A device for soaking and washing the Chinese herb Polygonatum sibiricum

Abstract

This utility model discloses a soaking and washing device for the traditional Chinese medicine Polygonatum sibiricum, characterized by comprising a soaking cylinder, within which a soaking chamber structure is provided; the soaking chamber structure includes a chamber cylinder with several soaking holes; a detachable cover is installed on the top of the chamber cylinder; a bottom turntable is rotatably connected to the bottom of the soaking cylinder to drive the chamber cylinder to rotate; the soaking chamber is limited on the bottom turntable by a guide wheel structure, the guide wheel structure including several wheel brackets fixedly installed at the top of the bottom turntable, with several guide wheels installed on the wheel brackets; several guide rails cooperating with the guide wheels are fixedly installed on the outer wall of the chamber cylinder; the bottom turntable is rotated by a drive structure. This utility model's soaking and washing device effectively solves many defects of traditional soaking and washing devices, such as cage soaking and washing, which suffer from poor washing effect, low washing efficiency, and the need for manual intervention due to the difficulty in fully reacting the plant tubers with the washing solvent during the washing process.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] This utility model belongs to the field of processing technology of Chinese herbal medicine Polygonatum odoratum, and in particular relates to a soaking device for Chinese herbal medicine Polygonatum odoratum. Background Technology

[0002] Polygonatum sibiricum is a traditional Chinese medicine that can be used both as food and medicine. Due to its high medicinal value, it is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. During its production, the harvested rhizomes of Polygonatum sibiricum need to be processed, with the removal of impurities being a crucial step in this process.

[0003] Specifically, the removal of impurities mainly includes washing, which includes preliminary washing to thoroughly remove dirt and grime from the plant tubers. It also includes soaking washing, which not only further cleans the surface of the medicinal plant tubers but also disinfects them, such as by soaking them in a certain concentration of alcohol solution.

[0004] Currently, the soaking and cleaning method in the workshop involves placing the tubers of Chinese medicinal plants into a cage, and then lowering the cage into a cleaning tank or cylinder using a hoisting method such as a hoisting hoist. The tubers are then cleaned using the cleaning and soaking solution in the cleaning tank or cylinder.

[0005] However, current cleaning cages cannot rotate within the cleaning tanks and cylinders, thus reducing the washing effect of the cleaning solution on the medicinal plant tubers. On the other hand, if the tubers of Polygonatum are placed directly into a rotating cleaning device, the stirring and cleaning process can easily damage the integrity of the medicinal plant tuber structure.

[0006] Therefore, in order to increase the cleaning effect, operators swing the steel cable on the cage (the top of the cage is suspended by a steel cable) during actual work, so that the cage can be "washed" in the cleaning solution to increase the cleaning effect.

[0007] However, this method is not only laborious to operate, but also requires frequent swinging of the cage, making the soaking and cleaning process extremely cumbersome and inefficient. Utility Model Content

[0008] Based on the above background, the purpose of this utility model is to provide a soaking and washing device for the traditional Chinese medicine Polygonatum sibiricum.

[0009] To achieve the above objectives, the present invention adopts the following technical solution:

[0010] A device for soaking and washing the traditional Chinese medicine Polygonatum sibiricum includes a soaking cylinder, wherein the soaking cylinder is provided with a soaking chamber structure.

[0011] The immersion chamber structure includes a chamber cylinder with several immersion holes; a lifting cover is detachably installed on the top of the chamber cylinder; a bottom turntable for driving the chamber cylinder to rotate is rotatably connected to the bottom of the immersion chamber cylinder; the immersion chamber is limited on the bottom turntable by a guide wheel structure; the guide wheel structure includes several wheel brackets fixedly installed at the top of the bottom turntable, and several guide wheels are installed on the wheel brackets.

[0012] The outer wall of the chamber is fixedly equipped with several guide rails that cooperate with the guide rail wheels; the bottom turntable rotates through a drive structure.

[0013] Preferably, the outer wall of the chamber has several elongated immersion holes.

[0014] Preferably, an annular fixing bracket is welded to the top of the chamber, and a plurality of mounting screws are fixedly installed on the top of the annular fixing bracket;

[0015] The mounting screw is slidably connected to the cover, and a nut is threaded onto the mounting screw.

[0016] Preferably, a rotating shaft is fixedly connected to the top center position of the lifting cover;

[0017] The top of the immersion tub is detachably fitted with a top cover, and a bearing that mates with a rotating shaft is installed at the center of the top cover. The rotating shaft is slidably connected to the inner ring of the bearing.

