Abstrict A garlic crusher is composed of a upper pressing on which is disposed
a pressing block, a lower pressing piece on which is disposed a
garlic-pressing groove for accepting the pressing block, and a through-hole-matrix
metal sheet. Using a pintle, the corresponding ends respectively
of the upper and the lower pressing piece are connected to be a
hinge joint. The garlic-pressing groove is disposed at one end of
the lower pressing piece near the pintle, and formed by the downward
through-aperture on the lower pressing piece and a through-hole-matrix
metal sheet, which is inserted into the lower pressing piece through
an inserting slot to take its position just above the widow disposed
on the lower pressing piece. The garlic crusher is quite convenient
in installation and in operation.
Claims What is claimed is:
1. A garlic crusher is composed of a upper pressing 1 on which
is disposed a pressing block 11 a lower pressing piece 2 on which
is disposed a garlic-pressing groove 21 for accepting the pressing
block 11 and a through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3. Using a pintle
5 the corresponding ends respectively of said upper pressing piece
1 and said lower pressing piece 2 are connected to be a hinge joint.
It is characterized by that said garlic-pressing groove 21 is disposed
at one end of said lower pressing piece 2 near said pintle 5 and
said garlic-pressing groove 21 is formed by the downward through-aperture
on said lower pressing piece 2 and said through-hole-matrix metal
sheet 3 which is inserted into said lower pressing piece 2 through
an inserting slot 23 to take its position just above a window 22
disposed on the bottom surface of said lower pressing piece 2 and
has a great many of through-holes 33 arranged to be a matrix thereon.
2. The garlic crusher as set forth in claim 1 wherein said garlic
crusher is characterized by that on said lower pressing piece 2
is disposed a T-shaped slot 27; on said through-hole-matrix metal
sheet 3 is disposed a T-shaped tab 31 besides a great many of through-holes
33 arranged to be a matrix thereon; once said T-shaped tab 32 is
inserted into said T-shaped slot 27 through an entrance 26 of T-shaped
slot 27 for T-shaped tab 32 then said through-hole-matrix metal
sheet 3 may be inserted into said lower pressing piece 2 through
said inserting slot 23; said T-shaped tab 32 may be moved forward
in said T-shaped slot 27 along with said through-hole-matrix metal
sheet 3 being pushed forward in said lower pressing piece 2; when
said through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 is pushed to take its operational
position and firmly jammed there, a garlic-pressing groove 21 will
be formed by the positioned through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 and
the downward through-aperture on said lower pressing piece 2.
3. The garlic crusher as set forth in claim 1 wherein said garlic
crusher is characterizes by that at another end of said lower pressing
piece 2 far away from said pintle 5 is disposed a storage groove
24 and a clip holder 25; on said clip holder is clamped another
one through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 with a through-diameter other
than that of the originally inserted through-hole-matrix metal sheet
3.
4. The garlic crusher as set forth in claim 1 wherein said garlic
crusher is characterized that the height of aforesaid inserting
slot 23 must be determined in correspondence to the thickness of
the through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 so that both of them may
be in a close sliding fit state.
5. The garlic crusher as set forth in claim 2 wherein said garlic
crusher is characterized that the height of aforesaid inserting
slot 23 must be determined in correspondence to the thickness of
the through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 so that both of them may
be in a close sliding fit state.
6. The garlic crusher as set forth in claim 3 wherein said garlic
crusher is characterized that the height of aforesaid inserting
slot 23 must be determined in correspondence to the thickness of
the through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 so that both of them may
be in a close sliding fit state.
Description FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The invention generally relates to a food-processing appliance,
and specially relates to a garlic crusher.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The garlic is a seasoning food good for the human health.
As using for food, the garlic always has to be crushed. The crushed
garlic also may be used as a medicine to diminish inflammation and
to eliminate toxins. For crushing the garlic, a pressing clamp type
of garlic crusher already was developed. It is basically composed
of an upper pressing piece on which is disposed a pressing block,
a lower pressing piece on which is disposed a garlic-receiving groove
able to accept the pressing block, and a pintle by which the corresponding
ends respectively of the upper and the lower pressing piece are
connected to be a hinge joint. On the bottom surface of the garlic-receiving
groove are disposed lots of through holes. Lifting the upper pressing
piece to cause its pressing block out of the lower pressing piece,
then the garlic clove(s) may be put into the garlic-receiving groove.
