JP3217760U - Food display equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

A food display device for holding a molded food is provided.
A food display apparatus includes a plate portion 12 having a plurality of recesses 13 for holding a molded food, a cam mechanism 22 provided in at least one of the plurality of recesses 13, and a cam mechanism. And a drive unit 11 for driving 22.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a food display device suitable for use in, for example, displaying a simulated state of cooking octopus.

  For example, in an octopus bakery, there are many shops that employ a method in which a store clerk cooks octopus ware at a store and shows customers how they are buying. However, in order for the store clerk to be able to show the cooking state to the customer, a certain degree of cooking experience is required. However, such a clerk is not always resident in the octopus grill shop.

  Therefore, many devices for supporting store clerk have been proposed in the past. For example, in Patent Document 1, baking is performed while rotating the octopus grilling by vibrating the food heating plate in three directions of up and down, left and right, and front and back. An octopus broiler that can be disclosed is disclosed.

  There are also octopus bakery shops that employ frozen octopus grilled frozen octopus baked in a spherical shape. In such an octopus grill shop, the frozen octopus grill is thawed and re-baked in a store that is not visible to the customer.

JP 2009-125044 A

  Thawed and re-baked frozen octopus is not taste-insensitive compared to octopus baked at the store. However, when using frozen octopus grill, it is not possible to display at the store, so there is not enough appeal to customers and sales are difficult to increase.

  This invention is made | formed in view of such a condition, and it aims at enabling it to implement | achieve cooking display using the shape | molded foodstuff.

  The present invention includes a plurality of means for solving at least a part of the above-described problems. Examples of such means are as follows. In order to solve the above-described problem, a food display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a plate portion in which a plurality of recesses for holding a molded food is formed, and at least one of the plurality of recesses. It is provided with the provided cam mechanism and the drive part which drives the said cam mechanism.

  The cam mechanism includes a cam hole formed in the concave portion, a cam having at least one convex portion, and a rotating shaft to which the cam is fixed. The convex portion of the cam is the cam The food can be pushed up from the hole.

  The cam hole can be opened at a position shifted from the center of the recess.

  Adjacent cams can have different phases.

  The cams respectively provided in the recesses belonging to the same row or column may be fixed to the common rotating shaft.

  The food display device may have a bottom shape that matches the shape of the upper surface of a predetermined heating device.

  The plate part may have a heat generating part for keeping the food warm.

  The molded food product may be a spherical octopus grill, and the plate portion may be formed with a plurality of hemispherical recesses for holding the spherical octopus grill.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to realize a cooking display using molded foods.

  Problems, configurations, and effects other than those described above will be clarified by the following description of embodiments.

It is an external appearance perspective view which shows the structural example of the octopus baking display apparatus which is one embodiment which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the structural example of an octopus grill display apparatus. It is a figure which shows the detailed structural example of the upper surface of an octopus grill display apparatus. It is a perspective view which shows an example of the cam mechanism which rotates takoyaki. It is an external appearance perspective view which shows the structural example of a heating apparatus. It is an external appearance perspective view which shows an example of the combination of an octopus grill display apparatus and a heating apparatus. It is a front view which shows an example of the combination of an octopus display apparatus and a heating apparatus. It is a side view which shows an example of the combination of an octopus display apparatus and a heating apparatus. It is a figure which shows the modification of an octopus grill display apparatus. It is an external appearance perspective view which shows an example of the combination of the modification of an octopus display apparatus, and a heating apparatus.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that components having the same function are denoted by the same reference symbols throughout the drawings for describing the embodiment, and the repetitive description thereof will be omitted. Further, in the following embodiments, the constituent elements (including element steps) are not necessarily indispensable unless otherwise specified and clearly considered essential in principle. Needless to say. In addition, when referring to “consisting of A”, “consisting of A”, “having A”, and “including A”, other elements are excluded unless specifically indicated that only that element is included. It goes without saying that it is not what you do. Similarly, in the following embodiments, when referring to the shapes, positional relationships, etc. of the components, etc., the shapes are substantially the same unless otherwise specified, or otherwise apparent in principle. And the like are included.

<Configuration example of food display device according to one embodiment of the present invention>
FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing a configuration example of an octopus grill display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The octopus grill display device 10 (corresponding to the food display device of the present invention) is a spherically shaped octopus grill (e.g., cooked octopus grilled or cooked) placed in a plurality of recesses 13 formed in the plate portion 12. Refrigerated octopus grilled frozen octopus baked and re-baked).

