JP2013158623A - Bowl - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bowl for holding noodles or miso soup which allows a sushi plate to be stably placed on a lid of the bowl.SOLUTION: A bowl, which is placed on a conveying passage of a food and drink conveying apparatus, includes a bowl body and a lid for shutting an opening of an upper part of the bowl body. On the top of the lid, a cylindrical toroidal projection is provided, and an outside diameter of the toroidal projection is smaller than an inside diameter of a pedestal of a plate with which sushi is served. In addition, the toroidal projection is provided with a nonslip part which protrudes above an upper end of the toroidal projection. The toroidal projection is fitted inside the pedestal of the plate and thus the plate can be placed stably on the lid of the bowl.

Description

The present invention relates to a bowl mainly used on a food and drink conveying device of a sushi restaurant.

In a restaurant generally referred to as a sushi bar, a food and drink transport device having a transport path that circulates along a passenger seat is installed.
In the above restaurants, the cook puts food and drinks such as sushi on a container such as a plate, then transfers them to the transport path of the food and drink transport device and sequentially transports them to the audience, while the customers are sequentially sent to the sushi Such foods and drinks are appropriately taken out from the conveying path according to preference and eaten.
In recent years, customers have been able to directly order their favorite items, and the items ordered from the passenger seat are also transported by the transport path. (See Patent Document 1)

By the way, if the order from the audience is, for example, sushi and udon, the bowl with the ordered udon and the plate with the ordered sushi will be transported by the transport path, but the bowl and sushi with udon When the dishes on which are placed are individually placed on the transport path and transported, the transport amount of food and drink by the transport path increases accordingly.
Therefore, for example, when the store is crowded, due to an increase in the number of orders, the transport path may be filled with containers such as dishes and baskets, and there will be no container transport space, making it difficult for customers to complete orders. There may be a problem.

JP 2004-194810 A

The present invention was developed in view of the above problems, and paying attention to the fact that when ordering udon and red soup stock, there are many customers who order sushi at the same time. A bowl that can stably place a sushi plate on the lid of the bowl.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a bag used on the food path of the food and beverage transport apparatus provided with a food path for transporting food and drink, It is composed of a lid for closing the upper opening of the bowl body, and a cylindrical annular protrusion is projected on the upper surface of the lid, and the outer diameter of the annular protrusion is the inner diameter of the plateau on which the sushi is served The annular protrusion is provided with a non-slip portion that protrudes upward from the upper end of the annular protrusion.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the bag according to the first aspect, the anti-slip portion is removable from the annular protrusion.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the annular projection can be fitted into the plateau of the plate so that the plate can be placed on the lid of the bowl, and when the plate is placed, the lower surface of the plate is placed on the non-slip portion. For example, when a basket with a dish is transported by the transport device, the dish does not move or rattle inadvertently with respect to the lid. Can be conveyed.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the first aspect of the invention, the lid and the anti-slip part can be separately cleaned by removing the anti-slip part from the annular protrusion when cleaning the lid. I can do it.

Explanatory drawing which represented the inside of the store provided with the food-drink conveyance apparatus planarly. The expanded sectional view of the principal part of a food and drink conveyance apparatus. Front view of a bowl and a plate. The top view of a cocoon. The expanded sectional view of the principal part of a bag. The bottom view of a plate. The partially cutaway front view of the bag with the plate placed on the lid. The expanded sectional view of the principal part of the lid | cover which shows another embodiment. The expanded sectional view of the principal part of the lid | cover which shows another embodiment.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below.
First, FIG. 1 shows a counter table 1a and a plurality of legged tables 1b installed in each passenger seat of the guest room S1, a partition housing 2 arranged along the front surface of the kitchen room S2 or the tables 1a and 1b, and the partition housing 2 The inside of the sushi store provided with the food and drink transport device 3 installed on the top is represented in a plane.
As shown in FIG. 2, the partition housing 2 has a cross-section box shape from side plates 21 and 22 facing each other at a predetermined interval, and an upper plate 23 and a bottom plate (not shown) connecting the upper and lower ends of both side plates 21 and 22. A first housing part 2a which is disposed along the front surface of the kitchen room S2 and separates the kitchen room S2 and the guest room S1, and is bent from both longitudinal ends of the first housing part 2a. The second and third housing portions 2b and 2c extend in parallel in the cabin S1.
The counter table 1a and the legged table 1b are installed outside the side plates 21 and 22 in the second and third housing portions 2b and 2c.
The food and drink transport device 3 is provided with a recess 31 provided in the upper plate 23 of each housing part 2a, 2b, and 2c, and an endless flat chain conveyor 32 that circulates in the recess 31 by driving a motor, The flat chain conveyor 32 described above constitutes the conveyance path described in the claims.

The food and drink transport apparatus is for circulating and transporting containers containing food and drink such as sushi from the kitchen room S2 to the tables 1a and 1b. In the embodiment, the plate 4 serves as a container for serving sushi. Is used.
As is well known, the dish 4 includes a plate-shaped dish plate 41 having a circular shape in plan view, and a cylindrical plateau 42 protruding downward from the lower surface of the dish plate 41.
Moreover, as a container for storing udon, a bowl 5 to be described later is used, and for the red dashi, a bowl that is slightly smaller than the bowl for udon is used.

