CN114631728B - Cooking utensil - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a cooking utensil which comprises a machine body, a pot body and a material conveying arm, wherein the machine body is provided with a storage bin, and the storage bin is provided with a feed opening; the pot body is removably arranged on the machine body and provided with a feed inlet; the material conveying arm is located the organism, and the material conveying arm is equipped with feed inlet, discharge gate and the material conveying passageway that extends between feed inlet and the discharge gate, and the material conveying arm is rotatable around the axis of rotation between accomodating in the storage position of organism and the material conveying position that stretches out from the organism, and when being located the storage position, feed inlet and feed opening dislocation, when being located the material conveying position, feed inlet and feed opening intercommunication, and the butt joint about discharge gate and the feed inlet. According to the cooking appliance of the invention, the discharging opening of the storage bin can be opened and closed by means of rotation of the material conveying arm, and therefore, the state of communicating the discharging opening of the storage bin can be controlled by rotating the material conveying arm; the feeding device is not used on the basis of the feeding arm, and a discharging device for discharging food materials in the storage bin is additionally arranged.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of kitchen appliances, in particular to a cooking appliance.

Background

The existing cooking appliances for automatically conveying food materials, such as electric rice cookers, comprise an integral cooking appliance, wherein a cover body of the integral cooking appliance can be pivotally arranged on a pot body, and a storage bin is arranged on the cover body; the other is a split cooking utensil which is provided with a machine body with a base, the pot body is removably arranged on the base, and the storage bin is arranged on the upper part of the machine body. For the split cooking utensil, an automatic conveying device is arranged in the split cooking utensil and used for conveying food materials in a storage bin to a feed inlet of a pot body. In order to enable the food materials in the storage bin to be conveyed smoothly through the automatic conveying device, some automatic conveying devices are internally provided with driving components, such as a motor and a threaded rod, and the motor drives the threaded rod to convey the food materials, so that the manufacturing cost is increased and the power consumption is increased; some automatic conveying devices adopt a gas blowing or sucking mode to convey food materials, the speed is particularly slow, the noise is very loud, and the user experience effect is poor.

Accordingly, there is a need for a cooking appliance to at least partially solve the above problems.

Disclosure of Invention

In the summary, a series of concepts in a simplified form are introduced, which will be further described in detail in the detailed description. The summary of the invention is not intended to define the key features and essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter.

To at least partially solve the above problems, the present invention provides a cooking appliance including:

the machine body is provided with a storage bin, and the storage bin is provided with a feed opening;

the cooker body is removably arranged on the machine body and provided with a feed inlet; and

the material conveying arm is arranged on the machine body and is provided with a material inlet, a material outlet and a material conveying channel extending between the material inlet and the material outlet,

the feeding arm is rotatable around the rotation axis between a storage position of the machine body and a feeding position extending from the machine body, the feeding port is staggered with the discharging port when the feeding arm is located at the storage position, the feeding port is communicated with the discharging port when the feeding arm is located at the feeding position, and the discharging port is in vertical butt joint with the feeding port.

According to the scheme, the discharging opening of the storage bin can be opened and closed by means of rotation of the material conveying arm, so that the state of communicating the discharging opening of the storage bin can be controlled by rotating the material conveying arm; when food materials are to be conveyed to the cooking space, the conveying arm is rotated to a conveying position, so that the feeding port of the conveying arm is communicated with the discharging port of the storage bin, and the discharging port of the conveying arm is in up-down butt joint with the feeding port of the cooker body to form a cooking space conveying path from the storage bin to the cooker body, thereby being capable of conveying the food materials; when food is not required to be conveyed to the cooking space, the conveying arm is rotated to a storage position, the discharge port of the conveying arm is far away from the feed inlet of the cooker body, the feed inlet of the conveying arm is misplaced with the feed outlet of the storage bin and is not communicated with the feed outlet of the storage bin, and the conveying path from the storage bin to the cooking space of the cooker body is blocked, so that the conveying of the food is stopped.

According to the cooking utensil provided by the invention, the discharging device for discharging the food materials in the storage bin is additionally arranged on the basis of the material conveying arm, so that the manufacturing and using cost is reduced, no large noise is generated when the food materials are conveyed, and the user experience is improved.

Optionally, the pivoting part of the feeding arm is provided with the feeding opening, and a side part of the pivoting part facing the discharging opening closes the discharging opening when the feeding arm is positioned at the storage position.

According to the scheme, the blanking opening can be closed through the pivot connection part, so that other parts are not required to be arranged, the blanking opening can be opened and closed by means of the structure of the material conveying arm, the structure of the cooking utensil can be simplified, and the manufacturing cost is reduced.

