CN101865583B - Drink cooling system - Google Patents

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CN101865583B
CN101865583B CN200910149790A CN200910149790A CN101865583B CN 101865583 B CN101865583 B CN 101865583B CN 200910149790 A CN200910149790 A CN 200910149790A CN 200910149790 A CN200910149790 A CN 200910149790A CN 101865583 B CN101865583 B CN 101865583B
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罗希特·R·塔利
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The invention discloses a drink cooling system and provides a simple and convenient method for cooling or freezing a drink container. Water is filled in an ice mold, and is frozen in the ice mold to form an ice block, and the ice block is provided with at least one drink recess; the ice block is moved out of the ice mold and put into a holing tray of a drain tank, so the ice block is closely supported by the holding tray of the drain tank; the drink container can be accommodated in the drink recess in the ice block.

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Drink cooling system
Technical field
The present invention relates to the cooling of beverage.Particularly, the present invention relates to use the cooling of the container for drink of ice.
Background technology
Before drinking, often hope beverage is cooled off.Usually, freeze through container and make beverage cooling or freezing the splendid attire beverage.Although in the kitchen of most of families, be placed with refrigerator, it can be convenient when the reception guest, in guest's location the device of cooled beverage being arranged.Usually such location is playroom or other room away from the kitchen.
The portable box-type cooler can be filled ice cube to be used for cooled beverage.But it is difficult to suitably in ice cube, place container for drink.Even container for drink is placed among the ice cube equably, from box cooler, takes out a container and often mean and have in mixture of ice and water, excavate.And after the use, remaining ice and water must empty from box cooler.Consider possible seepage, the device that is used for cooled beverage that cooler is always not desirable.In addition, box cooler inside is failed abundant drying and possibly caused discharging the formation of bacterium or other mould of odour nuisance.
Developed other cooling device, but always practical, United States Patent (USP) NO.3 for example, 605,435 for reception; D270,985; 4,438,637; 4,625,518; 6,446,461; 7,240,514.The desired movable part of some cooling devices can hinder access beverage easily.Although other cooling device portable, is more suitable for being used for transportation rather than being used for reception in cooled beverage.As for other, for example at United States Patent (USP) NO.4, there are many drainage problems in the cooling device shown in 899,553 identically.
Therefore, a kind of demand of the modifying device to cooled beverage still exists, the easy access beverage of this modifying device and do not have the problems referred to above in most of existing cooler.
Summary of the invention
The present invention provides the for example method of bottle of a kind of container of cooled beverage simply, easily.The present invention includes and use rhone (sink) to be used to admit the molded ice cube of container for drink with tight support.When ice cube melted, the water of thawing was drained through rhone.
According to an aspect of the present invention, beverage cooling external member comprises rhone and ice mould.Rhone has the Sheng dish of band Drainage Division.The ice mould has die wall, and die wall has at least one convexity from its extension.Die wall is defined for the volume that water-cooled is frozen into ice cube.The ice cube that forms has at least one beverage recess that at least one convexity through die wall forms in said ice cube.When in the Sheng dish that is accepted in rhone by the ice cube that forms of ice mould, at least one beverage recess of ice cube is configured to support at least one container for drink.
At least a portion on the surface of Sheng dish and at least a portion of die wall can have corresponding profile, thereby are closely supported by at least a portion that the ice cube that forms of ice mould is contained the surface of dish.At least one beverage can be placed at least one beverage recess of ice cube.
The ice mould can be flexible ice mould.At least one discharges hole and can be formed in the flexible ice mould, thereby helps the distortion of flexible ice mould during the ice cube that in removing flexible ice mould, forms.
According to another aspect of the present invention, drink cooling system comprises rhone and ice cube.Rhone has the Sheng dish of band Drainage Division.Ice cube has at least one and is formed at the beverage recess that wherein is used to support at least one container for drink.Ice cube is arranged in the Sheng dish of rhone and is supported by the Sheng dish of rhone.At least a portion at least a portion on the surface of Sheng dish and the surface of ice cube has corresponding appearance profile, thereby when ice cube was contained the dish admittance, ice cube was contained dish and closely supported.
