JPH0128735Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed explanation of the idea] [Purpose of invention]

[Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a tool (equipment) that allows crepe food to be easily prepared at home. [Technique of invention] (1) Background A thinly baked food called a crepe, which is made mainly from starchy materials such as wheat flour and is made by baking the slurry on a hot plate, is traditionally served after meals in French cuisine. Traditionally, it was eaten as a dessert, but today the custom of eating it as a staple food has become widespread, with side dishes such as meat and vegetables wrapped inside. However, in order to make thin crepes using an iron plate or a frying pan, it is necessary to knead them to evenly spread them onto the hot plate and adjust the heat, and the number of crepes required is large, so it is easy to prepare them at home. It's difficult. Therefore, some household appliances have already been proposed. (2) Problems with the Prior Art Conventionally, as a type of crepe preparation device, there is one in which the center of the upper surface of a disk-shaped body (heating plate) is raised in a convex arc shape, as shown in Utility Model Publication No. 56-2914. Generally, this type of device is used by attaching an appropriate amount of slurry to the surface of the heating plate by turning the heating plate of the device upside down and touching the container containing the crepe slurry. It is necessary to make the board part as horizontal as possible so that it comes into contact with the raw material slurry. However, the publicly known Jitsukō No. 57-30966 and the above-mentioned Jikkosho
In the crepe preparation tool of No. 56-2914, the handle is installed on the same surface as the disk, so the slurry cannot be applied uniformly unless a shallow dish-shaped container is used (see above). 30966 Publication No. 3
(see figure). This frequently requires adding slurry to the deposition container. As a practical matter, this is a natural thing to do, and if you bother with the lever operation, the amount of slurry deposited will decrease, making it impossible to obtain good crepes. [Problem to be solved by the invention] The present invention solves the drawbacks of the above-mentioned known crepe preparation tools, and provides a crepe preparation tool that allows anyone to easily prepare good crepes without requiring any trouble or skill. The purpose is to provide.

[Structure of the idea]

