JP2002206832A - Ice dispenser - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an ice dispenser, in which a dispenser main-body is covered with a shell and an effective space of an ice-storage chamber is increased. SOLUTION: In the ice dispenser, the ice-storage chamber is equipped with an ice-releasing auger driven by a motor, and the front opening is covered with an ice-storage chamber cover. The cover 10d is divided into a cover body 16 covering the front opening of the chamber 10b, and a motor cover body 17 covering the front of the motor. The cover body 16 is formed to have a vertical plate shape, and is attached removably to the opening edge of the chamber 10b. A motor cover 17b of the cover body 17 is protruded from the cover main body 16 to the outside.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to an ice dispenser.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As one type of ice dispenser, as disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 63-15475, an ice storage device is provided in which an auger for discharging ice driven by a drive motor is located at the bottom of an ice storage room. There is an ice dispenser whose front opening is covered with an ice storage cover. The ice dispenser is configured to drive an ice discharging auger to discharge a block of ice stored in an ice storage chamber from an outlet.

[0003]

In this type of ice dispenser, since the drive motor protrudes greatly toward the front opening of the ice storage, the portion of the ice storage cover facing the drive motor is largely bent. In addition, the periphery of the opening on the front side of the ice storage to which the ice storage cover is attached also protrudes largely inward and outward corresponding to the bent shape of the ice storage cover. For this reason, the space of the ice storage room is inevitably reduced, and the storage capacity of massive ice is reduced.
In addition, because the ice storage cover is greatly bent,
It is not suitable for inspection and cleaning, and the shape of the peripheral portion of the front opening of the ice storage, which is the mounting portion of the ice storage cover, is complicated, and the state is likely to be unsanitary. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to address these issues.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an ice dispenser, in which an ice storage auger driven by a drive motor is located at the bottom of an ice storage room, and a front opening of the ice storage is provided on the ice storage cover. An ice dispenser of a type that is covered with a cover is applied.

Thus, in the ice dispenser according to the present invention, the ice storage cover is divided into a cover body for covering the front opening of the ice storage and a motor cover for covering the front side of the drive motor. Forming the cover body in a vertical flat plate shape, detachably attaching the cover body to the opening edge of the front opening of the ice storage, and projecting the motor cover portion of the motor cover body outward from the cover body. It is a feature.

In the ice dispenser according to the present invention, a cover body constituting the ice storage cover is provided with an insertion groove provided at one of left and right side edges at one of the opening edges of the front opening of the ice storage. And a mounting hole opposed to a screw hole provided on the other of the opening edges on the other of the left and right side edges, In a state of being hooked on the insertion groove on the ice storage side and being positioned, it can be detachably mounted by a screw screwed into the screw hole on the ice storage side through the mounting hole.

[0007]

In the ice dispenser according to the present invention, the ice storage cover is divided into a cover body for covering the front opening of the ice storage and a motor cover body for covering the drive motor. It is formed in a flat plate shape and is detachably attached to the opening edge of the front opening of the ice storage so that the motor cover of the motor cover body projects outward from the cover main body. For this reason, the ice storage cover does not significantly bend and protrude into the ice storage compartment of the ice storage as in the conventional case, thereby preventing the space in the ice storage room from being reduced due to the bent portion of the conventional ice storage cover. Therefore, the space in the ice storage room can be expanded.

In this case, the peripheral edge of the opening on the front side of the ice storage to which the ice storage cover is attached can also be formed in a vertical plane corresponding to the shape of the ice storage cover. In addition to being able to have a shape suitable for cleaning, the shape of the ice storage cover and the mounting portion thereof are simple, and the condition is also favorable for hygiene.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention relates to an ice dispenser. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of an ice dispenser to which the present invention is applied, and FIG.
It is a perspective view which decomposes | disassembles and shows the said ice dispenser.
The ice dispenser has a dispenser body 10A housed in a housing 20A. The dispenser body 10A has a lower portion formed in a storage room 10a of a freezing mechanism, and an upper portion of the storage room formed in an ice storage 10b. Is formed. In the ice storage 10b, a portion above the ice storage mechanism is an installation site for disposing an ice making mechanism (not shown), and a portion below the installation site is an ice storage room.

