CN212645047U

CN212645047U - Automatic ice discharging machine and ice processing system

Info

Publication number: CN212645047U
Application number: CN202021231067.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈瑜康
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2020-06-29
Filing date: 2020-06-29
Publication date: 2021-03-02
Anticipated expiration: 2030-06-29

Abstract

The application discloses an automatic ice maker. This ice dispenser includes: an ice storage chamber; the rotary ice outlet piece is closed at the bottom of the ice storage chamber, and a gap communicated with the ice storage chamber is formed at the rear end of the rotary ice outlet piece; the base is arranged at the bottom of the rotating ice outlet piece, and an ice outlet channel is arranged at the front end of the base; when the notch is overlapped with the ice outlet channel through the rotation of the rotating ice outlet piece, the ice in the notch is output from the ice outlet channel. The technical problem that degree of automation is low, and the quantitative deviation is big has been solved to this application.

Description

Automatic ice discharging machine and ice processing system

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of ice making, in particular to an automatic ice outlet machine and an ice processing system.

Background

The current ice making technology is more perfect, ice making is carried out by adopting an ice maker, and the made ice is uniformly placed in an ice chest; the staff takes out the beverage by means of a shovel and puts the beverage into beverages such as cola and orange juice.

The inventor finds that the ice-taking action needs to be manually finished, and the automation degree is low; and the quantification is completely empirical and has inevitable deviation.

Aiming at the problems of low automation degree and large quantitative deviation in the related technology, no effective solution is provided at present.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The main objective of the present application is to provide an automatic ice maker and ice processing system to solve the problems of low automation degree and large quantitative deviation.

To achieve the above objects, according to one aspect of the present application, an automatic ice dispenser is provided.

An automatic ice dispenser according to the present application includes: an ice storage chamber; the base is arranged at the bottom of the ice storage chamber, and an ice outlet channel is arranged at the front end of the base; the rotary ice outlet piece is arranged in the base and is provided with a gap communicated with the ice storage chamber; when the notch is overlapped with the ice outlet channel through the rotation of the rotating ice outlet piece, the ice in the notch is output from the ice outlet channel.

Further, the ice storage chamber is of a cylindrical structure.

Further, the base is connected with the bottom of the ice storage chamber through a sealing member.

Further, the ice outlet channel includes: the ice outlet is positioned at the position, close to the bottom, of the front end face of the base.

Further, the ice outlet rotating piece is a rotary circular table.

Further, the method also comprises the following steps: the driving part is connected with the rotating shaft, and the rotary round table is connected with the rotating shaft in a rotating mode.

Further, the driving piece is a stepping motor.

Furthermore, the plurality of notches are circumferentially arranged on the rear end face of the ice rotating piece.

Further, the method also comprises the following steps: and the push rod type control valve is arranged at an ice outlet of the ice outlet channel.

To achieve the above object, according to another aspect of the present application, there is provided an ice processing system.

An ice processing system according to the present application includes: the automatic ice outlet machine comprises an automatic ice outlet machine and an ice machine, wherein the ice machine is communicated with the ice outlet machine.

In the embodiment of the application, an intelligent mode is adopted, and the ice storage chamber is used; the base is arranged at the bottom of the ice storage chamber, and an ice outlet channel is arranged at the front end of the base; the rotary ice outlet piece is arranged in the base and is provided with a gap communicated with the ice storage chamber; when the notch is overlapped with the ice outlet channel through the rotation of the rotating ice outlet piece, the ice in the notch is output from the ice outlet channel; the automatic quantitative ice discharging device achieves the purpose of replacing the automatic quantitative ice discharging with the empirical quantitative ice discharging and the manual ice taking, thereby greatly reducing the quantitative deviation, improving the technical effect of the degree of automation, and further solving the technical problems of low degree of automation and large quantitative deviation.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, serve to provide a further understanding of the application and to enable other features, objects, and advantages of the application to be more apparent. The drawings and their description illustrate the embodiments of the invention and do not limit it. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of an automatic ice dispenser according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of an automatic ice dispenser according to a preferred embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of an ice processing system according to an embodiment of the present application.

Reference numerals

1. An ice storage chamber; 2. a base; 3. an ice outlet channel; 4. rotating the ice outlet member; 5. a notch; 6. a seal member; 7. an ice outlet; 8. an ice inlet; 9. a flow-through channel; 10. a drive member; 11. a rotating shaft; 12. an evaporator; 13. preparing an ice plate; 14. a water bucket; 15. an automatic ice discharging machine; 16. an ice maker.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only partial embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It should be understood that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application described herein may be used. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

In this application, the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "middle", "vertical", "horizontal", "lateral", "longitudinal", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings. These terms are used primarily to better describe the invention and its embodiments, and are not intended to limit the indicated devices, elements or components to a particular orientation or to be constructed and operated in a particular orientation.

