KR20060110152A - Apparatus for cutting and washing red peppers - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is an apparatus for washing and cutting peppers, which removes agricultural chemicals or foreign materials present on outer shells of dry pepper, and enables a large amount of dry peppers to be washed and cut in a short time, thereby increasing productivity and cost efficiency. The apparatus for washing and cutting peppers comprises: a housing(100) having a main body(110), which guides dry peppers introduced into a hopper(130) in such a manner that the peppers are washed in a washing section and discharged out of the main body; a washing section(200) for washing foreign materials present on outer shells of the dry peppers by using a brush rotated by a motor(210) in the main body of the housing; a foreign material discharging section(300) for collecting and discharging the foreign materials removed from the outer shells of the peppers; a cutting section(400) mounted to an outlet(140) of the housing for cutting the peppers washed in the washing section(200) into two or more cuts; and a conveying section(500) for conveying the pepper cuts and pepper seeds discharged from the cutting section(400) toward a crushing section so as to crush the pepper cuts and the seeds selectively.

Description

Apparatus for cutting and washing red peppers}

1 is a perspective view of the present invention

2 is a front cross-sectional view of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a side cross-sectional view of the present invention

4 is a state diagram used in the present invention

Figure 5 shows the separation of the cut pepper and pepper seeds moving to the transfer unit by the present invention,

a shows a state in which the cut pepper and pepper seeds are separated and moved to the crushing unit and the pepper seed collecting member, respectively,

b shows that the pepper seeds are moved to the crushing unit together with the peppers that are not separated.

<Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings>

100: housing 120: cleaning space

200: washing unit 240: rotating member

250: fixed gear 260: rotary gear

270: brush 300: foreign matter discharge unit

310: foreign substance discharge hole 320: discharge passage

330: blowing fan 400: pepper cutting unit

420: cutting member 500: transfer unit

510: vertical pipe 530: vertical feed screw

540: horizontal tube 550: horizontal feed screw

560: pepper seed collecting member 600: grinding unit

The present invention is easy to wash the foreign matter, such as dirt or dust on the outer cover of the dried pepper with a rotating brush, the pepper washing to move to crush the dried pepper cut at least two times in the cutting section It is about a cutting device.

In general, red pepper is a conical berry with little moisture, and red peppers harvested from the field are dried by solar heat, house, or hot air, and then dried red pepper is ground and used as a spice.

On the other hand, in order to grind dried red pepper powder, it is necessary to remove foreign substances such as soil or dust from the dried red pepper shell, pesticides and heavy metal components harmful to the human body, and conventionally by using a cloth or cloth Although it has been wiped by hand, this has the advantage of wiping dried peppers one by one, but it takes much time when wiping dried peppers one by one, which not only saves work efficiency but also leads to excessive labor expenses due to increase of working time. There was a problem that lowered the economics.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional defects. The object of the present invention is to clean the pesticides and foreign substances that are finely deposited on the dried pepper's shell with a brush that rotates with the power of a motor, As a series of work processes automatically selects pepper seeds and grinds them in the crushing unit in the state of cutting at least 2 parts of peppers, it not only improves productivity by shortening working time but also large amount of dried peppers in a short time. It can be crushed by washing and cutting to provide a pepper washing / cutting device that can obtain an economic effect to reduce labor costs.

The present invention for achieving this object,

A housing for guiding the dried pepper which is introduced into the hopper in the washing unit to be discharged to the outside of the body;

A washing unit for cleaning a foreign substance on the outer skin of the red pepper dried by a brush rotating by the power of a motor in the body of the housing;

A foreign substance discharge unit for collecting foreign substances generated while washing the dried pepper in the washing unit through the discharge holes penetrated so as to communicate with the body of the housing and discharging them to the outside of the body;

A pepper cutting unit mounted to an outlet hole of the housing to cut at least two portions of dried peppers washed by the washing unit;

It characterized in that it is composed of a transfer unit for moving to the crushing unit so that the pepper cut from the pepper cutting portion and the pepper seeds that are separated from the cut pepper to be crushed.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. 1 is a perspective view of the present invention, Figure 2 is a front sectional view of the present invention, Figure 3 is a side sectional view of the present invention.

