KR101508767B1 - Food waste disposer - Google Patents

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a food garbage disposal apparatus, and more particularly, A pulverizing cylinder installed at a lower portion of the filter box for introducing food wastes filtered with moisture and pulverizing and discharging food wastes as a pulverizing screw; And a blower unit installed to communicate with the crusher to forcibly evacuate the offensive odor to the outside.

Description

{Food waste disposer}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a food waste disposal apparatus, and more particularly, to a food waste disposal apparatus capable of finely pulverizing food waste from which water has been removed to reduce its volume.

Food waste is emitted daily from homes or restaurants, but most of the water is filtered and discarded. This increases the amount of waste and generates odors, which pollute the surrounding air. Recently, efforts have been made to reduce food waste in general households and restaurants. Food processor is widely used as one of these efforts.

Moisture is a large part of the volume of food waste. It is efficient to reduce the volume of food waste in order to reduce the amount of food waste, and most food waste treatment machines adopt devices for removing moisture from food waste.

In the dry type food garbage disposer of the food garbage disposer, a reaction furnace capable of drying food is placed in the food disposer, food waste is firstly introduced into the reaction furnace, and the reactor is heated by the heater to separate water separately And then dried food waste is discharged.

In addition, the microorganism-treated food garbage disposer is a method of disposing food waste with microorganisms and discharging food waste treated in the form of wet powder.

However, such a dry type food waste disposal apparatus can not reduce the volume of the food waste more than the dry state, and consumes a lot of time and energy to dry the food waste, and the energy consumed to dry the food waste There is a problem that the efficiency is inferior.

In addition, the microorganism-treated food garbage disposer is a microorganism that decomposes food waste into a wet powder form to reduce the volume of residues, while consuming too much time to treat food waste, which is inefficient.

In addition, both of the dry type processor and the microorganism disposal type processor have a very fatal problem in that a bad smell is generated when the inlet is opened and closed in the course of processing the food waste.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made in order to solve the problems of the conventional art as described above, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for removing food wastes, It is an object of the present invention to provide a food garbage disposing device capable of minimizing the amount of food waste, promptly treating food waste, and capable of forcibly exhausting odors generated in a food processing process.

The above-described object is achieved by a food waste disposal apparatus comprising: a filter bag into which food waste is introduced and which filters moisture from food waste; A pulverizing cylinder installed at a lower portion of the filter box for introducing food wastes filtered with moisture and pulverizing and discharging food wastes as a pulverizing screw; And a blower unit installed to communicate with the crusher to forcibly evacuate the offensive odor to the outside.

The filtration tube further includes a rotary loader for rotating the food waste charged therein. The filtration tube is sloped at an upper portion of the pulverizing vessel, and a drain for discharging moisture of the food waste is formed at a lower portion thereof. A drain port through which food waste filtered by moisture is discharged is formed, and a drain pipe into which water drained through a drain hole flows is further included in the filter tank.

In addition, the grinding barrel may further include an opening and closing member for opening and closing a discharge port through which the food waste is discharged, wherein the opening and closing member is rotated at an outlet of the grinding barrel to open and close the discharge port, And a curved surface portion that extends from the flat surface portion and gently protrudes so that the discharge port can be opened and closed with a time difference while being rotated at the discharge port of the pulverizing container.

According to the food garbage disposal apparatus of the present invention, food waste is firstly removed from the charged food garbage, and the food garbage that has been moisture-removed is finely pulverized as a pulverizing screw and discharged, There is an advantage in that the volume of the food garbage can be minimized.

Further, according to the present invention, there is an advantage that the odor generated during the treatment process of food waste can be forcedly discharged as a blower.

1 is a configuration diagram of a garbage disposal apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a view showing a processor except for the case of the present invention, wherein FIG. 2A is a coupling diagram and FIG. 2B is a separation diagram.
FIG. 3 is a view showing a filter box and a driving means of the processor according to the present invention, wherein FIG. 3A is a coupling diagram and FIG. 3B is a separation diagram.
FIG. 4 is a view showing driving means for pulverizing and passing the processor according to the present invention, wherein FIG. 4A is a coupling diagram and FIG. 4B is a separation diagram.
FIG. 5 is a view showing the opening and closing member and the driving means provided at the discharge port of the pulverizing vessel according to the present invention. FIG. 5A is a coupling diagram, FIG. 5B is a separation diagram, and FIG. 5C is an operating state of the opening and closing member.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a garbage disposal apparatus according to the present invention; FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, the apparatus for treating garbage of the present invention includes a box-shaped case 200 and a processor 100 disposed inside the case 200 for directly treating food waste.

The case 200 is a box-shaped case for covering the processor 100. An upper end of the case 200 is connected to a mouth 161 of the cover 160 formed in the processor 100 to be described later, Is connected to a drain hole (sink ball) of a sink (not shown) and a flexible hose or the like.

