KR20040049360A - Apparatus for proceeding garbage - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: Provided is a device for treating garbage which is able to prevent and eliminate foul smell generated from the device for treating garbage. CONSTITUTION: The device comprises a pulverizer(14) where a cutter(16) and a lead screw(20) for guiding and pulverizing garbage are formed as one body, a supplementary cutter gearing with the cutter to rotate, being able to move to a recess part at certain intervals and formed to be inclined on one side, drainage holes(24) formed on the lower part of a housing(22) to discharge sewage generated when the garbage is pulverized by the pulverizer, a stirring case(42) having a stirrer(38) to stir the pulverized garbage and an exhaust port(44) having a filter and an exhaust fan to discharge foul smell generated when stirring the garbage at the stirring case to an overflow.

Description

Food waste treatment device {APPARATUS FOR PROCEEDING GARBAGE}

The present invention relates to a food waste treatment apparatus, and more particularly, to a food waste treatment apparatus having a new structure that can effectively treat food waste generated in a home or a restaurant.

Recently, as interest in environmental pollution due to food waste is increasing, various methods of treating food waste have been developed.

For example, by pressing the food waste with a predetermined pressurization device to remove the water contained in the food waste, food waste processing apparatus has been developed to reduce the odor caused by the moisture of food waste, and to reduce the weight of food waste It is used. By using the food waste treatment apparatus as described above, since the water of food waste is removed, it is possible to reduce the environmental pollution by preventing the generation of odor and waste water of food waste due to moisture, and to reduce the disposal cost of food waste.

However, such a food waste treatment device is bulky, and is not suitable for use in a general household, so a problem arises in that food wastes collected from each household are collected and disposed of separately.

Accordingly, in order to process food waste generated in a small amount of household, a grinder is installed in a drain in a sink to crush food waste, and the crushed food waste is discharged through a sewer.

However, such a device has a problem of causing pollution of the river by discharging the crushed food waste to the sewer.

Therefore, there is a need for a new food waste treatment apparatus that can be easily used in a general household and can prevent environmental pollution due to food waste.

The present invention has been made to secure such a conventional problem, can be easily installed by the user by installing in a normal home, can effectively handle food waste discharged from the home to prevent environmental pollution due to food waste In addition, the object of the present invention is to provide a food waste treatment apparatus of a new structure that enables food waste to be used as compost or feed.

In addition, it is an object to enable to effectively prevent and remove odor generated in the food waste treatment apparatus.

Figure 1 is a cross-sectional view of the configuration of the food waste treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the crusher of the food waste processing apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is an operating state of the food waste treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is an operating state of the stirrer of the food waste treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 5 is an operating state of the stirring barrel of the food waste treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the food waste treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

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

2: sink 4: filter

6: photocatalyst plasma 8: drain

10: body 12: grinding motor

14 grinder 16: cutter

18: auxiliary cutter 19: auxiliary lead screw

20: lead screw 22: housing

24: drain hole 26: moisture removal port

28: pressing cap 29: pressing silicone pad

30: hopper 32: pressurized motor

34: pressure port 36: stirring motor

38: stirrer 40: heater

42: stirring tube 44: exhaust port

46 exhaust fan 48 clearance

50: damper 52: viewing window

54: operation unit 56: display window

58: negative ion generator 60: connecting member

62: lid

The above object is provided with a hopper for injecting food waste in the upper part of the body, and at the same time guide the food waste introduced from the hopper and a grinder equipped with a cutter and a lead screw for crushing food waste is provided in the lower hopper. In the food waste treatment apparatus is provided with a drain hole for discharging the sewage generated when the food waste is ground from the grinder,

