JP2004069288A - Cooler for wine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a desktop cooler capable of sufficiently cooling bottles of various shapes and sizes for wine. <P>SOLUTION: This desktop cooler for wine comprises a storage chamber 20 for wine bottle, a flexible cooling tube (plate) 40 arranged around the storage chamber 20, and a pressing material 10 fitting the cooling tube (plate) 40 to the side wall of the bottle. The storage chamber 20 is formed of the pressing material 10, and the compression coefficient of the pressing material 10 is smaller than that of a material forming the cooling tube (plate) 40. The pressing material 10 is formed of a cushion material of foam styrene, foam urethane, sponge, or air bag. The cooling tube (plate) is formed of synthetic rubber or synthetic resin. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a tabletop cooler for drinks such as alcohols such as wine, beer, and sake, or juices and water.
[0002]
[Prior art]
2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a tabletop cooler for cooling beverages such as wine at home or the like, a small one having excellent cooling performance is hardly known.
As a wine cooler, the inner tub is opened and the upper tub is opened and the inner tub is opened and the inner tub is also inserted and fixed while having a gap in the inner side surface and the bottom. Although a wine cooler including an outer tub is disclosed (see, for example, Patent Document 1), the wine cooler requires a space between the bottle and the inner tub for ice to enter, and as a result, the outer tub is required. Is not suitable for tabletop coolers.
Further, a wine cooler provided with an annular ice tray having a through hole into which a bottle can be inserted is also known (for example, see Patent Document 2), but is not suitable for a tabletop cooler as in the invention described in Patent Document 1. In addition, there is no direct contact between the ice as a refrigerant and the bottle, so that the cooling capacity is not sufficient.
[0003]
Although it is not a tabletop cooler, as a commercial cooler for cooling stainless steel beer barrels, etc., it has a half-split structure that can be divided or integrated according to the opening and closing of the lid provided in the cooling container main body. First, the cylindrical heat insulating material case is divided in the front-rear direction by opening the lid, and a cylindrical stainless steel beer barrel is placed in the beer barrel storage space inside the case, and then the lid is closed. Then, the cylindrical heat insulating material case of the half-structure is changed from the split state to the fitted and integrated state, the diameter of the beer storage space is reduced, and the stored beer barrel is peltier. When the power is supplied to the Peltier unit in a state in which the heat transfer plate is in close contact with the entire surface of the heat transfer plate having the arcuate surface of the heat transfer block on the heat absorbing surface side of the unit, a cooling action is started, and the heat transfer block and the transfer Heat play The beer barrel has been known structure to be cooled via a (e.g., see Patent Document 3.). However, such a commercial cooler is unsuitable as a table cooler in that the structure is complicated, the equipment cost is high, and the handling is complicated.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
It is an object of the present invention to provide a tabletop cooler that can sufficiently cool bottles of various shapes and sizes such as wine without using ice as a refrigerant.
[0005]
[Patent Document 1]
JP-A-6-41631 [Patent Document 2]
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-154956 [Patent Document 3]
JP 2001-180800 A
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The present invention relates to a substantially cylindrical storage chamber having an open end into which a bottle of wine or the like is inserted, a flexible cooling pipe or cooling plate surrounding the storage chamber, and the cooling pipe. Or a cooler for wine or the like provided with a pressing member for bringing the cooling plate into close contact with the side wall of the bottle, wherein the pressing member forms the storage chamber and the horizontal direction of the storage chamber before storing the bottle. A cross-sectional area s is smaller than a cross-sectional area S in a horizontal direction of the body of the bottle.
The cross-sectional area s ₀ in the horizontal direction at the open end of the storage chamber, it is preferable that the a barrel larger than the horizontal cross-sectional area S of the bottle.
It is preferable that the cooling pipe or the cooling plate is arranged in a zigzag shape extending in a vertical direction.
It is preferable that the pressing member is covered with a hardly deformable case except for an open end of the storage chamber.
Further, it is preferable that a cooling means for circulating a refrigerant in the cooling pipe is provided.
It is preferable that a Peltier element for transferring heat to the cooling plate is provided as cooling means.
