CN211130632U - Cooking utensil - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a cooking utensil, which comprises a pot body and a cover body, wherein the pot body comprises a middle plate component, the rear end of the middle plate component is provided with a pivoting part, the pivoting part partially protrudes out of the middle plate component and is provided with a flow guide hole, and the flow guide hole is communicated with the inside of the pot body; the lid body is pivotally connected to the pivot portion to form a cooking space between the lid body and the pot body, a slit is formed between the middle plate assembly and the inwardly facing first surface of the pivot portion, and the flow guide hole communicates with the slit to enable fluid to flow from the slit into the flow guide hole and further to the interior of the pot body. When the cover body is opened, the liquid accumulated on the cover body flows to the slit along the first surface of the pivoting part, or the liquid accumulated on the top surface of the middle plate component flows to the slit and then is converged to the guide hole, so that the liquid further flows to the inside of the cooker body and is discharged from the bottom of the cooker body. The mid-plate assembly can at least partially obscure the flow-directing aperture.

Description

Cooking utensil

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cooking utensil.

Background

An existing electric rice cooker generally includes a lid, a body, and an inner pot disposed in the body. The pot body comprises a middle plate and a pivoting part arranged at the rear end of the middle plate, and the cover body is pivotally connected to the pivoting part. When the cover body is covered on the cooker body, the cover body covers the inner pot and forms a cooking space with the inner pot. Some electric rice cookers do not set up the structure that leaks at its rear end, flow to the collecting vat in a kind of deep pot body outside from the fit clearance of pin joint portion both sides after water accumulation to a certain extent, and the collecting vat does not wash for a long time and breeds the bacterium easily and produce the peculiar smell. Some electric cookers are provided with water leakage structures at the rear ends, the arrangement positions of water leakage openings are obvious, the calibers of the water leakage openings are generally large, and impurities fall into the water leakage openings to form blockage. Therefore, the user experience of the existing electric cooker is low.

Accordingly, there is a need for a cooking appliance that at least partially solves the problems of the prior art.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In the summary section a series of concepts in a simplified form is introduced, which will be described in further detail in the detailed description section. The inventive content does not imply any attempt to define the essential features and essential features of the claimed solution, nor is it implied to be intended to define the scope of the claimed solution.

In order to at least partially solve the above problems, according to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance including:

the cooker body comprises a middle plate assembly, the rear end of the middle plate assembly is provided with a pivoting part, the pivoting part partially protrudes out of the middle plate assembly and is provided with a flow guide hole, and the flow guide hole is communicated with the inside of the cooker body; and

a cover pivotally connected to the pivoting part to form a cooking space between the cover and the pot body,

wherein a slit is formed between the middle plate assembly and the inward-facing first surface of the pivoting part, and the flow guiding hole is communicated with the slit, so that fluid can flow into the flow guiding hole from the slit and further flow into the interior of the pot body.

According to the scheme, the rear end of the cooker body can be provided with a water leakage structure formed by the slit and the flow guide hole, when the cover body is opened, liquid stored on the cover body can flow to the slit along the first surface of the pivoting part, or the liquid stored on the top surface of the middle plate component can flow to the slit and then is collected to the flow guide hole, so that the liquid further flows to the inside of the cooker body and is discharged from the bottom of the cooker body. The part of the middle plate component for forming the slit can at least partially shield the flow guide hole, so that the aperture of the flow guide hole can be set as required to meet the requirement of rapid circulation of a large amount of liquid, and sundries can be prevented from falling into the flow guide hole.

The utility model provides a cooking utensil's hourglass water structure has and leaks effectually, and user experience feels high, and simple structure easily produces and characteristics such as with low costs, is fit for cooking utensil's batch production.

Optionally, the flow guide hole does not protrude from the slit, or

The diversion hole is positioned below the horizontal plane where the top of the slit is positioned.

According to the scheme, the diversion hole can be approximately completely shielded below the top surface of the middle plate assembly.

Optionally, the middle plate assembly has a second surface forming the slit, the second surface extending vertically and being spaced apart from the first surface by a predetermined distance.

According to the present aspect, a vertically extending slit may be formed.

Optionally, the middle plate assembly includes a middle plate and a middle plate cover covering the middle plate, the slit is formed between the middle plate cover and the first surface, the middle plate cover is provided with a covered edge corresponding to the slit, and the middle plate is covered by the covered edge at the slit.

According to the scheme, the liquid flowing in from the slit can be prevented from entering between the middle plate and the middle plate cover.

