CN113954140A

CN113954140A - Continuous slicing device for traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces

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Publication number: CN113954140A
Application number: CN202111238347.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨光喜; 汤云富; 蒲小华; ***; 向中华
Original assignee: Huaihua Kanglong Traditional Chinese Medicine Development Co ltd
Current assignee: Huaihua Kanglong Traditional Chinese Medicine Development Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-10-25
Filing date: 2021-10-25
Publication date: 2022-01-21

Abstract

The invention discloses a continuous slicing device for traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, wherein a closed shell of the continuous slicing device is internally provided with a material guide structure and a slicing structure, the material guide structure comprises a material guide cylinder, the material guide cylinder is provided with an arc semi-cylinder body, a plurality of limiting strips are arranged on the opposite side of the arc semi-cylinder body, gaps are reserved between the adjacent limiting strips, and a jacking mechanism is arranged at the gap position; the slicing structure comprises a support and a cutting assembly, the bottom of the support is connected with a workbench and a guide frame, the guide frame is provided with a plurality of guide grooves in the height direction, the cutting assembly is provided with cutting units corresponding to the guide grooves, the cutting units are provided with independent slicing portions, the slicing portions comprise sliders arranged in the guide grooves, cutting blades and gaskets are assembled on the sliders, and the sliders are driven through a crank-link mechanism to realize reciprocating feeding at the positions of the workbench. The invention can realize the continuous slicing processing of the traditional Chinese medicine, simultaneously can discharge a plurality of pieces at one time, and can effectively ensure the consistency of the cutting thickness.

Description

Continuous slicing device for traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicine processing, in particular to a continuous slicing device for traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, which can be used for uniformly and continuously slicing.

Background

The traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces are prepared from traditional Chinese medicines according to the traditional Chinese medicine theory and the traditional Chinese medicine preparation method, and can be directly used as traditional Chinese medicines in traditional Chinese medicine clinical practice. The cutting of Chinese medicine decoction pieces is one of the processing procedures of Chinese medicine, and is to soften the selected medicine and cut it into pieces with certain specification. The traditional Chinese medicine slices are generally root and stem medicinal materials of plants and cutin medicinal materials of animals, and in order to meet the requirement of medicine property, slicing operation needs to be carried out by using a slicing device after processing, such as platycodon grandiflorum, ginseng, gastrodia elata, poria cocos, caulis spatholobi, Chinese yam, astragalus membranaceus, antelope horn, antler and the like.

Among the prior art, herbal pieces-'s section operation adopts processing methods such as artifical sword is cut or plane brush cutting mostly, processing work efficiency is low, also there is the section operation that carries out the batch production to utilize traditional chinese medicine section device, but common traditional chinese medicine section device includes hold-down mechanism and section structure usually, its hold-down mechanism sets up on transport structure, be used for carrying out the centre gripping to traditional chinese medicine, and transport the medicinal material to the section structure direction through conveyer, then recycle section structure and carry out the order section, its advantage lies in simple structure, conveniently slice according to actual demand, but the defect lies in:

1. the design of the pressing mechanism is too simple, the traditional Chinese medicinal materials with different shapes are difficult to be stably clamped, the traditional Chinese medicinal materials with toughness are difficult to be continuously and stably clamped in the slicing process, the traditional Chinese medicinal materials are bent in the slicing process, thin slices cannot be cut, and the sections of the sliced traditional Chinese medicinal tablets are irregular and the thicknesses of the sliced traditional Chinese medicinal tablets are inconsistent.

2. The slicing structure is usually a single-blade structure, and only one traditional Chinese medicine tablet can be formed by one-time cutting, so the cutting efficiency is low.

For the reasons, the traditional Chinese medicine slicing device is complex in structure and inconvenient to operate; or the structural stability is poor, continuous and stable slicing is difficult to carry out, and a further improvement on the traditional Chinese medicine slicing device is needed.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a continuous slicing device for traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, which has a simple structure, is easy to realize continuous slicing processing of traditional Chinese medicine materials with different shapes, can effectively ensure the consistency of thickness slices of the traditional Chinese medicine materials, is beneficial to processing in the next procedure, and solves the defects in the technical background.

