JP2013070911A - Hot/cold vehicle having tray-taking-out mechanism, and meal-serving apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hot/cold vehicle from the inside of the body of which a lot of trays can be taken out at a time without complicating the structure of the body or the like where the trays are stored and increasing the weight thereof.SOLUTION: The hot/cold vehicle has at least one of hot/cold chambers 3A/3B at the width center in which partitioning wall members each extending in a front and rear direction are set up in lines in a multistage manner, and tray receivers 6 receiving the edge parts of trays T are provided on the sidewalls 5 at predetermined intervals in a vertical direction of both sidewalls 5 at the same level positions. Almost rod-like tray push-out members 11 vertically extending ranging from the bottom part to the ceiling part are raised at the back surface part inside the hot/cold chambers 3A/3B to be movable in a front and rear direction. The tray push-out members 11 are moved forward from the back surface part inside the hot/cold chambers 3A/3B so that the tray push-out members 11 may abut to respective trays T from backside of the respective trays T housed in the hot/cold chambers 3A/3B in a multistage manner, and the trays T are pushed out forward in the hot/cold chambers 3A/3B.

Description

  The present invention relates to a warm-and-refrigerated vehicle used for meals in hospitals, nursing homes, and the like, and having a tray removal mechanism for removing trays accommodated in multiple stages in the warm-and-refrigerated vehicle at a time.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a hospital, a nursing home, and the like, a distribution car in which a large number of trays are accommodated is used to provide food to a large number of inpatients and residents.

  When providing food to residents in hospitals, nursing homes, and the like, it is necessary to place food on the tray that is warmed and placed in a cold state. For this reason, the distribution vehicle for performing such arrangements is provided with a heating device for warming the food and a refrigeration device for holding the food in a cold state, and the storage device heated by the heating device. The chamber and the refrigerator compartment cooled by the refrigerator are provided with a plurality of partition walls arranged in the vertical direction, and the food on the tray is stored in the refrigerator by inserting a tray between the partition walls. It was arranged in the room and the refrigerated room.

  Rails for receiving both side edges of the tray are provided at regular intervals in the inside of the arrangement vehicle described above, and when the inside of the arrangement vehicle is cleaned, work is performed due to the presence of the rails and partition walls. There was an inconvenience that it was difficult to do.

  Therefore, in order to solve such problems, a partition wall is provided in the center and a receiving part for receiving both side edges of the tray is provided on both side walls, and a tray accommodating wagon for accommodating the trays in multiple stages is prepared. On the other hand, there is also known a trolley car in which a wagon accommodation room for receiving the wagon is formed inside the garage car so that the wagon is accommodated in the accommodation room.

  Also known is a storehouse that accommodates a cart shelf in which a support frame for placing trays in multiple stages is placed symmetrically inside the body of a storeroom that has an operation mechanism for heating and cooling. It has been.

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  However, the above-described conventional trolleys and storages are structured to accommodate wagons and carts in which trays are placed in multiple stages in their main bodies, so that a warm storage is provided in the center of the width of the wagon. It was necessary to provide a partition wall for partitioning the refrigerator and to provide a mechanism for guiding the wagon or cart into the trolley. For this reason, there are problems that the weight of the wagon or the like increases and it is difficult to move, or that a structure for guiding the wagon or the like inside the main body of the trolley or storage is necessary.

  The object of the present invention is to easily take out a large number of trays at a time and easily store them in a wagon without complicating the structure of a wagon or cart for transporting trays or a wagon or cart for transporting trays. It is an object of the present invention to provide a hot and cold refrigerator car that can be used and a serving apparatus using the same.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a temperature having at least one warm room or cold room in which tray receivers at the same height are provided on both side walls at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction of both side walls. In the refrigerator car, a substantially rod-like tray pusher member extending vertically from the bottom to the ceiling part is erected on the back surface of the refrigerator compartment for performing the refrigerator or refrigerator so as to be movable in the front-rear direction of the refrigerator compartment. The tray extruding member moves forward from the back side in the temperature-refrigerating chamber, so that the tray extruding member comes into contact with each tray from the rear side of each tray accommodated in multiple stages in the temperature-refrigerating chamber, and these trays are It is provided with a tray take-out mechanism that is pushed out to the front of the room.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, partition wall members extending in the front-rear direction are arranged in multiple stages in the vertical direction in the center of the width of the temperature-refrigerated chamber, and tray receivers having the same height positions on both side walls are provided on both side walls. A hot and cold storage car having at least one hot and cold storage room provided at a predetermined interval in the vertical direction of the tray, and a substantially rod-shaped tray extrusion extending vertically from the bottom to the ceiling on the back surface of the hot and cold storage room The members are erected so as to be movable in the front-rear direction of the temperature-refrigerating chamber, and the tray extruding members are moved forward from the back surface of the temperature-refrigerating chamber, whereby the tray extruding members are accommodated in multiple stages in the temperature-refrigerating chamber. It has a tray take-out mechanism that abuts against each tray from the rear side and pushes these trays forward in the hot and cold storage room.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a guide rail extending in the front-rear direction at the same position corresponding to each other of the bottom and the ceiling of the temperature-refrigerating room, The upper and lower ends of the tray extruding member are engaged with the guide rail via bearings, so that the tray extruding member is movable in the front-rear direction.

