JPH0947228A - Rotary cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotary cooker ensuring agitation suitable for making fine-grained ice cream through such a scheme that a brake plate is provided so as to be in contact with a rotator, a shaft slidably and axially supported on a lid is integrally formed above the brake plate and projected on the lid to apply a specified load on the rotator to effect its speed reduction. SOLUTION: A lid 19 is dismounted from a vessel 15 which is then packed with ingredients for ice cream such as fresh cream, yolk, cow milk, sugar and vanilla essence, followed by engagedly mounting the vessel 15 with the lid 19 again. Next, on letting the switch of the main body 11 on, an electric motor 16 is revolved, and the rotator 16 is set in high-speed revolution through a lower connector 13, upper connector 18 and the main shaft 17.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rotary cooker used in general households, and more particularly to driving thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, interest in making frozen desserts such as ice cream in households has been increasing in rotary cookers.

A conventional rotary cooker will be described below. FIG. 7 shows a main part of a conventional rotary cooker.
In FIG. 7, reference numeral 1 is a main body, and 2 is an electric motor, and a connector lower portion 3 is fixed to an upper portion of a shaft. Reference numeral 4 is a corner integrally formed with the main body 1. A container 5 is detachably connected to the main body 1. 6 is a rotating body integrally formed with the main shaft 7
Located on the inner bottom of the. Reference numeral 8 is a connector fixed to the main shaft 7, and is fitted with the connector lower portion 3. A lid 9 is detachably engaged with the container 5.

[0004]

However, in the structure of the conventional general rotary cooker, the rotating body 6 has the upper connector 8 and the lower connector 3 in order to crush and stir various fruits, which is the main menu, to make juice. It was directly connected to the electric motor 2 to rotate at a high speed, and the rotation speed was constant. However, even if an ice cream, which is of great interest to general households in recent years, is to be prepared with a rotary cooker, there is a problem that the content of air is high and the texture becomes rough because it is stirred at a high speed.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object thereof is to provide a rotary cooker capable of making even fine-grained ice cream.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 is provided with a rotating body which is rotated by a drive mechanism at the inner bottom of a container for containing a material, and a braking plate which abuts against the rotating body. Is provided, and a shaft portion pivotally supported by the lid is integrally formed thereabove, and is projected from the lid. In addition to the invention according to claim 1, the invention according to claim 2 is such that a weight made of metal or the like is provided above the shaft portion and biased downward. The invention according to claim 3 is, in addition to the invention according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper part of the shaft portion is projected from the lid, one end is pivotally supported by the lid, and the substantially central part is located above the shaft part. Abut,
Further, it has a lever whose other end is locked to a lever locking portion provided on the lid. The invention according to claim 4 is, in addition to the invention according to claim 1 or 3, provided with a tension spring between the other end of the lever and the container or the lid, and urged downward. It is a thing. In addition to the invention according to any one of claims 1, 3, and 4, the invention according to claim 5 provides one end of the tension spring to the other end of the lever, and installs it on a container or a lid. The rib has a plurality of locking holes, and the other end of the tension spring is locked in any one of the locking holes. According to a sixth aspect of the invention, in addition to the invention of the first aspect, a knob that abuts the upper end of the shaft portion on the lid and has a pair of screws, and a knob holder that fits into the knob are provided. It is a thing.

[0007]

According to the present invention, the brake plate is pressed against the rotating body rotating at high speed by manually pressing the shaft part of the brake plate protruding upward from the lid. The frictional force increases the load on the rotating body, and the rotation speed decreases according to the load. The number of rotations can be changed according to the amount of force that you press with your hand.

According to the invention described in claim 2, in addition to the function of the invention described in claim 1, the braking plate is pressed against the rotating body by the gravity of the weight at the upper part of the shaft, and the rotation speed is generated by the above principle due to the frictional force. Is reduced. The number of rotations can be changed by changing the weight of the weight.

Further, according to the invention of claim 3, in addition to the function of the invention of claim 1, the upper part of the shaft portion is pressed by a lever and a force is applied to reduce the rotational speed by the above-mentioned principle. By changing the size of the lever locking portion, it is possible to reduce the rotation speed to an intended one.

According to the invention described in claim 4, in addition to the function of the invention described in claim 1 or 3, the upper part of the shaft portion is pressed by the force of the tension spring via the lever, and the number of rotations is changed by the above-mentioned principle. Lower. By changing the force of the tension spring, it is possible to reduce the rotation speed to the intended rotation speed.