The technical problem solved by the invention is realized by adopting the following technical scheme:

the continuous slicing device for the traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces comprises a rack and a closed shell arranged on the rack, wherein a material guide structure and a slicing structure are arranged in the closed shell:

the material guide structure comprises a material guide cylinder, a material feeding port is formed in the upper portion of the material guide cylinder, the material guide cylinder comprises an arc semi-cylinder body arranged along the length direction of the material guide cylinder, and the section of the inner side surface of the arc semi-cylinder body is a continuous arc surface; a plurality of limiting strips are arranged on the opposite side of the cambered surface semi-cylinder body, the limiting strips are arranged along the length direction of the material guide cylinder, gaps are arranged between the adjacent limiting strips, and the contour lines of the limiting strips on the section and the cambered surface semi-cylinder body form a complete section circle; the outer side of the limiting strip is provided with a jacking mechanism, the number of the jacking mechanisms corresponds to the number of the gaps, the jacking mechanisms are arranged on the same lifting support and comprise an air cylinder and a jacking block connected with the air cylinder, the jacking block is provided with thimbles in rows, the thimbles can penetrate through the gaps through the expansion and contraction of the air cylinder and jack medicinal materials to be sliced in the guide cylinder;

the slicing structure comprises a support and a cutting assembly, the support is arranged on one side of the bottom of the guide cylinder, the bottom of the support is connected with a workbench, the workbench is arranged on the bottom of a discharge port of the guide cylinder, a height difference is reserved between the workbench and the discharge port, and a discharge guide chute is arranged on one side of the workbench; the cutting assembly is provided with a plurality of cutting units matched with the guide grooves in number, each cutting unit is provided with an independent cutting part, each cutting part comprises a sliding block arranged in the guide groove, the upper part of each sliding block is provided with a cutting blade, the lower part of each sliding block is provided with a gasket, and the gaskets are arranged on the rear sides of the lower parts of the cutting blades; the slider is driven by a crank link mechanism to realize reciprocating feeding at the position of the workbench.

As a further limitation, the material guide cylinder is vertically arranged, and a material feeding port cover connected through a hinge is arranged on the material guide cylinder corresponding to the material feeding port.

As a further limitation, the closed shell is provided with an elastic clamping device at a position corresponding to the material guide cylinder, so that the material guide cylinders with different opening sizes can be replaced by the elastic clamping device, and the slicing operation of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials with different sizes can be realized.

As a further limitation, the number of the limiting strips arranged on the guide cylinder is 4-5.

As further limitation, the gaps between the adjacent limiting strips are 1/5-1/8 of the diameter of the Chinese medicinal materials to be sliced, and the widths of different gaps on the same guide cylinder are consistent.

As a further limitation, the diameter of the ejector pin is 2/3-4/5 of the gap.

As a further limitation, the ejector pin is connected with the ejector block through an elastic seat, a rubber ejector block is arranged on the top surface of the ejector pin, and the ejector pin abuts against the surface of the Chinese medicinal material to be sliced through the rubber ejector block at the top part so as to prevent the Chinese medicinal material to be sliced from being injured by jacking.

As a further limitation, a force sensor unit is arranged on the cylinder, and the force sensor unit is connected with a cylinder stop switch to stop the movement of the cylinder when the jacking force fed back by the thimble reaches a set value, so as to prevent the Chinese medicinal materials to be sliced from being jacked.

As a further limitation, the discharging guide chute is a chute, and the bottom of the discharging guide chute is connected with a collecting hopper.

As a further limitation, the distance between the blade surfaces corresponding to the cutting blades on the adjacent cutting units and the distance between the cutting blade at the lowest position and the workbench plane bracket are the same and are both 0.5 mm-4 mm.

As a further limitation, the cutting blades and the gaskets are assembled and fixed on the sliding block through countersunk bolts, so that the upper surfaces of the gaskets are better attached to the lower surfaces of the corresponding cutting blades.

As a further limitation, the number of the cutting units arranged on the cutting assembly is preferably 2-4, and the crank-link mechanisms of the 2-4 cutting units are driven by a synchronous belt wheel so as to realize synchronous feeding.

Has the advantages that: the continuous slicing device for the traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces is simple and reasonable in structure and high in automation degree, can be used for continuously slicing the traditional Chinese medicine, improves the production efficiency, can be used for compressing and continuously feeding the traditional Chinese medicine through the jacking mechanism through the arrangement of the guide cylinder, can be used for slicing during slicing operation in the feeding process, can be used for slicing a plurality of traditional Chinese medicines at one time, can effectively prevent the traditional Chinese medicines from deforming in the feeding process, and can prevent the traditional Chinese medicines from being uneven in thickness due to deviation of the feeding position.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic sectional view showing the position of the guide cylinder in fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the table of fig. 1 in more detail.

