JP2007014563A - Frying device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a frying device capable of appropriately rotating a frying pan without having a rotary shaft directly connected to the central part of the frying pan, highly efficiently cooking a food material by uniformly heating the whole bottom face of the pan, uniformly stirring the food material in an approximately whole area of the bottom face in the pan by cooperating with the rotating operation of the frying pan and causing no insufficient stirring in the central part area. <P>SOLUTION: This frying device is provided with a frying pan 1 frying a food material, a pan rotating device giving a rotation driving force to the circumferential edge of the frying pan 1, a pan receiving means receiving the frying pan 1 at its circumferential edge part and guiding the rotation, a pan heating device heating the bottom of the frying pan 1 and provided immediately under the pan bottom, and stirring vanes 8 capable of stirring the food material in the area including the central part in the inner bottom face of the frying pan. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a stir-fry device for ingredients such as fried rice, fried noodles, spaghetti, meat and vegetables.

Patent document 1 stirs the ingredients while rotating the fry pan horizontally through a rotating shaft directly connected to the center of the outer bottom, and stirs the ingredients by rotating the scraper at a fixed position in the radial line of the fry pan. An apparatus is disclosed.
JP 2001-340225 A

  Thus, in the stirrer of Patent Document 1, as a means for horizontally rotating the stir-fry pan, a rotation drive shaft is directly connected to the center of the outer bottom surface of the stir-fry pan, and the rotation drive shaft is rotated by a motor. A mechanism that rotates the stir-fry pan horizontally is adopted.

  In this stir-fry device, the heating device cannot be arranged in the central region of the outer bottom surface of the stir-fry pan provided with the rotation drive shaft, and there is a problem that the ingredients cannot be cooked effectively in the central region. ing. In addition, the rotating shaft is always exposed to high temperatures, and the drive source is also heated, causing a problem that causes failure.

  Further, as a means for suspending the scraper so as to rotate at a fixed position in the radial line of the frying pan, a bracket supporting the scraper is suspended from the upper side of the frying pan toward the center of the bottom of the frying pan, A structure is adopted in which a rotating shaft of the scraper is installed horizontally from a bracket, a transmission is applied to a sprocket provided at the end of the rotating shaft, and the driving force of the motor is transmitted to the rotating shaft of the sprocket and the scraper through the transmission. ing.

  In this stir-fry device, brackets, sprockets, etc. are placed in the central area of the inner bottom of the stir-fry pan, which interferes with the ingredients that are fried in the stir-fry pan and the ingredients adhere to these brackets, sprockets, and transmissions. It has the problem of creating unfavorable food hygiene situations.

  Further, there is a problem that the food is brought into the drive unit while adhering to the transmission body, causing a failure. Moreover, the burden which must clean the foodstuff adhering to the said bracket, sprocket, or a transmission body is accompanied.

  Furthermore, in the above-mentioned stir-fry device, since the rotation shaft is directly connected to the center of the stir-fry pan, it is impossible to take out the ingredients by inversion from the horizontal rotation position, that is, the stir-fry position. It is necessary to scoop up and take out the ingredients manually. In addition, since scrapers, brackets, sprockets, and the like are present at the center of the inner bottom surface of the stir-fry pan, there is a problem that this may hinder the removal of food from the center of the stir-fry pan.

  The present invention provides a stirrer that appropriately solves the above problems, and this stirrer provides rotational driving force to the periphery of the stir-fry pan and guides rotation while receiving the stir-fry pan at the periphery. And it adopts the structure to get the rotation of the pan.

  Moreover, the stirrer according to the present invention includes a stirring blade for stirring the food material, and the stirring blade has a structure for stirring the food material in the region including the central portion of the bottom surface of the stir-fry pan.

  The pan rotating device includes a driving flange provided at the peripheral edge of the frying pan, a transmission body that transmits a rotational driving force to the driving flange, and a rotating flange that rotates the frying pan integrally with the driving flange. It consists of a drive source.

  The stir-fry device has a pan catching means for catching the catch flange at the peripheral edge of the stir-fry pan, and the pan catching means is rotated upward to invert the stir-fry pan captured by the catching means so that the food is slid down. A pan inversion device comprising a drive source is provided.

  The pan load receiving means includes a guide flange provided at the peripheral edge of the frying pan and a trochanter that rotates while receiving the guide flange.

  The stir-fry device in the present invention does not have a rotating shaft directly connected to the center of the stir-fry pan, and supports the peripheral part of the stir-fry pan with the pan load receiving means, while applying a rotational driving force to the peripheral part. Rotation or tilt rotation can be obtained.

  Since there is no drive element such as a rotating shaft in the space under the pan, the pan heating means can be installed so as to uniformly heat the entire pan bottom including the central region of the pan bottom, and efficient cooking of food can be performed. .

  Further, the rotating device can effectively prevent a failure due to high temperature of cooking as in the conventional example.

