KR20220005678A - Garlic breaking and sorting device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a garlic sorter to enable large/medium/small sorting by size regardless of a whole bulb of garlic, a clove of garlic, or a bulbil (garlic seed) with one device. The garlic sorter comprises: a first input device (100) consisting of a chute (110) and an escalator (120) for putting a whole bulb of garlic; a dry washer (200) for washing foreign substances of the whole bulb of garlic input from the first input device (100) with a brush roller (210); a second input device (300) consisting of a chute (310) and an escalator (320) for receiving the whole bulb of garlic from which foreign substances have been removed from the dry washer (200); a garlic separator (400) for separating the whole bulb of garlic input from the second input device (300) into a clove of garlic; a sorter (500) for sorting the clove of garlic separated in the garlic separator (400) and foreign substances by hand (500); a third input device (600) consisting of a chute (610) and an escalator (620) for receiving the clove of garlic sorted in the sorter (500); and a size sorter (700) for sorting the clove of garlic input in the third input device (600) by size.

Description

Garlic breaking and sorting device

The present invention relates to a garlic sorting machine, and it is possible to select large, medium, and small by size regardless of whole garlic, indigo garlic, or juniper (garlic seed). to be able to do it consistently.

In general, garlic is classified according to size after harvest and packaged by unit weight to increase marketability. However, when garlic sorting relies on repair sorting, the sorting efficiency decreases and it is impossible to procure manpower, so a combination of repair sorting and mechanical sorting method is using it.

As the prior art related to the garlic sorting machine of the present invention, the separation and sorting device of whole garlic of Patent Document 1, the detachable garlic side separating and sorting apparatus of Patent Document 2, the garlic sorting apparatus of Patent Document 3, the garlic sorter of Patent Document 4, and the patent Document 5 discloses a device for sorting and discharging whole garlic.

On the other hand, the above-described conventional mechanical garlic sorting apparatus has a limited kind of object to be sorted and a limited size for sorting, and uses whole garlic, indigo garlic, or sowing seeds (garlic seeds) for garlic harvested at farms in each size. There is a problem in that a separate selector for each use needs to be provided in case of separate sorting.

In addition, since each region has different soils and climates, and the types and sizes of harvested agricultural products are different, it is necessary to adjust the selection size according to the situation of each region. A selector is needed.

In addition, depending on the situation, you need a sorting machine that can sort and pack whole garlic by size, separate whole garlic into indigo garlic and remove foreign substances, then sort and pack garlic by size, or separate and pack by size. do.

Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0348186 (Registered on July 27, 2002) Korea Registered Utility No. 20-0344118 (Registered on Feb. 26, 2004) Korean Patent No. 10-1462410 (Registered on November 11, 2014) Korean Patent No. 10-1752186 (registered on June 23, 2017) Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1842956 (Registered on March 22, 2018)

The present invention has been devised to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to be able to select all kinds of garlic, including whole garlic, indigo garlic, and zucchini, as well as dates, chestnuts, plums, etc. by size, but It is to provide an integrated garlic sorter that can consistently perform everything from input, foreign matter removal, separation to indigo garlic, number sorting and size sorting, and weighing and packaging.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a primary input device consisting of a chute and an escalator for putting whole garlic; a dry washer for washing foreign substances of the whole garlic input from the primary feeder with a roller brush; a secondary input device comprising a chute and an escalator for receiving whole garlic from which foreign substances have been removed from the dry washing machine; a garlic separator for separating the whole garlic input from the secondary input machine into indigo garlic; a repair machine for repairing and sorting the garlic and foreign substances separated in the garlic separator; a tertiary input device comprising a chute and an escalator for receiving the garlic selected in the water sorting machine; It provides an integrated garlic sorter comprising; a size sorter for sorting the garlic input in the tertiary input device by size.

In a preferred embodiment, the first input machine, the dry washer, the second input machine, the garlic separator, the water sorter, the third input machine, and the size sorter are individually separated structures and can be used in different combinations depending on the type of object to be sorted. let it be

According to the present invention, a single piece of equipment can be combined differently for each situation to select suitable large and small sizes according to each region or crop size, and from the input of whole garlic to the separation operation into indigo garlic, the foreign material selection operation, and the selection by size of indigo garlic. Since over-weighing and packaging work can be performed consistently, it is possible to efficiently select while minimizing the input of manpower, which has the effect of contributing to the improvement of the marketability of harvested crops.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a garlic selector according to the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a front sectional view showing the configuration of the dry washing machine;
3 is a perspective view of a garlic clove separator.
Figure 4 is a front view of the garlic separator.
Figure 5 is a perspective view of the pinch roller of the garlic separator.
6 is a perspective view of a water sorting machine.
7 is a plan view of the water sorting machine.
8 is a perspective view of a size selector;
9 is an enlarged view of part A of FIG. 8 showing the mesh control state of the mesh body.
10 is an enlarged view of part B of FIG. 9, showing the shutter opening and closing state of the weighing packaging unit.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments that do not limit the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 shows the overall configuration of the garlic selector according to the present invention, which includes a chute 110 and an escalator 120 for putting whole garlic;

