JP2006289333A - Cylindrical can type garbage disposal apparatus using ecology of earthworm - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a garbage disposal apparatus using the ecology of earthworms which can maintain the activity of earthworms regardless of seasons, and can easily recover the worm cast. <P>SOLUTION: The apparatus is equipped with a hot/cold water circulation device 2 which runs through hot water during low temperatures, and runs through cold water during high temperatures and dry in order to maintain the living floor temperatures for earthworms. The apparatus is equipped with an electric bug killer 1 in a lid of the apparatus for killing newly-emerged adult worms inside the apparatus when maggots are generated, and with a device also having a function of an insect trap for attaching an insect trapping net at the exhaust terminal of an exhaust device inside the living floor for the earthworms for trapping newly-emerged flies, black flies, or the like. Additionally, the apparatus is equipped with a device for scraping out from the bottom face of the living floor for the earthworms by rotating a floor receiver 4 itself of the living floor for the earthworms, thereby making the recovery work of the worm cast easy. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

The present invention relates to a living bed for earthworms controlled to a desired temperature by cold / hot water feeding means, and a garbage disposal device using earthworms, which has a prosthetic and insecticidal function.

Conventionally, there has been proposed a garbage processing apparatus in which soil and earthworms are placed in an apparatus casing and food waste is placed on the upper surface of the soil so that the earthworms eat the garbage to reduce digestion.

In a conventional garbage disposal apparatus using earthworms, the temperature and humidity in the housing greatly vary depending on the seasonal climate and the daily weather, and the garbage disposal capacity of earthworms is unstable.

In the conventional garbage disposal equipment using earthworms, the floor soil dries as the outside air temperature rises in the summer, and the earthworms escape from the inside of the enclosure and die, and in the winter the temperature drops and earthworm activity decreases. There is a problem that earthworm breeding also slows down.

Conventional garbage processing devices using earthworms tend to cause worms to sprout and become a source of flies and moths, which is unfavorable for hygiene. Therefore, it is necessary to take measures to prevent the emerged adults from escaping to the outside.

Problems to be solved by the invention

By creating a part of the earthworm's living floor where the temperature and humidity are properly maintained, the earthworm can evacuate into the living bed even if the outside temperature rises or falls abnormally. To avoid the phenomenon of escape and death.

With regard to the occurrence of flies and wings, a method of enabling adults that emerged to be complemented or killed in the treatment apparatus.

A method for facilitating earthworm excrement collection and maintenance.

Means for solving the problem

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As shown in Fig. 1-2, a spiral tunnel-shaped hose or pipe is arranged in a circular donut shape inside the living floor of an earthworm, and heat conduction is performed by circulating water at a constant temperature in the hose or pipe. This keeps the floor temperature inside the tunnel constant. In other words, warm water flows in winter, and cold water flows during high-temperature drying in summer.

As a result, in the summer, the surroundings of the pipes are cooled by cold water to cause moisture condensation, so that appropriate moisture replenishment is possible and drying of the floor soil can be prevented.

Fig. 1-3 A sponge sheet with a water retention capacity of 10 mm or more is adhered to the contact surface between the outer periphery of the earthworm's living floor and the casing, that is, the inner surface of the casing. The action can improve the moisture retention of floor soil.

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As shown in Fig. 2-8, the drum can is opened at the top, and a wooden fixed lid and a flip-up lid are attached. In addition, when worms are generated, the emerged adults are killed in the processing machine so as not to escape to the outside. The fixed lid is equipped with a lightning insecticide.

Furthermore, in order to construct the unit integrally in the center of the earthworm breeding unit, a stainless steel pipe with a diameter of 50 mm is built as a structural pillar, and it passes through from the bottom of the unit to the top of the earthworm's living floor. Sirocco fan Figure 3-19 is installed and used as a duct that draws air from the top of the earthworm's living floor and exhausts it to the bottom. In addition, the pipe fan also has a function of an insect repellent device that captures the flies and wings attached to the insect screen as shown in FIG. 3-26.

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In order to solve this problem, the middle part of the earthworm breeding unit has a space of about 100 mm in order to scrape and collect dung from the bottom of the earthworm's living floor.
Fig. 3-15 The earthworm floor support itself is a wire mesh for scraping the excrement by manually rotating it horizontally, and the excreted excrement is placed in the lower part. Scrap it with a rubber spatula. This makes it possible to collect feces without getting your hands dirty.

In addition, when using a recycled drum can for the housing of this device, the life of the can is considered to be shorter than that of the earthworm breeding unit, maintenance of the earthworm breeding unit and the device, replacement of the earthworm's living floor, etc. In consideration of maintainability, the earthworm breeding unit and the casing are easily separated. FIG.

