Energy-saving fruit drying equipment

By designing an L-shaped support plate, an S-shaped heat exchange tube, and a staggered fruit conveying mechanism, the problems of uneven fruit drying and manual intervention are solved, achieving efficient and uniform fruit drying results with automation and energy-saving features.

CN223626899UActive Publication Date: 2025-12-05XINGTAI NAHUA FOOD CO LTD
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Application Number
CN202520016885.8
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-01-06
Publication Date
2025-12-05
Estimated Expiration
2035-01-06

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Technical Problem

Existing fruit drying equipment cannot achieve uniform drying of irregularly shaped or large fruits, and requires manual intervention, resulting in low drying efficiency and high cost.

Method used

The design employs an L-shaped support plate and an S-shaped heat exchange tube, combined with a turbulence-inducing component and a staggered fruit conveying mechanism, to ensure that hot air contacts the fruit surface evenly and achieves continuous drying through automated conveying.

Benefits of technology

It achieves efficient and uniform drying of fruits, improves drying efficiency and quality, reduces the burden of manual operation, has a certain degree of automation, and has energy-saving effects.

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Abstract

The utility model discloses energy-saving fruit drying equipment, which relates to the technical field of fruit processing and drying and comprises a drying box body, a heat exchange mechanism is arranged at the top in the drying box body in a penetrating manner, a supporting plate is arranged in the middle in the drying box body, a plurality of fruit conveying mechanisms are arranged on one side of the supporting plate, and a plurality of exhaust fans are arranged at the bottom end of the supporting plate; a fruit feeding pipe is arranged at the top of one end of the drying box body, a fruit discharging opening is formed in the bottom of one end of the drying box body, a discharging plate is arranged in the fruit discharging opening, and a plurality of first ventilation holes are formed in the top end of the drying box body. The energy-saving fruit drying equipment is reasonable and reliable in structure, achieves the efficient and uniform drying effect through the heat exchange mechanism and the fruit conveying mechanism, protects the completeness of fruits, improves the drying efficiency and quality, has a certain automation degree, relieves the burden of manual operation, and is suitable for popularization and application. The device is suitable for large-scale and high-efficiency fruit drying operation.
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TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to fruit processing drying technical field, specifically, relate to a fruit energy -conserving drying equipment. BACKGROUND

[0002] Fruit refers to juicy and most have sweet taste can eat directly the plant fruit, not only contains rich nutrition and can help digestion. Fruit has the health care function such as reducing blood pressure, slowing down aging, reducing weight, skin care, brightening eyesight, anticancer, reducing cholesterol and supplementing vitamin. In addition, there are some creative culture fruits, with positive energy. If buy to not yet ripe, not only not delicious, but also possible to harm health, therefore, need equipment to dry fruit is a very useful method of preserving fruit.

[0003] For example, China patent CN210980609U discloses a kind of fruit drying equipment, including drying cabinet, drying cabinet is provided with drying mechanism for fruit drying, the inside of drying cabinet is provided with mounting plate, the side wall of mounting plate is provided with strip-shaped opening, the side wall of article frame is fixedly connected with handle, and guiding mechanism is arranged between article frame and mounting plate. Fully utilize hot air can twice fruit drying treatment. However, the above-mentioned drying equipment is placed in the inside of drying cabinet and dried, since fruit keeps fixed position during drying process, this can cause hot air and drying process cannot uniformly act on every part of fruit. Especially for irregular or larger fruit, in addition, the above-mentioned drying equipment needs to manually pull out article frame and replace fruit, cannot realize the continuous, automatic drying of fruit. This not only reduces drying efficiency, but also increases artificial cost and labor intensity.

[0004] For the problems in the related art, no effective solution has been proposed so far. UTILITY MODEL CONTENT

[0005] To overcome the above technical problems existing in the prior art, the utility model provides a fruit energy-saving drying equipment.

[0006] Therefore, the utility model adopts the specific technical scheme as follows:

[0007] A kind of fruit energy-saving drying equipment, including drying cabinet, the top of the inside of drying cabinet is provided with heat exchange mechanism, the middle of drying cabinet is provided with support plate, the side of support plate is provided with several fruit conveying mechanisms, and the bottom of support plate is provided with several air suction machines;The top of one end of drying cabinet is provided with fruit feeding pipe, and the bottom of one end of drying cabinet is provided with fruit discharge port, and the inside of fruit discharge port is provided with drop plate, and the top of drying cabinet is provided with several ventilation holes one.