a dry washing machine 200 for washing foreign substances of the whole garlic input from the primary feeder 100 with a brush roller 220;

a secondary injector 300 comprising a chute 310 and an escalator 320 for receiving whole garlic from which foreign substances have been removed from the dry washing machine 200;

a garlic separator 400 for separating the whole garlic input from the secondary input machine 300 into indigo garlic;

a repair machine 500 for repairing and sorting the garlic and foreign substances separated in the garlic separator 400;

a tertiary input device 600 comprising a chute 610 and an escalator 620 for receiving the garlic selected in the water sorting machine 500;

It consists of including;

In this embodiment, the first input machine 100, the dry washing machine 200, the second input machine 300, the garlic separator 400, the water sorter 500, the third input machine 600, the size separator 700 ) has an individually separated structure, so that each device can be used in combination as needed. has been

The garlic sorter of the present invention may be used by arranging each device sequentially as shown in FIG. 1 , and the first input machine 100 and the dry washing machine 200 are removed from the sorting line, and the size starts from the second input machine 300 . It is also possible to use up to the sorting machine 700 or use different arrangements in other combinations, and depending on the situation of the sorting workshop, use each device in a line as shown in FIG. It can also be arranged so that the sorted product finally sized in the direction in which the tea input unit is installed returns.

The first inserter 100 is composed of a chute 110 and an escalator 120, and the secondary inserter 300 and the third inserter 600 are also composed of chutes 310 and 610 and escalators 320 and 620, respectively.

Since the structure of the injector composed of the chute and the escalator described above is well known in the technical field to which the present invention pertains, a detailed description and illustration thereof will be omitted.

As shown in FIG. 2 , in the dry washing machine 200 , a plurality of brush rollers 220 are disposed in parallel along the longitudinal direction on the upper portion of the frame 210 , and are driven in one direction, that is, rearward by the driving motor 230 . Soil, fine roots and other foreign substances attached to the whole garlic are washed by the brush roller 220 while transporting the whole garlic to the bottom. By swinging up and down while being transported to the brush, foreign substances adhering to the surface while rolling in all directions come into contact with the brush roller to enable effective removal.

In the drawings, reference numeral 240 denotes a power transmission belt for transmitting power from the driving motor 230 to the brush roller 220 , reference numeral 250 denotes a power transmission belt connected between adjacent brush rollers 220 , and reference numeral 260 denotes an input unit , 270 is the discharge part.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the garlic separator 400 separates whole garlic into garlic while passing between the plurality of upper and lower pinch rollers 420 and 430 arranged to be inclined downward on the frame 410. As much as possible, the plurality of upper and lower pinch rollers 420 and 430 are rotated in opposite directions at different speeds, and the pinch rollers 420 and 430 are made of elastic foamed resin or soft rubber or silicone material to prevent damage to garlic. As shown in FIG. 5, the bead 422 and the groove 424 are radially formed along the width direction, and the upper and lower pinch rollers 420 and 430 are pinched on the upper side by the adjusting handle 440. The support frame 470 of the roller 420 rotates about the rotation shaft 472 at the top to adjust the spacing, so it is used by adjusting the spacing to be suitable for separation of garlic according to the size of the whole garlic to be put in. do.

In the drawings, reference numerals 450 and 460 denote driving motors for driving the upper and lower pinch rollers 420 and 430, respectively, and 452 and 462 denote power transmission for transmitting power from the driving motors 450 and 460 to the upper and lower pinch rollers 420 and 430. A belt, and reference numerals 454 and 464 are power transmission belts connected between the upper pinch rollers 420 and the lower pinch rollers 430 .

In addition, reference numeral 480 denotes an inlet and 490 denotes an outlet.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 , the sorting machine 500 includes a conveyor belt 510 for horizontally transporting the garlic input from the garlic separator 400 , and a longitudinal direction on the upper inner side of the conveyor belt 510 . The front end is closed to branch the garlic to be transported on the conveyor belt 510 to the left and right, and the rear end includes a foreign material discharge path 520 that is opened downward, and the upper side of the front end and the rear end of the conveyor belt 510. It consists of including a suction duct 530 located in the suction fan (not shown) to remove foreign substances.