It is preferable that a compression coefficient of the pressing member is smaller than a compression coefficient of a material forming the cooling pipe or the cooling plate.
It is preferable that the pressing material is made of a cushion material such as foamed styrene, urethane foam, sponge, air bag and the like.
It is preferable that the pressing material is a bag material such as foamed styrene, urethane foam, sponge, or the like, which is made of a cushion material such as lumps or granules.
Preferably, the pressing member is an air bag connected to an air pump.
It is preferable that the cooling pipe is made of either synthetic rubber or synthetic resin.
[0007]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the best mode of a household desk cooler according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vertical table-top cooler. In this table-top cooler, a substantially cylindrical housing chamber 20 having an open upper end 22 is formed by a deformable pressing member 10. Is externally covered by a hardly deformable case 18.
Reference numeral 13 denotes a handle provided for convenient transportation and handling of the tabletop cooler and pouring of wine or the like. In addition, in the present invention, the installation method of the tabletop cooler may be configured as a form that can be placed horizontally or diagonally in addition to such a vertical type.
[0008]
The pressing member 10 has a role of forming the storage chamber 20 and at the same time, bringing a cooling pipe (or cooling plate) 40 described below into close contact with a side wall of a bottle (a bottle of wine or a beer can) 30. Therefore, it is preferable that the compression coefficient of the pressing member 10 is selected so as to be smaller than the compression coefficient of the material forming the cooling pipe 40 so that the cooling pipe 40 can easily adhere to the side wall of the bottle 30. From such a viewpoint, it is preferable that the material of the pressing material 10 is a cushion material such as foamed styrene, urethane foam, sponge, and air bag.
It is preferable that these cushioning materials are formed into a shape having the bottle accommodating chamber 20 as they are, or the cushioning materials are packed into a lump or a granular form and bagged. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 15 denotes an air pump for inflating the air bag when the pressing member 10 is formed of an air bag.
[0009]
In a state before the bottle 30 is stored, the horizontal cross-sectional area s of the storage chamber 20 is formed smaller than the horizontal cross-sectional area S of the body of the bottle 30. As a result, in the cooler according to the present invention, the side wall of the bottle 30 automatically comes into close contact with the cooling pipe 40 simply by inserting the bottle 30 into the storage chamber 20 of the cooler.
In the cooler of the present embodiment, the upper end 22 of the housing chamber 20 in which the bottle 30 is inserted, the horizontal cross-sectional area s _0, is larger than the sectional area S of the body horizontal direction of the bottle. As a result, it becomes extremely easy to insert the bottle 30 into the cooler. In particular, if the horizontal cross-sectional area s of the storage chamber 20 is gradually reduced as it moves downward from the upper end 22 of the storage chamber 20, storage and removal can be further simplified and facilitated.
The case 18 restrains the pressing member 10 from the outside, enhances the adhesion between the bottle 30 and the cooling pipe (or cooling plate) 40, and improves the cooling effect.
[0010]
FIG. 2 shows a part of the pressing member 10 taken out of the cooler, and illustrates a state where the cooling pipe 40 is in contact with the inner wall surface of the pressing member 10. That is, the cooling pipe 40 is arranged so as to surround the accommodation room 20. The cooling pipe 40 has flexibility, and as its material, it is preferable to use a synthetic rubber or a synthetic resin that withstands use of a refrigerant and has excellent heat conductivity. As the synthetic rubber, isoprene rubber, styrene butadiene rubber, Butadiene rubber, chloroprene rubber, butyl rubber, ethylene propylene rubber, nitrile rubber, silicone rubber, fluoro rubber, polyethylene, cross-linked polyethylene, vinylidene fluoride, ethylene tetrafluoride ethylene, ethylene hexafluoride propylene, Examples thereof include ethylene tetrafluoride and perfluoroalkoxy.
[0011]
Since the cooling pipe 40 has flexibility, it can be deformed into a shape along the side wall surface of the bottle 30 by the pressing force received from the pressing material. Can also adhere to the side wall surface. In order to increase the contact area with the side wall surface, the pipe section of the cooling pipe 40 is not limited to a circle, but may be an oval or D-shaped.
As shown in FIG. 2, if the cooling pipes 40 are arranged in a crooked shape extending in the vertical direction, the cooling pipes generated when the pressing material 10 expands in the outer diameter direction when the bottle 30 is inserted into the cooler. The extension of the tube 40 can be minimized, and the cooling pipe 40 can be protected from damage due to the extension.
[0012]
It is necessary that the cooling pipe 40 be filled with a cold source, and in particular, is filled with a commonly used refrigerant such as ammonia or chlorofluorocarbon, and the refrigerant can be circulated through the pipe by the cooling means 42. Is preferred. In the tabletop cooler of the present invention, the cooling means 42 and the refrigerant are not particularly limited, and a conventionally known small cooling means is used.
[0013]
On the other hand, when using the cooling plate 40 instead of the cooling pipe 40, a thermoelectric conversion element represented by a Peltier element may be used as the cooling means 42, and the cooling plate 40 as a heat transfer plate may be connected to this. As is known, a Peltier device is a type of heat pump using a thermoelectric semiconductor, connects two different conductors or semiconductors, allows a direct current to flow therethrough, and in each connection part, other than Joule heat. Heat absorption or generation. If a thermoelectric conversion element such as a Peltier element is used as the cooling means 42, the desktop cooler can be further reduced in size.
[0014]
【The invention's effect】
According to the tabletop cooler for wine or the like according to the present invention,
{Circle around (1)} One-touch operation of inserting bottles or beer cans of various shapes and sizes into wine or the like into a cooling chamber can sufficiently cool the bottles.
{Circle around (2)} A room temperature bottle can be rapidly cooled on a table. That is, no refrigerator or ice is required,
(3) Since it is a small cooler that does not use ice, it is possible to pour wine etc. directly from the cooler, and no water drops adhere to the bottle.
(4) Because it is composed of a small device, the cooled bottle can be kept cool on the table as it is.
It is possible to enjoy such an excellent effect.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vertical tabletop cooler according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view partially showing a pressing member 10 taken out of a cooler.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Pressing material 13 Handle 15 Air pump 18 Case 20 Storage room 22 Upper end 30 of a storage room Bottle 40 Cooling pipe (plate)
42 cooling means

Claims (11)

A substantially cylindrical storage chamber having an open end into which a bottle of wine or the like is inserted, a flexible cooling pipe or cooling plate surrounding the storage chamber, and the cooling pipe or cooling plate. A cooler for wine or the like, comprising a pressing member closely attached to a side wall of the bottle, wherein the pressing member forms the storage chamber, and a horizontal cross-sectional area s of the storage chamber before storing the bottle is s. A cooler for wine or the like, wherein the cross-sectional area S in the horizontal direction of the body of the bottle is smaller than S. Cooler wine etc. of horizontal cross-sectional area s _0, wherein a body portion larger than the horizontal cross-sectional area S of the bottle according to claim 1, wherein at the open end of the housing chamber. The cooler for wine or the like according to claim 1, wherein the cooling pipe or the cooling plate is arranged in a zigzag shape extending in a vertical direction. 2. The cooler for wine or the like according to claim 1, wherein the pressing member is covered with a hardly deformable case except for an open end of the storage chamber. The cooler for wine or the like according to claim 1, further comprising cooling means for flowing a refrigerant through the cooling pipe. 2. The cooler for wine or the like according to claim 1, further comprising a Peltier element for transferring heat to the cooling plate as cooling means. The cooler for wine or the like according to claim 1, wherein a compression coefficient of the pressing member is smaller than a compression coefficient of a material forming the cooling pipe or the cooling plate. The cooler for wine and the like according to claim 1, wherein the pressing material is made of a cushion material such as foamed styrene, urethane foam, sponge, air bag, and the like. The cooler for wine or the like according to claim 1, wherein the pressing material is a bag material such as foamed styrene, urethane foam, sponge, or the like, which is made of a cushion material such as lumps or granules. The cooler for wine or the like according to claim 1, wherein the pressing member is an air bag connected to an air pump. The cooler for wine or the like according to claim 1, wherein the cooling pipe is made of either synthetic rubber or synthetic resin.

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