Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide the automatic betel nut seed selecting machine which is compact in structure, small in occupied area, flexible to use, low in energy consumption and high in seed selecting precision.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
an automatic seed selection machine for areca nuts comprises: the device comprises a detection module, a feeding mechanism, a distributing mechanism and a discharging mechanism which are sequentially arranged in a stepped manner; the betel nut feeding mechanism comprises a plurality of runners for conveying betel nuts, the discharge ends of the runners are connected with the material distribution mechanism, the material distribution mechanism comprises a rotary material distribution assembly, the betel nuts are individually separated through the rotary material distribution assembly, the detection module is used for detecting the single betel nuts separated by the rotary material distribution assembly, classifying the betel nuts according to the detection result, and outputting the betel nuts according to the corresponding grades through the blanking mechanism.
As a further improvement of the present invention, the feeding mechanism includes a feeding frame, the feeding frame is provided with an automatic feeding assembly and a feeding support plate, the automatic feeding assembly pushes the betel nuts to the feeding support plate under the driving of the driving assembly, a plurality of parallel flow channels are arranged below the feeding support plate, and the discharge ends of the flow channels are connected with the material distribution mechanism.
As a further improvement of the invention, the automatic feeding assembly comprises a baffle plate, a feeding chain plate and a feeding chain, wherein two sides of the feeding chain plate are respectively connected with the feeding chain, and the baffle plate and the feeding chain plate enclose to form a conical hopper with an opening at the upper end; under the drive of the driving assembly, the feeding chain drives the feeding chain plate to move, and the betel nuts in the hopper are pushed to the feeding supporting plate.
As a further improvement of the invention, the feeding support plate is provided with a plurality of notches, the notches are sequentially arranged and correspond to the flow channels one by one, and the betel nuts pushed onto the feeding support plate enter the corresponding flow channels through the notches.
As a further improvement of the betel nut conveyor, a belt for conveying betel nuts is arranged in the flow channel, the belt is positioned and installed through rollers on two sides of the feeding frame, and the rollers rotate and drive the belt to rotate under the driving of the driving assembly, so that the betel nuts are conveyed.
As a further improvement of the invention, the material distribution mechanism comprises a rotary material distribution assembly and a plurality of material distribution grooves which are arranged on the mounting plate, the material distribution grooves correspond to the flow channels one by one, the feed ends of the material distribution grooves are connected with the flow channels, the discharge ends of the material distribution grooves are connected with the blanking mechanism, the rotary material distribution assembly is connected with the material distribution grooves, and the betel nuts are separated individually by rotating the material distribution assembly.
As a further improvement of the invention, the rotary distribution assembly comprises a rotating shaft and a distribution chain wheel; the rotating shaft is provided with a plurality of rotating discs, the rotating discs correspond to the distributing grooves one by one, a plurality of shifting rods are arranged on the outer sides of the rotating discs, and the shifting rods extend into the distributing grooves; two ends of the rotating shaft are respectively connected with the distributing chain wheel, a cam is arranged at the joint of the rotating shaft and the distributing chain wheel, a plurality of salient points are arranged on the outer side of the cam, and the salient points correspond to the deflector rod; under the drive of the drive assembly, the material distribution chain wheel drives the rotating shaft to rotate so as to drive the rotating disc to rotate, and the betel nuts are separately distributed at intervals through the deflector rods on the rotating disc.
As a further improvement of the invention, the rotary distribution assembly further comprises a material separation connecting plate, a plurality of material separation rods facing the distribution grooves are arranged on the material separation connecting plate, and the material separation rods and the distribution grooves are in one-to-one correspondence; the two ends of the material separating rod are respectively connected with a connecting rod, the connecting rod is rotatably connected with the cam, the connecting rod lifts or lowers the material separating connecting plate under the driving of the cam, and the material separating rod moves out or extends into the material separating groove to realize material separating and discharging at intervals.
