JP3162904U - Gelling food cutting equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a cutting apparatus capable of cutting gelled foods such as konjac jelly and fruit jelly contained in a bite-sized container safely, easily and with little effort. A cutting device main body 21 having a hollow portion 22 for storing gelled food 1, a cutting blade 27 attached to the inside of the hollow portion 22, and the gelled food 1 is inverted on the cutting blade 27. It consists of the pushing member 29 which pushes down the bottom face part 6 of the gelatinized food 1 in a state. The cutting blade 27 is attached to the cutting member 25 with the convex portion at the substantially central portion facing upward, and the cutting member 25 is attached to the inside of the hollow portion 22. [Selection] Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a gelled food cutting apparatus in which a plastic container is filled with a jelly such as a bite-sized konjac jelly or fruit jelly.

  Gelled food 1 in which a plastic container is filled with jelly 2 such as bite-sized konjac jelly or fruit jelly is commercially available. In these gelled foods 1, a plastic container 3 as shown in FIG. 4 (a) is filled with jelly 2 such as konjac jelly or fruit jelly, and laminated with an aluminum foil and a thermoplastic resin film. It is marketed in a sealed state using the lid 5. In addition, the joining by the plastic container 3 and the laminated lid | cover 5 has generally used the method by heat welding from points, such as workability | operativity and manufacturing cost.

  When the jelly 2 stored in the plastic container 3 is eaten, the jelly 2 in the container 3 is removed after pulling the kneading portion 7 of the lid 5 from the container 3 (FIG. 4B). I drank it in my mouth and swallowed it little by little with a spoon 11 (Fig. 4 (c)).

  However, if a child or an elderly person puts the jelly 2 filled in the container 3 into the mouth as it is and swallows it without chewing it, there is a risk of suffocating the jelly 2 in the throat. There was a problem. In addition, it was very troublesome to eat the jelly 2 with a spoon 11 little by little.

  In addition, it takes a considerable amount of time to eat the jelly 2 for children and the elderly because it requires considerable gripping power and ingenuity to pull and remove the kneading part 7 of the lid 5 from the plastic container 3. There was a problem that labor was required.

  As this improvement measure, a method of providing a recess in the plastic container 3 or partitioning by forming a lattice 9 has been proposed as shown in Patent Document 1 (FIG. 5). If this method is used, the size and shape of the jelly 2 taken out from the container 3 can be reduced, so that even if it is put in the mouth as it is, it will not be caught in the throat.

  However, if a recess is provided inside the container 3 or if the grid 9 is formed and partitioned, the cost of the container 3 increases, and the fluidity is hindered by the presence of the grid 9 or the like when filling the jelly 2. As a result, the production cost of the gelled food 1 is increased.

  On the other hand, as in Patent Document 2, there has also been proposed a method of cutting the container 3 and the lid 5 filled with the jelly 2 as they are with a cutter such as a cutter (FIG. 6). If this technique is used, it is not necessary to pull the kneading part 7 and peel off the lid 5, and the jelly 2 can be squeezed and eaten with a spoon or the like from the cut surface.

  However, since the container 3 is harder and stronger than the lid 5 and the jelly 2, there is a problem that considerable force is required when cutting the gelled food 1 as it is. there were.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-17068 Registered Utility Model No. 3099736

  As described above, various measures have been studied to eat gelled foods such as konjac jelly and fruit jelly contained in a bite-size container safely, simply and with little effort. The fact is that no specific policy has been found.

  Therefore, the present invention has an object to provide a method for safely and easily eating gelled food such as jelly contained in a bite-sized container with little effort even in children and elderly people.

  The present invention aims to solve the above-described problems. The device described in claim 1 is a cutting device body 21 having a hollow portion 22 for storing the gelled food 1, a cutting blade 27, and a pushing member 29. It is characterized by being a gelling food 1 cutting device comprising:

  By using the present invention, it is possible to cut a jelly portion contained in a container safely, easily and with little effort. In addition, the gelling food 1 cutting apparatus according to the present invention has a simple structure and a small number of parts, and therefore can be manufactured at low cost.

  The device described in claim 2 is characterized in that, in the device described in claim 1, the cutting device main body 21 is provided with a jelly drop space 24. Therefore, the cut jelly 2 falls into the jelly drop space 24 and is held as it is.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the device according to the first aspect, the cutting blade 27 has a convex portion 28 at a substantially central portion, and the cutting device main body with the convex portion 28 facing upward. It is attached to 21. Here, by attaching the convex portion 28 of the cutting blade 27 to the cutting device main body 21 facing upward, the portion of the lid 5 can be cut easily and with less effort, as will be described later.

  The invention described in claim 4 is the invention described in claim 1 or claim 3, wherein the cutting blade 27 is attached to the cutting member 25, and the cutting member 25 can be detached from the cutting device main body 21. It is characterized by being. Accordingly, the hollow portion 22, the cutting member 25, and the cutting blade 27 of the cutting device main body 21 can be easily cleaned and replaced, so that there is an advantage that handling becomes extremely convenient.

