KR101763311B1 - A unit for salting chinese cabbage - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a device and a method for salting Chinese cabbage. According to the present invention, salt water with the proper salinity can be maintained by adding the amount of salt or water according to salinity of salt water when Chinese cabbage is salted, and salting of Chinese cabbage is kept uniform by storing Chinese cabbage in a rotor rotated in the salt water during a predetermined time. The device for salting Chinese cabbage comprises a body, a salting unit, a basket, a rotary driving unit, a front cover, a sensor unit, an input and output means and a control unit.

Description

{A unit for salting chinese cabbage}

The present invention relates to a cabbage picking machine, and more particularly, to a cabbage which can adjust the salinity of salt water to an optimum state during cutting of the cabbage, and which can uniformly cut the cabbage for a short time while rotating the salt- To the Chinese cabbage pickling machine.

The Chinese cabbage begins by cutting the washed Chinese cabbage in half. Then, the cut Chinese cabbage is poured into salt water for a certain period of time, washed with salted Chinese cabbage, and seasoned among the cabbage leaves, after which the Chinese cabbage kimchi is completed. The reason why the cabbage is pickled in brine is to extract the water contained in the cabbage and at the same time supply an adequate amount of saline to the cabbage, so as to soften the part of the cabbage which is hard to eat.

In order to break the cabbage into brine, salt water of appropriate salinity is made, and then the cabbage cut into the brine is simply immersed. Since the difference of the dissolution rate and solubility of the salt occurs according to the temperature change of the room where the brine is located, There is a drawback that the osmotic pressure of the Chinese cabbage changes according to the water temperature and the degree of pickling of the Chinese cabbage stacked in the brine is different from each other.

In the past, even in ordinary households, kimchi was preserved in a jar placed on the ground, so it was possible to mature. Therefore, a large amount of Chinese cabbage was used in accordance with the number of families. In Hyundai, a lot of families are living in apartments. Kimchi is kept in kimchi refrigerator indoors because kimchi is kept indoors. Since the space occupied by the Kimchi refrigerator indoors is so large that it can not be ignored, the size of the Kimchi refrigerator may be a considerable burden to the general household.

Recently, there are more families living alone, and people who like to eat kimchi but who can not consume large amounts of kimchi prefer to eat Kimchi. However, among people who have a lot of complaints and suspicions about the safety of food sold, I hope to be able to eat small amounts of kimchi directly. The first thing you need to do to soak kimchi is to chop the cabbage. It is not easy for the average person to do the process of chopping the cabbage to match the salinity of the brine, the temperature of the brine, and the time to soak the cabbage in brine.

Korean Registered Patent No. 10-1160512 (registered on June 21, 2012)

It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for treating a Chinese cabbage so as to instruct the user to add an amount of salt according to the salinity of the brine, And the cabbage is placed on the rotating body so that pickling of the cabbage can be made uniform.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a discharge cutting machine including a body, a cutout, a basket, a rotary drive, a front cover, a sensor unit, an input / output unit, and a control unit.

The body has a hexahedron shape with an open front, a ventilation part is provided at an upper part, and a water supply hole and a drain hole are formed at the rear part. Wherein the pickling part is installed in the body and includes a water supply pipe passing through the water supply hole and a drain pipe connected to the drain pipe hole, a separating chamber spaced apart from the picking chamber by a predetermined distance, And a first rotating shaft and a heating unit passing through the picking chamber at the lower part of the picking chamber and connected to the picking chamber, wherein the picking chamber and the face of the spinning apparatus are opened. The basket is loaded with salt and Chinese cabbage, and is placed on the spinning machine and rotated. The rotation driving unit rotates the first rotation shaft at a constant speed using a motor installed inside the body. The front cover simultaneously encloses the body, the picking chamber, the trays, and the open front of the basket and includes a lid in the middle. The sensor unit may include a water quantity sensor installed inside the pick-up unit to measure the amount of water in the pick-up chamber, a salinity measurement sensor for measuring salt water salinity in the pick-up chamber, and a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of salt water in the pick- do. The input / output means allows selection or individual input of the process or condition for cutting the Chinese cabbage into brine. The control unit controls the rotation speed and the rotation period of the motor according to conditions preset by the input / output unit, and receives information on the amount of water transferred from the sensor unit, salinity of salt water, and temperature of the salt water, Means for controlling the opening and closing of the valve provided in the water supply pipe and the drain pipe and the operation of the heating means in accordance with a result of comparison with a predetermined value by the means, and when it is determined that the salinity of salt water is lower than the set value, The user is requested to input additional salt, and when pickling of the Chinese cabbage is completed, the user is notified of the addition through the input / output means.