  Therefore, the octopus grill display device 10 can display a state in which the octopus grill by a person is baked in a spherical shape while rotating. Therefore, if the octopus grill display device 10 is installed at a storefront or the like, the customer's willingness to purchase can be promoted and sales can be expected to improve.

  FIG. 2 shows a configuration example of the octopus grill display device 10, where FIG. 2A is a top view, FIG. 2B is a side view on the long side, and FIG. 2C is a side view on the short side. Respectively.

  The octopus grill display device 10 includes a drive unit 11 and a plate unit 12. The drive unit 11 includes a motor (not shown) and a gear 112 (FIG. 4), and a rotary shaft 22 (see FIG. 4) provided inside the plate unit 12 in response to an operation on the switch 111 provided on the front surface of the housing. Rotate 4). A plurality of hemispherical recesses 13 (32 in the case of the figure) are formed in the plate portion 12 to hold the molded octopus grill.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of the configuration of the upper surface of the octopus grill display apparatus 10 in more detail.

  A cam hole 14 is opened in each concave portion 13 of the plate portion 12 at a position shifted from the center thereof. The cam hole 14 is configured such that the convex portion of the cam 21 that is rotationally driven from below is projected. In the case of the present embodiment, since the octopus grilled in a spherical shape is placed in each recess 13, the material for the octopus grilling (the ingredients such as the flour liquid and the octopus before the grilling) spills out from the cam hole 14. There is nothing. Further, since the cam hole 14 is opened at a position shifted from the center of the recess 13, the octopus grill placed in each recess 13 is variously compared with the case where the cam hole 14 is opened at the center of the recess 13. Can be easily rotated in any direction.

  FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an example of a cam mechanism for rotating octopus grilling. As described above, the cam 21 is disposed below the cam hole 14 of each recess 13. The cam 21 is fixed to a common rotating shaft 22 in the row (or column) to which the concave portion 13 belongs. However, in the same figure, illustration of the cam 21 and the rotating shaft 22 in the one part recessed part 13 is abbreviate | omitted.

  The cam 21 has at least one convex portion. The rotating shaft 22 is connected to the gear 112 of the drive unit 11. In the case of the figure, since the cam 21 has three convex portions, every time the rotating shaft 22 makes one rotation, the cam 21 pushes up the octopus firing three times in an oblique direction.

  In the octopus display apparatus 10, when the user places the octopus baked in a spherical shape in each recess 13 of the plate unit 12 and starts the motor of the drive unit 11, the power is transmitted to the rotary shaft 22 via the gear 112. The cam 21 fixed to the rotating shaft 22 is rotated. Further, the rotation of the cam 21 causes the convex portion of the cam 21 to periodically protrude from the cam hole 14 of each concave portion 13 and push up the spherical octopus grill placed in the concave portion 13 from an oblique direction, so that the octopus grille jumps out of the concave portion 13. Without octopus grilling can be rotated.

  It should be noted that the phases of the cams 21 fixed to the common rotating shaft 22 are preferably adjusted to be different from each other so that the timing at which the convex portions of the cams 21 protrude from the cam holes 14 of the concave portions 13 is different. Further, it is desirable that the phases of adjacent cams 21 fixed to different rotating shafts 22 are also shifted. Thereby, the rotation timing of the plurality of octopus grills placed in the respective concave portions 13 of the plate portion 12 can be made random, and actual cooking can be displayed more imitating the real cooking.

  Conversely, the phases of all the cams 21 may be matched to synchronize the rotation timings of a plurality of octopus grills placed in the respective concave portions 13 of the plate portion 12.

  In addition, a cam mechanism may be provided only in a part of the recesses 13 instead of providing the cam mechanisms in all the recesses 13 formed in the plate portion 12. In this case, only the octopus grill placed in some of the recesses 13 formed in the plate portion 12 rotates, and the octopus grill placed in the other recesses 13 does not rotate. In addition, about the recessed part 13 which does not provide a cam mechanism, you may abbreviate | omit opening of the cam hole 14. FIG.

  Heretofore, the octopus grill display device 10 that rotates the octopus grill formed in a spherical shape has been described.

  Next, FIG. 5 is an external perspective view showing a configuration example of a heating device that is preferably used in combination with the octopus grill display device 10.

  The heating device 30 is provided with a heating mechanism such as a heater or a microwave oven. A door 31 is provided in front of the heating device 30. For example, the bottom of the door 31 is connected to the casing of the heating device 30 by a hinge or the like. A handle 32 is fixed to the door 31, and the user can open the door 31 by pulling the handle 32. The heating device 30 can defrost and re-bake food (in this case, frozen octopus baked food) by a heating mechanism inside the housing. In addition, you may provide the drawer which can put a foodstuff in the inside instead of the door 31. FIG.

