CN112263149A

CN112263149A - Milk supply cleaning device and coffee machine

Info

Publication number: CN112263149A
Application number: CN202011294451.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 赵鑫; 钱天
Original assignee: Ruixing Coffee Information Technology Xiamen Co ltd
Current assignee: Ruixing Coffee Information Technology Xiamen Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-18
Filing date: 2020-11-18
Publication date: 2021-01-26

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of coffee machines, in particular to a milk supply cleaning device and a coffee machine. When the control valve is communicated with the milk containing box, the milk containing box is communicated with the device to be cleaned, and milk in the milk containing box enters the device to be cleaned so as to finish the milk supply action; when the control valve is communicated with the medicine dissolving box, the liquid medicine in the medicine dissolving box enters the device to be cleaned so as to finish the cleaning action. This supply milk cleaning device can accomplish automatically and supply milk and treat cleaning device's cleanness, has avoided pollution and potential safety hazard that cleaning operation caused, has reduced the cost of labor, has promoted economic benefits.

Description

Milk supply cleaning device and coffee machine

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of coffee machines, in particular to a milk supply cleaning device and a coffee machine.

Background

Coffee machines, as a device for grinding, pressing, filling, brewing, and mixing milk to make milk-containing coffee, are widely used in homes and businesses.

During the use of milk, the milk is inevitably left in the pipeline, and milk crystals are easily formed during the heating process of the milk. Therefore, the respective device containing the milk line needs to be cleaned regularly. Generally, a medicine is required to be put into the cleaning box, a liquid medicine is formed in the cleaning box, then the milk extracting pipe is taken out from milk and inserted into the cleaning box, the milk extracting pipe extracts the liquid medicine to be cleaned in a pipeline and a device to be cleaned, clean water is extracted to be cleaned in the pipeline and the device to be cleaned, finally, the pipeline connection is manually restored, and the whole cleaning process needs more than half an hour. Adopt above-mentioned manual operation not only can cause the pollution of milk to equipment and the outside pollution to milk to the in-process of delivering the medicine takes place easily and omits the condition of misuse even, leads to this kind of operating mode to have certain food potential safety hazard, and to self-service coffee machine, increased the abluent cost of labor of periodic maintenance moreover, reduced economic benefits.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a milk supply cleaning device which can automatically complete milk supply and cleaning of a device to be cleaned, avoid pollution and potential safety hazards caused by manual cleaning operation, reduce labor cost and improve economic benefits.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a milk supply cleaning device comprising:

the milk containing box is used for storing milk;

the medicine dissolving box is used for dissolving a medicine and providing liquid medicine;

and one end of the control valve is communicated with the device to be cleaned, and the other end of the control valve is selectively communicated with the milk containing box and the medicine dissolving box.

Optionally, a pump is provided between the control valve and the device to be cleaned.

Optionally, a branch is communicated on a pipeline between the control valve and the pump, and the branch is communicated with a hot water tank.

Optionally, the hot water tank is controlled to be switched by a switch valve.

Optionally, a drug delivery device is further included for delivering the drug into the drug dissolution cassette.

Optionally, a box cover is arranged on the medicine dissolving box, a liquid drawing port and a medicine delivery port are arranged on the box cover, the liquid drawing port is communicated with the control valve through a pipeline, and the medicine delivery device can deliver the medicine into the medicine dissolving box through the medicine delivery port.

Optionally, the milk containing box is a BIB milk bag or a boxed milk.

Optionally, the control valve is a two-position three-way valve.

Optionally, the pump is a gear pump.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a coffee maker, which can automatically complete milk supply and cleaning of a device to be cleaned, avoid pollution and potential safety hazard caused by manual cleaning operation, reduce labor cost, and improve economic benefits.

a coffee machine comprises the milk supply cleaning device.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

the invention provides a milk supply cleaning device which comprises a milk containing box, a medicine dissolving box and a control valve, wherein the milk containing box is used for storing milk, the medicine dissolving box is used for dissolving medicines and supplying liquid medicine, one end of the control valve is communicated with a device to be cleaned, and the other end of the control valve is communicated with the milk containing box or the medicine dissolving box. When the control valve is communicated with the milk containing box, the milk containing box is communicated with the device to be cleaned, and milk in the milk containing box enters the device to be cleaned so as to finish the milk supply action; when the control valve is communicated with the medicine dissolving box, the liquid medicine in the medicine dissolving box enters the device to be cleaned so as to finish the cleaning action. This supply milk cleaning device can accomplish automatically and supply milk and treat cleaning device's cleanness, has avoided pollution and potential safety hazard that cleaning operation caused, has reduced the cost of labor, has promoted economic benefits.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a milk supply cleaning device provided by an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a medicine dissolving box and a medicine delivery device of a milk cleaning device provided by an embodiment of the invention.

