Liquid heating cooker
A liquid heating cooker including a box-shaped vat having a bottom panel A, rear panel B, left panel C, right panel D, and holding panel E, which are separated by welding lines F to I. The welding lines F and G are provided on a front wall portion, a bottom wall portion, a front wall portion and upper bottom wall portions 12 e and 12 f of an oil sediment holding portion, and a rear wall portion, whereas the welding lines H and I are provided on the front wall portion and the rear wall portion of the oil sediment holding portion. The welding lines are not provided at the corner portions of the vat and the corner portions are rounded. Consequently, even if the fryer is repeatedly operated and stopped, cracking at the welded portions and/or the corner portions due to expansion and contraction of the panels does not occur easily.
1. A liquid heating cooker comprising:
a box-shaped vat into which a heating medium is filled and which has left and right side wall portions, a front wall portion, a rear wall portion, and a bottom wall portion; and
a heating means provided opposing the bottom wall portion from the outside, for heating the bottom wall portion by combustion so as to cook foods within the vat;
wherein a plurality of panels making up the vat are welded to one another and form a single unit;
wherein a left panel forming the left side wall portion and a right panel forming the right side wall portion are bent, each of the left side wall portion and the right side wall portion is provided with an integral heating edge wall portion that is coplanar with the bottom wall portion and each of the left side wall portion and the right side wall portion is provided with an integral front edge wall portion on a plane that is coplanar with that of the front wall portion, and
wherein left and right ends of a bottom panel forming the bottom wall portion are each welded to an end portion of one of the heating edge wall portions, and at least the heating edge wall portions and the bottom panel are coplanar;
wherein the bottom panel is bent and also serves as part of the front wall portion; and
the left and right side ends of the front wall portion of the bottom panel are each welded to an end portion of one of the front edge wall portions, and at least the front edge wall portions and the front wall portion of the bottom panel are coplanar.
2. The liquid heating cooker according to claim 1 , wherein the bottom wall portion slopes downward and backward and a sediment holding portion is provided at a lower end of the bottom wall portion; and
wherein either the lower end of the bottom wall portion or an end portion of the sediment holding portion is bent so that the two are welded together in a common plane.
3. The liquid heating cooker according to claim 2 , wherein bent portions of panels traversed by a welded portion are rounded.
4. The liquid heating cooker according to claim 1 , wherein bent portions of panels traversed by a welded portion are rounded.
5. The liquid heating cooker according to claim 1 , wherein said right panel and said left panel each include a lower portion having a step portion defining an exhaust duct through which combustion gases travel to improve heating efficiency.
6. The liquid heating cooker according to claim 1 , wherein each said left panel and said right panel is formed from a flat panel by press drawing.