US 9,930,986 B2Granted

Vacuum electric cooker

AssigneeTescom Corporation

InventorsRie Arai, Maro Tokushige, Sachio Tsukuda, Kenji Kakuta, Fumiyasu Maruyama

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Abstract

The present invention has an object to provide a vacuum electric cooker as can be easily worked by an operator and as can minimize a stress to be applied to the container. The vacuum electric cooker of this invention includes a cooker body having a horizontal base and a stand section, a cooker container including a cooking tool, a cover member having a discharge nozzle, a connecting arm having a base end attached to the stand section as to rock in a vertical plane between a horizontal active position and a vertical inactive position. A connecting nozzle is attached to the connecting arm and connected to the discharge nozzle when the connecting arm is at the active position. A vacuum pump is disposed in the cooker body, and a tube is connected to the vacuum pump and the connecting nozzle.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A vacuum electric cooker comprising:

a cooker body including a horizontal base and a stand section extending vertically upward from the rear edge of that horizontal base and having a motor mounted therein;
a cooker container including a cooking tool adapted to be driven by said motor, and removably mounted on the horizontal base of said cooker body;
a cover member having an discharge nozzle for covering said cooker container;
a connecting mechanism configured to be connected to the vicinity of the upper end of said stand section as to be displaceable between an active position and an inactive position;
a connecting nozzle attached to said connecting mechanism and connected air-tightly to said discharge nozzle when said connecting mechanism is at the active position;
a holding mechanism configured to hold the state, in which said connecting nozzle is hermetically connected to said discharge nozzle;
a vacuum pump disposed in said cooker body;
and an air tube connected at one end to said vacuum pump, extending therefrom within the stand section and the connecting mechanism and connected at the other end to said connecting nozzle.

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Facts

Application: 14/045,135Filed 3 Oct 2013
Priority: JP 2012-2226345 Oct 2012
Published: US 2014/0137750 A122 May 2014
Granted: 3 Apr 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

A47J 27/002
Cooking-vessels: construction of cooking-vessels; Methods or processes of manufacturing specially adapted for cooking-vessels
A47J 27/004
Cooking-vessels: with integral electrical heating means
A47J 27/04
Cooking-vessels: for cooking food in steam; Devices for extracting fruit juice by means of steam ; Vacuum cooking vessels
A47J 43/046
Machines for domestic use not covered elsewhere, e.g. for grinding, mixing, stirring, kneading, emulsifying, whipping or beating foodstuffs,…