CN210824330U - Lunch box transfer mechanism and meal making equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a cutlery box shifts mechanism and system meal equipment on, include: the conveying track comprises a conveying-off end, and the conveying-off end is concavely provided with a conveying-off channel which penetrates through the conveying track in the thickness direction; a drive assembly; and the lifting tray is connected with the driving assembly and is positioned below the sending-out channel, and the driving assembly can push the lifting tray to move upwards to penetrate through the sending-out channel. The lifting mode that this scheme adopted forwards the cutlery box to getting the dining area, and the cutlery box does not receive the clamping-force, therefore can not take place deformation or midway landing, can ensure that the cutlery box forwards safely, reliably, guarantees to present the lid that waters before the consumer and rice the product and has higher quality, does benefit to and promotes that the consumer eats and experiences to drive assembly and lifting mechanism simple structure who lifts the tray formation do benefit to and reduce the design manufacturing cost, improve economic nature.

Description

Lunch box transfer mechanism and meal making equipment

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a food and beverage equipment technical field especially relates to a cutlery box transfers mechanism and system meal equipment.

Background

The rice covered with rice is deeply loved by consumers due to the advantages of various tastes, quickness and convenience in eating and the like. At present, machines capable of automatically making the rice covered with rice are available in the market, and after the rice covered with rice is made, the rice covered with rice is transferred from the preparation area to the food taking area through a mechanical arm or a push plate and a flat plate moving mechanism, so that consumers can conveniently obtain and eat the rice covered with rice. However, considering that the lunch box for containing the rice covered with the cover is soft and smooth in texture, the mechanical arm is adopted to clamp the lunch box, so that the lunch box is easy to deform and even fall off midway, the eating experience of customers is influenced, and economic loss is caused; the adoption push pedal + dull and stereotyped moving mechanism will the cutlery box propelling movement to get the mode in dining area, then can lead to machine overall structure complicacy, increase design manufacturing cost.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Based on this, it is necessary to provide a cutlery box transfer mechanism and system meal equipment, aim at solving prior art cutlery box and receive the centre gripping easily to be out of shape, drop, the structure is complicated, design manufacturing cost is high problem.

The technical scheme is as follows:

in one aspect, the application provides a cutlery box forwards mechanism, and it includes:

the conveying track comprises a conveying-off end, and the conveying-off end is concavely provided with a conveying-off channel which penetrates through the conveying track in the thickness direction;

a drive assembly; and

the lifting tray is connected with the driving assembly and located below the sending-out channel, and the driving assembly can push the lifting tray to move upwards to penetrate through the sending-out channel.

The meal box transfer mechanism is applied to meal making equipment and used for transferring meal boxes (the meal boxes are filled with the made cover-poured meal food materials) to a meal taking area from a preparation area, and consumers can take the meal boxes conveniently. Specifically, the conveying track firstly conveys the lunch boxes one by one to the sending-leaving end, and the lunch boxes are just positioned right above or approximately right above the sending-leaving channel; then, the driving component acts to push the lifting tray to move upwards, and the lifting tray passes through the sending channel and stably lifts the meal box on the lifting tray, so that the meal box can be directly lifted to the meal taking area, and a consumer can take the cooked rice product covered by the cover. The lifting mode that this scheme adopted forwards the cutlery box to getting the dining area, and the cutlery box does not receive the clamping-force, therefore can not take place deformation or midway landing, can ensure that the cutlery box forwards safely, reliably, guarantees to present the lid that waters before the consumer and rice the product and has higher quality, does benefit to and promotes that the consumer eats and experiences to drive assembly and lifting mechanism simple structure who lifts the tray formation do benefit to and reduce the design manufacturing cost, improve economic nature.

The technical solution of the present application is further described below:

in one embodiment, the driving assembly is arranged below the conveying track; the driving assembly comprises a transverse moving module and a lifting moving module connected with the transverse moving module, and the lifting tray is connected with the lifting moving module.

