JP5148100B2 - Oden warmer - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an oden warmer that heats and heats oden.

Conventionally, this type of oden warmer has been installed in convenience stores, restaurants, restaurants, etc., and is used for oden sales. As a general form, the above-mentioned oden pan is installed in a heat source unit with a sheathed heater etc. on the upper surface to heat and heat the ingredients and stock in the oden pan, and the perimeter of the oden pan is framed. While functioning as a safe protective cover against the body oden pan and heat source, it has a so-called heat retaining function so that heat from the pan or the like does not escape easily (see, for example, Patent Document 1). However, an oden warmer is also known in which two oden pans can be installed in substantially the same manner as the above configuration with respect to the above configuration for one oden pan (for example, see Patent Document 2). .
Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-54616 Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 4-31451

  By the way, in general, in order to eat warm oden deliciously, the ingredients of oden, soup stock, etc. are exchanged about three times a day to provide fresh oden. However, to do so, you must carry a large and heavy oden pan with oden. However, the oden pan in the installation state to be heated and kept warm is housed in the frame body and surrounded by its peripheral wall. It is lifted up and moved laterally, etc., and then taken out to a predetermined place.

  Moreover, it is not only heavy, but the stock is easily spilled and has a high temperature of about 80 ° C., and its carrying work is not easy. In addition, an oden warmer such as a convenience store is installed on a counter with a height of 80 cm above the ground, and the height from this counter to the top of the frame is usually 20 cm or more. Must be lifted 100cm or more. Moreover, the handle that is grabbed by hand to lift the oden pan is located at the upper end of the oden pan and higher than the upper end of the frame. It was hard.

  In addition, in the configuration employing a plurality of oden pans as exemplified in the above-mentioned Patent Document 2, the operation of carrying the oden pan for exchanging soup stock is usually carried in units of one unit. It is clear that the same background situation is present, and since the frequency of exchanging soup stock is doubled, the work is further complicated and the problems of safety and workability are further increased. In addition to taking out the oden pan, this kind of replacement work has the same situation that it must be lifted when returning to the original installation state. Operation was a heavy burden.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an oden warmer that can insert / remove an oden pan surrounded by a frame safely, quickly and easily.

In order to achieve the above object, the oden warmer of the present invention is provided with a frame having a peripheral wall surrounding the outer periphery of the oden pan while installing the oden pan on the heat source unit.
The main feature is that a part of the peripheral wall of the frame body is constituted by a door that can be opened and closed, and the oden pan is moved in a lateral direction through an opening of the door so as to be inserted and removed.

  According to the above means, since the oden pan can be inserted and removed using the openable opening of the door that is provided on the peripheral wall of the frame, there is no need to lift the oden pan to a height that exceeds the peripheral wall of the frame. It can be easily removed or stored in its original position, can be carried safely and quickly, and forms a part of the peripheral wall of the frame when the door is closed. Oden warmers suitable for practical use can be provided.

(First embodiment)
1 to 6 show an embodiment of the oden warmer according to the first embodiment of the present invention, which includes one oden pan. 1 is a partially cutaway side view for explaining the operation, FIG. 2 is an external side view of the entire oden warmer, FIG. 3 is an overall external perspective view, and FIG. 4 is an exploded overall perspective view. 5 (a) and 5 (b) are enlarged perspective views of the main part for explaining the door portion, FIG. 6 (a) is a perspective view of the frame body alone, and (b) is shown in FIG. 5 (a). FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a range indicated by a symbol C.

First, the overall structure of the oden warmer will be described with reference to FIGS.
The oden warmer 1 shown in FIG. 2 shows a state where it is installed on the upper surface of the countertop 2 (generally at a height of 80 cm from the ground) in a convenience store, for example, and the upper surface of the countertop 2 is rectangular. A container-like heat source unit 3 is placed. On the upper surface of the unit 3, heat source means 4 (see FIG. 4) made of, for example, a sheathed heater is embedded in a flat shape, and the flange portion 5 protruding outward at the intermediate portion in the height direction of the outer periphery is entirely formed. It is provided around the circumference. In addition, an operation panel 6 (see FIGS. 3 and 4) is arranged with the peripheral side surface on the short side of the rectangular container as the front, so that the heating operation can be set on / off, heating conditions, and the like.

