JPH08275890A - Rice washer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To automatically eject washed rice and to rinse the rice by providing a jet nozzle under a vertical passage provided in the rice washing chamber of a rice washing container, providing a discharge port at the upper side, introducing a water flow to a rice ejection chute through a valve via a communication passage and making water flow down from the discharge hole of the rice washing chamber to a drainage. CONSTITUTION: The water fed to a water supply port 2 is ejected from the jet nozzle 13 via a changeover valve 27, and enters a pipe 9 from a jet water introduction port, and is ejected from an upper opening 11 with jet pressure, and abuts on a water flow deflection face 26a on the back of a cover 7, and is moved in the depth of the rice washing chamber 5 of the rice washing container 4. The rice enters the pipe 9 from a lower opening 10 together with water, and is washed with water circulating a space in the rice washing chamber 5. A part of the water in the rice washing chamber 5 is discharged from the exhaust hole 15 of a partition 14, and discharge from the discharge port 3 to the outside via discharge chamber 35. When a valve 17 is rotated with a knob 18 when washing is completed, the water flows down from a scupper hole 21 on the bottom of the communication passage 20, and the rice enters an oven from the discharge chute 8.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rice washing apparatus for automatically sharpening and discharging rice with water.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been known a device for introducing a water flow into a rice washing chamber into which rice has been introduced, washing the rice with the water flow, and then circulating the water to sharpen the rice. In this device, the water flow was stopped, the rice washing chamber was removed from the device, and the rice was transferred to a pot or the like after being appropriately sharpened. Therefore, there is a problem that it is necessary to remove the rice washing room, which is troublesome, and it takes time to discharge the whole amount of the polished rice from the rice washing room, and it is difficult to sufficiently rinse the final rice.

[0003]

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve these problems in the prior art, to automatically discharge the sharpened rice without removing the rice washing chamber, and to perform sufficient rinsing. And to provide an excellent rice washing device that can discharge all rice.

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The constitution of the present invention which has solved the above problems is as follows: 1) Washing rice in which a lid is attached to an upper opening serving as a rice input port in a device main body having a water supply port and a drain port. A rice washing container equipped with a chamber is detachably attached, a vertical vertical passage opened at the top and bottom of the rice washing chamber is provided inside the rice washing container, a fountain introduction port is provided below the vertical passage, and a vertical passage The shape of the back of the lid was shaped so that the water flow discharged from the upper opening was redirected to the far side of the rice washing room on the back of the lid, and the water supply port was connected to the main body of the device below the fountain introduction port of the rice washing container. A fountain nozzle is installed to connect with the fountain inlet in a watertight manner, a part of the vertical passage is opened to form an outlet, and a valve for opening and closing the outlet is provided to connect the water flow from the outlet. Lead to the rice discharge chute provided outside the rice washing container through the passage, and further Rice washing device with a drainage hole in the wall that does not allow rice grains to pass through, and a drainage channel that allows water from the drainage hole to flow down into the drainage channel of the main body of the equipment 2) Vertical with a part of the side surface opened Attach the cylindrical valve body of the so as to rotate with the protruding knob on the rice washing container while contacting the peripheral wall surface of the outlet of the vertical passage, and connect the inside of the cylindrical valve body with the communication passage to the rice discharge chute. 1) The rice washing device according to 1) above, which constitutes a valve of the discharge port. 3) The side wall of the rice washing chamber is composed of a tubular pipe forming a vertical passage and a pair of partition plates connected to the left and right of the pipe. The rice washing device according to the above 1) or 2), in which a plurality of drain holes through which rice grains cannot pass are provided in the partition plate. 4) A cylindrical pipe and a partition plate connected to the pipe are detachably attached to a rice washing container. 3) The rice washing device described in 3) 5) The left and right partition plates are inside the rice washing room. The rice washing device according to the above 3) or 4) provided so as to be inclined 6) The rice washing device according to any one of 1) to 5) above, wherein a narrow drainage hole through which rice grains cannot pass is provided on the bottom of the communication passage. 7) Any of the above 1) to 6) in which a small gap is provided between the opening edge of the road end of the communication passage and the introduction port of the rice discharge chute, and a draining flange is attached to the opening edge of the road end of the communication passage. 8) A water flow guide plate for vertically arranging the water flow from the upper opening of the vertical passage at a position on the back surface of the lid slightly away from right above the upper opening of the vertical passage to the center of the rice washing chamber. 7) Rice rinsing device according to any one of 9) The rice rinsing device according to any one of 1) to 7) in which the bottom surface of the rice rinsing chamber is inclined toward the lower opening of the vertical passage 10) Feeding between the fountain nozzle and the water supply port 10. A water purifier for rice washing water is provided on the way, according to any one of 1) to 9) above. In the US unit.

