Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide gardenia fruit drying equipment which can overcome the defects of the prior art, so that the gardenia fruit is dried quickly, the operation is convenient, the fruits are neat and intact, the treatment capacity is large, the efficiency is high, and high-quality dried gardenia fruits are provided for the subsequent procedures.
The technical aim of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:
The gardenia fruit drying equipment comprises one or more drying boxes which are stacked and arranged, an air supply device which is arranged below the drying boxes and used for providing drying steam for the drying boxes, and a box placing bin which is used for accommodating the drying boxes and is connected with the air supply device; the box placing bin comprises a containing cavity for containing the drying box, an upper plate, a lower plate, a back plate and a front baffle plate, wherein the upper plate, the lower plate and the back plate form the containing cavity; the back plate is provided with a depth fixing block in a direction facing the drying box; an air inlet connecting pipe which is communicated with the air supply device and the drying box is fixedly connected to the lower plate; and an exhaust connecting pipe which is communicated with the top of the drying box and guides the exhaust gas to be exhausted upwards is fixed on the upper plate.
Preferably, the air inlet connecting pipes are connected with the air outlet part of the air supply device in parallel, and the air outlet connecting pipes with different heights are communicated with each other in sequence.
Preferably, the drying device further has an exhaust fan provided at the top portion and communicating with the exhaust connection pipe.
Preferably, the drying box comprises a main body, and an upper cover which can be opened in a rotating way; the main body comprises a plurality of rows of drying areas which are arranged in parallel, and air inlet pipelines of the drying areas are communicated in parallel; the upper cover comprises a plurality of exhaust areas which are covered above the drying areas and correspond to the positions of the drying areas, and the exhaust areas are provided with exhaust pipelines which are communicated in sequence.
Preferably, the drying area comprises a plurality of drying units arranged at intervals, and the exhaust area comprises a plurality of exhaust units corresponding to the positions of the drying units; the drying unit comprises a fruit placing cavity which can accommodate single gardenia to be dried and is arranged on the top surface of the main body, and an air supply pipeline which blows drying hot air into the fruit placing cavity; the exhaust unit comprises a common exhaust cavity arranged in the upper cover, and a guide part which is covered above each fruit placing cavity and guides exhaust gas to be discharged, and the guide parts are communicated with the common exhaust cavity.
Preferably, the fruit placing cavity is ellipsoidal, and a section formed by the fruit placing cavity and the top surface of the main body is parallel to a section with the largest cross-sectional area of the fruit placing cavity and is positioned above the section with the largest cross-sectional area of the fruit placing cavity.
Preferably, the air supply pipeline comprises an air inlet pipe for blowing a drying hot air part into the bottom of the fruit placing cavity and conveying the rest part to the top surface of the main body, and a top air blowing pipe communicated with a connecting port of the air inlet pipe on the top surface of the main body; the top air blowing pipe is fixedly arranged on the bottom surface of the upper cover through a connecting rod, and the air outlet direction of the top air blowing pipe faces to the top of the fruit placing cavity.
Preferably, the ratio of the air amount blown to the bottom of the fruit placing cavity to the air amount blown to the top of the fruit placing cavity is between 2/3 and 3/4.
Preferably, the wall of the fruit placing cavity is smooth.
Preferably, the cavity wall of the fruit placing cavity is arc-shaped and is intersected with the top surface of the main body, and the curvature extension line of the arc is consistent with the air outlet direction of the top air blowing pipe.
Preferably, the guide part comprises a rear guide plate extending to the upper part of the rear side of the top blowing pipe and a front guide plate extending to the upper part of the front side of the cape jasmine fruit; the distance between the rear guide plate and the front guide plate is reduced along with the reduction of the distance between the rear guide plate and the common exhaust cavity, and the gas guiding direction of the guiding part is consistent with the gas outlet direction of the top gas blowing pipe.
