JP2003325358A - Electric hot pressing cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an environmentally-friendly electric hot pressing cooker enabling even a beginner to uniformly bake a plurality of products and never generating exhaust gas or the like. <P>SOLUTION: This cooker has a fixed base 2 mounted with a lower mold 1 and a movable plate 4 mounted with an upper mold 3, which are openably and closably constituted, and a heating part for heating the lower mold 1 and the upper 3 by electric heating. The lower mold 1 and the upper mold 3 have a plurality of recessed parts arranged lengthwise and crosswise in opposition to each other. This cooker further has a lever 7 for connecting the axial center of a support shaft 6 provided in the rear of the fixed base 2 to a shaft 5 having an axial center passed through the center of gravity of the movable plate 4 in parallel to the axial center of the support shaft 6. The lever 7 has an elliptic hole 7 formed so that the movable plate 4 is rockable, relative to the lever 7, within a prescribed angle range with the shaft 5 as the fulcrum, and the shank of a bolt 9 is fitted to the elliptic hole 7a. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electric heating and pressure cooker for commercial use, in which a plurality of foods such as rice balls and baked rice cakes are sandwiched between molds and baked simultaneously.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, food products such as baked rice cake confectionery that are sold for sale in tourist spots and shopping districts have hitherto been sandwiched between scissors-shaped plates having a lower mold and an upper mold and heated by gas fire. Was baked and turned over so that the front and back could be evenly baked. Maintaining this same degree of burning always requires skill and exhausts physical strength. However, in recent years, there are few successors to the famous and famous Yakimochi confectionery shop, and skilled workers are aging and the burden is increasing. When the people who bake change, the degree of baking and texture change from the past, and there are also shops where people who bought for the old taste are disappointed.

On the other hand, grilled rice balls are put on a grill over a grill and baked with a gas fire or the like, but it is difficult to bake rice balls with a charred surface. Adjusting the power of a gas fire requires some tips, and you can't always burn it in the same way. It takes time because the front and back cannot be baked at the same time. In addition, the rice grains on the surface of the rice ball will stick to the grill and will not come off easily. If you take it forcibly, the surface of the rice ball will come off and the appearance will be poor, reducing the commercial value.

As a rice ball baking machine for home use, 1 to 3 pieces
There is an electric heating type that has individual molds, but it takes 5
It takes 10 minutes and the baking quality is not constant, so it is not suitable for commercial use.

[0005]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As a commercial rice cake or grilled rice ball cooker, even a person who is not an expert can produce a large amount of a product having a certain baking condition in a short time, and have a clean heat source. Etc. are required.

Further, when baking a plurality of products, it is necessary to simply put the material in the lower mold and the upper mold, close the mold, and heat.
Since the material expands and contracts due to heat and does not always adhere to the mold, it is difficult to uniformly bake a plurality of materials with the same quality. Therefore, when the upper mold and the lower mold are not closed during heating and cooking, the upper mold is floated and the material is pressed by the upper mold so that the material comes into close contact with the mold. However, if the upper mold is hingedly opened and closed with respect to the lower mold, the opening degree and pressure of the mold closer to the hinge and the mold farther from the hinge will not be uniform,
The baking condition of the material varies depending on the position of the mold.

[0007] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an environment-friendly electric heating and pressure cooker which enables even a beginner to bake a plurality of products uniformly and does not generate exhaust gas.

[0008]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an electric heating and pressure cooker according to the present invention comprises a fixed base to which a lower mold is attached and a movable plate to which an upper mold is attached, which can be opened and closed. In a cooker provided with a heating portion for heating the lower die and the upper die by electric heat, a plurality of recesses arranged vertically and horizontally on the lower die and the upper die are provided to face each other, and provided behind the fixing table. And a lever that connects the first rotation axis with a second rotation axis that passes through the center of gravity of the movable plate and is parallel to the first rotation axis. The lever is movable with respect to the lever. The plate is configured to be swingable within a range of a predetermined angle with the second rotation axis as a fulcrum.