[0005]

In the present invention, the rice washing container is removed from the apparatus main body, the lid is removed from the removed rice washing container, and a required amount of rice is put into the rice washing chamber through the opening above it. After that, the lid is attached to the rice washing container and the rice washing container is returned to the main body of the apparatus. If water is supplied from the water supply port of the main body in this state, water will be ejected from the fountain nozzle, introduced into the vertical passage from the fountain inlet connected to the fountain nozzle in a watertight manner, and then rising in the vertical passage, It is discharged from the opening, hits the back surface of the lid as it is, water flows along the back surface of the lid, and evenly flows into the rice washing chamber. The water that has flowed into the rice washing room moves toward the lower opening of the vertical passage with the water while washing the rice that has been put into the rice washing room, and the water and rice are vertically attracted by the ascending flow in the vertical passage. It enters the passage, rises, and is discharged from the upper opening,
Move along the back of the lid again and return to the rice washing room. By repeating this, the rice is washed evenly evenly. Part of the water in the rice-washing chamber is discharged from the drain hole of the rice-washing chamber, flows down from the drainage channel of the rice-washing container into the main body of the apparatus, and is drained from the outlet through the drainage channel. In this way, new water is constantly introduced from the water supply port, and while the amount of the introduced water is drained, the rice and water move while circulating in the rice washing room, so that the rice is sharpened. If the valve is opened when it has been sufficiently ground, part of the rice that moves with water in the vertical passage is discharged from the discharge port at the upper part of the vertical passage and sent to the rice discharge chute through the communication passage to the outside. It is discharged into a pot (not shown). This discharge takes time so as to remove some of the circulating rice, so the amount of rice in the rice washing chamber gradually decreases, the amount of water increases, and the water adhering to the walls of the rice washing chamber is washed away. The rice in the rice washing room is thoroughly rinsed and discharged. If a cylindrical valve body that rotates while making contact with the discharge port is used as the valve, an on-off valve with less water leakage and less passage resistance can be obtained.

