JP3012280U - Household rice sharpener - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To provide a household rice sharpener that can easily and skillfully grind rice without the need to directly dip hands in water to sharpen rice. [Structure] A bottomed cylindrical holding container having a drainage part,
A lid member having a peripheral portion that removably fits with the open end of the holding container, and a rotatable tubular member that penetrates through the central region of the lid member are provided. Is introduced into the holding container, and a stirring member is provided at a lower end portion of the holding container so that the stirring member rotates in accordance with an operation of a handle member provided at an upper portion.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention mainly relates to a rice sharpening machine that can be used when polishing rice in ordinary households.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 Conventionally, in order to sharpen rice (wash rice and drop bran etc.) at home, after putting the required amount of rice in a container such as a ball, water an appropriate amount of water to sharpen it by hand and drain it. It is common to repeat the procedure a few times to remove the bran around the rice.

Generally, in order to cook delicious rice, it is preferable to sharpen the rice with water. This is because when rice is sharpened with lukewarm water, it absorbs water rapidly before it is cooked and the rice breaks down, or because the rice absorbs the sharpening water and softens it, it loses its taste.

[0004]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 However, the above-described method of polishing rice not only causes the rough hands of the cooker to grind the rice with the hands of the cooker, but also causes the hand to be grazed especially in the cold winter season of water. It makes the cook uncomfortable. Furthermore, if the cook has a cut or other injury on her hand, sharpening the rice with the injured hand may cause contamination with various bacteria, which is a sanitary problem.

[0005] In addition, a woman who grinds rice in particular may wear makeup such as manicure on her nails, and the nail polish may come off and the nails may be damaged. There was a problem.

[0006] In addition, when the cook does not want to touch the water due to cuts or rough hands, it is possible to use other tools such as a whisk to grind the rice, but such a tool is sufficient. I can't sharpen rice.

On the other hand, whether the rice is sharpened by hand or when a tool such as a whisk is used to sharpen the rice, the rice flows out together with the sharpening water when draining the sharpening water after sharpening the rice. I'm afraid it's wasted.

In view of the above problems, the present invention has an object to provide a rice sharpener capable of easily and skillfully polishing rice.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a domestic rice sharpener according to the invention of claim 1 has a bottomed cylindrical holding container for containing rice and water, and a holding container which is detachable from an opening end of the holding container. The holding container includes a lid member having a peripheral edge portion that fits so that it can fit, and a rotatable tubular member that penetrates through a central region of the lid member. It has a drainage section for draining only water.

Further, the tubular member is provided at its upper end with a water introduction port portion that tapers toward the edge, and discharges the water introduced from the water introduction unit into the holding container. The water discharge part is provided in the lower part.

Further, a handle member that rotates the tubular member according to its operation is provided above the lid member, and is located inside the holding container below the lid member. A plurality of agitating blade members arranged radially about the rotation axis are provided.

[0012] Next, as described in claim 2, the drainage part of the holding container is provided with a plurality of thin parts provided in a region near (upper) the opening of the wall surface and covering about ⅓ of the circumference. It is preferably composed of holes. The pores are not limited to a plurality of through-holes and may be formed of a knitted member or the like as long as a single hole portion is smaller than a rice grain and water can easily pass therethrough.

Further, as described in claim 3, it is preferable that at least one of the holding container and the lid member is made of a transparent material. The transparent member may be any one that transmits light at least to the extent that the internal state can be visually recognized from the outside.

Next, the rice sharpener according to the invention described in claim 4 is the rice sharpener according to claim 1, wherein the lid member is made of a transparent material, and the holding container is It is provided with a drainage part composed of a plurality of fine pores provided in a region of the wall surface in the vicinity of the opening and covering about 1/3 of the circumference.

The water discharger is constituted by an opening of the cylindrical member provided at a position separated from the bottom of the holding container by a predetermined distance, and the handle member is formed of the cylindrical member. The handle portion extends in a direction orthogonal to the rotation axis.

Further, the stirring vane member has an outer shape in which a locus of an outer shape drawn when it is rotated about the rotation axis is a substantially conical shape whose bottom surface is substantially the same size as the inner bottom portion of the holding container. Has a shape.

[0017]

[Action]

 A domestic rice polishing machine according to the invention of claim 1 is a cylindrical holding container having a bottom, a lid member having a peripheral edge portion detachably fitted to an opening end of the holding container, and a lid member of the lid member. And a rotatable cylindrical member that penetrates through the central region. The holding container provided in this rice sharpening machine holds rice and sharpening water, and the lid member is fitted to the opening end of the holding container. Even if the rice and rice bounce off, they do not flow out of the container, and water and rice are always held inside the holding container.

