KR20010078827A - Composite Bath Water Preparation Unit by Using Dual Extraction Method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An apparatus for producing bath water by extracting an effective component from mineral in an extraction vessel at a relatively low temperature and in a low pressure state and a medicinal plant in another extraction vessel at a relatively high temperature and in a low pressure state as compared to circulating warm water is provided, which can produce bath water useful in keeping good health without a rise in temperature. CONSTITUTION: Bath water useful in keeping good health is obtained by extracting an effective component from mineral and a medicinal plant contained in two extraction vessels of low temperature and high temperature under low pressure. The apparatus for producing bath water makes vacuous to increase extraction efficiency and carries out at 100deg.C or less without efficiency reduction of effective components by heat and destruction.

Description

Composite Bath Water Preparation Unit by Using Dual Extraction Method

The present invention relates to a bath water production apparatus by a double extraction method, and more particularly, by extracting minerals from ore, etc. in one extraction tank of a relatively low temperature and low pressure state by hot water circulation, relatively high temperature and low pressure The present invention relates to a device for producing a complex health bath by a double extraction method for extracting an active ingredient from medicinal plants in the other extraction container of the state.

Hot springs, where high-temperature groundwater passes through underground ore layers and blows to the surface of the earth, have been widely known for their variety and effects. These hot spring waters have been used to promote the health of the human body for a long time unlike ordinary water because minerals contained in various ores scattered in the strata passing through are eluted in hot ground water. Drinking water containing minerals, and soaking in the hot spring water containing a large amount of minerals to be absorbed through the human skin to improve the body's metabolism to improve health. Inorganic ions such as calcium, magnesium, chromium and sodium in the hot spring water are very important medically and cause illness in the human body when they are in short supply. Magnesium, calcium, etc. to help diabetics control blood sugar, and many records of medical and heart disease and nervous system diseases are published in medical journals. Magnesium plays a key role in the body's heart function. Calcium and chromium are known to regulate cholesterol in the body. Lithium and sodium lower blood sugar and prevent high blood pressure and heart attacks.

Many attempts have been made to artificially produce hot spring water in order to take advantage of the many benefits of such natural hot spring water. Various minerals are buried underground to force hot water circulation, and artificially hot water is added to various inorganic ionic compounds contained in natural hot spring water. They may also drink numbers. In order to intake the existing mineral water, or to visit a distant hot spring, or artificially extracted and used methods are very inconvenient because it is very inconvenient to use practically was not always enjoyed.

Long time ago, medicinal plants bathed with medicinal plants that have a pharmacological effect in the bath is a way to combine the effects of the bath and the pharmacological effect of the medicinal herbs these days, a lot of bath products have been commercialized. Artificially made baths include chemically treated baths and herbal or herbal baths. However, since the temperature of the bath water can not be maintained above 40˚C that the human body feels hot, effective ingredients cannot be effectively extracted from the herbal baths.

Ingredients with useful medicinal effects contained in various medicinal plants scattered in nature are generally put into a medicinal container and boil water at 100˚C or more for a long time to extract the active ingredients contained in the medicinal plant. In addition, many of the active ingredients contained in medicinal plants are mainly organic compounds, which are destroyed or degraded when boiled at high temperatures for a long time. Therefore, in order to consume the active ingredients contained in natural herbs intact, they may be reproduced without boiling. However, these herbs cannot be reproduced because they may contain a large amount of other harmful ingredients in addition to the necessary ingredients, and in many cases, it is virtually impossible because the smell and taste are inadequate for humans to reproduce.

It is possible to extract effective medicinal ingredients from various medicinal plants scattered in nature without destroying them, and to study the method of naturally absorbing extracted medicinal ingredients that are inappropriate for oral intake through human skin rather than oral intake.

The present invention by anyone specially designed to solve the difficulties present in the use of natural hot spring water and medicine bath as described above, anyone can easily artificially change the home bath water to water containing various minerals useful to the human body, the user needs According to the object of the present invention to effectively extract the active ingredients from various medicinal plants to be used in the bath.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a relatively low-temperature mineral extracting passage for extracting minerals from ore in a low pressure hot water circulation system, and relatively effective extracting of active ingredients from medicinal plants. It is characterized by performing a function of simultaneously producing a complex health bath containing the active ingredients of minerals and medicinal plants useful for health, such as natural hot spring water, by a double extraction method composed of a high temperature organic matter extraction container.