Optionally, the edge cover is bent and then extends downwards.

According to the scheme, the edge covering can conduct drainage downwards, and the middle plate assembly is convenient to process and manufacture.

Optionally, the pivot joint part includes a pivot joint part body and a flow blocking wall extending outwards from the pivot joint part body, and the flow blocking wall is disposed on two sides of each diversion hole to form a flow passage communicated with the diversion hole.

According to the scheme, the liquid flowing into the flow guide holes can flow into the cooker body from the flow passage between the flow blocking walls, so that the liquid can be prevented from splashing to the electric element in the cooker body to damage the electric element.

Optionally, the flow-blocking device further comprises a liquid storage tank which is arranged at the bottom of the flow-blocking wall and extends between two flow-blocking walls which are farthest away, and the liquid storage tank is aligned with the outlet of each flow-blocking channel, so that the fluid can flow into the liquid storage tank through the flow-blocking channels.

According to the scheme, the liquid flowing from the different flow guide holes can be collected to the liquid storage tank firstly and then flows to the inside of the cooker body, so that the liquid can be further prevented from splashing to the electric element in the cooker body to damage the electric element.

Optionally, the slit is arranged around the pivot, the slit extending in a length direction of the pivot from a first end to an opposite second end of the pivot.

According to this solution, as much liquid as possible flowing down from the first surface can be collected to the slit.

Optionally, the flow guide holes are respectively provided at the first end and the second end.

According to the scheme, the two spaced flow guide holes can flow into the cooker body respectively.

Optionally, a flow storage recess is disposed at a top surface of the middle plate assembly, the flow storage recess is disposed around the pivot joint, and one end of the flow storage recess close to the slit is lower than the other end far from the slit.

According to the present aspect, the liquid collected in the flow storage recess portion can also flow into the flow guide hole from the slit and further flow into the inside of the pot body.

Drawings

The following drawings of the present invention are used herein as part of the present invention for understanding the present invention. There are shown in the drawings embodiments of the invention and the description thereof for the purpose of illustrating the devices and principles of the invention. In the drawings, there is shown in the drawings,

fig. 1 is an exploded schematic view of a cooking appliance according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is another schematic structural view of the cooking appliance shown in FIG. 1 with the cover and base removed;

FIG. 3 is a schematic partial cross-sectional view of the cooking appliance shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 4 is a further enlarged partial schematic view of the cooking appliance shown in fig. 3.

Description of the reference numerals

100: the cooking appliance 110: pot body

111: the middle plate assembly 112: outer cover

113: base 114: middle plate

115: middle plate cover 116: wrapping edge

117: flow storage recess 118: middle plate concave part

120: the cover 130: pivoting part

131: the diversion holes 131 a: first flow guide hole

132: first end 133: second end

134: pivot portion body 135: flow blocking wall

135 a: first baffle wall 135 b: second baffle wall

140: liquid storage tank 141: flow guiding part

150: pivot shaft 160: electric control device

G: slit F1: first surface

F2: second surface F3: third surface

Detailed Description

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a more thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art, that the present invention may be practiced without one or more of these specific details. In other instances, well-known features have not been described in order to avoid obscuring the present invention.

In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It is apparent that the practice of the invention is not limited to the specific details known to those skilled in the art. The present invention is described in detail below with reference to the preferred embodiments, however, the present invention can have other embodiments in addition to the detailed description, and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein.

It is to be understood that the terms "a," "an," and "the" as used herein are intended to describe specific embodiments only and are not to be taken as limiting the invention, which is intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. When the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. The terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right" and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only and are not limiting.

Ordinal words such as "first" and "second" are referred to in this application as labels only, and do not have any other meanings, such as a particular order, etc. Also, for example, the term "first component" does not itself imply the presence of "second component", and the term "second component" does not itself imply the presence of "first component".

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate representative embodiments of the present invention and do not limit the present invention.

Generally, as shown in fig. 1, a cooking appliance 100 such as an electric rice cooker includes a pot body 110 and a cover 120. The pot body 110 is substantially in a rounded rectangular parallelepiped shape and has a cylindrical inner pot receiving part. The inner pot can be fixedly arranged at the inner pot containing part, or can be freely put into the inner pot containing part or taken out from the inner pot containing part, so that the inner pot can be conveniently cleaned. The inner pot is generally made of a metal material and has a circular opening on an upper surface for containing a material to be heated, such as rice, soup, etc. The pot body 110 includes therein a heating means for heating the inner pot to heat the inner pot. It can be understood that the cooking appliance 100 according to the present invention may be an electric cooker, an electric pressure cooker or other cooking appliances 100, and the cooking appliance 100 may have various functions such as cooking porridge, etc. in addition to the function of cooking rice.

