CN211985087U - Shell and have its cooking utensil - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a shell and have its cooking utensil, cooking utensil include a kind of deep pot body, and a kind of deep pot body includes the shell and sets up the base in the below of shell, and the inboard of shell is provided with vertical extension's support wall body, and the support wall body is provided with vertical extension's support cylinder, and the support cylinder is connected with the shell, and the lower extreme department of support wall body is provided with the wall body draw-in groove that opens downwards, and the wall body draw-in groove is used for receiving the upper end of base. The utility model provides a shell is through setting up the support cylinder on the support wall body for the structural strength of support wall body can satisfy the requirement fixed with the base, thereby can need not set up joint piece isotructure, just can realize firmly assembling with the base through the wall body draw-in groove on the support wall body.

Description

Shell and have its cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an electrical apparatus technical field for the kitchen, and more specifically relate to a shell and have its cooking utensil.

Background

The pot body of the existing cooking appliance generally comprises a middle plate, a shell and a base, wherein the middle plate and the shell can be separate independent components or can be integrally formed.

For fixing the shell and the base, a plurality of clamping blocks with clamping grooves can be arranged on the inner side of the shell, and the upper end of the base can be clamped in the clamping grooves. In the process of mould forming, the mould of the cooker body needs to be provided with an inclined top structure due to the clamping block, so that the mould structure is complex and high in cost, and the clamping block is limited in the arrangement position, so that a gap is generated between the shell and the base.

Therefore, there is a need for a housing and a cooking appliance having the same to at least partially solve the problems in the prior art.

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 the above problem at least in part, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a housing for a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance includes a pot body, the pot body includes the housing and a base disposed below the housing, an inner side of the housing is provided with a vertically extending support wall body, the support wall body is provided with a vertically extending support cylinder, the support cylinder is connected with the housing, a lower end of the support wall body is provided with a wall body clamping groove with a downward opening, the wall body clamping groove is used for receiving an upper end of the base.

According to this scheme, through set up the support cylinder on the support wall body for the structural strength of support wall body can satisfy the requirement fixed with the base, thereby can need not set up joint piece isotructure, just can realize firmly assembling with the base through the wall body draw-in groove on the support wall body. The forming die is convenient to form, simple in structure and low in cost. And the thickness dimension of the supporting wall body can be set to be very thin according to the needs, so that the injection molding problem such as shrinkage and the like of the shell is avoided, and the structural strength and the appearance of the shell are ensured.

Optionally, the width dimension of the support wall is vertically tapered, and the support column is disposed on a side of the support wall opposite the housing. Thus, the mold molding can be facilitated, and it is convenient to arrange the support column such that the upper portion thereof is connected to the housing.

Optionally, the support column extends upward and protrudes from the support wall body, and an upper portion of the support column is connected to the housing. From this, the stable in structure of support cylinder, intensity is good to can further strengthen the structure of supporting wall body.

Optionally, the radial dimension of the support cylinder is greater than the thickness dimension of the support wall body. Therefore, the supporting column has higher structural strength than the supporting wall body, and the structure of the supporting wall body can be further strengthened.

Optionally, the support columns extend downwardly to the lower end of the support wall body. From this, can further guarantee the structural strength of wall body draw-in groove department.

Optionally, the casing is in the shape of a cuboid, and the grouped supporting wall bodies and the supporting columns are arranged at the corners of the casing and/or the side walls of the casing at intervals. Therefore, the shell and the base can be firmly assembled on the corner and/or the side wall of the shell, and the assembly gap is avoided.

Optionally, the support cylinder is a cylinder; or

The support cylinder is prismatic, prismatic side edge portion with the support wall body with the shell links to each other. Thereby, the degree of freedom in design of the pot body can be improved, and the occurrence of injection molding problems such as shrinkage of the casing can be avoided.

Optionally, the inboard of shell still is provided with the joint piece of horizontal extension, joint piece department is provided with joint piece draw-in groove that the opening is decurrent, the upper end of base is received in the joint piece draw-in groove. Therefore, the clamping block can be further firmly assembled with the base.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance, comprising a lid and a pot body, wherein the lid is openably and closably disposed on the pot body to form a cooking space between the lid and the pot body, the pot body comprises a base and a housing according to any one of the above aspects, the base is disposed under the housing, and the upper end of the base is received in a wall body slot of the housing.

According to this scheme, the kind of deep pot body of cooking utensil is through setting up the support cylinder on the support wall body on the shell for the structural strength of support wall body can satisfy the requirement fixed with the base, thereby can need not set up joint piece isotructure, just can realize firmly assembling with the base through the wall body draw-in groove on the support wall body. The forming die is convenient to form, simple in structure and low in cost. And the thickness dimension of the supporting wall body can be set to be very thin according to the needs, so that the injection molding problem such as shrinkage and the like of the shell is avoided, and the structural strength and the appearance of the shell are ensured.

