CN214317697U - Dish distribution mechanism and dish distribution equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model is suitable for a divide meal equipment field, provide a divide dish mechanism and branch meal equipment. Wherein, divide dish mechanism and dinner plate cooperation, include: the bin is used for loading dishes, and the bottom of the bin is provided with a feeding port; the first conveying assembly comprises a conveying pipe, a first rotating shaft and a first blade, and the first blade rotates along with the first rotating shaft to convey dishes entering the conveying pipe from the feeding port to the discharging port; the meal distribution assembly comprises a hopper and a sealing plate, and a dish receiving position for placing a meal plate is arranged below the hopper; the material hopper receives dishes falling from the material outlet, when the weight of the dishes in the material hopper reaches the designed weight, the first rotating shaft stops rotating, and the sealing plate opens the lower end opening of the material hopper to enable the dishes in the material hopper to fall into the dinner plate. The utility model provides a divide dish mechanism can realize the automatic branch meal of cooked food, improves the uniformity of dividing meal efficiency and guaranteeing the meal volume simultaneously.

Description

Dish distribution mechanism and dish distribution equipment

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of the equipment of dividing the meal, more specifically say, relate to a divide dish mechanism and equipment of dividing the meal.

Background

With the automation revolution of kitchens, the automation and intelligent development of kitchen equipment is faster and faster, and automatic vegetable washers, automatic vegetable cutters, automatic cooking machines, automatic rice dispensers and the like are beginning to be applied in large quantities; at present, no mature automatic dish distribution machine is applied, the traditional manual dish distribution is adopted in dishes distribution of schools, army groups, enterprise and public institution meals, large catering chains and the like, a large amount of manpower and time are required, and the efficiency is low.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the utility model is to overcome above-mentioned prior art not enough, provide a divide dish mechanism and branch meal equipment, it aims at carrying out automatic branch meal to the cooked food.

In order to achieve the above object, the embodiment of the present invention provides the following technical solutions:

a serving mechanism for use with a serving tray, comprising:

the storage bin is used for loading dishes, and the bin bottom of the storage bin is provided with a feeding port;

the first conveying assembly comprises a conveying pipe, a first rotating shaft arranged in the conveying pipe and a first blade connected with the first rotating shaft, a feeding hole and a discharging hole are formed in two end parts of the conveying pipe in the length direction, the feeding hole is positioned below the feeding hole and communicated with the feeding hole, the first rotating shaft rotates in a first direction, the first direction is parallel to the length direction of the conveying pipe, and the first blade rotates along with the first rotating shaft to convey dishes entering the conveying pipe from the feeding hole to the discharging hole;

the meal distribution assembly comprises a hopper which is communicated up and down and a sealing plate which is used for opening or closing an opening at the lower end of the hopper, the hopper is positioned below the discharge hole, and a dish receiving position for placing a dinner plate is arranged below the hopper; the hopper can seal the sealing plate to accept dishes falling from the discharge port when the lower end opening of the hopper is opened, when the weight of the dishes in the hopper reaches the designed weight, the first rotating shaft stops rotating, and the sealing plate opens the lower end opening of the hopper to enable the dishes in the hopper to fall into the dinner plate.

Optionally, the conveyer pipe is including dismantling body and the closing cap of connection, the feed inlet with the discharge gate is all seted up in the body, rotationally peg graft respectively in the both ends of first pivot the body with the closing cap.

Optionally, both ends of the first rotating shaft are provided with enclosing plates perpendicular to the first rotating shaft, and the feed inlet and the discharge outlet are located between the two enclosing plates.

Optionally, the first blade is a helical blade.

Optionally, the dish distribution mechanism includes a second conveying assembly, the second conveying assembly includes a second rotating shaft disposed in the bin and a second blade connected to the second rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft rotates along a second direction extending from top to bottom, and the second blade rotates along with the second rotating shaft to transfer dishes in the bin to the feeding port.

Optionally, the second blades are distributed at intervals up and down and located on two opposite radial sides of the second rotating shaft.

