JP2003222342A - Oven toaster - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oven toaster possible to remove the door 4 by pulling it straight toward the person operating, and also possible to mount the door 4 and couple with the body 2 by inserting straight as the left and right supporting shafts 7 to couple the door 4 with the body 2 are uncoupled simultaneously. <P>SOLUTION: The oven toaster has a box-shaped body 2 and a door 4 to open and close an opening 3 in the front face of the body 2 in such an arrangement that the door 4 is born rotatably at the lower edge of the opening 3, wherein the door 4 is furnished with supporting shafts 7 at the bottoms of its two sides in such a way as is capable of emerging and retracting, and further the arrangement includes a manually operating means to emerge and retract the supporting shafts 2 on both sides simultaneously and bearings 12 for insertion of the supporting shafts 7 located at the bottoms on two sides of the opening 3 in the body 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an oven toaster, and more particularly to an oven toaster having a box-shaped main body and a door for opening and closing an opening on the front surface of the main body.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of oven toaster 1 is
As shown in FIG. 7, the front opening 3 of the box-shaped main body 2 is covered with a door 4, and the door 4 is formed with a window 6 into which a glass 5 is fitted. The door 4 is rotatably supported by a support shaft 7 below the opening 3 of the main body 2 so that the door 4 can be opened and closed.

Upper and lower heaters 8 are provided in the main body 2, and a net 9 for placing an object to be cooked is installed between the heaters 8, and the front end of the net 9 is the back surface of the door 4. The net 9 is pulled out from the opening 3 by pivoting the door 4 forward with the support shaft 7 as a pivot and is opened. Spring 11
Is biased backwards.

[0004]

By the way, in such an oven toaster 1, since the inside of the main body 2 becomes dirty due to use, it is necessary to clean it regularly. At this time, in order to clean all the inside, clean the main body 2 to the door 4
Need to be removed.

As a mechanism for removing the door 4, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Nos. 5-111948 and 2000-14567 disclose a mechanism that allows one of the support shafts 7 projecting from both sides of the door 4 to be retracted. Has been done.

However, in this structure, the support shaft 7 that can be retracted and retracted is pulled out from the bearing hole of the main body 2, and the door 4
Is pulled out to the front and then moved laterally to pull out the other support shaft 7 from the bearing hole, and the operation of attaching and detaching the door 4 is complicated, and the support shaft 7 and the bearing hole are erroneously overloaded. There is also a risk of damage.

Further, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-79066 discloses a bearing hole into which one support shaft 7 is fitted and which can be opened and closed. However, in this one as well, after only one support shaft is released. , The door is moved to the side to pull out the other support shaft 7, the operation is complicated, and the lever of the bearing hole is provided on the front surface of the main body 2, so that it cannot be mistakenly used during normal use. May be operated and the door may fall off.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an oven toaster in which the support shaft 7 of the door 4 of the oven toaster 1 can be removed from the bearings of the main body 2 at the same time on the left and right to smoothly attach and detach the door 4. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mechanism for attaching and detaching the door 4 of No. 1.

[0009]

One aspect of the present invention has a box-shaped main body and a door for opening and closing an opening on the front surface of the main body, and the door is provided at the lower edge of the opening. In a rotatably supported oven toaster, support shafts are provided at the lower ends of both sides of a door so as to be retractable, and manual means for simultaneously retracting the support shafts at both sides are provided. A bearing is provided for inserting the support shaft.

As a concrete structure of the present invention, the manual means is a push button provided at a central portion of a lower end portion of the door, and the support shaft is retracted into the door by pushing the push button. Can be one.

As another specific structure, the manual means is a rotating member provided at the center of the lower end of the door, and the supporting shaft is retracted into the door by rotating the rotating member. It is also possible to make it possible.

