JP3514989B2 - Cooking device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to brown rice, white rice, wheat,
Bran attached to the surface of cereals such as buckwheat (embryo, bran layer and starch layer peeled from rice, or fine powder mixed with seed coat and the like, abbreviated as "bran" hereinafter) is dry type. The present invention relates to a cooker such as a rice mill for home use that is removed by a structure.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional food processor cooks meat, vegetables, etc. by using a cutter corresponding to the food processor. However, it is not possible to carry out polishing for polishing polished rice or polished rice. There wasn't.

Therefore, the inventor of the present invention has developed a grain catcher capable of utilizing a food processor and capable of milling or polishing rice with a dry structure, and has already proposed Japanese Patent Application No. 10-257.
No. 846 has been filed. This one accommodates a sieving container as a separation container having a large number of separation holes in a bottle placed on the main body of a food processor, and is composed of a tubular portion that stands upright in the center of the bottom wall of this container. The rotation shaft of the bottle that is rotated by the drive mechanism of the main body is passed through the shaft insertion cylinder, and a stirring tool is connected to this shaft in the sieving container, and brown rice is stored in the sieving container to open and close the upper end opening of the bottle. It is used by rotating the stirring tool with the lid closed. Therefore, the powder remover can separate rice bran in the separation hole of the sieving container by stirring the rice in the sieving container and store it in the bottom of the bottle.

[0004]

However, since the sieving container of this dust remover is simply stored in the bottle with its lower end in contact with the inner bottom surface of the bottle, it is accompanied by the stirring of rice. The sieve container may be shaken. When the sieving container is shaken, there is a possibility that the stirring tool rotated in the sieving container and the sieving container may come into contact with each other and be damaged.

Therefore, the problem to be solved by the present invention is to obtain a cooker capable of preventing damage due to mutual interference between a separation container housed in a bottle and a stirring device rotated therein, with a simple structure. It is in.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention of claim 1 provides a cooker main body having a built-in drive mechanism for rotating a rotary shaft, and an upper end attached to the cooker main body. As it is opened, the edge of this opening goes up
Bottle with open concave pour spout and circumferential direction on top
This flange has a flange that continuously projects to the outside.
Hook the flange on the top surface of the bottle so that part of the bottle closes the spout ,
A space is formed between the wall and the bottom wall of the bottle so that it can be put into and taken out of the bottle and has a large number of separation holes.
A separating container, a crawler attached to a rotating shaft arranged in the central portion of the bottle and rotated together with the rotating shaft in the separating container, and the upper end surface of the bottle. An opening / closing lid attached to the bottle with a flange interposed therebetween is provided. As the cooker body and the bottle of this cooker, the existing professional set body and bottle of the food processor can be used if necessary.

In the invention of claim 1, since the flange of the separation container accommodated in the bottle is hooked on the upper end surface of the bottle, after the material to be cooked such as brown rice is accommodated in the bottle in this state, By attaching an opening / closing lid that closes the upper end opening to the bottle, a flange can be sandwiched between the lid and the upper end surface of the bottle to support the separation container without shaking.

The rotary shaft arranged in the center of the separation container and the stirring tool attached to the shaft are fixed by sandwiching the flange as described above by operating the drive mechanism of the cooker body. It is rotated in the separated container.
As the brown rice etc. already put in the bottle is stirred by the rotation of the stirring device, the objects to be separated such as the bran adhered to the surface of the rice, etc. The rice, etc., from which the object to be separated has been removed, remains in the separation container while passing therethrough and being accumulated in the space between the bottle and the separation container.

In such a separating operation, the separation container tends to be moved by the material to be cooked which is agitated therein. However, as described above, the separation container has its flange sandwiched between the upper end surface of the bottle and the opening / closing lid. Therefore, with such a simple structure, it is possible to prevent the separation container from shaking due to the stirring.

Moreover, as described above, the dry type structure which does not use water can remove the objects to be separated such as the bran from the material to be cooked, so that the objects to be separated such as the bran can be removed easily and in a short time. be able to. Moreover, since the removed separation target is stored in the bottle and does not diffuse around, it is possible to collectively process the separation targets such as bran stored in the bottle after taking out the separation container from the bottle. .

In carrying out the invention of claim 1,
According to a second aspect of the present invention, a handle provided on the outer surface of the bottle is provided, and a handle hooking portion detachably hooked on the lower surface of the protruding base of the handle is provided on the opening / closing lid. It is advisable to hook the handle hooking portion on the handle and attach the opening / closing lid to the bottle. With this configuration, the handle of the bottle can be used to attach the opening / closing lid to the bottle in a closed posture, so that it is not necessary to provide the bottle with a special structure for attaching the opening / closing lid.

