JP2012165890A - Cake server - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cake server with which a piece of cake can be easily portioned out and hygienically distributed.SOLUTION: The cake server is for placing and distributing a separated pieces of cake K on an upper scoop plate 4 and a lower scoop plate 25 that are superposed in the front. In the cake server: (a) the lower scoop plate 25 has a flat arrowhead shape toward the front, (b) the upper scoop plate 4 has a flat trapezoidal shape whose oblique sides are in parallel with those of the lower scoop plate 25, and has a cake holding plate 23 erected in the rear part, (c) in the rear of the cake holding plate 23, a front end 1a of a wide vertical base plate 1 is fixed and, in the rear end 1b, a handle 6 equipped with an operating lever 2 is fixed, with a guide slot 9 provided horizontally in the lower part, (d) on the side of the lower scoop plate 25, a slide plate 26 is erected, with a slider 27 arranged inside the guide slot 9, (e) on the side face of the vertical base plate 1, there is provided a retractable mechanism S for the lower scoop plate, in which the lower scoop plate 25 is protruded from under the upper scoop plate 4 by gripping the operating lever 2, and in which the lower scoop plate 25 is immersed under the upper scoop plate 4 by opening the operating lever 2.

Description

  The present invention relates to a cake server used for separating cut cakes.

As a conventional cake server used for separating cut cakes, it is disclosed in Patent Document 1 below that a cake, pizza, etc. can be divided and can be scooped and easily folded and foldable. There is a proposal for a server for pizza.
This server is made of a synthetic resin flat plate made of flexible plastic, and includes a triangular scoop portion and a handle portion raised obliquely upward from the base end of the scoop portion.

  Further, the following Patent Document 2 is composed of a flat scooping plate and a scooping plate that is held near and parallel to the top of the scooping plate. There is a proposal of a “cake server” that can move forward from below and place a piece of cake by moving the lower plate down on the plate and under the upper plate.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6-75272 JP 2009-125106 A

However, the "cake and pizza server" described in the above-mentioned patent document 1 is the weight of the cake and pizza when the cake and pizza once placed on the rake and then placed on a plate etc. are tilted. Since the bottom surface of the cake or pizza sticks to the surface of the rake portion, the cake or pizza does not easily fall off, so that there is a problem that it is difficult to handle.
In addition, the “cake server” described in Patent Document 2 has a risk that the hand holding the gripping part may easily come into contact with the cake, and the surface of the cake may collapse or the hand may become dirty.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a cake server that can easily put a crushed cake piece and can carry it hygienically without any hand touching the cake.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the cake server of the present invention is a cake server provided with a handle at the rear and an upper plate and a lower plate placed on the front,
a) The lower scooping plate has an arrow shape with a flat front end cut forward. b) The upper scooping plate has both hypotenuses parallel to the hypotenuses on both end sides of the lower scooping plate. It has a flat trapezoidal shape with left and right symmetry, and is provided with an upright cake pressing plate at the rear, and is arranged close to the upper surface of the lower scooping plate, and c) the entire rear portion of the cake pressing plate The front end portion of the vertical substrate having a wide shape swelled upward is fixed, and the handle having an operating lever is fixed to the rear end portion of the vertical substrate through a flange extending to the rear end portion, and the A guide long hole formed in the lower portion of the vertical substrate in the horizontal direction is provided; d) a slide plate is provided upright on one side of the lower scooping plate, and the slide plate is provided with a guide long hole in the vertical substrate. E) a slider that is slidably restrained so as to be slidable only in the front-rear direction; On the surface, the operating lever is brought close to the handle so that the slider guided by the guide slot is slid forward so that the lower scooping plate protrudes from below the upper scooping plate, and the operating lever is moved away from the handle. And a lower scooping plate retracting mechanism that slides the slider backward to immerse the lower scooping plate under the upper scooping plate.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the above-mentioned invention, the lower scooping plate protruding and retracting mechanism a) pivotally supports an upper crank on the upper portion of the vertical substrate so as to be pivotable in the front-rear direction. A crank piece projecting in the direction of the upper scooping plate, a spring retaining crank piece for connecting a return spring connected to the flange on the upper side, and an operating lever projecting along the handle on the lower side, b) A lower crank is pivotally supported in the middle stage of the vertical substrate so as to be pivotable in the front-rear direction, and the lower crank is pivotally supported by the upper crank and the lower portion reaches a guide slot in the lower portion of the vertical substrate. A longitudinal slot is formed at a contact portion of the guide slot, and c) a slider is fitted into the guide slot, and the guide slot of the vertical board is formed on both the slide plate and the lower crank. The lower crank Stopped Vertical hole by penetrating the screw made by fixing the slider to the lower crank, characterized in that the retractable said lower scoop plate against the upper rake plate by operation of the operating lever.