According to the invention of claim 5, in addition to the operation of the invention of any one of claims 1, 3, and 4, one end of the tension spring is further locked to the other end of the lever, By locking the other end to one of the plurality of locking holes of the rib, it is possible to change the force pushing the shaft portion in a plurality of ways, and a plurality of low speed revolutions can be obtained by the above-mentioned principle. The number of rotations can be selected according to the material situation.

Further, according to the invention of claim 6, in addition to the function of the invention of claim 1, the force for pushing the upper portion of the shaft portion is changed by rotating the knob, so that the rotation of the rotating body can be easily performed according to the above-mentioned principle. You can control the number. By rotating the knob little by little, the number of rotations can be reduced almost steplessly and can be adjusted according to the situation of the material.

The present invention can be applied to a rotary cooker for a kitchen, which can produce ice cream having the functions of the invention described in the above claims. Specific examples are shown in the following examples.

[0014]

【Example】

(Embodiment 1) Hereinafter, Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, 11 is a main body, 12 is an electric motor, 13 is a connector provided with a plurality of claws at its upper portion, and is fixed to a shaft portion of the electric motor 12. 14 is a corner and the main body 11
And a plurality of them are provided integrally. Reference numeral 15 is a cylindrical container and the main body 1
1 and corner 14 are detachably fitted. 16 is a spindle 17
It is a rotating body integrally formed with. 18 is fixed to the main shaft 17 on the connector, and is detachably fitted to the connector lower part 13 with a plurality of claws. 19 is a lid, 19a
Is a projecting rib 15a provided at several places on the upper portion of the container 15 at the locking portion.
Is fitted. Reference numeral 20 is a resin braking plate that is in contact with the rotating body 16. Reference numeral 20a is a shaft portion formed integrally with the braking plate 20. Reference numeral 20b denotes a flat portion for preventing rotation, which is slidably inserted into a bearing portion 19b formed on the lid 19 and the lid 1
It projects from the upper surface of 9.

Next, the operation of the structure of the first embodiment will be described. The lid 19 is removed, ice cream ingredients (fresh cream, egg yolk, milk, sugar, vanilla essence) are put in the container 15, and the lid 19 is engaged with the container 15. Next, although not shown, when the main body 11 is turned on, the electric motor 1
2 rotates, the rotating body 16 rotates at high speed by the lower connector 13, the upper connector 18, and the main shaft 17.

At this time, the brake plate 20 is rotated by pressing the upper end of the shaft portion 20a having the flat surface portion 20b by hand.
The frictional force increases the load on the rotating body 16 and decreases the rotation speed of the rotating body 16. By adjusting the pushing force by hand, it is possible to obtain a rotation speed suitable for making ice cream.

In the first embodiment, the braking plate 20 made of resin is used, but a material that can obtain an equivalent frictional force from its principle, for example,
The same effect can be obtained with various metals, such as plate springs and disc springs.

[0019]

Second Embodiment A second embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

2 is different from that of FIG. 1 in that
This is the point that an iron weight 21 having a hole 21a is provided at the upper end of a shaft portion 20a having a flat surface portion 20b formed integrally with the braking plate 20, and the hole 21a and the upper portion of the shaft portion 20a are fitted together.

Next, the operation of the structure of the second embodiment will be described. The operation of stirring the ingredients of the ice cream is described in Example 1.
It is the same as and is omitted. In the second embodiment, by pressing the upper end of the shaft portion 20a by the gravity of the weight 21, the braking plate 20 is pressed against the upper surface of the rotating body 16 that rotates at a high speed, and the frictional force increases the load on the rotating body 16. It is possible to obtain a reduction in the number of rotations according to The number of rotations can be changed by changing the weight of the weight, and the number of rotations can be reduced to a value suitable for the ingredients of the ice cream. Further, from the principle, the weight may be other than iron.

[0022]

Third Embodiment A third embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

3 is different from that of FIG. 1 in that
The plane portion 20b above the shaft portion 20a is projected from the lid 19,
One end is rotatably fixed to a holding portion 22c of the lid 19 with a pin 23, the other end is locked to a lever locking portion 22d provided on the lid 19, and the shaft portion 20a having a flat portion 20b at the substantially central portion is an upper portion of the shaft portion 20a. The point is that the lever 24 that is brought into contact with is provided.

