Fruit processing machine

Abstract

The fruit processing machine of the present invention comprises an axis adjustment mechanism and a core removal device. The core removal device performs core removal operation on the fruit that has been axis adjusted by the axis adjustment mechanism, and comprises a lifting and lowering pressing plate. The pressing plate descends to press the fruit firmly on the axis adjustment mechanism so that the core removal device can perform core removal. The pressing plate is driven to descend to press the fruit firmly on the axis adjustment mechanism, so that the position of the center axis of the fruit core will not change during the movement of the fruit with the axis adjustment mechanism, and the fruit that has completed axis adjustment can be smoothly transferred to the core removal device.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to the technical field of fruit processing equipment, in particular to a fruit processing machine capable of performing axis adjustment processing on fruit cores. Background Art

[0002] The fruit processing machine used to process fruits needs to remove the core of the fruit. In order to accurately remove the core without losing too much flesh, the central axis of the core of the fruit needs to be adjusted to be placed horizontally, and then the adjusted fruit is moved to the next station for core removal. In order to allow the fruit to remain in the state of axis adjustment before being sent to the next process, it is usually necessary to move the core removal tool and other processing equipment used in the next station to the current axis adjustment station, and then insert the core removal tool into the adjusted fruit, and then move the core removal tool back to the next process with the fruit. However, the core removal tool may shake during the movement, and the fruit inserted in the core removal tool is easy to fall off the core removal tool or the fruit flesh is crushed by the core removal tool. Summary of the invention

[0003] The invention provides a fruit processing machine which can stably send fruits to be adjusted to an adjustment mechanism, and then stably transfer fruits whose adjustment is completed to a core removal device.

[0004] The invention provides a fruit processing machine, which comprises an axis adjustment mechanism and a core removal device. The core removal device removes the core of the fruit whose axis has been adjusted by the axis adjustment mechanism. The fruit processing machine comprises a liftable pressing plate. The pressing plate descends to press the fruit firmly on the axis adjustment mechanism so that the core removal device can remove the core.

[0005] The fruit processing machine provided by the present invention drives the pressing plate to descend so as to press the fruit firmly on the axis adjustment mechanism, which can ensure that the position of the central axis of the fruit core will not change when the fruit moves with the axis adjustment mechanism, and can stably transfer the fruit with the axis adjusted to the core removal device. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0006] Figure 1 It is the overall structure diagram of the fruit processing equipment.

[0007] Figure 2 It is a structural diagram of the fruit processing equipment when the second feed port is in a closed state.

[0008] Figure 3 It is a decomposition structure diagram of the axis adjustment mechanism of the fruit processing equipment.

[0009] Figure 4 It is a structural diagram of the axis adjustment mechanism of the fruit processing equipment when the second feed port is open.

[0010] Figure 5 It is a structural diagram of the fruit processing equipment in a state where a pressing plate presses the fruit on the axis adjustment mechanism.

[0011] The figure includes:

[0012] 1 - large fruit storage area, 11 - watermelon, 12 - large fruit feeding mechanism,

[0013] 2 - small fruit storage area, 21 - apples, 22 - small fruit feeding mechanism, 23 - hopper,

[0014] 3 - shaft adjustment mechanism, 31 - shaft adjustment member, 32 - limit plate, 321 - radial slot, 33 - mounting plate, 34 - turntable, 341 - arc slot, 35 - drive motor,

[0015] 4 - pressure plate, 41 - support plate, 42 - elastic pad, 43 - swing shaft,

[0016] 5——Lifting drive mechanism,

[0017] 6——Feed drive mechanism,

[0018] 7——Feeding device,

[0019] 8 - core removal device, 81 - clamping piece, 82 - fruit placement position,

[0020] Adjust the center axis O. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0021] Fruit processing machine Figure 1 As shown, the large fruit storage area 1 and the small fruit storage area 2 sandwich the shaft adjustment mechanism 3 in the middle, the right side of the shaft adjustment mechanism 3 serves as the first feed port for receiving large fruits, and the top of the shaft adjustment mechanism serves as the second feed port for receiving small fruits. Fruit placement position 82 Fruit placement position 82 The large fruit storage area 1 is divided into three layers from high to low, and each layer can store watermelons or other large fruits. The feeding drive mechanism 6 drives the shaft adjustment mechanism 3 to rise and fall so that the top of the shaft adjustment mechanism 3 moves to the exit of each layer of the large fruit storage area 1, and then the left side of the large fruit storage area 1 opens, so that the watermelon 11 can slide to the left under the drive of the large fruit feeding mechanism 12 into the shaft adjustment mechanism 3 that has been aligned with the exit of the layer, thereby realizing the feeding of the large fruit watermelon 11 from the first feed port of the shaft adjustment mechanism 3.

[0022] The small fruit storage area 2 is provided with multiple layers of storage plates fixed on the circulating chain, and small fruits such as apples 21 can be placed on each layer of the storage plates. The small fruit feeding mechanism 22 drives the circulating chain to rotate so that the storage plates move to align with the opening on the upper right side of the small fruit storage area 2. The apples on the storage plates roll from the opening to the hopper 23 provided above the axis adjustment mechanism 3, and then fall into the axis adjustment mechanism 3, thereby realizing the feeding of small fruits from the two feeding ports of the axis adjustment mechanism 3.