The grinder is mounted inside the housing, the lead screw is formed integrally with the cutter at both sides in the center, and one side of the grinder is provided with an auxiliary cutter which rotates in engagement with the cutter, wherein the auxiliary cutter is moved forward and backward on one side of the housing. It is installed in the clearance portion formed so as to be able to move a predetermined interval, the housing bottom surface is formed with a drain hole for introducing the wastewater generated when the food waste is crushed from the grinder into the drain hole, the food waste crushed from the grinder A stirring barrel and a stirrer are provided at the bottom of the body for stirring the filter, and an exhaust port is provided with a filter and an exhaust fan in order to exhaust the odor generated during the stirring of the food waste in the stirring cylinder to the atmosphere. Removable to easily collect the The hopper is provided with a pressurization port so that the food waste can be easily introduced into the grinder, the inside of the stirrer is provided with a heater to facilitate drying when stirring the food waste, the auxiliary cutter is formed to be inclined one side On the other side, the auxiliary lead screw can be formed integrally.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a cross-sectional view of the food waste treatment apparatus according to the present invention, the damper 50 is provided in the lower portion of the body 10 to enable height adjustment of the food waste treatment apparatus, and the food waste is disposed on the upper portion of the body 10. A hopper 30 is provided to guide the food waste to the grinder 14, and a grinder 14 for crushing the food waste introduced from the hopper 30 is installed in the housing 22 to provide a hopper ( 30) is provided at the bottom.

At this time, the hopper 30 is provided with a pressing port 34 for rotating the food waste having the same large volume easily into the grinder 14 to be rotated by the pressure motor 32, the hopper 30 lower Is formed in an elliptical shape in the longitudinal direction of the grinder 14 in order to easily put food waste into the grinder (14).

In addition, the crusher 14 provided below the hopper 30 has a lead screw 20 and a cutter 16 integrally formed and mounted inside the housing 22, and the crusher 14 has a grinding motor 12. It is configured to be rotated by receiving power from the rotation, meshed with the cutter 16 and rotated, the clearance gap 48 can be moved by a predetermined interval, one side is formed to be inclined, the other side of the auxiliary lead screw (19) Auxiliary cutter 18 is formed integrally is provided in the housing 22 as shown in the accompanying drawings.

Here, the lower portion of the housing 22 is provided with a plurality of drain holes 24 for guiding and draining the sewage generated during the crushing of the food waste to the drain hole (8).

In addition, one side of the grinder 14 provided in the housing 22 is provided with a water removal hole 26 to remove moisture again, and one side end of the housing 22 further compresses the crushed food waste to fine Pressing silicon pad 29 and the pressing cap 28 to be coupled to the housing 22 to be configured.

In addition, the lower part of the body 10 is provided with a stirring barrel 42 for stirring the food waste pulverized from the grinder 14, the inside of the stirring cylinder 42, the stirrer 38 by the stirring motor 36 It is installed to be rotated, the stirrer 38 is provided with a heater 40 is built in so as to easily dry when stirring the food waste.

In addition, one side of the body 10 is provided with a filter 4 and an exhaust fan 46 in the exhaust port 44 to remove the odor generated when stirring the food waste, the photocatalyst plasma 6 on the body 10 Is configured for installation.

In the figure, reference numeral 4 denotes a filter, and 58 denotes an anion generator for air purification.

The effect of the operation of the food waste treatment apparatus of the present invention constituting such a configuration will be described.

First, as shown in Figure 3, when food waste is put into the sink 2 provided on the upper body 10, the food waste is put into the grinder 14 through the hopper 30, When the grinding motor 12 is operated to grind the food waste introduced from the hopper 30, the grinder 14 provided in the housing 22 rotates.

Here, the grinder 14 is the lead screw 20 and the cutter 16 is integrally formed to rotate at the same time, the auxiliary cutter 18 to be rotated in reverse with the cutter 16 is formed to be inclined one side. On the other side, the auxiliary lead screw 19 is integrally formed, and the clearance portion 48 is movable at a predetermined interval.

