CN219816532U - Vegetarian chicken treatment equipment - Google Patents
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Abstract
The utility model relates to the technical field of bean product processing, in particular to a vegetarian chicken processing device which comprises a conveying device, a material collecting device, a roller cutter and an alkali processing device, wherein the roller cutter is arranged in the material collecting device and comprises a rotary drum and a blade layer, the rotary drum is rotatably arranged in an installation cavity, and the blade layer is arranged around the peripheral surface of the rotary drum and forms a grid-shaped groove outside the rotary drum Zhou Xing. The vegetarian chicken processing device disclosed by the utility model is beneficial to the improvement of production efficiency from transportation shredding of the tripe to full-automatic production of alkali treatment, wherein a roller type cutter is adopted for shredding the tripe, grid-shaped cutting grooves are formed in the periphery of the roller, and the roller type cutter is combined with the grid-shaped cutting grooves, so that the tripe can be conveniently cut into small pieces.
Description
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of bean product processing, in particular to vegetarian chicken processing equipment.
Background
The vegetarian chicken, the bean curd vegetarian chicken, is a traditional bean food, the main raw materials for preparing the vegetarian chicken can be the tripe, the tripe is used as the bean curd sheet, the bean curd skin, the dried pulp skin and the like, and the tripe can be prepared into the vegetarian chicken after alkali treatment.
The specific flow is as follows: firstly cutting the tripe into a certain size, then pouring the tripe into alkali liquor with a certain concentration to soften the tripe by alkali, and then making blank and molding to prepare the vegetarian chicken with sufficient toughness. The shutter is long-strip-shaped, and winding and adhesion can occur in the conveying process, so that the conventional slicing mechanism is large in cutting, and cannot be separated and adhered, so that the cutting effect is poor, and in most cases, the slicing of the shutter can only be performed manually.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model provides a vegetarian chicken processing device which achieves the effect of full-automatic production.
A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus comprising:
a transport device having a transport start end and a transport end;
the material collecting device is provided with a material inlet and a material outlet, the material inlet is in butt joint with the transportation terminal, and the material collecting device is also provided with a mounting cavity communicated with the material inlet and the material outlet;
the roller-type cutter is arranged in the mounting cavity and separates the material inlet from the material outlet;
the alkali treatment device is arranged below the material outlet;
the drum cutter includes:
the rotary drum is rotatably arranged in the mounting cavity;
and a blade layer which is arranged around the peripheral surface of the rotary drum and is provided with grid-shaped cutting grooves outside the rotary drum Zhou Xing.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the tripe is carried to the transportation terminal from the transportation initiating terminal, and the tripe of transportation to the transportation terminal gets into material collection device from the material entry then, and the drum-type cutter can be rolled into the tripe, and material collection device's inner wall constitutes cutting board and drum-type cutter combined action and constitutes the extrusion cutting to the tripe and realize shredding work, simultaneously, because drum-type cutter separates material entry and material export, the tripe must be sent out after cutting, has guaranteed that the tripe is shredded the back again gets into alkali treatment device from the material export and carries out alkali treatment. A series of operations from transportation and cutting of the shutter to alkali treatment are finished in a pipelining manner, so that the improvement of production efficiency is facilitated. And the roller type cutter is adopted to carry out the shredding treatment of the shutter, the periphery of the roller is provided with grid-shaped cutting grooves, and the roller type cutter is combined with the grid-shaped cutting grooves, so that the shutter can be conveniently cut into small pieces.
In one embodiment: the rotary drum is provided with a hollowed-out layer, the grid-shaped grooves are communicated with the hollowed-out layer to form a feed inlet, and the hollowed-out layer is provided with a discharge opening on the drum-type cutter.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, latticed grooving cuts into the fritter with the tripe, and the tripe of cutting into the fritter falls into the fretwork layer from the latticed grooving, discharges from the bin outlet on fretwork layer again, gets into alkali processing apparatus, avoids the tripe to inlay the jam problem that can't drop and lead to in the latticed grooving to appear.
In one embodiment: the rotary drum part stretches out below the material collecting device, the hollowed-out layer penetrates through two ends of the rotary drum and forms the discharge opening at a material outlet at the position of the material collecting device.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, cut into the tripe of fritter and fall into the fretwork layer from the net grooving, the fretwork layer runs through the both ends of rotary drum and forms the bin outlet, and the tripe after the slabbing is discharged from rotary drum both ends mouth, gets into alkali treatment device, avoids the tripe gathering after the section to block in the fretwork layer and does not go into alkali lye treatment device.
