CN111543871A

CN111543871A - Food clamp

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Publication number: CN111543871A
Application number: CN202010471974.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 苏庚; 肖宇锋; 李钦裕; 邹思渊; 郑官成
Original assignee: Guangdong Yijia Industrial Investment Co ltd
Current assignee: Yangjiang Ikea Industry And Trade Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-05-29
Filing date: 2020-05-29
Publication date: 2020-08-18
Anticipated expiration: 2040-05-29
Also published as: CN111543871B

Abstract

The invention discloses a food clamp, which comprises a clamp body, wherein the clamp body comprises two opposite clamp arms and a rotating shaft, the two clamp arms are connected through the rotating shaft in a pivoting manner, when the two clamp arms are in a clamping state, a gap with an opening at the upper end is formed between the corresponding sides of the upper ends of the two clamp arms, the upper end of the clamp body is also provided with a movable lock, the movable lock is provided with a lock head part, and the movable lock can swing relative to the clamp body so that the lock head part of the movable lock can be placed in and separated from the gap between the upper ends of the two clamp arms. When the food clamp is used, the clamp body is held by one hand to clamp the two clamping arms, the food clamp is turned over to enable the movable lock to be in contact with the table board, the table board presses the movable lock to enable the movable lock to swing back and forth relative to the clamp body, so that the head of the movable lock is placed in and separated from a gap between the upper ends of the two clamping arms to lock and unlock the two clamping arms, the aim of locking and unlocking the food clamp by one hand is fulfilled, and the food clamp is convenient to operate.

Description

Food clamp

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the field of kitchen utensils, and particularly relates to a food clamp with an opening and closing locking structure.

Background

Food clamps are widely used in cooking for various purposes such as clamping food or mixing food. The traditional food clamp is formed by bending a metal sheet, and the clamping arms are opened and closed by utilizing the elasticity of the metal sheet. But the distance between the clamping arms is far away when the food clamp is not used, so that the food clamp occupies a large space when being stored, and is inconvenient to store. Therefore, the food clamp with the clamping and locking structure is more inclined to be arranged on the market at present, and the use pleasure is increased while the food clamp is convenient to store.

The food clamp with clamping and locking structure generally comprises two clamping arms pivotally connected to each other, a spring assembled in the two clamping arms, and a control member assembled at the upper ends of the clamping arms for controlling the opening and closing of the clamping arms. Its advantage lies in when need not using food to press from both sides two arm lock of accessible control piece locking food clamp for two arm lock are in the clamping state, convenient storage. However, such food generally needs to be operated by two hands, wherein one hand grips the two clamping arms to clamp the food, and the other hand pulls the control member up and down to control the locking and unlocking of the food clamp. The disadvantage of this method is that the pull handle easily brings the contamination into the food clamp, and the inner space of the food clamp is small and not easy to clean, which easily causes the risk of sanitation for the subsequent use.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of at least one of the above deficiencies of the prior art, it is an object of the present invention to provide a food clip that is easy to operate.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that: the utility model provides a food clamp, including pressing from both sides the main part, press from both sides the main part including two arm lock and the pivot of relative setting, but two arm lock pass through pivot pivoted joint, so that two arm lock can open and the relative rotation between the clamping state, when two arm lock are in the clamping state, form upper end open-ended breach between the corresponding one side in upper end of two arm lock, and press from both sides the main part upper end and still be equipped with the activity lock, the activity lock has the lock head portion, the activity lock can press from both sides the main part swing relatively, so that the lock head portion of activity lock can arrange in and break away from the breach between two arm lock upper ends.

In the scheme, the clamp body is held by one hand to clamp the two clamp arms, the food clamp is turned over to enable the movable lock to be in contact with the table board, the table board is utilized to press the movable lock to enable the movable lock to swing back and forth relative to the clamp body, the lock head of the movable lock is enabled to be arranged in and separated from a gap between the upper ends of the two clamp arms to achieve locking and unlocking of the two clamp arms, the purpose of locking and unlocking the food clamp by one hand is achieved, and operation is convenient.

Furthermore, the lower end of the movable lock is provided with a sleeve hole, the diameter of the sleeve hole is larger than that of the rotating shaft, and the movable lock is sleeved outside the rotating shaft through the sleeve hole. The scheme not only realizes the connection of the movable lock and the rotating shaft, but also realizes the swinging of the movable lock relative to the rotating shaft so as to control the lock head part of the movable lock to be arranged in and separated from the gap between the upper ends of the two clamping arms.