The basket has a form of an envelope in which one side is opened and a plurality of second holes are formed on each side, and one side is opened to the place where the salt input portion and the cabbage are inserted into the opened side Each of which has a plurality of third holes formed therein and having an envelope shape in which the cross-sectional area of the inlet is larger than the lower cross-sectional area, and each of the inlet portions has at least two cabbage mounts Wherein a length of the salt input portion is shorter than a length of the cabbage mounting portion, and a lower portion of the salt input portion, which is connected to each other by the open inlet, and a coupling groove formed in the lower portion of the cabbage mounting portion are fastened to the fastening protrusion do.

The Chinese cabbage pickling machine according to the present invention and the Chinese cabbage cutting method using the Chinese cabbage pickling machine instructs to add the amount of salt according to the salinity of the brine during the cutting of the Chinese cabbage or to add water to maintain the salinity of the appropriate salinity And the Chinese cabbage is placed on the rotating body rotating in the brine for a predetermined period of time, so that pickling of the Chinese cabbage can be uniform.

1 is a block diagram of a Chinese cabbage picker according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a combined harvesting machine according to the present invention; FIG.
FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the Chinese cabbage picker according to the present invention, viewed from direction A. FIG.
4 is an exploded perspective view of the Chinese cabbage picker according to the present invention viewed in the direction of arrow B.
5 is a perspective view of a pickle.
6 shows a plan view, a rear view, a side view, left and right side views and a rear view, respectively, of the pick-up portion.
7 is a perspective view of the basket.
8 is a plan view, a rear view, a side view, a left and right side view, and a rear view of the basket, respectively.
9 shows a method of pickling a Chinese cabbage using a Chinese cabbage picker according to the present invention.

In order to fully understand the present invention and the operational advantages of the present invention and the objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings, which are provided for explaining exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and the contents of the accompanying drawings.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference symbols in the drawings denote like elements.

1 is a block diagram of a Chinese cabbage picker according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a combined harvesting machine according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the Chinese cabbage picker according to the present invention, viewed from direction A. FIG.

4 is an exploded perspective view of the Chinese cabbage picker according to the present invention viewed in the direction of arrow B.

1 to 4, a cabbage picker 100 according to the present invention includes a body 110, a cutter 120, a basket 130, a rotation driving unit 140, a front cover 150, An input / output unit 170, and a control unit 180. The input /

The body 110 has a hexahedron shape with a front panel opened and a ventilation part 111 is provided at an upper part of the body 110. A water supply pipe hole 112 and a drain pipe hole 113 are formed in the upper part and the lower part of the rear surface, Is installed. It is necessary to install the handle on the outer surface to complete the product, but it is not related to the core idea of the present invention, so various embodiments of the shape will not be described.

The cutter 120 includes a circular picking chamber 121, a rotator 126, a first rotating shaft 129, and a heating unit 125 having various shapes. In fact, Place. The water collecting chamber 121 having one side opened is fixed to the inside of the body 110 by using a plurality of fixing means 122 provided on the outer surface of the water collecting chamber 121, And a drain pipe 124 is provided at a portion corresponding to the position of the drain hole 123 and the drain hole 113, respectively. The heating means 125 used to raise the temperature of the pickling chamber 121 by raising the temperature of the pickling chamber 121 may be a variety of arrangements such as setting the outer surface of the picking chamber 121 around the picking chamber 121, . A plurality of first holes (128) are formed in a side surface of the take-off chamber (121). The lower surface of the take-up chamber (121) (127) are formed. The first rotating shaft 129 is coupled with the fastening protrusion 127 of the rotating body 126 via the picking chamber 121. Accordingly, when the first rotation shaft 129 rotates, the rotation of the rotation shaft 126 will also follow.

