KR101646204B1

KR101646204B1 - Method for reducing food waste

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Publication number: KR101646204B1
Application number: KR1020150181833A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 유상훈
Original assignee: (주)대우엠피
Priority date: 2015-12-18
Filing date: 2015-12-18
Publication date: 2016-08-05

Abstract

According to the present invention, a method for reducing food comprises: a step of using a storage tank and a water spray rim to feed food waste; a step of grinding the fed food waste; a step where a compression screw rotates and compresses the ground food waste; a step of collecting the compressed food waste; and a step of recompressing the food waste for a prescribed first section of time after the food waste is completely fed to stop a residue of the food waste from fixating to reduce a failure of a device and facilitate maintenance and repair. The method for reducing food according to the present invention allows a worker to selectively feed food waste into the device to reduce overload or a failure of the device when processing a large quantity of food waste in comparison to a conventional method, and prevents a residue of food waste from fixating in the device to facilitate maintenance and repair of the device and increase a device life.

Description

METHOD FOR REDUCING FOOD WASTE [0002]

More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of reducing food waste, and more particularly, to a method of reducing the amount of food garbage, To a food weight loss method that can facilitate maintenance and increase device life.

In recent years, as the quality of life in modern society has increased, the food culture has developed, and modern people are increasingly tending to eat out food. As the dining culture develops, the number of restaurants that provide food such as restaurants and restaurants is increasing day by day. As a result, there is an urgent need to dispose of food waste generated in restaurants that have increased in scale.

Unlike in the western region, Korea has a relatively high water content in food wastes due to the development of national culture, and it is highly likely that various foreign substances such as fish and meat bones, shellfish, crab, and vinyl are included in the soup.

As a method for treating such food garbage, a conventional food garbage disposal apparatus has been disclosed. For example, a disposer is an example. The general disposer includes a crushing unit for crushing foodstuffs. Crushing foodstuffs to separate water and residues and discharge them to the sewerage system.

However, in the conventional food garbage disposal method, when the pulverization proceeds in a state that various foreign substances in the food garbage are directly contained, the food garbage disposal apparatus is overloaded, resulting in a failure of the apparatus. This makes the problem worse when dealing with large quantities of food waste.

In addition, the conventional food garbage disposal method has a problem that residues of food waste remain in the apparatus during the processing of food garbage and become sticky, which makes maintenance and repair of the apparatus difficult and shortens the life of the apparatus.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for disposing food waste selectively and selectively into an apparatus, Meanwhile, it is possible to prevent the residue of the food waste from sticking in the apparatus, thereby facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus and providing a method of reducing the amount of food that the life of the apparatus can be increased.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of reducing food waste, the method comprising: inputting food waste using a storage tank and a water spray; Crushing the charged food waste; Rotating the pulverized food waste by rotating the compression screw; Collecting the compressed food waste; And recompressing the food waste for a predetermined first interval time after completion of the introduction of the food waste so as to prevent the residue of the food waste from sticking to reduce the failure of the apparatus and facilitate the maintenance.

In the recompressing step, the compression screw can be rotated forward (clockwise) and compressed.

And rotating the compression screw by a predetermined second section time after the first section time.

Water may be injected from the anti-sticking injection line disposed adjacent to the compression screw when the reverse rotation step is performed.

The first section time and the second section time may each be one minute.

The reservoir and the water jet can be made of stainless-steel material.

The method of reducing food waste according to the present invention allows an operator to selectively and selectively inject food waste into the apparatus, so that even when a large amount of food waste is treated, the apparatus can be overloaded or broken down.

In addition, the method of reducing food waste according to the present invention can prevent the residue of food waste from sticking in the apparatus, thereby facilitating maintenance of the apparatus and increasing the service life of the apparatus.

