JPH0928521A - Polished rice salesroom system for milling unpolished rice - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a polished rice salesroom system requiring no dedicated salesperson and having the capability of forming a rice salesroom corner at one corner of a store to allow the purchase of polished rice immediately after a milling process by enabling a purchaser himself/herself to select unpolished rice and, then, automatically milling the unpolished rice. SOLUTION: An outer frame 1 for a salesroom corner to form a corner for willing unpolished rice and selling the polished rice is installed in a shop, and internally provided with self-standing shelf boards 2d for placing a plurality of fastener-fitted sales bags 5 indicating the contents of commodities such as the type of unpolished rice, and the producing district, weighing capacity and the price thereof, and containing unpolished rice, as well as a rice milling machine 4 having an unpolished rice feed port and a takeout port 4b for taking out polished rice after a milling process.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention selects white rice (polished rice obtained by polishing brown rice, the same applies hereinafter) of brown rice having a flavor or the like that the consumer himself or herself likes and tastes, and selects the brown rice at the sales floor. The present invention relates to a white rice sales floor system that allows the purchaser to automatically purchase freshly polished white rice at any time by automatically polishing the rice himself.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in most cases, white rice is sold by a rice seller in a state in which it is buffed with a required amount of white rice that has been polished in advance for each variety and production area. For this reason, consumers have an opportunity to purchase so-called freshly-polished white rice, so to speak, leaving very little room to choose freshly-polished white rice.

In recent years, since white rice has different flavors, cooked products, etc. depending on its variety and production area, or even on the same variety (same brand) depending on the production area, various types of white rice from various production areas are lined up in stores. However, since the polished white rice is packaged and displayed and sold, the white rice that has been in the rice for a long time has become so-called old rice, and therefore,
Even for branded rice that is said to have excellent flavor, the rice whose flavor characteristics depending on its variety and origin are lost will be sold as it is, which is not a preferable state for consumers.

In order to obtain white rice whose flavor is not impaired,
When you buy white rice, you only have to polish the rice from brown rice, but the rice stores equipped with rice polishing machines are, so to speak, specialized stores.
Since it is not anywhere, it is difficult for anyone to easily obtain this kind of white rice.Also, even if there is a rice shop equipped with a rice polishing machine, the purchaser of white rice can Since there is no need to operate the mill, it is indispensable to have an operator for the rice mill, which causes an additional cost for milling.

The above-mentioned problems are caused by so-called super.
If you can build a small unattended sales floor system that can be installed in a sales floor without the need for a dedicated staff member, even if you are a large-scale store such as a market or a department store, you can put rice in the store as brown rice and purchase it. You can purchase freshly polished white rice by selecting the brown rice of your favorite variety, production area, etc. from the brown rice that is lined up and automatically polishing the rice on the spot, so you can purchase fresh rice anytime, anywhere. It is thought that it will be possible to solve the problem by obtaining freshly polished white rice, and it will contribute to a rich diet and food culture.

[0006]

Therefore, what the present invention is to solve is that the purchaser himself selects the brown rice and automatically polishes it without the need for a dedicated sales floor clerk.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a white rice sales floor system capable of forming a freshly polished rice sales floor corner where freshly polished rice can be purchased in a corner of a store.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The structure of the sales floor system of the present invention, which has been made for the purpose of solving the above problems, is a sales floor corner forming a corner for polishing brown rice and selling the white rice in a store. -An external frame for the na is provided, in which the product type such as brown rice variety, production area, weight, price, etc. is displayed, and a self-supporting type with a fastener containing the brown rice inside. And a rice milling machine having an input port for brown rice and an outlet for milled polished rice.

In the above-mentioned structure of the sales floor system, by placing a loading platform next to the rice milling machine, when polishing the brown rice to be purchased, the brown rice or other items such as the purchased luggage can be loaded. it can. In addition, the shelf board is labeled with products such as the variety of brown rice to be sold, the production area, the weight, and the price.
And, while arranging the self-supporting sales bags with fasteners containing the brown rice inside, in front of each sales bag of each shelf board, the brown rice, or brown rice and a sample case of rice white thereof By providing the items, the purchaser can easily select the product. Further, by forming the bran generated in the rice milling machine so as to be transported to the outside and collected, the space efficiency of the sales floor space can be improved and the bran can be easily collected.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an example of the sales floor system of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of an example of the sales floor system of the present invention,
2 is a plan sectional view of the sales floor system of the present invention in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a side sectional view of the sales floor system in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a bag, and FIG.
Is a front view showing a main part of an example of the display stand DL in the sales floor system of the present invention, FIG. 6 is a side view of FIG. 5, FIG. 7 is a plan sectional view of an example of a bran treatment mechanism in the sales floor system of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a side sectional view of the mechanism of FIG.

