JP5108245B2 - teapot - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a device for extracting green tea, black tea, oolong tea and the like, and more particularly to a teapot.

  Tea extraction by a teapot or the like is generally performed by putting tea leaves or the like into a container and pouring hot water or the like. After that, it is a time corresponding to the used tea leaves, and is usually allowed to stand for several tens of seconds to several minutes. At this time, the tea leaves are fully opened and steamed in the teapot. The tea extracted in this way has a good color, aroma and taste.

A teapot with a hemispherical tea strainer attached to the opening at the top of the main body is widely known. In such a teapot, tea leaves are not sufficiently immersed in a small amount of hot water, and there is a problem that it is not possible to extract a satisfactory tea for some or all of the color, aroma, and taste because the tea leaves do not open sufficiently. . On the other hand, a teapot with tea strainer is proposed, in which both edges of the tea strainer net are inserted into the left and right inner walls that are equidistant from the spout opening in the inner wall of the teapot body. (Patent Document 1). If this teapot is used, even with a small amount of hot water, the tea leaves can be sufficiently soaked and the tea leaves can be opened, so that a sufficiently good tea can be served even with a small amount of hot water.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-210181

  However, in this teapot, the tea leaves and the remaining hot water are inside the teapot without being separated, and after extracting the first sensu, the remaining hot water causes the tea leaves to swell and the quality of the tea after the second decoction deteriorates significantly. was there.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and even with a small amount of hot water, it is possible to extract tea with good color, fragrance, and taste, and deterioration of color, fragrance, and taste even after the second rice. The purpose is to provide a teapot that can extract less tea.

The teapot of the present invention comprises a main body barrel and a spout portion, an opening for supplying tea leaves and liquid from the outside, a spout for pouring liquid to the outside, and the main body barrel as the opening. A teapot with a tea strainer that is divided into a side and a spout side , wherein the main body barrel is provided with a tea strainer near the center of the flange and the inner bottom of the opening, and the tea strainer is It is locked by the tea strainer locking portion on the back side of the flange and the tea strainer stopper, and by providing depressions on the opening side and the spout side of the bottom surface of the teapot, respectively, a first Ichinoyu sump provided in the opening side, Ru and a second hot water reservoir provided in the spout side with respect to the tea strainer.

  In the present invention, the teapot is not limited to those used for home use, business use and tea party, but may be any container having a function of extracting tea, made of ceramic, glass, wooden, metal, synthetic Any material such as resin can be used that can retain the contents at the operating temperature, and the change due to the influence of the contents is negligible.

  In the present invention, tea leaves include not only leaves but also all raw materials for extracting so-called broad-sense teas such as plant flowers, fruits, roots, stems, grains, and beans.

  In the present invention, the liquid includes all hot water, cold water and water at a temperature between them, and also includes all solvents for extracting so-called broad-sense tea.

Teapot of the present invention includes a body portion and spout portion but it may also be integrally molded.

  Since it comprised as mentioned above, when extracting tea with a small amount of hot water etc., the teapot which concerns on Claim 1 can fully immerse a tea leaf in hot water in a 1st hot water pool. As a result, tea with good color, fragrance and taste can be extracted even from a small amount of hot water. In addition, the tea leaves can be separated into the first sump after extraction of the first teapot, and the remaining water and the water exuding from the tea leaves can be separated into the second sump. It is possible to mitigate the deterioration and deterioration. As a result, it is possible to extract tea well from tea leaves with little deterioration after the first decoction, so that not only the first decoction, but also the second decoction, the third decoction, Tea with excellent color, fragrance and taste can be extracted.

  Further, the teapot according to claim 2 is different from the conventional teapot only in the shape of the inner bottom surface, and is not a complicated shape. Therefore, most of the teapot manufactured by casting is changed to the lower mold of the fuselage. It can be manufactured just by doing.

  In addition, the teapot according to claim 3 has no joint from the second hot water pool to the spout, and can continuously pour hot water, so that tea can be poured smoothly and the extraction concentration can be controlled. Can be extracted to the taste of your choice.

  BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below, but the present invention is not limited to the following embodiment, and is based on the ordinary knowledge of those skilled in the art without departing from the gist of the present invention. It should be understood that modifications and improvements as appropriate to the following embodiments also fall within the scope of the present invention.

  One embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS. FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a teapot 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view of a state in which the lid of the teapot according to an embodiment of the present invention is removed.

  A teapot 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a teapot body 11, a tea strainer 6, and a lid 5. The teapot main body 11 includes a main body trunk portion 9 and a spout portion 8. An opening 12 for pouring tea and liquid is formed in the upper portion of the main body trunk portion 9. The opening 12 is formed in a circular shape in plan view. A flange 13 is formed inside the opening at a position slightly lower than the upper end of the opening, and the lid 5 is held by the flange 13. Further, the back side of the flange 13 and the portion closest to the spout has a function as a tea strainer locking portion 14 for locking the tea strainer 6.

  A spout 7 is formed in the main body trunk portion 9. The spout 7 has a funnel shape that becomes thinner from the main body to the tip. The main body body 9 and the spout 7 are integrally molded and are formed continuously and seamlessly.

