JPH1014764A - Commercial rice cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Problem] To reduce investment in kitchen equipment by combining a three-dimensional rice cooker and a rice washing machine. SOLUTION: A rice washing tank 9 having a rice discharging port is mounted on an upper part of a three-dimensional rice cooker 1 having a rice cooker 3 having a stove section 4 independently provided in a vertical direction. When the rice cooker 5 to be put in and out of the rice cooker 3 is mounted on the table 6 outside the rice cooker 3, the rice washing tank 9 is provided so as to be able to move in and out of the rice cooker 9 in a vertical position so that the rice discharge opening faces the rice cooker 5. ing.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rice cooker for business use, and is used for a large amount of rice cooked in hospitals, restaurants and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A multi-stage three-dimensional rice cooker has been developed as a commercial rice cooker for cooking a large amount of rice in hospitals, restaurants and the like. This three-dimensional rice cooker is provided with a rice cooker having a stove section for gas, electricity, electromagnetic, etc., which is independently provided in the up-down direction. The inner pot is placed on a stove in a rice cooker to cook rice. The rice cooker is controlled by a microcomputer from ignition to cooking, and is widely used in kitchens such as hospitals and restaurants.

[0003]

The conventional multi-stage three-dimensional rice cooker requires a separate rice-washing machine, immersion filling machine, etc. as a rice pre-treatment device, which not only requires a high capital investment but also reduces the size of the kitchen room. And it was necessary to carry the pretreatment, that is, bring the rice-washed inner pot to the rice cooker, which was a considerable amount of manual labor.

Therefore, the present invention solves the above-mentioned problems by combining a multi-stage three-dimensional rice cooker with a rice washing machine which is a pre-cooking process of the rice cooker.
It is intended to provide a commercial rice cooker in which a rice-washing tank having a rice discharge port can be freely moved in and out, so that the rice-washed rice can be securely contained in an inner pot.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a commercial rice cooker according to the present invention, wherein a rice cooker 3 having a stove section 4 is provided at an upper part of a three-dimensional rice cooker 1 and a lower part thereof. Equipped with a rice washing tank 9 having a rice discharge port 19,
An inner pot 5 to be moved into and out of the rice cooker 3 is placed outside the rice cooker 3 on a table 6.
The rice washing tank 9 is provided so as to be able to enter and exit in a vertical position so that the rice discharging port 19 faces the inner rice cooker 5 when the rice washing machine is mounted on the rice cooker 5. By adopting a simple configuration, capital investment is cheap, not only can the kitchen room be used widely and effectively, but there is no need to carry the inner pot 5 and a series of processes from rice washing to rice cooking work continuously and continuously. It promises a good amount of rice cooking.

Further, the rice cooker for business use according to the present invention according to the second aspect of the present invention is provided with a dropping chute 42 for connecting the rice discharging port 19 above the inner pot 5 when the rice discharging port 19 is opposed to the rice discharging port 19. By adopting such a configuration, even if the inner pot 5 and the rice discharge port 19 are largely separated from each other in the vertical direction, the rice is reliably washed into the inner pot 5 using the drop chute 42. Not only can rice be thrown in, rice waste can be reduced, but rice cooked by microcomputer can be set as it is set.

Further, in the commercial rice cooker according to the third aspect of the present invention, the table 6 on which the inner pot 5 is mounted outside the rice cooker 3 is a door 6 which allows the rice cooker 3 to be freely opened and closed. And by adopting such a configuration,
It is not necessary to separately provide a table on which the inner pot 5 is mounted, and the inner pot 5 can be easily moved in and out of the rice cooker room 3 by using the door 6.

[0008] Further, according to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rice cooker for business use, wherein
2 is provided so as to be able to move up and down on a supporter 44 which is swingably provided at the upper part of the three-dimensional rice cooker 1, and by adopting such a configuration,
The drop chute 42 is made to stand by the side of the rice washing tank 9 during rice washing, and the rice discharging port 19 and the inner pot 5
And can be interposed between them.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 show an embodiment in which a rice washing device 2 is mounted on an upper portion of a multi-stage three-dimensional rice cooker 1, and the rice cooker 1 has a plurality of, in the figure, two-stage independent rice cooker 3 bottom portions. Is provided with a stove section 4 made of gas, electricity, or electromagnet, and rice can be cooked in a state where the inner pot 5 is mounted on the stove section 4 and the opening / closing door 6 is closed.