  The device described in claim 5 is characterized in that, in the device described in claim 3 or 4, a cutter blade is used as the cutting blade 27. By using a commercially available cutter blade as the cutting blade 27, the cutting blade 27 is inexpensive and easy to obtain.

  Using the cutting device for gelled food contained in the container of the present invention, since only the soft lid part and the jelly part of the contents are cut, it can be stored safely, easily and with little effort. The jelly portion can be cut.

  Moreover, when the cutting apparatus of the gelatinized foodstuff stored in the container of this invention is used, it also has the advantage that handling is very convenient.

  In addition, the gelling food 1 cutting device according to the present invention has a simple structure and a small number of parts, and therefore can be manufactured at a low cost.

It is explanatory drawing of the cutting apparatus of gelatinized foodstuff (Example 1). It is explanatory drawing which showed the condition at the time of the cutting | disconnection of gelatinized foodstuff (Example 1). (Example 2) which is the schematic of the cutting device of the gelatinized foodstuffs accommodated in the box. It is explanatory drawing which showed how to eat the conventional gelled food. 1 is a schematic view of a gelled food container described in Patent Document 1. FIG. It is the schematic which shows the gelatinized foodstuff after the cutting described in patent document 2. FIG. It is explanatory drawing of a cutting blade.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a gelled food cutting device according to the present invention will be described in detail.

(Geling food cutting device)
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of a cutting device for gelled food 1 according to the present invention. The cutting device for gelled food 1 according to the present invention includes a cutting device main body 21, a cutting blade 27, and a pushing member 29.

  The cutting device main body 21 has a structure having a hollow portion 22, and a protrusion 23 is formed below the hollow portion 22. A jelly dropping space 24 is provided below the protrusion 23 as a space where the jelly 2 cut as will be described later falls and can be held as it is.

  In addition, in FIG. 1, although the cutting device main body 21 is shown as a structure having a substantially cylindrical hollow portion 22, the size and shape of the container 3 of the gelled food 1 are different, so that each container 3 It is preferable to appropriately change the cross-sectional shape of the hollow portion 22 in accordance with the size, shape, and the like.

  Next, the cutting member 25 to which a cutting blade 27 such as a cutter blade is attached is inserted into the hollow portion 22 of the cutting device main body 21 from above and set. The inserted cutting member 25 is locked and set by a projection 23 formed inside the hollow portion 22. Here, as the cutting blade 27 of the cutting member 25, the blade was arranged so as to be substantially cross-shaped (FIG. 1).

  Next, an explanatory diagram of the detailed shape of the cutting blade 27 used in Example 1 is shown in FIG. The cutting blade 27 is composed of two blades having a convex portion 28 at a substantially central portion (FIG. 7), and they are fixed so as to have a substantially cross shape by fitting them. And it was made to attach to the cutting device main body 21 in the state which this convex part 28 faced upwards. As a result of repeated experiments, it has been clarified that the portion of the lid 5 can be easily cut with little effort by attaching the convex portion 28 of the cutting blade 27 to the cutting device main body 21 facing upward.

  In this embodiment, the cutting blade 27 having a shape as shown in FIG. 7 is used, but as the cutting blade 27, a commercially available cutter blade may be used in combination. By using a commercially available cutter blade as the cutting blade 27, it is inexpensive even during replacement and can be easily obtained.

  It is also possible to manufacture the cutting device main body 21 and the cutting blade 27 in an integrated state in advance. However, by making the cutting member 25 with the cutting blade 27 detachable from the cutting device main body 21, the hollow portion 22 inside the cutting device main body 21, the cutting member 25 and the cutting blade 27 can be cleaned and replaced. Can be easily. In other words, the structure in which the cutting member 25 with the cutting blade 27 can be removed has an advantage that the apparatus can be handled very conveniently.

  Then, the gelled food 1 is dropped into the hollow portion 22 of the cutting device main body 21 in a state where the lid 5 of the gelled food 1 is directed downward, that is, the gelled food 1 is inverted. Accordingly, the gelled food 1 is dropped into the hollow portion 22 of the cutting apparatus main body 21 so that the portion of the lid 5 rides directly above the cutting blade 27 of the cutting member 25 and the bottom surface portion 6 faces upward.

  In addition, when the stagnation part 7 of the lid 5 is caught in the hollow part of the cutting device main body 21, it can be dropped downward using a pushing member 29 described later.

  In FIG. 1, the pusher member 29 has a gripping hand 31 and a pressing plate 33. By pushing down the gripper 31 downward, the bottom surface portion 6 of the gelled food 1 can be pushed downward via the pressing plate 33.

As will be described later, since it is sufficient for the pushing member 29 to have a function of pushing the bottom surface portion 6 of the gelled food 1 downward, objects of various shapes such as a substantially cylindrical rod-like body are used. be able to.
(Cutting gelled food)
FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a situation when the gelled food 1 is cut. As described above, the cutting member 25 with the cutting blade 27 is set in the hollow portion 22 of the cutting device main body 21, and the gelled food 1 in an inverted state is placed on the cutting member 25. The pressing plate 33 of the pressing member 29 is brought into contact with the bottom surface portion 6 (FIG. 2A).

