JP2017099733A - Rice cooking system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rice cooking system capable of easily securing an installation space.SOLUTION: A rice cooking system 1 comprises: first system constitution means 6 which is installed on the first floor of a building 5; and second system constitution means which is installed on the second floor of the building 5. The rice cooking system 1 comprises upward transport means 8 for transporting a rice cooking pot 2 from the first system constitution means 6 on the first floor to the second system constitution means on the second floor. The rice cooking system 1 comprises downward transport means 9 for downward transporting the rice cooking pot 2 from the second system constitution means on the second floor to the first system constitution means 6 on the first floor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a rice cooking system that can easily secure an installation space.

  Conventionally, the rice cooking system described in the following patent document 1, for example is known.

  This conventional rice cooking system includes, for example, a weighing device, an immersion line, an additive supply device, a rice cooking line, a steaming line, a rice cooker reversing device, a rice cooker washing device, etc., and cooks rice while circulating the rice cooker as a container. Is what you do.

  And recently, it is not a matter of cooking a large amount of rice, for example, there are many requests to cook various types of cooked rice according to the application, and the rice cooking system that can respond to it is large as a whole, so for comparison Large installation space may be required.

Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2006-102154 (FIG. 20)

  However, in the conventional rice cooking system, for example, in a building such as a factory, the entire rice cooking system is installed on one floor, for example, the first floor, so it may be difficult to secure an installation space.

  This invention is made | formed in view of such a point, and it aims at providing the rice cooking system which can ensure an installation space easily.

  The rice cooking system according to claim 1 is a rice cooking system that cooks rice while circulating and moving containers, and is installed on one floor of a building and constitutes a part of the rice cooking system, 2nd system constituent means which is installed in the other floor of a building, and constitutes the other part of the above-mentioned rice cooking system, and the 1st conveyance means which conveys the container from said 1st system constituent means towards the 2nd system constituent means And second transport means for transporting the container from the second system configuration means toward the first system configuration means.

  The rice cooking system according to claim 2 is the rice cooking system according to claim 1, wherein either one of the first system configuration means and the second system configuration means is a portion of the rice cooking system that the operator needs to pay attention to. The other one of the first system configuration means and the second system configuration means constitutes a portion of the rice cooking system that does not require an operator to pay attention.

  The rice cooking system according to claim 3 is the rice cooking system according to claim 2, wherein either one of the first system constituent means and the second system constituent means is a part of the rice cooking system that does not require the operator to pay attention. In addition, at least one of the immersion unit, the cooked rice cooking unit, and the steaming unit is configured.

  The rice cooking system according to claim 4 is the rice cooking system according to claim 3, wherein either one of the first system constituent means and the second system constituent means constitutes only an immersion part, While carrying a container, it has an immersion conveyor apparatus which makes the rice in a container absorb water in the meantime.

  The rice cooking system according to claim 5 is the rice cooking system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the first conveying means and the second conveying means are arranged close to each other in parallel. .

  According to the present invention, since the first system configuration means is installed on one floor of the building and the second system configuration means is installed on the other floor of the building, the installation space can be easily secured.

It is a top view which shows a part of rice cooking system which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a top view of the other part of a rice cooking system same as the above. It is AA sectional drawing in FIG. It is BB sectional drawing in FIG. It is CC sectional drawing in FIG.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  In the figure, 1 is a rice cooking system, and this rice cooking system 1 is a large-sized rice cooking facility that cooks rice while circulating the rice cooking pot 2 that is a plurality of containers (rice storage containers) for storing rice.

  The rice cooker 2 is made of, for example, metal, and includes a pot body 2a having an upper surface opening, and a lid 2b that is detachably attached to the pot body 2a and closes the upper surface opening of the pot body 2a.

