JPH06339346A - Apparatus for automatic cooking system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain an apparatus for automatic cooking systems capable of automatically taking out food materials from a freezing (refrigerating) chamber into a microwave oven, thermally cooking the food materials, providing a higher efficiency in operation and saving the labor. CONSTITUTION:The apparatus for automatic cooking systems is obtained by arranging a freezing chamber 3 and a refrigerator 4 on left and right hands of a microwave oven 1 and making them communicate through openings 18 and 19. When a menu button is pressed according to an order, food materials 2 in storage chambers (3B) and (4B) are conveyed from food material conveying shelf devices (14a), (14b), (15a) and (15b) to a microwave oven chamber (1A) and thermally cooked.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic cooking system device in which a heating cooking device and a storage for refrigerating foodstuffs are combined and the foodstuffs are conveyed into the heating cooker for cooking at the time of ordering.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a restaurant and a fast food restaurant are equipped with a refrigerator for storing foodstuffs and a cooking device for heating and cooking the foodstuffs. The clerk removes the foodstuffs from the refrigerator and puts the foodstuffs into the necessary cooking equipments. It was cooked and served to customers.

[0003]

However, the number of menus of cooked foods provided in recent years has increased, so that the number of refrigerators and cooking appliances installed in the kitchen room has increased, and the handling of cooking appliances has become complicated in proportion to the menu. It also requires a certain level of skill.

However, in view of today's social tendency that labor shortage, labor and bad working environment are shunned, it is becoming an important issue to improve profitability by solving these problems and improving work efficiency. There is.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and automatically takes out food from a refrigerator or the like and cooks it, thereby sufficiently saving labor, improving work efficiency, and increasing the number of cooking menus. It is an object to provide a new automatic cooking system device that can be measured.

[0006]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a heating and cooking device for heating and cooking foodstuffs, a storage for cooling and preserving the foodstuffs, which is arranged on both left and right sides or one side of the heating and cooking device, An opening that is in communication with the storage and the heating and cooking device and that is closed by a heat-insulating member that can be opened, and that is provided in the storage and that places the food material and that the food material passes through the opening according to a cooking instruction It is composed of a food material transport shelf device for transporting it into the heating and cooking device.

[0007]

According to the present invention, when the user presses the button on the menu for which an order has been placed, the food delivery rack device of the storage in which the food item is stored is operated, and the ordered food item is delivered into the cooking device. To do. At this time, since a member having heat insulating properties and flexibility is provided between the heating cooking device and the storage, the conveyed food material pushes this member toward the heating cooking device and passes therethrough. For this reason, cold air cannot leak except when the food is passing, and warm air in the heating and cooking device does not flow into the storage side.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Reference numeral 1 is a heating cooking device for heating and cooking the food material 2, for example, a microwave oven. As a storage for cooling and storing the food 2, for example, a freezer 3 is used as the microwave oven 1.
The automatic cooking system device 5 has a configuration in which the refrigerator 4 is disposed on the left side of the microwave oven 1 and the refrigerator 4 is disposed on the right side of the microwave oven 1. The freezer 3 and the refrigerator 4 are front doors 6 and 7 that can be opened in the left and right directions by the handles 6b and 7b when the food 2 is replenished.
And having machine rooms 8 and 9 on the sides thereof, and a cooling unit (not shown) such as a compressor, a condenser, and a cooling fan is housed in the machine rooms 8 and 9 and the freezer 3 and A cooling chamber is formed in communication with the refrigerator 4 and is provided with the evaporator, the cool air circulation fan, and the like. As shown in the structural cross-sectional view of FIG. 2 in which the machine rooms 8 and 9 are omitted, the storage chambers 3B and 4B of the freezer 3 and the refrigerator 4 are formed on the heat insulating walls 10 and 11 that form the storage chambers 3B and 4B. The upper cool air outlets 12a and 13a and the lower cool air inlet 12
It communicates with the above-mentioned respective cooling chambers via b and 13b, and the air in the refrigerator circulates to cool the inside of the respective storage chambers 3B and 4B.

In addition, in each of the storage chambers 3B and 4B, the foodstuffs 2 are placed horizontally in a row and can be conveyed in a fixed direction, for example, a conveyor belt device such as a belt conveyor 14a, 14 for conveying foodstuffs.
b, 15a, and 15b are arranged in upper and lower two stages.
That is, the drive pulley 16 that is connected to the motor to rotate
The conveyor belt 17 is stretched between a and the driven pulley 16b.

The heat insulating walls 10 and 11 which are the wall portions between the microwave oven 1, the freezer 3 and the refrigerator 4 are provided with openings 18 corresponding to the food material conveying rack devices 14a, 14b, 15a and 15b, respectively. , 19 are formed to communicate the inside of the microwave oven chamber 1B with the storage chambers 3B, 4B, and the openings 18, 19 are made of heat-resistant and flexible material such as rubber. Further, the heat insulating members 21 and 22 are provided so that the cool air in the storage chambers 8 and 9 does not normally flow out toward the room of the microwave oven 1 by being opened by the elastic force of itself. In addition, this heat insulating member 2
The members 1 and 22 may be so-called shutter devices that are not flexible and that are opened by a drive device that operates as a plate object according to an order command.

