JP2010063804A - Dishwasher - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dishwasher which facilitates housing a plurality of dishes inside a dish basket and efficiently performs washing work. <P>SOLUTION: The dishwasher includes a carrying means for moving the dish basket 3 wherein the plurality of dishes 2 are stacked and housed in a moving direction along a dish stacking direction. The dishwasher includes a washing nozzle 33 having a jetting port portion 23 for jetting washing water W toward the dishes 2 inside the dish basket 3. When the washing water W from the jetting port portion 23 hits the plurality of dishes 2 inside the dish basket 3, a gap 41 required for washing is generated between one dish 2A and another dish 2B adjacent to it, and a gap 41 required for washing is generated between the dish 2B and another different dish 2C adjacent to it simultaneously. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a tableware washing apparatus for washing a plurality of tableware while being stored in a tableware basket.

  Conventionally, for example, a dishwashing apparatus described in Patent Document 1 below is known.

  In this conventional dishwashing apparatus, a plurality of movable holding members (intervening members) such as abacus balls are interposed between the surface of one tableware and the backside of the other tableware among adjacent tableware. Transporting means for moving the tableware basket in which the tableware is stacked in the horizontal direction in a direction along the tableware stacking direction, and an injection nozzle for injecting washing water toward the peripheral edge of the tableware in the tableware basket I have.

When the washing water from the spray nozzle hits the tableware in the tableware basket, the tableware moves together with the holding member, and a gap is generated between one tableware and another tableware adjacent to the one tableware. Washing water enters the gaps and the dishes are removed.
JP-A-10-137172 (FIGS. 4 and 5)

  However, in the conventional dishwashing apparatus, since there is one gap between adjacent dishes due to the washing water from the spray nozzle, there is a risk that the efficiency of the cleaning operation may deteriorate, and the adjacent tableware Since it is necessary to interpose a holding member between them, it may take time to store a plurality of tableware in the tableware basket.

  This invention is made | formed in view of such a point, and it aims at providing the tableware washing | cleaning apparatus which can accommodate a several tableware in a tableware basket easily and can wash | clean efficiently.

  In the dishwashing apparatus according to claim 1, a plurality of dishes are stacked in a horizontal direction so that the front surface of one of the adjacent tableware and the back surface of the other tableware face each other without an intervening member. Washing water from the jetting port portion, comprising transport means for moving the stored tableware basket in the moving direction along the tableware stacking direction, and a jetting port portion for jetting cleaning water toward the tableware in the tableware basket. When the tableware hits a plurality of tableware in the tableware basket, a gap is generated between the one tableware and the other tableware adjacent to the one tableware, and at the same time, the other tableware and the other tableware adjacent to the other tableware. A gap is formed between the tableware and the cleaning water enters at least two of the gaps to remove the stains on the tableware.

  The dish washing apparatus according to claim 2 is the dish washing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the injection port portion is positioned above a moving region in which the tableware basket moves and is elongated in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the tableware basket. It is comprised by the long hole part which has a direction.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the washing water from the injection port hits a plurality of tableware in the tableware basket, a gap is generated between the one tableware and another tableware adjacent to the one tableware. At the same time, there is a gap between the other tableware and another tableware adjacent to the other tableware, and the cleaning water enters the at least two gaps to remove the stains on the tableware. Unlike conventional cases, it is possible to perform a cleaning operation, and it is not necessary to interpose an intervening member between adjacent dishes, and a plurality of dishes can be easily stored in a tableware basket.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the injection port portion is located above the moving region in which the tableware basket moves, and is configured by a long hole portion having a longitudinal direction in the horizontal direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the tableware basket. Therefore, the curtain-like cleaning water sprayed from the long hole portion can appropriately generate a plurality of gaps at the same time and can appropriately remove the stains on the tableware.

  An embodiment of the dishwashing apparatus of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a dishwashing apparatus. The dishwashing apparatus 1 uses the washing water W without immersing it in immersion water while the plurality of dishes 2 are stored in the tableware basket 3 as a tableware storage tool. For example, it is installed in a school lunch site such as a school lunch center.

  As shown in FIG. 3 etc., the tableware 2 is a circular bowl etc. which have the circular opening part 5 on the upper surface, for example. The tableware 2 includes a circular bottom surface portion 6, a truncated conical cylindrical side surface portion 7 that is provided at a peripheral end portion of the bottom surface portion 6 and expands upward, and an entire upper end portion of the side surface portion 7. And an eaves portion 8 projecting outward.

