JP2014083355A - Circulation method for super heated steam and food catering car using it - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve natural circulation of super heated steam or the like uniformly in a storage in a catering car.SOLUTION: A catering car 1 includes a tray storing chamber 22 formed by front and rear walls, right and left walls, a ceiling wall and a bottom wall, in which trays T are stored at spaces in the vertical direction in multistage. According to a feed-in and circulation method for super heated steam or the like in the catering car 1, the super heated steam or the like is fed in from an outlet 2a provided on one side of the lower part of the rear wall of the tray storing chamber, and raised through a feed-in duct 9 erected upward from the outlet 2a and fed in on the trays, and also the super heated steam or the like is circulated along the right and left walls and the front wall in the interior of the tray storing chamber 22. The circulated super heated steam or the like is collected in the lower side of the tray storing chamber 22 through an exhaust duct 11 erected on the opposite side to a feed-in duct 9, and discharged from an inlet 2b provided on the other side of the lower part of the rear wall of the tray storing chamber 22. The reheated super heated steam or the like is again fed into the tray storing chamber 22.

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for circulating superheated steam and heated air, and a trolley using the same.

  2. Description of the Related Art In general, in a hospital, a nursing home, and the like, a distribution car that accommodates a large number of trays is used to provide meals to many inpatients and residents.

  However, in recent years, in order to reduce expenses, etc., there has been a demand for more efficient serving with a small number of people. For this reason, food that has been cooked in advance and stored in a frozen or chilled state is heated and served. It has also been done. And it has already been widely performed to heat and eat food in a frozen or chilled state, but in this case, there is a problem that the taste and flavor of the food are easily impaired. In particular, for Japanese people, the taste of cooked rice, which is a staple food, is important, but even when frozen or chilled rice is simply heated, the softness and taste are often insufficient.

  Therefore, in order to cope with such problems, together with the storage chambers in which the trays are stored in multiple stages, the steam generating means for generating steam, the steam generated in the steam generating means, and the heating means and steam generating means for heating the storage chamber A distribution vehicle equipped with water supply means for supplying water and control means for controlling them has been developed.

  In the arrangement vehicle as described above, various flow path control means have been conventionally used in order to circulate superheated steam and heated air uniformly in the tray accommodating chamber.

  Specifically, when the sirocco fan is driven, the air in the storage room circulates through the storage unit, the upper duct, the rear duct, and the side duct, and when the air passes through the rear duct and the side duct. In the heated air circulation structure in which the air is heated by the heater in the storage unit, the upper blast gap formed by the upper duct and the bottom of the machine room adjacent to the upper duct, the rear ends of the sirocco fan, and the back of the wagon body It is known that air guides are arranged on a straight line connecting both ends of the right rear duct, so that the amount of air blown from each of the rear duct and the side duct is made uniform, and temperature unevenness in the storage section is eliminated. It has been.

  Further, in a heating / cooling system comprising a station unit with a built-in heating / cooling device and a housing unit docked to the station unit, a partition plate member is provided adjacent to both inner walls of the housing unit, the partition plate member and the inner wall After the heated air or cooling air blown out from the station unit is sent to the inlet of the ventilation unit, the air is discharged from the outlet of the ventilation unit to the inside of the storage unit. A heating / cooling system that uniformly heats or cools the inside of a unit is also known.

  In addition, there is also a layout cart that is provided with a heat insulation duct and a plurality of heating fans in the compartment of the layout car body, and forcibly circulates the air so that the temperature in the compartment is uniform. ing.

JP 2003-262458 A JP 2004-65499 A JP 2007-21000 A

  However, any of the above-described arrangement vehicles and heating / cooling systems are basically provided with a duct (ventilation part) for regulating the flow of heated air or the like or a flow of cold air in the tray housing chamber to be heated / cooled. By forcibly circulating the cool air, the temperature inside the tray housing chamber is made uniform. In such a case, the structure of the tray housing chamber becomes complicated, and it takes a lot of time to manufacture the tray housing chamber. In addition, there are inconveniences that time is required and the manufacturing cost increases. Further, a staying place such as heated air is likely to occur adjacent to the partition wall for forming the duct, and therefore, temperature unevenness may actually occur in the tray storage chamber.

  The object of the present invention is to make use of the characteristics of temperature change of superheated steam, heated air, etc. in a trolley, and to superheat the superheated steam, etc., that is not forced and can be circulated uniformly in the tray housing chamber like natural circulation. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for circulating steam and the like and a trolley using the same.