Preferably, the air inlet pipe is in sealing connection with the top air blowing pipe, an installation groove capable of being provided with a sealing ring is formed between the air inlet pipe and the top surface of the main body, an installation flange matched with the installation groove in size is arranged at the bottom end of the top air blowing pipe, and a guiding inclined plane for guiding drying hot air blown out from the air inlet pipe into the top air blowing pipe is formed at the bottom of the installation flange.
Preferably, the cavity wall of the fruit placing cavity is provided with non-return and anti-slip grains.
In summary, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
The water gardenia fruit drying equipment enables all gardenia fruits to be placed independently, ensures that all gardenia fruits can be dried by clean drying hot air independently, and is good in drying effect, convenient to operate, uniform and neat in fruit appearance and good in quality, and provides high-quality dried gardenia fruits for subsequent procedures.
Detailed Description
The invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments.
The present embodiment is only for explanation of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the present invention, and modifications to the present embodiment, which may not creatively contribute to the present invention as required by those skilled in the art after reading the present specification, are all protected by patent laws within the scope of claims of the present invention.
Examples: as shown in fig. 1 to 9, a gardenia fruit drying apparatus includes one or more drying boxes 10 for drying gardenia fruit, which are stacked, an air supply device 20 for supplying drying steam to the drying boxes, which is provided below the drying boxes, a box-placing bin 30 which accommodates the drying boxes therein and is connected to the air supply device; the box placing bin comprises a containing cavity 31 for containing the drying box, an upper plate 32, a lower plate 33, a back plate 34 and a front baffle 35 which can be opened and closed, wherein the upper plate 32, the lower plate 33 and the back plate 34 form the containing cavity; the back plate is provided with a depth fixing block 36 in the direction facing the drying box; an air inlet connecting pipe 37 which is communicated with the air supply device and the drying box is fixedly connected to the lower plate; an exhaust connection 38 which communicates with the top of the drying box and guides the exhaust gas to be discharged upward is fixed to the upper plate.
The setting of the air supply device refers to the patent with the authority of CN105054257B and is named as a new energy-based fig drying device, and the air supply device comprises an air inlet fan and an air heater, wherein the air inlet fan conveys outside clean and dry air to the air heater, the air heater heats the air, and clean and dry hot air is provided for each drying box to dry the fruits. And the air heater is provided with a plurality of parallel air outlets, and each drying box is provided with an independent air inlet interface.
When the drying equipment is provided with a plurality of drying boxes, the box storage bins can be stacked independently, or the adjacent box storage bins share the upper plate and the lower plate, so that a complete and shared large box storage bin with a plurality of accommodating cavities which are mutually spaced is formed. The depth of the drying box entering the accommodating cavity can be limited, the drying box is prevented from excessively entering the accommodating cavity, and the air inlet connecting pipe and the air outlet connecting pipe are protected from being excessively extruded. The air inlet connecting pipe is a rigid pipe, one end of the air inlet connecting pipe is fixedly connected to the lower plate through a flange, the other end of the air inlet connecting pipe is an air pipe connector facing the drying box, the air pipe connector is similar to a commonly used quick-change female connector connected with an air pipe, a quick-change sub-connector matched with the drying box can be arranged at a corresponding position of the drying box, and the butt joint and sealing of the air pipe can be realized quickly when the drying box is installed in place. The exhaust connecting pipe is a rigid pipe, one section is fixedly connected to the upper plate through a flange, the other end is an air pipe connector facing the drying box, the air pipe connector is similar to a quick-change female connector commonly used for pipe-rabbet connection, a quick-change sub-connector matched with the drying box can be arranged at a corresponding position of the drying box, and the butt joint and sealing of the air pipe can be realized quickly when the drying box is installed in place. And can set up the mobile device that makes stoving box remove accurately in holding the chamber in hypoplastron and stoving box bottom, can be common slide rail slider structure, guarantee to admit air take over and exhaust take over and the stable accurate butt joint of stoving box.
