BABULAL DOLATRAM SUTHAR (IN)
BABULAL DOLATRAM SUTHAR (IN)
| US20040173103A1 | 2004-09-09 | |||
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| US20120017538A1 | 2012-01-26 | |||
| US20070251521A1 | 2007-11-01 |
| Automatic Cooking machine is consists with microcontroller to control the electrical control, water pump, boiler, flour container, rotary valve, hot plate, vegetable cook chamber, lentils chamber, rice chamber, water reservoir, dough kneading, vegetable copper, vegetable hopper and washing , lentils container , rice container, foil roller, packing roller, container for the ingredients (i.e. salt, chili powder, garam- masala, trimetric , coriander , amchoor powder, lemon , mustard, cumin seeds & hing , food oil ) bevel gears, heating elements, two way SV, motor, spice port, push rod press, coveyer belt, foil cutter, chimney, pressure gauge, water inlet, waste drain line, packed food dish, date & time printer, dough extrusion, motor for flour Wherein the automatic cooking command is applied by mobile system(l) or LED/LCD touch screen(2) or web base server application which gives the single to microcontroller^) to run the program cycle by electric controller (4); wherein water pump (5) is provided to add the water in dough kneading container(14), vegetable cook chamber (10), dhal (lentil) chamber (11), rice chamber (12) from water reservoir (13); wherein boiler (6) with pressure gauge (42) is provided to heat the water coming from water inlet (43) used in the system and to create steam for sterilize the cooking vessels entered into cooking container through two way solenoid valve (33) ; wherein flour container (7) is provided for storing flow having cylindrical section at top & truncated cone at bottom HRC is mounted on the hollow shaft at it centre; wherein rotating value (8) is provided at the bottom of vessel (7); wherein hot / heating plate (9) is provided under the dough extrusion (47) for pressing & heating the dough ball to make it chapatti which pushed by push rod press (38) and prepared chapatti is pushed by push rod cylinder(34) on conveyor belt (39); wherein the vegetable chopper (15) is provided to cut the vegetable come from the vegetable sort from the vegetable storage container (16); wherein the Dhal (lentils) container (17) and rice container (18) is provided above to add dhal (lentils) & rice the dhal (lentil) chamber (11), rice chamber (12) controlled by two way (Solenoid Valve)SV (35); wherein the packing foil roll (19) is provided end the end of prepared cook dish to pack with the help of packing roller(20), which is further cut by foil cutter (40) where the expire date and time is printed by printer (46) on packed dish; wherein the ingredient is filled in container (22, 23, 24, 25, 26,27, 28, 29) which is controlled by electric controller to add the ingredients into spicy chamber (37) which is further use to add the spicy in vegetable cook camber (10) , dhal (lentil) chamber (11), rice chamber (12) controlled by two way SV (33); wherein bevel gear (30) are mounted on top of each ingredient container (22, 23, 24, 25, 26,27, 28, 29) which is further driven by a motor (36); wherein the heating elements (31) is provided on outer surface of vegetable cook chamber (10) , dhal (lentil) chamber (11), rice chamber (12) and two way SV (32) is provided at the output of the cooked food chamber (10, 11, 12); wherein the chimney (41) is provided in the machine for the outlet of heating steam created while cooking in the machine and drainage line (44) is also provided to drain the waste from the machine. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein motor (48) is provided on the flour container(7) for dough kneading chamber (14) where the oil and water is added for dough kneading. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein two way solenoid valve is provided at each outlet of the cooking vessel (10, 11, 12) , dhal (Lentil) chamber (17) , rice chamber (18) and spicy port (37) for input/output in controlled manner. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein , sensors and cameras are provided on the vegetable storage chamber (16) to stale vegetables for further cooking. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cooking cycle is start automatically according to command given on mobile system or LCD/LED touch screen and required cooking cycle time. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein the battery back up is provided in case of power failed condition to complete the remain process cycle. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein the microcontroller system send the alert in case of insufficient amount of the required ingredients , vegetables , dhal (lentil) , rice to prepare the food according to the command given to the microcontroller system. 8. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein microcontroller system has predefined auto cooking programs or customize cooking program is create and save for further use. 9. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 electrical heating coli is attached to the outer surface of the vessel for heating of the container at a required rate to maintain its powered state & remain moisture free. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein the varying pitch & diameter Helical Ribbon Conveyer call as "HRC" mounted on the hollow shaft at the centre of the ingredient vessel. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein the centre HRC is driven by a single motor as the top of shaft is connected to a pinion & it forces the material stored in it to move forwarded in a cavity of a predetermined volume. Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein HRC is mounted on the hollow shaft at it centre of flour storage container (7) wherein the shaft is connected to a motor at top via coupling where the small clearance between the HRC & Inner section of the vessel is provide to trie flour is forwarded to the bottom due to rotation of HRD & shaft where the rotating value (8) is provided at the bottom of vessel (7) . Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 12 wherein rotary valve has four parts, this flour further enter into the dough kneading container(14). Automatic Cooking machine as claimed in claim 1 wherein sensor is provide at center to signaling the cutter at extruder outward to cut the required amount of dough ball. A method for automatic cooking machine as claimed in claim 1, consists with following steps (a) receive cooking command either through mobile system or manually inserting or any predefined program cycle; (b) that command transmit signal to the microcontroller; (c) according to the command received on the microcontroller, microcontroller check the required amount of the species , vegetables, flour and ingredients in the system vessel and start the cooking process symmetrically; (d) flour, oil , water is added in kneaded for kneading then dough is prepared for extraction & ball making then dough is press to make the chapatti which is follow by roasting of chapatti and ready to server in dish; (e) sensor & camera check for stale vegetable and remove them for further process, and then required amount of vegetables are forwarded for washing chamber, which is further shredding and entered in cooking pan to cook the vegetables and then the cooked vegetable is ready to serve in dish; (f) dhal ( lentils) & water are forwarded to the cooking pan where the spicy are put in it with oil seasoning according to predetermined time and then the cooked Dhal (Lentils ) is ready to serve in dish; (g) rice, water and other spices are forwarded in the cooking pan for cooking upto the required time, and then cooked rice is ready to serve in dish. |
Filed of the Invention
The present invention relates to automatic cooking machine, without any human interaction. In the present invention, full Indian dish including roti/paratha, sabaji, dal and rise is fully loaded on dish. In the present invention, all vegetables are chopping and cutting automatically as instructed by microcontroller system. The present invention is self cleaning and sterilizing the said machine with microcontroller and media of communication. Background of the invention
Many different cooking machines have been developed to prepare stir-fried food. One such cooking machine is the "Automatic Frying Machine" which is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,700,617. The "Automatic Frying Machine" comprises a feeder device to automatically place materials into a cooker, a frying and stirring device and a mechanism to turn the cooker through 180° for the purpose of serving the prepared food. The machine washes the cooker with a stirrer and water ejectors. The device can be operated in one process that includes material feeding, frying and serving and cooker washing.
Even through the cooking machine can feed, fry and serve the material and wash the cooker in a single process, it has several disadvantages as follow. 1. The automatic frying machine in accordance with the prior art only has a stir-fry cooker. As is well known, many foods such as carp with hot bean sauce, sweet and sour spareribs with dry red pepper need to be deep-fried first and then stir-fried. Consequently, the conventional machine must run two cycles to complete the cooking process. It is not convenient for user.
2. The stirrer is rotated in the stir-cooker during cooking. The action of the stirrer is different from that of a human cook. The lower materials in the conventional cooker are always in the bottom of the stir-fry cooker and cannot be evenly stirred.
The present invention is used only for the conventional automatic frying machine, where the vegetables are cutting then heating of the vegetables, attention is required, which take time, while processing injuries to the cook, taste, quality etc.
As in the Indian patent 1533/CHE/2008 the cooking vessel has to be manually put on the induction heater by the use but is even time consuming & also hazardous for use. As it has to come in direct contact with the heating element and also contagious as human hand is not gems free, wherein in the present invention heating element is inbuilt in system and there is no human contact so, there is no chance of hazard of contaminants in the chamber. In the Chinese patent 12813445 the hearing put continuously rotates on its axis and stirs the food inside it with help of gems. It is complex and the food remains stitched on the walls of the pot so the food also remains non uniformly cooked and their shall be problem taking the food out of pot.
In this invention the hearing pas doesn't rotate but is stationary and the foodis stirred with help of rotary screw ribbon conveyer on shaft with double start thread. So the food gets cooked uniformly a doesn't stitch to the container walls. There is also facility for automatically serving of the cooked food in the serving dish.
There is on short messaging service module in CN10356508 through GSM network with help of which a message for cooking can be sent to the machine. But this might be a problem for places where there is no network connection to use purpose various connection communication modules like mobile application, website, GPRS connection. wherein the present invention overcome the limitation of all above problems which remain unsolved like cutting , cleaning seasoning , proper handling, hygiene time etc. The present inventions are only for a specific type of food or category but this invention is user based as he can customize his cooking recipe and also use the saved recipes for future. The present invention is preparing full dish including roti, sabji, dal and rice making machine. Object of the invention
The present invention is fully automatic machine for cooking full dish of food including roti/bhakari/paratha , sabji , rice and dal in single machine with predefined program or by custom defined without any human interaction.