[0018] Preferably, the guide rail has a vertically arranged guide rail groove, and the guide rail wheel is limited within the guide rail groove;

[0019] The guide wheel abuts against the bottom of the guide groove.

[0020] Preferably, a drive shaft rotatably connected to the bottom of the immersion tank is fixedly installed at the bottom center of the bottom turntable;

[0021] The immersion tub is equipped with a sealed bearing that is rotatably connected to the drive shaft;

[0022] The bottom turntable is driven to rotate by a drive structure.

[0023] Preferably, the drive structure includes a driven pulley fixedly mounted on a drive shaft, and a pulley motor, wherein a driving pulley that is connected to the driven pulley via a transmission belt is fixedly mounted on the output shaft of the pulley motor.

[0024] Preferably, the lower end of the immersion tub is connected to a clean water inlet pipe and a wastewater outlet pipe;

[0025] Valves are installed on the inlet clean water pipe and the outlet sewage pipe.

[0026] Preferably, a pair of lifting rings are welded onto the lifting cover.

[0027] This utility model has the following beneficial effects:

[0028] 1. Through the guide wheel-guide rail structure design, during the lowering of the chamber, the guide rail is guided down along the guide wheel. During the rotation, the immersion chamber is limited by the guide rail on the guide wheel. Therefore, under the action of the circumferentially arranged rail wheel support-guide wheel-guide rail structure, the immersion chamber is locked, thus maintaining the stability of the rotation and cleaning.

[0029] 2. After soaking and cleaning, during the lifting process using a hoist, the immersion tank is guided and limited by the guide wheels, ensuring that the immersion tank does not easily shake during the lifting process. As it is lifted to the highest liquid level, the immersion agent in the tank gradually drips into the immersion tank until it is basically drained.

[0030] The immersion chamber needs to be suspended for a long time during the draining process. However, since the guide rails on the outer periphery of the immersion chamber limit the guide wheels, no manual monitoring is required to keep the guide wheels stable during the draining process.

[0031] 3. The soaking and cleaning device disclosed in this utility model effectively solves many defects of traditional soaking and cleaning devices, such as cage soaking and cleaning, which make it difficult to fully react the plant tubers to be cleaned with the cleaning solvent, resulting in poor cleaning effect, low cleaning efficiency, and the need for manual intervention in cleaning. Attached Figure Description

[0032] To more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of this utility model or the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of this utility model. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained based on the structures shown in these drawings without creative effort.

[0033] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the overall structure in an embodiment of the present utility model;

[0034] Figure 2 This is a schematic diagram of the immersion chamber structure in an embodiment of the present invention;

[0035] Figure 3 This is a plan view of the immersion chamber structure in an embodiment of the present invention.

[0036] Figure 4 This is a schematic diagram of the immersion chamber in an embodiment of the present invention;

[0037] Figure 5 This is a schematic diagram of the planar structure of the immersion chamber in an embodiment of this utility model;

[0038] Figure 6 This is a schematic diagram of the planar structure of the herbal Huangjing (Polygonatum sibiricum) soaking and washing device in an embodiment of this utility model.

[0039] The realization of the purpose, functional features and advantages of this utility model will be further explained in conjunction with the embodiments and with reference to the accompanying drawings. Detailed Implementation

[0040] The technical solutions of the present utility model will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings of the embodiments. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present utility model, and not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present utility model, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative effort are within the protection scope of the present utility model.

[0041] It should be noted that all directional indicators (such as up, down, left, right, front, back, etc.) in this utility model embodiment are only used to explain the relative positional relationship and movement of each component in a certain specific posture (as shown in the figure). If the specific posture changes, the directional indicator will also change accordingly.

[0042] Furthermore, in this utility model, descriptions involving "first," "second," etc., are for descriptive purposes only and should not be construed as indicating or implying their relative importance or implicitly specifying the number of technical features indicated. Therefore, a feature defined with "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of that feature. Additionally, the technical solutions of the various embodiments can be combined with each other, but only on the basis of being achievable by those skilled in the art. When the combination of technical solutions is contradictory or impossible to implement, such a combination of technical solutions should be considered non-existent and not within the scope of protection claimed by this utility model.

[0043] Example 1

[0044] like Figure 1-6 As shown, a soaking device for the traditional Chinese medicine Polygonatum sibiricum includes a soaking cylinder 1, which is a stainless steel cylinder. According to existing methods, a clean water inlet pipe and a wastewater outlet pipe are respectively connected to the lower end of the soaking cylinder 1; valves are installed on the clean water inlet pipe and the wastewater outlet pipe respectively.

