CN209995906U

CN209995906U - Cooking utensil

Info

Publication number: CN209995906U
Application number: CN201822240056.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 邱清山
Original assignee: Zhejiang Supor Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Supor Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-12-28
Filing date: 2018-12-28
Publication date: 2020-01-31
Anticipated expiration: 2028-12-28

Abstract

The utility model provides an cooking utensil, it has the culinary art space the top in culinary art space is provided with the feed inlet, and the position that is located the feed inlet below in the culinary art space is provided with the bulk cargo pipe, and the material passes through the feed inlet with the bulk cargo pipe gets into the culinary art space wherein, the bulk cargo pipe can rotate and swing the contained angle of adjustment bulk cargo pipe and axis of rotation so that the material is in the bottom evenly distributed of culinary art space in the plane at axis of rotation place.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model discloses generally relate to cooking utensil's technical field.

Background

some cooking appliances have a reservation function, but users often find that the longer the reservation time is, the higher the probability of food deterioration in the pot is, for example, if the users reserve rice before going to work in the morning and return to eat at night, the rice is often found to become dry and yellow, and especially, peculiar smell is generated in summer, so that the existing cooking appliances cannot realize keeping the freshness of the rice under the condition of long-time reservation.

For this reason, the applicant has conceived that the problem of the deterioration of food materials due to a long-term reservation can be solved by enclosing the pretreated food materials such as rice and beans in a package, and opening the package when the reservation time is reached and the cooking is required, so that the food materials fall into the cooking space of the cooking appliance for cooking. However, food materials such as rice or beans tend to accumulate intensively at the bottom of the cooking space without being disturbed in the process of automatically entering the cooking space, and it is difficult to achieve uniform distribution. In the cooking process, the food materials are uneven in water absorption, heating and the like, so that the cooked food is poor in taste, and poor using experience is brought to a user.

Therefore, there is a need for cooking appliances to at least partially solve the problems in the prior art.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The inventive content part is not meant to be an attempt to define the essential features and essential features of the claimed solution, nor is it meant to be an attempt to determine the scope of the claimed solution.

To at least partially solve the above problems, there are provided cooking appliances, comprising:

the cooking device comprises a cooking space, a feeding hole is formed above the cooking space, a material scattering pipe is arranged below the feeding hole in the cooking space, and materials enter the cooking space through the feeding hole and the material scattering pipe;

the bulk material pipe can rotate around a vertical rotating axis and swing in a plane where the rotating axis is located to adjust an included angle between the bulk material pipe and the rotating axis so that the materials are uniformly distributed at the bottom of the cooking space.

According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil is eating the in-process that gets into the culinary art space, and the bulk cargo pipe will eat the material through rotation and the swing that can self and throw away from, makes its position department that can fall and keep away from the feed inlet to evenly distributed is in the bottom of culinary art space.

Optionally, a feed channel is arranged above the cooking space, the feed channel is configured in a funnel shape, the size of an inlet of the feed channel is larger than that of an outlet of the feed channel, and the outlet of the feed channel forms the feed opening. From this, the feed channel that leaks hopper-shaped can make things convenient for edible material to get into the bulk material pipe accurately.

Optionally, the axis of rotation of the bulk tube coincides with a central axis of the cooking space. From this, the arrangement of bulk material pipe is favorable to eating material evenly distributed.

Optionally, the axis of rotation of the bulk tube is offset from a central axis of the cooking space by a distance B. Therefore, the size of the cooking utensil can be reduced by the arrangement mode of the bulk pipes, and the structure is compact.

Optionally, in a plane passing through the rotation axis, the range of the swing angle A of the bulk pipe relative to the rotation axis is 0-arctan [ (D1/2+ B)/C ], wherein,

d1 is the radial dimension of the cooking space in the transverse direction at the maximum food material capacity marking line;

b is the distance between the rotating axis of the bulk pipe and the central axis of the cooking space;

and C is the vertical distance between the swing center of the bulk pipe and the maximum food material capacity marking line of the cooking space. Therefore, an appropriate swing angle can be selected according to the type of the food material and the size of the cooking space.

