JPS6025953Y2 - rice cooker - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to an endless line rice cooking device used in group lunch facilities and the like, and is intended to facilitate the storage process of the rice cooking containers used therein.

When cooking a large amount of rice in a school lunch area, etc., there is an endless supply of rice dispensing devices that put a certain amount of rice and water into a rice cooking container, rice cooking devices that use a conveyor, inverting devices that take out rice from the rice cooking container, washing devices for rice cooking containers, and more. Rice cooking lines arranged in a shape are used.

In this line, the rice-cooking container after rice cooking is left as it is in a part of the line, or is separated from the line and stored in a storage.

Therefore, in the former case, the rice cooking container is left unattended, which poses a hygiene problem.

Although the latter solves the hygiene problem, it requires the hassle of transporting rice cooking containers from the line to storage and vice versa.

The proposed device is a rice dispensing device that puts a fixed amount of rice and water into a rice cooking container, a rice cooking device that heats the rice cooking container after water is distributed while being transported by a conveyor, and a rice cooking device that cleans the rice cooking container after rice cooking is completed while being transported by a conveyor. The washing device is arranged endlessly via a conveyor, and a conveyor is placed between the rice distribution device and the rice cooking device, and each conveyor has a rice cooking line that is made to proceed in the direction from the rice distribution device to the rice cooking device, The rice cooking container storage, which is equipped with a conveyor device for transferring rice cooking containers inside, is connected to the rice distributing device via a reversible transfer conveyor, and the lid of the rice cooking container on the transfer conveyor is transferred to the rice cooking container of the transfer conveyor. A device that takes the lid and closes it, and a drive conveyor that moves the empty rice cooking container with the lid on the transfer conveyor to the transfer conveyor. A cleaning device is disposed between the sides of the rice cooking container and cleans the lid of the rice cooking container after rice cooking is completed while being transferred by the conveyor. The gist is that the rice cooking containers placed via the lid closing device placed on the rice cooking containers on the conveyor and sent to the rice scraping device are transferred to the conveyor, and all the conveyors are moved intermittently.

To explain the device of the present invention with reference to the embodiment shown in the drawings, reference numeral 1 refers to a rice countermeasure device that measures a certain amount of rice and water for rice cooking and puts them into a rice cooking container stopped below. A rice cooking device 3 is arranged.

The rice cooking device 3 is provided with a conveyor 5 for transferring rice cooking containers in a heating chamber 4 penetrating through the tunnel shape, and a heating burner 6 is arranged below the conveyor 5. Those that can be used are used.

7 is a steaming conveyor placed after the rice cooking device 3 for transferring the rice cooking container after heating and steaming the rice inside. A reversing device 8 is provided that lifts the rice cooking container, inverts it, and takes out cooked rice from the rice cooking container.

Reference numeral 9 denotes a rice-cooking container cleaning device disposed after the reversing device 8, and is arranged so as to transfer the rice-cooking container in a direction substantially opposite to the advancing direction of the rice-cooking device 3.

The cleaning device 9 has a conveyor 11 installed in a cleaning chamber 10 penetrating in the form of a tunnel, and nozzles 12 for spouting cleaning liquid such as ice are placed above and below the conveyor. The devices are connected to the anti-American device 1 and arranged endlessly.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a cleaning device for the lid of a rice-cooking container. Like the cleaning device 9, this also has a conveyor in a tunnel-shaped cleaning chamber, and nozzles for spouting cleaning liquid above and below the conveyor, and a steaming conveyor 7. are placed almost parallel to each other.

The conveyor of the cleaning device 14 is configured to move in the opposite direction to the conveyor 7.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a lid closing device disposed between the end of the cleaning device 14 in the advancing direction of the conveyor and one side of the conveyor 2 in the width direction, and this device closes the lid sent out from the cleaning device 14 by the conveyor. The receiver has a conveyor 16 and an arm 17, which has one end attached to the upper side of the end in the direction of movement of the conveyor 16 with a shaft in the width direction of the conveyor 16, and is forcibly rotated approximately once by a motor or the like.

