JPH08178511A - Material case for food - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To retain and hold the tip end of a transparent window by the fore part and the putting unit of a heat insulating frame when a hand is separated and facilitate the taking in and out of reserved materials by a method wherein the transparent window is lifted up by a handle to pass both of left-and-right sides of the tip end of the transparent window through gaps while the tip end is abutted against the flange of the fore plate of an inner box. CONSTITUTION: The transparent lid 13 of a news source case 1 is constituted of a transparent window 12 put on the putting part 19 of a heat insulating frame 11. Partitioning members 16, partitioning the news source case 1 into a plurality of chambers, are constituted of a base unit 18 and the putting parts 19, provided at both of left-and-right ends of the base unit 18. In this case, a gap 20 can be formed between the fore part 11A of the heat insulating frame 11 by notching the fore parts of the putting part 19. In the same manner, the space 20 is formed between the fore part 11A by notching the fore part of the putting part 19 of the heat insulating frame 11. When a transparent window 12 is lifted up, the tip ends of the transparent window 12 are passed through the gap 20 and the tip ends are abutted against the flange 3A of the fore plate of the inner box whereby the tip ends of the transparent window 12 can be retained artd held by the fore part 11A and the putting parts 19 when a hand is released from the window 12.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a case for storing fresh food.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of material case has been installed at the counter of a sushi restaurant, a restaurant, etc. so that customers can see the sushi material (seafood) etc. stored inside. For example, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. Sho 63-159175 (F25D 19
/ 00), a refrigerating chamber is formed which extends in the left-right direction on a heat insulating wall serving as a bottom wall and surrounds a front plate, an upper surface, and a rear plate with transparent glass. A machine room is constructed on the side of the room, a cooler that constitutes a refrigeration cycle together with a compressor in the machine room is installed above the refrigeration room, and it is known that the refrigeration room is cooled by natural circulation of cold air. There is.

As an improved technique, the applicant of the present application discloses, as Japanese Patent Application No. 327895/1993, an outer box having an upper surface opened and a front plate lower than a rear plate, and is housed in the outer box.
The inner box is formed of a member having high thermal conductivity, and the front plate is lower than the rear plate, the heat insulating material provided between the inner box and the outer box, and the inner box bottom plate with a predetermined distance. An application has been filed for a structure that includes a partition plate on which a cool storage member is placed, a transparent lid that closes the upper surface opening, and a cooler that is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the inner box.

[0004]

The above-mentioned transparent lid of the prior art has a transparent member fitted in a heat insulating frame.
When a stored item is taken in and out, the transparent member has to be opened by hand and kept to be held by hand, which causes a problem of poor workability. The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and provides a news item case for easily achieving a structure for holding a transparent member.

[0005]

As means for achieving the above-mentioned object, in the invention of claim 1, the inner and outer boxes having an upper surface opened and a front plate lower than the rear plate, and between the both boxes are provided. A heat insulating material provided, a heat insulating frame that is provided across the upper edge portions of the both boxes, and has a mounting portion along both left and right inner edges, and is detachably mounted on the mounting portion of the heat insulating frame. There is provided a news item case including a transparent member and a gap formed at a corner of an opening of the heat insulating frame and through which a side portion of the transparent member can pass in a substantially vertical state.

[0006]

According to the story case of the present invention, the transparent member removably mounted on the mounting portion of the heat insulating frame and the side portion of the transparent member formed in the corner of the opening of the heat insulating frame are substantially vertical. Since the transparent member is passed through the gap when the stored item is stored or when the stored item is taken out, the transparent member is engaged by the heat insulating frame that forms the gap. Be stopped.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 is a perspective view of a material case of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the material case of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a top view of a partition member, and FIG.
Is a side view of the partition member, and FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the essential parts of the present invention. 1 is the material case body, the front plate is lower than the rear plate,
An outer case 2 having an open upper surface, and an outer case 2 housed in the outer case 2 and formed of a material having good heat conductivity.
Similarly, the front plate is lower than the rear plate and the inner box 3 has an open upper surface, and the heat insulating material 5 is foam-filled between the inner box 3 and the outer box 2. A front plate step portion 2A is formed on the front plate of the outer box 2, and an outer box front plate flange 2B bent inward is formed on the upper end. Further, a rear plate step portion 2C is formed on the rear plate, and an outer box rear plate flange 2D bent inward is formed on the upper end. Also, the inner box 3
The inner box front plate flange 3A with the upper end of the front plate bent outward
And an inner box rear plate flange 3B is also formed on the rear plate. Each of these flanges 2B, 2D, 3A,
Explaining the positional relationship of 3B, the inner box front plate flange 3A is provided above the outer box front plate flange 2B via the heat insulating spacer 5A.
Is located, and the inner-plate rear plate flange 3B is also located above the outer-case rear plate flange 2D via the heat-insulating spacer 5B. These heat-insulating spacers 5A and 5B prevent moisture from entering the heat-insulating material 5. .

