JPH0647562Y2 - Kitchen waste treatment equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial field of application) The present invention relates to a kitchen waste treatment device.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, in order to facilitate the processing of raw garbage generated from cooking in a kitchen or the like, a mixer for crushing waste is provided under the sink, and the gelled waste is mixed with water into sewage. The disposer to be run into was developed and used. However, these methods have a drawback in that gelled waste materials are often clogged with sewage.

Therefore, instead of this method, a method has been recently adopted in which waste is once shredded with a mixer etc., then separated into solid matter and water, the water is drained to sewage, only the solid matter is stored in a container, and this is discarded. ing.

This solid has no moisture, has little odor, is less likely to rot, is not bulky, and is easy to store and transport.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) However, the above-mentioned device is provided with a shredding device and a dehydrating / separating device, and waste such as raw garbage is transferred between these devices. Are left behind in the transfer, and dust accumulates inside the device, which causes the machine to stop operating,
There is a risk that the garbage will perish and give off a foul odor. Moreover, since the above-mentioned two devices are provided, the structure becomes complicated, which causes a failure and increases the manufacturing cost.

(Means for Solving Problems) Therefore, the present invention provides a waste treatment device having a very simple structure, which is composed of one mechanism for shredding, transferring, dehydrating, and separating the waste, and has few failures. The above problem is to be solved.

The concrete structure of the present invention is to provide a vertical drain hole below the sink, to provide a cylinder hole with a substantially elliptical cross section that is directed obliquely upward from one side of the lower part of the drain hole. The screw conveyors are arranged side by side in the cylinder hole, and the spiral blades of these two screw conveyors are arranged so as to alternately enter between them, and the outer peripheral edge of the lower blade of each of these screw conveyors is arranged respectively. Formed in the shape of a blade, a means for compressing waste is provided in the upper part of the cylinder hole and the spiral blade of the screw conveyor, and a large number of drain holes are formed at the bottom of the drain hole and the cylinder hole. Is provided with a discharge port.

And as a means for compressing the waste, the cylinder hole is a tapered hole that gradually becomes smaller in diameter toward the upper part, and the spiral blade on the upper part of the screw conveyor inserted in the tapered hole corresponds to the tapered hole. The diameter is gradually reduced, or a cylinder hole having a uniform diameter from one end to the other end of the cylinder hole,
The pitch of the spiral blades of the screw conveyor inserted in the cylinder hole is gradually reduced.

(Function) The device of the present invention puts waste such as raw garbage into the drain hole from the sink, and when the two screw conveyors are rotated in the opposite direction to each other, the two screw conveyors crossing the lower part of the drain hole are crossed. The waste material drops on the blade-like blades of the screw conveyor, is caught by these rotating screw conveyors, and is repeatedly cut, and is transferred upward in the cylinder hole. Then, the waste is gradually transferred to the upper part of the cylinder hole, the waste is compressed, and the water content is squeezed and dehydrated. Drained to. On the other hand, the solid waste material is transferred to the upper portion of the cylinder hole, compressed, and dehydrated, and then discharged from the discharge port to the outside. In this way, the waste is cut and finely cut and transferred in the lower part of the two screw conveyors, and compressed and dehydrated in the upper part and transferred to the discharge port.

