JPH067844U - Kitchen waste processing equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] It is most suitable as a retrofit device to an existing system kitchen, and the dust box can be pulled out to the front of the system kitchen together with the device, so that the dust box can be easily replaced and daily garbage can be collected. To provide a garbage disposal device with improved processing workability. [Structure] A casing 21 having a built-in mechanism for squeezing, dewatering and transporting kitchen waste thrown in through a drainage hole 11 of a sink.
The casing 21 is rotatably and liquid-tightly connected to the drain hole 11 and is rotatably supported on the floor so that the entire device can be rotated and pulled out, for example, in front of the system kitchen. is there.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to a device for suitably processing raw kitchen waste discharged from a kitchen for home use and kitchens for eating and drinking, and more particularly to a kitchen treatment device directly connected to a drain hole of a sink (sink) attached to an existing system kitchen. It is a thing.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally known garbage disposal devices directly connected to a sink include, for example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 2-97454, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 3-47039, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-181343 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-102749. There are proposals such as Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-65254 and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-65255. The technical tendency common to the devices disclosed in each publication is that the kitchen inlet of the kitchen connected to the sink is provided in the device's casing, and a cylindrical filter strainer with many small holes is arranged in the casing. The screw is rotatably supported by the drive of the motor in the strainer. Accordingly, the kitchen waste introduced into the strainer from the charging port is squeezed by the screw to squeeze the water to dehydrate the kitchen waste, and the kitchen waste is cut into small pieces by the crushing blade and conveyed to the dust box or the kitchen storage portion. The dewatered kitchen waste water passes through the strainer and is collected in the lower drain tank. In the dust box, the basic structure is to collect the processed garbage in a preset garbage bag and prepare for dumping until it is full. However, as in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 2-97454, there is a technique in which kitchen waste is simply dehydrated and sent, and then sent to a dust box without being crushed.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 By the way, when a new kitchen waste treatment equipment is to be retrofitted to the existing system kitchen, the dust box or kitchen waste storage area occupies a relatively large storage space from the perspective of the overall equipment, making it difficult to introduce the equipment itself due to various restrictions. However, it is often impossible to install.

In that respect, as in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 102749/1990, in a system kitchen that is provided with a kitchen treatment device in advance, since a storage space for a dust box or a kitchen storage portion is provided, There are no concerns like those found in retrofitting garbage treatment equipment. However, when dumping a full of garbage, it is a laborious and troublesome task to routinely load and unload full and heavy dust boxes from the dedicated storage space.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is most suitable as an after-installed device in an existing system kitchen, and by making it possible to pull out the dust box together with the device in front of the system kitchen, it is possible to easily replace the dust box. An object of the present invention is to provide a garbage disposal device with improved workability of effective waste disposal.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to achieve this purpose, the kitchen waste disposal device according to the present invention has a casing with a built-in mechanism for squeezing, dewatering and crushing the kitchen waste that is thrown in through the drainage hole of the sink to convey the casing. The structure is provided with a rotating device that is rotatably and liquid-tightly connected to the hole and that rotatably supports the casing on the floor.

[0007]

[Action]

 The kitchen waste treated by the dewatering and crushing unit is dropped in, for example, the lower dust box, and a certain amount is stored to prepare for the dumping. When removing a full garbage bag from the dust box and discarding it, move the caster by using the entire garbage disposal device with the rotation leg as the fulcrum, and rotate the garbage introduction part and the rotary seal part to swing the entire device. Move from the system kitchen. This makes it easy to change the garbage bag in a large space.

[0008]

【Example】

 Hereinafter, an embodiment of the garbage processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a front view of a partial cross section of an example in which the kitchen waste treatment apparatus of the embodiment is housed in a system kitchen including a sink and a cooking table of a domestic kitchen, and FIGS. 2 to 4 show kitchen waste disposal of the embodiment. It is the top view, left side view, and right side view of an apparatus. In FIG. 1, a garbage disposal device 20 can be easily connected to the drain hole 11 provided in the sink 10, and a dewatering / conveying unit 30 is installed in a casing 21 constituting the main body of the garbage disposal device 20. There is.

As is clear from FIG. 5, the dehydration / conveyance unit 30 is a portion for squeezing and dewatering the kitchen waste thrown in through the drainage holes 11 for conveyance while it is a light metal such as aluminum or a synthetic resin material such as vinyl chloride. Alternatively, a semi-cylindrical upper squeezing block 31 formed of stainless steel or the like having excellent corrosion resistance and a semi-cylindrical lower filter strainer 34 constitute a cylindrical main body cylinder. . A spirally processed screw 36 as shown in FIG. 1 is rotatably supported inside the main body cylinder, and one end of the rotary shaft receives rotational drive from a motor 38 via a transmission belt 39. There is. The squeeze block 31 has a kitchen waste introduction portion 37 protruding upward, and this kitchen waste introduction portion 37 can be directly connected to the drainage hole 11 with a sealing property by projecting it upward from the casing 21.