In one embodiment, a first in-position sensor is arranged on a side wall of the conveying channel, a second in-position sensor is arranged on the lifting tray, or a third in-position sensor is arranged on the transverse moving module.

In one embodiment, the sending channel is a U-shaped notch, and the width of the U-shaped notch is smaller than the diameter of the bottom surface of the lunch box.

In one embodiment, the conveying track comprises a track body, and a first stop lever and a second stop lever which extend along the conveying direction of the lunch box and are arranged on the track body at intervals in parallel, and the outer wall of the lunch box is abutted against the first stop lever and the second stop lever.

In one embodiment, a limiting groove is concavely arranged on the top surface of the lifting tray facing the sending-out channel.

In one embodiment, the notch end wall of the limiting groove is provided with a guiding part.

In one embodiment, the top surface of the lifting tray facing the delivery channel is further provided with a lifting surface adjacent to the limiting groove.

In one embodiment, the lifting surface is concavely provided with a mounting hole, and a detection sensor is arranged in the mounting hole.

In addition, this application still provides a meal making equipment, and it includes cutlery box transfer mechanism as above. Therefore, the meal making equipment can ensure that the meal box can be safely and reliably sent to the meal taking area, the edible experience of consumers is improved, and the meal making equipment is simple in structural composition and beneficial to reducing the design and manufacturing cost.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a part of a structure of a meal making apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged partial view of the structure at A in FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a structural diagram illustrating an assembly of a driving assembly and a lifting tray according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a lifting tray according to an embodiment of the present invention

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the lunch box according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Description of reference numerals:

10. a transfer rail; 11. a sending-off end; 12. a delivery channel; 13. a track body; 14. a first bar; 15. a second bar; 20. a drive assembly; 21. a transverse moving module; 22. a lifting moving module; 30. lifting the tray; 31. a limiting groove; 32. an introduction section; 33. lifting the surface; 34. mounting holes; 40. a detection sensor; 50. a meal box; 100. a lunch box transfer mechanism; 200. a rice taking mechanism; 300. a pushing mechanism; 400. a frying pan mechanism.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the scope of the invention, are intended for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to," "disposed on" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present; the specific manner of fixedly connecting one element to another element can be implemented by the prior art, and will not be described herein, and preferably, a screw-threaded connection is used.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used herein in the description of the invention is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

In the present invention, the terms "first" and "second" do not denote any particular quantity or order, but are merely used to distinguish names.

The present application provides a meal-making apparatus that is capable of automatically making a rice-topped product and presenting it to the consumer. As shown in fig. 1, a schematic view of a part of the structure of the food preparation device is shown, and the food taking mechanism, the pushing mechanism 300, the frying pan mechanism 400 and the lunch box transferring mechanism 100 are specifically shown in the figure. The rice taking mechanism realizes that quantitative rice is filled into the empty lunch box 50; the pushing mechanism 300 pushes the meal box 50 filled with rice to the frying pan mechanism 400, and the frying pan mechanism 400 immediately spreads the fried dish on the surface of the rice in the meal box 50, so that the making of the rice covered product is completed; finally, the meal box 50 containing the finished products of the covered rice is continuously pushed to the station of the meal box transferring mechanism 100 by the pushing mechanism 300, and the meal box 50 is transferred to the meal taking area by the meal box transferring mechanism 100, so that the customers can take the meal box conveniently. This system meal equipment can ensure that 50 safe, reliable the sending of cutlery box get the dining area, promote the consumer and eat and experience, and its structural component is simple, does benefit to and reduces design manufacturing cost.