Furthermore, an elastic part for providing elasticity for opening the two clamping arms is further arranged between the two clamping arms, preferably, the elastic part is a torsion spring which is sleeved outside the rotating shaft, the two elastic arms of the torsion spring are respectively abutted against the two clamping arms, and when the novel clamping device is used, the two clamping arms can be automatically opened under the action of the elasticity of the torsion spring after the two clamping arms are unlocked, so that the novel clamping device is convenient to use.

In another scheme, a connecting piece is further arranged between the two clamping arms, the connecting piece is sleeved on the outer side of the rotating shaft, the movable lock is hinged to the upper end of the connecting piece, and the movable lock can swing relative to the upper end of the connecting piece.

Further, the locked groove has been seted up to the upper end of foretell connecting piece, and the locked groove is arranged in to the activity lock, and an articulated shaft passes locked groove lateral wall and activity lock, and the locked groove has restricted the degree of freedom that the activity was locked along articulated shaft axis direction for the activity is locked more steadily around the articulated shaft swing, and, locked groove and activity lock tight fit can avoid the automatic swing of activity lock, influences the use that the food pressed from both sides.

Furthermore, the hinge shaft is of a hollow shaft structure, and the central through hole of the hinge shaft is directly used as a hanging hole of the food clamp, so that the food clamp is conveniently hung and placed.

Furthermore, when the lock head part is separated from the gap between the upper ends of the two clamping arms, the swing of the movable lock corresponding to the direction of the lock head part far away from the gap is limited, and the movable lock can be guaranteed to swing within a preset angle range.

Furthermore, at least one of the two outer side surfaces of the upper part of the connecting piece corresponding to one side of the two clamping arms is an inclined surface, so that the upper part of the connecting piece is prevented from limiting the upper ends of the two clamping arms to prevent the two clamping arms from being opened relatively.

In order to facilitate the suspension of the food clamp, the upper end of the movable lock is provided with a hanging hole.

Further, the spring groove has been seted up to the lower extreme of foretell connecting piece, and the elastic component is the torsional spring, and the torsional spring is arranged in the spring groove and the suit in the pivot outside, and two play arms of torsional spring are inconsistent with two arm locks respectively, and the torsional spring installation is stable, and the spring groove width is equivalent with the length of torsional spring, can make things convenient for the torsional spring to stabilize and place in this spring groove when the equipment, convenient equipment.

Furthermore, the upper end of the movable lock is provided with a shifting part which is positioned above the clamp main body, so that the movable lock can be conveniently shifted to swing to lock and unlock.

According to the food clamp, the movable lock capable of swinging is arranged at the upper end between the two clamping arms, the locking of the two clamping arms is realized by utilizing the gap formed by the head part of the movable lock arranged between the upper ends of the two clamping arms, so that the two clamping arms are kept in a clamping state, the head part of the movable lock can be separated from the gap formed between the upper ends of the two clamping arms by swinging the movable lock, the two clamping arms are unlocked, and the two clamping arms can be opened. The movable lock can swing by holding the two clamping arms with one hand to enable the movable lock to be in contact with the table board, the table board presses the movable lock to enable the movable lock to swing in a reciprocating mode relative to the clamp body, the head of the lock is placed in and separated from a gap between the upper ends of the two clamping arms, locking and unlocking of the two clamping arms are achieved, operation is convenient, the movable lock does not need to be contacted with the hand, and compared with the existing food clamp, locking and unlocking of the food clamp are achieved by pulling the control piece repeatedly with the hand, pollutants are not easily brought into the food clamp by the food clamp, and the food clamp is easy to clean and.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is an exploded view of a food clip according to embodiment 1 of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a partial schematic view of a locking state of a food clip according to embodiment 1 of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a partial schematic view of an unlocked state of the food clip according to embodiment 1 of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is an exploded view of the food clip according to embodiment 2 of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a partial schematic view of a locking state of a food clip according to embodiment 2 of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a partial schematic view of an unlocked state of the food clip according to embodiment 2 of the present invention.

Fig. 7 is a partial sectional view a-a of fig. 5.

Fig. 8 is a partial sectional view B-B of fig. 6.

Fig. 9 is a partial schematic view of a locking state of a food clamp according to embodiment 3 of the present invention.