  The lower end of the main body trunk 9 is seamlessly continuous with the hill 15 and is also continuously continuous with the main body bottom 16. As shown in FIG. 1, the bottom surface 16 of the main body has an inner bottom surface 10 that gently slopes down from the lower part of the spout 7 toward the vicinity of the center of the main body trunk 9 to about half the distance to the center. After that, it further gently rises toward the vicinity of the center of the main body body and reaches the vicinity of the center where the tea strainer 4 is located. A second hot water pool is formed on the inner bottom surface 10 by the downward slope and the upward slope. In addition, from the center of the inner bottom surface to the main body barrel on the side opposite to the main body barrel where the spout 7 is located, it gradually falls down to about half of the distance, and then further spout. The main body barrel on the opposite side of the pouring spout 7 is now gently inclined upward toward the main body barrel on the opposite side of 7. A first hot water pool is formed on the inner bottom surface 10 by the downward slope and the upward slope.

  The tea strainer 4 has a shape obtained by cutting a triangular prism from a rectangular parallelepiped, and has a shape in which a trapezoidal quadrangular prism is tilted sideways. The trapezoidal upper and lower bases are arranged such that the shorter one is in contact with the inner bottom surface 10 and the longer one is at the upper part substantially parallel to the inner bottom surface 10, and as shown in FIG. It is arranged to face. The tea strainer 4 is integrally formed with the inner bottom surface 10 at substantially the center of the inner bottom surface 10. At this portion, the tea strainer 6 described below is locked.

  A tea strainer 6 is set inside the main body trunk portion 9. The tea strainer 6 is formed by punching a stainless net into a circular shape. The tea strainer 6 is locked by a tea strainer locking portion 14 which is the lower end of the flange of the main body barrel near the spout 7 and a tea strainer stop 4 near the center of the inner bottom of the main body barrel. Since the diameter of the circular tea strainer 4 is longer than the linear distance between the tea strainer locking portion 14 and the tea strainer stop 4, the tea strainer 6 is bent so that its central portion protrudes in the direction of the spout 7. , And is fixed to the main body body by the repulsive force.

  The lid 5 has a circular shape in plan view, is raised near the center, and has a shape obtained by cutting off a part of a sphere. A handle is formed near the center.

  When using the teapot of the present invention, first, the lid 5 is removed, and the tea leaves are introduced through the opening 12. At this time, the tea leaves gather in the first sump 3 which is the lowest position on the opening side inside the teapot.

  Next, when hot water is poured through the opening 12, the hot water accumulates from a low place in the teapot, so that the tea leaves are sufficiently immersed. At this time, if the amount of hot water is small, the teapot can be collected in the first sump 3 by tilting the teapot a little so that the spout 7 is at the top. Can be extracted.

  After that, the tea extracted by allowing the tea leaves to sufficiently open by standing for a predetermined time is poured into a teacup or the like by tilting the teapot so that the spout 7 is at the bottom. When the teapot is returned to its original state after all the tea has been poured, the tea leaves can be divided into the first sump 3 and the remaining water and the water exuded from the tea can be divided into the second sump 2, so the tea leaves It is possible to mitigate the deterioration and deterioration. As a result, tea can be extracted well even after the second rice cracker.

  As mentioned above, although demonstrated using one Embodiment of this invention, this invention is not limited only to this.

  For example, the first hot water pool and the second hot water pool may be formed so as to be able to separate tea leaves from the remaining hot water and moisture exuded from the tea leaves. Therefore, any configuration that can hold hot water or the like at two locations across the tea strainer is acceptable. For example, a tea strainer touches the bottom of the teapot in addition to a teapot with two recesses on the bottom of the teapot. A portion of the teapot may be raised, or a tea pedestal base may be provided on the bottom of the teapot. In addition, a plurality of the first hot water pool and the second hot water pool can be provided individually or independently.

  In the above embodiment, the tea strainer is made of a stainless steel mesh, but is not limited thereto. It can be arbitrarily selected from those that can retain the contents at the operating temperature with negligible alteration due to the influence of tea leaves, liquids, and the like.

  The method of attaching the tea strainer to the teapot body is not limited to the above embodiment. The method disclosed in the above Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-210181 can also be employed.

It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the teapot which is one Embodiment of this invention. It is a top view of the state which removed the lid of the teapot which is one Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1: teapot, 2: second puddle, 3: first puddle, 4: tea strainer, 5: lid, 6: teapot, 7: spout, 8: spout, 9: body trunk Parts: 10: inner bottom surface, 11: teapot body, 12: opening, 13: flange, 14: tea strainer locking part, 15: plateau, 16: bottom of the body

Claims (2)

It consists of a body trunk and spout,
An opening for supplying tea leaves and liquid from the outside;
A spout for pouring liquid outside,
A teapot provided with a tea strainer that divides the main body barrel into the opening side and the spout side ,
The main body has a flange and a tea strainer near the center of the inner bottom of the opening, and the tea strainer is locked by the tea strainer locking portion and the tea strainer on the back side of the flange. And
A first sump provided on the opening side with respect to the tea strainer by providing depressions on the opening side and the spout side of the bottom surface of the teapot, and for the tea strainer A teapot with a second puddle on the spout side. The teapot according to claim 1, wherein the body portion and the spout portion are integrally molded.

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