KR100421187B1 - Food waste disposer and automatic disposing process - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is provided with an inlet for feeding food waste, a crushing unit for crushing the supplied food waste, and a drying unit for drying finely ground food waste, and a series of vortex tubes passing through water vapor generated in the drying unit. Is disposed and the cooling unit for liquefying high temperature water vapor on the outside of the vortex tube; An ozone generator on one side of the tube connected to the lower part of the cooling unit, a purifier that is connected to the lower part of the ozone generator to purify the remaining air including the odor discharged after passing through the cooling unit, and the condensed water purified by the purifier The present invention relates to a food waste automatic treatment method and apparatus, comprising a condensate discharge pipe for discharging water and a gas discharge pipe for discharging purified gas.

Description

Food waste disposer and automatic disposing process

The present invention relates to a method for automatically processing food waste and its device, which will be described in detail, which can be installed in a separate place under and outside the sink, and finely ground food waste in a pulverizing unit and then drying in a circular disk-shaped dryer. And cooling the water vapor containing odor generated during drying in a cooling unit to treat condensate and odor gas with a purifying device, thereby providing a method for automatically processing food waste to discharge purified condensate and odorless clean air. For the purpose of

Due to urbanization and industrialization, various pollution problems are becoming social issues, and the damage caused by environmental pollution is increasing day by day. The causes of such environmental pollution include various kinds of household waste and industrial waste.

On the other hand, food waste generated as a by-product from general households, food processing plants, for example, kimchi factories, and salty paper processing factories is thrown away along with other wastes, which causes quantitative expansion of the wastes, resulting in a large number of human resources for food waste disposal. And waste, and provide a habitat for pests such as flies and mosquitoes. Since the food waste contains a lot of moisture, if left unattended for a long time, odors are generated, and a large amount of pollutants in garbage collection sites It causes polluting the surrounding air, soil, and rivers and destroys the environment. The government has introduced a waste collection system to separate food waste from general waste. Therefore, at home or in a restaurant, food waste, which is accumulated every day or for a certain period of time, must be collected in a specific storage container for food waste disposal, and the collected food waste has to be taken out of the house on a specific date. .

Recently, methods for efficiently treating food waste have been studied at various angles. Fermentation or drying of food waste into fertilizers or composting is widely known.

For example, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 97-5083 discloses the addition of a particulate material prepared by sterilization, drying, and cold grinding in the process of sorting foreign substances from food waste as raw materials to general poultry feed. Method is described,

Publication No. 2002-0089289 discloses the reduction of salinity by a mechanical treatment device and method by adding, crushing, dehydrating, drying, discharging, and treating wastewater purification equipment without using microorganisms and moisture control agents. Food waste treatment apparatus and method are disclosed, and deodorization drying device of food waste is described in Korean Patent Publication No. 2002-0065162, and Publication No. 2002-0026143 discloses food waste. There is disclosed a food waste disposal apparatus installed in a sink in which a pulverization chamber and a drying chamber for dehydrating and drying the crushed food waste are arranged in a vertical row up and down, and the publication No. 2001-0088750 discloses separately in the lower and outside of the sink. Fully automated control of medium and small sized shredding part, dehydration part, fermentation and packing part for installation A food waste automatic treatment method and apparatus including a display and a control unit capable of supplying water and the crushing unit and a solenoid valve for automatically supplying water to a dewatering unit are described. The publication No. 2000-0063431 discloses a compressor and A food waste disposal apparatus of a sink composed of an opening and closing means through which compressed food waste is selectively passed is described. Publication No. 2002-0033935 discloses a pulverized and dehydrated product, dried by heat to reduce volume, and vacuums the interior. Home food waste dehydration drying device composed of a device to maintain the state is described,

Korean Utility Model Publication No. 96-28937 discloses water separation means for separating water by rotating food waste, extrusion means for compressing food waste and extruding it into filament, drying means for drying the food waste extruded into the filament; Cutting means for cutting the food waste of dried filament, food waste processing for producing a food waste packaging device for cutting the cut feed is disclosed,

Republic of Korea Utility Model Registration No. 20-0286130 is a food waste container attached to the inside of the sink, the odor removal and sterilization using ultraviolet and ozone,

Publication No. 20-0299595 describes a magnetic dewatering device attached to a bottom surface of a filter barrel, and a magnetic dehydration device of a sink provided with a magnetic holder on an upper surface of a pressing plate inserted into the filter barrel. No. 20-0192950 has a screw shaft which is pulverized and compressed by a driving means, a reservoir for storing water drained according to the operation of the screw, a plurality of parts such as a crushing dehydration chamber, a sink and a food container for a sink. The waste disposal apparatus is described, and the publication No. 20-0212194 describes a triple screw type food waste disposal apparatus dedicated to the sink, and the publication No. 20-02150055 is installed in the drain of the sink and is conical. The food waste processing apparatus which consists of the main body which has a drain and an outlet passage in the lower part of a castle, a grinding chamber, and a dehydration chamber is described, No. 20-0262383 describes a food waste transport and drying system, and No. 20-0290660 describes a food waste dehydration drying system. No. 20-0280518 Discloses a trash bin equipped with ultraviolet rays and ozone removal and sterilization function, and Publication No. 20-0280066 describes a food waste separation device for a sink.

Korean Patent Publication No. 96-14859 describes a method for use as livestock feed by pulverizing food into a processing chamber equipped with a microwave dielectric heating device, heating, drying and sterilizing using electromagnetic waves. Patent Publication No. 96-7871 discloses an apparatus for preparing feed using waste food by injecting food waste into a stirrer and blowing heated air to the outside of the stirrer while stirring.

The above technology requires enormous equipment, requires a lot of auxiliary equipment, and is not completely sterilized, so the processed materials easily decay and salts remain.