The present invention, the housing 100 for guiding to discharge to the outside of the body 110 by washing the dried red pepper injected into the hopper 130 in the washing unit 200, the housing 100 The washing unit 200 is configured to wash the foreign matter on the outer skin of the dried pepper by the brush 270 that rotates by the power of the motor 210 in the body 110, the brush of the washing unit 200 A foreign substance discharge part 300 is configured to collect and discharge foreign substances deviating from the outer skin of the pepper by washing the dried pepper by rotation, and the dried chili washed in the washing unit 200 by at least two parts or more. The pepper cutting unit 400 is mounted to the discharge hole 140 of the housing 100 so as to cut, and crushed so that the pepper cut from the pepper cutting unit 400 and the pepper seeds that are separated from the cut pepper can be selected and crushed. Conveying part 500 for moving to the part 600 is configured It will be described in more detail as follows.

The housing 100 is provided with a body 110 of a blind box to form a washing space 120 therein to accommodate the washing unit 200 to wash the dried pepper, the body 110 A hopper 130 is mounted to communicate with the washing space 120 at the upper end of the hopper 130 for guiding the dried pepper to the washing space 120, and the lower portion of the body 110 opposite to the hopper 130. The discharge hole 140 for discharging the dried red pepper washed in the (200) to the outside of the body 110 is provided, the body 110 to prevent the flow while positioning the body 110 a predetermined distance away from the ground It is provided with a support member 150 mounted on the bottom of the.

The washing unit 200 is provided with a motor 210 that is fixed to the support member 150 of the housing 100 and rotates with an applied power source, and is connected to the rotating shaft of the motor 210 by the belt 220. Is provided with a pulley 230 to rotate by the rotational force of the motor 210, the transfer guide member 242 for guiding the movement of the dried pepper on the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft 241 is connected to rotate integrally with the pulley 230 ) Is formed, and rotating members 243 and 243 ′ through which at least one through hole 244 penetrates are formed at both end portions of the rotation shaft 241, respectively, and are mounted in the washing space 120. ) Is provided, the fixing member in the washing space 120 to accommodate the rotation shaft 241 of the rotating member 240 to protrude into the fixing hole 251 through the center to guide the rotation of the rotating member 240. Fixed gear 250 is fixed to 252, the through-hole 244 of the rotating member 240 to the thread of the fixed gear 250 The rotating gear 260 is engaged with the same line and rotates along the outer circumferential surface of the fixed gear 250 in the rotation direction of the rotating member 240, the rotating gear through the through hole 244 of the rotating member 240 260 is coupled to the rotary gear 260 and provided with a brush 270 for washing the dried red pepper injected into the hopper 130.

The transfer guide member 242 is mounted on the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft 241 between the brush 270 so as to be close to the lower end of the washing space 120.

In addition, the transfer guide member 242 has at least two transfer guide pieces 242a are formed spirally.

The brush 270 is formed of a non-toxic silicon material.

The foreign substance discharge unit 300, the washing space 120 in the lower end of the body 110 to discharge the foreign substances separated from the outer shell of the dried pepper in accordance with the washing of the washing unit 200 to the outside of the body 110 It is provided with a plurality of foreign matter discharge hole 310 to communicate with each other, and is mounted to the lower end of the body 110 to accommodate the foreign substance discharge hole 310 is discharge passage for collecting the foreign substances discharged from the foreign substance discharge hole 310 It is provided with a 320, a blowing fan 330 is mounted to the end of the discharge passage 320 forcibly sucked and discharged foreign matter collected in the discharge passage 320.

The pepper cutting unit 400, by washing the rotation of the motor 410 in the lower discharge hole 140 of the housing 100 for discharging the dried red pepper washed by rotating the brush 270 of the washing unit 200 The cutting member 420 is provided with a plurality of blades divided in a direction to cut the dried pepper, mounted on the lower portion of the body 110 to accommodate the cutting member 420, cut from the cutting member 420 Connection passage 430 is provided to transfer the pepper to the transfer unit 500.

