CN212204668U - Integrated kitchen range - Google Patents

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CN212204668U
CN212204668U CN202020741805.2U CN202020741805U CN212204668U CN 212204668 U CN212204668 U CN 212204668U CN 202020741805 U CN202020741805 U CN 202020741805U CN 212204668 U CN212204668 U CN 212204668U
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郭峰
彭小康
王建宇
刘星
杨飞
余悦泳
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The utility model discloses an integrated kitchen, integrated kitchen includes: kitchen body and smoke exhausting fan, this internal smoke exhaust duct that is formed with of kitchen, smoke exhaust duct includes: the first air duct extends along the vertical direction and is positioned at the rear part of the stove body, one end of the second air duct is connected with the lower end of the first air duct, and the other end of the second air duct extends along the horizontal direction; the smoke exhaust fan is arranged in the second air channel and is adjacent to the first air channel, the smoke exhaust fan is provided with an air inlet, and the air inlet is arranged towards the lower end of the first air channel. According to the utility model discloses an integrated kitchen constructs into roughly perpendicularly through the first wind channel in the wind channel of will discharging fume with the second wind channel, establishes the slope of smoke ventilator in the second wind channel, both can reduce the windage in the wind channel of discharging fume through the angle that changes the flue gas and get into the corner that smoke ventilator passed through from first wind channel, promotes smoke exhaust efficiency, can also practice thrift the inner space of the shared kitchen body in the wind channel of discharging fume, is convenient for optimize the inside overall arrangement of kitchen body.

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Integrated kitchen range
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of integrated kitchen technique and specifically relates to an integrated kitchen is related to.
Background
In the related art, the existing integrated cooker mainly comprises a head part, a cooker system, a body, a fan system and an additional assembly (a steam box, an oven or a disinfection cabinet, etc.), wherein the fan system is mainly used for removing oil smoke in the integrated cooker, so that a fresh and sanitary kitchen environment is provided for users.
At present, most of fans of the integrated cooker are longitudinally placed in an air duct below a machine head, a rotating shaft of each fan is horizontal, and an air inlet faces to the back of the integrated cooker (refer to fig. 7). The scheme mainly solves the problems of insufficient utilization of body structure space and unsmooth oil smoke removal. Structural space utilization aspect: the fan is longitudinally arranged at the back of the integrated cooker, the thickness of the fan and the clearance which must be reserved for the air inlet of the fan occupy the depth of the integrated cooker body which exceeds 1/3, so that an additional assembly of the integrated cooker, such as a steam box and a baking oven, can contain smaller width of a steaming and baking tray, the number of bowls and dishes which can be contained at one time is reduced, and inconvenience is brought to customers; unsmooth oil smoke removal: the oil smoke vertically enters a horizontally arranged smoke pipe after passing through the fan, and then enters a public flue after turning by 90 degrees, and the structure has larger wind resistance between the outlet of the fan and the public pipeline, thus being not beneficial to smoke discharge;
in addition, the integrated stove fan is also transversely arranged in the air duct, the rotating shaft of the fan is vertical to the horizontal plane, and the air inlet of the fan is parallel to the horizontal plane (refer to fig. 6). The problem in the above-mentioned fan arrangement scheme can be solved to this scheme, but the fan of level placing, fan air intake and wind channel shell form narrow space, and the air that has the oil smoke just can get into the fan perpendicularly in two 90 directions of turning in succession, can increase the windage between fan air intake and the inside wind channel of aircraft nose like this, can reduce smoke exhaust efficiency, and simultaneously, this structure also can lead to near flow field disorder of air intake, increase the aerodynamic noise of fan.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model discloses aim at solving one of the technical problem that exists among the prior art at least. Therefore, the utility model provides an integrated kitchen, integrated kitchen can promote smoke exhaust efficiency.
According to the utility model discloses an integrated kitchen, include: the kitchen body, this internal air duct that discharges fume that is formed with of kitchen, the air duct that discharges fume includes: the first air duct extends along the vertical direction and is positioned at the rear part of the stove body; one end of the second air duct is connected with the lower end of the first air duct, and the other end of the second air duct extends along the horizontal direction; the second air channel is arranged in the first air channel, the first air channel is arranged in the second air channel and is adjacent to the second air channel, the smoke exhaust fan is provided with an air inlet, and the air inlet faces the lower end of the first air channel.
According to the utility model discloses an integrated kitchen constructs into roughly perpendicularly through the first wind channel in the wind channel of will discharging fume with the second wind channel, establishes the slope of smoke ventilator in the second wind channel, both can reduce the windage in the wind channel of discharging fume through the angle that changes the flue gas and get into the corner that smoke ventilator passed through from first wind channel, promotes smoke exhaust efficiency, can also practice thrift the inner space of the shared kitchen body in the wind channel of discharging fume, is convenient for optimize the inside overall arrangement of kitchen body.
