CN213786901U - Food material conveying assembly and cooking appliance with same - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides an edible material conveying assembly and a cooking appliance with the same, wherein the cooking appliance is provided with a cooking space, and the edible material conveying assembly comprises a storage bin and two transfer conveying pieces; the storage bin is used for storing food materials and is provided with two discharge ports, and the two discharge ports are deviated from the center of the storage bin; two transfer conveying pieces are arranged on the lower side of the storage bin, the two transfer conveying pieces are provided with a first inlet, a second inlet, an outlet, a first conveying channel connected between the first inlet and the outlet, and a second conveying channel connected between the second inlet and the outlet, wherein the first inlet and the second inlet are deviated from the center of the conveying bin and are respectively communicated with two discharge ports, and the outlet is communicated with the cooking space. According to the utility model discloses an eat material conveying component, not only can improve the automatic speed that adds out, the structure is comparatively simple moreover, eats material conveying component's structure through optimizing for it occupies less volume.

Description

Food material conveying assembly and cooking appliance with same

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, especially, relate to an eat material conveying assembly and have its cooking utensil.

Background

Conventional cooking appliances are generally used in the existing market, and the types of the cooking appliances with the automatic rice adding function are less. The known cooking utensil with the automatic rice adding function has the advantages of slow automatic rice adding speed, complex structure and large volume.

Therefore, it is desirable to provide a food material conveying assembly and a cooking appliance having the same to at least partially solve 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 the above problem at least partially, according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is disclosed an edible material conveying assembly for a cooking appliance, the cooking appliance having a cooking space, the edible material conveying assembly comprising:

a storage bin for storing food material and having two discharge ports offset from a center of the storage bin;

two transfer conveyors arranged at the lower side of the storage bin, the two transfer conveyors having a first inlet, a second inlet, an outlet, a first conveying channel connected between the first inlet and the outlet, a second conveying channel connected between the second inlet and the outlet,

the first inlet and the second inlet are deviated from the center of the storage bin and are respectively communicated with the two discharge ports, and the outlet is used for being communicated with the cooking space.

According to the utility model discloses an eat material conveying component carries the piece through setting up two transfer to make the first import of two transfer transport pieces and the center that the equal skew storage silo of second import, not only can improve the speed that adds out automatically, the structure is comparatively simple moreover, through optimizing the structure of eating material conveying component, makes it occupy less volume.

Optionally, the two discharge ports are both disposed at the lowest position of the storage bin.

According to this scheme, the edible material in the storage silo can fall out and enter into the transfer conveying piece's transfer passage from the discharge gate under the effect of gravity.

Optionally, the two discharge ports are disposed on both sides of the center of the storage bin and are symmetrically disposed with respect to the center of the storage bin.

According to this scheme, be convenient for the optimal design storage silo's structure to the both sides that can realize the storage silo are gone out rice evenly.

Optionally, the outlet is provided at the centre of the storage bin.

According to this scheme, can be with the center of the culinary art space that the rice in the storage silo was carried to be convenient for the optimal design eat material conveyor components's structure, simultaneously can reduction in production cost.

Optionally, the two transfer conveying members respectively include a conveying cylinder, the first conveying channel and the second conveying channel are respectively formed in the conveying cylinder, the first inlet, the second inlet and the outlet are formed in the wall of the conveying cylinder, the inlet is opened upwards, and the opening direction of the outlet is different from the opening direction of the inlet.

According to the scheme, the transfer conveying piece is simple in structure, and production cost can be reduced.

Optionally, the food material conveying assembly comprises a conveying arm, the conveying arm is sleeved on the conveying cylinder and is rotatably arranged, the conveying arm is provided with an inner cavity, and the outlet is communicated with the inner cavity.

According to this scheme, the transfer is carried the piece and can be carried the inner chamber of material conveying arm with eating.

Optionally, the feeding arm includes an arm main body and a pivot portion connected to the arm main body, the arm main body is provided with the inner cavity, and the feeding cylinder extends into the pivot portion.