At this time, the auxiliary cutter 18 is moved to the clearance 48 so that when the overload occurs in the grinder 14, the auxiliary cutter 18 moves to the clearance 48 so that the cutter 16 and the auxiliary cutter ( 18) and the load applied to the grinding motor 12 can be reduced.

In addition, since one side of the auxiliary cutter 18 is inclined, it is possible to smoothly move the crushed food waste by reducing the pressure generated when the crushed food waste flows into the lead screw 20.

In this state, the food waste is transported along the lead screw 20 and the auxiliary lead screw 19 formed on one side of the grinder 14, and the transported food waste is interlocked with each other as shown in FIG. The food waste is fed to the cutter 16 and the auxiliary cutter 18 to be crushed.

At this time, the crushing of food waste is made directly when the cutter blade and the cutter blade rotates while being engaged with each other when the cutter 16 and the auxiliary cutter 18 rotate, the food waste is the blade of the cutter 16 and the auxiliary cutter 18. The grinding is carried out along the edge of the blade, and when the grinding is performed, the moisture contained in the food waste is also discharged.

The water discharged in this way flows into the drain hole 24 formed in the inner lower portion of the housing 22 and is discharged to the drain hole 8 along the drain pipe.

As such, the food waste that is crushed while being transported is transferred from the cutter 16 and the auxiliary cutter 18 to be introduced into the lead screw 20 on one side of the cutter 16, and the food waste introduced into the lead screw 20 is While being transported along the lead screw 20, the lead screw 20 is inserted into the water removal port 26 provided at one side of the lead screw 20.

At this time, the food waste introduced into the water removal port 26 is removed moisture again from the water removal port 26, which is the food waste continuously supplied by the lead screw 20, the water removal port 26 The constant pressure is generated in the water to remove the moisture.

As such, the food waste from which the water is removed from the water removal port 26 is transferred along a spiral groove formed on one side of the lead screw 20 to compress the silicon pad 29 and the compression cap installed on one side of the housing 22. The supplied food waste is finely pulverized in the pressurized silicon pad 29 while being supplied to the 28, and is discharged to the outside of the press cap 28 to be provided at the lower portion of the body 10. Supplied by.

Here, the food waste supplied to the stirring barrel 42 is agitated and dried by a stirrer 38 that receives power from the stirring motor 36 and rotates as shown in FIGS. 3 to 4. .

At this time, the user may be used in advance by supplying microbial chips or sawdust, etc. in the stirring barrel 42, such as food waste.

In addition, the inside of the stirrer (38) by the heater 40, the drying of the food waste during stirring is made easily and quickly, it can slow down the decay of food waste and odor generated during the decay of food waste It is possible to minimize the generation of sewage.

In addition, the exhaust fan 46 and the exhaust port 44 and the filter 4 in the body 10, as shown in Figure 3 to 4 to remove the odor generated in the food waste as described above, the exhaust fan 46 It is possible to discharge the odor of the food waste to the drain (8), and the photocatalyst plasma (6) and the negative ion generator (58) to purify the internal and external air of the food waste treatment apparatus.

At this time, the filter 4 is to remove the odor as shown in the partial enlarged view of Figure 4, the antimicrobial filter 63, activated carbon 64, bio ball 65 and the like is composed of a filter layer.

As such, when the stirred food waste is collected in a predetermined amount inside the stirring barrel 42, the stirred food waste should be collected. For this purpose, the stirring barrel 42 is detachably detached as shown in FIG. By doing so, the user can easily achieve the collection of food waste.

Sawdust or microorganisms and agitated food waste as described above can be used as a compost, it can also be used as feed for livestock.

In addition, the food waste to be crushed to have a variety of sizes, the bulky food waste is not smoothly made into the grinder 14, the pressurized motor provided in the hopper (30) to achieve this easily 32) and the pressure port 34 can be operated to facilitate the introduction of food waste.