In one embodiment: the hollow layer is provided with the baffle, the baffle is followed the direction that the rotary drum axis of rotation was located extends, the baffle constitutes the row material way and extends to the bin outlet.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the material is cut up by latticed grooving and drops in the fretwork layer to reach the bin outlet along the baffle, discharge from the bin outlet. Because the blade layer has grid-shaped grooves and is uneven, compared with a material discharge channel which takes the inner layer of the blade layer as a cut shutter, the partition plate is smooth and flat, and is more beneficial to conveying materials to a material discharge port.
In one embodiment: the hollowed-out layer forms a discharge channel with an inclined structure.
By adopting the technical scheme, the discharging channel with the inclined structure ensures that the shutter cut into small blocks can be discharged by utilizing the gravity effect.
In one embodiment: the rotary drum is in a truncated cone-shaped structure.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the rotary drum is round platform column structure, and the fretwork layer that sets up on the rotary drum is the slope structure for the horizontal plane, can regulate and control the circumference size of the round platform upper and lower bottom surface respectively and adjust the size of discharge gate and the inclination of discharge channel.
In one embodiment: the blade layer comprises a movable part, the movable part is rotatably connected with the rotary opening and closing part along the axial lead direction, the movable part is far away from the central shaft of the rotary drum when in an opening state, and the discharge opening is formed when the movable part is opened.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, movable part realizes opening and shutting under the action of gravity, divide into two upper and lower half arc structures with the drum-type cutter, and when the drum-type cutter rotated, the movable part was in the closed state when the active layer was in the top, and when the active layer was in the below, the movable part rotated under the action of gravity and opened and form the bin outlet, will fall into the tripe section of fretwork layer and discharge.
In one embodiment: the circumference crossing area of the movable part is not more than half of the circumference of the blade layer, the movable part is arranged in the middle area of the blade layer, and two movable parts are arranged.
By adopting the technical scheme, in the rotary slicing process of the roller-type cutter, one movable part is always in an open state to realize discharging.
In one embodiment: still include blank collection device, blank collection device set up in alkali processing apparatus with between the drum-type cutter, blank collection device sets up the collection mouth, the collection mouth with the bin outlet butt joint, blank collection device lateral wall is provided with the dodge gate, blank collection device diapire is the slope setting.
By adopting the technical scheme, the chopped shutter discharged from the discharge port can be collected in the cut material collecting device, when a certain amount is collected, the movable door is opened, and the cut material can be slidingly conveyed to the alkali treatment device along the inclined bottom wall.
In one embodiment: the transportation device is a conveyor belt, the alkali treatment device is provided with a stirring discharging part and a temperature control part, and the stirring discharging part is a horizontal stirring discharging part.
By adopting the technical scheme, the chopped shutter is subjected to alkali treatment in the alkali treatment device, and the shutter subjected to alkali treatment is output through the horizontal stirring discharging part so as to be subjected to the next treatment.
In summary, the utility model has the following beneficial effects:
1. a series of operation from transportation and cutting of the shutter to alkali treatment is finished in a pipelining manner, so that the improvement of production efficiency is facilitated;
2. the shutter is cut up by adopting the roller type cutter, the periphery of the roller is provided with grid-shaped cutting grooves, and the roller type is combined with the grid cutting grooves, so that the shutter can be conveniently cut into small blocks.
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FIG. 1 is a side view of a vegetarian chicken processing apparatus of the present utility model;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a drum-type cutter according to an embodiment of the present utility model;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a drum-type cutter according to a second embodiment of the present utility model;
FIG. 4 is a side view of a drum cutter according to a second embodiment of the present utility model;
fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of a drum-type cutter mounted on a material collecting device according to a second embodiment of the present utility model;
fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a drum-type cutter with a partition plate according to a second embodiment of the present utility model;
fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a drum-type cutter according to a fourth embodiment of the present utility model.
Reference numerals in the drawings are described as follows:
100. the device comprises a conveying device, 110, a conveying starting end, 120, a conveying terminal end, 200, a material collecting device, 210, a material inlet, 300, a roller cutter, 310, a roller, 320, a blade layer, 321, a grid-shaped cutter groove, 322, a movable part, 330, a hollowed-out layer, 340, a partition plate, 350, a material outlet, 400, a blanking collecting device, 500 and an alkali treatment device.
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The present utility model will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In the description of the present utility model, it should be understood that the directions or positional relationships indicated by the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", etc. are based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings, are merely for convenience of description and simplification of the description, and do not indicate or imply that the apparatus or element in question must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present utility model.
