Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With basting or solid applying means
Patent
1997-09-30
1999-11-30
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With basting or solid applying means
99403, 126381, 126369, A47J 3700, A47J 3710
Patent
active
059923032
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates in general to cookers such as cooking pots and, more particularly, to a structural improvement in such cookers for preventing food smell from lingering in the air while cooking, by installing liquification means to the cookers and thereby maintaining the air fresh while cooking.
BACKGROUND ART
In the integrated interior of a house where the kitchen is not partitioned from but directly communicates with the living room or bed room, food smell lingers in the indoor air while cooking thus penetrating the whole house and furthermore penetrating neighboring houses. In the case of an apartment house, the food smell spreads to the corridor air. In this regard, while cooking, the family members and neighbors become upset. To prevent this problem, a pot with a cooling tub on the top of the pot lid was invented (U.S. Pat. No. 4,539,899). But this pot has a fault in that condensing efficiency is not sufficient because vapor heats the lid directly then returns to the inside of the pot.
To increase condensing efficiency, Lid type backward flow liquification means for cooking was invented and is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,539,899 and DE. P. 3213852.0. This cooker has two hollowed tubs combined with each other vertically and between the two tubs there is a circular current tube. The two tubs are filled with coolant, so heated vapor is cooled by the coolant while passing the circular current tube. Such liquification means, however, are expensive and hard to make.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention comprises a liquification means which condenses the vapor with cool water as the Lid type backward flow liquification means for cooking. According to the present invention, however, cooled and condensed vapor is discharged outside of the cooker, and a bottom plate can be cooled by air, so it can prevent an increase in the temperature of the coolant. A current tube is formed as a spiral and is projected into the cooling tub to extend the surface area which contacts the coolant, so vapor can be sufficiently cooled by water. Furthermore, this cooker collects condensed liquid outside of the cooker or returns the condensed liquid to inside of the cooker, and if needed, drinking water from sea water, and distilled liquor from the brewed liquor can be acquired.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The above and other objects, features and other advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a cooker with the improved liquification means according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a sectional view of another embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of a circular current tube.
DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The pot according to the present invention comprises a body 1, a lid 2 and liquification means. The liquification means comprises a bottom plate 4 and a condenser. The bottom plate 4 and the lid 2 arc separated with a space 3. The central plane of the bottom plate 4 is lower than its periphery and the condensed water flows toward the central part of the plane. A path defined by a flange 6 connects the bottom plate 4 and the lid 2. The path defined by the flange 6 may be long like a hose to separate the bottom plate 4 and the lid 2.
The condenser comprises a cooling tub 5, and the bottom of the cooling tub 5 includes a spiral groove 51. The spiral groove 51 and the upper surface of the bottom plate 4 form a spiral current tube 7. The spiral current tube 7 is opened to the outside of the condenser. The sectional shape of the spiral groove 51 (the bottom of the cooling tub 5) forms a wave.
FIG. 2 shows another embodiment of the present invention which comprises a chamber 9 on the bottom plate 4, a drain 91 in the chamber 9 and a cup 92 on the drain 91. The drain 91 extends upward and downward from the bottom of the chamber 9 as shown in FIG. 2.
According to the present invention
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