JP2000201817A - Weighing tool and rice cooking pretreatment device equipped with it - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] To enable both weighing and setting display with a single weighing tool by making it possible to output 0.5 in both a square and a kilogram. SOLUTION: A weighing tool is set to a capacity to measure 0.5 squares by a plurality of weighing operations and to weigh 0.5 kilograms by a plurality of different weighing operations. That is, when one grain of grain is converted into approximately 1.5 kilograms, the capacity of the weighing tool is set to 0.25 kilograms.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a weighing tool and a rice cooking pretreatment device equipped with the weighing tool, which is used for large-scale cooking in large restaurants, employee cafeterias and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A rice cooking pretreatment apparatus is disclosed in
As disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 1622, a weighing tool is provided at the lower part of the rice storage to supply cereals (mainly rice and wheat) while weighing the cereals (mainly rice and wheat). The amount of rice cooked, that is, the amount of grain, can be displayed on the setting display section. The weighing tool of this kind of rice cooking pretreatment device uses a rotating drum driven around a horizontal axis by a motor, and sets the amount of cooked rice on a setting display while watching the screen display, and rotates the rotating drum as required. In this way, the amount of the target grain is measured and supplied to the rice washing section.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned prior art, the amount of cooked rice (the amount of grain) is displayed in units of 0.5 squares, which can be converted to liters. Not. In recent years, rice sales are displayed in kilograms, and there are many demands for setting rice cooking amounts in kilograms even in restaurants and the like. In order to display the weighing of a grain in kilograms, there are a method of displaying a kilogram in accordance with the display of a cell, a method of displaying a kilogram instead of the display of a cell, and the like.

[0004] In the above-mentioned kilogram conversion display, a weighing tool for displaying a cell can be used as it is. However, if one cereal cell is set to approximately 1.5 kg and the capacity of the weighing tool is set to 0.5 cell, 1.5 kg is set. The weight is 2.25 kilograms, and the quantity expressed by two digits after the decimal point comes out, and it is difficult to perceive it. On the other hand, if only the kilogram display is to be performed, the capacity of the weighing tool may be set to 0.5 kilogram or 1 kilogram. However, in this case, the weighing tool must be exclusively used for displaying kilograms, and if the box display is also described, it becomes 0.667 squares per kilogram, which is very difficult to understand.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a weighing tool capable of solving the problems of the prior art and a rice cooking pretreatment device equipped with the weighing tool. Also, the present invention provides a numerical value that a human can intuitively understand next to an integer is 0.5.
The weighing tool was designed to be able to output 0.5 for both weighing and kilogram, so that both weighing and setting display can be performed with a single weighing tool, and rice cooker pretreatment equipped with it It is intended to provide a device.

[0006]

The first concrete means for solving the problem in the weighing instrument of the present invention is to measure 0.5 squares by a plurality of weighing operations, and to measure by a plurality of different weighing operations. 0.5 kg is set to the capacity to measure. Thus, when the weighing tool is weighed by 0.5 times or multiples thereof, 1 yard, 1.5 sq., Etc. are obtained, and the weighing tool is weighed 0.5 kilograms or multiples thereof. When the operation is performed, 1 kilogram, 1.5 kilogram, and the like are obtained, and one measuring tool can perform both the square weighing and the kilogram weighing.

[0007] A second specific means for solving the problems in the measuring instrument of the present invention is a grain 1 in addition to the first specific means.
When the volume is converted to approximately 1.5 kilograms, the capacity is 0.1 kg.
It is set at 25 kilograms. As a result, the capacity of the weighing tool can be set easily and easily, and the number of weighing operations for weighing the target grain amount is reduced as much as possible. The first specific means for solving the problem in the rice cooking pretreatment device equipped with the weighing tool of the present invention is the first or second method, wherein the grains in the rice storage are weighed by a plurality of weighing operations and sent to the rice washing section. The weighing tool according to the specific means, and a setting display unit for setting and displaying the amount of grain to be weighed by the weighing tool, the setting display unit is capable of switching between squares and kilograms or freely displaying together, In addition, both the square and the kilogram are set and displayed in units of 0.5.

As a result, the setting display becomes 0.5 unit for both the square display and the kilogram display, so that it is very easy to see.
It makes intuitive judgment easier. The second concrete means for solving the problem in the rice cooking pretreatment device equipped with the weighing tool of the present invention is that the grain in the rice storage is weighed 0.25 kg at least twice as required and sent to the rice washing section. The weighing device according to the first or second specific means, and a set amount that is an integral multiple of 0.5 square and / or 0.5 kilogram of the number of weighing operations of the weighing device is displayed. It is provided with a setting display section for selecting and setting it.