The conveyor 16 is set higher than the mouth of the rice cooking container on the conveyor 2, so that the lid transferred by the conveyor 16 can be sent onto the mouth of the rice cooking container,
Further, the arm 17 has a length such that it can be sent over the rice cooking container as far as possible by the conveyor 16, and touch the end of the lid stopped thereon to correctly place the lid on the rice cooking container.

The driving of the arm 17 is started and stopped by the output of a limit switch operated by the lid, the arm 17, and the like.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a lid removing device which removes the lid of the rice cooking container that has been steamed on the steaming conveyor 7 and places it on the cleaning device 14, which is elongated in the width direction of the steaming conveyor 7 and has a base end on the opposite side from the conveyor 7. has an arm 19 that is supported by an axis parallel to the direction of travel of the conveyor 7 and can be rotated approximately 180 degrees, and has an arm 19 at its tip that protrudes in the direction opposite to the direction of travel of the conveyor 7 and has a lid of a rice cooking container. An insertion piece 20 that can be inserted into a reverse circular handle formed on the upper surface of the housing is pivoted in a hanging manner.

A is a rice cooking line made up of the above devices.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a storage for rice cooking containers, in which a conveyor device 22 for carrying in and out is provided.

The conveyor device 22 of this embodiment is an endless chain.
The conveyor consisting of / etc. is arranged in a zigzag pattern, but the structure may be such that the rice cooking container can be put in and taken out.

For example, it is possible to arrange only one conveyor, or to arrange a plurality of independent conveyors one on top of the other, and to arrange a lift at the end of the conveyor to move the rice cooking container up and down.

23 is the entrance/exit of the storage 21, which is the conveyor device 22.
The door 24 is provided at one end in the direction of movement, and can be opened and closed by a door 24.

25 is a reversible transfer conveyor 26 whose one end is placed at the entrance/exit 23 of the storage warehouse 21 and whose other end is connected to the anti-American device 1;
is a rice-cooking container lid removal device placed on the transfer conveyor 25 side between the transfer conveyor 2 and the transfer conveyor 25, and this device has the same configuration as the lid removal device 18;
The insert piece is directed towards the storage 21.

A lid closing device 27 is disposed between the lid removing device 26 and the conveyor 2, and has almost the same structure as the lid closing device 15.

In other words, the conveyor 2 is raised higher than the transport conveyor 2.
8 and an arm 29 for pushing the lid, which is rotated once by a motor or the like at the end in the direction of movement, and the arm 29
At the opposite end of the conveyor 28, on one side in the width direction, there is a movable body 30 that is reciprocated in the width direction of the conveyor 28 by an air cylinder or the like.

The movable body 30 moves a lid placed on the side of the conveyor 28 onto the conveyor 28 by the lid removal device 26.

31 is between the transport conveyor 2 and the transfer conveyor 25,
Rice cooker 3 and storage 21 than lid closing device 15.27
A drive conveyor placed on the side, this is transport conveyor 2
The upper rice cooking container is transported to the transfer conveyor 25, and the rice cooking container is moved from the transport conveyor 2 to the driving conveyor 31 by pushing with a pressing device 32 such as an air cylinder.

Instead of the pressing device 32, the rice cooking container can also be moved by an operator.

All conveyors in this device run intermittently.

As the conveyor, it is also possible to use a conveyor having a protrusion that locks the rice cooking container or the lid.

The rice-reducing device 1 may be any device that can measure rice and put it into a rice cooking container, and also add an amount of water corresponding to the amount of rice.

FIG. 4 shows an example of this, in which a measuring device 34 is provided at the lower end of the hopper 33, which can weigh the rice in the hopper 33 and take it out by opening a shutter or the like.

The rice cooker is provided with a tank 35 that stores water, measures the required amount, and injects it into the rice cooking container.

The conveyor device 22 of the storage 21 carries in and out the rice cooking containers sent by the transfer conveyor 25.