[0008] Further, in order to ensure the flow of airflow, so as to be able to extract the hot air and moisture generated in the fruit drying process, improve the drying efficiency, and the cross section of the support plate is L-shaped structure, and the bottom end of the support plate is provided with a plurality of ventilation holes two.

[0009] Further, in order to improve the utilization efficiency of heat energy, the heat exchange pipe adopts S-shaped structure, increases the heat exchange area and time, and the inclined arrangement of the heat conducting plate and the opposite design of the inclined direction of the adjacent heat conducting plate, further promotes the uniformity of the hot air, and the disturbance assembly can increase the disturbance of the water flow in the heat exchange pipe, improve the heat exchange efficiency, the heat exchange mechanism includes a plurality of heat exchange pipes penetratingly arranged in the side wall of the drying box body, and the cross section of the heat exchange pipe is S-shaped structure, the end portion located at the bottom of the heat exchange pipe is provided with a water inlet pipe, and the end portion located at the top of the heat exchange pipe is provided with a water outlet pipe; The outside of the heat exchange pipe is provided with a plurality of heat conducting plates, and the inside of the heat exchange pipe is provided with a plurality of disturbance assemblies; The heat conducting plate is inclined, and the inclined directions of the two groups of heat conducting plates located in the vertical direction are opposite.

[0010] Further, in order to make the fruit move smoothly in the drying box body, the air hole ensures that the hot air can uniformly contact the surface of the fruit, improves the drying effect, the adjacent two groups of fruit conveying mechanism are staggered and the driving direction of the motor is opposite, which can increase the drying path of the fruit and ensure the drying effect of the fruit, the fruit conveying mechanism includes a roller shaft symmetrically arranged on one side of the support plate, a conveying belt is arranged on the outside of the roller shaft, a rubber plate is arranged on the outside of the conveying belt, and a plurality of air holes are arranged on the outside of the conveying belt and between the rubber plates; One end of one of the roller shafts and one side of the drying box body is provided with a motor.

[0011] The beneficial effects of the utility model are:

[0012] 1、The utility model discloses a reasonable and reliable structure, and the fruit energy-saving drying equipment realizes efficient and uniform drying effect through the heat exchange mechanism and the fruit conveying mechanism, protects the integrity of the fruit, improves drying efficiency and quality, in addition, the equipment also has a certain degree of automation, reduces the burden of manual operation, is applicable to large-scale and efficient fruit drying operation, simultaneously, the hot air generated in drying can also be refluxed and utilized again, realizes energy saving.

[0013] 2. The heat exchange mechanism is arranged, so as to improve the utilization efficiency of heat energy, the heat exchange pipe adopts S-shaped structure, the area and time of heat exchange are increased, the inclination of the heat conduction plate and the opposite design of the inclination direction of adjacent heat conduction plates further promote the uniformity of hot air generation, the disturbance assembly can increase the disturbance of water flow in the heat exchange pipe, and the heat exchange efficiency is improved.

[0014] 3. The fruit conveying mechanism is arranged, so that the fruits can move stably in the drying box, the air holes ensure that the hot air can uniformly contact the surface of the fruits, the drying effect is improved, the two groups of fruit conveying mechanisms are arranged in a staggered manner, and the driving directions of the motors are opposite, so that the drying path of the fruits is increased, and the drying effect of the fruits is ensured. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0015] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical scheme in the embodiments of the present application or the prior art, the drawings needed in the embodiments will be briefly introduced as follows. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor on the basis of these drawings.

[0016] Figure 1 is a structure schematic view of a fruit energy-saving drying equipment according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0017] Figure 2 is a structure schematic view of a fruit energy-saving drying equipment according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0018] Figure 3 is a sectional view of a fruit energy-saving drying equipment according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0019] Figure 4 is a structure schematic view of a heat exchange mechanism in a fruit energy-saving drying equipment according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0020] Figure 5 is Figure 4 is a local enlarged view of A in FIG. 8;

[0021] Figure 6 is a structure schematic view of a fruit energy-saving drying equipment according to an embodiment of the present application;

[0022] Figure 7 is a structure schematic view of a fruit energy-saving drying equipment according to an embodiment of the present application.

