CN115436093A - Food sampler capable of extracting samples at different depths - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a food sampler capable of extracting samples with different depths, which comprises a food detection table, a detection vessel and a sampler, wherein the detection vessel and the sampler are arranged on the food detection table; the sampler includes the casing, casing front end fixedly connected with lid, two thief holes have been seted up at the lid middle part, casing and middle part sliding connection have a sample structure. According to the scheme, food samples with different depths can be sampled, and the scraper is convenient for taking out the food samples from the digging spoon, so that the food samples with different depths can be sampled, and the accuracy of a detection result is improved; this scheme scraper blade can scrape out remaining food waste in the ladle when sampler sample in, avoids sneaking into and waits to detect food sample, brings the influence to the food testing result.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of food sampling, in particular to a food sampler capable of extracting samples at different depths.
Background
Food detection is the detection process of various ingredients of food, and food detection can provide one more guarantee for food safety through sampling and analyzing the food.
In the traditional food detection in the market, food is sampled by a sampling device, and then the component of the sampled food is detected.
Traditional food detection on the market can not carry out the flexibility sample to the food sample of different degree of depth, leads to food sample not enough to represent food whole composition, leads to the food testing result inaccurate.
Disclosure of Invention
1. Technical problem to be solved
Aiming at the problems in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a food sampler capable of extracting samples at different depths, which can realize the sampling work of foods at different depths through two scoops with different heights, and a scraper is convenient for taking out the food samples from the scoops, so that the food samples at different depths can be sampled, and the accuracy of a detection result is improved.
2. Technical scheme
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention adopts the following technical solutions.
A food sampler capable of extracting samples of different depths comprises a food detection table, a detection vessel and a sampler, wherein the detection vessel and the sampler are arranged on the food detection table, the food detection table is in an inverted U-shaped structure, a drawer is arranged on the right side of the food detection table, and a test tube rack and a beaker rack are arranged on the top surface of the food detection table;
the sampler comprises a shell, a cover body is fixedly connected to the front end of the shell, two sampling holes are formed in the middle of the cover body, a sampling structure is slidably connected to the shell and the middle of the shell and comprises a linkage rod, two supporting blocks are fixedly connected to the outer end of the linkage rod, racks are fixedly connected to the upper ends of the supporting blocks, limiting grooves are formed in the lower ends of the supporting blocks, the middle of the shell is rotatably connected with two digging structures, each digging structure comprises a digging spoon, gears are fixedly connected to the outer sides of the digging spoons, a rotating rod is rotatably connected to the middle of the digging spoon, a scraper plate is fixedly connected to the outer side of the rotating rod, a base structure is fixedly connected to the middle of the shell and the upper end of the cover body, the base structure comprises a base, two limiting rods are fixedly connected to the middle of the base, a columnar body is fixedly connected to the upper end of the base and the middle of the base, a sliding groove is formed in the middle of the columnar body, a compression spring is placed in the middle of the sliding groove, a supporting rod is slidably connected to the middle of the sliding groove, a cap is clamped to the upper end of the shell and the cover body is clamped to the cover body, food samples are conveniently taken out from the digging spoons of the scraper plate, so that the food samples at different depths can be taken out, and the accuracy can be detected.
Further, the thief hole and the ladle phase-match, and the gear is connected with the rack meshing for the ladle can pass the thief hole and carry out sample work to food, and the gear of rack area rotates.
Furthermore, both ends have all been seted up two and have been rotated the hole around the casing, and rotate hole and bull stick phase-match for thereby the bull stick can insert and rotate in the hole and carry on spacingly to the scoop.
Furthermore, four limiting holes are formed in the front end and the rear end of the shell and are matched with the limiting rods, so that the limiting rods can limit the base through inserting the limiting holes.
Furthermore, the scraper blade is the same with half area of scoop cross section, and bracing piece and spacing groove phase-match for the scraper blade can be released the inside food sample of scoop.
Furthermore, the rear end of the supporting block is in the shape of a semi-cylinder, and the linkage rod is fixedly connected with the semi-cylinder, so that the linkage rod can drive the supporting block to move.
Furthermore, annular protrusion is arranged at the lower end of the supporting rod, and the lower end of the supporting rod is fixedly connected with the compression spring, so that the supporting rod is not easy to deviate from the middle of the sliding groove, and the compression spring can jack the supporting rod.
