JPH1071090A - Baking cooker - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a baking cooker in which a takeout process of a baked food is made easy. SOLUTION: A baking cooker 10 is mainly composed of a main body case 1, a mounting plate which is fitted to a top face 1a of the main body case 1 and on which a baked food can be mounted, a heating plate 3 which is pivotally placed above the mounting plate, a heat shield 4 surrounding the circumference of the heating plate 3, and a lid body 5 which forms a gap with the same width as that of a baked food above the heating plate 3 and is detachably fixed to the heating plate 3. A shaft storage section 53 is disposed at the front of the flat lid of the lid body 5, a handle attaching part 54 is formed at the top of the shaft storage section 53, and a handle 51 is attached to the handle attaching part 54. A grip part 52 can be retracted into the handle 51. When the grip part 52 is retracted into the handle 51, the lid body 5 is removed from the heating plate 3 and can be used as a spatula for serving a baked food.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pottery cooker, and more particularly, to a pottery cooker comprising a main body case, a first mounting plate attached to an upper surface of the main body case for mounting an object to be heated, and a heating element. The present invention relates to a pottery cooker including a second placement plate above the first placement plate for placing an object to be heated, and a lid covering the upper part of the main body case.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In this kind of conventional pottery cooker,
For example, there is one disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 61-12229. This conventional example is shown in FIGS. 13 (a) and 13 (b).

Referring to FIGS. 13 (a) and 13 (b), a pottery cooker 100 is made of a suitable material such as stainless steel placed on the base 101 and made of a peripheral portion. A lower plate 102 whose upper surface is thickened into a U-shape, and a heating member (not shown) is formed on the upper surface made of a suitable material such as stainless steel or aluminum, and a peripheral portion is thickened and a central portion is concave. Heating plate middle shelf 103, upper cover 104 covering heating plate middle shelf 103, tray 124 inserted into lower plate 102 during cooking, lower plate 102, heating plate middle shelf 103, upper cover 1
It mainly comprises a side cover 130 for protecting the device 04 and the like, and a handle 114.

[0004] In the pottery cooker 100, the object to be heated is placed on the tray 124 and the shelf 103 on the hot plate.

When the handle 114 of the pottery cooker 100 shown in FIG. 13A at the time of closing is pulled upward, the hot plate middle shelf 103 and the upper lid 104 move upward in parallel.
The open state shown in FIG.

[0006] In the pottery cooker 100, at the end of heating and cooking, the object to be heated placed on the shelf 103 in the heating plate is picked up by a separately prepared spatula and taken out by a spatula.

[0007]

On the other hand, when this kind of pottery cooker is used in a restaurant or the like to provide food to customers, it is necessary to minimize the waiting time of customers. You. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the number of required steps and the time required for the unloading operation for the unloading operation.

The present invention has been conceived in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a pottery cooker requiring less steps for taking out an object to be heated.

[0009]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pottery cooker, wherein a first case is provided on the upper surface of the main case for mounting an object to be heated. A second mounting plate that includes a plate, a heating body, is provided above the first mounting plate, and on which the object to be heated is mounted, a lid that covers an upper part of the main body case, A spatula for scooping the object to be heated placed on the placing plate and the second placing plate, wherein the spatula is constituted by the lid.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the spatula for scooping the object to be heated is constituted by the lid covering the upper part of the main body case, the lid is opened during the work of removing the object to be heated. And the step of having a spatula can be performed in one action. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the number of steps required for taking out the object to be heated. Further, since the spatula for scooping the object to be heated is constituted by the lid, the number of components can be reduced as compared with the case where the spatula is combined with the conventional pottery cooker.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect, a main portion of the lid is formed in a planar shape, and the lid has a handle, The handle portion of the lid body is characterized in that it is configured to protrude from a plane formed by the main portion in an acute angle direction with respect to the plane.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the handle of the cover protrudes from the plane of the main part of the cover at an acute angle with respect to the plane, the handle of the cover is hand-held. When the object to be heated is used as a spatula for scooping, the lid is easy to handle, and the operation to scoop the object to be heated becomes easier.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the first or second aspect, the lid can be fixed above the second mounting plate when the lid is closed. The height from the second mounting plate at the time of the closing is adjustable.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the height from the second mounting plate when the lid is closed can be adjusted.
For example, even if the thickness of the object to be heated such as a hamburger bread is changed, heating and cooking can be performed while fixing the object to be heated according to the thickness.