[0023] In the drawings:

[0024] 1. Drying chamber; 2. Heat exchange mechanism; 201. Heat exchange tube; 202. Water inlet pipe; 203. Water outlet pipe; 204. Heat conduction plate; 205. Baffle assembly; 2051. Water permeable plate; 2052. Baffle pipe; 3. Support plate; 301. Ventilation hole two; 4. Fruit conveying mechanism; 401. Roller; 402. Conveyor belt; 403. Rubber plate; 404. Ventilation hole; 405. Motor; 5. Exhaust fan; 6. Fruit feeding pipe; 7. Fruit discharge port; 8. Drop plate; 9. Ventilation hole one. Detailed Implementation

[0025] To further illustrate the various embodiments, the present invention provides accompanying drawings, which are part of the disclosure of the present invention. These drawings are mainly used to illustrate the embodiments and can be used in conjunction with the relevant descriptions in the specification to explain the operating principles of the embodiments. With reference to these contents, those skilled in the art should be able to understand other possible implementation methods and the advantages of the present invention. The components in the figures are not drawn to scale, and similar component symbols are usually used to represent similar components.

[0026] According to an embodiment of the present invention, an energy-saving fruit drying device is provided.

[0027] The present invention will now be further described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments, such as... Figures 1-7 As shown, the fruit energy-saving drying equipment according to an embodiment of the present utility model includes a drying chamber 1, a heat exchange mechanism 2 is provided through the top of the drying chamber 1, a support plate 3 is provided in the middle of the drying chamber 1, a plurality of fruit conveying mechanisms 4 are provided on one side of the support plate 3, and a plurality of exhaust fans 5 are provided at the bottom of the support plate 3; a fruit feeding pipe 6 is provided at the top of one end of the drying chamber 1, a fruit discharge port 7 is provided at the bottom of one end of the drying chamber 1, and a dropping plate 8 is provided inside the fruit discharge port 7; a plurality of ventilation holes 9 are provided at the top of the drying chamber 1.

[0028] In addition, in practical applications, the material of the dropping plate 8 is made of rubber. The rubber material has good elasticity and can play a buffering role when the fruit falls, reducing the breakage and damage of the fruit.

[0029] With the help of the above-mentioned technical solution of this utility model, the structure of this utility model is reasonable and reliable. The fruit energy-saving drying equipment achieves efficient and uniform drying effect through the heat exchange mechanism 2 and the fruit conveying mechanism 4, while protecting the integrity of the fruit and improving drying efficiency and quality. In addition, the equipment has a certain degree of automation, which reduces the burden of manual operation and is suitable for large-scale and high-efficiency fruit drying operations. At the same time, a portion of the heat generated during drying can be recycled for reuse, thus achieving energy saving.

[0030] In one embodiment, for the above-mentioned support plate 3, and the cross-section of the support plate 3 is L-shaped structure, and the bottom end of the support plate 3 is provided with a plurality of ventilation holes two 301, so as to ensure the circulation of airflow, so as to be able to extract the hot gas and moisture generated in the drying process of the fruit, improve the drying efficiency.

[0031] In one embodiment, for the above-mentioned heat exchange mechanism 2, the heat exchange mechanism 2 includes a plurality of heat exchange pipes 201 penetratingly arranged on the side wall of the drying box 1, and the cross-section of the heat exchange pipe 201 is S-shaped structure, the end of the bottom of the heat exchange pipe 201 is provided with a water inlet pipe 202, and the end of the top of the heat exchange pipe 201 is provided with a water outlet pipe 203; the outer side of the heat exchange pipe 201 is provided with a plurality of heat conduction plates 204, and the inside of the heat exchange pipe 201 is provided with a plurality of turbulence components 205; the heat conduction plate 204 is inclined, and the inclination directions of the two groups of heat conduction plates 204 adjacent in the vertical direction are opposite; the turbulence component 205 includes a water permeable plate 2051 symmetrically arranged in the inside of the heat exchange pipe 201, a plurality of turbulence pipes 2052 are arranged between the water permeable plates 2051, and the cross-section of the turbulence pipe 2052 is spiral structure, so as to improve the utilization efficiency of heat energy, the heat exchange pipe 201 adopts S-shaped structure, increases the area and time of heat exchange, the inclined arrangement of the heat conduction plate and the opposite design of the inclination directions of the adjacent heat conduction plates further promote the uniformity of the generated hot gas, and the turbulence component can increase the disturbance of the water flow in the heat exchange pipe, improve the heat exchange efficiency.