The present invention according to claim 1 is a superheated steam in a trolley that is formed of front and rear walls, left and right walls, a ceiling wall, and a bottom wall, and includes tray storage chambers in which trays are stored in multiple stages at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction. The superheated steam or the like is fed from an outlet provided on the lower side of the rear wall of the tray housing chamber, and is heated via an inlet duct standing upward from the outlet. While raising the steam etc. to the tray of each stage, the superheated steam etc. is circulated in the tray accommodation room along the left and right walls and the front wall, and the superheated steam etc. after circulation is opposite to the delivery duct It is recovered below the tray storage chamber via an exhaust duct standing on the side, and discharged again from the inlet provided on the other side of the lower rear wall of the tray storage chamber. It is characterized by being sent into the containment room A infeed circulation methods such as superheated steam at a serving vehicles.

As described later, the method for feeding and circulating superheated steam and the like according to the present invention includes a superheated steam device and the like, and a cooling bar and a tray housing chamber integrated with each other, as well as a superheated steam device and the like, and cooling. The present invention can also be used for a distribution vehicle divided into a station having a device and one or a plurality of carts in which the inside is configured as a tray storage chamber for storing trays in multiple stages.

In the present invention, “superheated steam and the like” includes heated air, and “superheated steam device and the like” includes a heating device provided with a heater.

The present invention according to claim 2 is a distribution vehicle for using the method for feeding and circulating superheated steam or the like according to claim 1, and is formed of front and rear walls, left and right walls, a ceiling wall, and a bottom wall. A distribution vehicle having at least one tray storage chamber in which trays are stored in multiple stages at predetermined intervals in the direction, and is provided adjacent to the lower rear wall of the tray storage chamber, A superheated steam etc. device that feeds superheated steam etc. to the outlet provided on one side, and a lower side of the rear wall of the tray housing chamber are erected on one side, the lower end communicates with the outlet, and the front side is superheated steam Inlet duct with a blowout port, etc., and the other side of the rear wall lower part of the rear wall of the tray housing chamber. The lower end communicates with the inlet for superheated steam, and the inlet for superheated steam is formed on the front side. And a distribution vehicle having an exhaust duct.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a station provided with an apparatus for superheated steam, an outlet and an inlet for superheated steam, an inlet duct and an exhaust duct for superheated steam, etc. And a tray cart docked to the station and having a tray storage chamber inside. The tray storage chamber is provided with a tray support mechanism that supports the tray in multiple stages at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction. It is what.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a station provided with an apparatus for superheated steam, an outlet and an inlet for superheated steam, an inlet duct and an exhaust duct for superheated steam, etc. And a first cart that is docked in the station and has a tray storage chamber inside, and a second cart that can enter the tray storage chamber in the first cart. There is provided a tray support mechanism that supports a plurality of stages at predetermined intervals in the direction.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a baffle plate in the vertical direction at a predetermined interval in the feed duct with respect to the arrangement vehicle according to any one of the second to fourth aspects. It is characterized by this.

  A method for circulating superheated steam or the like according to the present invention as set forth in claim 1 is a tray storage chamber that is formed of front and rear walls, left and right walls, a ceiling wall and a bottom wall, and in which trays are stored in multiple stages at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction. A method for feeding and circulating superheated steam, etc. in a distribution vehicle equipped with a superheated steam, etc., which is fed from an outlet provided on the lower side of the rear wall of the tray accommodating chamber and is erected upward from the outlet The superheated steam and the like are raised through the feeding duct and fed onto the trays of each stage, and the superheated steam and the like are circulated in the tray housing chamber along the left and right side walls, so that the superheated steam and the like after circulation are circulated. In addition to being recovered below the tray storage chamber via an exhaust duct erected on the opposite side of the infeed duct, it was discharged from an inlet provided on the other side of the lower rear wall of the tray storage chamber and reheated Send superheated steam back into the tray compartment. And it is characterized in Rukoto.

  For this reason, since air with a high temperature such as superheated steam rises from the beginning, this property can be used to naturally supply superheated steam or the like onto the trays of each stage by using an inlet duct. On the other hand, since the temperature of the superheated steam etc. after heating and heating the frozen food etc. on the tray is rapidly lowered, it is easily lowered through the exhaust duct. That is, according to the method for feeding and circulating superheated steam and the like of the present invention, the circulation of superheated steam and the like is naturally and smoothly performed in the distribution vehicle, and the running cost of the distribution vehicle using superheated steam and the like is reduced. A decrease is also possible.

