JPH08463A - Liquid tank with purifying function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve a purifying effect using the convection of liquid or the active movement of a level upon boiling in a liquid tank provided with a purifying device therein. CONSTITUTION:A purifying device 13 is set to the height of a rated full quantity line 19 in a container 1 and the full quantity line 19 is designed to be included in the housing part 18 of a purifying agent 17. When a level 21 is lower than the rated full quantity line 19, the purifying device 13 is operated as a vapor phase type.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a liquid container having a cleaning function such as a cleaning pot.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a liquid container with a cleaning function, which is provided with a liquid cleaning device inside the container, conventionally, the cleaning device is mounted directly above a heater or a discharge pipe. In the case where the heater is mounted directly above the heater, the liquid passes through the inside of the purifying device due to the convection of the liquid due to the heat generated by the heater. Further, in the case where the liquid is attached directly above the discharge pipe, the liquid passes through the purification device when the liquid is discharged.

[0003]

In order to enhance the liquid purification effect, how to efficiently contact the liquid with the cleaning agent is concerned. However, in the case where the purifying device is installed directly above the heater as in the conventional case, the purifying effect is enhanced when the convective liquid passes through the inside of the purifying device, but the gap between the purifying agent and the member enclosing the purifying agent is actually small. Therefore, the liquid flow due to convection hardly passes through the inside of the purification device.

Further, in the case where the purifying device is mounted directly above the discharge pipe, the liquid only temporarily passes through the purifying device when the liquid is discharged, and the liquid does not pass at other times.

Further, the means for attaching the purification device to the container is
Since the holder was forcibly fitted to the container,
The position of the purifier depends on the holder.
For this reason, it was not possible to select an arbitrary position for mounting.

Further, since the holder is forcibly fitted to the inner container, the set is troublesome, and the inner surface of the inner container is scratched by the holder, causing rust. Further, since a fitting claw is required, there is a problem in that the inner surface of the inner container is uneven and it is difficult to clean.

[0007] Therefore, an object of each invention according to this application is to solve these problems by adding a device to a mounting means of the purifying device provided inside the container.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the invention described in claim 1 of the present application,
In a liquid container provided with a liquid purifying device inside the container, the purifying device is installed at the height of the liquid rated full line, and the full line is included in the purifying agent storage section. is there.

In this case, the liquid moves in the purifying device due to the movement of the liquid surface generated when the liquid is boiled, and comes into contact with the purifying agent at that time. Further, when the amount of liquid is lower than the rated full curve, the vaporized substance released from the liquid is captured.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in a liquid container in which the liquid purifying device is housed, the specific gravity of the purifying device is smaller than the specific gravity of the liquid, and the vertical direction is provided inside the liquid container. The purification device is slidably attached to the guide member.

In this case, the purifying device always exists on the liquid surface while changing its position in the vertical direction along the guide member according to the liquid amount, and the liquid moves inside the purifying device due to the movement of the liquid surface when boiling the hot water. It moves and comes into contact with the cleaning agent.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in a liquid container in which a liquid purifying device is provided inside the container, the specific gravity of the purifying device is smaller than the specific gravity of the liquid, and the purifying device is a string having a required length. It is attached to the top of the liquid container.

In this case, the purifying device always floats on the liquid surface while changing its position according to the amount of the liquid, and the liquid moves in the purifying device by the movement of the liquid surface when boiling the water as well. Contact the agent. By appropriately setting the length of the string, it is possible to prevent the purifying device from coming into contact with the heater at the bottom of the container.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in a liquid container in which a liquid purifying device is provided inside the container, the specific gravity of the liquid purifying device is formed slightly larger than the specific gravity of the liquid, and the purifying device is inside the liquid container. It is configured to be slidably attached to the provided vertical guide member.

In this case, convection and ascending bubbles associated with boiling water receive an upward force on the lower surface of the purifying device and move to the liquid surface along the guide device, where the liquid and the purifying liquid are purified in the same manner as in the above-mentioned cases. Contact of agents occurs.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in a liquid container in which a liquid purifying device is provided inside the container, the purifying device is detachably attached to the inner surface of the container by an adsorption device such as a magnet. .

