Automatic ham filling equipment
By designing an automatic ham filling machine, the problem of uneven mixing and sorting of solid and liquid raw materials in homemade ham is solved by using the combination of vibration and stirring blades, thereby improving operating efficiency and product quality stability.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- JIANGSU DAICHEN POWER TECH CO LTD
- Filing Date
- 2025-07-21
- Publication Date
- 2026-06-02
AI Technical Summary
Homemade or small-scale homemade ham often lacks specialized automatic filling equipment, resulting in cumbersome, labor-intensive, and inefficient operations. It is difficult to achieve uniform mixing and sorting of solid and liquid raw materials, which affects the stability of product quality.
An automatic ham filling device was designed, comprising a conical hopper, a vibration mechanism, a stirring blade, and a liquid hopper. Through the cooperation of vibration and stirring blade, the solid and liquid raw materials are mixed synchronously and discharged separately. Replaceable baffles are used to adapt to different raw material requirements, avoid blockage, and improve efficiency.
It achieves uniform mixing of solid and liquid raw materials, improves feeding efficiency and equipment applicability, and ensures the stability and uniformity of product quality.
Smart Images

Figure CN224306669U_ABST
Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] This utility model relates to the field of ham filling technology, and in particular to an automatic ham filling device. Background Technology
[0002] Ham, also known as "fire meat" or "smoked ham," is a traditional Chinese delicacy. It refers to the cured or smoked leg of an animal (such as beef, lamb, pork, or chicken), which undergoes salting, smoking, fermentation, and drying. The earliest written record of ham in China dates back to the Tang Dynasty, with Chen Zangqi's *Compendium of Materia Medica* describing it as "Ham (same as leg), the best comes from Jinhua."
[0003] In existing technologies, when making ham at home or on a small scale, the lack of specialized automated filling equipment often necessitates manual filling. This process requires manually stuffing solid ingredients (such as meat chunks or granules of different sizes) and liquid ingredients (such as seasoning sauces or soy sauce) into sausage casings. This is not only tedious, labor-intensive, and inefficient, but also makes it difficult to classify and process solid ingredients of different sizes, and it is impossible to achieve uniform mixing of solid and liquid ingredients. This can easily lead to uneven distribution of ingredients in the finished ham, resulting in significant differences in taste. Furthermore, the randomness of manual operation can affect the stability of product quality. Utility Model Content
[0004] Technical problems to be solved
[0005] To address the shortcomings of existing technologies, this utility model provides an automatic ham filling device. This solves the problem that in the current technology, when making ham at home or on a small scale, the lack of specialized automatic filling equipment often forces manual filling as the only option. This operation requires manually filling solid raw materials (such as meat chunks or granules of different sizes) and liquid raw materials (such as seasoning sauce, soy sauce, etc.) into sausage casings. This process is not only cumbersome, labor-intensive, and inefficient, but also makes it difficult to classify and process solid raw materials of different sizes, and it is impossible to achieve uniform mixing of solid and liquid raw materials. This easily leads to uneven distribution of raw materials in the finished ham, resulting in significant differences in taste. Furthermore, the randomness of manual operation can also affect the stability of product quality.
[0006] Technical solution
[0007] To achieve the above objectives, this utility model provides the following technical solution:
[0008] An automatic ham filling device includes a conical hopper, a cover plate fixedly installed on the conical hopper by bolts, a vibration mechanism for feeding ham raw materials between the cover plate and the conical hopper, a conveyor for conveying ham raw materials at the lower end of the conical hopper, a stirring blade inside the conical hopper for stirring the fed ham raw materials, and a liquid hopper fixedly installed on the cover plate for discharging liquid.
[0009] Preferably, the vibration mechanism includes a connecting bracket, and a vibration motor is installed inside the connecting bracket. Four vibration springs are fixedly installed around the circumference of the connecting bracket, and all four vibration springs are fixedly installed at the lower end of the cover plate.
[0010] Preferably, the connecting bracket includes a first partition, which is fixedly installed at the bottom of the connecting bracket by bolts and pressure plates. Four partition plates are equidistantly installed on the circumference of the first partition. The four partition plates divide the area of the first small hole into four regions. The first partition has a first small hole, and the diameter of the first small hole in each region of the first partition is different.
[0011] Preferably, the connecting bracket is provided with a second partition plate, which is fixedly installed at the bottom of the connecting bracket by bolts and pressure plates. The second partition plate is provided with a second small hole, and the diameter of each second small hole is the same.
