JP3552348B2 - Kitchen equipment - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
[Industrial applications]
TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a kitchen apparatus provided with a garbage container and a lid for covering the trash container.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In general, when working in kitchen equipment such as sinks, garbage such as vegetables and fish is attached along with washing dishes and the like, and this garbage is conventionally placed in a garbage container separately provided in the kitchen. Was. However, this garbage is moist, and it is difficult to dispose of it because it emits odor.
[0003]
Therefore, the present inventors provide a trash container under a worktop such as a sink, and provide a suction / exhaust unit in communication with the inside of the trash container to suction air in the trash container, that is, suck odor. I thought about a kitchen device that vented to the outside.
[0004]
In this kitchen device, the odor generated by kitchen work can be sucked into the garbage storage container and the odor can be sucked out by the suction / exhaust means and exhausted to the outside via the drain pipe. There is an advantage that garbage can be easily handled.
[0005]
In such a kitchen apparatus, the present inventor further considered that the suction / exhaust means would be operated by opening the openable lid that covers the input port of the garbage container. That is, switch means for turning on and off by opening and closing the lid are provided, and the suction and exhaust means is controlled by the output of the switch means.
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, since the switch means uses a general push button switch, a constant pressing force is required, and the opening / closing force of the lid needs to be increased to some extent, so that the lid may not be reliably closed. occured. There is also a problem that the on / off of the switch means becomes uncertain.
[0007]
The first object of the present invention is to solve such problems, and a first object of the present invention is to ensure that the dust storage lid is securely closed and to ensure the on / off performance of the switch means, and to improve an odor prevention effect. It is what it was.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
Since the present invention is to achieve the first object, a dust inlet which is opened to the upper surface of the sink, the dust container of the dust inlet for garbage and for drying garbage disposed below the at least before Symbol Suction and exhaust means for sucking and exhausting air in the garbage container for garbage, a lid for covering the garbage container for dry garbage, a lid for covering the garbage container for garbage, and an opening edge of the trash inlet And switch means constituted by magnets and reed contacts provided at opposing portions of the respective lids, wherein the respective lids are arranged at the dust inlet so as to cover the respective dust storage containers, and are mutually connected. It is slidable in the overlapping direction, and the suction / exhaust means operates based on the output of the switch means .
[0009]
In order to achieve the second object, the suction / exhaust means operates continuously while the lid is open, and operates intermittently while the lid is closed .
[0010]
[Action]
According to the first aspect of the present invention, the operation of the suction / exhaust means can be controlled by opening and closing the lid according to the first configuration, and since the lid drives the switch means in a non-contact manner, the on / off of the switch means is ensured. The closed state can be reliably maintained by the attraction force of the magnet.
[0011]
Further, with the second configuration, when the lid is open, the air in the garbage container, that is, the odor is surely sucked by the suction and exhaust means, and the odor is intermittently sucked even when the lid is closed. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the odor filled in the trash container from leaking into the room.
[0012]
【Example】
Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
[0013]
A general household garbage storage device is applied to a sink 1 installed in a kitchen. The sink 1 is provided with a water tank 3 at one end of a worktop 2, leaving a working space 4. The sink 1 is provided with a garbage inlet 5 opened in the worktop 2, garbage storage containers 6 and 7 for garbage and dried garbage disposed below the garbage inlet 5, and the garbage storage containers. Lids 8 and 9 slidably disposed in the trash input port 5 so as to cover the garbage 6 and 7. The lids 8 and 9 can be opened and closed by being slidably set in directions overlapping each other. It is.
[0014]
The opening edge 10 of the dust inlet 5 and the lids 8 and 9 that cover the same are opposed to each other by switch means. Switching means 15 comprising a reed switch is provided with magnets 13 and 14 embedded therein.