  A heat retaining plate 33 is provided on the upper portion of the casing of the heating device 30. The heat retaining plate 33 can generate heat at a predetermined temperature. Therefore, if the food thawed and rebaked by the heater inside the housing is placed on the heat retaining plate 33, it can be kept warm.

  In addition, the heating apparatus 30 may be prepared as a dedicated apparatus for combining with the octopus grill display apparatus 10, or an existing apparatus may be used. For example, a sweet potato machine that heats sweet potatoes to make hot cakes and keeps them warm can be used.

  Next, FIGS. 6 to 8 show an example of a combination of the octopus grill display device 10 and the heating device 30. 6 is an external perspective view of the combination, FIG. 7 is a front view of the combination, and FIG. 8 is a side view of the combination.

  In this combination, the octopus grill display device 10 is arranged on a heat retaining plate 33 provided on the upper portion of the casing of the heating device 30. In addition, the bottom part shape of the octopus grill display device 10 is formed to match the shape of the heat retention plate 33 of the heating device 30 so that the octopus grill display device 10 can be stably placed on the heat retaining plate 33. In this case, the octopus grill rotated by the plate portion 12 of the octopus grill display device 10 can be kept warm by the heat generated by the heat retaining plate 33.

  However, in this combination, the octopus grill display device 10 is resistant to the heat output from the heat retaining plate 33, and the plate portion 12 needs to be formed of a material that can transfer the heat from the heat retaining plate 33 to the octopus grill.

  Next, FIG. 9 shows a modification of the octopus grill display apparatus 10. FIG. 10 is an external perspective view showing an example of a combination of the modification example of the octopus grill display device 10 and the heating device 30.

  In this modification, an upper cover 41 that covers the plate portion 12 is added to the octopus grill display device 10. By providing the upper cover 41, it is possible to obtain an effect of making it easier to keep the octopus grill placed on the plate portion 12 warm.

  Note that if the upper cover 41 is formed of a transparent material, the entire plate portion 12 can be seen even if the upper cover 41 is present, so that the display function of rotating the octopus ware by the octopus ware display device 10 is not impaired. It is possible to enhance the heat retention effect.

  When the upper cover 41 is formed of an opaque material, it is desirable to open at least one side surface of the upper cover 41 so that the plate portion 12 can be seen from the one side surface, as shown in FIG.

  Further, the back side surface of the upper cover 41 (not shown) may be opened or closed.

  In the above description, since the octopus grill display device 10 is premised on the combination with the heating device 30, the octopus grill display device 10 does not have functions such as thawing, rebaking, and heat retention. However, assuming that only the octopus grill display device 10 is installed alone in the store, the plate portion 12 may be provided with a heat generating portion so as to have a function such as heat retention.

  In addition, the present invention can be applied not only to octopus grilling, but also to the cooking display of other shaped foods (baked confectionery etc.).

  In the above-described embodiment, the configuration has been described in detail for easy understanding of the present invention, and is not necessarily limited to the one having all the configurations described.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Octopus ware display apparatus, 11 ... Drive part, 12 ... Plate part, 13 ... Recessed part, 14 ... Cam hole, 21 ... Cam, 22 ... Rotating shaft, 30 * ..Heating device, 31 ... door, 32 ... handle, 41 ... upper cover, 111 ... switch, 112 ... gear

Claims (8)

A plate part formed with a plurality of recesses for holding the molded food,
A cam mechanism provided in at least one of the plurality of recesses;
A drive unit for driving the cam mechanism;
A food display device comprising: The food display device according to claim 1,
The cam mechanism has a cam hole formed in the concave portion, a cam having at least one convex portion, and a rotating shaft to which the cam is fixed,
The food display device, wherein the convex portion of the cam pushes up the food from the cam hole. The food display device according to claim 2,
The food display device, wherein the cam hole is formed at a position shifted from a center of the recess. The food display device according to claim 2,
The food display device, wherein the adjacent cams have different phases. The food display device according to claim 2,
The food display device, wherein the cams respectively provided in the recesses belonging to the same row or column are fixed to the common rotating shaft. The food display device according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
A food display device having a bottom shape that matches the shape of the upper surface of a predetermined heating device. The food display device according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
The food display device, wherein the plate part has a heat generating part for keeping the food warm. The food display device according to any one of claims 1 to 7,
The molded food is a spherical octopus grill,
The food display apparatus, wherein the plate portion is formed with a plurality of hemispherical concave portions for holding the spherical octopus grill.

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