Optionally, the pot body further comprises a middle plate, the middle plate is disposed above the housing and connected to the housing, and the support column extends upward to the middle plate and abuts against or is connected to the middle plate. This can improve the support strength of the support wall body by the middle plate.

Drawings

The following drawings of the present invention are used herein as part of the present invention for understanding the present invention. There are shown in the drawings embodiments of the invention and the description thereof for the purpose of illustrating the devices and principles of the invention. In the drawings, there is shown in the drawings,

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a pot body according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the pot body shown in FIG. 1 in an inverted state with the base removed;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic view of portion A of FIG. 1, wherein the dashed lines do not represent structural lines, but merely serve to generally distinguish adjacent components for ease of understanding;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of portion B of FIG. 1;

fig. 5 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion C in fig. 2.

Description of the reference numerals

100: the pot body 110: outer casing

111: supporting the wall body 112: support column

113: wall body slot 114: corner part

115: side wall 116: clamping block

117: a clamping block slot 120: middle plate

121: middle plate fixing column 130: base seat

131: base fixing column

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 present invention may be practiced without one or more of these specific details. In other instances, well-known features have not been described in order to avoid obscuring the present invention.

In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It is apparent that the practice of the invention is not limited to the specific details known to those skilled in the art. The present invention is described in detail below with reference to the preferred embodiments, however, the present invention can have other embodiments in addition to the detailed description, and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein.

It is to be understood that the terms "a," "an," and "the" as used herein are intended to describe specific embodiments only and are not to be taken as limiting the invention, which is intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. When the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they 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. The terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right" and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only and are not 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".

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate representative embodiments of the present invention and do not limit the present invention.

Generally, a cooking appliance such as an electric rice cooker includes a pot body 100 (fig. 1) and a cover. The pot body 100 is substantially in the shape of a rounded rectangular parallelepiped and has an inner pot receiving part in the shape of a cylinder. The inner pot can be fixedly arranged at the inner pot containing part, or can be freely put into the inner pot containing part or taken out from the inner pot containing part, so that the inner pot can be conveniently cleaned. The inner pot is generally made of a metal material and has a circular opening on an upper surface for containing a material to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc. The pot body 100 includes therein a heating means for heating the inner pot to heat the inner pot. It can be understood that according to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil can be electric rice cooker, electric pressure cooker or other cooking utensil, and cooking utensil except having the function of cooking rice, can also have various functions such as cooking congee.

The lid body has a shape substantially corresponding to the pot body 100, substantially in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with rounded corners. The lid is openably and closably provided on the pot body 100, and specifically, it is pivoted to the pot body 100 through a pivot shaft, and can be freely pivoted between a closing position and an opening position with respect to the pot body 100 about the pivot axis where the pivot shaft is located, so as to facilitate the closing and opening of the pot body 100. When the cover is closed on the cooker body 100, it covers the inner pot, and a cooking space is formed between the inner pot and the cover. The lid body also usually has a sealing ring, which may be made of e.g. rubber material, arranged between the lid body and the inner pot for sealing the cooking space when the lid body is in the closed position.

As shown in fig. 1, the pot body 100 may include a housing 110, a middle plate 120, and a base 130. The middle plate 120 is disposed inside the outer case 110. The upper end of the outer case 110 may be connected to the middle plate 120. For example, housing 110 and midplane 120 may be separate, separate components, snap-fit, housing 110 may snap-fit to midplane 120 or be connected together by other suitable means, or housing 110 and midplane 120 may be formed as a unitary component. The base 130 is disposed under the housing 110. The lower end of the outer shell 110 may be coupled with the upper end of the base 130. For example, housing 110 may snap fit with base 130 or be connected together by other suitable means.

The middle plate 120 may be connected to the base 130, for example, the middle plate 120 is provided with a middle plate fixing post 121 with a screw hole extending downward, the base 130 is provided with a base fixing post 131 with a screw hole extending upward, and the middle plate fixing post 121 and the base fixing post 131 are connected together by a screw through the screw hole. A control board such as a circuit board may be provided in the pot body 100.

It is to be noted that directional terms used herein in describing the respective parts, means, and the like of the pot body 100, such as "upper", "lower", "above", "below", "upward", "downward", and the like, are relative to the pot body 100 in a horizontally placed state. The directional term "inside" is a side close to the center of the pot body 100, and "outside" is a side away from the center of the pot body 100.