[Means for solving the problem] (1) Overview In order to achieve the above objectives, the device of the present invention:
It is a disc-shaped body with a handle, the surface of which has been released from the mold, is raised in a gentle convex arc shape, and the disc-shaped body is equipped with a heater and a temperature switch inside, and the handle has a mounting part. are located on the back surface or lower side edge of the disc-shaped body, and the gripping part of the handle is located in a plane higher than the attachment part thereof, and the temperature switch is set such that the surface temperature of the disc-shaped body is the firing temperature. It is characterized in that it is configured to notify whether or not the target has been reached by blinking an indicator light. Below, the elements related to the structure of the invention will be explained in sections. (2) Heating plate The device of the present invention is a plate-shaped body with a handle whose surface is covered with a heat-resistant mold release material such as Teflon, and is given self-heating properties by a built-in electric heater. The upper disk-shaped body (thermal disk) preferably has a circular profile for convenience of handling. In addition, this disk-shaped body has a shape consisting of a central portion whose surface is gently raised in a convex arc shape, and a skirt portion that descends from the central portion. Note that the material constituting the surface portion (heating plate portion) of the main disc-shaped body is a light heat-resistant material with excellent thermal conductivity, and practically, aluminum or an alloy thereof. On the other hand, a light heat-resistant material, such as a heat-resistant resin such as melamine resin, urea resin, or polyphenylene oxide, is sufficient as the material constituting the back surface and handle. (3) Handle The handle extends along the diameter or bisector from the side of the disc. The attachment part is located on the back surface or lower side edge of the disc-shaped body, and the main body, that is, the grip part, is located in a plane higher than the base. (4) Temperature control display device A simple temperature switch can be installed inside the main unit. This temperature switch is connected in series with the circuit of any indicator lamp, and lights up when the temperature of the surface of this device (heating plate surface) is above the minimum firing temperature, and when the temperature of the plate surface is below the minimum firing temperature. Open the above circuit. By appropriately adjusting the amount of heat generated by the internal heater, it is possible to make the indicator lamp light up when the crepe attached to the heating plate is baked, thereby notifying the user of the completion. can. If cost, weight, and other circumstances permit, a manual temperature adjustment device may be added, or another temperature switch may be added to warn of overheating of the panel surface with a buzzer or an indicator lamp blinking at short intervals. You can also. However, since it is practically preferable for this device to be simple and lightweight rather than complicated, if there is a concern about accidents due to forgetting to turn off the power, adding a temperature fuse may be optimal. (5) Watertight structure Due to the way it is used, the proposed device has a watertight structure sufficient to prevent moisture from entering the main body, especially from the boundary between the heating plate and the body. Should. This watertight structure is achieved, for example, by interposing a heat-resistant gasket at the upper boundary. [Function] In the present device, as will be explained in detail with reference to FIG. 4 attached in the Examples below, the attachment part of the handle is located below the disc-shaped body (thermal disc), and the gripping part of the handle is located below the surface of the disc-shaped body. Since it is located higher up, it is possible to cross over the wall of the slurry container and bring the heating plate surface into horizontal contact with the slurry inside the container. Therefore, the slurry can always be uniformly adhered to the heating plate surface without replenishing the raw material slurry every time, and thereby a certain thin crepe can be prepared. Also, the temperature indicator light shows the temperature status of the surface of the heating plate and, by extension, the baking status, so even beginners can avoid the risk of making mistakes. [Example] Fig. 1 is a partially cutaway plan view of an example of a crepe preparation tool according to the present invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan view taken along the line -
3 is a circuit diagram of the instrument shown in the previous two figures, and FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of how to use the instrument shown in the previous two figures. (a) Structure The device 1 of this example is roughly divided into a disc-shaped main body 2.
and a handle 3 extending from the bottom of the main body in the diametrical direction of the main body. The main body 2 is composed of a heating plate part 4 and a hollow body part 5 with an open top surface, and three legs 6, 6, 6 are attached to the bottom surface of the main body 5. The heating plate part 4 has the shape of a convex lens made of aluminum, and its peripheral edge draws a somewhat sharp arc,
A narrow overhanging edge 4a is formed. The surface of the main heating plate part 4 is covered with a fluororesin layer fr. The above heating plate part 4 is further provided with a mounting tool 7 on the back side thereof.
It includes a heater 8 attached via 7, 7,
A green energization indicator lamp 10 located on the upper surface of the handle 3 is inserted in parallel with the heater circuit 9. A red heating status indicator lamp 11 is also installed on the upper surface of the handle 3 adjacent to the lamp 10, and a temperature switch 13 is inserted in the middle of the circuit 12 (see also FIG. 3). As is clear from FIG. 3, the current from the power cord 14 is directly supplied to the heater 8 by the heater circuit 9, and at the same time is also supplied to the heating status indicator lamp circuit 12, but the latter is connected to a temperature switch in the middle. 13, the heating status indicator lamp 1 remains on until the heating platen 4 reaches the appropriate temperature for baking the crepe and the switch is turned on.
1 does not light up. Even after the lamp is turned on, if the temperature of the board surface decreases due to use (immersion in the crepe raw material slurry), the lamp will turn off again. The heating plate part 4 and the body part 5 described above are integrally connected by screws 17 through a heat-resistant gasket 16. As is clear from FIG. 2, the handle 3 is connected to the main body 2.
It extends in the diametrical direction from near the lower end of the body part 5, but after extending horizontally from the body part for a while, it reaches upward to near the center of the main body 2, and then curves in an "E" shape to form the grip part 15. do. (b) Usage The usage of the above equipment is shown in Figure 4. That is, first, as shown in Figure A, a crepe slurry S is prepared in a vat B by kneading wheat powder, eggs, and other ingredients with water. Next, when the power cord 14 of the appliance 1 of this example is connected to a power source, the green energization indicator lamp 10 lights up. When the temperature of the heating platen 4 rises and reaches a temperature suitable for firing, the red heating state indicator lamp 11 lights up. Therefore, when the holding part 15 is grasped and the instrument 1 is turned upside down as shown in FIG. do. At the same time, the lamp 11 goes out. Then, lift the appliance 1 from the pot B, turn it face up, and wait until the red heating status indicator lamp 11 lights up again. When the lamp 11 lights up, peel off the finished crepe C using a spatula (not shown) or the like, turn the utensil over again, dip it in the vat B, and repeat the following steps as many times as necessary. Depending on the strength of the current, it usually takes less than 30 seconds to bake one crepe;
Anyone can very easily bake beautiful crepe food of a certain thickness by simply repeating the dipping process as instructed by the lamp. Moreover, since the handle 3 is bent, it is not only easy to hold, but the handle does not get in the way during dipping.

[Effect of the idea]

As explained above, the crepe food preparation tool of the present invention allows crepe food to be prepared simply and without the need for skill, whereas crepe food was previously baked using a frying pan or the like, requiring troublesome labor and skill. This has a beneficial effect on enriching the people's diet and reducing the labor of housewives. Note that the device of the present invention can of course be used not only for making so-called "crepes" but also for preparing thin egg rolls and other crepe-like foods.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway plan view of the crepe preparation device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional side view taken along line - in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram of the device shown in the previous two figures.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of how to use the instrument shown in the previous two figures. The meanings of the main symbols in each figure are as follows: 1...
The proposed crepe food preparation tool (whole), 2...1 main body, 3...1 handle, 4...2 heating plate, 5...
Body part 2, 6...5 legs on the bottom, 7...2 heater fixture on the bottom, 8...2 heater on the bottom, 9...
Heater circuit, 10... Power indicator lamp, 11...
... Heating state display lamp, 12 ... Heating state display lamp circuit, 13 ... Temperature switch, 14 ... Power cord, 15 ... Grip part of 3, 16 ... Gasket, 17 ... Set screw, B ... Butt , S... Crepe raw material slurry.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] It is a disc-shaped body with a handle, the surface of which has been subjected to a mold release process to be gently raised in a convex arc shape, and the disc-shaped body is equipped with a heater and a temperature switch inside the disc-shaped body, and the handle has a mounting portion thereof. are located on the back surface or lower side edge of the disc-shaped body, and the gripping part of the handle is located in a plane higher than the mounting part, and the temperature switch is set such that the surface temperature of the disc-shaped body is the firing temperature. 1. A crepe food preparation tool, characterized in that the device is configured to notify whether or not the amount has been reached by blinking an indicator light.