2A and 2B, the processor 100 includes a base 110, a crushing cylinder 120 installed on the base 110, a filtering cylinder 140 installed on the crushing cylinder 120, And a blower unit 130.

A receiving tube 112 is slidably coupled to a lower side of the base 110. A discharge tube 125 is disposed at an upper portion of the receiving tube 112 to be described later, ), And the garbage which is finely crushed and discharged is stored and stored.

Therefore, it is convenient that only the receiving cylinder 112 is taken out from the base 110 and the finally processed food waste is discarded.

Various types of brackets 111 for fixing and supporting the crusher 120 are vertically installed on the upper part of the base 110.

As shown in FIGS. 4A and 4B, the pulverizing cylinder 120 is installed in a hollow housing, which is fixedly supported by a plurality of brackets 111 on a base 110, And a discharge port 125 through which finely pulverized final food waste is discharged is formed in the lower portion.

A pulverizing screw 122 for finely pulverizing the food waste, which is rotated in the pulverizing container 120 and is water-removed, is installed in the pulverizing container 120. In the meantime, although one crushing screw is exemplified in this embodiment, two crushing screws may be installed in pairs so that crushing blades cross each other, thereby increasing crushing efficiency.

A driven sprocket wheel 123 is installed at one end of the pulverizing screw 122. A second motor 180 to be described later is connected to the driven sprocket wheel 123 by a chain 124, 122 are rotated.

An opening and closing member 126 is rotatably installed at an outlet 125 of the crusher 120 and the opening and closing member 126 is rotated at an outlet 125 to open and close the outlet 125.

5A to 5C, a flat surface portion 126b is formed on one surface of the opening / closing member 126, and a curved surface portion 126a that extends in one direction from the flat surface portion 126b and gently protrudes . Accordingly, the opening and closing member 126 is rotated at the discharge port 125 of the crusher 120, and the discharge port 125 is opened and closed with a time difference. That is, when the flat surface portion 126b or the curved surface portion 126a of the opening / closing member 126 is positioned at the front surface of the discharge port 125, the discharge port 125 is closed. When the opening / closing member 126 is rotated in this state, When the flat surface portion 126b of the opening / closing member 126 is vertically positioned on the discharge port 125 while the discharge port 125 is gradually opened, the discharge port 125 is maximally opened. The opening and closing member 126 gradually opens the discharge port 125 of the pulverizing drum 120 without opening the pulverizing drum 120 at a time so that the pulverizing efficiency of the food waste to be pulverized by the pulverizing screw 122 in the pulverizing drum 120 So that the volume of the final processed food waste can be made as small as possible.

The opening and closing member 126 is rotatably driven by a third motor 127 mounted on the outside of the pulverizing cylinder 120 and the third motor 127 and the opening and closing member 126 are driven by a gear- .

As shown in FIGS. 4A and 4B, the blower unit 130 is located at the highest position of the crusher 120.

That is, the blower unit 130 includes a housing 131 having an exhaust port 132 and communicating with the crusher 120, a crusher 120 rotatably installed in the housing 131, And a blower motor 133 connected to the blower fan 134 for driving the blower fan 134 to rotate.

The blower fan 134 may be a sirocco fan or the like and an extensible hose may be connected to the exhaust port 132 of the housing 131 to forcibly exhaust the odor inside the crusher 120 have.

As shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, the filtration tube 140 is installed at an upper portion of the crushing tube 120 in an inclined manner.

A plurality of drainage holes 141 for discharging the moisture of the food waste are formed on the bottom surface and the outer circumferential surface of the lower portion of the filtration tube 140. A drainage hole (142) is formed. At this time, the discharge port 142 of the filtration tube 140 is formed to be in communication with the discharge port 121 of the pulverizing vessel 120.

A rotary loader 143 for rotationally moving the food waste put into the filtration tube 140 is installed in the filtration tube 140. The rotary loader 143 is connected to the center of the rotary loader 143, And the driven gear 144 is connected to the first motor 170 to be described later to rotate the rotary loader 143 in the filtering cylinder 140. [

A drainage tank 150 through which the water drained through the drainage hole 141 of the filtration tube 140 flows is provided in the lower portion of the outer side of the filtration tube 140, A drain pipe 151 for discharging the water is installed. It is preferable that a separate flexible hose is connected to the drain pipe 151 so that the water drained through the drain pipe 151 can be flowed directly to the drain.

The cover 160 is detachably installed on the upper surface of the filter box 140 so as to cover the filter box 140 and the drain box 150. The cover 160 is preferably made of a transparent material Do. The inlet 160 of the cover 160 is connected to the discharge port 141 of the filter case 140 and the discharge port 161 of the cover 160 is connected to the case 200. [ As shown in FIG. This is because the food waste left in the sink is directly introduced into the drainage hole 141 of the filter box 140 to induce the moisture, that is, the wastewater, to be quickly separated from the food waste so as to increase the water removal efficiency .