Next, the operation of the structure of the third embodiment will be described. The operation of stirring the ingredients of the ice cream is described in Example 1.
It is the same as and is omitted. The lever 24 has one end rotatably fixed to the holding portion 22c of the lid 19 with a pin 23 and the other end of the lever 24.
By engaging with the lever engaging portion 22d provided in 2, the center portion of the lever engaging portion abuts against the upper end of the shaft portion 20a having the flat surface portion 20b, and a pushing force is applied. Therefore, the braking plate 20 integrated with the shaft portion 20a is pressed against the rotating body 16 that rotates at a high speed, and the frictional force increases the load and reduces the rotation speed.
Since the intended number of rotations can be obtained by changing the size of the lever locking portion 22d, stirring suitable for the material of the ice cream can be performed.

[0025]

Fourth Embodiment A fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 4, the difference from the configuration of FIG. 3 is that
A lever hole 25a is provided at the other end of the lever 25, a spring locking rib 26b having a locking hole 26c is formed on the side surface of the container 26 on the container 26, and both ends of the tension spring 27 are connected to the lever hole 25.
This is the point where a is engaged with the engagement hole 26c of the spring engagement rib 26b.

Next, the operation of the structure of the fourth embodiment will be described. The operation of stirring the ingredients of the ice cream is described in Example 1.
It is the same as and is omitted. One end of the lever 25 is rotatably fixed by a pin 23, and the other end of the lever 25 is pulled by a tension spring 27.
It is pulled to the 6 side, and the upper part of the shaft portion 20a is urged downward at almost the center. Therefore, the braking plate 20 is pressed against the upper surface of the rotating body 16 rotating at high speed according to the force of the tension spring 27, and the frictional force increases the load on the rotating body 16 and reduces the number of rotations. Therefore, by changing the force of the tension spring 27, it is possible to set the intended number of rotations, and it is possible to obtain a low-speed rotation suitable for stirring the ingredients of the ice cream.

[0028]

Fifth Embodiment A fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

5 is different from that of FIG. 4 in that
A spring locking rib 26d having a plurality of locking holes 26e is formed on the side surface of the container 26, and one end of the tension spring 28 is connected to the lever 2.
The other end of the lever hole 25a of No. 5 is locked in any of the locking holes 26e of the spring locking rib 26d.

Next, the operation of the structure of the fifth embodiment will be described. The operation of stirring the ingredients of the ice cream is described in Example 1.
It is the same as and is omitted.

Regarding the operation, in addition to the operation of the fourth embodiment, the rotation speed is locked by the above principle by selecting the locking position of the tension spring 28 from the plurality of locking holes 26e of the spring locking rib 26d. The number can be changed stepwise by the same number as the number of holes 26e. Therefore, a low rotation speed most suitable for stirring the ice cream can be obtained according to the amount of the ice cream material.

[0032]

Sixth Embodiment A sixth embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 6, the difference from the configuration of FIG. 5 is that
The knob 29 fitted to the upper end of the shaft portion 20a having the flat surface portion 20b of the braking plate 20 and provided with the male screw 29a is provided.
1 is fixed by a claw portion 30b to a part of the opening, and the knob 29
The structure is such that the knob holder 30 has a female thread 30a that fits into the male thread 29a.

Next, the operation of the structure of the sixth embodiment will be described. The operation of stirring the ingredients of the ice cream is described in Example 1.
It is the same as and is omitted.

By rotating the knob 29, the rotating body 1 for rotating the braking plate 20 integrated with the shaft portion 20a at a high speed.
The rotation speed can be varied by increasing or decreasing the force applied to 6 to control the load applied to the rotating body 16.

That is, when the amount of the ice cream material is small, the rotation speed may be slow, so the knob 29 is rotated in the downward direction. On the contrary, when there are many ingredients for ice cream, the amount of pushing down the knob 29 is reduced to reduce the decrease in the number of revolutions. Since the adjustment can be made almost stepless, it is most suitable for the ingredients and amount of ice cream. It can be stirred.

[0037]

As described above, the invention according to claim 1 is provided with the rotating body which is rotated by the drive mechanism at the inner bottom portion of the container for containing the material, the braking plate which is in contact with the rotating body is provided, and the damping plate is provided above it. Since the shaft part that is rotatably supported by the lid is integrally formed and protrudes from the lid, the brake plate is pressed against the rotating body that rotates at high speed by pushing the upper end of the shaft by hand. The frictional force increases the load on the rotating body and reduces the rotation speed of the rotating body. The number of rotations can be adjusted by adjusting the force to be pressed by the hand, and the number of rotations can be adjusted to agitate the material for making fine ice cream with less foaming.

