Traditional Chinese medicinal material soaking barrel capable of preventing medicinal materials from floating upwards

By designing a movable and rotating filter shell structure and a motor drive, the problems of floating and inconvenient processing of Chinese medicinal herbs in the soaking tank are solved, achieving full soaking and rapid dehydration of Chinese medicinal herbs, improving extraction efficiency and environmental friendliness.

CN223601717UActive Publication Date: 2025-11-28HENAN PROVINCE QINGSHAN PHARM CO LTD
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Application Number
CN202422387101.0
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2024-09-29
Publication Date
2025-11-28
Estimated Expiration
2034-09-29

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Technical Problem

Existing Chinese herbal medicine soaking tanks tend to cause herbs to float during the soaking process, and the soaking volume is limited. After soaking, the herbs are inconvenient to process, affecting extraction efficiency and posing a risk of environmental pollution.

Method used

A medicinal herb soaking tank is designed to prevent medicinal herbs from floating. It adopts a movable outer filter shell and a rotatable inner filter shell structure, combined with motor drive and gear transmission, to realize the limiting and spatial adjustment of medicinal herbs, and to quickly process the soaked medicinal herbs through the rotation dehydration function.

Benefits of technology

It effectively prevents Chinese medicinal herbs from floating, ensures thorough soaking, shortens processing time, reduces waste of medicinal liquid, and lowers the risk of environmental pollution.

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Abstract

The utility model discloses a traditional Chinese medicinal material soaking barrel capable of preventing medicinal materials from floating upwards, and belongs to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicinal material processing equipment. The device comprises a barrel body, an outer filter shell movably installed in the barrel body and an inner filter shell rotatably installed in the outer filter shell, and a supporting frame used for limiting the outer filter shell and the inner filter shell is further erected on the barrel body. The inner filter shell comprises a limiting screw rod and a driven bevel gear; the limiting screw rod is inwards mounted in the center of the bottom of the inner filter shell; the limiting screw rod is fixedly sleeved with the driven bevel gear; a limiting plate is rotationally arranged on the limiting screw rod below the driven bevel gear in a sleeving manner; the traditional Chinese medicinal materials can be prevented from floating upwards through a limiting plate, the soaking space of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials can be adjusted, and the applicability of the device is improved; traditional Chinese medicinal materials can be dehydrated through the rotatable inner filter shell, residual attached liquid medicine is effectively separated out and flows into the barrel body through the filter openings in the outer filter shell and the inner filter shell, waste of the liquid medicine is avoided, and the risk that the residual liquid medicine pollutes the environment is also avoided.
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TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to traditional Chinese medicinal material processing equipment technical field, concretely relates to a kind of traditional Chinese medicinal material soaking barrel of preventing medicinal material floating. BACKGROUND

[0002] Traditional Chinese medicinal material soaking barrel is a kind of equipment specially used for traditional Chinese medicinal material soaking, extraction, is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces, health-care wine and other production fields;Traditional Chinese medicinal material soaking barrel can effectively dissolve or exude the effective components in traditional Chinese medicinal materials into solvent by soaking, improve extraction efficiency.This method is more gentle compared to other extraction methods, such as decoction, distillation, etc., can better retain the active ingredients in traditional Chinese medicinal materials;However, in the process of traditional Chinese medicine soaking, due to different kinds of traditional Chinese medicinal materials have different density and shape, some traditional Chinese medicinal materials are easy to float due to the action of solvent buoyancy in the process of soaking because of small density or special shape;Traditional Chinese medicinal materials floating causes part of traditional Chinese medicinal materials to be unable to completely immerse in solvent, and the effective components of these traditional Chinese medicinal materials may not be fully dissolved or exuded, thereby affecting extraction efficiency;In order to solve these problems, some measures should be taken to prevent traditional Chinese medicinal materials from floating to be applied to traditional Chinese medicinal material soaking barrel.

