JPH11267086A - Cleaning device for gridiron and grill plate - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning device for a gridiron and a grill plate in which the gridiron and the grill plate can be speedily and favorably cleaned in a simple structure. SOLUTION: In a cleaning device for a gridiron and a grill plate, the gridiron/ grill plate Y is fed by feed rollers to be cleaned by a cleaning brush and cleaning water. It comprises a cleaning chamber 2 formed surrounded with a cover 4, a pair of cleaning brushes 7 and 8 shaft-supported horizontally in two of upper and lower stages in the cleaning chamber 2, and upper feed rollers 15 and 16 and lower feed rollers 17-20 disposed horizontally before and after the cleaning brushes 7 to hold and feed the gridiron/grill plate Y. A brush rotation drive mechanism drives one of the upper and lower cleaning brushes 7 and 8 to be rotated in a feed direction, and drives the other cleaning brushes 8 and 7 in a counter-feeddirection, a feed rotation drive mechanism drives the upper feed rollers 15 and 16 and the lower feed rollers 17-20 to be rotated in a carrying direction, and cleaning shower is applied from a cleaning shower pipe onto the cleaning brushes 7 and 8 in the cleaning chamber to clean the gridiron/grill plate passing between them.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a grill or grill (steel plate,
A metal plate, a stone plate, etc.).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a barbecue restaurant, a roaster or a gas range is installed on each table, and customers place their favorite meat, fish, etc. on a grill or a grill plate. Restaurants that eat while grilling on the spot are increasing.

[0003]

In such a barbecue restaurant, used grills and grills are washed and provided to the next customer, but the grills and grills usually have a lot of oil and meat pieces. Because of the scorching, it is difficult to wash it off easily by hand, and hand-washing involves a great deal of labor and time.

Therefore, a high-pressure jet type cleaning apparatus for jetting cleaning water to a grill or a baking plate at high pressure to clean the apparatus has been used. This apparatus includes a high-pressure pump, a jet nozzle, and a cleaning target. A complicated mechanism such as an object holding and moving mechanism is required, and there has been a problem that the apparatus becomes expensive.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a cleaning apparatus for a grill plate, which has a simple structure and can quickly and properly clean a grill or a grill plate. And

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION To achieve the above object, a cleaning apparatus for a grill plate according to the present invention is provided for cleaning a grill plate in which a grill is washed with a cleaning brush and washing water while feeding the grill plate with a feed roller. In the apparatus, a cleaning chamber formed by being surrounded by a cover, one or more pairs of cleaning brushes horizontally supported in two vertical stages in the cleaning chamber, and horizontally disposed at front and rear positions of the cleaning brush, A feed roller having an upper feed roller and a lower feed roller that feeds across a grill plate, and a brush rotation drive mechanism that rotationally drives one of the upper and lower cleaning brushes in the feed direction and rotationally drives the other cleaning brush in the reverse feed direction. And a feed rotation driving mechanism for rotating the upper feed roller and the lower feed roller of the feed roller in the transport direction, and a cleaning shower pipe disposed above the cleaning brush in the cleaning chamber.

[0007]

In the cleaning device for a grill plate having such a structure, the brush rotating drive mechanism drives one of the upper and lower cleaning brushes to rotate in the feeding direction and the other cleaning brush to rotate in the counter-feeding direction. Then, the feed rotation drive mechanism drives the upper feed roller and the lower feed roller of the feed roller to rotate in the transport direction, and puts the grill plate into the cleaning chamber in a state where the cleaning shower is ejected from the cleaning shower pipe, and the upper feed roller and While being sandwiched between lower feed rollers and fed, the upper and lower cleaning brushes are passed through, and the rotation of the cleaning brushes and the cleaning water are used to wash oil and charred substances attached to the grill plate.

During cleaning, the upper or lower cleaning brush rotates in the direction opposite to the transport direction, so that particularly one side of the dirty grill plate can be cleaned well, and the grill plate can be fed without any problem. Can be.

Further, if the vertical position of the upper feed roller and the lower feed roller in the feed roller is formed so as to be adjustable, grid plates having different thicknesses can be cleaned by adjustment. In addition, if the upper feed roller is biased downward by the coil spring, the grill plate is conveyed without slipping while being pinched by the upper and lower feed rollers, and can be washed well.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 shows a front view of the cleaning device with a cover removed, FIG. 2 shows a left side view thereof, and FIG. 3 shows a right side view thereof. The cleaning device is placed on the gantry 1
A cleaning chamber 2 provided with a feed roller and cleaning brushes 7 and 8 is formed. The washing room 2 is formed by surrounding both sides with side walls 3 and 6, covering the front, back and top surfaces with a cover 4, and arranging a water receiving container 5 at the bottom. The cover 4 and the water receiving container 5 can be easily formed. It can be removed.

