JP3209613U - Fragrance operation container (flavor tuner) - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an aroma manipulation container that easily realizes aroma manipulation of a beverage such as beer even in a small-scale store. A fragrance operating container 10 includes one main body barrel 100 made of food-compatible plastic, two main body lids 101-1, 101-2, and two stainless steel strainers (filters) 102-1, 102-. It is composed of two and four attachments 103-1, and two hose joints 105-1 and 105-2 for beer and a plurality of airtight holding packings, and these are used as an integrated unit. A beer hose is connected to the hose joints 105-1 and 105-2, and the beer is moved to pass through the inside of the main body trunk 100. [Selection] Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to an aroma manipulation container (flavor tuner) that realizes artificial aroma manipulation (addition, conversion, adjustment, etc.) of a beverage.

In restaurants, restaurants, beer halls, pubs, bars, and other restaurants that provide beverages (alcoholic beverages) together with meals, each store's original special menu may be provided as one of the drink menus provided to customers. In particular, diversification of values in recent years has led to requests for individual and diverse requests regarding the aroma of alcoholic beverages (especially beer). In response to these needs, in the craft beer industry, in addition to the fragrance generated in the brewing process, dry hopping, in which a person intentionally adds hop flavor (fragrance) to the finished beer, emphasizes and adjusts it. The so-called technique has been actively used. Recently, there are also stores that offer beer as original beer by adding and adjusting aroma by submerging beer in herbs and citrus fruits using a modified tea masher that applies dry hopping techniques. , Is growing into a means to improve store reputation. Against this background, various simple fragrance-adding devices have already been developed and sold in the United States, a craft beer powerhouse, and many small-scale stores are also using it.
The idea of dry hopping has already been recognized among beer officials around the world, and there are many breweries already in use in Japan. However, in Japan, there are no simple means and methods to add fragrance to small stores like the United States, and some stores have imported specialized equipment from overseas, such as the United States. The actual situation is that we are providing customers. For this reason, it is difficult for small-scale store managers to introduce equipment in terms of procedural, price, and maintenance management, and the spread to the industry as a whole is limited. However, when the image is used for inputting a partial image of a document, it is necessary to secure a sufficient contact area with the document in order to realize a relatively wide field of view and high scanning resolution and to prevent hand-feeding movement. FIG. 1 shows a positional relationship between an external appearance example of a hand scanner applied to a partial input of a document and a document, wherein 1 is a hand scanner housing and 2 is an input document. A one-dot chain line including the input position P represents an external visual field with respect to the document, and an arrow indicates a moving direction of the hand scanner by manual feeding. As described above, since the height and covering area of the hand scanner housing are increased, there is a drawback in that the visual field cannot be confirmed near the input position P.

JP, 2006-055892, A Beverage characteristic adjustment device and method Kirin Co., Ltd. It is a system for adjusting beverage characteristics such as imparting flavor to sparkling beverages, the main purpose of which is to suppress excessive foaming during adjustment Invention of large-scale system and its method.

JP, 2006-048893, A Beer pitcher and a method for providing beer-based beverages using the same Kirin Corporation When providing beer-based beverages with a pitcher (large container), a pitcher that achieves flavor addition and characteristic adjustment to beer An invention that provides the means.

JP, 2010-208681, A Personal beverage extraction bottle with upper and lower lids Junichi Tanaka and others Provided a bottle with a lid with a lid that can fix a drinking mouth on the upper part and a tea strainer such as a tea bag on the lower part, and tastes by turning the bottle upside down Invention of a container and a technique for achieving both extraction and drinking.

JP, 2006-008086, A Top and bottom split type beverage container Kazunobu Ueda In portable beverage containers such as PET bottles, in addition to the conventional drinking mouth, the container can be divided into two parts and a tea strainer function is provided at the joint. The invention which realizes simplification of container washing and direct drinking of flavor extraction type beverages (tea, etc.).

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Inc. Randall http://www.dogfish.com/ http://www.dogfish.com/store/barware/other-accessories/Randall-3.htm Draft ( This is a device for adding fragrance to beer. It is placed and inserted between the hose connecting the beer barrel (keg) and the server, and the fragrance is manipulated by passing through the interior of the Randall body. The beer injected from the beer inlet of the main body passes through the two cylindrical containers connected to the main body and is directly extracted from the beer spout (tap). After entering the inside of the container from the bottom of the first-stage cylindrical container and touching the fragrance material, the second-stage cylinder is discharged from a hollow / rod-shaped metal filter having a large number of micro holes arranged almost at the center inside the container. It is sent to the container, and the foam generated in the beer in the second stage container is relaxed and then extracted from the tap (in the second stage container, the beer is put into the tube from the bottom of the hollow / rod-like tube arranged in the center. It is possible to extract beer that does not contain bubbles concentrated in the upper part of the liquid level by storing in the container from the top of the container and sending it to the extraction port from the lower part of the container.