Referring to fig. 1 to fig. 3, in an embodiment, the lunch box transferring mechanism 100 includes: a transfer rail 10, a driving assembly 20, and a lifting tray 30. The conveying mechanism may be, but is not limited to, a pulley mechanism, a chain link mechanism, etc. for conveying the lunch box 50 to move. In this embodiment, the conveying rail 10 has an L-shaped structure, the rice taking mechanism 200 is disposed on one side of the long side, and the frying pan mechanism 400 is disposed on one side of the short side. Considering that the dishes are fried on site by the frying pan mechanism 400 according to the selection of the consumers and a certain time is needed, in order to improve the meal delivery efficiency, two or more frying pan mechanisms 400 can be arranged at the same time and are arranged at intervals at the downstream of the meal taking mechanism, so that different dishes of different consumers can be respectively fried by different frying pan mechanisms 400, and the meal box 50 (filled with rice) sent by the meal taking mechanism 200 can be matched with different frying pan mechanisms 400 to finish dish cover pouring.

The conveying track 10 comprises a sending-out end 11, and a sending-out channel 12 which penetrates through the conveying track 10 in the thickness direction is concavely arranged on the sending-out end 11; the lifting tray 30 is connected to the driving assembly 20 and located below the carry-out channel 12, and the driving assembly 20 can push the lifting tray 30 to move up and pass through the carry-out channel 12.

The application can obtain at least the following beneficial effects: the meal box transferring mechanism 100 is applied to meal making equipment, and is used for transferring meal boxes 50 (the meal box 50 is filled with the made cover-poured meal food materials) from the preparation area to the meal taking area, so that consumers can take the meal boxes conveniently. Specifically, the conveying track 10 firstly conveys the lunch boxes 50 to the sending-out end 11 one by one, and at this time, the lunch boxes 50 are just right above or approximately right above the sending-out passage 12; subsequently, the driving assembly 20 is operated to push the lifting tray 30 to move upwards, and in the process, the lifting tray 30 passes through the sending channel 12 and simultaneously stably supports the meal box 50 thereon, so that the meal box 50 can be directly lifted to the meal taking area, and therefore, a consumer can take the cooked rice product. The lifting mode that this scheme adopted forwards cutlery box 50 to getting the dining area, and cutlery box 50 does not receive the clamping force, therefore can not take place deformation or midway landing, can ensure that cutlery box 50 forwards safely, reliably, guarantee to present the lid that appears in the front of the consumer and water the meal product and have higher quality, do benefit to and promote consumer and eat and experience to drive assembly 20 and the lifting mechanism simple structure who lifts tray 30 formation do benefit to and reduce the design manufacturing cost, improve economic nature.

Referring to fig. 3, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the driving assembly 20 is disposed below the conveying track 10. The longitudinal space can be fully utilized to make the arrangement of the driving assembly 20 and the conveying track 10 compact, which is beneficial to reducing the whole volume of the meal making equipment. The driving assembly 20 includes a transverse moving module 21 and a lifting moving module 22 connected to the transverse moving module 21, and the lifting tray 30 is connected to the lifting moving module 22. Through the step-by-step action or synchronous linkage of the transverse moving module 21 and the lifting moving module 22, the spatial position of the lifting tray 30 can be flexibly adjusted, and the lifting tray 30 can be accurately and longitudinally aligned with the delivery channel 12, so that the interference between the lifting tray 30 and the conveying track 10 when moving upwards is avoided. Optionally, in this embodiment, the transverse moving module 21 and the lifting moving module 22 are motors and screw nut driving mechanisms, and have the advantages of stable power output, high moving precision and the like. Of course, according to actual needs, driving mechanisms such as motor + slide rail slide block, cylinder + slide rail slide block, motor + gear rack and the like can be adopted in other embodiments.

