RU2565565C2 - Unit-multicooker - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: personal use articles.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to means for cooking food in domestic conditions and enables to extend the functionality of the equipment of this type, as well as to perform simultaneous cooking of multiple various dishes. The unit-multicooker is a unit with multiple devices located in the same housing, each of which has a limited set of functional capabilities, including new opportunities provided in addition to the known ones in the multicookers, such as cooking the quickly-baked dishes, shashlik by means of drive sockets in the form of carrier plates with infrared heating elements with the device of their individual activation.

EFFECT: this embodiment of the unit-multicooker enables to reduce power consumption, along with the possibility of placing products on the skewers, different in size, for their simultaneous cooking.

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Description

The invention relates to means for the preparation of food products in domestic conditions and allows you to expand the functionality of this type of equipment with the simultaneous preparation of several of a wide variety of dishes.

Known multicookers are technically highly sophisticated cooking tools due to their versatility and ease of use. The industry produces many models of these products, differing in a wide variety of designs, parameters and constructive solutions, design, as well as a variety of functional capabilities, however, the increase in the resource of such capabilities of an individual device is limited by technical complexity, associated with an increase in its hardware redundancy and, therefore, with its unjustified rise in price .

This fully applies to the well-known device - an extremely complex gas grill for cooking outdoors with a replaceable modular assembly (patent IS 20080245357 A1), which nonetheless makes it possible to cook some traditional dishes for us, such as barbecue. The possibility of simultaneous cooking of different dishes is limited.

And in simpler models, even if the whole range of possibilities of such a multicooker allows you to cook a large set of different types of dishes of the selected menu, some very popular dishes, like roast on a spit, cannot be cooked at the same time as cooking other dishes. Such a limitation of well-known multicookers creates certain inconveniences. An analogue of the claimed device is a cooking device described in the patent CN 101138470. It contains two multicookers combined with a common unit (in the form of a catamaran) with a lifting mechanism of a heating element with a common power supply unit.

Such a technical solution is very original. In this device, even the space inside the connecting portal is used as compartments for storing culinary spices.

The closest analogue of the claimed block device adopted for the prototype is the invention of CN 103070608 A, A47J 27/12, 2013. This device, designed for heat treatment of food products, contains a housing, heating elements, a set of functional devices with programmed control, providing specified modes of heat treatment of food products, has at least two devices with a limited and different set of individual functional properties, as well as a common power supply unit with protection and control of consumption emoy power.

However, all the listed devices do not allow to cook roasting on a skewer or grilling kebab (by the way, such very popular dishes cannot be cooked in the barbecue, described in patent RU 105143, where meat products can only be steamed, but not fried in a stream of heat radiation, which is why they are clearly lose their taste quality).

In addition, all the models mentioned do not have weighing devices for dispensing various components of the prepared dishes. Mentioned in patent RU 2124280 (with reference to US patent 4615405 and Japanese publication 96-320123) weighing devices are designed to control the defrosting process or the degree of readiness of the product, they have capacitive sensors with low accuracy (in conditions of operation in an environment with variable temperature and humidity) and do not provide sufficient weighing accuracy, especially for small doses added by the component.

The task of the invention is, along with expanding the range of functional properties of these original kitchen appliances, providing the possibility of simultaneous preparation of both traditional for them and exotic dishes using the most advanced technology, as well as the exact recipe of the prepared dishes.

This problem is solved by a known method of combining several devices in a common case with a limited set of functionality for each of them into a common unit, as a result of which a block device for heat treatment of food products (otherwise, a multicooker) is created, containing one common case with sealed covers, heating devices in the internal workspace, a set of dishes placed in it, a set of functional devices for program control, maintenance and control of heat food processing, characterized in that according to the invention it has a number of devices with a different set of both known and new individual functional properties by equipping individual devices with highly efficient sources of infrared heating and drive sockets for skewers (rotisserie), as well as a high-precision weight control device .

The implementation of the inventive multicooker in the form of several appliances placed in a common case with a small individual set of known and new functions will expand the general set of prepared dishes with the possibility of their simultaneous preparation.