Optionally, divide dish mechanism includes position sensor, position sensor is used for the sensing connect the dish position whether placed the dinner plate connect the dish position to place the dinner plate, just when the dish weight in the hopper reaches design weight, the shrouding is opened hopper lower extreme opening makes the dish in the hopper falls into the dinner plate.

Optionally, the dish distribution mechanism further comprises a vibration motor, and when the sealing plate opens the lower end opening of the hopper, the vibration motor vibrates to promote the full amount of dishes in the hopper to be transferred to the dinner plate.

Optionally, the meal distribution assembly further comprises a status sensor for sensing the status of the plate.

Meal distribution equipment comprises the dish distribution mechanism.

The utility model provides a divide dish mechanism and the automatic branch meal of dish can be realized to the branch meal equipment that adopts this branch dish mechanism, improve and divide meal efficiency and ensure the uniformity of dividing the meal volume simultaneously, the uniformity is that the volume of the dish of distributing single cutlery box is unanimous basically.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required for the embodiments or the prior art descriptions will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings without inventive labor.

Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a dish distribution mechanism provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a first-angle cross-sectional view of a dish distribution mechanism provided in the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a second-angle cross-sectional view of the dish distribution mechanism provided in the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a disassembled schematic view of a dish distributing mechanism provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of a first conveying assembly in an embodiment of the present invention, which is a sectional view;

fig. 6 is a schematic perspective view of a meal distribution assembly in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a front view of the structure of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of the structure of FIG. 6 with the closure plate in a closed position closing the lower end opening of the hopper;

figure 9 is a cross-sectional view of the structure of figure 6 with the closure plate in a condition to open the lower end opening of the hopper.

Wherein, in the figures, the respective reference numerals:

10. a storage bin; 101. a feed port; 20. a first conveying assembly; 21. a delivery pipe; 201. a feed inlet; 202. a discharge port; 211. a pipe body; 212. sealing the cover; 22. a first rotating shaft; 23. a first blade; 24. a first driver; 25. enclosing plates; 30. a meal distribution assembly; 31. a hopper; 32. closing the plate; 36. a vibration motor; 33. a weight sensor; 34. a position sensor; 35. a status sensor; 40. a dinner plate; 50. a second transport assembly; 51. a second rotating shaft; 52. a second blade; 53. a second driver.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problem, technical solution and advantageous effects to be solved by the present invention more clearly understood, the following description is given in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments to illustrate the present invention in further detail. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly on the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or be indirectly connected to the other element.

It will be understood that the terms "length," "width," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like are used in an orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the invention and to simplify the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are therefore not to be considered limiting of the 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.

Referring to fig. 1 to 9, a dish distribution mechanism and a meal distribution device using the dish distribution mechanism provided by the present application will now be exemplarily described.

Referring to fig. 1, the dish distribution mechanism is engaged with the dish plate 40. The dish distribution mechanism comprises a bin 10, a first conveying assembly 20 and a meal distribution assembly 30. The bin 10 is used for loading dishes, the meal distribution assembly 30 is used for transferring the dishes in the bin 10 to the meal distribution assembly 30, and the meal distribution assembly 30 quantitatively distributes the dishes to the meal plates 40.

Referring to fig. 2, 3 and 5, a feeding port 101 is opened at the bottom of the bin 10. In the structure shown in the figure, a bin cover is arranged at an opening at the upper end of the bin 10 in a covering manner. The bin cover is detachably connected with the bin 10.