In the present invention, the lower mold and the upper mold are preheated to a predetermined temperature and the movable plate is opened during cooking to
Put the material molded to a predetermined size in the lower mold on the fixed table,
Cover the movable plate. At this time, since the movable plate is swingable, the load of the movable plate is evenly applied to the material at any position, and the material sandwiched between the lower mold and the upper mold has the shape of the mold due to the load. Molded. After that, the material is heated at a preset temperature. After a lapse of a predetermined time, the material is baked. Since it uses electric heat, it does not pollute the air with smoke or exhaust gas, and temperature control is easy.

By making the lower mold and the upper mold removable and replaceable with respect to the fixed base and the movable plate, respectively, the size, shape, and type of food can be arbitrarily changed.

By providing a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the lower mold and the upper mold, and by providing a temperature control circuit for controlling the heat generating portion so that the lower mold and the upper mold are heated at a preset temperature and time. , You can reproduce the same baking condition as an expert, and you don't need to be on the side until it is baked.

By making an alarm sound when a preset time is reached, other work and many cookers can be handled by one person, and food can be quickly provided.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a configuration of an electric heating and pressure cooking device according to an embodiment of the present invention when opened, FIG. 2 is a perspective view when a movable plate is closed, and FIG. 3 is a vertical side view.

The electric heating / pressurizing cooker according to the present embodiment is
It comprises a fixed base 2 to which the lower mold 1 is attached and a movable plate 4 to which the upper mold 3 is attached. Each of the lower mold 1 and the upper mold 3 is provided with a plurality of recesses for accommodating the material in the vertical and horizontal directions, and is configured to be attachable and detachable with bolts or the like. The gap between the lower mold 1 and the upper mold 3 can be adjusted by bringing the heads of the bolts at the four corners of the bolts fixing the lower mold 1 and the upper mold 3 into contact with each other. In the illustrated example, the recesses formed in the lower mold 1 and the upper mold 3 have a shape for baking rice balls. The lower mold 1 and the upper mold 3 are made of iron or aluminum casting, and the surface thereof is treated with a fluororesin so that the material is hard to attach and is easily peeled off.

A shaft 5 is provided so as to project from the center of gravity of the movable plate 4 to which the upper die 3 is fixed (or above the center of gravity, these are referred to as "center of gravity" in this specification), and a shaft 5 is projected. The support shaft 6 and the shaft 5 provided at the rear portion are connected to the lever 7
Are connected by. The shaft 5 and the lever 7 are prevented from coming off by a hairpin 8. A long hole 7a that is long in the direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the lever 7 is provided in the middle of the lever 7, and the shaft portion of the bolt 9 fixed to the movable plate 4 is inserted into the long hole 7a. . Therefore, the movable plate 4 can freely swing around the shaft 5 by the clearance angle of the elongated hole 7a. A handle 10 is attached to the movable plate 4, and the movable plate 4 can be opened and closed with the support shaft 6 as a fulcrum. In order to reduce the weight of the movable plate 4 and to keep the pressurization of food to a proper level, the support shaft 6 is provided with a spring 11.
Are attached, and a spring force is applied in the direction of opening the movable plate 4.

A heater and a heat insulating material for heating the lower die 1 and a temperature sensor are provided inside the fixed base 2, and a heater and a heat insulating material for heating the upper die 3 are provided inside the movable plate 4. And a temperature sensor is provided. In addition, the fixed stand 2 has a control box 12
Is equipped with a power switch 13 and a timer 1 on the front.
4, electronic temperature controller 15 is attached. The timer 14 can be set for each second and can be preset. The set time and remaining time are displayed digitally. The temperature of the electronic temperature controller 15 can be set every 1 degree, and presetting is also possible. The set temperature and detected temperature can be displayed digitally.

The control box 12 incorporates a temperature control circuit for controlling the temperatures of the lower mold 1 and the upper mold 3 to a set temperature, and generates a buzzer sound when a set time has elapsed. . The temperature control can be either a constant temperature control for keeping the same temperature during the heating time or a program control for changing the set temperature according to the cooking process.

Next, a method of using the electric heating / pressurizing cooker of the present embodiment will be described. First, lower mold 1 and upper mold 3
Is preheated to a predetermined temperature. At this time, if the movable plate 4 is closed, power loss is small.