If the vertical passage is formed of a tubular pipe and partition plates are connected to the left and right of the pipe to form the side wall of the rice washing chamber, the structure is simplified. Furthermore, if the pipe and the partition plate are detachably provided in the rice washing container, the plastic molding can be easily manufactured as a separate component, and the inside and outside of the device can be easily washed and cleaned. Furthermore, by tilting the partition plate and the rice-washing chamber in an inverted C-shape, water and rice will not stagnate at the corners between the partition plate and the front and rear chamber walls of the rice-washing chamber.
It is possible to prevent insufficient polishing and residual adhesion of rice.
In addition, if the shape of the back surface of the lid is smoothly connected to the horizontal surface of the back surface of the lid, the water flow from the upper opening of the vertical passage can reach a distance from the rice washing room. Furthermore, if a water drain hole is provided at the bottom of the communication passage from the valve, the water entering the communication passage can be made to flow down to the drainage passage below the rice washing container to drain water. Furthermore, if a gap is provided between the end of the communication passage and the introduction port of the rice discharging chute and a flange is attached to the end of the rice, the water flowing with the sharpened rice will move to the side of the rice discharging chute. Shut off. Also, use water to reduce water leakage and dirt around the rice discharge chute. If a water flow guide is hung vertically on the back of the lid, the water flow will be moved to the center of the rice washing room and the water will flow toward the back of the rice washing room to enhance the rice washing power, similar to the inward tilt of the partition plate. .
If the bottom of the rice washing room is inclined toward the lower opening of the vertical passage, the flow of rice and water to the lower opening of the vertical passage will be smoothed, the rice and water circulation will be improved, and the rice polishing ability will be improved. Furthermore,
If you purify the water spouting from the fountain nozzle with a water purifier for washing rice, you can sharpen it with purified water and make delicious rice even if the water is absorbed by the rice.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings of FIGS. In the figure, 1 is the main body of the device, 2 is a water supply port of the main body of the device, 3 is the same drainage port, 4 is a semi-transparent rice washing container, 5
Is a rice-washing chamber of the rice-washing container, 6 is a rice inlet which is an opening above the rice-washing chamber, 7 is a lid detachably attached to the inlet 6 of the rice-washing chamber 5, and 8 is attached to the front of the rice-washing container 4. The discharged rice chute, 9 is a translucent plastic pipe forming a vertical passage, 10 is the lower opening of the pipe, 11 is the upper opening of the pipe, and 12 is below the lower opening 10 of the rice washing chamber 5. A fountain inlet, 13 a fountain nozzle, 14 a partition plate integrally connected to the left and right sides of the pipe 9, 15 a slit-shaped drain hole provided in the partition plate, and 16 a discharge port opened at the top of the pipe 9. , 17 is a vertical valve body that is in contact with the opening edge of the discharge port, 18 is a knob for switching between rice discharging and sharpening provided at the tip of a connecting rod 19 standing on the head of the valve body, and 19 is a connecting rod. , 20 is a communication passage connected to the valve body 17, and 21 is a small passage provided at the bottom of the communication passage. A slit-shaped drain hole, 22 is a flange provided at the road end of the communication passage 20, 23 is an opening that serves as an inlet for the rice discharge chute 8, 24 is a gap between the opening and the road end of the communication passage 20, 25 is an inclined bottom surface that descends toward the lower opening 10 of the rice washing room, 26 is a lid back surface guide plate that is provided on the back and front of the back surface of the lid 7 to bring the water flow to the center, and 26a is a smooth back surface of the lid 7. The concave water flow diverting surface, 27 is a switching valve for switching the water supply direction to the water purifier 28 and the fountain nozzle 13,
28 is a water purifier for drinks, 29 is a water purifier for washing water, 30 is an opening / closing front wall plate for replacing the removable water purifier 29 on the lower front wall of the apparatus body 1, 31 is a handle of the rice washing container 4, 3
Reference numeral 2 is a purified water discharge nozzle connected to the discharge port of the water purifier 28. Further, 33 is a drainage chamber which is a drainage channel provided adjacent to the rice washing chamber 5 of the rice washing container 4, 34 is a lower opening of the drainage chamber, 3
Reference numeral 5 denotes a drainage chamber which serves as a drainage channel that opens above the apparatus body.