A driving unit for driving the rotary loader 143, the pulverizing screw 122, and the blower fan 134 is formed at a lower side of the filtration tube 140.

The driving unit includes a first motor 170 that drives the rotary loader 143, a second motor 180 that drives the pulverizing screw 122, and a blower motor 133 that drives the blower fan 134 .

The first motor 170 has a driving gear 171 rotatably driven by a motor and a driving gear 171 driven by a driven gear of the rotary loader 143 via a reduction gear 172, (144).

A driving sprocket wheel 181 rotatably driven by a motor is installed at a tip end of the second motor 180. The driving sprocket wheel 181 rotatably supports the pulverizing screw 122 And is connected to the driven sprocket wheel 123. At this time, the driven sprocket wheel 123 is formed to have a larger diameter than the driving sprocket wheel 181, so that a reduction ratio is applied between the sprocket wheels 181 and 123.

Also, the blower motor 133 is connected to the opening and closing member 126 to have a reduction ratio by a gear system, as described above, but is not limited thereto.

The operation of the garbage disposal apparatus according to the present invention will now be described.

First, the food waste discharged through the drain port of the sink is introduced into the discharge hole 141 of the filtration tube 140 through the inlet port 161 of the processor 100 connected to the case 200, and the water contained in the introduced food waste And the water introduced into the drain canister 150 is drained to the outside through the drain pipe 151. The drain pipe 150 is connected to the drain pipe 150 through the drain hole 141 of the filter case 140,

The food waste having the moisture removed as described above is moved to the upper inside of the filtration tube 140 by the rotary loader 143 rotated inside the filtration tube 140 and discharged to the discharge port 142 of the filtration tube 140 120 into the pulverizing cylinder 120 through the inlet 121 of the pulverizing cylinder 120.

The dried food waste put into the crusher 120 is finely crushed and agitated by the crushing screw 122 that is reduced in speed and rotated. The crushed food waste is discharged to the outside through the discharge port 125 of the crusher 120 do.

At this time, the discharge port 125 of the grinding cylinder 120 is rotated and opened by the opening and closing member 126, and the curved surface portion 126a of the opening and closing member 126, The discharge port 125 is closed when the portion 126b is positioned at the front side (i.e., in parallel to the discharge port 125), and in this state, when the opening / closing member 126 is further rotated When the discharge port 125 is gradually opened and the flat surface portion 126b of the opening and closing member 126 is vertically positioned on the discharge port 125, the discharge port 125 is maximally opened.

Therefore, the discharge port 125 of the pulverizing cylinder 120 is gradually opened by the opening / closing member 126 without being opened at one time, thereby maximizing the grinding efficiency of the food wastes by the pulverizing screw 122, The food garbage is discharged from the crushing cylinder 120 with its volume minimized.

The food waste discharged in this manner is discharged into the receiving cylinder 112 slidingly coupled to the base 110 and is discharged to the outside.

On the other hand, the malodor generated in the processor 100 as described above is forcibly exhausted to the outside by the blower unit 130 installed to communicate with the crusher 120, so that it is possible to prevent odor from occurring in the room in advance.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be construed as limiting the present invention. It is obvious that the modification or improvement is possible.

It is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.

100: processor 110: base
111: Bracket 112: Receiving box
120: Grinding barrel 121: Inlet port
122: pulverizing screw 123: driven sprocket wheel
124: chain 125: outlet
126: opening and closing member 126a:
126b: plane portion 127: third motor
130: blower unit 131: housing
132: exhaust port 133: blower motor
134: blower fan 140: filter bag
141: Drain 142: Outlet
143: rotary loader 144: driven gear
150: drain pipe 151: drain pipe
160: Cover 161:
170: first motor 171: drive gear
172: Reduction gear 180: Second motor
181: Driving sprocket wheel 200: Case

Claims (6)

A filter bag into which food waste is put and which removes moisture from food waste; A pulverizing cylinder installed at a lower portion of the filter box for introducing food wastes filtered with moisture and pulverizing and discharging food wastes as a pulverizing screw; And a blower unit installed to communicate with the crusher to forcibly evacuate the odor to the outside,
The crusher may further include an opening / closing member for opening / closing an outlet through which the pulverized food waste is discharged,
Wherein the opening and closing member is formed by a flat surface portion on one surface thereof and a curved surface portion extending from the flat surface portion and gently protruding from the outlet surface of the crusher, A garbage disposal device that opens and closes an outlet with a time difference.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the filter bag further includes a rotary loader for rotating the food waste injected into the filter bag.
The method according to claim 1 or 2,
Wherein the filter box is installed at an upper portion of the pulverizing vessel and is provided at its lower portion with a discharge hole for discharging moisture of the food garbage and an upper portion for discharging the filtered food garbage.
The method of claim 3,
Wherein the filter bag further includes a drain pipe into which water drained through a drain hole flows.
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