[0023] Watermelon 11 as a large fruit is fed to the axis adjustment position from the first feed port on the right side of the axis adjustment mechanism 3 through the large fruit feeding mechanism 12, and apple 21 as a small fruit is fed to the axis adjustment position from the second feed port on the top of the axis adjustment mechanism 3 through the small fruit feeding mechanism 22. The large fruit and the small fruit are respectively fed into the axis adjustment mechanism 3 by different feeding mechanisms arranged in their respective storage areas, and the feeding paths are relatively independent and do not interfere with each other.

[0024] A pressure plate 4 is provided above the shaft adjustment mechanism 3 as a buffer layer, and the apples 21 fall from the bottom opening of the hopper 23 to the top of the pressure plate 4. Figure 2 As shown, the pressing plate 4 is composed of two left and right supporting plates 41, which are assembled together. The two supporting plates 41 are as a whole, and the upper surface thereof forms a depression at the joint of the two supporting plates, and the depression is downwardly aligned with the axis adjustment position of the axis adjustment mechanism 3. The apple 21 dropped onto the pressing plate 4 rolls toward the joint of the two supporting plates 41 and stays at the depression, so that the center of the fruit projection of the apple 21 is aligned with the position located at Figure 3 The small fruit placement position at the central axis O of the middle axis adjustment mechanism 3.

[0025] Figure 3 In the figure, the axis adjustment mechanism 3 has three axis adjustment parts 31 evenly distributed around the central axis O, the limit plate 32, the rotating plate 34 and the driving motor 35 are coaxially arranged below the axis adjustment parts 31 with the central axis O as the axis, and three mounting plates 33 are arranged between the limit plate 32 and the rotating plate 34 corresponding to the three axis adjustment parts 31. A group of limit grooves are opened on the surface of the limit plate 32 corresponding to the positions of each axis adjustment part 31, and arc-shaped through grooves 331 are opened on the surface of the rotating plate 33 corresponding to the positions of each axis adjustment part 31, and the right side groove wall of the arc-shaped through groove 331 is close to the central axis O. Each group of limiting grooves of the limiting plate 32 is composed of two parallel radial through grooves 321, the width of the two radial through grooves 321 is consistent with the width of the shaft adjusting member 31, the bottom of each side of the shaft adjusting member 31 respectively passes downward through the two radial through grooves 321 of a group of limiting grooves, and then is installed on the two ends of the mounting plate 33, and the lever extending downward from the bottom of the mounting plate 33 is inserted into the arc through groove 341 of the rotating disk 34. The driving motor 35 drives the rotating disk 34 to rotate clockwise with the central axis O as the axis, and the arc through groove 341 on the rotating disk 34 rotates counterclockwise with the rotating disk 34, then the mounting plate 33 is driven by the lever inserted into the arc through groove 341 to move close to the central axis O along the groove wall of the arc through groove 341, and the shaft adjusting member 31 moves radially close to the central axis O under the restriction of the radial through groove 321 of the limiting plate 32. The three axis adjustment members 31 synchronously move radially toward the central axis O (i.e., the center of the fruit projection) until the axis adjustment area surrounded by the three axis adjustment members 31 overlaps with the projection edge of the apple 21, and the apple 21 can be supported for axis adjustment.

[0026] See Figure 4, swing shafts 43 are respectively provided on the outer sides of the two supporting plates 41, and the swing shafts 43 can rotate under the drive of the motor to drive the respective supporting plates 41 to rotate. After the three adjusting shaft members 31 of the shaft adjustment mechanism 3 are radially moved and adjusted to a good position, the two supporting plates 41 are respectively driven by the swing shafts 43 to rotate downward together, thereby opening at the sunken part to open the second feed port at the top of the shaft adjustment mechanism 3. The pressing plate 4 can be replaced by three or more supporting plates arranged circumferentially with the sunken part as the center, and each supporting plate rotates downward together to open at the sunken part.

[0027] The apple 21 falls from the pressure plate 4 to the small fruit placement position surrounded by the three shaft adjustment parts 31 in the middle of the shaft adjustment mechanism 3. At this time, the rotating surfaces of the three shaft adjustment parts 31 are all in contact with the apple 21 at an angle, which can provide appropriate contact pressure for the apple 21. Before adjusting the axis of a large fruit, the three shaft adjustment parts 31 of the shaft adjustment mechanism 3 are synchronously moved radially away from the central axis O, so that the rotating surfaces of the three shaft adjustment parts 31 can always be in contact with the fruit at an angle, and the large fruit will not slip when adjusting the axis. The three shaft adjustment parts 31 adjust the axis of the apple 21 together, so that the central axis of the core of the apple 21 is horizontal.