The first conveying assembly 20 comprises a conveying pipe 21, a first rotating shaft 22 arranged in the conveying pipe 21 and a first blade 23 connected with the first rotating shaft 22, a feed inlet 201 and a discharge outlet 202 are formed in two end portions of the conveying pipe 21 in the length direction, the feed inlet 201 is located below the feed outlet 101 and communicated with the feed outlet 101, the first rotating shaft 22 rotates in a first direction, the first direction is parallel to the length direction of the conveying pipe 21, and the first blade 23 rotates along with the first rotating shaft 22 to convey dishes entering the conveying pipe 21 from the feed inlet 201 to the discharge outlet 202. It is understood that the feed port 201 and the feed port 201 are disposed one above the other. The feeding port 201 is opened upwards and opposite to the feeding port 101, dishes enter the conveying pipe 21 through the feeding port 201 under the action of self gravity of the feeding port 101 and are transferred to the discharging port 202 under the rotating and pushing action of the first blade 23, the discharging port 202 is opened downwards, and the dishes reach the discharging port 202 and leave the conveying pipe 21 from the discharging port 202 under the action of self gravity to enter the dish distribution assembly.

The meal distribution assembly 30 comprises a hopper 31 which is through up and down and a sealing plate 32 which is used for opening or closing the lower end opening of the hopper 31, the hopper 31 is positioned below the discharge port 202, and a meal receiving position for placing a meal tray 40 is arranged below the hopper 31; the hopper 31 can be used for receiving dishes falling from the discharge port 202 when the closing plate 32 closes the lower end opening of the hopper 31; when the weight of the dish in the hopper 31 reaches the designed weight, the first rotating shaft 22 stops rotating, and the sealing plate 32 opens the lower end opening of the hopper 31 to enable the dish in the hopper 31 to fall into the dinner plate 40.

It will be appreciated that when the closure plate 32 closes the lower end opening of the hopper 31, the dish falls from the outlet 202 into the hopper 31. When the closing plate 32 opens the lower opening of the hopper 31, the dish falls from the lower opening of the hopper 31 and is received by the dish 40 located below the hopper 31.

In the present embodiment, the meal dispensing assembly 30 includes a weight sensor 33, and the weight sensor 33 is used for sensing the weight of the dish in the hopper 31, when the sensed weight reaches the design weight, the first rotating shaft 22 stops rotating, so that the first conveying assembly 20 stops conveying the dish to the discharge port 202. At the same time, the closing plate 32 opens the lower end opening of the hopper 31, and the dish in the hopper 31 falls into the dish 40. It will be appreciated that the weight sensor 33 may also be used to sense the total weight of the hopper 31 and the dish, since the weight of the hopper 31 is fixed, the weight of the dish is obtained after subtracting the weight of the hopper 31. The dish in the hopper 31 is weighed by the weight sensor 33, so that the quantity of the dish transferred from the hopper 31 to any dinner plate 40 is ensured to be in a stable state, and the quantitative supply of the dish is realized.

In this embodiment, the first shaft 22 is driven by a first driver 24, and the first driver 24 may be a motor.

In this embodiment, the closing plate 32 is rotatably connected to the hopper 31, and may be directly connected or connected through a connecting structure. In the illustrated structure, a rotation shaft is connected to one end of the sealing plate 32, and a bracket is provided on the hopper 31, and the rotation shaft is rotatably connected to the bracket. The rotating shaft is driven to rotate by a third driver, which may be a stepper motor or other motor. When the weight sensor 33 senses that the weight of the dish in the hopper 31 reaches the designed weight, a first signal is sent to the third driver, and the third driver drives the rotating shaft and the sealing plate 32 to rotate to open or close the lower end opening of the hopper 31 when receiving the first signal.

The dish distribution mechanism provided by the embodiment is specifically operated as follows, the bin cover is opened, dishes are put into the bin 10, and the bin cover is closed. Dishes enter the conveying pipe 21 through the feeding port 101 and the feeding port 201 under the action of gravity, the first driver 24 is started, the dishes in the conveying pipe 21 move towards the discharging port 202 under the pushing action of the first blades 23, it can be understood that the volume of the bin 10 is larger than that of the conveying pipe 21, the dishes fall into the conveying pipe 21 from the feeding port 101 and the feeding port 201 under the action of gravity, and the dishes in the bin 10 are replenished into the conveying pipe 21 after the dishes falling into the conveying pipe 21 are transferred. When the dish is transferred to the outlet 202 and falls into the hopper 31 from the outlet 202, when the weight of the dish in the hopper 31 reaches the designed weight, the closing plate 32 is opened to transfer the dish in the hopper 31 to the dinner plate 40 positioned below the hopper 31, so that the quantitative supply of the dish is completed.

