KR20230039590A - Washing device for food sorting bin - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a food waste bin washing apparatus capable of simply washing a food waste bin and effectively collecting the contaminated water generated during washing of the food waste bin. A disclosed washing apparatus comprises a transport mount on which a food waste bin is mounted, a transport device for transporting the bin mounted on the transport mount to a position where washing is performed, a high-pressure steam injection device having a plurality of nozzle rods corresponding to the inner and outer surfaces of the food waste bin transported by the transport device, and a high-pressure steam generating device for supplying high-pressure steam to the high-pressure steam injection device, wherein the nozzle rods include a rotary nozzle rotated by the pressure of the high-pressure steam.

Description

Food sorting bin washing device {Washing device for food sorting bin}

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for washing a separate food collection box, and more particularly, to an apparatus for washing the inside and outside of the food collection box.

Food collection boxes are often used in restaurants or apartment complexes. The food collection bin collects the discarded food and turns it over to a specialized disposal company that either reuses it or disposes of it.

Such a food collection box is a very important item that can prevent environmental contamination by food, but it is an item to be avoided because decayed food residues exist on the outer surface as well as the inside of the food collection box.

Most of the food collection boxes are repeatedly used in a contaminated state, and cleaning nozzles are sometimes washed by primitive methods. According to this, contaminated washing water discharged from the collection box may contaminate the surroundings during washing. Therefore, it is necessary to find a method capable of effectively collecting contaminated water generated during washing of the collection box.

Contaminated food collection boxes are cleaned by specialized cleaning devices, and these cleaning devices have a very complex structure and are expensive to manufacture. In addition, since they use high-pressure washing water, a large amount of washing water is required during washing, and it is very difficult to treat a large amount of washing contaminated water according to the washing water used.

KR 10-2006-0113308 A0 KR 10-0820326 B1 KR 10-0896329 B1

The present disclosure proposes a food container cleaning device capable of simply cleaning the food container.

The present disclosure proposes a food waste container cleaning device capable of effectively recovering contaminated water generated when cleaning a food waste container.

The present disclosure proposes a food container cleaning device that can easily treat sewage generated from a food container.

Food waste container cleaning device according to the present disclosure:

a transfer mount on which a food container is mounted;

a transfer device for transferring the collection box mounted on the transfer mount to a location where cleaning is performed;

a high-pressure steam spraying device having a plurality of nozzle rods corresponding to the inner and outer surfaces of the food container transported by the conveying device and having rotating nozzles rotated by the pressure of high-pressure steam at the tip thereof; and

a high-pressure steam generating device supplying high-pressure steam to the high-pressure steam injection device; to provide

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a wastewater storage tank for collecting wastewater discharged from the food collection box may be installed below the food collection box.

According to specific embodiments of the present disclosure,

The transfer device is installed on the sewage storage tank,

A sewage flow channel is formed at a predetermined depth at the top of the sewage storage tank, and

A plurality of passage holes leading to the inside of the storage tank may be formed at the bottom of the channel.

According to specific embodiments of the present disclosure,

The transfer mount:

a mounting finger on which the food container is mounted; and

It may include two supporting arms installed on both sides of the lower part of the mounting finger.

According to a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, the transfer device further includes two transfer blocks and a transfer device corresponding to the transfer mount, and a bracket to which the supporting arm is rotatably coupled is provided on the transfer block, And the bracket has a locking part for preventing rotation of the support; may be available.

According to a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, the mounting finger may include a channel-type insertion portion into which both edge portions of the upper end of the food waste container are inserted.

According to another embodiment, the nozzle rod may include a rotary nozzle that rotates by the pressure of high-pressure steam. The rotating nozzle may inject steam into the food collection box while being rotated by the high-pressure washing water supplied to the rotating body.

1 shows a state in which a garbage container cleaning apparatus according to the present disclosure is installed in a vehicle.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the cleaning apparatus shown in Fig. 1;
FIG. 3 is a side view of the washing device shown in FIG. 1 showing the movement of the collection box by the transfer device.
4 to 6 are schematic perspective views of the food pickup and washing device according to the present disclosure, showing the operation of the container box transfer device and the change in posture of the container box according to the embodiment.
7 is an excerpted perspective view of a rotational support arm for fixing a garbage container and a transfer block supporting the same in the garbage container cleaning apparatus according to the present disclosure.
8 schematically shows a rotation preventing structure in a rotational support arm for fixing a garbage container and a transfer block supporting the garbage container in the food waste container cleaning apparatus according to the present disclosure.
9 and 10 are schematic side views showing the relationship between a food container transported by a transfer device and a spray device for spraying high-pressure steam to the food container in the food container cleaning device according to the present disclosure.
11 illustrates a spraying state of high-pressure steam to the garbage container by the nozzle of the spraying device.
12 is a schematic external perspective view of a sewage storage tank as an infrastructure in which a transfer device is installed in the food waste bin cleaning apparatus according to the present disclosure.
13 is a schematic configuration diagram of a high-pressure steam injection device in the food waste container cleaning device according to the present disclosure.