The net case 1 described above has a structure in which an upper surface opening is provided and a transparent member made of glass, acrylic or the like, that is, a transparent window 12 is provided in the heat insulating frame 11 as shown in FIG. It is closed by the transparent lid 13.
A handle 12A is provided at the rear of the transparent window 12, and the handle 12A is integrally formed. The transparent lid 13 is configured such that the front portion 11A of the heat insulating frame 11 is placed on the front plate step portion 2A of the outer box 2 and the rear portion 11B is placed on the rear plate step portion 2C. The heat insulating frame 11 has a horizontally long opening 7, and a mounting portion 11C for mounting the transparent window 12 is formed on the rear portion 11B. Furthermore,
A plurality of partition members 16 for partitioning the opening 7 are provided, and the partition members 16 are formed of the same member as the heat insulating frame 11.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a storage room defined by an inner box 3 for storing fresh food (stored goods) such as seafood inside.
The storage chamber 4 is provided by a cooling pipe 6 which is provided in contact with the bottom plate and the lower portion of the rear plate of the inner box 3 on the side of the heat insulating material 5 and which constitutes a refrigeration cycle with a compressor, a condenser and the like provided in a machine room (not shown). It cools the stored items stored inside. Further, a drain socket 8 is provided on the bottom plate of the storage chamber 4, and the water generated in the storage chamber 4 is discharged to the outside of the storage chamber 4 by the drain socket 8. In addition, 17 is a mounting plate for mounting a cold storage member such as ice, which is formed higher than the front support member 17A provided near the front plate of the inner box 3 and the front support member 17A. The rear support member 17B provided near the rear plate of the box 3 supports the box 3 so that the customer can easily see it. Here, since a gap is formed between the mounting plate 17 and the inner box 3, direct cooling by the cooling pipe 6 can be prevented, and it is possible to indirectly cool via the air layer. Therefore, the stored product can be cooled uniformly.

Next, the gist of the present invention will be described. As described above, the transparent lid 13 is configured by mounting the transparent window 12 formed of a transparent member such as glass or acrylic on the mounting portion 19 of the heat insulating frame 11. Further, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the partition member 16 is formed on the heat insulating frame 11 and a base portion 18 whose upper surface is substantially flush with each other, and is formed on both left and right ends of the base portion 18 and on which a transparent window 12 is placed. The mounting member 19 of the partition member 16 is notched at the front portion thereof to form a gap 20 with the front portion 11A of the heat insulating frame 11. Similarly, the mounting portion 19 of the heat insulating frame 11 is also notched in the front portion to form a gap 20 with the front portion of the heat insulating frame 11. That is, the gap 20 is formed in the corner of the opening 7 of the heat insulating frame 11. Further, the front end of the mounting portion 19 is chamfered and formed in a substantially R shape. And
The mounting portion 19 has substantially the same height as the mounting portion 19 of the rear portion 11B of the heat insulating frame 11, and the transparent window 12 is locked by the mounting portion 19 and the front portion 11A of the heat insulating frame 11. It will be a thing.

When the transparent lid 13 is placed, the gap 2
The inner box front plate flange 3A is positioned so as to close almost half of the transparent window 1 when the transparent window 13 is rotated upward.
The front end portion of 3 can contact the inner box front plate flange 3A. Further, the inside of the front portion 11A of the heat insulating frame 11 has an approximately upper half inclined outward so that it does not hinder the rotation of the transparent window 13.