Optionally, a distance B between the axis of rotation of the bulk tube and the central axis of the cooking space is in a range of 0-0.25D, where D is a maximum radial dimension of the cooking space in a lateral direction. Therefore, the specific position of the bulk pipe can be selectively set according to the requirement.

Optionally, the maximum food material capacity marker line is located at a maximum radial dimension of the cooking space in a lateral direction. Therefore, the cooking space can contain more food materials.

Optionally, the speed of the bulk tube rotating around the rotation axis is in the range of 0.1-1000r/min, so that the applicable rotation speed of the bulk tube to the variety of the food material and the size of the cooking space can be selected according to the requirement in the adaptive range of the bulk tube.

Optionally, the swing period of the bulk pipe ranges from 0.1 s to 180s, so that the applicable swing period of the bulk pipe to the adaptation range of the food material types and the size of the cooking space can be selected according to needs.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises a capsule mounting device and a capsule opening device, the capsule mounting device is used for containing at least capsules, the capsule opening device can open the capsules, so that materials in the capsules enter the cooking space through the feed inlet and the bulk pipe, the capsule mounting device can drive each of the at least capsules to move to an opening position where the capsule opening device opens the capsules, therefore, food materials can be stored in the capsules, food material fresh keeping is facilitated, cooking automation is facilitated to be improved, and a plurality of capsules can be arranged to contain larger quantities of the same food materials or different food materials.

Drawings

The following drawings of the embodiments of the present invention are included to provide an understanding of the present invention as parts of the present invention, and in the accompanying drawings, there are shown embodiments of the present invention and a description thereof for the purpose of explaining the principles of the present invention,

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a vertical cut-away of preferred embodiments of a cooking appliance according to the present invention, an

Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a capsule group for the cooking appliance shown in fig. 1.

Detailed Description

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention, however, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that embodiments of the present invention may be practiced without or more of these details.

In the following description, a detailed structure will be presented for a thorough understanding of embodiments of the invention. It is apparent that the implementation of the embodiments of the present invention is not limited to the specific details familiar to those skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 shows a preferred embodiments of a cooking appliance 1 according to the present invention, which generally comprises a pot body 10, a lid body 20, a capsule mounting device 30 and a capsule opening device (not shown).

The cooker body 10 may be substantially configured in a rounded rectangular parallelepiped shape, and an inner pot 11 is provided therein. A cylindrical inner pot accommodating portion may be provided in the pot body 10, and the inner pot 11 may be freely put into or taken out of the inner pot accommodating portion to facilitate cleaning of the inner pot 11. The upper surface of the inner pot 11 has a circular opening for containing materials to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc., into the inner pot 11. A heating means (not shown) for heating the inner pot, etc. may be further provided in the pot body 10. Of course, the inner pot 11 may be fixedly provided in the pot body 10, or a concave cooking cavity may be provided in the pot body 10 instead of the inner pot 11.

The lid body 20 may be pivotably connected to the pot body 10 by a pivot shaft, and may be openable and closable with respect to the pot body 10. When the lid 20 is closed on the pot body 10, a cooking space 12 is formed between the lid 20 and the inner pot 11.

The capsule can include a containing cavity with an opening, the food or water used for cooking can be stored in the containing cavity, the opening of the containing cavity is sealed by a sealing film, and about 50-200g of food, such as rice, millet or beans, can be stored in capsules, so as to adapt to cooking requirements of different food quantities and different people numbers.

In addition, the food materials stored in the capsule can be cleaned in advance and other processing steps, so that the food materials are kept sanitary, the cleaning process before cooking is omitted, nutrient substances such as vitamins and the like can be added into the food materials to balance the nutrition of the food materials, the capsule can also store the food materials in a sealing manner to play a fresh-keeping role, or the fresh-keeping period of the food materials can be further prolonged by steps by means of vacuumizing the containing cavity or filling protective gas into the containing cavity.