Similarly, in carrying out the invention of claim 1, as in the invention of claim 3 subordinate to this invention, a handle protruding to the outer surface of the bottle is provided and
The spout is provided so as to protrude from the outer surface of the upper end of the bottle ,
The opening / closing lid is provided with a handle hook that detachably hooks on the lower surface of the protruding base of the handle and a spout hook part that detachably hooks on the lower surface of the spout, and the handle hook is provided on the handle. It is preferable that the opening / closing lid is attached to the bottle by hooking the pouring port hooking portion on the pouring port and the opening / closing lid. In this way, the handle and the spout of the bottle can be used to attach the opening / closing lid to the bottle in a closed posture, so that it is not necessary to provide the bottle with a special structure for attaching the opening / closing lid.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

1 to 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a synthetic resin food processor main body (hereinafter abbreviated as a main body) included in an existing food processor. This main body 1 can be used as a cooker main body, a sorting main body, and a dust remover main body, and is assembled by connecting a body case 1a, a bottom case 1b, and a top cover 1c as shown in FIG. Has been. In the main body 1, a metal support plate 2 is arranged in a horizontal posture. The main body 1 has a bottle mounting portion 3 having a trapezoidal shape, and the top cover 1 is provided at a position separated from the mounting portion 3.
A drive motor 4 covered from above by c is built in, and this motor 4 is attached to the support plate 2.

A bearing 7 is attached to the support plate 2 via a bearing holder 6 connected to the support plate 2, and an output shaft 8 passing through the bearing 7 is rotatably supported in a vertical posture. The upper end of the output shaft 8 is projected into the center of the recess 3a of the upper surface opening of the bottle mounting portion 3, and the drive side coupling 9 is attached to the upper end.

The downward motor shaft 4a of the motor 4 penetrating the support plate 2 downward and the output shaft 8 are connected to each other via a transmission means. Motor 4 built in the main body 1, output shaft 8,
The transmission means constitutes the driving mechanism 10. The transmission means is, for example, a drive pulley 11 fixed to the motor shaft 4a.
And a driven pulley 1 for reduction fixed to the lower end of the output shaft 8.
2 and a belt 13 wound around these pulleys 11 and 12. The drive mechanism 1
0 causes the output shaft 8 to rotate at 3500 rpm,
This rotation is included in a range suitable for rotating a chopping cutter (not shown) to cut meat into small pieces for cooking.

Reference numeral 25 in FIGS. 1 and 3 denotes a hollow switch convex portion that is integrally erected from the top cover 1c adjacent to the bottle mounting portion 3, and the upper end portion of the convex portion 25 has the shape shown in FIG. An opening 25a as shown in (B) is opened. A switch interlocking member (not shown) is housed inside the switch convex portion 25 so as to face the opening 25a, and the interlocking member is pushed by a switch operation convex portion which will be described later and is inserted into the opening 25a. A normally closed safety switch (not shown) is turned on.
1 and 3, reference numeral 26 is a power switch, and 27 and 28 are speed changeover switches. The motor 4 is adapted to rotate at a speed designated by the speed changeover switch 27 or 28 when both the power switch 26 and the safety switch are turned on.

As shown in FIG. 2, a cooking bottle 14 made of, for example, transparent glass having an open upper surface is mounted on the bottle mounting portion 3 and a container base 15 connected to the lower surface thereof is attached to and detached from the recess 3a. It is fitted and attached as much as possible. Figure 5
As shown in (A), the bottle peripheral wall 14b of the bottle 14 is shown.
A plurality of vertical ribs 16 as protrusions for preventing rotation are integrally provided on the inner peripheral surface of the. These ribs 16 are on the bottle 14
Of the bottle peripheral wall 14b, the rib surface on the upstream side in the rotational direction of the rotating shaft described later is extended in order to suppress the movement of the food contained in the bottle 14 and increase the cutting efficiency. It is formed so as to be substantially perpendicular to the inner peripheral surface.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the bottle 1
4 has a handle 14c integrally provided on the outer peripheral surface thereof, and a spout 14d protruding outward in the radial direction at an opening edge 180 ° away from the handle 14c. The handle 14c has, for example, a U shape in a side view. The lower surface of the tip of the spout 14d is formed as a flat surface.