[0015]

1 to 5 show a pottery cooker according to the present invention. The pottery cooker 10 includes a main body case 1,
A mounting plate 2 attached to the upper surface 1a of the main body case 1 and on which an object to be heated can be mounted, a heating plate 3 rotatably installed above the mounting plate 2, and attached to a peripheral portion of the heating plate 3 Heat shield plate 4
And a lid 5 that covers the upper portion of the heating plate 3. An object to be heated can also be placed on the upper surface of the heating plate 3.

FIGS. 1 and 2 are perspective views of the pottery cooker 10 with the heating plate 3 closed and open. FIG. 3 shows the pottery cooker 10 with the heating plate 3 closed. 4 is a right side view of the pottery cooker 10 with the heating plate 3 closed, and FIG. 5 is a front view of the pottery cooker 10 with the heating plate 3 closed.

Referring to FIGS. 1 to 5, the main body case 1
It consists of a steel plate case that houses the heating coil inside,
The heating coil is sealed in a sealing case that suppresses leakage of magnetic flux, and includes the heating coil almost directly below the mounting plate 2. A control panel 16 on which a heating switch 13, an output adjustment unit 14, an indicator lamp 15 and the like are disposed, and a cooling vent 18 inside the case 1 are provided on the front of the main body case 1.
Are arranged.

The mounting plate 2 is formed of a flat non-magnetic plate (for example, ceramics) and has an upper surface 21a.
Are arranged on a substantially horizontal plane that is the same as the upper surface 1a of the main body case 1. A regulating frame 6 is arranged on the periphery of the upper surface 21 a of the mounting plate 2. The restricting frame 6 includes a horizontal portion 61 mounted on the mounting plate 2 and a vertical portion 62 extending substantially upward from the inner end of the horizontal portion 61.

The heating plate 3 is formed in the shape of a rectangular flat plate slightly larger than the mounting plate 2, and the heating plate 3 is provided at the rear thereof with a pivot base for opening and closing the main body case 1 with the heating plate 3. 32.

A support shaft 33 protrudes from both end surfaces of the base 32, and the support shaft 33 is supported by a pair of left and right bearings 19 attached to the rear end of the main body case 1. The heating plate 3 pivotally rotates around the support shaft 33 to cover the main body case 1 so as to be openable and closable. The base 32 is provided with a pair of left and right lid holders 32a and 32b toward the front.

With the above-described pivot structure, the heating plate 3 forms a gap corresponding to the thickness of the object to be heated above the mounting plate 2 and faces the mounting plate 2 (when the heating plate 3 is closed). Status)
And a separation position (in a state in which the heating plate 3 is opened) that separates from the facing position to the mounting plate. When the heating coil is energized when the heating plate 3 is in the facing position, an eddy current is generated inside the heating plate 3 by the electromagnetic induction of the heating coil, and heating surfaces are formed on both upper and lower surfaces of the heating plate 3. When the heating plate 3 rotates in the direction from the facing position to the far end position, the electromagnetic induction effect on the heating plate 3 is attenuated,
It disappears at the far end position.

On both sides of the heating plate 3, heat shielding plates 4 each having a vertical wall substantially perpendicular to the heating plate 3 are fixed. The heat shield plate 4 includes bearing bases 41 and 42 on the left and right sides of a front portion for receiving a shaft extending from the lid 5 described later. Part 43
a.

The lid 5 forms a gap corresponding to the thickness of the object to be heated above the heating plate 3 and is detachably fixed to the heating plate 3. 6 to 8 show the structure of the lid 5. 6 is a plan view of the lid 5, FIG. 7 is a front view of the lid 5, and FIG. 8 is a right side view of the lid 5.

Referring to FIGS. 6 to 8, in lid 5, a shaft housing 53 is formed at the front of a flat lid main part 5 a. The shaft storage section 53 has a handle mounting section 5
The handle 51 is attached to the handle attachment portion 54.

The handle 51 has a hole 51a through which the grip portion 52 is pushed into the handle 51. The shaft housing 53 houses a shaft 55 and a shaft 56.
The shaft 55 and the shaft 56 protrude from both end surfaces of the shaft housing 53, respectively. In FIG. 8,
The shaft 56 is omitted.

