JPH07298973A - Teacup with tea strainer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a teacup with tea strainer by which green tea, black tea or Oolong tea, etc., can be served without using a small teapot or teapot, and cooled and unsavory tea mixed with remaining old tea served previously can be prevented from being served when second tea is served as the case when using the small teapot, and the tea can be enjoyed by serving the tea for each individual. CONSTITUTION:A tea leaves housing part 2 is formed on the upper part of a teacup main body 1 integrally with it. The tea leaves housing part 2 is formed so as to make a strain hole 3 located at the lower terminal part of the housing part communicate with the upper part of the teacup main body 1. A position where the strain hole 3 is make to communicate with the teacup main body 1 is set so as to be a little higher than the water level of the ordinary quantity of tea. The density of the tea can be freely adjusted by making the tea served by inclining the teacup main body flow back to a hot water reservoir by forming the hot water reservoir in which large internal space is formed at the lower terminal part of the tea leaves housing part 2.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a tea drinker for drinking Japanese tea, oolong tea, black tea, coffee, hub tea, hako tea, dokudami tea, herbs with tea packs, etc.
It is an invention relating to a drinking tea with a tea strainer function that can be put directly in without using a teapot or teapot.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to add Japanese tea, hot water is poured into a teapot containing tea leaves, and tea brewed to an appropriate concentration is poured into a tea drinker. In the case of black tea, a teapot or tea strainer is used to put the black tea brewed to an appropriate concentration in a cup. In the case of oolong tea, in addition to the method of using a teapot, a method of drinking tea only while pouring tea leaves into the teacup and pouring hot water into the teapot so that the tea leaves are not swallowed, or shown in FIG. Body A
And a tea strainer B and a top cover C that fit into this,
A method is known in which hot water is poured into the main body A of the tea cup in which the tea strainer B is set to infuse it, and the tea strainer B is removed to drink.

[0003]

In the conventional method of making tea using a teapot, both the teapot and the teacup must be washed after use. Also, since the heat of the hot water is taken by both the teapot and the teacup, the temperature of the brewed tea tends to be low, and when trying to add additional hot water, the remaining decoction in the teapot is brewed. I cannot drink warm and delicious tea because the strong and cold tea is mixed. Further, in the case of the oolong tea drinker set with the tea strainer B shown in FIG. 16, the tea strainer has to be detached to another place when drinking, and there is a drawback in that it is difficult to store it. It is possible to use Japanese tea in a tea pack, black tea or herbs more than once, but if you leave it in a hot water bath, it will be infused during drinking and the concentration will change. If this happens, sugar or milk will contaminate the tea pack. Therefore, conventionally, the tea pack used once had to be stored in another container or the like to prepare for the next use.

In view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, the present invention provides a tea strainer with a tea strainer, which allows easy and delicious addition of a required cup of Japanese tea, black tea, oolong tea, etc. without using a teapot or teapot. It was devised. In addition, like the conventional tea strainer combined with the tea strainer shown in FIG. 16, when you have trouble with the storage of the tea strainer containing the tea leaves once brewed, or when you drink Japanese tea, tea, herbs, etc. with a tea pack The purpose is to provide a tea strainer with a tea strainer that does not cause any trouble in the place where the tea pack once brewed.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] A tea leaf accommodating portion 2 serving as a tea strainer is integrally formed on an upper portion of a drinking main body 1. In this tea leaf accommodating portion 2, a straining hole 3 located at a lower end portion of the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 communicates with an upper portion inside the drinking water main body 1. Tea leaf storage 2
At the lower end of the hot water pool 4, the internal space of which is greatly expanded, or a hot water pool 5 that extends obliquely downward along the peripheral surface of the drinking main body and is located below the straining hole 3 is formed. Alternatively, the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 having a flat area smaller than that of the main body of the drinking water may be detachably attached to the main body of the drinking water 1.

[0006]

[Function] When tea leaves such as Japanese tea, black tea, and oolong tea are stored in the tea leaf storage portion 2 and hot water is poured, the tea appropriately brewed in the tea leaf storage portion passes through the straining hole 3 and the inside of the drinking main body 1 Flow into. Assuming that the amount of hot water to be poured from the tea leaf accommodating section 2 is such that the tea that has been put in as shown in FIG. 1 accumulates below the strainer hole 3 in the tea cup accommodating section, all the hot water poured into the tea leaf accommodating section will remain. The extra hot water does not collect in the tea leaf accommodating portion 2.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 having the hot water pool 4 with a large internal space formed at the lower end portion thereof, the hot water contained in the tea leaf accommodating portion is retained for a long time, so that the tea leaves are sufficiently filled. It will be steamed. Further, when the main body 1 of the drinking water is tilted toward the tea leaf accommodating portion as shown by the solid line in FIG. 3 after the tea is added, the tea contained in the main body 1 of the drinking water flows backward from the straining hole 3 to the tea accommodating portion to a certain extent. A quantity flows into the hot water pool 4, and the tea is brewed again to become a strong tea, and when it is raised to its original position shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 3, it flows into the main body of the drinking water and mixes with the tea initially added. By repeating this operation a proper number of times, the whole tea is adjusted to the desired taste.

