CN209750727U - Cooking utensil - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a cooking appliance which can contain a capsule, the cooking appliance comprises a capsule mounting device and a cutting device, the capsule is arranged on the capsule mounting device, and the capsule mounting device is inclined relative to the horizontal direction; the cutting means is rotatable relative to the capsule mounting means, the capsule being inclined at a first angle relative to the horizontal in a state in which the capsule is supported in the capsule mounting means, such that the cutting means is capable of opening the capsule when the cutting means is rotated. According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil includes capsule installation device and cutting device, and when cutting device rotated, cutting device can contact and open the capsule. And can guarantee that the opened part of the capsule is still adhered to the capsule and does not fall into the cooking space, thus being convenient for the arrangement of a cutting device and not easy to injure a user by mistake.

Description

cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cooking utensil technical field especially relates to a capsule and with capsule cooperation cooking utensil who uses.

Background

A conventional cooking appliance such as an electric rice cooker has a cooking cavity into which a user cooks food materials to be cooked before cooking. Some cooking appliances have a reservation function, but users often find that the food in the pot is more likely to go bad when the reservation function is actually used, and the longer the reservation time is. For example, if a user pre-cooks rice before going to work in the morning and returns to eat at night, the rice is usually dried and yellowed, and particularly smells are generated in summer, so that the existing cooking appliance cannot keep the rice fresh under the condition of long-time reservation.

There is also known a cooking appliance capable of automatically adding rice, which is generally designed such that rice and water can be separated when a reservation function is performed. When the rice storage bin is used, a user firstly puts water into the inner container, puts rice matched with the inner container into the rice storage bin, and when the appointment time is reached, the rice can automatically fall into the inner container to be mixed with the water. However, this cooking appliance has a great disadvantage in that the rice cannot be washed, i.e., the rice put in the rice bin is not washed at the time of reservation by the user.

To this end, the applicant has developed a cooking appliance capable of mounting a capsule containing food material to be cooked. However, the applicant found that in such a cooking appliance, since the capsule opening means is mostly a cutting means, the capsule is liable to jump at the time of piercing, and it is difficult to smoothly open the capsule. Further, for rice capsules, it is desirable that the area where the cover film is cut is such that rice grains can smoothly fall down and the cover film does not enter into the cooking space.

Therefore, there is a need for a cooking appliance that at least partially solves the above problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In the summary section a series of concepts in a simplified form is introduced, which will be described in further detail in the detailed description section. The inventive content does not imply any attempt to define the essential features and essential features of the claimed solution, nor is it implied to be intended to define the scope of the claimed solution.

In order to solve at least partially the above problem, according to one aspect of the present invention, a cooking appliance is disclosed, capable of containing a capsule, characterized in that it comprises:

A capsule mounting device on which the capsule is disposed, the capsule mounting device being inclined with respect to a horizontal direction; and

A cutting device rotatable relative to the capsule mounting device,

in a state in which the capsule is supported on the capsule mounting means, the capsule is inclined at a first angle with respect to the horizontal direction so that the cutting means can open the capsule when the cutting means is rotated.

According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil includes capsule installation device and cutting device, and when cutting device rotated, cutting device can contact and open the capsule. And can guarantee that the opened part of the capsule is still adhered to the capsule and does not fall into the cooking space, thus being convenient for the arrangement of a cutting device and not easy to injure a user by mistake.

Optionally, the capsule has an opening portion, a portion of which is separated from the capsule after the opening portion is opened by the cutting means, another portion of which remains adhered to the capsule. Thereby, the opening part can be prevented from falling along with the food or the water.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises:

A motor;

A rotary transmission mechanism driven to rotate by the motor; and

the cutting device support is matched with the rotary transmission mechanism to rotate, and the cutting device is arranged on the cutting device support.

Optionally, the portion of the capsule opened by the cutting means has a corresponding central angle in the range of 3-360 degrees on the plane of the trajectory of rotation of the cutting means.

Optionally, the central angle is in the range of 30-300 degrees. Thus, the range of opening by the cutting device can be set as desired.

Optionally, the first angle is in the range of 1-90 degrees.

Optionally, the first angle is in the range of 8-60 degrees. Thereby, the angle at which the capsule is tilted can be set as desired.

