JP4271069B2 - Lowering conveying device in circulation type food and beverage conveying device - Google Patents

Description

  [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a lowering and conveying apparatus for collecting a food and drink container on the kitchen side in a circulating food and beverage conveying apparatus provided with an endless circulation conveying path for circulating a container on which food and drink are placed to the food and drink counter side.

  For example, a circulatory sushi restaurant circulation type food transport device called a sushi restaurant is provided along a dining table such as a food counter, and on a circulating transport path composed of a crescent chain conveyor that runs endlessly, Food and drink are provided to customers by placing a dish container with food and drink and circulating the food and drink area. And in the above-mentioned circulation type food and drink conveying device, the eaten and eaten containers after eating and drinking are loaded and placed on the eating and drinking counter, and the store clerk lowers and eats the eaten and consumed dishes when the customers change or after closing It was made to carry and collect | recover to the inlet of the lowering conveyor provided as an apparatus (refer patent document 1).

JP 2003-70615 A (paragraph 0031, FIGS. 1 and 2)

  However, the conventional lowering and conveying apparatus described in the above-mentioned patent document is provided in a place where the position of the conveyor inlet is limited, so it not only takes time to carry to the inlet, but also during transportation, There was also a risk of overturning the stacked food and drink dishes. Moreover, since the eaten and eaten dishes with leftovers are directly put into a lowering conveyor or the like, there is a concern that the lowering conveyor becomes dirty.

  The present invention was made paying attention to such a problem, and the clerk quickly moved without moving the food and drink container placed on the food counter in front of the customer seat left by the customer when the customer was replaced. It is an object of the present invention to provide a lowered conveying device in a circulating food and beverage conveying device that can be collected and that does not contaminate the lowered conveying device with leftover food or the like.

In order to solve the above-mentioned object, the lowering conveying device in the circulating food and beverage conveying device according to claim 1 of the present invention is an endless circulating conveying path that circulates a container on which the food is placed to the food counter side. In the circulation type food and drink transport device provided with a food and drink container, the container is a lowering transport device that collects food and drink on the kitchen side. The lowering conveyor on which the recovery box is placed is stopped at the commanded seat position by the recovery command from and the recovery box is conveyed to the kitchen side by the lowering conveyor by the lowering command.
According to this feature, there is an inlet for eating and drinking containers provided for each passenger seat. At the time of collection, the store clerk calls the lower conveyor on which the collection box is loaded, Containers can be charged. In addition, since the food and drink containers are stored in the collection box, it is possible to avoid the lowering conveyor from being soiled with leftover food.

The lowering conveying apparatus in the circulating type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to claim 2 of the present invention is the lowering conveying apparatus in the circulating type food and drink conveying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the eating and drinking counters are provided, The lowering and conveying device is provided for each food counter.
According to this feature, even if a plurality of eating and drinking counters are installed in a large store, such as an E-type circulating food and beverage conveying device, a lower conveying device is provided for each eating and drinking counter. Eating and drinking containers can be collected efficiently.

The lowering conveying apparatus in the circulating type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to claim 3 of the present invention is the lowering conveying apparatus in the circulating type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the food and drink counter is on both the left and right sides. A plurality of seats are provided, and the food and drink containers from both the left and right seats are collected by a single lowering conveyor.
According to this feature, since the food and drink containers can be loaded and collected from the left and right sides of the food counter with respect to one lowering conveyor, the store clerk does not move for collection.

The lowering conveying apparatus in the circulating type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to claim 4 of the present invention is the lowering conveying apparatus in the circulating type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the collection box is It is placed on a delivery conveyor, and the delivery conveyor is linked to the lowering conveyor so that a recovery box can be supplied to the lowering conveyor.
According to this feature, even if there are continuous collection commands, the collection box can be lowered by the delivery conveyor and sequentially supplied to the conveyor, so that the containers that have been eaten and consumed can be collected quickly.

The lowering conveying apparatus in the circulation type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to claim 5 of the present invention is the lowering conveying apparatus in the circulating type food and drink conveying apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the delivery conveyor is 2 by forward and reverse conveyance. The collection box can be supplied to any one of the two lowering conveyors.
According to this feature, the collection box can be supplied to the two lowering conveyors with one delivery conveyor, so that the equipment can be prevented from becoming large and complicated.