[0009] This makes it easy to visually and easily set the weighing in the square display and / or the kilogram display.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 show a commercial rice cooker 1 in which a rice cooker 5 is disposed in a rice cooker pretreatment device A. The rice cooker pretreatment device A is provided at a lower part of a rice washing tank 3 having a funnel portion 2 tapered downward. A rice discharge valve 4 that can be opened and closed is provided, and rice and rice cooking water are supplied to a rice cooker 5 via the rice discharge valve 4. At the upper part of the rice washing tank 3, a rice storage 6 is installed, and a measuring drum (measuring tool) 7 provided at the lower part of the rice storage 6 is rotationally driven so that rice according to the programmed rice cooking amount is adjusted. Can be supplied (supplied) from the upper part of the rice washing tank 3 through the chute 8.

A bearing box 24 is attached to a lower part of the rice storage 6, and the chute 8 is connected to a lower part of the bearing box 24. The measuring drum 7 has an opening 7A formed by cutting out a part of the cylindrical body, supports the shaft 7B in the bearing box 24, and has an outer peripheral surface close to an opening edge of the rice storage 6. The measuring drum 7 is in a standby state in the state of FIG. 3, and rotates in the direction of the arrow from this state, receives the rice from the rice storage 6 by opening the opening 7A upward, and fills the inner space with the rice. It rotates in a state, and it supplies to the rice washing tank 3 through the chute 8 when the opening 7A faces downward.

The capacity of the weighing drum 7 can be variously set by changing the diameter or the length in the axial direction. In the present invention, when one square of rice is converted into approximately 1.5 kilograms, the capacity is set at 0.1 kg.
The size is set so that 25 kilograms can be filled. The 0.25 kilogram is considered as the greatest common denominator from the numerical value of 1 square and 1.5 kilogram (although not an integer), and the 0.5 square is measured by rotating the measuring drum 7 three times. Weigh 0.5 kilograms by two revolutions. Therefore, it is possible to measure one square by rotating the measuring drum 7 six times, measure one kilogram by rotating four times, and to increase or decrease the numerical value of both the square and the kilogram in 0.5 units by selecting the number of rotations. Will be possible.

An openable and closable door 10 having a setting display unit (main body operation unit) 9 is provided on the front (front) of the rice storage 6, and a lid 12 is mounted on the upper part of the rice storage 6. By opening the lid 12, rice can be supplied. The rice storage 6 is a cubic (box-shaped) container having a funnel at the bottom, and is built in a box-shaped frame 13.
Is a support 16 erected from a base 15 having wheels 14.
Is supported through. The rice washing tub 3 is cylindrical and has a partition plate (support) 17 forming the bottom of the box-shaped frame 13.
Upper tank 3 attached to and fixed to and extended (exposed) downward
A, and a lower tank 3B having a funnel 2 whose upper edge is joined to the lower edge of the upper tank 3A and which is detachably attached via a plurality of fasteners 18.

At the center (axis) of the rice washing tank 3, a cylindrical shaft 19 that rotates around the longitudinal axis by a motor or the like provided in the box-shaped frame 13 is supported. A plurality of stirring rods 20 are fixed to constitute a stirring means, and the rice put in the rice washing tank 3 can be washed and polished. The stirring rod 20 extends horizontally from the cylinder shaft 19 and extends downward along the inner surface of the tank. A water supply means 21 connected to a tap water source or the like as a pressure water source is provided at an upper portion of the rice washing tank 3, and can supply rice washing water, rice cooking water and the like.

The rice discharging valve 4 has a conical shape and is detachably attached to the lower end of the valve rod 22 by means of a one-touch fitting or the like.
It can be moved up and down via a cam, a crank, etc. provided inside, and can be opened and closed freely by this up and down operation. Rice washing tank 3
A drain box 23 is detachably attached to the lower end of the box via a one-touch fitting (patch-in lock). The drain box 23 is formed in a cylindrical shape, and the drain box 23 is formed in a rice discharge port formed in the bottom thereof. Has an annular seal packing,
The seal when closing the rice discharging valve 4 is secured.

A branch pipe 26 is extended and connected to the drain box 23 in a horizontal direction (left direction in FIG. 2), and is connected to a lower end of a vertical pipe 27 connected to an overflow port formed in the upper part of the rice washing tank 3. Is connected to a drain box 28 having an openable and closable drain valve. The drain box 28 is connected to drain means 29 such as a drain hose and a drain trough. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the rice cooker 5 is provided detachably on a gantry 32 that is horizontally movable on a base 15 via a slide rail, a roller, and the like. It is an operation handle for getting in and out.