The transfer unit 500 is rotated by the power of the motor 520 at a position close to the inner diameter of the vertical pipe 510 connected to communicate with the connection passage 430 of the pepper cutting unit 400 is cut in the cutting member 420 Vertical transfer screw 530 is provided to move the hot pepper and pepper seeds to the upper portion of the vertical tube 510, the horizontal tube 540 horizontally connected to the upper portion of the vertical tube 510 to communicate with the vertical tube 510 The pulverized portion is rotated by the power of the motor 551 at a position close to the inner diameter of the horizontal tube 540, the pepper and pepper seeds which are transferred upward along the vertical tube 510 by the rotation of the vertical transfer screw 530 in the Horizontal transfer screw 550 is provided to transfer to the 600, the pepper seed collecting member 560 is provided to selectively separate and collect pepper seeds to be transferred to the horizontal transfer screw 550 in the lower portion of the horizontal pipe (540). do.

The horizontal tube 540, the pepper seed discharge space 542 is penetrated in the horizontal direction on the lower outer peripheral surface, and the appearance 541 through which a predetermined length guide hole 543 is penetrated in the vertical direction on the upper outer peripheral surface, the appearance A plurality of pepper seed separating holes 545 penetrate through the pepper seed collecting member 560 so as to discharge the pepper seeds moving while maintaining the same line as the pepper seed discharge space 542 of 541, and the same as the guide hole 543. The inner tube 544 penetrates the fixing hole 546 to keep the shipboard, and is rotatably mounted in the interior of the exterior 541. The interior of the inner tube 544 is formed through the guide hole 543 of the exterior 541. In the interior of the guide hole 543 so that the red pepper seeds can be separated by selectively matching the red pepper seed powder hole 545 of the inner tube 544 and the red pepper seed discharge space 542 of the outer shell 541 by fastening to the fixing hole 546. The handle 547 is moved up and down.

Next will be described in detail the process of washing and cutting the dried pepper by the pepper washing / cutting device configured as described above.

First, in order to wash the foreign substances such as soil or mercury in the dried pepper's outer shell and the harmful pesticides and heavy metal components in the red pepper harvested from the field by solar heat or house and hot air, shown in FIG. As described above, the motor 210 of the washing unit 200 is rotated in a predetermined direction by the applied power, and the belt 220 connected to the rotating shaft of the motor 210 rotates in the same manner as the motor 210. The rotational force of the motor 210 is transmitted to the pulley 230.

The rotational force of the motor 210 transmitted to the pulley 230 is transmitted to the rotation shaft 241 of the rotating member 240 fixed to the pulley 230 through the fixing hole 251 of the fixed gear 250, The through hole 244 of the rotating plate 243 and 243 'while simultaneously rotating the transfer guide piece 242a of the transfer guide member 242 and the rotating plate 243 and 243' by the rotational force transmitted to this rotating shaft 241. Brush 270 that is rotatably fixed to the same also rotates in the same direction as the rotating member 240.

In addition, the brush 270 that rotates in the same direction as the rotating member 240, the end of the brush 270 protruding into the through-hole 244 of the rotating plate 243 is rotated to engage the fixed gear 250 It rotates along the outer circumferential surface of the fixed gear 250 together with the gear 260 and rotates at a faster speed than the rotating member 240.

At this time, the brush 270, may be used by mounting at least two to the rotating plate (243, 243 ') to improve the washing amount and washing power of dried pepper.

Meanwhile, the blower fan 330 of the foreign substance discharge unit 300, the motor 410 of the pepper cutting unit 400, and the motors 520, 551 of the transfer unit 500 are rotated by the applied power. The rotating member 420 and the vertical transfer screw 530 and the horizontal transfer screw 550 of the transfer unit 500 at the same time rotates.