As a further improvement of the invention, the blanking mechanism comprises a blanking frame, a blanking support plate is arranged on the blanking frame, a loading station and a blanking station are arranged on the blanking support plate, a collecting hopper is arranged below the blanking station, the betel nuts enter the loading station through the distributing groove, and the betel nuts fall into the collecting hopper from the blanking station after being detected by the detection module.
As a further improvement of the invention, two sides of the blanking support plate are driven by a blanking chain, a plurality of discharge ports are arranged on the blanking support plate, the rows of the discharge ports correspond to the distributing troughs one by one, and the rows of the discharge ports correspond to the preset betel nut grades one by one at a blanking station; the discharging station is provided with a plurality of material pushing assemblies used for pushing areca nuts, the material pushing assemblies correspond to the discharge ports one to one, and the output ends of the material pushing assemblies face the discharge ports.
As a further improvement of the invention, the material collecting hopper is divided into a plurality of parts, and the parts divided equally by the material collecting hopper correspond to the rows of the material outlets on the blanking station one by one.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:
1. according to the automatic betel nut seed selecting machine, the feeding mechanism, the distributing mechanism and the discharging mechanism are sequentially arranged in a stepped manner, so that the automatic betel nut seed selecting machine is more compact in structure, and the installation volume is effectively reduced. Through setting up many runners in feed mechanism, realize many runners even material loading, improved the speed of material loading, satisfied bigger production demand. The rotary material distributing assembly is arranged in the material distributing mechanism, so that the betel nuts are separately distributed, and the continuity and the orderliness of material distribution are realized. The appearance quality of the betel nuts is detected through the detection module, and the betel nuts are classified according to the detection result, so that the detection precision is improved, and the classification accuracy is also improved. And finally, the blanking mechanism outputs according to the grade classification result of the betel nuts, so that multi-grade output of the betel nuts is realized. Compared with the existing betel nut seed selecting machine, the automatic betel nut seed selecting machine disclosed by the invention is smaller in occupied area, higher in material dividing efficiency and precision, higher in automation degree and stronger in practicability, and well meets the material dividing requirement of large-yield betel nut processing production.
2. According to the automatic betel nut seed selecting machine, the baffle plate is arranged on the feeding chain plate, the feeding chain plate is obliquely arranged on the feeding rack, two sides of the feeding chain plate are respectively connected with the feeding chain, and the feeding chain drives the feeding chain plate to move under the driving of the driving assembly so as to push betel nuts in the hopper to the feeding supporting plate. Only need throw the material on the baffle, can realize the continuous material loading of sesame oil, reduced artifical intensity of labour greatly. Meanwhile, a plurality of parallel runners are arranged below the feeding support plate, and a plurality of notches which are sequentially arranged and correspond to the runners one to one are formed in the feeding support plate, so that the betel nuts are uniformly conveyed into the corresponding runners. Be equipped with the belt in the runner, realized carrying at the uniform velocity of sesame oil through the belt, realized that single power satisfies many runners automatic feeding's demand, improved material loading efficiency greatly.
3. According to the automatic betel nut seed selecting machine, single and intermittent automatic betel nut separation is realized by rotating the separation component. Specifically, through set up a plurality of carousels with dividing the silo one-to-one in the pivot to evenly be equipped with many driving levers in the carousel outside, the driving lever stretches into and divides the silo in, under drive assembly's drive, divides the material sprocket to drive the pivot and rotates, in order to drive the carousel and rotate, will singly list sesame oil intermittent type formula output through the driving lever on the carousel. Meanwhile, a material separating connecting plate is further arranged, a plurality of material separating rods facing the material separating groove are arranged on the material separating connecting plate and correspond to the material separating groove one by one, the material separating connecting plate is connected with the rotating shaft through a cam and a connecting rod, a plurality of salient points corresponding to the deflector rod are arranged on the cam, the connecting rod is matched with the cam, when the cam rotates to the salient points, the connecting rod can put down the material separating connecting plate, the material separating rods stretch into the material separating groove, the inching material separating action is realized, the distance between single betel nuts is further opened, and the intermittent material separating effect is improved.