An opening / closing lid 17 made of synthetic resin for opening / closing the bottle 14 is detachably attached to the upper end opening of the bottle 14. As shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 4, FIG.
Has a substantially circular shape and is fitted to the outside of the upper end opening edge of the bottle 14, and the handle hook portion 17a and the spout hook portion 17b are integrally formed on the outer peripheral portion thereof at 180 ° apart from each other. It is provided in. The handle hook portion 17a includes a support portion that extends vertically downward from the peripheral surface of the opening / closing lid 17, and a hook piece that is horizontally bent from the tip thereof.
It has a V shape, and the upper surface of the tip of the hooking piece is formed by a tapered surface 17c. The tapered surface 17c is an inclined surface that gradually decreases toward the tip of the hooking piece. The spout hook portion 17b is formed by connecting a horizontal hook piece to the tip of a U-shaped support frame portion protruding from the upper surface of the opening / closing lid 17, and the tapered surface 1 is provided on the upper surface of the hook piece.
7d is formed. The tapered surface 17d is an inclined surface that gradually decreases toward the one end 17e of the hooking piece. Further, the opening / closing lid 17 has its spout hook portion 17b.
A switch operation convex portion 18 is integrally provided so as to project toward the side.

As shown in FIG. 7 (A), the opening / closing lid 17 has both hook portions 17a and 17b for gripping the bottle 14.
4c and the spout 14d, after being fitted to the upper end portion of the bottle 14, they are rotated in the circumferential direction as shown by the arrow in FIG. By hooking the hooking piece of the handle hooking portion 17a on the lower surface of the protruding base portion 14e of the handle 14c as shown, and by hooking the hooking piece of the spout hooking portion 17b on the lower surface 14f of the tip end portion of the spout 14d, The bottle 14 is attached with the upper end opening closed, and is removed from the bottle 14 in the reverse order. In this case, taper surface 17c is attached to each hooking piece.
Or 17d is provided, so that when the opening / closing lid 17 is attached, the hooking piece projects from the protruding base portion 14e or the spout 1
4d is prevented from being caught on the tip, and therefore
The hooking is performed smoothly and easily.

According to the structure for attaching the opening / closing lid 17 to the bottle 14 as described above, the opening / closing lid 17 can be attached to the bottle 14 by using the handle 14c and the spout 14d of the bottle 14, so that the opening / closing lid 17 No special structure needs to be provided on the bottle 14 for mounting.

The bottle 14 to which the opening / closing lid 17 is attached by the above-mentioned procedure is first of all opened and closed as shown in FIG.
The switch operation convex portion 18 is placed on the bottle placing portion 3 in a state of approaching the switch convex portion 25. After this,
(A) By rotating the bottle 14 together with the opening / closing lid 17 as shown by the middle arrow, and inserting the switch operation convex portion 18 into the opening 25a of the switch convex portion 25, FIG.
The bottle 14 is installed at a predetermined position as indicated by the middle arrow. Then, after such installation, the opening / closing lid 17 and the bottle 1
While the switch 4 is continuously pushed downward, a safety switch (not shown) is closed in conjunction with this so that the motor 4 is energized.

A bearing holder 19 is attached to the central portion of the bottle bottom wall 14a of the bottle 14 so as to penetrate therethrough, and the container base 15 is connected to the lower end portion of the holder 19. Further, the bearing holder 19 installed in the central portion of the bottle bottom wall 14a of the bottle 14 has a holder fitting portion 19a. The fitting portion 19a is composed of a disk portion concentric with the rotating shaft 21, and in the present embodiment, also serves as a circular flange portion in which a waterproof rubber packing 19b is sandwiched between the bottle bottom wall 14a and the bearing holder 19. However, it may be provided separately on the upper side of the flange portion. In this case, it can be formed by a circular groove or step having a smaller diameter than the flange.

A bearing 20 built in the bearing holder 19 has a rotary shaft 21 supported vertically in a vertically penetrating manner therethrough. The rotating shaft 21 is arranged at the center of the bottle 14, and has a lower end portion on the driven side cup that is detachably meshed with the coupling 9 as the bottle 14 is attached to and detached from the bottle mounting portion 3. A ring 22 is attached.

In the bottle 14, the rotating shaft 21 can be selectively replaced with a cooking cutter such as a chopping cutter or a grater cutter (not shown) which is removably fitted to the rotating shaft 21 and an agitator described later. ing. Therefore, the selected cutter or the like can rotate in the bottle 14 according to the rotation of the output shaft 8.

The food processor having the above structure is provided with an attachment 31 for grain removal capable of polishing and polishing rice. The attachment 31 is used by being housed in the bottle 14 when the food processor having the above-described configuration is used as a grain remover.
As shown in FIG. 2, it comprises a sieving container 32 as a separation container formed of synthetic resin and the like, and a stirring tool 33 rotated in the container 32.