As shown in FIG. 1, the cover 20 is further provided with a capsule mounting device 30 for receiving a fixed capsule 41, the capsule 41 is mounted on the capsule mounting device 30 with an opening facing generally downward, and further, the cover 20 is provided with a feed passage 21 at a position below the capsule mounting device 30. the feed passage 21 communicates with the cooking space 12 through an outlet 22 at a lower end thereof. at a position corresponding to the feed passage 21, a sealing film of the capsule 41 may be pierced and cut by using a capsule opening device configured as a cutting knife to open the capsule 41. As a simple variation of , it is also possible to open the capsule 41 and block the capsule 41 by other structures before a position corresponding to the feed passage 21. then the capsule 41 is continuously moved to an open position corresponding to the feed passage 21. at the open position, the material in the receiving chamber of the capsule 41 is automatically introduced into the cooking space 12 through the feed passage 21 by gravity. therefore, the position corresponding to the feed passage 21 of the capsule mounting device 30 may be referred to as an open position, and the outlet 22 of the feed passage 21 may be referred to as a feed inlet of the cooking space 12.

In addition, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, a plurality of capsules 41 are mounted on the capsule mounting device 30, the capsule mounting device 30 can drive each capsules 41 to move to a position corresponding to the feeding channel 21, namely, the opening position, so that more food materials can be accommodated by the capsules 41, more food materials can be accommodated to cook food for supplying more people, and more different food materials can be accommodated to meet the requirements of cooking different foods.

As shown in FIG. 2, the capsules 41 are configured in a generally fan-like shape and are arranged in a circular pattern on the capsule mounting device 30. accordingly, the capsule mounting device 30 may be configured in the form of a capsule mounting plate, the capsule mounting device 30 is moved by rotation to move each capsules 41 to an open position, it being understood that the shape configuration of the capsule mounting device 30 is adapted to the arrangement shape of the plurality of capsules 41 and the moving direction of the movement of the capsule mounting device 30 is adapted to the arrangement direction of the capsules 41. for example, when the plurality of capsules 41 are arranged in a rectangular parallelepiped shape along a linear row, the capsule mounting device 30 may also be configured in a linear shape and configured to move along a line.

Preferably, the plurality of capsules 41 on the capsule mounting device 30 may be interconnected to form unitary structures, such that the plurality of capsules 41 may be easily installed and replaced, as shown in FIG. 2, the plurality of capsules 41 are interconnected to form a capsule group 40. in this embodiment, the capsules 41 are provided with outwardly extending flanges 42. adjacent capsules 41 are interconnected by respective flanges 42. further preferably, the flanges 42 may be provided on the surfaces of the capsules 41 facing the capsule mounting device 30. it will be appreciated that in other embodiments, the plurality of capsules 41 may be otherwise arranged to form other shaped capsule groups 40, such as a donut-shaped disc, or the plurality of capsules 41 may be linearly arranged in a rectangular parallelepiped shaped capsule group 40.

As can be seen in FIG. 1, the throat 22 has a much smaller area relative to the transverse cross-section of the cooking volume 12. If the material does not interfere when it enters the cooking space 12 through the throat 22, it is easily gathered at the bottom of the cooking space 12 at a position corresponding to the throat 22 and is not uniformly distributed.

Therefore, according to the cooking apparatus 1 of the present invention, the material scattering pipe 50 is disposed at a position below the material inlet 22 in the cooking space 12. The bulk pipe 50 is configured in a generally tubular shape, and communicates with the feed opening 22. The bulk tube 50 has a substantially vertical axis of rotation AX2, which is rotatable about an axis of rotation AX 2. Furthermore, while rotating, the bulk tube 50 can also swing about the swing axis AX 3. Wherein the swing axis AX3 may be configured to be substantially perpendicular to the rotation axis AX 2. Taking fig. 1 as an example, the swing axis AX3 is perpendicular to the paper, rotation of the swing axis AX3 drives the bulk material tube 50 to swing, and the angle a is the swing angle of the bulk material tube 50 at this position.