In the above process, the dried red pepper removed from the state in which the washing unit 200, the foreign substance discharge unit 300 and the pepper cutting unit 400, the transfer unit 500 is rotated to the hopper 130 of the housing 100, respectively. When moved, the rotational force of the rotating member 240 is rotated by the power of the motor 210 in the interior of the washing space 120 is supplied to the washing space 120 along the weight of the dried pepper and the inclined surface of the hopper 130 As the brush 270 rotates at a high speed with the rotating gear 260 moving while rotating along the outer circumferential surface of the fixed gear 250, the dried pepper is washed.

In addition, when the pepper washed by the rotation of the brush 270 is located at the lower end of the washing space 120, the transfer guide piece of the transfer guide member 242 to rotate in the same way as the rotary shaft 241 of the rotary member 240 (242a) is carried out by repeating the process of moving the dried pepper located in the lower end of the washing space 120 to the upper end of the washing space 120 at the same time to move a predetermined distance to the discharge hole 140 side of the housing 100 Foreign substances or heavy metals buried in the outer skin of the red pepper can be easily cleaned by the brush 270.

In addition, the foreign matter such as dirt or dust separated from the outer skin of the pepper dried by the brush 270 in the washing unit 200, the lower portion of the washing space 120 along the inner circumferential surface of the washing space 120. While moving, it is located in the discharge passage 320 via the foreign substance discharge hole 310 of the foreign substance discharge unit 300 formed in the lower portion of the washing space 120, the foreign substances located in the discharge passage 310 is a blowing fan Inhalation by the rotation of the 330 is discharged to the outside of the body 110 of the housing 100.

On the other hand, when the dried red pepper washed in the washing unit 200 is located in the upper portion of the discharge hole 140 by the guide of the transfer guide member 242, and passes through the discharge hole 140 with the weight of the dried pepper; At the same time, the inside of the cutting member 420 that rotates with the rotational force of the motor 410 of the pepper cutting unit 400, cut and discharged at regular intervals by the blade of the cutting member 420, generated during the cutting of the pepper The pepper seed and the pepper cut at a predetermined interval are positioned at the bottom of the vertical transfer screw 530 that is rotated by the power of the motor 520 in the vertical pipe 510 of the transfer part 500 via the connection passage 430. do.

In addition, the cut pepper and pepper seeds located at the lower end of the vertical transfer screw 530 that is rotated by the power of the motor 520, while moving to the upper portion of the vertical pipe 510 along the rotating vertical transfer screw 530 The cut peppers and pepper seeds that are moved to the upper portion of the vertical pipe 510 pass through the horizontal pipe 540 by the rotation of the horizontal feed screw 550 that is rotated by the power of the motor 551 inside the horizontal pipe 540. By moving the cut pepper to the crushing unit 600 may be pulverized to produce a red pepper powder.

At this time, if you want to separate the cut pepper and pepper seeds moving into the horizontal tube 540 by the rotation of the horizontal feed screw 550 according to the user's selection, as shown in Figure 5a, the user When the handle 547 located at the lower end of the guide hole 543 is moved to an upper portion of the guide hole 543, the inner tube 544 is externally displayed along the handle 547 fixed to the fixing hole 546 of the inner tube 544. The red pepper seed separation hole 545 of the inner tube 544 rotates inside the 541 and is opened in communication with the red pepper seed discharge space 542 of the outer tube 541.

Horizontal transfer screw 550 in the inner tube 544 of the horizontal tube 540 in a state in which the red pepper seed separation hole 545 of the inner tube 544 and the red pepper seed discharge space 542 of the outer tube 541 are in communication with each other. The pepper seeds in the cut pepper and pepper seeds moving in the rotation of the discharged to the pepper seed discharge space 542 and at the same time is discharged to the pepper seed discharge space 542 via a large number of separation holes 545 penetrated larger than the pepper seeds Pepper seeds are stored in the pepper seed collecting member 560 located in the lower portion of the horizontal tube 540 to separate the pepper seeds, the pepper is separated from the cut pepper is moved to the crushing unit 600 along the horizontal tube (540) and , Since only the pepper cut in the crushing unit 600 is pulverized will be able to produce fine red pepper powder.