(Embodiment) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 5 show a first embodiment of the present invention, 1 is a sink, 2
Is a drainage port of the sink 1, 3 is a drainage pipe hanging from the lower edge of the drainage port, 4 is a cylinder body in which the lower end portion of the drainage pipe 3 is connected to the lower end of the drainage pipe 3, and the upper end portion is lifted obliquely upward. ,
Reference numeral 5 denotes a cylinder hole provided in the inside of the cylinder body 4, which has a substantially oval cross section, and 6 is a tapered hole formed at the upper portion of the cylinder body 4 following the cylinder hole 5. The diameter gradually becomes smaller toward the top. Reference numeral 7 denotes a screw conveyor provided on one side of the cylinder hole 5 and the tapered hole 6, and a shaft 7a of the screw conveyor 7 penetrates the upper and lower ends of the cylinder body 4 and is rotatably supported by bearings 8, respectively. A spiral blade 7a is provided on the outer periphery of the shaft 7a, and the blade 7a at the location corresponding to the tapered hole 6 is gradually reduced in diameter. 9 is this screw conveyor 7
Is a screw conveyor built in the other side adjacent to the cylinder hole 5 and the tapered hole 6 on the other side. The shaft 9a of the screw conveyor 9 penetrates the upper and lower ends of the cylinder body 4 and is rotatably supported by the bearings 10, respectively. The spiral blades 9b provided on the outer periphery of the shaft 9a are alternately projected between the blades 7b of the screw conveyor 7. Also, the lower blade 9b of the screw conveyor 9 and the lower blade of the screw conveyor 7
The outer circumference of 7b is sharpened like a thin blade, and
A blade 7c is formed as shown in the figure. Reference numerals 11 and 12 are gears fixed to the shafts 7a and 9a of the screw conveyors 7 and 9 outside the cylinder body 4 and meshed with each other,
13 meshes with a gear 14b provided on a drive shaft 14a of a motor 14,
Further, the rotation of the motor 14 is transmitted from the gear 14b to the gear 13, the gear 12, and the gear 11 by the gear meshing with the one gear 12, and the screw conveyors 7 and 9 rotate in opposite directions to each other. 15 is a drainage small hole formed on the bottom side surface of the lower part of the cylinder body 4, 16 is a drainage receiver provided on the outer periphery of the cylinder body 4 so as to cover the drainage small hole 15, and 17 is a lower part of the drainage receiver 16. A drain end pipe 18 inserted through this is a communication pipe having one end connected to the upper end side portion of the cylinder body 4 and the other end connected to an upper portion of a side wall openable container 19. Inside the upper part of the cylinder body 4 and the container 19
Has been contacted with the inside. Reference numeral 20 is an elliptical annular valve slidably provided on the outer circumference of the shafts 7a, 9a of the screw conveyors 7 and 9 located at the upper end of the tapered hole 6 facing the communication pipe 18, and 21 is this annular valve. The springs 21 are wound around the outer circumferences of the shafts 7a and 9a between the taper hole 6 and the upper end surface of the tapered hole 6, respectively.
Is constantly pushed to the ends of the blades 7b and 9b of the shafts 7a and 9a to close the tapered hole 6. 22 is a weight sensor provided at the bottom of the container 19, 23 is a dust bag placed on the weight sensor 22 and attached inside the container 19 so as to be freely taken out, and 24 is an opening / closing lid for closing the drainage port 2 of the sink 1. The opening / closing lid 24 can be opened and closed by a hinge and has a large number of small holes 24a. This open / close lid 24 is the above-mentioned motor when opened.
It is a safety switch that allows the motor 14 to rotate only when it is closed and not rotating.

In the case of this embodiment, the water used in the sink 1 is the small hole 24 of the opening / closing lid 24.
through the drain hole 3 through the lower part of the cylinder hole 5, through the small drain hole 15, through the drain receiver 16
It reaches 17 and is discharged to the external sewage.

On the other hand, for waste such as garbage, the opening / closing lid 24 is opened, the drainage port 2 is put into the drainage hole 3, the opening / closing lid 24 is closed, and the motor 14 is turned on. This drives the motor to rotate,
The shafts 7a and 9a of the screw conveyors 7 and 9 are reversely rotated from each other inward from above. Cylinder hole 5
The waste reaching the lower part of the blade is caught by the blades 7b and 9b of the screw conveyors 7 and 9 and is caught between the blades 7b and 9b and is cut by the blade-shaped blades 7b and 9b. At the same time, waste is transferred by the blades 7b and 9b upward in the cylinder hole 5 and finely cut. Then, the water content of the waste flows from the small drainage hole 15 to the drainage receiver 16 through the cylinder hole 5. Also, the waste is the blade 7b,
It is finely shredded by 9b, transferred to the tapered hole 6, and gradually compressed, and the contained water is squeezed out by this compression and discharged from the small drainage hole 15. Then, the dehydrated waste is pushed into the communication pipe 18 by moving the annular valve 20 against the force of the spring spring 21 as shown by the chain line in FIG. Then, the waste materials fall from the communication pipe 18 into the dust bag 23 in the container 19 and accumulate. Then, when dust accumulates above a certain value, the weight sensor 22 detects this and gives an alarm,
As a result, the trash bag 23 is taken out of the container 19 and is thrown into an external trash box. When the amount of waste in the taper hole 6 becomes small, the annular valve 20 descends due to the force of the spring and closes the taper hole 6 again.

