KR101635714B1

KR101635714B1 - Wood Pellet Grill for Outdoor

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Publication number: KR101635714B1
Application number: KR1020150173209A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김국경
Original assignee: 김국경
Priority date: 2015-12-07
Filing date: 2015-12-07
Publication date: 2016-07-01

Abstract

The present invention relates to a grill used for cooking various foods with heat generated by combustion of wood pellets. To this end, the grill comprises: a hopper assembly to which a hopper and a blowing motor are coupled; a pellet supplier supplying the wood pellets from the hopper; a manipulation panel including a controlling part controlling the operation of the grill; a cylindrical barrel including a space part, an accommodating hole, and a sliding door which opens and closes the accommodating hole; a combustion port accommodating a combustion plate; an ignition heater igniting the wood pellets; a broiler on which a plurality of flame holes are formed; a plurality of grids placing food ingredients on the space part; and a timer setting an operation time for the pellet supplier.

Description

Outdoor Wood Pellet Grill {Wood Pellet Grill for Outdoor}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wood pellet grill for outdoor use, and more particularly, to a grill for cooking various foods with heat generated by burning wood pellets.

Generally, grills are used to cook meat, fish, poultry, and vegetables, on roasted brass, or on a skewer, where they can be roasted directly on fire. In the past, the grill was oiled and baked with a hot sweat, but in recent years, grills are often placed on grills of electricity and gas. Salt and pepper, butter, salad oil, vegetables or parsley or various spices are applied according to the baked ingredients.

In addition, the grill is mostly used outdoors due to the smoke and smell generated when cooking the food. Furthermore, it is easy to use as a fuel for the grill, and wood, such as firewood, charcoal or pellet, is mainly used for the directing effect.

In the conventional grill for cooking various kinds of food using firewood, charcoal or wood pellets, the grid is a lattice, a steel grill, a grill or a mesh so that the firearm is brought into contact with the food material. Further, during the cooking of the food, the oil discharged from the food material falls and comes into contact with the firearm of the fuel to generate a flame, resulting in the burning of the foodstuff and severe smoke and soot. Moreover, since fire firewood attached to firewood, charcoal or wood pellets can not be controlled, the food ingredients can not be cooked uniformly, and the food is partially or partially burnt and burned, making it difficult to cook the ingredients. In addition, even when the food is to be baked at a constant temperature for a certain period of time, it is difficult to adjust the supplied fuel, so that it is difficult to adjust the supplied food to the desired cooking level.

Korean Registered Patent No. 10-1529676 (issued on June 17, 2015)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to prevent the oil discharged from a food material from falling down on a burned fuel while feeding a food on a grid installed inside the grill, To provide an outdoor wood pellet grill.

In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a hopper assembly, comprising: a hopper assembly coupled to a hopper for receiving a predetermined amount of wood pellets at an upper portion thereof and coupled to a blowing motor for sucking outside air into a lower portion thereof; A pellet feeder installed below the hopper and supplying wood pellets from the hopper by rotation of the feeding motor; A control panel installed in the hopper assembly to control operation of the grill; A cylindrical barrel provided with a hopper assembly on one side thereof and a space for cooking therein, a sliding door having a storage hole formed on a front surface and an upper side and opening and closing a storage hole; A burning port installed at one side of the barrel for receiving a burning plate on which wood pellets fed from a pellet feeder are burnt and burned; An ignition heater that penetrates from the hopper assembly to a combustion port inside the barrel to ignite the wood pellets loaded on the combustion port; An arc-shaped broiler installed on the combustion port and having a plurality of flame holes; A plurality of grids for placing food ingredients to be cooked in a cooking space of the barrel, and a timer for setting an operation time of the pellet feeder.

Further, in the present invention, a temperature sensor installed inside the barrel to sense the temperature inside the barrel and transmit to the operation panel, and a thermometer installed on one side of the barrel for detecting and displaying the temperature of the barrel have.

Further, in the present invention, the operation panel may include a power button for turning on or off operation of the grill, a temperature display unit for visually displaying the barrel internal temperature, a pellet feed amount display unit for visually displaying the wood pellet feed amount of the pellet feeder, A temperature control button for controlling a temperature inside the barrel, a fixed amount supply button for supplying a predetermined amount of wood pellets from the pellet feeder, an ignition heater display unit for visually displaying an operating state of the ignition heater, A pellet feed display portion for visually displaying the supply state of the wood pellet from the feeder, a blowing motor display portion for visually displaying the operating state of the blowing motor, a heater check display portion for visually displaying an abnormal state of the ignition heater, A quantitative feed indication for visually indicating the quantitative feed status of the wood pellets from the pellet feeder And, it may include a display unit for visually displaying at least the flame generation of the flame over the combustion port.