In this case, since the purifying device can be attached to an arbitrary position inside the container by the adsorbing device, it is possible to freely select and attach a position having the highest purifying effect.

[0018]

【Example】

(Embodiment of the invention described in claim 1) The embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is an example of an electric pot (the same applies to each of the following embodiments). This electric pot has a heater 2 on the bottom of the inner container 1.
A pump 4 is provided in the middle of the pumping pipe 3 connected to the bottom surface of the inner container 1, and the pumping pipe 3 is connected to the exterior body 5 and the inner container 1.
And is led to the discharge port 6. A lid 8 is attached to the upper part of the exterior body 5 by a hinge 7 so as to be openable and closable, and a hook 9 is raised so that the lid 8 can be opened.

A safety valve 12 is provided at the center of the inner lid 11 provided on the lid 8. Inner lid 1 surrounding the safety valve 12
A purifying device 13 is attached to the lower surface of 1.

The purifying device 13 has an inner case 15 housed inside an outer case 14 having a large number of small holes. The inner case 15 has its lower and upper ends opened, and a net 16 is attached to the lower opening. Also, a net 16 ′ is attached in the middle of the inner case 15 to form a storage portion 18 for the cleaning agent 17. The purifying device 13 is attached by engaging the upper end portion of the outer case 14 with the inner lid 11.

When the above electric pot is used, the liquid is usually filled up to the rated full line 19, so that the liquid level 21 becomes the height contained in the purifying agent storage portion 18 of the purifying device 13, and the purifying agent 17 is the same. It is in a state of being immersed in the liquid in the storage section 18.

When the heater 2 is energized to boil water in this state, vigorous convection and rising bubbles of the liquid are generated immediately before and at the time of boiling, and the movement of the liquid surface 21 becomes active. Move vigorously, and purifier 1 at that time
The liquid contacting 7 is then subjected to a cleaning action.

When the amount of the liquid is lower than the rated full line 19 and the purifying device 13 is on the liquid surface, the purifying agent captures the vaporized substance released from the liquid, and thus the function as the vapor phase purifying device is obtained. Also do.

(Embodiment of the invention described in claim 2) In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, the discharge port 22 on the bottom surface of the inner container 1
A guide rail 24 made of a metal wire is vertically erected up to a position beyond the rated full line 19 by a bracket 23 which is detachably attached to a surrounding recess.

A horizontal bent portion 25 is provided at the lower end of the guide rail 24, and the bent portion 25 keeps a constant distance from the side surface and the bottom surface 26 of the inner container 1.

The purifying device 13 is slidably inserted into the guide rail 24. This purifying device 13 stores the inner case 15 inside the outer case 14 as in the case described above, and the nets 16, 16 ′ are provided in the upper and lower open portions of the inner case 15.
Is installed to form the storage unit 18, and the purifying agent 17 is placed inside the storage unit 18.
Is stored. The guide rail 24 is the net 16,
It penetrates through the center of 16 '.

The purification device 13 is made of a lightweight material so that the overall specific gravity thereof is smaller than that of the liquid. In some cases, an air chamber may be provided in a part of the device so as to have buoyancy. By these means, in the purifying device 13, the storage portion 18 thereof floats to a position including the liquid surface 21.

In this electric pot, the purifying device 13
Changes its position up and down according to the change in the liquid amount, and the storage portion 18 is always at the position including the liquid surface 21. When boiling water is performed in this state, as in the case described above, vigorous convection of the liquid and rising bubbles activate the movement of the liquid surface 21, so that the liquid moves vigorously inside the purifying device 13 and purifies one after another. It comes into contact with the agent 17 and receives a cleaning action.

Even if the liquid runs out, the purification device 13 is received by the bent portion 25 of the guide rail 24, so that it is possible to avoid contact with the bottom surface 26 heated by the heater 2.