In this embodiment, a hose connected to the tap water tap is connected to the water supply port 2 to feed the tap water into the water supply port 2 of the apparatus body 1. The sent water enters the water purifier 29 through the switching valve 27, is purified, and is ejected from the fountain nozzle 13. The purified water from the fountain nozzle 13 opens into the bottom surface of the rice washing chamber 5, enters the pipe 9 through the fountain inlet 12 closely attached to the fountain nozzle 13, rises in the pipe 9 by the fountain pressure, and opens at the top. It spouts from 11 and hits the water flow diverting surface 26a on the back surface of the lid 7 above it, and moves to the horizontal surface on the back surface of the lid 7 along the smooth recessed surface toward the back of the rice washing chamber 5. Moving. Then, the lid back surface guide plate 26
By this, the flow is made to flow toward the center so as not to face the front and back of the rice washing room, so that the water flow reaches the back of the rice washing room 5. Further, the pair of left and right partition plates 14 inwardly inclined toward the rice washing chamber 5 side of the pipe 9 and the above-mentioned lid back surface guide plate 26 allow the wet rice to be placed in the corners between the partition plate 14 and the front and rear walls of the rice washing chamber 5. I try not to stagnant. The water flow from the upper opening 11 of the pipe 9 is evenly distributed along the back surface of the lid 7 into the space of the rice washing chamber 5, and the introduced rice is washed and sharpened. Also, the rice moves with water along the inclined bottom surface 25 of the rice washing chamber 5 toward the lower opening 10 of the pipe 9 and enters the pipe 9 so as to be sucked from the lower opening 10 of the pipe 9. Since the upward flow of the fountain from the fountain inlet 12 exists in the pipe 9, a suction force acts on the lower opening 10 of the pipe 9 so that the water and rice under the rice washing chamber 5 are often sucked. Installed within 9 In this way, the rice is washed with water while being circulated through the space in the pipe 9 and the rice washing chamber 5 to be ground. A part of the water in the rice washing chamber 5 is discharged from the drainage hole 15 of the partition plate 14, flows into the space of the drainage chamber 33 in the rice washing container 4, and through the opening 34 therebelow, the drainage chamber 35 in the lower part of the apparatus body 1. The water is discharged from the drainage port 3 to the outside, and the same amount of water as the water supply amount is discharged so that the water does not overflow into the rice washing chamber 5. When sufficiently sharpened, the knob 18 is rotated to rotate the valve body 17 so that the discharge port 16 at the upper portion of the pipe 9 and the opening 17a of the valve body 17 face each other. Then, the water and a part of the rice passing through the pipe 9 flow into the valve body 17 through the discharge port 16 and the opening 17a, the water moves from the lower opening of the valve body 17 to the communication passage 20, and the water flows into the communication passage. 20 flows down from the drainage hole 21 on the bottom surface of the rice 20, and the rice is discharged from the road end through the opening 34 to the discharge chute 8
It moves to and is put in the pot placed below.

Since the pipe 9 and the partition plate 14 are integrally formed and detachably attached to the rice washing container 4, the pipe 9 and the partitioning plate 14 can be manufactured separately from the rice washing container 4, so that the manufacturing is easy and inexpensive. You can Further, since it can be detached as a separate body, the inside of the rice washing container 4 can be easily cleaned and washed. Also, rice washing container 4
Since it is manufactured separately from the apparatus main body 1 and is detachably attached, the complicated rice washing container and the apparatus main body 1 can be easily manufactured, and cleaning and washing can be easily performed.
Further, since the valve is mounted so that the valve body 17 is in contact with the peripheral edge of the opening of the discharge port 16 of the pipe 9, the discharge port 16 can be opened and closed with a simple structure with less resistance to water and rice. Also, partition plate 1
Since part of the side wall of the rice-washing chamber 5 is constituted by the pipe 4 and the pipe 9, the structure can be simplified and the manufacturing is facilitated. The inwardly inclined partition plate 14 and the lid back surface guide plate 26 prevent water flow and stagnation of rice. Fountain nozzle 13 of this embodiment
Since the water from the water is purified by the water purifier 29, it can be made into delicious rice by polishing it with the water from which the odor and stains of tap water have been removed. In this embodiment, the water from the water supply port 2 can be discharged as purified water from the purified water discharge nozzle 32 by the switching valve 27 through the water purifier 28, and also has a function of a water purifier.

[0010]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to automatically wash and sharpen rice by simply putting the rice into the washing rice container and supplying water, and discharging the sharpened rice from the discharge chute. The rice-laboratory work is greatly automated, and since rice can be washed while removing rice, it is not necessary to remove the rice-washing container, so rice can be transferred quickly. In addition, the final rinsing of the washed rice can be done well, and all rice can be discharged. In addition, it is easy to manufacture and inexpensive. Further, the rice washing container is detachable from the main body of the apparatus, and the water purifier 29 can be easily replaced by the opening / closing wall plate below the apparatus.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the embodiment.