Optionally, the automatic feeding device further comprises a fixing seat and an elastic piece, wherein the fixing seat is installed on the storage bin, the feeding arm is fixed on the storage bin through the fixing seat, and the elastic piece is arranged at the feed opening and can be abutted with the side part of the pivoting part.

According to this scheme, the elastic component can paste the setting of pin joint portion more closely, reduces the clearance between pin joint portion and the storage silo to can avoid food material entering pin joint portion and the clearance between the storage silo, and influence the rotation of material conveying arm, for example avoid the rotation of material conveying arm to be blocked, make material conveying arm normal operating.

Optionally, the fixing seat is provided with an opening, the elastic piece is provided with a material passing opening, the opening and the material passing opening are both communicated with the material discharging opening to form a material discharging channel, and the elastic piece is provided with a part which can pass through the opening and is abutted to the pivoting part.

According to this scheme, can set up opening and passing through the material mouth respectively on fixing base and elastic component for can form the unloading passageway that comprises opening, passing through the material mouth, unloading mouth, the opening is passed to a part of elastic component, so as to with pin joint portion butt, structural arrangement is reasonable.

Optionally, the pin joint portion is equipped with the arcwall face, the feed inlet is located arcwall face department, the fixing base is equipped with curved mating surface, the opening is located mating surface department, the arcwall face can with mating surface sliding contact cooperation.

According to the scheme, on one hand, the matching surface can not influence the rotation of the material conveying arm, and on the other hand, the gap between the pivoting part and the storage bin can be further reduced, so that food materials can be further prevented from entering the gap between the pivoting part and the storage bin, and the material conveying arm can work normally.

Optionally, the rotation axis extends along the horizontal direction, the elastic component includes main part and deformation portion, main part is fixed to the storage silo, deformation portion along towards the direction protrusion of pin joint portion in main part and with pin joint portion butt, deformation portion is located the feed gap below.

According to this scheme, deformation portion can cushion the impact when eating the material downwardly flowing to deformation portion can produce elastic deformation, at the in-process of defeated material arm pivot, can avoid eating between the lateral part of material card income elastic component and pin joint portion, thereby can prevent that the rotation of defeated material arm from being blocked, make defeated material arm normal operating.

Optionally, the elastic element is limited between the fixing seat and the storage bin.

According to this scheme, through the fixing base, with elastic component centre gripping between fixing base and storage silo to make the elastic component install to the storage silo, avoid using other parts to fix the elastic component, make simple structure, and reduced manufacturing cost.

Optionally, a part of the elastic piece extends into the storage bin through the blanking opening, the elastic piece is provided with a clamping groove, the storage bin is provided with a clamping wall, and the clamping wall is clamped in the clamping groove.

According to this scheme, can further fix the elastic component through the mode of joint, make the arrangement of elastic component and storage silo more reasonable, the elastic component can also play sealed effect between fixing base and storage silo, avoids eating between material entering fixing base and the storage silo.

Optionally, the elastic member is provided with an inclined guiding surface, which forms part of the blanking channel.

According to the scheme, when food flows to the discharging channel, the food which moves downwards due to gravity can be smoothly guided to the feeding port by means of the guide surface, so that the phenomenon that the food is accumulated at the discharging port to block the discharging port is avoided.

Optionally, the material passing hole is formed in the main body part, the main body part comprises a lower side part located at the lower side of the material passing hole, a part of the lower side part extends into the storage bin through the material discharging hole, and the deformation part and the upward surface of the lower side part form the guide surface.

According to the scheme, by means of the deformation part and the lower side part of the main body part, the guide surface with larger area can be formed, so that the food can move downwards by means of gravity under the guidance of the guide surface with larger area, and the conveying efficiency of the food can be improved.

Optionally, the storage silo is in the both sides of feed opening are equipped with the retaining wall respectively, the delivery arm limit is located between the retaining wall, the fixing base is equipped with respectively corresponding to the supporting part of retaining wall, the supporting part is equipped with curved holding surface, the both sides of pin joint portion are equipped with the pivot axle, the pivot axle limit is located the holding surface with between the retaining wall.

According to the scheme, the pivot shaft can be supported upwards through the supporting surface, and can be stably limited at the supporting surface through the blocking wall, so that at least horizontal movement of the pivot shaft is limited, and the pivot shaft is prevented from falling off; the mounting structure of the material conveying arm is stable and reliable, and the rotating stability of the material conveying arm can be kept at a higher level.

