JP2665595B2 - Heat insulation container for rotating dining table - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rotary food container using a crescent chain, which relates to a rotary food table for providing food while keeping the product warm.

2. Description of the Related Art A large number of restaurants have emerged in which a crescent chain can be run on a counter in order to form a rotary dining table, and various kinds of products conveyed on the crescent chain can be selected and eaten. There is.

In such a type of restaurant, since the products on the crescent chain could not be kept warm, the products to be provided are limited to foods such as sushi (sushi) that do not need to be kept warm. there were. Therefore, the applicant has previously proposed a rotating table heat retaining device that can effectively deal with this problem (Patent Applications (1) and (2) dated March 9, 1988).

In this product, heat-retaining steam from the steam generator installed on the lower surface of the crescent chain is placed near the product tray on the cradle via the steam pipe that opens on the pedestal mounted on the upper surface of the crescent chain. Since it is a guide, and an opening / closing valve is attached to the upper end of the steam pipe, if you put a product plate on the pedestal, this open / close valve will open and steam will eject, so that the product on the product plate It can keep warm effectively.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention In the prior art,
This is a dedicated container for this application because it has been provided with a hole for vapor permeation at the bottom and a mesh tray in the middle, so that the manufacturing cost is high. There was a problem that it tended to be.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to use a container known as a so-called tea drink container as the container main body, and moreover, on the crescent chain, the product can be effectively kept warm with steam. To provide a heat insulating container for a table.

Means for Solving the Problems The structure of the present invention for achieving the above object comprises a container main body having a bottom plate having a vapor permeation hole and a valve operating body projectingly provided on a lower surface of the bottom plate, and an upper surface of a counter. The main point is that when the container body is placed on the pedestal that is fixed to the crescent chain that runs normally, the valve operating body opens the opening / closing valve of the steam pipe that opens on the pedestal.

The valve operating body can be changed into various forms, and the container body may be provided with a vapor-permeable lid.

Therefore, with this configuration, if the container body containing the product is placed on the pedestal, the valve operating body opens the on-off valve, so the steam from the steam pipe passes through the steam permeation hole on the bottom plate. Can rise up inside the container body, therefore
The product can be effectively kept warm.

Also, if the container body is removed from the pedestal, the on-off valve closes, so there is no risk of unnecessary steam spouting from the steam pipe.

 It operates as described above.

Example Hereinafter, an example will be described with reference to the drawings.

Insulation container for rotating dining table (hereinafter simply referred to as container) 10
Is composed of a container body 11 and a lid body 12 (Fig. 1), and a valve operating body 13 is projectingly provided on the lower surface of the former bottom plate 11b.

The container body 11 has a bottom plate 11b on the inner lower part of a cylindrical outer cylinder 11a.
And a thin portion 11c for fitting the lid 12 is formed on the upper edge of the outer cylinder 11a (see FIGS. 1 and 2).
Figure). The bottom plate 11b is formed by laying a large number of narrow plate materials in parallel, and by forming a trapezoidal recess at the side end of each plate member, a plurality of vapor transmission holes 11d, 11d, ... Are formed. .

The valve operating body 13 is fixed to the center of the bottom plate 11b,
A round bar-shaped protrusion 13b is formed at the center of a disk-shaped base 13a. Here, it is assumed that the height of the protrusion 13b is set to an appropriate dimension so as not to protrude below the outer cylinder 11a.

The lid body 12 is composed of an outer cylinder 12a that fits into the upper end edge of the outer cylinder 11a of the container body 11 from the outside, and a dome-shaped lid portion 12b that is formed on the upper inside of the outer cylinder 12a and curves upward ( (Fig. 1).
The lid portion 12b is formed by, for example, knitting a bamboo material formed in a ribbon shape in a mesh net (Ajiro), and steam is allowed to permeate through the mesh.

The rotating food and drink table has the crescent chain 20 traveling on the upper surface of the counter C in order (FIGS. 3 and 4). Here, the crescent chain 20 has links 22, 22 ... Having substantially half-moon shaped slats 21, 21 ...
Is connected to the left and right through a link pin 22a so as to be bent in a chain shape, and if a product plate is placed on the upper surface of this crescent, the product plate will be conveyed in sequence along the counter C. Is something that can be done.

Crescent chain 20 has cradle 2 at appropriate intervals
While 3, 23 ... Are fixed, the sprocket 24 meshes with the large diameter roller 22b loosely fitted to the link pin 22a, and the sprocket 24 is connected to the motor 24b via the drive chain 24a. By Crescent Chain 20
Can be driven to run.

The cradle 23 includes an upper plate 23a on which the container body 11 can be positioned and placed, and a lower plate 23b for fixing the cradle 23 to the crescent, and an intermediate portion thereof is filled with a heat insulating material 23c. There is. A steam pipe 26 from the steam generator 25 is opened at the center of the upper plate 23a. However, even if the cradle 23 moves due to the traveling of the crescent chain 20, the steam pipe can be moved through a coupling mechanism (not shown) or by making the steam generator 25 integrally movable with the crescent chain 20. 26 is always in communication with the steam generator 25.

An open / close valve 27 is attached to the upper end of the steam pipe 26 (FIGS. 4 and 2). The on-off valve 27 includes a valve body 27a and a valve body 27a.
Compression spring 27b that pushes up from below to close the steam pipe 26
And the opening / closing valve 27 can be opened by pushing down the valve body 27a.

Now, when the container body 11 is not placed on the upper plate 23a of the pedestal 23, the valve body 27a of the opening / closing valve 27 is pushed upward by the compression spring 27b, so the opening / closing valve 27 is in the closed state. (Fig. 2). At this time, the upper part of the valve body 27a is
It is assumed that it is highly projected on the upper surface of the (dashed line in FIG. 5).