A drain portion for draining only water is provided on the upper portion of the wall surface of the holding container. Since this drainage allows only the water to pass through and retains the rice inside, when draining water after polishing the rice, only the water containing the bran is discharged to the outside and the There is no need to worry that the spilled rice will leak out.

Further, the tubular member is provided at its upper end with a water introduction port portion that tapers toward the edge, and discharges the water introduced from the water introduction unit into the holding container. The water discharge part is provided in the lower part. That is, the water introduced from the water introduction part passes through the inside of the tubular member and is supplied to the inside of the holding container by the water discharge part, and is mixed with the rice introduced in advance here.

[0020] The water introducing portion is provided above the lid member and has a configuration that expands in a tapered shape toward the upper edge portion, so that water can be easily introduced from a water supply or the like. Further, the water discharge portion to the inside of the container may be located below the lid member, and may have, for example, an opening shape that faces the inner bottom portion, or may have a shape of a tubular member. It may consist of a large number of holes formed in the wall surface.

Further, this tubular member is provided with a handle member on the upper side of the lid member for rotating the entire tubular member according to its operation, and on the lower side of the lid member of the tubular member. Is provided with an agitating blade member that rotates together with the tubular member around the above-described rotation axis.

When the handle member provided on the tubular member is operated, the stirring vane member also provided on the tubular member is interlocked and rotated, and the rotation of the stirring vane member causes the rice and water inside to be stirred. The rice is ground with stirring. That is, the stirring blade member stirs the rice and water in the holding container by the rotation of itself associated with the operation of the handle member, and as a result, the rice is sharpened.

The strength of the stirring operation is determined by the rotating force and speed of the stirring blade member, and the rotating speed of the stirring blade member is determined by the rotating speed of the handle. For this reason, adjust the rotation speed of the handle that determines the rotation speed of the stirring blade member, for example, to operate slowly with a small force when you want to sharpen lightly, and fast with strong force when you want to sharpen strongly. With, the intensity of stirring can be adjusted.

Here, the handle member is not particularly limited as long as it has a configuration in which at least the stirring vane member is rotationally moved inside the holding container, and the stirring vane member is also rotated by the rotational movement inside the holding container. There is no particular limitation as long as it can stir the rice and water inside. Needless to say, the holding container has a bottomed cylindrical structure so that rice and water can be sufficiently mixed (stirred) inside when the stirring is performed by rotating the blade member.

When the rice sharpening machine according to the present invention is used, first, the lid member is removed, a desired amount of rice is put in the holding container, and the lid member is fitted into the holding container again. Alternatively, while the lid member is fitted in the holding container, rice is put into the inside from the water introducing section at the upper part.

With the rice inside, place the water inlet under the tap of the tap, pour an appropriate amount of water, and turn the handle appropriately to sharpen the rice. At that time, if water is accumulated in the container to some extent, the sharpening water is drained from the drainage part on the upper part of the wall surface. If necessary, tilt the container to drain the water inside.

Since the rice can be sharpened by repeating the above-mentioned series of operations a plurality of times, it is possible to easily and skillfully grind the rice without worrying about roughening the hands. Furthermore, when draining the sharpening water, there is no need to worry about draining rice.

Of course, in the domestic rice sharpener of the present invention, the setting of the size can be freely changed according to the amount of rice cooked at home, for example, for 3 go, 5 go, 1 sho It goes without saying that you can do it.

In the invention as set forth in claim 2, the drainage portion of the holding container is composed of a plurality of pores provided in a region near the opening (upper part) of the wall surface in about 1/3 of the circumference. Therefore, the discharge direction of the polishing water discharged from the container is limited to a part of the circumferential direction. For this reason, the discharged water is discharged only in a certain direction without being scattered to the surroundings, so when using it in a sink, etc., if you use this discharge part in the same direction as the sink, it will pollute the surroundings. The polishing water is effectively discharged without

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since at least one of the holding container and the lid member is made of a transparent material, the state of the rice and the sharpening water inside the holding container holds the holding container or the lid. It is visible from the outside through the transparent part of the member.

In order to cook delicious rice, it is important to remove the bran that surrounds the rice when polishing the rice, but when the rice is being polished, the bran or the like becomes mixed with water and becomes cloudy. While looking at it, I judge the proper sharpening condition (the degree to which the bran falls). For this reason, in order to better understand the state of the sharpening water of the rice, at least one of the holding container and the lid material constituting the rice sharpening machine should be made of a transparent material. Makes it easy.