Further, the guide rail 24 includes the bracket 23.
It can be properly removed by removing.

(Embodiment of the Invention According to Claim 3) In the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, as in the case of FIG. 3, the purifying device 13 is formed to have a smaller specific gravity than the liquid, and the storage portion 18 has a liquid level. It is possible to float to a height including 21 and the central portion of the net 16 ′ on the upper surface and the inner lid 11 are connected by a string 27, a flexible wire or the like. The length of the string 27 is set so that the purifying device 13 does not contact the bottom surface 26 in the absence of liquid.

The purifying action is the same as in the case of FIG. 3 described above, and it is also the same that the device is regulated so as not to be lowered to a position lower than a certain level, except that it freely floats on the liquid surface 21. The free floating further increases the chances of contact between the liquid and the cleaning agent 17.

The upper end of the string 27 has an inner container 1 and a shoulder 3
3, it may be attached to the exterior body 5 or the lower lid plate 35.

(Embodiment of the Invention According to Claim 4) In the embodiment shown in FIG. 5, the same guide rail 24 as in the case of FIG. 3 is used. The structure of the purifying device 13 is similar, but in this case, the specific gravity is formed larger than the specific gravity of the liquid, and the skirt-shaped overhanging portion 28 is provided on the outer peripheral portion of the lower end.

In this case, the purifying device 13 is on the bent portion 25 of the guide rail 24 as shown by the chain double-dashed line before boiling, but if convection and rising bubbles of liquid are generated by boiling, the liquid and bubbles Hits the lower surface of the overhanging portion 28, pushes it up to the liquid surface 21, and performs the same purifying action as in the above case at that position.

Instead of the skirt-shaped overhanging portion 28, the bottom area of the purifying device 13 may be simply widened.

(Embodiment of the invention described in claim 5) In the embodiment shown in FIG. 6, magnets 29 are attached at a certain interval in the vertical direction of the outer surface of the inner container 1 or over the entire length thereof, and their positions are set. The purifying device 13 is adsorbed on the device. In this case, the magnet 29 'on the purification device 13 side may be omitted.

Alternatively, the magnet 29 of the inner container 1 may be omitted, and the magnet 29 ′ of the purifying device 13 may be attached to the inner surface of the inner container 1.

In this case, since the position of the purifying device 13 can be arbitrarily selected, for example, the position is changed according to the amount of liquid, or it is attached to the portion of the discharge port 22 (position A), and further the purifying pipe 30 is used. The mounting position can be appropriately selected such as mounting at the lower part of the return port (position B) or the like.

(Others) Structures common to the above-mentioned respective embodiments will be collectively described below.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the lid 8 prevents the lid 8 from being accidentally disengaged from the hinge 7 during drainage. Therefore, the lid 8 cannot be removed unless the lower end portion of the rear hook 31 is operated. It is structured. The rear hook 31 is attached to the shoulder portion 33 of the exterior body 5 by the hook pin 32.

A protective portion 34 protruding rearward is integrally provided at a position higher than the hook pin 32 of the rear hook 31. Since the protection portion 34 projects rearward from the lower end portion of the rear hook 31, if the pot should fall backward (the position of the table surface, floor surface, etc. at this time is indicated by a reference numeral 40 in FIG. 1). The chain is shown by a chain line.) Only the impact of the protective portion 34 is received, and the impact force does not act on the lower end portion, which prevents the lid 8 from being removed accidentally. The protection portion 34 may be provided on the shoulder portion 33.

As shown in FIG. 2, the lid lower plate 35 housed in the lid 8 forms a steam passage 37 between itself and the steam case 36 fitted to the lower surface thereof. Since 37 is not completely sealed, the steam leaking from the gap of the steam passage 37 wraps around between the lower lid plate 35 and the outer lid 38, and the temperature of the hook recess 39 of the outer lid 38 and the like is prevented. It causes to raise locally.