Another aspect of the present invention is an oven having a box-shaped main body and a door that opens and closes an opening on the front surface of the main body, and the door is rotatably supported at the lower edge of the opening. In the toaster, a support shaft having a cylindrical shape with a part of which is cut out is provided at the lower ends of both sides of the door, and bearings for inserting the support shaft are provided at the lower ends of both sides of the opening of the main body. It is characterized in that a slit through which the support shaft can pass only when the directions of the cutout portions of the support shaft coincide with each other is formed toward the front and obliquely downward direction.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 show an oven toaster 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which an opening 3 is formed in a front surface of a main body 2 and lower portions of both side surfaces of the opening 3 are formed. A bearing hole 12 is formed in the.

The bearing holes 12 are provided at the lower end portions of both side edges of the door 4.
A support shaft 7 that fits into the main body 2 is projectingly provided, and locking means 10 is projectingly provided on both sides of the back surface of the door 4. The locking means 10 is slidable back and forth in the main body 2. Net 9 installed in
It is designed to be detachably locked to the front end of the.

A pair of laterally extending bars 13 are slidably provided inside the door 4, and the tips of the bars 13 project from the side edges of the door 4 to form the support shaft 7. There is. Each bar 13 is urged by a spring 14 in the direction in which the support shaft 7 projects.

The bar 13 is provided at the center of the door 4.
Cross each other, and each bar 13 is formed with an inclined portion 15 in the opposite direction to each other, and a push button 16 protruding from the back surface of the door 4 is provided.
By pressing, the inclined surface 17 formed on the end surface of the push button 16 presses the inclined portion 15, and the bar 13 slides against the elasticity of the spring 14 so that the support shaft 7 can be retracted. ing.

FIGS. 3 and 4 show another embodiment of an oven toaster 1, in which an opening 3 is formed in the front surface of a main body 2 thereof, and the opening portions 3 are projected on both lower front surfaces. The bearing hole 12 is formed in the receiving piece 18.

A notch 19 into which the receiving piece 18 is fitted is formed on both sides of the lower edge of the door 4, and a support shaft 7 fitted into the bearing hole 12 projects into the notch 19. In addition, locking means 10 that is detachably locked to a net 9 slidably provided in the main body 2 is provided on both sides of the back surface of the door 4 in a protruding manner.

A pair of laterally extending bars 13 are slidably provided inside the door 4, and the tips of the bars 13 project into the notches 19 to form the support shaft 7. There is. Each bar 13 is urged by a spring 14 in the direction in which the support shaft 7 projects.

At the center of the door 4, there is provided a rotating member 20 projecting to the back surface of the door 4, and the rotating member 2 is provided.
The base of the bar 13 is connected to the tip of the wing piece 21 provided at 0 via the connecting member 22. By rotating the rotating member 20, the bar 13 is centered against the elasticity of the spring 14. The support shaft 7 can be retracted from the inside of the notch 19 as shown by an arrow A in FIG.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show an embodiment of the oven toaster 1 according to the other invention of the present application, in which the support shaft 7 projecting from the lower end portions of both side edges of the door 4 has a main body 2. The bearing 4 is rotatably supported by bearing holes 12 formed at the lower ends of the inner surfaces of both sides of the opening, and the door 4 can be opened and closed.

Locking means 10 are provided on both sides of the back surface of the door 4.
Is projectingly provided, and is detachably locked to the front end of a net 9 slidably provided in the main body 2 in the front-rear direction, and the net 9 is pulled out by opening the door 4.

The support shaft 7 of the door 4 is shown in FIG. 6 (b).
As shown in FIG. 3, the bearing hole 12 of the main body 2 has a shape in which a notch 24 is formed in a part of the cylindrical shape. I understand.

The slit 23 extends obliquely downward and forward from the bearing hole 12, and is further rotated downward from the state in which the door 4 is opened from the horizontal, and the notch 24 of the support shaft 7 is formed in the slit 23. The support shaft 7 can pass through the slit 23 only in a state where the directions match.