Optionally, the storage bin is provided with a clamping groove, and the top of the fixing seat is clamped into the clamping groove; and/or

The storage bin is provided with a mounting column with holes, the fixing seat is provided with a convex part with holes, and the convex part is connected to the mounting column through a fastener.

According to the scheme, the fixing seat can be further fixed from the top of the fixing seat, so that the installation structure of the fixing seat is stable and reliable, and the fixing seat is prevented from loosening or separating from the storage bin; the fixing seat can be fastened to the storage bin by using a fastener such as a screw, the structure is simple, the production and the manufacturing are convenient, and the assembly process is easy to carry out.

Optionally, the rotation axis extends in a horizontal direction or in a vertical direction.

According to the scheme, the cooking device can be suitable for the cooking device with the material conveying arm rotating up and down, and also can be suitable for the cooking device with the material conveying arm rotating horizontally.

Optionally, the rotation axis extends along a horizontal direction, an included angle alpha between the material conveying arm and the horizontal plane is more than or equal to 0 degree and less than or equal to 90 degrees when the material conveying arm is at the storage position, and an included angle beta between the material conveying arm and the horizontal plane is more than or equal to-10 degrees and less than or equal to 90 degrees when the material conveying arm is at the material conveying position.

According to this scheme, suitable angle setting is favorable to the unobstructed of blanking and the closure of defeated material passageway, can set up the storage position and the defeated material position of defeated material arm simultaneously according to cooking utensil's external shape and design needs, makes the upper and lower rotation angle/the route of defeated material arm can be adapted to cooking utensil's external shape to satisfy different consumer's demands, help improving product competitiveness.

Drawings

The following drawings are included to provide an understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and their description to explain the principles of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings:

fig. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a portion of the cooking appliance shown in FIG. 1 with the feed arm in a stowed position;

FIG. 3 is another cross-sectional schematic view similar to FIG. 2 of a portion of the cooking appliance shown in FIG. 1 with the feed arm in a feed position;

FIG. 4 is yet another cross-sectional schematic view of a portion of the cooking appliance shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a schematic perspective view of the storage bin and transfer arm shown in FIG. 1 in an inverted state;

FIG. 6 is a schematic perspective view of a portion of the storage bin shown in FIG. 1 in an inverted state;

FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of the feed arm, holder and spring shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the holder of FIG. 1 from another perspective;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 2;

fig. 10 is an enlarged view of a portion B in fig. 3.

Reference numerals illustrate:

100: cooking appliance 110: body of machine

111: base 112: upright post

113: upper portion 120: pot body

121: a pot base 122: pot cover

123: feed inlet 130: storage bin

131: feed opening 132: retaining wall

133: abutment wall 134: abutment surface

135: mounting post 136: clamping groove

137: the clamping wall 140: material conveying arm

141: feed port 142: discharge port

143: feed channel 144: pivot joint

145: side portion 146: pivot shaft

147: arcuate surface 150: motor with a motor housing

160: fixing base 161: support part

162: support surface 163: convex part

164: opening 165: mating surface

170: elastic member 171: material passing opening

172: body portion 173: deformation part

174: card slot 175: guide surface

Detailed Description

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the invention may be practiced without one or more of these details. In other instances, well-known features have not been described in detail in order to avoid obscuring the invention.

In the following description, a detailed description will be given for the purpose of thoroughly understanding the present invention. It will be apparent that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without limitation to the specific details that are familiar to those skilled in the art. Preferred embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below, however, the present invention may have other embodiments in addition to these detailed descriptions.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of exemplary embodiments according to the present invention. As used herein, the singular is intended to include the plural unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Furthermore, it will be further understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

Ordinal numbers such as "first" and "second" cited in the present invention are merely identifiers and do not have any other meaning, such as a particular order or the like. Also, for example, the term "first component" does not itself connote the presence of "second component" and the term "second component" does not itself connote the presence of "first component".

It should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "inner", "outer", and the like are used herein for illustrative purposes only and are not limiting.

Exemplary embodiments according to the present invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. These exemplary embodiments may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. It should be appreciated that these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of these exemplary embodiments to those skilled in the art.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, there is provided a cooking appliance 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the cooking appliance 100 including a body 110 and a pot 120. The body 110 is constructed in a frame type structure, which is a main body frame of the cooking appliance 100. The pot 120 can be removably provided to the body 110. The pot 120 is provided therein with a cooking space for cooking. The upper portion 113 of the body 110 can be provided with a storage bin 130 for storing food materials such as rice, millet, etc. The storage bin 130 can provide food materials to the cooking space in the pot 120.