In the drawing, reference numeral 540 denotes an inlet through which the separated garlic is put, 550 denotes an outlet through which only the garlic from which foreign substances are sorted out, and 560 denotes a foreign substance outlet at the end of the foreign substance discharge path 520 .

The suction duct 530 is connected to the rear end as well as the front end of the repair sorting machine 500 so as to suction and remove foreign substances in the second way before and after repairing.

In the sorting machine 500, the worker waits on the left and right sides of the conveyor belt 510 and picks up the inner core, roots, and peels separated from the garlic transferred on the conveyor belt 510 by hand to discharge foreign substances ( 520), and at the same time, the garlic that has not been completely separated is separated one by one.

In the size sorter 700, as shown in FIG. 8, the sorting drum 720 is installed inclinedly downward on the frame 710, and sorting is performed while rotating, and the garlic sorted by size is a sorting chute at the bottom (730,732,734,736) As shown in FIG. 9, the sorting drum 720 is composed of two-layered meshes 722 and 724 in which a mesh g of the same size is formed, and a bolt for fixing the outer mesh 724. By loosening (725), moving horizontally along the long hole (726) and fixing it again, the size of the mesh (g) can be adjusted by the degree of overlapping of the mesh body (722, 724) of the two layers.

The screening drum 720 is divided into three steps (720a, 720b, 720c) so that the size of the mesh of the mesh increases toward the rear, and the mesh of each step is formed so that the size of the mesh gradually increases, so that the size of the mesh is smaller. Garlic falls into the first sorting chute 730, medium-sized garlic falls into the second sorting chute 732, large size garlic falls into the third sorting chute 734, small, medium, large 3 The oversized garlic cloves not sorted in the secondary sorting are to be collected by falling to the last fourth sorting chute (736).

On the other hand, since small foreign substances that have not been filtered by the sorting machine 500 fall together on the bottom of the primary sorting chute 730 together with small-sized garlic, the bottom consists of a mesh, the primary sorting chute ( The bottom mesh 731 of 730 is also made up of two layers like the mesh of the above-described sorting drum, and by adjusting the degree of overlap with the mesh on the inner side by flipping the mesh on the outside back and forth, the size of the mesh is determined. It can be adjusted so that the selection of the primary selected garlic and foreign substances can also be precisely made, and when the outer mesh is inserted upside down, the degree of overlapping with the inner mesh on the left and right is different.

In addition, in this embodiment, a soft pressing roller 740 is installed on the outside of the sorting drum 720 to push the garlic caught in the mesh g of the sorting drum 720 back to the inside. The pressing roller 740 has a lower end of the support arm 742 hinged to the frame 710, so that when the selection drum 720 is rotated, the selection drum 742 and the pressing roller 740 by their own weight 720), by maintaining the state in close contact with the outside, the garlic caught in the mesh is pushed inside, so that it can be selected and discharged at another location.

Although not shown in the drawing, the sorting drum 720 is rotated by a driving motor and the garlic input from the upper side rotates inside the sorting drum 720 and moves to the lower part of the other side through a mesh at a position suitable for the size. Since the size selection is made while being discharged into the air, the basic structure and principle of such a screening drum are well known in the technical field to which the present invention pertains, and thus, detailed illustration and description thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, the size sorter 700 further includes a metering and packaging unit 800, and the metering and packaging unit 800 has a shutter 812 attached thereto, as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10 . The outlet 810, the mesh hanger 820 provided on the outside of the outlet 810, and the lower part of the mesh (N) caught on the mesh hanger 820 are placed to measure the weight of garlic put into the mesh (N) and a controller 850 that detects whether the weight set in the electronic scale 830 is reached, closes the shutter 810 and turns on a warning light 840 at the same time.

The shutter 810 is opened and closed by an actuator 814 such as a servo motor, and the mesh hanger 820 is fixed by puncturing the upper four places of the mesh N, but the inner two places are the outlet 810 ) maintains a fixed position in the horizontal direction on the left and right sides of the inner side, and the two places are configured to be inverted up and down by the lever 822 so that they can be easily peeled off on the outer left and right sides of the outlet 810 .

Signal transmission between the controller 850 and the electronic scale 830 , the warning light 840 , and the actuator 814 may be accomplished by wire or short-distance communication such as Zigbee.

The integrated garlic sorter of this embodiment configured as described above combines 5 to 7 working machines, namely, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd inserters, a dry washer, a garlic separator, a water sorter and a size sorter to separate whole garlic and use it for sorting and packaging. Since it is possible to consistently work until It is also possible to sort by size or by separating the stems. As a mesh replacement operation, in addition to garlic, chestnuts are put in and peeled and the chestnuts are sorted by size, and the size selection, measurement and packaging of dates, plums, etc., are consistently performed. Since the farmhouse can use a suitable combination of equipment without purchasing different sorting machines depending on the type of crop, the useful effect of reducing the equipment purchase cost burden and enabling the sorting of various crops is achieved. have.