Hereinafter, an inline cleaning device for a food collection box according to exemplary embodiments will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, these embodiments may be modified in many different forms, and the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited due to the embodiments described below. It is preferable to interpret the exemplary embodiments of the inventive concept as being provided to more completely explain the inventive concept to those with average knowledge in the art. The same sign means the same element throughout. Further, various elements and areas in the drawings are schematically drawn. Accordingly, the inventive concept is not limited by the relative size or spacing drawn in the accompanying drawings.

Terms such as first and second may be used to describe various components, but the components are not limited by the terms. These terms are only used for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, a first element may be termed a second element, and conversely, a second element may be termed a first element, without departing from the scope of the inventive concept.

Terms used in this application are only used to describe specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the concept of the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In this application, the expression “comprises” or “has” is intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, but one or more other features or It should be understood that the presence or addition of a number, operation, component, part, or combination thereof is not precluded.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical terms and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by a person of ordinary skill in the art to which the concept of the present invention belongs. In addition, commonly used terms as defined in the dictionary should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with what they mean in the context of the technology to which they relate, and in an overly formal sense unless explicitly defined herein. It will be understood that it should not be interpreted.

In the accompanying drawings, variations of the shapes shown may be expected, eg depending on manufacturing techniques and/or tolerances. Therefore, the embodiments of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the specific shape of the region shown in this specification, but should include, for example, a change in shape resulting from the manufacturing process. All terms “and/or” as used herein include each and all combinations of one or more of the recited elements.

Fig. 1 schematically shows a vehicle-installed food waste bin washing device according to an exemplary embodiment, and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2 , a washing device 200 according to the present invention is installed in a loading box 101 of a vehicle 100 .

The washing device 200 includes a wastewater storage tank 210 installed on the bottom of the loading box 101, a high-pressure steam injection device 220 installed behind the driver's seat of the vehicle 100, and a food collection box installed on top of the wastewater storage tank 210. The conveying device 230 and the food collection box 1 are mounted, and the conveying device 230 transports the rotational collection box capable of reciprocating in one direction, in the present embodiment, in the forward and backward directions in the loading box 101 of the vehicle. A mount 240 is provided.

The high-pressure steam injection device 220 is an injector for injecting steam to the inside and outside of the food container 1 laid horizontally, and includes a plurality of nozzle rods 222 equipped with nozzles 222a and 222b and supporting them. An enclosure 223 having a piping system for supplying steam to the nozzle rod 222 and a steam generator 221 generating and supplying steam are provided therein. One or more steam generators 221 may be installed.

The sewage storage tank 210 is installed on the bottom of the loading box 101 of the vehicle 100, and a T-shaped concave sewage ditch or channel 211) is formed on the upper surface thereof, and the inside of the storage tank 210 is formed on the bottom thereof. A plurality of water passage holes 211a through which sewage is introduced are formed. A drain device 212 for discharging sewage is installed at the rear end of the sewage storage tank 210 .

Above the sewage storage tank 210, a collection box transfer device 230 for transferring the food collection box 1 is installed. The transfer device 230 includes a transfer block 231 reciprocating in two parallel paths, and a collection box transfer mount 240 is coupled thereto.

The transfer block 231 includes a bracket 235 pivotally coupled to the supporting arm 242 of the transfer mount 240 to be rotatable, and a locking portion 236 for preventing and releasing the movement of the transfer mount 240. ) is provided.

The rotation type collection box transfer mount 240 to which the food collection box 1 is mounted is a channel-type insertion portion, that is, a U-shaped portion into which both edges of the upper end of the food collection box are inserted so as to grip or clamp the upper edge of the food collection box 1. A mounting finger 241 and a supporting arm 242 supporting the finger 241 are provided.