[0003] In the prior art, for example, a patent with application number CN202320374663.4 discloses "a kind of anti-floating traditional Chinese medicinal material soaking treatment equipment, it relates to traditional Chinese medicinal material soaking technical field, including bucket body assembly, the inside of bucket body assembly is provided with soaking assembly, the outside of bucket body assembly is provided with two groups of driving assembly, and the moving end of two groups of driving assembly is connected with the two ends of soaking assembly, the soaking assembly includes filter cartridge, the inside of filter cartridge is connected with center rod in middle position, the top of filter cartridge is provided with pressing plate, and the middle position of pressing plate is provided with through-hole, the top of center rod passes through through-hole and is connected with butterfly nut by screw thread, by loading medicinal material into soaking assembly inside, and moving soaking assembly to the bottom of bucket body by two groups of driving assembly, in turn, when medicinal material is soaked, medicinal material can be avoided floating on water surface, and after soaking is finished, soaking assembly is moved to the top of bucket body, convenient for user to take down soaking assembly, thereby taking out traditional Chinese medicinal materials".

[0004] Although the immersion assembly of the device can effectively prevent the Chinese herbal medicine from floating, the filter cartridge for loading the Chinese herbal medicine in the device is designed with a fixed volume, and the device can only soak a certain volume or amount of Chinese herbal medicine. When the Chinese herbal medicine is too much, the Chinese herbal medicine in the filter cartridge is stacked and pressed, and cannot be fully soaked, so that the effective components in the Chinese herbal medicine cannot be fully and effectively dissolved or exuded into the solvent. At the same time, the device does not have a device for processing the Chinese herbal medicine after soaking. After the Chinese herbal medicine is taken out from the soaking liquid, the Chinese herbal medicine still has the soaking liquid between and on the surface. If the Chinese herbal medicine is directly processed, the soaking liquid will be wasted and the environment will be polluted. Moreover, if the Chinese herbal medicine is left to drain water, the processing time of the Chinese herbal medicine will be greatly prolonged, and the processing efficiency will be affected. Therefore, a new Chinese herbal medicine soaking barrel needs to be designed to solve the above problems.

[0005] The information disclosed in this BACKGROUND section is only for the purpose of enhancing the understanding of the background of the present disclosure and should not be regarded as admitting or implying in any form that it constitutes prior art known to those skilled in the art. Content of the Utility Model

[0006] In view of at least one of the above technical problems, the present disclosure provides a Chinese herbal medicine soaking barrel for preventing the Chinese herbal medicine from floating, which aims to solve the problems of limited amount of Chinese herbal medicine soaked by the Chinese herbal medicine soaking barrel in the prior art and inability to process the Chinese herbal medicine after soaking.

[0007] According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a Chinese herbal medicine soaking barrel for preventing the Chinese herbal medicine from floating is provided, which comprises a barrel body, further comprises an outer filter shell movably installed in the barrel body and an inner filter shell rotatably installed in the outer filter shell, and a support frame is further arranged on the barrel body to limit the outer filter shell and the inner filter shell.

[0008] In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the outer filter shell comprises a fixing member installed inwardly at the center of the bottom thereof, positioning ears arranged outwardly at both ends of the top thereof, and an outer side opening and an outer bottom opening are respectively arranged in the side wall and the bottom of the outer filter shell. The outer side opening and the outer bottom opening facilitate the Chinese herbal medicine to be soaked by the clean water in the barrel body.

[0009] In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the inner filter shell comprises a movable member fixed outwardly at the center of the bottom thereof, a limiting screw installed inwardly at the center of the bottom thereof, a driven bevel gear fixedly sleeved on the limiting screw, a limiting plate rotatably sleeved on the limiting screw below the driven bevel gear to limit the Chinese herbal medicine, and an inner side opening and an inner bottom opening are respectively arranged in the side wall and the bottom of the inner filter shell. The limiting plate can prevent the Chinese herbal medicine from floating during soaking.

[0010] In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the limiting plate comprises a limiting nut fixed thereon and sleeved on the limiting screw for limiting, and a plurality of plate filter openings are formed on the limiting plate; by adjusting the limiting nut, the soaking space of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials can be indirectly adjusted.

[0011] In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the support frame is further symmetrically provided with a first motor and a second motor, and driving screws are movably arranged on the support frame and downwardly connected to the first motor and the second motor, the driving screws are movably arranged on the positioning ears and rotatably arranged in the support frame, and guide rods are movably arranged on the positioning ears and fixedly connected to the support frame at upper ends thereof. The first motor, the second motor and the driving screws can be cooperated to control the rising and falling of the outer filter shell and the inner filter shell.

