Sea cucumber cleaning equipment and method

Abstract

The invention provides sea cucumber cleaning equipment and a sea cucumber cleaning method, and solves the problem that an existing manual sea cucumber treatment mode is troublesome and laborsome, and the main scheme is that the sea cucumber cleaning equipment comprises a base, and a feeding and discharging assembly, a first cleaning assembly, a second cleaning assembly and a driving assembly are transversely and sequentially fixed to the top of the base; the feeding and discharging assembly comprises a first conveying belt and a second conveying belt which are opposite in conveying direction, the first cleaning assembly comprises a plurality of sets of cleaning rollers, the middle shaft section of each cleaning roller is covered with extrusion sponge, every two sets of cleaning rollers are oppositely arranged at intervals, and in the conveying direction of the first conveying belt, the middle distance between every two sets of cleaning rollers is sequentially decreased. The second cleaning assembly is a transverse rotating type filter drum, the driving assembly is used for driving each cleaning roller and the filter drum to rotate in the same direction, one end of the second conveying belt is in butt joint with the bottom of the filter drum, and a water filtering drum is fixed to the other end of the second conveying belt so as to filter water of sea cucumbers.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of sea cucumber processing technology, and in particular to a sea cucumber cleaning device and method. Background Art

[0002] Sea cucumbers have high nutritional value. With the improvement of people's living standards and their emphasis on health, the demand for sea cucumbers is increasing. In order to improve the shelf life and nutritional value of sea cucumbers, sea cucumbers need to be deeply processed. During the processing and production process, sea cucumbers need to be deeply cleaned.

[0003] At present, when sea cucumbers are processed and cleaned in batches, they are usually continuously sprayed with water while being transported by a conveyor belt, or they are treated with a manual roller brush. However, this method cannot easily turn the sea cucumbers over, resulting in incomplete cleaning of the sea cucumbers. In addition, as the conveyor belt moves, dirt such as mud and sand are easily transported synchronously with the sea cucumbers, affecting the cleaning effect. Summary of the invention

[0004] The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to overcome the defects of the prior art, and the present invention proposes a sea cucumber cleaning device and method, which can replace manual work and use automatic servo equipment to perform automatic cleaning operations on the preliminary treatment of sea cucumbers, which is convenient and reliable.

[0005] In order to solve the above technical problems, the technical solution adopted by the present invention is: a sea cucumber cleaning equipment, comprising: a base, on the top of the base are laterally fixed with an inlet and outlet assembly, a first cleaning assembly, a second cleaning assembly and a driving assembly, the inlet and outlet assembly comprises a first conveyor belt and a second conveyor belt with opposite conveying directions, the first cleaning assembly comprises a plurality of groups of cleaning rollers, the middle shaft section of each cleaning roller is covered with an extrusion sponge, each group of cleaning rollers are arranged opposite to each other in pairs, and the middle distance between each group of cleaning rollers becomes smaller in sequence with the conveying direction of the first conveyor belt, the second cleaning assembly is a laterally rotating filter cartridge, the driving assembly is used to drive each of the cleaning rollers and the filter cartridge to rotate in the same direction, one end of the second conveyor belt is connected to the bottom of the filter cartridge, and the other end is fixed with a water filter cartridge to filter water from the sea cucumbers.

[0006] Furthermore, the first conveyor belt is located above the second conveyor belt and is shorter than the second conveyor belt. An open limiting plate is fixed at one end close to the first cleaning component. The limiting plate is a vertically placed plate with a certain curvature, and its end close to the first conveyor belt is outwardly open.

[0007] Furthermore, the cleaning rollers include at least two groups, and the base is vertically fixed with adjustment platforms at both ends of each cleaning roller, and each of the adjustment platforms includes a numerical adjustment screw, a slide, a spring and a transmission gear. The center of the adjustment platform is hollowed out and a slide groove is correspondingly opened on the inner wall. The two ends of the slide are slidably connected to the slide groove, and the center thereof is coaxially clearance-matched with the adjusting screw. The spring is covered on the outside of the adjusting screw, one end of which is connected and fixed to the top of the slide, and the other end is connected and fixed to the top of the adjusting platform. The adjusting screw is threadedly matched with the center of the top of the adjusting platform, and each group of cleaning rollers is coaxially fixed at one end of the exposed adjusting platform through the transmission gear.

