JP2010222033A - Vending machine for soups with ingredients - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vending machine for soups with ingredients which can dispense a soup with ingredients into a cup from a container capable of stirring uniformly and can pour the soup with ingredients into the container automatically before the soup in the container is used up. <P>SOLUTION: The machine includes the container to stir and mix the soup with ingredients, a dispenser for the soup with ingredients which communicates with a lower opening of the container and is equipped with a constant volume dispensing valve to take out a specified quantity of the soup with ingredients and dispense it and a weighing machine to measure the weight of the container for stirring and mixing the soup with ingredients, wherein when the weighing machine detects decreasing to a specified weight, ON signal for a motor is sent and by the ON signal, a transfer pump of the container storing the soup is turned on while the soup with ingredients is stirred and a specified quantity of the soup with ingredients is poured and filled into the container for stirring and mixing the soup with ingredients through piping and when the specified quantity is poured, the weighing machine detects it and sends OFF signal to turn off the transfer pump. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a vending machine for soups with ingredients, which can provide a certain amount of soups with ingredients such as corn soup, curry soup, minnesotarone, pork soup, miso soup, and green soup in a cup.

There is no known vending machine that supplies soup with ingredients such as corn soup, curry soup, minnesotarone, pork soup, miso soup and green soup mixed with meat and vegetables in the liquid.
Recently, the number of people who buy lunch boxes and bread for lunch has increased, so the demand for miso soup and soup was stronger than green tea, etc. as products offered at vending machines, but soup with miso soup and other ingredients There are no vending machines that offer

  There has been proposed a vending machine in which hot powder is poured into a cup after supplying powdered raw material into the cup (Patent Document 1), which is the same as simply pouring hot water into instant miso soup. Therefore, in reality, this vending machine is not installed anywhere as far as the present inventors know.

The reason why vending machines for soups with ingredients were not known was because the soups with ingredients could not be subdivided easily, but the present inventor has developed a device for easily subdividing soups with ingredients. It has already been developed and has obtained many patents.
The present inventor considered using this as a vending machine, but in order to be able to take many cups of soup in a cup even in an unattended state, the ingredients are contained in a very large container. Although it is necessary to divide the soup with it, it is difficult to divide it uniformly, and when trying to make it uniform, it must be vigorously stirred.

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  This invention has been made paying attention to such points, so that the soup with ingredients can be subdivided into a cup from a container that can be uniformly stirred, and before the soup with ingredients is lost in the container, An object of the present invention is to provide a vending machine for soups with ingredients such as miso soup, in which the soups with ingredients are put into a container.

As a result of diligent research to achieve the above object, the present inventor, when the container containing the soup to be subdivided becomes nearly empty, detects it with a scale, turns on the motor, and automatically enters the container. The present invention has been reached by conceiving that soups with ingredients can be injected.

That is, the present invention comprises a container for mixing and mixing ingredient soup, and a device for subdividing ingredient soup comprising a fixed amount extraction valve for taking out and discharging a certain amount of ingredient soup communicating with the lower end opening of the container; , A scale for measuring the weight of the container for stirring and mixing the soup with the ingredients, and when the scale detects that the weight has been reduced to a certain weight, a motor-on signal is emitted, and the soup with ingredients is agitated with this on-signal. While turning on the transfer pump of the contained container, the soup containing the ingredients is poured into the container for stirring and mixing the soup containing ingredients, and when the constant amount is injected and filled, the scale detects this. An off signal is issued to turn off the transfer pump.

As the scale, it is preferable to use a load cell (claim 2).
The quantitative cut-off valve has a quantitative cut-out valve body having a suction port communicating with a lower end opening of the container and a discharge port to a container to be charged in small portions, and is rotatably fitted to the quantitative cut-off valve body. An inner cylinder, a piston slidably fitted in the inner cylinder, and a through hole formed in the inner cylinder, the through hole of the inner cylinder being a suction of the quantitative cut-off valve body When communicating with the hole, the piston moves backward to fill the inner cylinder with a predetermined amount of soup containing ingredients, and when the through hole of the inner cylinder communicates with the discharge hole of the metering valve body, the piston moves forward. Then, it is preferable that the soup containing ingredients is discharged from the communicating discharge hole (claim 3). The metering valve main body preferably has a cylindrical inner surface with a closed tip (Claim 4).

When you put money into the vending machine, the lamp lights up on the products you can supply, and when you press the button of the product you want to purchase, the first motor turns on, the first motor rotates, and the through hole in the inner cylinder When the piston is retracted while communicating with the suction hole of the metering valve main body and a certain amount of soup containing ingredients is stored in the inner cylinder, the first motor is stopped and at the same time the second motor is When the inner cylinder is turned halfway and the through hole of the inner cylinder communicates with the discharge hole of the metering valve main body, the second motor stops, and at the same time, the first motor turns on and the piston moves forward. It is preferable that the first motor is programmed to stop when the soup containing the ingredients is poured into the cup.