As shown in fig. 2, the housing 110 may be a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape having rounded corners. The inner side of the outer case 110 may be provided with a vertically extending support wall 111 to reinforce the structure of the outer case 110. The supporting walls 111 may also be referred to as supporting ribs. The support walls 111 are spaced apart in the circumferential direction of the outer shell 110, and may be substantially uniformly distributed on the four side walls 115 of the outer shell 110 to form a circle.

The support wall 111 may be provided with vertically extending support columns 112. The support columns 112 can extend upward from the support walls 111 to the housing 110 and connect with the housing 110. This provides a support capability, and supports and reinforces the structure of the support wall 111, so that the strength required for fixing to the base 130 is satisfied. The support cylinder 112 can be integrally formed with the support wall 111, i.e. as one piece, to facilitate the moulding.

A wall body slot 113 with a downward opening may be provided at the lower end of the supporting wall body 111. The upper end of the base 130 is received within the wall slot 113. Therefore, the upper end of the base 130 can be clamped in the wall body clamping groove 113 (fig. 3), and the base 130 and the shell 110 can be firmly assembled. The fixing structure provided by the embodiment can fix the base 130 and the shell 110 together, and limit structures such as a clamping block with a clamping groove do not need to be arranged, so that the structure of the forming die is simplified, and the cost is reduced.

The wall slots 113 may be formed by the housing 110 and the support wall 111. In particular, the supporting wall 111 may be provided with an opening, the groove walls of the wall slot 113 being formed by the outer shell 110 and the supporting wall 111, the wall slot 113 being formed between the supporting wall 111 and the outer shell 110. The upper end of the base 130 abuts against the inner surface of the housing 110 and is clamped to the supporting wall 111.

The support walls 111 form an assembly with support columns 112, and the set of support walls 111 and support columns 112 are spaced apart at corners 114 of the housing 110 and/or at side walls 115 of the housing 110. The number of support columns 112 may be less than the number of support walls 111.

In an embodiment, not shown, a set of supporting walls 111 and supporting columns 112 may be provided at the four corners 114 and the four side walls 115 of the outer shell 110, and the fixation of the outer shell 110 to the base 130 may be achieved by means of the set of supporting walls 111 and supporting columns 112. In this embodiment, the mold for molding the housing 110 is simple in structure.

In another embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, a set of support walls 111 and support columns 112 may be provided at the side wall 115 of the housing 110. In this embodiment, the inner side of the outer shell 110 may be further provided with a horizontally extending snap block 116. The clamping block 116 is provided with a clamping block slot 117 with a downward opening. The upper end of the base 130 can be received in the snap block snap slot 117 (fig. 4). The snap blocks 116 may be provided at least at the four corners 114 of the outer shell 110. The fastening of the housing 110 to the base 130, in particular at the corners 114 of the housing 110, is further achieved by means of the snap-in pieces 116. The number of the clamping blocks 116 is set as small as possible to avoid the complicated structure of the mold. The engaging block engaging groove 117 can be located at substantially the same height as the wall body engaging groove 113. Optionally, the snap-in block 116 may be provided with a stiffener to strengthen the structure.

In both embodiments, the whole circumference of the lower end of the casing 110 can be fixed by the group of the supporting wall 111 and the supporting column 112, and a gap between the casing 110 and the base 130 is avoided.

Further, as shown in fig. 5, the width dimension of the support wall 111 can be tapered in the vertical direction, and may be tapered such that the inner surface (the surface toward the center of the housing 110) of the support wall 111 is connected with the inner surface of the housing 110. The width dimension of the support wall 111 may be understood as its dimension in the radial direction of the housing 110. The support columns 112 may be disposed on a side of the support wall 111 opposite the outer shell 110. The support column 112 extends upward and protrudes from the support wall 111, and an upper portion of the support column 112 may be connected to the outer case 110, and particularly, a portion of the support column 112 protruding from the support wall 111 may be connected to the outer case 110.

In this embodiment, the tapered structure of the supporting wall 111 enables the supporting cylinder 112 to extend from the supporting wall 111 to the inner surface of the casing 110 and then extend upwards along the inner surface of the casing 110.

Referring back to fig. 2, support column 112 may extend up to middle plate 120 and abut or connect with middle plate 120. For embodiments in which middle plate 120 is integral with outer shell 110, support columns 112 may be molded with middle plate 120. The support column 112 can extend downward to the lower end of the support wall 111 to ensure the structural strength of the wall body at the slot 113. The lower end of the support post 112 preferably does not protrude from the housing 110 to avoid interference with the fixing of the housing 110 to the base 130.