Korean Patent Registration Publication No. 10-0311657 discloses a storage unit for storing household waste, a waste conveying means installed in the storage unit and transferring the household waste accumulated in the storage unit to the outlet side of the storage unit, and communicating with the storage unit. A pulverization chamber 130 for receiving the household waste conveyed by the trash transportation means, pulverization means for pulverizing the household waste contained in the pulverization chamber 130, and receiving the household waste from the pulverization chamber Waste solidifying means for solidifying to a predetermined shape, a collecting unit 149 for collecting household waste of a predetermined shape solidified by the solidifying means, and connected to the waste solidifying means to suck and purify steam gas generated from the household waste. Household waste treatment device equipped with filtering means to discharge to the outside after Yes, but

Conventional techniques as described above, the steam gas flowing upward through the duct is condensed on the inner wall surface of the duct while naturally cooling during the flow, the vapor gas turned into a liquid flows downward along the duct, thereby causing the The efficiency decreases, and the vapor gas flowing into the filtering means through the duct contains moisture that has not condensed, which causes a problem in the performance of the filtering means. The steam generated during drying contains fine particle components, and these particles They have a problem that is not good for hygiene if they are discharged indoors of home or restaurant.

The present invention is the Korean Registered Utility Model Publication No. 20-0253243 and Registration No. 20-0282510, the name of the invention; Apparatus and the name of the invention Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-0031371; As an improvement in food waste treatment equipment,

After crushing the food waste to a fine size, drying and cooling the gas containing the odor generated during drying, purifying the cooled air to discharge the odor free and clean air, and the food waste is completely dried to fuel It is an object of the present invention to provide a food waste automatic treatment method and apparatus which can be used as a work, and occupy little space and have excellent workability.

1 is a detailed view of food waste automatic processing apparatus of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a side view of food waste automatic processing apparatus of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a detailed view of the injection portion of the present invention

4 is a detailed view of the grinding unit of the present invention

5 is a detailed view of the drying unit of the present invention.

6 is an exploded view of the drying unit of the present invention.

7 is a detailed view of the drying unit first housing of the present invention (A: front part, B: rear part).

8 is a detailed view of a drying unit second housing of the present invention (A: front part, B: rear part).

9 is a detailed view of the drying unit rotary plate of the present invention.

Figure 10 is a detailed internal view of the drying unit

11 is a detailed view of a heating plate of the present invention.

12 is a detailed view of the cooling unit and the purification device of the present invention.

<Description of Major Symbols Used in Drawings>

Inlet (1), transfer screw (2), grinding gear (3), grinding product transfer nozzle (4), drying unit (5), hood (6), steam suction fan (7), cooling unit (8), purification Device (9). Drying container 12, ozone generating device 13, cooling fan 14, vortex tube 15, vortex device 16, feeding device 20, feeding top plate 21, feeding middle plate 22, feeding Plate sealing 23, input lower plate 24, input device motor 25, input upper plate through hole (26-1), input middle plate through hole (26-2, 26-3), input lower plate through hole (26-4), Overload detection sensor 27, input motor shaft through hole 28, grinding unit 30, grinding unit cover 31, grinding unit through hole 32, the first purification tower 41, the second purification tower 42 , Third purification tower 43, ultraviolet lamp 44, guide plate 45, drive motor 50, reducer 51, first housing 200, inlet 201, housing interior 202, 302, housing Frame 203,303, Housing middle part 204,304, Rotating plate driving part 205,305, Air groove 206,207,306,307, Outlet 210,310, Fastening groove 220, 260, Heating plate 230, Heating plate cover 231, Hot wire interior Space portion 232, hot wire 233, power cord 234, heat blocking grooves (240, 340), fastening member 250, building removal pin 270, the second housing 300, outlet 301, rotating plate ( 400), inner plate gear part 401, rotating Plate sealing 402, the inner plate of the rotating plate 403, the internal plate of the rotating plate gear 404, the food receiving space 410, foreign matter removal pin 430, drive gear 500, rack gear 420, Intermediate gear 600, cover 700, gas outlet 701, condensate outlet 702, automatic control unit 703, temperature sensor (704, 705)

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is provided with an input unit to which food waste is supplied, a crushing unit for crushing the supplied food waste, and a drying unit for drying finely ground food waste, and water vapor generated in the drying unit. A series of vortex tubes are arranged to pass through, and a cooling unit configured to liquefy high temperature water vapor; An ozone generator at one side of the tube connected to the lower part of the cooling unit, a purifier connected to the lower part of the ozone generator, and purifying residual air including odor emitted by using a photocatalytic method after passing through the cooling unit; The present invention relates to a method for automatically treating food waste consisting of a condensate outlet for discharging purified condensate and a gas outlet for discharging purified gas.

The input part 20 for feeding the food waste of the present invention is coupled to a plurality of discs formed with two holes in the shape of a disc of the disc, and when the food waste is rotated through the feeding through hole 26, the chopsticks are inserted. When the heavy ribs are caught on the upper plate, the overload detection sensor of the input device motor 25 detects the overload, and the motor automatically reverses and rotates the rotation repeatedly several times to prevent the introduction of a substance that damages the device. It is to play a role.

The crushing unit 30 for crushing the food waste of the present invention is formed in a two-layer structure of the upper and lower, one transfer screw (2) is formed at the top to partially crush the food waste put into a pair of grinding gears ( 3), the pair of grinding gears (3) formed in the lower portion is crushed the food debris introduced from the top to a fine size and then transferred to the drying unit (5) connected to the side, driving the grinding unit (30) The drive motor 50, the reducer 51 connected to the drive motor 50, and the feed screw (2) and the grinding gear (3) are connected to the reducer 51, so that two motors are connected by one motor. It is a device that allows the device to be driven at the same time, and has a structure for finely crushing food waste to a particle size of about 0.3mm.

Drying unit 5 of the present invention is a disk shape, consisting of two housings (200, 300), the heating plate 230 is attached to the outer both sides of the housing and heated, finely crushed sludge shape introduced inside Rotating plate 400 for continuously drying the food waste in a predetermined shape is built, it can be seen that the two housings (200, 300) are formed with a plurality of outlets (210,310) at regular intervals to discharge water vapor.