Specifically, the body 110 may include a base 111 and a column 112 connected to the base 111 and vertically arranged. The pot 120 can be placed on the base 111 or taken off from the base 111 to facilitate placing the pot 120 at a desired position for food, cleaning, maintenance, etc. of the pot 120. The base 111 has a shape that matches the bottom structure of the pot 120, for example, the base 111 may be configured in a generally disk shape. The base 111 may be provided with heating means, such as a coil disk, for heating the food material in the pot 120. At least a portion of the storage bin 130 may be disposed at the upper portion 113 of the column 112. In the illustrated embodiment, the upper portion 113 of the body 110 protrudes in a horizontal direction from the column 112. The upper portion 113 of the body 110 partially covers the pot 120 from above the pot 120. The storage bin 130 is constructed in a funnel-like structure such that the food materials within the storage bin 130 can move downward under the force of gravity.

It is noted that directional terms used herein to describe various devices, components, portions, etc. of the cooking appliance 100, such as "upper", "lower", "above", "below", "upward", "downward", etc., are relative to the cooking appliance 100 in a horizontally disposed state.

The pot 120 may include a pot base 121 and a pot cover 122 positioned above the pot base 121. The pot cover 122 may be openably and closably provided to the pot base 121 to form the cooking appliance 100 between the pot base 121 and the pot cover 122. The pot body seat 121 has a cylindrical inner pot accommodating part. The inner pot can be fixedly arranged at the inner pot containing part, or can be freely placed in the inner pot containing part or taken out from the inner pot containing part, so that the inner pot can be conveniently cleaned.

As shown in fig. 1 to 4, in order to facilitate the transportation of the food material and water in the storage bin 130 to the cooker body 120, the cooking appliance 100 may further include a material transporting arm 140 for transporting the food material in the storage bin 130. The feeding arm 140 can feed the food material in the storage bin 130 toward the pot 120.

The feeding arm 140 can be disposed at the machine body 110, specifically, at the bottom of the storage bin 130. The storage bin 130 is provided with a feed opening 131. The feed opening 131 is preferably provided at the bottom most portion of the storage bin 130 and is located at the center. The feed arm 140 is provided with a feed port 141, a downward facing discharge port 142 and a feed channel 143 (fig. 2) extending between the feed port 141 and the discharge port 142. The pot 120 is provided with an upward-facing inlet 123, and specifically, the pot cover 122 is provided with an inlet 123. The wall of the inlet 123 may be in the shape of an inverted cone for the entry of food materials. As shown in fig. 3, the feeding port 141 can be communicated with the discharging port 131, and the feeding port 123 can be vertically abutted with the discharging port 142, so that the food material is output from the storage bin 130 through the discharging port 131, the feeding port 141, the conveying channel and the discharging port 142, and then enters the pot body 120 through the feeding port 123.

The body 110 may be provided with a receiving space for receiving the feed arm 140. The feed arm 140 is rotatable about an axis of rotation between a storage position (fig. 2) stored in the body 110 and a feed position (fig. 3) extending from the body 110. The feeding arm 140 located at the storage position can be stored in the body 110. The feeding arm 140 at the feeding position can enable the outlet 142 to be in up-down butt joint with the inlet 123 of the pot 120.

In this embodiment, by providing a rotatable feed arm 140, when the cooking appliance 100 is to be used, the feed arm 140 can be actuated to rotate to a feed position, thereby facilitating feeding of food material into the pot 120. When the cooking utensil 100 is not used, the material conveying arm 140 can be stored in the machine body 110, so that a space between the upper part of the cooker body 120 and the machine body 110 can be reserved, the cooker body 120 can be freely placed on the base 111 or taken down from the base 111 by means of the reserved space, the placement and the taking of the cooker body 120 are not limited by the space, the operation is easier, the machine body 110 is not easy to touch, and the damage to the machine body 110 is avoided.

In addition, the feeding arm 140 provided in this embodiment is an independent component, and has a simple overall structure and a small occupied space, so that the overall structure of the machine body 110 is simple, and the size, particularly the size of the upper portion 113 of the machine body 110, can be designed to be small enough as required. Therefore, the cooking appliance 100 can be miniaturized, the occupied space is small, the storage is convenient, and the experience of a user can be improved.

In one embodiment, such as the illustrated embodiment, the axis of rotation may extend in a horizontal direction. Thus, the feed arm 140 can be rotated up and down about the horizontal rotation axis between a storage position stored in the body 110 and a feed position protruding downward from the body 110. In another embodiment, not shown, the rotation axis may extend in a vertical direction. Thus, the feed arm 140 is horizontally rotatable about a vertical rotation axis between a storage position stored in the body 110 and a feed position horizontally protruding from the body 110.