[0012] In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the support frame is further downwardly provided with a limiting tube, and the limiting screw is movably arranged in the limiting tube and movably arranged on the support frame.

[0013] In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the support frame is further provided with a rotatable gear shaft, a driving bevel gear is arranged on an inner end of the gear shaft and perpendicular to a driven bevel gear, and a third motor is connected to an outer end of the gear shaft. The driving bevel gear can drive the driven bevel gear to indirectly drive the inner filter shell to rotate.

[0014] The one or more technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure have at least the following technical effects or advantages:

[0015] 1. In the device, the limiting plate cooperated with the inner filter shell can not only limit the traditional Chinese medicinal materials to avoid floating during soaking, but also can be displaced by adjusting the limiting nut to adjust the size of the limiting space of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials. When the volume or the quantity of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials to be soaked is large, the limiting space can be increased by moving the limiting plate upward, so that the traditional Chinese medicinal materials in the inner filter shell can be fully soaked to ensure the soaking effect.

[0016] 2. The device can realize the purpose of quickly dehydrating the traditional Chinese medicinal materials after soaking. The driving bevel gear can drive the driven bevel gear to rotate, and the inner filter shell can be driven to realize the dehydration of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials in the inner filter shell. Compared with static draining, the rotating dehydration can greatly shorten the processing time of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials. At the same time, the rotating dehydration can effectively separate the residual medicinal liquid attached to the traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and the separated medicinal liquid can flow into the barrel through the filter openings on the outer filter shell and the inner filter shell, thereby avoiding the waste of the medicinal liquid and the risk of environmental pollution caused by the residual medicinal liquid. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0017] Fig. 1 It is a structural schematic view of the soaking barrel in the present utility model.

[0018] Fig. 2 It is the section view schematic diagram of the soaking barrel in the utility model;

[0019] Fig. 3 It is the structure schematic diagram of the inside of the soaking barrel in the utility model;

[0020] Fig. 4 It is the structure schematic diagram of the connection of the outer filter shell and the support frame in the utility model;

[0021] Fig. 5 It is the structure schematic diagram of the inner filter shell in the utility model;

[0022] Fig. 6 It is the structure schematic diagram of the limiting plate in the utility model.

[0023] In the above figures, 1, barrel body;11, support frame;12, first motor;13, second motor;14, third motor;15, guide rod;16, drive screw;17, gear shaft;171, driving bevel gear;18, limiting tube;2, outer filter shell;21, outer side opening;22, outer bottom opening;23, fixed part;24, positioning lug;3, inner filter shell;31, inner side opening;32, inner bottom opening;33, movable part;34, limiting screw;35, driven bevel gear;36, limiting plate;361, plate filter opening;362, limiting nut. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0024] In the description of the present application, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship indicated by the terms "up", "down", "front", "back", "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "vertical", "horizontal", "clockwise", "counterclockwise" and the like is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for the convenience of describing the present application and simplifying the description, and does not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation on the present application. The "first", "second", etc. referred to in the present application are used to distinguish the described objects and do not have any sequential or technical meaning. Unless otherwise specified, the "connection" and "coupling" referred to in the present application include direct and indirect connections (couplings).

[0025] The present application provides a kind of Chinese herbal medicine soaking barrel for preventing medicine floating, solve the quantity of Chinese herbal medicine in the prior art Chinese herbal medicine soaking barrel soaking is limited, the problem that cannot handle after soaking Chinese herbal medicine, in order to better understand the technical scheme of the present application, the above technical scheme will be described in detail in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments of the present application.

[0026] The present application discloses a kind of Chinese herbal medicine soaking barrel for preventing medicine floating, referring to Figs. 1-6The device comprises a barrel 1, an outer filter shell 2 movably installed in the barrel 1, and an inner filter shell 3 rotatably installed in the outer filter shell 2. A support frame 11 is arranged on the barrel 1 to limit the outer filter shell 2 and the inner filter shell 3.

[0027] The outer filter shell 2 comprises a fixing member 23 installed inwardly at the center of the bottom thereof and positioning ears 24 arranged outwardly at the two ends of the top thereof. An outer side opening 21 and an outer bottom opening 22 are respectively arranged on the side wall and the bottom of the outer filter shell 2. The openings facilitate the soaking of the medicinal herbs in the barrel 1.