  Moreover, according to the distribution vehicle according to the present invention described in claim 2, the circulation method of superheated steam or the like according to claim 1 described above can be executed, and the operation and effect thereof can be obtained. Unlike conventional ones, it does not have ducts that restrict the flow of superheated steam etc. in the tray housing chamber, and performs natural circulation as described above. It has the advantage that there is no stagnant location such as air, and temperature unevenness is unlikely to occur in the tray storage chamber, and since it does not use a complicated structure or system like the conventional one, it can be manufactured easily. Costs can be significantly reduced.

It is a left view of the distribution vehicle which concerns on embodiment. It is a right view of the distribution vehicle which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a front view of the allocation vehicle which concerns on the same embodiment, Comprising: The front side door of the 1st cart is opened, The state into which the 2nd cart before the tray was accommodated has entered. It is a horizontal sectional perspective view which shows the lower part of the layout vehicle which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a horizontal sectional view of the distribution vehicle according to the embodiment. It is a left view of a layout vehicle which shows a different Example.

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

  In this embodiment, front and rear, left and right, and top and bottom are based on FIG. 4, the forward direction refers to the lower direction in FIG. 4, the rear direction refers to the upper direction in FIG. 4, and the left and right mean the left and right in FIG. Further, the upward direction refers to the front side direction of the drawing paper sheet of FIG. 4, and the downward direction means the back side direction of the paper sheet of the drawing.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a distribution vehicle 1 according to the present embodiment includes a superheated steam generator 2 and a cooling device (not shown), which will be described later, and a station 3 installed at a predetermined position. The box-shaped first cart 4 having four large-diameter wheels 21 at the bottom and docked in front of the station 3 and four small-diameter wheels 20 at the bottom, which can be accommodated in the first cart 4. Two carts 10 are provided.

  As shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 4 and 5, the station 3 is provided with a superheated steam device 2 on the lower side, and the superheated steam device 2 has a water tank 6a and a rod heater 6b inside. It has a steam generation part 6, three coil heaters 7 for heating the generated steam, a fan 8 having a blower part 8a and a suction part 8b, and the like.

  As shown in FIGS. 1, 3 and 5, the front wall 3a of the station 3 is opposed to the rear opening 4A of the first cart 4, and the second cart 10 is in contact therewith. And, the one side of the front wall 3a of the station 3 communicates with the outlet 2a of the superheated steam device 2 on the lower side, and the longitudinally long feed duct 9 having the superheated steam outlet 9a on the front side, and the feed duct 9, a lower portion communicates with the inlet 2b of the superheated steam device 2, and a front side has a vertically long exhaust duct 11 having a superheated steam suction port 11a. More specifically, the exhaust duct 11 is erected adjacent to a partition wall 16 provided in the center of the second cart 10 (see FIG. 3).

  The first cart 4 has a box-like shape as a whole, has front and rear doors 12A and 12B, and has a size that allows the second cart 10 to enter.

  As for the 2nd cart 10, the support | pillar 10B is standingly arranged by the four corners of the square base 10A seeing from the plane, and the upper end of each support | pillar 10B is connected with the square upper frame 10C seeing from the plane. A plurality of partition walls 16 are provided in multiple stages at the center of the width of the second cart 10, and two trays T are inserted between the upper and lower adjacent partition walls 17 so that each tray T is placed in the second cart. 10 is structured to be accommodated in multiple stages.

  In the present embodiment, the entire cart is the main body of the tray accommodating chamber 22 in the entire arrangement vehicle. More specifically, the front wall of the first cart 4, the second cart 10, and the station 3 is used. 3a constitutes a tray housing chamber 22, the front wall 3a of the station 3 serves as the rear wall of the tray housing chamber 22, and the side wall 12C of the first cart 4 and the partition wall 16 of the second cart 10 serve as the tray housing chamber. 22, the front door 12 </ b> A of the first cart 4 is the front wall of the tray storage chamber 22, and the ceiling wall 12 </ b> C and the bottom wall 12 </ b> D of the first cart 4 are the ceiling wall and bottom wall of the tray storage chamber 22, respectively. It is.