[0032] The working principle of the heat exchange mechanism 2 is: by conveying hot water to the inside of the water inlet pipe 202, then the hot water passes through the heat exchange pipe 201, which heats the heat exchange pipe 201 and the heat conduction plate 204, and after the gas passes through the heat exchange pipe 201 and the heat conduction plate 204, the gas is heated, so as to realize heat exchange, when the hot water passes through the water permeable plate 2051 and the turbulence pipe 2052, the water flow is disturbed, thereby the heat exchange effect of the hot water can be provided, and the heat exchange efficiency is provided.

[0033] In addition, in specific application, the heat exchange mechanism 2 can also use the method of introducing hot gas for heat exchange.

[0034] In one embodiment, for the above-mentioned fruit conveying mechanism 4, the fruit conveying mechanism 4 comprises roller shafts 401 symmetrically arranged on one side of the support plate 3, the outer side of the roller shaft 401 is provided with a conveying belt 402, the outer side of the conveying belt 402 is provided with a rubber plate 403, and a plurality of air holes 404 are arranged on the outer side of the conveying belt 402 and between the rubber plates 403; one end of one of the roller shafts 401 is provided with a motor 405 on one side of the drying box body 1; the adjacent two groups of fruit conveying mechanisms 4 are arranged in a staggered manner, and the driving directions of the motors 405 in the adjacent two groups of fruit conveying mechanisms 4 are opposite, so that the fruits can move smoothly in the drying box body, the air holes 404 ensure that the hot air can uniformly contact the surface of the fruits, and the drying effect is improved, and the adjacent two groups of fruit conveying mechanisms are arranged in a staggered manner and the driving directions of the motors are opposite, which can increase the drying path of the fruits and ensure the drying effect of the fruits.

[0035] In addition, it should be noted that the two ends of the roller shaft 401 are connected to the support plate 3 and the side wall of the drying box body 1 through bearings, respectively.

[0036] The working principle of the fruit conveying mechanism 4 is as follows: the roller shaft 401 is driven to rotate by the motor 405, then the conveying belt 402 is driven to rotate by the roller shaft 401, and under the action of the rubber plate 403, the fruits can be moved on the conveying belt 402, and in this process, the heated gas can be used for drying different layers of fruits.

[0037] In order to facilitate the understanding of the above-mentioned technical solutions of the present application, the working principle or operation mode of the present application in the actual process will be described in detail.

[0038] In actual application, the fruits to be dried are sent into the drying box body 1 through the fruit feeding pipe 6 at one end of the drying box body 1, and fall into the fruit conveying mechanism 4 on the topmost layer, the fruits can be conveyed through the fruit conveying mechanism 4, then the gas in the drying box body 1 is extracted by the air extractor 5, flows to the inside top end of the drying box body 1 through one side of the support plate 3, and flows out through the ventilation hole 9, then part of the gas and new gas enters the inside of the drying box body 1 through the heat exchange mechanism 2, realizes the recycling of part of the gas, realizes energy saving, and then when the fruits fall into the fruit conveying mechanism 4 on the lowest layer, the fruits are dried and conveyed out through the discharging plate 8.