The rice cooker 5 has a stove section 33 for gas, electricity, etc. mounted on a gantry 32, an outer pot 34 mounted on the stove section 33, and is detachably inserted into and removed from the outer pot 34. It has an inner pot 35 fitted therein, a lid 36 detachably mounted on the inner pot 35, and the like. This lid 36 is surrounded by an annular protector 37 connected to the upper part of the inner pot 35. At the center of the lid 36, a rice receiving port is opened as a circular hole, for example, and the receiving port is openable and closable by a shutter. The entire lid 36 can be lifted vertically by a raising / lowering lever 39 via rollers and rails (until the lid 36 comes to a position above the protector 37), and its lifting posture can be held. Can be released by a lock release lever.

Accordingly, the rice cooker 5 receives the rice and the cooking water into the inner pot 35 by opening and closing the rice discharge valve 4 by opening and closing the rice receiving port by opening and closing the shutter so that the rice receiving port is positioned directly below the rice discharging port. Rice can be cooked with the shutter closed.
Further, the lid 36 is lifted and held by the lifting operation of the lifting lever 39, and the inner pot 35 and the outer pot 34 can be pulled out in the horizontal direction together with the stove 33 by the taking-in / out operation of the gantry 32 with the lid 36 left. At the same time, the rice cooker 5 can be freely moved in and out by moving the gantry 32 in and out with the lid 36 placed on the inner pot 35 by operating the lock release lever.

4 and 5, the setting display section 9 has a built-in microcomputer, for example, a liquid crystal display (LC).
D), a display unit 41 using a flat display screen such as a plasma display panel (PDP), and the display unit 41
And a setting unit 42 for performing settings required for various types of rice cooking while watching the screen operation and the screen. The display unit 41 includes a setting screen 43 for setting automatic rice cooking shown in FIG. 4, an initial screen (operation screen) 44 for displaying the flow of automatic rice cooking shown in FIG. 5, and a reservation screen (not shown). A maintenance screen (auxiliary function screen), an advertisement screen, an information screen, and the like can be switched and displayed.

The setting unit 42 includes buttons (switches) 45, 46, 47, a selection button (switch) 48 for calling a setting screen 43, a reservation screen, a maintenance screen, and the like from the initial screen 44, respectively, and a cancel button (switch) for canceling the setting. 49 and a start button (switch) 50 for starting operation after setting. When the operation of the setting display unit 9 is performed from the beginning, after turning on the power of the rice cooker 1, the setting button 45 is pressed to call the setting screen 43.
By operating the upper or lower part of the selection button 48, the "cooked rice amount" is made to blink (movement of the cursor), and the square and / or kilogram display is changed by left (-) or right (+). Next, the user operates the lower part of the selection button 48 to blink “Water control”, and selects the amount of water left (−) or right (+).

Similarly, "how to wash", "mode",
When “starting on the colander”, “purple” and the like are set, and the start button 50 is operated after the setting is completed, the microcomputer processing is performed to start the rice cooking operation. If the cancel button 49 is pressed during the setting, the state returns to the state before the setting. When the start button 50 is pressed, the display section 41 changes to an initial screen 44, and the initial screen 44 becomes an updated display set by the setting operation. Then, unless the setting contents are changed from the next time, the rice cooker is started by pressing the start button 50 in the initial screen 44.

On the initial screen 44, the mode, the amount of rice cooked, and the like are displayed in the upper column, the process order is displayed in addition to the set contents in two columns in the left column, with characters and numerical values, and the picture of the rice cooker is displayed in the right column. In the process sequence and the rice cooker picture, the position in the process is blinked or displayed by a lamp.
The “cooked rice amount” on the setting screen 43 indicates both the box display and the kilogram display, but this may be freely switched and displayed on either one. The square screen and / or the kilogram display can also be performed on the initial screen 44.

Left (-) and right (+) of the selection button 48
Is to set the number of times of operation of the measuring drum (measuring tool) 7. Since the capacity of the measuring drum 7 is set to 0.25, as shown in FIG. 5 kilograms, 3 operations, 0.5 sho, 6 times, 12 times,
When the number of operations is 18 or 24, the box and the kilogram are displayed together, otherwise the display is single, and when the numerical value of the last two digits is used, it is not displayed. FIG. 6 shows a modification of the setting screen 43. In the setting screen 43, all of the amount of rice that can be cooked is indicated by a square and a kilogram, and the left (-) or right ( By selecting +), the cell and the kilogram are blinked or lit at the same time or one of them sequentially, so that all the weighable values can be visually recognized at a glance.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be variously modified. For example,
The capacity of the weighing drum 7 may be set to 0.125 kg, and in that case, 0.5 kg is obtained by four weighing operations, and 0.5 square is obtained by six operations. By simply doubling, both the square and the kilogram can be set and displayed in 0.5 units. In addition, FIGS.
Is a type in which the rice cooker 5 raises and lowers the lid 36 with the shutter with the raising and lowering lever 39,
The rice cooker 1 is configured in combination with the rice cooker 5, but the lid 36 and the elevating lever 39 and the like are deleted, and the
The rice cooker 35 can be arranged on the inner pot 35 so that rice can be measured and washed and supplied to the inner cooker 35 so that rice is cooked at another place.

