CN103727757B - The leaf of bamboo offsets dry unhairing all-in-one - Google Patents
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The invention belongs to drying equipment technical field, particularly relate to a kind of leaf of bamboo and offset dry unhairing all-in-one.Comprise upper box (2), lower box (5) and be positioned at material loading pressure roller (3), middle part pressure roller (4) and unhairing pressure roller (7) between the two, described material loading pressure roller (3) is positioned at head end, unhairing pressure roller (7) is positioned at end, middle part pressure roller (4) is positioned between the two, middle part pressure roller (4) comprises many groups that are set up in parallel, and the clamping plane of each pressure roller is coplanar; Also comprise the second drive unit driving the first drive unit of material loading pressure roller (3) and middle part pressure roller (4) synchronous axial system and drive unhairing pressure roller (7) to rotate; In described lower box (5), be provided with the hot-air supplying equipment (8) upwards evenly supplying hot blast, the roof of upper box (2) is provided with gas collection air channel (1); Also comprise and being located between gas collection air channel (1) and hot-air supplying equipment (8), for removing the condensing unit of moisture in circulation hot gas.
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Technical field
The invention belongs to drying equipment technical field, particularly relate to a kind of leaf of bamboo and offset dry unhairing all-in-one.
Background technology
The leaf of bamboo has medicinal and natural plant product that is edibility, along with the rise of environmental protection and health care's idea, except above-mentioned medicinal and edible function, other function of the leaf of bamboo is developed gradually, is used for food container as the leaf of bamboo is pressed into cutlery box.Needed to process the leaf of bamboo as raw material before cutlery box is compressing, mainly comprise drying and processing, offset process and unhairing process, the final leaf of bamboo raw material formed should have smooth outward appearance, suitable degree of drying and the bright and clean surface without hair.The process that suitable process equipment realizes combinations thereof formula is there is not in prior art.
Summary of the invention
The present invention provides a kind of reasonable in design, can offset dry unhairing all-in-one to the disposable leaf of bamboo completing process of the leaf of bamboo for solving in known technology the technical problem that exists.
The technical scheme that the present invention takes for the technical problem existed in solution known technology is: the leaf of bamboo offsets dry unhairing all-in-one and comprises upper box, lower box and be positioned at material loading pressure roller, middle part pressure roller and unhairing pressure roller between the two, described material loading pressure roller is positioned at head end, unhairing pressure roller is positioned at end, middle part pressure roller is positioned between the two, middle part pressure roller comprises many groups that are set up in parallel, and the clamping plane of each pressure roller is coplanar; Also comprise the first drive unit driving material loading pressure roller and middle part pressure roller synchronous axial system and the second drive unit driving unhairing pressure roller to rotate; In described lower box, be provided with the hot-air supplying equipment upwards evenly supplying hot blast, the roof of upper box is provided with gas collection air channel; Also comprise and being located between gas collection air channel and hot-air supplying equipment, for removing the condensing unit of moisture in circulation hot gas.
Advantage of the present invention and good effect are: the invention provides a kind of leaf of bamboo processing unit (plant) rational in infrastructure, will offset process, drying and processing and unhairing process three operations and be integrated into realization in an equipment.From material loading pressure roller material loading after the leaf of bamboo is launched by craft, then while the rolling of experience middle part pressure roller multiple milling roller group by the hot-air seasoning blowed from the bottom to top, enter the fine hair that surface removed by unhairing pressure roller afterwards, whole process is accomplished without any letup, namely one end material loading, the other end can be used as processed finished products rewinding, and working (machining) efficiency is high, to the offseting of the leaf of bamboo, dry and unhairing is effective.
Preferably: described material loading pressure roller, middle part pressure roller and unhairing pressure roller include beaming roller and lower roller, be equipped with axle bed at the two ends of upper beaming roller, be equipped with lower axle bed at the two ends of lower roller, upper axle bed adopts stay bolt to be connected with the edge of lower axle bed, and stay bolt is equipped with spring; Intermeshing gear is provided with in same one end of upper beaming roller and lower roller mandrel.
Preferably: described first drive unit comprises is located at material loading pressure roller and each upper beaming roller of middle part pressure roller or the driven gear of lower roller mandrel end and the chain with the equal engaged transmission of each driven gear, also comprises the driving machine driving this chain to rotate; Described second drive unit comprises the upper beaming roller or the driven gear of lower roller mandrel end and the chain with this driven gear engaged transmission of being located at unhairing pressure roller, also comprises the driving machine driving this chain to rotate.