Further, in the present invention, the control section of the operation panel can control so that a predetermined amount of wood pellets is supplied from the pellet feeder when the sliding door is opened in the barrel.

Further, in the present invention, a plurality of brackets protrude from the inner surface of the barrel, and a plurality of oil pan is horizontally installed as a front part corresponding to the bracket, and the grid has a V- Wherein the V-shaped bar is formed so that the right side is longer than the left side, the slope of the right side of the left side is formed gently and the left side end of the adjacent V-shaped bar is formed below the right side end And the grid may be mounted on the bracket and the oil pan.

Further, in the present invention, a plurality of brackets protrude from the inner side surface of the barrel, and a plurality of oil panes are horizontally mounted to the front portion corresponding to the brackets. The grid includes a first V- And a second V-shaped bar having a height lower than that of the first V-shaped bar is provided between the first V-shaped bars, wherein a right side of the first V-shaped bar and a left side of the second V- Respectively, and the grid may be installed on the bracket and the oil pan.

Further, in the present invention, the bracket is installed higher than the oil pan with respect to the horizontal plane, and the oil pan is inclined at an angle from the left to the right, and the grid installed on the bracket and the oil pan is inclined at an angle lowering from the rear to the rear, To the right at a lower angle.

Further, in the present invention, discharge pipes through which the oil collects at the oil pan end portions may be respectively connected.

Further, in the present invention, a plurality of legs may be provided on the bottom surface of the barrel, a rack may be coupled between the legs, and a wheel or a caster may be selectively coupled to the bottom of the leg.

According to the present invention, it is possible to minimize the generation of flames, smoke, and soot by discharging the oil discharged from the food ingredients to the oil pan without falling over the ignited fuel while baking the food ingredients on the grid having the V- The fuel can be supplied for a certain period of time, so that the temperature inside the barrel can be kept constant, so that the food can be uniformly cooked, the convenience of cooking a large amount of foodstuffs can be improved, There is an advantage that reliability according to use is improved.

1 is a perspective view showing an outdoor wood pellet grill according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a sectional view of an outdoor wood pellet grill according to the present invention.
3 is a perspective view showing an outdoor wood pellet grill according to the present invention.
4A and 4B show an embodiment of a grid in an outdoor wood pellet grill according to the present invention.
Fig. 5 shows an operation panel in an outdoor wood pellet grill according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, an outdoor wood pellet grill according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 to 3, the wood pellet grill 1 includes a barrel 40 that cooks outdoor heat as a result of combustion of the supplied fuel, and a hopper assembly 10 that supplies fuel and controls the temperature inside the barrel ). Below the barrel 40, wheels for moving the wood pellet grill are assembled.

The hopper assembly 10 is coupled with a hopper 11 which houses a certain amount of wood pellets 2 at the top. The wood pellet 2 received in the hopper 11 has a certain standard. A lid 12 is coupled to the upper end of the hopper 11. A pellet feeder 13, an operation panel 20 and a blowing motor 18 are provided in a space formed below the hopper 11 of the hopper assembly 10. [ The air blowing motor 18 sucks outside air and blows air into the interior space, that is, the space below the hopper and the inside of the barrel 40.

The pellet feeder 13 is installed below the hopper 11 and feeds the wood pellets 2 from the hopper 11 by rotation of the feeding motor 14. [ The pellet feeder 13 feeds the wood pellet 2 in the hopper 11 into the barrel 40 by rotating the screw 16 through a gear box which is coupled to the rotation shaft of the feeding motor 14 and decelerates. The end of the screw 16 of the pellet feeder 13 is passed through the barrel 40 and feeds the wood pellet 2 received in the hopper 11 to the barrel 40.

The operation panel 20 is installed on the front of the hopper assembly 10 and controls the operation of the grill 1 in a control part included in the operation panel 20. [ The operation panel 20 is provided with a power button 21 for turning on or off the operation of the grill 1. The power button 21 receives the function of the pellet feeder 13, the blowing motor 18 and the operation panel 20 by receiving an external power source necessary for the operation of the grill 1, for example, a 220 V AC power source or a DC power source of the battery. Activate. The temperature display unit 22 visually displays the inside temperature of the barrel 40. The temperature display unit 22 senses the temperature inside the barrel by the temperature sensor 33 installed inside the barrel 40, The operation panel 20 converts the detected temperature signal to a visible temperature and displays the converted temperature signal. Furthermore, a thermometer 34 is installed on one side of the barrel 40 to detect and display the temperature of the upper part of the barrel 40. The temperature display unit 22 displays the temperature in a digital manner, and the thermometer 34 displays it in an analog manner.

