CN111134538A - Cup feeding mechanism of intelligent beverage machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides an intelligence beverage machine send cup mechanism, includes tray (1) that has the position of placing that is used for placing drinking cup (2), tray (1) is by the drive of first drive structure and can slide its characterized in that around, its characterized in that: the beverage cup pushing device is characterized in that a pushing structure used for pushing the beverage cup (2) forwards away from the tray (1) is further arranged on the tray (1), and the pushing structure slides forwards and backwards along with the tray (1). First drive structure drives the exit that the goblet antedisplacement on with the tray sent to intelligent beverage machine, but the goblet is located the tray all the time, this mechanism is again through promoting the structure, can also be with the goblet forward propulsion from the tray, ensure not have the goblet on the tray, avoid someone to forget to take out the cup and cause the beverage machine to stop the pendulum, after that pushing mechanism resets, and simultaneously, first drive structure drives the tray again and resets, ensures that beverage machine can normally carry out next work, whole flow working procedure is reasonable. The beverage machine adopting the cup feeding mechanism is more automatic and is more suitable for the use characteristics of automatic vending.

Description

Cup feeding mechanism of intelligent beverage machine

Technical Field

The invention relates to a beverage vending machine, in particular to a cup feeding mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine.

Background

A beverage capsule based extractor, which is an extraction device for extracting the contents of a container with a corresponding juice by rapidly heating water under high pressure, is suitable for processing the container (capsule) containing the ingredients which, after interaction with a liquid introduced into the capsule, such as hot pressurized water, are capable of producing a beverage or an edible juice. The capsule is a circular truncated cone-shaped ring which can be filled with ingredients such as coffee powder, tea leaves or the like and is closed by a foil-shaped tear face cover welded or crimped to an annular rim extending radially from the side wall of the ring. A common extraction and drinking machine is a capsule coffee machine. The capsule coffee machine technology is relatively mature, but the capsule coffee machine can only be used at home, and each time coffee is prepared, the capsule is taken out from a packaging box, the coffee machine is opened by turning a handle, a coffee capsule is filled by hands, then the handle is turned to close the machine element, the machine starts to extract the beverage, and the handle is turned again after the extraction is finished, so that the capsule is removed. The existing coffee machine can not realize the automatic vending function.

There are also a great variety of traditional beverage vending machines, and if juice vending machines, the existing beverage vending machines are not beverage capsule based machine devices.

Therefore, the applicant applies a Chinese patent application 'intelligent beverage extraction machine based on beverage capsules' with an application number of CN20191 (publication number CNA) and discloses an intelligent beverage extraction machine based on beverage capsules, which is reasonable in structure and provides possibility for automatically selling beverages obtained based on an extraction mode. Can send beverage cup tray to beverage extraction group below in this application, and can send the beverage cup tray out the cup structure of sending of rack from the beverage cup export including third belt drive structure, the beverage cup tray is through extending the guide rail structure restraint that sets up in the rack along the fore-and-aft direction, the beverage cup tray is fixed and is slided around on the third drive belt of third belt drive structure. This structure needs the manual drink cup to take off the tray, and this just has following defect, at first, gets to take inconveniently, and secondly, if someone forgets to take out the cup, the cup remains throughout in the tray, because of the self-protection mechanism of machine, can lead to the machine to be in the out-of-work state that stops (if continue work, because of cup on the tray in addition, take place in disorder when can leading to preparing beverage next time), influences going on of vending.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing a cup feeding mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine, which has a reasonable structure and can automatically push a beverage cup away from a tray, aiming at the current situation of the prior art.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows: the utility model provides an intelligence beverage machine send cup mechanism, includes the tray that has the position of placing that is used for placing goblet, the tray is slided its characterized in that around being driven and can by first drive structure: the tray is also provided with a pushing mechanism for pushing the beverage cup forwards away from the tray, and the pushing mechanism slides forwards and backwards along with the tray.

Preferably, the pushing structure comprises a push rod for pushing the beverage cup placed on the placing position, the push rod is constrained on the tray and can slide back and forth relative to the tray, and the tray is further provided with a second driving structure for driving the push rod to slide back and forth. The structure of the push rod is adopted to push the beverage cup, so that the beverage cup has the advantage of simple structure, and the selection of the driving structure is more. In addition, the area of the front part of the push rod can be increased, and the push rod can be an arc-shaped push part matched with the outer wall of the beverage cup, so that the beverage cup can be pushed by the push rod more stably.

