JPH078266B2 - Automatic bread machine - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic bread machine for automatically baking bread having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape.

2. Description of the Related Art At present, as a shape of a kneading container of a commercially available automatic bread maker, it is known that it has a substantially cubic shape. The inner bottom of the kneading container has a kneading blade that is driven to rotate by a motor.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention As the shape of the kneading container of the automatic bread maker, the cylindrical shape is the most ideal in order to surely knead materials such as wheat flour with the kneading blades, but this is the finished bread But the shape of bread is not good. Therefore, when bread is cut, it has various shapes, making it very difficult to eat. Therefore, the kneading container has a substantially cubic shape. However, if the cube shape of the kneading container is enlarged to increase the capacity of the bread, some of the bread that does not enter the toaster or oven toaster when the finished bread is cut can be made, it takes time to bake the inside of the bread, it is large. The capacity of the heater is required. For this reason, a cube-shaped kneading container could only make bread of a certain size. Therefore, in order to increase the capacity of the loaf while ensuring the shape of the loaf, it is necessary to use a kneading container having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. However, it is very difficult to surely knead materials such as wheat flour with one kneading blade using the kneading container having such a shape, because the kneading blades do not affect both sides of the kneading container.

The present invention solves such a problem, it is possible to enlarge the kneading blade by considering the shape of the kneading container, so that the material can be well kneaded even if the capacity of the bread is increased. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic bread maker.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve such conventional problems, the automatic bread maker of the present invention has a kneading container having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the width of the central portion in the longitudinal direction of the opening is set to both sides. It is larger than the width in.

Action With such a configuration, since the width of the opening in the central portion in the longitudinal direction of the kneading container is larger than the width of both side portions, a kneading blade having a large radius can be used accordingly. Therefore, the range of kneading the material is wide, and even if the shape is almost rectangular parallelepiped, it is possible to knead the materials on both sides with certainty. It is a bread that can be baked.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the figure, 1 is a main body of an automatic bread machine, 2 is a chassis provided in the main body 1, 3 is a motor mounted on the chassis 2, and 4 is a motor cooling fan provided at one end of a shaft 5 of the motor 3. , 6 is a small pulley attached to the other end of the shaft 5, 7 is a fan guide provided around the motor cooling fan 4, 8 is a large pulley attached to one end of a shaft 10 supported by a bearing 9, and 11 is A connector attached to the other end of the shaft 10, 12 a belt hung between the small pulley 6 and the large pulley 8, 13 a container fixing guide provided on the chassis 2, and 14 a container fixing guide 13. A kneading container to be installed, 15 is a kneading blade detachably provided at the end of the shaft 16 protruding to the inner bottom of the kneading container 14, 17 is a bearing supporting the shaft 16, and 18 is a connector attached to the other end of the shaft 16. Removably combined with 11 That the kneading container side of the connector, the heater 19 is provided below the periphery of the kneading container 14, 20
Is a baking chamber in which a heater 19 is housed and a kneading container 14 is detachably mounted, 21 is a container lid of the main body 1, 22 is a yeast container provided at the center of the container lid 21, 23 is a yeast container 22 lid, and 24 is The charging lid, 25 is a temperature detection unit that comes into contact with the side wall of the kneading container 14 when the kneading container 14 is attached to the baking chamber 20, and 26 is an operating unit for controlling the automatic bread maker. Control device (not shown) based on the input information and the input information of the temperature detection unit 25
Is used to determine the control conditions for the motor 3, the heater 19, and the like.

The above-mentioned kneading container 14 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the width a at the center in the longitudinal direction of the opening is the width b at both sides.
Bigger than that. In this embodiment, the shape of the opening is drum-shaped, but it is not always necessary to have such a shape.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. In the firing chamber 20,
A kneading blade 14 is attached, a kneading container 14 containing materials other than yeast such as flour and water is set, the container lid 21 is closed, and a predetermined amount of yeast is put in the yeast container 22. In this state, the bread completion time is input from the operation unit 26 to start. Then, at a predetermined time, the operation of the motor 3 starts, the small pulley 6 rotates, and the large pulley 8 and the connector 11 rotate via the belt 12. The connector 11 transmits the drive to the connector 18, and rotates the kneading blades 15 in the kneading container 14 to knead the material. Also, at a predetermined time, the container lid 21
An internal driving device (not shown) is energized to open the charging lid 24 and knead the yeast contained in the yeast container 22.
Put into 14 The yeast put into the kneading vessel 14 is kneaded with other materials for a predetermined time, and while inputting the information of the temperature detection unit 25 based on the process control of the control device,
Primary fermentation while adjusting the temperature of the kneading vessel 14 with the heater 19,
The secondary fermentation, degassing, molding fermentation, and baking steps are automatically performed, and the bread is baked at the set time.

Here, as shown in FIG. 3, when the motor 3 is rotating normally, the kneading blades 15 rise up due to the resistance of the material contained in the kneading container 14 (solid line), and the dough is kneaded up with a large resistance force. It is like this. Also, by rotating the motor 3 in the reverse direction before starting the molding fermentation, the kneading blades 15 fall down (dotted line), and the baking is performed in this state.
There is no trace of large feathers on the bottom of the baked bread.

Since the above-mentioned kneading vessel 14 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and the width a at the central portion in the longitudinal direction of the opening is larger than the width b at both sides, the kneading blade 15 at the central portion of the kneading vessel 14 is The diameter can be increased, and more materials can be kneaded even if the kneading container 14 has a rectangular parallelepiped shape. Further, if the shape is substantially rectangular parallelepiped, after baking the bread, if the bread is left as it is without being taken out, moisture is absorbed and a waist breaking phenomenon easily occurs, but by making the shape of the kneading container 14 as in the embodiment, Since the central portion of the bread is bulged and reinforced, the above-mentioned waist breaking phenomenon disappears.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION As is clear from the above examples, the automatic bread machine of the present invention can increase the shape of the kneading blade even when the shape of the kneading container is a substantially rectangular parallelepiped, and can knead the bread dough well. Therefore, it is possible to easily obtain a bread with a large capacity in a rectangular parallelepiped shape that fits in a toaster or the like, and it is possible to accommodate a large family.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view of an automatic bread maker showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 and 3 are a plan view and a side sectional view of a kneading container portion, respectively. 14 …… Mixing container, 15 …… Mixing blade, 19 …… Heater, 20…
… Baking room,

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A firing chamber having a heater, a substantially rectangular parallelepiped kneading container detachably mounted in the firing chamber, and a detachable kneading blade provided at a central inner bottom portion of the kneading container. The kneading container is an automatic bread machine in which the width of the central portion in the longitudinal direction of the opening is larger than the width of both sides.