  The tableware basket 3 is, for example, a wire mesh basket having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape formed by combining a plurality of metal rod-shaped members. The tableware basket 3 has a tableware storage portion 11 in which a plurality of tableware 2 is stored in a horizontal direction and has an opening 12 for putting the tableware 2 in and out of the tableware storage portion 11. On the top.

  The tableware basket 3 has a lower support portion 13 on the lower surface, which is a support for supporting a plurality of tableware 2 stored in the tableware storage portion 11 from below, and the lower support portion 13 is provided in the tableware basket 3, for example. The table 2 is composed of a plurality of, for example, two support rods 14 which are long in the tableware stacking direction and parallel to each other.

  Further, the tableware basket 3 has, on one side, a one-side contact portion 16 with which the leading tableware 2 which is the tableware 2 at one end of the plurality of tableware (tableware group) 2 stored in the tableware storage portion 11 contacts. It has the other side contact part 17 which the last tableware 2 which is the tableware 2 of the other end among the plurality of tableware 2 stored in the tableware storage part 11 contacts. The one side contact portion 16 is composed of a plurality of parallel contact rods 18, for example, two contact rods 18, and the other side contact portion 17 is composed of a plurality of parallel contact rods, for example, two contact rods 19, for example. Has been.

  And in the tableware basket 3, the surface (inner surface) of one tableware 2 and the back surface (outer surface) of the other tableware 2 of the tableware 2 adjacent to each other do not pass through an interposition member (a conventional holding member or the like). A plurality of tablewares 2 are stacked and stored in a horizontal tableware stacking direction (horizontal direction) so as to be in contact with each other.

  In addition, when the surface of one tableware 2 and the back surface of the other tableware 2 here contact each other, the surface and the back surface are substantially in contact with each other in addition to the case where the surface and the back surface are in a strict sense. Cases are also included. For example, it includes a case where an adhering matter (residue such as leftover rice, residual juice) adhering to the tableware 2 exists between the adjacent tableware 2 and the front surface and the back surface are slightly separated.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of a state in which a plurality of tablewares 2 are in contact with each other and stored in a horizontal direction in the tableware basket 3. In this state, as apparent from FIG. 4, the last tableware 2 is in contact with the other side contact portion 17, but the first tableware 2 is not in contact with the one side contact portion 16, There is a space 20 of a desired size so that the tableware 2 moves in the tableware basket 3 between the tableware 2 and the one-side abutting portion 16, and the tableware 2 is not aligned in the tableware stacking direction in the tableware basket 3. It is in a stable state.

  On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the dishwashing apparatus 1 places a tableware basket 3 in which a plurality of tableware 2 is directly stacked on the transport surface 22 and moves along the horizontal tabletop stacking direction. Washing from above toward the tableware 2 in the tableware basket 3 that is arranged above the moving area where the tableware basket 3 moves and the transport means 21 that moves at a predetermined speed in the direction (left direction in FIG. 1) There are provided a plurality of (for example, 10) ejection port portions 23 that eject water W in a curtain shape.

  The conveying means 21 includes, for example, a belt conveyor or the like, a plurality of rotating bodies 26 that rotate based on power from a driving means (not shown), and an endless conveying body 27 that is stretched over the plurality of rotating bodies 26. The upper surface of the forward path portion of the transport body 27 is a transport surface 22.

  The tableware washing apparatus 1 includes a washing room 31 defined by a main body case 30 and the like. The washing room 31 is located on the side of the tableware basket discharge port from the transfer start end side of the transfer means 21 on the tableware basket input side. The rough cleaning chamber portion 31a, the intermediate cleaning chamber portion 31b, and the finishing cleaning chamber portion 31c are sequentially arranged toward the transfer terminal side of the transfer means 21.

  A plurality of, for example, four cleaning nozzles (upper nozzles) 33, for example, are arranged at equal intervals in the moving direction of the tableware basket 3 at the upper portion of the rough cleaning chamber portion 31a, and the upper portion of the intermediate cleaning chamber portion 31b. A plurality of, for example, four cleaning nozzles (upper nozzles) 33 are arranged at equal intervals in the moving direction of the tableware basket 3, and a plurality of, for example, two cleaning nozzles are provided above the finishing cleaning chamber 31c. (Upper nozzles) 33 are arranged side by side in the moving direction of the tableware basket 3 at equal intervals, and an injection port portion 23 is formed on the lower surface of each of these cleaning nozzles 33.