As described above, in order to ensure that the lifting tray 30 is accurately aligned with the carry-off passage 12 to avoid collision of the lifting tray 30 with the conveying rail 10 when moving up, it is necessary to detect the spatial position of the lifting tray 30 before each operation. Thus in further embodiments, the side walls of the carry-away channel 12 are provided with a first in-position sensor, or the lifting tray 30 is provided with a second in-position sensor, or the traverse module 21 is provided with a third in-position sensor. The food preparation apparatus further comprises a controller in which a safe position of the lifting tray 30 is pre-stored which can be normally passed through the carry-out channel 12 to lift the meal box 50. The first in-place sensor, the second in-place sensor and the third in-place sensor are all used for detecting whether the current position of the lifting tray 30 is matched with a preset safe position or not, and whether the current position of the lifting tray 30 is matched with the preset safe position depends on whether the lifting tray 30 can be detected by the sensors or not; for example, the first in-position sensor is a laser sensor that emits laser detection light downward; when the lifting tray 30 is at the preset safe position, the light can be emitted to the lifting tray 30 and reflected back to the laser sensor, and the laser sensor detects that the reflected light signal exists, which indicates that the current position of the lifting tray 30 meets the requirement. This ensures that the lifting tray 30 can move up through the removal channel 12 to push the meal box 50 to the meal pick-up area.

In particular, to provide a mechanism with a certain tolerance, the carry-away tunnel 12 may be sized slightly larger than the lift tray 30 to allow a range of alignment errors between the lift tray 30 and the carry-away tunnel 12.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 5, in one embodiment, the sending channel 12 is a U-shaped slot, and the width of the U-shaped slot is smaller than the diameter of the bottom surface of the lunch box 50. The conveying and separating channel 12 is designed to be of a U-shaped notch structure, so that the manufacturing and processing are simple, and the manufacturing cost is favorably reduced. In addition, the structure of the lunch box 50 related in the scheme is generally in a round table shape, the large end is opened to form the box opening of the lunch box 50, the small end is closed to form the box bottom of the lunch box 50, and the interior is hollow to form the box cavity of the lunch box 50. The box wall of the lunch box 50 protrudes out of the box bottom of the lunch box 50 to form a circle of annular edge, so that the box bottom of the lunch box 50 is recessed. Thus, the width of the U-shaped notch is smaller than the diameter of the bottom of the lunch box 50, so as to ensure that the lunch box 50 will not fall from the sending channel 12 after being pushed to the sending end 11. Of course, in other embodiments, the carry-away channel 12 may be formed as a through hole or other structure that allows the lift tray 30 to pass through.

Further, the conveying track 10 includes a track body 13, and a first blocking rod 14 and a second blocking rod 15 both extending along the conveying direction of the lunch box 50 and disposed on the track body 13 at parallel intervals, and the outer wall of the lunch box 50 is abutted to both the first blocking rod 14 and the second blocking rod 15. Therefore, during the process of pushing and moving the meal box 50, the first blocking rod 14 and the second blocking rod 15 can constantly limit the position of the meal box 50 from deviating and falling, and finally accurately deliver the meal box 50 to the delivery end 11 and stop above the delivery channel 12. It can be understood that, in order to prevent the lunch box 50 from dropping from the conveying rail 10 due to inertia after being pushed to the feeding and separating end 11, the end of the feeding and separating end 11 needs to be provided with a baffle (the baffle needs to be sized, structured and arranged to avoid interfering with the lifting of the lifting tray 30), so as to prevent the above problem from occurring.

In addition, on the basis of any of the above embodiments, the lifting tray 30 is connected with the driving assembly 20 through a bracket, so that the lifting tray 30 can be as close to the conveying track 10 as possible, the moving stroke is reduced, and the meal delivery efficiency is improved. The lifting tray 30 is a generally rectangular plate having a thickness, such as may be fabricated from food grade stainless steel. The top surface of the lifting tray 30 facing the sending-out channel 12 is concavely provided with a limiting groove 31. Preferably, the limiting groove 31 is two symmetrically arranged segments and has an arc shape. The annular edge of the box bottom of the meal box 50, which is convexly arranged, can be clamped into the limiting groove 31 and clamped by the groove wall, so that the meal box 50 can be stably placed on the lifting tray 30 and is not easy to loosen and slide; and this kind only through spacing groove 31 and the spacing mode of annular edge complex, can not cause centre gripping deformation to cutlery box 50, guarantee the whole appearance quality of cutlery box 50.

