KR20080010376A - Food garbage disposal - Google Patents

Abstract

A food waste disposal system is provided to dispose of food waste simply and exactly by inputting food waste directly to a screw of a food waste conveyor and crusher unit, to minimize a space for storing food waste before disposal, to improve safety and environment for users by reducing the remaining waste after disposal to the minimum and to occupy the minimum space of a kitchen sink. A food waste disposal system comprises a food waste input unit(10) installed vertically and provided with an input port(11) connected to a kitchen sink, a cover(5) installed right below the input port, a filter(20) installed to the right side in the input unit vertically, a shaft of a driving unit(M) such as a motor and a guide unit(15) installed to the bottom(19) of the input unit and composed of an upper cover(50) and a lower net(60), a drain outlet(17) installed to the lowermost part of the input unit to discharge the water contained in food waste and water inputted together with the food waste, a disposal unit(30) connected to the left side of the input unit to dispose of food waste obliquely, and a conveyor and crusher unit(40) installed to the disposal unit and guided by the guide unit to convey, crush and discharge food waste, wherein a guide plate(31) is installed on the upper part where the input unit and the disposal unit obliquely and provided with grooves contacted with an inner side(22) of the filter having a guide groove for inputting food wastes to guide the food waste inputted into the input unit to be conveyed to the front of a screw of the conveyor and projections inclined outward to make food waste flow in the guide groove easily.

Description

Food Garbage Disposal

In the present invention, in the processing of food waste, the food waste can be easily crushed and transported, and the food waste and water are effectively separated and processed, and the storage space before processing of the incoming food waste is minimized, and the user's safety is improved. And a food processor that can be installed to have minimal space in the kitchen sink.

In general, food waste contains a lot of water, and because of the smell or decay odor is not easy to handle it, and there is a problem that causes environmental problems. Therefore, food waste devices are processed by dehydrating, crushing and drying foods and installed in kitchen sinks. The safety of users, the ease of waste disposal, and the accuracy of environmental treatment are a problem. It has a problem in use such as smell.

Conventional food waste disposal equipment is generally provided with a gear compression structure or a rotary blade to process the food waste with a discharge screw for removing the water while pressing and crushing the food waste and discharge the crushed and dehydrated food waste to the outside. However, such a food waste treatment machine performs compression crushing and dehydration of foods in a predetermined container, and thus all foods cannot be crushed and removed correctly. That is, when the food is accommodated through the conveying means, etc. in the inside of the barrel, it causes a problem such that the food accumulates or remains in a part of the inside of the barrel by decompressing and crushing. In addition, the container before the food waste flows into and is separately required or complicated apparatuses are used accordingly, thereby increasing the size of the entire food waste processor.

The present invention is to solve this problem, the food processor according to the present invention is to put the food waste directly to the ground to crush the food waste to simplify and accurately handle the food waste.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to minimize the space before the food waste is introduced and disposed of, and to simplify its configuration to reduce the overall size and provide convenience in use.

Another object of the present invention is to improve the safety and environment of the user.

Food waste disposal apparatus according to the present invention to achieve the above object

A transfer grinding unit connected to the driving unit for transferring, pulverizing and discharging food waste;

A guide part having a discharge part installed therein and guided so that the food waste is transported and pulverized in the transport pulverization part, and an upper part of which a discharge part is discharged to be discharged and sent to a collection part;

A food inlet is provided in the upper portion and a drainage hole is formed in the lower portion to allow the water and water to escape from the food inlet;

A filter net installed vertically on the cross section of the input unit and filtering the food wastes introduced into the input unit to directly drain through the drain hole;

Including

The conveying grinder is installed to be inclined in the vertical direction, and the guide groove is formed around the surface of the food waste in contact with the strainer, so that the food waste introduced by the guide groove is directly injected into the transport grinder. do.

Food waste disposal apparatus according to the present invention can be used directly connected to the sink of the home or restaurant, when the food waste is put into the manure and guide plate having a radial cross-section, such as trapezoidal or fan-shaped installed in the input section As a result, food wastes enter directly into the screw of the conveying grinder installed in the oblique direction. The conveying crusher prevents the food wastes introduced into the screw from being guided out by the guide part and pulverizes all of the food waste into the container. That is, the waste disposal device of the present invention is installed inclined upwardly of the conveying grinding part, and all food wastes are transferred directly onto the screw for conveying and / or crushing the conveying pulverization, and are immediately transported and ground so that the food wastes remain in another space of the food waste processing apparatus. It does not rot and its size can be reduced significantly. In addition, in the food waste disposal system of the present invention, the filtering net is installed in a vertical direction (which may have a slight inclination) in which the food waste is input, and the food waste and water are filtered by the net and directly drained. There is no need for a separate pre-treatment storage of incoming food waste or its size is minimized.