1 is a perspective view of a food weight loss device according to the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic layout diagram of a food-weight reducing apparatus according to the present invention.
3 is a top view of the input unit in the food weight reduction device according to the present invention.
4 is an exploded perspective view of the crushing unit in the food weight loss apparatus according to the present invention.
5 is a schematic exploded cross-sectional view of a compression unit in a food weight loss device according to the present invention.
6 is a schematic configuration diagram of a collection unit in the food weight loss apparatus according to the present invention.
7 is a schematic view for explaining the operation of the food-weight reducing apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a flow chart for explaining a method of reducing a food according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of a method of reducing food and beverage according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Before describing the method of reducing food or beverage according to an embodiment of the present invention, the food and beverage reduction device 10 will be described first to help understand the explanation.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a food and beverage reducing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic layout diagram of a food and beverage reducing apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a top view of an input unit in a food and beverage reducing apparatus according to the present invention, 5 is a schematic exploded cross-sectional view of a compression unit in the food weight reduction apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a sectional view of the food weight reduction apparatus in the food weight reduction apparatus according to the present invention. Fig.

The food weight loss apparatus 10 according to the present invention is broadly divided into a sink unit 100 and a frame unit 20 that supports the input unit 100 as shown in FIG. Most of the structure of the food weight loss method (10) is included in the frame portion (20). The frame portion 20 may be a support for supporting the crushing unit 200 and the compression unit 300 as well as the input unit 100.

1 to 6, the food-losing device 10 according to the present invention includes an input unit 100, a crushing unit 200 disposed in communication with a lower portion of the input unit 100, A compression unit 300 for compressing the food waste, and a collection unit 400 for collecting the compressed food waste.

3, the input unit 100 includes a sink tank 110 and a water discharge hole 110 provided around the wall surface of the storage tank 110 to assist in feeding the food waste contained in the storage tank 110. [ 130 may be provided.

The storage tank 110 may be provided in the form of a kitchen sink or a sink. The material of the reservoir 110 may be the same stainless-steel material as the sink. In the central region of the storage tank 110, a charging hole 111 may be provided. The water dispenser 120 is disposed at a predetermined distance from the wall surface of the storage tank 110 and is provided along the wall surface of the storage tank 110. The cross-sectional shape of the water spray slurry 120 is circular as shown in FIG. 3, and a plurality of water spray holes 130 are formed in the water spray slurry 120. The water spray hole 130 is formed in the direction of one side wall of the storage tank 110 with respect to a virtual line perpendicular to the center of the cross section of the water spray slurry 120, May be formed between 30 and 90 degrees. In this embodiment, the injection angle is 45 degrees. Meanwhile, the material of the water splash 120 may also be made of stainless steel, like the storage tank 110.

Through the input unit 100, various foreign substances in the food waste can be filtered out and introduced into the crushing unit 200. The flat bottom of the storage tank 110 is flat and the operator can filter out various foreign substances from the food waste put into the storage tank 110 and is suitable for use in a large restaurant or the like for treating a large amount of food waste. In addition, as the water through the water splash 120 is sprayed toward the injection hole 111 along the wall surface, the food waste is naturally injected into the injection hole 111 and foreign matter can be filtered out.

On the other hand, the crushing unit 200 serves to crush the food waste charged from the input unit 100. The crushing unit 200 may include a crushing unit 210 and a crushing water discharging unit 230 interconnecting the crushing unit 300, mainly referring to FIG.

The crushing unit 210 includes a hollow crushing casing 211, a crushing cutter unit 216 disposed in the lower end region of the crushing casing 211, And a filter plate 220 for filtering the food waste that has been pulverized by interaction with the cutter portion 216.

The crushing casing 211 is disposed on the bottom surface of the storage tank 110 and is connected to the charging hole 111 of the storage tank 110 in a communicative manner. The outer surface of the crushing casing 211 is connected to the input unit 100 of the crushing hole 111 and includes a first straight section 212 provided to be perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the crushing casing 211, A nonlinear curve section 213 in which the transverse section progressively expands from the point where the linear section 212 ends to the pulverized material discharge section 230 and a nonlinear curve section 213 in which the cross section progressively extends from the point at which the pulverizing casing 211 And a second rectilinear section 214 formed parallel to the longitudinal direction.