[0008] Furthermore, the plurality of groups of cleaning rollers are driven one by one through transmission gears, and are uniformly servo-driven by the driving assembly.

[0009] Furthermore, the filter cartridge is provided with material ports on one side close to the first conveyor belt and the second conveyor belt respectively, the inner wall of the filter cartridge is rotatably connected to a rotating shaft, a ring-shaped turntable is fixed to the middle section of the rotating shaft, and multiple groups of cleaning brushes are equidistantly fixed to the outside of the turntable, and each of the cleaning brushes is fixed to the outer wall of the turntable by a positioning bolt.

[0010] Furthermore, the base is fixed with a turntable at both ends corresponding to the filter cartridge, and both ends of the rotating shaft are rotatably connected to the rotating shaft respectively, and one end of the rotating shaft is exposed to the turntable and is servo-driven with the driving component.

[0011] Furthermore, the driving assembly is a plurality of mutually independent transmission pulleys or sprockets, each independent transmission pulley set is synchronously driven by a synchronous belt, and each independent sprocket is driven by chain meshing.

[0012] A cleaning method according to the above-mentioned sea cucumber cleaning equipment comprises the following steps:

[0013] S1, the sea cucumber to be cleaned is sent to the limit plate by the first conveyor belt, and then the limit plate is limited to send the sea cucumber to the first group of cleaning rollers, the cleaning rollers are servo-driven by the external drive assembly, and after rotating in the same direction, the friction drives the sea cucumber to continue to move forward to enter the adjacent cleaning rollers with a smaller intermediate spacing, and after multi-stage cleaning, it enters the filter cartridge from the material port to start the next level of cleaning operation;

[0014] S2, the sea cucumber is cleaned twice by the cleaning brush arranged on the side wall of the turntable on the filter cartridge, and the inside of the filter cartridge is continuously sprayed with water connected to an external water source for repeated cleaning;

[0015] S3. The cleaned sea cucumber is fed to the second conveyor belt from the feed port at the bottom of the filter cartridge, and is transferred to the outside by the reverse second conveyor belt, and filtered through the water filter cartridge at the end.

[0016] Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the present invention include: the present invention first realizes the feeding and discharging of sea cucumbers by two independent conveyor belts in opposite directions, and then realizes the preliminary processing of sea cucumbers by multiple automated cleaning operations. First, the sea cucumbers are squeezed and cleaned by sponges on multi-stage cleaning rollers with continuously decreasing spacing; second, the filter cartridge is independently rotated, and a corresponding roller brush is arranged inside the filter cartridge for secondary cleaning. The overall structure is highly innovative and replaces the complex and laborious manual cleaning method. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0017] The disclosure of the present invention is described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of protection of the present invention. In the accompanying drawings, the same reference numerals are used to refer to the same components. Among them:

[0018] Figure 1 Schematically shows an isometric structural diagram proposed according to one embodiment of the present invention;

[0019] Figure 2 Schematically shows a front view according to an embodiment of the present invention;

[0020] Figure 3 Schematically shows a method according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 2 AA section view.

[0021] Numbers in the figure: 1. First conveyor belt; 2. Second conveyor belt; 3. Cleaning roller; 4. Squeezing sponge; 5. Filter cartridge; 6. Water filter cartridge; 7. Limiting plate; 8. Adjusting table; 9. Adjusting screw; 10. Slide; 11. Spring; 12. Transmission gear; 13. Slide; 15. Material port; 16. Rotating shaft; 17. Turntable; 18. Cleaning brush; 19. Positioning bolt; 20. Turntable; 21. Transmission pulley; 22. Sprocket; 23. Synchronous belt; 24. Chain. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0022] It is easy to understand that according to the technical solution of the present invention, without changing the essential spirit of the present invention, a person skilled in the art can propose a variety of interchangeable structural modes and implementation modes. Therefore, the following specific implementation modes and drawings are only exemplary descriptions of the technical solution of the present invention, and should not be regarded as the whole of the present invention or as a limitation or restriction to the technical solution of the present invention.

[0023] According to one embodiment of the present invention, Figure 1-Figure 3 Shown.