  In other words, on the lower surface of each washing nozzle 33, there is a long hole portion (slit) 34 that is located above the moving region (conveying region) where the tableware basket 3 storing the tableware 2 moves and opens downward. 3 is formed in an elongated substantially rectangular shape having a longitudinal direction in the horizontal direction (left and right direction in FIG. 2), that is, the width direction of the conveying means 21, and the injection port portion 23 is formed in the elongated hole portion 34. Is configured. The longitudinal dimension of each long hole portion 34 is substantially the same as the width dimension of the conveying means 21. Note that the longitudinal dimension of each elongated hole 34 may be substantially the same as the horizontal dimension orthogonal to the moving direction of the tableware basket 3.

  Each cleaning nozzle 33 is connected to the tip of a branch pipe portion 36a of a pipe 36, and the base end of the pipe 36 is connected to a cleaning water tank (tank) 37, which is a cleaning water pumping means in the middle of the pipe 36. A pump 38 is connected.

  The tableware washing apparatus 1 includes a plurality of auxiliary nozzles (injecting washing water from below toward the tableware 2 in the tableware basket 3 that is disposed below the moving region in which the tableware basket 3 moves and is moving in the moving direction. Lower nozzle) 40. Each of the auxiliary nozzles 40 is for cleaning the surface of the top tableware 2, and the deposits (residue such as leftovers and residual juice) removed from the tableware 2 are applied to the support bar 14 of the tableware basket 3. When it is caught, the deposit is lifted and dropped.

  Next, the operation of the tableware washing apparatus 1 will be described.

  For example, the operator sequentially puts the tableware basket 3 in which a plurality of tableware 3 which are objects to be cleaned stacked in the vertical direction is stored into the cleaning chamber 31 sequentially at a predetermined timing from a tableware basket inlet (not shown). To do.

  At this time, the worker puts the tableware stacking direction of the plurality of tableware 2 in the tableware basket 3 on the transfer surface 22 of the transfer means 21 so that the moving direction of the tableware basket 3 coincides.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the thrown-in tableware basket 3 is moved at a predetermined speed in the moving direction (left direction in the figure) by the conveying means 21, and is placed on the vertical surface ejected from the ejection port portion 23 of the cleaning nozzle 33. It approaches toward the curtain-like washing water W substantially along.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 5, the curtain-shaped washing water W from the ejection port portion 23 of the cleaning nozzle 33 is provided on the side surface portion 7 of the leading tableware 2 in the tableware basket 3 positioned below the ejection port portion 23. When the top tableware 2 hits from above, the top tableware 2 moves horizontally to the space 20 with the opening 5 in the vertical posture along the vertical plane, and moves away from the next second tableware 2, and these tableware 2 adjacent to each other. A gap 41 is generated between them.

  Then, a part of the washing water W enters the gap 41, and the adhering substances (residues such as residual rice and residual juice) adhering to the front and back surfaces of the tableware 2 are removed by the washing water W that has entered.

  Tableware washing is performed in this way, and thereafter, as the tableware basket 3 is moved in the moving direction by the transport means 21, a gap 41 is generated between the adjacent tableware 2 and the tableware washing is performed.

  And at the time of this tableware washing, the curtain-shaped washing water W from the jet nozzle part 23 of the washing nozzle 33 is a plurality of, for example, the side surfaces of the two dishes 2 in the dish basket 3 positioned below the jet nozzle part 23. When hitting the unit 7 from above, for example, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, one tableware 2 (hereinafter referred to as 2A for convenience) and another tableware 2 adjacent to this one tableware 2A (hereinafter referred to as convenience) 2B) and a gap between the other tableware 2B and another next tableware 2 adjacent to this other tableware 2B (hereinafter referred to as 2C for convenience). 41 is produced.

  Then, a part of the cleaning water W enters the at least two gaps 41 at the same time, and the adhering substances (residual rice, Residue such as residue is removed.