For this purpose, except for the portion of the steam passage 37,
A groove 41 having a radius including the hook recess 39 and recessed toward the outer lid 38 side is provided in the lid lower plate 35. This groove 35
Since both ends of the are closed by the closing walls 42 (see FIG. 7), steam does not enter the groove 41. Therefore, it is possible to prevent a local temperature rise in the portion of the outer lid 38 above the groove 41.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the discharge button 43
A seal member 45 having a U-shaped cross section and easily bent is attached to the upper surface of the brim 44 to seal the periphery of the discharge button 43. The reason why the sealing member 45 needs to be bendable is that the spring force for urging the discharge button 43 is relatively weak because it reduces the resistance applied to the fingertip, and therefore the sealing force cannot be obtained with such a force. Therefore, the sealing member 45 itself is provided with a bending property to enhance the sealing property.

[0046]

According to the invention described in claims 1 to 4, the liquid and the purifying agent are efficiently brought into contact with each other due to the movement of the liquid surface due to the convection and boiling of the liquid, so that the excellent purifying effect is exhibited.

The invention described in claim 1 functions as a gas-phase purification device when the amount of liquid is small,
Similar to the invention described in (1), it exhibits an excellent purifying effect. According to the invention described in claims 2 to 4, the purifying device always floats on the liquid surface according to the amount of liquid, and the movement of the liquid surface due to convection or boiling can be effectively used.

According to the fifth aspect of the invention, it is possible to freely select a position having a high purification effect and attach it, which is highly versatile. Further, since the purifying device is attached by an adsorbing device such as a magnet, there are advantages that rust does not occur inside the container and that the inner surface of the inner container has no unevenness, so that cleaning is easy.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of an embodiment according to the invention described in claim 1.

FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged sectional view of the above.

FIG. 3 is a partially omitted sectional view of an embodiment according to the invention described in claim 2.

FIG. 4 is a partially omitted sectional view of an embodiment according to the invention described in claim 3;

FIG. 5 is a partially omitted sectional view of an embodiment according to the invention described in claim 4.

FIG. 6 is a partially omitted sectional view of an embodiment according to the invention described in claim 5;

FIG. 7 is a partially exploded perspective view showing a state in which a lid is turned over.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Inner container 2 Heater 3 Pumping pipe 4 Pump 5 Exterior body 6 Discharge port 7 Hinge 8 Lid 9 Hook 11 Inner lid 12 Safety valve 13 Purification device 14 Outer case 15 Inner case 16, 16 'Net 17 Purifier 18 Storage section 19 Fully rated Volume line 21 Liquid level 22 Discharge port 23 Bracket 24 Guide rail 25 Bent portion 26 Bottom surface 27 String 28 Overhanging portion 29, 29 'Magnet 30 Purification pipe 31 Rear hook 32 Hook pin 33 Shoulder 34 Protective portion 35 Lid lower plate 36 Steam case 37 Steam passage 38 Outer lid 39 Hook recess 41 Groove 42 Closing wall 43 Discharge button 44 Collar 45 Seal member

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A liquid container comprising a liquid purifying device inside the container, wherein the purifying device is installed at a height of a liquid rated full line so that the full line is included in a purifying agent storage section. A liquid container with a purification function, which is characterized in that 2. A liquid container in which a liquid purifying device is housed, wherein the specific gravity of the purifying device is smaller than the specific gravity of the liquid, and the vertical guiding member provided inside the liquid container has the purifying device. A liquid container with a purifying function that is slidably attached. 3. A liquid container having a liquid purification device inside the container, wherein the specific gravity of the purification device is smaller than the specific gravity of the liquid, and the purification device is attached to the upper part of the liquid container with a string of a required length. A liquid container with a purification function, which is characterized in that 4. A liquid container having a liquid purification device inside the container, wherein the specific gravity of the liquid purification device is formed to be slightly larger than the specific gravity of the liquid and the purification device is provided inside the liquid container. A liquid container with a purification function, which is slidably attached to. 5. A liquid container provided with a liquid purification device inside the container, wherein the purification device is detachably attached to the inner surface of the container by an adsorption device such as a magnet.