The pellet supply amount display unit 23 visually displays the supply amount of the wood pellets of the pellet feeder 13. The pellet supply amount display portion 23 displays the supply amount of the wood pellet 2 in accordance with the screw rotating speed of the pellet feeder 13. For example, when the supply of the wood pellet 2 is large, the red lamp is turned on. When the supply amount of the wood pellet 2 is small, the green lamp is turned on, While the pellet 2 is being supplied, the yellow lamp is turned on. Accordingly, the red lamp is sequentially turned on in the green lamp according to the supply rate of the wood pellet 2.

The temperature control button 24 of the operation panel 20 controls the temperature inside the barrel 40. When the temperature inside the barrel is raised, a set temperature to be raised to the temperature display unit 22 is displayed by pressing the rising button When the temperature inside the barrel is lowered, the set temperature to be lowered to the temperature display section 22 is displayed by depressing the down button. The control unit of the operation panel 20 may increase or decrease the supply amount of the wood pellet 2 by increasing or decreasing the rotational speed of the pellet feeder 13 according to the temperature set in the temperature display unit 22, Up or down.

When the fixed feed button 25 is pressed, the control section of the operation panel 20 presses the rotating speed of the pellet feeder 13 So that the supply amount of the wood pellet 2 is constantly supplied. The control unit of the operation panel 20 controls the pellet feeder 13 to open the sliding door 43 of the barrel 40 to allow the wood pellet 2 to be supplied in a predetermined amount.

5, the operation panel 20 is provided with an ignition heater display portion 26 for visually displaying the operating state of the ignition heater 17 and a control portion for controlling the supply state of the wood pellet 2 from the pellet feeder 13 visually A blower motor display unit 28 for visually displaying the operating state of the blower motor 18 and a heater check display unit 29 for visually displaying an abnormal state of the ignition heater 17. The pellet supply display unit 27, A fixed amount supply display portion 30 for visually displaying the supply amount of the wood pellet 2 from the pellet feeder 13 visually and an abnormal flame display portion 31 for visually displaying the generation of an abnormal flame in the combustion port 50 . Further, when the power button 21 is turned on, the ignition heater display portion 26, the pellet supply display portion 27, and the blower motor display portion 28 are displayed in an operating state.

On the other hand, a timer 32 is provided below the operation panel 20 so that the operation time of the pellet feeder 13 can be set. The timer 32 is for controlling the operation of the pellet feeder 13, that is, the operation time of the grill 1, and can be set to about three hours or less. When the set time of the timer 32 is reached, the power button 21 is turned off and all operations are stopped.

The barrel 40 is substantially cylindrical and has a receiving hole 42 formed on the front surface and the upper surface thereof. That is, about 1/4 of the cylindrical shape. A hopper assembly 10 is installed at one side of the barrel 40 and a space for cooking is formed inside. The barrel (40) is provided with a sliding door (43) for opening and closing the receiving hole (42). The sliding door 43 has a handle 44 on one side and is slidably opened and closed on both sides of the front, top and rear sides of the barrel 40 via the guide bracket 49. A communication hole 45 may be formed in the side surface of the barrel 40 to connect the communication hole for discharging the generated smoke inside the barrel 40.

The combustion port 50 is provided at one side of the inside of the barrel 40 and accommodates the combustion plate 51 on which the wood pellets 2 supplied from the pellet feeder 13 are loaded and burned. The combustion port 50 is located below the side to which the hopper assembly 10 is coupled. An ignition heater 17 inserted from the hopper assembly 10 is centered around the combustion port 50. The combustion plate 51 accommodated in the combustion port 50 is formed with a plurality of through holes for allowing the external air supplied from the air blowing motor 18 to contact the wood pellet 2. It is preferable that the combustion plate 51 is provided with a through hole for allowing the ignition heater 17 to be exposed. The ignition heater 17 penetrates from the hopper assembly 10 to the combustion port 50 inside the barrel 40 and ignites the wood pellets 2 loaded on the combustion port 50. The ignition heater Ignites the wood pellet 2 at a power of approximately 100 to 500 W. [ The ignition heater 17 is operated for about 10 minutes at the same time as the power button 21 is turned on, and then the power supply is interrupted to stop the operation.

