JP6814450B1 - Multi-function serving car - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately reheat foods such as rice, a main dish and a side dish placed on various tableware on a tray stored in a multi-stage in a tray storage room, and to maintain humidity and dryness in the tray storage room. Provide a catering vehicle whose state can be set as appropriate. SOLUTION: A cart 3 in which trays T are arranged in multiple stages and a serving car main body 2 in which a cart accommodating chamber 4 for accommodating the cart 3 is formed are provided, and the serving car main body 2 is steam that generates steam. The device 6, the duct 24 that is communicated with the steam device 6 and supplies steam or air, and the first heater H1 and the second heater H2 that are arranged in the duct 24 and heat the steam or air to a predetermined temperature. It has a first fan 31 and a second fan 26 that supply steam or hot air heated to a predetermined temperature by the heaters H1 and H2. [Selection diagram] Fig. 4

Description

The present invention relates to a catering vehicle used when providing lunch at a nursing care facility such as a hospital or a nursing home.

Serving carts used when providing meals at nursing homes such as hospitals and elderly homes generally have multiple trays on which various tableware containing rice, main dishes, side dishes, soups, etc. are placed. It has a tray storage chamber for accommodating, and in the central part of the width of the tray storage chamber, partition wall members extending in the front-rear direction are arranged in multiple stages in the vertical direction, and one side thereof is a refrigerating chamber for refrigerating only. The side was a warming room where refrigeration and warming could be switched.

Then, the refrigerating chamber and the refrigerating chamber of the food are performed by a cooling device having cooling fins or the like, and the refrigerating of the food, that is, the reheating of the cooked food is usually performed by using a heater.

JP-A-2019-165825 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2019-187969

In the serving car as described above, when the rice, main dish, side dish, etc. placed on the tableware on each tray are reheated using a heater in the heating room, the rice, main dish, side dish, etc. It is easy to dry, and therefore, it has a drawback that the texture tends to be hard and the taste is deteriorated.

Further, in order to solve such a problem, a serving car for reheating each food using steam has been devised, but in the case of reheating with steam, water droplets do not adhere to the tray storage chamber. Temperature control is important.

An object of the present invention is to be able to appropriately reheat foods such as rice, main dishes, and side dishes placed on various tableware on trays stored in multiple stages in the tray storage chamber, and to further heat the tray storage chamber. The purpose is to provide a multifunctional serving car that can appropriately set the humidity and dry condition of the food.

The present invention according to claim 1 includes a cart in which trays are arranged in multiple stages and is movable by casters attached to the bottom, and a serving car main body in which a cart accommodating chamber for accommodating the cart is formed. The main body of the serving car is a steam device that generates steam, a duct that is communicated with the steam device and supplies steam or air, and a duct that is arranged in the duct to heat the steam or air to a predetermined temperature. It has a plurality of heaters and a fan that supplies steam or hot air heated to a predetermined temperature by the heaters, and the cart storage chamber includes steam supplied from the steam device or steam blown out from the steam device through the duct. It is equipped with a spout, a steam suction port that sucks in steam or hot air, a cart entrance / exit for taking in / out the cart, and a main body door that opens / closes the cart entrance / exit. It is equipped with a communication opening that communicates with the mouth, a tray entrance / exit where the tray is taken in and out, a tray entrance / exit, and a cart door that opens and closes the communication opening. The duct extends in the vertical direction, and steam generated by the steam device is released. It is fed from the bottom of the duct, the fan is located at least above the duct, one or more heaters are located below the fan, and the steam outlet is along the duct. It is a multifunctional serving car that is lined up in the vertical direction .

The present invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that, in the multifunctional serving wheel according to claim 1, heaters are arranged at an upper portion and a lower portion below the fan at the upper part of the duct, respectively.

The present invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that, in the multifunction serving vehicle according to claim 2, a fan is further arranged in the lower part of the duct.

According to the multifunctional serving vehicle according to the present invention according to claim 1, the steam generated by the steam generator flows into the duct and is heated to a predetermined temperature by a heater to become superheated steam or the like. Is sent into the tray storage room of the cart from the steam outlet. When the steam device is stopped, hot air, not steam, is sent into the tray storage chamber of the cart through a duct.