Here, the pressure motor 32 is rotated at a low speed, the human hand during the rotation of the pressure port 34 in order to prevent injuries when the contact of the human body due to the user's circumference occurs during the rotation of the pressure port (34). When the pressurization port 34 is rotated by the pressure motor 32 is rotated by the spring 66 and the clutch 68, the rotation is temporarily stopped and the spring 66 and the clutch 68 is rotated in reverse It will prevent injuries.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the food waste treatment apparatus according to the present invention, which is to install the food waste treatment apparatus in the sink, it can be installed by connecting the sink and the hopper 30 using the connection member (60).

At this time, when not using the food waste processing apparatus connected to the sink is used to cover the lid 62 is provided in advance.

In addition, the upper part of the body 10 is provided with an operation unit 54 and a display window 56, and the front window is provided with a viewing window 52, the user can conveniently operate the food waste treatment apparatus, food waste The state in the stirring vessel 42 can be easily confirmed.

And while a specific embodiment of the present invention has been described and illustrated above, it is obvious that the food waste treatment apparatus of the present invention may be variously modified and implemented by those skilled in the art.

In one example, the lead screw and the cutter is formed integrally, but this may be disassembled.

In addition, the present invention is configured to detachable agitator in order to collect the agitated food waste, but in addition to the detachable agitator can be removed to a variety of containers or bags to be automatically transported agitated food waste It is possible to apply the deformation in the form.

Therefore, the modified embodiments should not be individually understood from the technical spirit or the prospect of the present invention, and the modified embodiments should fall within the appended claims of the present invention.

Food waste treatment apparatus of the present invention as described above effectively crush the food waste, can significantly reduce the volume of food waste, and completely remove the water while stirring the crushed food waste in a stirrer to reduce the weight and food waste of food waste It is possible to prevent the decay of, it is possible to discharge the odor in the drain in the device has an effect that can effectively remove the odor generated from food waste.

In addition, since the sawdust or microbial chips can be mixed and used during the stirring of the food waste, the mixed food waste can be used as compost or feed, which can dramatically reduce the environmental pollution caused by the discharge of food waste. It is.

Claims (5)

A hopper 30 for introducing food waste is provided in the upper portion of the body 10, and guides the food waste introduced from the hopper 30 and simultaneously cutters 16 and lead screws 20 for crushing food waste. In the food waste processing apparatus provided with a crusher 14 is provided in the lower portion of the hopper 30, the drain hole 8 for discharging the waste water generated when the food waste is crushed from the crusher 14, The grinder 14 is mounted in the housing 22, and the lead screw 20 is integrally formed at both sides with the cutter 16 at the center thereof, and the cutter 16 is disposed at one side of the grinder 14. Auxiliary cutter 18 to be engaged is rotated is provided, the auxiliary cutter 18 is provided in the clearance portion 48 formed in the front and rear of one side of the housing 22 is provided to enable a predetermined interval movement, A drain hole 24 is formed at the bottom of the housing 22 to allow the wastewater generated when the food waste is crushed from the grinder 14 to the drain port 8, and the food waste crushed from the grinder 14. Stirring barrel 42 and the stirrer 38 for stirring the is provided on the lower body 10, Food waste treatment apparatus characterized in that the exhaust port 44 is provided with a filter (4) and an exhaust fan (46) in order to exhaust the odor generated during the stirring of the food waste in the stirring barrel (42) to the atmosphere. The method according to claim 1, The stirring barrel 42 is a food waste processing apparatus, characterized in that the user is configured to be removable so that food waste can be easily collected. The method according to claim 1, Food waste processing apparatus, characterized in that the heater (40) is provided inside the stirrer (38) to promote drying when stirring the food waste. The method according to claim 1, Food waste processing apparatus, characterized in that the hopper 30 is provided with a pressing hole 34 to facilitate the inflow of food waste into the grinder (14). The method according to claim 1, The auxiliary cutter 18 is one side is formed to be inclined, the other side is a food waste processing apparatus, characterized in that the auxiliary lead screw 19 is formed integrally.