BLICHMANN ENGINEERING HopRocket http://www.blichmannengineering.com/ http://www.blichmannengineering.com/products/hoprocket Randall, to add fragrance to draft beer In this device, the fragrance is manipulated by placing and inserting it between the beer barrel (keg) and the hose connecting the server and passing the inside of the main body. The main body has a rocket shape (used in an upright position), and the beer injected from the beer inlet arranged at the upper end passes horizontally through the filter arranged vertically inside the main body and then faces sideways (horizontal direction) In the structure where the beer is discharged from the extraction port installed in (), the injected beer is sent out of the container after touching the fragrance material put between the upper and lower filters. HopRocket is molded from steel (stainless steel) and is suitable for use in a cooling room such as inside a beer server.

  The present invention / invention is intended for beverage aroma manipulation techniques and equipment, especially for small stores and individuals with intentional aroma manipulation (finished fragrance typified by dry hopping, etc.) for finished beverages (beer). The aim is to provide a small, lightweight, easy-to-operate and economical aroma handling container that can be realized in a simple and real-time manner and assists in the creation of store-specific aroma drinks (original flavored beer).

  The said subject is solved by implement | achieving the structure which extracts only a drink after making a drink and an aromatic material contact within the sealable container made from the food-and-beverage-goods raw material with light and hard and good workability. Specifically, the container is composed of a hollow / cylindrical integrated body made of a polymer material such as plastic for food and beverages and a metal material such as stainless steel and aluminum, and a sealable lid that can be attached and detached at both ends. In addition, a beverage (beer) injection and extraction port is provided in each lid, and the beverage can pass through the container (inside the body between the lids at both ends) and the food and drink for aroma operation (fragrance material: flavor sauce) ) Provides an isolation space partitioned by a net-like filter (filter) that cannot pass through the injection / extraction port side, and a flavor source is put in the space and the ends are covered, and one of the extraction / extraction ports enters the inside of the container. Beverage is injected under pressure to touch the flavor source, and then extracted from the other inlet / outlet to the outside of the container (automatically discharged by opening the outlet side by pressurizing the inlet side) , Realized aroma operation beverage (added). For example, when the beverage is beer, the beverage injection side is connected to the beer barrel side, the extraction (discharge) side is connected to the beer server side, and when the tap of the beer server is opened, the beer is fragranced from the barrel side by the carbon dioxide pressure on the beer barrel side. Passing through the container, touching the flavor sauce and flowing to the beer server side (one direction), fragrant beer is provided from the tap (beer spout). As described above, since the flavor sauce is isolated by the filter in the container (filtered by the filter), it does not enter the beer provided from the tap. By using this configuration, the same and similar effects can be obtained not only for the beer but also for any beverage.

  By using the fragrance operation container (flavor tuner) of the present invention, artificial fragrance operation can be easily performed in real time on a beverage.

The external view of the 1st Example of this invention. Explanatory drawing of the components of a 1st Example. The fragmentary sectional view of a 1st Example. The enlarged view of the fragmentary sectional view of a 1st Example. Explanatory drawing of the example of a practical system of a 1st Example. Explanatory drawing of the application system of the practical system of a 1st Example. Explanatory drawing of the components of the application system of the practical system of a 1st Example. Explanatory drawing of the 2nd application system of the practical use system of a 1st Example. Explanatory drawing of the 3rd application system of the practical use system of a 1st Example. External view of the second embodiment of the present invention

  The fragrance operation container (flavor tuner) of the present invention is suitable for connection to equipment (beverage server) that continuously provides beverages using high-pressure gas such as carbon dioxide gas, and provides draft beer such as blue pubs and beer halls. It is expected to be used in stores. Specifically, in the state of inserting the beer hose from the beer barrel to the beer server, the fragrance operation container of the present invention in which the fragrance material (flavor sauce) has been inserted in advance is installed and installed in the same manner as when providing normal beer. By extracting the tap (cock: beer spout), the beer that has been aromatized (added) is extracted and provided.