The food material, after passing through the feed opening 22, needs to pass through the dispersion tube 50 before entering the cooking space 12. In the process, the bulk material pipe 50 swings around the swing axis AX3 in the plane of the rotation axis AX2, so that the food materials are distributed at the bottom of the cooking space 12 from the near to the far position along the transverse distance from the rotation axis AX2, namely, the outlet inclination angle of the bulk material pipe 50 is adjusted through swinging, and the bulk materials are uniformly dispersed in the radial direction. At the same time, the bulk tube 50 rotates about the axis of rotation AX2 such that the food material is distributed throughout the bottom of the cooking space 12 about the circumference of the axis of rotation AX2 to evenly bulk the material in the circumferential direction. The two actions are superimposed so that the ingredients can be evenly distributed at the bottom of the cooking space 12. Preferably, as shown in fig. 1, the feeding channel 21 is configured as a funnel, the inlet of which has a larger radial dimension, in order to collect the food material falling out of the capsule 41. While its outlet (feedwell 22 of cooking space 12) has a smaller radial dimension and protrudes into bulk material tube 50. This allows the material to enter the dispensing tube 50 accurately.

In embodiments, the bulk tube 50 may be connected to a transversely disposed pendulum shaft (not shown) defining a pendulum axis AX 3.

The pendulum shaft may be connected to a th drive means (not shown), such as a motor, furthermore, the bulk material tube 50, the pendulum shaft and the th drive means may be connected to a vertically disposed shaft defining a rotation axis ax2. the shaft may be connected to a second drive means (not shown), such as a motor, whereby the second drive means drives the bulk material tube 50, the pendulum shaft and the th drive means to rotate via the shaft, while the th drive means drives the bulk material tube 50 to swing via the pendulum shaft, the th drive means and/or the second drive means may be provided on the cover 20.

Preferably, the speed of rotation of the bulk material tube 50 about the axis of rotation AX2 can be flexibly selected within the range of 0.1-1000r/min depending on the type of food material and the size of the cooking space 12. the period of oscillation of the bulk material tube 50 can be flexibly selected within the range of 0.1-180s, wherein oscillation periods can be defined as the time required for the bulk material tube 50 to complete oscillations.

Generally, the cooking space 12 has a circular cross-section to facilitate uniform heat transfer, and may be configured, for example, as a cylinder, sphere, hemisphere, etc. As shown in FIG. 1, the inner pan 11 has a convexly curved side wall, the cooking space 12 is configured in a shape generally intermediate the sphere and hemisphere with a vertical central axis AX1 and a maximum radial dimension D (not shown) in the transverse direction, in embodiments D ranges from 150mm to 300mm, corresponding to a volume of the cooking space 12 that may range from 2L to 6L, e.g., depending on different volume requirements, D may take on a value of 170mm, 200mm, 250mm, 270mm, etc., where the central axis AX1 passes through the center of the bottom of the cooking space 12.

In the present embodiment, the capsule mounting device 30 moves the capsule 41 by rotating. In order to make the structure compact, the throat 22 is disposed to be offset from the central axis AX1 of the cooking space 12, and the central axis AX1 is located between the throat 22 and the rotational shaft 31 of the capsule mounting device 30 in the vertical cross-section as shown in FIG. 1. This is advantageous in reducing the size of the cooking appliance 1 in the lateral direction.

Accordingly, the axis of rotation AX2 of the bulk tube 50 is offset from the central axis AX1 to facilitate communication between the feed throat 22 and the bulk tube 50 to ensure that food material passing through the feed throat 22 can enter the bulk tube 50. As shown in fig. 1, in the present embodiment, the rotation axis AX2 is offset from the center axis AX1 by a distance B. Wherein, the value range of B can be 0-0.25D. It is understood that in other embodiments, the axis of rotation AX2 of the bulk tube 50 and the throat 22 may be disposed concentrically with respect to the cross-section of the cooking volume 12. I.e. the axis of rotation AX2 of the bulk tube 50 coincides with the central axis AX1 of the cooking space 12.

In fig. 1, a maximum food material capacity marking line of the cooking space 12 is shown by a broken line. When the amount of food material in the cooking space 12 reaches a maximum, the plane formed by the food material is level with the position shown by the dashed line and has a radial dimension D1. Preferably, the radial dimension D1 of the plane formed by the largest amount of food material may be equal to the largest radial dimension D of the cooking space 12 in the transverse direction. That is, the plane formed by the largest amount of food material is located at the largest radial dimension of the cooking space 12 in the transverse direction.