The ice storage 10b constituting the dispenser main body 10A is open on the upper side and the front side, the upper opening is covered by an upper panel 22 of a housing 10A described later, and the front opening is formed on the ice storage cover 10c. It is covered. The ice storage cover 10c is connected to the ice storage 10b.
An upper cover body 11 that covers an upper portion of the front opening portion of
And a lower cover body 12 that covers the lower part.
The lower cover body 12 is a drive motor 1 for an auger 13 for discharging ice.
4 also serves as a mounting portion.

The upper cover body 11 has a lower end bent in a V-shape on the rear side, and the upper peripheral portions (mounting surfaces) 15a, 15b of the front opening of the ice storage 10b are also covered with the upper cover. Like the body 11, it is formed in a U-shaped bent surface. The upper cover body 11 is provided with thumb screws 11 on the mounting surfaces 15a and 15b on the upper side of the front opening of the ice storage 10b.
It is detachably attached via a and 11b. The lower cover body 12 is a flat plate, and has a peripheral portion (mounting surface) 15 on the lower side of the front opening of the ice storage 10b.
c and 15d are also formed in a flat plate-like surface like the lower cover body 12. Each of the mounting surfaces 15c and 15d extends downward from the lower edges of the upper mounting surfaces 15a and 15b so as to be inclined downward. The lower cover body 12 is provided with thumb screws 12 on the lower mounting surfaces 15c and 15d of the front opening of the ice storage 10b.
a, 12b so as to be detachable.

In such an attached state of the two cover bodies 11 and 12, the joint between the two cover bodies 11 and 12 is the ice storage 1
0b gradually protruding into the ice storage room. The drive motor 14 is mounted on the front side of the lower cover body 12, and the ice discharging auger 13 is connected to the output shaft of the drive motor 14 on the rear side of the lower cover body 12 and at the bottom of the ice storage chamber. It extends downward and downward. Reference numeral 15e shown in FIG. 2 is a magnet plug for connecting a power supply to devices provided on the lower cover body 12, and when the lower cover body 12 is attached, the magnet plug is connected to connection terminals of the devices by magnetic force. Joined.

The housing 20A includes a pair of left and right side panels 21a and 21b, a rear panel 21c, an upper panel 22, and an opening / closing door 23. The side panels 21a and 21b and the rear panel 21c are connected to each other via a frame 24 located on the outer periphery of the dispenser body 10A. The upper panel 22 has a rectangular shape in which a heat insulating material is adhered to an inner surface thereof. The upper panel 22 has a pair of locking holes 22a at a rear edge and a locking piece 22 at a front edge.
b. The upper panel 22 is provided with each of the locking holes 22a.
Are provided on the upper edge of the rear panel 21c.
Each side panel 21a, 21b is hung on c1.
In a state in which the opening / closing door 23 to be described later is closed, the hanging piece 22b enters the lower surface side of the hanging piece 23a provided on the opening / closing door 23 and is hooked, Ice storage 1
0b is fixed with its upper opening covered.

The opening / closing door 23 has its base end rotatably attached to the front end of the side panel 21b via a hinge. Screws 23b provided at the turning end are attached to the side panel 21a. Is fixed to the side panel 21c so as to be detachable by screwing into the nut 21a1 provided in the side panel 21c. The opening / closing door 23 is provided with an ice discharge port 23c at the lower end thereof, and when closed, covers the ice storage cover 10c that covers the front side of the ice storage 10b in the dispenser body 10A.

The lower part of the dispenser body 10A is
It is covered with the auxiliary panel 25. On the auxiliary panel 25, a mounting table 26 for receiving a container for accommodating the released ice is provided.
Is installed. The mounting table 26 is detachably locked by a pair of locking pins 25a provided on the auxiliary panel 25,
It is received and supported by the support portion 25b. Door 23
Is a screwdriver lock with a dispenser body 10
When the opening / closing door 23 is opened, the driver lock is turned by a flathead screwdriver or the like to release the lock as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG.

In the ice dispenser, a large number of blocks of ice are generated in the ice making mechanism by the ice making operation.
Each generated ice is dropped from the ice making mechanism and stored in the ice storage 10
b is stored at the bottom of the ice storage chamber. Each ice stored at the bottom of the ice storage room is carried out above the ice discharge port 23c by the operation of the ice discharge auger 13, is discharged through the discharge port 23c, falls, and falls into a cup or the like on the mounting table 26. Will be accommodated.

In the ice dispenser, the ice storage cover 10c protrudes into the ice storage chamber of the ice storage 10b centering on the joint between the two cover members 11, 12, thereby reducing the space of the ice storage chamber. Also, the ice storage cover 10c
Peripheral part of the front opening of the ice storage 10b,
That is, the shapes of the mounting surfaces 15a to 15d are complicated and are likely to be unsanitary.