In the transport device 3 having the above-described configuration, for example, the dishes 4 with sushi F are placed on the flat chain conveyor 32 sequentially and transported from the kitchen room S2 toward the tables 1a and 1b in the guest room S1, and Customers at each table take out the dishes 4 and the like on which the favorite sushi F is served from the flat conveyor 32 and eat them.

The rice cake according to the present invention is for, for example, putting udon or red soup stock and providing it to the customer by the food and drink transport device 3, and this rice cake will be described next.
The bowl denoted by reference numeral 5 in the figure is for udon. As shown in FIG. 3, the bowl includes a bowl body 51 and a lid 52 that covers the upper opening of the bowl body 51. A cylindrical pedestal 53 is integrally formed on the lower surface.
The bag main body 51 and the lid 52 are made of a synthetic resin material.
As shown in FIG. 5, the lid 52 is formed in a dome shape that bulges upward, and a cylindrical annular protrusion 54 that projects upward is integrally formed on the upper surface of the lid 52. The outer diameter L1 of the annular protrusion 54 is formed to be slightly smaller than the inner diameter L2 of the hill 42 of the plate 4 so that it can be loosely inserted into the hill 42 of the plate 4. The outer diameter L1 of the annular protrusion 54 is about 80 mm, and the inner diameter L2 of the hill 42 of the plate 4 is about 90 mm.
The annular protrusion 54 is provided with an anti-slip portion 6 that protrudes upward from the upper end of the annular protrusion 54.
The height H1 from the lower end of the annular protrusion 54 to the upper end of the anti-slip portion 6 is set higher than the height H2 of the hill 53.

The anti-slip | skid part 6 shown in FIGS. 3-7 is comprised from the wide ring-shaped rubber band 60. FIG.
The inner diameter of the rubber band 60 is slightly smaller than the outer diameter of the annular protrusion 54, and the width is formed to be about 3 mm larger than the height H 3 (10 mm in the embodiment) of the annular protrusion 54.
Then, the rubber band 60 is fitted on the outer periphery of the annular protrusion 54, and a portion protruding upward from the upper end of the annular protrusion 54 is used as the anti-slip portion 6. At the time of cleaning the lid 52, etc. The band 60 can be removed.

Next, an example of using the bag 5 having the above configuration will be described.
For example, if udon and sushi are ordered from a customer in the guest room S1, the kitchen room S1 holds the ordered sushi F and places it on the plate 41 of the plate 4, while cooking the udon that has been ordered. After putting in the main body 51, the lid 52 is put on the main body 51.
Then, the bowl 5 containing udon is placed on the flat chain conveyor 32, and the platen 4 on which the custom sushi is placed is fitted on the outer periphery of the annular protrusion 54 of the lid 52 of the bowl 5. 4 is placed on the annular protrusion 54.
As a result, as shown in FIG. 7, the lower surface of the dish plate 41 is in contact with the anti-slip portion 6, so that the dish 4 is Inadvertent displacement or rattling with respect to the 5 lid 52 is reliably suppressed.
Therefore, the plate 4 on which sushi is served can be stably conveyed together with the bowl 5 containing udon.

Further, since the plate 4 can be transported on the basket 5, it does not take up a place for transport as compared with the case where it is individually transported on the flat chain conveyor 32, while the lid 52 is being cleaned. At this time, the rubber band 60 forming the anti-slip portion 6 may be removed from the annular protrusion 54, and the lid 52 and the rubber band 60 may be individually washed, thereby reliably washing the lid 52 and the rubber band 60. I can do it.

In the above embodiment, the anti-slip portion 6 is provided on the upper end portion of the annular protrusion 54 using the ring-shaped rubber band 60. However, the present invention is not limited to this, for example, as shown in FIG. In addition, a rubber ring 62 having an inverted U-shaped cross section having a fitting groove 61 into which the upper end portion of the annular protrusion 54 can be fitted is separately formed, and the rubber ring 62 is fitted into the upper end portion of the annular protrusion 51. Thus, a portion protruding upward from the upper end of the annular protrusion 51 may be used as the anti-slip portion 6.
Alternatively, when the lid 52 is molded, the anti-slip portion 6 made of synthetic rubber may be integrally formed on the upper end of the annular protrusion 51 as shown in FIG.

3 Food Conveying Device 30 Reading Device 33 Flat Chain Conveyor (Conveying Path)
4 dishes (containers)
41 Dish plate 42 Plateau 5 椀 51 椀 Body 52 Lid 54 Annular projection 6 Non-slip part 60 Rubber band S1 Guest room S2 Kitchen room

Claims (2)

A bag that is used by being placed on the transfer path of a food / drink transfer device provided with a transfer path for food / drink transfer, comprising a bag body and a lid for closing an upper opening of the bag body, and an upper surface of the cover Is provided with a cylindrical annular protrusion, and the outer diameter of the annular protrusion is smaller than the inner diameter of the plateau on which sushi is served, and the upper end of the annular protrusion is on the annular protrusion. An anti-slip portion protruding upward is provided. The bag according to claim 1, wherein the non-slip portion is removable with respect to the annular protrusion.

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