JP4060667B2 - Washed rice-compatible weighing rice - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to, for example, a rice bin that weighs and takes out rice as a whole, and particularly relates to an improvement that can cope with taking out an appropriate amount of unwashed rice that has recently become widespread.
[0002]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This type of weighing and unloading device employs various mechanisms for taking out a certain amount. One type of the weighing and unloading device includes a rice storage chamber inside the main body case with an operation panel on the front, and a weighing and unloading device. The weighing pad is provided with a shutter that prevents the inflow of rice from above, and the space above the shutter is used as a weighing stand, and the shutter is manually operated to remove the rice from the rice storage chamber. At the same time, the bottom part of the weighing and unloading paddle is opened to prevent the inflow of rice, so that the rice can be taken out of one or two. And in the case of conventional plain rice (hereinafter referred to as regular rice), the unit is weighed as a volume, and when this is washed, the surface skin nuka is washed away and the volume is reduced. The amount of water in the vessel is set.
[0003]
By the way, recently, non-washed rice that does not require washing rice has been popularized by removing the skin skin on the surface of the rice in advance with a special rice mill. In this case, if the total volume is weighed with a conventional rice container, it will be weighed substantially more than normal rice because the skin nuka is already removed. You won't be able to get the best texture.
For this reason, as a conventional method, a method has been adopted in which a part of the measuring chamber is closed against the rice bin and the substantial volume is reduced. However, such a conventional method is performed by simply closing a part of the concave portion of the space near the side bottom of the weighing chamber. Therefore, setting and retrofitting it at the user level is relatively troublesome, and it is difficult to clean the rice without washing. Occasionally, there was a tendency to cause a loss of cooking because households and others responded by simply increasing the amount of water.
[0004]
[Technical issues for which development was attempted]
The present invention has been made from such a background, and has attempted to develop a washing rice-compatible weighing rice dish that can be easily retrofitted by ordinary users in each household to change the setting equipment for ordinary rice and washing-free rice. It is a thing. The basic point of attention is that in the case of non-washed rice, the amount to be taken out is reduced in volume compared to regular rice. However, although it is extremely troublesome in terms of work, it is fixed that the volume of the measuring chamber is reduced. Reviewing the approach taken under the idea, rather focusing on reducing the amount of rice that actually enters the weighing chamber, the weighing adjustment member can be retrofitted above the weighing unit, which can be easily operated from the outside. It is an attempt to develop a structure that can do this.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In other words, the washing rice-compatible weighing rice bit according to claim 1 has a rice storage chamber and a weighing-out bowl disposed vertically in a main body case having an operation panel on the front surface, and the weighing-out rice bowl has a rice from above. A shutter is provided to prevent the inflow of water, and the space above the shutter is used as a weighing standby unit. In a device that opens and takes out a certain amount of rice,
A communication port for communicating the metering takeout boxes and the rice storage chamber is adapted to be adjustable its opening area by providing a volume reduction spacers narrowing the opening area of the communication port removably, this volume reduction The spacer is in the form of a chute with an inclined guide part with the rice guide surface inclined downward, and this is installed at the communication port. The spacer is loaded from above at the periphery of the bottom of the rice storage chamber facing the communication port. It is characterized by being hooked .
[0006]
According to this invention, it becomes possible to measure and take out both regular rice and non-washed rice with a single metered rice bottle, which does not require separate metered rice bins for ordinary rice and non-washed rice, and is economical. There is no problem with the location. Moreover, since it is not a thing of the complicated mechanism which changes the volume of the measurement chamber of a measurement extraction rod, cheap implementation is possible.
In addition, the difference between the washed rice-compatible weighed rice bit and the regular rice-only weighed rice bite is whether or not it has a volume-reducing spacer. A single production line with dedicated weighing rice can be used.
Furthermore , it is easy to attach the volume reducing spacer, and anyone can easily perform it , and the washing-free rice smoothly slides on the volume reducing spacer and is guided to the weighing chamber side of the weighing-out unloader. .