[0025]

In the normal use, the oven toaster 1 of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 7, places the object to be cooked on the net 9 and energizes the heater 8 to remove the object to be cooked on the net 9. Heat and cook.

When the food to be cooked is taken in and out, the door 4 is pulled forward and pivoted forward about the support shaft 7 to open, and the net 9 locked by the locking means 10 accordingly. Are pulled out forward from the opening 3. When the door 4 is rotated upward and closed, the net 9 is slid backward by the elasticity of the spring 11.

When the door 4 is to be removed for cleaning the inside of the main body 2, in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the door 4 is rotated around the support shaft 7 to open it forward, and the net is first removed. 9. Remove 9 from locking means 10.

Then, in this state, when the push button 16 protruding on the back surface of the door 4 is pressed, the push button 16 is pushed.
The inclined surface 17 of the bar pushes the inclined portion 15 of the bar 13, the bar 13 slides against the elastic force of the spring 14, and the support shaft 7 moves toward the door 4.
And then escape from the bearing hole 12. In this state, the door 4 can be removed from the main body 2 by supporting the door 4 and pulling it straight forward as it is.

When the door 4 is attached to the main body 2,
With the push button 16 pressed and the support shaft 7 retracted, the lower end of the door 4 is inserted into the lower end of the opening 3, and the position of the support shaft 7 is aligned with the bearing hole 12. When the push button 16 is released in this state, the bar 13 slides by the elastic force of the spring 14, and the support shaft 7 projects from the side surface of the door 4 and fits into the bearing hole 12. Therefore, if the mesh 9 is locked to the locking means 10, it can be returned to a normal use state.

Next, the configurations shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 will be described. Also in this case, opening the door 4 to disengage the net 9 from the locking means 10 is the same as in the case of the previous mode.

When the rotating member 20 protruding to the back surface of the door 4 is rotated, the rotating member 20 causes the bar 13 to move through the connecting member 22 to the spring 14 as shown by the chain line in FIG. Sliding in the direction of arrow A against the elasticity of the support shaft 7
Retracts from the notch 19 and escapes from the bearing hole 12 of the receiving piece 18 of the main body 2. In this state, if the door 4 is supported and pulled straight forward as it is, the receiving piece 18 comes out from the notch 19, and the door 4 can be removed from the main body 2.

When the door 4 is attached to the main body 2,
With the turning member 20 turned and the support shaft 7 retracted, the notch 19 of the door 4 is fitted into the receiving piece 18 of the main body 2, and in this state, the hand is released from the turning member 20. , Bar 13
4 is slid by the elastic force of the spring 14 as shown by the solid line in FIG. 4B, the support shaft 7 projects into the notch 19 and fits into the bearing hole 12, and the door 4 is attached to the main body 2. Therefore, if the mesh 9 is locked to the locking means 10, it can be returned to a normal use state.

Further, in the example of FIGS. 5 and 6, the door 4 is rotated about the support shaft 7 as the rotation shaft to open and close the opening 3 of the main body 2 in a normal use state, and the door 4 is locked accordingly. The mesh 9 locked by the means 10 slides back and forth.

Then, when the door 4 is opened, as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, the door 4 is supported by the support shaft 7 and extends substantially horizontally to the front, and is supported by the net 9 in this state, so that the door 4 does not rotate any more. Therefore, the notch 24 of the support shaft 7 does not match the direction of the slit 23 of the bearing hole 12, and the support shaft 7 does not come out of the slit 23 so that the door 4 does not come off.

Here, when the door 4 is removed from the main body 2 for cleaning or the like, if the net 9 is removed from the locking means 10, the support of the door 4 by the net 9 is lost, and as shown in FIG. 6 (a). Further, the support shaft 7 is pivoted downward to below the horizontal, and the direction of the notch 24 of the support shaft 7 is the slit 23.
Matches In this state, if the door 4 is pulled obliquely forward and downward in the direction of the slit 23, the support shaft 7 passes through the slit 23 and escapes, so that the door 4 can be removed.