The cover 120 has a shape substantially corresponding to the pot body 110, and is substantially in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with rounded corners. The lid 120 is openably and closably provided on the pot body 110. When the cover 120 is covered on the pot body 110, it covers the inner pot and forms a cooking space with the inner pot. The lid 120 also typically has a gasket, which may be made of, for example, a rubber material, disposed between the lid 120 and the inner pot for sealing the cooking space when the lid 120 is in a closed position.

It should be noted that directional terms used herein in describing the components in the cooking appliance 100 and the positional relationship thereof, such as "above", "below", "lower side", "upward", "downward", and the like, are relative to a state where the cooking appliance 100 is in a horizontal state and the lid 120 is covered on the pot body 110. Directional terms "inner" and "outer", if not otherwise defined, it is understood that "inner" refers to a side near the center of the cooking appliance 100, "outer" refers to a side away from the center of the cooking appliance 100, "inner" refers to a side toward the center of the cooking appliance 100, and "outer" refers to a side away from the center of the cooking appliance 100. Directional terms "front end" and "rear end", if not otherwise defined, it is understood that "front end" refers to an end of the cooking appliance 100 that is closer to the user and "rear end" refers to an end of the cooking appliance 100 that is further from the user.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the pot body 110 includes a middle plate assembly 111, a cover 112 located outside the middle plate assembly 111, and a base 113 below the middle plate assembly 111. The middle plate assembly 111 may be detachably mounted with the base 113 by a plurality of screws. The cover 112 may be coupled to the base 113, such as by a snap fit. The rear end of the middle plate assembly 111 is provided with a pivot 130, and the pivot 130 extends generally vertically and a portion thereof can protrude from the top surface of the middle plate assembly 111. The cover 120 can be pivotally connected to the pivoting portion 130 by a pivot axis 150 and can be freely pivoted about the pivot axis 150 line of the pivot axis 150 between a closing position and an opening position with respect to the pot body 110 to facilitate the closing and opening of the pot body 110.

As shown in fig. 2 to 4, a water leakage structure is provided at the rear end of the pot body 110. Specifically, the pivoting part 130 is provided with the guide hole 131, the pivoting part 130 has a first surface F1 facing inward and a third surface F3 opposite to the first surface F1, the guide hole 131 extends from the first surface F1 to the third surface F3, and the guide hole 131 may communicate with the inside of the pot body 110. In this embodiment, the first surface F1 is specifically an inward surface of the protruding portion of the pivot portion 130 protruding from the middle plate assembly 111. The blast holes 131 may be provided at the bottom of the protruding portion, particularly, at the position of the protruding portion where it is connected to the middle plate assembly 111.

The middle plate assembly 111 may be formed with a slit G between the first surface F1 of the pivoting part 130, and the guide hole 131 can communicate with the slit G, so that the fluid can flow into the guide hole 131 from the slit G and further flow to the inside of the pot body 110. In this embodiment, the liquid can flow to the slits G along the first surface F1 of the pivoting part 130 and then converge to the guiding holes 131, thereby further flowing to the inside of the pot body 110 to be discharged from the bottom of the pot body 110. Typically, the base 113 will be provided with an outlet from which the liquid may be discharged. The liquid may include liquid accumulated on the cover 120 when the cover 120 is opened, and liquid accumulated on the top surface of the middle plate assembly 111. As shown in fig. 3, the portion of the middle plate assembly 111 for forming the slit G can at least partially shield the flow guide hole 131, and thus, the diameter of the flow guide hole 131 can be set as required to satisfy the rapid circulation of a large amount of liquid, and to prevent impurities from falling into the flow guide hole 131.

Optionally, in the illustrated embodiment, the diversion hole 131 does not protrude from the slit G, and the diversion hole 131 is located below a horizontal plane where the top of the slit G is located. The top surface of the middle plate assembly 111 at the slit G defines a top position of the slit G, and the flow guide hole 131 does not protrude from the top surface of the middle plate assembly 111 at the slit G. The deflector holes 131 can be substantially completely shielded below the top surface of the midplane assembly 111 to further provide a user experience that prevents smaller debris from falling into the deflector holes 131.