Next, if the container body 11 is placed on the cradle 23, the valve operating body
The protrusion 13a of 13 pushes the valve body 27a downward (solid line in the figure). The open / close valve 27 is opened. Where the valve operating body
Since 13 is projected from the center of the bottom plate 11b of the container body 11, when the container body 11 is properly positioned and placed on the pedestal 23, the valve operation 13 and the valve body 27a must be They will face each other. At this time, the valve body 27a
It is assumed that the projection 13a of the valve operating body 13 is set to an appropriate height so that the can be pushed down sufficiently.

In this way, when the opening / closing valve 27 is opened, the steam from the steam generator 25 is jetted upward through the opening / closing valve 27, and the steam permeation holes 11d, 11d ... Formed in the bottom plate 11b of the container body 11. It is possible to rise upwards through. Therefore, the products S placed on the upper surface of the bottom plate 11b and stored in the container body 11,
S ... can be kept warm well. In addition,
It goes without saying that the container body 11 placed on the pedestal 23 may be the container 10 with the lid 12 covered.

In the above description, the container 10 has the same form as what is known as a so-called dim sum container including the lid 12 when the valve operating body 13 is not provided. Then, by attaching the valve operating body 13 thereto, it can be easily manufactured.

Other Embodiments The form of the valve operating body 13 can be composed of a plate body 13c for pushing down the valve body 27a of the on-off valve 27 and a support body 13d for supporting the plate body 13c (FIG. 6). ). However, here, the support 13d is a ring 13 having rims 13e, 13e.
f and 13f are formed by vertically connecting via pillars 13g, 13g ..., The upper ring 13f is fixed to the lower surface of the bottom plate 11b of the container body 11, while the plate 13c is lower ring 13f. Is formed in the central part of the. If the plate body 13c has a diameter larger than that of the valve body 27a, the rims 13e and 13e are present, and even when the container body 11 is placed at a slightly offset position from the center of the cradle 23,
The on-off valve 27 can be opened reliably.

In the valve operating body 13, pillars 13g, 13g, ... Are erected on an upper plate 13h, and a lower ring 13f is provided as a support 13d, and the entire inside of the ring 13f is a plate 13c made of a perforated plate. It is possible (Fig. 7). The opening operation of the opening / closing valve 27 can be made more reliable. At this time, the perforated plate may be a strong net.

A perforated plate creates a cylindrical shape with a bottom, and the upper plate 13
The valve operating body 13 may be formed by attaching h (8th embodiment)
Figure). The bottom part forms the plate 13c, and the cylindrical part forms the support 13d. In each of the embodiments shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the upper plate 13h may be omitted.

Further, the form of the valve body 27a can be arbitrarily modified in order to ensure the pushing operation by the valve operating body 13 or to increase the opening area when the opening / closing valve 27 is opened. For example, on the upper end surface of the valve body 27a, the through hole 27d,
Forming a top plate 27c having 27d ... (Fig. 9), or
While forming large openings 27f, 27f ... in the middle,
It is also possible to connect the plate-shaped portions 27g, 27h on both upper and lower sides via the pillars 27e, 27e ... (FIG. 10).

As described above, according to the present invention, the container main body and the valve operating body protruding from the bottom plate of the container main body are formed, and the bottom plate is formed with the vapor permeation hole and fixed to the crescent chain. When the container body is placed on the cradle, not only can the valve operating body open the on-off valve of the steam pipe that opens on the cradle, so that the products on the crescent chain can be well kept warm, As the container body, since the dim sum container can be used as it is, there is an excellent effect that the manufacturing cost thereof can be made extremely low.

It should be noted that by changing the form of the valve operating body, the opening operation of the on-off valve can be made more reliable, and further, if the container body and lid are used in combination, the product will run in the forward direction. There is also an effect that the heat retention effect in the inside can be further enhanced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1 to 5 show an embodiment, FIG. 1 is an overall exploded perspective view, FIG. 2 is a central sectional view showing a state of use, FIG. 3 is an overall plan view of a counter, and FIG. FIG. 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken along the line XX of FIG. 5, and FIG. 5 is an enlarged explanatory view of a main part of FIG. 6 to 8 are perspective views of a valve operating body showing another embodiment respectively. 9 and 10 are equivalent to FIG. 5 showing still another embodiment. C: Counter 10: Insulated container for rotating dining table 11: Container body 11b: Bottom plate 13d: Support body 12: Lid body 13: Valve operating body 13a: Projection portion 13c: Plate body 13d ... … Support 20 …… Crescent chain 23 …… Cradle 26 …… Steam pipe 27 …… Open / close valve 27a …… Valve body

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A container body having a bottom plate having a vapor permeable hole,
When the container main body is placed on a pedestal fixed to a crescent chain that travels forward on the upper surface of a counter, the valve operating body consists of a valve operating body protruding from the bottom surface of the bottom plate,
A heat insulation container for a rotating dining table that opens an opening / closing valve of a steam pipe that opens on a cradle. 2. The heat-insulating container for rotary food and drink according to claim 1, wherein the valve operating body includes a protrusion that pushes down the valve body of the on-off valve. 3. The rotary eating table according to claim 1, wherein the valve operating body comprises a plate body for pushing down the valve body of the on-off valve and a support body for supporting the plate body. Heat insulation container. 4. The heat insulating container for a rotary dining table according to claim 3, wherein the plate body is a perforated plate having a diameter larger than that of the valve body of the on-off valve. 5. The heat insulating container for a rotary dining table according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the container body has a lid that allows vapor to pass therethrough.