Preferably, the second driving structure includes a first motor, a turntable, and a connecting rod, the tray is driven by the first motor to rotate around its own axis, the front end of the connecting rod is hinged to the push rod, the rear end of the connecting rod is hinged to the turntable, and the hinge position is eccentric to the rotating shaft of the turntable. The second driving structure is a crank connecting rod structure, and the arrangement of the disc is convenient for controlling the stroke of the push rod sliding forwards and backwards

Further improve, install the motor frame on the above-mentioned tray, first motor is installed on the motor frame, the carousel is located the below of motor frame, be equipped with first position detection part on the motor frame, be equipped with on the carousel bellied with first position detection part complex triggers the part, under the rotatory state that triggers first position detection part to the triggering part of carousel, first motor stop work. This structure enables the rotatory a week of carousel and just accomplishes a round trip stroke, accomplishes promptly and send the cup after, makes the stroke that the push rod resets to the normal position again, and during the cup that sends, first motor drives the carousel and begins to rotate, and rotatory when 180 degrees, the push rod withdraws from the tray with goblet completely, and first motor continues to drive the carousel rotatory, and when the carousel was rotatory 360 degrees, trigger part triggered first position detection part, first motor stop work, and the push rod just resets to the initial position.

Preferably, the first position detecting member is an infrared photoelectric switch, and the triggering member is rotated between the infrared photoelectric switches along with the turntable, and triggers the infrared photoelectric switch to send a signal.

In order to ensure that the tray slides forwards and backwards stably and has small front and back sliding friction force, the improved structure is characterized in that a groove extending in the front and back direction is arranged at the bottom of the tray, guide shafts are arranged on the left side and the right side of the groove at intervals in the length direction, a plurality of guide wheels are arranged at the bottom of the push rod, and wheel grooves in the guide wheels are matched with the guide shafts. The guide shaft plays a role in restraining the guide wheel, ensures that the tray can only linearly slide back and forth, and the guide wheel is in rolling contact with the guide shaft, so that the resistance is small.

Further improve, still be equipped with two on the above-mentioned tray and control the interval and set up and be curved backplate, the backplate rotates to be installed on the tray and can the horizontal hunting, and then realize folding or opening of backplate, under the backplate folds the state, forms the protection cup space of embracing the goblet between two backplates the push rod antedisplacement promotes the goblet in-process, the backplate opens and ensures that the goblet can shift out forward under the push rod retrusion reset state, the backplate keeps folding the trend. A cup protecting space for holding the beverage cup is formed between the two protecting plates, so that the beverage cup is not easy to shake in the front and back sliding process of the tray, and the beverage is prevented from being spilled. In addition, in the process that the push rod moves forwards to push the beverage cup, the protective plate is opened to ensure that the beverage cup can move forwards, and under the condition that the push rod moves backwards and resets, the protective plate keeps closing to form a cup protecting space so as to ensure that the protective plate can hold the cup when the cup is dropped next time.

Preferably, the tray is provided with a gantry, pin shafts are arranged on the left side and the right side of the gantry, the guard plate is hinged to the pin shafts, elastic pieces enabling the guard plate to keep a folding trend are arranged on the pin shafts, a triggering portion matched with the push rod is arranged on the rear side of the guard plate, and abdicating notches for abdicating the triggering portion are arranged on the left side and the right side of the front surface of the push rod; under the push rod antedisplacement reset state, it is right to let a breach trigger part forms the swing and lets a position, the backplate can keep folding trend under the elastic component effect push rod antedisplacement promotes the goblet in-process, trigger part leaves the breach of stepping down, and trigger part drives the backplate outwards swing and opens under the effect of push rod lateral wall simultaneously. The structure ensures that the guard plate is opened or closed when being suitable, the abdicating notch forms swing abdicating to the trigger part under the condition that the push rod moves backwards and is reset, so that the guard plate keeps the closing trend under the action of the elastic piece, the trigger part is separated from the abdicating notch in the process that the push rod moves forwards to push the beverage cup, and the trigger part drives the guard plate to swing outwards and open under the action of the outer side wall of the push rod.

In order to better limit the beverage cup, the tray is provided with a cavity for holding the bottom of the beverage cup, the cavity is located below the protective plate, the front part of the cavity is provided with an opening for pushing the bottom of the beverage cup forwards, and the cavity is also internally provided with a second position detection part for detecting whether the beverage cup is placed. The second position detection part is used for detecting whether beverage cups are put into the concave cavity or not, and only if the beverage cups are arranged in the concave cavity, the intelligent beverage machine starts to work and comprises extraction and cup feeding.