The sieve container 32 is a cylindrical container peripheral wall 3
A container bottom wall 32b is integrally provided at the lower end of 2a, and the upper surface is opened. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the container peripheral wall 32a has a stepped cylindrical shape with a smaller diameter on the lower side (container bottom wall 32b side) from the stepped portion 32c provided at the lower part. At the same time, the diameter is gradually increased toward the upper end opening side. As shown in FIG. 5B, a flange 32d that is continuous in the circumferential direction and projects outward is integrally formed on the upper end opening edge of the container peripheral wall 32a. The flange 32d is hooked on the upper end surface of the bottle 14, and is sandwiched between the upper end surface of the bottle 14 and the inner peripheral surface of the opening / closing lid 17 when the opening / closing lid 17 is attached to the bottle 14. It is like this.
The step size of the step portion 32c is equal to or larger than the thickness dimension of the container peripheral wall 32a, and is equal to the thickness of the container peripheral wall 32a in the present embodiment. As a result, the inner peripheral surface of the opening side peripheral wall portion located above the step portion 32c and the outer peripheral surface of the bottom wall side peripheral wall portion located below the step portion 32c are provided on the extension lines of each other. The sieving container 32 can be molded by using a two-divided mold.

An upper separation hole 34e is provided at the opening side peripheral wall portion of the container peripheral wall 32a of the sieving container 32, and a lower separation hole 34f is provided at the bottom wall side peripheral wall portion.
Is provided. These upper and lower separation holes 34e, 34f
Is a slit that extends in the up-down direction and has a size that hinders the passage of grains such as brown rice contained in the sieve container 32. The lower end of the upper separation hole 34e is opened downward at the step 32c, and similarly the lower The lower end of the separation hole 34f is opened downward in the container bottom wall 32b. The configuration in which the separation holes 34e and 34f are formed by slits extending in the vertical direction reduces the number of the separation holes 34e and 34f, which become resistance when the rice moves upward on the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a, It is excellent in that it makes it easy to move rice upward.

As shown in FIG. 4 and the like, the holder fitting portion 19a is provided at the center of the container bottom wall 32b of the sieving container 32.
A container fitting portion 32g that is detachably fitted to the container is provided. The fitting portion 32g is formed of, for example, a rib that is circular and integrally projects downward, but may be formed of a simple circular recess. The diameter J of the holder fitting portion 19a and the inner diameter K of the container fitting portion 32g have a relationship of J≈K.

As shown in FIG. 5B, etc., the container peripheral wall 3
One or more, for example, two stirring-promoting ribs 35 extending in the vertical direction are integrally formed on the inner peripheral surface of 2a. The lower ends of these ribs 35 reach the container bottom wall 32b, and the upper ends thereof reach above the region where the upper separation holes 34e are provided.
Each rib 35 is formed to have a slope 35a that gradually increases from the upstream side to the downstream side in the rotation direction of the rotation shaft 21 and thus the stirring tool 33 (indicated by arrow E in FIG. 5).

The vertical ribs 1 are provided on the outer peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32b.
Corresponding to No. 6, one or more vertical ribs (not shown) extend vertically and are integrally formed. These ribs are provided with the vertical ribs 16 while the sieve container 32 is accommodated in the bottle 14.
It is provided to prevent the sieving container 32 from being caught by being laterally caught.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, a sieve container 3
A shaft insertion cylinder portion 36 is provided at the center of the second container bottom wall 32b. The tubular portion 36 is integrally projected upward from the container bottom wall 32b, and the separated bran is the axial insertion tubular portion 36.
It is designed to prevent reaching inside of the.

On the lower surface of the container bottom wall 32b, for example, a plurality of spacer protrusions 37 are integrally provided as a space forming means so as to project. These convex portions 37 connect the sieve container 32 to the bottle 14
It is provided to form a gap G1 for accommodating the bran between the bottom walls 14a and 32b of the two when they are housed inside. The gap G1 is set to a volume that can sufficiently accommodate the maximum expected amount of bran separated by one-time rice polishing. In addition,
The spacer convex portion 37 replaces the sieve container 32 with the bottle 14
It may be integrally provided on the bottle bottom wall 14a. But,
As in the present embodiment, the spacer convex portion 37 is attached to the container bottom wall 32b.
Since a plurality of protrusions 37 can be used as legs of the sieving container 32 by projecting them on the lower surface of the sifter, when the sieving container 32 is placed alone, it is placed on the rice from which the bran in the sieving container 32 has been removed. It is excellent in that there is no risk of dust on the surface.