Sludge-shaped food wastes conveyed to the rotating plate 400 by the heating plate 230 formed on both outer sides are dried, and the dried food wastes are collected in the lower collection box 12,

The first housing 200 and the second housing 300 of the drying unit 5 of the present invention is fixed,

On one side of the housing inner portion 202 of the first housing 200 is formed with a ball-pin-shaped drying removal pin 270 is formed on the bottom to make the dry fall well after the end of the drying,

The first housing 200 and the second housing 300 of the drying unit 5 to facilitate the transfer of the crushed food waste by minimizing the pressure of the steam from the drying unit 5 to the grinding unit 30. On the outer lower side of the heat shield grooves 240 and 340 were installed to block air cooling and heat conduction.

Rotation of the rotating plate 400 is a drive gear 500 formed in the center portion of the first housing 200 and the second housing 300, and a plurality of intermediate gears 600 coupled to the drive gear 500. And rotated by the rack gear 420 meshed with the intermediate gear 600 and the rack gear is configured to be formed on the inner diameter surface of the rotating plate 400,

The foreign material removal pins 430 were installed at appropriate intervals on the inner side and the outer side of the rotating plate 400 so that the foreign matters of the fine size discharged together with the water vapor are not attached to the air grooves 206, 207, 306, 307 of the housing inner 202, 302.

The drive gear 500 is coupled to the rotating shaft formed on the screw 2 to be interlocked with the screw 2, the intermediate gear 600 is formed on the drive gear 500 and the rotating plate 400 Inserted between the rack gear 420 and inserted into the center of the housing 202,302 and the rotating plate 400 of the first housing 200 and the second housing 300, connected to the feed screw (2) shaft Three intermediate gears 600 meshed to the outside of the driving gear 500 are rotated by the rotation of the drive gears, and rack gears formed inside the rotating plate 400 meshed with the outside of the three intermediate gears 600. 420 is rotated, the rotating plate 400 is rotated at a predetermined position and designed to rotate the rotating plate 400 is designed to drive the crushing unit 30 and the drying unit 5 by one drive motor It became.

Drying unit (5) is a device for heating the temperature of the drying unit in the heating plate 230 to about 150 ℃ to dry immediately in 5 seconds to 10 seconds and discharged. Automatically operated by the movable temperature sensor 704, the temperature sensor at the top of the drying unit 5 is conducted to the bottom of the drying unit in the state that there is no food dregs transported from the crushing unit after the operation is finished The operation is automatically stopped by the set temperature of 705.

Cooling unit 8 of the present invention is an air-cooled method using an air cooling fan, the gas containing water vapor by the steam suction fan 7 installed on one side of the pipe connected to the hood 6 surrounding the drying unit 5 The outside of the vortex tube (15) having the vortex device (16) in which the vortex device (16) is formed to form a vortex, and the tube is cooled by the operation of the cooling fan (14) to liquefy some of the gas flowing into the tube. Is to be transferred to the purifier 40.

The purifier 9 of the present invention adopts a method of purifying by using a deodorant such as ozone, photocatalyst, activated carbon, and zeolite, and is composed of three purifying towers 41, 42, and 43. The inside of the tower is filled with activated carbon and deodorant, and the liquid discharge pipe at the bottom of the purification tower is connected to the condensate outlet 702, respectively, and the connection pipe at the inlet of the purification device 9 has ozone generated from the ozone generator 13 The third purification tower 43, which is configured to flow into the purification device 9 together with the water vapor and the malodorous gas introduced into the purification device 9, and has a guide plate 45 and an ultraviolet lamp 44 installed therein, Inside the third purification tower is coated with a fine TiO₂ powder, it was designed to finally purify the gas.

The fastening member 250 of the present invention represents a conventional bolt and nut, and has not been described in the present invention.

Food waste treatment apparatus of the present invention can be installed in the lower portion of the sink, such as homes or restaurants, so that the user is separated into water and food waste without installing a separate device after washing dishes, etc. automatically crush food waste And completely dry and discharge steam and malodorous gas, and water may be discharged through a sewage pipe.

Hereinafter, the operating state of the present invention will be described in detail by examples.

Example

1st process (input process)

After automatically setting or pressing the operation start button at the beginning, when the food waste is introduced into the input unit 20 through the inlet 1 of the upper center connected to the sink of the sink, the input device motor 25 is rotated. The input medium plate 22 installed inside the input unit 20 is rotated, and the food waste is injected into the input plate 22 of the input plate 22 rotated through the input hole 26-1 of the input top plate 21. 2, 26-3) and the lower portion of the lower plate 24 through the input hole 26-4 is lowered to the crushing unit 30 (at this time, when the chopsticks, thick ribs, etc. caught on the upper plate, the overload detection sensor ( 27) detects the overload of the input device motor 25, the motor automatically prevents the input of a material damaging the device by repeating the reverse rotation, forward rotation several times automatically.)

2nd process (grinding process)

When the food waste is put into the crushing unit 30, the driving motor 50 is operated and the reduction gear 51 connected to the driving motor 50 is driven together to transfer the screw 2 connected to the reduction gear 51 and the feeding screw. A pair of grinding gears (3) located at the bottom of the (2) is operated to be crushed to a particle size of about 0.3mm and then transferred to the drying unit (5) through the crushed material transfer nozzle (4),

3rd process (drying process)

At the same time as the start of the first process, the transfer screw 2 is driven by the operation of the drive motor 50, and the drive gear 500 connected to the feed screw 2 axis is operated, and engaged with the drive gear 500. Two intermediate gears 600 are operated, and the rack gear 420 of the inner plate gear 401 of the rotating plate attached to the inner edge of the rotating plate 400 engaged with the other side of the intermediate gear 600 is driven to form a disk. By being coupled to two fixed first and second housings 200 and 300, the rotating plate 400 of the drying unit 5 inserted in the space portion is rotated,