In addition, to move the cut pepper and pepper seeds moving inside the horizontal tube 540 to the crushing unit 600 without separating, as shown in Figure 5b, the user in the upper portion of the guide hole 543 When the handle 547 is moved to the lower portion of the guide hole 543, the inner tube 544 rotates inside the exterior 541 along the handle 547 fixed to the fixing hole 546 of the inner tube 544. An inner tube 544 closes the red pepper seed discharge space 542 of the outer shell 541.

In the state in which the red pepper seed discharge space 542 of the exterior 541 is closed, the cut red pepper and red pepper seeds moving in the rotation of the horizontal feed screw 550 inside the inner tube 544 of the horizontal tube 540 are horizontal tubes ( 540 moves to the crushing unit 600, and pulverized the pepper and pepper seeds cut in the crushing unit 600 will be able to produce coarse red pepper powder.

The above process removes the faucet and enables the washing operation of foreign substances on the dried large amount of pepper, while the brush 270 can be finely cleaned to the crevices of the pepper with non-toxic silicone material. The pepper is cut and moved at the cutting part, which is a series of processes of crushing in the crushing part without separating or not separating the pepper seeds to be separated from the cut pepper can be easily used as a spice.

As described above, the present invention, while selectively cleaning the pesticides or foreign substances on the dried pepper's shell with a brush that rotates by the power of the motor, and at the same time cut peppers selectively cut at least two times the washed peppers As a series of work processes for sorting and crushing in the crushing unit are automatically performed, productivity can be reduced by shortening the working time, and the labor cost can be reduced by washing and cutting a large amount of dried red pepper in a short time. It has the advantage of getting economic effect.

Claims (10)

