KR20050029436A - Red pepper calyx removing and pericarp cutting equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus for removing the calyx of red pepper and cutting the pericarp comprising a vibrating feeder, compressor, sorting conveyor, cutter and drying tray is provided. The method for washing red pepper, removing the calyx, cutting the pericarp and drying the red pepper is automatically performed, thereby allowing mass treatment of the red pepper. The apparatus for removing the calyx of red pepper and cutting the pericarp comprises: a hopper(13); a red pepper washer(1) for washing red peppers; a red pepper vibrating feeder(3) for uniformly spreading the supplied red pepper by vibration and then transferring; a red pepper compressor(5) for compressing the red pepper with a roller; a sorting conveyor(7) for separating the calyx from the red pepper and transferring; a red pepper cutter(9) for cutting the red pepper; and additionally a transfer conveyor(11). The red pepper compressor consists of an upper and lower roller in a case, a motor assembly for driving the upper roller, an elastic member for generating tension to maintain the gap between the upper and lower roller in a compressed state and a knife for preventing the adhesion of the red pepper to the upper and lower roller.

Description

RED PEPPER CALYX REMOVING AND PERICARP CUTTING EQUIPMENT}

The present invention relates to a red pepper nipple removing and peeling device and a method thereof, and more particularly, high-quality cutting dry pepper of hygienic state on a large scale by mechanizing batch processing of red pepper washing, tap removing, sorting, and cut skin. The present invention relates to a pepper nipple removing and peeling device and a method for producing the raw material.

Red pepper is the most seasoned vegetable used in our diet. It is widely used in processed foods such as spices, kimchi, and red pepper paste. The annual consumption per capita is 2.5kg.

Currently, about 40 varieties of red pepper are grown in Korea, and these red pepper varieties show differences in physical properties and chemical composition.

These peppers are currently being imported in large quantities from China and Japan due to the wave of import liberalization.

However, in the case of domestic pepper, there is a problem that the harvesting, washing, scab removal, peeling and drying process of pepper are made on a small scale by the manual labor of the worker. After the pepper color and quality deterioration occurs, there is a difficulty in dropping the merchandise value.

Therefore, the object of the present invention was devised to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is to mechanize the washing, scab removal, cut skin of raw red pepper raw materials in order to increase the drying efficiency of red pepper and improve the color and quality after drying And to provide a pepper nipple removal and skin cutting device and its method that can be automated.

In order to realize the object of the present invention, a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a pepper shaker for spreading the conveyed pepper uniformly by vibration; A pepper compressor for compressing peppers fed from the pepper shaker by a roller; A sorting conveyor for separating and transferring the tap from the pepper supplied from the pepper compressor; And it comprises a pepper cutter for cutting the pepper transported by the sorting conveyor by a cutting method, and provides a pepper stem removal and rind cutting device for drying by transferring the cut pepper to a drying tray.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the pepper nipple removing and peeling device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, the pepper stem removal and skin cutting device proposed by the present invention is a pepper washing machine (1) for washing the harvested pepper, transfer conveyor (2) for transporting the washed pepper, Vibration feeder (3) for uniformly spreading and moving the transferred pepper by vibrating, pepper compressor (5) for compressing the pepper, sorting conveyor (7) for manually separating the pepper stem, pepper to cut pepper Skin cutting machine 9 and a cutting pepper conveying conveyor 11 for transferring the cut pepper to a drying tray (not shown).

In the pepper nipple removal and skin cutting device having such a structure, the pepper washer (1) is to wash the pepper twice. That is, as shown in Figure 3, the pepper (P) is put into the first washing container 10, the washing water is stored and washed primarily by manpower or high-pressure injection method, the washed pepper (P) on the conveyor 12 It is transferred to the second washing vessel 14 through the washing again.

The second washing container 14 is provided with a plurality of rotating rollers 16 therein, a brush (17) is attached to the surface of the rotating roller (16).

Therefore, the red pepper P supplied from the conveyor 12 is washed by the brush 17 in the process of passing between the rotary roller 16.

Then, the washed red pepper (P) is injected into the hopper (Hopper) 13 of the conveying conveyor (2), the injected red pepper (P) is transferred upward by the conveying conveyor (2) of the inclined shape at an angle. The conveyed red pepper P falls through the outlet 19 and is supplied to the vibration feeder 3 through the guide 21.