[0028] The inner filter shell 3 comprises a movable member 33 fixed outwardly at the center of the bottom thereof, a limiting screw 34 installed inwardly at the center of the bottom thereof, a driven bevel gear 35 fixedly sleeved on the limiting screw 34, and a limiting plate 36 rotatably sleeved on the limiting screw 34 below the driven bevel gear 35 to limit the medicinal herbs. An inner side opening 31 and an inner bottom opening 32 are respectively arranged on the side wall and the bottom of the inner filter shell 3. The limiting plate 36 can prevent the medicinal herbs from floating up during the soaking. The limiting plate 36 comprises a limiting nut 362 fixed thereon and sleeved on the limiting screw 34 to limit the medicinal herbs. A plurality of plate filter openings 361 are arranged on the limiting plate 36. The limiting nut 362 can be adjusted to adjust the soaking space of the medicinal herbs.

[0029] The first motor 12 and the second motor 13 are symmetrically arranged on the support frame 11. Driving screws 16 are downwardly and movably arranged on the support frame 11 and connected to the first motor 12 and the second motor 13. The driving screws 16 are rotatably arranged on the positioning ears 24. Guide rods 15 are movably arranged on the positioning ears 24 and located on the two sides of the driving screws 16. The upper ends of the guide rods 15 are fixedly connected to the support frame 11. The first motor 12, the second motor 13, and the driving screws 16 can control the rising and falling of the outer filter shell 2 and the inner filter shell 3. Limiting tubes 18 are fixedly arranged downwardly on the support frame 11. The limiting screw 34 is movably arranged in the limiting tube 18 and movably arranged on the support frame 11. A gear rotating shaft 17 is rotatably arranged on the support frame 11. A driving bevel gear 171 is arranged on the inner end of the gear rotating shaft 17 and perpendicular to the driven bevel gear 35. A third motor 14 is connected to the outer end of the gear rotating shaft 17. The rotation of the driving bevel gear 171 can drive the driven bevel gear 35 and indirectly drive the inner filter shell 3 to rotate.

[0030] In the implementation of the device, first, the limiting plate 36 is rotated to the state of being attached to the bottom of the driven bevel gear 35 through the limiting nut 362, at which time the inner filter shell 3 is opened, then the traditional Chinese medicinal materials that need to be soaked are placed in the inner filter shell 3, and then the limiting plate 36 is displaced downward by rotating the limiting nut 362 to limit the traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and the movable design of the limiting plate 36 can make the space for limiting the traditional Chinese medicinal materials by the inner filter shell 3 adjustable; therefore, under the premise of ensuring the soaking effect, the device can be suitable for the soaking of traditional Chinese medicinal materials of different volumes or different quantities by adjusting the height position of the limiting plate 36; after being limited, a certain amount of clean water is injected into the barrel body 1, then the first motor 12 and the second motor 13 are started synchronously to drive the driving screw 16 to rotate, the driving screw 16 rotating drives the outer filter shell 2 to displace downward through the positioning lug 24, under the limiting of the connection between the fixed part 23 and the movable part 33, the inner filter shell 3 is synchronously driven to displace downward, until the traditional Chinese medicinal materials in the inner filter shell 3 are completely soaked in the clean water in the barrel body 1, then the first motor 12 and the second motor 13 are turned off, and the traditional Chinese medicinal materials are left to soak in the water. After the soaking is completed, the first motor 12 and the second motor 13 are started synchronously, the outer filter shell 2 and the inner filter shell 3 are displaced upward through the driving screw 16 rotating, at this time, the limiting screw 34 is synchronously displaced upward along the limiting pipe 18, when the limiting screw 34 moves to the position where the driven bevel gear 35 on the limiting screw 34 abuts against the lower end of the limiting pipe 18, the first motor 12 and the second motor 13 are turned off, at this time, the outer filter shell 2 and the inner filter shell 3 are completely separated from the medicinal liquid in the barrel body 1, and at the same time, the driven bevel gear 35 is correspondingly clamped with the driving bevel gear 171; then, the third motor 14 is started, the third motor 14 drives the driving bevel gear 171 to rotate through the gear rotating shaft 17, the driving bevel gear 171 rotating drives the inner filter shell 3 to rotate through the driven bevel gear 35, so as to achieve the purpose of dehydrating the traditional Chinese medicinal materials in the inner filter shell 3; the rotation of the inner filter shell 3 for dehydration can effectively separate the residual medicinal liquid and make the medicinal liquid flow into the barrel body 1 through the filter openings on the outer filter shell 2 and the inner filter shell 3, thereby avoiding the waste of the medicinal liquid and the risk of environmental pollution caused by the medicinal liquid. During this period, since the connection between the inner filter shell 3 and the outer filter shell 2 is a rotatable connection, when the inner filter shell 3 is driven to rotate, the outer filter shell 2 is still in a stationary state. After the dehydration is completed, the third motor 14 is turned off, the inner filter shell 3 is opened by rotating the limiting nut 362 to drive the limiting plate 36 to move upward, and then the traditional Chinese medicinal materials can be taken out. In addition, the first motor 12, the second motor 13 and the third motor 14 used in the device are all prior art, and the specific working principles are not described herein.