The first straight section 212 corresponds to the diameter of the injection hole 111 and the second straight section 214 has a diameter in the radial direction of the crushing casing 211 May be an expanded expanded shape. The curved section 213 together with the second straight section 214 may form a grinding space of the food garbage. The curved section 213 may be provided in a shape of a bowl or a dom shape as shown mainly in FIG.

The grinding cutter 216 is provided with a first cutter 217, a second cutter 218 and a third cutter 219 sequentially stacked in order along the direction of grinding, and the second cutter 218 And the cutter surface of the third cutter 219 may be arranged to face each other. The food waste is finely pulverized by the interaction of the second cutter 218 and the third cutter 219 arranged opposite to each other.

The filter plate 220 is disposed adjacent to the crushing cutter portion 216 (more precisely, the third cutter 219), and disposed on the top of the crushed water discharge portion 230. The upper surface of the pulverized product discharging part 230 is provided with a receiving recess formed inwardly corresponding to the thickness of the filtering plate 220 so that the filtering plate 220 is seated. A plurality of slots 221 may be formed radially from the center of the manure plate 220 along the periphery of the plate as shown in FIG. 4 on the manure plate 220. The sealing member is disposed to have a diameter larger than the outer diameter of the sieve plate 220 and serves to seal the sieve casing 211 and the sieve filter 220 or the pulverized water discharge unit 230 from each other. The sealing member 222 may be disposed on the upper surface of the pulverized water discharge portion 230.

The pulverized water discharging part 230 forms a passage through which the pulverized food waste is discharged, and connects the pulverizing casing 211 and the driving part to each other. An upper end of the pulverized water discharging part 230 is opened and a flange 231 for coupling is provided at the upper and lower ends of the pulverized water discharging part 230 to connect the pulverizing casing 211 and the driving part. Although not shown in the drawing, spiral threads are formed on the inner circumferential surface of the pulverized water discharge part 230 so as to descend downward along the longitudinal direction to assist in discharging the pulverized material. On one side of the outer surface of the pulverized water discharge part 230, And a discharge pipe 232 for discharging the exhaust gas.

The compression unit 300 squeezes moisture into the pulverized food waste and separates water from the food waste to be disposed. 5, the compression unit 300 includes a cylindrical compression body 310 provided to communicate with the crushing unit 200 and the collection unit 400, A compression screw 320 having a plurality of spirals formed on the outer surface of the compression body 310 and a compression hole 320 interposed between the compression body 310 and the compression screw 320, And a compression cap 340 that is detachably coupled to one end of the compression body 310 and has an inner diameter reduced toward the forward rotation direction of the compression screw 320 to compress the food waste, ).

The compression body 310 is provided as a hollow cylindrical type with one side open and is disposed horizontally. An inlet path 311 through which food waste is introduced and a waste discharge path 312 through which compressed food waste is discharged may be provided on the outer surface of the compression body 310, respectively. The compressed body 310 is formed with a thickness along the thickness direction of the compression body 310 so as to spray water into the compression body 310 to prevent the residue of the food waste from adhering to the compression body 310, A plurality of anti-sticking injection lines 314 may be formed.

The compression screw 320 is inserted and disposed in the center of the compression body 310, and the thread formed on the outer surface of the compression screw 320 can compress the food waste. The tip end section of the compression screw 320 has a taper section whose outer diameter decreases toward the end side in correspondence with the shape of the compression cap 340.

A perforation network 330 is interposed between the compression screw 320 and the compression body 310. A perforation 331 is formed on the entire perforated surface of the perforation network 330 and moisture To the peripheral wall of the compression body 310. The compressed body 310 and the perforated network 330 are separated from each other by a predetermined distance and the perforated network 330 can be supported by a plurality of ribs 332 provided between the compressed body 310 and the compressed body 310.