FIG. 6 shows a second embodiment of the present invention, which is different from the first embodiment in that the annular valve 20 and the spring spring 21 are not provided. Also in this case, since the diameter of the inside of the tapered hole 6 is gradually reduced, the waste transferred to the upper part of the tapered hole 6 by the screw conveyors 7 and 9 is compressed, and water is dehydrated to be separated into solid matter and water.

7 and 8 show a third embodiment of the present invention,
In this embodiment, instead of compressing the waste by the taper hole 6 of the first embodiment and the screw conveyors 7 and 9 having spiral blades 7b and 9b having gradually smaller diameters, instead of one end of the cylinder body 4 ', An elliptic cylinder hole 5'having a uniform diameter is provided to the end, and the pitch of the spiral blades 7'b and 9'b of the screw conveyors 7'and 9'inserted into the cylinder hole 5'is gradually narrowed. And the lower blades 7'b of the screw conveyors 7'and 9 '.
9'b and the outer peripheral edge of 9'b are not sharpened in a blade shape but are formed in a saw blade shape. Also in this embodiment, the waste conveyed to the upper part of the cylinder hole 5'by the screw conveyors 7'and 9'is screw conveyors 7'and 9 '.
Of the blades 7'b and 9'b of the nozzle are compressed and dehydrated at the place where the pitch is gradually narrowed, and the communication pipe is a discharge hole.
Extruded into 18 '.

(Effect of device) This device has the above structure. Waste is cut at the bottom of the two screw conveyors, cut into small pieces, transferred, and compressed as it is at the upper part of the cylinder hole to dehydrate the solids. The water is drained and the solid matter is compactly compressed and discharged from the upper end. Therefore, the waste is transferred to the screw conveyor and shredded, compressed, dehydrated, and separated, so that these operations are performed smoothly, and the waste is surely dehydrated and compressed without being clogged during the discharge. It Further, the apparatus itself has an extremely simple structure and has various advantages such as a reduction in size as a whole.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional front view of a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan sectional view of a screw conveyor of the same embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a side sectional view of a screw conveyor of the same embodiment.
FIG. 5 is a side view showing the shape of the lower blade of the screw conveyor of the same embodiment, FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged sectional view showing the upper end of the tapered hole of the cylinder body of the same embodiment, and FIG. 6 is a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is a partially enlarged cross-sectional view showing the upper end of the tapered hole of the cylinder body in the example, FIG. 7 is a partially cutaway front view of the cylinder body of the third embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the cylinder body of the same embodiment. It is a figure. In the figure, 1 is a sink, 2 is a drain port, 3 is a drain pipe, 4 is a cylinder body, 5 is a cylinder hole, 6 is a tapered hole, 7 is a screw conveyor, 9 is a screw conveyor, 15 is a drainage small hole, and 16 is Drain receiver, 17 is a drain end pipe.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Susumu Oba 87 Nishi-Kuroda, Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture Sanei Industry Co., Ltd. Oyama Factory (72) Inventor Susumu Katsurajima 5-2-1 Ebara, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Stock Company Saneisha Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Kanji Yamada 5-2-1 Ebara, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Saneisha Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A vertical drainage hole is provided below the sink, a cylinder hole having a substantially elliptical cross section is provided which is directed obliquely upward from one lower side of the drainage hole, and two screw conveyors are provided across the drainage hole. The spiral blades of these two screw conveyors are arranged side by side in the cylinder hole and are arranged so as to be alternately inserted between them, and the outer peripheral edges of the blades at the bottom of each of these screw conveyors are each in a blade shape. Formed,
The upper part of the cylinder hole and the spiral blade of the screw conveyor are provided with a means for compressing waste, a large number of small drainage holes are drilled at the bottom of the drain hole and the cylinder hole, and a discharge port is provided at the upper part of the cylinder hole. A kitchen waste treatment device characterized by being provided.