According to the multifunctional serving vehicle according to the first aspect of the present invention, the steam supplied from the lower part of the duct rises in the duct by the fan arranged in the upper part of the duct, which is efficient. Can supply steam.

According to the multifunctional serving car according to the second aspect of the present invention, the temperature control of steam or hot air can be performed more appropriately because the heaters are arranged at the lower part and the upper part of the duct, respectively.

According to the multifunctional serving vehicle according to the third aspect of the present invention, since the fan is further arranged in the lower part of the duct, the steam can be circulated more efficiently.

It is a front view of the multifunctional serving car which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a front view in the state where the main body door is opened in the multifunctional serving car of the same embodiment. It is a front view of the state in which the cart is taken out in the multifunctional serving car of the same embodiment. It is a central vertical sectional view of the multifunctional serving car of the same embodiment. It is a schematic diagram of the cart alone which concerns on this embodiment. It is a front view which shows the structure of the rear wall side of the serving main body in the same embodiment.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to such an embodiment. Further, the "steam" may be saturated steam, unsaturated steam, or superheated steam (superheated steam) depending on the set temperature.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 6, the structure of the serving car of the present invention will be described. The serving car 1 has trays T arranged in multiple stages inside, and a cart 3 that can be moved by casters 16 attached to the bottom. The serving car main body 2 is provided with a cart accommodating chamber 4 for accommodating the cart 3 inside, and the serving car main body 2 is communicated with a steam device 6 for generating steam and a steam device 6, and is steam or A duct 24 for supplying air, a first heater H1 and a second heater H2 arranged in the duct 24 for heating the steam or air to a predetermined temperature, and steam or steam heated to a predetermined temperature by the heaters H1 and H2. It has a first fan 31 and a second fan 26 for supplying hot air, and the cart accommodating chamber 4 has a steam or the like ejection port 19 from which steam supplied from the steam device 6 or hot air is ejected through the duct 24. It is equipped with a steam suction port 21 for sucking steam or hot air, a cart entrance / exit 10 for taking in / out the cart 3, and a main body door 13 for opening / closing the cart entrance / exit 10, and the cart is 3, and the steam outlet in the serving car main body 2. It is provided with a communication opening 3e that communicates with 19 and the steam suction port 21, a tray entrance 3f into which the tray T is taken in and out, a tray entrance 3f, and cart doors 14A and 14B that open and close the communication opening 3e.

Further, a cooling device 5 for feeding cold air into the cart 3 is installed on the upper part of the serving car main body 2.

The steam device 6 has a general structure in which an electrode, a heater, a water storage tank, and the like are built-in.

The cart storage chamber 4 of the serving car main body 2 includes upper and lower walls 7.8, left and right walls 9/11, a rear wall 12, and the cart entrance / exit 10 formed on the front side, and left and right on both side edges of the cart entrance / exit 10. A pair of the main body doors 13 are attached. Further, casters 14 and legs 30 are attached to the four outer corners of the lower wall 8 of the cart storage chamber 4, respectively, and the casters 16 of the cart 3 enter the parts of the lower wall 8 near the left and right walls 9/11. The openings 17 are formed at predetermined intervals.

In the cart accommodating type serving car 1 according to the present embodiment, in short, the entire cart 3 in which the trays T are arranged in multiple stages is housed as it is in the cart accommodating chamber 4 of the serving car main body 2, and the main body door of the cart entrance / exit portion 10 is accommodated as it is. When the 13 is closed, the food or the foodstuff in the tableware placed on each tray T in the cart 3 is refrigerated or heated by the cooling device 5 and the steaming device 6.

In the present embodiment, the second fan 26 is attached to the steam device 6 facing the steam suction port 21.

The inside of the cart 3 is a tray storage chamber 40, and the upper and lower walls 3a and 3b, the left and right walls 3c and 3d, the cold air from the cooling device 5 of the serving car main body 2, and the water vapor from the steaming device 6 It is provided with the communication opening 3e into which the tray T and the like flow in, the tray entrance / exit 3f into which the tray T is taken in and out, and a pair of left and right cart doors 14A / 14B for opening / closing the tray entrance / exit 3f and the communication opening 3e.