Preferably, the first driving structure includes a guide rail and a wheel carrier disposed on the guide rail, the wheel carrier is fixed at the bottom of the tray, the wheel carrier is provided with a plurality of guide wheels, the guide wheels are matched with guide shafts on two sides of the guide rail, the guide rail is further provided with a transmission belt, the transmission belt is driven by a second motor to transmit, the wheel carrier is fixed on the transmission belt so as to slide along with the transmission belt, the guide rail is further provided with a rear travel switch, and the wheel carrier is provided with a touch part triggered by the rear travel switch. Of course, the first driving structure is not limited to the above structure, and may be an electric push rod structure. The rear travel switch can control the rear sliding travel of the tray.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that: first drive structure drives the exit that the goblet antedisplacement on with the tray sent to intelligent beverage machine, but the goblet is located the tray all the time, this mechanism is again through promoting the structure, can also be with the goblet forward propulsion from the tray, ensure not have the goblet on the tray, avoid someone to forget to take out the cup and cause the beverage machine to stop the pendulum, after that pushing mechanism resets, and simultaneously, first drive structure drives the tray again and resets, ensures that beverage machine can normally carry out next work, whole flow working procedure is reasonable. The beverage machine adopting the cup feeding mechanism is more automatic and is more suitable for the use characteristics of automatic vending.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention (without a beverage cup placed therein);

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention with the first drive structure removed (no beverage cup placed);

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of an embodiment of the present invention (without a beverage cup placed therein);

FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention (with the first drive structure removed) (with a beverage cup placed therein);

FIG. 5 is a schematic perspective view of the embodiment of the present invention with the first driving structure removed (the beverage cup pushed out);

fig. 6 is an exploded perspective view of the embodiment of the present invention with the first driving structure removed.

Detailed Description

The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying examples.

As shown in fig. 1 to 6, a preferred embodiment of the present invention is shown.

The utility model provides a cup feeding mechanism of intelligence beverage machine, is including having the tray 1 that is used for placing beverage cup 2 the position of placing, tray 1 is by the drive of first drive structure and can slide around, and first drive structure includes guide rail 15 and locates the guide pulley frame 16 on guide rail 15, and guide pulley frame 16 fixes the bottom at tray 1, installs a plurality of leading wheels 161 on the guide pulley frame 16, and leading wheel 161 cooperates with the guiding axle 151 of guide rail 15 both sides, still install drive belt 17 in the guide rail 15, drive belt 17 is driven and the transmission by second motor 4b, the preferred servo motor of second motor 4 b. The guide wheel frame 16 is fixed on the transmission belt 17 to be capable of sliding along with the transmission belt 17, the guide rail 15 is further provided with a rear travel switch 18, and the guide wheel frame 16 is provided with a touch part 162 triggered by the rear travel switch 18.

The tray 1 is also provided with a pushing mechanism for pushing the beverage cup 2 forwards away from the tray 1, and the pushing mechanism slides forwards and backwards along with the tray 1. The pushing structure comprises a pushing rod 3 used for pushing a beverage cup 2 placed on the placing position, the pushing rod 3 is constrained on the tray 1 and can slide back and forth relative to the tray 1, a groove 12 extending in the front and back direction is formed in the bottom of the tray 1, guide shafts 13 are arranged on the left side and the right side of the groove 12 at intervals along the length direction, a plurality of guide wheels 14 are arranged at the bottom of the pushing rod 3, and wheel grooves in the guide wheels 14 are matched with the guide shafts 13.

The tray 1 is also provided with a second driving structure for driving the push rod 3 to slide back and forth. The second driving structure comprises a first motor 4a, a rotary table 5 and a connecting rod 6, the tray 1 is driven by the first motor 4a to rotate around the axis of the tray, the first motor 4a is preferably a servo motor, the front end of the connecting rod 6 is hinged with the push rod 3, the rear end of the connecting rod 6 is hinged on the rotary table 5, and the hinged position is eccentrically arranged with the rotary shaft of the rotary table 5.

Install motor frame 11 on the tray 1, first motor 4a is installed on motor frame 11, carousel 5 is located motor frame 11's below, be equipped with first position detection part 7a on motor frame 11, be equipped with on carousel 5 bellied with first position detection part 7a complex trigger part 51, under the rotatory state that triggers first position detection part 7a to trigger part 51 of carousel 5, first motor 4a stop work. The first position detecting component 7a is an infrared photoelectric switch, and the triggering component 51 rotates with the rotating disc 5 to a position between the infrared photoelectric switches, so that the infrared photoelectric switch is triggered to send out a signal.