In at least one beverage recess each can have along the axes of container for drink direction of insertion, and each axes is parallel.
Container for drink can be placed in the beverage recess of ice cube.Thereby beverage recess is also vertically-oriented by the vertically-oriented container for drink that wherein supports.The Sheng dish of rhone can have flat bottom, thereby when ice cube melted, container for drink still was kept upright at basic vertical direction.In addition, ice cube can use flexible ice mould to form.
According to a further aspect of the invention, a kind of method of using beverage cooling external member to come cooled beverage is provided.Rhone, ice mould, water and at least one container for drink are provided, and wherein rhone has the Sheng dish of band Drainage Division.Fills with water in the ice mould.Thereby water is frozen in the ice mould and forms the ice cube with at least one beverage recess.Ice cube is shifted out from the ice mould.At least one container for drink can be received within the beverage recess of ice cube in the Sheng dish of rhone thereby ice cube is placed in.Ice cube is closely supported by the Sheng dish of rhone.In addition, at least one container for drink is placed in the beverage recess of ice cube.
Thus, the present invention provide a kind of easily, the method for cooled beverage easily.With different like a lot of cooling devices such as box coolers, it need not to remove the frozen water of thawing, because the frozen water of any thawing can be discharged through the Drainage Division of rhone at once.And the container for drink that holds in the ice cube of rhone can easily touch and be held in the vertical direction, even when ice cube melts.
Through detailed description and drawings, these and other advantage of the present invention is conspicuous.It hereinafter only is the description of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.For confirming whole protection domains of the present invention, should be with reference to claim, because preferred embodiment is not the only embodiment in the claim scope.
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Fig. 1 is for ice the plan view from above of mould according to an embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the perspective view of ice mould;
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of filling the ice mould of water;
Fig. 4 is for extracting the perspective view of ice cube from the ice mould;
Fig. 5 is the perspective view that is placed on the ice cube that has three bottles in the rhone that supports ice cube;
Fig. 6 is the perspective view of an optional ice mould.
The specific embodiment
With reference to Fig. 1 and 2, show ice mould 10.Ice mould 10 has the wall 12 of defined volume 14.Ice mould 10 has bottom 16, has sidewall 18, top flange 22 and the hole 24 of three convexities 20 of extending from it.As shown in Figure 5, volume 14 have with rhone 30 in the corresponding shape of shape of Sheng dish 28.
Referring now to Fig. 3, the volume 14 splendid attire water 32 in the ice mould 10.Water 32 is contained in the volume 14 through wall 12.The ice mould 10 of filling water 32 can be cooled to the temperature below freezing of water then.In this temperature, water 32 is frozen into ice.
Referring now to Fig. 4, ice cube 34 shifts out from ice mould 10.The shape of ice cube 34 is limited the volume 14 of ice mould.Beverage recess 36 is formed in the ice cube 34 through the convexity 20 on the wall 12 of ice mould 10.Beverage recess 36 is cardinal principle columns and vertically runs through ice cube 34 extensions.In addition, each beverage recess 36 can have the axis that is limited the beverage direction of insertion.These axis are parallel, make that the container for drink that inserts in the beverage recess 36 is also parallel.
As shown in the figure, beverage recess 36 extends internally from ice cube 34 neighborings.Yet, can expect that beverage recess 36 also can form the through hole that extends through monoblock ice cube 34.Such shape can form through using ice mould shown in Figure 6.
The processing of from ice mould 10, shifting out ice cube 34 can be through promoting with yielding flexible resilient material ice mould 10.Ice mould 10 can be processed by the polysiloxanes materials such as (silicone) of for example elastically deformable.The hole 24 of ice mould provides on ice mould 10 and has helped ice the extracting hole that mould 10 separates from ice cube 34.
Referring now to Fig. 5, ice cube 34 has been placed in the Sheng dish 28 of rhone 30.Rhone 30 has the Drainage Division that is connected to waste pipe.As stated, ice cube 34 has with the Sheng of rhone 30 and coils 28 shapes similar.Like this, when ice cube 34 was placed in the rhone 30 at first, ice cube 34 can be coiled 28 by Sheng and closely support.