The middle plate assembly 111 has a second surface F2 forming a slit G, and the second surface F2 may extend vertically and be spaced apart from the first surface F1 by a predetermined distance. The slit G may be a straight channel extending vertically. The liquid can flow straight down in the slits G.

Referring back to fig. 1, the midplane assembly 111 further includes a midplane 114 and a midplane cover 115 that covers the midplane 114. The middle plate cover 115 can substantially completely cover the upper surface of the middle plate 114. The upper surface of the middle plate cover 115 is the top surface of the middle plate assembly 111 described above. As shown in fig. 4, a slit G is formed between the middle plate cover 115 and the first surface F1, the middle plate cover 115 may be provided with a binding 116 corresponding to the slit G, and the middle plate 114 is covered by the binding 116 at the slit G. In this embodiment, the liquid flowing from the slit G is prevented from entering between the middle plate 114 and the middle plate cover 115, so that the liquid is prevented from growing bacteria between the middle plate 114 and the middle plate cover 115 and generating odor. The edge 116 may be bent and then extended downward. In this embodiment, the downwardly extending outer side surface of the hem 116 is the above-described second surface F2.

The slits G may be arranged around the pivot 130, in particular, around the bottom of the protruding portion. The slit G may extend in a length direction of the pivot 130 from a first end 132 to an opposite second end 133 of the pivot 130. In this embodiment, as much liquid as possible flowing down from the first surface F1 can be collected to the slit G. The slits G may also extend to the side surface of the first end 132 and/or the second end 133 of the pivoting portion 130. The guide holes 131 are respectively provided at the first end 132 and the second end 133, whereby the liquid can flow into the inside of the pot body 110 from the first end 132 and the second end 133 of the pivoting part 130.

Further, the pivot portion 130 includes a pivot portion body 134 and a flow blocking wall 135 extending outward from the pivot portion body 134. The hinge body 134 extends vertically, and includes the above-described protruding portion and a lower extending portion extending downward from the protruding portion. The flow blocking wall 135 extends vertically, and the flow blocking wall 135 is disposed at both sides of each guide hole 131 to form a flow passage communicating with the guide hole 131. Further, as shown in fig. 2, a first blocking wall 135a and a second blocking wall 135b are provided at both sides of the first guide hole 131a, and the liquid flows between the first blocking wall 135a and the second blocking wall 135 b. The third surface F3 (fig. 4), the first blocking wall 135a and the second blocking wall 135b of the pivot 130 form a flow passage.

Generally, the rear end of the pot body 110 is provided with an electric control device 160 such as a circuit board having a plurality of electric components thereon. The lower extension of the pivot 130 can be located outside the circuit board, thereby preventing liquid from splashing on the electrical control device 160, causing them to be damaged. The baffle wall 135 may have an opening to facilitate receiving the pivot shaft 150.

Optionally, a reservoir 140 may also be provided within the pot body 110. The sump 140 is disposed at the bottom of the flow blocking wall 135 and is mounted to the pivot 130. The sump 140 may extend between the two flow-blocking walls 135 that are furthest apart, with the sump 140 being aligned with the outlet of each of the overflow channels so that fluid can flow through the overflow channels into the sump 140. The sump 140 is further provided with a downwardly extending flow guide portion 141, and the flow guide portion 141 may extend to the base 113, and generally the liquid is discharged through the outlet of the base 113.

Optionally, a flow storage recess 117 may be provided at the top surface of the middle plate assembly 111, and in particular, the middle plate 114 is formed with a middle plate recess 118 recessed downward from the upper surface thereof. The middle plate cover 115 is formed with the above-described flow storage recess 117 that mates with the middle plate recess 118, the flow storage recess 117 being recessed downward from the upper surface of the middle plate 114. The shape of the flow storage recess 117 is adapted to the shape of the middle plate recess 118 so that the flow storage recess 117 can be received in the middle plate recess 118. The fluid reservoir recess 117 may be disposed around the pivot 130, and the fluid reservoir recess 117 may extend along the first end 132 to the second end 133 of the pivot 130. The liquid of the top surface of the pot body 110 can be collected to the flow storage recess 117. One end of the flow storage recess 117 near the slit G may be lower than the other end far from the slit G, so that a part of the liquid in the flow storage recess 117 can also flow into the flow guide hole 131 from the slit G and further flow to the inside of the pot body 110.

