JPH01236977A - Storage tank with small rice grain selector - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable hull-removing work to be performed with the temporary omission of a worker in charge of taking out unpolished rice by connecting a broken rice selector and a storage tank in special manner and temporarily storing unpolished rice after broken rice selection in the storage tank. CONSTITUTION:A broken rice selector 2 which can screen out small-size grains and deliver selected grains from above in the process of lifting hulls upward from below is arranged on the lateral section of a storage tank 1. In addition, on the top of the tank 1, a transport passage 13 is provided, and with the inlet section 13a of the transport passage 13, an unpolished rice delivery port 11 for selected grains and unpolished rice of the broken rice selector 2 is allowed to communicate. Furthermore, the inlet section 14a of a measuring hopper 14 is allowed to communicate with the outlet section 13b of the transport passage 13. Also a selector valve 15 which selects a supply status either to the storage tank 1 below or the measuring hopper 14 for cereals to be transported is provided on the transport passage 13. As a result, hulls removing work can be performed in a state where unpolished rice after broken rice selection is temporarily stored in the storage tank and a worker in charge of unpolished rice delivery is omitted temporarily.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a storage tank equipped with a milligrade sorting device that stores brown rice after hulling while sorting it.

[Prior art and problems to be solved by the invention] As a millimeter sorting device for sorting brown rice after hulling and sorting, there is a millimeter sorting device that sorts millet while rotating a millimeter sorting cylinder around a horizontal axis, or There are vertical millet sorting devices that separate millet while frying brown rice, but these conventional devices either work independently or are attached to a huller, or are integrated with the huller. It was incorporated into.

In this conventional device, the brown rice after sorting is constantly taken out from the brown rice take-out part of the rice sorting device, so during the operation, the worker is responsible for weighing and bagging the taken out brown rice. For a necessary and highly efficient rice huller,
There was a time when the rice hulling work could not be completed unless a predetermined number of workers were available.

Therefore, this invention temporarily stores the brown rice after sorting the rice in the storage tank by specially combining the rice sorting device and the storage tank, thereby temporarily eliminating the need for a worker to take out the brown rice. The aim is to eliminate the drawbacks of conventional equipment by allowing rice hulling work to be carried out in the same state.

[Means to solve the problem]

The technical means for solving such technical problems of the present invention is that the storage tank 1 has a lateral part equipped with a mechanism that separates and removes small grains during the process of frying the grains from the bottom to the top, and takes out the regular grains from the top. The storage tank 1 is equipped with a rice sorting device 2 that can
A conveyance path 13 is disposed in the upper part of the conveyance path 13, and an entrance portion 13a of the conveyance path 13 is provided with a conveyance path 13 for grading the grains of the small rice sorting device 2 and removing brown rice [1].
11 is communicated with the outlet 13b of the conveyance path 13, and an inlet 14a of a weighing hopper 14 is communicated with the conveyance path 13. The structure of the storage tank with a small rice sorting device is provided with a switching valve 15 that can switch the supply state to the small rice sorting device.

[Function and effect of the invention]

In order to take out grain-sized brown rice from the hulled and sorted brown rice without sorting it, the switching valve 15 of the conveyance path 13 is switched to the weighing hopper 14 side and the brown rice is fed to the lower part of the millet sorting device 2. The brown rice that has flowed into the lower part of the sorting mesh tube 6 is sorted during the process of being fried by the grain frying helix 4 of the grain frying spiral tube 5, and the small rice that leaked from the mesh of the sorting screen tube 6 is The sized brown rice is taken out to the grain sorting chamber 7 located on the outer periphery of the rice sorting chamber 7 and transported upward by the grain frying helix 4 of the grain frying helical tube 5.
The brown rice that has flowed into the transport path 13 flows into the weighing hopper 14, and is taken out of the machine while being weighed in predetermined amounts by the weighing device 21.

In addition, storage tank 1 is used to store brown rice after hulling and sorting.
When temporarily storing the brown rice in the storage tank 1, when the changeover valve 15 is switched to the downstream guiding state to the storage tank 1, the sized brown rice after being sorted by the rice sorting device @2 flows into the conveyance path 13 and flows through the conveyance path. 13 and is stored in the lower storage tank 1 by the switching valve 15, and when the stored brown rice after sorting is to be taken out while being weighed, the switching valve 15 is switched to the weighing hopper 14 side. , Xiaomi sorting device from the bottom of storage tank 1! i! When brown rice is supplied to the lower part of the mill 2, it is sorted again by the millet sorting device 2 and then supplied to the weighing hopper 14 via the conveyance path 13, where it is taken out while being weighed.

Therefore, depending on the number of workers, you can select whether to take out the brown rice while sorting the rice at the same time as the hulling operation, or to temporarily store the brown rice after the hulling and sorting. It is possible to select the type of work.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the invention shown in the drawings will be described below.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a storage tank for storing brown rice etc. after hulling, and a known vertical rice sorting device 2 is installed on the side of this storage tank 1.
is attached. To explain this Xiaomi sorting device 2, a gear box (not shown) is located at the bottom of the Xiaomi sorting case 3.
is arranged, and above this gear box (Illustrated II! 8),
A grain frying helix 4 is attached to the outer periphery, and the grain frying helical tube 5 is rotatably supported along the vertical direction, and the outer periphery of the grain frying helical tube 5 is provided with openings through which the millet passes. concentrically supports a sorting mesh tube 6 configured with sorting holes,
Due to the transmission device (not shown) in the gear box (not shown),
This fried grain spiral f? The i5 and the sorting screen tube 6 are configured to rotate in opposite directions. 7 is a Xiaomi sorting chamber constructed around the outer periphery of the sorting mesh tube 6, and the drawing is omitted.
A small rice scraping piece is integrally attached to the lower part of the sorting screen tube 6, and when the sorting screen tube 7 rotates, this small rice scraping piece (not shown) rotates integrally, and the lower part of the small rice sorting chamber 7 is rotated. The structure is such that the small rice that has flowed down is scraped out of the machine. 9
is a supply hopper installed at the bottom of the rice sorting device 2.
is a shutter that opens and closes the supply hopper 9.