The invention's effect

The advantage of the present invention is that, when the earthworms are disposed of, the earthworm breeding environment and the garbage disposal environment can be carried out more hygienically in the best condition, and the drum can be recycled.

The earthworm breeding environment also has a moisturizing effect in the process of keeping the earthworm's living floor at a constant temperature, and there is always a place in the earthworm's living floor where earthworms can safely evacuate against abnormal changes in the outside temperature. This promotes stable feeding activities and breeding of earthworms, and can maintain a stable garbage disposal capacity throughout the year.

The garbage disposal environment not only improves the ability of earthworms to treat garbage, but is equipped with a device that supplements or kills adults such as flies and moths that have emerged from moths. There is no need for extermination. Rather, it can be used for garbage disposal as a useful organism with earthworms at the stage of drought. Helminths have excellent ability to treat animal proteins, etc., which are not good at earthworms among garbage, so we would like to make great use of it to improve the ability to treat garbage.

Feces soil recovery device equipped in the middle part of the earthworm breeding unit, above

Since the excrement collected by the method is porous and has excellent deodorizing power, it is sprayed on the raw garbage and used as a deodorizing agent in order to suppress the rotting odor of the raw garbage when the raw garbage is introduced.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a garbage disposal apparatus embodying the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 5, the embodiment of the cylindrical can-type garbage processing apparatus utilizing the ecology of earthworms and straws includes a casing made of a cylindrical can (hereinafter referred to as a casing), including the reuse of a waste drum can. 2, an earthworm breeding unit (hereinafter referred to as a breeding unit) housed in the housing, FIGS. 3 and 4, and a wooden fixed folding lid 7 and a flip-up folding lid 10 supported on the upper surface of the housing. .

The housing, FIG. 2 and the rearing unit, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are structures that can be easily combined or separated. After the rearing unit is housed in the housing from the upper surface of the housing, the electric insecticidal device 8 is attached to the upper surface of the housing The wooden folding lid 7 is fixed, and the folding lid 10 with a handle attached to the stationary folding lid 7 is attached with a trillion number to complete.

The housing, FIG. 2, has an opening in the lower part of the side surface for inspection of the breeding unit and collection of excrement, and wire mesh-stretched doors 11 and 12 are attached to the opening.

When recycling the drum can in the case, the surface with two large and small screw lids is used as the top surface, and the top iron plate is cut out to the full size of the can. Although reused, the large screw lid is removed, and the socket 24 of the PVC pipe is screwed from the lower surface of the iron plate to be used as the excrement cleaning port 23.

The structure of the rearing unit is explained below

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the breeding unit

An exhaust chamber 18 is welded on a bottom plate 17 having the same dimensions as the steel plate of the steel plate, and a stainless steel structural column pipe 14 having a diameter of 50 mm is welded vertically on the chamber. The center of the pipe is the bottom plate 17. It is located perpendicular to the center of the skeleton and becomes the basic framework of the breeding unit.

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The exhaust chamber and the stainless steel pipe are penetrated inside the stainless steel pipe, the side of the chamber is opened, and an exhaust sirocco fan 19 is attached to form an exhaust duct. The inside of the duct also serves as a piping duct for the water circulation hose 32. 4, the water circulation hose 32 inserted from the side of the chamber passes through the inside of the spiral hose support pipe 13 and is connected to the water circulation spiral hose 2.

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In the exhaust duct of this type, by attaching a insect repellent net 26 to the external exhaust port of the exhaust sirocco fan 19, an insect repellent device that captures flies, spiders, and the like that are sucked in from the intake port 21 at the top end of the exhaust duct 14. It will have both functions.

On the bottom plate of the breeding unit, a hot / cold water circulation control unit 28, a water storage tank 30, a cooling fan and thermoelectric element 33, and a dung soil collecting pot 25 are arranged.

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The water circulation hose 32 is connected to the water circulation spiral hose 2, and the terminal end of the spiral hose again passes through the inside of the exhaust duct 14, exits the side of the exhaust chamber 18, and is connected to the tip of the submersible pump 29 at the upper part of the reservoir tank 30.

A thermosensor 27 is attached to the submersible pump outlet, and the operation of the cooling fan and the thermoelectric element 33 is controlled so that the temperature of the water sent to the water circulation spiral hose 2 is kept constant, thereby heating or cooling the water in the reservoir tank.