As shown in FIG. 5, in the case where the lower end portion of the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is extended obliquely downward to form a slightly large hot water pool 5, a part of the hot water poured into the tea leaf accommodating portion is in the hot water reservoir 5. It stays and eventually becomes a strong tea. After that, as shown by the solid line in FIG. 6, when the main body of the drinking cup is tilted with the strain hole 3 above the pool 5, the strong tea in the pool 5 will not flow into the main body of the drinking cup, but When the basin 5 is tilted by rotating the basin 5 so that it is located above the straining hole 3 as shown by the chain line, the basin 5
The strong tea inside flows into the body of the cup. That is, the tea of an arbitrary concentration is adjusted by the combination of the plane rotation and the tilting motion of the drinking main body.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the tea drink with a tea strainer according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 shows the most basic embodiment. In this embodiment, a tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is integrally formed on a part of the periphery of the upper end of the drinking tea body 1, and the upper end of the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 further projects from the upper edge of the drinking water body.
The tea leaf accommodating portion 2 has a constant volume. The height of the tea leaf accommodating portion may be a higher and larger tea leaf accommodating portion, or may coincide with the upper edge of the main body of the drinking water. The planar size of the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 protruding into the main body 1 of the tea cup is
At least, it should not be so large as to occupy most of the internal plane area of the body of the drinking cup, and the portion protruding into the body of the drinking cup should not be an obstacle when drinking tea. As shown in FIG. 15, the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 does not project into the basic shape of the drinking cup body 1 such as a circular shape, and the outer wall of the tea leaf accommodating portion wraps around the relatively large angle range of the outer periphery of the drinking cup body 1. It can also be in the form. In short,
It is large enough to store the required amount of tea leaves, has an internal volume that can store a certain amount of hot water, and a strainer hole 3 formed at the lower end of the tea leaf storage portion has a strainer hole 3 in the main body of the drinking tea. Be able to communicate above the surface. In addition, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 15, the drinking-water main body 1 is shown to have a shape with a handle such as a mug.

The size and number of the straining holes 3 are arbitrarily selected so that a suitable amount of hot water is stored in the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 for a suitable period of time to steam the tea leaves and brew appropriately. It should be formed so that only the brewed tea will flow into the body of the drinking water. Therefore, it is possible to provide the straining holes 3 having different sizes and numbers according to the intended drink type. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, a plurality of small straining holes 3 and 3 are provided, but in the case of using fine tea leaves and those used for black tea, a plurality of straining hole surfaces or large straining holes are used. The filter can be attached to and detached from itself. The embodiment shown in FIG. 9 shows an embodiment in which the filter 6 is detachably attached to the tea leaf container 2.

FIG. 2 is a tea leaf accommodating portion 2 of the embodiment shown in FIG.
The basin 4 is formed by bulging outward at the lower end of the basin 4. The basin 4 is located at a position higher than the straining hole 3,
Alternatively, when the tea container is at a slightly lower position and the tea container 2 is at the upper position and the drinking body is slightly tilted, all the hot water is filtered through the holes 3
It is preferable that it is formed so as to flow out into the main body 1 of the drinking cup. By doing so, all the hot water poured into the tea leaf storage portion flows out into the drinking main body, and the tea leaf itself does not come out.

It is also possible in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 to incline the drinking water main body 1 toward the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 and to flow the brewed tea back into the tea leaf accommodating portion to adjust the concentration of the tea. . Further, this operation has the effect of adjusting not only the concentration of tea but also the temperature and stirring the whole tea to a uniform concentration. However, in the case where the hot water pool 4 is formed as in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a certain amount of tea can be backflowed when tilted, so that the concentration can be adjusted efficiently. The effect of providing the hot water pool 4 is that the hot water retention time is lengthened and steaming can be performed during that time. Therefore, by changing the size of the hot water pool, it is possible to obtain an optimum brewing time depending on the type of tea leaves and the purpose of use.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 8, the outer portion of the upper end of the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is bent or curved inward. By doing so, a large amount of hot water can be made to flow back into the tea leaf storage portion in the same manner as when the hot water reservoir 4 is provided, and the concentration of tea can be adjusted efficiently, and the main body of the drinking cup can be filled with a small amount of tea. Even if 1 is tilted toward the tea leaf accommodating portion 2, the hot water does not overflow and the concentration can be adjusted.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, the shape of the main body 1 of the drinking water itself is formed so as to expand outward. In the tea leaf accommodating portion 2, the tea leaves poured with hot water expand due to heat and become soft and adhere to each other, and usually do not overflow to the outside even when the main body of the drinking water is tilted. However, even if the tea leaves to be brewed or those corresponding to the tea leaves are easy to flow or the tea leaf storage portion is extremely shallow, in the embodiment shown in FIG. Is smaller and the inclination angle of the tea leaf storage portion is smaller than the inclination angle of the drinking water main body, so that the tea leaves will not overflow. The embodiment shown in FIG. 7 has the same effect as the embodiment shown in FIG. 4 described above, in which the drinking cup body 1 itself is inclined, and the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 that is inclined in the opposite direction is integrally formed. It is a thing.