The shaft 55 is located before the shaft 56, and both are housed in parallel. The shaft 55 is connected to the rotating member 5.
7 is fixed. The rotating member 57 has a U-shaped member 57a having a U-shaped cross section formed at an upper portion thereof. The U-shaped member 57a is located on the main body case 1 and is fixed to the shaft 58 as shown in FIG. The shaft 58 is supported by a pair of left and right bearings 59. The U-shaped member 57a, the shaft 5
The bearing 8 and the bearing 59 are located inside the handle mounting portion 54. One end of the grip 52 is connected to the shaft 58.

The shaft 55 and the shaft 56 are connected to
When they are not pushed into the one hole 51a, they are located away from each other as shown in FIG. And grip part 5
When the handle 2 is displaced to 52a so as to be pushed into the handle 51 (see FIG. 8), the displacement is transmitted to the turning member 57 via the shaft 58, and the turning member 57 is displaced rearward to 57a. (See FIG. 8). In response, the shaft 55 translates rearward and comes into contact with the shaft 56.

The handle 51 is formed so as to have an angle θ with respect to the main surface 5 a of the lid 5. The lid 5 is
The object to be heated removed from the heating plate 3 and placed on the mounting plate 2 and the upper surface of the heating plate 3 can be used as a scooping spatula. Then, in the work of scooping the object to be heated, a spatula is used while holding the handle 51. The aforementioned angle θ is shown in FIG.
In order to lower the maximum height of the porcelain cooker 10 in the open state of the heating plate 3 shown in FIG. Further, when the lid 5 is used as a spatula, it is preferable that θ is smaller in order to work with a position closer to the center of gravity of the lid 5. Becomes difficult to perform. Therefore, θ is
It is preferably in the range of 60 ° to 80 °.

Next, a structure for attaching the lid 5 to the heating plate 3 will be described. 9 and 10 show a plan view and a right side view of the pottery cooker with the lid 5 removed.

The bearing bases 41 and 42 are provided with bearings 41a and 42a, respectively. Also,
A support plate 60 for mounting the tip of the lid 5 is fixed to the base 32 with screws 61. The lid 5 places portions protruding from both end surfaces of the shaft storage portions 53 of the shafts 55 and 56 on the bearings 41a and 42a, and places the tip of the lid 5 on the support plate 60. By mounting, it is mounted on the heating plate 3.

Next, the removal of the lid 5 from the heating plate 3 will be described. FIG. 11 is a side view of the bearing 42a when viewing the inside of the bearing portion 42 from the direction indicated by the arrow 99 in FIG. The bearing 41a has a similar shape symmetrical to the bearing 42a, and supports the shaft 55 and the shaft 56 with a similar configuration.

Referring to FIGS. 9 and 11, bearing 42a
Is composed of a support portion 421 supporting the shaft 55 and the shaft 56, and a fixing portion 422 having a U-shaped cross section and having screw holes into which the screw 61 is screwed up and down. The screw 61 is fixed to the bearing portion 42, has a U-shaped cross section, and is passed through a fixing portion 42b having upper and lower holes, and the position is fixed. The bearing 42a has a hole 423 in the support part 421, and the position in the front-rear direction is fixed by passing a convex part 42c protruding from the bearing part 42 through the hole 423.

The support member 421 has a shaft 55 and a shaft 56.
A mounting hole 424 is formed at an end of the support surface 425 on which the device is mounted. And the lid 5 is on the heating plate 3,
When the shaft 55 and the shaft 56 are placed on the support surface 425, and the shaft 55 and the shaft 56 are separated from each other as shown in FIG. 6, the shaft 55 enters the fitting hole 424.
Even if I try to move the whole upward, the shaft 55 gets stuck,
The lid 5 is configured so as not to be detached from the heating plate 3.

Then, as shown in FIG. 8, when the grip portion 52 is pushed into the handle 51 and displaced to 52a, the shaft 55 moves parallel to the rear so as to be in contact with the shaft 56. You will not be caught.
The bearing 41a is configured symmetrically with the bearing 42a. That is, the lid 5 includes the bearing 41a, the bearing 42a,
It is fixed on the heating plate 3 by the support part 60 and the lid holders 32a and 32b. And the lid 5 is
When the grip portion 52 is pushed into the handle 51, the grip portion 52 can be removed from the heating portion 3.

In this embodiment, the bearings 41a and 42a and the support plate 60 are configured to be adjustable in height.