As shown in FIG. 2, a large number of partition wall members 15 extending in the front-rear direction are arranged in a vertical direction in the central portion of the width of the cart 3, and the tray T is placed in the tray passage between the vertically adjacent partition wall members 15. Is inserted and the tray T is sandwiched between the partition wall members 15.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the rear wall 12 of the cart storage chamber 4 of the serving car main body 2, a large number of steam outlets 19 are arranged in a row in the vertical direction on the left side portion thereof, and at the lowermost portion. The steam suction port 21 having a circular outer shape is formed inward from the steam outlet 19, and a large number of cold air outlets 22A and a large number of cold air are formed above the steam suction port 21 on the rear wall 12. The suction ports 23A are lined up in the vertical direction, and a large number of cold air outlets 22B and a large number of cold air suction ports 23B are lined up in the vertical direction on the right side of the suction ports 23A. (Not shown) is communicated with the cooling device 5 to circulate cold air.

Further, the rear wall 12 of the cart storage chamber 4 of the serving car main body 2 is composed of two doors 52A and 52B.

Then, as shown in FIG. 4, a duct 24 through which steam or the like passes is provided on the rear side of the rear wall 12 of the cart storage chamber 4, and its position corresponds to the steam or the like ejection port 19.

The first fan 31 is attached to the upper part of the duct 24, the first heater H1 is provided below the first fan H1, and three second heaters H2 are provided above the second fan 26 below the first heater H1. ing.

Further, the cold air outlets 22A and 22B communicate with the cooling device 5 via the cold air supply ducts 27A and 27B, and the cold air suction ports 23A and 23B communicate with the cooling device 5 via the cold air recovery ducts 28 and 28B. The cold air is circulated.

Next, the procedure for supplying steam and hot air in the serving wheel 1 according to the present embodiment will be described. The steam generated in the steam device 6 becomes a predetermined steam or superheated steam in the second heater H2 or the first heater H1. It rises in the duct 24 via the first fan 31, and is ejected from the steam or the like ejection port 19 into the tray accommodating chamber 40 in the cart 3. Then, the steam or superheated steam circulating in the tray storage chamber 40 is sucked from the steam or the like suction port 21 by the second fan 26 and circulated again to the steam device 6 side.

Further, when the steam device 6 is stopped, steam is not supplied, and the air is heated to a predetermined temperature by the first heater H1 or the second heater via the first fan 31, and the hot air enters the cart 3. It is supplied into the tray storage chamber 40 of the above.

As described above, the multifunctional serving vehicle according to the present invention can appropriately supply steam at a predetermined temperature, superheated steam, and hot air according to the application, and is therefore expected to be widely used in the field of school lunch in hospitals, nursing care facilities, and the like. it can.

1 Serving car 2 Serving car body 3 Cart 4 Cart storage room 5 Cooling device 6 Steam device F1 1st fan F2 2nd fan H1 1st heater H2 2nd heater 40 Tray storage room T tray

Claims (3)

The trays are arranged in multiple stages inside, and it is equipped with a cart that can be moved by casters attached to the bottom and a serving car body with a cart storage room for accommodating the cart inside, and the serving car body is steam. A steam device that generates steam, a duct that is communicated with the steam device and supplies steam or air, one or more heaters that are arranged in the duct and heat the steam or air to a predetermined temperature, and a predetermined temperature by a heater. It has a fan that supplies heated steam or hot air, and the cart storage chamber has a steam or other spout from which steam or hot air is ejected from the steam device through the duct and steam that sucks steam or hot air. Equipped with a suction port, a cart entrance / exit for loading / unloading the cart, and a main body door that opens / closes the cart entrance / exit. It is provided with a tray entrance / exit portion, a tray entrance / exit portion, and a cart door for opening / closing a communication opening, and the duct extends in the vertical direction, and steam generated by the steam device is sent in from the lower part of the duct. The fan is arranged at least above the duct, one or more heaters are arranged below the fan, and the steam outlets are arranged vertically along the duct . Multi-functional serving car. The multifunctional serving wheel according to claim 1, wherein heaters are arranged in the upper part and the lower part below the fan in the upper part of the duct . The multifunctional serving vehicle according to claim 2, wherein a fan is also arranged at the lower part of the duct.

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