Referring to fig. 4, in order to ensure that the annular edge of the bottom of the lunch box 50 can be easily inserted into the limiting groove 31 when the lifting tray 30 moves upward, the end wall of the notch of the limiting groove 31 is provided with a guiding portion 32. The lead-in 32 thus serves as a guide for the annular rim, thereby achieving the above-mentioned object.

Alternatively, the introduction portion 32 may have a chamfered, rounded, or the like structure, and is not particularly limited herein.

Furthermore, the top surface of the lifting tray 30 facing the sending-out channel 12 is further provided with a lifting surface 33 adjacent to the limiting groove 31. After the lunch box 50 is placed on the lifting tray 30, the lifting surface 33 can be in close contact with the bottom surface of the bottom of the lunch box 50, so that the lifting tray 30 can stably place the lunch box 50 by increasing the contact area. Particularly, in order to further enhance the stable degree of the matching between the lunch box 50 and the lifting tray 30, a plurality of small-sized suckers can be added on the lifting surface 33, so that the suckers can be attracted with the bottom of the lunch box 50 after the lunch box 50 is placed on the lifting tray 30, thereby achieving the purpose of fixing the lunch box 50.

Referring to fig. 3 and fig. 4, in addition to the above, in order to increase the intelligence degree of the lunch box transferring mechanism 100 and the meal making equipment, the supporting surface 33 is recessed with a mounting hole 34, and a detecting sensor 40 is disposed in the mounting hole 34. The detection sensor 40 can detect whether the lunch box 50 exists at the sending end 11; when the meal box 50 exists, the detection sensor 40 detects that the meal box 50 exists, and then a signal is fed back to the controller, and the controller drives the driving component 20 to move so as to drive the lifting tray 30 to move upwards, so that the meal box 50 above the sending channel 12 is transferred to the meal taking area, thereby ensuring the motion precision of the lifting tray 30 and avoiding the idle stroke problem.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only represent some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is specific and detailed, but not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims (10)

1. A cutlery box transfer mechanism, comprising:

the conveying track comprises a conveying-away end, and the conveying-away end is provided with a conveying-away channel which penetrates through the conveying track in the thickness direction;

a drive assembly; and

the lifting tray is connected with the driving assembly and located below the sending-out channel, and the driving assembly can push the lifting tray to move upwards to penetrate through the sending-out channel.

2. A cutlery box transfer mechanism as in claim 1, wherein the drive assembly is disposed below the transfer track; the driving assembly comprises a transverse moving module and a lifting moving module connected with the transverse moving module, and the lifting tray is connected with the lifting moving module.

3. A cutlery box transfer mechanism as claimed in claim 2 wherein the side wall of the transfer passage is provided with a first in position sensor, or the lifting tray is provided with a second in position sensor, or the lateral movement module is provided with a third in position sensor.

4. A cutlery box transfer mechanism as in claim 1 wherein the exit channel is a U-shaped slot having a slot width less than the diameter of the bottom of the cutlery box.

5. The cutlery box transfer mechanism of claim 1, wherein the conveying track comprises a track body, and a first stop bar and a second stop bar both extending along the cutlery box conveying direction and disposed on the track body in parallel and spaced apart, wherein the outer wall of the cutlery box abuts against both the first stop bar and the second stop bar.

6. A cutlery box transfer mechanism as in any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the lifting tray has a concave limiting groove in a top surface facing the exit channel.

7. A cutlery box transfer mechanism as in claim 6, wherein the retaining groove has a lead-in portion at the end wall of the notch.

8. A cutlery box transfer mechanism as in claim 7, wherein the lifting tray further comprises a lifting surface adjacent the retaining groove on a top surface facing the exit channel.

9. A cutlery box transfer mechanism as in claim 8, wherein the lifting surface is recessed with a mounting hole, and a detection sensor is disposed in the mounting hole.

10. A meal preparation apparatus comprising a cutlery box transfer mechanism as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 9.

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