[0039] In summary, by means of the above technical scheme of the utility model, the utility model has reasonable and reliable structure, the fruit energy-saving drying equipment realizes efficient and uniform drying effect through the heat exchange mechanism 2 and the fruit conveying mechanism 4, meanwhile, the integrity of the fruit is protected, and the drying efficiency and quality are improved, in addition, the equipment also has certain degree of automation, the burden of manual operation is reduced, and the fruit drying operation of large scale and high efficiency is applicable, meanwhile, the hot air generated during drying can also be refluxed for reuse, and energy saving is realized. By arranging the heat exchange mechanism 2, the utilization efficiency of heat energy is improved, the heat exchange pipe 201 adopts S-shaped structure, the area and time of heat exchange are increased, the inclined arrangement of the heat conduction plate and the opposite design of the inclined directions of adjacent heat conduction plates further promote the uniformity of the generated hot air, the disturbance of the water flow in the heat exchange pipe is increased by the turbulence assembly, and the heat exchange efficiency is improved. By arranging the fruit conveying mechanism 4, the fruit can move stably in the drying box body, the air hole 404 ensures that the hot air can uniformly contact the surface of the fruit, the drying effect is improved, the two groups of fruit conveying mechanisms are arranged in a staggered mode, and the driving directions of the motors are opposite, the drying path of the fruit can be increased, and the drying effect of the fruit is ensured.

[0040] In the utility model, unless another definite provision and limitation, the terms "mount", "arrange", "connect", "fix", "screw" and so on should do broad sense understanding, for example, can be fixed connection, also can be detachable connection, or be integrated, can be mechanical connection, also can be electrical connection, can be directly connected, also can indirectly connect through intermediate medium, can be the communication of two elements or the interaction of two elements, unless another definite limitation, for the ordinary skilled in the art, the above terms in the utility model can be understood according to the specific meaning in the utility model.

[0041] The above only is the preferred embodiment of the utility model, and does not limit the utility model, and any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the utility model should be included in the protection scope of the utility model.

Claims

1. A fruit energy-saving drying apparatus comprising a drying box body (1), characterized in that, The heat exchange mechanism (2) is arranged through the top of the drying box body (1), the support plate (3) is arranged in the middle of the drying box body (1), a plurality of fruit conveying mechanisms (4) are arranged on one side of the support plate (3), and a plurality of air suction machines (5) are arranged at the bottom of the support plate (3). The fruit feeding pipe (6) is arranged at the top of one end of the drying box body (1), the fruit discharging port (7) is formed at the bottom of one end of the drying box body (1), the falling plate (8) is arranged in the fruit discharging port (7), and a plurality of ventilation holes (9) are formed in the top of the drying box body (1).

2. The energy efficient fruit drying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein, The cross section of the support plate (3) is L-shaped, and a plurality of ventilation holes (301) are formed in the bottom of the support plate (3).

3. The fruit energy saving drying apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that, The heat exchange mechanism (2) comprises a plurality of heat exchange pipes (201) arranged through the side wall of the drying box body (1), the cross section of the heat exchange pipe (201) is S-shaped, the water inlet pipe (202) is arranged at the bottom of the heat exchange pipe (201), and the water outlet pipe (203) is arranged at the top of the heat exchange pipe (201). The heat exchange pipe (201) is provided with a plurality of heat conduction plates (204) on the outside, and the heat exchange pipe (201) is provided with a plurality of turbulence components (205) on the inside.

4. The energy efficient fruit drying apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein, The heat conduction plates (204) are arranged in an inclined manner, and the inclined directions of two groups of heat conduction plates (204) adjacent in the vertical direction are opposite.

5. The energy efficient fruit drying apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein, The turbulence component (205) comprises a water permeable plate (2051) symmetrically arranged in the heat exchange pipe (201), a plurality of turbulence pipes (2052) are arranged between the water permeable plates (2051), and the cross section of the turbulence pipe (2052) is spiral.

6. The energy efficient fruit drying apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein, The fruit conveying mechanism (4) comprises a roller shaft (401) symmetrically arranged on one side of the support plate (3), the roller shaft (401) is provided with a conveying belt (402) on the outside, the conveying belt (402) is provided with a rubber plate (403) on the outside, and a plurality of air holes (404) are formed on the outside of the conveying belt (402) and between the rubber plates (403). One end of one of the roller shafts (401) is provided with a motor (405) on one side of the drying box body (1).

7. The energy saving drying apparatus for fruits according to claim 5 or 6, wherein The adjacent two groups of fruit conveying mechanisms (4) are arranged in a staggered manner, and the driving directions of the motors (405) in the adjacent two groups of fruit conveying mechanisms (4) are opposite.

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  • Fruit drying equipment

    CN210980609U