The present invention according to claim 4 further includes an arm member whose tip is engaged with the tray push-out member in the hot and cold storage vehicle according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the arm member Thus, the tray push-out member is drawn out to the front of the hot / cold storage room.

The present invention according to claim 5 is the both left and right sides on the base having a plurality of wheels, and the hot and cold refrigerator car according to any one of claims 1 to 4, which is box-shaped as a whole. And a cart on which tray receiving rails corresponding to the tray receivers in the heating / cooling vehicle are installed, and a large number of trays pushed out at once by an extrusion member in the heating / cooling vehicle are placed on the multi-stage tray receiving rails in the cart. A catering device designed to be housed.

  According to the present invention, a tray storage cart is provided on the front surface of a hot and cold refrigerator having a hot and cold storage device for heating and cooling dishes on the tray and a tray support structure for storing the tray in multiple stages. It is possible to place only a large number of trays on which food is placed from the inside of the heating / cooling vehicle into the storage cart at the same time. Thus, like conventional carts and wagons, they can be provided with a large number of partition wall members. Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a complicated mechanism for housing these carts and wagons as they are.

  Further, according to the present invention, as described above, the structure of the cart itself can be simplified, the weight can be significantly reduced, and complicated operations are not required, so even a woman can easily do so. Can be used for

It is a perspective view which shows the state which has arrange | positioned the cart for tray accommodation to the front surface of the warm / refrigerated vehicle which concerns on embodiment. It is a front view of the state which has arrange | positioned the cart for tray accommodation in the front surface of the warm / refrigerated vehicle which concerns on the embodiment. It is side surface sectional drawing which extrudes a tray from the hot / cold storage vehicle which concerns on the embodiment into the tray accommodation cart.

  Next, although embodiment of this invention is described according to drawing, this invention is not limited to this embodiment.

  In this specification, front and rear, left and right, and top and bottom are based on FIG. 2, and the front refers to the front side of the drawing paper sheet of FIG. 2, and the back refers to the back side of the drawing paper sheet of FIG. Further, the left means the left side of FIG. 2, and the right means the right side of FIG. Furthermore, “up” means the upper side of FIG. 2, and “lower” means the lower side of the figure.

  As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the hot and cold refrigerator car 1 of the present embodiment is provided with a cooling device (not shown) and a heating device (not shown) in the upper part, and the tray accommodating portion below the central portion is the center. The walls 2 are divided into left and right chambers 3A and 3B, and a plurality of partition wall members 4 extending in the front-rear direction and arranged in the vertical direction at the center of the width of the left and right chambers 3A and 3B are bottom portions of the left and right chambers 3A and 3B. 7 and the ceiling portion 8, and these partition wall members 4 form a warming chamber 31 </ b> A on one side and a refrigerating chamber 31 </ b> B on the other side. Further, at the same height position as the slit S portion into which the tray T is inserted between the partition wall members 4 adjacent to each other in the vertical direction, each side wall 5 of the left and right chambers 3A and 3B has a cross section L that receives the edge of the tray T. A character-shaped tray receiver 6 is attached. The tray T is inserted from the slit S between the partition wall members 4 adjacent to each other in the vertical direction, and both side edges thereof are supported by the tray receiver 6.

  In the present embodiment, guide rails 9 extending in the front-rear direction are attached to the same positions of the bottom portion 7 and the ceiling portion 8 in the respective refrigeration chambers 31B and 31B of the left and right chambers 3A and 3B. The upper and lower ends of the extending rod-shaped tray extruding member 11 are engaged via bearings (not shown), so that the tray extruding member 11 can be moved in the front-rear direction from the back side to the front side of the refrigerator compartment 31B. Yes. Further, a ring-shaped portion 11a is projected on the front side of the center of the length of the tray extruding member 11, and the arm member 20 is engaged with the ring-shaped portion 11a by a hook portion 20a formed at the tip of the arm member 20. Is pulled out to the front side of the left and right chambers 3A and 3B.

  Moreover, as shown in FIGS. 1-3, the cart 12 of the whole box type is arrange | positioned in the front side of left-right room 3A * 3B of the warm refrigerator-freezer 1 mentioned above. The cart 12 is box-shaped as a whole, and columns 15A to 15C are erected at corners on a rectangular base 14 when viewed from a plane having a plurality of wheels 13, respectively. The plate 16 is supported, and the front and rear support columns 15A, 15C, and 15B have a tray receiving rail 17 having an L-shaped cross section so as to correspond to the tray receiving 6 that receives the tray T in the heating / cooling vehicle 1. Are installed at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction, and each tray receiving rail 17 corresponds to the tray receiver 6 of the hot and cold refrigerator 1.