The vibration feeder 3 is a vibration feeder of a conventional structure, as shown in FIG. That is, when the conveying plate 23 vibrates up and down by the driving of the motor 25, the peppers seated thereon move in a uniformly spread state in all directions.

The pepper passing through the vibration feeder 3 is supplied to the pepper compressor 5, and the pepper compressor 5 is a case 26 and an upper roller rotatably mounted in the case 26. The upper and lower rollers 27 and 29, the motor assembly 35 for driving the upper roller 27, and the gap between the upper and lower rollers 27 and 29 to maintain the compression state. The elastic member 33 to generate, and a knife (Knife) 33 to prevent the red pepper sticks to the surface of the upper and lower rollers (27, 29).

In this pepper compressor 5, the upper and lower rollers 27, 29 are cylindrical in shape with a suitable diameter, preferably a diameter of 250 mm.

The upper roller 27 is connected by the motor assembly 35 and the belt 37, the lower roller 29 is idle. Then, the upper roller 27 and the lower roller 29 is in a state of being in close contact with the upper roller 27 by being connected by the elastic member 33, that is, the spring.

Therefore, when the motor assembly 35 is driven, the upper roller 27 is rotated by the rotational force transmitted to the upper roller 27 by the belt 37. And it is pressurized to a constant pressure in the process of passing between the lower roller (27,29).

As a result, the red pepper is properly compressed during the passage of the red pepper compressor 5, so that the tissues of the nipple and the skin part of the red pepper are broken and can be easily separated.

1 and 2 again, the compressed pepper is supplied to the sorting conveyor 7 through the outlet 39, and the sorting conveyor 7 rotates the belt 41 having a constant width by a motor. It is structure to let. Therefore, when the motor is driven, the belt 41 is rotated, at this time, the pepper supplied on the belt is moved in the direction of the pepper cutting device (9).

In this process, the workers manually remove the stems of the pepper on the belt.

In this way, the pepper peeled from the tap is supplied to the pepper cutter 9 through the outlet 41 is cut into several strands.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the pepper cutter 9 is rotatably mounted in the housing 42, and a plurality of grooves 51 are formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof. Sample guide rollers 43 and being arranged in parallel with the sample guide rollers 43 are peppers passing therebetween, a plurality of cutting blades 53 protrudingly formed on the outer peripheral surface to cut peppers 45 And a motor 47 for driving the sample guide roller 43 and the cutting roller 45.

In the pepper cutting device, the sample guide roller 43 has a cylindrical shape, and a groove 51 having a predetermined depth is formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof. In addition, the cutting roller 45 which is installed side by side also has a cylindrical shape and a plurality of cutting edges 53 protrude from the outer peripheral surface thereof.

Then, the plurality of cutting blades 53 are arranged to be inserted into the plurality of grooves 51 of the sample guide roller 43, respectively. At this time, the plurality of cutting edges 53 is preferably about 7-8mm interval, the number is about 30-40 is appropriate. Of course, such intervals and number may be appropriately changed depending on the processing capacity. In addition, the plurality of cutting blades 53 are formed with grooves 55 for efficient cutting.

Therefore, when the sample guide roller and the cutting rollers 43 and 45 are rotated, the red pepper skin can be cut into several strands by the cutting blade 53 while passing between the rollers 43 and 45.

At this time, the sample guide roller and the cutting rollers (43, 45) are pulled from each other by the tension spring can be efficiently cut pepper. In addition, the gap between the sample guide roller 43 and the cutting roller 45 can be adjusted as necessary by the gap adjusting screw 49 provided on one side of the housing 42.

The red pepper peeled in this way is transferred to a drying tray (not shown) through the cut pepper transfer conveyor 11. The cut pepper transfer conveyor 11 has a conveyor structure of a conventional structure. That is, when the motor 53 is driven to convey the pepper cut by the conveyor belt 51 is rotated, it has a shape inclined at a predetermined angle by the support frame 52. Thus, the cut pepper can be easily transferred to the drying tray.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in more detail the red pepper stem removal method and skin cutting method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Figure 7, the pepper tap removal and peeling method proposed by the present invention is a pepper washing step (S100) for washing the pepper, pepper vibration supply step to proceed in a uniformly unfolded state by the vibrating method (S110), a pepper compression step (S120) for compressing the peppers conveyed in a uniformly stretched state in the vibration supply step (S110), and a tap separation step (S130) for separating the tap from the compressed pepper, the tap is separated It includes a pepper cutting step (S140) for cutting the red pepper peel by the cutting method, and a transfer / drying step (S150) for transferring the cut pepper to the drying tray.