4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

5 is a sectional view taken along line BB in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a rice washing container of an example.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing an apparatus main body of an embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a plan view of the rice washing container with the lid removed in the example.

FIG. 9 is a bottom view of the lid of the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing a pipe, a partition plate, and a valve body of the embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing opening and closing of a drain port of a pipe and a valve body of the embodiment.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing a rice discharging route according to the embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a sectional view taken along line CC of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Device Main Body 2 Water Supply Port 3 Drainage Port 4 Rice Washing Container 5 Rice Washing Room 6 Input Port 7 Lid 8 Rice Discharge Chute 9 Pipe 10 Lower Opening 11 Upper Opening 12 Fountain Inlet 13 Fountain Nozzle 14 Partition Plate 15 Draining Hole 16 Valve 17 Body 17a Opening 18 Knob 19 Connecting rod 20 Communication passage 21 Draining hole 22 Flange 23 Opening 24 Gap 25 Sloping bottom 26 Lid backside guide plate 27 Switching valve 28 Water purifier 29 Water purifier 30 Opening / closing front plate wall 31 Handle 32 Water purifying water discharge nozzle 33 Drainage Chamber 34 Opening 35 Drainage chamber

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. A device main body having a water supply port and a drain port,
A rice washing container equipped with a rice washing chamber with a lid attached to the upper opening that serves as a rice input port is detachably attached, and a vertical vertical passage opening at the upper and lower parts of the rice washing chamber is provided inside the rice washing container.
A fountain inlet is provided below the vertical passage, and the shape of the back of the lid is shaped so that the water flow discharged from the upper opening of the vertical passage is redirected to the far side of the rice washing room on the back of the lid. A fountain nozzle connected to the water supply port is installed in the main body of the device below the fountain inlet so as to be watertightly connected to the fountain inlet, and the upper part of the vertical passage is partially opened to form a discharge port. A valve that opens and closes the outlet is provided, and the water flow from the outlet is led to the rice discharge chute provided on the outside of the rice washing container through the communication passage,
Furthermore, the rice washing machine has a drainage hole on the wall of the rice washing room that is large enough for rice grains not to pass through, and a drainage channel is provided inside the rice washing container to allow water from the drainage hole to flow down to the drainage channel of the device body. 2. A cylindrical valve body, in which a vertical cylindrical valve body having a part of a side surface opened is attached to a rice washing container so as to rotate while contacting with a peripheral wall surface of an opening of a discharge opening of a vertical passage. The rice washing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the inside of the rice is connected to a communication path to the rice discharging chute to constitute a valve of the discharge port. 3. A drainage hole in which a side wall of a rice washing chamber is composed of a tubular pipe forming a vertical passage and a pair of partition plates connected to the left and right of the pipe, and rice grains cannot pass through the partition plate. The rice washing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a plurality of the rice washing devices are provided. 4. The rice washing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the tubular pipe and a partition plate connected to the tubular pipe are detachably attached to the rice washing container. 5. The rice washing device according to claim 3, wherein the pair of left and right partition plates are provided so as to incline inward of the rice washing chamber. 6. The rice washing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a narrow drainage hole through which rice grains cannot pass is provided on the bottom surface of the communication passage. 7. A small gap is provided between the opening edge of the road end of the communication passage and the introduction port of the discharged rice chute, and a draining flange is attached to the opening edge of the road end of the communication passage.
Any of the rice washing devices. 8. A water flow guide plate for vertically arranging a water flow from the upper opening of the vertical passage at a position on the back surface of the lid slightly away from right above the upper opening of the vertical passage to the center of the rice washing chamber.
~ The rice washing apparatus according to any one of 7 to 7. 9. The rice washing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the bottom surface of the rice washing chamber is inclined toward the lower opening of the vertical passage. 10. The rice washing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein a water purifier for rice washing water is provided in the feeding path between the fountain nozzle and the water supply port.