According to the scheme, the material conveying arm is simple in structure, convenient to manufacture and easy to realize.

Optionally, the food material conveying assembly further comprises a screw rod, two ends of the screw rod are respectively arranged in the conveying channels of the two transfer conveying members and can be exposed from the inlets of the two transfer conveying members, so that the food material at the inlets can be conveyed to the outlets.

According to this scheme, can carry the edible material in the transfer passage of two transfer conveying pieces to defeated material arm through setting up a screw rod, can reduce the quantity of eating the part of material conveying component, simplify and eat material conveying component's structure.

Optionally, the screw includes a rod core and a first helical blade and a second helical blade provided on an outer surface of the rod core, the first helical blade and the second helical blade are respectively provided in the conveying passages of the two transfer conveying members, and the helical directions of the first helical blade and the second helical blade are opposite.

According to the scheme, the screw is simple in structure, and the spiral directions of the first spiral blade and the second spiral blade are opposite, so that the food materials in the conveying channels of the two transfer conveying pieces can be conveyed to the area between the first spiral blade and the second spiral blade.

Optionally, the food material conveying assembly further comprises a motor, the motor is arranged at one end of one of the transfer conveying members, and an output shaft of the motor is connected with the screw rod so as to drive the screw rod to rotate.

According to this scheme, the motor can drive the screw rod and rotate to the screw rod is carried the edible material of import department to the exit in with transfer passage.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a cooking appliance is disclosed, comprising an edible material conveying assembly according to any one of the above first aspects.

According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil carries the piece through setting up two relays to make the first import of two relays carry the piece and the center of the equal skew storage silo of second import, not only can improve the speed of automatic adding out, the structure is comparatively simple moreover, through optimizing the structure of eating material conveyor components, makes it occupy less volume, so that realize cooking utensil's miniaturization.

Optionally, the cooking appliance further comprises:

the machine body comprises a pot body mounting part and a conveying assembly mounting part; and

the pot body, the pot body sets up the upside of pot body installation department, eat material conveying component install extremely conveying component installation department, and set up the upside of the pot body.

According to this scheme, eat the upside of material conveying component setting at the pot body to in the function of automatic rice that adds of realization.

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 illustrating a partial structure of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is another perspective view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the cooking appliance of FIG. 1;

fig. 4 is a schematic top view of a food material conveying assembly of the cooking appliance of fig. 3;

fig. 5 is a bottom schematic view of the food material conveying assembly of the cooking appliance of fig. 3;

fig. 6 is an exploded view of the food material conveying assembly of fig. 5;

fig. 7 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the food material conveying assembly of fig. 3;

fig. 8 is a perspective view of the transfer conveyor of the food material conveying assembly in fig. 6; and

fig. 9 is a perspective view of the material conveying arm of the food material conveying assembly of fig. 6.

Reference numerals:

100: the cooking appliance 110: machine body

111: pan body mounting part 112: conveyor assembly mounting

120: the pan body 121: feeding part

122: feed inlet 140: food material conveying assembly

150: storage bin 151: discharge port

160: transfer conveyance member 161: material conveying cylinder

162: mounting portion 163: the first inlet

164: outlet 165: a first conveying passage

166: second inlet 167: second conveying channel

170: the material conveying arm 171: arm body

172: the pivot portion 173: inner cavity

174: pivot passage 175: discharge outlet

180: screw 181: rod core

182: first helical blade 183: second helical blade

190: the motor 191: output shaft

P-P: longitudinal center plane

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 embodiments of the 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 embodiments of the present invention.

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.