Fig. 10 is a partial schematic view of an unlocked state of the food clip according to embodiment 3 of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The invention is further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not to be construed as limiting the patent.

In order to explain the embodiment more simply, some parts of the drawings or descriptions that are well known to those skilled in the art but are not relevant to the main content of the present invention will be omitted. In addition, some components in the drawings may be omitted, enlarged or reduced for convenience of description, but do not represent the size or the entire structure of an actual product.

Example 1

As shown in fig. 1-3, the present embodiment provides a food clamp, which includes a clamp body, the clamp body includes two clamp arms 1 and a rotating shaft 2, the rotating shaft 2 is a rivet, two sides of the upper portion of the clamp arm 1 are respectively provided with a combining wall 101, the combining wall 101 of each clamp arm 1 is provided with a shaft hole 70, the two clamp arms 1 are oppositely stacked through the combining walls 101, and the rotating shaft 2 penetrates through the shaft holes 70 of the combining walls 101 of the two clamp arms 1, so that the two clamp arms 1 can rotate around the rotating shaft 2 relatively between an open state and a clamping state.

In the food clamp, when the two clamping arms 1 are in a clamping state, a gap 11 with an opening at the upper end is formed between the corresponding sides of the upper ends of the two clamping arms 1, the upper end between the two clamping arms 1 is further provided with the movable lock 4, one side of the movable lock 4 corresponding to the gap 11 is provided with the lock head portion 41, the lower end of the movable lock 4 is provided with the sleeve hole 42, the aperture of the sleeve hole 42 is larger than the diameter of the rotating shaft 2, the movable lock 4 is sleeved outside the rotating shaft 2 through the sleeve hole 42, so that the movable lock 4 can be in reciprocating swing between the two clamping arms 1 in a direction parallel to the plane of the rotating shaft 2, and the lock head portion 41 of the movable lock 4 can be arranged in and separated from the gap 11 between the upper ends of the. When the lock head 41 is located at the position of the notch 11, the upper ends of the two arms 1 are blocked by the lock head 41, so that the upper ends of the two arms 1 cannot swing in the intersecting direction, and therefore, the two arms 1 are locked in the clamped state, and the two arms 1 cannot be opened, as shown in fig. 2. When the lock head 41 is separated from the position of the notch 11, the upper ends of the two clamp arms 1 are no longer blocked by the lock head 41, so that the two clamp arms 1 are in a clamped state and are unlocked, at this time, the two clamp arms 1 can be opened, the upper ends of the two clamp arms 1 simultaneously swing in the intersecting direction, the width of the notch 11 between the upper ends of the two clamp arms 1 becomes smaller, and even the notch 11 disappears, as shown in fig. 3.

The food of this embodiment presss from both sides, can realize the locking and the unblock of two arm lock 1 through 4 reciprocal swings of control activity lock, therefore, the user is when using food to press from both sides, only need to press from both sides the upset of food and make its activity lock 4 and mesa contact, utilize the mesa to press down 4 upper ends of activity lock and make the plane that activity lock 4 is on a parallel with pivot 2 reciprocal swings between two arm lock 1, can realize the locking and the unblock of food clamp, need not lock and unblock with the hand removal contact activity lock 4, that is to say, grip the locking and the unblock that two arm lock 1 can accomplish the food clamp through the one hand, avoided taking the easy pollutant to the food clamp in with the hand removal contact activity lock 4, easy washing, sanitation.

As the improvement of this embodiment, still be equipped with between two above-mentioned arm locks 1 and open the elastic component 3 that provides elasticity to two arm locks 1, elastic component 3 can be shell fragment or torsional spring, the elastic component 3 of this embodiment is the torsional spring, the torsional spring is located between the both sides combination wall 101 of arm lock 1, and the suit is in the pivot 2 outside, and the bullet arm at torsional spring both ends is inconsistent with two arm lock 1 inboards respectively, be in the clamping state when two arm lock 1 and be unblock, make two arm lock 1 can open automatically under the clamping state under the spring action that two bullet arms of torsional spring provided, make things convenient for the use of food clamp.

The torsion spring is located on one side of the movable lock 4, preferably, the movable lock 4 is located at the position opposite to the lock head 41, so that assembly is convenient, or the torsion spring penetrates through the sleeve hole 42 and is sleeved in the sleeve hole 42, and elastic arms at two ends of the torsion spring are respectively located on two sides of the movable lock 4 and respectively abut against the inner sides of the two clamping arms 1, so that the structure is compact.