4. According to the automatic betel nut seed selecting machine, the plurality of discharge ports are arranged on the discharging support plate, and the discharge ports are in one-to-one correspondence with the material distributing grooves, so that simultaneous discharging of a plurality of flow channels is realized, and the discharging speed is improved. The appearance of the betel nuts is detected through the detection module and is classified correspondingly, the row number of the discharge ports corresponds to the preset betel nut grade one by one on the discharging station, when the betel nuts are conveyed to the discharge ports corresponding to the grades, the betel nuts are pushed into the corresponding material collecting hoppers by the material pushing assemblies beside the discharge ports, the output of the betel nuts in multiple grades on a single flow channel is achieved, and the accuracy of automatic betel nut classification is improved.
Detailed Description
The invention is further described below with reference to the drawings and specific preferred embodiments of the description, without thereby limiting the scope of protection of the invention.
Examples
As shown in fig. 1 to 5, the automatic betel nut seed selector of the present invention includes: the device comprises a detection module 4, and a feeding mechanism 1, a distributing mechanism 2 and a discharging mechanism 3 which are arranged in a stepped mode in sequence. Feed mechanism 1 includes many runners that are used for carrying the sesame oil, and the discharge end of runner is connected with feed mechanism 2, and feed mechanism 2 divides the subassembly including rotating, divides the subassembly to separately the sesame oil through rotating, recycles detection module 4 and detects the single sesame oil that the subassembly was divided to rotating to carry out the grade classification with the sesame oil according to the testing result, export the sesame oil according to corresponding grade through unloading mechanism 3 at last. In this embodiment, through setting up feed mechanism 2 slope between feed mechanism 1 and unloading mechanism 3, can reduce the whole installation volume of automatic seed selection machine of sesame oil on the one hand, and be convenient for remove, on the other hand also can improve the smoothness nature that the sesame oil removed between feed mechanism 1 and feed mechanism 2, and between feed mechanism 2 and unloading mechanism 3 through the action of gravity. It can be understood that the inclined included angle between the material distributing mechanism 2 and the feeding mechanism 1 can be adjusted according to actual production requirements, as long as the betel nuts can be stably and intermittently distributed.
In this embodiment, the feeding mechanism 1 includes a feeding frame 11, an automatic feeding assembly and a feeding support plate 17 are disposed on the feeding frame 11, and the automatic feeding assembly pushes the betel nuts to the feeding support plate 17 under the driving of a driving motor (not shown in the figure). Twelve parallel runners are arranged below the feeding supporting plate 17, the discharge end of each runner is connected with the material distribution mechanism 2, and the betel nuts are conveyed to the material distribution mechanism 2 through the runners. In this embodiment, the feeding mechanism 1 needs to complete the automatic transportation of the betel nuts, and adjust the moving direction of the betel nuts to ensure the uniform transportation of the betel nuts to each flow channel. The material distributing mechanism 2 comprises a rotary material distributing assembly and twelve material distributing grooves 24 which are arranged on the mounting plate 20, the material distributing grooves 24 correspond to the flow channels one by one, the feeding ends of the material distributing grooves 24 are connected with the flow channels, and the discharging ends of the material distributing grooves 24 are connected with the discharging mechanism 3. The rotating material distributing assembly is positioned at the discharge end of the material distributing groove 24, and the material distributing speed of the betel nuts is controlled by the rotating material distributing assembly. The visual detection module 4 is positioned at the joint of the material distributing mechanism 2 and the blanking mechanism 3. In this embodiment, the betel nuts from the feeding mechanism 1 sequentially enter the separating mechanism 2 through the separating trough 24, and the separating mechanism 2 is used to ensure that the betel nuts in each flow passage are separated individually. Through set up visual detection module 4 in feed mechanism 2 and the junction of unloading mechanism 3, carry out visual detection earlier to the sesame oil that feed mechanism 2 divides, then correspond the grading, carry to corresponding unloading station 34 again at last. It will be appreciated that the number of runners and chutes 24 may also be adjusted as appropriate to improve the efficiency of the material distribution. The blanking mechanism 3 comprises a blanking frame 38, a blanking support plate 31 is arranged on the blanking frame 38, a feeding station 32 and a blanking station 34 are arranged on the blanking support plate 31, a collecting hopper 36 is arranged below the blanking station 34, the betel nuts enter the feeding station 32 through the material distributing groove 24, and after being detected by a visual camera on the detection module 4, the betel nuts fall into the collecting hopper 36 through the blanking station 34, so that the screening of the betel nuts is completed. In this embodiment, the detection module 4 adopts the camera to shoot the mode that detects, and data such as length, size, surface line of accurate analysis sesame oil realize accurate grade classification.