The utility model provides an eat material conveying assembly 140 and have its cooking utensil 100. According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil 100 can be for electric rice cooker, electric pressure cooker or other cooking utensil 100, and cooking utensil 100 except having the function of cooking rice, can also have various functions such as congee, a kind of deep pot hot water of cooking, and according to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil 100 still has the automatic function that adds rice.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the cooking appliance 100 mainly includes a body 110, a pot 120, a food material conveying assembly 140, and an upper cover (not shown). The body 110 may serve as a main frame of the cooking appliance 100, and the body 110 mainly includes a pot body mounting part 111 and a conveying assembly mounting part 112 disposed at an upper side of the pot body mounting part 111. The pot 120 has a cooking space and is removably disposed at an upper side of the pot mounting part 111. The pan body mounting portion 111 is generally configured in a disc shape and matches the bottom structure of the pan body 120 so that the pan body 120 can be seated on top of the pan body mounting portion 111. The inner side of the pot body mounting part 111 may be provided with a heating device for heating the food material in the pot body 120. The food material conveying assembly 140 is mounted to the conveying assembly mounting part 112, and the upper cover may be disposed on the top of the conveying assembly mounting part 112 and may cover the upper side of the food material conveying assembly 140. Food conveying assembly 140 is disposed at an upper side of pan body 120 for conveying food such as rice into a cooking space of pan body 120. It should be noted that, in the present invention, the directional terms "upper" and "lower" are those determined based on the cooking appliance 100 being placed upright.

The food material conveying assembly 140 mainly comprises a storage bin 150, two transfer conveying members 160, a conveying arm 170, a screw 180 and a motor 190. The food material conveying assembly 140 of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to fig. 1 to 9.

As shown in fig. 3 to 6, the storage bin 150 is used for storing food materials, and is constructed in a funnel-like structure such that the food materials in the storage bin 150 can move downward under the action of gravity. The storage bin 150 has two discharge ports 151, the two discharge ports 151 being offset from the center of the storage bin 150. The two discharge ports 151 are disposed at the lowest position of the storage bin 150, so that the food materials in the storage bin 150 can fall down from the discharge ports 151. Specifically, the two discharge ports 151 are disposed at both sides of the center of the storage bin 150, and are symmetrically disposed with respect to the center of the storage bin 150.

Two transfer conveyors 160 are provided at the lower side of the storage bin 150. As shown in fig. 7 and 8, the two transfer conveyors 160 have a first inlet 163, a second inlet 166, an outlet 164, a first conveying passage 165 connected between the first inlet 163 and the outlet 164, and a second conveying passage 167 connected between the second inlet 166 and the outlet 164. The first inlet 163 and the second inlet 166 are both offset from the center of the storage bin 150 and communicate with the two outlet ports 151, respectively. The outlet 164 is provided at the center of the storage bin 150 and is for communicating with the cooking space.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 7, the storage bin 150 has a longitudinal center plane P-P extending in the length direction of the storage bin 150, which is disposed at the center in the width direction of the storage bin 150 to enable the storage bin 150 to be divided into two halves. The two discharge ports 151 are disposed at both sides of the longitudinal center plane P-P and are symmetrically disposed with respect to the longitudinal center plane P-P. The two transfer conveyors 160 are disposed along the width direction of the storage bin 150 and on both sides of the longitudinal center plane P-P. In the present embodiment, the first inlet 163, the second inlet 166, and the outlet 164 are each offset from the longitudinal center plane P-P, and the outlet 164 is disposed closer to the longitudinal center plane P-P than the first inlet 163 and the second inlet 166.

With continued reference to fig. 7 and 8, the inlet 163 of the transfer conveyor 160 opens upward, and the outlet 164 opens in a direction different from the opening direction of the inlet 163. In this embodiment, the outlet 164 opens towards the width direction of the storage bin 150, in particular towards the longitudinal centre plane P-P. The shape of the inlet 163 may be adapted to the shape of the outlet 151, or the opening area of the inlet 163 is larger than the opening area of the outlet 151, so that the outlet 151 at least partially enters the conveying channel 165 of the transit conveyor 160 through the inlet 163, so that the food material in the storage bin 150 enters the conveying channel 165 through the outlet 151 and the inlet 163.