  The invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that, in each of the above inventions, a cake side pressing plate is erected on a part of either one of the left and right oblique sides of the upper scooping plate.

  The invention according to claim 4 is characterized in that, in each of the above inventions, the plate surface of the vertical substrate has a width including a moving range of the upper crank and the lower crank.

  The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that, in each of the above-mentioned inventions, an opening angle of each oblique side portion of the lower scooping plate and the upper scooping plate is formed at an angle corresponding to a cutting angle of the cake piece.

In the present invention, the upper scooping plate and the lower scooping plate are inserted below the cake piece, and the handle is further compressed by waiting for the handle to advance the lower scooping plate by the lower scooping plate retracting mechanism. Thereafter, the cake piece is scooped up on the upper and lower scooping plates, and then placed on the upper scooping plate and the lower scooping plate. The cake piece can be placed smoothly by retreating to the side.
As a result, even if the bottom surface of the cake piece and the surface of the upper scooping plate and the lower scooping plate are once adhered, the lower scooping plate moves backward with respect to the upper scooping plate, so the cake piece placed on the lower scooping plate The front end of the cake protrudes away from the upper scooping plate, and that part of the cake piece rests on a plate or the like, so the contact of the surface of the lower scooping plate is separated, and when the handle is tilted higher, the bottom part of the cake piece Almost away from the surface, the cake server can be easily removed from the cake pieces, and the work of separating the cake pieces becomes simple and reliable.
Further, since the upper scooping plate is separated from the handle by the vertical substrate and partitioned by the flange, the cake piece placed on the upper scooping plate and the hand holding the handle are separated, and the cake piece is not damaged. Also, the hands are not soiled, so the cakes are sorted out in an extremely hygienic manner.

  In the invention according to claim 2, by providing a lower scooping plate retracting mechanism in which an upper crank and a lower crank are connected, the slider provided on the lower scooping plate can be moved in the front-rear direction by operating the operation lever. This makes it possible to easily move the lower plate toward and away from the upper plate by gripping the operation lever.

  In the invention according to claim 3, since the cake side part pressing plate is erected on a part of either the left or right side part of the upper scooping plate, the triangular cake piece cut by a radial line is positioned. Thus, it becomes easy to put on the center of the upper and lower scooping plates, and it is possible to prevent the thin and thick cake pieces that fall easily from falling, and to separate the broken cake pieces without breaking them.

  In the invention described in claim 4, since the movement range of the upper crank and the lower crank is in the vertical substrate, the upper crank and the lower crank when the lower scooping plate is projected and retracted from under the upper scooping plate by the lower scooping plate retracting mechanism. The crank does not protrude from the vertical substrate surface, and does not obstruct the operation of the lower plate.

  In the invention according to claim 5, by dividing the angle of the side part of the lower scooping plate and the upper scooping plate into an angle suitable for the cutting angle, the whole cake is divided into 6 or 8 equal parts. It is possible to stably separate the cake pieces.

It is a perspective view of the present invention. It is a perspective view which shows a use condition. It is a perspective view which shows the state which (a) is a vertical base | substrate, (b) is a lower board, (c) has decomposed | disassembled each component of a set screw. (B) is a state where the lower plate is inserted under the cake piece, (b) is a state where the lower plate is raised obliquely, and (c) is a longitudinal side view showing the state where the cake piece is placed on the lower plate. FIG. (B) is a state in which the lower plate is retracted from the cake piece, (c) is a longitudinal side view showing a state immediately before the lower plate is removed from the cake piece. It is.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, the cake server according to the present invention includes a handle 6 via a vertical substrate 1 behind an upper scooping plate 4 provided at the front, and a lower scooping plate below the upper scooping plate 4. 25, the cake pieces K that are cut and placed are placed on the lower scooping plate 25 and the upper scooping plate 4 at the front so that they can be separated.