  Then, the holding member 31 of the pushing member 29 is held and pushed downward. Then, the bottom surface portion 6 of the container 3 of the gelled food 1 is pushed by the pressing plate 33 and gradually dented. On the other hand, pressure is applied to the jelly 2 inside the container 3, and the lid 5 pushed through the jelly 2 expands downward, so that the lid 5 and the cutting blade 27 of the cutting member 25 come into contact with each other with a strong pressure. (FIG. 2B).

  Thereafter, when the pressure between the lid 5 and the cutting blade 27 exceeds a certain value, the cutting blade 27 first cuts the substantially central portion of the lid 5 and then the extruded jelly 2 portion becomes substantially cross-shaped. It is cut and only the portion of the jelly 2 protrudes into the jelly fall space 24. On the other hand, the portion of the container 3 is crushed as it is above the cutting member 25 (FIG. 2C).

  Here, as a result of repeated experiments, as described above, it was found that when the cutting blade 27 having the convex portion 28 at the substantially central portion was used (FIG. 7), the cutting start of the lid 5 proceeded smoothly. If the lid 5 is cut, the soft jelly 2 is cut very easily.

  Finally, only the portion of the jelly 2 falls on the tray 35 disposed below the drop space 24 (FIG. 2 (d)). As described above, since the substantially cross-shaped cutting blade 27 is used in this embodiment, the portion of the jelly 2 is cut into four small pieces. That is, in the present embodiment, it is possible to obtain the jelly 2 divided into approximately four equal parts.

  In this embodiment, since the blades are arranged so as to be substantially cross-shaped as the cutting blade 27 of the cutting member 25, the jelly 2 is cut into four small pieces. When the arranged cutting blade 27 is used, the jelly 2 is cut into two small pieces. Therefore, a jelly having a desired size can be obtained by appropriately selecting and changing the number and arrangement of the blades.

  When the cutting apparatus for gelled food 1 according to the present invention is used, the rigid container 3 is hardly cut, and only the relatively soft lid 5 and soft jelly 2 are cut. In addition, the jelly 2 portion of the gelled food 1 can be easily cut into small pieces with little effort. Therefore, the portion of the jelly 2 housed in the container 3 can be cut safely, easily and with little effort.

  In addition, since the structure of the cutting device for gelled food 1 according to the present invention is simple, it can be manufactured at low cost.

  The second embodiment shown in FIG. 3 is obtained by further improving the idea of the first embodiment described above.

  That is, the cutting device main body 21 fitted with the cutting member 25 described above is incorporated into the box body 43, and the portion of the jelly 2 of the gelled food 1 is cut using the pushing member 29 to which the “lever principle” is applied. did. In addition, the cut jelly 2 can be easily taken out using the drawer 45 installed in the box 43.

  The pushing member 29 is attached to a handle 39 having a long hole 42 in a rotatable or movable state, and the handle 39 is attached to the box body 43 via a hinge 41. Here, the structure having the long holes 42 can cope with the case of the container 3 having different dimensions in the height direction.

  And the pushing member 29 moves to an up-down direction by rotating the part of the handle 39 in a substantially up-down direction. That is, in Example 2 shown in FIG. 3, the gelled food 1 is cut by applying the “lever principle” and moving the pushing member 29 in the vertical direction.

  When the cutting apparatus for the gelled food 1 according to the present invention shown in Example 2 is used, the gelled food 1 can be pushed in with less force because the “lever principle” is used. Therefore, the portion of the jelly 2 housed in the container can be cut with less labor than in the first embodiment.

  In addition, after the gelled food 1 is cut, the wide handle 39 is placed on the hollow portion 22 of the cutting device main body 21 to make it difficult to touch the cutting blade 27. Therefore, an unexpected injury caused by the cutting blade 27 can be prevented.

  The gelled food cutting device of the present invention can be used for cutting gelled food filled with jelly such as konjac jelly and fruit jelly in a bite-sized container.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Gelled food 2 Jelly 3 Container 5 Lid 6 Bottom part 7 Grudge part 9 Lattice 11 Spoon 21 Cutting device main body 22 Hollow part 23 Protrusion part 24 Jelly fall space 25 Cutting member 27 Cutting blade 28 Protrusion part 29 Pushing member 31 Grasping hand 33 Pushing plate 35 Dish 37 Cutting part 39 Handle 41 Hinge 42 Long hole 43 Box 45 Drawer

Claims (5)

A cutting device main body 21 having a hollow portion 22 for storing the gelled food 1;
Cutting blade 27;
A cutting apparatus for gelled food 1, comprising a pressing member 29.   The gelling food cutting device according to claim 1, wherein a jelly drop space is provided below the cutting device main body.   The cutting blade (27) has a convex portion (28) at a substantially central portion, and is attached to the cutting device body (21) with the convex portion (28) facing upward. A device for cutting gelled food 1.   The gelled food 1 according to claim 1, wherein the cutting blade 27 is attached to a cutting member 25, and the cutting member 25 can be detached from the cutting device main body 21. Cutting device.   The said cutting blade 27 is a cutter blade, The cutting apparatus of the gelled foodstuff 1 of Claim 3 or Claim 4 characterized by the above-mentioned.