The opening / closing door 6 can be opened one way around the center of the vertical axis or double-opened. However, as shown in the figure, the lower horizontal axis is opened and closed as a hinge 7, and when opened, the door 6 is in a horizontal state. By holding the inner pot 5, the table for the inner pot 5 can be advantageously provided. The rice washing device 2 includes a rice storage tank 8 and a rice washing tank 9.
The rice in the rice storage tank 8 is weighed and put into the rice washing tank 9 from above, and the stirring body 10 inserted into the rice washing tank 9 is provided.
The metered rice is washed by the rotation of.

The rice storage tank 8 has a body (tank) 11
In the present embodiment, a recess 12 penetrating in the vertical direction is formed on the front side, and the upper portion of the rice washing tank 9 is inserted into the recess 12 to store rice in a state where the tank portions 11 and 13 are separately partitioned. In this example, the tank 8 and the rice washing tank 9 are arranged in front and rear, and are designed to be compact vertically and vertically.

The tank portion 11 of the rice storage tank 8 has a funnel portion 14 which is inclined rearward (to the left in FIG. 1) and which is inclined left and right inward. Has a capacity-type measuring drum 15 which rotates around the horizontal axis of the drum, and a receiver 16 having a closed structure is provided below the drum 15 so that the rice measured by the drum 15 can be temporarily stored in the receiver 16. .

The rice washing tank 9 has a cylindrical tank portion 13 and a funnel portion 17 tapering downward from the middle of the body.
A cylindrical drainage jacket 18 is connected to the lower part of the funnel 17 and a rice discharge port 19 is formed at the bottom of the jacket 18. The rice discharge port 19 can be opened and closed by a conical rice discharge valve 20. (See FIG. 5). The upper opening of the tank portion 13 is closed by a detachable or openable / closable top plate 21. The top plate 21 has a suction blower 22 and a stirring motor 2.
The rice washing tank 9 is closed and the suction blower 22 is started by connecting a suction hose 24 across the receiver 16 and the top plate 21.
Can be put in from above the rice washing tank 9 through the suction hose 24.

The rice discharge valve 20 is provided at the lower end of the valve stem 25,
The valve rod 25 is inserted into a support rod 26 having a cylindrical shaft structure. The valve rod 25 penetrates through the top plate 21, and the valve rod 25 is moved up and down by a lifting drive such as a motor, a cam, and a link (not shown). By doing so, the rice discharging valve 20 can open and close the rice discharging port 19, and the stirring rod 27 is attached to the support rod 26 radially,
By rotating the support rod 26 around its axis, the stirrer 10 is rotated.
Is composed.

The support rod 26 extends upward through the top plate 21 and has bevel gear means 28 at this portion. The electric motor 29 rotates the stirrer 10 via the bevel gear means 28. . The drain jacket 18 is provided with a filter mesh tube (not shown) sized to surround the rice discharge port 19, and a drain box 31 having an open / close valve via a drain pipe 30 on one side of the body of the jacket 18. Is connected, and sewage and the like can be discharged out of the machine via the drain hose 32 and the like.

The top plate 21 is provided with a water supply pipe 33 having a water supply port, and the pipe 33 is connected to a pressure system such as water supply through a supply pipe 34 having a flow rate sensor, an on-off valve and the like.
As shown in FIG. 3, since the rice washing tank 9 is formed into the recess 12 of the rice storage tank 8, both left and right sides of the rice washing tank 9 are part of the rice storage tank, and the amount of rice stored is The rice storage tank 8 is provided with a rice supply port 35 at the rear of the upper surface thereof. The port 35 has a lid 36 that can be opened and closed.

In the present embodiment, the rice washing tank 9 which has been inserted into the recess 12 can be freely moved back and forth on a horizontal plane while maintaining a vertical position.
7 and a pair of left and right upper rails 38 are provided extending in the front-rear direction on the fixed side, in this example, on the top plate side of the rice cooker 1, and wheels 39, 40 are supported on the respective rails 37, 38 so as to roll freely. I have.