As shown in FIG. 5B, the container bottom wall 32
A large number of separation holes 38 having a size that prevents passage of grains, such as brown rice, which is a material to be cooked, contained in the sieve container 32 are formed in the entire area of b. These separation holes 38 are not limited to the following, but in the present embodiment, for example, 9
Since each of the 0 ° regions is formed with a short slit extending in the radial direction, the rice is placed on the upper surface of the container bottom wall 32b by the rice peripheral wall 32.
This is excellent in that the number of the separation holes 38 that becomes a resistance when moving in the a direction can be reduced and the rice can be easily moved to the outside in the radial direction.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the agitating tool 33 includes an agitating tool body 41 made of a synthetic resin integrally molded product, and a synthetic resin or light metal shaft built in the agitating tool body 41. The engaging member 42 and a plurality of, for example, a pair of blades 43 are provided. The agitator body 41 has a tubular shape with its upper end closed and its lower end opened, and a shaft engaging member 42 is connected to a central tubular portion integrally projecting from the inner surface of the central portion of the upper end wall 41a. This member 42
Is removably fitted in the axial direction of the rotary shaft 21 and engages so as not to rotate relative to the circumferential direction (in other words, it rotates together with the rotary shaft 21). It is something that is caught in. Therefore, the stirring tool 33 is adapted to rotate at a speed of 3500 rpm when attached to the rotary shaft 21 arranged at the center of the sieving container 32. In addition, the shaft insertion tubular portion 36 is inserted into an annular gap between the outer peripheral wall of the stirring tool body 41 and the central tubular portion so that the axial insertion tubular portion 36 does not come into contact with the outer peripheral wall and the central tubular portion. .

The pair of blades 43 is used for the stirring tool body 4
A pair of convex portions 41b (only one of which is shown in FIGS. 2 and 4) protruding integrally from the lower end portion of 1 is connected to each other via rivets 44. The pair of blades 43 is made of a metal plate bent into a U-shaped cross section so as to be suitable for rice polishing and polishing, and these are the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a as it goes from the center of the sieving container 32 to the container peripheral wall 32a side. It is formed in a large arc shape that recedes so that it gradually approaches. The pair of blades 43 are provided at the same height position, and are provided close to the container bottom wall 32b in a state where the agitator body 41 is fitted and attached to the rotary shaft 21. .

Next, the case of polishing brown rice using the attachment 31 will be described. First, the sieve container 32 is passed through the opening at the upper end of the bottle 14 placed on the food processor main body 1, and the flange 32 of the container 32 is attached.
It is stored until d hits the upper end surface of the bottle 14 and is caught. By this accommodation, the shaft insertion tube portion 36 of the sieve container 32 is
The rotary shaft 21 of the bottle 14 is inserted into the rotary shaft 2
1 is located at the center of the sieving container 32, and the spacer protrusions 37 of the sieving container 32 abut against the bottle bottom wall 14a of the bottle 14, and the bottom wall 14a and the sieving container 3
A gap G1 is formed between the second container bottom wall 32b.
At the same time, a gap G2 communicating with the gap G1 is formed between the bottle peripheral wall 14b and the container peripheral wall 32a of the sieve container 32. In addition, at the time of this storage, the sieve container 32 is attached to the rotary shaft 2
It is preferable that the vertical ribs (not shown) on the outer surface thereof are rotated against the vertical ribs 16 of the bottle 14 so as to prevent rotation.

When the sieve container 32 is accommodated in the bottle 14, the sieve container 32 has a bottom wall 32b.
The container fitting portion 32g of the holder fitting portion 19 of the bottle 14 side
Since it is fitted in a and installed in the bottle 14, it is sieved in the bottle 14 by being radially centered with respect to the rotary shaft 21 that penetrates the center of the bearing holder 19 having the holder fitting portion 19a. The container 32 can be installed. As described above, the sieving container 32 is based on the rotating shaft 21 side, not based on the bottle 14 which is difficult to have dimensional accuracy because it is made of glass.
Since it can be positioned and installed in the bottle 14, it is possible to eliminate the possibility that the blade 43 of the stirring tool 33 attached to the rotary shaft 21 and the container peripheral wall 32a of the sieving container 32 interfere with each other as described later. When the sieving container 32 is installed with the bottle 14 as the reference, the center of the container 32 and the rotary shaft 21 are easily displaced, so that the blade 43 of the stirring device 33 may come into contact with the container peripheral wall 32a. Does not occur according to this embodiment.
In the positioning structure, the holder fitting portion 19a is
Since the existing configuration is used, it can be realized without any special device on the bottle 14 side.