The cooking appliance 100 further includes an actuating device provided to the body 110, by which rotation of the feed arm 140 can be achieved. The actuation means may be, for example, a motor 150 (fig. 4).

The structure and positional relationship between the feeder arm 140 and the storage bin 130 are described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

In this embodiment, the opening and closing of the discharge opening 131 of the storage bin 130 are achieved by the rotation of the feed arm 140. As shown in fig. 2, when the feed arm 140 is in the storage position, the feed port 141 and the discharge port 131 are offset, and the feed port 131 is closed when the feed port and the discharge port are not communicated. As shown in fig. 3, when the feeding arm 140 is located at the feeding position, the feeding port 141 can be in butt joint with the discharging port 131, and the feeding port and the discharging port can be communicated, and at the moment, the discharging port 131 is in an open state; while the discharge port 142 is in up-down butt joint with the feed port 123. In order to be able to transport food material downwards by gravity when the feed opening 131 is open, the feed channel 143 is inclined downwards when the feed arm 140 is in the feed position.

In this embodiment, the discharge opening 131 of the storage bin 130 may be opened and closed by means of the rotation of the feed arm 140, whereby the state of communication with the discharge opening 131 of the storage bin 130 may be controlled by the rotation of the feed arm 140; when food is to be conveyed to the cooking space, the conveying arm 140 is rotated to a conveying position, the feeding port 141 of the conveying arm is communicated with the discharging port 131 of the storage bin 130, the discharging port 142 of the conveying arm is in up-down butt joint with the feeding port 123 of the cooker body 120, and a cooking space conveying path from the storage bin 130 to the cooker body 120 is formed, so that the food can be conveyed; when food is not required to be conveyed to the cooking space, the conveying arm 140 is rotated to the storage position, the discharge port 142 of the conveying arm is far away from the feed port 123 of the cooker body 120, the feed port 141 of the conveying arm is misplaced with the discharge port 131 of the storage bin 130 and is not communicated with the discharge port 131 of the storage bin 130, and the conveying path of the cooking space from the storage bin 130 to the cooker body 120 is blocked, so that the conveying of the food is stopped.

Alternatively, for the illustrated embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the feed arm 140 may have an angle alpha with the horizontal in the stowed position of 0 deg. alpha. 90 deg., for example, 0 °, 10 °, 20 °, 25 °, 30 °, 35 °, 40 °, 45 °, 50 °, 55 °, 60 °, 65 °, 70 °, 80 °, 90 °, the included angle α may preferably be in a range between any two values listed. As shown in FIG. 3, the angle beta between the feeding arm 140 and the horizontal plane in the feeding position may be-10 DEG.ltoreq.beta.ltoreq.90 DEG, -10 DEG, -20 DEG, -25 DEG, -30 DEG, -35 DEG, -40 DEG, -45 DEG, -50 DEG, -55 DEG, -60 DEG, -65 DEG, -70 DEG, -80 DEG, -90 DEG, the angle beta may preferably be a range between any two values listed, in particular, the angle beta may preferably be-20 DEG.ltoreq.beta.ltoreq.60 deg.

Alternatively, the feeding arm 140 may not be rotated to the storage position immediately after the blanking opening 131 is closed. In other words, the feeding arm 140 still needs to continue to rotate when rotating to the point that the blanking port 131 is just closed, and finally reaches the storage position. Thus, the sealing area of the feeding arm 140 corresponding to the discharge opening 131 is larger, the discharge opening 131 can be better sealed by the feeding arm 140, and the problem that the sealing of the discharge opening 131 is affected due to the fact that the feeding arm 140 may not reach the storage position completely after long-time use is avoided.

The feed arm 140 may include a pivot 144. The pivoting portion 144 can be pivoted to the bottom of the storage bin 130. The pivot portion 144 may be disposed at one end of the feeding arm 140 in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis, and the discharging opening 131 may be disposed at the other end opposite to the one end, i.e., the free end. The pivoting portion 144 of the feeding arm 140 may be provided with a feeding port 141, so that the feeding port 141 may be closer to the discharging port 131.

The side portion 145 of the pivot portion 144 facing the blanking port 131 can close the blanking port 131 when the feed arm 140 is located at the storage position. Thereby, the closing of the discharging opening 131 can be achieved through the pivoting part 144, so that the opening and closing of the discharging opening 131 can be achieved by means of the structure of the feeding arm 140 itself without providing other components, which enables the structure of the cooking appliance 100 to be simplified, and the manufacturing cost to be reduced.