  And on the heat source means 4 which is the upper surface of the said heat source unit 3, one rectangular container-shaped oden pan 7 which opened the upper surface so that a flat bottom part may contact | connect, and the outer peripheral side surface of this oden pan 7 Is provided with a frame body 8 arranged so as to be surrounded by an appropriate gap. Specifically, first, the former oden pan 7 will be described. This is made of stainless steel in the shape of a bottomed container, and has a flange portion 9 extending outwardly around the entire periphery of the upper surface opening. The front side and the opposite side, which are the short sides of the rectangular shape, are greatly extended so that they can be used as the handles 9a and 9a.

  On the other hand, the latter frame body 8 is formed by assembling a wooden frame material into a rectangular frame shape by means to be described later, and the lower end portion of the peripheral wall is placed on the upper surface of the flange portion 5 of the heat source unit 3. In this mounting state, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the lower end side is fitted so as to be along the outer surface of the upper half of the heat source unit 3, and the upper end side reaches the upper part of the oden pan 7, The wall is surrounded by an appropriate gap with the wall surface. Accordingly, most of the oden pan 7 is surrounded by the peripheral wall of the frame body 8 and has a handle 9a, 9a exposed to the outside at the upper end protruding slightly above the upper end of the peripheral wall. It protrudes slightly outward from the frame 8 so that the handles 9a, 9a are always easy to grasp.

In addition, although the door 13 which can be opened and closed is provided in the front side of the surrounding wall of the frame 8, detailed description is mentioned later. In the peripheral wall of the frame 8 (see FIG. 4), the front side having the door 13 is referred to as a front wall 8a, which will be described below as a right side wall 8b, a rear side wall 8c, and a left side wall 8d.
As shown in FIG. 4, the oden pan 7 includes a well-known perforated plate-like slat 10 disposed in the vicinity of the inner bottom when the oden is heated and warmed, and a plurality of the oden pan 7 (in FIG. The partition plate 11 is divided and stored in 6 divisions. A lid 12 that is detachable and has a rectangular plate shape is placed on the flange portion 9 of the oden pan 7 so as to close the upper surface opening.

Here, the details of the door 13 that can be opened and closed provided on the frame 8 and the related configuration will be described with reference to FIGS.
First, the door 13 is provided in the front wall 8a which comprises the surrounding wall of the frame 8 (refer FIG.3, 4). In addition, the door 13 constitutes a part of the peripheral wall, and here, the door 13 occupies most of the front wall 8a. Therefore, the size and shape of the door 13 in this embodiment will be described. The horizontal dimension is equivalent to the front wall 8a, and the vertical dimension is the entire vertical part with a part of the peripheral wall (equivalent to a fixed wall part 14 described later) left below. The size is about 70%. Therefore, the door 13 and the partial peripheral wall portion below constitute the front wall 8a at a ratio of about 7 to 3. However, the door 13 is opened and closed as will be described later, while the peripheral wall portion below the door 13 has both end portions connected and fixed to the left and right side walls 8b and 8c. Will be described.

  In this way, the door 13 occupying about 70% of the front wall 8a has a lower end portion rotatably supported as shown in FIG. In other words, one end of the hinge 15 (only one is shown) is screwed to two places on the lower end portion of the door 13 and the other end is screwed to the upper end portion of the fixed wall portion 14. Especially FIG.1 and FIG.5 (b) has shown the fully open state which the door 13 opened about 180 degree | times. In this fully open state, the surface side of the door 13 is closely adjacent to the surface side of the fixed wall portion 14, and the upper end surface of the fixed wall portion 14 is horizontal with the upper end surface of the door 13 (the lower end surface when closed). In this fully open position, the hinge 15 is screwed to both end faces so as to form the same surface, and the door 13 is supported so as to be rotatable in the vertical direction.

  Therefore, in the closed state of the door 13, as shown in FIG. 2, the fixed wall portion 14 and the door 13 are connected in a substantially vertical state to form the front wall 8a of the frame 8, and the closed door 13 is a hook means. Is held unrotatable. As this hook means, for example, as shown in FIG. 5, a hook-like hook 16 is rotatably provided on both side walls 8b and 8d (only one is shown) on the fixed side, and the upper end side portion of the door 13 corresponding thereto is provided. It is restrained and held by engaging the hook 16 with the engaging portion 17 provided. Further, by operating the hook 16 in the reverse direction, the engagement state is released and the door 13 can be rotated. Thus, when the door 13 is rotated and opened 180 degrees, the front wall 8a has an opening 18 corresponding to the area of the door 13 excluding the lower fixed wall portion 14 (see FIGS. 1 and 5B). Is formed.