One end of the compression body 310 is provided with a compression driving unit 350 for driving the compression screw 320 and the compression cap 340 can be coupled to the other end thereof. The compression cap 340 is provided in a so-called diamond shape to reduce the inner diameter toward the opposite side of the compression body 310 and may be detachably attached to the compression body 310. If the residue of the food waste generated in the compression body 310 is clogged during the compression process, the compression cap 340 can be separated to remove the residue, which is easy in terms of maintenance management.

The collection unit 400 collects the compressed food waste. The collection unit 400 may include a collection housing 410 and a collection net 420 that is disposed in the collection housing 410 and collects the compressed food waste.

The separation housing 410 may further include a protruding protrusion 411 for separating the collection net 420 from the stored collection net 420 and a discharge pipe 412 for discharging residual wastewater from the food waste.

FIG. 7 is a schematic view for explaining the operation of the food-weight reducing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining a method for reducing the food according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the method of reducing food and beverage according to the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8. FIG. The method of weight loss will be described in the description of the configuration of the food weight loss device 10 so long as it does not overlap.

As shown in FIG. 8, the method for reducing weight of food according to an embodiment of the present invention includes steps S100 of feeding food using a storage tank and a water spray tank; Crushing the charged food waste (S200); Compressing the pulverized food waste (S300); Collecting the compressed food waste (S400); And a step S500 of re-compressing the food garbage for a predetermined first interval time after the completion of the insertion of the food garbage.

First, the food stuffing step S100 is a step of putting food into the storage tank. The operator can insert food into the storage tank 110 of the kitchen sink or sink.

Since the plate area of the reservoir 110 is large and the depth of the depression is large, it is possible to introduce a large amount of food waste.

The water spray nozzle 120 is disposed at a predetermined distance from the wall surface of the storage tank 110 and has a water spray hole 120 formed along the wall surface of the storage tank 110 and a water spray hole 130 formed in the water spray hole 120 ). Through the input unit 100, various foreign substances in the food waste can be filtered out and introduced into the crushing unit 200.

7, most of the general input portions are inclined and easy to input, whereas the flat bottom of the storage tank 110 is provided flat, and the worker is provided with the food garbage introduced into the storage tank 110, It is possible to filter out various foreign substances. It is suitable for use in a large-sized restaurant or the like for treating a large amount of food waste. As the water is sprayed to the injection hole 111 side along the wall surface, the food waste flows naturally to the injection hole 111 side and the water spray hole 130 is formed in accordance with the amount of the food waste. It is possible to control the amount and intensity of the water sprayed from the spray nozzle. It is possible to regulate the amount of the garbage to be charged or the feed rate of the garbage to the crushing unit 200 while selectively filtering the foreign matter, and to selectively inject the garbage to the crushing unit 200 side.

Next, the grinding step (S200) may be performed.

A substantial crushing operation is performed in the curved section 213 and the second straight section 214 of the crushing casing 211. That is, the curved section 213 may form a crushing space for the food garbage together with the second straight section 214. The curved section 213 may be provided in a shape of a bowl or a dom shape as shown mainly in FIG. 4, so that the food waste falling down through the inlet hole 111 is discharged to the milling cutter When the cutting tool 200 is crushed by the action of the cutter 216, the cutter blade 216 bumps against the curved section 213 when it protrudes to the upper side and moves toward the center of the cutter cutter 216 and is circulated downward by its own weight. . The food waste is finely crushed by the interaction of the second cutter 218 disposed opposite to the third cutter 219 and the filter plate 220. The crushed food waste is moved to the crushed water discharge portion 230 do.

After the grinding step S200 is performed, a compressing step S300 may be performed.