As shown in fig. 8, the relay conveyor 160 includes a feed cylinder 161 and a mounting portion 162 connected to the feed cylinder 161, and the mounting portion 162 is oppositely disposed at both sides of the feed cylinder 161. A first delivery passage 165 and a second delivery passage 167 are formed in the feed cylinder 161, respectively, and a first inlet 163, a second inlet 166, and an outlet 164 are provided in the wall of the feed cylinder 161. The feed cylinder 161 may be secured to the storage bin 150 by fasteners through the mounting portion 162. The outlet 164 is provided at an outer end surface of the feed cylinder 161, and may be configured as a circular opening.

As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the feeding arm 170 is fitted around the feeding cylinder 161 and rotatably provided at the lower side of the storage bin 150. The feed arm 170 has an internal cavity 173 (see fig. 7), and the outlet 164 communicates with the internal cavity 173. In this embodiment, delivery arm 170 is capable of swinging between storage bin 150 and pan body 120 about a line perpendicular to longitudinal center plane P-P. Since the longitudinal center plane P-P is disposed in a vertical direction, the feed arm 170 can swing up and down between the storage bin 150 and the pan body 120 about a line extending in a horizontal direction. The two transfer conveyors 160 are oppositely disposed at both sides of the feeding arm 170 so as to convey the food materials into the cavity 173 of the feeding arm 170.

The feeder arm 170 shown in fig. 1 and 3 is in an initial standby position in which the feeder arm 170 is disposed at the lower side of the transport unit mounting portion 112 and is disposed in close proximity to or near the transport unit mounting portion 112. Fig. 2 shows an operating position of the feeding arm 170, in which the feeding arm 170 is swung downwards from the initial standby position until it rests on top of the pot 120, in order to be able to feed the ingredients in its inner cavity 173 to the cooking space of the pot 120.

As shown in fig. 6, 7 and 9, the feeder arm 170 includes an arm main body 171 and two pivot portions 172 connected to the arm main body 171. Preferably, a longitudinal center plane P-P passes through the arm body 171. More preferably, the longitudinal center plane P-P is provided at a widthwise central position of the arm main body 171 to bisect the arm main body 171 into two parts.

The arm body 171 is provided with an inner cavity 173. The two pivot portions 172 are provided at one end of the arm main body 171 and are oppositely provided at both sides of the arm main body 171. The pivot portion 172 is generally configured as a cylindrical structure and has a pivot passage 174 communicating with the interior cavity 173. The feed chute 161 of the transfer conveyor 160 extends through the pivot 172 into the cavity 173 through the pivot passage 174, and the outlet 164 of the transfer conveyor 160 communicates with the cavity 173, so that the food material in the feed passage 165 of the transfer conveyor 160 enters the cavity 173 through the outlet 164.

Referring back to fig. 1 to 3, the other end of the arm body 171 is provided with a discharge port 175 communicating with the inner cavity 173. The top of the pan body 120 is provided with a feeding portion 121. The feeding part 121 is generally configured in a cylindrical shape, and is provided with a feeding hole 122 communicating with the cooking space. When the feeding arm 170 is placed on top of the pot 120, the top end of the feeding portion 121 enters the discharging opening 175, so that the food material in the inner cavity 173 enters the cooking space of the pot 120 through the feeding opening 122.

As shown in fig. 4, 6 and 7, both ends of the screw 180 are respectively disposed in the first and second conveying channels 165 and 167, and can be exposed from the first and second inlets 163 and 166 to be able to convey the food materials at the first and second inlets 163 and 166 to the outlet 164. A motor 190 is provided at one end of one of the transfer conveyors 160, and an output shaft 191 of the motor 190 is connected to the screw 180 to be able to drive the screw 180 to rotate.