  FIG. 6 shows an example of the assembly configuration of the frame 8. As described above, the frame 8 has a configuration in which the peripheral wall except the door 13 is integrally connected and fixed. Since the frame body 8 is made of a wooden frame material, a firm connection means is required so that the connection fixing portion does not loosen. Therefore, in this embodiment, first, wedge-shaped engaging means and screwing means are used in combination at the connecting portion of the rear wall 8c and the left and right side walls 8b, 8d. As can be understood from FIG. 6 (b) showing an enlarged example, a plurality of wedge-shaped engagement grooves 19 are formed at both end portions (only one is shown) of the rear wall 8c, and the rear ends of the both side walls 8b and 8d. A plurality of engagement projections 20 having the same wedge shape (actually trapezoidal shape) are formed on the portion, and the engagement projections 20 are inserted into the engagement grooves 19. Thereby, it does not easily detach from the engagement groove 18 without rotating or moving in the direction other than the anti-insertion direction. By further driving and fixing the decorative nails 21 to the engaging portions, it is possible to perform firm connection and fixation that is unlikely to cause loosening.

  On the other hand, on the front side having the door 13, since the fixed peripheral wall is an elongated fixed wall portion 14, there is no space for employing the engaging means as described above. After being joined by an adhesive (not shown) so as to be sandwiched between the side walls 8b and 8d, the joining portion is further fixed by a nail 22 (see also FIG. 5) from the side. Therefore, a connection structure is provided that can sufficiently withstand even if an external force is applied from the door 13 connected to the fixed wall portion 14 via the hinge 15 during an opening / closing operation. In addition, the fixed wall portion 14 has sufficient strength to form the peripheral wall of the frame body 8 fixed together with the other side walls 8b and 8d and the rear wall 8c.

  Next, the operation when the oden pan 7 is inserted and removed in the above-described oden warmer 1 will be described. First, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, etc., in a form in which the oden pan 7 is installed on the heat source unit 3 and the door 13 is held in the closed state by the hook means, the door 13 and the fixed wall portion 14 in the fixed state Constitutes the front wall 8 a and also serves as a part of the peripheral wall of the rectangular frame 8. Therefore, at the time of heat insulation, safety and heat radiation around the heat source unit 3 are prevented, and it effectively acts on the insulation of the oden pan 7.

  Thus, in order to take out the oden pan 7 in order to replace the oden stock from the installation state in which the oden pan 7 is accommodated in the frame 8 in this way, the hook means of the door 13 is first released. That is, the hooks 16 on both side walls 8b and 8d of the frame 8 are pivoted upward to release the engagement with the engaging portions 17, respectively. Then, as shown in FIG. 5 (a), when the door 13 is rotated in the direction of the arrow N in the forward direction with the hinge 15 at the lower end as a fulcrum, the door 13 is opened to a vertical position (approximately 180 degrees) overlapping with the fixed wall portion 14. The door 13 is maintained in this position in a fully open state in a free movement state due to its own weight (see FIGS. 1 and 5B).

  However, when the door 13 is in a fully opened state, an opening 18 corresponding to the door 13 is formed in the front wall 8a which the door 13 also serves. In addition, the fixed wall portion 14 and the upper end of the door 13 in an overlapped state (strictly, there is a gap) form a substantially horizontal same surface via a hinge 15 attached between the two, This corresponds to the lower limit of the opening 18. On the other hand, the upper end surface of the fixed wall portion 14 is configured to overlap the bottom region of the oden pan 7 in the installed state with a predetermined dimension H in the vertical direction (see FIG. 1).