3. Advantageous effects
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:
(1) This scheme carries out sample work through two not co-altitude scoops to the food of the different degree of depth to and the scraper blade is convenient for food sample and is taken out from the scoop, makes the food sample of the different degree of depth can be taken a sample, improves the accuracy of testing result.
(2) This scheme scraper blade can scrape out remaining food waste in the ladle when sampler sample in, avoids sneaking into and waits to detect food sample, brings the influence to the food testing result.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic exterior view of a food inspection station according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an overall perspective view of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an overall exploded view of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a body portion of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a sampling structure of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a partial perspective view of the pallet of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a partially exploded view of the scoop portion of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a partial half-sectional view of the base structure of the present invention;
fig. 9 is a working principle diagram of the present invention.
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1. a housing; 2. a cover body; 3. a sampling hole; 4. a linkage rod; 5. a support block; 6. a rack; 7. a limiting groove; 8. digging a spoon; 9. a gear; 10. a rotating rod; 11. a squeegee; 12. a base; 13. a limiting rod; 14. a columnar body; 15. a sliding groove; 16. a compression spring; 17. a support bar; 18. capping; 19. a cone; 20. a food detection table; 21. and (4) detecting the dish.
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The technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention; it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments, and all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without any inventive work are within the scope of the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "inner", "outer", "top/bottom", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "disposed," "sleeved/connected," "connected," and the like are to be construed broadly, e.g., "connected," which may be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; the connection can be direct connection or indirect connection through an intermediate medium, and can be communication inside the adaptive model element. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.
Referring to fig. 1-8, a food sampler capable of extracting samples of different depths comprises a food detection table 20, a detection vessel 21 and a sampler, wherein the detection vessel 21 is arranged on the food detection table 20, the food detection table 20 is in an inverted U-shaped structure, a drawer is arranged on the right side of the food detection table 20, and a test tube rack and a beaker rack are arranged on the top surface of the food detection table 20;
the sampler comprises a shell 1, a cover body 2 is fixedly connected to the front end of the shell 1, two sampling holes 3 are formed in the middle of the cover body 2, a sampling structure is slidably connected to the middle of the shell 1 and comprises a linkage rod 4, two supporting blocks 5 are fixedly connected to the outer end of the linkage rod 4, a rack 6 is fixedly connected to the upper ends of the supporting blocks 5, a limiting groove 7 is formed in the lower end of each supporting block 5, two digging structures are rotatably connected to the middle of the shell 1 and comprise a digging spoon 8, a gear 9 is fixedly connected to the outer side of the digging spoon 8, a rotating rod 10 is rotatably connected to the middle of the digging spoon 8, a scraper 11 is fixedly connected to the outer side of the rotating rod 10, a base structure is fixedly connected to the middle of the shell 1 and comprises a base 12, two limiting rods 13 are fixedly connected to the middle of the base 12, a columnar body 14 and a sliding groove 15 are formed in the middle of the columnar body 14, a compression spring 16 is placed in the middle of the sliding groove 15, a supporting rod 17 is slidably connected to the middle of the sliding groove 15, a cap 18 is clamped to the upper end of the shell 1 and the cover body 2, and a cone 19 is clamped to the lower end of the shell 1 and the cover body 2; the cap 18 and the cone 19 are detachable, and when there is too much food waste in the interior of the housing 1, the cap 18 and the cone 19 are detached and the food waste in the interior of the housing 1 is washed out with water.
Referring to fig. 3-5, the sampling hole 3 is matched with the scoop 8, and the gear 9 is engaged with the rack 6, so that the scoop 8 can pass through the sampling hole 3 to sample food, and the rack 6 drives the gear 9 to rotate. Two rotation holes have been all seted up at both ends around the casing 1, and rotate hole and bull stick 10 phase-match for thereby bull stick 10 can insert and rotate in the hole and carry on spacingly to digging spoon 8.
Referring to fig. 2-6, four limiting holes are formed at the front and rear ends of the housing 1, and the limiting holes are matched with the limiting rods 13, so that the limiting rods 13 can limit the base 12 by inserting the limiting holes. The cross section of the scraper 11 and the cross section of the digging spoon 8 are the same in area, and the support rod 17 is matched with the limiting groove 7, so that the scraper 11 can push out a food sample inside the digging spoon 8.
Referring to fig. 4-7, the rear end of the supporting block 5 is a semi-cylinder, and the linkage rod 4 is fixedly connected to the semi-cylinder, so that the linkage rod 4 can drive the supporting block 5 to move. Annular protrusion has been seted up to bracing piece 17 lower extreme, and bracing piece 17 lower extreme and compression spring 16 fixed connection for bracing piece 17 is difficult to deviate from sliding tray 15 middle part, and compression spring 16 can jack-up bracing piece 17.
