Patent ID: 7670042
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: A23L,B01F

Abstract:
1. A marinating device, comprising: a supporting base which has a top utility side, an operation cavity indently formed thereon to define a blocking sidewall and a curved utility platform, a receiving compartment indently formed on said curved utility platform, a compartment cover operatively connected with said curved utility platform for selectively covering said receiving compartment, and a receiving channel indently formed on said curved utility platform, and extended from said receiving compartment to a side edge of said supporting base; a food marinating container which has a circular cross section, and a circumferential wall and a container sidewall to define a food marinating chamber within said circumferential wall and said container sidewall, wherein said food marinating container further has an access opening formed thereon opposed to said container sidewall, wherein said food marinating container is supported at said operation cavity at a position that said container sidewall is physically contacted with said blocking sidewall to block a sideward movement of said food marinating container at a first sideward direction, wherein said food marinating container further comprises a guiding rib coaxially provided on said circumferential wall, and a sealing lid detachably provided at said access opening thereof for selectively blocking access to said food marinating chamber, wherein said sealing lid further comprises vacuum access valve provided in therein for operating between a sealing mode and vacuum mode, wherein in said sealing mode, said vacuum access valve is closed for blocking fluid communication between said food marinating chamber and an exterior thereof, wherein in said vacuum mode, said vacuum access valve is opened for allowing vacuuming of said food marinating chamber; an electric driving arrangement, which comprises: a driving unit received in said supporting base; and a plurality of driving rotors driven by said driving unit to rotate, wherein each of said driving rotors has a driving portion upwardly protruded from said utility platform to contact with said circumferential wall of said food marinating container so as to spacedly support said circumferential wall of said food marinating container in a suspend manner with respect to said utility platform, wherein at least two corresponding driving rotors are frictionally and alignedly engaged with said guiding rib to block said sideward movement of said food marinating container at an opposed second sideward direction such that when said food marinating container is driven to rotate via said driving rotors, said food marinating container is securely retained on said operation cavity at a position that said food marinating container is blocked between said blocking sidewall and said guiding rib so as to prevent a lateral movement of said food marinating container with respect to said supporting base; and a vacuum device which comprises a vacuum unit received in said supporting base, a vacuum head adapted for communicating with said food marinating chamber, and a vacuuming tube connected between said vacuum unit and said vacuum head, in such a manner that when said vacuum unit is activated, air within said food marinating chamber is sucked out therefrom via said vacuum head and said vacuuming tube so as to create a vacuum environment within said food marinating chamber, wherein when said vacuum device is idle, said vacuum unit, said vacuum head and said vacuuming tube are normally received into said receiving compartment, and that said compartment cover is closed for protecting said vacuum device, wherein when said vacuum device is to be used, said compartment cover is opened to allow said vacuum head and said vacuuming tube to extend towards said sealing lid for vacuuming of said food marinating chamber, wherein said vacuuming tube of said vacuum device is allowed to selectively extend out of said receiving compartment via said receiving channel, so that said vacuum device is adapted to not only vacuum said food marinating container on said curved utility platform, but also vacuum another said food marinating container waiting for marination.