The food processor according to the present invention having the above-described configuration minimizes the storage space before the processing of the food waste introduced by installing the strainer vertically in the input unit, and is also inclined so that the transport grinder is inclined to easily transport and grind the food waste. Can minimize the space of food handlers. In addition, it is possible to eliminate environmental problems such as odor by minimizing residual waste that is not processed or processed and not discharged from the food processing unit. Therefore, the garbage disposal device according to the present invention can reduce the total space can be easily attached to the sink.

And it is equipped with a safety device to consider the safety of the user, if the normal operation is difficult due to the jamming in the transfer grinding unit, such as variable distance between the axis and automatically reversed rotation to enable more accurate grinding and transport of food There is an advantage.

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

Fig. 1 is a front cross section showing the arrangement of main components of the waste disposal apparatus of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the input unit 10 is vertically installed, and the inlet 11 of the input unit 10 may be directly connected to a sink (not shown) of the kitchen, and a lid 5 is installed directly under the inlet 11. It is. And inside the sieve 20 is installed on the right side vertically. The bottom surface 19 of the input unit 10 is connected to the shaft of the drive unit (M) such as a motor therein is provided with a blocking unit 15 for guiding this. At the bottom of the inlet 10, a drain 17 is installed so that the water in the food waste itself and the water introduced together can be discharged. On the left side of the input unit 10, the processing unit 30 for processing food waste is inclinedly connected. Inside the processing unit 30, the feed grinding unit 40 is inserted into the inside so that the transfer and / or grinding is guided by the guide unit is installed together.

The guide plate 31 is inclined at the upper portion where the input unit 10 and the processing unit 30 are connected so that the food wastes are transferred to the screw of the transfer grinder 40 together with the strainer 20. .

The transfer grinder 40 is guided by a guide part including the upper cover 50 and the lower net 60 to transfer and / or grind food waste.

The upper cover 50 located in the upper left portion of FIG. 1 corresponds to the guide plate 31 and has a cutting portion 51 so that food waste may be introduced into the transfer grinding portion 40. The lower net 60 is pulverized in the transport crushing unit 40 and discharges the moisture generated below and is composed of a mesh to filter food waste. Therefore, the food waste is crushed and the generated water is discharged to the drain 17 through the lower net (60).

The sieve 20 has an arcuate contact surface 21 according to the shape of the inner surface of the inlet as shown in a perspective view in the right circle of FIG. 1 and has an inner surface 22 so that the trapezoidal surface has as much surface area as possible. Equipped. The bottom surface 23 of the strainer 20 is formed to be inclined so as not to interfere with the drive shaft connected to the bottom face 19, so as to contact the bottom face 19, and a blocking part 15 is disposed on the bottom face 19. In contact with the interface 24 of (20).

And the food waste drained and pulverized in the processing unit 30 is accommodated in the storage container 80 through the discharge port (32). The storage container 80 is provided with a drying system (not shown) to dry and store the processed food waste, and is provided with a ventilation hole 81 for discharging odors and the like. The drying system may be dried through infrared rays or hot wires, and in particular, infrared rays may be used to efficiently dry drained and crushed food waste. In addition, the photocatalyst material or silver plating treatment may be performed inside the storage container 80, or the photocatalyst material and the silver material may be installed to further remove sterilization and odor. In addition, by measuring the oxygen concentration may be forced ventilation by the fan (not shown) through the vent when the smell is generated. In this case, the vent 36 may be easily connected to the drain and the drain outside of the apparatus of the present invention to easily handle the drying and smell described above. In addition, the storage container 80 is preferably made of a removable so that the disposal is completed, the food waste can be easily discarded.