In this embodiment, through being cascaded setting gradually with feed mechanism 1, feed mechanism 2 and unloading mechanism 3, and detection module 4 sets up in feed mechanism 2 and unloading mechanism 3's junction for the automatic seed selection machine of sesame oil's structure is compacter, and has effectively reduced the installation volume. Twelve parallel runners are arranged below the feeding supporting plate 17 of the feeding mechanism 1, so that uniform feeding of the plurality of runners is realized, the feeding speed is increased, and the greater production requirement is met. Twelve material distributing grooves 24 which are in one-to-one correspondence with the flow channels are arranged on the material distributing mechanism 2, and a rotary material distributing assembly for controlling the material distributing speed of the betel nuts is arranged at the discharge end of each material distributing groove 24, so that the continuity and the orderliness of material distribution are realized. The appearance quality of the betel nuts is detected by the visual camera in the detection module 4, and the betel nuts are classified according to the detection result, so that the detection precision is improved, and the classification accuracy is also improved. Compared with the existing betel nut seed selecting machine, the automatic betel nut seed selecting machine disclosed by the invention is smaller in occupied area, higher in material dividing efficiency and precision, higher in automation degree and stronger in practicability, and well meets the material dividing requirement of large-yield betel nut processing production.
As shown in fig. 2 and 4, in the present embodiment, the automatic feeding assembly includes a baffle plate 12, a feeding link plate 13, and a feeding chain 14. The feeding chain plate 13 is arranged on the feeding rack 11, two sides of the feeding chain plate 13 are respectively connected with the feeding chain 14, the baffle plate 12 is arranged on the feeding chain plate 13, the baffle plate 12 and the feeding chain plate 13 enclose a conical hopper with an upper end opening, and continuous automatic feeding of the feeding chain plate 13 can be realized by feeding materials at the opening of the conical hopper. It can be understood that the inclined included angle between the feeding chain plate 13 and the feeding rack 11 can be adjusted according to actual production requirements, as long as the continuous automatic feeding of the betel nuts can be realized. Under the drive of the driving motor, the feeding chain 14 drives the feeding chain plate 13 to move, and the betel nuts in the hopper 12 are pushed to the feeding support plate 17 through the cooperation of the feeding chain plate 13 and the feeding support plate 17. Meanwhile, the advancing direction of the betel nuts is preliminarily adjusted through the gap of the feeding chain plate 13, so that the betel nuts are linearly arranged and orderly enter the feeding supporting plate 17. The driving force of the driving motor is transmitted to the feeding chain plate 13 through the feeding chain 14, and the requirement of simultaneous feeding of multiple flow channels driven by single power can be met.
Furthermore, as shown in fig. 4, twelve notches 18 are formed in the feeding supporting plate 17, the twelve notches 18 are sequentially arranged, the notches 18 correspond to the flow channels one by one, and the betel nuts pushed onto the feeding supporting plate 17 enter the corresponding flow channels through the notches 18. Correspondingly, a belt 16 for conveying the betel nuts is arranged in the flow channel, the belt 16 is positioned and installed through rollers 15 on two sides of the feeding frame 11, and the rollers 15 rotate and drive the belt 16 to rotate under the driving of a driving motor (not shown in the figure), so that the betel nuts are conveyed. The belt 16 can ensure uniform conveying of the betel nuts in the flow channel, accelerate conveying of the betel nuts in the flow channel and improve feeding efficiency. In order to realize the orderly output of the betel nuts from the feeding mechanism 1, the discharge end of each flow channel is provided with a flash port 19, the flash port 19 is connected with the feed end of the material distribution groove 28, and the betel nuts in the flow channels sequentially enter the material distribution groove 28 from the flash port 19.