Optionally, the capsule mounting device has at least three bearing surfaces for bearing a capsule.

optionally, the capsule is filled with food material to be cooked or water.

Optionally, the rotary transmission mechanism is a main transmission gear, a secondary transmission gear is arranged on the cutting device support, and the secondary transmission gear is meshed with the main transmission gear. Therefore, the cutting device can be driven by the main transmission gear, the auxiliary transmission gear and the motor to rotate.

Drawings

The following drawings of the embodiments of the present invention are provided as a part of the present invention for understanding the present invention. There are shown in the drawings, embodiments and descriptions thereof, which are used to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings, there is shown in the drawings,

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

Fig. 2 is a partial perspective view of a cooking appliance fitted with a capsule according to the invention;

FIG. 3A is a top view of FIG. 2 with the cutting device in a cutting start position;

FIG. 3B is another top view of FIG. 2 with the cutting device in a cut-off position; and

Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of fig. 2.

Description of reference numerals:

100: the capsule 110: body

120: opening 130: covering film

140: rice grain 200: cover body

210: capsule mounting device 220: bearing surface

310: motor 311: output shaft

320: main drive gear 330: cutting device support

340: the cutting device 350: driven gear

Detailed Description

In the following discussion, details are given to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the invention may be practiced without one or more of the specific details. In certain instances, some features that are known in the art have not been described in detail in order to avoid obscuring the present invention. It is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", and the like are used herein for purposes of illustration only and are not to be construed as limiting.

ordinal words such as "first" and "second" are referred to in this application as labels only, and do not have any other meanings, such as a particular order, etc. Also, for example, the term "first component" does not itself imply the presence of "second component", and the term "second component" does not itself imply the presence of "first component".

As shown in fig. 1, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is disclosed a cooking appliance including a pot body and a cover 200. The cooking utensil can be a rice cooker, an electric pressure cooker, a food processor, a soybean milk machine, an electric stewpot and the like.

In the illustrated embodiment, as can be seen in fig. 1, 2 and 4, the cover 200 comprises capsule mounting means 210 capable of accommodating the capsule 100 and cutting means 340 for opening the capsule 100 (detailed below). Of course, in an embodiment not shown, at least one of the capsule mounting means 210 and the cutting means 340 may be provided in a pot body of the cooking appliance.

The capsule 100 is filled with food material to be cooked, such as rice or beans, or water. As can be seen in fig. 2 and 4, the capsule 100 comprises a body 110 having an opening 120 and a cover film 130 covering the opening 120, for example, the body 110 of the capsule 100 may be cylindrical, and its cross-section (radial cross-section) may be circular, elliptical, polygonal, etc. An opening 120 is provided at a lower end of the body 110, and the shape of the opening 120 may be identical to the cross-section of the body 110. The cover film 130 covers the opening 120 for preventing the food material inside the capsule 100 from exiting the body 110 of the capsule 100. Also, the cover film 130 may be made of a flexible material so that it can be cut by a cutting means 340 such as a metal blade.

The capsule mounting means 210 is adapted to support the capsule 100 as described above, and the cutting means 340 is rotatable relative to the capsule mounting means 210. Also, the capsule mounting device 210 is inclined at an angle with respect to the horizontal direction such that the cover film 130 is inclined at an angle with respect to the horizontal direction in a state where the capsule 100 is supported by the capsule mounting device 210. In this way, when the cutting device 340 is moved (e.g., moved only in a horizontal direction), the cutting device 340 can open (e.g., contact and rip) the cover film 130.

In the illustrated embodiment, the capsule mounting device 210 may be, for example, tray-shaped and may have a bearing surface 220 for bearing the opening 120 of the capsule 100, the bearing surface 220 being tiltable by a first angle c with respect to the horizontal. Optionally, the capsule mounting device 210 has at least three bearing surfaces 220. Thus, the cooking appliance can accommodate at least three capsules 100. The at least three bearing surfaces 220 may rotate about a rotation axis extending in a vertical direction, in other words, the capsule mounting device 210 may rotate about the vertical direction as an axis. So that a plurality of capsules 100 mounted in the capsule mounting device 210 can be sequentially rotated to the cutting device 340.

