JP2591619Y2 - Beverage production equipment - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a beverage manufacturing apparatus such as a coffee maker.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A beverage production apparatus will be described below with reference to the drawings using a coffee production apparatus (hereinafter referred to as a conventional apparatus). FIG.
Is a side sectional view of a conventional device.

[0003] In Fig. 4, a conventional apparatus main body 1 comprises a top part 2, a column part 3, and a bottom part 4, and is formed in a substantially U-shape. An opening 5 is provided on the upper surface of the main body top 2, and a lid 6 that opens and closes is provided in the opening 5. Opening 5
A hopper tank 7 for supplying cold water is provided below.

[0004] A warm water tank 8 for storing cold water from a hopper tank 7 is provided in the pillar portion 3. The hot water tank 8 is connected to a hopper tank 7 via an L-shaped water supply pipe 9, and the water supply pipe 9 is connected to a stainless steel pipe 10 whose lower end is opened at the lower part of the hot water tank 8. A circumferential heater 11 is provided on the lower circumference of the hot water tank 8, and a bottom heater 12 is provided on the bottom surface.
The main body 1 also includes the heaters 11 and 1 below the hot water tank 8.
A lighting lamp (not shown) is provided which turns on when the water in the hot water tank 8 boils to an appropriate temperature by turning on the 2.

After the coffee liquid has been extracted, a drain pipe 1 for discharging hot water remaining in the hot water tank 8 is formed.
The drain pipe 13 is connected to the center of the bottom surface of the hot water tank 8 and to the lower side of the main body 1.

[0006] A paper filter 16 containing coffee powder 15 is placed on a bucket 14 which is detachably mounted below the top section 2. The bucket 1
In order for hot water from the hot water tank 8 to be discharged to the hot water tank 4, a connecting pipe 20 is connected to a suction port 17 provided at the upper end of the hot water tank 8 and a discharge port 19 of a discharge port fixture 18 provided at the lower part of the ceiling 2. Are linked. A sprinkling plate 21 is fitted into the discharge port fixture 18 to discharge hot water from the hot water tank 8 to the entire bucket 14.

The position of the discharge port 19 is disposed below the upper surface of the hot water tank 8, and the position of the suction port 17 is provided above the tip of the discharge port 19.
It protrudes inward. Then, a siphon phenomenon occurs due to the opening drop between the suction port 17 and the discharge port 19, and the water in the hot water tank 8 is always at a constant water level at the position of the discharge port 19.

A hot water tank 8 is provided below the bucket 14.
A decanter 22 for dropping and storing the coffee liquid extracted by the hot water from the coffee powder and the coffee powder 14 is placed on the bottom 4.

After all of the coffee liquid from the bucket 14 has been dripped onto the decanter 22, the temperature of the coffee liquid inside the decanter 22 does not drop so that the temperature of the coffee liquid is not reduced. The decanter 22 is placed on the second heat retaining plate 23 provided in the section 2.

Next, the operation of the conventional apparatus main body 1 will be described. The lid 6 is opened to the position indicated by the broken line in the drawing of FIG. 4 and cold water is supplied to the hopper tank 7. The water supplied to the hopper tank 7 flows from the lower part of the hot water tank 8 through the water supply pipe 9 and the drain pipe 10 and the cold water is discharged from the discharge port 19.
Is located at the same position as that of the heater 8, the water in the hot water tank 8 is supplied to the circumferential heater 11 and the bottom heater 1 provided at the lower part of the tank 8.
When the heater 2 is energized, it is heated and becomes hot water, and when the temperature becomes appropriate, an appropriate temperature lamp (not shown) is turned on to notify the user of an extraction standby state in which hot water is discharged from the hot water tank 8 to the bucket 14.

When all the cold water of the number of persons desired to be extracted as coffee liquid is poured into the hopper tank 7, a constant flow rate and a constant flow rate are supplied to the hot water tank 8 from below the stainless steel pipe 10 through the water supply pipe 9. Is done. Then, the water level in the hot water tank 8 rises, and the hot water in the upper part of the hot water tank 8 passes through the connecting pipe 20 and is sprinkled from the sprinkling plate 21 and is set in the bucket 14 in advance and the paper filter 1
6 is mixed with the coffee powder 15 placed inside.

Then, the coffee liquid from which the coffee component has been extracted in the bucket 14 is dropped onto a decanter 22 placed below the bucket 14. Then, after the number of coffee liquids is stored in the decanter 14, the decanter 14 is placed on the first or second heat retaining plate 23 provided on the bottom 4 or the top 2 to keep the temperature.