  In addition, the stirring blades can stir the ingredients in the region including the center of the inner bottom of the stir-fry pan. Ingredients in the containing region can be stirred uniformly and efficiently, and insufficient stirring in the central region does not occur.

  In addition, after cooking the food, by inverting the frying pan with the pan inversion device, the cooked food can be slid down at a time, and the food can be taken out very easily.

  The best mode for carrying out the invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. Reference numeral 1 denotes a stir-fry pan for cooking foods, and the stir-fry pan 1 has a spherical pan bottom with a circular shape and a shallow curvature. The frying pan 1 rotates horizontally with an axis passing through the center of the pan bottom. Alternatively, it tilts slightly and rotates around the axis.

  As a means for rotating the stir-fry pan 1, a pan rotation device that applies a rotational driving force to the peripheral edge of the stir-fry pan 1 is provided. The pan rotating device has a drive flange 2, such as a flange sprocket or a flange wheel, and a transmission body 3 comprising a chain or a belt wound around the drive flange 2, and a chain or belt that rotates around the fringe pan 1. Drive source.

  Alternatively, the transmission body 3 includes a gear that meshes with the flange sprocket or the flange wheel, and a drive source 4 that rotationally drives the transmission body 3, and transmits a driving force from the drive source 4 to the drive flange 2 via the transmission body 3. Then, the frying pan 1 is rotated integrally with the drive flange 2.

  The frying pan 1 guides the horizontal rotation or the inclined rotation while receiving the peripheral edge of the frying pan with a load receiving means, as an example, a trochanter 5. A guide flange 6 is provided at the periphery of the frying pan 1, the trochanter 5 is provided in contact with the lower surface of the guide flange 6, and the pan rotation is performed while receiving the weight of the entire frying pan 1 with the trochanter 5. Rotate following the horizontal or inclined rotation by the device.

  A pan heating device such as a gas burner 7 facing the bottom bottom surface of the pan is disposed directly below the stir-fry pan 1. The frying pan 1 has no mechanism for directly connecting the rotating shaft. Therefore, the space directly under the frying pan 1 is a free space, and the gas burner 7 is arranged so as to uniformly heat the entire region including the central region of the frying pan 1.

   Reference numeral 8 denotes a stirring blade that can stir the food in the region including the center of the inner bottom surface of the stir-fry pan 1. As a specific example, the stirring blades 8 are arranged so as to rotate along a longitudinal trajectory that crosses the inner bottom surface along the diameter line of the inner bottom surface of the frying pan 1.

  The stirring blade 8 has a lower circular locus R1 that traverses the inner bottom surface including the center of the stir-fry pan 1, that is, a lower circular locus R1 that extends from one end side of the diameter line of the stir-fry pan 1 to the other end side. Rotate with a vertical circular trajectory passing through an upper circular trajectory R2 rotating above the opening of the stir-fry pan 1.

  When the stir-fry pan 1 is inclined and rotated, the stirring blade 8 is installed so as to rotate from the downstream side to the upstream side of the inclination.

  As a specific structural example of the stirrer provided with the stirring blade 8, a rotary drive shaft 9 extending to the inner region of the stir pan 1 is provided above the opening surface of the stir pan 1, and the base end of the rotary drive shaft 9 is the base of the pan 1. The agitating blade 8 that rotates on a circular locus around the shaft 9 is attached to the end of the rotary drive shaft 9 on the pan.

  The end of the rotary drive shaft 9 and the stirring blade 8 are connected by a connecting material 11 such as a disk or an arm.

  By rotating the rotation drive shaft 9 by driving the motor 10, the connecting member 11 is rotated around the rotation drive shaft 9, and the stirring blade 8 is rotated along the vertical circular trajectories R1 and R2. Therefore, the stirring blade 8 can stir the food in the region including the central portion of the inner bottom surface of the stir-fry pan 1.

  The stirring blade 8 is made of a plate material, and is arranged on the diameter line of the frying pan 1 intersecting with the rotation trajectory of the stirring blade 8 or at an angle slightly inclined with respect to the diameter line. Moreover, a shape suitable for stirring can be given, such as giving a spoon shape to the stirring blade 8 to improve the cooking of the food.

  As described above, the frying pan 1 rotates horizontally or tilts in one direction, and at the same time, the stirring blade 8 rotates along the vertical circular trajectories R1 and R2 and passes through the center of the inner bottom surface of the frying pan 1. When rotating along the trajectory R1, the ingredients in the pan 1 are swung up from one end side to the other end on the diameter line of the pan 1 and rotated to cooperate with the horizontal or inclined rotation of the pan 1 It can work and can stir the foodstuff of the substantially whole area | region including the center part of the bottom face in a pan uniformly, and does not produce insufficient stirring in the center part area | region of a pan bottom.

  The agitating blade 8 is attached to and supported by the bracket 23 together with the motor 10 at the end of the drive shaft, the bracket 23 is pivotally supported so as to be rotatable up and down, and the bracket 23 and the agitating blade 8 are supported by an agitating blade inversion device. The stirring blade 8 is turned upside-down so that it can escape to a position where it does not interfere with the upside-down of the stir-fry pan 1 by a pan inversion device described later.

