JPH0525474Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Field of Application] This invention relates to a cooking cabinet that can cook rice and keep warm while a rice cooker is housed therein.

[Prior art and its problems]

As a conventional cooking cabinet of this type, for example, the one shown in FIG. 3 is known.

This cooking cabinet 1 includes a box-shaped cabinet body 2 and a cabinet body 2.
a door 3 attached to the front side of the door so as to be openable and closable;
It consists of a drawer shelf 5 that is slidably disposed within the storage section 4 of the cabinet main body 2, and is configured so that a rice cooker S, a mini oven M, etc. can be placed on the drawer shelf 5. ing.

However, the above conventional cooking cabinet 1
, it only has the function of storing rice cooker S, mini oven M, etc., and each time you use these electric heating appliances, you must take them out of cooking cabinet 1 and use them. After use, it is necessary to store the food in the cooking cabinet 1 again, which makes these operations very complicated, resulting in the problem of the food being left out on top of the cooking cabinet 1. Furthermore, if the electric heating appliance is used while being stored in the cooking cabinet 1, the steam emitted from the rice cooker S will stay inside the cooking cabinet 1, making the electric heating appliance liable to malfunction due to electrical leakage, etc. Moreover, water droplets adhere to the inside of the cabinet body 2 and it is easy to rust, so there is a problem that it cannot be used while being stored.

This invention was devised in view of the current situation, and its purpose is to be able to smoothly exhaust the steam generated from the rice cooker, and to ensure that dew droplets inside the cabinet are prevented. By doing so, the purpose is to provide a cooking cabinet that is easy to handle, such as allowing the rice cooker to be used while being stored in the cooking cabinet.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above object, a cooking cabinet in which the rice cooker according to the invention is configured to be housed in a cabinet main body is provided, in which the cooking cabinet has a door and a sloped ceiling surface. a cabinet body; an exhaust passage formed in communication with the top of the ceiling surface of the cabinet body for exhausting steam emitted from the rice cooker to the outside of the cabinet body;
It is characterized by comprising: a fan disposed within the exhaust passage; a gutter section connected to the lower end of the ceiling surface; and a water receiver communicating with the terminal end of the gutter section. It is.

[Effect]

Therefore, in the cooking cabinet according to this invention, the steam generated from the rice cooker is forcibly exhausted to the outside of the cooking cabinet through the exhaust passage formed in communication with the top of the ceiling surface through the sloping ceiling surface. Furthermore, water droplets generated when steam adheres to the ceiling surface are configured to travel along the ceiling surface, pass through the gutter section, and be collected in the water receiver.

〔Example〕

This invention will be described in detail below based on an embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the cooking cabinet 10 according to this embodiment includes a cabinet body 12 in which a ceiling surface 11 is sloped in the shape of a double-sided roof; 1
1, a fan 14 disposed in the exhaust passage 13, a gutter 15 connected to the lower end of the ceiling surface 11, and a connection between the gutter 15 and the cabinet. It is comprised of an external air hole 17 opened at the joint part of the main body 12 with the body part 16, and a water receiver 18 communicating with the terminal end of the gutter part 15.

A bottom plate 19 on which the rice cooker S is placed is provided at the bottom of the cabinet body 12, and a gap 20 is formed below the bottom plate 19. Of course, a door 24 for opening and closing the rice cooker storage section 23 is rotatably supported on the front side of the cabinet body 12.

A plurality of small holes 21 are formed in the bottom plate 19 and communicate with the cavity 20 .
The outside air introduced into the cavity 20 through the small hole 22 communicating with the rice cooker storage section 23 is introduced into the rice cooker storage section 23 through the small hole 21 mentioned above. Of course, the bottom plate 19 is
It can also be constructed so that it can be pulled out along a slide rail (not shown).

The ceiling surface 11 is made of a material with good wettability (the property of being excellent in water resistance and repelling water; hereinafter the same), such as sheet metal or aluminum treated with alumite, and is suitable for cooking rice. In order to smoothly guide the steam rising from the vessel S to the exhaust passage 13 provided at the top of the ceiling surface 11 and to allow water droplets to flow smoothly into the gutter section 15, the two-way flow has a slope of 15 degrees or more. It is formed with a sloping roof shape.