According to the utility model discloses a few embodiments, the smoking fan is horizontal fan, just the rotation axis of smoking fan is followed orientation in up direction down the lower extreme in first wind channel is inclined to extend backward, the air intake perpendicular to the smoking fan the rotation axis.
According to some embodiments of the utility model, the kitchen body includes: the first air duct enclosing plate is in a cylindrical shape extending along the up-down direction and with two open ends, and the inner side of the first air duct enclosing plate defines the first air duct; the kitchen range body further includes: the second air duct enclosing plate extends along the horizontal direction, the inner side of the second air duct enclosing plate defines a second air duct, and the rear end of the second air duct enclosing plate is connected and communicated with the lower end of the first air duct enclosing plate.
Further, the second duct enclosure comprises: the bottom plate and the roof of interval arrangement on the upper and lower direction, the bottom plate upwards extends at the orientation that inclines forward after following, the smoking fan is fixed in on the bottom plate, wherein, the axis of rotation of smoking fan perpendicular to the bottom plate sets up, just the air intake form in the upside surface of smoking fan in axial direction.
Still further, the smoke exhaust fan comprises: the air inlet is formed in the volute, and the distance between the central point of the air inlet and the top plate is at least 1/4 of the thickness of the volute in the axial direction of the smoke exhaust fan.
According to some embodiments of the utility model, the roof is the horizontal plate that extends along the horizontal direction, the rear end of roof with the circular arc is connected between the preceding curb plate of first wind channel bounding wall.
Further, the radius of the arc between the rear end of the top plate and the front side plate of the first air duct enclosing plate is at least 0.8 time of the thickness of the first air duct enclosing plate in the front-back direction.
According to some embodiments of the invention, the lower side surface of the portion of the top plate opposite the smoke exhaust fan is provided with a noise reduction layer.
In some embodiments, the rear end of the bottom plate is provided with an oil drain nozzle, and the integrated cooker further includes: the oil collecting box is arranged below the bottom plate and is vertically opposite to the oil leakage nozzle.
According to some embodiments of the utility model, be formed with on the bottom plate and link up in the thickness direction the mounting hole of bottom plate, smoke exhausting fan locates the mounting hole position and with sealing connection is followed to the week of mounting hole.
Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
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Fig. 1 is a front view of an integrated cooker according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a side view of the integrated cooker shown in fig. 1;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of an embodiment of a smoke evacuation duct of the integrated range shown in FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a side view of a smoke evacuation duct of the integrated cooktop shown in FIG. 2;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of another embodiment of a smoke evacuation duct of the integrated cooktop shown in FIG. 2;
figure 6 is a schematic view of a prior art smoke extractor with the air inlet thereof disposed upwardly;
figure 7 is a schematic view of a prior art back arrangement of the air inlet of a smoke extractor.
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the integrated cooker 100:
the kitchen range comprises a kitchen range body 1, a smoke exhaust duct 10, a first duct baffle plate 11, a first duct 111, a front side plate 112, a second duct baffle plate 12, a second duct 121, a top plate 122, a bottom plate 123 and a mounting hole 1231,
the device comprises a smoke exhaust fan 2, a volute 21, an air inlet 211, a wind wheel 22 and an oil collecting box 3.
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Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary and intended to be used for explaining the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
An integrated cooker 100 according to the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 1 to 7.
As shown in fig. 2, the integrated cooker 100 according to the present invention comprises: the stove comprises a stove body 1 and a smoke exhaust fan 2.
Specifically, be formed with the wind channel 10 of discharging fume in the kitchen body 1, the wind channel 10 of discharging fume includes: the cooking range comprises a first air duct 111 and a second air duct 121, wherein the first air duct 111 extends along the vertical direction, and the first vertical air duct is positioned at the rear part of the range body 1; one end of the second air duct 121 (e.g., the rear end of the second air duct 121 shown in fig. 1) is connected to the lower end of the first air duct 111, and the other end of the second air duct 121 (e.g., the front end of the second air duct 121 shown in fig. 1) extends in a substantially horizontal direction; the smoke exhaust fan 2 is arranged in the second air duct 121 and adjacent to the first air duct 111, the smoke exhaust fan 2 has an air inlet 211, and the air inlet 211 is arranged towards the lower end of the first air duct 111.
Like this, first wind channel 111 constructs to be similar to mutually perpendicular with second wind channel 121 and sets up, simultaneously the air intake 211 of smoke ventilator 2 is the slope setting for the horizontal direction, with the smoke ventilator air intake vertical upwards set up in the correlation technique compare, thereby change the angle of the corner that the oil smoke passed through at the in-process from first wind channel 111 flow direction smoke ventilator 2 in, thereby reduce the windage, simultaneously, with the correlation technique in the air intake of smoke ventilator along the horizontal direction towards the rear side wall arrangement in smoke ventilator wind channel, because establish smoke ventilator 2 in the second wind channel 121 in this embodiment, make first wind channel 111 can reduce its width along the fore-and-aft direction under the condition that does not influence air inlet efficiency, thereby practice thrift shared kitchen body 1's inner space, optimize kitchen body 1's internal layout.