Equipping a multicooker with a device with a weighing device (in this case, with strain gauges) will provide the ability to accurately dispense products placed in a dish without the use of traditional weighing and measuring tools. Moreover, this creates the opportunity to equip the electronic control unit of the inventive block device with the ability to memorize the recipes of individual dishes.

To explain the design of the inventive block device for heat treatment of food products - multicooker in FIG. 1 shows a general view thereof; FIG. 2 is a front view with a cut along the median longitudinal plane, in FIG. 3 - section AA of the drive socket (such as a lead cartridge) for a skewer (skewer).

The multicooker unit has a housing 1 with a separate lid 2 for each appliance included in it, a control panel (PU) 3 and a display 4. The inner shell 5 of the appliance — in the version with infrared heaters 6 — is equipped with reflectors 7. Other appliances with plug-in food containers 8 may have separate or structurally combined with the heating element 9 supports with the known load-measuring strain gauges 10 connected through an adder and an analog-to-digital converter with a display 4, or lifting heat successive elements 11, for example, described in our Application №2013120864 on 05.06.2013. In the device for preparing the product using a skewer or skewers, there are sockets 12 for them, mounted on bearings 13 and kinematically connected to the drive 14, for example, gears 15. Each socket is equipped with a sensor 16 (shown in Fig. 3 as electrical contact). This appliance is also equipped with other similar sensors in case of using dishes for cooking other dishes. The multicooker unit is equipped with a common power control unit, providing control of the load on the network with alarm about limit modes, and protection devices. It is advisable to install a general switch.

The inventive device shown in figures 1 and 2, in the composition of three devices, which seems optimal, can be used, for example, as follows. In the average device, a support 8 is installed on supports with load cells 10, filled with the necessary composition of products - their dosage is controlled by the readings on the display 4 located on the housing 1 (in the center), closed by a cover 2, after which the selected program is switched on to the control unit 3. During the preparation of this dish in a nearby open appliance, a lifting heating element 11 is brought upstairs, a frying pan is placed on it and quick-baked products are prepared on it. At the same time, supervision is being made of the previously loaded kebabs or a bird mounted on a spit that is being cooked in the third device. Their heat treatment is carried out by the radiation flux of infrared heaters 6, reinforced with reflectors 7.

In general, the cooking process in this appliance in accordance with the selected program is ensured by the following functional properties: when any skewer is installed, the sensor 16 located under it turns on the corresponding infrared heater 6, as well as the common drive 14 located under the bottom of the shell 5 and kinematically connected, for example, gears 15 with sockets 12 mounted on bearings 13.

When installing the skewer in the central socket 12, the drive 14 is turned on and the number of heaters 6 selected depending on the given thermal regime with their uniform location on the periphery. When installing the tank 8, the sensor provided for it in the same way turns on the heating, but with the drive 14 turned off.

In devices included in the multicooker, a reasonable minimum of individual functionality is provided. Duplication of the latter in its other devices is justified only for programs related to the preparation of the most popular and common dishes. This simplifies and, therefore, reduces the cost of such devices while expanding their overall functional resource.

In general, the use of the inventive multicooker allows you to create optimal conditions for the timely and high-quality preparation of a wide variety of dishes at home, as well as in small catering establishments.

Claims (2)

1. A block device for heat treatment of food products (multicooker), comprising a housing, a number of devices placed in it with heating elements and a set of various functional devices with programmed control, providing specified modes of heat treatment of food products, with a common power supply unit, control power consumption and protecting the electric network from overload, characterized in that it has a device equipped with infrared heating elements on the periphery of the inner space E with automatic switching of the individual with the drive slots in the form of cam for skewers and skewers, allowing to cook - along with the usual multivarok -shashlyki dishes as well as hot - whole bird or large fragments of different animals. 2. The block device for heat treatment of food products (multicooker) according to claim 1, characterized in that for the exact dosing of the products laid in the prepared dishes, its individual devices are equipped with weight measuring devices with strain gauges with data output to the corresponding display and the possibility of remembering them.

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