1: Overall configuration diagram of the hot water circulator used in the present invention

2: Flow sensor and vacuum generator

3: Filter and bubble generator

4: Organic matter extraction experiment results

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1: water pump 2: flow sensor and vacuum generator

3: inlet hose 4: outlet hose

5: drain hose 6: vacuum hose

7: inlet valve 8: outlet valve

9: drain valve 10: low temperature extraction container

11: high temperature extraction container 12: water level sensor

13 temperature sensor 14 heating heater

15 filter and bubble generator 16 bathtub

17: control computer

Hot water circulator for the double extraction type bath water production apparatus according to the present invention is shown in FIG. The whole process of the bath water producing apparatus is controlled by a built-in microcomputer 17, an accessory electronic circuit and various sensors. The main functions of the microcomputer can be set by the user with the key button attached to the outside of the device and the infrared remote controller.The water circulating pump, heating heater, etc. can be controlled by using the water level sensor, temperature sensor, water flow sensor, and leakage sensor. Control the operating state at all times. Double extraction type bath water production apparatus according to the present invention achieves the desired function by the following operating principle.

The circulation of the bath water by the water circulation pump (1) is carried out through the inlet hose (3) after the water in the bath is first passed through the filter and the bubble generator (15) installed in the tub (16). To the two extraction vessels 10 and 11, respectively. The water level sensor (12) is attached to each of the two extraction tanks, and the pump (1) and the heating heater (14) operate only when a certain level of water is filled in the extraction tank, which can occur when the water supply is stopped. To prevent overheating of the heater and pump. In addition, a temperature sensor 13 is attached to each of the two extraction vessels, and the microcomputer always controls the internal temperature of the two extraction vessels by two heaters 14. The water passing through the two extraction vessels is again pumped through the outlet hose (4). At the inlet of the pump, a flow sensor and a vacuum generator (2) using a fast-circulating water flow are attached. The vacuum generator is again connected to two extraction vessels by a vacuum hose (6) to lower the pressure inside the two extraction vessels. It was maintained in the state so that the extraction from the filling inside the extraction vessel can occur effectively. Water passing through the water circulation pump is supplied to the filter and the bubble generator (15) installed in the bath, and the pump and the heating heater is stopped when the water is not circulated for some reason. The bubble generator allows the user to control the airflow through the handle and, if necessary, connect the shower hose to the bubble generator to enjoy the foam massage.

A feature of the dual extraction apparatus according to the present invention is that one of the two extraction bins in the low temperature state (40 ° C or less), and the other to maintain the high temperature state (75 ° C) in two different kinds of extraction vessels This allows for optimal extraction from the packed materials. When circulating the bath water continuously, if one extraction tank is kept at a low temperature suitable for the human body and the other extraction tank is kept at a high temperature, the temperature of the bath is determined by the law of energy conservation. It continuously rises until it is reached, so that it is impossible to maintain a temperature of the bath water (approximately 40 ° C) set by the user. In order to solve this problem and to maintain the temperature of the two extraction tanks in different states, the valves (7) and (8) were used in the present invention. That is, the water supplied to the high temperature extraction tank was opened and closed at a predetermined time interval (at least 15 minutes) by using a valve to suppress the water circulation in one extraction tank to maintain the internal temperature at a high temperature. Waiting until the temporary temperature rise of the bath water generated by supplying the water of the hot extraction tank to the bath at once is restored to normal due to natural heat loss, and then the valve is opened again to discharge the hot water into the bath. In this way, the temperature of one extraction vessel could be maintained at a higher temperature than the other extraction vessel while maintaining the temperature of the bath at the temperature set by the user.

Keeping the extraction bin at a high temperature increases the extraction efficiency of the compound because the activity of the molecules is increased when heat is applied to the compound. However, when the temperature of the high temperature extraction bin is too high, many active ingredients contained in medicinal plants, etc. may be destroyed or the pharmacological effect may be lowered. In the present invention, the temperature of the high temperature extraction bin is maintained at 75 ° C. Another reason for keeping the temperature of one drawer at 75 ° C is to suppress the microorganisms that can occur in warm water. Many studies have reported that most microorganisms, such as Legionella, which are harmful to the human body, are most active at temperatures around 40˚C. Most of the microorganisms can be sterilized through a circulation process in which the water in the bath periodically stays in the hot extraction tank for a certain time and then released to the bath.

Figure 2 shows the flow sensor and the vacuum generator used in the present invention. Install a valve (19) with a magnet in the middle of the circulation hose to open the valve when the water flows to operate the reed switch (20). This flow sensor is used to prevent overheating of the heater and pump which may occur when the water is stopped due to a blocked filter. Another object is to allow the valve 19 to self-resiliently block the hole inside the connector when the user initially fills the water in the two drawers in order to use the bath preparation apparatus of the present invention to prevent water leakage. For that. If this valve is not present, the water leaks back into the tub at high speed during the filling process of the brew, so the water is running out before the pump starts to run, causing the unit to fail. The upper end of Fig. 2 is connected to two extraction cylinders through a connector 18 and a vacuum hose 6 as a vacuum generator. By making the size of the outlet smaller than the size of the inlet, the flow rate of the water was increased to create a vacuum under high velocity by Bernoulli's principle. The vacuum generated in this way lowers the pressure of the extraction vessel and makes the water of the high temperature extraction vessel boil at a temperature below 100˚C to increase the extraction efficiency of the internal filling. The hose connector 20 of FIG. 2 is connected to the extraction container via a hose, and is a drain for draining the extraction container after use. The drain is installed at a lower position than when the valve is closed, so that drainage occurs when the pump is stopped.

