What is color sorter machine and how does it work
What is color sorter machine and how does it work
What is a color sorter machine?
How does a color sorter work?
The raw material enters the machine from the top hopper(storage hopper). Through the vibration of the vibrator device, the raw material slides down the channel accelerate down into the observation zone in the sorting cabinet and pass between the sensor and the background plate. Under the action of the LED light source, according to the intensity and color change of the light, the output signal of the system is driven to drive the solenoid valve to blow the heterochromatic particles into the waste outlet hopper, and the accepted material continues to fall to the finished product cavity of the acceptation outlet hopper. In order to achieve the purpose of color sorting.
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Working Principles
The main components of the color sorter are feed hopper, vibrating feeder, chute, light source, background plate, CCD lens, outlet hopper, nozzle, air compressor, air tank, and filter.
Color Sorter Machine Feeding system
It consists of feeding hopper, vibrating feeder, and chute. Raw material enters into vibrating feeder from the feeding hopper, then automatically be arranged into a series of continuous current line by vibration and a guiding mechanism, and fall to a detection zone at a constant speed after being accelerated by the chute. to ensure that the material is clearly present in the sorting cabinet. The feeding system also controls the capacity of the color sorting machine in addition to the function of providing raw material.T through the adjustment of the vibration amount of the feed hopper flow control plate and the vibration hopper, the control of the output of the color sorter per unit time can be realized.
Optoelectronic system
The Optoelectronic system is the core part of the color sorting machine, which is mainly composed of an LED light source, background plate, CCD lens, and related auxiliary devices. The light source provides stable uniform illumination of the material being tested and the background plate. The CCD lens converts the reflected light of the material to be measured into an electrical signal in the detection area. The background plate provides a reference signal for the electronic control system.
Sorting system
The sorting system consists of accessories such as sorting cabinet, nozzles, air supply. The nozzle has been experimentally proved that the nozzle spacing and the number of nozzles are one of the key factors affecting the accuracy of the color sorter.
Cleaning system
The cleaning system consists of cylinders, glass cleaning brushes, and other components. Because some items come with the dust and other impurities that may adhere to the glass during the color sorting process. Once the dust and impurities are attached to the window glass, the optoelectronic system may cause chain-chain problems such as false detection, which will affect the color sorting accuracy and carryover ratio.
Operating System
The large-screen wide-angle touch screen is used to preset multiple color sorting modes for customers. And establish a friendly man-machine interface, according to the specific conditions of materials convenient and quick to achieve adjustment.
How can a color sorter benefit your business?
Multi Functional
This product can be used in agricultural, grain, oil, chemical, pharmaceutical and other industries, especially suitable for rice, tea, beans, seeds, grains, raisins, plastic, ore, peanut, pepper, and other color sorting field.
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High Efficiency
Compared with manual sorting, a color sorter machine is labor saving, time saving, high efficiency with much lower processing cost, it can dramatically improve material accuracy to bring economic and social benefits for customers all over the world.
How Does Rice Color Sorter Machine Work?
The rice color sorting machine plays an indispensable role in the rice processing process. After continuous product iteration, the latest rice color sorter can accurately identify and remove materials based on multi-dimensional features such as color, shape, texture, size, area, weight, softness and hardness. Compared with manual selection, the large intelligent rice color sorter not only makes the rice processing more labor-saving, time-saving, efficient and low-cost, but also greatly improves the quality, economic and social benefits of the selected products.
How does the rice color sorter work?
The rice color sorter is a machine that uses photoelectric technology to automatically sort out the particles of different colors in the rice according to the difference in the optical characteristics of the rice, so as to achieve the effect of improving the quality of the rice and removing impurities. Rice color sorter is mainly composed of feeding system, optical sorting device, control system, lighting system and air system.
Let's take a popular AMD product as an example to introduce how the rice color sorter works. The working principle is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1
The material enters the machine through the top hopper, and enters the upper end of the material distribution tank through the vibration of the vibrator. The selected material will slide along the material trough to the sorting room, and the image sensor can accurately obtain the color information of the material through the illumination of the light in the sorting room.
The sensor compares the detected color with the set color. When the color signal exceeds the set range, it will be judged as a non-conforming product.
After the control system receives the message, it delays accurately, and when the target material reaches the center of the injection, it drives the solenoid valve to inject high-pressure airflow, so as to blow the unqualified material into the waste box, and the qualified material will naturally fall to the material box middle.
At the same time, the rice color sorter is also equipped with infrared lighting. When the material passes through, it is scanned by the infrared light. It can also identify the material according to its shape and material. It can also be based on shape and material, which greatly improves the ability of the color sorter to screen materials.
Figure 2: AMD RG8 Smart Rice Color Sorter Machine
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