This structure will be described in detail below.
As shown in FIG. 3 which is an exploded view of parts, the lower scooping plate 25 has a flat arrow shape with a part of the tip portion cut laterally toward the front. In other words, the rear portion of the plate surface is in the shape of a belt plate, and the front portion includes a hypotenuse portion 25b that is symmetrical leftward and forward.
Then, a slide plate 26 having a horizontally long slider 27 fixed to the plate surface is provided upright on one side portion 25d of the rear band plate portion. The slider 27 is fixed to the slide plate 26 with a fixing screw 29.
Further, the slider 27 is provided with a male screw 28 protruding.
Make all corners round and avoid scratching your hands when hit.
The material is preferably made of a metal that is not easily rusted, such as stainless steel.

The upper scooping plate 4 has a flat trapezoidal shape, overlaps and is close to an intermediate portion of the upper surface portion 25c of the lower scooping plate 25, and the plate surface is parallel to the oblique side portions 25b on both sides of the front end of the lower scooping plate 25. The left and right symmetrical oblique sides 22b are provided on both sides.
As shown in FIG. 1, the positional relationship with the lower scooping plate 25 is such that the front end portion 25 a of the lower scooping plate 25 slightly protrudes from the front end portion 22 a of the upper scooping plate 4 as shown in FIG. 1.

A cake pressing plate 23 is provided upright on the rear end portion 22c (the trapezoid bottom portion) of the trapezoidal upper scooping plate 4.
The cake presser plate 23 has a high center and low sides. As shown in FIG. 2, when the upper scooping plate 4 is inserted deeply under the cake piece, the cake piece K hits the high part at the center and stops. It is a lower side that does not hit.

Further, an upper portion formed at a height corresponding to the intermediate height of the cake piece is formed only in either one of the left and right sides of the two oblique sides 22b (corresponding to the trapezoid-shaped oblique sides) of the upper scooping plate. The semicircular cake side pressing plate 24 is erected.
Even in the upper scooping plate 4, all corner portions are formed to be round so as not to damage the hand when touched, and the material is preferably made of a rust-resistant metal such as stainless steel.

And the vertical board | substrate 1 which comprises the curved shape where the front upper part which fixed the handle | steering-wheel 6 to the rear-end part 1b was fixed to the rear part of the center part which the cake side part pressing plate 24 formed high by welding, and the front upper part swelled. Is provided.
A flange 5 is integrally formed by bending the plate of the vertical substrate 1 by 90 degrees on the handle 6 side portion of the vertical substrate 1, and the handle 6 is fixed to the rear surface of the flange 5 with a handle set screw 31. An operation lever 2 is disposed below the handle 6.
The handle 6 is a columnar wooden handle 6 with rounded rod-shaped corners, and the vertical substrate 1 is made of a metal such as stainless steel which is not easily rusted and has a certain thickness for obtaining bending strength, as shown in FIG. In this way, a curved plate having a narrow upper portion and a lower lower portion and a bulging front upper portion is used.

Further, a guide long hole 9 formed long in the horizontal direction is provided below the vertical substrate 1.
The guide long hole 9 is formed in a horizontally long hole that allows the horizontally long slider 27 provided in the side portion 25d near the rear end 25e of the lower scooping plate 25 to be slid forward and backward. The slider 27 fitted in the head 9 is restrained so as to be slidable only in the front-rear direction.

  On the side surface of the vertical substrate 1, the slider 27 guided by the guide slot 9 is slid forward by bringing the operating lever 2 close to the handle 6, and the lower scooping plate 25 is moved below the upper scooping plate 4. And a lower scooping plate retracting mechanism S that slides the slider 27 rearward when the operating lever 2 is moved away from the handle 6 so that the lower scooping plate 25 is inserted under the upper scooping plate 4.

Next, the lower scooping plate retracting mechanism S will be described in detail.
The lower scooping plate projecting and retracting mechanism S pivotally supports an upper crank 8 on the upper portion of the vertical substrate 1 so as to be pivotable in the front-rear direction. 8a, and a spring-clamping crank piece 8b for connecting a return spring 10 connected to the flange 5 is provided above. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 14 denotes a spring retaining hole of the crank piece 8 b, and reference numeral 15 denotes a spring retaining hole of the flange 5. Further, reference numeral 12 in FIG. 3 which is a pivotal support portion is a crank pivotal support shaft 11, and reference numeral 19 is a crank pivotal support shaft 19.
An operation lever 2 is provided below the upper crank 8 so as to extend along the handle 8.
The operating lever 2 avoids the flange 5 in order to move up and down, or, as shown in FIG. 1, opens a lever through hole 16 at the bottom of the flange 5 to penetrate the lever through hole 16, Provided integrally with the upper crank 8.