The basket 130 includes a salt input portion 131 and two cabbage mounts 133-1 and 133-2 and 133. The basket 130 is connected to the fastening protrusions 127 of the rotator 126, ) Rotates together. The salt injecting unit 131 has a shape of an envelope opened on one side and has a plurality of second holes 132 formed on each side thereof. Each of the two Chinese cabbage mounts 133 has an envelope shape in which one side is open and a cross-sectional area of the inlet is larger than that of the lower side. A plurality of third holes 134 are formed on each side, The inlet portion of the portion 133 is provided on both sides of the inlet portion of the salt input portion 131, respectively. Since the length of the salt input portion 131 is shorter than the length of the two cabbage mounting portions 133, the lower portion of the salt input portion 131 and the lower portions of the two cabbage mounting portions 133, A space is formed. For convenience of explanation, this space is defined as a coupling groove 135. The rotational movement of the first rotating shaft 129 is transmitted to the basket 130 via the rotator 126 since the engaging groove 135 is fastened to the engaging projection 127 of the rotator 126. [ In the accompanying drawings, there are two cabbage mounts 133, but three or more embodiments may be possible.

The rotation driving unit 140 includes a motor fixing member 141, a motor 142, a second rotation shaft 143, and a belt 144, and rotates the rotator 126 to rotate the basket 130 do. The motor fixing member 141 fixes the motor 142 to the inside of the body 110 or the outer surface of the picking chamber 121 of the cutout 120. [ The second rotation shaft 143 is rotated by the motor 142 and the belt 144 transmits the rotation energy of the second rotation shaft 143 to the first rotation shaft 129. The rotational energy of the first rotating shaft 129 is a driving force for rotating the basket 130 via the fastening protrusion 127 of the rotator 126. [

The front cover 150 is composed of a lid body 151 which covers the body 110, the cut portion 120 and the open portion of the basket 130 and a lid 152 formed in the middle of the lid body 151 do. The lid 152 is opened to insert the cabbage or salt into the basket 130 or take out the picked Chinese cabbage. It is a matter of course that the lid of the front cover 150 is not opened during the operation of the rotation driving part 140 for safety.

The sensor unit 160 includes a water quantity sensor 161, a temperature sensor 162, and a salinity measurement sensor 163. The water sensor 161 senses the amount of water in the pickling chamber 121 that constitutes the cutter 120. The temperature sensor 162 senses the temperature of the salt water in the picking chamber 121, 163 measure the salinity of salt water in the pickle chamber 121. [ The quantity sensor 161, the temperature sensor 162 and the salinity measuring sensor 163 constituting the sensor unit 160 may be installed in a suitable place in the pickling chamber 121. [ The sensors 161, 162, and 163 include wireless communication means for transmitting the measured information to the control unit 180 described later.

The input / output means 170 includes a panel 171 and a speaker 174. The panel 171 includes a display portion 172 and an input portion 173. The display unit 172 and the input unit 173 may be implemented as a single touch panel. The input / output means 170 may be installed in one of the body 110 and the front cover 150, and in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, the input / output means 170 is installed at the upper right end of the front cover 150 have.

The control unit 180 controls the operation of the motor 142 and controls the quantity of water supplied to the water quantity sensor 161 based on a setting command for picking up the discharge applied from the input unit 173 constituting the input / output means 170, And the salinity measured by the salinity measuring sensor 163 and the salinity of salt water to adjust the amount of water flowing into the water supply pipe 123 or the amount of water discharged to the drain pipe 124, 172 or speaker 174 to instruct the user to add more salt. When it is determined that the pickling process of the Chinese cabbage is completed according to the setting condition, the user notifies the vicinity of the completion of the pickling process through the speaker 174 or the display unit 172. The temperature of the brine delivered from the temperature sensor 162 is compared with the predetermined brine temperature, and when the temperature is low, the temperature of the brine is lowered by activating the heating means 125. The control unit 180 may be installed anywhere in the cabbage picker 100, for example, at the lower portion of the input / output unit 170.

1 to 4, it is preferable that the cutout 120 is installed obliquely to the body 110, so that the basket 130 fixed to the cutout 120 also has the same angle It will be tilted.

All of the components described in FIG. 1 will not be shown in FIGS. 2-4, which is for the sake of simplicity and the actual product will have all the configurations in place.

5 is a perspective view of a pickle.

6 shows a plan view, a rear view, a side view, left and right side views and a rear view, respectively, of the pick-up portion.

5 and 6, the picking chamber 121, the rotator 126, and the first rotating shaft 129 constituting the cutter 120 are all circular. The heating means 125 may be configured to surround the pick-up chamber 121 or may be disposed at a lower portion of the pick-off chamber 121. Although not shown in Figures 5 and 6 for simplicity of illustration, it will be readily understood by a person skilled in the art how to implement this.