  The rice cooking system 1 is installed on the first floor, for example, the first floor of a building 5 such as a factory, and the first system constituting means 6 constituting a part of the rice cooking system 1 and the other floors of the building 5 such as 2 The second system component 7 installed on the floor and constituting the remaining part of the rice cooking system 1 and the rice cooker from the first system component 6 (the rice cooker with the lid 2b attached to the pot body 2a) 2 is transported upward toward the second system constituting means 7, and the upper conveying means 8 is a first conveying means, and the rice cooker from the second system constituting means 7 (with the lid 2b attached to the pot body 2a). The lower cooking means 9 which is the 2nd conveyance means which conveys the rice cooker 2) toward the 1st system structure means 6 is provided.

  The first system configuration means 6 is installed in a rectangular indoor space 11 on the first floor of the building 5, for example, and the second system configuration means 7 is an indoor space 12 in the rectangular shape on the second floor of the building 5, for example. Is installed. Moreover, the upper conveyance means (rice cooker raising conveyor) 8 and the lower conveyance means (rice cooker lowering conveyor) 9 are both installed from the indoor space 11 on the first floor to the indoor space 12 on the second floor (see FIG. 4). .

  In addition, one of the first system configuration unit 6 and the second system configuration unit 7, that is, for example, the first system configuration unit 6 constitutes a portion of the rice cooking system 1 where at least the operator X needs to pay attention. ing. The other of the first system configuration means 6 and the second system configuration means 7, that is, the second system configuration means 7, for example, configures only the portion of the rice cooking system 1 that does not require the operator X to pay attention. .

  That is, the second system configuration means 7 on the second floor constitutes only the part that the worker X does not need to pay attention to, and the first system configuration means 6 on the first floor other parts (the operator needs to pay attention) Is included). For this reason, the worker X is required to be resident on the first floor, but the worker X is not required to be resident on the second floor. Here, the part that the operator X needs to pay attention to is the part where the lid 2b is removed from the pot body 2a and the rice cooker 2 is in the state of removing the lid. For example, in the pot body 2a It is a part where the processing state of rice etc. put in can be confirmed.

  Specifically, the second system configuration means 7 on the second floor is a portion of the rice cooking system 1 where the worker X does not need to pay attention (the lid 2b is attached to the pot body 2a and the rice cooking pot 2 is in the lid mounted state). As a portion), only the soaking part 13 for absorbing water into the rice in the rice cooker 2 is constituted by elapse of a predetermined time.

  Moreover, the 1st system structure means 6 of the 1st floor is parts other than the immersion part 13 in the rice cooking system 1, ie, the washing | cleaning part 14, the 1st supply part 15, the 2nd supply part 16, the heating rice cooking part 17, steaming, for example. The unit 18, the third supply unit 19, and the discharge unit 20 are configured.

  Of these parts 14-20, the part that the operator X needs to pay attention to (the part in which the lid 2b is removed from the pot body 2a and the rice cooker 2 is in the uncovered state) is supplied to the cleaning unit 14, Parts 15, 16, 19 and discharge part 20. In addition, although the heating rice cooking part 17 and the steaming part 18 are parts which the operator X does not need to pay attention to, it is installed in the 1st floor in this embodiment.

  First, the cleaning unit 14 has a cleaning device 21 that cleans the entire surface of the hook body 2a and the lid 2b while transporting the hook body 2a and the lid 2b up and down, and in particular removes deposits in the hook body 2a. The cleaning device 21 includes a shuttle body transport conveyor unit 22 that transports the shuttle body 2a, and a lid transport conveyor unit 23 that is disposed below the shuttle body transport conveyor unit 22 and transports the lid 2b.

  The 1st supply part 15 is the rice-washing device 25, and the rice-washed rice in this rice-washing device 25 is a rice cooker (rice cooker with the lid 2b removed from the pot body 2a) 2, in other words, the pot body 2a. A rice supply device 26 for supplying water, an immersion water supply device 27 for supplying immersion water (immersion water) to the pot body 2a, a predetermined amount of rice (washed rice), and a predetermined amount of immersion water are stored. A lid mounting device 28 for mounting the lid 2b on the hook body 2a is provided.