Wherein: 1. a spring cushion block; 2. a material guide cylinder; 3. a circular outer cassette; 4. a thimble; 5. a top block; 6. a cylinder; 7. a lifting support; 8. a closed housing; 9. a first timing pulley; 10. a first bearing housing; 11. a crank link mechanism; 12. a second timing pulley; 13. a second bearing housing; 14. a synchronous belt; 15. a speed reducer; 16. a frame; 17. a transmission belt; 18. a drive motor; 19. a support; 20. a cutting assembly; 21. a discharging guide chute; 22. a discharge port; 23. a work table; 24. angle iron; 25. an arc-shaped semi-cylinder body; 26. chinese medicinal materials to be sliced; 27. a limiting strip; 28. a gap; 29. a cylinder mounting seat; 30. a rubber top block; 31. an elastic seat; 32. a spring; 33. cutting a blade; 34. a workbench connecting seat; 35. a gasket; 36. a guide frame; 37. a slider; 38. and a guide groove.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical means, the creation characteristics, the achievement purposes and the effects of the invention easy to understand, the invention is further explained below by combining the specific drawings.

It should be noted that if directional indications (such as according to the upper, lower, left, right, front and rear … …) are involved in the embodiment of the present invention, the directional indications are only used to explain the relative positional relationship, movement, etc. of the components in a specific posture (according to the figure), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indications are changed accordingly.

In the following examples, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that, unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the prior art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.

Referring to fig. 1-3, in this embodiment, a main structure of the continuous slicing apparatus for herbal pieces-chinese traditional medicine is wrapped in a closed casing 8, the closed casing 8 is formed by bending a steel plate and splicing, and is reinforced and fixed by welding angle iron 24 at an inner side of a corresponding edge position of the closed casing 8, a frame 16 is welded to a bottom of the closed casing 8, and the frame 16 is used for keeping the continuous slicing apparatus for herbal pieces-chinese traditional medicine in a stable placement state.

As a part for realizing the functions, a material guiding structure and a slicing structure are arranged in the closed shell 8, the material guiding structure is used for correctly guiding the Chinese medicinal material 26 to be sliced to the position of the workbench 23, and the slicing structure is used for slicing the Chinese medicinal material 26 to be sliced correctly guided to the position of the workbench 23.

The bottom of the closed shell 8 is provided with a sandwich structure which is used as an element cavity, a driving motor 18 and a speed reducer 15 are fixedly assembled in the sandwich structure, the driving motor 18 is connected with the input end of the speed reducer 15 through a transmission belt 17, and the output end of the speed reducer 15 is connected with a synchronous belt 14 so as to provide slicing power for the slicing structure through the synchronous belt 14; in addition, a lifting motor for providing lifting power for the lifting support 7 and a gas source for providing gas for the cylinder 6 are arranged in the sandwich structure at the bottom of the closed shell 8.

In this embodiment, the guide structure includes guide cylinder 2 and sets up in the guide cylinder 2 right side for to treat that the sliced chinese-medicinal material 26 that gets into in guide cylinder 2 compresses tightly and the tight mechanism in top of pay-off, a chinese-medicinal decoction piece's continuous section device can join in marriage a plurality of guide cylinders 2 that have different internal diameters, use with the guide cylinder 2 of selecting the chinese-medicinal material 26 size that adapts to different waiting to slice, realize the operation of cutting into slices of different size chinese-medicinal materials, the biggest department of external diameter that the guide cylinder 2 selected is less than the internal diameter of guide cylinder 2 with treating sliced chinese-medicinal material 26, and be greater than 2/3 of guide cylinder 2 internal diameter as the standard. And the upper part of the corresponding right side in the closed shell 8 is provided with a circular outer clamping seat 3 for clamping and fixing the guide cylinder 2, the circular outer clamping seat 3 is an elastic clamping mechanism, the left side of the circular outer clamping seat 3 is provided with a spring cushion block 1 with a cambered surface, when the guide cylinder 2 is assembled, the spring cushion block 1 is firstly compressed, then the selected guide cylinder 2 is loaded, and then the spring cushion block 1 is loosened, so that the selected guide cylinder 2 can be clamped and fixed by the spring cushion block 1.

