Method for continuously processing organic material and an apparatus for conducting the same method

An apparatus for continuously processing organic material, comprising:

• at least two fermenting tanks disposed in series, with the first fermenting tank being upstream of the second fermenting tank in processing direction, each of said fermenting tanks having at least one stirring apparatus and at least one temperature detector;
• a supplying tank for stirring and crushing fermentation promoting agent with fermenting microorganisms implanted therein with organic material such as raw food waste input to said supplying tank, said supplying tank having a supplying conveyor for supplying a certain amount of stirred and crushed and fermenting organic material into the first fermenting tank, and said first fermenting tank having a transferring conveyor which transfers half-fermented organic material from the first fermenting tank to the second fermenting tank;
• a controller which detects the temperature measured by the temperature detector in each fermenting tank and adjusts the amount of half-fermented material to be transferred from the first fermenting tank to the second fermenting tank such that the temperature of the organic material in each fermenting tank is maintained at a temperature of “final phase of fermentation heat rising period” or “constant temperature period” for a given fermenting cycle of the organic material;
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• a discharging apparatus which discharges composted organic material from the second fermenting tank when the organic material has been fermented therein,
• wherein said supplying tank includes a high capacity storage tank body which has more capacity than the organic material to be dumped therein, and an organic material dumping apparatus which dumps the organic material into the storage tank body while draining water therefrom, and said storage tank body is comprised of an upper cylindrical part and a lower cut-end conic part which tapers off and is closed at the bottom by a bottom wall, and inside of said storage tank body are located an inner pipe having a small diameter going up from a certain point above the center of said bottom wall, a mesh cylinder having a large diameter jointly located at the upper end of the inner pipe, a rotation axis which goes through from the bottom wall to the upper end of the mesh cylinder, said rotation axis having a spiral wing capable of raising accumulated organic material at the cut-end conic part to the mesh cylinder, cutter members fixed at proper points of the rim of the spiral wing, and cutter die members fixed to inside of the mesh cylinder and positioned next to the cutter members.