In this embodiment, the baffle 12 and the feeding chain plate 13 are enclosed to form a conical hopper, the feeding chain plate 13 is arranged on the feeding rack 11, two sides of the feeding chain plate 13 are respectively connected with the feeding chain 14, and the feeding chain 14 drives the feeding chain plate 13 to move under the driving of the driving motor, so as to push the betel nuts in the hopper 12 to the feeding support plate 17. Only need throw the material on the toper hopper, can realize the continuous material loading of sesame oil, reduced artifical intensity of labour greatly. Meanwhile, a plurality of notches 18 which are sequentially arranged and correspond to the runners one by one are arranged on the feeding supporting plate 17, so that the betel nuts are uniformly conveyed into the corresponding runners. Be equipped with belt 16 in the runner, realized carrying at the uniform velocity of sesame oil through belt 16, realized that single power satisfies many runners automatic feeding's demand, improved material loading efficiency greatly.
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, in this embodiment, the rotary feed assembly includes a shaft 23 and a feed sprocket 28. Twelve rotating discs 25 are arranged on the rotating shaft 23 on the inner side of the mounting plate 20 in parallel, the rotating discs 25 correspond to the distributing grooves 24 one by one, and four shifting rods are uniformly arranged on the outer side of each rotating disc 25 and extend into the distributing grooves 24. On the outer side of the mounting plate 20, two ends of the rotating shaft 23 are respectively connected to a distribution sprocket 28, and the distribution sprocket 28 is connected to a driving motor (not shown). In this embodiment, the material distributing mechanism 2 and the blanking mechanism 3 share one driving motor for driving. Under the drive of the driving motor, the material distribution chain wheel 28 drives the rotating shaft 23 to rotate so as to drive the rotating disc 25 to rotate, the material distribution of single betel nuts at intervals is realized through the deflector rod on the rotating disc 25, and when the rotating disc 25 rotates for a circle, the intermittent output of four betel nuts can be realized.
In the embodiment, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, a cam 27 is disposed at the joint of the rotating shaft 23 and the distributing sprocket 28, and four salient points are uniformly disposed outside the cam 27 and correspond to the shift levers. Namely, when the turntable 25 rotates to the position of the shifting lever for material shifting, the cam 27 just rotates to the position of the salient point, and the stability of intermittent material distribution of the rotating assembly is further controlled by the cam 27.
As shown in fig. 2 and 3, in the present embodiment, the rotary distributing assembly further includes a material separating connecting plate 21. On the inner side of the mounting plate 20, a plurality of material separation rods 22 facing the material separation groove 24 are arranged on the material separation connecting plate 21, the material separation rods 22 correspond to the material separation groove 24 one by one, on the outer side of the mounting plate 20, two ends of each material separation rod 22 are respectively connected with a connecting rod 26, and the connecting rods 26 are rotatably connected with the cam 27. Under the drive of the cam 27, the connecting rod 26 lifts or lowers the material separating connecting plate 21, and the material separating rod 22 moves out or extends into the material separating groove 24 to realize the material separating and discharging. It can be understood that the material separating rod 22 extends into the material distributing groove 24, so that the material distributing groove 24 can be blocked to prevent the areca nuts from moving continuously.