Next, the stirring tool 33 is fitted and attached to the rotary shaft 21 through the openings at the upper ends of the bottle 14 and the sieve container 32. After that, after storing an appropriate amount of brown rice in the sieve container 32, the opening / closing lid 17 is put on the upper end opening of the bottle 14 so that the state of FIG. The lid 17 is attached to the upper end of the bottle 14 by rotating the opening / closing lid 17 so that the state shown in FIG. By attaching the opening / closing lid 17 that closes the upper end opening of the bottle 14, the flange 32 d of the sieving container 32 is attached to the bottle 14.
It is sandwiched between the upper end surface of and the inner surface of the peripheral portion of the opening / closing lid 17.
By this sandwiching, the sieve container 32 is positioned in the vertical direction and provided in the bottle 14.

Then, the attachment 31 thus closed by the opening / closing lid 17 is placed on the bottle placing portion 3 of the main body 1 by the above-described procedure so that the state shown in FIG. The attachment 31 is installed at a predetermined position of the bottle placing section 3 by rotating the attachment 31 so as to be in the state shown in FIG. Next, the bottle 14 is pressed downward together with the opening / closing lid 17 and the safety switch is held in the ON state, whereby the rice bran is separated by the following dry structure.

That is, the drive mechanism 10 in the food processor main body 1 is operated, the rotation of the output shaft 8 is transmitted to the rotary shaft 21 via the couplings 9 and 22, and the stirring tool 33 is sieved together with the shaft 21. Since the inside of the container 32 is rotated, the pair of blades 43 of the stirring tool 33 is rotated.
Thus, the rice in the sieving container 32 is pushed toward the container peripheral wall 32a while receiving the rotational force.

Since the rice in the sieving container 32 is agitated by the high speed rotation of the agitating device 33 in the sieving container 32, the rice in the sieving container 32 is changed by the centrifugal force caused by the rotating motion of the rice. Container peripheral wall 32a in which a large number of separation holes 34e and 34f that cannot pass through
Rotates while being pressed against the inner peripheral surface of.

In this case, the blade 43 is used as the stirring tool 3
Since it recedes with respect to the rotation direction so as to gradually approach the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a of the sieving container 32 from the central part to the outer peripheral part of 3, the rice can be easily along the arc-shaped outer surface of the blade 43. Can be allowed to run away. Therefore, the rice can be smoothly extruded by the blade 43 toward the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a of the sieving container 32, and the impact force when the rice comes into contact with the blade 43 can be softened to reduce damage to the rice. . And blade 4
By making the section 3 U-shaped in cross section, the stirring tool 33 becomes light in weight, the load of the drive mechanism 10 can be reduced, and the vibration of the stirring tool 33 can be suppressed low.

Moreover, as described above, the container peripheral wall 32a of the sieving container 32 in which the rice is pressed against the inner peripheral surface by the centrifugal force due to the rotational movement thereof is inclined so that the diameter gradually increases toward the open end side of the upper surface. The rice pressed against the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a from the container peripheral wall 32a along the inclination.
a can be easily guided to the upper side of a, whereby the rice sieve container 32 pressed against the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a.
The fluidity inside can be increased, and the stirring performance of rice can be improved. In addition to that, the rib 3 having the slope 35a gradually increasing from the upstream side to the downstream side in the rotation direction of the rotary shaft 21.
Since 5 is projectingly provided on the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a, the rice that is moved while being pressed against the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a as described above is flipped back to the central portion side of the sieving container 32 by the ribs 35. Therefore, also in this respect, the stirring performance of rice in the sieving container 32 can be improved. Moreover, since the rib 35 repels rice on the slope 35a, the impact on the rice when repelling can be softened and cracking of the rice can be reduced.

As described above, the rice which is rotated at high speed with the rotation of the stirring tool 33 is rotated while being pressed against the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a of the sieving container 32 in a stationary state by the action of centrifugal force. While being moved toward the upper side of the inner peripheral surface of the container peripheral wall 32a, it is repelled by the ribs 35 toward the central part side of the sieving container 32 and moved toward the container bottom wall 32b at the central part side of the sieving container 32 by gravity. Therefore, the rice in the sieve container 32 is uniformly stirred so as to convect in the vertical direction.