[0007]
In addition to the requirements described in claim 1, the measurement-free rice rice bowl corresponding to wash-free rice according to claim 2 has a flow that obstructs the flow of wash-free rice in a direction opposite to the tilt guide direction at the lower end of the tilt guide portion. A restriction plate is provided.
According to this invention, the optimal capacity required when taking out the non-washed rice is set more accurately.
[0008]
In addition to the requirements described in the first and second aspects, the non-washing-measurable rice rice mold according to the third aspect of the invention is used as a knob for operation in attaching and detaching the volume reducing spacer. It is characterized in that it is raised upward so that it can be made.
According to the present invention, since the operation knob raised upward is provided on the volume reduction spacer, the volume reduction spacer can be easily and reliably attached and detached.
[0009]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention will be described below based on the illustrated embodiments. Reference numeral 1 denotes a washing rice-compatible weighing rice bottle according to the present invention, which comprises a volume reducing spacer 10, which is a characteristic member of the present invention, detachably attached to the rice bottle body 2. The rice box body 2 includes a rice storage chamber 4, a weighing-out container 5, and a receiving container 6 in order from the top inside a substantially rectangular parallelepiped body case 3. Moreover, the upper cover 31 which can be attached or detached is provided in the upper surface of the main body case 3, and the rice which accommodates newly is thrown in from here. In this embodiment, the front, rear, left and right refer to the front, rear, left and right of the washing rice-compatible weighing rice bin 1 as a reference, and the surface having the dispensing operation button 57a in FIG. From the front, the right side is the right side and the left side is the left side. Washable rice-compatible metered rice bin 1 is washable rice R1 and plain rice R2, and in particular when referring to washless rice R1 and plain rice R2 without distinction, it is a generic term for “rice”. However, when referring to them separately, they are referred to as “washless rice R1” and “ordinary rice R2”, respectively.
[0010]
Hereinafter, each component of the washing-free rice-type weighing rice container 1 will be described in detail. First, the internal structure will be described first, and then the operation panel 30 provided on the front surface of the main body case 3 will be described.
First, as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the internal space of the main body case 3 is partitioned by a partition plate 40 that is integrally formed in a substantially hollow shape at the center, and the space above the partition plate 40 is used to store and store rice. The rice storage chamber 4 is set. A rice communication port 40 a is formed in the lowermost part of the rice storage chamber 4, that is, in the middle recess portion of the partition plate 40, and the communication port 40 a communicates with the lower weighing take-out basket 5.
[0011]
Next, the weighing-out container 5 will be described. The weighing-out picking rod 5 is attached to a pair of left and right installation legs 33 raised from the bottom plate 32, and has a hopper shape as a whole. Specifically, the metering take-out basket 5 is pivotably attached to the fixed main body 50 by a rotary support shaft 52 in the vicinity of the center in the height direction opposite to the hook-shaped fixed main body 50 attached to be inclined downward. And a shutter 51 provided on the screen. An upper shutter 51a for preventing the inflow of rice from the rice storage chamber 4 is formed above the shutter 51, and a lower shutter 51b for preventing the rice from being discharged to the receiving container 6 is formed below.
[0012]
When the shutter 51 is rotated and the upper shutter 51a is closed, the space below the shutter 51 is a substantial weighing chamber 53, and the space above the upper shutter 51a is a weighing standby unit 54. The shutter 51 is normally rotated and biased by a torsion coil spring 52a so that the lower shutter 51b side is in close contact with the fixed body 50 and closed. The lower part of the fixed body 50 is an outflow guide surface 50a inclined along the rotation locus of the lower shutter 51b. When the upper shutter 51a closes the upper side of the weighing chamber 53 by rotating the shutter 51, the tip of the lower shutter 51b is exactly the same. Is separated from the outflow guide surface 50a, and an outlet 53a for dropping the rice in the weighing chamber 53 into the receiving container 6 below is opened.
