JP2008167849A - Beverage feeder - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beverage feeder improving a beverage dispensing quality by preventing dispersion of the beverage when dispensing it and having a beverage dispensing nozzle improving the cleaning property of the inside of the beverage outlet. <P>SOLUTION: This beverage feeder feeds the beverage prepared using a raw material and hot water by a mixing bowl 30 from a beverage tube 31 to a tray type beverage dispensing nozzle 32. The tray type beverage dispensing nozzle 32 has a sloping groove 32 having a base downward inclined from one end to the other end and integrally molded of synthetic resin, the other end side of the groove base part has a beverage outlet 32b, and the beverage outlet 32b is attached with a beverage straightening plate 33b with its inserted therein. When the beverage prepared using the powdered raw material and hot water is fed to the sloping groove 32a, the beverage downward flows the downward-inclined base and is dispensed from the beverage outlet 32b to a cup C. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a beverage supply device for supplying a beverage prepared using raw materials and hot water.

  In order to supply beverages prepared with beverage supply devices such as cup-type vending machines and tea dispensers to cups, raw material storage containers that store powdered raw materials and hot water tanks that store heated hot water are used. A predetermined amount of powdered raw material and hot water are supplied to the mixing bowl, the powdered raw material and hot water are stirred and mixed in the mixing bowl to prepare a beverage, and a tray-type beverage discharge nozzle is placed on the cup placed on the bend stage. Beverage is discharged.

This tray-type beverage discharge nozzle is formed by integrally molding an inclined groove having a bottom surface that is inclined downward from one end to the other end with a synthetic resin, and a beverage discharge port is provided at the groove bottom portion on the other end side so that a powder raw material and hot water are provided. The beverage prepared using the above is discharged from the beverage discharge port to the cup. In order to prevent the beverage from splashing out of the cup and smearing the edge of the cup or the bend stage when the beverage is discharged from the beverage discharge port, a beverage rectifying plate (rib) that partitions the internal space in the beverage discharge port And the discharged beverage is discharged into the cup along the discharge direction of the beverage discharge port (for example, see Patent Document 1).
JP 2002-326700 A (page 5, FIG. 8)

  However, since the beverage outlet has a small diameter (for example, a diameter of 9 mm) and the beverage rectifying plate is integrally formed so as to partition the internal space in the beverage outlet having a small diameter, the inside of the beverage outlet is cleaned. There was a problem that it was difficult to do. Further, in order to make the beverage discharge direction constant without providing a beverage rectifying plate, it is necessary to further reduce the diameter of the beverage discharge nozzle (for example, 4 mm in diameter). As a result, there is a problem that the amount of beverage discharged per hit is small, and as a result, a longer beverage discharge time is required, and the beverage sags after dripping from the beverage discharge nozzle.

  In view of the above circumstances, the present invention provides a beverage supply device provided with a beverage discharge nozzle that improves beverage discharge quality by preventing the scattering of beverage at the time of beverage discharge and improves the cleanability of the beverage discharge port. The purpose is to do.

In order to achieve the above object, a beverage supply apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention is a beverage provided at the bottom of a groove by flowing down an inclined groove having a bottom surface inclined downward from a beverage prepared using raw materials and hot water. In a beverage supply device comprising a tray-type beverage discharge nozzle that discharges from a discharge port to a cup,
The beverage discharge port is provided with a beverage rectifying plate detachably provided to rectify the flow of the beverage discharged to the cup.

  Moreover, the drink supply apparatus which concerns on Claim 2 of this invention provided the nozzle cover in the upper part of the said tray-type drink discharge nozzle in Claim 1 mentioned above, and formed the said drink baffle plate in the said nozzle cover bottom face. It is characterized by.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, a tray-type beverage discharge system for discharging a beverage prepared using raw materials and hot water to a cup from a beverage discharge port provided at the bottom of the groove by flowing down an inclined groove having a bottom surface inclined downward. In a beverage supply device equipped with a nozzle, the beverage discharge port is provided with a detachable beverage rectifying plate that rectifies the flow of the beverage discharged to the cup, thereby preventing the beverage from being scattered at the time of discharging the beverage. It is possible to provide a beverage supply device provided with a beverage discharge nozzle that improves the quality and improves the cleanability of the beverage discharge port.

  Moreover, according to invention of Claim 2, the nozzle cover was provided in the upper part of the tray-type drink discharge nozzle, and the drink baffle plate was formed in the nozzle cover bottom face, Therefore A drink baffle plate can be attached or detached to a drink discharge port. It becomes easy to do.

A cup type vending machine will be described in detail below as a preferred embodiment of a beverage supply device according to the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments.
1 and FIG. 2 as an example according to the embodiment of the present invention, a cup supplied from a cup supply device flows down an inclined groove having a bottom surface inclined downward from a beverage prepared using raw materials and hot water. The conceptual diagram of the cup-type vending machine provided with the tray-type drink discharge nozzle discharged from the drink discharge opening provided in the groove bottom part is shown.

  The cup type vending machine 1 has a front door 2 attached to a vending machine main body (not shown) by a hinge, and the front door 2 is provided with a sales door 3 for a customer to take out cup beverages so as to be opened and closed. Yes. A cup dispenser 12 for dispensing a cup C by forward / reverse rotation of a cup dispenser frame (not shown) is provided at the bottom of the cup container 11 of the cup supply device 10 attached to the vending machine main body side of the front door 2. A cup chute 13 for guiding the falling direction of the cup C is provided, and when the cup dispensing part 12 performs the cup dispensing operation, the cup C accommodated in the cup accommodating part 11 is guided by the cup chute 13 and dropped.

  The cup C supplied from the cup supply device 10 is gripped by the pair of cup gripping arms 21 of the cup gripping device 20 waiting immediately below the cup chute 13 and placed on the bend stage 14. The cup gripping device 20 is fixed to a cup gripping device mounting portion 22, and the cup gripping device mounting portion 22 is mounted by a movement drive device 23 so as to be movable in the left-right direction in the figure. The movement drive device 23 moves, for example, a cup gripping device attachment portion 22 connected to a nut engaged with a screw groove by rotating a screw attached to a drive shaft of a DC motor forward and backward in the longitudinal direction of the screw. When the cup-type vending machine 1 is on standby to sell a cup beverage, as shown in FIG. 1, a pair of cup gripping arms 21 is positioned directly below the cup chute 13 of the cup supply device 10 for supplying the cup C. When the cup dispensing unit 12 is driven and the cup C is supplied from the cup supply device 10, it is held by the pair of cup arms 21 and placed on the bend stage 14. As described above, when the cup payout portion 12 of the cup supply device 10 performs the cup payout operation, the supplied cup C is guided by the cup chute 13 and falls and is held by the pair of cup arms 21 of the cup holding device 20. .

  After that, the movement driving device 23 is driven so that the cup gripping device 20 fixed to the cup gripping device mounting portion 22 moves to the right side in the figure, and the opening of the cup C gripping as shown in FIG. When the tray-type beverage discharge nozzle 32 is located immediately below the beverage discharge port 32b, the movement of the movement drive device 23 is stopped by a signal output from a stop sensor (not shown) to stop the cup gripping device 20. In this state, the beverage prepared using the raw material and hot water in the mixing bowl 30 is supplied from the beverage tube 31 to the tray-type beverage discharge nozzle 32. The tray-type beverage discharge nozzle 32 is integrally formed of synthetic resin with an inclined groove 32a having a bottom surface inclined downward from one end to the other end, and a beverage discharge port 32b is provided at the bottom of the groove on the other end side. When a beverage prepared using water and hot water is supplied to the inclined groove 32a, the beverage flows down the downwardly inclined bottom surface and is discharged from the beverage discharge port 32b to the cup C. A nozzle cover 33 is attached to the upper part of the tray-type beverage discharge nozzle 32 to prevent powder raw materials and the like from being mixed into the inclined groove 32a. When a predetermined amount of beverage is discharged from the beverage discharge port 32b into the cup C, the movement driving device 23 is driven again so that the cup gripping device 20 moves in the left direction in the figure, and the position shown in FIG. When the position reaches (position), the movement driving device 23 is stopped by a signal output from a stop sensor (not shown), and the movement of the cup gripping device 20 is stopped.

FIG. 3 shows a view of the nozzle cover 33 attached to the upper part of the tray-type beverage discharge nozzle 32 as viewed obliquely from below, and the beverage rectifying plate 33b is attached in the beverage discharge port 32b.
FIG. 4 shows a view in which the nozzle cover 33 is removed from the tray-type beverage discharge nozzle 32. FIG. 4A shows the nozzle cover bottom surface 33a, which is a mounting surface of the nozzle cover 33 to the tray-type beverage discharge nozzle 32, visible. FIG. 4B is a view in which the inclined grooves 32a of the tray type beverage discharge nozzle 32 and the inside of the beverage discharge port 32b are made visible. A beverage rectifying plate 33b is integrally formed on the nozzle cover bottom surface 33a. When the nozzle cover 33 is attached to the tray-type beverage discharge nozzle 32, the beverage rectifying plate 33b is inserted into the beverage discharge port 32b (see FIG. 3). ).

In the cup type vending machine 1 configured as described above, a pair of cup gripping arms of the cup gripping device 20 is placed immediately below the cup chute 13 of the cup supply device 10 which is the beverage sales standby position shown in FIG. 21 is positioned and stopped.
Then, when a user pushes a sales button (not shown) and a beverage sales command is output, the cup dispensing unit 12 performs a cup dispensing operation, and the cup C accommodated in the cup accommodating unit 11 is cupped. It is guided by the chute 13 and falls. The cup C supplied from the cup supply device 10 is gripped by the pair of cup gripping arms 21 of the cup gripping device 20 waiting immediately below the cup chute 13 and placed on the bend stage 14.

  When the cup C is placed on the bend stage 14, the movement driving device 23 is driven and gripped by the pair of cup gripping arms 21 at a position immediately below the beverage discharge port 32b of the beverage nozzle 32 shown in FIG. The cup holding device 20 is stopped by moving the opening of the cup C. When the opening of the cup C moves to a position immediately below the beverage discharge port 32b and stops, the raw material supplied from the raw material storage container (not shown) via the raw material shooter 34 and the hot water tank (not shown) are supplied. A beverage prepared by stirring and mixing hot water with the mixing bowl 30 is supplied from the beverage tube 31 to the inclined groove 32 a of the beverage nozzle 32. The beverage supplied from the mixing bowl 30 flows down the inclined groove 32a and is discharged from the beverage discharge port 32b to the cup C. Since the beverage rectifying plate 33b is inserted and attached in the beverage discharge port 32b, The flow of the beverage discharged to the cup C is rectified by the beverage rectifying plate 33b and flows down into the cup C, so that the beverage is prevented from being scattered when the beverage is discharged and the beverage discharge quality can be improved.

  In this manner, a predetermined amount of beverage prepared in the mixing bowl 30 flows down the inclined groove 32a of the beverage nozzle 32 and is discharged to the cup C as a flow of beverage rectified from the beverage discharge port 32b, thereby completing a cup beverage. And the pair of cup gripping arms 21 of the cup gripping device 20 that grips the cup C at a position directly below the cup chute 13 of the cup supply device 10 that is the beverage sales standby position shown in FIG. Move to stop. Then, a beverage preparation completion lamp (not shown) is turned on to inform the user that the cup beverage has been completed. The customer opens the sales door 3, takes out the cup C containing the beverage, and the sale of the cup beverage by the cup type vending machine 1 ends.

  The cup-type vending machine 1 that sells cup beverages in this way is periodically cleaned, but when cleaning the tray-type beverage discharge nozzle 32, by removing the nozzle cover 33 attached to the upper part thereof, The beverage rectifying plate 33b can be easily attached to and detached from the beverage discharge port 32b, and the cleanability within the beverage discharge port 32b is improved. Moreover, since the nozzle cover bottom face 33a and the beverage rectifying plate 33b can be cleaned with the nozzle cover 33 also removed, cleaning becomes easy.

It is a conceptual diagram which shows the drink sales standby of the cup type vending machine concerning embodiment of this invention, the time of cup supply, and the time of cup drink delivery. It is a conceptual diagram which shows the time of a drink discharge from the tray type drink discharge nozzle of the cup type vending machine which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which attached the nozzle cover to the tray type drink discharge nozzle shown in FIG. It is the figure which removed the nozzle cover from the tray type drink discharge nozzle shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

1 Cup vending machine (beverage supply equipment)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Cup supply apparatus 11 Cup accommodating part 12 Cup discharge | payout part 13 Cup chute 14 Bend stage 20 Cup gripping apparatus 21 A pair of cup gripping arm 22 Cup gripping apparatus attaching part 23 Movement drive apparatus 30 Mixing bowl 31 Beverage tube 32 Tray type beverage discharge nozzle 32a Inclined groove 32b Beverage outlet 33 Nozzle cover 33a Nozzle cover bottom 33b Beverage rectifying plate C cup

Claims (2)

In a beverage supply apparatus provided with a tray-type beverage discharge nozzle for discharging a beverage prepared using raw materials and hot water to a cup from a beverage discharge port provided at the bottom of the groove by flowing down an inclined groove having a bottom surface inclined downward.
The beverage supply device according to claim 1, wherein a beverage rectifying plate for rectifying the flow of the beverage discharged to the cup is detachably provided at the beverage discharge port.   The beverage supply apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a nozzle cover is provided on an upper portion of the tray-type beverage discharge nozzle, and the beverage rectifying plate is formed on a bottom surface of the nozzle cover.

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