When food waste is transported from the crushing unit 30, the heating plate 230 formed on the outside of the two housings 200 and 300 of the drying unit 5 is operated to heat the two housings 200 and 300 to 150 ° C. When the food waste is introduced through the 201, the food waste is introduced into the plurality of crushed food accommodation spaces 410 formed in the rotating plate 400 while rotating inside the heated two housings 200 and 300 at a temperature of about 150 ° C. Instantaneous drying within 5 to 10 seconds, the steam and malodorous gas generated during drying is the air groove (206, 306) formed in the boundary between the housing inner middle portion (204, 304) and the housing border (203,303), and the housing inner middle portion ( 204, 304 is discharged through the outlets 210, 310 formed in the other air grooves (207, 307) formed on the boundary line between the rotary plate driving unit (205, 305), and the dried food waste is collected in the lower portion by the drying removal pin (270) (12) To be And,

4th process (cooling process)

Water vapor discharged to the outside of the drying unit (5) is discharged to the hood (6) formed on the outside of the drying unit (5), is formed on the upper portion of the hood (6), water vapor suction is installed on one side of the tube The fan 7 is transferred to the vortex tube 15 of the cooling unit 8, and the cooling unit 8 drives the cooling fan 14 to the outside to cool the vortex tube 15 to condense part of the liquid. The water vapor and the malodorous gas are transferred to the purification device 9 together with the ozone generated from the ozone generator 13 connected to one side of the tube.

5th process (purification process)

The purification device 9 is installed as three purification towers filled with deodorant such as ozone, photocatalyst, activated carbon and zeolite, and the condensed water outlet installed at the lower portion by passing the transferred water vapor and malodorous gas through the first purification tower 41. The condensed water purified through 702 is discharged, and the malodorous gas is transferred to the second purification tower 42 through a pipe formed at an upper portion, and some condensate generated in the second purification tower 42 is installed at a lower portion thereof. To be discharged through the condensate discharge port 702, and the malodorous gas is transferred to the third purification tower 43 formed at the side of the second purification tower 42 through the upper portion, and the transferred malodorous gas is TiO₂. The fine powder is guided by the guide plate 45 formed inside the third purification tower 43 and is purified by the ultraviolet lamp 44 formed in the center of the inner side of the guide plate 45 and discharged through the gas outlet 701. And the operation of the devices cover 700 Using an automatic control panel 703 was installed automatically process the food particles by.

Experimental Example

The present invention is attached directly to the bottom of the sink to treat water and food at the same time, the treatment capacity is small 650 g / hour, power cost 7,000 yuan / month (operation for 1 hour a day), and large is processed according to food waste emissions The capacity can be adjusted, and the processing capacity is about 3 Kg / hour ~ 10 Kg / hour, power cost about 9,000 won / month (overnight electricity use, 7 hours a day). The results of the experiment compared with other companies' products are as follows.

Table 1 Performance of the present invention (Comparison with other company's products)

division Invention Other company's product (domestic) Other company's product (foreign) Treatment method Heating-drying Microorganisms-extinction Hot air-Dry Processing capacity 650 g / hour 40 g / hour 400 g / hour Power cost 7,000 won / month 20,000 won / month 8,750 won / month retail price - 1 million won 87 million won Remarks Continuous Non-continuous Bio-Chip exchange every 6 months Discontinuous

Table 2 Processing Speed of the Invention and Comparison with Other Company's Products (Small Size)

Food type Invention Domestic Third Party Products -Rice, noodles-Various fish-Oranges, apples, melons, etc.-Carrots, cucumbers, onions, potatoes, pumpkins, etc.-Various meats, pigs, chickens, beef, etc.-Egg shells, etc. Immediately Immediately Immediately Immediately Immediately Immediately Immediately Immediately Immediately Immediately 3 hours 3 to 12 hours 3 to 15 hours 3 to 15 hours 3 to 15 hours 3 to 24 hours -Antibiotics,-substances containing large amounts of salt Processable Not treatable

Table 3 Comparison with other companies' products of this invention (large)

division Invention Other company's product (domestic) Other company's product (foreign) Treatment method Heating-drying Dry-crushing Warm-dry Processing capacity 6 kg / hour 6 kg / hour 5 kg / hour Emission moisture content 4% 10% 10% Processing temperature 180 ℃ 140 ℃ 130 ℃ Power cost 94,000 won / month 135,000 won / month KRW 286,000 / month retail price - 16.5 million won $ 27 million Remarks Continuous Discontinuous Discontinuous

In the apparatus of the present invention, the injected food is finely crushed and dried, so that it is completely dried regardless of the type of food, while the conventional third-party products take a long time to dry because the crushed food is dried and then crushed. For rice cakes, fruits and fish with a lot of oil, processing was difficult.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a detailed view of the automatic food waste treatment apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a detailed side view of the automatic food waste treatment apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a detailed view of the inlet of the present invention, FIG. Fig. 6 is a detailed view of the drying unit of the invention, Fig. 6 is an exploded view of the drying unit of the invention, Fig. 7 is a detailed view of the drying unit first housing of the present invention, Fig. 8 is a detailed view of the drying unit second housing of the present invention, FIG. 10 is a detailed view of the sub-rotation plate, FIG. 10 is a detailed view of the inside of the drying unit of the present invention, FIG. 11 is a detailed view of the heating plate of the present invention, and FIG. 12 is a detailed view of the cooling unit and the purification device of the present invention. (2), grinding gear (3), grinding conveyance nozzle (4), drying part (5), hood (6), steam suction fan (7), cooling part (8), purifier (9). Collection box (12), ozone generator (13), cooling fan (14), vortex tube (15), vortex device (16), feeding device (20), feeding top plate (21), feeding middle plate (22), feeding plate Sealing 23, input lower plate 24, input device motor 25, input upper plate through hole 26-1, input middle plate through hole 26-2, 26-3, input lower plate through hole 26-4, overload Detection sensor 27, input motor shaft through hole 28, crushing unit 30, crushing unit cover 31, crushing unit through hole 32, the first purification tower 41, the second purification tower 42, Third purification tower 43, UV lamp 44, guide plate 45, drive motor 50, reducer 51, the first housing 200, inlet 201, housing interior (202, 302), housing border (203,303), housing middle part (204,304), rotating plate driving part (205,305), air groove (206,207,306,307), outlet (210,310), fastening groove (220, 260), heating plate (230), heating plate cover (231), hot wire interior space Part 232, hot wire 233, power cord 234, heat insulating grooves (240, 340), fastening member 250, building removal pin 270, the second housing 300, outlet 301, rotating plate 400 ), Inner plate gear part 401, rotating plate chamber Ring 402, inner plate binding portion 403, inner plate gear binding portion 404, crushed food receiving space 410, foreign matter removal pin 430, drive gear 500, rack gear 420, intermediate It can be seen that the gear 600, the cover 700, the gas outlet 701, the condensate outlet 702, the automatic control unit 703, and the temperature sensors 704 and 705 are shown.