The conveyor device 22 of the storage 21 shown in FIG. 13 has hooks 36 pivoted on opposing surfaces of a pair of rice cookers. The rice-cooking container is transported in a hanging manner, and it can be transported in accordance with the structure of the rice-cooking container.

It is also possible to use as the conveyor device 22 a conveyor on which articles are placed and transferred, such as a belt conveyor, a bar conveyor, or a conveyor having rollers that are supported parallel to each other and are forcibly driven. .

37 is a heating device installed in the storage 21, a pipe 38
is a rice cooking container, and 39 is a lid of the container.

To cook rice using this device, each conveyor of the rice cooking line A is intermittently advanced in the direction from the rice-wrapping device 1 to the rice cooking device 3 as shown by the arrows.

Then, the rice cooking container cleaned by the cleaning device 9 is transferred to the anti-rice device 1.
When the rice cooking device 1 stops, the rice cooking device 1 puts a certain amount of rice and water into the rice cooking container.

The rice cooking container filled with rice and water is intermittently transferred by the conveyor 2, and when it stops at the side of the lid closing device 15, the lid, which has been washed by the washing device 14, is sent onto the rice cooking container by the conveyor 16. , and is dropped into the mouth of the rice cooking container by the rotation of the arm 17, and the lid is closed.

The rice cooking container with the lid closed is fed into the rice cooking device 3 and heated, and then steamed while being transferred by the steaming conveyor 7.

When steaming is completed, as the rice cooking container advances, the insertion piece of the arm 19 of the lid removing device 18 that projects upwardly enters the inverted concave handle on the top surface of the lid.

Once this occurs, the arm 19 rotates and places the lid on the conveyor of the cleaning device 14.

This lid is transferred by a conveyor, separated from the insert of the arm 19, and cleaned.

The rice cooking container with the lid removed reaches the reversing device 8, where the cooked rice is taken out, and is then washed by the washing device 9 and sent to the rice-wrapping device 1, and the process is repeated.

Reversing device 8, lid closing device 15 in rice cooking line A,
The lid removing device 18 can also be replaced by an operator.

The lid removing device 26 and the lid closing device 27 can also use only the lid removing device 27 to place the lid on the transfer conveyor 25 directly onto the conveyor 2.

The rice cooking container that has been cleaned after cooking is stored in the anti-rice device 1.
The measurement of the rice and water is stopped, the empty rice cooking container is sent to the conveyor 2, and when it stops, the lid after washing is placed on it as in the case of rice cooking.

When the rice cooking container with the lid placed on it is intermittently transferred and stopped at the side of the drive conveyor 31, it is pressed against the pressing device 3.
2 and moved to the drive conveyor 31, and the drive conveyor 3
1 and is transferred to the transfer conveyor 25.

At this time, the transfer conveyor 25 moves intermittently in the direction of the storage 21, and the entrance 23 of the storage 21 is open.
The rice-cooking containers are transferred from the transfer conveyor 25 to the conveyor device 22 and sequentially conveyed into the storage 21 through a carrier tube.

When carrying out the rice cooking containers in the storage 21 for cooking rice, the conveyor device 22 is reversed and the transfer conveyor 25
is advanced in the direction of anti-American device 1.

Then, when the rice cooking container transferred from the conveyor device 22 to the transfer conveyor 25 stops at the side of the lid removing device 26,
Since the insertion piece of the arm is inserted into the handle of the lid, the arm rotates approximately 180 degrees and closes the lid to the lid closing device 2.
Place it on 7.

The movable body 30 pushes the lid and places it on the conveyor 28,
A conveyor 28 transfers it to the transport conveyor 2.

On the other hand, the rice cooking container with the lid removed reaches the rice-wrapping device 1, where a certain amount of rice and water are added, and then transported by the conveyor 2, which stops at the side of the lid-closing device 27. Then, the lid transferred by the conveyor 28 of the lid closing device 27 is placed thereon, and the lid is pushed by the arm 29 to complete the lid closing and the rice is cooked in the rice cooker 3.

Thereafter, rice cooking is continued on rice cooking line A.

