JP2003136076A - Container enclosing granite porphyry to put mineral water to practical use - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an instrument capable of cooling rice in a rice cooker, capable of obtaining clean mineral water in an electric heating pot, having a simple and inexpensive structure and easy in maintenance. SOLUTION: The instrument is constituted by enclosing granite porphyry with a relatively small particle size in the container comprising a stainless steel metal net so as to prevent granite porphyry from easily scattering by metal fittings. This instrument can be used only by dipping in the rice cooler or the electric heating pot.

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention removes foreign substances in water by merely immersing it in a rice cooker or an electric heating pot, and further releases minerals useful to the human body. It is intended to provide an inexpensive appliance for improving the quality and flavor of cooked rice and drinking water. 2. Description of the Related Art It is known to purify drinking water and convert it into mineral water by applying malt stone, but it is known to laminate malt stone and other filter materials in a special container and purify the same with a pump or the like. The structure is such that the water to be passed therethrough is complex and of course expensive. Further, the cleaning and replacement of the filter medium is not easy, and the cost is high. [0003] Accordingly, the present invention is to provide an apparatus which is practically useful with a simple structure, and in which maintenance of barley stone is extremely simple. According to the present invention, a crushed stone of barley stone is sealed in a substantially spherical stainless steel wire mesh, and it is only necessary to immerse the rice in rice washing when cooking rice or in water with an electric heating pot. Moreover, when the device is soiled, it is characterized by a structure that is good only to take out, wash and dry. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, in which a part of the barley stone 1 is also shown as a cutaway view. The edge of the hemispherical wire net 2 is reinforced by a member 3. Fill each hemisphere with barley stone 1
And 5 form a sphere. If the fixing tool 4 is crimped, it will not be easily separated. If immersed in the rice cooker in this state, rice can be cooked, and if immersed in the electric heating pot, the water becomes purified mineral water. If the entire instrument is soiled, it may be washed with water and dried. Long term use is possible with simple maintenance. For the sake of explanation, the overall shape is spherical, but this shape may be a rectangular parallelepiped or a cylinder, and the substantial effects of the present invention are the same. As described above, high-quality rice can be easily cooked with cooked rice, and high-quality purified mineral water can be obtained at low cost with an electric heating pot.

[Brief description of the drawings] FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a view taken in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 1; [Explanation of symbols] 1 crushed barley stone 2 Wire mesh 3 Edge reinforcement 4 movable fixtures 5 Hinge fixture

Claims (1)

Claims: 1. A fixing tool is provided at two points of the edge diameter or diagonal of a substantially semi-spherical, semi-cylindrical, or rectangular parallelepiped stainless steel wire mesh whose edges are reinforced, and two solids are combined to form a sphere or Mineral water utilization device that has a cylindrical shape or a rectangular parallelepiped, and contains crushed barley stone with a maximum length of 5 to 10 mm inside.