Use " closely supporting " this term, mean that the surface portion of ice cube 34 is corresponding with the surface portion of Sheng dish 28, make that each counterpart can contact with each other so that ice cube 34 is supported in the Sheng dish 28 when ice cube 34 is accepted in the Sheng dish 28.When initial formation, ice cube 34 is slightly less than Sheng dish 28, makes ice cube 34 can be inserted in the Sheng dish 28.Ice cube 34 is molded as and is intended to match with the Sheng dish 28 of rhone 30, but it is too tight not form cooperation, makes between ice cube 34 and Sheng dish 28, to form to interfere and interference fit.
One or more container for drink 38 can be placed in the beverage recess 36.Although three bottles are placed in the ice cube 34 of rhone 30 in the illustrated embodiment; But can expect; The mold shape that can use other is forming the ice cube of other geometry, but other common beverages container such as the ice cube splendid attire of this other geometry such as beer, soda water etc.
Can expect that single rhone can use with a plurality of ice moulds.For example, rhone can have the ice mould of the ice cube that is designed to form the splendid attire bottle and be designed to another ice mould of splendid attire soda water or beer can.
In forms more of the present invention, ideally, the sidewall 18 of the sidewall of Sheng dish 28 and ice mould 10 is taper.Making one group or two groups of sidewalls is that taper can provide the ice cube 34 that ice mould 10 is formed snugly to wedge in the Sheng dish 28 of rhone 30, makes the sidewall of ice cube 34 contained the system of the side wall support of dish 28.In addition, in such form, the joint of ice cube 34 and Sheng dish 28 can cause between the bottom of the bottom surface of ice cube 34 and Sheng dish 28, forming the gap.This gap can help to remove thawing liquid from rhone 30.When ice cube 34 melted, the taper on the sidewall can help the continuous support of 28 pairs of ice cubes 34 of Sheng dish when ice cube 34 further drops in the Sheng dish 28.
When container for drink 38 and ice cube 34 are placed in the rhone 30, ice cube 34 will cool off or the chilled beverage container.As time goes by, ice cube 34 will slowly melt and be liquid under indoor temperature.These liquid will be received and be drawn towards Drainage Division and the waste pipe that is connected by the Sheng dish 28 of rhone 30.Thereby along with the thawing of ice cube 34, the water of thawing is received by the Drainage Division immediately and is suitably drained.
Although should be understood that the liquid phase that in ice-out, to drain thawing, thereby possibly hope to stop discharging that the liquid that melts is retained in the Sheng dish 28.The existence of water has promoted cooling or freezing owing to having increased cold thawing liquid phase and the contact area between the container for drink 38 in the Sheng dish 28.Then, in case cooling is accomplished, the Drainage Division can be opened and made water to be drained.
In addition, because when ice cube 34 is placed in the Sheng dish 28, beverage recess 36 is by vertically-oriented, so container for drink 38 also by vertically-oriented, and can stand on the base plate of Sheng dish 28.If the bottom of rhone 30 is enough smooth, even then ice cube 34 melts around container for drink 38, container for drink 38 also can be kept upright.
Referring now to Fig. 6, show optional ice mould 110.The convexity 120 that is used to form beverage recess is positioned such that the ice cube beverage recess that is formed by optional ice mould 110 is not positioned at the neighboring of mould.Like this, the beverage recess that is formed in the final ice cube will be approximate pipeline shape.The ice cube of the geometry of optional ice mould 110 possibly be gratifying, because it can and be placed on the more contact surface that provides between the container for drink in the ice cube at ice cube.
The present invention provides a kind of improved procedure of cooled beverage.Because ice cube is placed in the rhone, when ice cube melts, melts the water that from ice cube and drain from the Drainage Division.Like this, need not to melt initiatively draining of back at ice cube.
In addition, because ice cube is whole formation,, the invention provides the cooling of version more than container for drink optionally is placed in a pile ice cube.For the user, he or she can be easy to find beverage and not be used in a pile ice cube through excavation and go to seek.