The screw 180 mainly includes a stem core 181, and a first helical blade 182 and a second helical blade 183 spirally disposed on an outer surface of the stem core 181. The first and second helical blades 182 and 183 are disposed at both ends of the rod core 181 at intervals. First helical flight 182 and second helical flight 183 are disposed at least partially in first conveying channel 165 and second conveying channel 167, respectively, and the helical directions of first helical flight 182 and second helical flight 183 are opposite.

In the present embodiment, the screw 180 passes through the pivot passage 174 of one of the pivot parts 172, the inner cavity 173 of the arm main body 171, and the pivot passage 174 of the other pivot part 172 in this order. One of the first helical blade 182 and the second helical blade 183 is a left-hand blade, and the other is a right-hand blade. Thereby, the screw 180 is able to transport the food material in the first and second conveying channels 165, 167 to the area between the first and second helical blades 182, 183, i.e. into the inner cavity 173 of the conveying arm 170.

According to the utility model discloses a cooking utensil carries the piece through setting up two relays to make the first import of two relays carry the piece and the center of the equal skew storage silo of second import, not only can improve the speed of automatic adding out, the structure is comparatively simple moreover, through optimizing the structure of eating material conveyor components, makes it occupy less volume, so that realize cooking utensil's miniaturization.

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 (12)

1. A food material conveying assembly for a cooking appliance (100) having a cooking space, characterized in that the food material conveying assembly (140) comprises:

a storage bin (150) for storing food material and having two discharge ports (151) offset from a center of the storage bin;

two transfer conveyors (160) arranged at the lower side of the storage bin, the two transfer conveyors having a first inlet (163), a second inlet (166), an outlet (164), a first transport channel (165) connected between the first inlet and the outlet, a second transport channel (167) connected between the second inlet and the outlet,

the first inlet and the second inlet are deviated from the center of the storage bin and are respectively communicated with the two discharge ports, and the outlet is used for being communicated with the cooking space.

2. Food material conveying assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that both discharge openings are provided at the lowest position of the storage bin.

3. Food material conveying assembly according to claim 1, wherein the two discharge openings are arranged on both sides of the centre of the storage bin and symmetrically with respect to the centre of the storage bin.

4. Food material conveying assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that the outlet is provided at the centre of the storage bin.

5. The food material conveying assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said two transfer conveyor members each comprise a feed cylinder (161), said first feed passage and said second feed passage are formed in said feed cylinder, said first inlet, said second inlet and said outlet are provided in a wall of said feed cylinder, and said inlet is opened upward, and an opening direction of said outlet is different from an opening direction of said inlet.

6. Food material transfer assembly as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that it comprises a transfer arm (170) mounted rotatably over the transfer drum, said transfer arm having an inner cavity (173) with which said outlet communicates.

7. Food material conveying assembly according to claim 6, characterized in that the conveying arm comprises an arm body (171) and a pivot part (172) connected to the arm body, the arm body being provided with the inner cavity, the feed drum extending into the pivot part.

8. Food material conveying assembly according to any of claims 1-7, further comprising a screw (180) having two ends arranged in the first and second conveying channels, respectively, and being exposable from the first and second inlets to enable conveying of food material at the first and second inlets to the outlet.

9. Food material conveying assembly according to claim 8, characterized in that the screw comprises a stem core (181) and a first helical blade (182) and a second helical blade (183) arranged at an outer surface of the stem core, the first helical blade and the second helical blade being arranged in the first conveying channel and the second conveying channel, respectively, and the helical directions of the first helical blade and the second helical blade being opposite.

10. Food material conveying assembly according to claim 8, further comprising a motor (190) arranged at one end of one of the transfer conveyor members, an output shaft (191) of the motor being connected to the screw to be able to drive the screw in rotation.

11. A cooking appliance comprising a food material conveying assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 10.

12. The cooking appliance of claim 11, further comprising:

a body (110) comprising a pan body mounting portion (111) and a conveying assembly mounting portion (112); and

the pot body (120), the pot body sets up the upside of pot body installation department, eat material conveying component install extremely conveying component installation department, and set up the upside of the pot body.

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