Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a food processor, which is characterized in that a cup body component is fixed in a shell through a flexible connecting piece, and the connecting piece is in a loose state in the process of making food, so that the food processor has larger deformation quantity, can fully absorb vibration energy generated in the vibration process, and greatly reduces noise.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: a flexibly connected food processor comprising a housing and a cup assembly mounted in the housing, characterized in that: an annular installation gap is formed between the shell and the cup body assembly, and flexible connecting pieces which are used for connecting the shell and the cup body assembly into a whole are arranged at the installation gap, wherein one end of each connecting piece is fixed on the shell, and the other end of each connecting piece is fixed on the cup body assembly.
Further, the connecting piece is a connecting ring which is arranged around the cup opening of the cup body assembly, the inner ring of the connecting ring is fixed on the cup opening, and the outer ring of the connecting ring is fixed on the shell, so that the connecting ring seals the installation gap between the shell and the cup opening.
Further, the shell comprises an upper shell and a fixed bracket fixed on the upper shell, and the upper shell and the fixed bracket clamp and fix the outer ring of the connecting ring;
or, the outer ring of the connecting ring is provided with a buckling plug, the shell is provided with a shell through hole, and the buckling plug is plugged into the shell through hole and is clamped at the outer side edge of the shell through hole;
or the outer ring of the connecting ring and the shell are integrally formed;
or the inner ring of the connecting ring and the cup rim are integrally formed;
or the cup rim is provided with an outward flanging, a flanging through hole penetrating through the flanging is formed in the flanging, a buckling plug is arranged on the inner ring of the connecting ring, and the buckling plug is plugged into the flanging through hole and is clamped at the outer side edge of the flanging through hole;
or the cup rim is provided with an outward flanging, the flanging is provided with a downward sunken annular groove, and the inner ring of the connecting ring is provided with an annular positioning edge inserted into the annular groove.
Further, the connecting ring is provided with a enclasping part enclasping the outer wall of the cup body assembly, and the enclasping part forms an inner ring of the connecting ring.
Further, the cup opening is provided with an outward flanging, and the enclasping part is provided with a step for supporting the flanging;
or a fixing piece for hooping the enclasping part on the cup body component is arranged on the outer side of the enclasping part.
Further, the cup body component is a crushing cup component, the crushing cup component comprises a cup body, a motor bracket arranged below the cup body and a motor fixed on the motor bracket, and a first damping piece for isolating the motor bracket from the cup body is arranged between the motor bracket and the cup body;
or the cup body component is a metal cup body, a glass cup body or a ceramic cup body;
or the shell comprises a base positioned below the cup body assembly, and a second damping piece for isolating the base from the cup body assembly is arranged between the base and the cup body assembly.
Further, the cup body component is a crushing cup component, the crushing cup component comprises a cup body, a motor support arranged below the cup body and a motor fixed on the motor support, the shell comprises a base positioned below the motor support, and a second damping part for isolating the base from the motor support is arranged between the base and the motor support.
Further, a penetrating mounting hole is formed in the motor support, a screw column penetrating the mounting hole is formed in the base, the second damping piece is a silica gel damping sleeve sleeved on the outer side of the screw column and isolating the motor support from the base, and the screw is fastened to the screw column so that the motor support is fixed to the base;
or, the motor support is provided with a penetrating mounting hole, the base is provided with a limiting column penetrating into the mounting hole, the second damping piece is a compression spring sleeved outside the limiting column and isolating the motor support from the base, and the limiting column is matched with the mounting hole to limit radial swing of the cup body assembly;
or, be provided with the mounting hole that runs through on the motor support, and the below of mounting hole is provided with the spacing support that has the screw post, the screw post penetrates the mounting hole, and the screw fastening is on the screw post to make spacing support be fixed in on the motor support, and the lower part of spacing support is provided with spacing post, be provided with on the frame and supply spacing post male spacing chamber, wherein, the second damping member includes silica gel damping sleeve and compression spring, silica gel damping sleeve suit is in the screw post outside and keeps apart motor support and spacing support, compression spring suit is in the outside of spacing post, and its one end supports tightly in the spacing intracavity of frame, and the other end supports tightly on spacing support, in order to keep apart spacing support and frame.
Further, the connecting piece is a spring, one end of the spring is tensioned on the shell, the other end of the spring is tensioned on the cup opening of the cup body assembly, and the cup body assembly is hoisted in the shell through the spring.
Further, a sealing component for sealing the installation gap is arranged between the cup opening of the cup body assembly and the shell, and the spring pulls the cup body assembly and the shell so that the cup body assembly and the shell clamp the sealing component.