By the above, the dish distribution mechanism and the dish distribution equipment adopting the dish distribution mechanism provided by the embodiment can realize automatic dish distribution of dishes, improve the dish distribution efficiency and simultaneously ensure the consistency of the dish distribution amount, wherein the consistency refers to that the amount of the dishes distributed to a single lunch box is basically consistent.

In this embodiment, the first direction is a linear direction parallel to the horizontal plane, and in other embodiments, the first direction may also be a direction inclined to the horizontal plane, which is not limited herein.

In another embodiment of the present application, the dish distribution mechanism includes a position sensor 34, the position sensor 34 is used for sensing whether the dish receiving position has the dish plate 40, the dish plate 40 is placed at the dish receiving position, and when the weight of the dish in the hopper 31 reaches the designed weight, the sealing plate 32 opens the lower opening of the hopper 31 to let the dish in the hopper 31 fall into the dish plate 40.

In this embodiment, the position sensor 34 senses whether the dish receiving position has the dish tray 40 placed thereon, when the dish receiving position has the dish tray 40 placed thereon, the position sensor 34 sends a second signal to the third driver, and the third driver drives the rotating shaft and the sealing plate 32 to rotate to open or close the lower opening of the hopper 31 when receiving the first signal from the weight sensor 33 and the second signal from the position sensor 34.

In the illustrated construction, the position sensor 34 is mounted on the support. In other embodiments, a carrier may be provided below the hopper 31 for holding the dish 40, and the position sensor 34 may be provided on the carrier.

It will be appreciated that the dish receiving portion 40 may be manually positioned to the dish receiving portion and moved away from the dish receiving portion after receiving the dish, or may be moved past the dish receiving portion by a conveyor such as a conveyor belt. Each serving plate 40 can pass through the vegetable receiving position at a constant speed or at an irregular time.

In combination with the usage scenario of the meal distribution equipment, the meal plate 40 can be a tableware carried by a diner, and when the diner takes a meal, the tableware carried by the diner is placed at a dish receiving position to be connected with dishes quantitatively distributed by the meal distribution component 30. The dish 40 may also be a self-contained structure of a serving device, and the dish 40 may be a plurality of dishes and move along a specific path (which may be conveyed by a conveying structure such as a conveying rail or a conveyor belt) to pass through the dish receiving position one by one. When any dish 40 reaches the serving position, the serving assembly 30 transfers a specific amount of dish to that dish 40.

In another embodiment of the present application, referring to fig. 7, the meal distribution assembly 30 further includes a vibration motor 36, and the vibration motor 36 is disposed on the bracket, and when the closing plate 32 opens the lower opening of the hopper 31, the vibration motor 36 vibrates to promote the transfer of the food from the hopper 31 to the meal plate 40, thereby improving the efficiency of the dish transfer.

In this embodiment, meal dispensing assembly 30 further includes a status sensor 35 for sensing the status of closure plate 32 to improve the accuracy of the control. When the closing plate 32 is in a closed state of closing the lower opening of the hopper 31, the state sensor 35 sends a first start signal to the first actuator 24, and the first actuator 24 drives the first rotating shaft 22 and the first blade 23 to rotate so as to drive the dish to be transferred. At the same time, the transport structure moves the dishes 40 loaded with the dishes out of the receiving position. When the closure plate 32 is in the open position, in which the lower opening of the hopper 31 is open, the condition sensor 35 sends a second activation signal to the vibration motor 36, and the vibration motor 36 operates to transfer the full amount of the dish in the hopper 31 to the dish 40.