As shown in fig. 5 to 10, the cooking appliance 100 may further include a fixing base 160 mounted to the storage bin 130. The feeder arm 140 may be secured to the storage bin 130 by a securing mount 160.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 5 and 6, the storage bins 130 may be spaced apart with a retaining wall 132. The blocking walls 132 are respectively positioned at two sides of the feed opening 131. The feed arms 140 can be captured between the retaining walls 132 with pivotal movement between the retaining walls 132. The fixing base 160 may be provided with supporting portions 161 arranged at intervals. The support portions 161 can correspond to the blocking walls 132, respectively. The support portion 161 may be provided with an arc-shaped support surface 162 with at least a portion facing upwards, and both sides of the pivot portion 144 may be provided with the pivot shaft 146. One of the pivot shafts 146 is connected to a motor 150 for driving rotation of the feed arm 140. The pivot shaft 146 may be limited between the supporting surface 162 and the blocking wall 132 at two sides of the pivot portion 144. In this embodiment, the pivot shaft 146 may be supported upward by the support surface 162, and the pivot shaft 146 may be stably restrained at the support surface 162 by the blocking wall 132, thereby restraining at least horizontal movement of the pivot shaft 146, preventing the pivot shaft 146 from coming out; the mounting structure of the feeding arm 140 is stable and reliable, and the rotational stability of the feeding arm 140 can be maintained at a higher level.

The storage bins 130 may also be provided with abutment walls 133 at intervals. The abutment wall 133 corresponds to and is connected to the blocking wall 132. The blanking mouth 131 is located between the abutment walls 133. The abutment wall 133 may be provided with an arcuate abutment surface 134, with the pivot shaft 146 abutting the abutment surface 134. The pivot shaft 146 is limited between the abutment surface 134 and the supporting surface 162 to limit the up-and-down movement of the pivot shaft 146.

The storage bin 130 may be provided with a perforated mounting post 135. The holder 160 may be provided with a perforated boss 163. The mounting posts 135 correspond to the positions of the projections 163. The boss 163 can be connected to the mounting post 135 by a fastener such as a screw. Thus, the fixing base 160 can be fastened to the storage bin 130 with a fastener such as a screw, the structure is simple, the manufacturing is convenient, and the assembling process is easy. As shown in fig. 6, the storage bin 130 may also be provided with a snap-in slot 136. The top of the fixing base 160 can be clamped into the clamping groove 136 (fig. 9). The catching groove 136 may be arranged in a direction parallel to the rotation axis. The opening 164 of the clamping groove 136 faces the feed opening 131. The fixing seat 160 can be further fixed from the top of the fixing seat 160 by the clamping groove 136, so that the installation structure of the fixing seat 160 is stable and reliable, and the fixing seat 160 is prevented from loosening or separating from the storage bin 130.

As shown in fig. 7 and 8, the pivot portion 144 may be provided with an arc surface 147, and the feeding port 141 is located at the arc surface 147. Put another way, the pivot portion 144 is provided with the feeding port 141 at the arc surface 147. The holder 160 may be provided with an opening 164. The opening 164 can communicate with the blanking opening 131 to form a blanking passage. The holder 160 may be provided with an arcuate mating surface 165, and the opening 164 may be located at the mating surface 165. Arcuate surface 147 is capable of sliding contact engagement with engagement surface 165. In this embodiment, the mating surface 165 does not affect the rotation of the feeding arm 140, and further reduces the gap between the pivot 144 and the storage bin 130, so as to further prevent food material from entering the gap between the pivot 144 and the storage bin 130, and make the feeding arm 140 work normally.

The cooking appliance 100 may further include an elastic member 170 mounted to the storage bin 130. The elastic member 170 is disposed at the blanking opening 131. The elastic member 170 may be provided with a feed gap 171. Both the opening 164 and the pass 171 can communicate with the blanking opening 131 to form a blanking channel. The elastic member 170 can abut against the side portion 145 of the pivot 144. Specifically, the elastic member 170 can abut against the side portion 145 of the pivot 144 through the opening 164. That is, in the present embodiment, the elastic member 170 may be disposed between the pivot portion 144 and the storage bin 130. Therefore, by disposing the elastic member 170 between the pivot portion 144 and the storage bin 130, the elastic member 170 can be disposed closer to the pivot portion 144, so as to reduce the gap between the pivot portion 144 and the storage bin 130, thereby preventing food material from entering the gap between the pivot portion 144 and the storage bin 130 to affect the rotation of the feeding arm 140, for example, preventing the rotation of the feeding arm 140 from being blocked, so that the feeding arm 140 can work normally, which is more beneficial to smaller food material such as millet.

