JPH0919217A - Country elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] Providing a country elevator that can reduce construction costs by eliminating the space occupied by brown rice storage tanks in the machinery building. [Structure] A plurality of silos 8 standing side by side with the machine building 2
The silo group 3 is made up of and the brown rice storage tank 10 is provided between the silos 8 standing upright next to each other.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a country elevator for storing paddy rice after harvest in a favorable environment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A country elevator temporarily absorbs and stores a large amount of paddy rice that can be harvested intensively for a period of time and then stores it for a long period of time after drying to an appropriate amount of water. This is the entire equipment for hulling the necessary amount into small pieces during storage and shipping as brown rice.

A general country elevator a (FIG. 6) receives the transported unhulled rice in a cargo receiving facility b and temporarily stores it in a preliminary storage facility c. The paddy rice is dried in a drying device d until a predetermined moisture content is obtained, and silo e
Is stored in The stored unhulled rice is made into unpolished rice by the preparation facility f for hulling, sorting, destoning, etc., if necessary, and is stored in the unpolished rice storage tank g until shipment. Then, the brown rice goes through a shipping facility h such as a bulk shipping tank and a bag filling device,
Bulk trucks and flexible containers (flexible containers),
It is transferred to a bag and put on the market.

Among these devices, the brown rice storage tank g is usually a horizontal type or a multi-stage type, and since 6 to 8 tanks having a capacity of about 6 tons are installed, a relatively large space is required. Therefore, the brown rice storage tank g occupies a relatively large space inside the machine building i.
Is increasing the site area. As a result, it has been a factor in raising the construction cost of country elevators.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a country elevator capable of reducing the construction cost by reducing the space occupied by the brown rice storage tank in the machine building.

[0006]

[Means for Achieving the Object] A brown rice storage tank is provided between silos that are vertically installed side by side. It is preferable to provide the brown rice storage tank between silos that stand upright in a silo group including a plurality of silos. It is convenient for the transportation of brown rice if a brown rice storage tank is installed between the silos standing upright to the machine building. The brown rice storage tank may consist of a partition wall that is built between the outer walls of the silos that are erected side by side and a space surrounded by the outer walls of the silo, or a separate brown rice storage tank between the outer walls of the silo. It may be configured by arranging a tank.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A country elevator 1 (FIG. 1) is
It has a machine building 2 in which various mechanical devices are housed and a silo group 3 adjacent to the machine building 2. The machine ridge 2 is internally provided with a cargo receiving facility 4, a preparation facility 5, a refining facility 6, and a weighing / discharging facility 7. The structure of each of these equipments is known and will not be described. The machine building 2 is additionally provided with an operation room, a voluntary inspection room, a product storage area, a living room, and the like. It should be noted that the paddy-rice transport vehicle can enter and leave the machine building 2 and can directly approach the loading port of the cargo receiving facility 4 and the dispensing facility 7.

The silo group 3 is composed mainly of a plurality of silos 8 standing upright side by side. In this embodiment,
Six silos 8 are erected. In a space inside each of the plurality of silos 8 surrounded by four silos 8, circulation-type tempering drying equipments 9, 9 are arranged, and silos 8 on the side facing the machine building 2 of the silo group 3 are arranged. A brown rice storage tank 10 is provided between them. The specific configuration of the silo 8 itself and the specific configuration of the drying equipment 9 are known. Each equipment inside the machine building 2, each silo 8 in the silo group 3, the drying equipment 9 and the brown rice storage tank 10 are the raw rice transfer route 1
1, a rice transport path 12, a brown rice transport path 13 and other fine transport paths (described later). Each transfer path is configured by combining a conveyor, a transfer pipe, a grain elevator such as a bucket elevator, and a two-way valve or a three-way valve.

The brown rice storage tank 10 (FIG. 2) is a partition wall 1 erected between outer walls 14 of silos 8 standing side by side.
It is constructed in a space surrounded by 5, 16 and the outer wall of the silo.
That is, front and rear (with respect to the machine ridge 2) partition walls 15 and 16 are installed between the outer walls 14 of the silos 8 standing side by side with a space, and the upper part of the inner space partitioned by these is a top plate 17, The bottom part is closed by a bottom plate 18 to form a tank. The bottom plate 18 is inclined downward toward the machine ridge 2. On the front wall 15 of the brown rice storage tank 10, a brown rice receiving port 19 is formed in the upper part, and a hopper-shaped brown rice feeding port 20 is formed in the lower part. In order to prevent dew condensation inside the brown rice storage tank 10 due to changes in the outside air, at least the front and rear partition walls 15, 16, the top plate 17, and the bottom plate 18 have heat insulating performance.