According to the food processing machine, the annular installation gap is formed between the shell and the cup body assembly, and the flexible connecting piece with one end fixed with the shell and the other end fixed with the cup body assembly is arranged at the installation gap, so that the cup body assembly is fixedly connected with the shell through the flexible connecting piece. Meanwhile, compared with the installation mode of clamping and extruding the silica gel piece in the prior art, the connecting piece is in a loose state, and the connecting piece can be stretched and compressed, so that the connecting piece has larger deformation, and according to the principle that the larger the deformation of the flexible material is, the larger the vibration energy is absorbed, the connecting piece has better vibration absorption effect, and the vibration noise generated in the process of manufacturing the material by the food processor can be greatly reduced.
Detailed Description
Embodiment one:
fig. 1 to 8 are schematic structural views of a first embodiment of the present invention. The utility model provides a food processor, includescasing 1 and installs thecup subassembly 2 incasing 1, have cyclic annular installation clearance (not marked in the drawing) betweencasing 1 and thecup subassembly 2, and the installation clearance department is provided with the flexible connectingpiece 3 that connectscasing 1 andcup subassembly 2 as an organic whole respectively, wherein, the one end of connectingpiece 3 is fixed in oncasing 1, and the other end is fixed in on thecup subassembly 2.
In this embodiment, the connectingpiece 3 is a connecting ring of silica gel surrounding the cup opening 21 of the cup assembly, an inner ring of the connecting ring is fixed on the cup opening 21, and an outer ring of the connecting ring is fixed on thehousing 1, so that the connecting ring seals an installation gap between thehousing 1 and the cup opening 21. Theshell 1 comprises afixing support 11 and anupper shell 12 covered on the outer sides of thecup body assembly 2 and thefixing support 11, theupper shell 12 and thefixing support 11 are fixed through screws (not marked in the figure), and theupper shell 12 and thefixing support 11 clamp the outer ring of a fixed connection ring to realize connection and sealing of the connection ring and theshell 1, in order to prevent the outer ring of the connection ring from falling out from between theupper shell 12 and thefixing support 11, a falling-off-preventing surroundingedge 33 is further arranged on the outer ring of the connection ring, meanwhile, in order to enhance the sealing effect between the connection ring and theshell 1, sealing ribs (not marked in the figure) are further arranged on the outer ring of the connection ring, and theupper shell 12 compresses the sealing ribs on thefixing support 11.
As shown in fig. 4, thecup opening 21 is provided with anoutward flange 211, theflange 211 is provided with a downward recessedannular groove 210, and the bottom surface of theannular groove 210 is provided with a through flange throughhole 212, wherein the inner ring of the connecting ring is provided with anannular positioning edge 31 inserted into theannular groove 210, and the bottom surface of theannular positioning edge 31 is provided with abuckle plug 32, when theannular positioning edge 31 is inserted into theannular groove 210, thebuckle plug 32 is plugged into the flange throughhole 212 and is clamped at the outer edge of the flange throughhole 212, so as to realize connection and sealing between the connecting ring and the cup opening 21.
For this embodiment, because there is annular installation clearance between casing and the cup subassembly, and be provided with the flexible go-between that one end is fixed with the casing in this installation clearance, the other end is fixed with the cup subassembly, the cup subassembly is connected with the casing through flexible go-between, compare in the fixed mounting means of prior art cup rigidity, the fixed cup subassembly of this embodiment mode of flexible connection is adopted, the cup subassembly can self-adaptation adjustment self position and state to be unlikely to have local hard bump, the uneven problem of extrusion with the casing. Meanwhile, compared with the installation mode of clamping and extruding the silica gel piece in the prior art, the connecting ring of the embodiment is in a loose state, and the connecting piece can be stretched and compressed, so that the connecting ring has larger deformation, and according to the principle that the larger the deformation of the flexible material is, the larger the vibration energy is absorbed, the connecting ring has better vibration absorption effect, and the vibration noise generated in the process of manufacturing the material by the food processor can be greatly reduced. In addition, the connecting ring in the embodiment has the functions of connecting, damping and reducing noise and simultaneously has the function of sealing the installation gap between the cup body component and the shell, so that the problems of mold and odor caused by accumulated slag when slurry enters the installation gap in the pulping process can be prevented.
As shown in fig. 3, theupper casing 12 is further provided with alatch 13, acover opening button 14 for pushing thelatch 13 to move, and aspring 15, the cup opening 21 is covered with acover body 4, thecover body 4 is provided with aslot 43 into which thelatch 13 is clamped, wherein thecover body 4 and the cup opening 21 are sealed by a sealing ring (not shown in the drawing), and the risk of pulp overflow in the pulping process can be prevented.