In this embodiment, the material guiding cylinder 2 is fixed and assembled by the circular outer clamping seat 3 to maintain a vertical state, the material guiding cylinder 2 itself is a cylinder structure, the upper part of the material guiding cylinder is a feeding port, and the lower part of the material guiding cylinder is a discharging port, in order to prevent fines from reversely popping out through the feeding port in the slicing process, a feeding port cover connected through a hinge can be arranged on the material guiding cylinder 2 corresponding to the feeding port to seal the feeding port. The section structure of the material guide cylinder 2 is shown in fig. 2, and comprises an arc-shaped semi-cylinder 25 and four limiting strips 27, wherein the arc-shaped semi-cylinder 25 and the four limiting strips 27 are arranged along the length direction of the material guide cylinder 2 and are fixed on the upper end surface and the lower end surface through annular buckles, the inner side surface of the arc-shaped semi-cylinder 25 is complete and smooth, so that the traditional Chinese medicinal materials 26 to be sliced, which are put through a feeding port, can fall through self weight without obstacles, and the four limiting strips 27 form another semicircle opposite to the arc-shaped semi-cylinder 25, so that the inner contour lines of the four limiting strips 27 and the arc-shaped semi-cylinder 25 form a section circle structure; gaps 28 are reserved between every two four limiting strips 27, namely, the gaps 28 correspond to the upper gap, the middle gap and the lower gap in fig. 2, and the gaps 28 have equal-width intervals on the vertical projection plane in fig. 2 so as to facilitate the insertion of the thimble 4 in the jacking mechanism. In this embodiment, the gap between the adjacent position-limiting strips 27 is 1/8 of the diameter of the Chinese herbal medicine to be sliced to ensure the stability of the ejector pin 4 after being pushed tightly, and the diameter of the ejector pin 4 is 4/5 of the gap 28 to prevent the side deviation and displacement of the ejector pin 4 when being pushed tightly.

The jacking mechanisms are arranged in three groups in the embodiment, are arranged on the same plane and are used for assisting in feeding and position maintaining of the Chinese medicinal materials 26 to be sliced, each group of the jacking mechanisms comprises an air cylinder 6, the air cylinder 6 is fixedly arranged on the lifting bracket 7 through an air cylinder mounting seat 29, the extending end of the air cylinder 6 is connected with a jacking block 5, six elastic seats 31 are connected on the top block 5, the six elastic seats 31 are arranged at equal intervals in the vertical direction of the lifting bracket 7, the elastic seats 31 are of piston cylinder-like structures, the cylinder is filled with a spring 32, the thimble 4 is used as a piston body outside the spring 32, the top end of the outer side of the thimble 4 is connected with a rubber top block 30, the rubber top block 30 is abutted against the surface of the Chinese medicinal material 26 to be sliced when the thimble 4 is jacked into the gap 28, and the Chinese medicinal material 26 to be sliced can be effectively prevented from being jacked and damaged by matching with the elastic restoring force of the spring 32. When the device detects that the guide cylinder 2 is used for blanking, the air cylinder 6 in the jacking mechanism is started, the traditional Chinese medicinal materials 26 to be sliced, which are input from the feed port of the guide cylinder 2, fall down in the guide cylinder 2 and are jacked by the ejector pins 4 which are driven by the air cylinder 6 to extend out, in the jacking process, the traditional Chinese medicinal materials 4 at different height positions are attached to and tightly pressed on the irregular surface of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials 26 to be sliced in the length direction under the action of the elastic seat 31, so that the traditional Chinese medicinal materials 26 to be sliced are always kept in a tightly pressed state and cannot be shifted and moved in the slicing process, and equal-thickness slicing is ensured, and in the slicing process of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials 26 to be sliced, the lifting support 7 moves downwards, and then the traditional Chinese medicinal materials 26 to be sliced are driven to be sliced in the length direction of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials 26 to be sliced sequentially until the slicing is completed.

In another embodiment, in order to prevent the cut traditional Chinese medicine materials 26 from being damaged by the top, a force sensor unit may be further disposed on the cylinder 6, and the force sensor unit is connected to a stop switch of the cylinder 6, so as to stop the cylinder 6 from moving when the jacking force fed back by the thimble 4 reaches a set value, thereby preventing the cut traditional Chinese medicine materials 26 from being damaged by the top.

In this embodiment, the slicing structure is structurally characterized in that as shown in fig. 1 and 3, the slicing structure comprises a support 19 and a cutting assembly 20, the lower portion of the support 19 is maintained in height by an upright rod, the upright rod and the support 19 are detachably assembled by a threaded connector, the support 19 is connected with a worktable 23 on the left side by a worktable connecting seat 34, the worktable 23 faces a discharge port of the guide cylinder 2, a height difference is maintained between the worktable 23 and the discharge port of the guide cylinder 2 to serve as a slicing space of the cutting assembly 20, and the spacing of the slicing space is consistent with the height of a plurality of cutting units overlapped on the corresponding cutting assembly 20, so that the part of the Chinese medicinal material 26 to be sliced, which extends into the slicing space, is completely sliced by the cutting units. The closed shell 8 is provided with a discharge port 22 at the lower part of the left side corresponding to the workbench 23, the discharge port 22 is connected with the workbench 23 through a chute as a discharge guide chute 21, and the tail end of the discharge guide chute 21 is connected with a collection hopper for collecting the sliced traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces.