In the embodiment, single and intermittent automatic betel nut distribution is realized by rotating the distribution component. Specifically, a plurality of turntables 25 corresponding to the material distribution grooves 24 one by one are arranged on the rotating shaft 23, four shifting rods are uniformly arranged on the outer sides of the turntables 25 and extend into the material distribution grooves 24, the material distribution chain wheel 28 drives the rotating shaft 23 to rotate under the driving of the driving motor so as to drive the turntables 25 to rotate, and single betel nut is intermittently output through the shifting rods on the turntables 25. Meanwhile, a material separating connecting plate 21 is further arranged, a plurality of material separating rods 22 facing the material separating groove are arranged on the material separating connecting plate 21, the material separating rods 22 correspond to the material separating grooves 24 one by one, the material separating connecting plate 24 is connected with the rotating shaft 23 through a cam 27 and a connecting rod 26, four convex points corresponding to the deflector rod are arranged on the cam 27, the connecting rod 26 is matched with the cam 27, when the cam 27 rotates to the convex points, the connecting rod 26 can put down the material separating connecting plate 21, the material separating rods 22 extend into the material separating groove 24, the material separating action of inching is achieved, and the distance between single betel nuts is further opened. Through the cooperation of the rotating shaft 23 and the material separating connecting plate 21, the intermittent material separating effect is improved, the betel nuts are separated individually and enter the blanking mechanism 3 at a constant speed, and sufficient time is provided for the blanking mechanism 3 to detect and analyze the betel nuts.
As shown in fig. 5, in this embodiment, two sides of the discharging supporting plate 31 are driven by the discharging chain 37. The betel nuts output from the material distributing groove 24 orderly fall into the feeding end of the blanking supporting plate 31, and the blanking supporting plate 31 moves under the driving of the blanking chain 37 and conveys the betel nuts to the corresponding stations. A plurality of discharge ports 33 are arranged on the discharging support plate 31, and the number of the discharge ports 33 corresponds to the number of the sub-tanks 24 one by one, that is, in this embodiment, twelve discharge ports 33 are arranged on the discharging support plate 31. On the blanking station 34, the row number of the discharge ports 33 corresponds to the preset betel nut grade one by one. In this embodiment, the betel nuts are classified into fourteen grades, that is, the blanking station 34 is provided with fourteen material outlets 33. The blanking station 34 is provided with a plurality of pushing assemblies 35, the pushing assemblies 35 correspond to the discharge ports 33 one by one, and the output ends of the pushing assemblies 35 face the discharge ports 33. Correspondingly, in this embodiment, the material collecting hoppers 36 are equally divided into fourteen equal parts, and the number of the evenly divided parts of the material collecting hoppers 36 corresponds to the number of the rows of the material outlets 33 on the blanking station 34. In the actual production process, the classification grade of the betel nuts can be adjusted according to the production requirements. It should be understood that, in this embodiment, the pushing assembly 35 may be an air cylinder, or may also be a driving mechanism such as a motor, and the driving assembly is within the scope of the present invention as long as the driving assembly can push the betel nuts from the discharging port 33 into the collecting hopper 36.
In this embodiment, through arranging a plurality of discharge gates 33 on unloading layer board 31, and the row number of discharge gates 33 and divide silo 24 one-to-one, realized many runners and discharged the material simultaneously, improved the speed of ejection of compact. The appearance of the betel nuts is detected through the vision camera on the vision detection module 4, the betel nuts are classified correspondingly, the row number of the discharge ports 33 corresponds to the preset betel nut grade one by one on the discharging station 34, when the betel nuts are conveyed to the discharge ports of the corresponding grade, the material pushing assembly 35 beside the discharge ports 33 pushes the betel nuts into the corresponding material collecting hopper 36, the output of the betel nuts of multiple grades on a single flow channel is realized, and the accuracy of automatic classification of the betel nuts is improved.