  FIG. 8 shows a state in which the rough cleaning work by the first cleaning nozzle 33 is completed in this way, and then, as shown in FIG. 9, the rough cleaning work by the second cleaning nozzle 33 is performed, Thereafter, similarly, cleaning operations (rough cleaning, intermediate cleaning, and finishing cleaning) are sequentially performed by the curtain-shaped cleaning water W sprayed from the cleaning nozzle 33.

  And according to such a tableware washing | cleaning apparatus 1, when the washing water W from the jet nozzle part 23 of the washing nozzle 33 hits the several tableware 2 in the one tableware basket 3, it adjoins this with the one tableware 2A. A gap 41 for allowing the cleaning water W to enter between the other tableware 2B is generated, and at the same time, the cleaning water W is allowed to enter between the other tableware 2B and another adjacent tableware 2C. Since the gap 41 is generated and the washing water W enters the gap 41 necessary for at least two of these washings to remove dirt from the dishes 2A, 2B, 2C, it is possible to wash between adjacent dishes as in the past. Compared to a configuration in which necessary gaps are generated one after another, the cleaning operation can be performed efficiently, and a large amount of tableware 2 can be cleaned in a relatively short time.

  Further, unlike conventional ones, there is no need to interpose an intervening member between adjacent tableware, and for example, a plurality of stacked tableware 2 can be easily stored in the tableware basket 3.

  Further, the ejection port portion 23 of the cleaning nozzle 33 is formed by a long hole portion 34 that is a slit that is located above a moving region in which the tableware basket 3 moves and has a longitudinal direction in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the tableware basket 3. Since it is configured, the plurality of gaps 41 can be appropriately generated at the same time by the large amount of curtain-like washing water W sprayed from the long hole portion 34, and the tableware 2 can be sufficiently brought into effect by exerting a sufficient immersion effect. Dirt can be removed appropriately.

  In addition, although the said embodiment demonstrated the case where the tableware 2 moved with the vertical attitude | position in the tableware basket 3 and the gap | interval 41 was produced between the adjacent tablewares 2, it accommodated in the type of the tableware 2 or the tableware basket 3 Since the posture of the tableware 2 in the tableware basket 3 changes depending on the state of the tableware 2 when the tableware 2 is taken, for example, depending on the type of the tableware 2 etc., the vertical posture is changed from the inclined posture in which the opening 5 is inclined with respect to the vertical surface. When the gap 41 is generated between the adjacent dishes 2 by changing to the above, and the gap 41 is generated between the dishes 2 while moving in the inclined posture, the gap 41 is generated between the dishes 2 by changing from the vertical posture to the inclined posture. In some cases, the gap 41 is generated between the tableware 2 by changing from the one-side inclined posture to the other-side inclined posture.

  The tableware washing apparatus 1 is not limited to the configuration in which the two gaps 41 are simultaneously generated by the cleaning water W, and may be a configuration in which three or more gaps are simultaneously generated.

  Furthermore, the tableware 2 that is the object to be cleaned is not limited to a circular bowl, and may be a circular dish, tray, or the like, or a polygonal bowl, dish, tray, or the like such as a square.

It is a schematic side view of the tableware washing apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic front view of a tableware washing apparatus same as the above. It is a perspective view showing the state where a plurality of tableware was stored in the tableware basket. It is explanatory drawing which shows the dishwashing state of a tableware washing apparatus same as the above. It is explanatory drawing following FIG. It is explanatory drawing following FIG. It is explanatory drawing following FIG. It is explanatory drawing following FIG. It is explanatory drawing following FIG.

Explanation of symbols

1 Tableware washing device 2 (2A, 2B, 2C) Tableware 3 Tableware basket
21 Transport means
23 Injection port
34 Slotted hole
41 Gap W Wash water

Claims (2)

A tableware stacking direction in which a plurality of tableware is stored in a horizontal direction so that the surface of one of the adjacent tableware and the back of the other tableware face each other without intervening members Conveying means for moving in a moving direction along
A spray port for spraying cleaning water toward the tableware in the tableware basket,
When the washing water from the spray port hits a plurality of tableware in the tableware basket, a gap is generated between one tableware and another tableware adjacent to the one tableware, and at the same time the other tableware and the other tableware. There is a gap between the tableware and another adjacent tableware, and cleaning water enters the at least two gaps to remove the stains on the tableware. The injection port portion is located above a moving region in which the tableware basket moves, and is configured by a long hole portion having a longitudinal direction in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the tableware basket. The dishwasher as described.

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