[0012] Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following beneficial effects:
[0013] In this new invention, by setting stirring blades inside the conical hopper and cooperating with the liquid hopper fixedly installed on the cover plate, multiple solid raw materials can be stirred and mixed simultaneously during the feeding process of ham raw materials. Liquid raw materials (such as soy sauce) can be added through the liquid hopper, achieving synchronous mixing of solid and liquid raw materials and improving the uniformity of raw material mixing. At the same time, the replaceable first partition (with first small holes of different diameters) and second partition (with second small holes of the same diameter) in the vibration mechanism can respectively adapt to the needs of feeding multiple raw materials in categories and feeding a single raw material efficiently. Combined with the vibration action of the vibration motor and vibration spring, it effectively avoids raw material blockage, improves feeding efficiency and equipment applicability. Attached Figure Description
[0014] The above description is only an overview of the technical solution of this utility model. In order to better understand the technical means of this utility model and to implement it in accordance with the contents of the specification, the preferred embodiments of this utility model are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
[0015] Figure 1 This is a structural diagram of the entire utility model;
[0016] Figure 2 This is a structural diagram of the connecting bracket of this utility model;
[0017] Figure 3 This is a structural diagram of the conical hopper of this utility model;
[0018] Figure 4 This is a structural diagram of the cover plate of this utility model;
[0019] Figure 5 This is a structural diagram of the first partition of this utility model;
[0020] Figure 6 This is a structural diagram of the second partition of this utility model.
[0021] Legend: 1. First partition; 2. First small hole; 3. Divider plate; 4. Second partition; 5. Second small hole; 6. Conical hopper; 7. Cover plate; 8. Rotating motor; 9. Liquid hopper; 10. Stirring blade; 13. Vibrating spring; 14. Vibrating motor; 15. Conveyor; 16. Connecting bracket. Detailed Implementation
[0022] This application provides an automatic ham filling device, effectively solving the problem that in the prior art, when making ham at home or on a small scale, the lack of specialized automatic filling equipment often forces manual filling. This operation requires manually filling solid raw materials (such as meat chunks or granules of different sizes) and liquid raw materials (such as seasoning sauce, soy sauce, etc.) into sausage casings. This process is not only cumbersome, labor-intensive, and inefficient, but also makes it difficult to classify and process solid raw materials of different sizes, and it is impossible to achieve uniform mixing of solid and liquid raw materials. This easily leads to uneven distribution of raw materials in the finished ham, resulting in large differences in taste. Furthermore, the randomness of manual operation can also affect the stability of product quality.
[0023] Example
[0024] like Figure 1 - Figure 6 As shown, the technical solution in this application aims to effectively address the problem that in the prior art, when making homemade or small-scale homemade ham, the lack of specialized automatic filling equipment often necessitates manual sausage filling. This operation requires manually filling solid raw materials (such as meat chunks or granules of different sizes) and liquid raw materials (such as seasoning sauce, soy sauce, etc.) into sausage casings. This process is not only tedious, labor-intensive, and inefficient, but also makes it difficult to classify and process solid raw materials of different sizes, and it cannot achieve uniform mixing of solid and liquid raw materials. This easily leads to uneven distribution of raw materials in the finished ham, resulting in significant differences in taste. Furthermore, the randomness of manual operation can affect the stability of product quality. The overall approach is as follows:
[0025] To address the problems existing in the prior art, this utility model provides an automatic ham filling device, including a conical hopper 6, a cover plate 7 fixedly installed on the conical hopper 6 by bolts, a vibration mechanism for feeding ham raw materials between the cover plate 7 and the conical hopper 6, a conveyor 15 for conveying ham raw materials at the lower end of the conical hopper 6, a stirring blade 10 inside the conical hopper 6 for stirring the fed ham raw materials, and a liquid hopper 9 fixedly installed on the cover plate 7 for liquid feeding. When feeding ham raw materials, the raw materials can be classified by the first partition 1 inside the vibration mechanism, and then fed by the vibration mechanism. When the raw materials fall into the conical hopper 6, the start of the rotating motor 8 causes its output shaft to drive the stirring blade 10 to rotate, thereby mixing and stirring multiple raw materials. Moreover, the liquid hopper 9 can be used to hold liquids (such as soy sauce) in the raw materials.
[0026] The vibration mechanism includes a connecting bracket 16, a vibration motor 14 is installed inside the connecting bracket 16, and four vibration springs 13 are fixedly installed around the circumference of the connecting bracket 16. The four vibration springs 13 are all fixedly installed at the lower end of the cover plate 7. When it is necessary to vibrate the raw material, the vibration motor 14 is started to make its output end vibrate. Then, because the four vibration springs 13 connected between the connecting bracket 16 and the cover plate 7 can shake, the power of the vibration motor 14 can make the first partition 1 located inside the connecting bracket 16 vibrate, thereby facilitating the feeding of the raw material.