Preferably: the rotating speed of the driving machine of described second drive unit is greater than the rotating speed of the driving machine of the first drive unit.
Preferably: described hot-air supplying equipment comprises the housing arranged along lower box length direction, and the top of described housing is provided with orifice plate, is provided with heating oil pipe in the below of described orifice plate; The many conduits that described heating oil pipe comprises the oil distributing pipe being positioned at one end, the oil collecting pipe being positioned at the other end and is positioned between the two, the two ends of described conduit communicate with oil distributing pipe and oil collecting pipe respectively; Described oil distributing pipe is provided with oil-feed interface, on described oil collecting pipe, is provided with oil return interface; Also comprise and to be connected with heating oil pipe the oil oven and oil pump that form loop by oil-feed interface and oil return interface; The sidewall of described housing is provided with air inlet.
Preferably: described orifice plate is the arcuate shape raised up.
Preferably: on the sidewall of described lower box, be provided with multiple chamber door.
Preferably: described condensing unit comprises the drainer that upper end is provided with air inlet, sidewall is provided with gas returning port, bottom is provided with discharge outlet, in described drainer, be provided with coil pipe, the two ends of described coil pipe are stretched out by the sidewall of drainer and are formed condensing water inlet and condensation-water drain respectively; Described air inlet is connected to gas collection air channel, gas returning port is connected to air inlet by pipeline.
Preferably: in gas collection air channel and the pipeline between gas returning port and air inlet, be equipped with axial flow blower.
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Fig. 1 is main TV structure schematic diagram of the present invention and partial sectional view;
Fig. 2 is the end construction schematic diagram of each pressure roller in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is main TV structure schematic diagram and the partial sectional view of hot-air supplying equipment in Fig. 1.
In figure: 1, gas collection air channel; 2, upper box; 3, material loading pressure roller; 4, middle part pressure roller; 5, lower box; 6, chamber door; 7, unhairing pressure roller; 8, hot-air supplying equipment; 8-1, oil distributing pipe; 8-2, oil-feed interface; 8-3, orifice plate; 8-4, conduit; 8-5, housing; 8-6, oil return interface; 8-7, oil collecting pipe; 8-8, air inlet; 9, drainer; 9-1, air inlet; 9-2, condensing water inlet; 9-3, condensation-water drain; 9-4, gas returning port; 9-5, discharge outlet; 10, upper beaming roller; 11, upper axle bed; 12, stay bolt; 13, lower roller; 14, lower axle bed.
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For summary of the invention of the present invention, Characteristic can be understood further, hereby exemplify following examples and be described in detail as follows:
Refer to Fig. 1, the present invention includes upper box 2, lower box 5 and be positioned at material loading pressure roller 3, middle part pressure roller 4 and unhairing pressure roller 7 between the two, material loading pressure roller 3 is positioned at head end, unhairing pressure roller 7 is positioned at end, middle part pressure roller 4 is positioned between the two, middle part pressure roller 4 comprises many groups that are set up in parallel, and the clamping plane of each pressure roller is coplanar.The leaf of bamboo is by material loading pressure roller 3 access arrangement, middle through middle part pressure roller 4, is finally sent by unhairing pressure roller 7, completes to offset, dry and unhairing processing.
As shown in Figure 2, in the present embodiment, material loading pressure roller 3, middle part pressure roller 4 and unhairing pressure roller 7 include beaming roller 10 and lower roller 13, be equipped with axle bed 11 at the two ends of upper beaming roller 10, be equipped with lower axle bed 14 at the two ends of lower roller 13, upper axle bed 11 adopts stay bolt 12 to be connected with the edge of lower both axle beds 14, and stay bolt 12 is equipped with spring.Intermeshing gear is provided with in same one end of both upper beaming roller 10 and lower roller 13 mandrel.The leaf of bamboo by between beaming roller 10 and lower roller 13 by time, by the spacing on the flexible auto-control of spring on stay bolt 12 between beaming roller 10 and lower roller 13, intermeshing gear ensures that both upper beaming roller 10 and lower roller 13 are synchronous, rotates backward.