  This means that even when the oden pan 7 tries to slide and move laterally from the opening 18 where the door 13 is in the open state, the oden pan 7 stops against the fixed wall portion 14 and is prevented from moving. Accordingly, when the door 13 is opened as described above, even if the whole oden warmer 1 or the rear end of the oden pan 7 is lifted and tilted to the front side for some reason, the movement is performed by the fixed wall portion 14. Can be prevented and does not jump out. In addition, it is preferable that the said inclination is the fixed wall part 14 made into the height which can prevent a movement to an inclination angle of at least 15 degree | times practically.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 1, in order to take out the oden pan 7 from the opened state of the door 13, the handles 9a and 9a are grasped with both hands and lifted upward as indicated by the arrow S1. In this case, when the bottom of the oden pan 7 is lifted to a height position (indicated by symbol A in FIG. 1) that slightly exceeds the predetermined dimension H, the oden pan 7 is moved in the lateral direction indicated by the arrow S2 using the opening 18 as it is. Thus, the oden pan 7 can be taken out of the frame 8. In this case, the upper end surface of the fixed wall portion 14 forming the lower limit of the opening 18 and the upper end surface of the door 13 after full opening are in the same horizontal plane, and the door 13 is fully opened in a free movement state due to its own weight. Since the position can be maintained, the door 13 after being opened can be maintained in a stable state, and the fact that there is no stepped portion at the upper end of the door 13 is effective in avoiding the concern that the bottom of the oden pan 7 comes into contact.

  In addition, the height position shown with the code | symbol B in FIG. 1 has shown the position where the oden pan 7 equivalent to a conventional structure can be taken out, ie, the bottom part of the oden pan 7 slightly exceeds the height of the frame 8. Shows the position. Therefore, in this embodiment, the lifting height of the whole oden pan 7 can be lowered for the size difference L corresponding to the height position B-A. Of course, it goes without saying that the position of gripping the oden pan 7 by hand is the position of the handles 9a, 9a above it.

  Then, after taking it out, it is carried to a predetermined place (or there is also a method of carrying it on a carriage etc.), and oden stock is exchanged. In addition, in order to return the oden pan 7 after the replacement of the soup stock to the original installation state, the procedure is substantially the reverse of the above procedure. The oden pan 7 is accommodated by being inserted into the frame body 8 in a state where it is lifted and lowered, and is placed on the heat source unit 3 by being slightly lowered. After that, the door 13 is turned and the hook 18 is engaged and held in a state where the opening 18 is closed.

According to the said Example, there exist the following effects.
Since the door 13 which can be opened and closed is provided on the peripheral wall of the frame body 8 and the oden pan 7 can be inserted and removed using the opening 18, the oden pan 7 is attached to the peripheral wall of the frame body 8 as shown in FIG. There is no need to lift to a higher height, and even a small person can easily take it out or store it in its original position, so that it can be inserted and removed safely, quickly and easily, and it can be easily changed as in the exchange of oden stock. In general, it is easy to carry around. In addition, since the door 13 is in a closed state, it is configured to serve as a part of the peripheral wall of the frame body 8 and in this embodiment also the front wall 8a, so that the effects such as heat insulation and safety by the frame body 8 are ensured as before. it can.

  Since the door 13 is configured to be opened and closed in the vertical direction via the hinge 15 at the lower end, the door 13 after being opened can be easily maintained in a natural open form due to its own weight, and protrudes to the periphery. It is also effective in that it can be maintained in a compact open form without any problems.

  In the present embodiment, the fixed wall portion 14 connected and fixed to the left and right side walls 8b and 8d of the frame 8 is provided at the lower part of the door 13, and the front wall 8a is configured together with the door 13. When the door 13 is in the closed state, it functions as a part of the peripheral wall of the frame 8 as described above, and when the door 13 is in the open state, the fixed wall portion 14 can maintain the form as the rectangular frame-shaped frame 8.

  Moreover, since the fixed wall part 14 was set as the arrangement structure which overlaps in the up-down direction in the bottom part area | region with respect to the oden pan 7 in the installation state on the heat-source unit 3, when a door 13 is in an open state for some reason Even if one end of the oden pan 7 is lifted and tilted to the front side, the fixed wall portion 14 can prevent its movement and avoid the risk of sliding out.

  Furthermore, when the door 13 is opened, the hinge 15 is pivotally supported by the hinge 15 so that the upper end of the door 13 is flush with the upper end of the fixed wall portion 14. There is no stepped portion at the lower limit portion, and therefore, when the oden pan 7 is inserted and removed from the opening 18, the door 13 is in a stable open form, so that the bottom of the oden pan 7 is opened. This is effective in preventing contact with 13 or the like.

  In the above embodiment, the frame 8 and the like have a rectangular shape. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the door 13 may be a regular rectangle. Various configurations such as a configuration provided on the side may be implemented.