Therefore, as the rice is agitated, the rice is rubbed against each other to perform rice polishing, and the centrifugal separation action on the bran is accompanied by the separation holes 34e provided in the container peripheral wall 32a. 34 f, the bran passes through the separation holes 34 e, 34 f and passes through the bottle peripheral wall 1
The space G2 between the container 4b and the container peripheral wall 32a is reached, and the space G2 is stored in the space G1 at the bottom of the bottle 14.
Similarly, with respect to the rice that is pushed and moved by the blade 43 along the container bottom wall 32b, the bran can be separated from the rice by the large number of separation holes 38 provided in the container bottom wall 32b that prevent the passage of rice. The bran separated after passing through is stored in a gap G1 at the bottom of the bottle 14. With the separation of the rice bran, the rice from which the bran has been removed remains in the sieve container 32.

Attachment 31 for powder removal as described above
According to the rice bran removing method used in a food processor, the rice bran can be removed by a dry structure without using water. Moreover, since the removed bran is stored in the gap G1 at the bottom of the sieving container 32, the removed bran does not block the separation holes 38 and 34f and the sieving container 32 is removed.
There is no risk of redepositing on rice that has been stirred inside,
Therefore, the time required to remove the bran can be shortened.
Then, as described above, the removal of the bran is carried out by the dry structure, so in the final polishing of the rice which is manually performed with water to the value of this rice polishing, the rice sucks the water containing the melted bran and the rice becomes Rice bran is less likely to occur, and therefore rice can be cooked deliciously by subsequent rice cooking.

Further, by providing the attachment 31 described above by itself, the rice bran can be removed by attaching it to an existing or new food processor and using it, thus increasing the versatility of the existing food processor. be able to. However, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and can be provided as a rice bran dedicated to bran removal.

Further, since the bran removed from the rice as described above is stored in the bottle 14, it does not diffuse to the surroundings and the sieve 1 from which the sieve container 32 has been removed
It is possible to carry out processing such as throwing out and using the bran all at once from 4.

The removal of the sieving container 32 from the bottle 14 is performed in a state where the agitating tool 33 is accommodated in the sieving container 32. Therefore, the agitating tool 33 allows the shaft inserting cylinder portion 36 of the sieving container 32 to be removed. Since it is covered, rice in the sieving container 32 does not leak out through the tubular portion 36.

Further, in this embodiment, as described above, the stepped cylindrical sieve container 3 having a small diameter on the container bottom wall 32b side.
Since 2 is used, the gap G2 between the bottle peripheral wall 14b of the bottle 14 and the container peripheral wall 32a can be widened in the portion below the step portion 32c of the container peripheral wall 32a. Therefore,
In particular, when the separated bran is also stored in the gap G2, a large bran storage volume at the bottom of the bottle 14 can be secured.

By the way, in the separating operation of the rice bran performed by rotating the stirring device 33 in the sieving container 32 as described above, the force for shaking the sieving container 32 along with the stirring of rice is continuously applied. To be

However, the sieve container 32 has its flange 3
2d is hooked on the upper end surface of the bottle 14 and is housed in the bottle 14 by being sandwiched between the upper end surface of the bottle 14 and the opening / closing lid 17 that closes the upper end opening of the bottle 14. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the sieving container 32 from rocking in the vertical direction or the like regardless of the stirring. Since the sieving container 32 can be held at the proper position with respect to the bottle 14 in this manner, the positional relationship between the container 32 and the stirring tool 33 can also be properly held. Therefore, since there is no possibility that the upper end of the shaft insertion tube portion 36 and the upper end wall 41a of the agitator body 41 come into contact with each other and the blade 43 comes into contact with the container bottom wall 32b, damage to the sieving container 32 or the like is prevented. It can be lost. Moreover, since the sieving container 32 and the churning tool 33 are centered as described above, there is no risk of contact between the blade 43 and the container peripheral wall 32a, and the sieving container 32 or the like may be damaged by it. It can be lost.

The present invention is not limited to the first embodiment. For example, only the handle of the bottle 14 may be used to attach the bottle 14 to the opening / closing lid 17. In this case, a pair of grips 14c may be provided on the bottle 14 180 ° apart, and a pair of grips 17a may be provided symmetrically on the peripheral portion of the opening / closing lid 17 correspondingly.

Further, in the first embodiment, the rotary shaft 21 is attached to the bottle 14 and the shaft inserting cylinder portion 36 is provided on the bottom wall 32b of the sieving container 32 because the food processor is used. The present invention is not limited to this. That is, a cooker main body with a built-in drive mechanism is detachably installed on the upper side of the bottle, the rotating shaft connected to this main body is projected downward, and a stirring tool is connected to this shaft to put it in and out of the bottle. For the grain that removes bran etc. from brown rice by inserting the rotating shaft and the stirring tool from above into the freely stored cooking container, connecting the bottle and the cooker body, and operating the drive mechanism in this state It can be configured as a cooker that performs a separating operation of a dust remover or the like, and in this case, it is not necessary to provide the bottle 14 with a rotation shaft, and the shaft insertion tube through which the rotation shaft also passes through the bottom wall of the sieving container. It does not require a section.