[0031] Although the present application has been described in terms of certain preferred embodiments, the skilled person will readily appreciate that other alterations and modifications will occur to them. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims shall cover all such alterations and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the application.

[0032] Obviously, many modifications and variations of the present application are possible in light of the above teachings. It is, therefore, to be understood that within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents, the application can be practiced otherwise than as specifically described.

Claims

1. A traditional Chinese medicine soaking barrel for preventing medicine from floating, comprising a barrel body (1), characterized in that, It also comprises an outer filter shell (2) movably installed in the barrel body (1) and an inner filter shell (3) rotatably installed in the outer filter shell (2), and a support frame (11) is arranged on the barrel body (1) to limit the outer filter shell (2) and the inner filter shell (3); The inner filter shell (3) comprises a movable part (33) fixed outwardly at the center of the bottom thereof, a limiting screw (34) installed inwardly at the center of the bottom thereof, and a driven bevel gear (35) fixedly sleeved on the limiting screw (34), and a limiting plate (36) is rotatably sleeved on the limiting screw (34) below the driven bevel gear (35) to limit the medicinal materials, and an inner side opening (31) and an inner bottom opening (32) are respectively arranged in the side wall and the bottom of the inner filter shell (3); The limiting plate (36) comprises a limiting nut (362) fixed thereon and sleeved on the limiting screw (34) to limit, and a plurality of plate filter openings (361) are arranged on the limiting plate (36).

2. The Chinese medicine material soaking barrel for preventing medicine materials from floating according to claim 1, characterized in that, The outer filter shell (2) comprises a fixed part (23) installed inwardly at the center of the bottom thereof and positioning ears (24) arranged outwardly at both ends of the top thereof, and an outer side opening (21) and an outer bottom opening (22) are respectively arranged in the side wall and the bottom of the outer filter shell (2).

3. The Chinese medicine material soaking barrel for preventing medicine materials from floating up according to claim 2, characterized in that, The support frame (11) further comprises a first motor (12) and a second motor (13) symmetrically installed thereon, a driving screw (16) downwardly and movably penetrating the support frame (11) is connected to the first motor (12) and the second motor (13), the driving screw (16) is rotatably penetrated in the positioning ears (24), and guide rods (15) movably penetrating the positioning ears (24) are arranged on both sides of the driving screw (16), and the upper ends of the guide rods (15) are fixedly connected with the support frame (11).

4. The Chinese medicine material soaking barrel for preventing medicine materials from floating up according to claim 3, characterized in that, The support frame (11) further comprises a limiting tube (18) fixedly arranged downwardly thereon, and the limiting screw (34) movably penetrates the limiting tube (18) and the support frame (11).

5. The Chinese medicine material soaking barrel for preventing medicine materials from floating up according to claim 4, characterized in that, The support frame (11) further comprises a rotatable gear rotating shaft (17), a driving bevel gear (171) perpendicular to the driven bevel gear (35) is arranged on the inner end of the gear rotating shaft (17), and a third motor (14) is connected to the outer end of the gear rotating shaft (17).

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