SU1472053A1 - Apparatus for washing root and tuber crops - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for washing root and tuber crops and can be used in the processing of potatoes, carrots, beets and other types of raw materials. The aim of the invention is to intensify the process of washing the roots of the tubers. The device includes a housing 1, a bath 4 and a working body 10, having the shape of a reverse truncated cone and mounted concentrically one to another. The tool member 10 is rotatably mounted and has a base 11. The central part of the base 11 and the upper part of the tool member 10 are perforated. Roots enter through the nozzle 12 into the internal cavity of the working body 10, are thrown to the inner surface of the truncated cone and rise in a spiral above the water level, where they are rinsed again with water from the shower 19. The washing process in the device is intensified due to the forced circulation of the washing medium through the perforations in the central part of the base 11 and in the upper part of the working organ 10. The cylindrical shell 21, Formation on the outer side of the base 11 around its central apertured portion, improves the conditions for the movement of water. 1 hp ff, 2 ill.

Description

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The invention relates to a device for washing of root and tuber crops and can be used in the processing of potatoes, carrots, beets, etc.

The aim of the invention is to intensify the process of washing the roots of the tubers.

Figure 1 shows a device for washing of root and tuber crops, section 10; figure 2 - section aa in figure 1.

The device comprises a housing 1 with a lid 2 and a window 3 for unloading the beds. Inside the body 1, having the shape of a truncated cone, and concentrated to it is installed, a bath 4c with the formation of a chute 5 for unloading the processed raw material.

Bath 4 has a pocket 6 for heavy impurities at the bottom, a faucet 7 20 for draining water and a hatch 8 for discharging impurities.

In the upper part, the bath 4 is equipped with a drain pipe 9 to maintain a constant water level.

Inside the bath 4 there is a concentric working body 10, made in the form of a vertically installed truncated cone with a base 11. 30 The lower part of the working body 10 is made solid, and its upper part and the central part of the base 11 are perforated.

In the central part of the housing 1 a pipe 12 is mounted, rotatably mounted in bearings 13 and 14. The pipe 12 is connected to the electric drive via a pulley 15 and a V-belt transmission 16. A feed funnel 17 is located by a pipe 12. The device contains a device for moving fruits, made in the form of radial partitions 18, rigidly connected with the pipe 12 and the working body 10.

Above the working body 10 there is installed a shower device 19, executed in the form of a horizontal, annular tube with perforations in the lower part. The water supply from the line to the shower device 19 is regulated by a valve 20. A cylindrical shell 21 can be installed around the central perforated part of the base 1 1 of the working body 10 from its outer side.

The device works as follows.

The bath 4 is filled with water up to the level of the drain pipe 9. To do this, the valve 7 and the valve 20 are opened and adjusted so that the amount of water supplied through the shower 19 exceeds the amount of water discharged through the valve 7. At this excess water through the drain pipe 9.

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From the electric motor through the pulley 15 and the V-belt transmission 16, the nozzle 12 and the radial partitions 18 rigidly connected with it and the working body 10 are rotated.

Roots, such as potatoes, are fed through the feed funnel 17 to the nozzle 12, from where it is poured onto the base 11 of the working body 10. As a result of the rotation of the working body 10, the water in the device does not move: from the bottom of the bath 4 through the perforations in the base 11 it it rises into the inner-15 cavity of the working body 10 and is carried up along its walls. At this time, the water level at the periphery of the working body 10 becomes higher than in the bath 4. Water through the perforations in the upper part of the working body 10 is discharged back into. bath 4. The cylindrical shell 21 improves the conditions for raising the water through a perforation into the internal cavity of the working body 10.

The potato entering the base 11, under the action of centrifugal force, is thrown to the inner conical surface of the working body 10 and under the action of the component force of inertia of tubers and the flow of water rises in a spiral. Radial partitions also contribute to potato movement. As a result of this movement, raw materials are intensively washed away from contamination. The potatoes, rising along the inner surface of the working body 10 above the water level, are rinsed again with clean water from the dresser 19. The water on the surface of the tubers is removed due to the inertia force and centrifugal force through the perforations in the upper part of the working body 10.

Washed and mechanically dried potatoes by centrifugal action

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inertial forces are fed into the chute 5 and output through the window 3 for unloading. Separated contaminants pass through the perforations at the base 11 of the working body 10 and accumulate in the pocket 6 of the bath 4.

At the end of the operation of the device, the water is drained from the bath 7 through the faucet 7, the hatch 8 is opened and the pocket 6 is cleaned.

The use of the device will allow to intensify the washing process due to the forced circulation of the washing medium in the bath and the working body of the device.

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1. A device for washing of root-and-vegetable crops, comprising a nozzle body with a feed funnel, a perfume attachment, a working member, made in the form of a vertically installed one, with the possibility of rotation of a truncated perforated one. a cone with a base, an adaptation and movement of the fruit, a chute for the discharge of fruits and impurities, characterized in that, in order to intensify the washing process, it is equipped with a tub with a drain pipe installed between the working body and the body, the fruit movement device is made the form of radial partitions rigidly connected to the pipe and the working body, with the central part of the working body perforated, and the lower part of the working body - solid.

2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is provided with a cylindrical shell installed on the outside of the base of the working body around its central perforated part.

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Claims (2)

Claim 1. A device for washing root crops, comprising a housing, a nozzle with a loading funnel, a breathing device, a working body made in the form of a vertically mounted, with the possibility of rotation of a truncated perforated cone with a base, a device for moving fruits, gutters for unloading fruits and impurities, characterized in that, in order to intensify the washing process, it is equipped with a bath with a drain pipe installed between the working body and the body, a device for moving fruits made in the form of radial partitions, rigidly connected to the pipe and the working body, and the central part of the base of the working body is perforated, and the lower part of the working body is solid. 2, The device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is provided with a cylindrical shell mounted on the outside of the base of the working body around its central perforated part. . 1472053 Figure 2