Patent ID: 6948422

Claim:
A soup supplying apparatus comprising: a vessel having an opening and accommodates a soup therein; a funnel member arranged within the vessel and rotatively moves out of the vessel through the opening; a ladling member that ladles up the soup accommodated in the vessel; a linkage mechanism provided with the ladling member at one end thereof; a linkage supporting portion that rotatably supports the linkage mechanism within the vessel; and a driving device that rotatively moves the linkage mechanism, wherein the ladling member is configured to be inserted into an inlet of the funnel member, when the driving device rotatively moves the linkage mechanism and the ladling member approaches the opening of the vessel, and to be rotatively moved out from the vessel together with the funnel member to supply the soup ladled by the ladling member into a plateware from an outlet of the funnel member, when the driving device further rotatively moves the linkage mechanism.