Further, the grain-sized brown rice that has been fried upward by the grain-frying helix 4 of the grain-frying helical cylinder 5 is transferred to the brown rice take-out port 11 by the brown rice take-out piece 10.
It is taken out of the aircraft.

An inclined conveyance path 13 is provided at the upper part of the storage tank 1, and an inlet 13a of this conveyance path 13 communicates with the brown rice outlet 11 of the rice sorting device 2. 13b communicates with an inlet portion 14a of a weighing hopper 14 attached to the side plate of the storage tank 1. At the end of this conveyance path 13, the conveyed grains are stored in a lower storage tank 1.
A switching valve 15 is provided that can switch the supply state to the metering hopper 14 or the supply state to the weighing hopper 14.

At the bottom of the storage tank 1, there is a guide plate 16 that slopes sideways.
is installed diagonally, and the grains in the storage tank 1 are guided down to the lower part of the rice sorting device 2 by this guide plate 16.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a shutter disposed at the inlet from the bottom of the storage tank 1 to the small rice sorting device 2, and this shutter 18 can be opened and closed by a control motor 19. 20 is a caster.

21 is a measuring device, 22 is an operation plate, and this operation plate 22
includes a display section for digitally displaying the weight of the weighing device 21;
A power ON/OFF switch, a sorting switch, a storage switch, an increase button, a decrease button for setting the weighing weight, etc. are provided, and these operation members of the operation panel 22 are connected to a motor 23. shutter 1
8 controlling motor 24. Downstream port 1 of weighing hopper 14
The opening/closing valve (not shown) and the like provided in 4b are electrically connected by a control section, and can be operated by an operating member of the operating panel 22.

Although not shown in the drawings, it is convenient for transportation etc. to divide the storage tank 1 into a plurality of upper and lower parts.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be explained. When weighing and bagging brown rice that has been hulled and sorted by a huller (not shown) while sorting small grains, the switching valve 15 of the conveyance path 13 is switched to the weighing hopper 14 side, and the brown rice is transferred to the supply hopper 9. When the rice is fed, it flows into the lower part of the sorting mesh tube 6, and during the process of being fried by the grain frying helix 4 of the grain frying helical tube 5, the rice that leaks from the mesh of the sorting net tube 6 is absorbed into the outer periphery of the sorting net tube 6. The grains flow into the rice sorting chamber 7 located at , and are taken out of the machine by scraping pieces (not shown) at the bottom of the sorting mesh tube 6 that rotates in the opposite direction to the fried grain spiral tube 5. , Also, the fried grain spiral tube 5
The grained brown rice conveyed upward is discharged into the conveyance path 13 by the brown rice removal piece 10. The brown rice that has flowed into the conveyance path 13 flows down the discharge path 13 and flows into the weighing hopper 14,
It is taken out of the machine while being weighed in predetermined amounts by a weighing device 21.

In addition, when the number of workers is small and the brown rice after hulling and sorting is temporarily stored in the storage tank 1 after sorting the grains, if the switching valve 15 is switched to the flow guidance state to the storage tank 1,
The sized brown rice after being sorted by the rice sorting device 2 flows into the conveyance path 13, and at the terminal end of the conveyance path 13 flows down into the lower storage tank 1 by the switching valve 15 and is stored therein. When taking out stored brown rice after sorting while weighing it, switch the switching valve 15 to the weighing hopper 14 side, open the shutter 18 by the motor 24 to the -1 side, and the storage tank 1 The brown rice inside flows into the lower part of the millet sorting device 2, and the milled rice is sorted again in the millet sorting device 2 and transferred to the transport path 1.
3, it is supplied to the weighing hopper 14, and is taken out while being weighed in predetermined amounts into bags.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 1 is a cutaway side view. Explanation of symbols 1 Storage tank 2 Millet sorting device 3 Millet sorting case 4 Grain-fried helix 5 Grain-fried helical tube
6 Sorting mesh tube 7 Rice sorting room 9 Supply hopper 10 Brown rice removal piece 11 Brown rice removal port 12 Shutter 13 Conveyance path 13a Inlet part
13b Outlet section 14 Weighing hopper 14a
Person 11 section 15 Switching valve 16 Guide plate 1
8 Shutter 19 Control motor 20 Caster 21 Measuring device 22 Operation panel
23 Motor 24 Motor 476-

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] [1] A rice sorting device 2 is disposed on the side of the storage tank 1, which is capable of sorting and removing small grains during the process of frying from the bottom to the top and taking out the regular grains from above. A conveyance path 13 is provided in the upper part of the storage tank 1, and an inlet portion 13 of the conveyance path 13 is provided.
A is connected to a brown rice take-out port 11 for grading and brown rice of the rice sorting device 2, and a weighing hopper 1 is connected to the outlet 13b of the conveyance path 13.
A switching valve 1 is provided in the conveying path 13, which can switch between supplying the conveyed grains to the lower storage tank 1 or to the weighing hopper 14.
A storage tank with a small rice sorting device equipped with 5.