During sampling, firstly, cleaning the detector, pressing the linkage rod 4 downwards for multiple times, performing reciprocating rotary motion on the digging spoon 8 under the action of the compression spring 16, pushing out the digging spoon by the scraper blade 11 of food residues and the like remained in the digging spoon 8, then inserting the detector into food through the cone 19, pressing the linkage rod 4 downwards, enabling the linkage rod 4 to drive the supporting block 5 to move downwards, enabling the rack 6 at the upper end of the supporting block 5 to move downwards to enable the gear 9 to rotate, enabling the gear 9 to drive the digging spoon 8 to rotate to dig and sample the food, digging and sampling the food sample in the digging spoon 8 after the digging spoon 8 rotates anticlockwise by 180 degrees, taking out the detector, controlling and loosening the linkage rod 4, rotating the digging spoon 8 clockwise by 90 degrees under the action of the compression spring 16, exposing the food sample in the digging spoon 8 to the outer side of the cover body 2, facilitating a sampler to take away the food sample in the digging spoon 8 by using tweezers or the spoon, and putting the food sample on the detection dish 21 of the food detection platform 20 to perform detection.
The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention; the scope of the invention is not limited thereto. Any person skilled in the art should be able to cover the technical scope of the present invention by equivalent or modified solutions and modifications within the technical scope of the present invention.
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1. A food sampler capable of extracting samples of different depths comprises a food detection table (20), a detection vessel (21) and a sampler, wherein the detection vessel (21) is arranged on the food detection table (20), the food detection table (20) is in an inverted U-shaped structure, a drawer is arranged on the right side of the food detection table (20), and a test tube rack and a beaker rack are arranged on the top surface of the food detection table (20);
the sampler includes casing (1), casing (1) front end fixedly connected with lid (2), two thief holes (3), its characterized in that have been seted up at lid (2) middle part: the shell (1) and the middle part are connected with a sampling structure in a sliding way, the sampling structure comprises a linkage rod (4), the outer end of the linkage rod (4) is fixedly connected with two supporting blocks (5), the upper end of the supporting block (5) is fixedly connected with a rack (6), the lower end of the supporting block (5) is provided with a limit groove (7), the middle part of the shell (1) is rotationally connected with two digging structures, the digging structures comprise digging spoons (8), a gear (9) is fixedly connected with the outer side of the digging spoon (8), a rotating rod (10) is rotatably connected with the middle part of the digging spoon (8), a scraping plate (11) is fixedly connected with the outer side of the rotating rod (10), a base structure is fixedly connected with the middle part of the shell (1), the base structure comprises a base (12), two limiting rods (13) are fixedly connected with the middle part of the base (12), the upper end of the base (12) is fixedly connected with a cylindrical body (14), the middle part of the cylindrical body (14) is provided with a sliding groove (15), a compression spring (16) is arranged in the middle of the sliding groove (15), the middle part of the sliding groove (15) is connected with a supporting rod (17) in a sliding way, the upper ends of the shell (1) and the cover body (2) are clamped with a cover cap (18), the lower ends of the shell (1) and the cover body (2) are clamped with cones (19).
2. A food sampler for taking samples of different depths as defined in claim 1 wherein: the sampling hole (3) is matched with the digging spoon (8), and the gear (9) is meshed with the rack (6).
3. A food sampler for taking samples of different depths as defined in claim 1 wherein: two rotation holes are formed in the front end and the rear end of the shell (1) respectively, and the rotation holes are matched with the rotating rods (10).
4. A food sampler for taking samples of different depths as defined in claim 1 wherein: four limiting holes are formed in the front end and the rear end of the shell (1), and the limiting holes are matched with the limiting rods (13).
5. A food sampler for taking samples of different depths as defined in claim 1 wherein: the scraper (11) and the digging spoon (8) are the same in half area of the cross section, and the support rod (17) is matched with the limiting groove (7).
6. A food sampler for taking samples of different depths as defined in claim 1 wherein: the rear end of the support block (5) is in the shape of a semi-cylinder, and the linkage rod (4) is fixedly connected with the semi-cylinder.
7. A food sampler for taking samples of different depths as defined in claim 1 wherein: the lower end of the supporting rod (17) is provided with an annular bulge, and the lower end of the supporting rod (17) is fixedly connected with the compression spring (16).
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