In the cleaning chamber 2, a pair of cleaning brushes 7 and 8 are horizontally supported vertically. As the cleaning brushes 7 and 8, for example, cylindrical nylon brushes having a nylon wire having a diameter of about 1 mm and a length of about 100 mm implanted around a shaft are used. It is rotatably supported via bearings 7b, 8b provided on the side walls 3, 6. Also, sprockets 7c, 8c are fixed to one ends of the shafts 7a, 8a protruding outside the side wall. If the shafts 7a and 8a are vertically movably mounted, the position of the cleaning brushes 7 and 8 with respect to the object to be cleaned can be adjusted well.

The sprocket 7c is connected via a chain 9
Spricket 11 at one end of drive shaft 10 provided in gantry 1
The sprocket 8c is linked to a sprocket 12 at the other end of the drive shaft 10 via a chain 11, and the drive shaft 10 is linked to a motor 14 via a pulley 12 and a belt 13. As shown in FIG. 5, the upper cleaning brush 7 rotates in the feed direction of the grill plate, and the lower cleaning brush 8 rotates by the rotation of the motor 14 of the brush rotation drive mechanism configured as described above. Is rotated in the reverse feed direction.

In front of and behind a pair of cleaning brushes 7 and 8 in the cleaning chamber 2, upper feed rollers 15 and 16 for feeding a grill plate are provided.
Then, the lower feed rollers 17 to 20 are horizontally arranged at a predetermined interval. Three to six rubber rollers are fixed to the shaft at intervals on the upper feed rollers 15 and 16 and the lower feed rollers 17 to 20, and both ends of the shaft are connected to side walls 3, 6 via bearings.
Supported by

In particular, bearings 15a, 16a, which support both ends of the upper feed rollers 15, 16 and the lower feed rollers 18, 19,
18a and 19a are slidably held on both sides by guide members outside the side walls 3 and 6, and their positions can be adjusted up and down by bolts provided above or below. Also, bearings 15a, 16 on both sides of the upper feed rollers 15, 16 are provided.
a is mounted so as to be able to move up and down, and the coil springs 15b, 16
It is mounted while being urged downward by b. The distance between the upper feed rollers 15, 16 and the lower feed rollers 18, 19 is set to be slightly smaller than the thickness of the grid plate of the object to be cleaned. With this configuration, the grill plate of the object to be cleaned is
When passing between the lower feed rollers 18 and 19, the upper feed rollers 15 and 16 are slightly lifted up against the urging force of the coil spring, that is, the upper feed rollers 15 and 16 are baked by the coil spring. It acts so as to be pressed against the net plate and feeds the grill plate without slipping.

As shown in FIG. 3, sprockets 15c, 15c are provided at one ends (outside the side walls) of the shafts of the upper feed rollers 15, 16.
The sprockets 15c, 16c are linked to a drive shaft 21 via a chain 22, and the upper feed rollers 15, 16 are driven to rotate in the feed direction of the grill plate as shown in FIG. The drive shaft 21 is linked to the shaft 20a of the lower feed roller 20 via gears 24 and 25. Shaft 20a
As shown in FIG. 2, a sprocket 20b is fixed to one end of the shaft, and sprockets 17b to 19b are also fixed to one ends of shafts of the other lower feed rollers 17 to 19.

The sprockets 17b to 17b-2
A chain 26 is wound around Ob, and further, a chain 28 is hung between another sprocket mounted on the shaft 20a and a sprocket on the output shaft of the motor 27. These constitute a feed rotation drive mechanism. By the driving of the motor 27, the lower feed rollers 17 to 20 feed the grill plate as shown in FIG. 5 through the chain 28, the chain 26, and the sprockets 17b to 20b. It is driven to rotate in the direction.

As shown in FIG. 5, on the front side of the cover 4,
An insertion port 4a for inserting a grill plate is formed, and a similar discharge port 4b is formed on the back side thereof. The insertion port 4a and the discharge port 4b are provided to prevent washing water from flowing out from the openings. Brush 29 is provided. The brush provided on the discharge port 4b side is also a drain brush for draining water.