FIG. 6 shows a connecting structure of the kitchen waste introducing section 37 and the rotary seal section 80 which constitute a part of the “rotating device” of the present invention. The kitchen waste introduction portion 37 is provided in the compression block 31 as described above, projects upward from the casing 21, and faces the drainage hole 11. The tip of the kitchen waste introducing portion 37 is a cylindrical connecting end portion 37a, and a convex annular rib 37b for undercut fitting is provided on the inner peripheral surface.

The rotary seal portion 80 has a tubular mounting cap 81 that is fitted flush with the drainage hole 11 of the sink 10. The garbage introducing portion 37 is connected to the drainage hole 11 via the mounting cap 81. Connected. That is, the mounting cap 81 has a flange 81b having a flange shape on the upper end of the main body 81a, and the flange 81b is seated in the drainage hole 11 on the back side through a rubber packing 82. Further, the main body 81a of the mounting cap 81 is provided with a locking groove 81c into which the annular rib 37b of the kitchen lead-in portion 37 is undercut fitted. In order to secure the required sealability of the fitting surface between the garbage introducing portion 37 and the mounting cap 81, centering on the undercut fitting portion between the annular rib 37b and the locking concave groove 81c, Is provided with an O-ring 83. In order to strengthen the mounting strength of the mounting cap 81 with respect to the drainage hole 11 of the sink 10, the tightening cap 84 is screwed onto the male screw 81d provided on the outer periphery of the main body of the mounting cap 81. The flange is tightened by screwing the tightening cap 84 from the inside.

In the embodiment, the joint type of the rotary seal portion 80 and the garbage introduction portion 37 is the union joint type by screw connection. However, if the required joint strength and sealing performance are obtained, the insertion fitting is possible. It is also possible to use an insertion joint or the like.

On the other hand, on the bottom of the casing 21, the rotary leg 71 of the “rotating device” of the present invention and an arbitrary number of casters 72 are attached, like the rotary seal portion 80 and the garbage introduction portion 37. It is possible to swing the entire garbage disposal device 20 including the casing 21 by moving the casters 72 around the rotary leg 71 as the center of rotation. The structure of the rotary leg 71 includes a normal bearing bearing and a rotary bearing by sliding contact. As a result, as shown in FIG. 1, when the storage space for the garbage processing apparatus 20 is narrowly restricted in the system kitchen, it is not necessary to allow for extra space particularly when the dust box 60 is taken in and out.

Referring again to FIG. 5, in the squeezing block 31 of the dehydration / transport unit 30, a cross section in which peaks 32a and valleys 32b are alternately arranged at a regular pitch along the inner peripheral surface of the semi-cylindrical shape. A corrugated kitchen waste compressing portion 32 is provided so as to extend in the cylinder axial direction, and by cooperation with the kitchen waste compressing portion 32, the kitchen waste compressed by the screw 36 can be guided in the axial direction. The axial end of the squeeze block 31, that is, the downstream end in the direction of propulsion by the screw 36 is a discharge port 31a for pushing out the dehydrated kitchen waste, and here a cutting device for cutting the dehydrated kitchen waste into appropriate small pieces ( (Not shown) may be provided. Flange 33 a is provided at both ends of the semi-cylindrical shape of the compression block 31 so that the strainer 34 can be bolted to the strainer 34.

The lower strainer 34 is formed into a semi-cylindrical shape by using, for example, punch metal, or is formed into a semi-cylindrical shape from a material that is particularly resistant to corrosion like the compression block 31 and has a large number of filters. It has a hole 34a. Through this filter hole 34a, the water content of the kitchen waste squeezed and dehydrated by the screen 36 can be discharged to an external drain tank 40 described later. Flange 34b for coupling with the compression block 31 is provided at both ends. Further, by attaching one or more thin guide bars 35 inside the strainer 34 in the longitudinal axis direction, it is effective in increasing the rigidity of the strainer 34 itself, guiding the garbage, and assisting the crushing of the garbage in the squeeze block 31. Target.

Therefore, with such a configuration of the dehydration / conveyance unit 30, the kitchen waste containing the water introduced from the kitchen waste introduction section 37 is moved from the upstream side on the right side to the downstream side on the left side in FIG. 1 by the rotation of the screw 36. On the other hand, the water will be drained by squeezing and will be squeezed and transported. In order to prevent water from flowing back to the upstream side, that is, the introduction side, during conveyance, the axis of the entire dehydration / conveyance unit 30 including the screw 36 is inclined so that the downstream side is higher than the upstream side.

A drain tank 40 that collects water that has been dehydrated by squeezing the garbage is disposed below the dehydration transport unit 30. As shown in FIG. 5, the drain tank 40 has a top plate 41, and the top plate 41 is connected to the dewatering / conveying unit 30 and the flanges 33a and 34b of the strainer 34 for partitioning. A drain trap 42 is provided on the bottom plate of the tank to allow drainage from the kitchen waste to be drained.