[0057]

The present invention is carried out in the form as described above, and has the following effects.

According to the cooker of the first aspect of the present invention, the inside of the separation container is used in the separation operation when the separation object such as the bran adhered to the material to be cooked such as grains is removed by the dry structure. Even though the material to be cooked is stirred by the stirring device, the flange of the separation container contained in the bottle is sandwiched between the upper end surface of the bottle and the opening / closing lid that closes the upper end opening of the bottle. Since the separation container does not shake, damage due to mutual interference between the separation container housed in the bottle and the stirring device rotated therein can be prevented.

Claim 2 dependent on the invention of Claim 1
According to the invention described in claim 3, in addition to the effect of the invention of claim 1, the bottle handle or the handle and the spout are utilized without providing the bottle with a special structure for attaching the opening / closing lid. A lid can be attached to the bottle.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1A is a plan view showing a food processor according to a first embodiment of the present invention in a state immediately before a bottle is attached to a predetermined position of a food processor main body. (B)
FIG. 3 is a plan view showing the food processor according to the first embodiment of the present invention with the bottle installed at a predetermined position of the food processor body.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the food processor according to the first embodiment in a use state as a grain dust remover.

FIG. 3A is a plan view showing the food processor main body shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 2B is a front view showing the food processor body shown in FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing an attachment used in the food processor shown in FIG. 1, a bottle, and an opening / closing lid in a state where they are separated from each other.

5A is a plan view showing the bottle shown in FIG. 4. FIG.
FIG. 6B is a plan view of the bottle shown in FIG. 4 in which the sieve container is housed.

FIG. 6A is a plan view of the opening / closing lid shown in FIG.
(B) is a rear view of the opening / closing lid shown in FIG. 4.

7A is a plan view showing a state immediately before an opening / closing lid is attached to a predetermined position of the bottle shown in FIG. FIG. 6B is a plan view showing a state in which an opening / closing lid is attached to a predetermined position of the bottle shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Food processor body (apparatus body), 3 ... Bottle holder, 10 ... Drive mechanism, 14 ... Bottle, 14a ... bottle bottom wall, 14b ... Bottle peripheral wall, 14c ... handle, 14d ... spout, 14e ... a protruding base portion of the handle, 17 ... Open / close lid, 17a ... a handle hook, 17b ... a spout hook part, 21 ... Rotary axis, 31 ... Attachment, 32 ... Sieve container (separation container), 32a ... container peripheral wall, 32b ... bottom wall of container, 32d ... flange, 33 ... Stirrers, 34e, 34f ... Separation holes in the peripheral wall of the container, 38 ... Separation hole in bottom wall of container, G1, G2 ... voids, 43 ... Blade.

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] And 1. A cooker body driving mechanism is built to rotate the rotary shaft, when the and the upper end attached to the cooking device body is opened DOO
At the edge of this opening, there is a concave spout that opens upward
A bottle and a flange on the upper end that continuously extends outward in the circumferential direction, and a part of this flange closes the spout.
Hook the serial flange on the upper end surface of the bottle, the ball
A space is formed between the bottle peripheral wall of the bottle and the bottle bottom wall so that the bottle can be put into and taken out of the bottle , and a large number
A separation container having a separation hole, a crawler attached to a rotation shaft arranged in the central portion of the bottle and rotated in the separation container together with the rotation shaft, and an upper end surface of the bottle An opening / closing lid attached to the bottle with the flange sandwiched between the cooking appliance and the lid. 2. The bottle is provided with a handle protruding on its outer surface, and a handle hooking portion detachably hooked on the lower surface of the protruding base of the handle is provided on the opening / closing lid, and the handle hooking portion is provided on the handle. The cooker according to claim 1, wherein the open / close lid is attached to the bottle by being hooked on the bottle. 3. The handle provided on the outer surface of the bottle is provided.
And the spout on the outer surface of the upper end of the bottle.
Provided in a projecting manner , the opening / closing lid is provided with a handle hooking portion detachably hooked on the lower surface of the protruding base of the handle and a spout hook portion detachably hooked on the lower surface of the spout, respectively.
The cooker according to claim 1, wherein the handle hooking part is hooked on the handle and the pouring port hooking part is hooked on the pouring port to attach the opening / closing lid to the bottle.