The utility model provides a cooking utensil 100 can be provided with the structure of leaking that is formed by slit G and water conservancy diversion hole 131 at the rear end department of the a kind of deep pot body 110, and water conservancy diversion hole 131 communicates with the inside of the a kind of deep pot body 110, and slit G forms between the first surface F1 inwards of medium plate subassembly 111 and pin joint portion 130 to communicate with water conservancy diversion hole 131. When the cover 120 is opened, the liquid accumulated on the cover 120 may flow to the slits G along the first surface F1 of the pivoting part 130, or the liquid accumulated on the top surface of the middle plate assembly 111 may flow to the slits G and then be collected to the guiding holes 131, thereby further flowing to the inside of the pot body 110 to be discharged from the bottom of the pot body 110. The portion of the middle plate assembly 111 for forming the slit G can at least partially shield the flow guide hole 131, and thus, the aperture of the flow guide hole 131 can be set as required to satisfy the rapid circulation of a large amount of liquid, and impurities can be prevented from falling into the flow guide hole 131.

The water leakage structure has the advantages of being good in water leakage effect, high in user experience, simple in structure, easy to produce, low in cost and the like, and is suitable for batch production of the cooking appliances 100.

Unless defined otherwise, 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 is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Terms such as "part," "member," and the like, when used herein, can refer to either a single part or a combination of parts. Terms such as "mounted," "disposed," and the like, as used herein, may refer to one component as being directly attached to another component or one component as being attached to another component through intervening components. Features described herein in one embodiment may be applied to another embodiment, either alone or in combination with other features, unless the feature is otherwise inapplicable or otherwise stated in the other embodiment.

The present invention has been described in terms of the above embodiments, but it is to be understood that the above embodiments are for purposes of illustration and description only and are not intended to limit the invention to the described embodiments. Furthermore, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and that many more modifications and variations can be made in accordance with the teachings of the present invention, all of which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

Claims (10)

1. A cooking appliance, comprising:

the cooker body (110), the cooker body (110) comprises a middle plate component (111), the rear end of the middle plate component (111) is provided with a pivot part (130), the pivot part (130) partially protrudes out of the middle plate component (111) and is provided with a flow guide hole (131), and the flow guide hole (131) is communicated with the inside of the cooker body (110); and

a cover (120), the cover (120) being pivotably connected to the pivoting portion (130) to form a cooking space between the cover (120) and the pot body (110),

wherein a slit (G) is formed between the middle plate assembly (111) and the inward-facing first surface (F1) of the pivoting part (130), and the guide hole (131) communicates with the slit (G) so that the fluid can flow from the slit (G) into the guide hole (131) and further to the inside of the pot body (110).

2. The cooking appliance of claim 1,

the flow guide hole (131) does not protrude from the slit (G), or

The diversion hole (131) is positioned below the horizontal plane where the top of the slit (G) is positioned.

3. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the middle plate assembly (111) has a second surface (F2) forming the slit (G), the second surface (F2) extending vertically and being spaced apart from the first surface (F1) by a predetermined distance.

4. The cooking appliance according to claim 3, wherein the middle plate assembly (111) comprises a middle plate (114) and a middle plate cover (115) covering the middle plate (114), the slit (G) is formed between the middle plate cover (115) and the first surface (F1), the middle plate cover (115) is provided with a rim (116) corresponding to the slit (G), and the middle plate (114) is covered by the rim (116) at the slit (G).

5. The cooking appliance according to claim 4, wherein the rim (116) is bent to extend downwardly.

6. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the pivot part (130) comprises a pivot part body (134) and a flow blocking wall (135) extending outward from the pivot part body (134), the flow blocking wall (135) being disposed at both sides of each of the guide holes (131) to form a flow passing channel communicating with the guide holes (131).

7. The cooking appliance according to claim 6, further comprising a sump (140), said sump (140) being disposed at a bottom of said flow-blocking walls (135) and extending between two of said flow-blocking walls (135) that are most distant, said sump (140) being aligned with an outlet of each of said transfer channels such that said fluid can flow through said transfer channels into said sump (140).

8. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein the slit (G) is arranged around the pivot (130), the slit (G) extending in a length direction of the pivot (130) from a first end (132) to an opposite second end (133) of the pivot (130).

9. The cooking appliance according to claim 8, wherein the deflector holes (131) are provided at the first end (132) and the second end (133), respectively.

10. The cooking appliance according to claim 1, wherein a flow storage recess (117) is provided at a top surface of the middle plate assembly (111), the flow storage recess (117) is arranged around the pivot (130), and one end of the flow storage recess (117) close to the slit (G) is lower than the other end far from the slit (G).

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