[0015]
In addition, the sink 1 supplies the outside air passed through the ozone generator 17 into the garbage storage containers 6 and 7 for garbage and dried garbage by the fan 16 and the garbage storage container 6 for garbage and dried garbage. , 7 is provided with a suction / exhaust means 18 for sucking / exhausting the air in the air, and the suction / exhaust means 18 is controlled by a control unit 19 based on the output from the switch means 15 while the lids 8, 9 are open. Are driven continuously and intermittently while the lid is closed.
[0016]
In this embodiment, the exhaust from the suction / exhaust means 18 is performed toward the drainage channel 20 from the water tank 3, and is radiated to the atmosphere via a box 21 to which the drainage channel 20 is connected, or to the sewer 22. Like that. Further, a trap 23 is provided in the drainage channel 20 from the water tank 3 so that exhaust gas does not go up into the water tank 3 through the drainage channel 20.
[0017]
In the above configuration, the sink 1 is slidable in the direction in which the lids 8 and 9 covering the garbage storage containers 6 and 7 for garbage and dried garbage overlap with each other. Since the switch means 15 composed of the magnet 14 and the reed contact is provided at the opposing portions of the covering lids 8 and 9, a constant pressing force or the like is not required when opening and closing the switching means 15, and the opening and closing of the lids 8 and 9 can be performed. You can do it lightly. In addition, the lids 8 and 9 are reliably held in the closed state by the attraction force of the magnet 14 provided on the lids 8 and 9 against the opening edge 10.
[0018]
On the other hand, when the lids 8 and 9 are opened, the control unit 19 continuously operates the suction / exhaust means 18 based on the output from the switch means 15, so that the control unit 19 for the raw garbage and the dry garbage The air in the trash storage containers 6 and 7, that is, the odor, is sucked and exhausted by the suction and exhaust means 18. Further, when the lids 8 and 9 are closed, the control unit 19 intermittently operates the suction and exhaust means 18, so that the odor is sucked and exhausted before the garbage is filled in the garbage storage containers 6 and 7. Odor can be prevented from leaking into the room.
[0019]
【The invention's effect】
As is clear from the above description of the embodiment, according to the first configuration of the present invention, the operation of the suction / exhaust means can be controlled by opening and closing the lid, and the lid drives the switch means in a non-contact manner. Therefore, the switch means can be reliably turned on and off, and the closed state can be reliably maintained by the attraction force of the magnet, so that usability and reliability are improved.
[0020]
Further, with the second configuration, when the lid is open, the air in the garbage container, that is, the odor is surely sucked by the suction and exhaust means, and the odor is intermittently sucked even when the lid is closed. Therefore, the odor filled in the garbage storage container can be prevented from leaking into the room, and the odor prevention effect is improved.
[Brief description of the drawings]
1 is an external perspective view of a kitchen apparatus showing one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing the configuration of the kitchen apparatus; FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. 1; 1 is a sectional view taken along line YY of FIG. 5. FIG. 5 is an enlarged sectional view showing a main part of the kitchen apparatus.
REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 sink 2 work top 5 trash inlet 6 garbage storage container 7 dry trash storage container 8 slide lid 9 slide lid 10 trash input opening opening edge 11 lead contact 12 lead contact 13 magnet 14 magnet 15 switch means

Claims (2)

A garbage inlet opened on the upper surface of the sink, a garbage container for garbage and dried garbage disposed below the garbage inlet, and at least air in the garbage container for the garbage is sucked and exhausted. Suction and exhaust means, a lid covering the garbage storage container for the dried garbage and a lid covering the garbage storage container for the garbage, a magnet provided at an opening edge of the garbage input port and at a portion of the lid facing each other. A switch configured by a reed contact, wherein each of the lids is disposed at a dust inlet so as to cover each of the dust containers, and is slidable in a direction overlapping with each other; A kitchen device that operates based on the output of the switch means . 2. The kitchen apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the suction / exhaust means operates continuously while the lid is open, and operates intermittently while the lid is closed.

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