JP2013101722A - Cup type automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cup type automatic vending machine which pours a beverage into a cup when pouring the beverage and does not stain an edge of a cup by extra dripping liquid after the end of a beverage pouring operation.SOLUTION: In the cup type automatic vending machine for supplying the liquid of a beverage or the like to a cup C by a liquid pouring nozzle 30 and selling it, a lower part of an extra dripping receiver 40 disposed at a lower part of the liquid pouring nozzle 30 is turned to a curved surface 42 inclined downwards to the outer part of the cup C, and the extra dripping liquid generated after the end of the liquid pouring operation is made to flow down along the curved surface 42 and dripped to the outside of the cup C.

Description

  The present invention relates to a cup-type vending machine provided with a liquid pouring nozzle for pouring liquid such as beverages and dilution water cooked in the machine into a cup.

  Conventionally, in a cup-type vending machine, the discharge port of a liquid dispensing nozzle that pours coffee beverage, syrup, cold water for diluting syrup, carbonated water, etc., on the bend stage on which the cup is placed faces the inside of the cup. It is placed in a tilted posture.

  With this configuration, the coffee beverage is stirred and mixed in the mixing bowl with the coffee liquid extracted with the coffee brewer and the sugar and cream supplied from the canister, and poured into the cup from the liquid dispensing nozzle. On the other hand, a syrup beverage is prepared by supplying syrup, cold water or carbonated water and ice to a cup and stirring and mixing them in the cup.

  In this way, the cup placed on the bend stage is poured from the liquid pouring nozzle, such as coffee beverage, syrup, cold water, carbonated water mixed with coffee liquid, sugar and cream. Provided to the user (for example, see Patent Documents 1 and 2).

JP 2001-118140 A JP 2007-141147 A

  However, after the coffee beverage, syrup, cold water, carbonated water, etc. are poured into the cup placed on the bend stage from the liquid dispensing nozzle, these beverages are maintained at the lower end of the discharge port due to the surface tension of the beverage. There is a possibility that the cup will be dropped as a trailing liquid to stain the rim of the cup, mixed into a beverage to be sold next, and further, these beverages may adhere to the lower end of the outer shape of the discharge port.

  In this way, when the drooping liquid after the beverage pouring operation ends drops on the edge of the cup, the appearance deteriorates, and when the dripping liquid flows to the outer surface of the cup, it adheres to the hand when the user takes out the cup. Inconvenience occurs. Moreover, if it mixes in the drink sold next, it will produce a change in a taste.

  In order to prevent this, a liquid guide is provided at the lower part of the discharge port of the liquid dispensing nozzle, and the trailing liquid after the beverage dispensing operation is caused to flow down along the bottom surface of the liquid guide and dripped out of the cup. The proposal which was made is made.

  However, when the liquid guide is provided at the lower portion of the discharge port of the liquid dispensing nozzle in this way, the main flow of the beverage at the time of dispensing the beverage and the weak flow of the beverage just before the end of the dispensing of the beverage are guided to the liquid guide and out of the cup. There is a risk that the liquid will flow down or drop while being guided by the liquid guide to cause the above-mentioned problems.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems. When a beverage is poured out, the beverage is poured into the cup, and after the beverage dispensing operation is finished, the cup edge is soiled with the dripping liquid. The purpose is to provide a cup-type vending machine that does not have any.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the invention according to claim 1 is a cup-type vending machine that supplies and sells a liquid such as a beverage by a liquid dispensing nozzle.
The lower part of the trailing sag receptacle disposed below the liquid pouring nozzle is a curved surface inclined downward toward the outside of the cup, and the trailing liquid produced after the liquid pouring operation is finished along the curved surface. It is characterized by being allowed to flow down and dripping out of the cup.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, in the cup type vending machine for supplying and selling a liquid such as a beverage to the cup by the liquid pouring nozzle, the lower part of the rear sag receptacle disposed below the liquid pouring nozzle is the cup. Since the curved surface is inclined downward toward the outside of the liquid, the drooping liquid generated after the liquid pouring operation is made to flow down along the curved surface and dripped out of the cup. Even if the drooping liquid from the nozzle contacts the vicinity of the end face of the drooping receiver, it flows down along the curved surface due to the surface tension of the liquid, so that it does not drip into the cup and is dropped outside the cup. It is possible to provide a cup type vending machine that does not stain the cup edge with the trailing liquid after the dispensing operation is completed.

It is a water circuit diagram of the cup type vending machine concerning the embodiment of the present invention. It is a section side view of a cup type vending machine and a liquid pouring nozzle concerning an embodiment of the present invention. It is a cross-sectional side view which shows the extraction state of the drink from the liquid extraction nozzle shown in FIG. It is a cross-sectional side view which shows the sag liquid from the liquid extraction nozzle shown in FIG. It is a cross-sectional side view which shows the back dripping liquid which flows down to the back droop receptacle from the liquid pouring nozzle shown in FIG.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In addition, this invention is not limited by this embodiment.