According to the utility model discloses an integrated kitchen 100 constructs into roughly perpendicularly through the first wind channel 111 with the second wind channel 121 with the wind channel 10 of discharging fume, establish 2 slopes of smoke exhaust fan in second wind channel 121, both can reduce the windage of the wind channel 10 of discharging fume from the angle of the corner that first wind channel 111 got into smoke exhaust fan 2 and pass through the change flue gas, promote smoke exhaust efficiency, can also practice thrift the shared kitchen body 1's of the wind channel 10 of discharging fume inner space, be convenient for optimize the inside overall arrangement of kitchen body 1.
According to some embodiments of the utility model, smoke exhaust fan 2 is horizontal fan, and on the direction up from down, smoke exhaust fan 2's rotation axis inclines backward towards the lower extreme of first wind channel 111 and extends, and air intake 211 perpendicular to smoke exhaust fan 2's rotation axis, and from this, smoke exhaust fan 2 sets up in second wind channel 121 slope for smoke exhaust channel 10 can reduce the windage through the angle that changes the flue gas and get into the corner that smoke exhaust fan 2 passed through from first wind channel 111, promotes smoke exhaust efficiency.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 3 to 5, the oven body 1 may include: a first air duct enclosure 11 and a second air duct enclosure 12. Specifically, the first air duct enclosure 11 is in a cylindrical shape extending in the up-down direction and having two open ends, and a first air duct 111 is defined inside the first air duct enclosure 11; the second air duct enclosure 12 extends along the horizontal direction, a second air duct 121 is defined at the inner side of the second air duct enclosure 12, and the rear end of the second air duct enclosure 12 is connected and communicated with the lower end of the first air duct enclosure 11, so that the structure of the smoke exhaust air duct 10 is simplified.
Further, referring to fig. 3-5, the second duct enclosure 12 may include: a bottom plate 123 and a top plate 122. Specifically, the bottom plate 123 and the top plate 122 are arranged at intervals in the up-down direction, the bottom plate 123 extends obliquely upward in the back-to-front direction, and the smoke exhaust fan 2 is fixed on the bottom plate 123, wherein the rotation axis of the smoke exhaust fan 2 is perpendicular to the bottom plate 123, and the air inlet 211 is formed in the upper side surface of the smoke exhaust fan 2 in the axial direction, so that the smoke exhaust fan 2 can be conveniently fixed, the air inlet 211 of the smoke exhaust fan 2 is obliquely arranged toward the lower end of the first air duct 111, and oil stains can more quickly flow out of the air duct under the action of gravity.
Still further, with reference to fig. 2, the fume extractor 2 comprises: the air wheel 22 and the volute 21 are arranged in the volute 21, the air inlet 211 is formed in the volute 21, the distance between the center point of the air inlet 211 and the top plate 122 is at least 1/4 times of the thickness of the volute 21 in the axial direction of the smoke exhaust fan 2, for example, the distance between the center point of the air inlet 211 and the top plate 122 may be 1/4 times, 1/2 times or 3/4 times of the thickness of the volute 21 in the axial direction of the smoke exhaust fan 2, so that the smoke can enter the smoke exhaust fan 2 more smoothly from the connection between the first air channel 111 and the second air channel 121. Preferably, the distance between the center point of the air inlet 211 and the top plate 122 is about 1/3 times the thickness of the scroll casing 21 in the axial direction of the smoke extractor 2.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 4, the top plate 122 is a horizontal plate extending along the horizontal direction, and the rear end of the top plate 122 is connected to the front side plate 112 of the first air duct enclosure 11 through an arc, so as to avoid the problem of increased wind resistance caused by the right-angle connection.
Further, the radius of the arc between the rear end of the top plate 122 and the front side plate 112 of the first duct shroud 11 is at least 0.8 times the thickness of the first duct shroud 11 in the front-rear direction, for example, the radius of the arc between the rear end of the top plate 122 and the front side plate 112 of the first duct shroud 11 may be 0.8 times, 0.9 times, or 1.1 times the thickness of the first duct shroud 11 in the front-rear direction, whereby the resistance at the corners of the first duct 111 and the second duct 121 may be further reduced. Preferably, the radius of the arc between the rear end of the top plate 122 and the front side plate 112 of the first duct enclosure 11 may be approximately equal to the thickness of the first duct enclosure 11 in the front-rear direction.