(Second Embodiment)
FIG. 7 is an external perspective view of the whole oden warmer showing the second embodiment of the present invention. In the following, the same parts as those in the above embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted. I will explain. This relates to the oden warmer 23 having a plurality of, for example, two oden pans 7, whereas the above embodiment is directed to the oden warmer 1 having one oden pan 7.

7A shows a state in which the door 24 is closed and FIG. 7B shows an open state. Therefore, in this embodiment, two oden pans 7 common to the above embodiment are arranged in parallel, and the heat source unit 3 and the lid 12 are also common to the above embodiment, that is, 2 Two oden pans 7 are arranged side by side in correspondence with each oden pan 7. On the other hand, although the door 24 and the frame body 25 may be one, it differs from the said Example by the point of the magnitude | size.
Specifically, the oden pans 7 and 7 are juxtaposed so that the long sides of the rectangles are adjacent to each other, so that the frame 25 is sized to surround the two oden pans 7, and the other frames The assembling means of the body 25 is common to the above embodiment.

  On the other hand, the door 24, which also serves as a part of the peripheral wall of the frame 25, is common to the above-described embodiment except for the shape that is elongated in the lateral direction, and is in a closed state with hinges 15 (four places) that rotatably support the lower end. Hook means (2 places) to keep are provided. Further, the fixed wall portion 26 located at the lower portion of the door 24 is connected and fixed in the same configuration as in the above embodiment except that the fixed wall portion 26 also has a horizontally long shape. As a result, the door on the side where the juxtaposed state of the two oden pans 7 can be seen, that is, the short side for each of the oden pans 7 and 7, but the so-called front side, which is the long side in the juxtaposed state, The operation panels 6 and 6 provided in the heat source units 3 and 3 are also arranged on the front side.

In the above configuration, when exchanging soup of oden and the like, the oden pans 7 and 7 can be easily taken out by opening the door 24 and using the opening 27. In this case, the soup stocks of the two oden pans 7 and 7 are not exchanged at the same time. Usually, the oden pans 7 and 7 are exchanged one by one so as to always provide the heated and kept oden.
Therefore, even in the oden warmer 23 having two oden pans 7, each oden pan 7 can be inserted and removed by substantially the same operating means as in the above embodiment, and its effects are also achieved. The same effect can be expected.

  The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above and shown in the drawings. For example, the heat source means of the heat source unit is not limited to the sheathed heater, and the induction pot is heated by electromagnetic induction using an alternating magnetic field generated by an induction heating coil. The present invention may be implemented in various ways without departing from the gist of the present invention, such as other hook means.

The side view which fractures | ruptures and shows a part of principal part which shows 1st Example of this invention Oden warmer overall side view External perspective view Exploded perspective view Enlarged perspective view showing different states (a) and (b) of main parts (A) The perspective view of a frame, (b) is an enlarged view of the part shown with the code | symbol C of figure (a). External perspective view showing different states (a) and (b) in the second embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

  In the drawing, 1 and 23 are oden warmers, 2 is a counter top, 3 is a heat source unit, 7 is an oden pan, 8 and 25 are frames, 13 and 24 are doors, 14 and 26 are fixed walls, 15 is a hinge, Reference numerals 18 and 27 denote open ports.

Claims (6)

While installing an oden pan on the heat source unit and having a frame with a peripheral wall surrounding the outer periphery of the oden pan,
An oden warmer characterized in that a part of the peripheral wall of the frame body is constituted by a door that can be opened and closed, and the oden pan is moved in a lateral direction through an opening of the door so that it can be inserted and removed.   2. The oden warmer according to claim 1, wherein the door is opened and closed with a lower end supported and pivoted up and down.   3. The oden warmer according to claim 2, wherein a fixed wall portion connected to the peripheral wall of the frame body is provided at a lower portion of the door.   4. The oden warmer according to claim 3, wherein the fixed wall portion is arranged to partially overlap the bottom region of the oden pan in the installed state in the vertical direction.   4. The oden warmer according to claim 3, wherein the upper end of the opened door is substantially flush with the upper end of the fixed wall portion. While arranging a plurality of oden pans side by side on the heat source unit, and having a frame having a peripheral wall surrounding the outer periphery of these oden pans,
A part of the peripheral wall of the frame body on the side where the side view of the oden pan can be seen is configured with a door that can be opened and closed, and each oden pan can be moved laterally from the opening of this door to be inserted and removed. Oden warmer characterized by that.

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