Example 1: a vegetarian chicken processing apparatus, as shown in fig. 1, includes a conveyor 100, the conveyor 100 being carried by a conveyor belt, the conveyor having a transport initiation end 110 and a transport termination end 120.
The transportation terminal 120 is in butt joint with a material collecting device 200, the material collecting device 200 is provided with a material inlet 210, a material outlet and a mounting cavity, the mounting cavity is communicated with the material inlet 210 and the material outlet, a drum-type cutter 300 is mounted in the mounting cavity, the drum-type cutter 300 separates the material inlet 210 and the material outlet, and an alkali treatment device 500 is arranged below the material outlet.
The drum-type cutter 300 comprises a drum 310, wherein the drum 310 is rotatably installed in the installation cavity, as shown in fig. 2, a blade layer 320 is arranged on the outer circumferential surface of the drum 310, the blade layer 320 is formed into a grid-shaped cutting groove 321 on the outer Zhou Xing of the drum 310, and the whole blade layer 320 is wrapped on the outer circumferential surface of the drum 310 in a hollow cylinder shape.
In use, material to be sliced is placed at the transport beginning 110, transported from the transport beginning 110 to the transport end 120, and dropped from the transport end 120 into the material inlet 210 to contact the blade layer 320. Rotation of drum 310 drives blade layer 320 to rotate to slice the material and to separate from grid-like slots 321 under centrifugal force and gravity for discharge into alkali treatment device 500.
Example 2: as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the device for processing vegetarian chicken is different from embodiment 1 in that a hollowed-out layer 330 is provided on a drum 310, grid-shaped grooves 321 are communicated with the hollowed-out layer 330 to form a feeding port, and the hollowed-out layer 330 is provided with a discharge port 350 on a drum-type cutter. Specifically, as shown in fig. 5, the drum 310 partially extends below the material collecting device 200, and the hollowed-out layers 330 penetrate through two ends of the drum 310 to form a discharge opening 350 at a material outlet of the material collecting device 200.
The hollowed-out layer 330 is added, and after the material is cut by the grid-shaped cutting grooves 321, the material can be discharged from the slice feeding port end of the grid-shaped cutting grooves 321 as in embodiment 1, and also can be discharged from the bottom port of the grid-shaped cutting grooves 321 communicated with the hollowed-out layer 330. And because the grid-shaped cutting grooves 321 are penetrated by the hollowed-out layer 330, the limitation on the feeding thickness of the material is small, and if the blade layer 320 is directly abutted against the peripheral surface of the rotary drum 310, the feeding maximum thickness of the material is the depth of the grid-shaped cutting grooves 321.
In order to achieve better discharging, as shown in fig. 6, a partition 340 may be disposed on the hollowed layer 330, where the partition 340 may be a flat plate or may be a curved structure such as a mountain shape or a wave shape, and the partition 340 extends along the direction of the rotation axis of the drum 310 to form a discharging channel and extends to the discharging port 350, and the material is minced by the grid-shaped slits 321 and falls into the hollowed layer 330, reaches the discharging port 350 along the partition 340, and is discharged from the discharging port 350.
Example 3: the difference from the second embodiment is that the hollowed-out layer 330 is inclined with respect to the horizontal plane to form an inclined discharge channel. The specific structure for forming the inclined discharge passage may be to arrange the partition 340 to be inclined with respect to the horizontal plane; or the rotary drum 310 is rotatably arranged in the installation cavity, and the rotation shaft of the rotary drum is obliquely arranged with the horizontal plane; or the roller 310 is designed into a hollow round platform structure; or the depth of the grid-shaped grooves 321 of the blade layer 320 is set to be different so that the whole inner layer of the blade layer 320 is in an inclined structure. The discharge channel with the inclined structure can accelerate the discharge of the small shutter by utilizing the gravity effect.
Example 4: as shown in fig. 7, the difference from the second embodiment is that the blade layer 320 includes a movable portion 322, the movable portion 322 is rotatably connected along the axial line direction to realize rotatable opening and closing, the movable portion 322 is far away from the central axis of the drum 310 when in an opened state, and a discharge port 350 is formed when the movable portion 322 is opened.
The movable part 322 is opened and closed under the action of gravity to divide the drum-type cutter 300 into an upper half arc structure and a lower half arc structure, when the drum-type cutter 300 rotates and the movable layer 322 is positioned above, the movable part 322 is in a closed state, when the movable layer 322 is positioned below, the movable part 322 rotates under the action of gravity, the movable part 322 is in an open state to form a discharge opening 350, and the chopped shutter entering the hollowed-out layer 330 from the grid cutting groove 321 is discharged from the discharge opening 350 formed at the movable part 322.