A guide frame 36 is arranged on the right part of the bracket 19, the guide frame 36 is arranged on the right side of the workbench 23, two cutting units with the same structure are assembled on the guide frame 36, independent slicing parts are arranged on the two cutting units, and each slicing part comprises a cutting blade 33, a gasket 35 and a sliding block 37. The guide frame 36 is provided with two guide grooves 38 in the height direction, the two guide grooves 38 are respectively and correspondingly provided with a cutting unit, a sliding block 37 of the cutting unit is assembled in the guide groove 38 and can move left and right along the guide groove 38, the left sides of the two sliding blocks 37 are respectively provided with an upper assembling position and a lower assembling position, the upper assembling position is provided with a cutting blade 33 through a countersunk screw, the lower assembling position is provided with a gasket 35 through the countersunk screw, the distance between the corresponding edge surfaces of the two cutting blades 33 and the distance between the lower cutting blade 33 and the surface of the workbench 23 are both 0.5 mm-4 mm and can be adjusted as required to adapt to different slice thicknesses; the right side of the sliding block 37 is connected with a crank link mechanism 11 through a hinged support, the crank link mechanism 11 connected with the two sliding blocks 37 is respectively connected with a first synchronous pulley 9 and a second synchronous pulley 13 according to the mode shown in fig. 1, the first synchronous pulley 9 is assembled and fixed through a first bearing seat 10, the second synchronous pulley 13 is assembled and fixed through a second bearing seat 13, the first synchronous pulley 9 and the second synchronous pulley 13 can be synchronously connected with a synchronous belt 14 through the first bearing seat 10 and the second bearing seat 13, so that synchronous extension and retraction on a guide pitch of a guide groove 38 are realized through the crank link mechanism 11, and synchronous slicing of the two cutting blades 33 is further ensured; the sliced herbal pieces are pushed to the left side by the spacer 35 and discharged from the discharge port 22 through the discharge chute 21.

The foregoing shows and describes the general principles, essential features, and advantages of the invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, which are described in the specification and illustrated only to illustrate the principle of the present invention, but that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

Claims

1. The continuous slicing device for the traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces is characterized by comprising a rack and a closed shell arranged on the rack, wherein a material guide structure and a slicing structure are arranged in the closed shell:

2. The apparatus for continuously slicing herbal pieces-prepared for decoction as claimed in claim 1, wherein the guiding barrel is a vertically disposed guiding barrel, and a feeding port cover connected by a hinge is disposed on the guiding barrel corresponding to the position of the feeding port.

3. The apparatus for continuously slicing herbal pieces-according to claim 1, wherein said closed casing is provided with an elastic clamping device at a position corresponding to said guiding cylinder for replacing the guiding cylinder with different mouth sizes.

4. The apparatus for continuously slicing herbal pieces-according to claim 1, wherein the number of said position-limiting strips arranged on said guiding cylinder is 4-5.

5. The apparatus for continuously slicing herbal pieces prepared for decoction according to claim 1, wherein the gap between adjacent position-limiting bars is 1/5-1/8 of the diameter of herbal pieces to be sliced, and the width of different gaps on the same guiding cylinder is the same.

6. The apparatus for continuously slicing herbal pieces-according to claim 1, wherein said thimble has a diameter of 2/3-4/5 of said gap.

7. The apparatus for continuously slicing herbal pieces-according to claim 1, wherein said thimble is connected with said top block through an elastic seat, and a rubber top block is disposed on the top surface of said thimble, and said thimble is abutted against the surface of the herbal pieces to be sliced through the rubber top block at the top.

8. The apparatus for continuously slicing herbal pieces-prepared for decoction as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cylinder is provided with a force sensor unit, the force sensor unit is connected to a cylinder stop switch to stop the cylinder when the pushing force fed back from the pushing pin reaches a set value.

9. The apparatus for continuously slicing herbal pieces prepared for decoction as claimed in claim 1, wherein the distance between the cutting faces corresponding to the cutting blades of the adjacent cutting units and the distance between the cutting blade at the lowest position and the flat holder of the worktable are the same, both being 0.5mm to 4 mm.

10. The apparatus for continuously slicing herbal pieces-according to claim 1, wherein the number of cutting units installed on said cutting assembly is 2-4, and the crank-link mechanism of said 2-4 cutting units is driven by a synchronous pulley to achieve synchronous feeding.