[0013]
In the present embodiment, as an example, the single operation of the payout operation button 57a is to measure and take out the rice gang, but other two gangs and three gangs may be measured and taken out. In addition, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. Hei 6-52740, the present applicant has a plurality of weighing-out picking rods 5 and a plurality of picking-up buttons 57a by operating the dispensing operation button 57a once in combination. The amount may be set.
[0014]
A rotation operation mechanism 55 that rotates the shutter 51 will be described. An arm support shaft 56 is provided on the fixed main body 50 above the rotation support shaft 52 to which the shutter 51 is attached. On the other hand, an operation arm 57 is supported so as to be swingable in the vertical direction. A contact portion 57b for pushing the back side of the shutter 51 is provided on the lower surface of the operation arm 57 close to the arm support shaft 56, and as shown in FIGS. When the side is pushed, the shutter 51 rotates so that the upper shutter 51a is closed and the lower shutter 51b is opened. Normally, the operation arm 57 is urged by a torsion coil spring 58 so that the contact portion 57 b is separated from the back surface of the shutter 51. In addition, a payout operation button 57 a is formed at the rotating action end of the operation arm 57.
[0015]
Next, the receiving container 6 will be described. The receiving container 6 is located under the weighing container 5 and has a rectangular box shape with the upper part opened as a whole, and can be pulled out to the front side. This includes a front plate 61 having a handle 61a. Instead of the receiving container 6, a chute may be provided for transferring the dispensed rice to the outside of the main body case 3, and the rice may be taken out directly into a rice sharpening container such as a rice cooker or a bowl.
[0016]
The operation panel 30 on the front surface of the main body case 3 will be described. A through hole 30a is opened at a position closer to the lower side than the center of the operation panel 30, and a payout operation button 57a of the operation arm 57 projects from the through hole 30a. In addition, an internal confirmation window 30b for viewing the remaining amount of rice and the like is opened above the operation panel 30, and a plate such as a transparent polystyrene plate that can be seen through is stretched.
[0017]
An example of the specific configuration of the rice bowl body 2 is configured as described above, but various types of dispensing rice that has been measured while simultaneously blocking the rice from flowing into the metering trough with a manual operation button. It is possible to apply this type of rice bin as the main body 2 of the present invention.
[0018]
The volume reducing spacer 10 will be described. Compacting the spacer 10 all SANYO to use a chute forms a downward slope from the communication port 40a to the lower side, communication port 40a is reduced in volume spacer 10 is not blocked completely be loaded, no-bran rice R1 Is allowed to pass sufficiently . Specifically, the volume reducing spacer 10 is connected to a U-shaped peripheral frame portion 11 having a U-shape in plan view, and a plate-like inclined guide portion 12 having a rice guide surface 12a inclined downward from the communication port 40a. It consists of The distal end of the inclined guide portion 12, the baffle is provided flow regulating plates 12b, dropped and come pre-washed rice R1 is inclined guide direction of the inclined guide portion 12 and the early days flow into the opposite direction (collapsed) is doing. The peripheral frame portion 11 is provided with four latching pieces 13 for latching to the partition plate 40 at the peripheral edge of the communication port 40a, and a reverse claw 14 is provided below the latching piece 13. The partition plate 40 is sandwiched between the stopper pieces 13 and fixed in the vertical direction. Further, a projecting piece 15 is provided at the upper center of the inclined guide portion 12, and the partition plate 40 is sandwiched between the projecting piece 15 and the flange portion 11 a of the peripheral frame portion 11, so that the volume reducing spacer 10 is laterally moved. The lateral direction is fixed so as not to shift.
[0019]
The washing-free rice-type metered rice bottle 1 of the present invention is constructed as described above, and this operation mode will be described below.