Of course, a plurality of movable portions 322 may be provided, for example, two movable portions 322 are provided, the movable portions 322 are disposed in the area between the blade layers 320, and the circumferential crossing area of the movable portions 322 does not exceed half of the circumference of the blade layers, so that during the rotary slicing process of the drum-type cutter, one movable portion is always in an open state to realize discharging.
In the above embodiments, the material collecting device 400 of the material collecting device 400 may be additionally disposed on the alkali processing device 500 and the barrel type cutter 300, the collecting port of the material collecting device 400 is connected with the material discharging port 350, so that the material after passing through the barrel type cutter 300 falls into the material collecting device 400 of the collecting device 400 from the collecting port, the material collecting device 400 is obliquely disposed, when a certain amount of material is collected, the movable door is opened, the material is slidingly conveyed to the alkali processing device 500 along the oblique bottom wall, the stirring and discharging part adopts horizontal stirring and discharging, the chopped shutter performs alkali processing in the alkali processing device, and outputs the shutter after alkali processing through the horizontal stirring and discharging part to perform blank making and forming of the next step.
The embodiments of the present utility model are all preferred embodiments of the present utility model, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present utility model in this way, therefore: all equivalent changes in structure, shape and principle of the utility model should be covered in the scope of protection of the utility model.
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1. A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus comprising:
a transport device (100), the transport device (100) having a transport start end (110) and a transport end (120);
the material collecting device (200), the material collecting device (200) is provided with a material inlet (210) and a material outlet, the material inlet (210) is in butt joint with the conveying terminal (120), and the material collecting device (200) is also provided with a mounting cavity which is communicated with the material inlet (210) and the material outlet;
a drum-type cutter (300), wherein the drum-type cutter (300) is arranged in the installation cavity and separates the material inlet (210) and the material outlet;
an alkali treatment device (500), wherein the alkali treatment device (500) is arranged below the material outlet;
the drum cutter (300) includes:
a drum (310), the drum (310) rotatably mounted within the mounting cavity;
and a blade layer (320), wherein the blade layer (320) is arranged around the outer peripheral surface of the rotary drum (310) and is provided with grid-shaped cutting grooves (321) outside the rotary drum (310) Zhou Xing.
2. A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein: the rotary drum (310) is provided with a hollowed-out layer (330), the grid-shaped cutting grooves (321) are communicated with the hollowed-out layer (330) to form a feed inlet, and the hollowed-out layer (330) is provided with a discharge outlet (350) on the drum-type cutter (300).
3. A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus as set forth in claim 2 wherein: the rotary drum (310) partially extends out of the lower part of the material collecting device (200), and the hollowed-out layer (330) penetrates through two ends of the rotary drum (310) and forms the discharge opening (350) at a material outlet at the position of the material collecting device (200).
4. A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus according to claim 3 characterized in that: the hollowed-out layer (330) is provided with a partition plate (340), the partition plate (340) extends along the direction of the rotating shaft of the rotary drum (310), and the partition plate (340) forms a discharge channel and extends to the discharge port (350).
5. A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus according to claim 3 characterized in that: the hollowed-out layer (330) forms a discharge channel with an inclined structure.
6. A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus according to claim 3 characterized in that: the rotary drum (310) is in a truncated cone-shaped structure.
7. A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus as set forth in claim 2 wherein: the blade layer (320) comprises a movable part (322), the movable part (322) is rotatably connected with the rotary opening and closing device along the axial lead direction, the movable part (322) is far away from the central shaft of the rotary drum (310) when in an open state, and the movable part (322) forms the discharge opening (350) when being opened.
8. The vegetarian chicken processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein: the circumferential crossing area of the movable part (322) is not more than half of the circumference of the blade layer (320), the movable part (322) is arranged in the middle area of the blade layer (320), and two movable parts (322) are arranged.
9. A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein: still include blank collection device (400), blank collection device (400) set up in alkali processing apparatus (500) with between drum-type cutter (300), blank collection device (400) set up the collection mouth, the collection mouth with the material export butt joint, blank collection device (400) lateral wall is provided with the dodge gate, blank collection device (400) diapire is the slope setting.
10. A vegetarian chicken processing apparatus as set forth in claim 1 wherein: the transportation device (100) is a conveyor belt, the alkali treatment device (500) is provided with a stirring discharging part and a temperature control part, and the stirring discharging part is a horizontal stirring discharging part.
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