The lowering conveying device in the circulating type food and beverage conveying device according to claim 6 of the present invention is the lowering conveying device in the circulating type food and beverage conveying device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the lowering conveyor is It is characterized in that it is linked to the collection conveyor so that the food and drink containers can be supplied to the collection conveyor on the kitchen side.
According to this feature, since the collection box conveyed by the lowering conveyor can be transferred to the collection conveyor on the kitchen side, it can be continuously transported to a collection tank for cleaning, for example.

The lowering conveying apparatus in the circulating type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to claim 7 of the present invention is the lowering conveying apparatus in the circulating type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein Is characterized by a shutter that can be opened and closed.
According to this feature, the open / close shutter is opened only when the charging port is used, so that odors such as leftovers can be prevented from spreading to the food counter via the open / close shutter.

  Examples of the present invention will be described below.

  DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First, FIG. 1 is a plan view of a circulation type food and beverage transport apparatus arranged in an E shape from a kitchen area to a restaurant area in a large store or the like, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which a lowering conveyor is disposed below the circulating food and beverage transporting device projecting to the restaurant area, and FIG. 4A is projecting to the restaurant area. FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a relationship between a delivery conveyor and a recovery conveyor arranged in the kitchen area, (b) is a sectional view taken along the line CC in FIG. 5 and FIG. FIG. 6 is a side view of the overhanging circulation type food and drink conveying device, and FIG. 6 is a side view of the feeding conveyor, the recovery conveyor and the circulating type food and beverage conveying device arranged on the partition wall side of the kitchen area.

  1 and 2, the kitchen area 1 and the eating and drinking area 2 are partitioned by a partition wall 3. The kitchen area 1 and the eating and drinking area 2 include a circulation type food and drink conveying device (hereinafter referred to as a crescent chain conveyor CL). 4) is provided in an endless manner.

  In the eating and drinking area 2, three rows of overhanging conveyance paths having two conveyance paths composed of an outward path and a return path arranged in parallel with each other, that is, the overhanging conveyance device 4 a, protrudes from the partition wall 3 at a predetermined interval from the kitchen area 1. The food counter 5 or a plurality of tables 6 are provided on both sides of the protruding conveyance path.

  The circulation transfer device 4 is formed in an E shape in plan view by the linear transfer device 4b that is a transfer path on the kitchen area 1 side and each overhang transfer device 4a, and is placed on the straight transfer device 4b in the kitchen area 1. The food container, for example, the sushi plate S, is continuously supplied to each overhang conveying device 4a on the food and beverage customer area 2 side.

  In the kitchen area 1, a recovery conveyor that becomes a single recovery transport device that passes through the support base and runs endlessly is provided below the support base (not shown) that supports the linear transport device 4 b. 9 is provided in parallel with the linear conveyance device 4b and close to the partition wall 3.

  The recovery conveyor 9 comprises a net or belt-like conveyor, and is fed to a recovery tank (hereinafter referred to as a cleaning tank) 10 for cleaning disposed downstream of the front end of the transport direction running in the direction of the arrow on the upper surface. The used sushi plate S after being used is transported.

  On the other hand, each overhanging conveying device 4a that projects from the kitchen area 1 to the eating and drinking area 2 side through the opening 25 of the partition wall 3 circulates on the conveying paths L1 and L2 provided on the upper surface of the support frame 12 configured in a box shape. As shown in FIG. 3, a lowering conveyor 20 that moves and reciprocates the collection box 22 extends from the kitchen area 1 side to the extended tip of each extended conveying device 4a.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 4 to FIG. 6, the inside and the outside of the kitchen area 1 are connected to one end of each lowering conveyor 20 accommodated inside the both overhang conveying device 4 a adjacent along the partition wall 3 side. A drivable delivery conveyor 26 is disposed, and a collection box 22 that is always empty is pooled on the delivery conveyor 26.

  A standby position is provided at one end of each lowering conveyor 20 to wait for an empty collection box 22 sent from the delivery conveyor 26 until a collection command is issued.

  On both sides of the support frame 12 of each overhang conveying device 4a, food and drink counters 5 are arranged along the conveyance paths L1 and L2, respectively. A plurality of insertion ports 14 to be inserted into the seat are arranged corresponding to each seat.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the insertion port 14 is always closed by a plate-shaped opening / closing door 15 serving as a shutter provided with a handle 18, and the opening / closing door 15 is a fulcrum provided at a relatively upper portion of the insertion port 14. It is supported so that it can rotate around the center and is normally closed by its own weight.

  A push button 16 that is pressed by a restaurant or a store clerk is arranged on the side wall in the vicinity of the insertion port 14, and the lower conveyor 20 is immediately activated by pressing the push button 16, and an empty collection box 22 in the standby position is It is conveyed to the insertion port 14 corresponding to the seat position of the restaurant.