(1) When used as a metered rice bottle for plain rice When the metered rice bottle 1 for washing-free rice according to the present invention is used as a metered rice bottle for ordinary rice R2 that is not washed-free rice R1, volume reduction is a feature of the present invention. The spacer 10 is not attached, and the usage mode thereof is not particularly different from that of the commonly used weighing rice. That is, when the ordinary rice R2 in the rice storage chamber 4 is empty, the upper lid 31 is opened and new ordinary rice R2 is introduced. For example, when taking out two sets of common rice R2, an operation of pressing the double payout operation button 57a is performed. It should be noted that when the payout operation button 57a is pressed, a conventionally well-known operation method is used. However, the payout operation button 57a is pressed down at once and then the finger is immediately released from the payout operation button 57a. Then, the receiving container 6 is pulled out, and the discharged ordinary rice R2 is transferred to a container for sharpening rice such as a pot, a bowl and a rice cooker.
[0020]
The manner in which the ordinary rice R2 is dispensed from the weighing pan 5 will be described with reference to FIG. 4. First, as shown in FIG. 4 (a), the lower shutter 51b is brought into contact with the fixed main body 50 as the initial state before dispensing. On the other hand, the upper shutter 51a is in a fully open state, and the weighing chamber 53, the weighing standby unit 54, and the rice storage chamber 4 are in communication with each other. In this state, the regular rice R2 is filled in the weighing chamber 53 in a full state.
[0021]
Next, when the payout operation button 57a is pressed from the initial state as described above, as shown in FIG. 4B, the shutter 51 rotates, the upper shutter 51a is in the closing direction, and the lower shutter 51b is in the opening direction. Move to. While the shutter 51 is rotating, the lower shutter 51b rotates downward, but the lower part of the fixed body 50 is formed on the outflow guide surface 50a along the rotation locus of the lower shutter 51b. Until the upper shutter 51a rotates to the closed position, the take-out port 53a has not yet been opened, and the ordinary rice R2 has not yet been dispensed onto the receiving container 6. At this time, since the bottom of the weighing chamber 53 is lowered, the volume of the weighing chamber 53 is substantially enlarged. At this time, the upper ordinary rice R2 is weighed from the open portion of the upper shutter 51a. A small amount flows into the chamber 53. Incidentally, since the metering chamber 53 is designed to take into account the rice that flows in when the shutter 51 rotates, it is normally paid out when the outlet 53a is finally opened as shown in FIG. 4 (c). Rice R2 is almost exactly united.
[0022]
In FIG. 4 (c), after the common rice R2 is paid out, when the payout operation button 57a is released, the shutter 51 is returned to the position shown in FIG. 4 (a) by the urging of the torsion coil spring 52a. It is. In this state, since the lower shutter 51b is closed and the upper shutter 51a is opened as described above, the normal rice R2 in the weighing standby unit 54 and the rice storage chamber 4 flows into the measuring chamber 53, and the measuring chamber 53 is in the normal state. Filled with rice R2.
[0023]
(2) When using as a washing rice container for washing-free rice Next, when using the washing rice-compatible weighing rice container 1 according to the present invention as a washing rice container for washing-free rice R1, the rice in the rice storage chamber 4 is empty. In this state , the volume reduction spacer 10 is attached. When attaching, first, the upper lid 31 is removed, the retaining piece 13 of the volume reducing spacer 10 is positioned forward and backward, and the right end partition of the communication port 40a is tilted so that the flange portion 11a of the peripheral frame portion 11 faces downward, for example. The plate 40 is sandwiched between the flange portion 11a and the protruding piece 15. Next, when the other end of the volume reducing spacer 10 is pushed into the communication port 40a, the volume reducing spacer 10 is elastically deformed inward, and when the reverse claw 14 is positioned below the partition plate 40, the elastic recovery is resumed. The partition plate 40 is sandwiched and fixed by the latching piece 13.
As described above, the usage mode of the non-washed rice-compatible weighing rice bin 1 after the volume reducing spacer 10 is set is not different from that of the measuring rice bin for the ordinary rice R2. That is, the wash-free rice R1 is put into the rice storage chamber 4, the dispensing operation button 57a is pushed down at once, and the hand is released as in the case of the ordinary rice R2 (FIGS. 5A, 5B, and 5C). reference). As a result, the wash-free rice R1 having a smaller volume, such as 5%, than the regular rice R2 is paid out.