[0013]

However, in the conventional coffee making apparatus, hot water is sprinkled from the hot water tank to the coffee powder set in the paper filter in the bucket via the water sprinkling plate. If it is set closer, the portion where the hot water is sufficiently mixed with the coffee powder and drops to the decanter below the bucket, and the portion where the hot water drops to the decanter with little mixing will be formed. In other words, the hot water sprinkled from the sprinkling plate is always sprinkled only from the same position, so that the hot water is sprinkled evenly on the coffee powder and the coffee component cannot be sufficiently extracted.

[0014] The above-described coffee production apparatus cannot provide a tasteful coffee.

According to the present invention, there is provided a beverage manufacturing apparatus in which coffee powder and boiling water are uniformly mixed in a bucket in order to further improve taste.

[0016]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a beverage producing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention is provided.
Hot water tank located inside the body and having a heater at the bottom
And hot water heated in the hot water tank from above.
A connecting pipe leading outward and a connecting pipe formed at a tip of the connecting pipe;
A discharge port provided below the discharge port,
Sprinkler container for receiving the hot water discharged from
And a bucket in which the raw material is set.
The hot water provided in the bottom of the water container is set in the bucket.
Multiple holes for sprinkling the raw material and rotating the sprinkler
Beverage manufacturing apparatus comprising:
A temperature detecting means for detecting an ambient temperature in the watering container.
And the step based on the temperature detected by the temperature detecting means.
Control means for driving the roll driving means .

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the beverage manufacturing apparatus, the control means may be configured to detect the temperature detected by the temperature detecting means.
When the temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature, the rotation driving means is driven .

[0018]

According to the above construction, in the beverage manufacturing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, when hot water from the hot water tank is discharged from the discharge port at the end of the connecting pipe to the watering container, the temperature is detected.
Means, and based on the temperature detected by this temperature detecting means
The control means rotates the sprinkling container by the rotation driving means.
Then, the hot water discharged into the sprinkling container is placed on the bottom of the container.
Water is evenly sprayed on the raw material set in the bucket from the plurality of holes provided .

Further, in the beverage manufacturing apparatus according to the second aspect of the present invention, the hot water from the hot water tank is discharged from the discharge port at the end of the connecting pipe to the sprinkling container, and the temperature is detected by the temperature detecting means.
When the detected temperature is higher than the predetermined temperature, the control means is driven to rotate.
The sprinkling container is rotated by means and discharged into the sprinkling container.
The hot water is uniformly sprinkled on the raw material set in the bucket through a plurality of holes provided at the bottom of the container .

[0020]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a beverage producing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention; Also, the thing of the present invention is the same as the conventional one except for the electric rotary sprinkler 50 and the discharge type sprinkler 60 described later.
The beverage manufacturing apparatus 100 of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

In FIG. 4, the main body 100 of the present invention comprises a top part 2, a column part 3, and a bottom part 4, and is formed in a substantially U-shape. An opening 5 is provided on the upper surface of the ceiling 2, and a lid 6 that opens and closes is provided in the opening 5. Opening 5
A hopper tank 7 for supplying cold water is provided below.

A warm water tank 8 for storing cold water from a hopper tank 7 is provided in the column portion 3. The hot water tank 8 is connected to a hopper tank 7 via an L-shaped water supply pipe 9, and the water supply pipe 9 is connected to a stainless steel pipe 10 whose lower end is opened at the lower part of the hot water tank 8. A circumferential heater 11 is provided on the lower circumference of the hot water tank 8, and a bottom heater 12 is provided on the bottom surface.
The heater at the lower part of the hot water tank 8 is turned on in the main body 100.
Then, a lighting lamp (not shown) is provided which lights when the water in the hot water tank 8 boils and reaches an appropriate temperature.

After the coffee liquid has been extracted, a drain pipe 13 is provided at the center of the bottom surface of the hot water tank 8 and at the lower side of the main body 100 in order to discharge the hot water remaining in the hot water tank 8.
Is connected.

Further, a paper filter 16 provided with coffee powder 15 is provided in a bucket 14 which is detachably mounted below the top section 2. The bucket 1
In order for hot water from the hot water tank 8 to be poured into the hot water tank 4, a connection pipe is formed between the suction port 17 provided at the upper end of the hot water tank 8 and the discharge port 19 of the discharge port fixture 25 provided at the lower part of the ceiling 2. They are connected at 20.

The position of the discharge port 19 is arranged below the upper surface of the hot water tank 8. The position of the suction port 17 is provided above the tip of the discharge port 19,
It protrudes into the hot water tank 8. And the suction port 17
The siphon phenomenon occurs due to the opening drop of the discharge port 19 and the hot water in the hot water tank 8 is always provided at a constant water level at the position of the discharge port 19.