On the other hand, an ice dispenser according to an example of the present invention is an ice dispenser to which the present invention is applied, in which the front opening of the ice storage 10b and the ice storage cover 10c for covering the front opening are improved. And is configured as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG.

The ice dispenser has a dispenser body 10B housed in a housing 20B.
Like the housing 20A, the housing 20B includes left and right side panels 21a and 21b, a rear panel 21c, an upper panel 22 (both not shown), an opening / closing door 23, and an auxiliary panel 25.

Each panel 21 constituting the housing 20B
The a to 21c, 22, 25 and the door 23 are assembled to the dispenser main body 10B in the same manner as the panels and the door forming the housing 20A. The dispenser main body 10B differs from the dispenser main body 10A in the shape of the front opening of the ice storage 10b, the shape and structure of the ice storage cover 10d that covers the same, and the mounting structure of the ice storage cover 10d to the front opening. .

Thus, the ice storage cover 10d of the dispenser main body 10B is divided into a cover main body 16 for covering the front opening of the ice storage 10b and a mounting cover body 17 for covering the drive motor 14 of the ice discharging auger 13. Have been. The cover main body 16 is formed in a substantially pentagonal vertical plate shape, and has a pentagonal cover portion 1.
6a has a rectangular fitting opening 1 extending upward at the lower end thereof.
6a1. The cover 16a has a hook 16b provided integrally with the front edge of the right frame 16a2 of the cover 16a, and a left frame 16 of the cover 16a.
It has a pair of upper and lower outward flanges 16c and 16d integrally provided at the front end edge of a3, and a pair of upper and lower mounting holes 16e and 16f provided at an intermediate portion of the left frame 16a3. The motor cover 17 includes a flat cover 17a and the flat cover 1.
The motor cover portion 17b is formed integrally with the upper end edge of the motor cover portion 7a. The motor cover portion 17b has a triangular side surface projecting forward, and has a hollow inside.

In the ice storage cover 10d, the motor cover 17 is attached to the front surface of the motor mounting portion 14a by the flat cover 17a.
b covers the front side of the drive motor 14. Also,
In the cover main body 16, the engaging piece 16 b is inserted into the insertion groove 18 a on the side of the dispenser main body 10 b, and in this inserted state, the cover 16 a is pushed toward the opening side of the ice storage 10 b and pushed downward. Move. This allows
In the cover body 16, the fitting opening 16a1 of the cover 16a is fitted to the outer peripheral edge of the motor cover 17b of the motor cover body 17, and the outward flanges 16c, 16d are the left front end of the ice storage 10b in the drawing. Ice storage 10
It is positioned at the front of the opening b. The mounting holes 16e and 16f of the cover body 16 face the screw holes 18b1 and 18b2 on the ice storage 10b side. Cover body 16
Are the thumb screws 18 inserted into the mounting holes 16e and 16f.
The screw c is screwed into each of the screw holes 18b1 and 18b2 to be attached to the ice storage 10b. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 3, the ice storage cover 10d covers the opening on the front side of the ice storage 10b.

In this ice dispenser, the opening / closing door 23 has a dispenser body 10 like the ice dispenser shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 to which the present invention is applied.
B so that it can be opened and closed, and the dispenser body 10B
Close the front of the. The opening / closing door 23 is configured to be locked to the dispenser main body 10B by a driver lock with a lock.
In the same manner as indicated by the dashed line, the driver lock is turned by a flathead screwdriver or the like to release the lock.

In the ice dispenser thus configured, an opening / closing door 23 for covering the front part of the dispenser body 10B is rotatably supported by the front edge of the dispenser body 10B, and the front part of the dispenser body 10B is rotated. It can be opened and closed. Therefore, when performing maintenance on the dispenser body 10B, the open / close door 23 is opened to open the front of the ice storage 10b of the dispenser body 10B, and the ice storage cover 1 that covers the front of the ice storage 10b.
0d can be exposed. Thereby, the door 23
It is possible to easily perform maintenance, inspection, replacement, and the like of various devices attached to the inner surface side of the device. In this state, the upper side of the ice storage 10b can be opened by removing the upper panel 22 from the upper end of the dispenser body 10B. Thus, maintenance, inspection, replacement, and the like of the devices disposed in the ice storage 10b can be performed, and maintenance, inspection, cleaning, and the like of the interior of the ice storage 10b can be performed.