The radial dimension of the support cylinder 112 can be greater than the thickness dimension of the support wall 111. The radial dimension of the support cylinder 112 refers to its dimension in the radial direction of the support cylinder 112. The thickness dimension of the support wall 111 may be understood as its dimension in the circumferential direction of the casing 110. In this embodiment, the thickness of the supporting wall 111 may be set to be thin as needed to avoid the problem of injection molding, such as shrinkage, of the outer shell 110. In particular, the thickness dimension of supporting wall 111 may be 1/3-1/2 of the thickness dimension of outer shell 110. The radial dimension of support column 112 may be 1/2-1 of the thickness dimension of housing 110.

The support cylinder 112 may be a cylinder or a prism. In the embodiment where the support column 112 is a prism, the side edge portion of the prism is connected to the support wall 111 and the outer shell 110, and with this embodiment, the problem of injection molding, such as shrinkage, of the outer shell 110 at the support column 112 can be avoided. The support column 112 may be a hollow column or a solid column. In embodiments where support column 112 is a hollow column, the wall thickness of support column 112 may be 1/3-1/2 of the thickness dimension of outer shell 110.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance comprising a lid and a pot body 100 according to any one of the above aspects, wherein the lid is openably and closably provided on the pot body 100 to form a cooking space between the lid and the pot body 100. The supporting wall body 111 with the supporting cylinder 112 is arranged on the outer shell 110 of the cooker body 100, so that the structural strength of the supporting wall body 111 can meet the requirement of being fixed with the base 130, and the firm assembly with the base 130 can be realized through the wall body clamping groove 113 on the supporting wall body 111 without arranging structures such as the clamping block 116. The forming die is convenient to form, simple in structure and low in cost. And the thickness dimension of the supporting wall body 111 can be set to be thin as required, so that the injection molding problem of the outer shell 110 such as shrinkage is avoided, thereby ensuring the structural strength and appearance of the outer shell 110.

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 "part," "member," and the like, when used herein, can refer to either a single part or a combination of parts. Terms such as "mounted," "disposed," and the like, as used herein, may refer to one component as being directly attached to another component or one component as being attached to another component through intervening components. 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. Furthermore, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and that many more modifications and variations can be made in accordance with the teachings of the present invention, all of which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides a shell for cooking utensil, cooking utensil includes a kind of deep pot body (100), a kind of deep pot body (100) includes shell (110) and setting are in base (130) of the below of shell (110), its characterized in that, the inboard of shell (110) is provided with vertical extension's support wall body (111), support wall body (111) are provided with vertical extension's support cylinder (112), support cylinder (112) with shell (110) are connected, the lower extreme department of support wall body (111) is provided with the downward wall body draw-in groove of opening (113), wall body draw-in groove (113) are used for receiving the upper end of base (130).

2. The casing according to claim 1, characterized in that the width dimension of the supporting wall (111) is vertically tapered, the supporting columns (112) being arranged on the opposite side of the supporting wall (111) from the casing.

3. The casing according to claim 1, characterized in that the support columns (112) extend upwards and protrude from the support walls (111), the upper part of the support columns (112) being connected to the casing (110).

4. The casing according to claim 1, characterized in that the radial dimension of the support columns (112) is greater than the thickness dimension of the support walls (111).

5. The housing according to claim 1, characterized in that the support columns (112) extend down to the lower end of the support wall body (111).

6. The housing according to claim 1, characterized in that the housing (110) has a rectangular parallelepiped shape, the set of supporting walls (111) being arranged at corners (114) of the housing (110) and/or side walls (115) of the housing (110) at a distance from the supporting columns (112).

7. The housing of claim 1,

the support column (112) is a cylinder; or

The supporting column (112) is a prism, and the side edge part of the prism is connected with the supporting wall body (111) and the shell (110).

8. The shell according to claim 1, wherein a horizontally extending clamping block (116) is further disposed on the inner side of the shell (110), a clamping block slot (117) with a downward opening is disposed at the clamping block (116), and the clamping block slot (117) is used for receiving the upper end of the base (130).

9. A cooking appliance, characterized by comprising a lid and a pot body (100), the lid being openably and closably provided on the pot body (100) to form a cooking space between the lid and the pot body (100), the pot body (100) comprising a housing (110) according to any one of claims 1 to 8 and a base (130), the base (130) being provided below the housing (110), an upper end of the base (130) being received in a wall slot (113) of the housing (110).

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 9, wherein the pot body (100) further comprises a middle plate (120), the middle plate (120) is disposed above the outer shell (110) and connected with the outer shell (110), and the support column (112) extends up to the middle plate (120) and abuts against or is connected with the middle plate (120).

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