In order to evenly spray hot water from the hot water tank 8 over the whole coffee powder in the bucket 14, a water container 30 of a circular container having no depth is provided below the discharge port fixing device 25.
An electric rotary sprinkler 50 is provided which is constituted by a motor 40 for rotating the sprinkler 30 at a low speed. (See FIG. 1) The rotating shaft 41 of the motor 40 hangs downward and is connected to a rotating shaft spacer 42 for connecting the shaft 41 and the watering container 30.

A boss 31 for connecting to the rotating shaft spacer 42 is provided at the center on the inner bottom surface of the watering container 30, and around the boss 31, hot water from the hot water tank 8 is placed in the bucket 14. A total of 12 holes 32 for spraying the coffee powder 15 are provided on the inside and 8 on the outside.

A hole 26 for passing the rotary shaft spacer 42 is provided at the center of the discharge port fixing tool 25 and on the side of the discharge port 24. The rotation shaft spacer 42 connected to the rotation shaft 41 of the motor 40 is
6 and the boss 31 of the watering container 30 is inserted into the tip of the spacer 42 to connect the motor 40 and the watering container 30.

Also, around the sprinkling container 30 connected to the motor 40 to the discharge port fixing device 25, when the sprinkling container 30 is rotated, the hot water from the hot water tank 8 is not surrounded by the bucket below the sprinkling container 30 but around the sprinkling container 30. The sprinkling container holding guide 27 is used to prevent the water sprinkling container 30 from vibrating and from scattering.
Is provided.

Hot water from the hot water tank 8 flows into the sprinkling container 30 above the discharge port fixture 25, and the sprinkling container 30
A thermistor 28 for detecting the ambient temperature from the hot water accumulated in the inside is provided.

The thermistor 28 and the motor 40 are connected to a control device (not shown). The thermistor 28 controls the result of the detected temperature when the ambient temperature detected in the watering vessel 30 becomes higher than a certain temperature. Send to device. Then, the control device which has received the detection results are found arranged to drive the motor 40.

A decanter 22 is provided below the bucket 14 so that the coffee liquid extracted from the hot water from the hot water tank 8 and the coffee powder 15 is dripped.
2 rests on the bottom 4.

After all of the coffee liquid from the bucket 14 has been dropped onto the decanter 22, the first heat retaining plate 23 provided on the bottom 4 or the top plate 4 is provided so that the temperature of the coffee liquid inside the decanter 22 does not drop. The decanter 22 is placed on the second heat retaining plate 23 provided in the section 2.

Next, the operation of the main body 100 of the present invention will be described. The lid 6 is opened to the position shown by the broken line in FIG. 1 to supply cold water to the hopper tank 7. Then, the cold water supplied to the hopper tank 7 flows into the stainless steel pipe 10 through the water supply pipe 9.

The water level in the hot water tank 8 is determined by the user as the discharge port 1.
When it is confirmed that the position is at the position 9, the circumferential heater 11 and the bottom heater 12 provided in the hot water tank 8 are energized to start heating. The hot water tank 8 is heated by the heaters 11 and 12 for about 30 minutes.
12 is turned off. Thereafter, the circumferential heater 11 and the bottom heater 12 are turned off so that the temperature of the hot water in the hot water tank 8 is not lowered.
N, OFF.

When the hot water from the hot water tank 8 to the bucket 14 is ready for extraction (standby for extraction), the side heater 11
Then, the bottom heater 12 is turned off, and the hopper tank 7 is supplied with all the cold water for the number of persons to be extracted as coffee liquid so that hot water flows from the hot water tank 8 to the bucket 14.

Then, since cold water of a constant flow rate flows vigorously from below the stainless steel pipe 10 into the hot water tank 8, the upper surface of the hot water tank 8 rises, and hot water flows from the suction port 17 provided at the upper part of the hot water tank 8. Is drawn into the sprinkling container 30 through the connecting pipe 20. When the ambient temperature in the watering container 30 rises above a certain temperature due to the hot water flowing into the watering container 30, the thermistor 28 detects the temperature and transmits the detected temperature to the control device. The control device that has received the result drives the motor 40.
As a result, the motor 40 rotates at a low speed, so that the sprinkling container 30 connected to the motor shaft 41 via the rotating shaft spacer 42 also rotates at a low speed, and the hot water flows into the coffee powder in the bucket provided below the sprinkling container 30. The hot water from the tank 8 is evenly sprinkled.

As a reference example of the present embodiment , the structure of a rotary water sprinkler 60 for rotating the sprinkler 61 by the discharge pressure of hot water discharged from the hot water tank 8 to the sprinkler 61 to be described later via the connecting pipe 20 will be described. This will be described with reference to FIG.