In the present invention, vegetables are also selected automatically for chopping before cooking food with the help of cameras and sensor provide on the present invention.
The present invention is programmed with auto manual option so, user does not required to provide each instruction, all predefined program instruction is automatically selected.
In the present invention, all cooking vessels are inbuilt so, there is no need for external vessels to cook the food.
The present invention is worked on electric power with battery back up so, in the case of power frailer, battery back up will complete the processing cycle without failed. In the present invention, full dish is prepared in one single unit machine so, it reduce the cost , space, time, man power and maintenance cost. The present invention is also operated through mobile network also, user need to send Small Massage Service (SMS) to start the function and give command from remote location.
The cooked food storage is also vey major problem which is also solved in the present invention, machine start the process automatically by giving the command or message is received the machine for cooking the food. The machine will start the process prior to end time of its cycle. E.g. If machine has instructed to cook food at 7:00PM, and the machine . process cycle is 20 min. then the machine start the process at 6:40PM so, fresh and warm food is available to the user.
The cleaning the cooking vessels after cooking is also very major issue, because when the cooking vessels are cleaned with chemicals or detergent, it may react with the food if it gets accumulated even in small portion or leave stains & pieces of the cooked food. The present invention, can clean the cooking vessels automatically with water and steam, so that there is no remains of the food particles. The system gets sterilized of the gems and contaminations. In the present invention, if the stored ingredient in the machine is insufficient for cook the process cycle, machine will automatically send alert for the same. In the present invention, whole system is controlled by programmable microcontroller system. In the present invention user can store his customize program.
In the present invention, flour , oil, water are stored in storage container and dough prepared is automatically no human interaction is required.
In the present invention, gases generated are flowing in the surrounding of the heating system & damaging it while the object our invention is to exhaust gasses and hot air directly to the environment.
In the present invention cooked food is automatically severed and foil packed with packing arrangement include in the system.
Statement of the invention
In the present invention, the whole system/machine is controlled by a microcontroller system based PCB designed and developed such that the user can interface any cooking recopies CD or program in its format and the system shall cook the food according and it also allows the user to make his own recipe and store it for future use. This whole process can be done with the touch screen LCD/LED displace or mobile system.
In the present invention machine is equipped with vegetable processing and cooking arrangement .First the machine is done the process for selection of vegetable with the help of cameras and sensor then removing the stale vegetable, washing, chopping and cutting of the vegetable are included. This vegetable further enters to the cooking pan in which all the ingredients enter as per the proper proportion required according to the recipe.
The pan is equipped with induction /electric heating elements for seasoning of the vegetable. A screw conveying arrangement is also provided continues stirring the vegetable being cooked:
At the center of part with valve for serving of this cooked vegetable is provided where it is served in the serving dish.
In the present invention system Lentils (dhal) are also cooked in this machine for which a separate pan is provided required amount of lentils selected by the user and the system calculate amount to be entered into the pan. All the ingredients are provided opening part at this pan a connection of water is also provided.
In the present invention, separate pan is also provided to cook the rise along with the fill features. It has apart for raw rice, water, oil. As heating is provided in the closed chamber the rice gets cooked quickly. It also has a stirrer designed such that the rice cooked gets served in the dish and don't become hutch patch. The ingredients is such that several containers are provided for storage of spices. Now their qualities is also checked by sensor for proper properties. The motor drives the screw conveyer in it so that the exact required amount of spice is only enter into the cooking chamber.
Chapatti/Paratha/Bhakhri making system is equipped with heating plates on both the side and a dough kneading mechanism, where the exact amount of dough gets kneaded as per the user requirement and after it dough balls are made and then chapatti is cooked.
It packing / printing arrangement provided at the end of machine so that after the food gets served in the dish it gets foil packed and a time & date & expire duration is printed on it. In the present invention interrupted power supply is provided. If there is power cutoff & machine has not completed its process cycle , then backup power source and stop after the process has been completed.
In the present invention small boiler is provided for cleaning and sterilize the system after all the food has been cooked and served. A jet of water shall flow into the system followed by pressurized steam for sterilizing the machine. The water shall be drained through the drainage line.