1 to 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a frame material such as a square or angled piece made of metal, plastic or wood. Here, a wide front gate type is used, and an appropriate amount of depth is provided. An outer frame for forming a sales corner in the sales floor system of the present invention formed by giving a panel material 1c or a net material to the left and right side surfaces and the ceiling surface of the frame 1. ing. In the outer frame 1, 1a
Is a pillar, and 1b is a girder or a beam. With this outer frame 1, a rice sales corner in the sales floor system of the present invention can be formed at an arbitrary place in the store. In consideration of the processing or the flow of the purchaser's shopping route, it is preferable to place it on the wall in the store, near a so-called cash register (settlement).

Reference numeral 2 denotes an inner frame having a display shelf structure provided inside the outer frame 1 having a front gate shape.
As an example, it has the following configuration. That is, the inner frame 2 is
A flat base 2a having a flat rectangular shape serving as a base for the inner frame 2 that fits inside the frame 1 for the sales floor corner, and at least two rear bases of the flat base 2 which are erected on the left and right sides. Of the shelf support post 2b, and a shelf plate support bracket 2c mounted on the front surface of the support post 2b so as to be repositioned in a slot (not shown) formed upward and downward, and left and right brackets 2c. It is formed as a display shelf DL here by the shelf board 2d which is mounted and supported. The reference numeral 2e is a display portion for supporting the upper portion of the support column 2b, which displays product explanations and the like.

In the illustrated embodiment, the inner frame 2 formed on the display shelf DL has a front width which is slightly less than about 1/3 of the inner dimension of the outer frame 1 to form the outer frame 1. Of the frame 1 and is arranged close to the left and right sides of the frame 1. Then, inside the outer frame 1, in the middle portion where the inner frame 2 by the display shelf DL is not arranged, two object loading platforms 3 and, as an example, a single pass type rice milling machine are formed. Two covered rice mills 4 are arranged. Here, the table 3a of the loading platform 3 is formed lower than the rice milling machine 4, and the rice milling machine 4 is
A brown rice input port 4a is provided in the upper portion, and a polished rice discharge port 4b is formed in the front middle portion. The above configuration constitutes an example of a white rice sales floor system of the present invention.

On the front surface of the shelf plate 2d of the inner frame 2,
As illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6, a box-shaped sample case 2f
Is provided on the front of the case 2f, and a product display card holder for explaining the sample etc. put in the case 2f
2g is provided.

In the above-mentioned sales floor system, the rice milling machine 4 is used.
In order to form a mechanism for collecting the bran generated in the outside, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the outer frame 1 is placed near the wall of a store or the like, preferably a corner part in the store near the cash register. It is desirable to lay it out in the same way. If the selling floor system of the present invention is provided in the above-mentioned location and the bran processing mechanism is formed outside, no extra occupied space is required in the store, and since the bran is not collected and carried out in the store, This has the advantage that it does not bother other sales floors.

That is, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the bran remaining in the rice milling machine 4 is passed through the back surface of the outer frame 1 to, for example, a bran collecting section 6 installed outside with a wall W of the store. gather,
I am able to carry it out from there. In FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, 6a is a bran-carrying duct connected to the rice milling machine 4, 6b is a bran suction blower connected to the end of the duct 6a, 6c is a bran-storing bag applied to the outlet of the blower, and 6d. Is an outer cover of the bran collecting unit 6.
It is.

The white rice sales corner by the sales floor system of the present invention configured as described above can be used not only in a large store such as a department store, but also in a small store such as a convenience store. The brown rice is stored in the self-standing type bag 5 illustrated in FIG. 4 on the shelf plate 2d of the display shelf DL formed by the frame 2 and displayed. That is, bag 5
Is a bag made of transparent PE or the like having an upper part that can be opened and closed by fasteners 5a and having a flat bottom 5b for making it self-supporting. Therefore, the stored brown rice can be visually recognized from the outside and arranged on the shelf board 2d. Each of the bags 5 is used that can stand and display itself independently. It should be noted that, on the outer surface of the bag 5, a product display in an appropriate display form is shown in order to show the price, weight, etc.
5c is given.

Shelf board 2d for brown rice with the same variety (brand) and origin
In the above, the same sample cases 2f are arranged in a line after the same, so that here, as many brown rices as different varieties and production areas as the number of sample cases 2f can be displayed side by side on the display shelf DL.

When a plurality of types of brown rice, which are different in variety and origin, are directly packaged and displayed in the white rice sales corner installed in the store in the above-mentioned form, a person who wants to purchase rice is Pick up a bag 5 of brown rice of an appropriate variety and production area according to your taste, and carry it on the top plate 3a of the loading platform 3 where the fastener 5a is opened and the bag 5 is put in the inlet 4a of the rice polishing machine 4. Transfer the brown rice inside. The empty bag 5 is set in the white rice discharge port 4b of the automatic rice polishing machine 4 with the fastener 5a open, and waits for the finished rice. Since the above bag 5 has the fastener 5a on the upper part and is self-supporting, each bag 5 on display is hard to collapse, and even if it collapses, the brown rice of the contents may be scattered outside. It is convenient not only for setting it but also for setting it in the rice polishing machine 4 to store the polished rice.