Moreover, some of the above terms may be used to indicate other meanings besides the orientation or positional relationship, for example, the term "on" may also be used to indicate some kind of attachment or connection relationship in some cases. The specific meaning of these terms in the present invention can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.

Furthermore, the terms "mounted," "disposed," "provided," "connected," and "sleeved" are to be construed broadly. For example, it may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or a unitary construction; can be a mechanical connection, or an electrical connection; may be directly connected, or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be in internal communication between two devices, elements or components. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.

As shown in fig. 1-2, the present application relates to an automatic ice dispenser 15 comprising: an ice storage chamber 1; the base 2 is arranged at the bottom of the ice storage chamber 1, and an ice outlet channel 3 is arranged at the front end of the base 2; the rotary ice outlet piece 4 is arranged in the base 2 and is provided with a gap 5 communicated with the ice storage chamber 1; when the notch 5 is overlapped with the ice outlet channel 3 by the rotation of the rotating ice outlet member 4, the ice in the notch 5 is output from the ice outlet channel 3.

Specifically, the ice storage chamber 1 has a refrigeration function, and can ensure that ice in the ice storage chamber is not melted; the ice storage chamber 1 can be a cuboid or a cylinder, and preferably, the ice storage chamber 1 is in a cylindrical structure; matching the shape of the base 2, the structural integrity is ensured. The base 2 has the function of arranging the rotary ice outlet piece 4 and the driving part thereof, and can seal the bottom of the ice storage chamber 1 through the upper surface so as to prevent the rotary ice outlet piece 4 in the base 2 from being directly contacted with the ice in the ice storage chamber 1 and ensure the normal operation of the mechanism; preferably, the base 2 is cylindrical, the interior of the base is of a hollow structure, and the base is separated by a partition plate and is used for respectively arranging the rotary ice outlet piece 4 and a driving part thereof; in some embodiments, a refrigerator may also be provided in the base 2 to make full use of space. The rotary ice discharging piece 4 has the purpose of discharging ice by rotationally adjusting the position of the notch 5 on the rotary ice discharging piece; a gap 5 is arranged on the ice storage chamber, the gap 5 is communicated with a through hole arranged on the upper surface of the base 2, and the sizes of the gap 5 and the through hole are preferably consistent, so that ice in the ice storage chamber 1 can be ensured to fall into the gap 5 through the through hole due to gravity; the gap 5 with the specified size can be designed to ensure that the amount of ice entering the gap is constant, thereby achieving the purpose of quantification; preferably, in this embodiment, the rotating ice discharging member 4 is a rotating circular table; smooth rotation can be ensured. Preferably, in this embodiment, the method further includes: the rotary table comprises a driving piece 10 and a rotating shaft 11, wherein the driving piece 10 is connected with the rotating shaft 11, and the rotary table is rotatably connected with the rotating shaft 11; the setting is in base 2, is located the lower floor of base 2, and the upper strata sets up rotary platform, so, can realize rotary platform's normal drive, makes its position that can rotate change breach 5. The ice outlet passage 3 has a function of finally outputting ice, and in the present embodiment, it is preferable that the ice outlet passage 3 includes: the ice outlet 7, the ice inlet 8 and the circulation channel 9, wherein the ice outlet 7 is positioned at the position, close to the bottom, of the front end surface of the base 2; when ice needs to be output, the rotating platform is controlled to rotate by a preset angle through the driving motor, the position of the notch 5 can be rotated to the front end position of the base 2, at the moment, the notch 5 is communicated with the ice inlet 8 of the ice outlet channel 3, and the ice in the notch 5 slides from the flow channel 9 to the ice outlet 7 to be output due to gravity; because the upper surface of the base 2 at the position is not provided with the through hole, the ice in the ice storage chamber 1 cannot fall, so that the quantity of the ice output every time is ensured to be constant, and the quantity uncertainty caused by continuous falling of the ice is avoided.

In the embodiment, the design of the ice-out rotating piece 4 is adopted, so that the volume can be effectively reduced, the complexity is simplified, and a baffle is not required to be additionally arranged to shield the through hole (the volume is increased, and the structure is complex); the control flow can be simplified, only the rotation of the ice outlet piece 4 needs to be controlled, and the opening and closing of a valve do not need to be controlled to ensure the output of ice and stop the output.

In this embodiment, the control of complete coincidence of the ice inlet 8 and the notch 5, or the control of only partial coincidence, can be realized by a preset angle; therefore, the ice making quantity can be controlled to meet the diversified requirements of users.

In this embodiment, an STM32 series controller and a control panel are provided, and the driving member 10 can be controlled to move at a preset angle by pressing a button on the control panel. Preferably, in this embodiment, the driving member 10 is a stepping motor; the accuracy of angle control can be effectively improved.

In this embodiment, after the ice in the gap 5 is discharged, the rotary circular table is controlled to rotate to the position of the through hole again, and the ice is automatically added to the gap 5 due to gravity.