The operation of the above structure will be described below.
The temperature range in this example is intended to be used in a temperature range from the ice temperature range (-2 ° C to 0 ° C, and further limited to -1.5 ° C to -0.5 ° C) to 35 ° C. With Neta Case 1
Basically, it is controlled so that the compressor turns on when TS + α and the compressor turns off when TS−α with respect to the set temperature (TS).

There are two storage methods: a method in which ice is stored and the stored material is placed on it, and a method in which only the stored material is stored without ice and is cooled only by operating the refrigeration system. There is. In addition, when storing, the transparent lid 1 of the present invention is used at the time of sale because it is handled like an ordinary cool box with an insulating lid (not shown).
3 is used. In the transparent lid 13 of the present invention, when the product is sold, the transparent window 12 is pulled up by holding the handle 12A so that the left and right sides of the tip of the transparent window 12 have the gap 20.
The front end of the transparent window 12 is locked and held by the front portion 11A of the heat insulating frame 11 and the mounting portion 19 when the tip of the transparent window 12 passes through the front portion of the transparent box 12 and the tip of the transparent window 12 abuts against the inner box front plate flange 3A of the inner box 3. To be done.

As described above, since the transparent window 12 is locked and held, the workability is improved not only when the product is sold but also when the stored product is put out or put in. Further, in the present embodiment, the tip of the transparent window 12 is in contact with the inner box front plate flange 3A of the inner box 3, but the opening 7 of the front portion 11A of the heat insulating frame 11 is formed.
By forming a portion that comes into contact with the edge, the same operation is performed.

Further, a gap 20 between the mounting portion 19 and the rear portion 11B is formed between the rear portion 11B and the rear portion 11B of the heat insulating frame 11.
Alternatively, the structure for locking and holding at 9 may be used. In this case, the handle 12A is naturally provided on the front side. As described above, according to the present invention, the inner and outer boxes 2, 3 each having an upper surface opened and the front plate lower than the rear plate, the heat insulating material 5 provided between the boxes 2, 3, and the both boxes 2, Insulating frame 1 that is provided across the upper edge portion of 3 and has a mounting portion 11C along both left and right inner edges
1, a transparent window 12 which is detachably mounted on the mounting portion 11C of the heat insulating frame 11, and a transparent window 12 which is formed in a corner of the opening 7 of the heat insulating frame 11 and whose side portions are substantially vertical. By the neta case 1 provided with a gap 20 which can pass through, the left and right side portions of the tip of the transparent window 12 are pulled by pulling up the transparent window 12 with the handle 12A at the time of sale of goods or taking in and out of stored goods. After passing through the gap 20, the tip comes into contact with the inner box front plate flange 3A of the inner box 3, and when the hand is released, the tip of the transparent window 12 is engaged by the front part 11A of the heat insulating frame 11 and the mounting part 19. It is retained. For this reason, workability at the time of selling products or when putting in and taking out stored products is improved.

[0016]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the right and left side portions of the tip of the transparent window are set to the above-mentioned gap by pulling up the transparent window at the time of sale of goods or storage and withdrawal of stored goods. After passing, the tip comes into contact with the inner box front plate flange of the inner box, and when the hand is released, the tip part of the transparent window is locked and held by the front part of the heat insulating frame and the mounting part. For this reason, the workability at the time of selling products or when putting in and taking out stored products becomes good.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a material case including the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a story case including the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a top view of the partition member of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a side view of the partition member of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of an essential part of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Neta Case 2 Outer Box 3 Inner Box 5 Insulating Material 6 Cooler (Cooling Pipe) 7 Opening 11 Insulating Frame 11A Front 11B Rear 12 Transparent Member (Transparent Window) 16 Partition Member 19 Placement 20 Gap

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An inner and outer box having an upper surface opened and a front plate lower than a rear plate, a heat insulating material provided between the both boxes, and an upper edge portion of the both boxes. A heat insulating frame having a mounting portion along the inner edge, a transparent member detachably mounted on the mounting portion of the heat insulating frame, and formed in a corner of the opening of the heat insulating frame,
A neta case, characterized in that a side portion of the transparent member is provided with a gap through which the transparent member can pass in a substantially vertical state.