When the upper pressing piece is pushed down and engaged with the
lower pressing piece by hand, the pressing block may be just inserted
into the garlic-pressing groove. The garlic clove(s) will be crushed
and squeezed out of the through holes disposed on the bottom of
the garlic-receiving groove to fall down into a prepared container,
so that the garlic mousse is obtained. The garlic mousse may be
used for food or for other purposes. But such a garlic crusher has
following deficiencies:
[0003] 1. The diameter of the through holes disposed on the bottom
of the garlic-pressing groove is fixed, so as the shredded garlic's
thickness of the garlic mousse is unable to be varied for different
persons or to be varied for different demands, thus the garlic mousse
made by the garlic crusher in prior art cannot meet various requirements;
[0004] 2. When the processing of garlic mousse is ended, the remainder
of garlic mousse cannot be conveniently scrapped off to fall into
the container from the bottom surface of the lower pressing piece,
thus it will cause waste of raw material or cause elaborate operation
when scrapping.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0005] The technical problems having to be solved by the invention
are to overcome aforesaid technical deficiencies in prior art and
to provide a garlic crusher which can prepare the garlic mousse
with various thickness, namely the diameter of shredded garlic to
form the garlic mousse may be thick or thin as required, and cause
the remainder of garlic mousse able to be conveniently scrapped
off to fall into the container.
[0006] In the case of the invention, the technical plan for solving
aforesaid problems in prior art is as follows:
[0007] A garlic crusher is composed of an upper pressing piece
on which is disposed a pressing block, a lower pressing piece on
which is disposed a garlic-pressing groove for accepting the pressing
block, and a pintle by which the corresponding end of the upper
pressing piece and that of the lower pressing piece are connected
to be a hinge jointed, so as both the pressing pieces may rotate
round the pintle. It is characterized by that aforesaid garlic-pressing
groove is disposed at one end of the lower pressing piece near to
the pintle, and formed by the downward through-aperture on the lower
pressing piece and a through-hole-matrix metal sheet which is inserted
in through an inserting slot to take its position just above the
window disposed on the bottom surface of the lower pressing piece.
[0008] On the bottom surface of aforesaid lower pressing piece
is disposed a T-shaped slot. Besides a great many of through-holes
disposed on the flat metal sheet and closely arranged to be a through-hole
matrix, at the end of the through-hole-matrix metal sheet also is
disposed a handle. On the top surface of the handle is disposed
a T-shaped tab. Once the T-shaped tab is inserted into the T-shaped
slot through its transversal part used as an entrance for the T-shaped
tab, then the through-hole-matrix metal sheet may be inserted into
the lower pressing piece through the inserting slot. The T-shaped
tab may be moved forward in the T-shaped slot along with the through-hole-matrix
metal sheet being pushed forward in the lower pressing piece. When
the through-hole-matrix metal sheet is inserted to take its position
and firmly jammed, a garlic-pressing groove will be formed by the
positioned through-hole-matrix metal sheet and the downward through-aperture
on the lower pressing piece.
[0009] At another end of aforesaid lower pressing piece far away
from the pintle, are disposed a storage groove and a clip holder,
a standby through-hole-matrix metal sheet with a through-hole diameter
different form that of aforesaid inserted in metal sheet, may be
placed in the storage. groove and tightly clamped on the clip holder.
[0010] The height of aforesaid inserting slot must be determined
in correspondence to the thickness of the through-hole-matrix metal
sheet, so that both of them are in a close sliding fit state.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE APPENDED DRAWINGS
[0011] FIG. 1 is a perspective schematic diagram of a better embodiment
of the garlic crusher in opening state of the invention.
[0012] FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective schematic diagram of a
better embodiment of the garlic crusher in opening state of the
invention.
[0013] FIG. 3 is a sectional schematic diagram of a better embodiment
of the garlic crusher of the invention.
[0014] FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective schematic diagram of a
better embodiment of the garlic crusher in opening state of the
invention, which is shown from another angle of view.
[0015] FIG. 5 is an assembled perspective schematic diagram of
FIG. 4.
[0016] FIGS. 6A-6E show views of through-hole-matrix metal sheet
of a better embodiment of the garlic crusher of the invention.
[0017] In these FIG. 1 is an upper pressing piece; 11 is a pressing
block; 2 is a lower pressing piece; 21 is a garlic-pressing groove;
22 is a window; 23 is an inserting slot for the through-hole-matrix
metal sheet 3; 24 is a storage groove for storing standby through-hole-matrix
metal sheet 4; 25 is a clip holder for clamping standby through-hole-matrix
metal sheet 4; 26 is an entrance of T-shaped slot for inserting
T-shaped tab 32; 27 is a T-shaped slot; 3 is a through-hole-matrix
metal sheet; 31 is a handle on the through-hole-matrix metal sheet
3; 32 is the T-shaped tab which may slide in T-shaped slot 27; 33
is through-hole; 4 is a standby through-hole-matrix metal sheet;
5 is a pintle.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0018] Referring to FIGS. 1 to 6E, from these Figures it may be
seen that the garlic crusher of the invention is composed of a upper
pressing piece 1 a lower pressing piece 2 and a through-hole-matrix
metal sheet 3. Using a pintle 5 the upper pressing piece 1 and
the lower pressing piece 2 are connected to be a hinge joint. At
one end of the upper pressing piece 1 near the pintle 5 is disposed
a pressing block 11. At one end of the lower pressing piece 2 near
the pintle 5 and corresponding to the position of the pressing block
11 is disposed a garlic-pressing groove 21 for accepting the pressing
block 11. The garlic-pressing groove 21 is formed from the downward
through-aperture on the lower pressing piece 2 and a metal sheet
3 having a great many of through-holes 33 closely arranged to be
a through-hole matrix thereon (i.e. the through-hole-matrix metal
sheet), which is inserted through an inserting slot 23 to take its
position just above the window 22 on the bottom surface of the lower
pressing piece 2. When the upper pressing piece 1 is pressed downward
and engaged with the lower pressing piece 2 the pressing block
11 disposed on the upper pressing piece 1 will gradually and deeply
enter the garlic-pressing groove 21 on the lower pressing piece
2. The pressing block 11 will be entirely pressed against the through-hole-matrix
metal sheet 3 as both the upper and the lower pressing piece are
pressed to be closed.
