KR20130063594A - Dehydrator for green tea leaves - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An automatic green tea stir fixation device is provided to reduce the fuel and labor costs by fixating green tea leaves utilizing microwave. CONSTITUTION: A hopper(10) inserts certain amounts of general tea leaves spreading them evenly. A conveyor(30) transfers the general tea leaves inserted by the hopper. A micro wave generator(30) performs the fixation of the general tea leaves transferred by the conveyor using microwaves. A cooling fan(40) cools the general tea leaves which have been through the fixation. A collecting container(50) collects the general cooled tea leaves. A shielding film(60) blocks the leakage of the microwave to the outside.

Description

Green Tea Automatic Invitation Device {dehydrator for green tea leaves}

The present invention relates to an automatic green tea invitation device, and more particularly, to an automatic green tea invitation device improved to reduce fuel and labor costs by using a microwave to apricot green tea leaves in a dry pre-process during green tea processing.

Tea tree (Camellia sinensis O, Kuntze) is a subtropical evergreen plant belonging to the Camellia family. Tea leaves and shoots are processed in various ways to suit the tastes and skills of each nation. Has been drinking.

Recently, the pharmacological mechanisms of catechins, caffeine, amino acids, fibrin, pectin and other plant pigments such as chlorophyll, flavonol derivatives and anthocyanin, and lipids, resins, essential oils, vitamins, minerals, etc. Its value is being recognized, especially among these components, catechins inhibit cholesterol elevation, amylase inhibitory activity, blood sugar elevation inhibitory action, arteriosclerosis prevention action, antioxidant action, antibacterial action, blood pressure increase inhibition and enzyme activity inhibition action, anti Biological activity effects such as ulcer action and mutation suppression activity have been reported and attracting attention.

In addition, fatigue recovery, skin care, diabetes, constipation improvement, hangover and nicotine detoxification effect is known to be excellent.

Green tea is divided into steamed tea made by steaming in a pot, steamed tea using water vapor, and oven-heated tea made of steamed tea, but the shape is different from the heating method. The basic principle of making the shape while reducing the weight is the same.

In general, green tea is produced through the harvesting process of ripening, rubbing, drying process, and packaging process. The manufacturing process is briefly described as follows.

First, the leaves of the harvested tea trees are ripened through the process. The iron pot is heated to 250 to 350 ° C. hotly, and the tea leaves are put in and steamed out to prevent deterioration and oxidation of the green tea and break the green energy of the green tea. Through this process, it is cooked to a suitable degree, and the large stem of green tea taste is caught, and when it is cooked less, the blue energy comes to life, and the taste and aroma are strong, so that the inside taste is unpleasant.

After that, it is rubbed through the process of keeping in mind that it tastes well and does not break well after completion.

The tea that has passed through the steaming process and the mind process is well shaken and dried. Through this drying process, the degree of ripening of green tea is fixed and the taste is aged. After natural drying, moisture is blown off the cast iron pot at around 100 ℃ for a long time to finally determine the taste and aroma.

Among the above processes, the aeration process is called a salination process by breaking the blue energy. The salination process according to the prior art is a desalination salt at a high temperature of 270 to 400 ° C. or higher, a decoy salination solution at a temperature of 250 to 300 ° C., and a boiler steam. There is a desalination spray.

By the way, the above-described conventional method of salsaeng has a lot of processing cost due to fuel cost and labor cost increase, so it is difficult to improve farm household income due to processing cost burden, and it takes much time and time for preparation and processing before processing. There is a problem that the processing efficiency is lowered a lot.

In addition, there is a problem that the processing of tea leaves may be uneven according to the processing operator during processing, and the competitiveness may be reduced due to deterioration of the processed product.

The present invention has been made to solve the problem based on the contents of the prior art as described above, the purpose is to improve the green tea to improve the farm income by reducing fuel and labor costs by using a microwave to spray green tea leaves An invitation device is provided.

In addition, another object of the present invention to provide a green tea automatic invitation device that can be carried out within 5 minutes of the tea leaf feeding, apricot, cooling, and finishing step.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a green tea automatic invitation device capable of saving fuel by being able to kill the leaves of the leaves immediately with the power operation.

In addition, another object of the present invention to provide a green tea automatic invitation device that can uniform the color and quality of the tea leaves.

However, the object of the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to a feature of the present invention for achieving the above object,

A hopper which uniformly spreads and inserts a predetermined amount of tea leaves,

A conveyor for moving the tea leaves fed by the hopper,

A microwave generator that performs salination using microwaves on the leaves moved by the conveyor;

A cooling fan that cools the leaves made of flesh blue,

It provides a green tea automatic invitation device, characterized in that configured to include a collecting container for collecting the cooled leaves.

At this time, according to an additional feature of the present invention, it is preferable that the shielding film for blocking the leakage of microwaves generated from the microwave generator to the outside is preferably configured.

Applying the green tea automatic invitation device of the present invention as described above, by using the microwave to apricot green tea leaves there is an effect that can contribute to improving farm household income by reducing fuel costs and labor costs.

In addition, the input, apricot, cooling, and finishing steps of the tea leaf can be performed within 5 minutes, and the apricot can be freshly cut with the power operation, thereby saving fuel.