The transfer mount 240 is rotatable in vertical and horizontal directions. As shown in FIG. 2, the food collection box erected in the vertical direction is inserted into and coupled to the food collection box in the horizontal state, and rotates in the vertical direction in this state, so that the food collection box ( 1) is changed from a vertically erected state to a horizontally laid state, enabling horizontal reciprocating transfer (see FIG. 2).

FIG. 3 is a side view of the washing device shown in FIG. 1 showing the movement of the collection box by the transfer device.

Referring to FIG. 3 , an empty food collection box 1 from which food has been removed is mounted on a collection box transfer mount 240 lying horizontally in a vertically erected state. After the collection box 1 is mounted on the transfer mount 240, the transfer mount 240 is rotated in a direction in which it is erected vertically, so that the food collection box 1 is laid down in a horizontal direction.

The food container 1 laid in the horizontal direction is brought close to the nozzle rod 222 of the high-pressure steam spraying device by the transfer device 230, and at this time, steam is emitted from the nozzles 222a and 222b of the nozzle rod 222. While this is sprayed, the food collection box 1 is cleaned.

The cleaning of the collection box through which steam is sprayed is performed while the transfer device 230 is operating, and therefore, the high-pressure steam strongly hits the inner and outer surfaces of the food collection box 1 to remove dirt attached to the collection box 1. . At this time, the present invention uses high-temperature, high-pressure water vapor (steam) instead of washing water, and thus, the amount of sewage generated during washing can be reduced.

Sewage washed out of the lying collection box 1 is stored in the sewage storage tank 210 through the sewage channel 211 above the sewage storage tank 210, and is recovered in the sewage collection facility.

4, 5, and 6 are perspective views of main parts of the washing device showing the specific structure of the conveying device 230 in the washing device according to the present disclosure, and showing the positional change of the food collection box 1 according to the operation of the conveying device. .

4 shows a state in which the food container 1 is primarily mounted on the mounting finger 241 of the transfer mount 240 in a vertically erected state.

FIG. 5 shows a state in which the food container 1 lies horizontally as the transfer mount 240 is rotated, and has not yet approached the steam spraying device 220 .

FIG. 6 shows a position in which the food collection box 1 is in close proximity to the nozzle rod 222 of the high-pressure steam spraying device 220 when the transfer device 230 is operated, and washing is in progress. In the state shown in FIG. 6, the nozzles 222a and 222b of the nozzle rod 222 for spraying steam from the food container 1 are moved to and from the food container 1 by the reciprocating motion of the transport device 230. High-pressure, high-temperature steam collides with the entire side and inner surface to clean dirt.

As shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, the conveying device 230 rotatably supporting the conveying block 231 and the lead screw 233 performing linear conveying of the conveying block 231 and the lead A motor 232 rotating the screw 233 is provided. The lead screw 233 is screwed to the transport block 231, and therefore, when the motor 232 rotates, the transport block 231 linearly reciprocates due to the rotation of the lead screw 233.

7 shows the coupling structure of the transfer mount 240 and the transfer mount 240 for the transfer device 230, and FIG. 8 is a locking portion provided on the transfer block 231 of the transfer device 230 ( 236) shows the specific structure.

Referring to FIGS. 5 to 8 , the lead screw 233 transfers the collection box transfer mount 240 and is disposed in the same direction as the plurality of nozzle rods 222 . The transfer block 231 of the transfer device 230 can linearly reciprocate along the rail 238, and a transfer nut 239 to which the lead screw 233 is screwed is integrally provided on one side thereof. . In addition, a bracket 235 rotatably coupled to the supporting arm 242 is integrally fixed or coupled to the transfer block 231 .

A locking part 236 for suppressing or permitting rotation of the supporting arm 242 is installed on the bracket 235 . The locking part 236 suppresses the rotation of the supporting arm 242 and may have a screw structure fastening structure. In addition, an anti-rotation pin 237 (FIG. 5) may be inserted into the pin insertion hole 235a formed in the bracket 235 to assist with this.

As shown in FIG. 7, the anti-rotation pin 237 rotates provided at the lower end of the supporting arm of the transfer mount 240 as shown in FIG. 8 when the transfer mount 240 is erected. It is inserted into the pin insertion hole 235a so as to face the rotational direction of the prevention protruding jaw 242a, and prevents the rotation of the supporting arm 242.

9 to 11 show the relationship between the food container 1 and the corresponding nozzle rod 222 in the cleaning process of the food container 1.