In the ice dispenser, the cover main body 16 of the ice storage cover 10d can be removed by attaching and detaching each thumbscrew 18c, and the cover main body 16 is removed to open the front opening of the ice storage 10d. Can be opened. This also enables maintenance, inspection, replacement, and the like of the devices arranged in the ice storage 10b.

Incidentally, in the ice dispenser, the ice storage cover 10d is divided into a cover body 16 for covering the front opening of the ice storage 10b and a mounting cover body 17 for covering the front surface of the drive motor 14, and the cover body is provided. 16
Is formed in the shape of a vertical flat plate and is detachably attached to the opening edge of the front opening of the ice storage 10b so that the motor cover 17b of the attachment cover body 17 projects outward from the cover main body 16. For this reason, the ice storage cover 10d
Can be prevented from being greatly bent and protruding toward the ice storage room side of the ice storage room 10b, so that the space in the ice storage room due to the bent portion of the ice storage case can be prevented from being reduced, and the space inside the ice storage room can be expanded. Can be achieved. In this case, the front opening of the ice storage 10b to which the ice storage 10d is attached can also be formed in a vertical plane corresponding to the shape of the cover body 16 of the ice storage 10d, and the ice storage 10d and the mounting portion thereof The shape is suitable for inspection and cleaning of the storage, and the shape of the ice storage cover 10d and the mounting portion thereof are simple, so that the sanitary condition is also favorable.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of an ice dispenser to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing a state where a part of the ice dispenser is omitted.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the ice dispenser according to an example of the present invention, showing a state in which an opening / closing door is opened and an upper panel is removed.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an ice storage cover constituting the ice dispenser.

[Explanation of symbols]

10A, 10B: dispenser body, 10a: storage room,
10b ... ice storage, 10c10d ... ice storage cover, 11 ...
Upper cover body, 11a, 11b ... thumb screw, 12
... Lower cover body, 12a, 12b ... thumb screw, 13 ... ice discharging auger, 14 ... drive motor, 14a ... motor mounting part, 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d ... mounting surface, 15e
... Magnet plug, 16 ... Cover body, 16a ... Cover part, 16a1 ... Mating port, 16a2 ... Right frame part, 16a3 ...
Left frame portion, 16b: hook piece portion, 16c, 16d: outward flange portion, 16e, 16f: mounting hole, 16g, 16h: fitting recess, 17: motor cover body, 17a: flat cover portion, 17b: motor Cover part, 18a ... insertion groove, 18b
1, 18b2: screw hole, 20A, 20B: housing, 2
1a, 21b ... side panel, 21a1 ... nut, 21
c: Rear panel, 22: Upper panel, 22a: Hook hole, 22b: Hook piece, 23: Opening / closing door, 23a: Hook, 23b: Screw, 23c: Discharge port, 24: Frame, 25
... Auxiliary panel, 25a ... Hanging pin, 25b ... Support part, 2
6 ... Placement table.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Chimi Toriya 3-16 Hoshizaki Electric Co., Ltd., Sakaemachi Minamikan, Toyoake City, Aichi Prefecture (72) Inventor Susumu Hayakawa 16-16 Hoshizaki Electric Minamikan, Toyoake City, Aichi Prefecture (72) Inventor Shinji Miyazaki 3-16 Sakaemachi Minamikan, Toyoake City, Aichi Prefecture Inside Hoshizaki Electric Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] An ice dispenser in which an ice storage auger driven by a drive motor is positioned at the bottom of an ice storage chamber and the front opening of the ice storage is covered with an ice storage cover. A cover body that covers the front opening of the ice storage, and a motor cover body that covers the front side of the driving motor are divided, and the cover main body is formed in a vertical plate shape to form a front opening of the ice storage. An ice dispenser which is detachably attached to an opening edge portion, and wherein a motor cover portion of the motor cover body projects outward from the cover body. 2. The ice dispenser according to claim 1, wherein a cover main body constituting the ice storage cover is provided at one of left and right side edges at one of opening edges of a front opening of the ice storage. In addition to a hook piece that is hooked in the insertion groove, the other of the left and right side edges has a mounting hole facing a screw hole provided on the other of the opening edges, and the hook piece is An ice dispenser, wherein the ice dispenser is detachably mounted by a screw that is screwed into the screw hole on the ice storage side through the mounting hole in a state where the ice dispenser is positioned in the insertion groove on the ice storage side.