Cups filled with soup are taken out from the take-out opening, but the automatic door of the take-out opening is normally open, and you place the cup in place and press the button for the soup to buy. It is preferable to program the door to automatically open when the door is automatically closed and the soup with the ingredients in the cup is finished, because it prevents the purchaser from accidentally burning. (Claim 6).

  According to the present invention, it is the first successful in the world to serve soups with ingredients such as curry soup, pork soup, corn soup in a cup with a vending machine, especially with lunch boxes, rice balls, bread etc. It is very suitable for eating and can provide a new lunch form.

It is a schematic side view which shows the state inside the vending machine of this invention. It is a perspective view of the vending machine of this invention.

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
In a hopper (container) 1 containing the soup containing ingredients, a stirring blade 3 that is rotated by a stirring motor 2 is disposed. The soup containing ingredients in the hopper 1 is heated to an appropriate temperature by an IH base (IH heater) 4.
Connected to the lower end opening of the hopper 1 is a quantitative cut-off valve 5 for taking out and discharging a certain amount of soup containing ingredients. A cup 7 is placed on the drain receiver 6 below the fixed amount cut-off valve 5.

  In the figure, 8 is an automatic door for taking out, which is normally open. When the button of the soup to be purchased with the cup 7 placed at a predetermined position is pressed, the door is automatically closed and the cup is closed. It is programmed to automatically open the door after filling the soup with ingredients. By doing so, the risk of accidental burns with hot soup with ingredients can be eliminated.

Behind the drain receiver 6 (right side in FIG. 1) is disposed a load cell (balance) 9 that is heavy on the subdividing device including the hopper 1 containing the soup with ingredients and the quantitative cut-off valve 5.
Below the drain receiver 6, a cup dispenser 10 is fixed, and below the cup dispenser 10, a storage hopper 11 for storing soup with ingredients is placed. In order to heat the inside of the storage hopper 11 to a predetermined temperature, the storage hopper 11 is placed on an IH heater (storage soup heat retention) 12 and heated to an appropriate temperature. The lower end portion of the storage hopper 11 communicates with the transfer pump 16, and the soup with ingredients is put into the hopper 1 through the pipe 18 by the transfer pump 16. The transfer pump 16 is placed on the gantry 21 and has the same height as the lower end of the storage hopper 11. In the figure, 13 is a temperature controller, and 14 is a stirring motor for rotating the stirrer 15.

When the soup with ingredients in the hopper 1 is reduced to a predetermined constant weight, the soup transfer pump 16 with ingredients in the storage hopper 11 that contains the soup with stirring with the on signal emitted from the load cell 9 is motorized. 17, the soup containing ingredients is added and filled through the pipe 18 into the container 1 which is added and stirred and mixed from the opening 19. When it is detected that the load cell 9 has reached a constant weight, an off signal is issued and the motor 17 and the transfer pump 16 are stopped.
By doing so, the soup with ingredients in the hopper 1 is automatically filled when the soup with ingredients in the storage hopper 11 is exhausted until it becomes empty.

The quantitative cut-off valve 5 includes a quantitative cut-off valve main body having a cylindrical inner surface with a closed end having a suction port communicating with a lower end opening of the container 1 and a discharge port for a container to be charged in small portions. An inner cylinder that is pivotably fitted to a cut-off valve body, a piston that is slidably fitted in the inner cylinder, and a through hole formed in the inner cylinder, the inner cylinder When the through-hole communicates with the suction hole of the quantitative cut-out valve body, the piston moves backward to fill the inner cylinder with a predetermined amount of soup containing ingredients, and the through-hole of the inner cylinder is filled with the quantitative cut-off valve. When communicating with the discharge hole of the main body, the piston moves forward and discharges soup containing ingredients from the communication discharge hole 20.

A piston shaft is fitted in the clutch 22 for rotating the inner cylinder of the fixed amount cut-off valve 5 so as to be able to advance and retreat, and the piston shaft is connected to a rack gear 23. A gear 25 is fixed to the clutch 22 by being externally fitted to a piston shaft, and the gear 25 meshes with a gear 26 fixed to a rotation shaft of a motor 24 that rotates the inner cylinder.
The rack gear 23 is moved by being guided by the linear guide 28 with a gear connected to the rotation shaft of the discharge control motor 27, and moves the piston forward and backward. In the figure, 29 is a neon lamp, 30 is a stirrer BOX, 31 is a control board, 32 is a power supply base, 33 is an IH coil BOX, and 34 is a vending machine body.