Example 1

  FIG. 1 is a first embodiment of the present invention, and is an external view of a single unit that does not contain a fragrance manipulation material (fragrance material: flavor source) and is not connected to an external device. The flavor tuner 10 is composed of one main body 100 made of food-compatible plastic, two main body lids 101 (101-1, 101-2), and two strainers (filters) 102 (102-1, 102-2) and 4 made of stainless steel. 1 attachment 103 (103-1,103-2,103-3,103-4: only 103-1 is shown in FIG. 1), and two hose joints 105 (105-1,105-2) for beer and are shown in FIG. It is composed of a group of parts composed of a plurality of non-hermetic packings, and these are used as an integrated unit. A beer hose is connected to the hose joint 105 (each of 105-1 and 105-2), and the beer is moved in the direction indicated by the solid line arrow in FIG.

  FIG. 2 is a view showing an appearance and a partial cross-sectional view of the hose joint 105. FIG. 2A is an external view of the hose joint 105 viewed from the direction of the thick arrow (downward), and FIG. 2B is a partial cross-sectional view of the external appearance of the beer hose 203 connected to the hose joint 105. The hose joint 105 includes a hose connection part 105-a for connecting the hose 203 and an attachment connection part 105-b for connecting the attachment 103. The hose connection part 105-a has a mechanism that securely connects and holds the beer hose 203 and can be removed when not in use. The attachment connecting portion 105-b has a female screw structure that can be directly screw-connected to the attachment 103 shown in FIG.

  FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view (a cross-sectional view of the left half of the flavor tuner 10) when the flavor tuner 10 is viewed from the side, and shows a connection structure when assembled integrally. The flavor tuner 10 has a target shape sandwiching the central part of the main body body 100, and main body lids 101-1, 101-2, strainers 102-1, 102-2, attachments 103-1, 103-2, 103-3, 103, which are respectively arranged at both ends. -4, since the hose joints 105-1 and 105-2 use the same parts and have the same functions, only the half (left half) is illustrated and described here (the following explanations are common to all the same parts) When explaining the main body cover 101-1, 101-2 as the main body cover 101 group, the strainer 102-1, 102-2 as the strainer 102 group, the attachment 103-1, 103-2, 1030-3, 103-4 as the attachment 103 group, Etc., and the number that represents each part). Both end portions of the main body barrel 100 are formed with external screws from the outer end along the outer wall to join the main body lid 101 group, and the strainer 102 group is placed on the inner end edge portion of both end portions. A step is formed for placement and fixing inside. When the flavor tuner 10 is assembled, the strainer 102 is disposed at this step. The body lid 101 group has a female screw of a size that fits from the edge on the inner wall to the male thread at both ends of the body trunk 100 and a circular through hole in the center of the lid. At the time of assembling 10, the attachment 103 group is attached using this through-hole, and then fitted to the external thread of the outer wall of the main body barrel 100 to be fastened and fixed. Hereinafter, a connection / fixing method of the attachment 103 group and the main body lid 101 group and a process until the attachment to the main body trunk 100 will be described. The attachment 103 group is a screw connection type adapter having a hollow structure made of stainless steel. Both ends of each attachment are formed with the same type and diameter screw (one end has a screw and the other end has a female thread), which are used to connect and fix multiple attachments 103 together. be able to. The through hole of the main body lid 101 group is formed to have a dimension through which the male thread portion of the attachment 103 group passes, and in the attachment, the attachment 103-2 is inserted into the through hole of the main body lid 101-1 from the connection side (inner side) to the main body trunk 100. Pass the male screw part, and connect and fix the screw by fitting the female screw of the attachment 103-1 from the opposite side (outside) across the main body lid 101-1. In this state (with the attachment 103 group attached to the main body lid 101-1), the strainer 102-1 is arranged at the step inside the main body trunk 100 of the flavor tuner 10, and the main body lid 101-1 is sandwiched between them. Is connected to the body trunk 100. Further, the hose joint 105-1 is attached to the male screw of the attachment 103-1 by screw connection. The above description is the same for the right half of the flavor tuner 10 having the same structure.