When the door 4 is attached to the main body 2,
The direction of the notch 24 of the support shaft 7 is aligned with the slit 23, and the support shaft 7 is inserted into the slit 23 from diagonally below the front to reach the bearing hole 12.

The door 4 is supported by the net 9 as shown in FIG. 5 by rotating the door 4 upward to lock the net 9 in the locking means 10. In this state, the support shaft 7 can no longer pass through the slit 23, so that the door 4 does not fall off, and the door 4 is surely attached to the main body 2 so as to be openable and closable.

[0038]

According to the oven toaster 1 of the present invention, the support shafts 7 for connecting the door 4 and the main body 2 are disengaged from each other at the same time, so that the door 4 can be removed by pulling the door 4 straight forward. Also, when the door 4 is attached, it can be inserted straight into the main body 2 and joined.

Therefore, when the door 4 is attached or detached, it is not necessary to pull out the door 4 obliquely or move it laterally, and the door 4 can be smoothly attached and detached from the main body 2 by only a simple operation in the front-rear direction.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a form of the present invention with a door removed from a main body.

2A and 2B show a mechanism for retracting and retracting the support shaft in the form of FIG. 1, in which FIG. 2A is a vertical sectional view of a door, and FIG. 2B is a plan view of a main part of the mechanism.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a state in which a door is removed from the main body according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows a mechanism for retracting and retracting the support shaft in the form of FIG. 3, (a) is a perspective view of the mechanism,
(B) is a plan view of a main part.

FIG. 5 is a side view of still another form of the present invention with a door attached.

6A is a side view showing a state in which a door can be detached from the main body in the form of FIG. 5, and FIG. 6B is a perspective view of a main part in a detached state.

FIG. 7 is a central vertical cross-sectional view of an oven toaster.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 oven toaster 2 body 3 openings 4 doors 7 Support shaft 12 Bearing hole 16 push buttons 20 Rotating member 23 slits 24 notches

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Hiromitsu Yoshimitsu             Elephant 1-20-5 Tenma, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture             In Mahobin Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Shinichiro Iga             Elephant 1-20-5 Tenma, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture             In Mahobin Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hiroaki Izumi             Elephant 1-20-5 Tenma, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture             In Mahobin Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 3L087 AA02 AB02 DA08

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A box-shaped main body (2), and a door (4) for opening and closing an opening (3) on a front surface of the main body (2), and a door at a lower edge of the opening (3). In an oven toaster in which (4) is rotatably supported, support shafts (7) are provided at the lower end portions of both sides of a door (4) so as to be retractable, and a manual means for simultaneously retracting the support shafts (7) on both sides is provided. The support shaft (7) is provided at the lower ends of both sides of the opening (3) of the main body (2).
Oven toaster, characterized in that it is provided with a bearing (12) for inserting the 2. The manual means is a push button (16) provided at the center of the lower end of the door (4), and the support shaft (7) is opened by pushing the push button (16). It is characterized in that it is made to retract into (4),
The toaster oven according to claim 1. 3. The rotating means (20) provided in the central portion of the lower end of the door (4), wherein the manual means is provided with the support shaft (20) by rotating the rotating member (20). 7) is adapted to be retracted into the door (4),
The toaster oven according to claim 1. 4. A box-shaped main body (2), and a door (4) for opening and closing an opening (3) on the front surface of the main body (2), and a door at the lower edge of the opening (3). In an oven toaster in which (4) is rotatably supported, a supporting shaft (7) having a shape of a cylindrical part cut out is provided in a protruding manner at both lower ends of the door (4),
A bearing (12) into which the support shaft (7) is inserted is provided at both lower ends of the opening (3) of the body (2), and the bearing (1)
A slit (23) through which the support shaft (7) can pass only when the direction of the notch (24) of the support shaft (7) is aligned with 2) is formed in a diagonally downward front direction. Let's make an oven toaster