In such a pepper nipple removal and skin cutting method, the pepper washing step (S100) is to wash the pepper twice. That is, the pepper is put into the first washing container 10 in which the washing water is stored and washed first by manpower or high pressure spraying, and the washed pepper is transferred to the second washing container 14 through the conveyor S12, and brushes. It washes by passing between the rotating rollers 16 with 17 attached.

Then, the washed red pepper is fed to the vibrating feeder (3) through the conveying conveyor (2) proceeds pepper vibrating supply step (S110).

In the vibration supply step (S110) by allowing the pepper injected through the conveying conveyor (2) to be uniformly spread by the vibration feeder (3) so that the pepper compression step (S120) that proceeds afterwards proceeds smoothly.

That is, when pepper is introduced into the upper portion of the conveying plate 23, the conveying plate 23 is vibrated by driving the motor 25 to be transported in a uniformly spread state.

When the pepper spread evenly reaches the pepper compressor 5, the pepper compression step (S120) proceeds. In the pepper compressing step (S120), pepper passes between the upper and lower rollers 27 and 29, and is pressed thinly by being pressed by the pressing force of the rollers 27 and 29 in this process.

In addition, when the pepper is compressed, the tissue of the nipple and the skin part is ruptured, thereby facilitating the separation of the nipple.

The pepper compressed in this way is supplied to the sorting conveyor (7) proceeds with the pepper tap separation step (S130).

In the hot pepper tap separating step (S130), the hot pepper transported by the sorting conveyor 7 is separated by manual labor. At this time, the pepper is compressed in the compression process, so it is easy to separate the tap can be separated easily.

The red pepper peeled from the tap continues to be fed to the pepper cutter 9 to continue the pepper cutting step (S140).

In the pepper cutting step (S140), the peeled skin is supplied between the sample guide roller 43 and the cutting roller 45, and at this time, the cutting blade 53 protruding from the surface of the cutting roller 45 is the sample guide roller. By passing through the grooves 55 of 43, the red pepper peel is cut by the shear force. By repeating this process, a large amount of red pepper skin can be cut into several strands.

When the pepper cutting step (S140) is completed, the pepper transfer / drying step (S150) is carried out by transferring the cut pepper skin to the drying tray (not shown) through the cutting pepper transfer conveyor (11).

That is, the cut peppers are distributed by a predetermined amount to a plurality of drying trays and dried for a predetermined time in a uniformly unfolded state.

After preparing the pepper pepper sample using the above-mentioned pepper scoop removal and skin cutting device, various drying experiments were carried out.

First, the drying time and the final moisture content of the red pepper sample according to the cutting method were examined, and the following results were obtained.

division Dry condition Drying time (min) Final function rate (%) Drying time (min) of water content 20% w.b Temperature(??) RH (%) circle 80 30 405 18.8 390 70 30 540 27.0 580 60 30 840 19.6 830 Cutting 80 30 180 19.3 175 70 30 250 18.8 245 60 30 395 19.7 395 Vertical cutting 80 30 140 12.6 130 70 30 250 19.1 245 60 30 395 20.4 305 Mechanical cutting 80 30 135 17.6 125 70 30 210 18.3 180 60 30 255 14.9 225

As can be seen from the above experimental results, as a result of drying experiment analysis based on the moisture content of 20% wb of dried red pepper samples, the red pepper samples mechanically cut with raw red pepper raw materials using the developed red pepper cutting device are 3.1 -3.7 times faster.

In the case of horizontal cutting and vertical cutting pepper samples manually made by cutting blades, the drying speed was 2.1-2.4 and 2.4-3.0 times faster than the circular shape, respectively.

In particular, at the drying temperature of 70 ??, 60 ??, and RH30%, the mechanically cut green pepper sample had a drying time of 260-280min until the final moisture content reached 15% wb. It was 3.2 times faster than 900min.