The plurality of fixing means 122 provided on the outer surface of the pickle chamber 121 serves to fix the pickle chamber 121 to the inner surface wall of the body 110. Although four fastening means 122 are shown in Figures 5 and 6, the number of fastening means 122 can be determined as needed. The water supply pipe 123 is connected to the water supply means such as water located outside the cabbage picker 100 according to the present invention at a portion corresponding to the position of the water supply pipe hole 112, The drain pipe 124 should be connected to a drainage means such as a sewer. As described above, since the water supply and drainage can be controlled by the control unit 180 by the water supply pipe 123 and the water discharge pipe 124, a valve (not shown) controlled by the control unit 180 Should be installed in the water supply pipe 123 and the water discharge pipe 124.

And the brine is located in the picking chamber 121. The entire amount of the brine 126 in the picking chamber 121 is set in the pickling chamber 121, It will be possible for embodiments in which the part of the rotor 126 is submerged in salt water, Since the rotator 126 is rotated, if at least half of the rotator 126 can be submerged in salt water, chopping the cabbage using brine may be accomplished without difficulty. The pickle chamber 121 does not rotate and only the spinneret 126 located inside the pickle chamber 121 rotates so that for the movement of brine between the spinneret 126 and the pickle chamber 121, (See FIG. 3) is formed in the first hole 126 of the first embodiment.

Since the fastening protrusion 127 is inserted into the fastening groove 135 of the basket 130 at the lower portion of the rotor 126, When rotating, the basket 130 also rotates.

When the motor 142 rotates the second rotation shaft 143 at a constant speed, the first rotation shaft 129 connected by the second rotation shaft 143 and the belt 144 also rotates. Since the first rotation shaft 129 is coupled with the coupling protrusion 127 of the rotator 126 via the picking chamber 121, when the first rotation shaft 129 rotates, the basket 130 also rotates .

7 is a perspective view of the basket.

8 is a plan view, a rear view, a side view, a left and right side view, and a rear view of the basket, respectively.

Referring to FIGS. 7 and 8, it can be seen that the basket 130 is largely composed of the salt input portion 131 and the two cabbage holders 133-1, 133-2 and 133.

The amount of salt to be supplied to the salt charging unit 131 will be determined by the capacity of the salt charging unit 131 and may be determined depending on the size of the separation chamber 121, In the present invention, when too much salt is contained in the salt input portion 131 and the salinity of the saltwater is higher than the previously set salinity, a certain amount of the saltwater is discharged and, instead, the clearwater is introduced into the pickling chamber 121, It is possible to instruct the user to add additional salt, so that even if the size of the salt input portion 131 is small, it will not cause a great inconvenience to use. If the salt input portion 131 is too large and the salinity of the brine is larger than the set value, the brine must be discarded, which is economically disadvantageous.

Since the engaging groove 135 is fastened with the engaging protrusion 127 of the rotating body 126 and rotates, the shape of the engaging recess 125 and the shape of the engaging protrusion 127 ) Are preferably coincident with each other. Although a rectangular fastening protrusion 127 is shown in the embodiment of the present invention, various types of fastening protrusions 127 are possible, but it is preferable that the shape of the fastening groove 135 can correspond thereto.

9 shows a method of pickling a Chinese cabbage using a Chinese cabbage picker according to the present invention.

9, the method 900 of harvesting a Chinese cabbage using the Chinese cabbage pickling machine according to the present invention includes a Chinese cabbage preparing step 910, a Chinese cabbage & salt adding step 920, a Chinese cabbage picking setting step 930, A basin rotation step 950, a salinity & temperature adjustment step 960, and a rinse / wash step 970 are performed.

In the cabbage preparing step (910), the Chinese cabbage to be washed is washed in brine, and the washed cabbage is divided into two halves or four halves.

In the Chinese cabbage & salt adding step 920, the Chinese cabbage is put into the cabbage mounting portion 133 of the basket 130 and a certain amount of salt is put into the salt introducing portion 131 of the basket 130, The lid 152 of the machine 100 is opened and the basket 130 is seated in the cutout portion 120. When the basket 130 is already inserted and fixed in the cutout 120 of the cabbage picker 100, the cabbage & salt injection step 920 may be performed without moving the basket 130 .

In the cabbage pickling setting step 930, the standard course provided by the Chinese cabbage picker 100 according to the present invention may be selected, or the amount of water, the salinity of the brine, the amount of the brine, the temperature of the brine, Picking time, etc. (individual selection course). Here, the standard course is proposed in advance by the Chinese cabbage picker 100 according to the present invention so that the Chinese cabbage can be effectively harvested. It is preferable for the general person to chop the cabbage according to the standard course, Can be input.

