JPH06133846A - Full automatic rice cooking device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the full automatic rice cooking device whose cooked-up quality is satisfactory by constituting its device so that height in the box can be suppressed low, and also, water droplets, etc., sticking to the upper cover in a state that the rice cooker is moved to the outside of the box can be allowed to flow down and discharged. CONSTITUTION:The full automatic rice cooking device is provided with a rice store part 1 for storing rice, a weighing part 2 for weighing and discharging the rice in the rice store part 1, a rice washing part 5 for washing the rice discharged from the weighing part 2, and a rice cooking part for cooking the rice discharged from the rice washing part 5, and the rice washing part 5 is provided with a freely openable/closeable outflow port 15 in the bottom part, and the rice cooking part is provided with a rice cooker 22 being freely movable in the horizontal direction and the upper cover 27 being freely openable and closeable to the rice cooker 22. The upper cover opening/closing means 29 for making the upper cover 27 freely openable and closeable is provided with a link 30 for raising the upper cover 27 in a rising state from the inner part side of the rice cooker 22, and also, setting it in roughly erect attitude in the inner part side of the rice washing part 5 and storing it, at the time of opening the upper cover 27, and closing it gradually from this side of the upper cover 27 from the roughly erect attitude, setting it to a roughly horizontal attitude and closing it fully, at the time of closing the upper cover 27.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been proposed for the purpose of completely saving labor in a rice cooking operation that has conventionally been troublesome by humans, and stores, weighs, and rinses raw materials (milled rice) in the rice cooking operation. The present invention relates to a novel fully-automatic rice cooking device that can automatically process a series of work steps from water addition, water absorption, rice cooking, steaming, and completion with an accurate program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A rice storing section for storing rice, a measuring section for measuring and discharging rice in the rice storing section, a rice washing section for washing rice discharged from the measuring section, and a rice discharged from the rice washing section A rice cooker for cooking rice, and an openable and closable outlet at the bottom of the rice washing unit, and the rice cooker opens and closes the rice cooker horizontally movable directly below the rice washing tank. In a fully-automatic rice cooker equipped with an upper lid, the upper lid has a rice inflow port, and a shutter that slides the inflow port horizontally to open and close and is installed directly below the rice washing tank coaxially. Is vertically movable in the vertical direction, and the upper lid is provided at each of a lowered position for closing the rice cooker and a raised position for allowing the rice cooker to move in the horizontal direction while discharging rice from the rice washing section and cooking rice in the rice cooking section. A technique provided with an upper lid opening / closing means for raising and lowering
It is known from Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 218115, and the height of the inside of the refrigerator is made as low as possible so that rice can be supplied without difficulty.

[0003]

In the prior art disclosed in the above publication, since the upper lid of the rice cooker is vertically movable in a mounted state directly under the coaxial axis of the rice washing tank, it is possible to wash rice in the inner pot of the rice cooker. In order to put in the rice discharged from the section, the top cover itself must be provided with an inflow port, which must be an exclusive top cover with a complicated structure.

On the other hand, since the upper lid itself has an inflow port, it requires an openable and closable shutter for sealing the inflow port during rice cooking, which is also a dedicated product and lacks versatility. . Furthermore, the inflow port formed on the upper lid is
Since it is inevitably smaller than the opening of the rice cooker, the rice fed from the rice washing section may be scattered on the upper lid.

Further, since the upper lid is held on the horizontal surface in the refrigerator when it is opened, the water droplets attached to the inner surface of the upper lid, that is, the water droplets caused by the steam in the cooked rice tend to remain attached, If this is dripped next time during rice cooking, the water content may be disturbed, while the work of removing the adhering water droplets is troublesome because the upper lid is on a horizontal plane.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the height of the inside of the cooking stove can be kept low, but after the rice is cooked, water drops and the like adhering to the upper lid can be drained down while the rice cooker is moved outside the cooking stove. The purpose is to do.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems] According to the present invention, a rice storing section 1 for storing rice and a measuring section 2 for measuring and discharging rice in the rice storing section 1 are provided.
And a rice washing section 5 for washing the rice discharged from the weighing section 2 and a rice cooking section for cooking the rice discharged from the rice washing section 5, the rice washing section 5 has an openable / closable outlet 15 at the bottom. In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the fully-cooked rice cooker includes a rice cooker 22 that is horizontally movable and an upper lid 27 that opens and closes the rice cooker 22. Taking technical measures.

That is, according to the present invention, the upper lid opening / closing means 29 for opening and closing the upper lid 27 is a rice cooker when the upper lid 27 is opened.
The upper lid 27 is lifted up from the back side of 22 and is stored in the inner part of the rice washing unit 5 in a substantially upright posture, and when the upper lid 27 is closed, the upper lid 27 is gradually closed from the substantially upright posture and before the upper lid 27. It is characterized by including a link 30 which is fully closed in a horizontal posture.