First, the height adjustment of the bearing 42a will be described. Referring to FIG. 9, fixing portion 422 has a screw hole on each of the upper and lower sides, and screw 61 is screwed into the screw hole. Here, if the screw 61 is appropriately rotated, the height position of the screw groove of the screw 61 corresponding to the upper and lower screw holes of the fixing portion 422 is shifted accordingly. The screw 61 is
The position is fixed by the fixing part 42b. Therefore, by appropriately turning the screw 61, the height position of the fixing portion 422 changes, so that the height of the bearing 42a can be adjusted. The height of the bearing 41a is adjusted by adjusting the bearing base 42.
This can be achieved by appropriately turning the screw 62 provided on the horn.

Next, the height adjustment of the support plate 60 will be described. FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the height adjustment of the support plate 60, and corresponds to a partial cross-sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.

Referring to FIGS. 9 and 12, support plate 60
Is a supporting portion 601 on which the tip of the lid 5 is placed, and a screw 6
A cross section having upper and lower screw holes into which the screw 10 is screwed is formed with a U-shaped fixing portion 602. The screw 610 is connected to the base 32 and the support plate mounting member 320 provided on the base 32.
And are rotatably fixed. Here, if the screw 610 is appropriately rotated, the height position of the screw groove of the screw 610 corresponding to the upper and lower screw holes of the fixing portion 602 is shifted accordingly. The screw 610 is rotatably fixed as described above. Therefore, by appropriately turning the screw 610, the height position of the fixing portion 602 changes, and the height of the support plate 60 can be adjusted.

In the embodiment described above, the mounting plate 2 constitutes a first mounting plate attached to the upper surface of the main body case 1 for mounting the object to be heated. Further, the heating coil and the heating plate 3 housed in the main body case 1 allow
A heating element is configured. Further, the heating plate 3 constitutes a second mounting plate which includes a heating element and is located above the first mounting plate and on which an object to be heated is mounted. The lid 5 forms a lid that covers the upper part of the main body case 1. Further, a spatula for scooping the object to be heated placed on the first placing plate and the second placing plate is constituted by a lid 5.

In the present embodiment, the main surface 5a of the lid 5 is formed in a planar shape. Also, handle 5
By 1, a handle provided on the lid is configured, and the handle 51 is configured to protrude from the lid 5 in an acute angle direction.

The lid 5 is provided on the heating plate 3 with the bearings 41a, 42a, the support portion 60, and the lid holders 32a and 32a.
By 2b, it can be fixed. When it is mounted on the heating plate 3, it is closed, and when it is removed from the heating plate 3, it is opened.

That is, the cover can be fixed above the second mounting plate when the cover is closed. Also, bearings 41a, 42a
Further, since the height of the support plate 60 can be adjusted, the mounting height of the lid 5 on the heating plate 3 can be adjusted. Therefore, the lid can be fixed above the second mounting plate when closed, and the height from the second mounting plate when closed can be adjusted. become.

It should be understood that the embodiments disclosed herein are illustrative in all respects and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is shown by above-mentioned not description but claim, and it is intended that the meaning of a claim and equality and all the changes within the range are included.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a right side view of the pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of a lid constituting the pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a front view of a lid constituting the pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a right side view of a lid constituting the pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a view showing a state in which a lid is removed from the pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a view showing a state in which a lid is removed from the pottery cooker according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram for explaining height adjustment of a bearing in the embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram illustrating height adjustment of a support plate in the embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a view showing a conventional pottery cooker.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body case 2 Placement plate 3 Heating plate 5 Lid body 10 Pottery cooker 51 Handle

Claims (3)

[Claims] A first mounting plate attached to an upper surface of the main body case for mounting an object to be heated; and a heating body provided above the first mounting plate and provided with a heating element. A second mounting plate for mounting a heated object, a lid covering an upper part of the main body case, and a cover mounted on the first mounting plate and the second mounting plate. A spatula that includes a spatula for scooping a heated object, wherein the spatula is constituted by the lid. 2. The main part of the lid is formed in a planar shape, the lid is provided with a handle, and the handle of the lid is separated from a plane formed by the main part with respect to the plane. The cooker according to claim 1, wherein the cooker is configured to protrude in an acute angle direction. 3. The lid can be fixed above the second mounting plate when closed, and can be adjusted in height from the second mounting plate when closed. The pottery cooker according to claim 1 or 2, wherein