When the device works, the areca nuts are stored in a conical hopper formed by enclosing the baffle plate 12 and the feeding chain plate 13, the feeding chain 14 is driven by the motor to rotate, and the feeding chain plate 13 rotationally connected with the feeding chain 14 gradually moves to the feeding supporting plate 17 from the conical hopper. Because the feeding chain plate 13 has a gap, the betel nuts are mainly clamped in the gap of the feeding chain plate 13 to move, only the betel nuts parallel or approximately parallel to the gap of the feeding chain plate 13 can be pushed to the feeding supporting plate 17 in the process that the feeding chain plate 13 is moved to the feeding supporting plate 17 by the tapered hopper, and the betel nuts at other included angles can slide into the tapered hopper, namely, the betel nuts are pushed to the feeding supporting plate 17 in a linear arrangement mode through the gap of the feeding chain plate 13. As the feeding chain 14 continues to rotate, the feeding chain plate 13 moves along one side of the feeding support plate 17 to the opposite side, and during the process, the betel nuts on the feeding chain plate 13 fall into the corresponding flow channels through the notches 18 on the feeding support plate 17. The areca nuts are continuously and automatically fed by the reciprocating movement of the feeding chain plate 13 between the conical hopper and the feeding supporting plate 17. Twelve flow channels are arranged below the feeding supporting plate 17, belts 16 are arranged in the flow channels to convey betel nuts, twelve notches 18 are formed in the feeding supporting plate 17 and correspond to the twelve flow channels respectively, and therefore the betel nuts pushed by the feeding chain plate 13 are conveyed to the twelve flow channels evenly. Then the belt 16 on twelve runners is driven by the motor to convey the betel nuts on each runner to the sorting mechanism 2. The sorting mechanism 2 and the blanking mechanism 3 are driven to operate synchronously by the same driving mechanism, and the sorting mechanism 2 is driven by the material distributing chain wheel 28. When the sorting mechanism 2 starts to move, the betel nuts conveyed from the belt 16 are separated into a single state by the turntable 25. The action mode is as follows: the material distributing chain wheel 28 rotates to drive the rotating shaft 23 to rotate, the rotating disc 25 on the rotating shaft 23 also rotates, the deflector rod on the rotating disc 25 can move the betel nuts out of the material distributing groove 24 to the blanking mechanism 3, and four betel nuts can be separated out when the rotating disc 25 rotates one circle. The sorting mechanism 2 is also provided with a following material separation device: the cam 27 is installed with the junction of branch material sprocket 28 in pivot 23, cam 27 passes through connecting rod 26 and is connected with separating material connecting plate 21, there are four bumps on the cam 27, connecting rod 26 and cam 27 cooperation, when cam 27 rotated, when whenever rotated to the cooperation bump, will drive through connecting rod 26 and separate material connecting plate 21 and set up on separating material connecting plate 21, with the downward motion of separating material pole 22 that divides silo 24 one-to-one, separate silo 24 jam with separating material pole 22, realize the material of separating of point-action and move to separate the sesame oil. When the separating mechanism 2 separates the areca nuts one by one, the blanking mechanism 3 starts to function. Firstly, the rotation of the blanking chain 37 drives the blanking supporting plate 31 mounted on the blanking chain 37 to move to the feeding tool 32. At the feeding station 32, the feeding supporting plate 31 can receive the areca nuts separated from the material separating mechanism 2, then continue to move along with the feeding chain 37, convey the areca nuts to the visual detection module 4, take a picture through a visual camera at the visual detection module 4, analyze the length, the size and the surface lines of the areca nuts on each flow channel, obtain different data results, and divide the areca nuts into different grades according to the data results. After the detection is finished, the betel nuts are conveyed to the blanking station 34 through the transmission of the blanking chain 37, and the fourteen row material outlets 33 are arranged on the blanking station 34, so that the betel nuts can be classified into fourteen grades. The blanking station 34 pushes down the betel nuts from the discharge port 33 by the action of the pushing assembly 35, and then collects the betel nuts of different grades through the collecting hopper 36. Finally, the bottoms of the collecting hoppers 36 are connected with corresponding conveying channels, so that classified betel nuts are conveyed to the next processing procedure.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it is not intended to be limited thereto. Those skilled in the art can make many possible variations and modifications to the disclosed embodiments, or equivalent modifications, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, using the methods and techniques disclosed above. Therefore, any simple modification, equivalent replacement, equivalent change and modification made to the above embodiments according to the technical essence of the present invention are still within the scope of the protection of the technical solution of the present invention.