[0045] During operation, the clean water inlet pipe is connected to the pipeline supplying the soaking cleaning solution (such as an alcohol solution) to pump the soaking solution into the soaking tank 1. Wastewater is discharged from the sewage outlet pipe.

[0046] The aforementioned immersion tank 1 is equipped with an immersion chamber structure 3; the immersion chamber structure 3 includes a chamber 32, which is cylindrical in shape. After preliminary cleaning, the Polygonatum rhizome is placed into the chamber 32 and then lowered into the immersion tank 1. Simultaneously, the chamber 32 has several immersion holes; these holes are elongated and arranged circumferentially.

[0047] Meanwhile, a lifting cover 31 is detachably installed on the top of the compartment 32; specifically, an annular fixing bracket is welded to the top of the compartment 32 (the annular fixing bracket increases the structural strength of the opening of the compartment 32), and several mounting screws are fixedly installed on the top of the annular fixing bracket; the mounting screws are slidably connected to the lifting cover 31, and nuts are threaded onto the mounting screws.

[0048] During the operation, the cover 31 is disassembled and the medicinal plant Polygonatum sibiricum, which needs to be soaked and cleaned (alcohol soaking and cleaning), is placed inside. Then, the cover 31 is reinstalled and the nuts are tightened.

[0049] The chamber 32 is lowered into the immersion tank 1 using hoisting equipment such as a lifting hoist. Specifically, a pair of lifting rings 312 are welded onto the lifting cover 31. During operation, the entire device is lowered vertically by hooking it onto the lifting rings 312 using existing hoisting methods.

[0050] After the soaking and cleaning is completed, the entire device is lifted out of the soaking tank 1 again.

[0051] In order to enable the chamber 32 to be immersed and cleaned in a rotating manner during the immersion cleaning process, the bottom of the immersion tank 1 is rotatably connected to a bottom turntable 21 that drives the chamber 32 to rotate. The bottom turntable 21 is driven to rotate by a drive structure.

[0052] To ensure smooth and synchronous rotation of the tank 32 during the rotation of the bottom turntable 21, the immersion tank is positioned on the bottom turntable 21 by a guide wheel structure. The guide wheel structure includes several guide wheel brackets 22 fixedly installed at the top of the bottom turntable 21, and several vertically spaced guide wheels 23 are installed on the guide wheel brackets 22. Several guide rails 24 that cooperate with the guide wheels 23 are fixedly installed on the outer wall of the tank 32. (The guide rails 24 have vertically arranged guide rail grooves, and the guide wheels 23 are positioned within the guide rail grooves. The guide wheels abut against the bottom of the grooves of the guide rails 24.)

[0053] During the lowering of the chamber 32, the guide rail 24 is lowered along the guide wheel 24 during the guide wheel 24 structure design. During the rotation, the immersion chamber 1 is limited on the guide wheel 23 by the guide rail 24. Therefore, under the action of the circumferentially arranged rail wheel support 22-guide wheel 23-guide rail 24 structure, the immersion chamber 1 is locked, thereby maintaining the stability of the rotation and cleaning.

[0054] Meanwhile, the design of this structure also has the advantage that, after the soaking and cleaning is completed, during the lifting process by the hoist, the immersion tank is guided and limited by the guide wheel 23, thus ensuring that the immersion tank does not shake easily during the lifting process. When it is lifted to the highest liquid level, the immersion agent in the tank 32 gradually drips into the immersion tank 1 until it is basically drained.

[0055] During the draining process, the immersion chamber needs to be suspended for a long time. However, since the guide rail 24 on the outer periphery of the immersion chamber limits the guide rail wheel 23, the guide rail wheel 24 can be kept stable during the draining process without manual monitoring.

[0056] Example 2

[0057] like Figure 1-6 As shown, in this embodiment, based on the structure of embodiment 1, in order to increase the stability of the immersion chamber during rotation, a rotating shaft 311 is fixedly connected to the top center position of the aforementioned hanging cover 31.

[0058] Meanwhile, a top cover 11 is detachably installed on the top of the immersion tub 1 (the method is as follows: an annular flange plate is welded to the top opening of the immersion tub 1, and several circumferentially distributed screws are welded to the top of the annular flange plate; when the through hole on the top cover 11 is aligned with the screws, the screws are tightened with locking nuts to realize the installation of the top cover). At the same time, a bearing 111 that cooperates with the rotating shaft is installed in the center of the top cover 11, and the rotating shaft 311 is slidably connected to the inner ring of the bearing 111.

[0059] After immersion is complete, loosen the locking nut and remove the top cover. At this point, the top cover can be easily removed because the shaft is slidably connected to the inner ring of the bearing.