From the above description, it can be seen that the following technical effects are achieved by the present application:

in the embodiment of the application, the intelligent mode is adopted, and the ice storage room 1 is used for storing the ice; the base 2 is arranged at the bottom of the ice storage chamber 1, and an ice outlet channel 3 is arranged at the front end of the base 2; the rotary ice outlet piece 4 is arranged in the base 2 and is provided with a gap 5 communicated with the ice storage chamber 1; when the notch 5 is overlapped with the ice outlet channel 3 through the rotation of the rotating ice outlet piece 4, the ice in the notch 5 is output from the ice outlet channel 3; the automatic quantitative ice discharging device achieves the purpose of replacing the automatic quantitative ice discharging with the empirical quantitative ice discharging and the manual ice taking, thereby greatly reducing the quantitative deviation, improving the technical effect of the degree of automation, and further solving the technical problems of low degree of automation and large quantitative deviation.

As preferred in the present embodiment, the base 2 is connected to the bottom of the ice storage chamber 1 through a sealing member 6. In order to ensure the sealing property, a sealing member 6 is further employed between the base 2 and the ice bank 1.

Preferably, in this embodiment, the plurality of notches 5 are circumferentially arranged on the rear end surface of the ice-rotating member 4. In order to promote efficiency, and save the electric quantity, notch 5 is not arranged except the upside of the income ice mouth 8 of going out ice passageway 3, notch 5 has been arranged to all the other position equipartitions, rotate predetermined angle at every turn, make one of them notch 5 and income ice mouth 8 relative with going out ice, and every notch 5 still keeps the intercommunication relation with ice storage chamber 1, after the ice in notch 5 goes out, rotatory predetermined angle, make this notch 5 to can add on the position of ice, can realize adding ice for notch 5, repeat with this, only need guarantee clockwise or anticlockwise rotation, just can add ice for notch 5 automatically, go out ice.

Preferably, in this embodiment, the method further includes: and the push rod type control valve is arranged at the ice outlet 7 of the ice outlet channel 3. After the ice in the gap 5 enters the ice outlet channel 3 and is blocked by the push rod type control valve arranged at the ice outlet 7, the ice can be discharged only by pressing the push rod type control valve to open; ensuring that ice is actively controlled to open and fall into the container only after the person is ready to receive it. As an optional scheme, a control valve in the push rod type control valve is electrically connected with the controller, when the control valve is opened, a signal is fed back to the controller, and after the controller receives the signal, the controller automatically controls the driving motor to rotate, so that the notch 5 is communicated with the inlet of the ice outlet channel 3, and ice is discharged; ice can be discharged only by pressing the push rod of the push rod type control valve, and the push buttons do not need to be pressed twice.

As shown in fig. 3, the present application is also directed to an ice processing system comprising: the automatic ice outlet machine 15 and the ice making machine 16, wherein the ice making machine 16 is communicated with the ice outlet machine. The ice maker 16 includes: an evaporator 12; an ice making plate 13 which is vertically disposed and a rear side of which is in contact with the evaporator 12, the ice maker 16 including a plurality of ice forming parts formed by dividing a front side of the ice making plate 13, surfaces of the ice forming parts being inclined downward; a water tub 14 disposed under the ice making plate 13 to collect water flowing down from the ice making plate 13; an ice storage compartment 1 in an automatic ice dispenser 15 forms an ice storage area around the water tub 14 to collect ice falling from the ice making plate 13.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. An automatic ice dispenser, comprising: an ice storage chamber; the base is arranged at the bottom of the ice storage chamber, and an ice outlet channel is arranged at the front end of the base; the rotary ice outlet piece is arranged in the base and is provided with a gap communicated with the ice storage chamber; when the notch is overlapped with the ice outlet channel through the rotation of the rotating ice outlet piece, the ice in the notch is output from the ice outlet channel.

2. The automatic ice dispenser of claim 1, wherein the ice storage bin is a cylindrical structure.

3. The automatic ice dispenser of claim 1, wherein the base is coupled to the bottom of the ice storage compartment by a seal.

4. The automatic ice dispenser of claim 1, wherein the ice outlet channel comprises: the ice outlet is positioned at the position, close to the bottom, of the front end face of the base.

5. The automatic ice dispenser of claim 1, wherein the rotating ice dispenser is a rotating circular table.

6. The automatic ice dispenser of claim 5, further comprising: the driving part is connected with the rotating shaft, and the rotary round table is connected with the rotating shaft in a rotating mode.

7. The automatic ice dispenser of claim 6, wherein the drive is a stepper motor.

8. The automatic ice dispenser of claim 1, wherein the plurality of notches are circumferentially disposed on a rear face of the rotating ice dispenser.

9. The automatic ice dispenser of claim 1, further comprising: and the push rod type control valve is arranged at an ice outlet of the ice outlet channel.

10. An ice processing system, comprising: the automatic ice dispenser of any one of claims 1 to 9, and an ice maker in communication with the ice dispenser.