Each air inlet connecting pipe is connected with the air outlet part of the air supply device in parallel, and each air outlet connecting pipe with different heights is communicated with each other in sequence from head to tail. The cleaning and drying hot air with the same force can be obtained after each drying box is connected with the box placing bin, the stability of a drying heat source is ensured, and the communicated exhaust pipeline ensures that wet water vapor after use is smoothly discharged. The one-way check valves can be arranged on the air inlet connecting pipe and the air outlet connecting pipe to prevent the air from flowing back, thereby being beneficial to the smooth air inlet and air outlet.
The drying apparatus also has a suction fan 40 at the top communicating with the exhaust manifold. The exhaust fan accelerates the exhaust of exhaust gas, prevents that exhaust gas from being discharged unsmoothly, and can accelerate the flow of stoving steam, prevents to produce negative pressure.
The drying box comprises a main body 11, an upper cover 12 which can be opened in a rotating way; the main body comprises a plurality of rows of drying areas 13 which are arranged in parallel, and air inlet pipelines 14 which are communicated with the drying areas in parallel; the upper cover comprises a plurality of exhaust areas 15 which are covered above the drying areas and correspond to the positions of the drying areas, and the exhaust areas are provided with exhaust pipelines which are communicated in sequence. The air inlet pipeline is provided with a connector corresponding to the position of the air inlet connecting pipe, so that the connection of the drying box and the air inlet connecting pipe, namely the connection of the air inlet pipeline and the air supply device, and the connection of the air outlet pipeline and the position of the air outlet connecting pipe are realized, and the connection of the drying box and the air outlet connecting pipe, namely the connection of the drying box and the outside or an exhaust fan, is realized.
The drying area comprises a plurality of drying units 17 which are arranged at intervals, and the exhaust area comprises a plurality of exhaust units 18 which correspond to the positions of the drying units; the drying unit comprises a fruit placing cavity 171 which can accommodate single gardenia to be dried and is arranged on the top surface of the main body, and a gas supply pipeline 172 which blows drying hot gas into the fruit placing cavity; the exhaust unit comprises a shared exhaust cavity 181 arranged in the upper cover, and a guide part which is covered above each fruit placing cavity and guides exhaust gas to be discharged, wherein the guide parts are communicated with the shared exhaust cavity. A fruit placing cavity is used for accommodating a cape jasmine fruit, the air supply pipeline is communicated with an external device for supplying drying hot air, clean drying hot air is blown to the cape jasmine fruit, and the fruit placing cavity is used for ensuring that the cape jasmine fruit cannot escape in the drying process, namely, the cape jasmine fruit rolls in the fruit placing cavity due to the drying hot air; the waste gas carries the steam that separates out from the cape jasmine fruit, through the guide of guiding portion, discharges through sharing exhaust chamber, makes the cape jasmine fruit experience the stoving of continuous clean stoving steam, and the stoving is quick, convenient operation, and the fruit is neat good.
The fruit placing cavity is ellipsoidal, and the cross section formed by the fruit placing cavity and the top surface of the main body is parallel to the cross section with the largest cross section area of the fruit placing cavity and is positioned above the cross section with the largest cross section area of the fruit placing cavity. The contact area is larger when the ellipsoidal cape jasmine fruits are placed in the fruit placing cavity, the cape jasmine fruits are more adhered to the fruit placing cavity, the cape jasmine fruits are placed stably, and the position concentration uniformity is good; because the cross section formed by the fruit placing cavity and the top surface of the main body is above the cross section with the largest cross section area of the fruit placing cavity, most of the cape jasmine fruits are contained in the fruit placing cavity, so that the cape jasmine fruits can be stably kept in the fruit placing cavity and cannot fly out when being blown to roll by the drying hot air.