In addition to the effect of the invention according to claim 1, the invention according to claim 2 is configured such that a weight made of metal or the like is provided above the shaft portion and urges downward. Therefore, without holding the shaft part by hand,
The number of rotations of the rotating body can be stably reduced. By selecting the weight of the weight, it is possible to obtain a rotation speed suitable for stirring the ice cream material.

Further, in addition to the effect of the invention according to claim 1, the invention according to claim 3 has an upper portion of the shaft portion protruding from the lid, one end of which is pivotally supported by the lid, and a substantially central portion. Is abutted on the upper part of the shaft part, and the other end is locked by a lever locking part provided on the lid.
It is possible to easily and stably apply a stable load to the rotating body to reduce the number of rotations without pressing the hand by hand and without requiring a heavy weight. By selecting the size of the lever locking portion, it is possible to obtain a rotation speed suitable for stirring the ice cream material.

Further, in addition to the effects of the invention according to claim 1 or 3, the invention according to claim 4 is provided with a tension spring between the other end of the lever and the container or the lid, and is attached below. Since the configuration is biased, it is possible to easily and stably apply a load to the rotating body by the force of the tension spring and reduce the number of rotations. By selecting a tension spring, it is possible to obtain a rotation speed suitable for stirring the ice cream material.

In addition to the effect of the invention described in any one of claims 1, 3, and 4, the invention according to claim 5 locks one end of the tension spring to the other end of the lever. ,
The rib provided on the container or the lid is provided with a plurality of locking holes, and the other end of the tension spring is locked in any one of the locking holes. Depending on which one of the locking holes is locked, the force for pushing down the shaft can be changed in multiple ways, and multiple low-speed rotations can be obtained by the above-mentioned principle, and even if the amount of ingredients for making ice cream changes The number of rotations can be obtained.

Further, in addition to the effect of the invention according to claim 1, the invention according to claim 6 has a knob, which comes into contact with the upper end of the shaft portion on the lid, and which has a pair of screws, and the knob. Since the structure is provided with a knob holder that fits, the force for pushing down the upper part of the shaft portion changes by rotating the knob, and the rotation speed of the rotating body can be easily controlled almost steplessly by the above-mentioned principle. it can. Therefore, regardless of the amount of the ingredients of the ice cream, the ice cream can be stirred at an appropriate rotation speed according to the amount, and a fine ice cream with less foaming can be produced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a main part of a rotary cooker according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of an essential part of a rotary cooker according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of an essential part of a rotary cooker according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a main part of a rotary cooker according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a main part of a rotary cooker according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view of a main part of a rotary cooker according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view of a main part of a rotary cooker in a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Main Body 12 Electric Motor 13 Connector Lower 14 Corners 15, 26 Container 16 Rotating Body 17 Main Spindle 18 Connector Upper 19, 31 Lid 19a, 31a Locking Part 19b, 31b Bearing Part 20 Braking Plate 20a Shaft Part 20b Flat Part 21 Weight 21a Hole 22c Holding part 22d Lever locking part 23 Pin 24, 25 Lever 25a Lever hole 26b, 26d Spring locking rib 26c, 26e Locking hole 27, 28 Tension spring 29 Knob 29a Male screw 30 Knob holder 30a Female screw 30b Claw part

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A rotating body which is rotated by a drive mechanism is provided at a bottom portion of a container for containing a material, a braking plate which is in contact with the rotating body is provided, and a shaft portion which is slidably supported by a lid is integrally provided above the braking plate. A rotary cooker that is formed on the lid and protrudes from the lid. 2. The rotary cooker according to claim 1, further comprising a weight made of metal or the like above the shaft portion and urged downward. 3. An upper portion of the shaft portion is projected from the lid, one end of which is axially supported by the lid, a substantially central portion of which abuts above the shaft portion, and the other end of which is a lever locking portion provided on the lid. The rotary cooker according to claim 1, further comprising a locked lever. 4. The rotary cooker according to claim 1, further comprising a tension spring provided between the other end of the lever and the container or the lid, and urged downward. 5. An end of a tension spring is locked to the other end of the lever, a plurality of locking holes is provided in a rib provided on the container or the lid, and one of the locking holes is provided with the tension spring. The rotary cooker according to any one of claims 1, 3, and 4, wherein the other end is locked. 6. The rotary cooker according to claim 1, further comprising: a knob having a pair of screws, which comes into contact with the upper end of the shaft portion, and a knob holder that fits into the knob.