Above the cleaning chamber 2, a cleaning shower tube 30 is provided.
Is arranged. Tap water is discharged from the cleaning shower pipe 30, but cleaning water containing a detergent can be used, and a rinse shower pipe can be provided on the discharge side. The detergent may be put in a detergent tank and dropped into the washing shower tube 30 or may be dropped directly on the brushes 7 and 8.

Next, the operation of the above-structured grill plate cleaning apparatus will be described. The object to be washed is a grill net Y such as a grill or a grill (metal plate or stone plate) used in a grill restaurant or the like. As shown in FIG. 5, the cleaning brushes 7, 8 and the upper feed roller 1
5, 16 and the lower feed rollers 17 to 20 are rotationally driven,
In a state in which the washing water is spouted from the washing shower pipe 30, the grill plate Y is placed on the lower feed roller 17 from the front insertion port 4a and inserted.

When the grill plate Y enters the cleaning chamber 2 through the insertion opening 4a, it is sandwiched between the upper feed roller 15 and the lower feed roller 18 and sent between the upper and lower cleaning brushes 7, 8. By the rotation of the cleaning brushes 7 and 8 and the cleaning water, the oil and the sticking, etc. adhered to the grill plate Y are cleaned. Since the upper feed rollers 15 and 16 are urged downward by the coil springs 15b and 16b and are pressed against the grill plate to rotate, the grill plate Y is satisfactorily held between the rollers without being slipped and conveyed. Washed.

In particular, since the lower cleaning brush 8 rotates in the direction opposite to the transport direction, the back surface of the grill plate Y is cleaned well. The same effect can be expected if the upper cleaning brush 7 is also rotated in the direction opposite to the transport direction. However, if the two cleaning brushes 7 and 8 are rotated in the opposite direction to the transport direction, the feed of the grill plate Y is reduced. It cannot be good. For this reason, it is preferable to rotate either one of the cleaning brushes in the direction opposite to the feeding direction.

After the cleaning, the grill plate Y is sandwiched between the upper feed roller 16 and the lower feed roller 19 on the discharge side, and is discharged from the discharge port 4b.
And is placed on the lower feed roller 20 and sent out. The cleaning of the upper surface of the grill plate Y on the side where the cleaning brush 7 rotates in the feed direction is slightly inferior to the lower surface rotating in the opposite direction, but in this case, the vertical direction of the grill plate Y is reversed, and What is necessary is just to pass through the washing room 2 and wash.

As described above, with the cleaning device having a relatively simple structure, the grinder is removed between the rotating cleaning brushes 7 and 8 while the griddle Y is being fed while the brush is being removed. Even a bad grill screen plate can be efficiently and favorably washed. Since the water receiving container 5 and the cover 4 can be easily removed, the inside of the cleaning device can be easily washed. Since the cleaning brushes 7, 8 and the upper feed rollers 15, 16 and the lower feed rollers 17 to 20 can adjust their vertical positions, by adjusting their vertical positions,
It is possible to wash even grilled plates of different thicknesses.

In the above embodiment, a plurality of pairs of cleaning brushes using a pair of cleaning brushes 7 and 8 may be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a cleaning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a left side view of the cleaning device.

FIG. 3 is a right side view of the cleaning device.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the cleaning device.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a cleaning chamber of the cleaning apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2-Washing room 4-Cover 5-Water receiving container 7,8-Washing brush 14,27-Motor 15,16-Up feed roller 17-20-Down feed roller

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A cleaning apparatus for a grill plate for cleaning a grill plate with a cleaning brush and washing water while feeding the grill plate with a feed roller, comprising: a cleaning chamber surrounded by a cover; One or more pairs of cleaning brushes pivotally supported on a step, a feed roller horizontally disposed at front and rear positions of the cleaning brushes, and having an upper feed roller and a lower feed roller for feeding across a grill plate; A brush rotation drive mechanism for rotating one of the upper and lower cleaning brushes in the feeding direction and for rotating the other cleaning brush in the counter-feeding direction; and for rotating the upper and lower feed rollers of the feed roller in the transport direction. A cleaning device for a grill plate, comprising: a feed rotation driving mechanism; and a cleaning shower tube disposed above the cleaning brush in the cleaning chamber. 2. The feed roller is formed so that the vertical position of an upper feed roller and a lower feed roller can be adjusted.
The cleaning device for a grill plate according to the above. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the upper feed roller of the feed roller is provided with a coil spring for urging the roller downward.