  4 expands the connection part of the flavor tuner 10 consisting of the main body trunk 100, the main body cover 101-1, the strainer 102-1, the attachment 103-1, 103-2, and the hose joint 105-1 described in FIG. It is the figure which showed the packing groups 111,112-1,112-2,113 for. Flavor tuner 10 passes beer pressurized with carbon dioxide gas when using aroma operation, so it is necessary to keep airtight in a state where parts are assembled together so that beer does not leak outside the container, FIG. The connection part of the parts group described in the above is tightly sealed. For this purpose, packing of a size suitable for the diameter of each screw is arranged at each connecting portion. When connecting the main body body 100 and the strainer 102 disposed inside the main body body 100 to the main body cover 101, inserting the packing 113 between them and connecting the attachments 103-1 and 103-2 and the main body cover 101-1 The packings 112-1 and 112-2 are inserted between the main body lid and the respective attachments. Further, when connecting the hose joint 105-1 to the attachment 103-1, the packing 111 is disposed between them. The packing material is a flexible food-compatible material such as rubber or silicone.

  FIG. 5 is a practical system using the flavor tuner 10 of FIG. The practical system consists of a beer barrel system 20 consisting of a beer barrel 201, a dispense head 202, a carbon dioxide cylinder 203, and a gas hose 60, a flavor tuner 10 that contains and fragrance material (flavor sauce) 110 that adds fragrance to beer, and a beer server. It is composed of a beer server system 30 comprising 301 and beer taps 302, and a beer hose group 50 (50-1, 50-2) connecting them. Here, the beer barrel system 20, the beer server system 30, the beer hose group 50, and their accessories and related parts are commercially available products commonly used in restaurants. Also, the attachment 103 group, hose joint 105 group, packing group (111, 112 group, 113) used in the flavor tuner 10 use commercial products for beer and water. Normally, the beer barrel system 20 and the beer server system 30 are directly connected to each other, but in this practical system, the flavor tuner 10 is inserted between the beer barrel system 20 and the beer server system 30, and the beer is always inside the flavor tuner 10. It is set as the structure which passes. All devices are connected in an airtight manner, and when the beer barrel 201 is pressurized with the carbon dioxide gas cylinder 203 of the beer barrel system 20 and the beer tap 302 of the beer server system 30 is opened, the beer in the beer barrel 201 is beer hose. After entering the flavor tuner 10 through 50-1 and touching the flavor source 110, it is extracted from the beer tap 302 through the beer server 301 via the beer hose 50-2.

  FIG. 6 shows an application system in which the functions of the practical system in FIG. 5 are expanded. A beer direction switching valve system 40 is arranged between the beer barrel system 20 and the flavor tuner 10, and the beer is indicated by A beer in the figure by switching the beer traveling direction to the A side / B side with the beer direction switching valve 401. This is an embodiment in which a first path that passes through the flavor tuner 10 and is extracted from the beer server system 30-1 and a second path that is directly extracted from the beer server system 30-2 indicated by B beer in the figure are provided. Here, although not shown in FIG. 6, the second flavor tuner can be inserted into the second route as well as the first route. In other words, when it is configured to directly extract the second route, when two types of beer that select the presence or absence of aroma operation from one beer barrel, the second flavor tuner is connected to the second route Can select two types of beers with different fragrances from one beer barrel, and can construct a system that can provide two types of different beers without increasing the number of beer barrels.

  FIG. 7 is an external view of the beer direction switching valve system 40 used in this embodiment. The beer in the beer barrel 201 enters the direction of the arrow in FIG. 7, and the direction of travel is determined in the direction of A or B in the beer direction switching valve body 401-a by operating the valve switching lever 401-b. Follow the path that goes in the direction of beer (the path that passes through the flavor tuner 10 indicated by A in FIG. 6) or the direction of B beer in FIG. 7 (the direction that extracts without passing through the flavor tuner 10 indicated in B in FIG. 6). .

  FIG. 8 shows a second application system example that is an extension of the application system of FIG. In this example, the beer direction switching valve system 40 of the application system shown in FIG. 6 is provided in two systems 40-1 and 40-2 and at the same time the flavor tuner 10 is provided in two systems 10-1 and 10-2, System 20 beer can be extracted from 30 groups (30-1, 30-2, 30-3) of 3 beer server systems. Thereby, the system which can provide the beer of three different tastes of A beer, B beer, and C beer by selecting the presence or absence of an aroma operation and a different aroma route from one beer barrel can be realized. By using this second applied system method and increasing the beer direction switching valve system 40 group and the flavor tuner 10 group in the same way, beer with different flavors with various aromatic operations from one beer barrel system 20 Can be extracted.