  An inclined chute 24 (see FIG. 4 b) for guiding the used sushi dishes S one by one toward the empty collection box 22 conveyed by the lowering conveyor 20 and stopped is arranged inside each insertion port 14. Yes.

  The opening / closing door 15 described above can be configured so that a fulcrum is provided at the upper end of the insertion port 14 so that the sushi plate S can be input at a time by opening the fulcrum. It can also be composed of a sheet-like material such as a suspended vinyl.

  Furthermore, the input port 14 with the opening / closing door 15 has been described with respect to an example in which it is arranged corresponding to each seat on both side walls of the support frame 12 on the front surface of the food and drink counter 5, but the front end wall surface of the support frame 12 of each overhang conveying device 4a. It can also be provided.

  One end of the lowering conveyor 20 on the standby position side is connected to the recovery conveyor 9, and the recovery box 22 containing the used sushi dish S is transferred to the recovery conveyor 9 and transferred to the washing tank 10. It is configured.

  Next, the operation of the lowering conveyance device will be described.

  In the circulating transport device 4 in the above-described embodiment, the sushi on the sushi plate circulating through each overhang transport device 4a in the restaurant area 2 is eaten by the restaurant and is left on the food counter 5 or each table 6 The food container S is collected as follows.

  That is, when the store clerk presses the push button 16 when the restaurant has left after eating and drinking, the empty collection box 22 waiting at the standby position is immediately transported to the input port 14 corresponding to the restaurant and stopped.

  Therefore, the handle 18 of the opening / closing door 15 is pulled forward to open the lower portion of the opening / closing door 15, and the used sushi dishes S on the eating and drinking counter 5 are emptied one by one through the inclined chute 24 from the insertion port 14. It is put into the collection box 22.

  When all of the used sushi dishes S are put into the collection box 22, the lowering conveyor 20 is activated, for example, by operating a push button (not shown) and moves backward in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG. The collection box 22 containing S is transferred onto the collection conveyor 9 shown in FIG. 4A. As soon as the placement of the collection box 22 is confirmed by a sensor or the like, the collection conveyor 9 is activated and the collection box 22 is activated. Is transferred toward the cleaning tank 10.

  Further, for example, when it is confirmed by a sensor that the collection box 22 is discharged from the lowering conveyor 20 and there is no collection box 22 at the standby position of the lowering conveyor 20, the delivery conveyor 26 is activated to lower the next collection box 22. They are linked to each other so as to transfer to 20 standby positions. When the collection box 22 placed on the delivery conveyor 26 is insufficient, the collection box 22 is directly put on the delivery conveyor 26 by hand or on the delivery conveyor 26 using the feeding chute 28 shown in FIG. Additional replenishment.

  As shown in FIG. 6, when it is confirmed that there is no collection box 22 at the standby position of the lowering conveyor 20 in another adjacent overhanging conveyance device 4a, the delivery conveyor 26 runs in the opposite direction and collects in the same manner. The box 22 is immediately transferred to the standby position. The delivery operation of the delivery conveyor 26 can be performed in parallel while any one of the lowering conveyors 20 is operating.

Therefore, as described in the above embodiment, according to the lowering and conveying apparatus of the present invention, the plurality of inlets 14 for feeding the used sushi plate S into the support frame 12 side walls on the front surface of the food and drink counter 5. Is arranged corresponding to each seat, and stops at the passenger seat position instructed by the lower conveyor 20 on which the collection box 22 is placed by the collection command by the push button operation from the passenger seat, and the used sushi plate S is inserted into the slot. 14, the collection box 22 is transported to the kitchen area 1 side by the lowering conveyor 20 according to the lowering instruction, so that the store clerk puts the collection box 22 down during the collection. The conveyor 20 is called and the used sushi plate S can be put into the loading slot 14 while being in the vicinity of the passenger seat position. Used sushi plate S
Is stored in the collection box 22, so that the lowering conveyor 20 is prevented from being soiled with leftover food.

  In addition, as seen in a large store, the eating and drinking counter 5 is installed in each of the three overhanging conveying devices 4a that are spaced apart from the kitchen area 1 by a predetermined distance and are extended toward the eating and drinking area 2 and arranged in an E shape in plan view. Even if it is done, since the lowering conveyor 20 is provided for each food and beverage counter 5, the used sushi plate S can be efficiently collected.