The whole system can be virtually viewed and controlled with help of mobile or compute globally. The present invention can be controlled or command from the remote location through the mobile technology to give the command of required food and time of eating so, that the food shall be prepared , packed. The user can also login on the website and enter his machine code to control the machine.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
It will be convenient to further describe the present invention with respect to the accompanying drawings that illustrate possible arrangements of the invention. Other arrangements of the invention are possible, and consequently the particularity of the accompanying drawings is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. Fig.l represents the front view of the jacketed vessels which are used to store the spices for further cooking
Fig.2 represents the front view of the cooking & Storing of chapatti, bhakari & paratha
Fig.3 represents the front view of the entire machine layout drawing
Detailed description of the invention
Before explaining the present invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of the construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments, as depicted in different figures as described above and of being practiced or carried out in a variety of ways. It is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.
As show in Fig.l, components for 21-28 are small jacketed vessels which are used to store the spices to be used for further cooking of vegetables & lentils.
The vessels is equipped with truncated cone at the bottom & cylindrical section at top. Electrical heating coli is attached to the outer surface of the vessel for heating of the container at a required rate to maintain its powered state & remain moisture free.
A second vessels is attached at a certain offset to the inner cone for safety purpose. A varying pitch & diameter Helical Ribbon Conveyer call as "HRC" mounted on the hollow shaft at the centre of the vessel.
The HRC follows the path of the inner section of the vessel for its outer varying diameter. As the shaft rotates the HRD rotates & it forces the material stored in it to move forwarded in a cavity of a predetermined volume.
The centre HRC is driven by a single motor as the top of shaft is connected to a pinion. Now such a containers are placed in to the surface of a circular plate section are cut into a plate for placing such a different vessels. All the vessels are same described above. Gear (30) are mounted on top of each shaft as shown in Fig.l. These are driven by a single big gear which is further driven by a motor (36). There is one container (29) for oil storage same as the (21)- (29) but it is not equipped with HRC & Gears.
As shown in Fig. 2. the cooking and storing of chapatti/Bhakari/paratha. It contains a vessel (7) for storing flow having cylindrical section at top & truncated cone at bottom HRC is mounted on the hollow shaft at it centre. The shaft is connected to a motor at top via coupling. There is a small clearance between the HRC & Inner section of the vessel. When the motor (40) at the top rotates, the flour is forwarded to the bottom due to rotation of HRD & shaft. A rotating value (8) is provided at the bottom of vessel (7) . Rotary valve has four parts. This flour further enter into the cfough kneading container(14) where oil water connection are also provided. The mixture is kneaded with help of rotating mechanism of shaft. Shaft is connected to a "C" shaped kneader which blends & kneads the mixture well.
After kneading the dough is transferred to dough extrusion & dough ball making chamber (47). It is equipped with a circular section at one end of a required size of dough ball & a press actuated by load screw on other end. This screw compresses the kneaded dough in the forwarded direction as it rotates. There is a centre provided as when required amount of dough ball is extruded outwards cut it. This is done by cutter signaling the cutter with the help of a sensor. There is a hot / heating plate (9) for pressing & heating the dough ball to make it chapatti. This is done with help of push rod cylinder (38), when the chapatti is cooked another push rod (34) pushes it to be placed in the serving dish. The fig.3 show the entire view of the machine, when any cooking command is received either through mobile system or manually inserting or any predefined program cycle. That command transmit signal to the microcontroller. According to the command received on the microcontroller, microcontroller check the required amount of the species , vegetables, flour and ingredients in the system vessel. Then following four process starts symmetrically.
(i) flour, oil , water is added in kneaded for kneading then dough is prepared for extraction & ball making then dough is press to make the chapatti which is follow by roasting of chapatti. Which is ready to server in dish.
(ii) Sensor & camera check for stale vegetable and remove them for further process. Then required amount of vegetables are forwarded for washing chamber, which is further shredding and entered in cooking pan to cook the vegetables. Then the cooked vegetable is read to serve in dish.
(iii) Dhal ( lentils) & water are forwarded to the cooking pan.
Spicy are put in it with oil seasoning according to predetermined time. Then the cooked Dhal (Lentils ) is ready to serve in dish,
(iv) Rice, water and other spices are forwarded in the cooking pan for cooking upto the required time, Then cooked rice is ready to serve in dish. Then the prepared dish is packed where the expire date and time is printed. After cooking and serving cycle is completed, signal is given to boiler and water pump, then the water is circulated into the system then the hot steam is circulation for sterilization of all cooked vessels in the system. Then waste is drained from the system.
While, the invention has been described with respect to the given modifications and other applications of the invention may be made. However, it is to be expressly understood that such modifications and adaptations are within the scope of the present invention, as set forth in the following claims.