JP7058865B2 - Cart mounting structure for serving cars - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a cart-mounted structure in a serving car used when serving meals at a hospital, a nursing home, or the like.

In hospitals and the like, when serving meals, a serving car that accommodates trays on which tableware containing foods such as staple foods, main dishes, side dishes, and soups is placed is used.

More specifically, in a cooking / heating room in a hospital or the like, tableware on which the food is placed is placed on a tray based on a predetermined menu, the trays are sequentially placed in a serving car, and the serving car is placed in the hospital or the like. A large serving car that can accommodate a large number of the trays is used when the number of servings is large. You will need it.

However, there is a problem that it is difficult to move a large serving car in a hospital or the like, and it takes time and labor to go around all the rooms.

Therefore, in order to deal with such a problem, the serving car is divided into a main body and a cart, and the heavy serving car main body equipped with a heating / cooling facility for refrigerating and heating the food is moved. There is also known a serving car in which the tray is left stationary and only the cart in which the tray is housed in multiple stages is moved when serving.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2011-72738 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2012-65515 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2014-54487

In the case of the serving car divided into the serving car main body and the cart described above, the movement at the time of serving is only required for the cart, so that the operability is improved as compared with the case of moving the entire serving car. However, the structure for connecting and storing the cart to the serving car body is complicated, and it is necessary to accurately operate and integrate the cart with the serving car body, so daily breakfast. , There is a problem that breakdowns and malfunctions are likely to occur due to repeated use during lunch and dinner.

Also, in the case of a serving car that cools and heats the food in the cart by bringing the cart into contact with the front of the serving car body, the cart itself comes into direct contact with the outside air, ensuring sufficient heat insulation of the cart itself. Therefore, it is necessary to make the constituent wall of the cart thick, which causes an increase in the weight of the cart itself, which has a drawback that the operability of the cart is lowered.

An object of the present invention is to provide a cart-mounted structure in a serving vehicle that secures the operability and heat insulation of the cart and enables the serving with excellent mobility in the serving vehicle composed of the serving vehicle main body and the cart. To do.

The present invention according to claim 1 is the front side of the serving car main body in the serving car provided with the serving car main body which has wheels and moves, and the cart which is housed in the cart storage chamber in the serving car main body and serves. Is provided with a slope portion having an ascending inclined surface that guides the wheels of the cart upward on the upper surface and a horizontal plane whose lower surface is grounded to the floor surface, and the wheels of the cart travel on the ascending inclined surface of the slope portion. By causing the cart to run up the ascending inclined surface, the cart is accommodated in the cart accommodating chamber , and the lower frame of the cart slides on the bottom surface of the cart accommodating chamber. The entire slope portion has a substantially rectangular shape extending in the width direction of the serving wheel body, and is rotatably pivotally supported on the lower front side of the serving wheel body, and the slope portion is rotatably supported by the pivoted portion as a fulcrum. Is a cart-mounted structure in a catering vehicle that rotates upward and can be flipped up freely .

The present invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that, in the cart mounting structure in the serving vehicle according to claim 1, a horizontal plane following an ascending inclined surface is formed on the upper surface of the slope portion.

The present invention according to claim 3 is the cart-mounted structure in the serving vehicle according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the serving vehicle main body is provided with a drive wheel that is rotated by motor control.

According to the present invention, the cart is run up from the front side of the serving car body by the slope portion provided on the front side of the serving car body and is placed on the floor surface of the cart storage room of the serving car body. It can be easily mounted, and there is no need to separately provide a device or the like for supporting the cart in the cart storage room of the serving car body.

That is, according to the present invention, since a special structure for mounting the cart in the cart accommodating chamber is not required, the structure of the serving car main body is not complicated. Therefore, there is an advantage that the entire serving car body can be easily manufactured.

In addition, the present invention has a substantially rectangular shape in which the slope portion extends in the width direction of the serving car body, is rotatably supported by the lower part of the serving car body, and can be flipped upward from the shaft fulcrum. According to the above, when the serving car is moved, the slope portion can be flipped up and moved.

Further, according to the present invention in which a horizontal plane following the ascending inclined surface is formed on the upper surface of the slope portion, the lower frame of the cart described above slides on the bottom surface of the cart accommodating chamber 3 of the serving car main body 2. , The cart can be mounted more easily.

Further, according to the present invention in which the serving car main body is provided with a drive wheel that is rotated by motor control, even when a plurality of carts are mounted on the serving car main body, the movement can be easily performed.

It is a front view of the serving car which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is an enlarged view of the slope part in the same serving car. It is a side view which shows the mounting state of one cart in the same serving car. It is a top view in the same state as FIG. It is a side view which shows the mounting state of both carts.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to such an embodiment.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the serving car 1 according to the present embodiment has a serving car main body 2 provided with a cart accommodating chamber 3 for accommodating two carts 4A and 4B, which will be described later, and a tray T having multiple stages. It has the two carts 4A and 4B supported by the above two carts.