The embodiment shown in FIG. 5 and FIG.
The lower end of the is extended obliquely downward along the periphery of the main body of the drinking water, but the extension direction, the inclination angle of the oblique direction, etc. can be arbitrarily selected. However, the extension dimension is not so large, and is a rotation angle at which the straining hole shown by the chain double-dashed line in Fig. 6 is at the lower position, and when the body of the drinking cup is tilted to a certain extent, the water in the entire basin will almost flow out. Is preferably set. In this embodiment, the concentration of tea can be delicately adjusted by a combination of the plane rotation and the tilting operation of the main body 1 of the drinking water. However, when the concentration is insufficient with one adjustment, the concentration of the tea of the embodiment shown in FIG. As in the case, the concentration of the tea can be adjusted more effectively by inclining the body of the drinking water in the opposite direction to cause the tea to flow back into the hot water reservoir 5 and allow the tea to flow into the body of the drinking water again.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 10, a pillar 7 is erected at the center of the main body of the drinking water, and the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is formed at the upper end of the pillar 7. As a modification of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 11, it is also possible to form a tea leaf accommodating portion 2 with a pillar 7 separately from the drinking water main body 1 and attach it to the drinking water main body 1 in a detachable manner. In order to make the tea leaf container 2 formed on the upper end of the pillar 7 detachable in the center of the body for drinking,
For example, as shown in FIG. 11, a short cylindrical boss 8 may be formed on the inner bottom surface of the drinking water main body, and the column 7 may be fitted into the boss 8. Alternatively, if a protrusion is formed on the inner bottom surface of the drinking body and a boss that fits into this protrusion is formed at the lower end of the column 7 and the boss portion is made relatively large in plan view, the tea leaves removed Housing 2
Can be set upright.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 12, the small tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is formed separately from the drinking water main body 1, and the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 can be freely attached to and detached from the upper end peripheral portion of the drinking water main body 1 by a locking member 9. It is a thing. In this way, with the tea leaf accommodating portion that can be freely attached to and detached from the upper end peripheral portion of the main body of the drinking water, the tea leaf accommodating portion can be removed when it is not needed, or it can be removed after using tea. it can. In any case, the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is of a size that allows drinking tea while the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is attached to the tea leaf accommodating portion 2, that is, the planar size of the tea leaf accommodating portion is equal to that of the flat surface of the drinking main body 1. It should be small enough to occupy a part of the size.

FIGS. 13 and 14 show an embodiment of the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 which can be attached to and detached from the peripheral portion of the drinking water main body. In this embodiment, the inner bottom surface 2a is formed as an inwardly inclined surface with an angle α ₁ so that the hot water supplied to the tea leaf storage portion flows out completely, and a straining hole 3 is formed to the bottom, and the inner bottom surface is Groove 10 that inclines inward at an angle α ₂ and opens inward
Is provided. When the inclination angle of the bottom surface 2b is α ₃ , the inclination angle is increased from α ₁ to α ₂ and α _{3 in this} order.
Further, a cut 11 is provided below the lowermost straining hole 3. Therefore, when the removed tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is placed on a flat surface, even if there is liquid remaining in the tea leaf accommodating portion, this liquid collects in a portion of the tea leaf accommodating portion apart from the straining hole and drops on the straining hole. Even if there is, this can be prevented from overflowing due to the presence of the cut 11.

In the illustrated embodiment having the slit-shaped groove 10, the drop dropped from the notch 11 flows inward along the groove, but the groove may not be provided. in this case,
The angle of the surface under the notch 11 is set to the angle α ₂ .
The locking tool 9 of the embodiment shown in FIG. 13 has a hook-like shape in which a notch 12 that is opened downward at a certain angle is provided in a protruding portion that is integral with the entire tea leaf accommodating portion, and rattles at the upper edge of the drinking cup body. It is designed so that it can be locked without attachment. In addition, the tea strainer with a tea strainer according to the present invention can be provided as a ceramic product, a synthetic resin product, a glass product, or a metal product.