In addition, when carrying out the rice cooking container from the storage 21, in the embodiment, since the moving distance of the rice cooking container and its lid is different,
For the first few rice-cooking containers, remove the lid and make sure to match both at the same time.

As described above, during rice cooking, the device of the present invention can continuously cook any amount of rice by circulating the rice cooking container through the rice cooking line A.

After the rice cooking is finished, the washed rice cooking container is stored in the storage room 21.
When the rice cooking container is stored in the rice cooker, the rice cooking device 1 stops the rice cooking operation and the cleaned rice cooking container is sent to the conveyor 2, and the lid closing device 15 places the cleaned lid on the rice cooking container.

When the rice cooking container with the lid is stopped on the side of the driving conveyor 31, it is pushed by the pressing device 32 or sent to the driving conveyor 31 by the operator, and then sent to the transfer conveyor 25 for storage. Since they are stored in the refrigerator 21, it is extremely easy to store the empty rice cooking container and its lid, and hygiene problems can also be solved.

When the stored rice cooking container is taken out for cooking, it is sent out from the storage 21, and the lid is removed before the rice scraping device 1, and only the rice cooking container is sent to the rice scraping device 1, where the rice is cooked. Since the lid will be placed, storage room 21
You can cook rice continuously just by taking it out.

And, since the main idea is to store the rice cooking container in the storage 21,
If, as in the embodiment, a heating pipe 37 is provided to heat the rice cooker by passing steam inside the storage 21, the rice cooker can be disinfected during storage, and the rice cooker can be stored more hygienically.

The interior of the storage 21 can be heated arbitrarily by directly introducing steam into the interior or by providing an electric heater.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show examples of the present invention. Figure 1 is a plan view, Figure 2 is a front view of the rice cooker, Figure 3 is a side view of the rice cooker, Figure 4 is a front view of the anti-rice device, and Figure 5 is a front view of the rice cooker. A plan view of the lid closing device, FIG. 6 is a front view of the main parts of FIG. 5, FIG. 7 is a front view of the lid removing device, FIG. 8 is a plan view of the lid removing device, and FIG. 9 is a front view of the lid removing device. Fig. 10 is a front view of the cleaning device, Fig. 11 is a plan view of the lid closing device, Fig. 12 is a front view of the storage, and Fig. 13 is a front view of the storage conveyor device. It is a partially enlarged front view. 1: Anti-rice device, 2: Conveyor, 3: Rice cooking device, 7:
Steaming conveyor, 8: Reversing device, 9: Cleaning device, 14
: washing device, 15: lid closing device, 18: lid removing device, A: rice cooking line, 21; storage, 22: conveyor device, 26: lid removing device, 27: lid closing device, 31: drive conveyor.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] There are endless rice dispensing devices that put a fixed amount of rice and water into a rice cooking container, rice cooking devices that heat the rice cooking container after distributing water while transferring it on a conveyor, and washing devices that wash the rice cooking container after rice cooking is completed while transferring it on a conveyor. A conveyor is placed between the rice distributing device and the rice cooking device, each conveyor has a rice cooking line that is advanced from the rice distributing device to the rice cooking device, and the conveyor device for transferring the rice cooking container is inside the rice cooking device. A rice cooking container storage provided in the is connected to the rice distribution device via a reversible transfer conveyor, and the lid of the rice cooking container on the transfer conveyor is transferred onto the rice cooking container of the transfer conveyor, the lid is removed and it is closed. A drive conveyor for transferring an empty rice cooking container with a lid on the apparatus and the transfer conveyor to the transfer conveyor is arranged between the widthwise sides of the transfer conveyor and the transfer conveyor with the drive conveyor facing the rice cooker and the storage, A cleaning device that cleans the lid of the rice-cooking container after rice cooking while transferring it on a conveyor places the cleaned lid on the rice-cooking container on the conveyor on the side opposite to the drive conveyor in the width direction of the conveyor. A rice cooking device in which the rice cooking containers placed through the lid closing device and sent to the rice distribution device are transferred to a conveyor, and all the conveyors are moved intermittently.