Taking a cutting means as an example of the cutting means 340, after placing the capsule 100 on a corresponding position on a cooking appliance, the cutting means 340 of the cooking appliance may contact and cut the cover film 130, the cut cover film 130 leaving the opening 120 exposed. Under the influence of gravity, food materials such as rice grains 140 may fall into a cooking space of, for example, a cooking appliance and be cooked therein.

specifically, in the illustrated embodiment, the body 110 of the capsule 100 is configured to be generally cylindrical and has a central axis AX. As can be seen in fig. 4, the bearing surface 220 of the capsule mounting device 210 is inclined with respect to the horizontal by a first angle c, whereby the opening 120 of the capsule 100 and the cover film 130 are inclined with respect to the horizontal by the first angle c. Optionally, the first angle c ranges from 1-90 degrees. Further, the first angle c ranges from 8 to 60 degrees. Thus, the angle at which the opening 120 and the cover film 130 are inclined can be set as needed.

It can be understood that since the cover film 130 is inclined at the first angle c with respect to the horizontal direction in the mounted state where the capsule 100 is supported in the capsule mounting device 210, the height of the cover film 130 in the vertical direction is not equal, in other words, the plane formed by the cover film 130 is not perpendicular to the vertical direction.

further, since the cutting means 340 is configured to extend a certain height in the vertical direction (hereinafter referred to as cutting means height), and the tip height of the cutting means 340 (hereinafter referred to as cutting means height) is lower than the highest height of the cover film 130 of the capsule 100 mounted into the capsule mounting means 210. Thus, in the mounted state of the capsule 100, a part of the cover film 130 is located above the level of the cutting means and another part of the cover film 130 is located below the level of the cutting means. Thus, in the case where the cutting means 340 does not move in the vertical direction, the cutting means 340 may contact and cut the cover film 130 not higher than the height of the cutting means while the cutting means 340 performs a rotational motion. In this way, the cutting device 340 can cut the cover film 130 only by moving in the horizontal direction, but not moving in the vertical direction. Of course, the cutting device 340 may also be configured to be movable in the vertical direction.

the rotational movement of the cutting device 340 will now be described in connection with fig. 2, 3A, 3B and 4. As seen in the drawing, the cooking appliance further includes a motor 310, a main transmission gear 320 (which is one example of a rotation transmission mechanism) that is driven to be rotatable by an output shaft 311 of the motor 310, and a cutting device bracket 330. The cutting device 340 is disposed on the cutting device bracket 330, and the cutting device bracket 330 cooperates with the main drive gear 320 to rotate such that the cutting device 340 is rotatable with respect to a rotation axis extending in a vertical direction.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the cutting device holder 330 is provided with a slave drive gear 350, and the slave drive gear 350 is engaged with the master drive gear 320. As can be seen in fig. 3A and 3B, when the primary drive gear 320 rotates counterclockwise, the secondary drive gear 350 is driven to rotate clockwise. Thereby rotating the cutting device holder 330 and the cutting device 340 seated on the cutting device holder 330 in a clockwise direction. The direction of rotation of the gears in this embodiment is merely one implementation and is not intended to be limiting. And the rotation transmission mechanism may have other configurations.

The cutting device 340 is shown in fig. 3A at a cutting start position and the cutting device 340 is shown in fig. 3B at a cutting stop position. Note that the "cutting start position" refers to a position where the cutting device 340 starts to contact and cut the cover film 130, and the "cutting end position" refers to a position where the cutting device 340 is away from the cover film 130 as a cutting end position. Thereby, when the cutting device 340 rotates, the cover film 130 is cut only in a range from the cutting start position to the cutting end position.

Alternatively, the central angle a of the arc from the cutting start position to the cutting end position ranges from 3 to 360 degrees, for example, in fig. 3A and 3B, the central angle a is greater than 180 degrees. In other words, the range of the central angle a of the cover film 130 cut by the cutting device 340 on the rotation trajectory plane of the cutting device 340 is 3 to 360 degrees. Further, the central angle a may range from 30 to 300 degrees. Thus, the range of the cover film 130 cut by the cutting device 340 can be set as necessary. When the cutting central angle is within the range, rice falling is fast, and the capsule covering film is not easy to fall.

it can be understood that, since the cutting device 340 does not completely cut the cover film 130 along the circumferential direction of the cover film 130, after the cutting device 340 cuts the cover film 130, a portion of the cover film 130 is separated from the opening 120, and another portion of the cover film 130 is still adhered to the opening 120. Thereby preventing the cover film 130 from falling with the food material.