  FIG. 9 is a third application system example using the application system of FIG. In this example, the beer direction switching valve system 40 of the application system shown in FIG. 6 is provided in two systems 40-1 and 40-2 as in the application system shown in FIG. 8, but the beer direction switching valve 40-1 is flavored. A beer direction switching valve 40-2 is arranged in the rear stage of the flavor tuner 10 in the front stage of the tuner 10. The beer direction switching valve 40-1 branches the beer into the A beer route that passes through the flavor tuner 10 and the B beer route that does not pass, and the beer direction switching valve 40-2 branches once. The route is integrated again. As a result, even if there is only one beer server system 30 following the beer direction switching valve 40-2, different beers of A beer or B beer can be extracted by operating the beer direction switching valve system 40-1, 40-2. it can. Beer direction switching valves 40-1 and 40-2 have a blocking function that prevents beer from flowing in the opposite direction when the direction of beer is switched (for example, the B side is blocked when the direction is switched to the A side) Therefore, beer extraction from the beer server system 30 stops even if, for example, either direction switching operation is wrong.

Example 2
FIG. 10 shows a second embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the strainer group 102 is replaced with a commercially available ball tea strainer 107, and the function is exactly the same as in the first embodiment. The ball tea strainer 107 is a combination of two hemispherical tea strainers, which are made into a spherical shape with a flavor sauce inside, and then put into the main body 100 of the flavor tuner 10 for use. Although not shown here, the ball tea strainer 107 can be replaced with a commercially available paper tea bag or the like. In this case, the flavor sauce is put in a tea bag and packed, and is used in the main body 100 of the flavor tuner 10 in the same manner as the ball tea strainer 107. In the case of using a tea bag, it is desirable to arrange and use a group of strainers 102 in the main body cylinder 100 in order to ensure smooth movement of beer entering and exiting the flavor tuner 10 (in the main body cylinder 100).

  The fragrance operation container (flavor tuner) of the present invention has a simple structure and can be selected from general materials and components, so that it can be mass-produced relatively easily as an industrial product for food and maintenance work is also easy. is there. Also, by changing the aroma material (flavor sauce) to a special material such as activated carbon or adsorbing impurities, not only the aroma operation on beverages shown in the examples, but also the deodorization of tap water and various aromas of water・ Quality adjustments can be realized, and utilization and application to other fields can be expected.

10: Flavor tuner
100: Body
101: Body lid
102: Strainer
103: Attachment
105: Hose joint
107: Ball tea strainer
110: Flavor sauce
111: Packing
112: Packing
113: Packing
20: Beer barrel system
201: Beer barrel
202: Dispensing head
203: Carbon dioxide cylinder
30: Beer server system
301: Beer server
302: Beer tap
40: Beer direction switching valve system
401: Beer direction switching valve
50: Beer hose
60: Gas hose

Claims (1)

  A container made for the purpose of artificially manipulating the aroma and taste (hereinafter referred to as aroma) of beverages (addition, conversion, adjustment, etc. of aroma) for the purpose of manipulating aroma in the container With the material (hereinafter referred to as fragrance material) put in, the beverage (hereinafter referred to as beverage) subject to the fragrance operation is placed in the container, touched with the fragrance material, and then removed from the container to manipulate the fragrance of the beverage Among the aroma handling containers that are used, not only the aroma handling of drinks that are held in the containers, but also beverages that are continuously and fluidly injected into the containers and extracted (discharged) outside the containers after passing through the containers. In a fragrance operation container capable of performing fragrance operation in real time, the fragrance operation container is a hollow / cylindrical body and lids that can be attached to and removed from both ends of the body, both ends of the body When attached to (connected) A first lid and a second lid having a through-hole connecting the inside and outside of the body and having a function of connecting to an external device or a part while maintaining airtightness of a portion excluding the through-hole; and the first and second lids on the body When the lid of 2 is attached, the beverage placed inside the body and between the first and second lids can pass through. The aroma material can be filtered by the first and second filter, and the beverage When the fragrance is operated, the first and second lids are disposed at both ends of the body in a state where the fragrance material is disposed between the first and second filters disposed inside the body. A device for pressurizing and injecting a beverage into the first lid and a device for pouring a beverage into the second lid are connected while maintaining airtightness so that the body is substantially horizontal ( The first and second lids at both ends of the body are arranged so that they are approximately the same height), and the beverage is injected under pressure. Aromatic operation container for the beverage from the vessel from a device to pour beverage through the pressure injected into the aroma operating container, characterized in that the structure for extracting a beverage.

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