The middle part of the breeding unit will be equipped with a dung collection function.
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The excrement receptacle 16 is fixed to the exhaust duct 14, a space of about 100 mm is provided on the upper part of the excrement receptacle 16, and the floor receiver 15 of the earthworm's living floor is attached to the exhaust duct 14, but horizontally with the exhaust duct 14 as an axis. By rotating and sliding, the excrement at the bottom of the earthworm's living floor is made movable so as to be scraped onto the excrement receiver 16.

The floor receiver 15 of the earthworm's living floor is made of stainless steel mesh, and a retractable handle 22 for manually rotating and sliding is attached to the side of the floor receiver. The storage handle 22 is a 12 mm iron bar, and the storage part of the iron bar is used with a stainless steel pipe welded to the back surface of the floor support and the iron bar inserted and removed.

The following explains the housing and housing units.

A back-up material 5 such as urethane foam is stuck and filled in the gap between the dung soil receiver 16 and the housing 9.

The water retaining sponge sheet 3 is attached to the contact surface between the outer periphery of the earthworm's living floor 35 and the housing 9, that is, the inner surface of the housing, thereby improving the moisture retention of the floor soil due to the water retention and water discharge action of the sponge. Can do. The thickness of the sponge sheet needs to be at least 10 mm or more in order to serve the purpose of filling the gap between the floor support of the earthworm floor and the housing.

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The outside air is introduced into the exhaust device from an outside air introduction duct 6 attached to the inside front of the housing. The duct sucks air from the space between the floor receiver 15 of the earthworm's living floor and the housing, and penetrates from the upper space of the excrement receiver 16 to the upper floor of the earthworm's living floor. Causes inflow of outside air.

The outside air introduction duct 6 is

By arranging 10 mm thicker than the thickness of the sponge sheet 3, it also serves as a stopper that prevents rotation of the earthworm's living floor itself when the floor receiver 15 of the earthworm's living floor is rotated horizontally to scrape the excrement. .

The earthworm's living floor 35 is placed on the floor support 4 of the earthworm's living floor, and after inserting the earthworm, the garbage 34 is thrown into the upper part of the earthworm's living floor. Under the garbage 34, the tunnel-shaped water circulation spiral hose 2 is attached in a circular donut shape with the exhaust duct 14 as the center.

The water circulation spiral hose 2 is fixed to a fixing ring 31 supported by the water circulation spiral hose support pipe 13.

The intake port at the upper end of the stainless steel structural column pipe 14 having an exhaust duct function is located above the garbage 34, so that when the garbage is thrown in, the dust does not fall into the duct when it is about 10 mm. A dust fall prevention umbrella 20 is attached with a gap.

A configuration example of the present invention will be described with reference to a block diagram 6.

In this embodiment, a sensor 39 is arranged to sense the water temperature contained in the water storage box 42, and the sensor 39 sends a signal to the thermostat electrical circuit 38.
In addition, a thermoelectric element 48 is connected to the water storage box 42 and the power supply 44 to heat and cool water. Water circulates in the water circulation spiral hose 41 from the water storage box 42 and returns to the water storage box 42. The temperature of the water is controlled by a signal generated by a thermostat electrical circuit 38 that activates a power supply operatively connected to the thermoelectric element 48. A heat sink 47 and a fan 46 are arranged adjacent to the thermoelectric element 48, and the fan is arranged to blow an air flow against the heat sink.

The water storage box 42 is provided with a submersible pump 40 inside the water storage box 42 in order to circulate water through the water circulation spiral hose 41.
A heat sink 47 is connected to the thermoelectric element 48, and an indicator 37 is connected to the thermostat electric circuit 38 and the power source 44. In accordance with the status of the indicator 37, the power supply 44 is adjusted in response to the water temperature information sensed by the sensor 39.

Also, a fan 46 is disposed adjacent to the heat sink 47 so as to be controlled by the thermostat electrical circuit 38 to blow an air flow onto the heat sink 47 to form a radiator.

The thermoelectric element 48 is formed of, for example, a transistor, and the water storage box 42 is formed of aluminum.