[0009]

[Function] When the prescribed rice cooking in the rice cooker 22 is completed, the upper lid 27
Is opened by the upper lid opening / closing means 29 for moving the rice cooker 22 in the horizontal direction. That is, the electric motor 33 is activated to raise the approximately central portion of the upper lid 27 by the lifting swing link 32 by a crank action, and the restriction link 35 pivotally supported on the back side of the upper lid 27 is slid upward to move the rice cooker. The upper lid 27 is lifted up from the back side of 22 and stored in the back of the rice washing section 5 in a substantially upright posture.

As a result, the rice cooker 22 can be moved horizontally and taken out. On the other hand, as for water drops adhering to the rice cooker due to water vapor or the like, the upper lid 27 is held in a substantially upright posture at the back of the rice washing section 5. Because it is flowing, it is naturally drained. The rice cooker 22 taken out of the refrigerator has its inner pot 25 removed from the outer pot 24,
A new inner pot 25 for rice cooking is set in the outer pot 24,
It is installed just under the same axis as the rice washing section 5 in the refrigerator.

During this time, necessary processing such as weighing and washing rice is performed, and thus predetermined rice is dropped from the lower portion of the rice washing section 5 to the inner pot 25 with the upper lid 27 opened. At this time, since the opening of the inner pot 25 has the same size, the dropped rice is not spilled and the rice is uniformly thrown over the whole. In the rice throwing portion, the upper lid 27 is closed by the upper lid opening / closing means 29, which is gradually closed from the substantially upright position in front of the upper lid 27 to a substantially horizontal position and then fully closed.

[0012]

EXAMPLE An example of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 showing the first example, the raw material (rice ) Is stored, and a quantifier (measuring unit) 2 is connected to the bottom of the hopper-shaped rice storage tank 1. The metering machine shown in this embodiment is a drum type that rotates in one direction by the electric motor 3, and the quantity of raw material is quantitatively divided according to the number of revolutions while keeping the inner volume constant and dropping it downward. According to the pulse counting method, which is controlled by transmitting the set value pulse of the set counter.

On the other hand, a raw material chute 4 formed in a funnel shape is disposed immediately below the metering device 2, and a raw material supply port 7 is opened through a top plate 6 of a rice washing tank 5 serving as a rice washing section. The rice washing tank 5 is composed of a cylindrical body whose lower part is formed into an inverted conical shape, and a plurality of stirring blades each having a different rotation radius are provided at the axial center position of the tank.
A hollow rotary shaft 9 on which 8 is installed is rotatably arranged by an electric motor 11 via a bearing 10 penetrating the top plate 6. On the other hand, at the bottom of the rice washing tank 5, a shaft rod 13 which is inserted coaxially with the hollow shaft 9 and is vertically movable by a rotary cam mechanism 12 provided above the top plate 6 and a lower end of the shaft rod 13. A raw material and an outlet 15 for cooking water are provided which can be opened and closed by a conical valve 14 fixed to the.

Further, above the outflow port 15, there are provided a separating plate 16 formed in the shape of an inverted cone having a large number of water passage ports, and an annular drainage jacket 17 provided so as to hermetically surround the separating plate 16. There is. A side pipe 18 is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the drainage jacket 17.
And the float 19 for detecting the rise in the water level inside the pipe is enclosed, and the rice cooking water level in the rice washing tank 5 is detected and adjusted by the sensor 20 that can move up and down in conjunction with the quantitative dial mechanism. Is configured. Also,
A top plate 6 is opened at the top of the rice washing tank 5 to open a plurality of sprinklers.
21 are provided.

A rice cooker 22 is provided directly below the rice washing tank 5 so as to be horizontally movable via a slide base 23. The rice cooker 22 is a gas rice cooker, and is composed of an outer pot 24, an inner pot 25 that can be inserted into and removed from the outer pot 24, a stove section 26, and the like. An upper lid 27 is attached so that it can be opened and closed.

The upper lid 27 closes the opening of the rice cooker 22 during rice cooking, is opened to allow the washing rice to be fed and the rice cooker 22 to move horizontally after the rice is cooked, and the device frame 28
Therefore, it is attached to the frame 28 via the upper lid opening / closing means 29. When the upper lid 27 is opened, the upper lid opening / closing means 29 lifts the upper lid 27 from the back side of the rice cooker 22 in an upright shape and stores it in the back of the rice washing tank 5 in a substantially upright posture.
When the upper lid 27 is closed, a link 30 is provided, which is gradually closed from a substantially upright position from the front of the upper lid 27 to a substantially horizontal posture and fully closed.