  Next, a method for circulating superheated steam in the distribution vehicle 1 according to the present embodiment will be described. As shown in FIGS. 1, 4, and 5, the superheated steam is removed from the rear wall of the tray accommodating chamber 22 (the front wall of the station 3). 3a) It is fed from the outlet 2a provided on the lower side, and the superheated steam is raised from the outlet 2a through the inlet duct 9 and is placed on the tray T of each stage. In addition, the superheated steam is circulated in order in the tray storage chamber 22 along the left and right side walls (the side wall 12C and the partition wall 16 of the first cart 4) and the front wall (the front doors 12A and 12B of the first cart 4). The subsequent superheated steam is collected below the tray accommodating chamber 22 through the exhaust duct 11 provided on the opposite side of the inlet duct 9 and the flow provided on the other lower side of the rear wall of the tray accommodating chamber 22. Discharge from inlet 2b and superheated steam The reheated superheated steam at 2 again allowed to enter fed into the tray accommodating chamber 22.

  In this embodiment, as described above, the cart to be docked with the station 3 is divided into the first cart and the second cart, but these may be integrated to provide a tray support mechanism in one cart. .

  6 is similar to the layout vehicle according to the above embodiment, except that a baffle plate 30 is provided in the suction duct 9 in the vertical direction with a predetermined interval. In this case, the superheated steam rising in the suction duct 9 is rectified and supplied onto each tray T via each baffle plate 30, so that further improvement in thermal efficiency due to the superheated steam can be expected.

   According to the allocation vehicle of the present invention, efficient and smooth circulation of superheated steam, etc. is possible, and it can be manufactured at low cost, and the running cost is also low, so that facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes are available. Can be expected to be used widely.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Wheel arrangement 2 Superheated steam generator 2a Outlet 2b Inlet 3 Station 4 1st cart 9 Inlet duct 9a Outlet 10 Second cart 11 Exhaust duct 11a Inlet 22 Tray storage room T tray

Claims (5)

  A method for feeding and circulating superheated steam or the like in a distribution vehicle having a tray housing chamber that is formed of front and rear walls, left and right walls, a ceiling wall and a bottom wall and in which trays are accommodated in multiple stages at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction. , Superheated steam, etc., is fed from an outlet provided on the lower side of the rear wall of the tray housing chamber, and the superheated steam, etc. is raised through an inlet duct installed upward from the outlet. The superheated steam and the like are circulated in the tray housing chamber along the left and right walls and the front wall, and the superheated steam and the like after circulation is provided on the side opposite to the feed duct. Through the inlet of the lower part of the rear wall of the tray housing chamber, and reheated superheated steam or the like is sent again into the tray housing chamber. And superheated steam in a distribution car Enter circulation method feeding of.   A trolley for using the method for feeding and circulating superheated steam or the like according to claim 1, wherein the trolley is formed of front and rear walls, left and right walls, a ceiling wall and a bottom wall, and the trays are multi-staged at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction. A distribution vehicle equipped with at least one tray storage chamber accommodated in the tray storage chamber, adjacent to the lower portion of the rear wall of the tray storage chamber, and overheated to an outlet provided on the lower side of the rear wall of the tray storage chamber. A superheated steam device that feeds steam, etc., and a feed that is erected on one side of the lower part of the rear wall of the tray storage chamber, has a lower end communicating with the outlet, and a blowout port for superheated steam is formed on the front side A distribution vehicle having a duct and an exhaust duct standing on the other side of the lower portion of the rear wall of the tray housing chamber, having a lower end communicating with the inflow port, and an intake port for superheated steam or the like formed on the front side.   A superheated steam apparatus, an outlet and an inlet for superheated steam, a station provided with an inlet duct and an exhaust duct for superheated steam, etc., and a distribution cart docked in the station and having a tray accommodating chamber inside And a tray support mechanism for supporting the tray in multiple stages at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction is provided in the tray housing chamber.   Superheated steam etc., superheated steam outlet and inlet, station with superheated steam delivery duct and exhaust duct, and the first cart which is docked in the station and has a tray storage chamber inside And a second cart that can enter the tray storage chamber in the layout cart, and the second cart is provided with a tray support mechanism that supports the tray in multiple stages with a predetermined interval in the vertical direction. A barge according to claim 2.   The distribution vehicle according to any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein a baffle plate is provided in a vertical direction at a predetermined interval in the delivery duct.

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