In addition, there is an effect that can uniform the color and quality of the tea leaves.

1 is a front view for explaining the configuration of the green tea automatic invitation device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a plan view of Fig.

The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

However, the scope of the present invention is not limited by the embodiments presented in the specification of the present invention, and the technical idea of the present invention and claims to be described below by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. It is to be understood that various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents.

Further, in describing the embodiments, descriptions of technical contents which are well known in the technical field to which the present invention belongs and which are not directly related to the present invention will be omitted. This is for the sake of clarity of the present invention without omitting the unnecessary explanation.

1 is a front view for explaining the configuration of the green tea automatic invitation device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a plan view of FIG.

1 and 2, the green tea automatic invitation device according to the present invention includes a hopper 10, a conveyor 20, a microwave generator 30, a cooling fan 40, a collecting container 50, and a shielding film ( 60).

The hopper 10 is preferably a size that can hold more than 100kg using a conventional hopper, and performs a function of uniformly spreading a predetermined amount of the tea leaves into the conveyor 20.

The conveyor 20 determines the length and the moving speed so that the desalination time is 1 to 5 minutes to perform the function of moving the tea leaves introduced by the hopper 10 to the collecting container 50. At this time, it is preferable that the tea leaves are added to the conveyor 20 so as not to be thick and evenly spread.

The microwave generator 30 may be provided in plurality according to the length of the conveyor 20, in which case it is preferable to arrange in a zigzag. At this time, the generation of microwaves can use a conventionally known device.

The cooling fan 40 performs a function of cooling the tea leaves made of apricot by the microwave generator 30.

The collecting container 50 performs a function of collecting a cold leaf which has been cooled, and the leaf leaving the conveyor 20 is collected by free fall in the collecting container 50.

The shielding film 60 serves to block the microwaves generated by the microwave generator 30 from leaking to the outside of the green tea automatic invitation device according to the present invention. The shielding film 60 may be configured in the form of a square tube surrounding the conveyor 20 and the microwave generator 30 as a whole, and may be disposed at the front and rear ends of the microwave generator 30.

Referring to the operation of the green tea automatic invitation device according to the present invention having the configuration as described above are as follows.

First, a user inserts a tea leaf into the hopper 10. At this time, the tea leaves that are added will usually have a moisture of 70 to 80%.

In the present invention, it is intended to dry the tea leaves to have a moisture of 5 to 6% after the aerosol.

The hopper 10 is introduced into the conveyor 20 while uniformly spreading a predetermined amount of the tea leaves.

The leaf is moved to the collecting container 50 by the conveyor 20, but the salsa is made for 1 to 5 minutes.

The microwave generator 30 shoots microwaves toward the tea leaves moved by the conveyor 20 to generate heat by self-moisture of the tea leaves. At this time, since the frequency of the microwave and the frequency of the moisture contained in the blades are the same, water molecules of water absorb resonance energy of the microwave, which causes the water molecules to vibrate up and down, and thus the water molecules collide with each other. By friction heat. This causes the evaporation of moisture to proceed with drying.

The tea leaves made of apricot by the microwave generator 30 are cooled by the cooling fan 40.

The tea leaf cooled by the cooling fan 40 is freely dropped into the collecting container 50 and collected.

As a result, the present invention is to dry the tea leaves having a moisture of 70 to 80% to have a moisture of 5 to 6%, it is possible to reduce the drying cost by allowing the heat generated by its own moisture.

According to the applicant's test, the drying method and the poaching method of the prior art have increased the drying rate because the moisture content is increased to undergo a separate drying process. On the contrary, applying the present invention significantly reduced the drying cost compared to the prior art.

In addition, the time required to clean the leaves of 100kg was applied for 200 minutes according to the applicant's test according to the present applicant, but it is expected that the time can be shortened when using the continuous method of the conveyor 20 do.

In the case of applying the prior art, the time required to clean the 100 kg leaves was 445 minutes of steaming, 159 minutes of steaming, and 111 minutes of blanching. However, the thickening method and the poaching method take a lot of preparation time before processing, it was confirmed that it is more efficient to apply the present invention.

In addition, when comparing the amount of fuel required when applying the prior art method of the present invention, it was confirmed that the fuel savings are made when the present invention is applied.

Not only that, but also the degree of fleshiness of the tea leaves was the most uniform and effective microwave method of the present invention, followed by the thickening method, poaching method, and steaming method.

After all, it is most important to improve the quality of green tea uniformly in short time after harvesting, and considering the recent increase in fuel cost and increase in labor costs, the salping method using microwave according to the present invention reduces the processing cost and improves the quality. It was found to be very effective for.

In addition, the sterilization function is made by the microwave used in the present invention, it is expected that no separate sterilization work is required.

Claims (2)

A hopper which uniformly spreads and inserts a predetermined amount of tea leaves,
A conveyor for moving the tea leaves fed by the hopper,
A microwave generator that performs salination using microwaves on the leaves moved by the conveyor;
A cooling fan that cools the leaves made of flesh blue,
Green tea automatic invitation device, characterized in that configured to include a collecting container for collecting the cooled leaves.
The method of claim 1,
Green tea automatic invitation device characterized in that it further comprises a shielding film for blocking the leakage of microwaves generated by the microwave generator to the outside.

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