In the figure:

1. a milk containing box;

2. dissolving the medicine box; 21. a box cover; 211. a liquid extraction port; 212. a drug delivery port;

3. a control valve; 4. a device to be cleaned; 5. a pump; 6. a hot water tank; 7. an on-off valve; 8. a drug delivery device.

Detailed Description

The technical scheme of the invention is further explained by combining the attached drawings and the embodiment. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not limiting of the invention. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only some but not all of the elements associated with the present invention are shown in the drawings.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection or a removable connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; 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.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, "above" or "below" a first feature means that the first and second features are in direct contact, or that the first and second features are not in direct contact but are in contact with each other via another feature therebetween. Also, the first feature being "on," "above" and "over" the second feature includes the first feature being directly on and obliquely above the second feature, or merely indicating that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply meaning that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

As shown in fig. 1-2, the present embodiment provides a milk supply cleaning device, which can automatically complete the cleaning of the corresponding device including the milk pipeline, i.e. the device 4 to be cleaned, thereby avoiding the pollution and potential safety hazard caused by manual cleaning operation, reducing the labor cost, and improving the economic benefit. The milk supply cleaning device comprises a milk containing box 1, a medicine dissolving box 2 and a control valve 3, wherein the milk containing box 1 is used for storing and placing milk, the medicine dissolving box 2 is used for dissolving medicines and providing liquid medicine, one end of the control valve 3 is communicated with a device to be cleaned 4, and the other end of the control valve is selectively communicated with the milk containing box 1 and the medicine dissolving box 2. When the control valve 3 is communicated with the milk containing box 1, the milk containing box 1 is communicated with the device to be cleaned 4, and milk in the milk containing box 1 enters the device to be cleaned 4 to finish milk supply; when the control valve 3 is communicated with the medicine dissolving box 2, the liquid medicine in the medicine dissolving box 2 enters the device to be cleaned 4 to complete the cleaning action. This supply milk cleaning device can accomplish the switching of supplying milk and clean pipeline automatically, accomplishes clean process to resume and supply the milk pipeline, thereby accomplish whole clean process, pollution and food potential safety hazard that have avoided original clean operation to cause have reduced the cost of labor, have promoted economic benefits.

Alternatively, the milk containing box 1 is a BIB milk bag or a boxed milk, capable of providing milk. Alternatively, in the present embodiment, the control valve 3 is a two-position three-way valve, wherein the port P is communicated with the device to be cleaned 4, and the port a and the port B are respectively communicated with the milk containing box 1 and the medicine dissolving box 2.

For the purpose of pumping out milk or liquid medicine, optionally, a pump 5 is provided between the control valve 3 and the device to be cleaned 4. When the port P of the two-position three-way valve is communicated with the port A, the pump 5 can pump milk from the milk containing box 1 and pump the milk into the device to be cleaned 4 so as to finish milk supply; when the port P of the two-position three-way valve is communicated with the port B, the pump 5 can draw the liquid medicine from the medicine dissolving box 2 and press the liquid medicine into the device to be cleaned 4 to finish the cleaning action. Preferably, the pump 5 in this embodiment is a gear pump, which has the advantages of simple structure, uniform flow rate, reliable operation, etc.

In order to flush the device to be cleaned again with hot water after the liquid medicine cleaning in order to flush away the liquid medicine remaining in the device to be cleaned 4, a branch is optionally connected to the line between the control valve 3 and the pump 5, which branch is connected to the hot water tank 6. Optionally, the hot water tank 6 is switched on and off by means of a switching valve 7. When the P mouth and the B mouth intercommunication of two-position three-way valve, pump 5 can be with liquid medicine from dissolving medicine box 2 extraction pressure send to treat cleaning device 4 to accomplish the cleaning action, the ooff valve 7 of hot-water tank 6 is the closed condition in this process, treats that the liquid medicine extraction finishes the back, and the ooff valve 7 of hot-water tank 6 opens, and pump 5 can take out hot water extraction pressure and send to treating cleaning device 4 in, in order to accomplish hot water washing process.

In order to automate the process of dissolving the medicine into the liquid medicine, optionally, the milk supply cleaning device provided in this embodiment further includes a medicine delivery device 8, the medicine delivery device 8 is connected to the medicine dissolving box 2, and the medicine delivery device 8 is configured to deliver the medicine into the medicine dissolving box 2. Optionally, a box cover 21 is arranged on the drug dissolving box 2, a liquid drawing port 211 and a drug delivery port 212 are arranged on the box cover 21, the liquid drawing port 211 is communicated with the control valve (3) through a pipeline, and the drug delivery device can deliver drugs into the drug dissolving box through the drug delivery port. This confession milk cleaning device can accomplish the dissolving process of medicine before the liquid medicine extraction, when the P mouth and the B mouth intercommunication of two-position three-way valve promptly, medicine deliverer 8 can deliver the medicine from medicine delivery port 212 to dissolving in the medicine box 2, hot-water tank 6's ooff valve 7 is opened, and treat that the switch of cleaning device 4 department is closed, pump 5 can draw the hot water pressure-feed to dissolving in the medicine box 2, make the medicine can dissolve into the liquid medicine, then hot-water tank 6's ooff valve 7 is closed, treat that the switch of cleaning device 4 department is opened, pump 5 can draw out the liquid medicine from dissolving in the medicine box 2, and the pressure is sent to treating in the cleaning device 4, in order to accomplish the cleaning action.