The elastic member 170 may be made of a flexible material, for example, any suitable flexible material such as soft plastic, silicone, rubber, etc. In the illustrated embodiment, the elastic member 170 may include a body portion 172 and a deformation portion 173. The body portion 172 can be secured to the storage bin 130. The deformation portion 173 protrudes from the main body portion 172 along a direction towards the pivot portion 144 and abuts against the pivot portion 144, and the deformation portion 173 may be located below the material passing hole 171. In this embodiment, the deformation portion 173 can buffer the impact of the food flowing downward, and the deformation portion 173 can elastically deform, so that the food is prevented from being clamped between the elastic member 170 and the side portion 145 of the pivot portion 144 during the pivoting of the feeding arm 140, and thus the feeding arm 140 can be prevented from being clamped during the rotation of the feeding arm 140, so that the feeding arm 140 can work normally.

The elastic member 170 may be limited between the fixing seat 160 and the storage bin 130. Through fixing base 160, with elastic component 170 centre gripping between fixing base 160 and storage silo 130 to make elastic component 170 install to storage silo 130, avoid using other parts to fix elastic component 170, make simple structure, and reduced manufacturing cost. Alternatively, a portion of the elastic member 170 may extend into the storage bin 130 via the blanking port 131. The elastic member 170 may be provided with a catching groove 174 (fig. 7). The storage bin 130 may be provided with a clamping wall 137, the clamping wall 137 being capable of being clamped within a clamping groove 174 (fig. 9). Therefore, the elastic member 170 can be further fixed in a clamping manner, so that the arrangement of the elastic member 170 and the storage bin 130 is more reasonable, the elastic member 170 can also play a sealing role between the fixing seat 160 and the storage bin 130, and food is prevented from entering between the fixing seat 160 and the storage bin 130.

The elastic member 170 may be provided with an inclined guide surface 175. The guiding surface 175 forms a part of the feeding channel, so that when the food material flows to the feeding channel, the food material moving downwards due to gravity can be smoothly guided to the feeding port 141 by means of the guiding surface 175, and the food material is prevented from accumulating at the feeding port 131 to block the feeding port 131. The material passing hole 171 is formed in the body 172. The body portion 172 may include a lower portion located below the feed gap 171, a portion of which may extend into the storage bin 130 via the feed gap 131. The upwardly facing surfaces of the deformation portion 173 and the lower side portion of the body portion 172 may form a guide surface 175. By means of the deformation portion 173 and the lower side portion of the body portion 172, a guide surface 175 having a larger area may be formed, so that the food material can be moved downward by gravity under the guide of the guide surface 175 having a larger area, which may improve the conveying efficiency of the food material.

According to the cooking utensil provided by the invention, the material conveying arm can rotate around the rotation axis between the storage position stored in the machine body and the material conveying position extending out of the machine body, the material inlet and the material outlet are staggered when the material conveying arm is positioned in the storage position, the material inlet and the material outlet are communicated when the material conveying arm is positioned in the material conveying position, and the material outlet and the material inlet are in up-down butt joint.

Therefore, the state of the feed opening communicated with the storage bin can be controlled by rotating the feed arm; when food materials are to be conveyed to the cooking space, the conveying arm is rotated to a conveying position, so that the feeding port of the conveying arm is communicated with the discharging port of the storage bin, and the discharging port of the conveying arm is in up-down butt joint with the feeding port of the cooker body to form a cooking space conveying path from the storage bin to the cooker body, thereby being capable of conveying the food materials; when food is not required to be conveyed to the cooking space, the conveying arm is rotated to a storage position, the discharge port of the conveying arm is far away from the feed inlet of the cooker body, the feed inlet of the conveying arm is misplaced with the feed outlet of the storage bin and is not communicated with the feed outlet of the storage bin, and the conveying path from the storage bin to the cooking space of the cooker body is blocked, so that the conveying of the food is stopped.

Unless defined otherwise, technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention pertains. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular implementations only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Features described herein in one embodiment may be applied to another embodiment alone or in combination with other features unless the features are not applicable or otherwise indicated in the other embodiment.