Specifically, FIG. 9 is an initial state before the food container 1 approaches the high-pressure steam spraying device 220. In this state, the food container 1 engaged with the mounting finger 241 of the transfer mount 240 is laid horizontally with the rail 238 parallel to it. The lower supporting arm 242 of the transfer mount 240 is fixed to the bracket 235 of the transfer device 230 so as not to rotate by the anti-rotation pin 237 and the locking part 236 .

As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10 , a plurality of nozzle rods 222 of the high-pressure steam injection device 220 are disposed correspondingly inside and outside the food container 1, respectively. The transfer device 230 supporting the transfer mount 240 reciprocates the entire transfer mount 240 in the horizontal direction using the lead screw 233 rotated by the drive of the motor 234 to reciprocate the nozzle rod. The nozzles 222a and 222b of 222 spray high-pressure steam while moving back and forth while being adjacent to the inner and outer surfaces of the food collection box.

FIG. 11 illustrates a state in which high-pressure steam is sprayed to the food container 1 by nozzles 222a and 222b disposed inside and outside the food container 1. Referring to FIG.

The central nozzle 222b disposed inside the food container 1 sprays high-pressure steam to the inner wall of the food container 1 . At this time, for example, four steam spraying holes are formed in the central nozzle 222b to spray steam to the four inner walls of the food waste bin 1.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, the central nozzle 222b may have a structure that rotates by a reaction force caused by injected steam, which may have an internal structure similar to that of a general rotary sprinkler.

Sewage generated by washing the food container in the above process flows into the wastewater container 211 of the wastewater storage tank 210 (FIG. 12) positioned below the food container 1.

12 is a schematic perspective view of the sewage storage tank 210.

As shown in FIG. 12, the sewage storage tank 210 is a rectangular box and may be installed on the bottom of a loading box of a vehicle.

A T-shaped sewage channel 211 is formed on the upper surface of the sewage storage tank 210, and a water passage 211a is provided at the bottom of the sewage channel 211. On the other hand, both sides of the sewage channel 211 have a conveying device installation part 213 in which the aforementioned conveying device 230 is installed.

The motor 234, the lead screw 233, etc. mentioned in the description of FIGS. 4 and 5 are installed at the lower part of the transfer device installation part 213, and the rail 238 on which the transfer block 231 is installed is located. can do.

According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, the sewage storage tank 210 may have an independent structure separated from the transfer device 230 .

13 shows a schematic configuration of the high-pressure steam injection device 220.

Steam from the steam generator 221 is supplied to a plurality of nozzle rods 222. Each nozzle rod 222 is provided with nozzles 222a and 222b as described above. In addition, a steam supply control valve 226 for controlling the supply of steam is provided between the steam generator 221 and the nozzle rod 222.

The food waste bin washing device described above has been schematically and conceptually described. A specific structure for actual operation can be easily implemented by applying various known technologies and structures.

As described above, exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, but those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention defined in the appended claims. Various modifications of the present invention will be able to be practiced. Therefore, changes in future embodiments of the present invention will not deviate from the technology of the present invention.

Claims (6)

a transfer mount on which a food container is mounted;
a transfer device for transferring the collection box mounted on the transfer mount to a location where cleaning is performed;
a high-pressure steam spraying device having a plurality of nozzle rods corresponding to the inner and outer surfaces of the food container transported by the conveying device and having rotary nozzles rotated by the pressure of high-pressure steam at the tip thereof; and
a high-pressure steam generating device supplying high-pressure steam to the high-pressure steam injection device; Food waste container cleaning device having a. According to claim 1,
A waste water storage tank for collecting sewage discharged from the food container is installed at the lower part of the food container. According to claim 2,
The transfer device is installed on the sewage storage tank,
A sewage flow channel is formed at a predetermined depth at the top of the sewage storage tank, and
Wherein a plurality of water passages leading to the inside of the storage tank are formed at the bottom of the channel. According to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The transfer mount:
a mounting finger on which the food container is mounted; and
And, including two supporting arms installed on both sides of the lower portion of the mounting finger; According to claim 4,
The transfer device further includes two transfer blocks and a transfer device corresponding to the transfer mount,
The transfer block is provided with a bracket to which the supporting arm is rotatably coupled, and
The bracket includes a locking portion preventing rotation of the support; Food waste bin cleaning device provided.. According to claim 5,
Wherein the mounting finger has a channel-shaped insertion portion into which edge portions of both upper ends of the food waste container are fitted.

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