A housing (100) for guiding the dried red pepper introduced into the hopper (130) in the washing unit (200) to be discharged to the outside of the body (110); A washing unit (200) for cleaning the foreign substances on the outer skin of the red pepper dried by a brush (270) rotating by the power of the motor (210) in the housing (110) of the housing (100); A foreign substance discharge unit 300 for collecting and discharging foreign substances that are separated from the outer shell of the pepper by washing the dried pepper by rotating the brush 270 of the washing unit 200; A pepper cut unit 400 mounted to the discharge hole 140 of the housing 100 to cut at least two equal parts of dried red pepper washed by the washing unit 200; Pepper cutting / cutting device, characterized in that consisting of the transfer unit 500 to move to the crushing unit 600 so as to sort and crush the pepper cut from the pepper cutting unit 400 and the cut pepper. The method of claim 1, wherein the housing 100, A body 110 of a quadrangular enclosure is provided to form a washing space 120 therein so as to accommodate the washing unit 200 to wash dried peppers. The washing space 120 is disposed at an upper end of the body 110. ) Is provided so as to communicate with the hopper 130 is installed to guide the dried pepper to the washing space 120, the drying washed in the washing unit 200 at the lower end of the body 110 in the opposite direction to the hopper 130 Discharge hole 140 for discharging the red pepper to the outside of the body 110 is provided, the support member is mounted on the bottom surface of the body 110 to prevent the flow while the body 110 is located a predetermined distance away from the ground Pepper washing / cutting device characterized in that the 150 is provided. According to claim 1, The washing unit 200, The motor 210 is fixed to the support member 150 of the housing 100 and rotates with an applied power source. The motor 210 is connected to the rotating shaft of the motor 210 and the belt 220 to be rotated by the motor 210. Rotating pulley 230 is provided, the transfer guide member 242 for guiding the movement of the dried pepper is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft 241 connected to rotate integrally with the pulley 230, the rotating shaft ( Rotating plates 243 and 243 'through which at least one through hole 244 penetrates are formed at both side ends of the 241, respectively, and are provided with a rotating member 240 mounted in the washing space 120. Fixed gear fixed to the fixing member 252 in the washing space 120 to accommodate the rotating shaft 241 of the 240 to protrude into the fixing hole 251 through the center to guide the rotation of the rotating member 240 ( 250 is provided and fits in a line with the through-hole 244 of the rotating member 240 to the thread of the fixed gear 250. The rotary gear 260 is provided to rotate along the outer circumferential surface of the fixed gear 250 in the direction of rotation of the rotary member 240, and the rotary gear 260 through the through hole 244 of the rotary member 240. The pepper washing / cutting device, characterized in that provided with a brush 270 is coupled to the rotary gear 260 while rotating in the same manner as the hopper 130 to wash the dried pepper. The method of claim 3, wherein the transfer guide member 242, Pepper washing / cutting device, characterized in that the transfer guide piece (242a) is mounted between the brush 270 on the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft (241) to approach the lower end of the washing space (120). The method according to claim 3 or 4, The transfer guide member 242 is a pepper washing / cutting device, characterized in that at least two or more transfer guide pieces (242a) are formed in a spiral. The method of claim 3, wherein the brush 270, Pepper washing / cutting device, characterized in that formed of a non-toxic silicone material. According to claim 1, The foreign substance discharge unit 300, A plurality of foreign substances discharged through the washing space 120 in communication with the lower end of the body 110 to discharge the foreign substances separated from the outer shell of the dried pepper according to the washing of the washing unit 200 to the outside of the body 110. The ball 310 is provided, the discharge passage 320 is provided to collect the foreign matter discharged from the foreign matter discharge hole 310 is mounted to the lower portion of the body 110 to accommodate the foreign substance discharge hole 310, the discharge Pepper washing / cutting device, characterized in that the blowing fan 330 is mounted to the end of the passage 320 is forcibly sucked and discharged foreign matter collected in the discharge passage 320. The method of claim 1, wherein the pepper cutting unit 400, Washing by rotating the motor 410 in the lower portion of the discharge hole 140 of the housing 100 for discharging the dried red pepper washed by rotating the brush 270 of the washing unit 200 to cut a plurality of dried pepper The cutting member 420 is divided into a radial blade is provided, mounted on the lower portion of the body 110 to accommodate the cutting member 420, transfer the pepper cut from the cutting member 420 to the transfer unit 500 Red pepper washing / cutting device, characterized in that the connection passage 430 is provided to. The method of claim 1, wherein the transfer unit 500, Vertical tube of the pepper and pepper seeds cut by the cutting member 420 by rotating with the power of the motor 520 in a position close to the inner diameter of the vertical pipe 510 connected to communicate with the connection passage 430 of the pepper cutting unit 400 The vertical transfer screw 530 is provided to move to the upper portion of the 510, the vertical transfer screw 530 to the horizontal tube 540 horizontally connected to the upper portion of the vertical tube 510 to communicate with the vertical tube 510. Horizontally rotated by the power of the motor 551 in the position close to the inner diameter of the horizontal tube 540, the red pepper and pepper seeds transported to the upper portion along the vertical tube 510 by the rotation of the horizontal Pepper screw 550 is provided, pepper washing, characterized in that the pepper seed collecting member 560 for separating and collecting the pepper seeds to be transported to the horizontal screw 550 to the lower portion of the horizontal pipe 540 is provided / Cutting device. The method according to claim 9, wherein the horizontal tube 540, Red pepper seed discharge space 542 penetrates the lower outer peripheral surface in a horizontal direction, and a predetermined length guide hole 543 penetrates in the vertical direction on the upper outer peripheral surface to form an outer appearance 541, and the red pepper seed discharge space of the outer appearance 541 ( A plurality of pepper seed separating holes 545 penetrate through the pepper seed collecting member 560 so as to discharge the pepper seeds moving while keeping the same line as the line 542, and fixing holes 546 keeping the same line as the guide hole 543. The inner tube 544 is formed to be rotatably mounted in the exterior 541, and is fastened to the fixing hole 546 of the inner tube 544 through the guide hole 543 of the exterior 541. A handle 547 for vertically moving the red pepper seed separation hole 545 of the inner tube 544 and the red pepper seed discharge space 542 of the outer appearance 541 to move up and down inside the circular hole 543 so as to separate the red pepper seeds. Pepper washing / cutting device, characterized in that forming a.

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