Further, on the front side of the serving car main body 2, a slope portion 5 for mounting the carts 4A and 4B in the serving car main body 2 is provided. The slope portion 5 has an ascending inclined surface 7 that guides the wheels 6 of the carts 4A and 4B upward on the upper surface thereof, and the lower surface thereof is a horizontal plane 28 that is grounded to the floor surface F. In the present embodiment, the slope portion 5 has a rectangular plate shape extending in the width direction of the serving wheel main body 2, a horizontal plane 10 extends from the top of the ascending inclined surface 7, and an upright wall is further formed at the end of the horizontal plane 10. A portion 20 is formed, and the upright wall portion 20 is rotatably supported by the bottom portion 2a of the serving wheel main body 2.

Then, the carts 4A and 4B run up the ascending inclined surface 7 by running the wheels 6 on the ascending inclined surface 7 of the slope portion 5, and are accommodated in the cart accommodating chambers 3A and 3B. It is made to be.

Further, the serving wheel main body 2 has the cart accommodating chamber 3 described above, and also has a free wheel 26A at a portion near one end of the lower surface, and a drive wheel 26B rotated by a motor M at a portion near the other end of the lower surface. It is a so-called self-propelled type. In addition, the serving car main body 1 has a cooling device for refrigerating the inside of the cart storage chamber 3 and a heating device (neither of which is shown) for generating a heating medium such as superheated steam.

The carts 4A and 4B include a bottom frame 8 having wheels 6, a support column 9 erected at each corner of the bottom frame 8, an upper frame 11 erected on the support column 9, and an upper frame 11 and a bottom frame. In the central portion of the width between 8 and 8, it has a partition wall 12 arranged in a vertical direction. The partition wall 12 has a structure in which the tray T is supported in multiple stages by inserting the tray T between the vertically adjacent partition walls 12 in the same manner as that generally incorporated in this kind of serving car. ..

Next, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, a method of using the serving car 1 will be described in the present embodiment. For example, one cart 4A is run up the slope portion 5 on the front side of the serving car main body 2. The cart 4A is housed in the cart storage chamber 3 of the serving car body 2 away from the floor surface F, and the bottom frame 8 of the carts 4A / 4B abuts on the bottom surface RB of the cart storage room 3 of the serving car body 2. It is done like this. As a result, the cart 4A is accommodated in the cart accommodating chamber 3 in a state higher than that of the other cart 4B. Further, with respect to the other cart 4B, by running up the slope portion 5 on the front side of the serving car main body 2 in the same manner as described above, the cart 4B is accommodated in the cart accommodating chamber 3 of the serving car main body 2 away from the floor surface F. Will be done. As a result, the two carts 4A and 4B are mounted in the cart storage chamber 3 of the serving car main body 2, and then the slope portion 5 is rotated upward from the shaft fulcrum CP and flipped up, and then in this state. The motor M on the lower side of the serving car main body 2 is operated to move the entire serving car 1 to the vicinity of the serving place, and then the carts 4A and 4B are pulled out from the cart storage chamber 3 of the serving car main body 2 and the same. The carts 4A and 4B are moved to the eater, and the tray T in the food-placed state contained in the carts 4A and 4B is taken out and served.

According to the cart mounting structure in the serving car of the present invention, the cart can be easily mounted without complicating the cart accommodating chamber of the serving car main body, so that it can be expected to be widely used.

1 Serving car 2 Serving car body 3 Cart storage room 4A / 4B cart 5 Slope part 6 Wheels 7 Uphill slope of slope part 8 Cart bottom frame 9 Cart support 10 Horizontal surface of slope part

Claims (3)

In a serving car having wheels and having a moving serving car main body and a serving cart housed in a cart storage room in the serving car main body and serving, the front side of the serving car main body is a wheel of the cart on the upper surface. A slope portion having an ascending inclined surface and a horizontal surface whose lower surface is grounded to the floor surface is provided, and the wheels of the cart are allowed to run on the ascending inclined surface of the slope portion so that the ascending inclined surface is formed. The cart runs up and the cart is accommodated in the cart accommodation chamber , and the lower frame of the cart slides on the bottom surface of the cart accommodation chamber. It has a substantially rectangular shape that extends in the width direction of the main body, is rotatably supported by the lower front side of the serving car main body, and the slope portion rotates upward and flips up with the shaft supported portion as a fulcrum. A cart-mounted structure for catering vehicles that is freely made . The cart mounting structure in the serving car according to claim 1, wherein a horizontal plane following an ascending inclined surface is formed on the upper surface of the slope portion. The cart-mounted structure in the serving car according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the serving car body is provided with a drive wheel that is rotated by motor control.

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