It is desirable that the tube 50 is able to drop the material by swinging the tube the furthest to ensure even distribution of the material, and therefore it is preferred that the maximum value of the angle a of swinging of the tube 50 about the axis of swing AX3 relative to the axis of rotation AX2 is arctan [ (B + D1/2)/C ]. where C is the vertical distance of the axis of swing AX3 from the plane of maximum material, i.e. the vertical distance of the axis of swing AX3 from the maximum material capacity marking line.

In the above description, the manner of opening the capsule is achieved by piercing the sealing membrane by a capsule opening device configured as a cutting knife. The manner of opening the capsule is not limited thereto and the structure of the capsule opening device is not limited to the cutting knife. The capsule may be opened, for example, by dissolving the sealing membrane, or the specific structure of the capsule opening device may be changed when the capsule is constructed in other structures that do not include the sealing membrane. The utility model discloses do not limit to this, as long as can realize opening the capsule can.

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 terms used herein are for the purpose of describing particular implementations only and are not intended to limit the invention.

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

Cooking appliance (1) of the kind , characterized in that the cooking appliance (1) comprises:

the cooking device comprises a cooking space (12), wherein a feed inlet (22) is formed above the cooking space (12), a material scattering pipe (50) is arranged in the cooking space (12) and is positioned below the feed inlet (22), and materials enter the cooking space (12) through the feed inlet (22) and the material scattering pipe (50);

the bulk pipe (50) can rotate around a vertical rotation axis (AX2) and can swing in a plane where the rotation axis (AX2) is located to adjust an included angle between the bulk pipe and the rotation axis so that the materials can be uniformly distributed at the bottom of the cooking space (12).
2. Cooking appliance (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that a feed channel (21) is arranged above the cooking space (12), the feed channel (21) being funnel-shaped and the inlet of the feed channel (21) having a larger size than the outlet, the outlet of the feed channel (21) forming the feed opening (22).
3. The cooking appliance (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the axis of rotation (AX2) of the bulk tube (50) coincides with a central axis (AX1) of the cooking space (12).
4. The cooking appliance (1) according to claim 1, wherein the axis of rotation (AX2) of the bulk tube (50) is offset from a central axis (AX1) of the cooking space (12) by a distance B.
5. Cooking appliance (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the angle A of oscillation of the bulk pipe (50) with respect to the axis of rotation (AX2) in a plane passing through the axis of rotation (AX2) is in the range 0-arctan [ (D1/2+ B)/C ], wherein,

d1 is the radial dimension of the cooking space (12) in the transverse direction at the maximum food material capacity marking line;

b is the distance between the axis of rotation (AX2) of the bulk tube (50) and a central axis (AX1) of the cooking space (12);

c is the vertical distance between the swing center of the bulk pipe (50) and the maximum food material capacity marking line of the cooking space (12).
6. Cooking appliance (1) according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the distance B between the axis of rotation (AX2) of the bulk tube (50) and the central axis (AX1) of the cooking space (12) ranges from 0 to 0.25D, where D is the maximum radial dimension of the cooking space (12) in the transverse direction.
7. The cooking appliance (1) according to claim 5, characterized in that the maximum food material capacity marking is located at the maximum radial dimension of the cooking space (12) in the transverse direction.
8. The cooking appliance (1) according to claim 1, wherein the bulk tube (50) rotates around the axis of rotation (AX2) at a speed ranging from 0.1 to 1000 r/min.
9. Cooking appliance (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the period of oscillation of the dispersion pipe (50) ranges from 0.1 to 180 s.
10. The cooking appliance (1) according to claim 1, wherein the cooking appliance (1) further comprises a capsule mounting device (30) for accommodating at least capsules (41) and a capsule opening device capable of opening the capsules (41) to allow the material in the capsules (41) to enter the cooking space (12) through the inlet (22) and the bulk tube (50), the capsule mounting device (30) being capable of moving each of the at least capsules (41) to an open position in which the capsule opening device opens the capsules.