[0028] During the process of the axis adjustment mechanism 3 adjusting the axis of the apple 21, the pressing plate 4 is driven by the lifting drive mechanism 5 to rise until the bottom of the supporting plate 41 is higher than the top of the apple 21, and then the two supporting plates 41 are driven by the swing shaft 43 to rotate upward together and return to the state of being assembled with each other. Figure 5 The two supporting plates 41 are provided with elastic pads 42 at the bottom of the joint, and the middle of the two elastic pads 42 as a whole is concave toward the top surface of the supporting plate 41. After the axis adjustment is completed, the lifting drive mechanism 5 drives the two supporting plates 41 assembled together to descend together until the concave parts of the two elastic pads 42 press the upper surface of the apple 21, so that the apple 21 is pressed firmly on the axis adjustment mechanism 3 in a manner that the central axis of the fruit core is horizontal.

[0029] Large fruits such as watermelon 11 are fed from the first feed port on the right side of the axis adjustment mechanism 3 to the axis adjustment position, and after being adjusted by the axis adjustment mechanism 3, they are also pressed firmly on the axis adjustment mechanism 3 by the pressing plate 4 in a manner that the central axis of the fruit core is horizontal.

[0030] See Figure 1 A core removing device 8 is provided on the front of the axis adjusting mechanism 3, and a fruit placement position 82 of the core removing device 8 is aligned with the axis adjusting mechanism 3. Two horizontally placed clamping members 81 of the core removing device 8 are respectively arranged on both sides of the fruit placement position 82 (i.e., the front of the large fruit storage area 1 and the small fruit storage area 2).

[0031] The feed drive mechanism 6 drives the axis adjustment mechanism 3 that has completed axis adjustment and the pressing plate 4 that presses the fruit (large fruit or small fruit) on the axis adjustment mechanism 3 to rise together until the central axis of the horizontally placed fruit core of the fruit is parallel to the two horizontally placed clamping members 81 of the core removal device 8. The feeding device 7 moves the axis adjustment mechanism 3 and the pressing plate 4 that presses the fruit on the axis adjustment mechanism 3 outward together until the fruit is sent to the fruit placement position 82. The two clamping members 81 of the core removal device 8 move laterally closer to clamp the fruit sent to the fruit placement position 82 for core removal operation.

[0032] The pressing plate 4 presses the fruit firmly on the axis adjustment mechanism 3, ensuring that the position of the center axis of the fruit core of the fruit after axis adjustment does not change during the movement of the fruit core along with the axis adjustment mechanism 3, and the fruit can be smoothly transferred to the core removal device 8.

Claims

1. A fruit processing machine, comprising an axis adjustment mechanism and a core removal device, wherein the core removal device removes the core of the fruit after the axis adjustment mechanism has been adjusted, and wherein the fruit processing machine is characterized in that: The utility model comprises a lifting and lowering pressing plate as a buffer layer arranged above the axis adjustment mechanism, a depression is formed on the upper surface of the buffer layer, and the depression is downwardly aligned with the axis adjustment position of the axis adjustment mechanism, and the buffer layer is opened at the depression, so that the fruit dropped onto the pressing plate falls down onto the axis adjustment mechanism; the pressing plate descends to press the fruit firmly on the axis adjustment mechanism so that the core removal device can remove the core; the axis adjustment mechanism has three axis adjustment parts evenly distributed around the central axis O, and the axis adjustment mechanism comprises a limit plate, a rotating plate and a driving motor coaxially arranged below the axis adjustment parts with the central axis O as the axis, and three axis adjustment parts are corresponding between the limit plate and the rotating plate. Three mounting plates are provided; a group of limiting grooves are opened on the surface of the limiting plate at positions corresponding to each shaft adjusting member, and arc-shaped through grooves are opened on the surface of the rotating disk at positions corresponding to each shaft adjusting member, and the right side groove wall of the arc-shaped through groove is close to the central axis O; each group of limiting grooves of the limiting plate is composed of two parallel radial through grooves, and the width of the two radial through grooves is consistent with the width of the shaft adjusting member, and the bottom of both sides of each shaft adjusting member passes downward through the two radial through grooves of a group of limiting grooves, so as to be installed at both ends of the mounting plate, and a lever inserted into the arc-shaped through groove of the rotating disk extends downward from the bottom of the mounting plate.

2. The fruit processing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: It includes a lifting drive mechanism for driving the pressing plate to lift up and down.

3. The fruit processing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: An elastic pad is arranged at the bottom of the pressing plate.

4. The fruit processing machine according to claim 3, characterized in that: The elastic pad is recessed toward the top surface of the pressure plate at the axis adjustment position aligned with the axis adjustment mechanism.

5. The fruit processing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: The buffer layer body and the depression are formed by a plurality of supporting plates, and the supporting plates are arranged circumferentially with the depression as the center, and the supporting plates rotate downward together to open at the depression.

6. The fruit processing machine according to claim 5, characterized in that: The number of the supporting plates is two.

7. The fruit processing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: The utility model comprises a feeding device, which sends the axis adjustment mechanism which has completed the axis adjustment and the pressing plate which presses the fruit firmly on the axis adjustment mechanism to the core removing device.

8. The fruit processing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: It includes multi-layer large fruit storage areas arranged in high and low levels, and a feed drive mechanism for driving the axis adjustment mechanism to rise and fall.

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