JP2001137115A - Cooking equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent crushing of solid materials of food to cook as much as possible. SOLUTION: The cooking equipment comprises a kettle 1 to cook food, a filling machine 9 to fill a particular container with the food cooked in the kettle 1 and an air compressor 16 to blow air into the kettle 1. The food is transferred to the filling machine 9 by pressure applied by the air compressor 16.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a cooking apparatus for cooking and bagging food.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional cooking apparatus of this type is disclosed in
JP-A-128073 (A47J27 / 14) discloses a kettle for cooking food, a packing station for filling the bag with the food cooked in the kettle, and a pump device for conveying the food in the kettle to the packing station. And a motor that drives the pump device and a control device that controls the operation of the motor.

[0003]

In such a conventional technique, a pump device is driven by a motor to draw cooked food in a kettle and send it to a packing station.
When a curry or the like in which a fluid and a solid are mixed is used as the cooked food, the solid may be crushed by the pump device. The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and provides a cooking apparatus that aims to minimize the pulverization of solids in cooked food.

[0004]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, as a means for achieving the above object, a kettle for heating and cooking food and a food container cooked in the kettle are filled in a predetermined container. Provided is a cooking device that includes a filling machine and an air compressor that sends air into a kettle, and that feeds food by pressurizing the air compressor when feeding food to the filling machine.

As described above, since the food is pumped by the air compressor, even if the liquid food contains solid matter,
It is possible to prevent the solid matter from being crushed as much as possible.

[0006] In the invention according to claim 2, the kettle comprises a cooking container having an open upper surface, and a lid for closing the opening of the cooking container, and the air compressor is connected to the lid. A cooking device is provided.

As described above, by using a configuration in which the air compressor is connected to the lid side, the cooking container can have the same configuration as the conventional one.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the cooking apparatus according to the second aspect, wherein the lid of the cooking container has a hemispherical shape.

As described above, since the lid of the cooking container has a hemispherical shape, the pressure can be applied as uniformly as possible.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a cooking device of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a front view of the cooking device of the present invention.

The cooking apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is installed in a kitchen in a hospital, a kitchen in a dining room, or the like, and includes a kettle 1 and a filling and packaging machine 2. The kettle 1 includes a cooking container 3 having an upper opening for heating and cooking a fluid food, for example, soup, porridge, curry, and the like, and a hemispherical lid 4 for opening and closing the upper opening.

The cooking vessel 3 comprises an outer pot 5 and an inner pot 6 provided at a predetermined interval in the outer pot 5. A booster tank 7 for supplying hot water between the pot 5 and the inner pot 6 is provided.

Although not shown, an electric heater as a heating device and a temperature sensor for detecting a water temperature are provided in the booster tank 7.

Further, a stirrer 8 is rotatably provided inside the inner pot 6 to stir the liquid food in the inner pot 6 while heating it with the hot water or steam of the booster tank 7 described above. It is.

Next, the filling and packaging machine 2 comprises a filling machine 9 provided on the right side and a transfer machine 10 on the left side. A pneumatic filling valve 11 is provided at the upper part of the filling machine 9 to cut off and allow the flow of the liquid food by moving it up and down. Stainless steel pan 12 is provided.

The transfer device 10 is provided with the filling valve 11.
After filling the food into a predetermined container, that is, a resin bag such as polyethylene, the upper opening of the bag is heat-welded,
It has a transport belt 13 for transporting bags, and a heat welding device 14 located above the transport belt 13.

The kettle 1 and the filling machine 9 of the filling and packaging machine 2 are connected by a food conveying pipe 15 and the air compressor 1 for supplying air to the lid 4 by pressure.
6 are connected.

The operation of the present invention will be described with the above configuration.

First, the liquid food before cooking is introduced into the inner pot 6 of the kettle 1. Then, hot water or steam heated in the booster tank 7 is introduced between the outer kettle 5 and the inner kettle 6 to heat the inner kettle 6. At the same time, the mixture is stirred by the stirrer 8 to start heating and cooking the liquid food.

At this time, the cooking container 3 of the kettle 1
The cover 4 may or may not be attached.

When the cooking of the liquid food is completed, the lid 4 is attached to the cooking container 3 and the operation of the air compressor 16 is started. Thereby, the inside of the kettle 1 is pressurized, and the fluid food is introduced to the filling valve 11 through the food transport pipe 15. However, at this time, the filling valve 11 blocks the flow of the food.

As described above, since the liquid food is extruded and conveyed by the pressurization of the air compressor 16, it is possible to prevent the solid matter in the liquid food from being deformed or crushed as much as possible.

Next, the user places a bag or the like below the filling valve 11 and moves the filling valve 11 upward, thereby allowing the flow of the food and filling the bag with the food. It will be.

Then, a bag is placed on the conveyor belt 13 and
The upper opening of the bag is welded and sealed by the heat welding device 14.
Thereafter, it is put into ice water such as an ice water cooler (not shown), or rapidly cooled in a quick freezing storage or the like, and stored in a cold storage.

[0026]

As described above in detail, according to the first aspect of the present invention, since the food is pressure-fed by the air compressor, the solid is crushed even if it is a liquid food containing the solid. Since this can be prevented as much as possible, the quality of the liquid food can be improved.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the cooking container can have the same configuration as the conventional one by connecting the air compressor to the lid side. Therefore, it can be attached to an existing cooking device.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the lid of the cooking container has a hemispherical shape, the pressure can be applied as uniformly as possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a cooking device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the cooking device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Kettle 2 Filling and packaging machine 3 Cooking device 4 Lid 9 Filling machine 16 Air compressor

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A kettle for heating and cooking food, a filling machine for filling food prepared in the kettle into a predetermined container, and an air compressor for sending air into the kettle, wherein the food is sent to the filling machine. In such a case, the cooking apparatus performs pressure feeding by pressurizing the air compressor. 2. A kettle comprising: a cooking container having an open upper surface;
The cooking device according to claim 1, further comprising a lid for closing an opening of the cooking container, wherein the air compressor is connected to the lid. 3. The cooking device according to claim 2, wherein the lid of the cooking container has a hemispherical shape.