[0060] The above methods increase the stability of the immersion chamber rotation.

[0061] Example 3

[0062] like Figure 1-6 As shown, in this embodiment, based on the structure of embodiment 2, according to the existing rotating connection method, a drive shaft that is rotatably connected to the bottom of the immersion tub 1 is fixedly installed at the bottom center of the bottom turntable 21;

[0063] According to the existing sealed rotation method, the above-mentioned immersion tank 1 is equipped with a sealed bearing that is rotatably connected to the drive shaft. At the same time, the bottom turntable 21 is driven to rotate by a drive structure.

[0064] Specifically, the drive structure includes a driven pulley fixedly mounted on the drive shaft, and a pulley motor 2. The output shaft of the pulley motor 2 is fixedly mounted with a driving pulley that is connected to the driven pulley via a transmission belt.

[0065] According to the existing motor fixing installation method, the bottom of the pulley motor 2 is fixedly installed with a motor fixing bracket (not shown in the figure) to fix the motor and ensure the stable operation of the motor.

[0066] During operation, the immersion chamber rotates via the aforementioned belt drive structure during the immersion process.

[0067] In actual operation, the immersion chamber uses low-speed rotation to fully agitate the immersion solvent inside, thereby thoroughly cleaning the Polygonatum rhizome soaked in the solvent. Low-speed rotation also further increases the rotational stability of the immersion chamber, especially when the volume of material being cleaned is large; low-speed rotation ensures stable cleaning.

[0068] Of course, the above description is not intended to limit the present utility model, and the present utility model is not limited to the examples given above. Any changes, modifications, additions or substitutions made by those skilled in the art within the scope of the present utility model should also fall within the protection scope of the present utility model.

Claims

1. A device for soaking and washing the traditional Chinese medicine Polygonatum sibiricum, characterized in that, Includes a immersion tank, wherein the immersion tank is provided with an immersion chamber structure; The immersion chamber structure includes a chamber cylinder with several immersion holes. The top of the chamber is detachably fitted with a lifting cover; the bottom of the immersion tank is rotatably connected to a bottom turntable that drives the chamber to rotate; the immersion tank is limited on the bottom turntable by a guide wheel structure; the guide wheel structure includes several wheel brackets fixedly installed at the top of the bottom turntable, and several guide wheels are installed on the wheel brackets. The outer wall of the chamber is fixedly equipped with several guide rails that cooperate with the guide rail wheels; the bottom turntable rotates through a drive structure.

2. The herbal soaking and washing device for Polygonatum sibiricum according to claim 1, characterized in that, The outer wall of the chamber has several elongated immersion holes.

3. The apparatus for soaking and washing Polygonatum sibiricum according to claim 1, characterized in that, The top of the chamber is welded with an annular fixing bracket, and a number of mounting screws are fixedly installed on the top of the annular fixing bracket. The mounting screw is slidably connected to the cover, and a nut is threaded onto the mounting screw.

4. The herbal soaking and washing device for Polygonatum sibiricum according to claim 1, characterized in that, A rotating shaft is fixedly connected to the top center of the lifting cover; The top of the immersion tub is detachably fitted with a top cover, and a bearing that mates with a rotating shaft is installed at the center of the top cover. The rotating shaft is slidably connected to the inner ring of the bearing.

5. The apparatus for soaking and washing Polygonatum sibiricum according to claim 1, characterized in that, The guide rail has a vertically arranged guide rail groove, and the guide rail wheel is limited within the guide rail groove; The guide wheel abuts against the bottom of the guide groove.

6. The herbal soaking and washing device for Polygonatum sibiricum according to claim 1, characterized in that, A drive shaft, rotatably connected to the bottom of the immersion tank, is fixedly installed at the bottom center of the bottom turntable. The immersion tub is equipped with a sealed bearing that is rotatably connected to the drive shaft.

7. The herbal extracting and washing device for Polygonatum sibiricum according to claim 6, characterized in that, The drive structure includes a driven pulley fixedly mounted on a drive shaft, and a pulley motor. A driving pulley is fixedly mounted on the output shaft of the pulley motor and is connected to the driven pulley via a transmission belt.

8. The herbal soaking and washing device for Polygonatum sibiricum according to claim 1, characterized in that, The lower end of the immersion tub is connected to a clean water inlet pipe and a wastewater outlet pipe, respectively. Valves are installed on the inlet clean water pipe and the outlet sewage pipe.

9. The herbal soaking and washing device for Polygonatum sibiricum according to claim 1, characterized in that, A pair of lifting rings are welded onto the lifting cover.

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