The broiler 52 is formed on the combustion port 50, that is, above the pellet feeder 13, and has an arc shape in which a plurality of flame holes 53 are formed. The broiler 52 prevents the flames generated in the wood pellet 2 burned in the combustion port 50 from being infinitely diffused and allows the convection to be constantly conducted into the barrel 40. The broiler 52 can open and close the flame hole 53 with a separate cover 54.

A plurality of brackets (46) protrude from the side surface of the barrel (40). A plurality of oil panes (47) are horizontally installed inside the front portion of the barrel (40) corresponding to the bracket (46). A grid 55 for mounting a food material to be cooked is fixed between the cooking cavity 41 of the barrel 40, that is, the bracket 46 and the oil pan 47. 4A, the grid 55 has a plurality of V-shaped bars 57 fixed at regular intervals on a fixed frame 56 provided laterally. The V-shaped bar 57 is formed such that the right side 59 is longer than the left side 58 and the inclination of the right side 59 is gentler than the left side 58 from the center and the adjacent V- Is positioned below the end of the right-hand piece 59. The left-handed end of the right-

4B, as another embodiment of the grid 55, the grid 55 has a plurality of first V-shaped bars 60 fixedly provided at fixed intervals on a fixed frame 56 provided laterally, And a second V-shaped bar 63 having a height lower than that of the first V-shaped bar 60 is provided between the shaped bars 60. And the right and left pieces 62 and 61 of the first V-shaped bar 60 are positioned on the left and right sides 64 and 65 of the adjacent second V-shaped bar 63, respectively .

In addition, the bracket 46 is installed in the barrel 40 higher than the oil pan 47 with respect to the horizontal plane. The oil pan 47 is installed at an angle from left to right. Therefore, the grid 55 installed on the bracket 46 and the oil pan 47 is inclined at an angle that tilts from the rear to the front and decreases from the left to the right. The end of the oil pan 47 is connected to a discharge pipe 48 through which the oil discharged from each V-shaped bar 57 of the grid 55 flows and the end of the discharge pipe 48 is connected to the bottom of the barrel 40 As shown in Fig. At the end of the discharge pipe 48, a basket for collecting the discharged oil may be provided.

A plurality of legs (70) are provided on the bottom surface of the barrel (40). A shelf 71 may be coupled between the legs 70 and a wheel 72 or a caster 73 may be selectively coupled to the lower ends of the legs 70.

When the power supply button 21 of the operation panel 20 is pushed, the outdoor wood pellet grill 1 of the present invention having the above-described structure is controlled by the pellet feeder 13, the ignition heater 17, The motor 18 is operated. At this time, the grill 1 is operated with external power applied.

When the pellet feeder 13 is operated, the wood pellet 2 received in the hopper 11 is supplied to the combustion port 50 inside the barrel 40 and loaded, and the ignition heater 17 installed in the combustion port 50 The wood pellet (2) is ignited to ignite. The air sucked by the operation of the blowing motor 18 is supplied to the combustion port 50 to help burn the wood pellet 2.

When the wood pellet 2 is ignited in the combustion port 50, the sliding door 43 of the barrel 40 is opened to raise the ingredients on the grid 55. The food material may be put before the wood pellet 2 is ignited or after a certain period of time has elapsed since the wood pellet 2 has been ignited. However, it is preferable that the food material to be cooked is placed on the grid 55 after the inside of the barrel 40 has risen to a certain temperature . After all the ingredients are put, the sliding door (43) is closed and the food is baked by the heat generated inside the barrel (40) for a certain period of time. The temperature of the inside of the barrel 40 is set by pressing the temperature control button 24 on the operation panel 20 as necessary. At this time, the inner temperature of the barrel 40 can be set to about 150 to 200 degrees.

As a result of cooking the ingredients with the wood pellet grill 1 of the present invention, the oil starts to be released from the foodstuffs, especially the meat, after about 20 minutes from the inside temperature of the barrel 40 at about 150 degrees. When the time is set using the timer 32, the operation of the pellet feeder 13 is stopped and the wood pellet 2 is no longer supplied to the combustion port 50 after the set time has elapsed. When the sliding door 43 of the barrel 40 is opened, a fixed amount feeding function is set so that the pellet feeder 13 feeds a predetermined amount of the wood pellets 2 to the combustion port 50.

On the other hand, the oil or the like discharged from the food material placed on the grid 55 having the inclination toward the front and the right flows down to the front oil pan 47 along the groove of the V-shaped bar 57 and the oil collected in the oil pan 47 Is discharged to the outside along the discharge pipe (48) again. Furthermore, the heat transferred through the V-shaped bars 57, that is, the direct grill in which the infrared rays directly touch the surface of the food ingredients, has the advantage of improving the cooking of the ingredients and improving the texture of the ingredients.