Further, in the embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, it is possible to dispose the deodorizing unit 50 so as to face the terminal discharge port 31a of the squeezing block 31 of the dehydration / transport unit 30. The deodorizing unit 50 has, for example, a small-sized sirocco fan-type blower 51 that rotates by power, and a cartridge-type filter 54 is replaceably connected to the blower 51. The blower 51 has a fan and is capable of sucking the inside of the lower filter 54 to generate air and exhausting it from the exhaust port. The filter 54 has a cylindrical shape as a whole and has a large number of ventilation holes 55, and is filled with a deodorant such as activated carbon that adsorbs and deodorizes odorous components. Therefore, it is possible to generate ventilation by driving the blower 51, to contact the ventilation that is being dehydrated by the dehydration / conveyance unit 30 and being conveyed, and to absorb the odor through the filter 54 to adsorb the offensive odor to the activated carbon. is there.

When the deodorizing unit 50 is installed, it is preferable that the deodorizing unit 50 is arranged at the downstream side of the garbage processing passage, that is, the conveying passage. The reason for this is not only to absorb the offensive odor generated from the dehydrated and crushed kitchen waste that is being stored in the dust bag of the dust box 60 described below and to ventilate and dry it. The reason is that the drainage hole 11 can be forced to reach the garbage introduction portion 37, whereby the garbage that is being dehydrated and crushed can be deodorized and dried by aeration.

A dust box 60 is arranged below the dewatering / conveying unit 30 and the deodorizing unit 50, and a certain amount of kitchen waste dehydrated and crushed from the dewatering / conveying unit 30 is stored and prepared for disposal. A dust bag is set in the dust box 60, and the deodorizing unit 50 can deodorize the offensive odor generated from the garbage that has been dehydrated and crushed while being stored in the dust bag.

Next, the usage mode and operation of the garbage processing device according to the above-described embodiment will be described.

In the sink 10, raw kitchen waste produced by cooking is dropped together with water from the drain hole 11 toward the kitchen processing device 20 through the kitchen introducing section 36. In the garbage processing device 20, the screw 36 of the dehydration / conveyance unit 30 operates by receiving the rotational drive from the motor 38 by the transmission belt 39. In synchronization with this, if the deodorizing unit 50 is installed, a start signal is also sent to the deodorizing unit 50, and the blower 51 operates.

In the main body cylinder composed of the compression block 31 and the strainer 34, the kitchen waste containing water introduced from the kitchen introduction section 37 moves from the upstream side to the downstream side by the rotation of the screw 36, and cooperates with the kitchen compression section 32. While being squeezed and dehydrated, it is conveyed toward the terminal outlet 31a.

On the other hand, in the strainer 34, the water content of the kitchen waste is discharged through a large number of filter holes 34 a and is stored in the drain tank 40 below. Drain is drained from the drain trap 42 on the bottom plate of the tank. During the dehydration, the garbage that has been deodorized by the deodorizing unit 50 and dried by aeration is cut into an appropriate size by the cutting device at the rear end discharge port 31a of the dehydrating and conveying unit 30 and accumulated in a certain amount in the lower dust box 60. Prepare for dumping. A dust bag is set in the dust box 60, and the processed garbage is stored in the dust bag.

When the full garbage bag is taken out from the dust box 60 and is thrown away, the caster 72 is moved by using the entire garbage disposal device 20 with the rotation leg 71 as a rotation fulcrum, and the garbage disposal is performed as shown by a virtual line in FIG. The entire device 20 can be swung around and slid from the system kitchen, making it easy to change the garbage bag in a large space.

Further, since the kitchen waste stored in the dust bag of the dust box 60 has been dehydrated, crushed into small pieces, deodorized, and dried by aeration, the weight and volume at the beginning of loading are remarkably light and bulky. Therefore, the work of taking out dust is very simple and reduced.

[0028]

[Effect of device]

 As explained above, the kitchen waste disposal device according to the present invention is most suitable as an after-installed device in an existing system kitchen, and the dust box can be pulled out in front of the system kitchen, so that the dust box can be easily replaced. It has the advantage of improving the workability of daily garbage disposal.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a partial cross section of a system kitchen in which a kitchen garbage processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is stored.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a garbage processing device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a left side view of the garbage processing device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a right side view of the garbage processing device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a dehydration transport unit according to an embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a casing rotating device that is a main part of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Sink, 11 ... Drainage hole, 20 ... Garbage disposal device, 30 ... Dehydration conveyance unit, 31 ... Squeeze block, 34 ... Strainer, 36 ... Screw, 37 ... Garbage introduction part (rotating device), 40 ... Drain Tank, 42 ... Drain trap, 50 ... Deodorizing unit, 51 ... Blower, 54 ...
Filter, 60 ... dust box. 71 ... Rotating leg (rotating device), 72 ... Casters (rotating device), 80 ... Rotating seal part (rotating device)

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Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A casing having a built-in mechanism for squeezing, dewatering and transporting kitchen waste thrown in through a drainage hole of a sink, the casing being rotatably and liquid-tightly connected to the drainage hole, and having a floor surface. A garbage processing device, which is provided with a rotating device for rotatably supporting the device.