[0020]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION According to the tea strainer with tea strainer of the present invention as set forth in claim 1, tea for one person can be added as needed, and tea, black tea, oolong tea, etc. can be reasonably rational without polluting the teapot. You can enjoy. When using a teapot, the heat was taken away by the teapot itself, and when making a small number of teas, there was a tendency for the tea to become cold. Also, when trying to make tea again with the same tea leaves, especially when making tea for one person, the remaining tea, tea leaves and teapot are all cold, so the next tea is lukewarm. At the same time, it becomes an unpleasant mixture of cold tea. On the other hand, in the present invention, all the tea brewed once flows out into the body of the drinking water, so that the tea leaves do not come out and the warm and delicious tea can be enjoyed the second time. Also, when drinking tea, since the tea leaves are in the tea leaf accommodating portion, it is possible to enjoy the scent.

When drinking tea or herbs with a tea pack using the tea strainer with the tea strainer of the present invention, the tea pack can be put into the tea leaf accommodating section and brewed, or the brewing itself is in the main body of the drinking cup. It is also possible to use the tea pack after it has been brewed once and picked up in the tea leaf storage part. If you enjoy tea with a tea pack,
Even if sugar or milk is added to the prepared black tea, the tea leaves of the tea pack will not be soiled and can be reused.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the existence time of the hot water pool slightly lengthens the hot water retention time. Therefore, the tea leaves are steamed to some extent and the tea can be brewed deliciously. In addition, by tilting the tea drinking body toward the tea leaf accommodating portion and causing the tea in the tea drinking vessel to flow backward into the tea leaf accommodating portion, the once-contained tea can be drunk with the concentration adjusted according to the taste of each person.

According to the third aspect of the invention, it is possible to enjoy tea while adjusting the concentration more effectively or subtly.

According to the invention as defined in claim 4, the tea leaf accommodating portion is made compatible, and the ones having different sizes and number of the straining holes are used properly according to the purpose, or the tea leaf accommodating portion is removed to make the ordinary tea leaf accommodating portion. It can also be used as a drinking water.
Also, if there is a place for the removed tea leaf storage unit,
You can also drink tea by removing the tea leaf compartment after making tea.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention of a tea strainer with a tea strainer,

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an embodiment in which a hot water reservoir is formed in a tea leaf storage portion,

FIG. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a state in which the concentration of tea is adjusted in the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view showing an embodiment in which the shape of the main body of the drinking water is expanded outwardly.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a partial cross-section showing an embodiment in which a tea basin extending obliquely downward is formed in the tea leaf storage portion;

6 is a plan view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 5,

FIG. 7 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an embodiment in which the tea drinking body is tilted, and the tea leaf storage portion is tilted in the opposite direction.

FIG. 8 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an embodiment in which the outer upper end wall of the tea leaf accommodating portion is curved inwardly.

FIG. 9 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an embodiment in which a detachable filter is attached to the tea leaf storage portion,

FIG. 10 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an embodiment in which a tea leaf accommodating portion is formed in a central portion of a tea drinking body.

FIG. 11 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an embodiment in which a tea leaf accommodating portion formed in the central portion of the drinking water main body is detachable.

FIG. 12 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an embodiment in which a tea leaf accommodating portion formed separately from the drinking water main body is detachably attached to the upper end peripheral portion of the drinking water main body,

FIG. 13 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an embodiment of a tea leaf accommodating portion that is detachably attached to the upper end peripheral portion of the drinking water body.

14 is a plan view of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 15 is a perspective view showing an embodiment in which a tea leaf accommodating portion is formed by inflating outward from the outer peripheral surface of a drinking main body with a handle.

FIG. 16 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an example of a conventional hot water cup with a tea strainer.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... boiler body, 2 ... tea leaf storage part, 3 ... straining hole,
4, 5 ... Hot water pool, 6 ... Filter, 7 ... Prop, 8
… Boss part, 9… Locking tool, 10… Groove, 11,12… Notch.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A tea leaf accommodating portion (2) is formed on the upper part of a drinking cup body (1) integrally with the drinking cup body, and a straining hole (3) located at the lower end of the tea leaf accommodating portion (2) is communicated with an upper part inside the drinking cup body (1). A teacup with a tea strainer characterized by this. 2. A tea strainer with a tea strainer according to claim 1, wherein a tea cup 4 having a large internal space is formed at the lower end of the tea leaf accommodating portion 2. 3. The tea strainer according to claim 1, wherein a lower end portion of the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is extended obliquely downward along the peripheral surface of the drinking water main body to form a hot water reservoir 5 located below the straining hole 3. Shiki drinking. 4. A relatively small tea leaf accommodating portion 2 which engages with a part of the drinking water main body 1 and occupies a part of a plane inside the drinking water main body 1.
A tea strainer with a tea strainer, wherein the tea strainer is detachably attached, and a straining hole 3 located at the lower end of the tea leaf accommodating portion 2 is communicated with an upper portion of the tea drinking body 1.