  Next, the use point of the temperature-controlled refrigerator 1 according to the present embodiment will be described. The tray pushing member 11 is arranged in advance on the back surface of the refrigerator compartment 31B of the temperature-controlled refrigerator 1, and A tray T on which food is placed is inserted from the slits S of the partition wall members 4 adjacent to each other in the upper and lower sides of the chambers 3A and 3B, and both side edges of the tray T are attached to the side walls 5 of the left and right chambers 3A and 3B. The dish on the side of the warming room 31A on the tray T is heated by the heating device, and the dish on the side of the cold room 31B on the tray T is cooled by the refrigerator.

  When the tray T on which heated or cooled dishes are placed is taken out of the hot and cold storage car 1, the cart 12 is arranged on one front side of the left and right chambers 3A and 3B of the hot and cold storage car 1, and in this state The hook 20a at the tip of the arm member 20 is engaged with the ring-shaped portion 11a of the tray extruding member 11, and the arm member 20 is pulled to move the tray extruding member 11 from the back side to the front side of the refrigerating chamber 31B of the warm refrigerator car 1. As a result, the pushing member 11 is brought into contact with the rear edge of each stage of the tray T in the left and right chambers 3A and 3B, and the tray T is pushed forward along the tray receiver 6 and pushed out. Each tray T is accommodated on each corresponding tray receiving rail 17 in the cart 12, and finally all trays T are taken out from the hot and cold refrigerator 1 at a time and accommodated in the cart 12. It is.

  Thereafter, the cart 12 in which the tray T is accommodated is moved to the serving place and the food is provided.

  In the use of the temperature-refrigerated vehicle 1 described above, the arm extruding member 11 is used in the present embodiment to move the tray pusher member 11 from the back surface portion of the left and right chambers 3A, 3B of the temperature-refrigerated vehicle 1 to the front surface portion. However, when the refrigerator-freezer vehicle has doors that are open on both the front and back sides, the arm member 20 is not used, and the user pushes the tray pushing member 11 from the back side to the front side by hand. Also good. Moreover, although the warm refrigerator-free vehicle 1 of this embodiment was provided with both a heating device and a cooling device, this invention is not limited to this, It was provided with either a cooling device or a heating device. Alternatively, it may be one that is not partitioned by a partition wall member. Further, the number of rooms may be three or more rooms or one room in addition to two rooms as in this embodiment.

   According to the hot and cold storage vehicle of the present invention, since a large number of trays can be taken out at once from the inside of the hot and cold storage vehicle, wide utilization can be expected.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Warm-and-refrigeration vehicle 2 Central wall 3A, 3B Left and right chamber 4 Partition wall member 6 Tray receptacle 9 Guide rail 11 Tray extrusion member 12 Cart

Claims (5)

  In the hot and cold storage car having at least one hot storage room or cold storage room in which tray receivers having the same height are provided on both side walls at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction of both side walls, A substantially rod-shaped tray pusher member extending vertically from the bottom to the ceiling is erected on the backside of the hot / cold storage room so as to be movable in the front / rear direction of the hot / cold storage room. The tray pushing member abuts against each tray from the rear side of each tray accommodated in multiple stages in the temperature-refrigerated chamber by moving from the front to push the trays forward in the temperature-refrigerated chamber. A hot and cold storage car with a tray removal mechanism.   Partition wall members extending in the front-rear direction are arranged in multiple stages in the vertical direction at the center of the width of the hot and cold room, and tray receivers that are at the same height on both side walls are spaced at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction of both side walls. In a refrigerating car having at least one refrigerating room provided, a substantially rod-shaped tray pusher member extending vertically from the bottom to the ceiling on the back of the refrigerating room is movable in the front-rear direction of the refrigerating room. The tray extruding member moves forward from the back side of the temperature-refrigerated chamber, and the tray extruding member comes into contact with each tray from the rear side of each tray housed in multiple stages in the temperature-refrigerated chamber. A hot and cold storage vehicle having a tray take-out mechanism configured to push the tray forward in the hot and cold storage room.   A guide rail extending in the front-rear direction is provided at the same position corresponding to each other on the bottom and ceiling of the temperature-refrigerated chamber, and the tray push-out member is engaged with the upper and lower ends of the tray push-out member via bearings. The warm / refrigerated vehicle having the tray take-out mechanism according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the is movable in the front-rear direction.   The tip end part further has an arm member which engages with the tray push-out member, and the tray push-out member is adapted to be pulled out to the front of the hot / cold storage chamber by the arm member. A hot and cold refrigerator car having a tray take-out mechanism according to one item.   The hot and cold storage vehicle according to any one of claims 1 to 4, and the whole is box-shaped, and corresponds to tray receivers in the hot and cold storage vehicle on both left and right sides on a base having a plurality of wheels. A tray on which tray receiving rails are erected, and a plurality of trays pushed out at once by an extruding member in the heating / cooling vehicle are accommodated on multi-stage tray receiving rails in the cart apparatus.

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