The tray 1 is further provided with two arc-shaped guard plates 8 arranged at left and right intervals, the guard plates 8 are rotatably installed on the tray 1 and can swing left and right to further achieve folding or opening of the guard plates 8, a cup protecting space P for holding the beverage cup 2 is formed between the two guard plates 8 in the state that the guard plates 8 are folded, the push rod 3 moves forward to push the beverage cup 2, the guard plates 8 are opened to ensure that the beverage cup 2 can move forward, and the guard plates 8 keep in a folding trend in the state that the push rod 3 moves backward to reset.

The tray 1 is provided with a door frame 9, the left side and the right side of the door frame 9 are provided with pin shafts 91, the guard plate 8 is hinged on the pin shafts 91, the pin shafts 91 are provided with elastic members 92 which enable the guard plate 8 to keep a folding trend, the elastic members 92 are preferably torsional springs, the rear side of the guard plate 8 is provided with a trigger part 81 matched with the push rod, and the left side and the right side of the front surface of the push rod 3 are provided with abdicating notches 31 which abdicate the trigger part 81; under the push rod 3 rethread reset state, it is right to let a breach 31 trigger part 81 forms the swing and lets a position, and backplate 8 can keep folding trend under the effect of elastic component 92, and in the push rod 3 antedisplacement promotion goblet 2 in-process, trigger part 81 leaves and lets a breach 31, and trigger part 81 drives backplate 8 outwards swing and opens under the effect of push rod 3 lateral wall simultaneously.

The tray 1 is provided with a concave cavity 10 for placing the bottom of the beverage cup 2, the concave cavity 10 is positioned below the protective plate 8, the front part of the concave cavity 10 is provided with an opening 101 for pushing the bottom of the beverage cup 2 forward, and the concave cavity 10 is also internally provided with a second position detection part 7b for detecting whether the beverage cup 2 is placed.

The working process and principle of the embodiment are as follows.

A cup feeding process: the second position detection part 7b detects that the beverage cup 2 is in the concave cavity 10, the second motor 4b acts to drive the transmission belt 17 to rotate, the tray 1 moves forwards along with the guide wheel frame 16 relative to the guide rail 15, the second motor 4b stops acting after running for a period of time, and the tray 1 is in a forward-moving state. In the forward moving process of the tray 1, the push rod 3 is always in a backward moving reset state, namely the protective plate 8 is always in a state of folding to protect the beverage cup 2, and the beverage cup 2 is effectively ensured to stably move forward along with the tray 1.

A cup pushing process: the first motor 4a acts to drive the rotary disc 5 to rotate, the connecting rod 6 drives the push rod 3 to move forward, the trigger part 81 leaves the abdicating notch 31, meanwhile, the trigger part 81 drives the guard plate 8 to swing outwards and open under the action of the outer side wall of the push rod 3, the rotary disc 5 rotates about 180 degrees, and the push rod 3 completely pushes the beverage cup 2 out of the tray, as shown in fig. 6. The rotary disc 5 continues to rotate, the push rod 3 is driven to move backwards through the connecting rod 6 to reset, when the rotary disc 5 rotates for 360 degrees, the trigger component 51 rotates to a position between the infrared photoelectric switches along with the rotary disc 5, the first position detection component 7a is triggered to send a signal, the first motor 4a stops acting, the push rod 3 moves backwards, the yielding notch 31 yields the trigger part 81, the trigger part 81 abuts against the rear wall of the yielding part 31, the two protection plates 8 are simultaneously turned inwards under the action of the elastic component 92 to keep a folding trend, and a protection cup space P holding the beverage cup 2 is formed between the two protection plates 8. Simultaneously or subsequently, the second motor 4b acts to drive the transmission belt 17 to rotate reversely, the tray 1 moves backwards relative to the guide rail 15 along with the guide wheel frame 16 until the touch part 162 touches the rear travel switch 18b, the second motor 4b stops acting, and the tray 1 is in a state of moving backwards to a position to be dropped next time.

It should be noted that in the description of the present embodiment, the terms "front, back", "left, right", "up, down", etc. indicate the orientation or positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, which is only for convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, but does not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. The terms "mounted," "connected," and "coupled" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly coupled, detachably coupled, or integrally coupled; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides an intelligence beverage machine send cup mechanism, includes tray (1) that has the position of placing that is used for placing drinking cup (2), tray (1) is by the drive of first drive structure and can slide its characterized in that around, its characterized in that: the beverage cup pushing device is characterized in that a pushing structure used for pushing the beverage cup (2) forwards away from the tray (1) is further arranged on the tray (1), and the pushing structure slides forwards and backwards along with the tray (1).