  Then, the rice cooker 2 that is in the lid-mounted state with the lid 2b attached to the pot body 2a by the lid-mounting device 28 is transported upward to the immersion section 13 on the second floor by the upper transport means 8 with the lid mounted. The

  As shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 4, the dipping unit 13 has a plurality of (for example, two upper and lower stages) that allow the rice (washed rice) in the rice cooker 2 to absorb water (water for dipping) while conveying the rice cooker 2. 3 rows) of immersion conveyor devices 30.

  And the rice cooker 2 with the lid attached is, for example, in the first row on the right (lower) (right direction) → upper (left), in the second row on the upper (right) → lower (left), the third row on the left Lower (left direction) → Upper (right direction), Upper left (left direction) → Second (left direction) → Lower (right direction), Lower left (left direction) → Upper (right direction) At this time, the rice in the rice cooker 2 absorbs water and becomes immersed rice after a predetermined time (for example, immersion time of 70 minutes).

  The rice cooker 2 in the lid-mounted state in which the immersed rice is stored is conveyed downward to the second supply unit 16 on the first floor by the lower conveying means 9 with the lid mounted.

  The second supply unit 16 includes a lid removing device 31 that removes the lid 2b from the pot body 2a, a draining device 32 that sucks water for immersion in the pot body 2a, and water for cooking rice (rice cooking water). Rice cooker with lid removed) Rice water supply device 33 for supplying to 2a, seasoning liquid supply device 34 for supplying seasoning liquid to kettle body 2a, leveling device 35 for smoothing the inside of kettle body 2a, and a predetermined amount of rice (Immersion rice), a lid mounting device 36 for mounting the lid 2b on the pot body 2a in which a predetermined amount of water for cooking rice and a predetermined amount of seasoning liquid are stored.

  The water draining device 32 has, for example, a suction pipe 32a that can move in the pot body 2a, and the rice starch eluted during the dipping is settled on the bottom portion of the pot body 2a. Then, after moving down to the bottom of the pot body 2a, the water containing the rice starch is removed by suction while moving in the pot body 2a. For example, the hook body 2a may be tilted when sucking water for immersion.

  The rice cooking water supply device 33 supplies, for example, water for cooking rice having an amount of water optimal for the amount of rice immersed in the rice cooking pot 2 to the pot main body 2a while measuring the amount of water with a measuring instrument. The seasoning liquid supply device 34 supplies, for example, a preset seasoning liquid (including ingredients as necessary) to the pot body 2a so as to be cooked rice corresponding to the application (cooked rice). . The leveling device 35 smoothes, for example, a state in which rice or ingredients are hardened.

  The heating rice cooking unit 17 heats the rice cooker 2 individually one by one, that is, for example, a total of 30 rice cookers 41 in, for example, 15 × 2 rows, and these two rows of rice cooked in the left-right direction. The rice cooker 2 that can move in the left-right direction (movable in the horizontal direction) and can be moved up and down is used to convey the rice cooker 2 between the devices 41 and move the rice cooker 2 in and out of the heating chamber 41a of each rice cooker 41. And have.

  Further, the heating rice cooker 17 has a receiving-side lift device 44 that can be raised and lowered with respect to the rice cooker receiving port 43 and a carry-out side lift device 46 that can be raised and lowered with respect to the rice cooker carry-out port 45. .

  Each rice cooking device 41 has, for example, a heating chamber 41a having an opening on the upper surface formed in a shape corresponding to one rice cooker 2 and a heating unit (not shown) for heating the inside of the heating chamber 41a. The rice cooker 2 is heated (for example, heating time 20 minutes) by controlling the heating section under preset heating conditions so as to be cooked rice (cooked rice) corresponding to the application. The rice cooker transport device 42 has, for example, a holding arm 42a that holds two rice cookers 2 at the same time.