  The stirring blade inversion device includes a bracket 23 and a drive source 24 such as a motor or a thrust cylinder that rotates the bracket 23 up and down.

  A pan inversion device is provided to invert the stir-fry pan 1 from the horizontal rotation or tilt rotation position and to slide down the ingredients. The pan inversion device is a pan catching means for catching the catch flange 12 provided at the peripheral edge of the stir-fry pan 1, and the pan catching means 1 is rotated upward to invert the stir-fry pan 1 captured by the catch means. It consists of a drive source that slides down the stuffing ingredients.

  The guide flange 6 and the capture flange 12 and the drive flange 2 are provided in parallel with each other so as to project annularly from the outer peripheral surface of the frying pan 1, the guide flange 6 is disposed on the lower side, and the capture flange 12 is disposed on the upper side. The drive flange 2 is disposed between the guide flange 6 and the capture flange 12.

  As an example, the pan capturing means has an upper capturing plate 13 and a lower capturing plate 14 that are in contact with or close to the upper and lower surfaces of the capturing flange 12 of the frying pan 1, and a groove 15 formed between the plates 13 and 14. The capture flange 12 is fitted inside.

  The front end surfaces of the upper and lower capture plates 13, 14 have an arcuate surface shape 18 that follows the outer peripheral surface of the frying pan 1.

  On the other hand, a driving source 16 such as a motor cylinder or a hydraulic cylinder is connected to the pan capturing means composed of the upper and lower capturing plates 13 and 14, and the pan capturing means is moved around the shaft 17 by the extension operation of the cylinder forming the driving source 16. It rotates upwards, and by this rotation, the frying pan 1 is turned upside down.

  As the drive source 16, in addition to the cylinder, a motor can be used to invert the fry pan 1 by rotating the motor.

  Since the frying pan 1 is not directly connected to the rotary drive shaft but is simply received by the trochanter 5, it can be turned upside down. When the stir pan 1 is turned upside down, the stirring blade 8 is removed above the stir pan 1.

  The food that has been cooked and cooked can be taken out by sliding down the bottom of the pan by inverting the stir pan 1.

  The pan capturing means including the upper and lower capturing plates 13 and 14 can place the capturing flange 12 in a state where it can be captured even when the frying pan 1 is rotated. Alternatively, when the stir-fry pan 1 is rotating and cooking the food, it can be moved backward to release the capture state and move forward after cooking to capture the capture flange 12.

  As an example of the advancing / retreating means of the pot capturing means, a frame 19 supporting the pot capturing means is screwed into a forward / backward drive source, for example, a female screw member 20 provided on the frame 19, and the screw shaft 21 is connected to a motor 22. Using the ball nut device that rotates and advances and retracts the frame 19 and the pan catching means, the catch position and the catch release position of the pan catching means are obtained.

The top view of a stir-fry apparatus. A is a side view of a stir-fry device, and B is a side view of a stir-fry pan. The perspective view of the stirring apparatus of the said stir-fry apparatus. The perspective view of the pan inversion apparatus of the said stir-fry apparatus. The perspective view which shows the state which inverted the frying pan with the said pan inversion apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Stir-fry pan, 2 ... Drive flange, 3 ... Transmission body, 4 ... Drive source, 5 ... Trochanter, 6 ... Guide flange, 7 ... Gas burner, 8 ... Stirring blade, 9 ... Rotary drive shaft, 10 ... Motor, DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Connecting material, 12 ... Capture flange, 13 ... Upper capture plate, 14 ... Lower capture plate, 15 ... Groove, 16 ... Drive source, 17 ... Shaft, 18 ... Arc surface shape, 19 ... Frame, 20 ... Female screw member, 21 ... Screw shaft, 22 ... Motor, 23 ... Bracket, 24 ... Drive source

Claims (4)

A pan for frying the ingredients; a pan rotating device for applying rotational driving force to the peripheral portion of the pan; a pan load receiving means for guiding the rotation while receiving the pan at the peripheral portion; and heating the pan bottom of the pan A stirrer comprising: a pan heating device provided immediately below the bottom of the pan; and a stirring blade capable of stirring the ingredients in the region including the center of the inner bottom surface of the stir pan. The pan rotating device includes a driving flange provided at the peripheral edge of the frying pan, a transmission body that transmits a rotational driving force to the driving flange, and a rotating flange that rotates the frying pan integrally with the driving flange. The stirrer according to claim 1, further comprising a drive source. From the pan capturing means for capturing the capture flange at the peripheral edge of the frying pan, and a drive source for rotating the pan capturing means upward to invert the stir pan captured by the capturing means and causing the food to slide down The stir-fry device according to claim 1, further comprising a pot inversion device. 2. The frying device according to claim 1, wherein the pan load receiving means comprises a guide flange provided at a peripheral portion of the frying pan and a trochanter that rotates while receiving the guide flange.

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