Looking at the structure, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, the cover 700 surrounding the outside of the device, and formed on one side of the central upper portion of the cover 700, and the button for automatically or manually operating the device and An automatic control unit 703 equipped with an alarm device, an inlet port 1 formed in the upper portion of the central part of the cover 700, an inlet unit 20 formed in the lower part of the inlet port 1, and for inputting food waste; It is formed in the lower portion of the input device 20 and the crushing unit 30 for crushing the input food waste, and formed on one side of the crushing unit 30, the pulverized material conveying nozzle ( 4) a drying part 5 which is a disc shape of a disc for drying the ground food dregs conveyed through 4) and a lower part of the drying part 5 and collecting food dregs dried in the drying part 5. The collection box 12 and the outside of the drying unit 5 are wound In addition, a pipe 6 on which the vapor phase gas discharged during drying in the drying unit 5 is collected, and a pipe on the opposite side of the crushing unit 30 formed in the central part connected to the upper part of the hood 6 by a pipe It is connected to the provided with, the cooling unit (8) for cooling the steam sucked in the hood (6) by the water vapor suction fan (7) formed on one side of the tube and connected to the lower portion of the cooling unit (8) And a condensate generated from the cooling unit 8, a purifier 9 for purifying malodorous gas and connected to the ozone generator 13, and a third purifier finally purified by the purifier 9; It is a food waste automatic processing device composed of a purification tower 43, a condensed water outlet 702 and a gas outlet 701 for discharging the purified liquid and gas.

As shown in FIG. 3, the feeding device 20 has a disk shape in which three disk-shaped input plates and one sealing are combined, and the input upper plate 21 formed at the top is a circular disk and an input formed at an inner center thereof. It consists of an input motor shaft through hole 28 into which the motor shaft is inserted, and an input upper plate through hole 26-1 formed on one side of the input motor shaft through hole 28.

The input middle plate 22 is installed in the lower portion of the input upper plate 21 and slightly smaller than the diameter of the input upper plate 21, the input motor shaft through hole 28 is fixed to the shaft of the input device motor 25, It is provided with two input plate through holes (26-2, 26-3) formed on both sides of the input motor shaft through hole 28 and rotated together by the rotation of the input device motor 25,

The input sealing 23 is formed at the lower portion of the input top plate 21, and is placed on the edge of the input middle plate 22,

The input lower plate 24 is formed under the input middle plate 22 and the input seal 23, and is a symmetrical shape with the input upper plate 21, and an input motor into which an input motor shaft formed at an inner center is inserted into a circular disc. The shaft through-hole 28 and the input motor shaft through hole 28 is one side, and the input lower plate through hole (26-4) formed on the opposite side of the input top plate through hole (26-1) of the input top plate (21) It is composed of an overload detection sensor 27 installed on one side of the device.

The grinding unit 30 is formed in the lower portion of the input device 20 in Figure 4,

The upper part is open and connected to the pulverization conveying nozzle 4 on one side of the lower side, and a crush part cover 31 having a two-layer structure provided with pulverization part holes 32 formed in the middle partition in the middle part, and A transfer screw 2 formed on the upper part of the grinding part cover 31, that is, two layers, and a pair of grinding gears 3 formed on the lower part of the lower part, that is, one layer, and having a smaller diameter toward the end; A drive motor attached to one side of the transfer screw 2 and the grinding gear 3 to transfer power, and connected to the reduction gear 51, and a driving motor formed under the grinding part cover 31; It consists of 50.

As shown in FIGS. 5, 6 and 10, the drying unit 5 of the present invention includes two fixed first and second housings 200 and 300 in a disk shape, and the first housing 200 and the first housing. The two housings 300 have the same outer diameter and inner diameter and are coupled to each other to form an empty space therein, the rotating plate 400 being inserted into and rotated in the space where the two housings 200 and 300 are coupled, and the rotating plate. It is a disk shape coupled to the rotary plate sealing 402 is fixed to the outside of the rotating plate 400, the built-in 400 in the inner space, formed of a heating plate 230 for heating formed on the outside of the two housings (200, 300) It is.