In this way, the cutting means 340 is not rotated when an undesired food material is dropped into the cooking space, and the cutting means 340 is actuated by the motor 310 to rotate to cut through the cover film 130 when a desired food material is dropped into the cooking space (e.g., in a state of cooking or reserved cooking, etc.). Also, since the cutting device 340 cannot cut the portion of the cover film 130 higher than the height of the cutting device, the cutting device 340 may cut only a portion of the opening 120, so that the cutting device 340 may rotate a complete circle to cut only a portion of the cover film 130, so that it may not be necessary to control the rotation angle of the cutting device 340, which may simplify the configuration of the motor and the transmission mechanism.

In a further embodiment, not shown, the cutting device is moved linearly in the horizontal direction, for example the U-shaped cutting device does not contact the cover film in the initial position, but contacts and cuts the cover film during the linear movement. As the cutting device continues to move to the maximum position, the cutting device may extend through the opening 120. Thereby effecting the rupturing of the cover film 130.

in the above embodiments, the cutting device and the cutting device holder may be constructed as one body, or the cutting device holder may be omitted.

The capsule described herein, may consist of a body having an opening and a cover film covering the opening as in the above embodiments; or the whole body can be packaged by flexible materials, wherein the strength of the flexible materials is uniform; it may also be a capsule having a weakened portion, wherein the weakened portion has a strength and/or thickness less than the rest of the capsule. The capsules described herein may be filled with either food material or water.

the capsule in the present application may be disposed above the cooking appliance, may be disposed on a side portion or a bottom portion of the cooking appliance, or may be disposed separately from the cooking appliance, as in the embodiments.

the opening portion of the capsule in the present application does not necessarily have to be arranged downwards, as long as it is directed towards the cutting means.

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 belongs. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Terms such as "disposed" and the like, as used herein, may refer to one element being directly attached to another element or one element being attached to another element through intervening elements. Features described herein in one embodiment may be applied to another embodiment, either alone or in combination with other features, unless the feature is otherwise inapplicable or otherwise stated in the other embodiment.

the present invention has been described in terms of the above embodiments, but it is to be understood that the above embodiments are for purposes of illustration and description only and are not intended to limit the invention to the described embodiments. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that many more modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching and are intended to be included within the scope of the invention.

Claims (10)

1. A cooking appliance capable of containing a capsule, characterized in that it comprises:

A capsule mounting device on which the capsule is disposed, the capsule mounting device being inclined with respect to a horizontal direction; and

A cutting device rotatable relative to the capsule mounting device,

In a state in which the capsule is supported on the capsule mounting means, the capsule is inclined at a first angle with respect to the horizontal direction so that the cutting means can open the capsule when the cutting means is moved.

2. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the capsule has an opening portion, a portion of which is separated from the capsule after the opening portion is opened by the cutting means, another portion of which remains stuck to the capsule.

3. The cooking appliance of claim 1, further comprising:

a motor;

A rotary transmission mechanism driven to rotate by the motor; and

The cutting device support is matched with the rotary transmission mechanism to rotate, and the cutting device is arranged on the cutting device support.

4. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the portion of the capsule opened by the cutting means has a corresponding central angle in the range of 3-360 degrees on the plane of the trajectory of rotation of the cutting means.

5. The cooking appliance of claim 4, wherein the central angle is in the range of 30-300 degrees.

6. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the first angle is in a range of 1-90 degrees.

7. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the first angle is in a range of 8-60 degrees.

8. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the capsule mounting means has at least three bearing surfaces for bearing a capsule.

9. The cooking appliance of claim 1, wherein the capsule is filled with food material to be cooked or water.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the rotary transmission mechanism is a master transmission gear, and a slave transmission gear is provided on the cutting device support and engaged with the master transmission gear.