The drain port 17 is configured to prevent the odor from flowing back into the trap (for example, U-shaped or rod trap, etc.), and as shown in FIG. 1, it is connected to the pipe of the ventilation port 81. It is preferable at the point of view. Before the ventilation port 81 is connected to the pipe of the drain port 17, the use of a backflow preventing damp wave 82 or a trap protection cover (not shown) is used to prevent the backflow of the odor and thus more effectively remove the odor.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG. 1, in which the processing section 30 is cross-sectional processed to show the conveyance of the food waste well.

First, the lid 5 shown in the upper right part of FIG. 2 is provided with a rotary cover 6, and a magnetic magnet 2 is provided to confirm that the cover is rotatable and open and covered. Therefore, when the magnetic magnet 2 is operated by a driving part such as a motor only when the lid is closed by the corresponding magnetic part 3 of the input part 10, when a human hand or a large foreign object enters into the device, transfer and grinding may be performed. You can prevent it. Therefore, the lid 5 may be used instead of the lid of the existing sink. Of course, various modifications according to the present invention are possible, and for safety, only the driving part of the motor and the like can be transported and pulverized only when the complete closure is confirmed by the sensor (3, magnetic magnet, etc.) of the input part (by two sets of indirect circuits, etc.). I would have to. In addition to the magnetic, various methods of checking the closed state using other sensors can be applied.

The guide plate 31 on the upper left side of FIG. 2 includes a groove portion 31a and a projection portion 31b, and the projection portion 31b is in contact with the inner surface 22 of the sieve 20. Therefore, the guide groove for the input of food waste formed by the groove portion 31a and the inner surface 22 of the strainer 20 is formed, and the food waste introduced into the input portion 10 is screw 41 of the transfer grinder 40. ) To be inserted forward. The protrusions 31b are formed to be inclined outward so that food wastes can be easily introduced into the guide grooves. In Fig. 2 the first screw is not shown and only part of the second screw pair is visible.

In the processing unit 30 shown in cross section, only the gear unit 45 connected to the drive shaft is illustrated in FIG. 1, but the corresponding gear unit 46 is connected in FIG. 2 to transfer and crush food waste to be discharged to the outlet 32. Represents a structure. The ends of both gear portions are fixed by the fixing portion 47, and the lower mesh 60 is shown below the both gear portions so as to discharge the water generated during the transportation and crushing of the food waste. The control panel 85 on the storage container 80 is a place where a control PCB board or the like capable of controlling the driving of the food waste treatment apparatus is located. Of course, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that the control panel 85 may be installed in various other places and can easily change its position. For example, it can be attached anywhere in the empty space of the enclosure 90, although not shown in the drawings it is preferable that the front of the enclosure is provided with switches for adjusting the food waste devices of the present invention.

Although not shown in FIG. 1, the cover 87 is covered at the end of the processing unit 30 for safety and aesthetics. 2 is not necessary in the configuration of the present invention, but it is preferable to use it for safety and convenience of use and aesthetics.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view seen from the direction A of FIG. 1 and shows that the gear part 45 and the corresponding gear part 46 connected to the drive shaft are fixed to the fixing part 87, and the corresponding gear part 46 is a shaft variable buffer part ( 88 shows a structure that can be varied. Therefore, when a large crushing force greater than a predetermined force is applied to both gears, the distance between the two gears may be adjusted to prevent or reduce the phenomenon that the moving crushing unit is stopped or overloaded due to pinching between the two gears.

4 is a perspective view showing a part of the main core components of the present invention, in which the food waste introduced into the transfer grinder 40 by the strainer 20, the barrier unit 15, and the lower net 60 is a drain 17. It does not go out directly into the filter, but also shows that food is transported with the first screw and the space is minimized.

The blocking part 15 is in contact with the upper cover 50, the lower net 60, and the strainer 20 to minimize the space where the food waste is not processed in the transfer grinder (40). The guide grooves prevent the food waste introduced into the first screw of the transfer grinding unit from being left untreated and allow for more complete grinding and transportation. Therefore, no food residues remain after operation in the food waste disposal system of the present invention. In more detail, the inclined surface 15a of the blocking part 15 is in close contact with the end 52 of the upper cover 50 and the end 61 of the lower net 60, and the food waste is disposed in the space where the screw is formed by the guide part. Make sure to process it completely. In addition, the upper line (15b) of the blocking portion 15 is in contact with the lower surface 24 of the strainer so that the water flowing into the input portion 10 can be discharged immediately and the food waste is discharged through the drain 17 To prevent As illustrated, the blocking unit 15 blocks the path of the water discharged from the lower net 60 of the processing unit 30 toward the drain hole 17 of the bottom surface 19 so that the drainage passage ( 15c). If only the width of the lower side 24 of the sieve 20, and the remaining portion to extend the sieve to close the screen can achieve the same effect, so that the width of the structural block 15 described above to correspond to the lower side 24 Even if the remaining space is left only, the water discharged from the lower net 60 may be discharged to the drain 17. However, in this case, it is necessary to extend the strainer or completely block as shown in FIG. 4 for the more secure sealing, except for the possibility that backwashed food residues may escape between the wing portions 62 of the lower net 60 and flow into the drain. It is preferable.