In addition, the following experimental results are the experimental results of observing the chromaticity of red pepper samples according to the cutting method and drying temperature.

division Dry condition Chromaticity value Temperature(??) RH (%) L a b circle 80 30 39.1 19.7 22.2 70 30 33.1 18.9 22.6 60 30 36.8 29.6 40.6 Cutting 80 30 40.9 24.0 30.2 70 30 40.7 25.9 29.5 60 30 42.4 30.1 31.2 Vertical cutting 80 30 38.75 24.9 24.3 70 30 43.23 28.6 34.4 60 30 42.2 31.5 32.4 Mechanical cutting 80 30 35.9 28.3 36.9 70 30 44.7 35.3 37.0 60 30 43.1 37.0 36.8

As can be seen from the experimental results, when the value of chromaticity a representing the red color of the red pepper powder sample is based on 30 mesh, the drying temperature is 80,70,60 ?? Circular peppers were 19.7, 18.9, and 29.6, and mechanical cutting samples were 28.3, 35.3, and 37.0. The reason for this is that the drying time of raw red pepper is more than three times faster than the original one, and the drying temperature is 60-70 ?? It is considered that the low and proper dry relative humidity is maintained at 30%, so that almost no alteration of the pigment component contained in the raw red pepper sample occurs.

Based on the above experimental results, when the raw raw red pepper raw material by mechanical cutting method is used at drying temperature 60-70 ??, the drying time is 7-8 hours. The drying time is significantly shorter than 10-15 hours, and it is analyzed that the dry pepper sample has excellent color and can produce high quality dried pepper raw materials.

As described above, the pepper nipple removing and peeling device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention has the advantage of being able to proceed on a large scale by an automatic method by mechanizing washing, scab removing, peeling and drying process of red pepper.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the claims, the detailed description of the invention, and the scope of the accompanying drawings. It goes without saying that it belongs to the scope of the present invention.

1 is a side structure diagram showing a pepper nipple removing and skin cutting device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the pepper nipple removing and peeling device shown in Figure 1;

3 is a schematic diagram schematically showing the structure of the pepper washer shown in FIG.

4 is a side structural view showing a pepper vibration separator and a compactor shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a side structural view showing a pepper skin cutting machine shown in FIG. 1; FIG.

FIG. 6 is a partially enlarged perspective view showing an enlarged cutting roller shown in FIG. 5; FIG.

Figure 7 is a flow chart illustrating a red pepper washing, tap removal, cut skin, drying process according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (7)

A pepper vibrating feeder which unfolds and conveys the conveyed pepper uniformly by vibration; A pepper compressor for compressing peppers fed from the pepper shaker by a roller; A sorting conveyor for separating and transferring the tap from the pepper supplied from the pepper compressor; And It includes a pepper cutter for cutting the pepper transported by the sorting conveyor by a cutting method, Red pepper scab removal and rind cutting device to transfer the cut pepper to the drying tray. According to claim 1, wherein the pepper washing machine is a second washing vessel for washing the pepper primarily by washing water, and secondly by passing the pepper supplied from the first washing container between the rotating roller attached to the brush Pepper stem removal and rind cutting device comprising a second washing vessel to wash. According to claim 1, wherein the pepper compressor has a case, the upper roller and the lower roller rotatably mounted in the case, the motor assembly for driving the upper roller, and the upper and lower rollers are tensioned to maintain the compression state Red pepper stem removal and peeling device comprising an elastic member for generating, and a knife to prevent the red pepper sticks to the surface of the upper and lower rollers. According to claim 1, wherein the pepper peel cutter is disposed in parallel with the sample guide roller and the sample guide roller which is rotatably mounted in the housing, the outer circumferential surface is formed in the housing, and the sample guide roller therebetween Pepper passing through and a plurality of cutting blades are formed on the outer peripheral surface of the cutting roller for cutting the pepper, and pepper stem removal and peeling device comprising a motor for driving the sample guide roller and the cutting roller. 5. The peeling and peeling of pepper according to claim 4, wherein the pepper cutter further comprises a tension spring for closely contacting the sample guide roller and the cutting roller, and a gap adjusting screw for adjusting a gap between the sample guide roller and the cutting roller. Cutting device. According to claim 1, Capsicum washing machine for washing the pepper, and pepper hopper removal and peeling device further comprising a transfer conveyor for transporting the pepper washed by the pepper washer. A chili pepper vibration feeding step of advancing the washed pepper in a uniformly stretched state by a vibration method; A pepper compressing step of compressing the peppers conveyed in an unfolded state evenly in the vibration supplying step between rollers; A tap separating step of separating the tap from the compressed pepper while the pepper pressing step; A pepper cutting step of cutting by a cutting method by passing the pepper peeled with the tap through a pepper cutter; And A method of removing and slicing peppers comprising a transfer / drying step of transferring the cut peppers to a drying tray.