The raw paddy that has been put into the country elevator 1 is firstly stored, dried and stored in silos through the following route, and is also padded as required to be padded and stored as brown rice. It will be shipped later (Figs. 3 and 4).

Unhulled rice brought in from a farmer is a receiving facility 4
It is thrown into the feeding hopper 21 of FIG. 1 and reaches the selection machine 22 along the conveying path a1 indicated by the solid line arrow to remove foreign matters such as pebbles and straw waste. Then, it reaches the paddy weighing machine 23 along the transport route a2, and the amount of the received raw paddy is measured and recorded for each farmer.
After weighing, it is sent to the silo grain elevator 24 via the transport route a3,
It is placed on the first conveyor belt 26 (FIG. 4) by the transport path a4 via the switching valve 25. Conveyor 26
The upper raw rice is directly put into the drying equipment 9 or is placed on the second conveyor belt 28 through the transfer valve 25 through the transfer valve 27 through the transfer valve 27 to be temporarily stored. It is put into the silo 8 (a, b). An open / close valve is provided between the second conveyor belt 28 and each silo 8, and the valve of the silo 8 selected for temporary storage is opened during temporary storage.
Selection can be done arbitrarily.

The rice grain temporarily stored is taken out from the silo 8 (a, b) at the earliest opportunity to take the opportunity, and the transportation route b1
After passing through the third and fourth conveyor belts 29 and 30, it is returned to the above-mentioned hopper 21 by the conveying path b2. Then, similarly to the above, it again passes through the transfer paths a1 to a6 and is fed into the drying equipment 9 through the switching valve 25.

In the drying equipment 9, the raw paddy is flown from the upper side to the lower side, hot air is supplied from the burner, and is tempered and dried to a predetermined water content (water content is 17 to 18%, finally 15%). It The fried grain machine 31 for circulation and the switching valve 32 for circulation are for circulating the raw rice in the drying equipment 9.

The rice grain whose moisture content has been adjusted by the drying equipment 9 is placed on the belt 28 by the circulation switching valve 32 being switched to the side of the second conveyor belt 28, and the silo 8 for storage selected in advance is stored. (C ~
It is stored in f) and stored at a low temperature of 20 ° C or lower.

The paddy rice stored in the silos 8 (c to f) is loaded on the third conveyor belt 29 and the third conveyor belt 29 from the bottom conveying path c1 depending on the time, and the conveying path b2 and the tension hopper 21. After passing through the grain fried machine 33, the transportation route a1 is reached and the selection machine 22 is reached. Then, the changeover valve 34 is used to enter the conveyance route c2, and the conveyance route a2, the paddy weighing machine 23, the conveyance route a
3, through the silo fried machine 24, the switching valve 25, and the switching valve 27, and enters the transfer route c3. The conveyance route c3 is connected to the circulation route of the preparation equipment 5 including the grain huller 35, the grain hulled rice sorter 36 and the surge tank 37, and the grain hulling and sorting are performed, so that the grain hulled rice is brown rice.

The brown rice is sent to the transfer routes d1 and d2 by the switching valve 39 through the grain elevator 38 of the preparation facility 5, and only normal grains pass through the transfer route d3 to the brown rice weighing machine 41 through the grain sorter 39. Reach The brown rice from the brown rice weighing machine 41 enters the conveying path d4 by the switching valve 42, and is directly packed in the bag 43, the flexible container 44 or the discharge truck 45 in bulk. On the other hand, the brown rice that has been hulled but not immediately discharged is sent to the grain fried machine 43 for brown rice by the switching valve 42, and passes through the switching valve 44 and the transport path d5.
It is stored in the brown rice storage tank 10. The transport path d5 is connected to the brown rice receiving port 19 (FIG. 2) of the brown rice storage tank 10. The transport route d5 corresponds to the portion shown as the brown rice transport route 13 in FIG.

The required amount of brown rice in the brown rice storage tank 10 is taken out from the bottom outlet 20 and sent to the brown rice grain fried machine 43 via the transfer path e1 and sent to the transfer path d3 by the switching valve 44. . Then, it passes through the brown rice weighing machine 41 and the switching valve 42, passes through the conveying path d4, and is discharged to the bag packing 43, the flexible container 44, or the bulk truck 45. The transport route e1 at this time is a portion indicated by a broken line in FIG. 1, and since the brown rice storage tank 10 and the refining facility 6 are close to each other, the route distance along with the brown rice transport route 13 is relatively short.