[0024]
The principle that the washing-free rice R1 having a volume smaller than that of the ordinary rice R2 is paid out is that, as shown in FIG. 5 (b), the dispensing operation button 57a is pushed, the upper shutter 51a is opened, and the lower shutter 51b is moved. This is because the amount of non-washed rice R1 flowing into the measuring chamber 53 while moving on the outflow guide surface 50a is reduced by reducing the opening area of the communication port 40a by the volume reducing spacer 10. In addition, the flow restricting plate 12b of the volume reducing spacer 10 prevents the washing-free rice R1 dropped to the left side in FIG. 3B from flowing into the right side so as to collapse. This is because a slight gap S is formed on the right side of 53. Including the two compacting action, for example, 5% decrease, reduction of non-bran rice R1 is made to be paid out.
And in cooking rice without washing | cleaning R1 taken out in this way, it is not necessary to carry out special water | moisture-content adjustment as "washingless rice", and it can cook with the moisture content similar to normal rice R2.
[0025]
Rice still accommodated in switching back from no-bran rice R1 for ordinary rice R2 is, after the state in which no non-bran rice R1 is housed in non-bran rice corresponding weighing flour container 1 may be detached volume-spacer 10 When removing, for example, pinching the two front and rear hooking pieces 13 far from the flange portion 11a of the peripheral frame portion 11 to the center side, turning the flange portion 11a up as a center of rotation and lifting it up, After unlocking the latching piece 13 and the reverse claw 14, it is removed by pulling up diagonally upward.
[0026]
[Other embodiments]
Although the basic embodiment of the present invention is as described above, various other modifications can be made.
For example, what is shown in FIG. 6 forms two volume reduction spacers 10 in pairs . That is, the volume reduction spacer 10 having a width about half that of the volume reduction spacer 10 shown in the basic embodiment is provided at the left and right ends of the communication port 40a. It forms in the downward inclination toward the center side of the communicating port 40a.
[0027]
Moreover, as shown in FIG. 7, you may make it provide the volume-reduction spacer 10 formed in a mountain shape in the downward slope toward the right-and-left both sides from the center in the center of the communicating port 40a. In this case, the state where the communication port 40a from which the wash-free rice R1 falls is opened at two places is obtained.
[0028]
FIG. 8 shows a structure in which an extension spacer 17 for fine adjustment of the flow rate is provided on the volume reduction spacer 10. That is, this comprises a spacer body 16 that is latched to the communication port 40a of the partition plate 40, and an extension spacer 17 that is slidably locked to the spacer body 16 by a sliding groove 16a. This enables fine adjustment of the opening area of the communication port 40a at the user level.
[0029]
【The invention's effect】
According to the measurement rice bit for washing-free rice according to claim 1, since the opening area of the communication port 40a for communicating the rice storage chamber 4 and the weighing-out rice cake 5 can be adjusted, ordinary rice R2 and washing-free rice R1 Both can be weighed and removed with a single weighing rice bottle. Therefore, separate rice is not required for the regular rice R2 and the non-washed rice R1, which is economical and does not cause trouble in the place of placement. Moreover, since it is not a thing of the complicated mechanism which changes the capacity | capacitance of the measurement chamber 53 of the measurement extraction rod 5, it can implement cheaply.
[0030]
Further, in order to make it possible to adjust the opening state of the communication port 40a that communicates between the rice storage chamber 4 and the weighing / unloading basket 5, the volume reducing spacer 10 that narrows the opening area is detachably provided in the communication port 40a. Because the two parts of the rice bite are not different from the regular rice R2 dedicated metered rice bite, it is possible to have one production line for the washing rice-compatible metered rice bit 1 and the regular rice R2 dedicated metered rice bite. Become.