[0027] The connecting bracket 16 is provided with a first partition 1. The first partition 1 is fixedly installed at the bottom of the connecting bracket 16 by bolts and pressure plates. Four partition plates 3 are equidistantly installed on the circumference of the first partition 1, and the four partition plates 3 divide the area of the first small hole 2 into four regions. The first partition 1 has a first small hole 2. The diameter of the first small hole 2 in each region of the first partition 1 is different. Since the first partition 1 in the connecting bracket 16 is installed by bolts and pressure plates, it can be disassembled. When it needs to be cleaned, simply remove the cover plate 7 from the conical hopper 6, and then remove the first partition 1 from the connecting bracket 16. Moreover, the first small holes 2 on the first partition 1 are of different sizes, which can accommodate raw materials of different sizes.
[0028] The connecting bracket 16 is provided with a second partition 4. The second partition 4 is fixedly installed at the bottom of the connecting bracket 16 by bolts and pressure plates. The second partition 4 has a second small hole 5. The diameter of each second small hole 5 is the same. When the ham being filled has only one raw material, in order to increase efficiency, the first partition 1 can be removed from the connecting bracket 16 and then the second partition 4 can be installed on it. Since the diameter of the second small hole 5 on the second partition 4 is the same, it can feed one raw material. Moreover, compared with the first partition 1, its area is larger, which can improve efficiency when making ham with only one raw material.
[0029] Working principle:
[0030] The first step involves placing ham raw materials of different particle sizes (such as chunks and cubes) into the four areas of the first partition 1 (divided by the partition 3), while liquid raw materials (such as soy sauce and seasoning sauce) are poured into the liquid hopper 9. The four areas of the first partition 1 correspond to first small holes 2 of different diameters, enabling preliminary sorting and screening of the raw materials. If only a single raw material needs to be filled, the first partition 1 can be removed and replaced with a second partition 4 with second small holes 5 of equal diameter, improving feeding efficiency.
[0031] The second step is to start the vibration motor 14, whose vibration is transmitted to the first partition 1 (or the second partition 4) through the connecting bracket 16. At the same time, the four vibration springs 13 between the connecting bracket 16 and the cover plate 7 generate elastic shaking, which accelerates the raw material to fall into the conical hopper 6 through the first small hole 2 (or the second small hole 5).
[0032] The third step involves starting the rotating motor 8 after the raw materials enter the conical hopper 6. Its output shaft drives the stirring blades 10 to rotate, uniformly mixing the various solid raw materials. At the same time, liquid raw materials in the liquid hopper 9 can be added as needed and stirred and blended synchronously with the solid raw materials.
[0033] The fourth step is that the mixed raw materials fall into the conveyor 15 through the lower end of the conical hopper 6, and the conveyor 15 transports the mixed raw materials to the subsequent filling process to complete the automatic filling pretreatment of the ham.
[0034] Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are merely examples for clearly illustrating the present invention and are not intended to limit the implementation. Those skilled in the art can make other variations or modifications based on the above description. It is neither necessary nor possible to exhaustively list all possible implementations here. However, obvious variations or modifications derived therefrom are still within the protection scope of this invention.
Claims
1. An automatic ham filling device, comprising a conical hopper (6), characterized in that: A cover plate (7) is fixedly installed on the conical hopper (6) by bolts. A vibration mechanism for feeding ham raw materials is provided between the cover plate (7) and the conical hopper (6). A conveyor (15) for conveying ham raw materials is provided at the lower end of the conical hopper (6). The conical hopper (6) is equipped with a stirring blade (10), which is used to stir the ham raw material being fed. A liquid hopper (9) is fixedly installed on the cover plate (7), which is used for liquid feeding.
2. The automatic ham filling equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that: The vibration mechanism includes a connecting bracket (16), and a vibration motor (14) is provided inside the connecting bracket (16).
3. The automatic ham filling equipment according to claim 2, characterized in that: Four vibration springs (13) are fixedly installed on the circumference of the connecting bracket (16), and all four vibration springs (13) are fixedly installed on the lower end of the cover plate (7).
4. The automatic ham filling equipment according to claim 3, characterized in that: The connecting bracket (16) is provided with a first partition (1), which is fixedly installed at the bottom of the connecting bracket (16) by bolts and pressure plates.
5. The automatic ham filling equipment according to claim 4, characterized in that: Four partition plates (3) are installed equidistantly around the circumference of the first partition plate (1).
6. The automatic ham filling equipment according to claim 5, characterized in that: The four partitions (3) divide the area of the first small hole (2) into four regions.
7. The automatic ham filling equipment according to claim 6, characterized in that: The first partition (1) has a first small hole (2), and the diameter of the first small hole (2) in each area of the first partition (1) is different.
8. The automatic ham filling equipment according to claim 3, characterized in that: The connecting bracket (16) is provided with a second partition (4), which is fixedly installed at the bottom of the connecting bracket (16) by bolts and pressure plates. The second partition (4) is provided with a second small hole (5), and the diameter of each second small hole (5) is the same.