The watering container 61 of the reference example has a boss 6 at the center in the same manner as the watering container 30 described in the above embodiment.
3 are provided, and a hole 62 provided around the boss 63 is provided obliquely downward.

The sprinkling container 61 is connected to a rotating shaft 64 serving as an axis when the container 61 rotates through a hole 26 provided in the discharge port fixing device 25, and a discharge pressure type rotary sprinkling device 60 is provided. Is composed.

In this embodiment, as in the previous embodiment, when the hot water tank 8 is boiled and cold water is supplied to the hopper tank 7 by the number of persons, the suction port 17 provided in the upper part of the hot water tank 8 is provided. Hot water is sucked in from the pipe 20
And the hot water is discharged to the sprinkling container 61.

Then, the hot water discharged from the discharge port 19 to the sprinkling container 61 starts to be sprayed onto the coffee powder 15 in the bucket 14 provided below along the hole 62, and gradually the hot water discharged into the sprinkling container 61 When the momentum, that is, the discharge pressure increases, the sprinkling container 61 starts rotating in the direction in which the hole 62 is opened. The rotation speed of the container 61 is
It is determined by the discharge pressure, that is, when the momentum of the hot water discharged from the discharge port 19 is strong, the rotation of the container 61 is fast, and when the momentum of the discharged hot water is weak, the rotation is slow.

As described above, the reference example corresponds to the motor 40.
The sprinkling container 61 is connected to the discharge port 1 without using a driving device such as
9 can be rotated by the discharge pressure discharged from the container 9 and water can be evenly sprayed on the coffee powder 15 in the bucket 14 provided below the container 61.

As described above, the hot water from the hot water tank 8 is evenly sprayed on the coffee powder 15 to sufficiently extract the coffee component, and is dropped on the decanter 22 placed on the bottom 4 below the bucket 14. Drinks for the number of people are extracted. Then, the first or second heat retaining plate 23 is turned on, the decanter 22 is placed on the plate 23, and the temperature is maintained so that the coffee temperature does not decrease.

[0045]

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, the beverage manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is:
A watering container for receiving the discharged from the discharge port boiling water, watering capacity
By rotating based on the temperature inside the vessel, hot water can be sprinkled
When flowing into the vessel, the multiple
To the raw material in the bucket provided below
Can be sprinkled, and rotate the sprinkling container unnecessarily.
Toga not such that.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an enlarged plan view of an essential part showing an embodiment of a watering container for an electric rotary watering device of a beverage production apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of a main part of an embodiment of the electric rotary sprinkler of the beverage production apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a main part of a reference example of a discharge pressure type rotary sprinkler of the beverage manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a side view sectional view of a conventional beverage manufacturing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 7 Hopper tank 8 Hot water tank 9 Water supply pipe 14 Bucket 20 Connecting pipe 24 Discharge port 25 Discharge port fixture 26 Rotating shaft spacer penetrating hole 27 Sprinkling container holding guide 28 Thermistor 30 Sprinkling container 31 Boss 32 Sprinkling hole 40 Motor 41 Motor shaft 42 Rotary shaft spacer 50 Electric rotary sprinkler 60 Discharge pressure type rotary sprinkler 61 Sprinkler container 62 Hole 63 Boss 64 Rotary shaft

Continuation of front page (56) References JP-A-61-131716 (JP, A) JP-A-61-149114 (JP, A) JP-A-2-131716 (JP, A) JP-A-1-178211 (JP) JP-A-57-29315 (JP, A) JP-A-62-192338 (JP, U) JP-A-56-1525 (JP, U) JP-A-61-71021 (JP, U) 5-91528 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) A47J 31/00-31/60

Claims (2)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A heater disposed inside a main body and having a lower portion.
Hot water tank and heated in the hot water tank
A connecting pipe for guiding hot water outward from above, and the connecting pipe
A discharge port formed at the tip of the pump and disposed below the discharge port
A sprinkler container for receiving the hot water discharged from the discharge port,
A bag attached below the watering container and set
And a hot water provided at the bottom of the watering container.
A plurality of holes for watering the raw material set in the bucket;
A rotating drive means for rotatingly driving the sprinkling container.
Temperature detecting means for detecting an atmospheric temperature in the watering container in the material manufacturing apparatus
And the rotation based on the temperature detected by the temperature detecting means.
A beverage manufacturing apparatus comprising: a control unit that drives a driving unit . 2. The temperature control device according to claim 1 , wherein
When the known temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature, the rotation driving means
The beverage production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the beverage production apparatus is driven .