  In the above embodiment, as shown in FIG. Three subdivision devices 35 are arranged side by side, and three kinds of soups with ingredients are provided. When you insert money, an indication of which to choose will appear. If you select one, if there is a balance, you will be asked if you want to make further selections. This is the same as currently available vending machines.

  When money is put into the vending machine 34, lamps are lit on commodities that can be supplied. When the button of the product to be purchased is pressed, a signal to turn on the motor is issued. Then the motor is turned on and off as pre-programmed, and a cup of soup is poured into the cup.

  That is, when a button of a product to be purchased is pressed, a motor ON signal is generated, the first motor 27 rotates and the gear fixed to the rotating shaft rotates, and the rack gear 23 that meshes with the gear moves backward, and the internal gear When the piston is pulled in a state where the through-hole of the cylinder communicates with the suction hole of the quantitative cut-off valve main body and a certain amount of soup containing ingredients is accommodated in the inner cylinder, the first motor 27 is stopped, At the same time, the second motor 24 is rotated, the gear 25 meshed with the gear 26 fixed to the rotation shaft of the motor is rotated, the clutch 22 fixing the gear 25 is rotated, and the inner cylinder is half-rotated to cause the inner cylinder to rotate. When the through hole communicates with the discharge hole of the quantitative cut-off valve body, the second motor 24 stops, and at the same time, the first motor 27 rotates in the reverse direction to advance the rack gear 23 and the piston is pushed. When the soup with ingredients is put into the cup, the first motor 2 There has been programmed to turn off.

  According to the present invention, it is the first successful in the world to serve soups with ingredients such as curry soup, pork soup, corn soup in a cup with a vending machine, especially with lunch boxes, rice balls, bread etc. It is very suitable for eating and can provide a new lunch form.

1 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Hopper (container)
3 ... Stirrer blade 4 ... IH base 5 ... Metering valve 7 ...・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Cup 8 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Automatic door 9 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Load cell
10 ········································ 11 ..Transfer pump 18 ... Pipe 19 ... Addition opening 22 ... Clutch 23 for rotating the inner cylinder・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Rack gear 28 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Linear guide 34 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Vending machine main body 35 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Subdividing device

Claims (6)

A device for subdividing ingredient soup comprising a container for stirring and mixing ingredient soup, and a quantitative cut-off valve for taking out and discharging a certain amount of ingredient soup communicating with the lower end opening of the container, and the ingredient soup When a balance that measures the weight of a container for stirring and mixing the food and when the scale detects that the weight has been reduced to a certain weight, an on signal of the motor is emitted and the container containing the soup with ingredients is stirred with this on signal. When the transfer pump is turned on and the soup with ingredients is passed through the pipe, a fixed amount is injected and filled into a container for stirring and mixing the soup with ingredients, and when a fixed amount is injected and filled, the scale detects this and issues an OFF signal. A vending machine for soups with ingredients, wherein the transfer pump is turned off. The vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the scale is a load cell. The quantitative cut-off valve has a quantitative cut-out valve body having a suction port communicating with a lower end opening of the container and a discharge port to a container to be charged in small portions, and is rotatably fitted to the quantitative cut-off valve body. An inner cylinder, a piston slidably fitted in the inner cylinder, and a through hole formed in the inner cylinder, the through hole of the inner cylinder being a suction of the quantitative cut-off valve body When communicating with the hole, the piston moves backward to fill the inner cylinder with a predetermined amount of soup containing ingredients, and when the through hole of the inner cylinder communicates with the discharge hole of the metering valve body, the piston moves forward. The vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the soup containing ingredients is discharged from the communicating discharge hole. The vending machine according to claim 3, wherein the metering valve main body has a cylindrical inner surface with a closed tip. When you put money into the vending machine, the lamp lights up on the products you can supply, and when you press the button of the product you want to purchase, the first motor turns on, the first motor rotates, and the through hole in the inner cylinder When the piston is pulled in a state where it is in communication with the suction hole of the quantitative cut-off valve body and a certain amount of soup containing ingredients is stored in the inner cylinder, the first motor stops and at the same time the second motor When the inner cylinder is turned halfway and the through hole of the inner cylinder communicates with the discharge hole of the metering valve main body, the second motor stops, and at the same time, the first motor is turned on and the piston is pushed. The vending machine according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the first motor is programmed to stop when the soup containing ingredients is poured into the cup. Cups filled with soup are taken out from the take-out opening, but the automatic door of the take-out opening is normally open, and you place the cup in place and press the button for the soup to buy. The vending machine according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the vending machine is programmed so that the door is automatically closed and the door is automatically opened when the filling of the soup in the cup is finished.

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