  And the rice cooker 2 from the 2nd supply part 16 of the front process is hold | maintained by the holding arm 42a of the rice cooker conveyance apparatus 42, after being conveyed upward to the position of the rice cooker acceptance port 43 by the receiving side lift apparatus 44. And put into the heating chamber 41a of the rice cooker 41.

  In addition, the rice cooker 2 after being cooked by the rice cooker 41 is held by the holding arm 42a of the rice cooker transport device 42 and taken out of the heating chamber 41a, and is then carried by the carry-out side lift device 46. It is conveyed downward from the position of the outlet 45 and is carried out to the steaming section 18 of the next process.

  The steaming section 18 has a steaming conveyor device 50 that receives and conveys the rice cooker 2 from the carry-out side lift device 46.

  The steaming conveyor device 50 is disposed below the moving region of the two rows of rice cookers 41 and the rice cooker transport device. That is, the steaming unit 18 is disposed below the heating rice cooking unit 17, and the heating rice cooking unit 17 and the steaming unit 18 are installed in the same corner portion of the indoor space 11 on the first floor.

  Note that the heating rice cooker 17 and the steaming unit 18 that are stacked one above the other are a cover 49 composed of a frame that lifts and arranges the heating rice cooking unit 17 above the steaming unit 18 and a safety fence provided at the periphery of the frame. Covered by. The transport end portion of the steaming conveyor device of the steaming unit 18 protrudes from the lower part of the side surface of the cover 49.

  Then, the rice cooker 2 in the state where the lid is mounted after being cooked with rice is conveyed through the covering body 49 by the steaming conveyor device 50 (conveyed in the order of right direction → left direction → right direction). For example, steaming of the cooked rice in the rice cooker 2 is performed as the steaming time (25 minutes) elapses.

  The third supply unit 19 includes a lift device 51 capable of moving up and down to convey the rice cooker 2 from the steaming conveyor device 50, a conveyor device 52 to convey the rice cooker 2 from the lift device 51, and the conveyor device 52. It has a lid removing device 53 for removing the lid 2b from the pot body 2a of the rice cooker 2 positioned above, and a seasoning liquid supply apparatus 54 for supplying seasoning liquid (for example, vinegar) to the pot body 2a.

  The discharge unit 20 discharges the cooked rice from the first conveyor device 56 that conveys the hook body 2a from the conveyor device 52 to the conveyor unit 57a by reversing the hook body 2a, and agitates the discharged cooked rice The reversing and unwinding device 57 for unwinding and the second conveyor device 58 for transporting the pot body 2a after discharging the cooked rice toward the cleaning device 21 are provided. Then, the loosened cooked rice is sent to the next process where weighing and serving are performed.

  As is clear from FIGS. 1 and 4, the upper conveying means 8 and the lower conveying means 9 are both of a vertically long shape and are arranged close to each other in parallel.

  A first supply unit 15 is connected to a conveyance start end portion 8a located in the indoor space 11 on the first floor of the upper conveyance means 8, and a conveyance termination portion 9a located in the indoor space 11 on the first floor of the lower conveyance means 9 is connected. Is connected to the second supply section 16. For this reason, the first supply unit 15 and the second supply unit 16 are disposed close to each other in the indoor space 11 on the first floor.

  In addition, the conveyance start part 8b located in the indoor space 12 on the second floor of the upper conveyance means 8 is connected to the conveyance start end of the immersion conveyor device 30, and is located in the indoor space 12 on the second floor of the lower conveyance means 9. The conveyance end part of the immersion conveyor apparatus 30 is connected to the conveyance start end part 9b (refer FIG. 2).

  Next, the operation of the rice cooking system 1 will be described.

  When the main body 2a and the lid 2b cleaned by the cleaning section 14 are sent to the first supply section 15, rice and water for immersion are supplied to the main body 2a, and then the main body 2a is fitted with the lid 2b. The rice cooker 2 is in a lid-mounted state.