A lower crank 7 is pivotally supported at the middle stage of the vertical substrate 1 so as to be rotatable in the front-rear direction. Note that reference numeral 11 in FIG. 3 which is a pivotal support portion is the crank pivotal support shaft 11, and reference numeral 21 is the crank pivotal support shaft 21.
The lower crank 7 is pivotally supported at the upper part by the upper crank 8 and the lower part is formed so as to reach the guide elongated hole 9 at the lower part of the vertical substrate 1. A vertically long hole 17 is provided at the contact portion.
A crank connecting portion 20 between the lower crank 7 and the upper crank 8 is not fixed and can be rotated by passing a crank pivot shaft 13 through a crank connecting long hole 18 provided in the lower crank 7. Thus, it pivots loosely in the elongated crank connecting slot 18.
The slider 27 is fitted into the guide long hole 9, the peripheral portions of the vertical board 1 around the guide long hole 9 are sandwiched between both plate surfaces of the slide plate 26 and the lower crank 7, The slider 27 is fixed to the lower crank 7 by screwing the female screw 30 of the female screw 3 to the male screw 28 provided with the slider 27 in the hole 17.
The set female screw 3 is fixed so that the male screw 28 can move in the vertically long hole 17 of the lower crank 7 and the slider 27 in the guide long hole 9 can move back and forth.

  The slider 27 provided on the lower scooping plate 25 is moved back and forth by the operation of the operating lever 2 by the lower scooping plate retracting mechanism S, and the tip of the lower scooping plate 25 below the upper scooping plate 4 is moved upward. It is possible to appear and disappear with respect to the scooping plate 4.

  Further, by setting the plate surface of the vertical substrate 1 to a width that includes the range of movement of the upper crank 8 and the lower crank 7, the lower scooping plate 25 is caused to appear and retract from below the upper scooping plate 4 by the lower scooping plate retracting mechanism S. Occasionally, a part of the upper crank 8 and the lower crank 7 does not stick out from the plate surface of the vertical substrate 1, and it is possible to prevent an obstacle of the intrusion operation due to a part of the lower scooping plate 25 hitting the hand.

  Furthermore, the opening angle of the oblique sides 22b, 25b of the lower scooping plate 25 and the upper scooping plate 4 can be set according to the cut angle of the cake piece K, and the whole cake is divided into 6 or 8 equal parts. Thus, it is possible to separate and reliably separate the cake pieces K made by cutting each piece.

Next, the usage method of the present invention will be described with reference to the positional relationship between the upper scooping plate 4 and the lower scooping plate 25 in FIGS.
In use, first, a cylindrical cake is cut radially from the center into equal parts, and then the handle 6 of the cake server is held by hand.
Then, as shown in FIG. 4A, the upper scooping plate 4 is inserted below the cake piece K until the cake pressing plate 23 comes into contact with the cake piece K, and the cake piece K is inserted into the upper surface of the upper scooping plate 4. The handle 6 placed on the portion 22d is tilted upward.
At this time, the side of the cake piece K is supported and prevented from falling by the cake side part pressing plate 24 erected on the side part 22b of the upper scooping plate 4. Moreover, the cake side part pressing plate 24 at the time of insertion contacts the side surface, and positioning of the cake piece K is made.
Next, as shown in FIG. 4B, when the operation lever 2 is pressed and contracted, the lower scooping plate 25 under the upper scooping plate 4 protrudes so that the lines of the oblique sides 25b and 22b overlap each other. Both are integrated and have a long, substantially triangular shape in plan view.
Next, as shown in FIG. 4C, the lever 2 is compressed and lifted while being held.

Next, the cake piece K thus scooped moves with the lever 2 in the compressed state, and the upper scooping plate 4 and the lower scooping plate 25 are moved as shown in FIG. Put it on the plate T.
Next, the handle 6 is tilted upward, the cake piece K is tilted, and the tip side of the cake piece K is placed on the dish T and further tilted in a state of being in contact with the dish T.