In the compressing step S300, water is squeezed into the pulverized food waste to separate moisture from the food waste to be disposed. The structure of the compression unit 300 is the same as that described above. The food waste moved along the normal rotation (clockwise direction, viewed from the right side in FIG. 5) of the compression screw 320 passes through the compression cap 340 And the water generated in the pressing process moves along the bottom wall of the compression body 310 and can be discharged to the waste water discharge path 312.

In addition, the inside of the compression body 310 can be easily cleaned and maintained through a compression cap 340 detachably coupled to one end of the compression body 310.

Next, the collection step S400 is performed. Only the solid matter among the food wastes is collected in the collection net 420, the remaining water is collected at the lower part of the collection housing 410, and can be discharged to the discharge piping 412.

Next, a recompression step (S500) may be performed. The compression step (S500) may compress the compression screw (320) in the forward rotation (clockwise direction) by a preset first section time after the completion of the insertion of the food waste. In the present embodiment, the first section time is set to one minute, but the right range is not limited thereto.

Through this recompression step (S500), the remainder of the food waste remaining in the compression unit (300) can be discharged. That is, after the operation of the input unit 100 and the crushing unit 200 is stopped, only the reconditioning operation of the compression unit 300 is performed, and the remainder of the food waste is discharged, whereby the food waste in the compression unit 300 It is possible to prevent the residue of the device from sticking, thereby reducing the failure of the device and facilitating maintenance.

After the step S500 of re-compression, the step S600 of reversing the rotation may be further included. In the step S600 of rotating in reverse, the compression screw 320 is rotated in a reverse direction after the first interval time by a preset second interval interval (the second interval interval in this embodiment is 1 minute). So that the residue of most of the food waste is discharged through the compression step (S500), but the residue is cleaned. For this purpose, the compression screw 320 is rotated forward by the first section time, then sequentially rotated by the second section time. At this time, water is sprayed from the anti-sticking injection line 314 disposed adjacent to the compression screw 320. The water through the anti-sticking injection line 314 may be sprayed onto the compression screw 320 and simultaneously the compression screw 320 may be rotated in reverse rotation. The remaining food waste remains on the inner wall of the compressed body 310. Thus, clogging or breakdown, which may be caused by sticking the residue of food waste to the compression screw 320 or the perforated network 330, can be prevented. Residues of food waste left on the inner wall of the compressed body 310 are stored with water so that they can be discharged to the outside when the next apparatus is operated.

The food waste that is finally lost can be reduced by about 80% or more, and by repeating the above cycle once again, about 50% of the reduced food waste can be lost.

The food weight loss method at this stage can prevent the residue of the food waste from sticking in the apparatus, thereby facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus and increasing the service life of the apparatus.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It will also be appreciated that many modifications and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention.

10: food weight loss device 20: frame part
100: input unit 120: water splitting
130: water sprayer 200: crushing unit
210: Crushing section 211: Crushing casing
212: first straight line section 213: curve section
216: milling cutter 220: filter plate
222: sealing member 230: crushed water discharging portion
300: compression unit 310: compression body
320: compression screw 330:
340: Compression cap 400: Collection unit
420: Picking net

Claims

A step of supplying food waste using a sink tank-shaped storage tank and a water spray disposed around a wall surface of the storage tank;
Crushing the charged food waste;
Rotating the pulverized food waste by rotating the compression screw;
Collecting the compressed food waste; And
Compressing the food garbage for a predetermined first interval time after completion of the charging of the food garbage so as to prevent the residue of the garbage from sticking to reduce malfunction of the apparatus and facilitate maintenance,
Wherein said recompressing step comprises compressing said compression screw in a clockwise direction and compressing,
Further comprising the step of reversing the compression screw by a predetermined second section time after the first section time,
Wherein water is injected from an anti-sticking injection line disposed adjacent to the compression screw when the reverse rotation step is performed.

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The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the first interval time and the second interval time are each 1 minute.

The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the reservoir and the water dispenser are made of stainless-steel material.