  FIG. 1 shows a water circuit diagram of a cup type vending machine equipped with a liquid dispensing nozzle. The cup-type vending machine 1 includes a water inlet electromagnetic valve 11 that opens and closes a valve to supply and stop drinking water supplied from the water supply, and a reservoir that stores the drinking water supplied by opening the water inlet electromagnetic valve 11. Tank 12, water supply pump 13 for pumping potable water stored in reservoir tank 12 to each device, potable water solenoid valve 14 for opening a valve when potable water is pumped to hot water tank 20, potable water for iced beverages, Cooling water tank 15 for cooling carbonated water and syrup, carbon dioxide gas cylinder 16 for storing carbon dioxide gas, syrup tank 17 for storing syrup, carbonator 18 for producing and storing carbonated water, ice with drinking water supplied from reservoir tank 12 The auger type ice making machine 19 for manufacturing the piece, the water supply pump 13 is operated, the potable water electromagnetic valve 14 is opened, and the potable water fed from the reservoir tank 12 is heated to 95 ° C. to 97 ° C. The hot water tank 20 for storing hot water and the coffee beans supplied from the canister 22 are ground with the mill 23 to open the hot water supply solenoid valve 21 and the hot water supplied from the hot water tank 20 is poured to extract the coffee liquid. The coffee brewer 24, the coffee liquid extracted from the coffee brewer 24, the sugar mixed with the sugar and cream supplied from the canister 25, and the mixing bowl 26 to make a coffee drink by mixing the cream, the cup C placed on the bend stage 28, coffee drink, A liquid pouring nozzle 30 for pouring cold water and carbonated water is provided.

  FIG. 2 schematically shows the internal structure of the cup type vending machine 1 provided with the liquid dispensing nozzle 30 using a sectional side view. The cup-type vending machine 1 includes a bend stage 28 on which a cup C supplied from a cup supply device (not shown) is placed. Above the cup-type vending machine 1 is cold water or carbonic acid for diluting coffee drinks and syrups cooked in the machine. A liquid pouring nozzle 30 for pouring a liquid such as water from the discharge port 32 arranged in a forward tilted posture toward the inside of the cup C is attached to the in-machine base fitting 39 by a nozzle fitting portion 37 and a fitting fitting 38. . A trailing sag receiver 40 is disposed below the liquid pouring nozzle 30 and above the cup C.

  The liquid pouring nozzle 30 is liquid-attracted to the lower end of the discharge port 32 obtained by cutting the other end of a pipe-shaped nozzle 31 connected to one end of a liquid tube (not shown) connected to the mixing bowl 26 or the like substantially vertically. A liquid guide 36 having a bottom surface 35 provided with a portion 33, an outer shape of the discharge port 32 and a gap 34 and inclined downward toward the outside of the cup C is provided. The liquid invitation part 33 is provided in order to weaken the surface tension of the drink after completion | finish of drink extraction operation | movement, and to prevent a drink being maintained by the discharge outlet 32. FIG.

  The rear drooping receiver 40 has a curved surface 42 whose lower part is inclined downward from the end face 41 toward the outside of the cup C.

  Thus, the liquid pouring nozzle 30 for pouring a liquid such as a beverage from the discharge port 32 arranged in a forward tilted posture toward the inside of the cup C was inclined downward toward the outside of the cup C. A liquid guide 36 having a bottom surface 35 is provided below the discharge port 32. The liquid guide 36 is provided with an outer shape of the discharge port 32 and a gap 34, and only the trailing liquid generated after the liquid (beverage) pouring operation is completed. Since the liquid flowed down along the bottom surface 35 of the liquid guide 36 and dropped out of the cup C, as shown in FIG. 3, the main flow of the beverage at the time of dispensing the beverage and the weakness of the beverage just before the end of the beverage dispensing. The flow can be poured into the cup C while preventing the flow from being guided to the liquid guide 36. Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the liquid guide 36 can guide and dripping only the trailing liquid after the beverage pouring operation is finished, so that the beverage is poured into the cup C when the beverage is poured out. It is possible to provide the liquid dispensing nozzle 30 that does not stain the edge of the cup C with the trailing liquid after the completion of the dispensing and beverage dispensing operation.

  Furthermore, in the cup type vending machine 1 that supplies and sells liquid such as beverages to the cup C by the liquid pouring nozzle 30, the lower part of the rear drooping receiver 40 disposed below the liquid pouring nozzle 30 is placed on the cup C. Since the curved surface 42 is inclined downward toward the outside, the sag liquid generated after the liquid (beverage) pouring operation is caused to flow along the curved surface 42 and dripped out of the cup C. As shown in FIG. 5, even if the trailing liquid from the liquid dispensing nozzle 30 contacts the vicinity of the end surface 41 of the trailing receptacle 40, it flows down along the curved surface 42 due to the surface tension of the liquid (beverage). A cup-type automatic equipped with a liquid dispensing nozzle 30 that does not drip into the cup C and is guided and dripped out of the cup C, and does not stain the edge of the cup C with the trailing liquid after the beverage dispensing operation is completed. Providing vending machine 1 Kill.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cup type vending machine 12 Reservoir tank 17 Syrup tank 18 Carbonator 20 Hot water tank 24 Coffee brewer 26 Mixing bowl 28 Bend stage 30 Liquid pouring nozzle 31 Nozzle 32 Discharge port 33 Liquid attracting part 34 Crevice 35 Bottom surface 36 Liquid guide 40 Trailing 41 end face 42 curved surface C cup

Claims (1)

In a cup-type vending machine that supplies and sells liquids such as beverages to a cup with a liquid dispensing nozzle,
The lower part of the trailing sag receptacle disposed below the liquid pouring nozzle is a curved surface inclined downward toward the outside of the cup, and the trailing liquid produced after the liquid pouring operation is finished along the curved surface. A cup-type vending machine characterized by being allowed to flow down and dripping outside the cup.

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