  The rice cooker 2 in the lid-mounted state is conveyed upward by the upper conveying means 8 from the first floor of the building 5 toward the immersion section 13 on the second floor.

  And the rice cooker 2 is conveyed by the immersion conveyor apparatus 30 of the immersion part 13, and the rice in the rice cooker 2 absorbs water while being conveyed.

  Next, the rice cooker 2 after the immersion treatment is conveyed downward from the second floor of the building 5 toward the second supply section 16 on the first floor by the lower conveying means 9.

  In the second supply section 16, the lid 2b is removed from the pot body 2a, the water for dipping in the pot body 2a is replaced with water for cooking, and the seasoning liquid is supplied to the pot body 2a. After the inside of 2a is leveled, the lid 2b is attached to the pot body 2a, and the rice cooking pot 2 is put into the lid-mounted state again.

  The rice cooker 2 that has been put on the lid again is heated and cooked by the rice cooker 41 of the heating rice cooker 17 and then transported by the steaming conveyor device 50 of the steamer 18 and cooked while being transported. The cooked rice in the pot 2 is steamed.

  Next, the steamed rice cooker 2 is fed toward the discharge unit 20 after the seasoning liquid is supplied by the third supply unit 19. In the discharge section 20, the cooked rice is discharged from the pot body 2a by reversing the pot body 2a, and the discharged cooked rice is loosened.

  In addition, the soiled hook body 2a and the lid 2b are washed by the washing unit 14 and then sent to the first supply unit 15 again. In this way, continuous rice cooking is performed while the plurality of rice cooking pots 2 are found in the plurality of floors of the building 5 and circulate.

  And according to such a rice cooking system 1, the 1st system constituent means 6 is installed in one floor (for example, the first floor) of building 5, and the 2nd system constituent means 7 is installed in the other floor (for example, 2) of building 5. Because it is a configuration installed on the floor, for example, even a large rice cooking system 1 capable of obtaining a plurality of types of cooked rice suitable for the application, compared to the conventional configuration in which the entire rice cooking system is installed on one floor Thus, it is possible to easily secure a necessary installation space in the building 5 having a limited size.

  Moreover, the 1st system structure means 6 comprises the part (part in which the rice cooker 2 is a state where the rice-cooking pot 2 is a lid | cover state) which the operator X needs to pay attention to among the rice cooking systems 1, and the 2nd system structure means 7 is a rice cooking system. 1 constitutes a portion where the worker X does not need to pay attention (portion in which the rice cooker 2 is in the lid-mounted state), so that the portion where the worker X needs to pay attention (for example, the cleaning unit 14 and the supply unit) 15, 16, 19 and the discharge unit 20) can be centrally installed on the same floor, so that the worker X can work efficiently.

  Furthermore, the 2nd system structure means 7 installed in the 2nd floor comprises only the immersion part 13 which is a part which the operator X does not need to pay attention, This immersion part 13 is compared with each other part. In particular, the first system of the building 5 has a dipping conveyor device 30 that requires a long stay in the rice cooker 2 and transports many rice cookers 2 while absorbing water in the rice cooker 2 during that time. Appropriate immersion treatment can be performed on the second floor instead of the first floor where the constituent means 6 is installed.

  Moreover, in the rice cooking system 1, the 1st supply part 15 and the 1st supply part 16 which comprise the immersion part 13 normally arrange | positioned between the 1st supply part 15 and the 2nd supply part 16 are comprised. The second system configuration means 7 is different from the system configuration means 6 and the second system configuration means 7 is installed on a different floor from the first system configuration means 6. The supply unit 16 and the supply unit 16 can be arranged close to each other, and the worker X can work efficiently.