The working process of the milk supply cleaning device provided by the embodiment is as follows:

1. and (4) normal milk supply:

when the port P of the two-position three-way valve is communicated with the port A, and the switch valve 7 of the hot water tank 6 is closed, the milk containing box 1 is communicated with the device to be cleaned 4, and the pump 5 can pump the milk from the milk containing box 1 and send the milk into the device to be cleaned 4 to finish the milk supply action.

2. Cleaning:

after long-time work, when milk crystals or other dirt exist in a milk pipeline and a corresponding device of the cleaning device 4 and need to be cleaned, a port P of the two-position three-way valve is communicated with a port B, a medicine delivery device 8 delivers medicines into the medicine dissolving box 2 from the medicine delivery port 212, the switch valve 7 of the hot water tank 6 is opened, the switch at the cleaning device 4 is closed, the pump 5 can pump hot water and pressure-feed the hot water into the medicine dissolving box 2, so that the medicines can be dissolved into liquid medicine, then the switch valve 7 of the hot water tank 6 is closed, the switch at the cleaning device 4 is opened, the pump 5 can pump the liquid medicine out of the medicine dissolving box 2 and pressure-feed the liquid medicine into the cleaning device 4, and cleaning action is finished.

3. And (3) washing process:

after the liquid medicine is completely pumped, the switch valve 7 of the hot water tank 6 is opened, and the pump 5 pumps and presses hot water into the device to be cleaned 4 so as to complete the hot water flushing process.

4. And (3) recovering milk supply:

the port P of the two-position three-way valve is switched to be communicated with the port A, the switch valve 7 of the hot water tank 6 is closed, the milk containing box 1 is communicated with the device 4 to be cleaned, the pump 5 provides power again, and milk is extracted from the milk containing box 1 and is pumped into the device 4 to be cleaned so as to recover the action of supplying the milk.

Another object of this embodiment is to provide a coffee machine comprising a milk supply and cleaning device as described above. This coffee machine can accomplish automatically and supply milk and treat cleaning device's cleanness, has avoided pollution and potential safety hazard that manual cleaning operation caused, reduces the cost of labor, promotes economic benefits.

It should be understood that the above-described embodiments of the present invention are merely examples for clearly illustrating the present invention, and are not intended to limit the embodiments of the present invention. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. A milk supply cleaning device, comprising:

the milk containing box (1), the milk containing box (1) is used for storing milk;

a dissolving box (2), wherein the dissolving box (2) is used for dissolving a medicine and providing a liquid medicine;

one end of the control valve (3) is communicated with the device to be cleaned (4), and the other end of the control valve (3) is selectively communicated with the milk containing box (1) and the dissolving box (2).

2. Milk supply cleaning device according to claim 1, characterized in that a pump (5) is arranged between the control valve (3) and the device to be cleaned (4).

3. Milk supply cleaning device according to claim 2, characterized in that a branch is connected to the line between the control valve (3) and the pump (5), said branch being connected to the hot water tank (6).

4. Milk supply cleaning device according to claim 3, characterized in that an on-off valve (7) is arranged on the branch.

5. Milk supply cleaning device according to claim 5, further comprising a drug delivery device (8), the drug delivery device (8) being adapted for delivering the drug into the cartridge (2).

6. The milk supply cleaning device according to claim 5, wherein a box cover (21) is arranged on the medicine dissolving box (2), a liquid drawing port (211) and a medicine delivery port (212) are arranged on the box cover (21), the liquid drawing port (211) is communicated with the control valve (3) through a pipeline, and the medicine delivery device (8) can deliver the medicine into the medicine dissolving box (2) through the medicine delivery port (212).

7. A milk supply cleaning device according to claim 1, characterized in that the milk receiving box (1) is a BIB milk bag or a boxed milk.

8. Milk supply cleaning device according to claim 1, characterized in that the control valve (3) is a two-position, three-way valve.

9. Milk supply cleaning device according to claim 2, characterized in that the pump (5) is a gear pump.

10. A coffee machine, characterized in that it comprises a device for cleaning milk according to any one of claims 1-9.