The air supply pipeline comprises an air inlet pipe 172 for blowing a part of the drying hot air into the bottom of the fruit placing cavity and conveying the rest part to the top surface of the main body, and a top air blowing pipe 173 communicated with a connecting port of the air inlet pipe on the top surface of the main body; the top air blowing pipe is fixedly arranged on the bottom surface of the upper cover through a connecting rod, and the air outlet direction of the top air blowing pipe is opposite to the top of the fruit cavity. The pipe wall part of the air inlet pipe penetrates into the bottom of the fruit placing cavity, so that the separated drying hot air is sent into the fruit placing cavity, and the air supply direction of the air inlet pipe is close to the curvature of the cavity wall of the fruit placing cavity, so that the stable cape jasmine fruit can be blown by the hot air along the surface; the top gas blowing pipe blows the drying hot air which does not enter the fruit placing cavity to the top of the cape jasmine fruit, the gas outlet direction of the top gas blowing pipe is similar to the curvature of the top of the cape jasmine fruit, and the gas outlet height is slightly higher than the top of the cape jasmine fruit when the cape jasmine fruit is stably placed, when the cape jasmine fruit is blown up by the bottom hot air, the hot air blown out by the top gas blowing pipe starts to contact the top of the cape jasmine fruit, so that the top of the cape jasmine fruit is also dried by hot air, and the rotation of the cape jasmine fruit is assisted, so that the cape jasmine fruit can be easily and continuously rotated repeatedly in the fruit placing cavity, and the cape jasmine fruit is dried uniformly and stably to cover all surface parts.
The ratio of the air quantity blown to the bottom of the fruit placing cavity to the air quantity blown to the top of the fruit placing cavity is 2/3-3/4. The proportion of the air quantity depends on the size of the cross-sectional area of the pipeline which is introduced into the fruit placing cavity and is not introduced into the fruit placing cavity when the air inlet pipe passes through the bottom of the fruit placing cavity, under the proportion, the cape jasmine fruit can roll more easily, and the provided drying hot air can be ensured to act on the cape jasmine fruit in a sufficient quantity and only a small amount of waste is caused.
The cavity wall of the fruit placing cavity is intersected with the top surface of the arc-shaped main body, and the curvature extension line of the arc is consistent with the air outlet direction of the top air blowing pipe. Therefore, when the waste gas after being blown into the bottom of the fruit placing cavity and dried is discharged out of the fruit placing cavity, the waste gas can be almost discharged in the same direction together with the gas blown out of the top gas blowing pipe through the guide part and the shared gas discharging cavity, turbulent flow is not generated, the waste gas is smoothly discharged, and the waste gas can not flow back to disturb the drying effect.
The guide part comprises a rear guide plate 182 extending above the rear side of the top blowing pipe, and a front guide plate 183 extending above the front side of the cape jasmine; the distance between the rear guide plate and the front guide plate is reduced along with the reduction of the distance from the common exhaust cavity, and the gas guiding direction of the guiding part is consistent with the gas outlet direction of the top gas blowing pipe. Therefore, all the used drying gas blown out from the bottom of the fruit placing cavity and the used flood drying gas blown out from the top air blowing pipe are collected and guided to the common exhaust cavity, and the exhaust gas is smoothly discharged without back blowing.
The air inlet pipe is connected with the top air blowing pipe in a sealing way, a mounting groove which can be provided with a sealing ring is arranged between the air inlet pipe and the top surface of the main body, a mounting flange which is matched with the mounting groove in size is arranged at the bottom end of the top air blowing pipe, and a guiding inclined plane which guides the drying hot air blown out by the air inlet pipe into the top air blowing pipe is arranged at the bottom of the mounting flange. The top air blowing pipe is fixed on the bottom surface of the upper cover, and when the upper cover is closed, the mounting flange is pressed to the mounting groove, so that the sealing connection between the top air blowing pipe and the air inlet pipe is realized, and meanwhile, the top air blowing pipe and the guide part are correctly positioned above the fruit placing cavity; and with the opening of upper cover, remove the connection of top gas-blowing pipe and intake pipe, the cape jasmine fruit can be conveniently put and got and change. The attachment of the upper cover to the main body may be by a conventional pivot connection.