[0031]
Furthermore, since the volume reducing spacer 10 is hooked to the periphery of the bottom of the rice storage chamber 4 facing the communication port 40a, the volume reducing spacer 10 can be easily attached and can be easily performed by anyone. Is possible.
[0032]
Furthermore, since the volume reducing spacer 10 is formed so that the rice guide surface (upper surface of the inclined guide portion 12) is inclined downward, the wash-free rice R1 smoothly slides on the volume reducing spacer 10 and takes out the metering take-out bowl. 5 to the weighing chamber 53 side.
[0033]
In addition, according to the washing rice-compatible metered rice bit according to claim 2 , the optimum capacity required when the washing-free rice R1 is taken out is set more accurately.
[0034]
In addition, according to the washing rice-compatible metered rice bit according to claim 3, it is possible to easily and reliably attach and detach the volume reducing spacer 10 required when the washingless rice R1 is taken out.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the state of use of a washing rice-compatible weighing rice according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal side view of the same as above.
FIG. 3 is a longitudinal front view of the same as above, and an enlarged view showing an enlarged portion of a measurement chamber and a measurement standby unit.
FIG. 4 is a longitudinal side view showing stepwise operation modes when used as a measuring rice bin for ordinary rice.
5 (a), (b) and (c) are longitudinal side views showing stepwise operation modes when used as a non-washed rice weighing rice vat, and FIG. 5 (d) shows the amount of rice discharged at a time It is explanatory drawing compared with unwashed rice.
FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the volume reducing spacer.
FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of another volume reducing spacer as described above.
FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the volume reducing spacer according to the embodiment.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Washing-measuring-type measuring rice bottle 2 Rice-box main body 3 Body case 4 Rice storage chamber 5 Weighing take-out container 6 Receptacle container 10 Volume reduction spacer 11 Peripheral frame part 11a Flange part 12 Inclination guide part 12a Rice guide surface 12b Flow regulation plate 13 Hook Piece 14 Reverse claw 15 Projection piece 16 Spacer body 16a Sliding groove 17 Extension spacer 30 Operation panel 30a Through hole 30b Internal confirmation window 31 Top cover 32 Bottom plate 33 Installation leg 40 Partition plate 40a Communication port 50 Fixed body 50a Outflow guide surface 51 Shutter 51a Upper shutter 51b Lower shutter 52 Rotating support shaft 52a Torsion coil spring 53 Weighing chamber 53a Outlet 54 Weighing standby section 55 Rotation operation mechanism 56 Arm support shaft 57 Operation arm 57a Discharge operation button 57b Contact section 58 Torsion coil spring 61 Front plate 61a Handle S Air gap R1 Wash-free rice R2 Ordinary rice

Claims (3)

A rice storage chamber and a weighing take-out basket are arranged vertically inside a main body case having an operation panel on the front, and a shutter for preventing the inflow of rice from above is provided on the weighing take-out bowl. In the apparatus in which the space is set as a weighing standby unit, and the shutter is manually operated to prevent the inflow of rice from the rice storage chamber, and at the same time, the outlet of the bottom of the weighing-out rice cake is opened to take out a fixed amount of rice.
A communication port for communicating the metering takeout boxes and the rice storage chamber is adapted to be adjustable its opening area by providing a volume reduction spacers narrowing the opening area of the communication port removably, this volume reduction The spacer is in the form of a chute with an inclined guide part with the rice guide surface inclined downward, and this is installed at the communication port. The spacer is loaded from above at the periphery of the bottom of the rice storage chamber facing the communication port. Washed rice-compatible weighing rice bite, characterized in that it is hooked . 2. The washing-free rice-type weighing rice bin according to claim 1, wherein a flow regulating plate is provided at the lower end of the inclined guide portion to further obstruct the flow of the unwashed rice in the direction opposite to the inclined guide direction . The non-washing-compliant rice according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the latching piece responsible for the latching action is formed so as to rise upward so that it can be used as an operation knob when the volume reduction spacer is attached or detached. Type weighing rice.

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