[0024] like Figure 1As shown, a sea cucumber cleaning equipment comprises: a base, on the top of which are laterally fixed with an inlet and outlet assembly, a first cleaning assembly, a second cleaning assembly and a driving assembly, the inlet and outlet assembly comprising a first conveyor belt and a second conveyor belt with opposite conveying directions, the first cleaning assembly comprising a plurality of groups of cleaning rollers, the middle shaft section of each cleaning roller is covered with an extrusion sponge, each group of cleaning rollers are arranged opposite to each other in pairs, and the middle distance between each group of cleaning rollers becomes smaller in sequence with the conveying direction of the first conveyor belt, the second cleaning assembly is a laterally rotating filter cartridge, the driving assembly is used to drive each of the cleaning rollers and the filter cartridge to rotate in the same direction, one end of the second conveyor belt is connected to the bottom of the filter cartridge, and the other end is fixed with a water filter cartridge to filter water from the sea cucumbers.

[0025] Furthermore, the first conveyor belt is located above the second conveyor belt and is shorter than the second conveyor belt. An open limiting plate is fixed at one end close to the first cleaning component. The limiting plate is a vertically placed plate with a certain curvature, and its end close to the first conveyor belt is outwardly open.

[0026] Furthermore, the cleaning rollers include at least two groups, and the base is vertically fixed with adjustment platforms at both ends of each cleaning roller, and each of the adjustment platforms includes a numerical adjustment screw, a slide, a spring and a transmission gear. The center of the adjustment platform is hollowed out and a slide groove is correspondingly opened on the inner wall. The two ends of the slide are slidably connected to the slide groove, and the center thereof is coaxially clearance-matched with the adjusting screw. The spring is covered on the outside of the adjusting screw, one end of which is connected and fixed to the top of the slide, and the other end is connected and fixed to the top of the adjusting platform. The adjusting screw is threadedly matched with the center of the top of the adjusting platform, and each group of cleaning rollers is coaxially fixed at one end of the exposed adjusting platform through the transmission gear.

[0027] Furthermore, the plurality of groups of cleaning rollers are driven one by one through transmission gears, and are uniformly servo-driven by the driving assembly.

[0028] Furthermore, the filter cartridge is provided with material ports on one side close to the first conveyor belt and the second conveyor belt respectively, the inner wall of the filter cartridge is rotatably connected to a rotating shaft, a ring-shaped turntable is fixed to the middle section of the rotating shaft, and multiple groups of cleaning brushes are equidistantly fixed to the outside of the turntable, and each of the cleaning brushes is fixed to the outer wall of the turntable by a positioning bolt.

[0029] Furthermore, the base is fixed with a turntable at both ends corresponding to the filter cartridge, and both ends of the rotating shaft are rotatably connected to the rotating shaft respectively, and one end of the rotating shaft is exposed to the turntable and is servo-driven with the driving component.

[0030] Furthermore, the driving assembly is a plurality of mutually independent transmission pulleys or sprockets, each independent transmission pulley set is synchronously driven by a synchronous belt, and each independent sprocket is driven by chain meshing.

[0031] Combined with the above structure record, the early stage automated cleaning operation of sea cucumber includes the following steps:

[0032] S1, the sea cucumber to be cleaned is sent to the limit plate by the first conveyor belt, and then the limit plate is limited to send the sea cucumber to the first group of cleaning rollers, the cleaning rollers are servo-driven by the external drive assembly, and after rotating in the same direction, the friction drives the sea cucumber to continue to move forward to enter the adjacent cleaning rollers with a smaller intermediate spacing, and after multi-stage cleaning, it enters the filter cartridge from the material port to start the next level of cleaning operation;

[0033] S2, the sea cucumber is cleaned twice by the cleaning brush arranged on the side wall of the turntable on the filter cartridge, and the inside of the filter cartridge is continuously sprayed with water connected to an external water source for repeated cleaning;

[0034] S3. The cleaned sea cucumber is fed to the second conveyor belt from the feed port at the bottom of the filter cartridge, and is transferred to the outside by the reverse second conveyor belt, and filtered through the water filter cartridge at the end.

[0035] The present invention firstly realizes the feeding and discharging of sea cucumbers by two independent conveyor belts in opposite directions, and then realizes the preliminary processing of sea cucumbers by multiple automated cleaning operations. First, the sea cucumbers are squeezed and cleaned by sponges on multi-stage cleaning rollers with decreasing spacing. Second, the filter cartridges are independently rotated, and corresponding roller brushes are arranged inside the filter cartridges for secondary cleaning. The overall structure is highly innovative and replaces the complex and laborious manual cleaning method.