[0019] Besides a great many of through-holes 33 disposed on the
flat metal sheet and closely arranged to be a through-hole matrix,
for facilitating to remove and replace the inserted through-hole-matrix
metal sheet 3 a part of the flat metal sheet at the end outside
the lower pressing piece 2 is warped to form a handle 31 as shown
in FIGS. 6A-6E. On the top surface of the handle 31 is dispose a
T-shaped tab 32. Once the T-shaped tab 32 is inserted into the T-shaped
slot 27 through an entrance 26 of T-shaped slot 27for T-shaped tab
32 the through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 then may be inserted into
the lower pressing piece 2 through the inserting slot 23. The T-shaped
tab may be moved forward in the T-shaped slot 27 along with the
through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 being pushed forward in the lower
pressing piece 2. When the through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 is
pushed to take its operational position and firmly jammed there,
a garlic-pressing groove 21 will be formed by the positioned through-hole-matrix
metal sheet 3 and the downward through-aperture on the lower pressing
piece 2. If necessary, the inserted through-hole-matrix metal sheet
3 may be removed from the lower pressing piece 2 by holding the
handle 31 with hand and drawing it out along a suitable direction.
[0020] In order that the shredded garlic of the obtained garlic
mousse has a different thickness, the originally inserted through-hole-matrix
metal sheet may be replaced with another one having desired through-hole
diameter other than that of the originally inserted one. In the
garlic crusher of the invention, besides one through-hole-matrix
metal sheet 3 is mounted in the garlic-pressing groove 21 in the
storage groove 24 at another end of the lower pressing piece 2 is
stored another one through-hole-matrix metal sheets 3 (i.e. standby
through-hole-matrix metal sheet) which is firmly clamped on a clip
holder to prevent it falling down from storage groove 24 due to
the weight of itself. The through-hole diameters of these two through-hole-matrix
metal sheets 3 are different each other, one of the through-hole
diameter is suitable for preparing thick shredded garlic and another
one suitable for preparing thin shredded garlic. According to the
requirement, the originally inserted through-hole-matrix metal sheet
may be drawn out of the lower pressing piece and replaced with the
standby through-hole-matrix metal sheet, as said above the operation
for replacement is quite convenient.
[0021] The processing steps of the garlic crusher of the invention
are as follows:
[0022] 1. According to requirement, through inserting slot 23 inserting
through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 with large or small through-hole
diameter into lower pressing piece 2 pushing it to take its position
and firmly jamming it there;
[0023] 2. Putting garlic clove(s) desired to be crushed into garlic-pressing
groove 21;
[0024] 3. Taking garlic crusher to a position just above a prepared
container, pressing upper pressing piece 2 downward to engage with
lower pressing piece 2 crushing garlic clove(s) to be garlic mousse
by pressing block 11 and forcing. garlic mousse to fall into container
from through-holes 33;
[0025] 4. Lifting upper pressing piece 1 off, putting other garlic
clove(s) into garlic-pressing groove 21 crushing garlic clove(s)
to be garlic mousse again and forcing garlic mousse to fall into
container from through holes 33;
[0026] Repeating steps 1 to 4 until the prepared garlic cloves
all are crushed to be garlic mousse;
[0027] 5. When the processing of garlic mousse is ended, drawing
through-hole-matrix metal sheet 3 out of lower pressing piece 2
from slot 23 in the meantime all the garlic mousse remainder on
metal sheet being scrapped off by the inserting slot to fall into
the container.
[0028] Synthesizing the all as said above, the advantages of the
garlic crusher of the invention are as follows:
[0029] 1. Two through-hole-matrix metal sheets with different through-hole
diameters are provided for selection in order to meet the different
requirements of the thickness of the shredded garlic in the garlic
mousse;
[0030] 2. For the inserting mode is adopted for the installation
of the through-hole-matrix metal sheet, so that the replacement
of the through-hole-matrix metal sheet will become quite convenient.
[0031] 3. When the processing of garlic mousse is ended, all the
garlic mousse remainder on the through-hole-matrix metal sheet will
be scrapped off by the inserting slot to fall into the container
along with the through-hole-matrix metal sheet being drawn out of
the lower pressing piece. Thus the scrapping operation will be quite
convenient. Not only the garlic mousse is sanitary, the raw material
for preparing the garlic mousse also may be saved. |