Example 2

As shown in fig. 4-8, the present embodiment provides a food clamp, which includes a clamp body, the clamp body includes two clamp arms 1 and a rotating shaft 2, the rotating shaft 2 is a rivet, two sides of the upper portion of each clamp arm 1 are respectively provided with a combining wall 101, the combining wall 101 of each clamp arm 1 is provided with a shaft hole 70, the two clamp arms 1 are oppositely stacked through the combining walls 101, and the rotating shaft 2 penetrates through the shaft holes 70 of the combining walls 101 of the two clamp arms 1, so that the two clamp arms 1 can rotate around the rotating shaft 2 relatively between an open state and a clamping state.

In the food clamp, when the two clamping arms 1 are in a clamping state, a gap 11 with an opening at the upper end is formed between the corresponding sides of the upper ends of the two clamping arms 1, a movable lock 4 is further arranged at the upper end between the two clamping arms 1, and a lock head 41 is arranged at one side of the movable lock 4 corresponding to the gap 11; and be equipped with connecting piece 5 between two arm lock 1, the upper end of connecting piece 5 is equipped with locked groove 51, the inside wall of locked groove 51 is parallel with pivot 2, locked groove 51 is arranged in to activity lock 4, the both sides wall of locked groove 51 also is equipped with shaft hole 71, the lower part of activity lock 4 is equipped with shaft hole 72, a articulated shaft 6 passes shaft hole 71 of locked groove 51 lateral wall and the shaft hole 72 of activity lock 4, so that activity lock 4 can be around the reciprocal swing of the relative locked groove 51 of articulated shaft 6, and, activity lock 4 and locked groove 51's inside wall tight fit, when having no external force to act on activity lock 4, activity lock 4 can not automatic reciprocal swing, guarantee the convenience that food presss from both sides the use.

In addition, spring groove 52 has been seted up to the lower extreme of foretell connecting piece 5, the spring groove width of this embodiment is equivalent with the length of torsional spring, when the torsional spring was arranged in spring groove 52, two inside walls of spring groove 52 are pushed up at the both ends of torsional spring, the torsional spring can not break away from in spring groove 52 automatically, pivot 2 passes the both sides wall of spring groove 52 and the middle through-hole of torsional spring, and two elastic arms of torsional spring respectively with two arm lock 1 inboards inconsistent, make things convenient for the equipment of torsional spring like this, the torsional spring equipment can not break away from in the food clamp after accomplishing yet.

In addition, hanging hole 43 has been seted up to foretell activity lock 4's upper end, makes things convenient for the food clamp to hang and deposits, and in addition, the upper end of activity lock 4 is equipped with stirring portion 40, and stirring portion is located the top of two arm lock 1, makes things convenient for the palm to grip behind two elastic arms to utilize the thumb to stir activity lock 4 swing and lock and unblock.

In order to ensure that the movable lock 4 swings within a preset angle range, one end of the lock groove 51 close to the notch 11 is an open end, so that the lock head 41 of the movable lock 4 can extend out of the lock groove 51 and be placed at the position of the notch 11, and one end far away from the notch 11 is a closed end, when the lock head 41 is separated from the notch 11, the movable lock 4 is limited by the closed end of the lock groove 51, and cannot swing towards the direction where the lock head 41 is far away from the notch 11, so as to achieve the swing limiting effect on the movable lock 4. Of course, both ends of the lock groove 51 may be open ends, so that the bottom of the lock groove 51 is used to limit the lower end of the movable lock 4.

The two outer side surfaces of the upper part of the connecting piece 5, which correspond to one sides of the two clamping arms 1, are respectively inclined surfaces, so that the upper part of the connecting piece 5 cannot limit the upper ends of the two clamping arms 1, the two clamping arms 1 can rotate relative to the connecting piece 5 to be opened, and the two clamping arms 1 can rotate relative to each other between an opening state and a clamping state; of course, the upper portion of the connecting member 5 may only have the outer side surface corresponding to one side of one of the clamping arms 1 as an inclined surface, so that only the clamping arm 1 near the inclined surface can rotate to open relative to the connecting member 5, and also the two clamping arms 1 can rotate relative to each other between the open state and the clamping state; the included angle between the inclined plane and the hinge shaft 6 affects the opening angle of the two clamping arms 1, the larger the included angle between the inclined plane and the hinge shaft 6 is, the smaller the opening angle of the two clamping arms 1 is, and the smaller the included angle between the inclined plane and the hinge shaft 6 is, the larger the opening angle of the two clamping arms 1 is, of course, the opening angle of the two clamping arms 1 is also limited by the upper ends thereof.