In the rice cooker preprocessing apparatus A of the type in which rice is cooked at a different place, it is preferable that the inner pot 35 having a larger capacity than the specified one can be arranged. This is generally
This is because rice cookers have a common belief that those who can afford the maximum amount of rice can cook delicious rice. In the rice cooking pretreatment device A, the frame 13 has no support on the front side, and a pair of left and right (or one support on the left and right) pillars 16 on the back side, and the rice cooker 5 overlaps with the support 16. When the inner pot 35 is disposed instead of the rice cooker 5, an inner pot that is one size larger can be disposed.

However, when the inner pot 35 larger than that is disposed, the inner pot 35 and the gantry 32 are moved to the rice washing tank 3 and the frame 1.
3 cannot be inserted and arranged at a regular position. Inner pot 3
It is only necessary to supply rice washing 5 to the rice washing tank 3 even if it is not at the regular position, but the gantry 32 is configured to be held at the regular position via the lock mechanism, and reaches the regular position. Otherwise, the lock mechanism cannot be held. 7 and 8, the lock mechanism 47 is formed by a magnet 48 provided on the frame 13 side and an iron piece 49 provided on the gantry 32, and the iron piece 49 is attached to the gantry 32 so that the position in the depth direction can be freely adjusted.

Therefore, when the inner hook 35 larger than the specified size is used, the locking mechanism 47 operates even if the iron piece 49 is projected from the gantry 32 to the back side and the gantry 32 cannot be inserted to a regular position. And can be held against the frame 13. The lock mechanism 47 includes a magnet 4
8 may be provided on the gantry 32 and the iron piece 49 may be provided on the side of the frame 13. Alternatively, one may be mounted on a mounting surface with a spacer interposed instead of being mounted so as to be position-adjustable.

[0028]

According to the weighing device of the present invention described in detail above, one weighing device can be used for both weighing and measuring in kilograms, the capacity of the weighing device can be set easily and easily, and the amount of target grain can be reduced. The number of weighing operations for weighing can be reduced as much as possible. In addition, according to the rice cooking preliminary processing device equipped with the measuring device of the present invention, the setting display can be set to 0.5 unit for both the square display and the kilogram display, which makes it very easy to see and intuitively judge. Alternatively, the weighing setting in kilogram display can be made visually and easily.

[0029]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a rice cooker.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the rice cooker.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a measuring drum.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a setting display unit on which a setting screen is displayed.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a setting display unit on which an initial screen is displayed.

FIG. 6 is a front view showing a modification of the setting screen.

FIG. 7 is a side view of a rice cooking pretreatment device capable of supplying rice washing to a large-capacity inner pot.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a table showing the relationship between the number of times of operation of the weighing drum and the display of a square / kilogram.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 rice cooker 5 rice cooker 6 rice storage 7 measuring drum (weighing tool) 9 setting display section 41 display section 42 setting section 43 setting screen 44 initial screen (operation screen)

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Minoru Nakajima, 2-2-227 Mizuhashi, Higashiosaka-shi, Osaka Inside Yamato Seiko Co., Ltd. No. 27 No. 27 Daiwa Seiko Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 4B054 AA02 AA16 AB01 AC02 CC02 CC04 CE05 CE13

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A 0.5 square is measured by a plurality of measuring operations,
A weighing tool characterized in that the capacity is set to weigh 0.5 kilograms by a plurality of different weighing operations. 2. The measuring tool according to claim 1, wherein the capacity is set to 0.25 kg when one grain of the grain is converted to approximately 1.5 kg. 3. The weighing tool according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the cereal in the rice storage is weighed by a plurality of weighing operations and sent to the rice washing section, and a setting for setting and displaying the amount of cereal to be weighed by the weighing tool. A display unit, wherein the setting display unit is equipped with a weighing tool, which is capable of switching between squares and kilograms or freely displaying the same and displaying both squares and kilograms in units of 0.5. Cooking rice pretreatment device. 4. The rinsing unit according to claim 1, wherein the cereal in the rice storage is weighed twice or more by 0.25 kilograms and sent to the rice washing unit.
Or, the measuring tool described in 2 and the set amount which is an integral multiple of 0.5 squares and / or 0.5 kg out of the number of times of measuring operation of the measuring tool are displayed and selected and set. A rice cooker pre-processing device equipped with a weighing tool, comprising a setting display section for setting.