  In addition, the rice cooking system 1 is not limited to the structure which draws out the water for immersion with the water draining device 32, and supplies the water for rice cooking with the rice cooking water supply device 33, For example, water for immersion is replaced without replacing water. The structure etc. which use and cook rice may be sufficient. Moreover, the rice cooking system 1 is not limited to the structure which arrange | positions the seasoning liquid supply apparatuses 34 and 54 in both the 2nd supply part 16 and the 3rd supply part 19, for example, arrange | positions a seasoning liquid supply apparatus in either one. A configuration or the like may be used.

  Moreover, the rice cooking system 1 is not limited to the structure which uses only the rice cooking pot 2 as a container which accommodates rice, For example, the structure using the rice cooking pot 2 at the time of heating rice cooking and the immersion container at the time of immersion may be sufficient. That is, for example, rice and water are exchanged from the rice cooker 2 to the dipping container immediately before being conveyed upward by the upper conveying means 8, and rice and water are exchanged from the immersion container to the rice cooking pot 2 immediately after being conveyed downward by the lower conveying means 9. You may do it.

  Furthermore, the 2nd system structure means 7 is not limited to what comprises only the immersion part 13 which performs immersion treatment as a part which the operator X does not need to pay attention to among the rice cooking systems 1, The immersion part 13, What constitutes at least any one among heating rice cooking part 17 and steaming part 18 should just be formed.

  That is, for example, it may constitute three parts of the immersion part 13, the heating rice cooking part 17 and the steaming part 18, for example, it may constitute two parts of the heating rice cooking part 17 and the steaming part 18, for example, the heating rice cooking part Only 17 or only the steaming part 18 may be used.

Further, for example, the first system configuration means 6 is installed on the second floor of the building 5 and the second system configuration means 7 is installed on the first floor of the building 5, or the first system configuration means 6 is installed on the first floor of the building 5. The second system configuration means 7 may be installed on the first basement floor of the building 5. Note that the structure of the building 5 may be installed using an intermediate floor (installation space) such as a mezzanine floor provided between the first floor and the second floor, instead of a complete hierarchy. .

  Furthermore, for example, the third system configuration means, the fourth transport means for transporting the container from the second system configuration means toward the third system configuration means, and the container from the third system configuration means as the second system configuration means You may make it further provide the 5th conveyance means conveyed toward.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Rice cooking system 2 Rice cooking pot which is a container 5 Building 6 1st system configuration means 7 2nd system configuration means 8 Upper conveyance means which is 1st conveyance means 9 Lower conveyance means which is 2nd conveyance means
13 Immersion part
17 Cooking rice
18 Steaming part
30 Immersion conveyor equipment

Claims (5)

A rice cooking system for cooking rice while circulating and moving containers,
A first system constituting means installed on one floor of the building and constituting a part of the rice cooking system;
2nd system constituent means which is installed in the other floor of the building and constitutes the other part of the rice cooking system;
First conveying means for conveying a container from the first system constituting means toward the second system constituting means;
A rice cooking system comprising: a second conveying means for conveying the container from the second system constituting means toward the first system constituting means. Either one of the first system configuration means and the second system configuration means constitutes a part of the rice cooking system that the operator needs to pay attention to,
2. The rice cooking system according to claim 1, wherein either one of the first system configuration unit and the second system configuration unit configures a portion of the rice cooking system that an operator does not need to pay attention to. Either one of the first system configuration means and the second system configuration means has at least one of an immersion part, a heated rice cooking part, and a steaming part as a part of the rice cooking system that the operator does not need to pay attention to. It comprises. The rice cooking system of Claim 2 characterized by the above-mentioned. Either one of the first system configuration means and the second system configuration means constitutes only the immersion part,
The said immersion part has an immersion conveyor apparatus which makes the rice in a container absorb water in the meantime, conveying a container. The rice cooking system of Claim 3 characterized by the above-mentioned. 5. The rice cooking system according to claim 1, wherein the first transport unit and the second transport unit are arranged in parallel and close to each other.

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