Here, the rice milling machine 4 may be started up by a type that the purchaser of brown rice is made to perform, but it is a system of automatically starting with a predetermined lag time by sensing that brown rice has been introduced. Is preferable because there is no erroneous operation. Also,
In this sense, it is preferable that the degree of rice polishing, that is, the degree of mashing, is preset to a certain degree of mashing, rather than the type in which the purchaser manually adjusts. In addition, when two or more automatic rice mills 4 are lined up, if you install different ones for each rice milling machine 4, brown rice buyers can set the rice milling degree to their own preference. The machine 4 can be selected and used.

The white rice picked up from the brown rice to the polished rice by the rice polishing machine 4 is stored in the bag 5 set in the discharge port 4b, so that the purchaser removes the bag 5 from the discharge port 4b. Then, the fastener 5a is closed, and the purchase is completed by paying the charge to bring to the checkout place such as the cashier counter of the store, that is, the brown rice price of the rice milling charge (or the price of the white rice). In other words, the present sales floor system allows the purchaser to select brown rice according to his / her preference and purchase the whitened rice by using the automatic rice polishing machine, so that there is no staff or sales staff on the store side, so to speak, self-service. You can sell white rice. In addition, since the bran remaining in the rice milling machine 4 is carried to and collected by the collecting unit 6 during rice milling, there is no need for a space or labor for directly removing the bran from the rice milling machine 4.

[0021]

As described above, the rice sales floor system according to the present invention has a small size beside the display section that allows a large number of different types of brown rice of different varieties, production areas, etc. to be packaged and displayed in a store. Installed an automatic rice polishing machine to form a rice sales corner,
The brown rice selected by the purchaser can be automatically purchased on the spot by the purchaser himself, so that the purchaser can always obtain the white rice with the variety selected according to his / her preference and the freshly polished rice from the production area. It can be easily obtained. On the other hand, it is possible for the store side to sell freshly milled white rice that has polished brown rice in a self-service form that does not require a dedicated staff such as a rice milling staff, so it is possible to develop highly profitable rice sales. .

Further, the sales counter of the rice sales floor system of the present invention is
The outer frame that forms the corner is not only for large stores,
It can be placed in a small store without occupying too much space, and since no dedicated staff is needed, the rice sales corner accompanying rice polishing can be operated unmanned, and store operation costs can be suppressed.

Further, the bags containing brown rice and displayed in the sales corner are emptied by the purchaser himself putting the brown rice inside into the automatic rice polishing machine and emptying the empty bag of the polished rice of the rice polishing machine. Since it is used as a packaging bag for storing white rice by setting it in the discharge port, there is no waste in the packaging, and the price etc. can be appropriately displayed on the product display part of the bag by a bar code or the like. Is displayed, the cashier can read the above-mentioned display mechanically, and for example, the purchaser's name or the price of the brown rice price plus the rice cleaning price can be fetched. Since the price can be settled in a lump sum, it is possible to realize a smooth transaction by unifying or simplifying the fee payment.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an example of a sales floor system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan sectional view of the sales floor system of the present invention shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a side sectional view of the sales floor system of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a bag.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing a main part of an example of the display stand DL in the sales floor system of the present invention.

6 is a side view of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a plan sectional view of an example of a bran processing mechanism in the sales floor system of the present invention.

8 is a side sectional view of the mechanism of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 outer frame 2 inner frame 3 loading platform 4 rice milling machine

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor, Kazuya Osawa, 176, Kamihirose, Sayama City, Saitama Prefecture, 3 Oosawa Co., Ltd. (72) Inc. No. 11 Itoki Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Jun Akira Yanagita 7-2 Higashimachi, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Yanada Iseki Sales Co., Ltd. (72) Minoru Kawa Kawa, Ebina, Ebina, Kanagawa Issue Ichikawa Rice Business Co., Ltd.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An outer frame for a sales floor corner, which forms a corner for milling brown rice and selling the white rice, is provided in the store, and the variety and origin of the brown rice are provided in the frame. A shelf board on which a plurality of self-supporting sales bags with fasteners that contain the brown rice inside are lined up, including product indications such as weighing and price,
A system for selling white rice that polishes brown rice, characterized by arranging a rice polishing machine that forms an input port for brown rice and an outlet for polished rice. 2. A bran produced in a rice polishing machine is the outer frame,
Alternatively, the polished rice sales floor system for milling brown rice according to claim 1, which is transported and collected outside the store. 3. A system for selling white rice for polishing brown rice according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a loading platform is provided next to the rice polishing machine. 4. A sample case of the brown rice or the brown rice and its polished white, or the case, in front of each sales bag on the shelf board.
By providing a case and a storage case for the product display card,
A polished rice sales floor system for polishing brown rice according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which allows a purchaser to easily select a product.