2. The cup feed mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the pushing structure comprises a push rod (3) used for pushing a beverage cup (2) placed on the placing position, the push rod (3) is constrained on the tray (1) and can slide back and forth relative to the tray (1), and a second driving structure used for driving the push rod (3) to slide back and forth is further arranged on the tray (1).

3. The cup feed mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the second driving structure comprises a first motor (4a), a rotary table (5) and a connecting rod (6), the tray (1) is driven by the first motor (4a) to rotate around the axis of the tray, the front end of the connecting rod (6) is hinged to the push rod (3), the rear end of the connecting rod (6) is hinged to the rotary table (5), and the hinged position and the rotary shaft of the rotary table (5) are arranged eccentrically.

4. The cup feed mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine as claimed in claim 3, wherein: install motor frame (11) on tray (1), install on motor frame (11) first motor (4a), carousel (5) are located the below of motor frame (11), be equipped with first position detection part (7a) on motor frame (11), be equipped with on carousel (5) bellied with first position detection part (7a) complex trigger part (51), under the state that first position detection part (7a) were triggered to rotatory trigger part (51) in carousel (5), first motor (4a) stop work.

5. The cup feed mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein: the first position detection component (7a) is an infrared photoelectric switch, and the trigger component (51) rotates to a position between the infrared photoelectric switches along with the rotating disc (5) and triggers the infrared photoelectric switches to send out signals.

6. The cup feed mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein: tray (1) bottom is equipped with along front and back direction extension recess (12), and the left and right sides interval of recess (12) is equipped with and sets up guiding axle (13) along length direction, the bottom of push rod (3) is equipped with a plurality of guide pulleys (14), race on guide pulley (14) with guiding axle (13) cooperation.

7. The cup feeding mechanism of the intelligent beverage machine according to any one of claims 2 to 6, characterized in that: the beverage cup is characterized in that two arc-shaped protection plates (8) which are arranged at left and right sides at intervals are further arranged on the tray (1), the protection plates (8) are rotatably installed on the tray (1) and can swing left and right to further realize folding or opening of the protection plates (8), a cup protecting space (P) for holding the beverage cup (2) is formed between the two protection plates (8) in a folding state of the protection plates (8), the push rod (3) moves forwards to push the beverage cup (2) in the process, the protection plates (8) are opened to ensure that the beverage cup (2) can move forwards, and the protection plates (8) are kept in a folding trend in a backward moving reset state of the push rod (3).

8. The cup feed mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine as claimed in claim 7, wherein: the tray (1) is provided with a door frame (9), pin shafts (91) are arranged on the left side and the right side of the door frame (9), the guard plate (8) is hinged to the pin shafts (91), elastic parts (92) enabling the guard plate (8) to keep a folding trend are arranged on the pin shafts (91), a trigger part (81) matched with the push rod is arranged on the rear side of the guard plate (8), and abdicating notches (31) for abdicating the trigger part (81) are arranged on the left side and the right side of the front surface of the push rod (3); push rod (3) rethread under the reset condition, it is right to let a breach (31) trigger part (81) form the swing and let a bit, backplate (8) can keep folding trend under elastic component (92) effect push rod (3) antedisplacement promotes goblet (2) in-process, trigger part (81) leave and let a breach (31), trigger part (81) simultaneously and drive backplate (8) outwards swing and open under push rod (3) lateral wall effect.

9. The cup feed mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine as claimed in claim 7, wherein: the tray (1) is provided with a concave cavity (10) for placing the bottom of the beverage cup (2), the concave cavity (10) is located below the protective plate (8), the front part of the concave cavity (10) is provided with an opening (101) for pushing out the bottom of the beverage cup (2) forwards, and the concave cavity (10) is further internally provided with a second position detection component (7b) for detecting whether the beverage cup (2) is placed or not.

10. The cup feed mechanism of an intelligent beverage machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the first driving structure comprises a guide rail (15) and a guide wheel frame (16) arranged on the guide rail (15), the guide wheel frame (16) is fixed at the bottom of the tray (1), a plurality of guide wheels (161) are installed on the guide wheel frame (16), the guide wheels (161) are matched with guide shafts (151) on two sides of the guide rail (15), a transmission belt (17) is further installed in the guide rail (15), the transmission belt (17) is driven by a second motor (4b) to transmit, the guide wheel frame (16) is fixed on the transmission belt (17) to slide along with the transmission belt (17), a rear travel switch (18) is further arranged on the guide rail (15), and a touch part (162) triggered by the rear travel switch (18) is arranged on the guide wheel frame (16).

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