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    #7945357 - 01/28/08 01:24 PM (16 years, 4 days ago)

What kind of device would force a moist grit through a pipe?


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: YidakiMan]
    #7945400 - 01/28/08 01:38 PM (16 years, 4 days ago)

moist grit?


you have to be more specific. how large is the pipe...is this a plumbing issue? if you want the right answer, you have to ask the right question.


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: YidakiMan]
    #7945447 - 01/28/08 01:52 PM (16 years, 4 days ago)

Yeah, what is a moist grit?


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: YidakiMan]
    #7953831 - 01/29/08 11:31 PM (16 years, 3 days ago)

Also, what sort of flow rate would you need and what would you compare consistencies with?


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: YidakiMan]
    #7954431 - 01/30/08 03:14 AM (16 years, 2 days ago)

> What kind of device would force a moist grit through a pipe?

A plunger, perhaps.


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #7957060 - 01/30/08 06:17 PM (16 years, 2 days ago)

I'd like to design a system to compete with the Japanese manufacturers of automated mushroom cultivation machines. These machines fill, inoculate and empty 1 liter bottles. The bottles are stacked in trays and moved by forklift to various areas of the farm; ie sterilizer, incubation, growroom or warehouse.

I think it would be better for a simpler machine to assist a worker in filling a tray. I also think it would be easier for conveyors to move trays, instead of forklifts.

I'd like to create a system that can drive treated substrate from a hopper through a flexible tube. A worker would use the tube to fill trays that move past him on a conveyor belt. The conveyor would take the trays directly to incubation.


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: YidakiMan]
    #7958988 - 01/31/08 02:09 AM (16 years, 1 day ago)

I'm still missing the moist and the grit part of that explanation, but more power too ya...


you gonna try and make the thing, go in buisness producing mushrooms, or just try and get a patent?


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: johnm214]
    #7959527 - 01/31/08 09:24 AM (16 years, 1 day ago)

Sorry I must have edited that out while checking for errors.

The treated substrate would be a mixture of straw pieces, crushed corncob, sawdust, supplement, inoculum and limestone. It would also contain water.

Each material would be treated orsterilized individually and dumped into the hopper for mixing.

At the bottom of the hopper, would an auger be able to drive this into a tube?


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: johnm214]
    #7960086 - 01/31/08 12:57 PM (16 years, 1 day ago)

Quote:

johnm214 said:
you gonna try and make the thing, go in buisness producing mushrooms, or just try and get a patent?





Definitely, I see a big problem in that the major areas of mushroom production are the East Coast (near Philly), California, and Quebec. Because these farms cannot effectively reach areas in the middle (the Midwest), the farms resort to imports to fulfill demand.


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: YidakiMan]
    #7977896 - 02/04/08 02:32 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

A screw conveyor would move the material you want, but sterilization of the equipment could be a real challenge. To the best of my knowledge, the Japanese abandonded that experiment when the machines needed as much human intervention as traditional cultivation required.
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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: YidakiMan]
    #7978770 - 02/04/08 05:32 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

maybe gravity?
can your substrate be above the tube, that is above the conveyor?


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Re: mechanical engineers [Re: sherm]
    #7978846 - 02/04/08 05:44 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

you might need the substrate hopper to be somewhat movable.
and the tube to be pretty fat and flexible.
that way when substrate gets stuck in the hopper or tube, you can just shake the fuck out of it :laugh:


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