KR20080008629A - Apparatus for processing food waste - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus for treating food waste is provided to prevent an odor of the food waste from being generated, by draining house wastewater and dehydrating, drying and pulverizing remaining food waste. A preventing film guides food waste, which is dropped through a water outlet of a kitchen sink, to a dry case, and prevents external particles from being inputted into the food waste. The dry case stores the food waste guided by the preventing film. A rotary shaft is vertically positioned at the center of the dry case, and rotated by a motor connected to a lower end thereof. A knife blade is positioned around the rotary shaft. The knife blade is moved upwardly and downwardly, and unfolded or folded by a centrifugal force. A rotary wing is positioned within the dry case, wherein the rotary wing generates hot air rotating in the opposite direction of the knife blade. A latch interferes with the rotary wing to be partially opened or closed, thereby opening or closing a bottom of the dry case.

Description

Apparatus for Processing Food Waste

1 is a side cross-sectional view of a food processor according to an embodiment of the present invention,

Figure 2 is a schematic diagram showing the driving relationship of the food processor shown in Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the rotary blade and the blade shown in FIG.

The present invention relates to a food waste treatment machine, and in particular, the food waste discharged through the drain hole of the sink is configured to proceed in a batch process until dehydration and pulverization to discharge.

In general, domestic sewage discharged from the sink is drained through the septic tank to the sewage treatment plant. If food waste is discharged along with the drainage of domestic sewage, the food waste can block the drain. Therefore, the sink is placed in the drain of the sink so that food waste is filtered out and the sewage is drained.

Such filtered food waste should be removed from the catching net from time to time so that the sewage drains smoothly. Removed food waste is collected separately and put in food processing bags.

In this way, food waste bags containing food waste should be stored at home or outside the house until the food wastes removed from the network are put in the food waste disposal bags. Food wastes exposed to the air decay over time to produce a bad smell, and also serves as a habitat for various pathogens.

The present invention has been invented in order to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, is installed in the drain of the sink draining the domestic sewage, the remaining food waste is discharged by drying and crushing after dehydration, the generation of odor by food waste The aim is to provide a sanitary food waste handler and to prevent it.

Food waste treatment device of the present invention for achieving the above object guides the food waste dropped through the drain hole of the sink to the drying bin located in the lower portion and the foreign matter input prevention film to prevent the introduction of foreign matters, and the foreign matter input prevention film is introduced along the guide Drying bin for storing the food waste, and the rotary shaft which is located perpendicular to the center of the drying bin and rotated by a motor connected to the lower end, and the blade which is located around the rotary shaft and moves up and down and is unfolded or folded by centrifugal force; And a rotary blade positioned inside the drying container and discharging hot air rotating in a direction opposite to the blade, and a latch for opening and closing the bottom of the drying container in which a part slides and opens and closes in interference with the rotating blade. It is characterized by what is configured.

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

1 is a side cross-sectional view of a food processor according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a schematic diagram showing the driving relationship of the food processor shown in Figure 1, Figure 3 is a rotary wing shown in FIG. A perspective view of the blade.

As shown in Figure 1, the food processor formed in the sink guides the food waste dropped through the drain of the sink to the drying tank located in the lower portion and the foreign material input prevention film to prevent the introduction of foreign matters, and introduced along the guide of the foreign material input prevention film A drying bin for storing food waste, a rotary shaft positioned perpendicular to the center of the drying bin and rotating by a motor connected to a lower end, a blade positioned around the rotary shaft and moving up and down by centrifugal force, Rotating blades located inside the drying bin and discharging hot air that rotates in the opposite direction to the blade, and clasps for opening and closing the bottom of the drying bin, a part of which slides open and closes in interference with the rotary blades.

Hereinafter, the food waste processor configured as described above will be described in detail.

The lid is used by opening the lid in normal use but receiving water in the sink or closing it for operation of the machine. Here, the drain and inlet necks allow the water used during the operation of the machine not to flow into the machine, but to the drain 1 by the structure of the lid.

The neck of the inlet uses a flexible tube to properly adjust the distance between the machine and the sink. When not in use, the neck is folded into the inside of the machine for easy transportation and storage.