In this embodiment, the sealing plate 32 is provided with a sealing pad on the surface facing the hopper 31 to ensure that the sealing plate 32 is connected to the hopper 31 in a watertight manner when the sealing plate 32 closes the lower end port of the hopper 31, so as to prevent the soup remaining in the dish from leaking out through the connection between the sealing plate 32 and the transferring hopper 31.

In another embodiment of the present application, referring to fig. 4 and 5, the conveying pipe 21 includes a pipe body 211 and a cover 212 detachably connected, the feeding port 201 and the discharging port 202 are both opened on the pipe body 211, and both ends of the first rotating shaft 22 are respectively rotatably inserted into the pipe body 211 and the cover 212. The tube 211, the cover 212 and the first shaft 22 are detachably connected to facilitate the removal of the first shaft 22 for cleaning.

In the illustrated structure, the tube 211 and the cover 212 are screwed, and in other embodiments, the tube 211 and the cover 212 may be a snap connection or other detachable connection, which is not limited herein.

In this embodiment, the cover 212 is provided with a first bearing, the tube 211 is provided with a second bearing on a surface opposite to the cover 212, and two ends of the first rotating shaft 22 are respectively inserted into the first bearing and the second bearing. The output shaft of the first driver 24 is connected to the first shaft 22 by a coupling.

In another embodiment of the present application, referring to fig. 4 and 5, the two end portions of the first rotating shaft 22 are provided with enclosing plates 25 perpendicular to the first rotating shaft 22, and the feeding port 201 and the discharging port 202 are located between the two enclosing plates 25. The outer diameter of the shroud 25 is the same as or slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the duct 21. The arrangement of the enclosing plate 25 limits the moving space of dishes in the length direction of the conveying pipe 21, and the enclosing plate 25 isolates the dishes from pipe walls at two ends of the conveying pipe 21 so as to prevent the dishes from being adhered to the pipe walls at the two ends. In addition, in combination with the design that the enclosing plate 25 is connected with the first rotating shaft 22 to rotate synchronously, the enclosing plate 25 and the first blade 23 rotate synchronously to provide driving force in the same direction for dishes, thereby being beneficial to the dish conveying. On the contrary, if there is no baffle 25, the tube walls at the two ends of the delivery tube 21 and the first blades 23 rotate relatively, and dishes clamped between the tube walls and the first blades 23 are acted by the force from the opposite direction of the tube walls and the first blades 23, which is not beneficial to the delivery of the dishes.

In the present embodiment, referring to fig. 4, the first blade 23 is a helical blade. The helical blade rotates to push the dishes to move forwards, and meanwhile, the condition that the dishes are accumulated and caked in the conveying pipe 21 can be avoided. The blade thickness, the pitch size, etc. of the helical blade can be set by those skilled in the art according to practical situations, and are not limited herein.

In another embodiment of the present application, referring to fig. 2 and 3, the dish distribution mechanism includes a second conveying assembly 50, the second conveying assembly 50 includes a second rotating shaft 51 disposed in the bin 10 and a second blade 52 connected to the second rotating shaft 51, the second rotating shaft 51 rotates along a second direction, and the second blade 52 rotates along with the second rotating shaft 51 to transfer the dish in the bin 10 to the feeding port 101.

In the illustrated structure, the bin 10 is a cylinder extending vertically to increase the volume of the bin 10 for holding dishes. The second rotating shaft 51 extends in the up-down direction. I.e. the second direction is a direction perpendicular to the horizontal plane.

The size of the feed opening 101 is much smaller than the bottom size of the magazine 10. The second rotating shaft 51 and the second blade 52 are arranged, on one hand, the dishes in the bin 10 are transferred to the feeding port 101 through the rotation of the second blade 52, and the condition that the dishes are left at the bottom of the bin 10 is reduced; on the other hand, the rotation of the second blades 52 can also achieve the aim of scattering dishes and preventing the dishes from being compacted and caked.

Preferably, the second blade 52 is provided in plurality and spaced up and down. The second blade 52 at the lowest part is close to the bottom of the bin 10, and the arrangement can further improve the retention condition of the dish at the bottom of the bin 10.