Also comprise the first drive unit driving material loading pressure roller 3 and middle part pressure roller 4 synchronous axial system and the second drive unit driving unhairing pressure roller 7 to rotate.In the present embodiment, the first drive unit comprises is located at each upper beaming roller 10 of both material loading pressure roller 3 and middle part pressure roller 4 or the driven gear of lower roller 13 mandrel end and the chain with the equal engaged transmission of each driven gear, also comprises the driving machine driving this chain to rotate; Second drive unit comprises the upper beaming roller 10 or the driven gear of lower roller 13 mandrel end and the chain with this driven gear engaged transmission of being located at unhairing pressure roller 7, also comprises the driving machine driving this chain to rotate.In order to reach better unhairing effect, the rotating speed arranging the driving machine of the second drive unit is greater than the rotating speed of the driving machine of the first drive unit, there is obvious relative movement between hairbrush on the upper beaming roller 10 of such unhairing pressure roller 7 and lower roller 13 and the leaf of bamboo, hairbrush produces and significantly strikes off, swipes effect.
The hot-air supplying equipment 8 upwards evenly supplying hot blast is provided with, for blowing hot gas to the leaf of bamboo by middle part pressure roller 4 process in lower box 5.As shown in Figure 3, in the present embodiment, hot-air supplying equipment 8 comprises the housing 8-5 arranged along lower box 5 length direction, is provided with orifice plate 8-3 at the top of housing 8-5.Heating oil pipe is provided with for heating air in the below of orifice plate 8-3, the many conduit 8-4 that heating oil pipe comprises the oil distributing pipe 8-1 being positioned at one end, the oil collecting pipe 8-7 being positioned at the other end and is positioned between the two, the two ends of conduit 8-4 communicate with oil distributing pipe 8-1 and oil collecting pipe 8-7 respectively.Oil distributing pipe 8-1 is provided with oil-feed interface 8-2, on oil collecting pipe 8-7, is provided with oil return interface 8-6.Also comprise and to be connected the oil oven and oil pump that form loop with heating oil pipe by oil-feed interface 8-2 and oil return interface 8-6.Oil oven is by continuous for hot oil medium heat temperature raising, and oil pump provides the power of flow of hot, the comb heat temperature raising that the air in housing 8-5 is formed by multiple conduit 8-4.
The sidewall of housing 8-5 is provided with air inlet 8-8, and outside air enters housing 8-5 by this air inlet 8-8.
In the present embodiment, orifice plate 8-3 is set to the arcuate shape raised up, and like this after the leaf of bamboo to be dropped downwards by pressure roller and enters in lower box 5, directly drops on orifice plate 8-3.Under the effect of ascending air, the leaf of bamboo seethes the space fallen gradually between housing 8-5 both sides and lower box 5 sidewall, and can not block orifice plate 8-3.For the ease of removing the above-mentioned leaf of bamboo dropped, in the present embodiment, the sidewall of lower box 5 arranges multiple chamber door 6.
The roof of upper box 2 is provided with gas collection air channel 1 for collecting discharge hot gas, because this part hot gas still has higher temperature, direct discharge can cause the waste of the energy, therefore also comprise in the present embodiment and being located between gas collection air channel 1 and hot-air supplying equipment 8, for removing the condensing unit of moisture in circulation hot gas, the hot gas after hydrofuge again imports in hot-air supplying equipment 8 and participates in thermal cycle.
Condensing unit comprises the drainer 9 that upper end is provided with air inlet 9-1, sidewall is provided with gas returning port 9-4, bottom is provided with discharge outlet 9-5, in drainer 9, be provided with coil pipe, the two ends of coil pipe are stretched out by the sidewall of drainer 9 and are formed condensing water inlet 9-2 and condensation-water drain 9-3 respectively.Air inlet 9-1 is connected to gas collection air channel 1, gas returning port 9-4 is connected to air inlet 8-8 by pipeline.Coil pipe is connected to extraneous condensate line, makes to keep low temperature in drainer 9, and the moist hot gas entered by air inlet 9-1 liquefies at this, and the water droplet timing of formation is discharged by discharge outlet 9-5.
In the present embodiment, in gas collection air channel 1 and the pipeline between gas returning port 9-4 and air inlet 8-8, be equipped with axial flow blower, strengthen the mobility of hot gas.