The present invention has been illustrated by the above-described embodiments, but it should be understood that the above-described embodiments are for purposes of illustration and description only and are not intended to limit the invention to the embodiments described. In addition, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and that many variations and modifications are possible in light of the teachings of the invention, which variations and modifications are within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

Claims (14)

1. A cooking appliance, comprising:

the machine body (110), the machine body (110) is provided with a storage bin (130), and the storage bin (130) is provided with a feed opening (131);

a pot body (120), wherein the pot body (120) is removably arranged on the machine body (110) and is provided with a feed inlet (123); and

the material conveying arm (140), the material conveying arm (140) is arranged on the machine body (110), a material loading opening (141), a material discharging opening (142) and a material conveying channel (143) extending between the material loading opening (141) and the material discharging opening (142) are arranged on the material conveying arm (140),

wherein, the material conveying arm (140) is rotatable around the rotation axis between accomodate in the storage position of organism (110) and follow the transport position that organism (110) stretches out, when being located in the storage position, feed opening (141) with feed opening (131) dislocation and not communicate, when being located in the transport position, feed opening (141) with feed opening (131) intercommunication, just discharge gate (142) with dock from top to bottom to can carry edible material.

2. Cooking appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the pivot (144) of the feed arm (140) is provided with the feed opening (141), a side portion (145) of the pivot (144) facing the feed opening (131) closing the feed opening (131) when the feed arm (140) is in the storage position.

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 2, further comprising a fixing base (160) mounted to the storage bin (130) and an elastic member (170), the feeding arm (140) being fixed to the storage bin (130) by the fixing base (160), the elastic member (170) being provided at the blanking port (131) and being abuttable with the side portion 145 of the pivoting portion (144).

4. A cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the fixing base (160) is provided with an opening (164), the elastic member (170) is provided with a material passing opening (171), the opening (164) and the material passing opening (171) are both communicated with the material discharging opening (131) to form a material discharging channel, and the elastic member (170) is provided with a portion which can pass through the opening (164) to be abutted with the pivoting portion (144).

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 4, wherein the pivoting portion (144) is provided with an arc-shaped surface (147), the feeding port (141) is located at the arc-shaped surface (147), the fixing seat (160) is provided with an arc-shaped mating surface (165), the opening (164) is located at the mating surface (165), and the arc-shaped surface (147) can be in sliding contact fit with the mating surface (165).

6. The cooking appliance according to claim 4, wherein the rotation axis extends in a horizontal direction, the elastic member (170) includes a main body portion (172) and a deformation portion (173), the main body portion (172) is fixed to the storage bin (130), the deformation portion (173) protrudes from the main body portion (172) in a direction toward the pivot portion (144) and abuts against the pivot portion (144), and the deformation portion (173) is located below the material passing opening (171).

7. Cooking appliance according to any one of claims 3 to 6, wherein the elastic element (170) is defined between the fixed seat (160) and the storage bin (130).

8. Cooking appliance according to any one of claims 3 to 6, characterized in that a part of the elastic member (170) extends into the storage bin (130) via the blanking opening (131), the elastic member (170) is provided with a clamping groove (174), the storage bin (130) is provided with a clamping wall (137), and the clamping wall (137) is clamped in the clamping groove (174).

9. Cooking appliance according to claim 6, characterized in that the elastic element (170) is provided with an inclined guide surface (175), which guide surface (175) forms part of the blanking channel.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the pass-through opening (171) is formed in the main body portion (172), the main body portion (172) comprising a lower side portion located at a lower side of the pass-through opening (171), a portion of the lower side portion extending into the storage bin (130) via the blanking opening (131), the deformation portion (173) and an upwardly facing surface of the lower side portion forming the guide surface (175).

11. The cooking appliance according to any one of claims 3 to 6, wherein the storage bins (130) are provided with blocking walls (132) on both sides of the feed opening (131), respectively, the feed arms (140) are limited between the blocking walls (132), the fixing seats (160) are provided with supporting portions (161) corresponding to the blocking walls (132), respectively, the supporting portions (161) are provided with arc-shaped supporting surfaces (162), both sides of the pivoting portions (144) are provided with pivoting shafts (146), and the pivoting shafts (146) are limited between the supporting surfaces (162) and the blocking walls (132).

12. The cooking appliance according to any one of claims 3 to 6, wherein,

the storage bin (130) is provided with a clamping groove (136), and the top of the fixing seat (160) is clamped into the clamping groove (136); and/or

The storage bin (130) is provided with a mounting column (135) with holes, the fixing seat (160) is provided with a convex part (163) with holes, and the convex part (163) is connected to the mounting column (135) through a fastener.

13. Cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the rotation axis extends in a horizontal direction or in a vertical direction.

14. Cooking appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the rotation axis extends in a horizontal direction, the feed arm (140) having an angle α of 0 ° -90 ° with respect to the horizontal in the storage position, and the feed arm (140) having an angle β of-10 ° - β -90 ° with respect to the horizontal in the feed position.