This example was used in substantially the same manner as in example 1.

Example 3

As shown in fig. 9 to 10, the food clip of the present embodiment is similar in structure to that of embodiment 2, with the following differences:

the articulated shaft 6 of this implementation is the hollow shaft structure, directly utilizes articulated shaft 6 central through-hole as the hanging hole of food clamp, need not seted up hanging hole 43 in the upper end of activity lock 4.

The connecting piece 5 upper portion of this embodiment stretches out the outside between 1 upper ends of two arm lock, and the inclined plane on connecting piece 5 upper portion is located between 1 upper ends of two arm lock, and articulated shaft 6 is located the top of two arm lock 1, conveniently hangs the food clamp with the help of the central through-hole of articulated shaft 6 and places.

This example was used in substantially the same manner as in example 1.

The above are only three specific embodiments of the present invention, but the design concept of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any insubstantial modifications made by the design concept of the present invention fall within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a food clamp, includes and presss from both sides the main part, presss from both sides the main part including two arm lock (1) and pivot (2) of relative setting, but two arm lock (1) are through pivot (2) pivotal connection to make two arm lock (1) can open and the relative rotation between the clamping state, its characterized in that: when the two clamping arms (1) are in a clamping state, a gap (11) with an opening at the upper end is formed between the corresponding sides of the upper ends of the two clamping arms (1), the upper end of the clamping main body is also provided with a movable lock (4), the movable lock (4) is provided with a lock head part (41), and the movable lock (4) can swing relative to the clamping main body so that the lock head part (41) of the movable lock (4) can be arranged in and separated from the gap (11) between the upper ends of the two clamping arms (1).

2. The food clip of claim 1, wherein: the lower end of the movable lock (4) is provided with a sleeve hole (42), the aperture of the sleeve hole (42) is larger than the diameter of the rotating shaft (2), and the movable lock (4) is sleeved outside the rotating shaft (2) through the sleeve hole (42).

3. The food clip of claim 1, wherein: an elastic piece (3) which provides elasticity for opening the two clamping arms (1) is also arranged between the two clamping arms (1).

4. The food clip of claim 3, wherein: the elastic piece (3) is a torsion spring which is sleeved outside the rotating shaft (2), and two elastic arms of the torsion spring are respectively abutted against the two clamping arms (1).

5. The food clip of claim 1, wherein: the clamping device is characterized in that a connecting piece (5) is further arranged between the two clamping arms (1), the connecting piece (5) is sleeved on the outer side of the rotating shaft (2), and the movable lock (4) is hinged to the upper end of the connecting piece (5).

6. The food clip of claim 5, wherein: the upper end of the connecting piece (5) is provided with a lock groove (51), the movable lock (4) is arranged in the lock groove (51), and a hinge shaft (6) penetrates through the side wall of the lock groove (51) and the movable lock (4) so that the movable lock (4) can swing around the hinge shaft (6).

7. The food clip of claim 6, wherein: the articulated shaft (6) is of a hollow shaft structure.

8. The food clip of claim 5, wherein: when the lock head part (41) is separated from the gap (11) between the upper ends of the two clamping arms (1), the swing of the movable lock (4) corresponding to the direction that the lock head part (41) is far away from the gap (11) is limited.

9. The food clip of claim 5, wherein: at least one of the two outer side surfaces of the upper part of the connecting piece (5) corresponding to one side of the two clamping arms (1) is an inclined surface.

10. The food clip of claim 2 or 6, wherein: the upper end of the movable lock (4) is provided with a hanging hole (43).

11. The food clip of claim 5, wherein: an elastic piece (3) which provides elasticity for opening the two clamping arms (1) is also arranged between the two clamping arms (1).

12. The food clip of claim 11, wherein: the lower end of the connecting piece (5) is provided with a spring groove (52), the elastic piece (3) is a torsion spring, the torsion spring is arranged in the spring groove (52) and sleeved outside the rotating shaft (2), and two elastic arms of the torsion spring are respectively abutted to the two clamping arms (1).

13. The food clip of claim 3, wherein: the upper end of the movable lock (4) is provided with a shifting part (40), and the shifting part (40) is positioned above the clamp main body.