In the specific example above with the accompanying drawings, each component will be described in more detail below.

The core of the present invention is that the sieve of the sieve has a trapezoidal shape in order to increase the surface area of the inner surface 22 in the above description, but the important thing is that the sieve is installed vertically along the inlet 10 and the food and water introduced into the sieve It is easily discharged by the water, and it is possible to maximize the utilization of space by discharging water without the need for a separate storage space. In general, food waste is thrown away together with water in the kitchen. When food waste enters the processor through the input unit, even if the processor does not operate immediately, the water is easily discharged to the drain by the mesh of the inner surface. According to the guide grooves formed along the surface, only the food waste to be substantially crushed flows directly into the pine grinder. Therefore, the inner surface of the strainer does not necessarily have to be trapezoidal, but may be elliptical to maximize the surface area. Of course, even if the inner surface 22 is formed in a plane, the effect of sufficient drainage can be obtained, but it is preferable to increase the surface area of the inner surface 22 as much as possible for faster and easier drainage.

In addition, the guide groove is formed by the inner surface 22 and the groove portion 31a of the sieve 20, the important is the inner surface 22 of the sieve 20. Because the guide plate may vary depending on how the characteristics and shape of the conveying crushing unit, and the guide portion composed of the upper cover 50 and the lower net 60 can be sufficiently configured a guide line. That is, in FIG. 1, if the cut portion 51 of the upper cover 50 is enlarged to correspond to the inlet of the inlet portion 10, the guide groove is the entire circle of the inner surface 22 of the strainer 20 and the inlet portion 10. It can also consist of the rest of the interior.

In the drawing, the guide part is separated into the upper cover and the lower net, but may be formed integrally, and the guide plate may also form the guide part together. However, it is preferable that the lower net be separated separately for cleaning because the small food waste treated or treated as the net may be caught, and the upper cover and the lower net may be made simpler if they are made in one piece. It is also preferable that the upper cover and the guide plate are made integral with the processing unit and allow only the lower net to be separated for cleaning. And as shown in Figure 2 when the processing unit is disposed in an oblique diagonal direction can be easily separated and assembled for cleaning the lower net.

The transfer grinder is composed of a pair of feed grinders in the above drawings, and each feed grinder is provided with a screw-type rotary blade, a grinding gear, or the rotary blade and the grinding gear to correspond to each other for transportation and grinding. have. However, the transfer grinder may be used in a variety of conventional manners, such as conveying food with a screw by one drive shaft and grinding food with a rotary cutter in the middle. Only the drawings illustrate a gear system with a pair of screws as a preferred embodiment.

The method of eliminating or minimizing the food waste remaining without being discharged by minimizing the processing space of the food waste in the treatment unit may be implemented in various ways. Even if not the screw method of the accompanying drawings, the guide groove is made in the first processing unit so that the food waste flows into the transfer grinding unit, the processing space is minimized to match the characteristics of the transfer grinding machine, and the space behind the first processing screw or the transfer unit (drive shaft) Space to be connected to). Therefore, those skilled in the art will be able to minimize the amount of unprocessed food waste by minimizing the remaining portion of the processing space of the processing unit by using the spirit of the present invention.

Although not shown in detail in the drawings, by adopting the rubber for height adjustment on the bottom of the enclosure is possible to absorb vibration and can be easily installed in the sink for home or restaurant and noise can be reduced.

The operation of the food waste disposal system according to the present invention will be described below.