In the illustrated structure, two second blades 52 are spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction and are located on two opposite sides of the second shaft 51 in the radial direction. The skilled person can specifically set the second vane 52 to one, three, four, etc. according to practical situations, and the present invention is not limited thereto.

In this embodiment, the second blade 52 is detachably connected to the second shaft 51. In other embodiments, the second blade and the second rotating shaft 51 may be fixedly connected by welding, screwing, or the like.

Referring to fig. 3, the second shaft 51 is driven by a second driver 53, and the second driver 53 is a motor. The output shaft of the motor is connected with the second rotating shaft 51 through a connecting shaft and a transmission shaft. The storage bin 10 is provided with an avoiding hole for avoiding the connection of the second rotating shaft 51 and the motor, and the watertight connection between the storage bin 10 and the second conveying structure is realized at the avoiding hole by adopting an oil seal structure.

The above description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present invention, as any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principles of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides a divide dish mechanism, with the cooperation of dinner plate, its characterized in that includes:

the storage bin is used for loading dishes, and the bin bottom of the storage bin is provided with a feeding port;

the first conveying assembly comprises a conveying pipe, a first rotating shaft arranged in the conveying pipe and a first blade connected with the first rotating shaft, a feeding hole and a discharging hole are formed in two end parts of the conveying pipe in the length direction, the feeding hole is positioned below the feeding hole and communicated with the feeding hole, the first rotating shaft rotates in a first direction, the first direction is parallel to the length direction of the conveying pipe, and the first blade rotates along with the first rotating shaft to convey dishes entering the conveying pipe from the feeding hole to the discharging hole;

the meal distribution assembly comprises a hopper which is communicated up and down and a sealing plate which is used for opening or closing an opening at the lower end of the hopper, the hopper is positioned below the discharge hole, and a dish receiving position for placing a dinner plate is arranged below the hopper; the hopper can seal the sealing plate to accept dishes falling from the discharge port when the lower end opening of the hopper is opened, when the weight of the dishes in the hopper reaches the designed weight, the first rotating shaft stops rotating, and the sealing plate opens the lower end opening of the hopper to enable the dishes in the hopper to fall into the dinner plate.

2. The dish distribution mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the conveying pipe comprises a pipe body and a sealing cover which are detachably connected, the feed inlet and the discharge outlet are both arranged on the pipe body, and two ends of the first rotating shaft are respectively rotatably inserted into the pipe body and the sealing cover.

3. The dish distribution mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the first rotating shaft is provided with enclosing plates perpendicular to the first rotating shaft at both ends, and the feeding port and the discharging port are located between the two enclosing plates.

4. The serving mechanism of claim 1, wherein the first blade is a helical blade.

5. The dish distribution mechanism of claim 1, wherein the dish distribution mechanism comprises a second conveying assembly, the second conveying assembly comprises a second rotating shaft arranged in the bin and a second blade connected with the second rotating shaft, the second rotating shaft rotates along a second direction extending up and down, and the second blade rotates along with the second rotating shaft to transfer the dish in the bin to the feeding port.

6. The mechanism of claim 5, wherein said second vanes are spaced apart from one another and are disposed on opposite sides of said second axis of rotation in a radial direction.

7. The dish distribution mechanism of any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the dish distribution mechanism comprises a position sensor for sensing whether a dish is placed at the dish receiving position, the dish is placed at the dish receiving position, and when the weight of the dish in the hopper reaches a designed weight, the sealing plate opens the lower opening of the hopper so that the dish in the hopper falls into the dish.

8. The serving mechanism of claim 7, wherein the serving assembly further comprises a vibratory motor that vibrates when the sealing plate opens the lower opening of the hopper to cause the full amount of dish in the hopper to be transferred to the serving plate.

9. The meal distribution mechanism of claim 7, wherein the meal distribution assembly further comprises a status sensor for sensing the status of the closure plate.

10. A food serving apparatus comprising a food serving mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

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