At the beginning of cooking, the handle 10 is lifted to open the movable plate 4, the rice having a predetermined size is put in the lower mold 1, and the movable plate 4 is covered. At this time, regarding the amount (weight) of rice, the upper mold 3 does not adhere to the lower mold 1,
Prepare the rice by weighing so that the upper mold 3 is lifted a little. Then, since the movable plate 4 is swingable, the load of the movable plate 4 is evenly applied to the rice at any position, and the material sandwiched between the lower mold 1 and the upper mold 3 by the load. The rice is formed into the shape of a mold. The fixed base 2 is provided with a limit switch (not shown) that operates when the movable plate 4 is closed, and the timer 14 starts timing from the time when the limit switch operates. After that, the material is heated at a preset temperature. When the time set by the timer 14 is reached, a buzzer sound is generated to notify the completion of baking and the heating is completed. If the time until baking is set to about 3 minutes, customers will not worry about waiting time.

After that, the movable plate 4 is opened and the baked rice balls are taken out from the mold. In addition, the lower mold 1 and the upper mold 3 are not limited to baked rice balls, and can be manufactured such as baked rice cake confectionery and the like in which the shape of the concave portion is changed according to the food material to be cooked, and the original shape and the baked crest It can be optionally attached.

[0021]

According to the present invention, the following effects are exhibited. (1) The lower mold and the upper mold are provided with a plurality of recesses arranged vertically and horizontally to face each other, and the first rotary shaft provided at the rear of the fixed base and the center of gravity of the movable plate pass through the first rotary shaft. A lever that connects the rotation axis and a second rotation axis that is parallel to the rotation axis is provided, and the movable plate can swing with respect to the lever within a predetermined angle range with the second rotation axis as a fulcrum. With this configuration, the load of the movable plate is evenly applied to the material at any position, and even a beginner can uniformly burn a plurality of products. In addition, since it uses electric heat, it does not generate exhaust gas and pollutes the environment.

(2) By making the lower mold and the upper mold attachable to and detachable from the fixed base and the movable plate, respectively, and replaceable, the size, shape, and type of food can be arbitrarily changed.

(3) Providing a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the lower mold and the upper mold, and providing a temperature control circuit for controlling the heating portion so that the lower mold and the upper mold are heated at a preset temperature and time. This makes it possible to reproduce the same degree of baking as a skilled person, and there is no need to stick to the side until it is baked.

(4) By making an alarm sound when a preset time is reached, other work and many cookers can be handled by one person without waiting for customers. Food can be provided promptly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a configuration of an electric heating and pressure cooker according to an embodiment of the present invention when opened.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view when the movable plate is closed in the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a vertical side view of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Lower mold 2 fixed base 3 Upper mold 4 movable plate 5 axes 6 Support shaft 7 lever 7a long hole 8 hairpins 9 bolts 10 handles 11 spring 12 control box 13 Power switch 14 timer 15 Electronic temperature controller

[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] May 29, 2002 (2002.5.2)
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[Procedure Amendment 1]

[Document name to be corrected] Drawing

[Correction target item name] All drawings

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A cooker comprising a fixed base having a lower die attached thereto and a movable plate having an upper die attached thereto so as to be openable and closable, and provided with a heat generating portion for electrically heating the lower die and the upper die. The mold and the upper mold are provided with a plurality of vertically and horizontally arranged concave portions facing each other, and a first rotation axis provided at the rear of the fixed base and a center of gravity of the movable plate pass through the first rotation. A lever is provided to connect a second rotation axis parallel to the axis, and the movable plate can swing with respect to the lever within a predetermined angle range with the second rotation axis as a fulcrum. An electric heating / pressurizing cooker characterized by being configured as follows. 2. The electric heating / pressurizing cooker according to claim 1, wherein the lower die and the upper die are detachable and replaceable with respect to a fixed base and a movable plate, respectively. 3. A temperature control circuit which is provided with a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the lower die and the upper die, and which controls the heat generating portion so that the lower die and the upper die are heated at a preset temperature and time. The electric heating / pressurizing cooker according to claim 1 or 2, which is provided. 4. The electric heating / pressurizing cooker according to claim 3, wherein an alarm sound is emitted when a preset time is reached.