The dried paddy rice taken out from the silos 8 (cf) is transferred through the transfer routes c1, b2, a1 and the grain fried machine 33 of the stake hopper 21 to the selection machine 22 and then the switching valve. 34, it may be sent to the transport path f1. The transport path f1 is connected to the surge tank 45, and the unhulled rice further passes through the unhulled rice sorter 46, and only normal unhulled rice is connected to the circulation path of the preparation facility 5 equipped with the huller 35. Reference numeral 47 is an immature grain reservoir, and reference numeral 48 is a debowing machine for removing the branch shoots. The paper bag 49 connected to the screening machine 22 is for accommodating immature grains and pebbles.

The above is the first embodiment, and the structure of the country elevator 1 is not limited to that shown in the drawings. An independent brown rice storage tank 50 separate from the silo 8 may be installed between the two silos 8 facing the machine building 2 (second embodiment, FIG. 5). In this case, the capacity of brown rice that can be stored is slightly smaller, but a brown rice storage tank can be created separately from the silo, and the labor for constructing the silo group 3 is relatively small compared to the first embodiment. Few.

The brown rice storage tank 10 (50) needs to have a capacity of about 6 to 8 times the load capacity of 6 tons of the bulk carrier 30. However, when the capacity of one brown rice storage tank 10 is insufficient, The brown rice storage tank 10 can also be installed between the other silos 8 located at the position facing the outside of the silo group 3 (third embodiment). The numbers of the silos 8 and the drying devices 9 are appropriately increased or decreased according to the scale of the country elevator 1.

[0021]

According to the first aspect of the invention, the dead space between silos in the silo group is used as the construction space required for the brown rice storage tank, and the space for the brown rice storage tank is reduced from inside the machine building. As a result, the site area required to build a country elevator can be small, and construction costs can be kept low. According to the configuration of claim 2, since the brown rice storage tank is provided between the silos that are vertically arranged facing the outside of the silo group, the brown rice temporarily stored is carried out to the outside. It is easy and the equipment such as the transportation means can be simplified.

According to the structure described in claim 3, the brown rice transporting route connecting the brown rice storage tank and the machine building is short, and the construction cost can be further suppressed. According to the configuration of claim 4,
It is possible to use the gap between silos more efficiently,
Since the capacity is large and the outer wall of the silo constitutes a part of the brown rice storage tank, the cost of building materials can be reduced.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the brown rice storage tank can be formed separately from the silo, so that the labor and field work for constructing the silo group are reduced. The construction period can be shortened.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a country elevator (first embodiment).

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a part of a silo group taken out.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a processing flow from loading to unloading (left half)

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a processing flow from loading to unloading (right half)

FIG. 5 is a schematic plan view of a country elevator (second embodiment).

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a conventional country elevator.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Country Elevator 2 Machine Building 3 Silo Group 4 Receiving Equipment 5 Preparation Equipment 6 Refinement Equipment 7 Weighing and Discharging Equipment 8 Silo 9 Drying Equipment 10 Brown Rice Storage Tank 11 Raw Paddy Transport Path 12 Paddy Rice Transport Path 13 Brown Rice Transport Path 14 Outer Wall 15 Partition Wall (front) 16 Partition wall (rear) 17 Top plate 18 Bottom plate 19 Brown rice receiving port 20 Brown rice feeding port 21 Tightening hopper 22 Selector 23 Paddy weighing machine 24 Silo grain elevator 25 Switching valve 26 First conveyor belt 27 Switching Valve 28 Second conveyor belt 29 Third conveyor belt 30 Fourth conveyor belt 31 Circulating grain elevator 32 Circulation switching valve 33 Crushing hopper grain elevator 34 Switching valve 35 Rice huller 36 Paddy brown rice sorter 37 Surge tank 38 Graining machine for preparation equipment 39 Switching valve 40 grains Sorting machine 41 Brown rice weighing machine 42 Switching valve 43 Brown rice fried machine 44 Switching valve 45 Surge tank 46 Paddy sorting machine 47 Immature grain reservoir 48 Debowing machine 49 Paper bag 50 Brown rice storage tank (second embodiment)

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A country elevator characterized by having a silo group consisting of a plurality of silos standing side by side and a machine building, with a brown rice storage tank provided between the silos standing side by side. . 2. The country elevator according to claim 1, characterized in that a brown rice storage tank is provided between silos which are vertically arranged side by side facing the outside of the silo group. 3. The country elevator according to claim 2, wherein a brown rice storage tank is provided between the silos on the side of the silo group that faces the machine building. 4. The brown rice storage tank is characterized in that a partition wall erected between the outer walls of the silos standing side by side and a space surrounded by the outer walls of the silo are formed in the brown rice storage tank.
~ The country elevator according to claim 3. 5. The country elevator according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the brown rice storage tank is configured separately from the silo.