In the first embodiment, a horizontal support shaft 31 is provided at a position slightly deeper than the central portion of the upper lid 27, and the ends of the pair of left and right lifting swing links 32 are attached to both ends of the support shaft 31. The rear end of each link 32 is pivotally connected to the crank portions 34 of a pair of left and right electric motors 33 provided on the back of the frame 28, while the left and right outer sides of the swing link 32 are provided near the outer peripheral edge of the upper lid 27. A pair of left and right 35 are pivotally connected, and the other ends of the restriction links 35 are slidably and pivotally connected to a vertical slide groove 36 formed in the frame 28 via shoes 37 and the like.

That is, according to the first embodiment described above,
After the predetermined rice cooking process is completed, in order to horizontally move the rice cooker 22 out of the refrigerator, the electric motor 33 is started and the pair of left and right lifting swing links 32 is swung upward through the crank portion 34 and the like. , The tip of the link 32 is pivoted slightly rearward of the center of the upper lid 27 and has the restriction link 35, so that the upper lid is
27 is lifted up, and the front part of the upper lid 27 is slidably guided by the opening edge of the inner pot 25 and moved to the back part to wash the rice.
Gradually, it is stored and held in the back part of the rice washing part 5 in a substantially upright posture without interference with the bottom part of the part 5.

Therefore, the rice cooker 22 is horizontally moved to the outside of the refrigerator via the slide table 23 and the like, and the inner pot 25 is removed from the outer pot 24. Using this work process, rice is washed for the next time in the rice washing section 5 etc., and water drops etc. adhering to the inner surface of the upper lid 27 are held in a substantially upright posture in the inner portion of the upper lid 27. It will be naturally discharged. At this time, by providing a fan or the like which blows the forced air from the upper side to the lower side on the inner surface of the upper lid 27 in the upright posture, the adhered water droplets are forcibly eliminated and the drying action by the wind can be imparted.

An empty inner pot 25 instead of the inner pot 25 containing rice
Is set in the outer pot 24, and then the rice cooker 22 is mounted again immediately below the rice washing section 5 coaxially. After the rice cooker 22 is mounted directly below the rice washing unit 5, the conical valve 14 is opened, and the rice in the rice washing unit 5 is dropped into the inner pot 25 under the locus A of FIG. During this dropping, the upper lid 27 is held substantially upright in the back portion, so that the dropping onto the inner pot 25 is uniform and does not spill.

After the dropping, the upper lid opening / closing means 29 is reversely operated to slide the front side of the upper lid 27 against the opening edge of the inner pot 25, and the rear portion is lowered in a bottom-down shape to be in a substantially horizontal state. It is fully closed, and since water droplets and the like on the inner surface of the upper lid 27 are completely removed, the cooked food is improved without the water addition and the like being disturbed. FIG. 3 shows a second embodiment of the present invention,
The electric motor 33 having the crank portion 34 is mounted on the left and right side walls of the frame 28, not on the back portion (rear side) thereof.
The upper lid 27 and the upper lid 27 are pivotally connected by a pair of left and right links 30. According to this, the upper lid 27 can be easily configured between the horizontal (closed posture) and the substantially upright posture. However, in this case, the rice cooker 22 is mounted so as to be descendable as shown by the arrow B in FIG.

[0022]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, it is possible to improve the quality of cooked food since the predetermined amount of water is not deviated while being suppressed in the height direction.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side elevational view showing the operation of the first embodiment together.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view showing the operation of the second embodiment together.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Rice storage part 2 Measuring part 5 Washing part 15 Outflow port 22 Rice cooker 27 Top lid 29 Top lid opening / closing means 30 Link

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Mitsuaki Nakajima 64 Ishizukita-cho, Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture Kubota Sakai Factory

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A rice storage section (1) for storing rice, and the rice storage section (1)
Weighing unit (2) for weighing and discharging the rice, a rice washing unit (5) for washing the rice discharged from the weighing unit (2), and a rice cooking unit for cooking the rice discharged from the rice washing unit (5) And the rice washing section (5)
Is equipped with an openable and closable outlet (15) at the bottom, and the rice cooker is a horizontally movable rice cooker (22) and the rice cooker (2).
2) In a fully automatic rice cooker equipped with an upper lid (27) that can be opened and closed, the upper lid opening and closing means (29) that opens and closes the upper lid (27) is a rice cooker (when the upper lid (27) is opened. The upper lid (27) is lifted up from the back side of (22) and stored in a substantially upright position in the inner part of the rice washing section (5) .When the upper lid (27) is closed, the upper lid (27) is moved from the substantially upright position. ), The fully automatic rice cooking device is equipped with a link (30) that gradually closes to a substantially horizontal position before fully closing.