Design and Research on Integrated Equipment for Cleaning and Packaging of Baby Cabbage

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jiem.202603307

Author(s)

Ziyou Li, Lin Zheng*, Hong Xiao, Zhijie Hu, Hui Yang, Qi Wang

Affiliation(s)

College of Intelligent Manufacturing, Jingchu University of Technology, Jingmen, Hubei, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

In view of the continuous expansion of the baby vegetable industry in China, but the postpartum root cutting, leaf peeling, packaging and other processing processes are highly dependent on labor, the lack of dedicated complete sets of integrated processing equipment, high mechanical damage rate, poor standardization of finished products and other industrial pain points, combined with the plant size, single ball quality and different mechanical properties of various parts of baby vegetable, a baby vegetable cleaning and beating machine integrating self weight clamping, rotary root cutting, spiral kneading and leaf peeling, and intelligent heat sealing and packaging is developed. The whole machine adopts a double-layer symmetrical three-dimensional compact layout, and is divided into five collaborative operation function modules: clamping, rooting, defoliation, transmission and packaging; It innovates the compound defoliation structure of self weight clamping mechanism driven by no external force and gravity drop, and uses a single motor shunt multi-stage transmission system to realize multi station power synchronous output; The packaging closed-loop control system is built with STM32 microcontroller as the core, and the photoelectric sensor and stepper motor linkage are used to complete the automatic operation of material identification, film conveying and heat sealing cutting. Through the motor power matching, V-belt, gear transmission design and the verification of high-speed, intermediate and low-speed three-axis bending and torsion strength, the mechanical properties of the whole machine meet the requirements of long-term continuous operation. The actual processing performance shows that the equipment can replace 2-3 operators, and the processing efficiency is twice as high as that of manual operation. The equipment has low cost and small space occupation. It is suitable for small and medium-sized vegetable processing enterprises, and fills the technical gap of domestic baby cabbage whole process automatic processing equipment, providing design ideas and theoretical basis for the research and development of leaf vegetables postpartum intelligent processing equipment.

Keywords

Baby Cabbage; Integrated Processing Equipment; Self Weight Clamping; STM32 Control System

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