While the invention has been shown and described with respect to the specific embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Anyone who has it will know it easily.

1: grill 2: wood pellet 10: hopper assembly 11: hopper 12: lid 13: pellet feeder 14: feeding motor 15: gear box 16: screw 17: ignition heater 18: blowing motor 20: A pellet supply display portion 28, a blowing motor display portion 29, a heater check display portion 30, a quantitative supply display portion 31, an abnormal flame display portion 32, a timer The present invention relates to a refrigerator and a refrigerator which are provided with a refrigerator and a refrigerator which are provided with a refrigerator having a refrigerator and a refrigerator, The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a plasma display panel that is capable of being used in a plasma display panel. : 2nd V-shaped bar 64: left side 65: right side 70: leg 71: shelf 72: wheel 73: casters

Claims

A hopper assembly having a hopper assembly coupled to a hopper for receiving a predetermined amount of wood pellets in an upper portion thereof, and a blowing motor for sucking outside air into a lower portion thereof to blow air into the hopper assembly;
A pellet feeder installed below the hopper for feeding wood pellets from the hopper by rotation of the feeding motor;
A control panel installed in the hopper assembly to control operation of the grill;
A cylindrical barrel provided with a hopper assembly on one side thereof and a space for cooking therein, a sliding door having a storage hole formed on a front surface and an upper side and opening and closing a storage hole;
A burning port installed at one side of the barrel for receiving a burning plate on which wood pellets fed from a pellet feeder are burnt and burned;
An ignition heater that penetrates from the hopper assembly to a combustion port inside the barrel to ignite the wood pellets loaded on the combustion port;
An arc-shaped broiler installed on the combustion port and having a plurality of flame holes;
A plurality of grids for placing food ingredients to be cooked in a cooking space of the barrel,
And a timer for setting an operating time of the pellet feeder,
Wherein the control unit of the operation panel controls the amount of the wood pellet to be supplied from the pellet feeder when the sliding door is opened in the barrel.

[3] The refrigerator according to claim 1, further comprising: a temperature sensor installed inside the barrel to detect a temperature inside the barrel and transmit the temperature to the operation panel; and a thermometer for detecting and displaying the temperature of the upper part of the barrel, Pellet grill.

The control panel according to claim 1, wherein the operation panel includes a power button for turning on or off operation of the grill,
A temperature display unit for visually displaying the barrel inner temperature,
A pellet supply amount display unit for visually displaying the supply amount of the wood pellet of the pellet feeder,
A temperature control button for controlling a temperature inside the barrel,
A quantitative supply button for supplying a predetermined amount of wood pellets from the pellet feeder,
An ignition heater display portion for visually displaying an operating state of the ignition heater,
A pellet supply display portion for visually displaying a supply state of the wood pellet from the pellet feeder,
A blowing motor display unit for visually displaying an operating state of the blowing motor,
A heater check display section for visually displaying an abnormal state of the ignition heater,
A quantitative supply display section for visually displaying the quantitative feed state of the wood pellets from the pellet feeder,
And an abnormal flame display unit for visually displaying the generation of an abnormal flame on the combustion port.

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[3] The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a plurality of brackets protrude from the inner side of the barrel, and a plurality of oil pan are horizontally installed in the front portion corresponding to the bracket, Wherein the V-shaped bar is formed so that the right side is longer than the left side, the inclination of the right side of the left side is gently formed from the center, and the left side end of the adjacent V-shaped bar is positioned below the right side end Wherein the grid is mounted on a bracket and an oil pan.

[3] The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a plurality of brackets protrude from the inner side of the barrel, and a plurality of oil pan are horizontally installed in the front portion corresponding to the bracket, And a second V-shaped bar having a height lower than that of the first V-shaped bar is provided between the first V-shaped bars, wherein a right side of the first V-shaped bar and a left side of the second V- And the grid is mounted on the bracket and the oil pan.

The bracket is installed at a higher level than the oil pan with respect to the horizontal plane, and the oil pan is inclined at a predetermined angle from the left to the right, and the grid installed on the bracket and the oil pan is inclined at an angle An outdoor wood pellet grill installed at an angle from left to right at a decreasing angle.

The outdoor wood pellet grill according to claim 5 or 6, wherein discharge pipes through which the oil collects at the oil pan end are respectively connected.

The outdoor wood pellet grill according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of legs are provided on the bottom surface of the barrel, a rack is coupled between the legs, and a wheel or a caster is selectively coupled to the bottom of the barrel.