JP2001171796A - Drink dispenser - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drink dispenser for sours by which syrups can be simultaneously added to a base drink such as a shochu-based-highball, and the drink can be fed to a cup by a vending motion at a low cost. SOLUTION: The dispenser main body 1 is equipped with a carbon dioxide pressurized type base drink tank, drink cooling coils for respective systems, which are individually communicated and connected with a syrup tank, a base drink valve 7 having a vending lever 7a, which is connected to the drink cooling coils for respective systems, and is extended forward, and an assembly of a syrup valve 11 on the top of a vending stage. At the same time, the base drink valve and the syrup valve are mechanically connected through an interlocking link 14, and the syrup valve is opened while interlocking with the opening motion of the base drink valve when a drink is fed. Then, a cocktail drink such as a sour, to which syrups are added with a shochu-based-highball as the base drink, is fed to a cup 8.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a beverage used for sale of sour, which is installed in a restaurant or the like, and which is obtained by adding a syrup such as lemon to an alcoholic beverage (base beverage) obtained by, for example, dividing shochu high with a carbonated beverage. Dispenser related.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 shows the structure of a conventional beverage dispenser, taking a shochu high dispenser as an example. In the figure, 1 is a dispenser main body, 2 is a high shochu barrel (drinking tank), and 3 is a carbon dioxide gas cylinder. Here, a cooling water tank 5 combined with a refrigerator 4 and a beverage cooling coil 6 immersed in the water of the cooling water tank are mounted on the dispenser body 1, and a beverage valve 7 connected to the cooling coil 6 is provided above the bend stage 1a. Equipped.

[0003] A dispense head 2a mounted on the shochu high barrel 2 is connected to the carbon dioxide gas cylinder 3 and the above-mentioned beverage cooling coil 6 via a hose via a hose. Is extracted and sent to the cooling coil 6. The beverage valve 7 is a lever-operated valve provided with a selling lever 7a. When the cup 8 is pressed against the selling lever 7a, the beverage valve 7 is opened and the beverage is supplied to the cup 8 through the nozzle 7b. Reference numeral 9 denotes a cover that covers the beverage valve 7.

[0004] By the way, when selling lemon sour or the like using a beverage dispenser, conventionally, a certain amount of shochu high is supplied from a beverage dispenser to a cup, and then syrups such as lemon prepared separately from the dispenser are manually placed in a container. At present, the appropriate amount is poured into the cup, and the ice is added to the serving.

[0005]

As described above, the beverage dispenser having the conventional structure has a function of automatically adding syrups to a base beverage such as shochu high by the selling operation to finish it into a cocktail beverage such as sour. There is nothing with
Therefore, in order to receive such an order for a beverage and provide it to a customer, a laborious manual operation is required.

[0006] The present invention has been made in view of such a point, and its object is to reduce the cost without greatly increasing the product cost.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a simple beverage dispenser having a function of simultaneously adding syrups to a base beverage such as shochu high in a single selling operation and supplying the syrup to a cup.

[0007]

According to the present invention, in order to attain the above object, according to the present invention, a beverage cooling coil of each system is connected to a dispenser body individually with a carbon dioxide pressurized base beverage tank and a syrup tank. And an assembly of a base beverage valve and a syrup valve connected to a beverage cooling coil of each system and drawn out above the bend stage, and connected between the base beverage valve and the syrup valve via an interlocking link. The syrup valve is opened in conjunction with the opening operation of the base beverage valve at the time of supplying the beverage, so that the base beverage and the syrup are simultaneously supplied to the cup (Claim 1). It can be configured in a specific mode as described above.

(1) The base beverage valve is a slide-type valve that opens and closes by operating a selling lever, and an interlocking link connected to the valve body of the valve is used as an actuator to connect the two valves so as to open and close the syrup valve. It is assembled and constructed (Claim 2). (2) The addition of a flow regulator to the beverage circuit of the syrup valve allows adjustment of the amount of syrup to be added by operation from the front side of the main body of the dispenser (claim 3).

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the embodiments shown in FIGS. First, FIG.
1 shows the configuration of the entire beverage dispenser. In this embodiment, the following components are additionally provided as compared with the conventional beverage dispenser shown in FIG. First, the cooling water tank 5 has two drink cooling coils 6.
a and 6b were assembled, and one of the cooling coils 6a was drawn from a hose pulled out of a shochu high keg (base drink tank) 2, and the other cooling coil 6b was drawn from a syrup tank 10 containing added syrups such as lemon. Hose is connected. Further, above the bend stage 1a, two beverage valves 7, 11 connected to the respective beverage cooling coils 6a, 6b are juxtaposed and assembled on a common mounting frame, and the distance between the valves is as shown in FIG. Mechanically linked to each other so that each valve simultaneously opens and closes during beverage supply.

In FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b), a beverage cooling coil 6 is provided.
a (see FIG. 2), the base beverage valve 7 which is pulled out to the front of the dispenser main body is a slide valve which opens and closes by operating a sales lever 7a which protrudes downward from the cover 9, and is downwardly moved from the valve case. A nozzle 7b projecting toward the bend stage opens at a position in front of the selling lever 7a, and a valve body 7c that slides from the closed position to the open position by the pushing operation of the selling lever 7a inside the valve case.
And a structure including a swingable connecting rod 7d connecting between the valve element 7c and the selling lever 7a, and a return spring 7e.

On the other hand, the syrup valve 11 has a valve body 11a.
Is opened and closed by the operation of an opening / closing lever 11b drawn out of a valve case, and a beverage nozzle 12 connected to an outlet port side thereof is disposed close to and close to the nozzle 7b of the base beverage valve 7 described above. Have been. A return spring 11c biases the opening / closing lever 11b to an open position. In addition, a flow controller 13 for adjusting the flow rate of the added syrup is provided in front of the syrup valve 11. The flow controller 13 is of a throttle type in which a flow is adjusted by turning an adjusting screw.

Further, an interlocking link 14 is connected to the valve body 7c via a return spring 7e at the front end of the base beverage valve 7, and the opening and closing lever 11b of the syrup valve 11 is pushed by using the interlocking link 14 as an actuator. It is linked. With this configuration, when the cup 8 is pressed against the selling lever 7a of the base beverage valve 7, the valve 7c slides rightward to open the valve 7, and the link 14 moves rightward in conjunction with the sliding of the valve 7c. To open the syrup valve 11 at the same time. Thereby, the shochu high (base drink) extracted from the shochu high barrel 2 shown in FIG. 2 is supplied to the cup 8 through the cooling coil 6a and the nozzle 7b of the base drink valve 7, and from the syrup tank 10 by the same operation. The extracted added syrup (for example, lemon) passes through the cooling coil 6b, is squeezed to the flow rate set by the flow rate regulator 13, is poured into the cup 8 from the syrup nozzle 12 through the syrup valve 11, and has a base in the cup. Beverages and syrups mix to make sour.

When the appropriate amount of beverage is supplied to the cup 8 and the cup 8 is pulled away from the selling lever 7a, the return spring 7
e, the base beverage valve 7 is closed, and the link 14 retreats in conjunction with this, and the syrup valve 11
Also returns to the closed position and stops supplying the beverage. In addition, by equipping the beverage dispenser with a plurality of sets of the beverage systems described above, different types of sour can be sold with one beverage dispenser.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention, a carbon dioxide pressurized base beverage tank,
A beverage cooling coil of each system that is individually connected to the syrup tank, a base beverage valve that draws the beverage cooling coil of each system to the bend stage and has a beverage nozzle arranged side by side, and a syrup valve are provided. By connecting the syrup valve with the syrup valve via an interlocking link, opening the syrup valve in conjunction with the opening operation of the base beverage valve when supplying the beverage, sourcing the base beverage and syrup simultaneously into the cup, sourcing etc. Can be sold and provided in a cup directly from the beverage dispenser without dividing into two steps.

Further, since the base beverage valve and the syrup valve are mechanically connected via the interlocking link as described in the second aspect, the cost can be reduced without using an electric control system. Furthermore, by adding a flow rate regulator to the beverage circuit of the syrup valve as a means for regulating the flow rate of the added syrup as in claim 3, the user can easily adjust the addition amount of the syrup with a single driver as needed. Can be.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a beverage supply valve portion according to an embodiment of the present invention, (a) is a detailed assembly structure diagram, (b) is an external perspective view of FIG.

FIG. 2 is an overall configuration diagram of a beverage dispenser equipped with the beverage supply valve of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a conventional example of a beverage dispenser showing a dispenser for shochu high as an example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Dispenser main body 2 Shochu high barrel (base drink tank) 3 Carbon dioxide gas cylinder 5 Cooling water tank 6a, 6b Drink cooling coil 7 Base drink valve 7a Sales lever 7b Base drink nozzle 8 Cup 10 Syrup tank 11 Syrup valve 12 Syrup nozzle 13 Flow controller 14 Linkage

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A beverage dispenser for adding a syrup to a base beverage and supplying the syrup to a cup, wherein the beverage cooling of each system is individually connected to the base beverage tank and the syrup tank pressurized with carbon dioxide gas to the dispenser body. Coils and
Equipped with an assembly of a base beverage valve and a syrup valve connected to a beverage cooling coil of each system and pulled out above the bend stage, and connects the base beverage valve and the syrup valve via an interlocking link, A beverage dispenser, wherein a syrup valve is opened in conjunction with an opening operation of a base beverage valve at the time of dispensing, so that the base beverage and the syrup are simultaneously supplied to the cup. 2. The beverage dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the base beverage valve is a slide type valve that opens and closes by operating a selling lever, and the syrup valve opens and closes using an interlocking link connected to the valve body of the valve as an actuator. A beverage dispenser characterized in that: 3. The beverage dispenser according to claim 1, wherein a flow regulator is provided in the beverage circuit of the syrup valve.