According to the utility model discloses a some embodiments, the downside surface of the part relative with smoke ventilator 2 at least of roof 122 is equipped with the layer of making an uproar that falls, can be roof 122 with smoke ventilator 2 relative part internal surface from top to bottom be equipped with the layer of making an uproar that falls, also can be that the internal surface of roof 122 is whole to be covered by the layer of making an uproar that falls, from this, can further reduce the whole noise level in the integrated kitchen 100 working process.
Of course, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the inner side surface of the first air duct 111 may also be provided with a noise reduction layer, so as to better control the overall noise level of the integrated cooker 100.
In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1, the rear end of the bottom plate 123 is provided with an oil drain (not shown), and the integrated range 100 may further include: the oil collecting box 3 is arranged below the bottom plate 123 and is opposite to the oil leakage nozzle up and down, so that oil stains absorbed by the smoke exhaust fan 2 can flow into the oil collecting box 3 along the inclined bottom plate 123 through the oil leakage nozzle under the action of gravity.
According to some embodiments of the utility model, referring to fig. 2, be formed with mounting hole 1231 on the bottom plate 123, mounting hole 1231 link up bottom plate 123 in the thickness direction, and the suction fan 2 locate mounting hole 1231 position and with mounting hole 1231 week along sealing connection, can make suction fan 2 and bottom plate 123 be connected more stably like this. Of course, the utility model discloses be not limited to this, refer to fig. 3, also can set up mounting hole 1231 on the lateral wall of second wind channel 121, mounting hole 1231 link up the lateral wall in the thickness direction, and the part of smoke ventilator 2 can inlay and locate mounting hole 1231 department, like this, can further reduce the volume of second wind channel 121, practices thrift the inner space of kitchen body 1.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", "axial", "radial", "circumferential", and the like, indicate the orientation or positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.
In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "fixed" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; the connection can be mechanical connection, electrical connection or communication; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.
In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.
While embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

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1. An integrated cooker, characterized by comprising:
the kitchen body, this internal air duct that discharges fume that is formed with of kitchen, the air duct that discharges fume includes:
the first air duct extends along the vertical direction and is positioned at the rear part of the stove body;
one end of the second air duct is connected with the lower end of the first air duct, and the other end of the second air duct extends along the horizontal direction;
the second air channel is arranged in the first air channel, the first air channel is arranged in the second air channel and is adjacent to the second air channel, the smoke exhaust fan is provided with an air inlet, and the air inlet faces the lower end of the first air channel.
2. The integrated cooker according to claim 1, wherein the fume extractor is a horizontal type fan, and the rotation axis of the fume extractor is inclined rearward in a direction from bottom to top toward the lower end of the first air duct, and the air inlet is perpendicular to the rotation axis of the fume extractor.
3. The integrated cooker of claim 1, wherein the cooker body comprises:
the first air duct enclosing plate is in a cylindrical shape extending along the up-down direction and with two open ends, and the inner side of the first air duct enclosing plate defines the first air duct;
the second air duct enclosing plate extends along the horizontal direction, the inner side of the second air duct enclosing plate defines a second air duct, and the rear end of the second air duct enclosing plate is connected and communicated with the lower end of the first air duct enclosing plate.
4. The integrated cooker of claim 3, wherein the second duct enclosure comprises: the bottom plate and the roof of interval arrangement on the upper and lower direction, the bottom plate upwards extends at the orientation that inclines forward after following, the smoking fan is fixed in on the bottom plate, wherein, the axis of rotation of smoking fan perpendicular to the bottom plate sets up, just the air intake form in the upside surface of smoking fan in axial direction.
5. The integrated cooker according to claim 4, wherein the fume extractor comprises: the air inlet is formed in the volute, and the distance between the central point of the air inlet and the top plate is at least 1/4 times of the thickness of the volute in the axial direction of the smoke exhaust fan.
6. The integrated cooker according to claim 4, wherein the top plate is a horizontal plate extending in a horizontal direction, and a rear end of the top plate is connected with a front side plate of the first duct enclosure in an arc manner.
7. The integrated cooker according to claim 6, wherein a radius of a circular arc between a rear end of the top plate and a front side plate of the first duct enclosure is at least 0.8 times a thickness of the first duct enclosure in a front-rear direction.
8. The integrated cooker according to claim 4, wherein a lower side surface of at least a portion of the top plate opposite to the smoke extractor is provided with a noise reduction layer.
9. The integrated cooker according to claim 4, wherein a rear end of the bottom plate is provided with an oil drain nozzle, the integrated cooker further comprising: the oil collecting box is arranged below the bottom plate and is vertically opposite to the oil leakage nozzle.
10. The integrated cooker according to claim 4, wherein the bottom plate is formed with a mounting hole penetrating the bottom plate in a thickness direction, and the smoke exhaust fan is provided at the position of the mounting hole and hermetically connected to a periphery of the mounting hole.
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