[0036] The technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the contents in the above description. Those skilled in the art can make various deformations and modifications to the above embodiments without departing from the technical idea of ​​the present invention, and these deformations and modifications should all fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A sea cucumber cleaning device, characterized in that: include: A base, on the top of which are laterally fixed with an inlet and outlet assembly, a first cleaning assembly, a second cleaning assembly and a driving assembly, the inlet and outlet assembly comprising a first conveyor belt and a second conveyor belt in opposite directions, the first cleaning assembly comprising a plurality of groups of cleaning rollers, the middle shaft section of each cleaning roller being covered with an extruded sponge, each group of cleaning rollers being arranged opposite to each other in pairs, and in the conveying direction of the first conveyor belt, the middle distance between each group of cleaning rollers becomes smaller in sequence, the second cleaning assembly is a laterally rotating filter cartridge, the driving assembly is used to drive each of the cleaning rollers and the filter cartridge to rotate in the same direction, one end of the second conveyor belt is butt-jointed with the bottom of the filter cartridge, and the other end is fixed with a water filter cartridge to filter water from the sea cucumbers.

2. A sea cucumber cleaning device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The first conveyor belt is located above the second conveyor belt and is shorter than the second conveyor belt. An open limiting plate is fixed at one end close to the first cleaning component. The limiting plate is a vertically placed plate with a certain curvature, and the end close to the first conveyor belt is open outwards.

3. A sea cucumber cleaning device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The cleaning rollers include at least two groups, and the base is vertically fixed with adjustment platforms at both ends of each cleaning roller, and each of the adjustment platforms includes a numerical adjustment screw, a slide, a spring and a transmission gear. The center of the adjustment platform is hollowed out and a slide groove is correspondingly opened on the inner wall. The two ends of the slide are slidably connected to the slide groove, and the center thereof is coaxially gap-matched with the adjusting screw. The spring is covered on the outside of the adjusting screw, one end of which is connected and fixed to the top of the slide, and the other end is connected and fixed to the top of the adjusting platform. The adjusting screw is threadedly matched with the center of the top of the adjusting platform, and each group of cleaning rollers is coaxially fixed at one end of the exposed adjusting platform through the transmission gear.

4. A sea cucumber cleaning device according to claim 3, characterized in that: The plurality of cleaning rollers are driven one by one through transmission gears and are servo-driven uniformly through the driving assembly.

5. A sea cucumber cleaning device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The filter cartridge is provided with material ports on one side close to the first conveyor belt and the second conveyor belt respectively. The inner wall of the filter cartridge is rotatably connected to a rotating shaft. A ring-shaped turntable is fixed to the middle section of the rotating shaft. Multiple groups of cleaning brushes are equidistantly fixed to the outside of the turntable. Each cleaning brush is fixed to the outer wall of the turntable by a positioning bolt.

6. A sea cucumber cleaning device according to claim 5, characterized in that: The base is fixed with a turntable at both ends corresponding to the filter cartridge, and both ends of the rotating shaft are rotatably connected to the rotating shaft respectively. One end of the rotating shaft is exposed to the turntable and is servo-driven with the driving component.

7. A sea cucumber cleaning device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The driving assembly is a plurality of mutually independent transmission pulleys or sprockets, each independent transmission pulley set is synchronously driven by a synchronous belt, and each independent sprocket is driven by chain meshing.

8. A method for cleaning a sea cucumber cleaning device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that: The steps include: S1, the sea cucumber to be cleaned is sent to the limit plate by the first conveyor belt, and then the limit plate is limited to send the sea cucumber to the first group of cleaning rollers, the cleaning rollers are servo-driven by the external drive assembly, and after rotating in the same direction, the friction drives the sea cucumber to continue to move forward to enter the adjacent cleaning rollers with a smaller intermediate spacing, and after multi-stage cleaning, it enters the filter cartridge from the material port to start the next level of cleaning operation; S2, the sea cucumber is cleaned twice by the cleaning brush arranged on the side wall of the turntable on the filter cartridge, and the inside of the filter cartridge is continuously sprayed with water connected to an external water source for repeated cleaning; S3. The cleaned sea cucumber is fed to the second conveyor belt from the feed port at the bottom of the filter cartridge, and is transferred to the outside by the reverse second conveyor belt, and filtered through the water filter cartridge at the end.

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