As shown in FIG. 7, the first housing 200 is provided with a housing inner portion 202 having a planar surface on an inner side thereof, and an outer side forming the outer side surface of the housing. The outside is penetrated by the inlet 201 and the outlet 210, the one side of the housing inner portion 202 in the form of a ball pin in the bottom of the drying material removal pin 270 and the housing inner portion 202 Is formed on one side of the inlet 201 and the sludge-shaped food waste is crushed in the crushing unit 30,

The housing inner part 202 is divided into three parts, and the outer edge of the housing inner part 202, that is, the edge part is formed to protrude, and the housing border 203 having the temperature sensors 704 and 705 symmetrically formed on one side of the upper and lower parts. ), The middle portion of the housing inner portion 202 is a flat housing middle portion 204 in which the rotating plate 400 is placed, and the central portion of the housing inner portion 202 drives the rotating plate driving portion 205 for driving the rotating plate 400. And an air groove 206 formed at the boundary between the housing inner middle part 204 and the housing border 203 and another boundary formed at the boundary between the housing inner middle part 204 and the rotating plate driving part 205. An air groove 207 and a plurality of outlets 210 formed in the two air grooves 206 and 207 and penetrating from the inner side to the outer side;

The outer side of the first housing 200 is provided with a heating plate 230 formed on one side, the inlet 201 outside the first housing 200 and a little groove inward, and the heating plate 230 Consists of a heat shield groove 240 formed in the lower,

As illustrated in FIG. 8, the second housing 300 has a symmetrical shape with the first housing 200, and includes a housing inside 302 having a flat inner surface, and an outer surface of the housing. It is provided, the housing inner 302 and the outside is penetrated by the outlet 301, the outlet 310, is formed on one side of the housing inner 302 is formed to be inclined to discharge the dried food waste The outlet 301 and the housing inner part 302 are divided into three parts, and the outer edge of the housing inner part 302, that is, the edge of the housing 303 protruding from the housing part 302, and the middle of the housing inner part 302. The housing is provided with a flat housing middle portion 304 is placed on the rotating plate 400, the central portion of the housing inner portion 302 is a rotating plate driving portion 305 for driving the rotating plate 400, the housing inner middle portion ( 304 boundary between the housing rim 303 Formed in the air groove 306, another air groove 307 formed at the boundary between the housing inner middle portion 304 and the rotating plate driving portion 305, and formed in the two air grooves (306, 307) Outlet 310 penetrated to the side, the heating plate 230 is formed on the outer side of the second housing 300, and the outer side of the second housing 300 is provided with a groove inwardly slightly, Consists of a heat blocking groove 340 formed in the lower portion of the heating plate 230,

The rotating plate driving unit 205 is inserted into the center of the rotating plate 400 of the housing inner portion (202,302) as shown in Figures 7 and 8 to drive the rotating plate 400,

It is formed in the center, one side is formed to drive the drive gear 500 is connected to the screw (2) shaft, the drive gear 500 as a center, one side is engaged with the drive gear 500 and another One side has three intermediate gears 600 connected to the rack gear 420 of the rotary plate inner gear part 401 attached to the inner side of the rotating plate 400, and the driving gear 500 and three intermediate gears 600 are connected to each other. It is composed of a through-hole inserted, foreign matters installed at appropriate intervals on the inner and outer surfaces of the rotating plate 400 so that the foreign matters of the fine size discharged together with the water vapor is not attached to the air grooves (206, 207, 306, 307) formed in the housing (202, 302) The removal pin 430 is configured,

As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the rotating plate 400 is placed inside the first housing 200 and the second housing 300, and has a donut shape having the same shape as that of the inside of the housing 302. And the crushed food waste space 410 accommodated and accommodated in the crushed food waste space, the inner edge of the rotating plate 400, the rotating plate inner gear portion 401 and the rotating plate is bound to the rotating plate inner gear portion 401 It is composed of the inner binding portion 403,

The rotating plate inner gear part 401 is attached to the inner edge of the rotating plate 403 of the rotating plate 400, the rack gear 420 formed on the entire inner border and the outside of the rack gear 420 Is formed in the rotary plate inner gear binding portion 404 is fastened to the inner plate fastening portion 403 of the rotating plate 400,

The rotating plate sealing 402 is a donut structure having the same shape as the housing borders 203 and 303 protruding from the inner side of the housing inner parts 202 and 302 and protruding from the rotating plate 400.

As shown in FIG. 12, the cooling unit 8 is formed as a tube on the upper side of the hood 6, and is formed on one side of the tube to suck gas containing water vapor. And a vortex tube (15) having a vortex device (16) for moving the flow inside the tube to the vortex, and a cooling fan (14) formed on one side of the vortex tube (15) to supply air. .

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 12, the purification device 9 is connected to the cooling unit 8 by a pipe and consists of three purification towers, and ozone for injecting ozone into the device by a pipe connected to the inlet. A first purification tower 41 connected to the generator 13 and a pipe by the ozone generator 13 to purify condensed water and odorous gas and filled with activated carbon therein, and the first purification tower ( It is connected to the condensate discharge port 702 formed in the lower part of 9) to discharge the liquefied liquid and the side of the first purification tower 41, the first purified gas in the first purification tower 41 is the upper pipe And a second purification tower 42 filled with a deodorant therein, and connected to the condensate outlet 702 so as to discharge downward when excess water vapor is condensed in the lower portion of the second purification tower 42. ,

It is installed on the side of the second purification tower 42, the guide plate 45 for guiding the secondary filtered gas from the second purification tower 42 is introduced into the inner side by the upper pipe is formed, the guide plate A third purification tower 43 having a TiO₂ fine powder coated therein, having an ultraviolet lamp 44 for purifying gas moved through the guide plate 45 in the center of the inner side of the 45, and the third purification. It is formed in the lower portion of the tower 43 and is connected to the gas outlet 701 for discharging the third purified gas through the third purification tower 43,

The condensate outlet 702 is a structure for discharging to the sewage pipe connected to the lower portion of the normal sink.

As described above, the present invention can be installed in a small space under the sink, and has a built-in pulverization unit, a drying unit, a cooling unit and a purifying device, and a driving motor for driving the devices to be densely packed inside the cover having a small size. In addition to the automatic control device for automatic or manual adjustment, housewives can easily operate the product, and can process a large amount of food waste in a short time and continuously. This eliminates the problem of environmental pollution caused by the generation of food waste, and extends the life of the machine by preventing deformation easily caused by temperature and pressure generated in the rotating plate even when the processing capacity is increased. Compared to the energy-saving type, which requires less operating cost (power consumption), the economic effect is very high. It can be said to be large.

