper Disposer characterized in that. The method of claim 1, The drain port of the sump The auxiliary cutter is to be submerged in the always stored sewage, and is formed in a position so that the water level of the stored sewage does not increase beyond the grinder. Disposer characterized in that. The method of claim 3, The blade of the auxiliary cutter When the auxiliary cutter rotates, the wastewater in the hopper forms a flow that is circulated up and down so that the food waste flows with the waste water so that the cutting action for food waste is repeated. Disposer characterized in that. 5. The method of claim 4, The blade is formed in the form leading to the downward inclined so that the water flowing through the blade flows upward Disposer characterized in that. 3. The method of claim 2, The upper surface of the housing portion of the sump is formed protruding upwards to form a partition wall portion spaced apart from the oil passage between the inside of the hopper Disposer characterized in that.

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