When the food waste is mixed with water and put into the input part, it is drained by the strainer even before being crushed by the feed grinder. And the drained food waste is all introduced into the screw portion of the transfer grind along the guide groove formed by the guide plate and the strainer. Inflowed food waste is operated by operation command (by switch operation or automatic timer), and if the lid is not closed completely according to the opening and closing of the lid, the lid is not sealed and sound or separate display is not activated. Do not. When the lid is completely sealed and the driving unit is operated, the crushed and dehydrated food waste introduced from the conveying crusher is crushed. Water or liquids generated during this crushing compression dewatering process are lowered back by the lower net and drained through the drain. If foreign matter (for example, hard bones such as metal, bones, cutlery, etc.) flows into the grinding process, it will overload the transfer grinder. Occurs. However, because it is not foreign matter and may be overloaded by large lumps, if the driving part is overloaded, reverse the rotation and repeat it three times. Thus, when returning to normal load, the work of crushing light continues. If the overload continues despite the reversal of forward and reverse rotation, the work of crushing light should be stopped and an abnormal signal may be generated. If the heavy load of food waste is large, the overload can be automatically eliminated by the variable drive shaft.

The crushed food is stored in a storage container with almost dehydrated water. Treated food waste is completely dried and de-UV sterilized by a dehumidifier and an infrared heater in the container. The storage container is provided with an oxygen concentration sensor, a humidity sensor, and the like, and the dehumidification drying and sterilization process is automatically performed according to the change of oxygen concentration or the change of humidity even during storage.

The food waste disposal system of the present invention has been described as being mainly used in a sink for home or restaurant. It may be used within the spirit of the present invention.

Food waste disposal apparatus of the present invention as described above has been described a specific example, those skilled in the art can make a variety of modifications based on the above description, it is apparent that such modifications are also made within the spirit and scope of the present invention.

1 is a front sectional view showing a schematic configuration of a food waste disposal system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a portion of FIG. 1;

3 is a side view seen in the direction A of FIG.

4 is a partial perspective view showing a coupling relationship of the main components of the present invention.

Claims (9)

A food inlet is provided in the upper portion and a drainage hole is formed in the lower portion to allow the water and water to escape from the food inlet; It is connected inclined upwardly with the input unit, the transfer grinding unit connected to the driving unit for transporting, pulverizing and discharging food waste, and A guide part having a discharge part installed therein so as to guide the food waste to be transported and pulverized in the transport pulverization part and having a discharge part so that the pulverized food waste is discharged and sent to a collection part; A processing unit comprising a; And A filtering net installed inside the inlet, to filter food waste introduced into the inlet and drain water directly through the outlet; Including; A food waste processor characterized in that the food waste, which is injected into the inner surface of the food waste in contact with the filter net, is directly put into the conveying crushing unit. The food waste processor of claim 1, further comprising a blocking unit to block a space between the transfer grinding unit and the drive shaft. The food waste processor of claim 1 or 2, wherein the inner surface of the sieve has a trapezoidal or oval shape in order to increase its surface area. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the conveying grinder consists of a pair of conveying grinders, Each transfer grinder is provided with a screw-type rotary blade, a grinding gear, or the rotary blade and the grinding gear to correspond to each other for transfer and grinding. Both ends of the pair of feed grinders are provided with fixing portions to fix the pair of feed grinders, A motor is connected to one end of one of the feed grinders and the feed grinder connected to the motor rotates according to the rotation of the motor, whereby the corresponding feed grinder also rotates to transport and grind the food waste, and The fixed part of the opposite end connected to the motor is provided with a shaft variable buffer for varying the axial distance of the pair of feed mill, Food waste handler characterized in that. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The upper portion of the processing unit has an inlet and a lid connectable to the drain of the sink, and the inlet is further provided with a sensor to detect that the drain of the sink is blocked so that the motor rotates when the lid is closed. A food waste handler characterized by the processing. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The sensor may further include a sensor for detecting rotation of the transfer grinding unit. When the food grinding unit does not operate at a normal speed due to food waste being jammed or jammed in the transfer grinding unit, the motor repeats forward and reverse rotation. Food waste processor characterized in that for normal operation by rotating the feed grinding unit. The food waste disposal system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the collection unit has a drying system. 8. The food waste processor of claim 7, wherein the drying system further includes an oxygen sensor to store the pulverized food collected below a predetermined concentration. The food waste processor of claim 1 or 2, wherein a rubber bottom is further provided at the bottom of the enclosure so as to be height-adjustable and cushioning.

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