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delete An input unit 20 for feeding food waste, a crushing unit 30 for crushing food waste, a disk-shaped drying unit 5 for drying the crushed food waste, and collecting dried food waste A collection box 12, a hood 6 through which vaporous gas discharged during drying is collected, a cooling unit 8 for cooling steam sucked from the hood 6 by a steam suction fan 7, and the cooling Food waste automatic processing system comprising a part of the condensate generated in the section 8, a purifier 9 for purifying malodorous gas, a condensate outlet 702 and a gas outlet 701 for discharging the purified liquid and gas To The input part 20 is a disk shape combined with three disk-shaped input plate and one sealing, the input upper plate 21 formed on the top is a circular disk and the input motor shaft is inserted into the input motor shaft formed in the center Consists of a through hole 28 and an input top plate through hole 26-1 formed on one side of the input motor shaft through hole 28, The input middle plate 22 is installed in the lower portion of the input upper plate 21 and slightly smaller than the diameter of the input upper plate 21, the input motor shaft through hole 28 is fixed to the shaft of the input device motor 25, It is provided with two input medium through holes (26-2, 26-3) formed on both sides of the input motor shaft through hole 28 and rotated together by the rotation of the input device motor 25, the thickness of the input medium plate Since it is about 5 ㎜, foreign substances larger than this cannot pass through the input part, so most foreign substances can be separated during food waste disposal, so it is composed of a device having an important function to prevent the operation of the grinding gear due to the passage of foreign substances. , The input sealing 23 is formed at the lower portion of the input top plate 21, and is placed on the edge of the input middle plate 22, The input lower plate 24 is formed under the input middle plate 22 and the input seal 23, and is a symmetrical shape with the input upper plate 21, and an input motor into which an input motor shaft formed at an inner center is inserted into a circular disc. Shaft through hole 28 and the input motor shaft through hole 28 is formed on one side, the input lower plate through hole (26-4) formed on the opposite side of the input upper plate through hole (26-1) of the input upper plate (21) It is Food waste automatic processing device, characterized in that consisting of the overload detection sensor 27 installed on one side of the input unit (20). delete The water vapor suction fan (7) of claim 2, wherein the cooling unit (8) is formed in a tube on the upper side of the hood (6), and is formed on one side of the tube to suck gas containing steam. A vortex tube (15) having a built-in vortex device (16) for moving a negative flow to the vortex, and a cooling fan (14) formed on one side of the vortex tube (15) to supply air Food waste automatic processing device. The method according to claim 2, wherein the purification device (9) is connected to the cooling section 8 by a pipe and consists of three purification towers, An ozone generator (13) for injecting ozone into the apparatus by means of a tube connected to the inlet; and a first connected to the ozone generator (13) by the pipe, purifying condensed water and odorous gas, and filled with activated carbon therein. The purification tower 41, the condensate discharge port 702 formed in the lower portion of the first purification tower 41 to discharge the liquefied liquid, and is connected to the side of the first purification tower 41, the first purification The first purified gas in the tower 41 is introduced by the upper tube, and the second purification tower 42 filled with the deodorant therein and excess water vapor are condensed in the lower portion of the second purification tower 42. If connected to the condensate outlet 702 to discharge to the bottom, It is installed on the side of the second purification tower 42, the guide plate 45 for guiding the secondary filtered gas from the second purification tower 42 is introduced into the inner side by the upper pipe is formed, the guide plate A third purification tower 43 for purifying gas moved through the guide plate 45 and a third purification tower 43 formed at a lower portion of the third purification tower 43 are formed at the center of the inner side of the 45. Is connected to the gas outlet 701 to discharge the third purified gas through The condensate outlet 702 is a food waste automatic processing device, characterized in that for discharging to the sewage pipe connected to the lower side of the normal sink. delete delete delete In the food waste automatic processing method, 1st process (input process) When food waste is introduced into the input unit 20 through the input port 1 of the central upper part connected to the sewer of the sink, the input motor 25 rotates, and the input middle plate 22 installed in the input unit 20 is rotated. ) Is rotated and the food waste is injected through the input holes 26-2, 26-3 of the input medium plate 22 rotated through the input hole 26-1 of the input upper plate 21, the input of the lower plate 24 It is lowered to the crushing unit 30 through the through hole 26-4, 2nd process (grinding process) When the food waste falls to the crushing unit 30, the driving motor 50 is operated and the reduction gear 51 connected to the driving motor 50 is driven together to transfer the screw 2 connected to the reduction gear 51, and the feeding screw. A pair of grinding gears (3) located in the lower part of the operation (2) is operated by the food screw is primarily crushed by the transfer screw (2) formed in the upper layer through the grinding hole (32) of the lower grinding gear (3) It is lowered to the place where it is crushed into a fine particle size of about 0.3 mm and then transferred to the drying unit 5 through the crushed material transfer nozzle (4), 3rd process (drying process) In the second process, the driving screw 2 is driven by the operation of the driving motor 50, and at the same time, the driving gear 500 connected to the shaft of the feeding screw 2 is operated at one end thereof, and is engaged with the driving gear 500. Three intermediate gears 600 are operated, and the rack gear 420 of the rotating plate inner gear part 401 attached to the inner edge of the rotating plate 400 engaged with the other side of the intermediate gear 600 is driven to form a disk. Rotating plate 400 of the drying unit 5 is inserted into the space is formed by being coupled to the two fixed first and second housings (200,300) of, When the food waste is transferred from the crushing unit 30, the heater 230 formed on the outside of the two housings 200 and 300 of the drying unit 5 is operated to heat the inside of the two housings 200 and 300 to about 150 inlet. When food waste is introduced through 201, food waste is introduced into the plurality of crushed food accommodation spaces 410 formed in the rotating plate 400 and rotated inside the two heated housings 200 and 300 at a temperature of about 150 at 5 degrees. Instantaneous drying in seconds to 10 seconds, the water vapor and gas generated during drying is the air grooves (206, 306) formed in the boundary between the housing inner middle portion (204, 304) and the housing border (203,303), and the housing inner middle portion (204, 304) It is discharged through the outlets 210 and 310 formed in the other air grooves 207 and 307 formed at the boundary of the rotary plate driving unit 205 and 305, and the dried food dregs are collected in the collection box 12 installed at the lower portion through the dry removal pin 270. , 4th process (cooling process) Water vapor discharged to the outside of the drying unit (5) is discharged to the hood (6) formed on the outside of the drying unit (5), is formed on the upper portion of the hood (6), water vapor suction is installed on one side of the tube The fan 7 is transferred to the vortex tube 15 of the cooling unit 8, and the cooling unit 8 drives the cooling fan 14 to the outside to cool the vortex tube 15 to condense part of the liquid. The water vapor and the malodorous gas are transferred to the purification device 9 together with the ozone generated from the ozone generator 13 connected to one side of the tube. 5th process (purification process) The purifier 9 is composed of three purifying towers filled with deodorant such as ozone, photocatalyst, activated carbon and zeolite, and the water vapor and malodorous gas transferred through the first purification tower 41 to be installed at the lower portion of the condensate outlet. The condensed water purified through 702 is discharged, and the malodorous gas is transferred to the second purification tower 42 through a pipe formed at an upper portion, and some condensate generated in the second purification tower 42 is installed at a lower portion thereof. To be discharged through the condensate discharge port 702, and the malodorous gas is transferred to the third purification tower 43 formed at the side of the second purification tower 42 through the upper portion, and the transferred malodorous gas is TiO₂. The fine powder is guided by the guide plate 45 formed inside the third purification tower 43 and is purified by the ultraviolet lamp 44 formed in the center of the inner side of the guide plate 45 and discharged through the gas outlet 701. Food bobber characterized by processing Based method for automatically processing. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the first process (injection process) when the food waste is introduced into the input unit 20 through the inlet 1 of the central upper portion connected to the sink of the sink, the input device motor 25 is rotated Start, the input medium plate 22 installed inside the input unit 20 is rotated and the food residue is the input hole (26) of the input medium plate 22 is rotated through the input hole 26-1 of the input top plate 21 -2,26-3) and the food waste automatic processing method characterized in that descending to the crushing unit 30 through the input hole (26-4) of the input lower plate (24). 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the second step (grinding process) when the food residue is lowered in the crushing unit 30, the drive motor 50 is operated and the reducer 51 connected to the drive motor 50 is driven together to reduce the speed reducer ( The feed screw 2 connected to 51 and a pair of pulverizing gears 3 positioned under the transfer screw 2 are operated, and the food residues pulverized primarily by the transfer screw 2 formed on the upper layer are ground. It is lowered to the place where the lower grinding gear 3 is located through the through hole 32 and is pulverized into a fine particle size of about 0.3 mm and then transferred to the drying unit 5 through the pulverized conveying pipe 4. Automatic food waste processing method. The method of claim 9, wherein the third step (drying process) is driven by the operation of the drive motor 50, the transfer screw 2 is driven and at the same time one end of the drive gear 500 connected to the feed screw (2) shaft is operated Three intermediate gears 600 engaged with the driving gear 500 are operated, and a rack of the rotary plate inner gear part 401 attached to the inner edge of the rotating plate 400 engaged with the other side of the intermediate gear 600. As the gear 420 is driven and coupled to the two fixed first and second housings 200 and 300 in a disk shape, the rotary plate 400 of the drying unit 5 inserted into the space part is rotated, When the food waste is transferred from the crushing unit 30, the heater 230 formed on the outside of the two housings 200 and 300 of the drying unit 5 is operated to heat the inside of the two housings 200 and 300 to about 150 inlet. When food waste is introduced through 201, food waste is introduced into the plurality of crushed food accommodation spaces 410 formed in the rotating plate 400 and rotated inside the two heated housings 200 and 300 at a temperature of about 150 at 5 degrees. Instantly dried within 10 seconds to 10 seconds, foreign matter removal pins are formed on the inner and outer surfaces of the rotating plate to form air grooves (206, 306) formed in the boundary between the housing inner middle portion (204, 304) and the housing border (203,303), and the inside of the housing Water vapor is smoothly discharged through the outlets 210 and 310 formed in the air grooves by removing the fine food drier dry matter attached to the other air grooves 207 and 307 formed at the boundary between the middle part 204 and 304 and the rotating plate driving parts 205 and 305. To be discharged, the dried food waste is collected automatically in the collection box (12) installed on the bottom through the drying removal pin 270, characterized in that the automatic food waste treatment method. The water vapor discharged to the outside of the drying unit 5 is discharged to the hood 6 formed on the outside of the drying unit 5, and the upper part of the hood 6 is disposed in the fourth step (cooling process). It is formed, and is transferred to the vortex tube 15 of the cooling unit 8 by the steam suction fan 7 installed on one side of the tube, the cooling unit 8 is driven by the cooling fan 14 to the outside vortex Food 15, characterized in that the tube 15 is cooled to condense a part of the liquid, and water vapor and malodorous gas are transferred to the purifier 9 together with ozone generated from the ozone generator 13 connected to one side of the tube. Automatic waste disposal method. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the fifth step (purification step) consists of three purification towers filled with deodorant such as ozone, photocatalyst, activated carbon and zeolite to transfer the water vapor and malodorous gas to the first purification tower 41. Passed through to discharge the purified condensed water through the condensate outlet 702 installed in the lower, the malodorous gas is transferred to the second purification tower 42 through the pipe formed in the upper, generated in the second purification tower 42 Some condensate is installed in the lower portion is discharged through the condensate outlet 702, the malodorous gas is transferred to the third purification tower 43 formed on the side of the second purification tower 42 through the upper, The malodorous gas is guided by the guide plate 45 formed inside the third purification tower 43 coated with the fine TiO₂ powder therein, and purified by the ultraviolet lamp 44 formed at the center of the inside of the guide plate 45. Processed by discharging through outlet 701 Automatic food waste processing method according to claim.