In the actual use process, the clamping tongue is fixed on the shell, the clamping groove is formed in the cover body, and due to the influence of assembly tolerance and size chain design, normal pressing of the cover body often occurs, and the clamping tongue cannot be clamped into the clamping groove, namely, the situation that the cover cannot be closed occurs. However, in this embodiment, even if the normal cover-closing latch cannot be snapped into the latch, since the cup assembly is flexibly connected to the housing, after the pressure applied to the cover is increased, the cover presses down the cup assembly, so that the cup assembly has a small downward displacement, thereby ensuring that the latch on the cover can be aligned with the latch on the housing, and completing the snap-closing of the cover. Therefore, the scheme of the embodiment is superior to the mounting structure that the cup body and the shell are rigidly fixed and the small displacement of the cup body cannot occur in the prior art.
As shown in fig. 5, 6 and 7, in this embodiment, thecup assembly 2 is a pulverizing cup assembly, and the pulverizing cup assembly includes acup body 22, amotor support 23 disposed below thecup body 22, and amotor 24 fixed on themotor support 23, and a firstshock absorbing member 25 isolating themotor support 23 and thecup body 22 is disposed between the motor support and thecup body 22. Meanwhile, in this embodiment, thehousing 1 further includes astand 16 located below themotor support 23, and thestand 16 is located in theupper housing 12, where a secondshock absorbing member 5 that isolates thestand 16 and themotor support 23 is disposed between them.
In this embodiment, themotor support 23 is provided with a through mountinghole 230, thebase 16 is provided with ascrew post 161 penetrating through the mountinghole 230, the second dampingmember 5 is a silica gel damping sleeve sleeved outside thescrew post 161 and isolating themotor support 23 from thebase 16, and the screw a is fastened to thescrew post 161, so that themotor support 23 is fixed on thebase 16. In this embodiment, themotor support 23 is fixed with theframe 16 by four screws, wherein, every two silica gel damping sleeves are integrally formed on the silica gel matrix, so that the molding and the installation of the silica gel damping sleeves are more convenient, and the opening of each silica gel damping sleeve is provided with a connecting seam, so that when the silica gel damping sleeves are extruded during the screw fixation, the silica gel damping sleeves can deform through the connecting seam, and the extrusion stress of the silica gel damping sleeves is reduced.
In this embodiment, since the upper end of the cup assembly is isolated from the housing by the connection ring and the lower end is isolated by the silicone damping sleeve, the cup assembly is not in hard contact with the rigid housing, and the path of vibration energy generated by the cup assembly to the housing is completely isolated. Meanwhile, as the connecting ring and the silica gel damping sleeve are flexible silica gel pieces, the connecting ring and the silica gel damping sleeve have isolation function and function of absorbing vibration energy through deformation, even if vibration energy generated by the cup body assembly is transmitted to the shell, the vibration energy is greatly weakened. In addition, in this embodiment, since the motor vibration is a source of vibration noise, when the vibration energy generated by the motor is transmitted to the motor support, a first damping member is further disposed between the motor support and the cup body, and the first damping member can also isolate and absorb the vibration energy, so that the vibration energy is weakened when being transmitted to the cup body. Therefore, the embodiment has double vibration and noise reduction effects, and can greatly reduce vibration noise.
It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the outer ring of the connecting ring is clamped and fixed by the upper housing and the fixing bracket, and of course, in this embodiment, the upper housing and the fixing bracket may also be a housing with an integrally formed structure, where the connecting manner of the connecting ring and the housing may have various structures, for example, the outer ring of the connecting ring and the housing are integrally formed by two-shot molding, or are adhered to form an integral body, or are integrally connected by other fixing structures. It is also contemplated that the inner ring of the coupling ring may be coupled to the cup assembly in a variety of configurations, such as in the same manner as described for the housing.
For the embodiment, the motor support is isolated and fixed with the base through the screw, so that the lower end of the cup body assembly is fixed, and the upper end of the cup body assembly can be radially and adaptively adjusted to be connected with the upper shell and the fixing support. Of course, in this embodiment, the motor support and the stand may not be directly fixed, for example, a through mounting hole is provided on the motor support, a limiting post penetrating into the mounting hole is provided on the stand, the second damping member is a compression spring sleeved outside the limiting post and isolating the motor support from the stand, and the limiting post is matched with the mounting hole to limit the radial swing of the cup assembly.
The food processor of the embodiment is of a frame structure with a lower motor, and can be a soymilk machine with an upper motor, and the cup body component can be a metal cup body, a glass cup body, a ceramic cup body, a plastic cup body or the like. In addition, for the soymilk machine with the motor arranged on the upper part, the shell can also comprise a machine seat or a base positioned below the cup body component, a second damping piece for isolating the machine seat or the base from the cup body component can be arranged between the machine seat or the base and the cup body component, and the soymilk machine with the motor arranged on the upper part can also realize the aim of isolating and damping the cup body component of the soymilk machine with the rigid shell.