  Furthermore, the food counter 5 is provided with a plurality of seats on the left and right sides of each overhang conveying device 4a, and the used sushi plates S from both the left and right seats can be collected by a single lowering conveyor 20, so that the store clerk can collect them. Never move.

  The collection box 22 is placed on the delivery conveyor 26, and the delivery conveyor 26 is linked to the lowering conveyor 20 so that the collection box 22 can be always supplied to the standby position of the lowering conveyor 20. However, since the collection box 22 can be sequentially lowered to the standby position of the conveyor 20 by the delivery conveyor 26, the used sushi plate S can be collected quickly.

  Further, since the delivery conveyor 26 can supply the collection box 22 to any one of the two lowering conveyors 20 adjacent to each other even by one delivery conveyor 26 by forward and reverse conveyance, enlargement and complexity of the facility can be avoided.

Furthermore, the lowering conveyor 20 is a used sushi plate S for the collection conveyor 9 on the kitchen area 1 side.
Since the recovery box 22 transported by the lowering conveyor 20 can be transferred to the recovery conveyor 9 on the kitchen area 1 side, for example, it is continuously transported to the washing tank 10 or the like. Is possible.

  Moreover, the opening / closing door 15 provided in the insertion port 14 is configured to open only when the insertion port is used, so that odors such as leftovers can be prevented from spreading to the food counter 5 side through the opening / closing door 15. .

  Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the drawings, the specific configuration is not limited to these embodiments, and modifications and additions within the scope of the present invention are included in the present invention. It is.

It is a top view of the circulation type food-and-drink conveyance apparatus which concerns on the Example of this invention and is arrange | positioned in E shape toward a restaurant area from a kitchen area in a large store etc. FIG. It is an AA arrow line view of FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the state which has arrange | positioned the lowering conveyor to the downward direction of the circulation type food-and-drink conveyance apparatus protruded in the restaurant area. (A) is the circulation type food and drink conveying device overhanging in the restaurant area, and is a plan view showing the relationship between the delivery conveyor and the recovery conveyor arranged in the kitchen area, and (b) is a CC of (a). It is sectional drawing. It is a side view of the circulation type food-and-drink conveyance apparatus which extended the restaurant area similarly. It is a side view of the delivery conveyor arrange | positioned at the partition wall side of a kitchen area, the collection | recovery conveyor, and a circulation type food and drink conveying apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

1 Kitchen area 2 Restaurant area 3 Bulkhead 4 Circulation transport device (circulation type food transport device)
4a Overhang conveying device (conveying device)
4b Linear conveying device 5 Eating and drinking counter 6 Table 9 Recovery conveyor 10 Cleaning tank (recovery tank)
12 support frame 14 slot 15 door (shutter)
16 Push button 18 Handle 20 Lower conveyor 22 Collection box 24 Inclined chute 25 Opening
26 Feeding conveyor 28 Loading chute CL Crescent chain conveyor S Sushi plate (food container)
L1, L2 transport path

Claims (7)

  In the circulation type food and drink transport device provided with an endless circulation transport path for circulating the container on which the food and drink are placed to the food and drink counter side, the food and drink is a lowering and transporting device for collecting the food and drink container on the kitchen side. In the vicinity of the counter, there is an inlet for eating and drinking containers for each passenger seat, and the lowering conveyor on which the recovery box is placed is stopped by the recovery command from the passenger seat, and the recovery box is stopped by the lowering command. It is conveyed by the kitchen side by the lowering conveying apparatus in the circulation type food and drink conveying apparatus characterized by the above-mentioned.   The lowering and conveying apparatus in the circulation type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the eating and drinking counters are provided, and the lowering and conveying apparatus is provided for each of the eating and drinking counters.   The lowering conveying apparatus in the circulation type food conveying apparatus of Claim 1 or 2 with which the said food / beverage counter is provided with several passenger seats on both right and left sides, and the food-and-drink container from both right and left passenger seats collect | recovers with one lowering conveyor.   The circulation type food and drink according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the collection box is placed on a delivery conveyor, and the delivery conveyor is linked to the lowering conveyor so that the recovery box can be supplied to the lowering conveyor. Lower conveying device in the conveying device.   The lowering conveying apparatus in the circulation type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the delivery conveyor can supply the collection box to one of two lowering conveyers by forward and reverse conveyance.   The lowering conveying apparatus in the circulation type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the lowering conveyor is linked to the collecting conveyor so that the food and drink containers can be supplied to the collecting conveyor on the kitchen side.   The lowering conveying apparatus in the circulation type food and beverage conveying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein a shutter that can be opened and closed is formed at the insertion port.

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