The filter and the bubble generator used in the present invention are shown in Fig. 3. The water in the bath is fed to the extraction vessel through the inlet connector 22 after the solid impurities such as hair are removed while passing through the filter 27. The water passing through the water outlet connection pipe 23 of the extraction container is discharged into the bath through the water outlet 26 after passing through the bubble generator 25 in the middle. The principle of the bubble generator is that when the air is supplied through the air inlet 24 in the middle of the outlet pipe flowing at a high speed, the foam is generated by its own suction force, the amount of foaming is controlled by the air adjusting knob (25). The foam generated by the strong circulating water hits the skin during bathing, which causes a lot of irritation and can be used for skin massage.

As described above, the apparatus for producing complex bath water according to the double extraction method of the present invention has two baths in one low temperature state and the other in the bath while maintaining the high temperature state without the temperature increase of the bath water for a long time use. The extraction efficiency was maximized while maintaining the temperature at the low temperature set by the user.

When the water circulation pump is operating normally, the vacuum generated by the vacuum generator (2) is connected to the two extraction tanks (10) and (11), respectively, by a connecting hose (6) to keep the two extraction cylinders at low pressure. . When the inlet valve 7 of the high temperature extraction cylinder 11 is closed, the pressure loss due to the intake is eliminated, so the pressure is lower than that of the extraction cylinder 10. In this state, if there are no valves (8) and (9), the circulation of water occurs through the outlet and drain pipes of the extraction container 11 until there is no internal pressure difference between the two extraction containers. This circulation of water ultimately leads to a temperature increase of the bath water, so that it is difficult to maintain the temperature of the bath water in an appropriate state when the temperature of the hot extraction tank is set high. The device according to the present invention can maintain the temperature difference between the two cylinders up to 50 ° C or more while solving the above problems, and can maintain a pressure difference of up to 400 mmHg depending on the capacity of the pump used. Therefore, two extraction vessels in the low pressure state are connected to one hot water circulation system and have different extraction effects because each temperature and pressure are in different states.

4 shows the results of the organic material extraction experiment using the ginseng of the apparatus according to the present invention. Ginseng was used as a sample, and the sample was extracted under atmospheric pressure at room temperature of 25˚C for 4 hours, and then the absorbance of the extract was measured at 70˚C using the apparatus according to the present invention. It was. As shown in FIG. 4, an increase in the overall extraction efficiency was observed in the range between 270 nm and 477 nm, and in particular, a significant increase in absorbance was observed at a wavelength of 380 nm or less where the organic compounds absorb much light. Although the quantitative concentration and the concentration of extracted compounds were not tried, the increase in absorbance was directly proportional to the concentration according to Beer-Lambert's law, which means that the extraction efficiency was increased by about 800%. This increase in extraction efficiency may be somewhat changed depending on the set temperature of the hot extraction tank and the vacuum generating capacity of the water circulation pump used. In other words, if the set temperature is increased or the pump capacity is large, the extraction efficiency may be further increased.

As a result of the mineral extraction experiment using the apparatus according to the present invention, an increase in the overall extraction efficiency was observed as in the organic extraction experiment. The ore used is the ganban rock, which is widely used in water purifiers, and the components in the extract by inductively coupled plasma atomic spectroscopy (ICP) after extraction experiment for 4 hours using the apparatus according to the present invention at room temperature 25˚C and 75˚C set temperature. The elements were analyzed. No significant increase in mineral concentrations, such as organic extraction, was observed, but a 150% increase from 22 ppm to 33 ppm for calcium, a 317% increase from 12 ppm to 38 ppm for sodium, and 0.5 ppm to 11 ppm for potassium. A 2,200% increase in extraction was observed. The extraction efficiency may be changed depending on the type and condition of the ore used, the set temperature and the extraction pressure.

Claims (1)

In order to prepare complex health bath water by extracting active ingredients from minerals and medicinal plants in the hot water circulation system of bath water, the low-temperature and high temperature double extraction tanks are used, Using a valve to prevent temperature rise, In order to increase the extraction efficiency by vacuum of the double extraction tank, and to perform the extraction at a temperature below 100˚C without reducing or destroying the effective ingredients by heat, a vacuum is generated using a water circulation pump, and the two vacuums are extracted. How to maintain low pressure by connecting to the barrel.