The fan 14 disposed within the exhaust path 13 is
This fan 14 is for forced suction of the steam flowing along the ceiling surface 11 in the direction of the exhaust path 13.
is connected to a power supply circuit (not shown) of a power supply box provided at the rear lower part of the rice cooker storage section 23. In this way, by forcibly sucking the steam rising from the rice cooker S using the fan 14, a negative pressure is created below the ceiling surface 11, and as a result, the flow of steam to the lower part of the rice cooker storage is blocked, and the cabinet Condensation on the inner wall of the main body 12 can be reliably prevented. Incidentally, reference numeral 25 in the figure is a power outlet for the rice cooker.

Further, the external air holes 17 provided below the gutter portion 15 are appropriately provided along the outer periphery of the cabinet body 12. In this way, the external air hole 17
By opening the gutter section 15 below the gutter section 15, the amount of outside air passing through the body of the rice cooker S can be reduced, and the heat retention of the rice cooker S can be prevented from being reduced. Of course, the external air hole 17 can also be formed in the shape of a slit.

As shown in FIG. 2, the water receiver 18 is held in a removable manner by a holder 27 attached to a side wall 26 of the cabinet body 12, and has an opening at its upper end for draining water from the gutter section 15. A lower end portion of a drain pipe 29 connected to the hole 28 is inserted. Therefore, when the water receiver 18 becomes full, the water receiver 18 can be pulled out from the holder 27 and the accumulated water can be thrown away.

Next, to explain the case of cooking rice using the cooking cabinet 1 configured as above, first, connect the power plug of the rice cooker S to the power outlet 25 and turn on the switch of the rice cooker S. In conjunction with this, the fan 14 is operated, and the outside air that has flowed into the rice cooker storage section 23 through the small holes 22 and 21 is forcibly sucked into the exhaust passage 13 together with the steam from the rice cooker S, and is discharged outside the cabinet body 12. is exhausted. At this time, the ceiling surface 1 of the cabinet body 12
1 has a double-flow roof shape, so that the steam rising from the rice cooker S is smoothly introduced into the exhaust passage 13 along the ceiling surface, and the fan 14
Due to the forced suction, a negative pressure is created below the ceiling surface 11, and dew condensation on the inner wall of the cabinet body 12 can be reliably prevented.

In the above embodiment, the case where the ceiling surface 11 of the cabinet body 12 is configured in the shape of a double-sided roof has been explained as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, a single-sided roof can be formed. It can also be formed into a shape.

[Effect of idea]

Regarding the cooking cabinet related to this invention,
The steam generated from the rice cooker is forcibly exhausted out of the cooking cabinet through the exhaust passage formed at the top of the ceiling through the sloping ceiling, so you can cook rice even if the rice cooker is stored in the cooking cabinet. Steam generated from the container can be smoothly exhausted. Furthermore, even if steam were to adhere to the ceiling surface and condense, the water droplets would flow down the ceiling surface, pass through the gutter, and be collected in the water receiver. It has many excellent effects, such as being able to reliably prevent dew condensation.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing the schematic structure of a cooking cabinet according to an embodiment of the invention, Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the state of connection between the gutter and the water receiver, and Fig. 3 is a conventional cooking cabinet. FIG. Explanation of symbols, 10...Cooking cabinet, 11
... Ceiling surface, 12 ... Cabinet body, 13 ...
...Exhaust path, 14...Fan, 15...Gutter section, 17
... external stomata, 18 ... water receptors.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A cabinet body having a door and having an inclined ceiling surface; an exhaust path formed in communication with the head of the ceiling surface of the cabinet body for exhausting steam emitted from the rice cooker to the outside of the cabinet body; and the exhaust path. A rice cooker is constructed of a fan disposed inside the cabinet, a gutter section connected to the lower end of the ceiling surface, and a water receiver communicating with the terminal end of the gutter section. A cooking cabinet configured so that it can be stored.