As a result, the state of the rice and the sharpening water inside the holding container becomes clear at a glance, so that the sharpening of the rice can be completed with good control. More preferably, the lid member should be made of a transparent member so that the user can see the inside while polishing the rice (while operating the handle portion at the top). Of course, both the holding container and the lid member may be made of transparent members.

Next, in the device according to the fourth aspect, the lid member is made of a transparent material, and a plurality of the lid members are provided in an upper portion of the holding container in a region of about 1/3 of the circumference near the opening of the wall surface. It has a drainage part consisting of pores. These actions are as described above.

In the present invention, since the water discharge part is constituted by the opening of the tubular member provided at a position separated from the bottom of the holding container by a predetermined distance, Water passes through the inside of the tubular member and is guided into the inside of the holding container through this opening. At this time, water is guided to the center of rotation, so that new water can efficiently spread to the rice inside, and effective rice polishing work can be performed.

The water discharge part may be located at least below the lid member, and may have, for example, an opening shape facing the inner bottom portion, or may be a tubular member. May be formed of a large number of holes formed in the wall surface of the.

Next, the handle member of the present invention comprises a handle portion extending in a direction orthogonal to the rotation axis of the tubular member. That is, since the handle member for rotating the entire tubular member is provided on the upper side of the lid member, the user can rotate the handle member so that the tubular member is provided under the tubular member together. Rotate the stirring blade member.

In the stirring blade member of the present invention, the outline of the outline drawn when it is rotated about the rotating shaft is a substantially conical shape with the bottom surface being substantially the same size as the inner bottom portion of the holding container. It has a shape. That is, since the locus of the bottom surface due to the rotating operation of the stirring member is substantially the same size as the inner bottom portion of the holding container, the inside of the holding container can be efficiently stirred.

When viewed as individual wing shapes, this is a substantially right-angled triangular wing shape, in which the right-angled portion is arranged with the center of the lower part as the center. By using the blades having such a shape, the structure has sufficient strength, and since the rice and the polishing water are stirred, sufficient strength is maintained against the force generated by the stirring blades themselves.

[0039]

【Example】

 Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail through examples. FIG. 1 is an external view showing an embodiment of a domestic rice sharpener of the present invention. Each of the sizes shown below is, as an example, a size for cooking a gogo, but it is not limited to this.

In FIG. 1, a holding container 1 for holding rice and sharpening water for sharpening rice has a bottomed cylindrical shape with a depth of 14 cm and an inner diameter D of about 22 cm, and its outer wall has a full circumference. It has a handle 1a which is arranged over the entire length and a drainage area 1b for draining the polishing water.

The drainage area 1 b is composed of a plurality of pores formed within a range of about 4 cm from the opening of the holding container and over 1/3 of the outer wall surface of the holding container 1. It is a thing.

Further, although the handle 1a is formed over the entire circumference of the holding container 1 in the present embodiment, the handle 1a is not limited to this configuration, and the rice sharpening machine itself can be carried. As long as the structure is easy, for example, a handle or the like provided at two surrounding places may be used.

The lid portion 2 is made of a transparent material through which the inside can be seen and visible, and its peripheral portion is configured to be detachably fitted to the open end of the holding container 1. This may be at least airtight so that water, rice or the like inside does not come out, and the lid 1 is sufficiently fixed to the holding container 1 so as not to come off during the stirring operation.

The lid portion 2 is provided with two removal handles 2 a and 2 b for facilitating the removal of the lid portion 2 on its peripheral portion. Further, the lid portion 2 holds a stirring mechanism 3 which is rotatable about an axis X which passes through the center of the lid portion 2 and is perpendicular to the lid portion 2 as a rotation axis in the central region thereof.

FIG. 2 shows a schematic configuration diagram of the stirring mechanism 3. In FIG. 2, the stirring mechanism 3 includes a tubular member 4 having an upper opening 4a which is a water introduction port for introducing sharpening water into the holding container 1 from the outside and a lower opening 4b which is a water discharge unit, and this tubular member. 4 are provided with handles 5a, 5b and stirring blades 6a-6f.

In the stirring mechanism 3 of the present embodiment, the handles 5a and 5b are integrally formed on the tubular member 4 having a flange in the center, while the diameter is about one size larger than that of the tubular member and the flange is provided on the upper portion thereof. A configuration in which the stirring blades 6a to 6f are integrally formed on the provided second tubular member 7, the tubular member 4 is inserted into the inside of the second tubular member 7, and they are integrally assembled by fasteners 8 such as nails. It is supposed to be. Further, at this time, the lid 2 is incorporated in the stirring mechanism 3 by sandwiching the lid 2 having a circular opening in the central region between the second tubular member 7 and the tubular member 4.