  Then, the lower scooping plate 25 floats from the dish T and a part of the bottom of the cake piece K rides on the upper surface portion 22 d of the upper scooping plate 4. Further, by tilting the handle 6 high, the contact portion between the upper surface portion of the upper scooping plate 4 and the cake piece K is not in the form of a small point or line, but the bottom surface of the cake piece K is scooped up. 4 is smoothly slid down by its own weight without resistance from the upper surface portion 22d of No. 4, but is completely transferred to the plate T and the change is completed.

  The present invention can be used for sorting cut pudding, jelly, pizza, bread and the like in addition to sorting cut cake pieces.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Vertical base | substrate 2 Operation lever 3 Stop female screw 4 Upper scooping plate 5 Flange 6 Handle 7 Lower crank 8 Upper crank 8a Link crank piece 8b Spring stop crank piece 9 Guide long hole 10 Return spring 11 Crank pivot shaft 12 Crank pivot Support shaft 13 Crank pivot shaft 14 Spring stop hole 15 Spring stop hole 16 Lever through hole 17 Long hole 18 Crank connection long hole 19 Crank pivot support hole 20 Crank joint support hole 22 Crank pivot support hole 22 Upper scooping plate 22a Upper scooping plate Front end portion 22b Upper scooping plate oblique side portion 22c Upper scooping plate rear end portion 22d Upper scooping plate upper surface portion 23 Cake presser plate 24 Cake side presser plate 25 Lower scooping plate 25a Lower scooping plate front end portion 25b Lower scooping plate Oblique side portion 25c upper side portion 25d of lower scooping plate side side portion 25e of lower scooping plate rear end portion 26 of lower scooping plate slider plate 27 slider 28 male screw 9 fixing screw 30 female screw 31 Pattern setscrew K cake pieces T dish S under the scoop plates infested mechanism

Claims (5)

A cake server with a handle at the back and a stack of upper and lower plates on the front,
a) The lower scooping plate has an arrow shape with a flat tip cut forward.
b) The upper scooping plate has a flat trapezoidal shape having both oblique sides parallel to the oblique sides on both ends of the lower scooping plate, and has a cake presser plate upright at the rear, Arranged so as to overlap the upper surface of the lower plate,
c) A front end portion of the vertical substrate having a wide shape that swells upward as a whole is fixed to the rear portion of the cake pressing plate, and a handle having an operation lever at the rear end portion of the vertical substrate extends to the rear end portion. Fixed through the flange, and further provided with a guide elongated hole formed in the lower part of the vertical substrate in the horizontal direction,
d) A slide plate is provided upright on one side of the lower scooping plate, and a slider that is slidably restrained only in the front-rear direction by being fitted in the guide slot of the vertical substrate is arranged on the slide plate. Wearing,
e) On the side surface of the vertical board, the slider guided by the guide slot is moved forward by bringing the operation lever close to the handle so that the lower scooping plate protrudes from below the upper scooping plate, and A cake server comprising a lower plate intrusion mechanism that slides the slider backward when the operation lever is moved away from a handle to immerse the lower plate under the upper plate. The lower crawling board infestation mechanism
a) An upper crank is pivotally supported on the upper portion of the vertical substrate so as to be pivotable in the front-rear direction. The upper crank has a crank piece protruding in the direction of the upper scooping plate at the front, and a return spring connected to the flange at the upper side. With a spring-clamping crank piece that connects, and an operating lever that protrudes along the handle below,
b) A lower crank is pivotally supported in the middle stage of the vertical substrate so as to be pivotable in the front-rear direction. The lower crank pivotally supports the upper crank on the upper crank and reaches the lower guide slot in the lower portion of the vertical substrate. Formed in such a manner that a longitudinally long hole is provided at a contact portion of the guide elongated hole,
c) A slider is fitted in the guide long hole, the peripheral portion of the vertical board is sandwiched between the slide plate and the lower crank surface, and a set screw is passed through the vertical long hole of the lower crank. The cake server according to claim 12, wherein the slider is fixed to the lower crank, and the lower scooping plate can be moved in and out of the upper scooping plate by operation of the operation lever.   The cake server according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a cake side presser plate is erected on a part of one of the left and right oblique sides of the upper scooping plate.   The cake server according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a plate surface of the vertical substrate has a width including a range of movement of the upper crank and the lower crank.   The cake server according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein an opening angle of each oblique side portion of the lower scooping plate and the upper scooping plate is formed at an angle corresponding to a cutting angle of the cake piece.

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