The improvement or the distortion of this preferred embodiment it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that, will drop in the spirit and scope of the present invention.Therefore, the present invention should not be limited to described embodiment.For confirming four corner of the present invention, should be with reference to claims.
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The present invention provides a kind of ice mould that uses being formed for being placed on the ice cube in the rhone, the cooled beverage container simple, make things convenient for mode.

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1. drink cooling system comprises:
Rhone has the Sheng dish of being with the Drainage Division; With
Ice mould with die wall, said die wall have at least one convexity from its extension, and said die wall is defined for the volume that water-cooled is frozen into ice cube, and said ice cube has at least one beverage recess that in said ice cube, forms through said at least one convexity;
Wherein, when the said ice cube that is formed by said ice mould was accepted in the said Sheng dish of said rhone, said at least one beverage recess in the said ice cube was configured to support at least one container for drink,
Wherein said ice mould is flexible, and in flexible said ice mould, is formed with at least one release hole, when shifting out the said ice cube that in flexible ice mould, forms, to help to make flexible said ice moding shape.
2. system according to claim 1; At least a portion on the surface of said Sheng dish and at least a portion of said die wall have corresponding profile, thereby are closely supported by the said at least a portion on the said surface of said Sheng dish by the said ice cube that said ice mould forms.
3. system according to claim 1 further comprises at least one container for drink of said at least one beverage recess that is arranged in said ice cube.
4. system according to claim 1, each in wherein said at least one beverage recess has along the axes of container for drink direction of insertion, makes in the said axes each parallel.
5. system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one beverage recess be by vertically-oriented, makes to be supported on said at least one container for drink in said at least one beverage recess by vertically-oriented.
6. system according to claim 1, the said Sheng dish of wherein said rhone has flat bottom, thus when said ice cube melted, said at least one container for drink was kept upright at basic vertical direction.
7. system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one beverage recess extends internally from the neighboring of said ice cube.
8. system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one beverage recess is disposed within the neighboring of said ice cube.
9. ice mould for one kind, said ice mould is used to form the ice cube that is used for being placed on rhone, and said ice mould comprises:
Die wall, said die wall have at least one convexity from its extension, and said die wall is defined for the volume that water-cooled is frozen into said ice cube, and said ice cube has at least one beverage recess that in said ice cube, forms through said at least one convexity;
Wherein, said ice cube is configured to be accepted in the Sheng dish of said rhone, and wherein said at least one beverage recess is configured to support at least one container for drink,
Wherein said ice mould is flexible ice mould, and has at least one the release hole that in said flexible ice mould, forms, when shifting out the said ice cube that in flexible ice mould, forms, to help to make said flexible ice moding shape.
10. ice mould according to claim 9, each in wherein said at least one beverage recess has along the axes of container for drink direction of insertion, makes in the said axes each parallel.
11. ice mould according to claim 9 further comprises, is arranged at least one container for drink of said at least one beverage recess of said ice cube.
12. ice mould according to claim 9, wherein said at least one beverage recess be by vertically-oriented, makes to be supported at least one container for drink in said at least one beverage recess by vertically-oriented.
13. ice mould according to claim 9, the said Sheng dish of wherein said rhone has flat bottom, thereby when said ice cube melted, said at least one container for drink was kept upright at basic vertical direction.
14. a method of using beverage cooling external member cooled beverage comprises:
Rhone, flexible ice mould, water and at least one container for drink are provided, and said rhone has the Sheng dish of band Drainage Division;
Wherein said ice mould comprises that at least one discharges hole;
Water is filled with said ice mould;
Water in the freezing said ice mould is to form the ice cube that wherein has at least one beverage recess;
Shift out said ice cube from said ice mould, make that said at least one release hole helps to make said ice moding shape when shifting out said ice cube; And
Said ice cube is placed the said Sheng dish of said rhone, thereby said ice cube is supported closely by the said Sheng dish of said rhone, thereby and at least one container for drink can be accepted in the said beverage recess in the said ice cube.
15. method according to claim 14 further comprises:
At least one container for drink is placed in the said beverage recess of said ice cube.
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