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1. a leaf of bamboo offsets dry unhairing all-in-one, it is characterized in that: comprise upper box (2), lower box (5) and be positioned at material loading pressure roller (3), middle part pressure roller (4) and unhairing pressure roller (7) between the two, described material loading pressure roller (3) is positioned at head end, unhairing pressure roller (7) is positioned at end, middle part pressure roller (4) is positioned between the two, middle part pressure roller (4) comprises many groups that are set up in parallel, and the clamping plane of each pressure roller is coplanar; Also comprise the second drive unit driving the first drive unit of material loading pressure roller (3) and middle part pressure roller (4) synchronous axial system and drive unhairing pressure roller (7) to rotate; In described lower box (5), be provided with the hot-air supplying equipment (8) upwards evenly supplying hot blast, the roof of upper box (2) is provided with gas collection air channel (1); Also comprise and being located between gas collection air channel (1) and hot-air supplying equipment (8), for removing the condensing unit of moisture in circulation hot gas.
2. the leaf of bamboo as claimed in claim 1 offsets dry unhairing all-in-one, it is characterized in that: described material loading pressure roller (3), middle part pressure roller (4) and unhairing pressure roller (7) include beaming roller (10) and lower roller (13), be equipped with upper axle bed (11) at the two ends of upper beaming roller (10), be equipped with lower axle bed (14) at the two ends of lower roller (13), both edges of upper axle bed (11) and lower axle bed (14) adopt stay bolt (12) to be connected, and stay bolt (12) is equipped with spring; Intermeshing gear is provided with in same one end of upper beaming roller (10) and both mandrels of lower roller (13).
3. the leaf of bamboo as claimed in claim 2 offsets dry unhairing all-in-one, it is characterized in that: described first drive unit comprises is located at both each upper beaming rollers (10) of material loading pressure roller (3) and middle part pressure roller (4) or the driven gear of lower roller (13) mandrel end and the chain with the equal engaged transmission of each driven gear, also comprises the driving machine driving this chain to rotate; Described second drive unit comprises the upper beaming roller (10) or the driven gear of lower roller (13) mandrel end and the chain with this driven gear engaged transmission of being located at unhairing pressure roller (7), also comprises the driving machine driving this chain to rotate.
4. the leaf of bamboo as claimed in claim 3 offsets dry unhairing all-in-one, it is characterized in that: the rotating speed of the driving machine of described second drive unit is greater than the rotating speed of the driving machine of the first drive unit.
5. the leaf of bamboo as claimed in claim 1 offsets dry unhairing all-in-one, it is characterized in that: described hot-air supplying equipment (8) comprises the housing (8-5) arranged along lower box (5) length direction, the top of described housing (8-5) is provided with orifice plate (8-3), is provided with heating oil pipe in the below of described orifice plate (8-3); The many conduits (8-4) that described heating oil pipe comprises the oil distributing pipe (8-1) being positioned at one end, the oil collecting pipe (8-7) being positioned at the other end and is positioned between the two, the two ends of described conduit (8-4) communicate with oil distributing pipe (8-1) and oil collecting pipe (8-7) respectively; Described oil distributing pipe (8-1) is provided with oil-feed interface (8-2), on described oil collecting pipe (8-7), is provided with oil return interface (8-6); Also comprise and to be connected with heating oil pipe the oil oven and oil pump that form loop by oil-feed interface (8-2) and oil return interface (8-6); The sidewall of described housing (8-5) is provided with air inlet (8-8).
6. the leaf of bamboo as claimed in claim 5 offsets dry unhairing all-in-one, it is characterized in that: described orifice plate (8-3) arcuate shape for raising up.
7. the leaf of bamboo as claimed in claim 6 offsets dry unhairing all-in-one, it is characterized in that: on the sidewall of described lower box (5), be provided with multiple chamber door (6).
8. the leaf of bamboo as described in any one of claim 5 to 7 offsets dry unhairing all-in-one, it is characterized in that: described condensing unit comprises the drainer (9) that upper end is provided with air inlet (9-1), sidewall is provided with gas returning port (9-4), bottom is provided with discharge outlet (9-5), in described drainer (9), be provided with coil pipe, the two ends of described coil pipe are stretched out by the sidewall of drainer (9) and are formed condensing water inlet (9-2) and condensation-water drain (9-3) respectively; Described air inlet (9-1) is connected to gas collection air channel (1), gas returning port (9-4) is connected to air inlet (8-8) by pipeline.
9. the leaf of bamboo as claimed in claim 8 offsets dry unhairing all-in-one, it is characterized in that: in gas collection air channel (1) and the pipeline between gas returning port (9-4) and air inlet (8-8), be equipped with axial flow blower.
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