The tubular member 4 has a diameter of about 4.5 cm, and the distance from the upper opening 4a to the lower opening 4b is set to about 21.5 cm. The upper part of the cylindrical member 4 faces the upper edge portion. Since it has a tapered shape, the diameter of the upper opening 4a is about 10 cm.

Further, the handles 5a, 5b rotate the entire tubular member by their operation, and in the present embodiment, they are configured to rotate about the rotation axis X. In this embodiment, the handles 5a and 5b are made of rod-shaped members each having a diameter of about 1.5 cm and a length of about 9 cm.

This handle is not limited to this configuration, but is rotatable, for example, having a rod-shaped arm extending in a direction orthogonal to the rotation axis of the tubular member and a rotation axis parallel to the rotation axis of the tubular member. A handle member or the like having a structure in which the grip portion is provided at the outermost end of the arm portion (that is, the position farthest from the rotation axis of the tubular member) is also conceivable. Needless to say, only one handle member or a plurality of handle members may be provided on the tubular member.

Further, the stirring blades 6a to 6f are arranged radially around the rotation axis X, and the outer shape trace drawn when rotating is a substantially conical shape, and the bottom trace is the inside of the holding container. It is almost the same size as the bottom. In other words, the lower part of each individual wing member is wider than the upper part thereof, and the outermost part of the bottom part is generally located at the peripheral part of the bottom part of the container. The stirring mechanism 3 may be integrally formed, or may be a single member by combining a plurality of members.

Therefore, when the handle 5a, 5b is rotated, the stirring blades 6a-6f provided on the tubular member 4 rotate in the holding container 1, and the rotation of the stirring blades 6a-6f causes the stirring blades 6a-6f to rotate. The rice and water in the holding container are agitated, and the rice is satisfactorily ground.

In the present embodiment, as the preferable shape of the stirring blade, a shape of the outline drawn when the stirring blades 6a to 6f are rotated is a substantially conical shape. For example, the shape of the stirring blade is Other configurations may be used as long as they can well stir the rice and water inside the holding container, such as a U-shaped (opening downward) opening toward the bottom.

[0053]

[Effect of device]

 As explained above, the domestic rice sharpener of the present invention can easily and skillfully grind rice. Also, when you grind rice, you do not have to soak your hands in water, so you do not have to worry about roughening your hands.

Further, when draining the polishing water after polishing the rice, the rice does not flow out together with the water, so that the rice is not wasted.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a domestic rice sharpener according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a stirring mechanism of the embodiment shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Holding container 1a Handle 1b Drainage area 2 Lids 2a, 2b Removal handle 3 Stirring mechanism 4 Cylindrical member 4a Upper opening 4b Lower opening 5a, 5b Handle 6a to 6f Stirring blade 7 Second cylindrical member

Claims (4)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A holding container having a bottomed cylindrical shape for containing rice and water, a lid member having a peripheral edge portion detachably fitted to an open end portion of the holding container, and a lid member of the lid member. And a rotatable tubular member that penetrates through the central region, wherein the holding container includes a drainage portion for draining only water in the upper portion of the wall surface, and the tubular member has an upper end portion. A water introduction port portion that expands in a taper shape toward an edge portion, a water discharge portion for discharging water introduced from the water introduction portion into the holding container at a lower portion, and an upper portion than the lid member, A handle member for rotating the tubular member according to an operation, and a plurality of stirring blade members radially arranged around the rotation shaft below the lid member are provided. A domestic rice sharpener. 2. The drainage part of the holding container is composed of a plurality of fine pores provided in a region in the vicinity of the opening of the wall surface and covering about ⅓ of the circumference. Household rice sharpening machine. 3. The domestic rice polishing machine according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the holding container and the lid member is made of a transparent material. 4. The drain member is made of a transparent material, and the holding container is composed of a plurality of pores provided in an area of about 1/3 of the circumference near the opening of the wall surface. The water discharger is constituted by an opening of the tubular member provided at a position separated from the bottom of the holding container by a predetermined distance, and the handle member is the tubular member. Of the handle portion extending in a direction orthogonal to the rotation axis of the stirring blade member, the stirring blade member, the trajectory of the outer shape drawn when rotated about the rotation axis, the bottom surface is the inner bottom of the holding container. The domestic rice sharpening machine according to claim 1, which has an outer shape of a substantially conical shape having substantially the same size.