As shown in FIG. 4, the lower rail 37 has an upper surface, and the upper rail 38 has a lower surface serving as a guide surface. The wheels 39 are on the front side and the wheels 40 are on the rear side. The rice washing tank 9 is prevented from rising and is supported between the front and rear while ensuring stable entry and exit. A handle 41 for moving the rice washing tank 9 in and out (pushing and pulling) is provided at the upper part of the drainage jacket 18, and the measuring and washing steps are performed with the rice washing tank 9 inserted into the recess 12. At the time of rice discharging, the rice washing tank 9 is pulled out by grasping the handle 41, and the rice discharging valve 20 is moved down and opened while the inner pot 5 is placed on the opening / closing door 6 as a mounting table, thereby opening the inner pot 5. It is possible to supply fall-washed rice.

Since the rice cooker 1 has multiple stages, the vertical distance between the rice discharge valve 20 and the inner pot 5 increases, and a cylindrical dropping chute is used to prevent rice from scattering during drop supply. 42 are provided. The drop chute 42 is swingably inserted vertically into the ring-shaped receptacle 45 at the tip of a swing support 44 that pivots on a horizontal plane with the vertical axis 43 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 as a fulcrum, During rice washing, it is made to protrude upward from the support tool 44, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, and when rice is discharged, the vertical axis 43 is swung about a fulcrum to bring the rice to the imaginary line position in FIG. The drop chute 42 is moved downward, and the upper end flange 42A is received at the receiving port 45 and positioned and held immediately below the rice discharging port 19, thereby opening the rice discharging valve 20 as shown in FIG. The dropped rice is guided to fall into the inner pot 5.

After the rice is thrown in through the drop chute 42, the rice washing tank 9 is pushed into the recess 12 as shown by the solid line in FIG. 43, and the lower end of the chute 42 is brought into contact with the top plate 1A of the rice cooker 1;
And it is held in the waiting position shown by the solid line in FIG.

Since the rice washing tank 9 moves back and forth (or may be left and right) on a horizontal plane, the hoses 24, 32, 34, etc. are connected to bellows pipes, telescopic pipes, etc. to allow this movement. It is desirable that the drop chute 42 be a nested structure and be freely expandable and contractable using detent means such as a ball with a spring.
Further, in the above embodiment, the rice storage tank 8 is not essential and can be omitted. In this case, the measured rice is put into the rice washing tank 9 from above and washed with the stirring body 10. , With the water being added to the inner pot 5.

Further, it is desirable that the three-dimensional rice cooker 1 is controlled by a microcomputer from ignition to cooking.

[0023]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, the equipment investment of kitchen equipment can be reduced, the kitchen room can be effectively utilized, and the carrying ratio of the inner pot is reduced, so that the operation rate can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing a first embodiment (embodiment) of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the same.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 4 is a side view of a rice washing tank moving guide.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing the operation of the rice discharging port.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Solid-state rice cooker 3 Cooking room 4 Stove part 5 Inner pot 6 Door (table) 9 Rice washing tank 19 Rice outlet

Claims (4)

[Claims] A rice washing tank (1) having a rice cooker (3) having a stove section (4) and having a rice discharging port (19) at an upper portion thereof and a rice discharging port (19) at a lower portion thereof. 9)
When an inner pot (5) for moving in and out of the rice cooker (3) is mounted on a table (6) outside the rice cooker (3), the drainer is disposed above the inner cooker (5). A rice cooker for business use, characterized in that the rice washing tank (9) is provided so as to be able to enter and exit in a vertical position so that the rice opening (19) faces each other. 2. A dropping chute (42) for connecting the rice discharge port (19) above the inner pot (5) when the rice discharge port (19) is opposed to the rice cooker (5). 2. The commercial rice cooker according to 1. 3. A table (6) on which an inner pot (5) is mounted outside a rice cooking room (3) is a door (6) that allows the rice cooking room (3) to be opened and closed. Item 2. A commercial rice cooker according to Item 1. 4. A dropping chute (42) communicating the inner pot (5) and the rice discharge port (19) is moved up and down by a support (44) provided swingably above the three-dimensional rice cooker (1). 3. The commercial rice cooker according to claim 2, wherein the rice cooker is provided freely.