1: Garlic sorter
100: 1st injector
200: dry washer
210: frame
220: brush roller
230: drive motor
300: 2nd injector
400: garlic separator
410: frame
420,430: pinch roller
440: control handle
450,460: drive motor
470: support frame
500: water sorting machine
510: conveyor belt
520: foreign matter discharge path
530: suction duct
600: 3rd injector
700: size sorter
710: frame
720: selection drum
730,732,734,736: sorting suits
740: press roller
800: weighing and packaging unit
810: outlet
820: mesh hanger
830: electronic scale
840: warning light
850: controller
N: mesh

Claims (9)

The first input machine 100 consisting of a chute 110 and an escalator 120 for putting whole garlic;
a dry washing machine 200 for washing foreign substances of whole garlic input from the primary inserter 100 with a brush roller 220;
a secondary input device 300 comprising a chute 310 and an escalator 320 for receiving whole garlic from which foreign substances have been removed from the dry washing machine 200;
a garlic separator 400 for separating the whole garlic input from the secondary input machine 300 into indigo garlic;
a repair machine 500 for repairing and sorting the garlic and foreign substances separated in the garlic separator 400;
a tertiary input machine 600 consisting of a chute 610 and an escalator 620 for receiving the garlic selected in the water sorting machine 500;
Garlic integrated sorter comprising; a size sorter (700) for sorting the garlic input from the tertiary inserter (600) by size.
The method according to claim 1,
The first input machine 100, the dry washing machine 200, the second input machine 300, the garlic separator 400, the water sorter 500, the third input machine 600, and the size separator 700 are individually separated. Garlic integrated selector, characterized in that made of a structure.
The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The garlic separator 400 passes between the plurality of upper and lower pinch rollers 420 and 430 arranged to be inclined downward on the frame 410, and the plurality of upper and lower pinch rollers 420 and 430 so that the whole garlic is separated into garlic. ) is rotated in opposite directions at different speeds, and the pinch rollers 420 and 430 are made of elastic foamed resin or soft rubber or silicone material and radially along the width direction the beads 422 and the grooves 424 are formed. is formed, and between the upper and lower pinch rollers 420 and 430, the support frame 470 of the upper pinch roller 420 is rotated about the upper rotation shaft 472 by the adjusting handle 440 to adjust the spacing. Garlic integrated selector, characterized in that it can be made.
The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The sorting machine 500 is located along the longitudinal direction inside the upper inner side of the conveyor belt 510 and the conveyor belt 510 for horizontally transporting the garlic input from the garlic separator 400, the tip is closed, and the conveyor belt (510) Branching the garlic to be transferred to the left and right, the rear end of which is located on the upper side of the foreign material discharge path 520 that is opened downward, and the front end and the rear end of the conveyor belt 510 to remove foreign substances with a suction fan Garlic integrated sorter, characterized in that it comprises a suction duct (530).
The method according to claim 1 or 2,
In the size sorter 700, the sorting drum 720 is installed on the frame 710 to be inclined downward, and the sorting is performed while rotating, and the garlic sorted by size is discharged to the lower sorting chute (730,732,734,736). (720) is made of a two-layer mesh body (722, 724), by loosening the bolt 725 for fixing the outer mesh body 724 and moving it horizontally along the long hole 726 and fixing it again, the size of the mesh (g) An integrated garlic sorter, characterized in that it can be adjusted.
The method according to claim 1 or 2,
An integrated garlic sorter, characterized in that a soft pressing roller 740 is installed on the outside of the sorting drum 720 to push the garlic caught in the mesh g of the sorting drum 720 back to the inside.
7. The method of claim 6,
The pressing roller 740 has a lower end of the support arm 742 hinged to the frame 710, so that when the selection drum 720 is rotated, the selection drum is selected by the weight of the support arm 742 and the pressing roller 740 itself. Garlic integrated sorter, characterized in that to maintain a state in close contact with the outside of (720).
The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The size sorter 700 is an integrated garlic sorter, characterized in that it further comprises a weighing packaging unit (800).
9. The method of claim 8,
The weighing and packaging unit 800 includes an outlet 810 to which a shutter is attached, a mesh hanger 820 provided on the outside of the outlet 810, and the lower portion of the mesh N hung on the mesh hanger 820 is placed there. An electronic scale 830 that measures the weight of garlic put into the mesh (N), and the electronic scale 830 detects whether the weight set in the electronic scale 830 is reached to close the shutter 810 and turn on the warning light 840 at the same time Garlic integrated selector, characterized in that it comprises a controller (850) to let.

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