The Chinese cabbage preparation step 910, the Chinese cabbage & salt application step 920, and the Chinese cabbage picking selection step 930 are all performed by the user, but all the steps described below are performed by the control unit 180.

In the water supply step 940, water is supplied to the picking chamber 121 of the cutter 120 through the water supply pipe 123 in accordance with the standard course provided by the Chinese cabbage picker 100 or the individual selection course.

In the basket rotation step 950, the basket 130 is rotated once every 5 seconds for 6 to 8 hours in the standard course selected by the user in the cabbage picking setting step 930, Lt; / RTI >

In the saltiness & temperature adjustment step 960, information on the temperature of the salt water and the salinity of the salt water obtained from the temperature sensor 162 and the salinity measurement sensor 163 in real time are compared with values set by the selected course, The same amount of water may be added to the pickling chamber 121 through the water supply pipe 123 while a certain amount of the salt water in the picking chamber 121 is drained through the drain pipe 124 to raise the temperature of the salt water or lower the salinity of the salt water, The display unit 172 or the speaker 174 in order to increase the saltiness of the user.

In the rinsing / washing step 970, if pickling of the Chinese cabbage is completed, the pickled Chinese cabbage is rinsed with clean water at least once after discharging the brine. At this time, the basket 130 will also rotate.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the scope of the present invention.

110: Body
111: Ventilation part 112: Water supply hole
113: Hole for drain pipe
120: Cuttlefish
121: pickle chamber
122: fixing means 123: water supply pipe
124: Water pipe
125: Heating means
126: Tradition Tradition
127: fastening protrusion 128: first hole
129: first rotating shaft
130: Basket
131: Salt input unit
132: second hole
133: cabbage holder
134: third hole 135: fastening groove
140:
141: motor fixing member 142: motor
143: second rotation shaft 144: belt
150: Front cover
151: lid body 152: lid
160:
161: Quantity sensor 162: Temperature sensor
163: Salinity measurement sensor
170: input / output means
171: Panel
172:
173:
174: Speaker
180:

Claims (4)

A body having a hexahedron shape with an open front face, a ventilation part provided on an upper part thereof, and a water supply hole and a drain hole formed on the rear face thereof;
A water collecting chamber mounted inside the body and connected to a water supply pipe passing through the water supply pipe hole and a water pipe passing through the water pipe hole, a water collecting chamber installed inside the water collecting chamber at a certain distance from the water collecting chamber, A pickling chamber and a rotatably connected first rotating shaft and a heating unit through the picking chamber at a lower portion of the picking chamber;
A basket in which the salt and the Chinese cabbage are introduced and which is rotatably mounted on the rotary table;
A rotation driving unit for rotating the first rotation shaft at a constant speed using a motor installed inside the body;
A front cover which encloses the body, the picking chamber, the rotator and the open front side of the basket at the same time and includes a lid in the middle;
A sensor unit installed in the pick-up unit to measure the amount of water in the pick-up chamber, a salinity measuring sensor for measuring the salinity of salt water in the pick-off chamber, and a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of salt water in the pick- ;
An input / output means for allowing a user to select or individually input a process or condition for salting Chinese cabbage; And
Wherein the control unit controls the rotation speed and the rotation period of the motor in accordance with conditions previously set by the input and output unit, information on the amount of water transferred from the sensor unit, information on the salinity of the brine and the temperature of the brine, Controlling the opening and closing of the valves installed in the water supply pipe and the drain pipe and the operation of the heating means according to the comparison result with the set value, and when it is determined that the salinity of the brine is lower than the set value, A controller for requesting additional input of the Chinese cabbage through the input / output means when pickling of the Chinese cabbage is completed; / RTI >
In the basket,
A salt injecting unit having an open side and a plurality of second holes formed on the respective sides, the salt being injected into the open side; And
Wherein a plurality of third holes are formed on each surface of the cabinet, and each cabinet has an envelope shape in which the cross-sectional area of the inlet is larger than the cross-sectional area of the lower portion, At least two cabbage mounts for respectively coupling to both sides of the part; / RTI >
The length of the salt input portion is shorter than the length of the cabbage mounting portion,
Wherein a lower part of the salt input part and a lower part of the cabbage holding part, which are connected to each other, are fastened to the fastening protrusion of the rotary body. The method of claim 1,
And the pickling part is installed obliquely on the body. The method of claim 1,
Wherein the lid of the front cover is not opened when the rotation driving unit is in operation. delete

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