Of course, the connecting piece of this embodiment also can be the spring, and with the one end of spring taut on the casing, the other end is taut on the rim of a cup of cup subassembly, realizes that cup subassembly is fixed in the casing through the mode of spring hoist and mount. At this time, a sealing member for sealing the installation gap may be provided between the cup opening of the cup assembly and the housing, and the spring pulls the cup assembly and the housing so that the cup assembly and the housing clamp the sealing member. In this case, the spring has only a connecting function, and the sealing function is a sealing member, and the connecting and sealing functions are mutually independent members.
It should be noted that, the arrangement of the connecting piece at the installation gap in the embodiment includes the arrangement of the connecting piece in the installation gap space, and also includes the arrangement of the connecting piece between the cup opening and the upper surface of the housing adjacent to the installation gap.
The above structural changes of the present embodiment may be applied to other embodiments of the present invention.
Embodiment two:
fig. 9 is a schematic structural view of a second embodiment of the present invention. The first difference between this embodiment and the second embodiment is that: in this embodiment, the connection ring has a claspingportion 36 clasping the outer wall of thecup assembly 2, and the claspingportion 36 forms the inner ring of the connection ring. Meanwhile, anoutward flanging 211 is arranged at the cup opening, and astep 361 for supporting theflanging 211 is arranged on the enclaspingpart 36, so that the inner ring of the connecting ring is fixed on thecup body assembly 2. Meanwhile, the outer ring of the connecting ring is provided with aninverted buckle 37, when theupper shell 12 is fixed with the fixedsupport 11 through the screw b and theupper shell 12 is fixed with the fixedsupport 11, the outer ring of the connecting ring is clamped, so that theinverted buckle 37 is tightly attached to the fixedsupport 11, and the outer ring of the connecting ring is fixed on the shell.
In this embodiment, the outer wall of the cup body assembly is tightly hooped through the enclasping part by the connecting ring, and the step holds the flanging, realizes that the inner circle of the connecting ring is firmly connected with the cup body assembly and is not loosened, and is provided with the back-off on the outer lane of the connecting ring, and when the outer lane of the connecting ring is tightly clamped by the upper casing and the fixed bolster, the back-off can prevent the connecting ring from loosening with the casing. The above structural changes of the present embodiment may be applied to other embodiments of the present invention.
Embodiment III:
fig. 10 and 11 are schematic structural views of a third embodiment of the present invention. The second difference between this embodiment and the second embodiment is that: in this embodiment, there is no fixing support, a throughhole 100 is provided on the side wall of thehousing 1, a bucklingplug 38 is provided on the outer ring of the connection ring, the bucklingplug 38 is plugged into the throughhole 100 and is clamped at the outer edge of the throughhole 100, so as to fix the outer ring of the connection ring on thehousing 1. At the same time, aclip 6 is provided on the outer side of the claspingportion 36 to clasp the claspingportion 36.
Theclamp 6 in this embodiment includes aleft clamp 61 and aright clamp 62, and theleft clamp 61 and theright clamp 62 are fixed by a screw c to fasten the claspingportion 36 to the outer wall of thecup assembly 2.
The fixing member for tightening the clasping portion in this embodiment is not limited to the clip in this embodiment, and may be a binding buckle or other fastening rope. The above structural variations of the present embodiment can also be applied to other embodiments of the present invention.
Embodiment four:
fig. 12, 13 and 14 are schematic structural views of a fourth embodiment of the present invention. The present embodiment is different from the above embodiment in that the mounting structure of the motor bracket and the housing is different. In this embodiment, themotor support 23 is provided with a through mountinghole 230, alimit support 7 with ascrew post 71 is disposed below the mountinghole 230, thescrew post 71 penetrates into the mountinghole 230, a screw d is fastened on thescrew post 71, so that thelimit support 7 is fixed on themotor support 23, the lower portion of thelimit support 7 is provided with alimit post 72, thestand 16 is provided with alimit cavity 162 for thelimit post 72 to be inserted, thelimit cavity 162 is surrounded by arib 163 on thestand 16, wherein the second damping member comprises a silicagel damping sleeve 51 and acompression spring 52, the silicagel damping sleeve 51 is sleeved outside thescrew post 71 and isolates themotor support 23 from thelimit support 7, thecompression spring 52 is sleeved outside thelimit post 72, one end of the compression spring is abutted against thelimit cavity 162 of the stand, and the other end of the compression spring is abutted against thelimit support 7, so as to isolate thelimit support 7 from thestand 16.
In this embodiment, the cup assembly is not in direct rigid contact with the housing, which has the same advantages as those of the above embodiment, and will not be described here again. It should be noted that, the lower part of the motor bracket of the embodiment also needs not to be provided with a limit bracket, and the motor bracket is directly isolated from the stand by the compression spring. The above structural changes of the present embodiment may be applied to other embodiments of the present invention.
It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the present invention includes, but is not limited to, the accompanying drawings and what has been described in the foregoing detailed description. Any modifications which do not depart from the functional and structural principles of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims.