JP2010108015A - Cup-type vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cup-type vending machine for efficiently performing a beverage raw material supply operation or a maintenance operation by opening an open/close door. <P>SOLUTION: Equipment for preparing beverage such as a coffee bean canister 4, a powder raw material canister 5, and a coffee extractor 8 is arranged in a casing 2, and a cup supply device 14 is arranged in an open/close door 3 to easily and efficiently achieve the supply operation of beverage raw materials to the coffee bean canister 4 or the power raw material canister 5 or the maintenance operation of the coffee extractor 8, a mixing bowl 9, a cooling water tank 12, and a slag bucket 13 only by opening the open/close door 3. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a cup-type vending machine that sells beverages prepared from beverage ingredients and hot water in cups.

  A cup-type vending machine that sells beverages prepared from beverage ingredients and hot water in a cup in the machine is a cup supply device that transports and feeds the contained cups every time they sell beverages, coffee beans, sugar and cream as beverage ingredients , Canisters containing powdered raw materials such as cocoa, hot water tanks that store hot water used to prepare beverages, hot water supplied from hot water tanks to ground beans that are ground by coffee mills A coffee extractor that extracts coffee liquid, a mixing bowl that stirs and mixes the supplied coffee liquid with sugar and cream, an auger type ice machine that manufactures and stores ice used for selling iced beverages, cooling Cooling water cooled to approximately 0 ° C with the latent heat of the ice bank formed around the evaporator of the device is stored to cool syrup and carbonated water used for syrup beverages And a that cooling water bath or the like (e.g., see Patent Document 1).

  When a coin is inserted into the coin insertion slot and the beverage selection button is pressed, the selected beverage is prepared and injected into a cup for sale. For example, when a regular coffee beverage is selected, the cup is unloaded from the cup supply device and supplied onto the cup mounting table of the sales outlet. At the same time, coffee beans are supplied from the coffee bean canister to the mill, where the coffee beans are ground into ground beans and fed into the coffee extractor. In the coffee extractor, when hot water supplied from the hot water tank is poured into the ground beans, the coffee component dissolves into the hot water, and when the hot water from which the coffee component has dissolved is passed through a filter and filtered, it becomes a coffee liquid.

The coffee liquid extracted in this manner is guided to a mixing bowl, mixed with sugar and cream supplied from a powder raw material canister, and poured into a cup on a cup mounting table. When an iced coffee beverage is selected, ice is supplied from an auger type ice making machine to become an iced coffee beverage.
JP-A-5-225440 (FIG. 2)

However, in order to replenish and maintain beverage ingredients such as coffee beans, sugar, and cream, it is necessary to open the door and open the front of the housing by rotating the cup supply device to the front. This has been a hindrance when performing beverage ingredient replenishment work and maintenance work.
In view of the above circumstances, an object of the present invention is to provide a cup-type vending machine that can efficiently perform these operations by opening an opening / closing door when performing a beverage ingredient replenishment operation or a maintenance operation.

In order to achieve the above object, a cup-type vending machine according to claim 1 of the present invention comprises a casing whose front surface is opened, and an open / close door hinged to one end of the front surface of the casing. In a cup-type vending machine that pours and sells beverages prepared by beverage preparation means using raw materials and hot water into a cup supplied from a cup supply device,
The beverage preparation means is disposed in the housing, the cup supply device is disposed on the opening / closing door, and the beverage preparation means is replenished and maintained by opening the opening / closing door. It is easy to use.

  A cup type vending machine according to claim 2 of the present invention is the cup type vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the beverage preparation means is a canister that contains the beverage ingredients, coffee that extracts the coffee liquid with the beverage ingredients and hot water. An extractor is provided.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the beverage preparation means is disposed in the casing, and the cup supply device is disposed on the opening / closing door, so that the opening / closing door is opened when performing a beverage ingredient replenishing operation or a maintenance operation. It is possible to provide a cup-type vending machine that can perform these operations efficiently.
Moreover, according to invention of Claim 2, a drink preparation means is a canister which accommodates a drink raw material, and is a coffee extractor which extracts a coffee liquid with a drink raw material and warm water, A drink raw material replenishment operation | work and a maintenance operation | work are performed. It becomes possible to carry out efficiently.

  Exemplary embodiments of a cup-type vending machine according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The cup-type vending machine exemplified here dispenses hot beverages or cold beverages prepared according to the user's request after receiving the coins to the cup placed on the cup mounting table of the cup outlet to the user. It is provided with a cup supply device, a hot water tank, a canister, a coffee extractor, an auger ice making machine, a cooling water tank, and the like. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments.

  FIG. 1 is a view in which a door of a cup type vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention is opened. The cup-type vending machine 1 includes a housing 2 whose front surface is opened, and an opening / closing door 3 attached to one end of the front surface of the housing 2 with a hinge. A coin (not shown) is provided on the outer surface of the opening / closing door 3. Are provided with a coin insertion slot for inserting the coin, a coin return lever for returning the inserted coin, a coin return slot for returning the coin, a beverage selection button for selecting a beverage, and the like.

  Inside the housing 2 are a coffee bean canister 4 containing coffee beans as a beverage ingredient, a powder ingredient canister 5 containing powder ingredients such as sugar, cream and cocoa, and hot water used for beverage preparation. A hot water tank 6 storing coffee, a coffee extractor 8 for extracting coffee liquid with hot water supplied from the hot water tank 6 into ground beans obtained by grinding the coffee beans supplied from the coffee bean canister 4 with a mill 7, Mixing bowl 9 for stirring and mixing sugar and cream, cup mounting table 10 for placing cups, auger type ice making machine 11 for producing and storing ice used for selling iced beverages, evaporator for cooling device Cooling water tank 12 that cools syrup and carbonated water used for syrup beverages by storing cooling water cooled to about 0 ° C. by the latent heat of the ice bank formed around And the filter is provided grounds bucket 13 or the like is to be discarded, constitutes a beverage preparation means for these devices.

In the open / close door 3, a cup supply device 14 for carrying out and supplying the accommodated cup every time the beverage is sold, a cup outlet 15 for taking out the prepared cup beverage by opening the take-out door, and coins thrown by the user. The money processing machine 16 etc. to process are provided.
In the cup-type vending machine 1 described above, when a coin is inserted into the coin insertion slot and a beverage selection button for selecting a hot coffee beverage is pressed, the cup is unloaded from the cup supply device 14 and placed on the cup mounting table 10. At the same time, the coffee extractor 8 is charged with coffee beans supplied from the coffee bean canister 4 by the mill 7, and is stored in the hot water tank 6 at 95 to 97 ° C. When hot water (not shown) is opened and the hot water is evenly supplied to the ground coffee beans, the coffee components melt from the ground coffee beans into the hot water. In this way, the coffee liquid in which the coffee component is dissolved in the hot water from the ground coffee beans is filtered by the filter and sent to the mixing bowl 9. In the mixing bowl 9, a hot coffee beverage obtained by stirring and mixing powder raw materials such as sugar and cream supplied from the powder raw material canister 5 with the coffee liquid extracted by the coffee extractor 8 is placed on the cup mounting table 10. When the user pours into the cup and the user opens the take-out door of the cup outlet 15 and takes out the cup containing the beverage, the cup beverage sale by the cup vending machine 1 is completed.

  When a beverage selection button for selecting an iced coffee beverage is pressed, the cup is placed on the cup placement table 10 as described above, and ground coffee beans and hot water are supplied to the coffee extractor 8. The amount of hot water supplied at this time is set to be less than the amount of ice supplied from the auger type ice making machine 11. In this way, the coffee liquid having a high coffee component concentration dissolved from the ground coffee beans in hot water is filtered by the filter and sent to the mixing bowl 9. The mixing bowl 9 is stirred and mixed with powdered raw materials such as sugar and cream and poured into a cup. Ice is supplied to the coffee beverage poured into the cup from the auger type ice making machine 11, and an iced coffee beverage is completed.

  Then, when replenishing and maintaining beverage ingredients such as coffee beans, sugar, cream, and cocoa, the door 3 is opened, the coffee beans canister 4 contains coffee beans, the powder ingredient canister 5 contains sugar and cream, Supplementing powder raw materials such as cocoa, cleaning the coffee extractor 8, inspecting and replacing the installed filter, cleaning the mixing bowl 9, inspecting the cooling water tank 12, and discarding the coffee basket and filter in the bucket 13 . As described above, the apparatus for preparing beverages such as the coffee bean canister 4, the powder raw material canister 5, and the coffee extractor 8 is disposed in the housing 2, and the cup supply device 14 is disposed in the open / close door 3. By simply opening the open / close door 3, it is possible to easily replenish the coffee beans canister 4 and the powder raw material canister 5 with the beverage ingredients, and maintain the coffee extractor 8, the mixing bowl 9, the cooling water tank 12, and the straw bucket 13. It can be done efficiently.

It is the figure which opened the opening-and-closing door of the cup type vending machine which is an embodiment of the invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cup type vending machine 2 Case 3 Opening and closing door 4 Coffee bean canister 5 Powder raw material canister 6 Hot water tank 7 mil 8 Coffee extractor 9 Mixing bowl 10 Cup mounting table 11 Auger type ice making machine 12 Cooling water tank 13 Coffee bucket 14 Cup supply Equipment 15 Cup outlet 16 Money handling machine

Claims (2)

A cup provided with a beverage preparation means using a beverage raw material and hot water is provided from a cup supply device, comprising a housing whose front surface is opened and an open / close door hinged at one end of the front surface of the housing. In a cup-type vending machine that pours into a cup and sells it,
The beverage preparation means is disposed in the housing, the cup supply device is disposed on the opening / closing door, and the beverage preparation means is replenished and maintained by opening the opening / closing door. A cup-type vending machine characterized by ease.   The cup-type vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the beverage preparation means includes a canister for storing the beverage ingredients, and a coffee extractor for extracting coffee liquid with the beverage ingredients and hot water.