In addition, the foreign matter input prevention film is installed to prevent the foreign matter input prevention film consisting of a three-stage circular diaphragm to prevent foreign substances such as chopsticks, forks, loofah and food waste of a certain size. The input food waste is connected to the upper part of the drying container so that it is fed into the drying container only. It is not fixed to the machine inlet and it is to be assembled separately after installation.

In addition, the prop rod and the drying rod shake prevention connecting rod connect the drying barrel and the shaft to prevent shaking of the drying container during rotation of the drying container because the food waste is not evenly fed into the drying container when the food waste is input. At this time, in order to hold the center of the shaft by connecting the shaft and the outer cylinder with a rod to prevent shaking.

In addition, the drying sensor and the drain port rotates the rotor blades, and when drying with hot air, the smelly air containing moisture is sucked into the exhaust pump and discharged to the sewer pipe through the exhaust port and the first drain pipe. If it goes below a certain humidity, stop forward rotation and start reverse rotation.

The blades and crosshairs are made of stainless steel, and the blades are cross-shaped plates that connect two long blades and two short blades at right angles to each other.The shape of the blades is bent at a certain angle in the middle. It is easy to grind food waste in the house. The blade and the cross plate are connected by pins to facilitate the movement of the blade. When the shaft is not rotating, the tip of the blade is lowered toward the shaft, but when the shaft rotates, the blade is caused by centrifugal force and the tip of the blade is directed to the bottom. As the blade rotates, it descends and rises between the rotary blade blades located at the bottom.

Rotating blades are made of stainless steel with prefabricated blades mounted on the top of the blades, while the upper blades mounted on the shaft rotate and descend between the blades assembled on the rotary blades. The wings are triangular in shape, and when the wings rotate, the crushed food waste passes over the rotor blades and falls to the hot air outlet on the back. During the rotation of the rotor blades, the heat generated by the ceramic PTC heating element mounted on the motor is blown and blown out through the air holes connected to the shaft through the air holes connected to the shaft to dry.

The part connected to the shaft may move up and down a little so that the rotor blade rotates to smoothly pass the bend of the bottom surface.

And the clasp mounted on the bottom edge of the rotor blade rotates like the rotor blade when the rotor blade rotates forward, but when the rotor blade reverses after drying, it meets the step of the slide mounted on the bottom surface and causes the slide to retreat to a certain part. To make space for the dried food waste to fall. While the clasp is holding the retracted slide, the upper rotary blade continues to rotate back 2-3 times to drop the dried food waste remaining in the drying container into the live hole as the slide retreats. After the reverse rotation, the rotating blade rotates again to merge with the latch holding the slide.

Drain 2 is discharged to drain 2 when food waste is put together with water from the sink.

The reservoir located at the bottom of the outer cylinder takes a long time to exit from the drying tank to the drainage pipe 2 when the user sends down the full water to the sink at once, and creates a reservoir to reduce the amount of water accumulated in the drying tank. When water is temporarily dropped from the reservoir into the reservoir, it is slowly discharged from the reservoir into drain 2.

The drying bin is made of stainless steel, and the side is made up of many fine holes, and the bottom is free of holes, and the slide is designed so that the dried food waste falls into the lower tray. The size of the side holes is small so that food waste such as rice grains or granules is not discharged into the sewage while the drying container rotates. In addition, the drying tank is connected to the shaft so that it does not move while rotating. The bottom surface is inclined around the shaft to induce natural water drainage.

On the other hand, the shaft is made of stainless steel, connected to the motor and rotates forward and reverse rotation of the blade, the rotary blade, the latch.

In addition, the motor and heater are installed at the back of the tray to rotate the shaft and the drying tank, and the heat of the heater is sent to the rotor blade using a blower.

The tray is where dry food waste is collected. The handle is configured to allow easy removal of the tray.

The slides are placed on the floor to make room for the dried food waste to fall into the tray. The retraction is made by the latch on the rotary blade, but when it is in the original position, it is returned to the bottom by the force of the spring connected to the bottom of the slide and the back of the bottom.

The outer cylinder is made of plastic material, which protects the internal devices and has a favorable design for the consumer.

The following describes the operation relationship of the food waste processor configured as described above.