The cold / hot water feeding means constituting the breeding unit of the present invention is configured as described above, and by supplying electric power from the power supply 44 receiving information from the thermostat electric circuit 38 to the thermoelectric element 48 in different directions, the thermoelectric element 48 is heated or cooled. One side of the thermoelectric element 480 is connected to the water storage box 42.
The thermoelectric element 48 changes the temperature of the water flow in the water circulation spiral hose 41 via the water storage box 42. The other side of the thermoelectric element 48 is connected to the heat sink 47.
By introducing the air flow into the heat sink 47 by the fan 46, a heat dissipation function is provided. The fan 46 is operated by the power source 44.
The water circulation in the water circulation hose 41 is performed by the submersible pump 40 to obtain a water flow. The circulating water returns to the water storage box 42, and the sensor 39 measures the water temperature of the box. The sensor 39 controls the power supply 44, and the power supply 44 appropriately switches the fan 46 in accordance with the supplied information to turn on / off the electric power of the thermoelectric element 48.
The power supply 44 and the thermostat electrical circuit 38 send a conditioned signal to the indicator 37. Thus, the living floor of the earthworm is maintained at an ideal temperature by the thermoelectric function of the thermoelectric element 48.

In the water circulation spiral hose 41, a tunnel spiral hose is arranged in a circular donut shape, and the water circulation spiral hose 41 is formed using a member such as silicon or stainless steel.

On the other hand, for the electric shock insecticidal device 43 and the exhaust sirocco fan, there are times when it is not necessary depending on the season, and the device is turned on / off so that it can be used only when worms are observed depending on the breeding conditions of earthworms. It is assumed that it is used by manually switching with a switch in the switch box 36.

In the above configuration, in the state where the earthworm is bred, the lid 10 is opened and the garbage 34 is put into the interior, so that the garbage can be processed. Compared with the conventional earthworm breeding apparatus etc., the garbage disposal capacity is dramatically improved, and more sanitary garbage disposal becomes possible.

1 is a partially cut perspective view of a garbage disposal apparatus embodying the present invention. It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance of a garbage processing apparatus. It is a perspective view by the side of the inspection door which shows the structure of a breeding unit. It is a perspective view of the inspection door back side which shows the structure of a breeding unit. It is a partially cut perspective view of the garbage processing apparatus which shows an actual use example. It is a block diagram which shows the breeding unit and the whole structure.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electric shock insecticide 26 Prosthetic net 2 Water circulation spiral hose 27 Thermo sensor 3 Water retention sponge sheet 28 Hot / cold water circulation control unit 4 Floor holder of earthworm's living floor 29 Submersible pump 5 Backup material 30 Water storage tank 6 Outside air introduction duct 31 Fixed Ring 7 Fixed folding lid 32 Water circulation hose 8 Electric shock insecticide 33 Cooling fan and thermoelectric element 9 Housing 34 Garbage 10 Bounce-up folding lid 35 Earthworm's living floor 11 Wire mesh tensioning single door 36 Switch box 12 Wire mesh tensioning Door 37 Indicator 13 Water circulation spiral hose support pipe 38 Thermostat electric circuit 14 Stainless steel structural pillar pipe 39 Sensor 15 Earth floor floor receiver 40 Submersible pump 16 Dung soil receiver 41 Water circulation spiral hose 17 Bottom plate 42 Water storage box 18 Exhaust Chamber 43 insect electrocutor 19 exhaust sirocco fan 44 power supply 20 waste drop prevention bevel 45 exhaust sirocco fan 21 inlet 46 a fan 22 housed handlebar 47 heat sink 23 Dachshund cleaning port 48 socket 25 Dachshund collecting pot of the thermoelectric elements 24 PVC pipe

Claims (8)

Cylindrical can-type garbage disposal equipment that uses earthworm's ecology, including the reuse of waste drums. A garbage disposal apparatus that uses the ecology of earthworms having a structure in which an earthworm breeding unit and a cylindrical can that accommodates the unit are separable. A garbage disposal device that uses the earthworm's ecology equipped with a lightning insecticidal device to kill insects in the garbage disposal device so that the emerged adult worms do not escape to the outside when worms are generated. A garbage disposal device that uses the ecology of earthworms, which has an insect-repellent function that attaches a insect-repellent net to a ventilation fan on the earthworm's living floor and sucks and captures emerging flies and moths. A garbage disposal device that uses the earthworm's ecology to have a structure in which the floor receiver itself of the earthworm's living floor rotates horizontally to scrape and remove the earthen soil in order to scrape and collect the soil from the bottom of the earthworm's living floor. Garbage disposal equipment using earthworm's ecology with a structure that improves the moisture retention of earthworm's living floor by attaching a water-retaining sponge sheet to the outer periphery of the earthworm's living floor casing, . A garbage disposal device using earthworm's ecology that has a function of keeping the earth temperature constant by heat conduction by piping a hose or pipe through which water with a constant temperature circulates in the soil of the earthworm's living floor. The garbage processing apparatus using the ecology of earthworms having a structure in which the hose or pipe is spirally arranged in a tunnel shape according to claim 7.

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