The foodstuff conveying rack devices 14a, 14b, 15a,
15b is controlled so that only an item ordered by the customer starts the transport operation by pressing the menu switch, and the operation is stopped when only one food item 2 is sent forward. Then, the delivered food material 2 pushes the heat insulating members 21 and 22 apart and passes through the openings 18 and 19. In the microwave oven 1 of the microwave oven 1, there are chutes 24, 24 for surely guiding the foodstuff 2 from the upper opening 18 to the saucer 23 provided at the lower portion.
Is provided. Chute portions 25, 25 are also formed at both ends of the tray 23 so that the foodstuff 2 can be smoothly guided through the lower openings 18, 19.

As shown in FIG. 1, machine inlets 25 and air outlets 26 for cooling the machine chambers are formed on the front surfaces of the machine chambers 8 and 9, and an inside temperature adjusting dial 28 is provided. Grills 29 and 30 are provided. On the other hand, in the microwave oven 1, a microwave oven door 32 is provided on the front surface of the microwave oven 1, which is opened and closed by a handle 32b, and a plurality of menu buttons 33 corresponding to the foodstuffs 2 stored in the freezer 3 and the refrigerator 4 are arranged above. There is. When this menu button 33 is pressed, the corresponding foodstuff transport shelf devices 14a, 14b, 15a,
15b act | operates and discharge | releases the foodstuff 2 in the microwave oven chamber 1B, and is automatically heated in the microwave oven 1 after that. This automatic heating is controlled such that the heating operation is started by, for example, detecting the weight of the food material 2 when it falls on the saucer 23 with a weight sensor, and the heating is stopped after heating for a certain period of time predetermined by the menu. Just do it.

34 is a digital display, 35 is an air inlet, 36 is a base leg, 37 is a top plate, and another single machine (for example, a dispenser) is placed on top of this, or cooking is performed on this. It can be used for multiple purposes.

As the food material 2, for example, frozen yakisoba, frozen omelet, frozen bento, frozen rice ball, etc. are housed in the foodstuff conveying rack devices 14a, 14b, 15a, 15b, respectively.

With the above-mentioned structure, the operation will be described below. In the freezer 3 and the refrigerator 4, the foodstuffs 2 are placed on the foodstuff carrier shelving devices 14a, 14b, 15a, 15b, respectively, and are cooled for standby. Upon receiving the customer's order, the clerk presses the ordered menu button 33. Here, for example, if the frozen yakisoba stored in the upper stage of the freezer 3 is the selected food material 2, the corresponding food material transport shelf device 14a rotates in the direction of the arrow and the food material 2 in the front row is sent forward. Be done.

Since the heat insulating member 21 of the food material 2 is a flexible member, it is pushed open to open the opening 18.
It enters the inside of the microwave oven chamber 1B, slides on the chute 24 and falls onto the saucer 23. After the food material 2 passes, the heat insulating closing member 21 automatically returns to close the opening 18. Saucer 23
When the food 2 is placed on, it is detected by the weight sensor,
Electric power is supplied to the high-frequency heating unit of the microwave oven 1, and the food material 2 is cooked. After heating for a certain period of time, the clerk opens the microwave door 3
Open 2 and provide the cooked food to the customer.

As described above, the work of providing the cooked food is extremely simple, and even a clerk such as an unskilled part-time worker can do so. In addition, when the food 2 is supplied, the front doors 6 and 7 are opened at an appropriate time when the food is not cooked, and the food transport shelf device 14a,
If they are placed and stored on 14b, 15a, and 15b, they are stored in a constant low temperature state. Since the doors are not normally opened / closed except for food supplementation, the cooling performance can be ensured and the food can be temperature-controlled to the designated temperature.

[0021] By setting a plurality of food material conveying shelving devices, a plurality of cooking menus can be handled without any effort. The change of the food material 2 may be simply replaced by the food material conveying rack device. Of course, a switching button or the like may be provided and used as an ordinary freezer, refrigerator, or microwave oven independently.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, by pressing the menu button corresponding to the ordered menu, the food that can be eaten only by heating is conveyed from the storage into the cooking device. It is carried by the device and automatically cooked by the heating and cooking device, so any person can operate it, and if the operation is done only with the button operation at the beginning, it is only necessary to wait until the cooking is completed. Since the worker can perform other work at this time, the work becomes efficient and the labor can be saved.

Further, it is possible to provide a food product which is simple in operation and can be handled by a person who is not skilled such as a part-time worker and which has a uniform cooking quality.

Further, it is possible to replenish and change foodstuffs in a timely and easy manner, and the layout can be stored neatly in the kitchen room with other equipment, so that a worker can easily move, and many other effects can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view of an automatic cooking system device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional side view of essential parts of the system device in a state where foodstuffs are contained and conveyed.

FIG. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional side view of a main part of the system device in which no food material is contained.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Microwave oven 2 Foodstuffs 3 Freezer 4 Refrigerators 14a, 14b, 15a, 15b Foodstuffs carrying shelf device 18,19 Opening 21,22 Thermal insulation member

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A heating / cooking device for heating and cooking foodstuffs; a storage for cooling and storing foodstuffs, which is arranged on the left and right sides or one side of the heating / cooking device; and the storage and the heating / cooking device. An opening that is in communication with each other and that is closed by an openable heat insulating member, and that is provided in the storage and that carries the food and that conveys the food into the heating and cooking device through the opening according to a cooking command. An automatic cooking system device characterized by being configured with a carrier shelf device.