The operation sequence is to put food waste caught in the strainer, rotate the drying container, dehydrate, rotate the blade, descend to the rotor blade, descend the blade, the original position, the hot air comes out from the rotor blade, rotate, dry, dry, the smell is generated through the drain pipe After discharging and drying, the rotating blade reversely rotates and the clasp retracts the slide, and the rotating blade continues to rotate, dropping the dried food waste into the tray, rotating the rotating blade forward and combining with the clasp, to the slide position, and collecting the food waste in the tray. Is in order.

The food waste processor operating in this way dehydrates and then crushes the food waste, in order to prevent environmental pollution. When crushing and dehydrating, the blade is crushed at high speed, and when small food particles are dehydrated after crushing, most of them pass through the holes of the drying container and are discharged to the sewer, which can cause environmental pollution.

When dehydrated, pulverized and dried, only water is discharged to some sewage during dehydration, and food waste that has become small particles as it is pulverized is left in the drying container and dried through rotary blades and collected in the tray as it is. Environmental pollution of the residue can be prevented.

When working in the sink or after the work is finished, the water and food waste are put into the machine connected to the sink. The water first passes through the strainer installed just below the sink and falls into the device below, and the food waste is caught in the strainer.

Pick up the filtered food waste, turn it over, shake it down and twist it slightly while closing the lid. Then, the reed switch using the magnet contacts and rotates the drying container connected to the motor to dehydrate. Simply closing the lid to the marked position prevents the machine from operating because the user may have used water in the sink all at once.

When the food waste is dropped into the drying container by putting a water stopper on the drying container, the food waste does not enter between the drying container and the outer container. The wall of the drying tank was made of numerous small holes to drain the water, and the bottom was inclined outwardly around the shaft to prevent water from accumulating in the drying tank.

After dehydration, the blade is rotated and lowered to the place of the rotary blade. As the blade descends, the long blade is crushed by sweeping the food waste attached to the wall. At the same time as the blade rotates, the dry wing also rotates reversely, rubbing against the blade mounted on the rotor blades to double the effect of grinding.

The reason why the blade is driven by centrifugal force is to prevent food waste from being caught on the top of the blade and falling down to the drying container if the blade is fixed horizontally when the food waste is turned over from the filter bucket to the drying container.

After finishing grinding, the blade rises to the original position and the hot wind of the heater is blown out through the hole of the rotary blade, and the rotary blade rotates to start drying.

While drying, the exhaust system is operated to discharge the odor and moisture generated during drying to the sewer and detect the drying result through the sensor mounted in the drying container. At this time, the amount dried by crushing can significantly reduce the amount of food waste first introduced.

After drying, the rotating blade reverses, and the clasp located on the bottom of the rotating blade retreats to a certain part by walking the slide on the bottom. The rotor blades continue to rotate in reverse, dropping the dried food waste into a tray located under the space created by the slide retreat.

After the dried food waste is dropped into the tray, the rotary blade rotates forward again to engage the latch that is holding the slide and retract the retracted slide. The spring device should be used since the slide is in the original position and the bottom surface is firmly bonded to prevent leakage and a gap may occur when the drying container is rotated.

Dried food waste discharged to the tray can be collected once every 4-5 days and disposed of as general waste.

As described in detail above, the food waste processor of the present invention can dispose of the food waste discharged from the sink in a state of dehydration to treat the food waste in a sanitary manner, and also to prevent the occurrence of odors in advance, thereby creating a pleasant kitchen environment. You can make it.

In addition, the food waste treatment device of the present invention can be minimized by dehydration, thereby minimizing environmental pollution caused by food waste.

Although the technical idea of the food waste treating apparatus of the present invention has been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, this is illustrative of the best embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention.

Claims (1)

A foreign substance input prevention film to guide the food waste dropped through the drain hole of the sink to a drying container located at the bottom and to prevent foreign substances from entering; Dry passage through which the food waste introduced in accordance with the guidance of the foreign matter prevention prevention film is stored; A rotary shaft positioned perpendicular to the center of the drying barrel and rotated by a motor connected to a lower end thereof; Located in the circumference of the rotating shaft and moving in the vertical direction, the blade is expanded or folded by centrifugal force, Rotating blades are located inside the drying bin and discharge hot air rotating in the opposite direction to the blade, And a clasp for opening and closing the bottom of the drying bin, part of which is slid, opened and closed in interference with the rotary vane.

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