JP5531591B2 - Coffee beverage production equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a coffee beverage manufacturing apparatus, and more particularly to a coffee beverage manufacturing apparatus including a coffee bean shooter that guides coffee beans from a coffee bean canister to a coffee mill.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a coffee beverage manufacturing apparatus provided in a cup type vending machine or the like is known. For example, FIG. 1 of Patent Document 1 shows a coffee bean canister that supplies roasted coffee beans to a coffee bean shooter (bean supply unit), and coffee beans that are supplied from the coffee bean canister via the coffee bean shooter. A tube from a coffee mill that grinds to a predetermined particle size with a grinding blade, a mill motor that rotates the grinding blade of the coffee mill, coffee bean powder ground by the coffee mill (hereinafter referred to as ground beans), and a hot water valve in the hot water tank A coffee beverage production apparatus is disclosed that includes a coffee extractor that extracts a coffee beverage by filtering a mixed solution of hot water supplied through a paper filter.

  Further, in FIG. 1 of Patent Document 2, a coffee bean canister (coffee bean container) that stores roasted coffee beans and sends out the stored coffee beans by rotating a screw feeder (coffee bean auger). A coffee mill that pulverizes coffee beans supplied from a coffee bean canister through a coffee bean shooter (bean chute) to a predetermined particle size, and ground coffee beans that have been crushed by the coffee mill are extracted with hot water to produce a coffee beverage And a coffee beverage production apparatus comprising the coffee extractor.

  As described above, the coffee bean shooter that guides the coffee beans to the coffee mill that pulverizes the coffee beans fed from the coffee bean canister by the rotation of the screw feeder into ground beans is provided.

JP 2001-046331 A JP 2002-191507 A

  The conventional coffee bean shooter described in Patent Document 1 or Patent Document 2 is configured as shown in FIGS. When a beverage production instruction is output from a beverage production control unit (not shown) of the coffee beverage production apparatus 40, the feeder motor 14 and the mill motor 31 are driven simultaneously. When the screw feeder 13 is rotated by the rotation of the feeder motor 14, the coffee beans A stored in the coffee bean canister 10 are sent to the coffee bean shooter 50, and the fed coffee beans A are guided to the coffee bean shooter 50 to make coffee. Supplied to the mill 30. The coffee beans A supplied to the coffee mill 30 are collected at the coffee bean intake 34b and sent to the shooter 34a. The coffee beans A sent to the shooter 34 a are sent between the rotary blade 36 and the fixed blade 37 by the spring 35 of the mill screw 32 rotated by the mill motor 31, and between the rotary blade 36 and the fixed blade 37. It is ground and becomes ground beans. Then, the ground bean discharged from the payout port 33a is extracted with a coffee extractor (not shown).

  However, the coffee bean A sent out from the coffee bean canister 10 and dropped in the coffee bean shooter 50 may hit the spring 35 of the rotating mill screw 32 and be bounced to jump up in the coffee bean shooter 50 (FIG. 7). Then, when the feeder motor 14 is stopped and the coffee bean A finally sent out from the coffee bean canister 10 is bounced by the spring 35 and jumps up, the jumped coffee bean (hereinafter referred to as coffee bean B) becomes another coffee bean A. It will return to the shooter part 34a later. Therefore, if the time from when the feeder motor 14 is stopped to when the mill motor 31 is stopped is short, the coffee beans B remain in the stopped coffee mill 30, and the coffee beans B are removed from the predetermined amount of coffee beans. A small coffee beverage (a coffee beverage having a thin coffee component) will be manufactured, and a coffee beverage (a coffee beverage having a strong coffee component) containing more coffee beans B than a predetermined amount of coffee beans will be manufactured when the next coffee beverage is manufactured. Therefore, every time a coffee beverage is manufactured by the coffee beverage manufacturing apparatus 40, the coffee component concentration may become unstable. In order to eliminate such a problem, it can be solved by lengthening the time from when the feeder motor 14 is stopped to when the mill motor 31 is stopped. For example, a cup provided with the coffee beverage production apparatus 40 In the vending machine, the time from when the user presses the beverage selection button (not shown) until the production of the coffee beverage is completed becomes inconvenient for the user of the cup type vending machine. It becomes.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a coffee beverage production apparatus with a short coffee beverage production time.

In order to achieve the above object, a coffee beverage production apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention includes a coffee bean shooter that guides coffee beans from a coffee bean canister to a coffee mill.
The coffee bean shooter is disposed below the coffee bean canister and above the coffee mill,
The coffee bean shooter is characterized in that a flat portion having a larger area than the opening of the coffee bean intake is provided in the upper vicinity of the coffee bean intake of the coffee mill.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the coffee beverage production apparatus according to the first aspect, wherein the coffee bean shooter is a first drop guide for guiding the coffee beans that are fed from the coffee bean canister and fall. A guide slope that guides the coffee beans falling on the first drop guide part to the coffee bean canister side, and guides the coffee beans to fall from the guide slope to the coffee bean inlet. 2 drop guide portions, and the second drop guide portion is provided with a flat portion having an area wider than the opening of the coffee bean intake port in the vicinity of the upper side facing the coffee bean intake port. And

According to the first aspect of the present invention, in the coffee beverage manufacturing apparatus provided with the coffee bean shooter for guiding the coffee beans from the coffee bean canister to the coffee mill, the coffee is provided below the coffee bean canister and above the coffee mill. disposed beans chute, the said coffee bean chute, by the relative upward near to the coffee mill coffee bean inlet is provided a flat portion having a large area than the opening of the coffee bean inlet, coffee Even if the coffee beans that have fallen in the bean shooter are picked up from the coffee bean intake 34b and hit the spring 35 of the rotating mill screw 32 and are bounced and jumped up, the coffee beans that have jumped up from the opening of the coffee bean intake 34b immediately to the shooter section 34a direction of the coffee mill 30 in a plane portion which is a wide area Since it is come return Succoth, by shortening the time of the feeder motor 14 from the stop to stop the mill motor 31, it is possible to manufacture time of the coffee beverage to provide a short coffee beverage production device.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the coffee bean shooter includes a first drop guide part that guides the coffee beans that are sent out from the coffee bean canister and fall, and the coffee that drops from the first drop guide part. A guide slope portion for guiding the beans to the coffee bean canister side, and a second drop guide portion for guiding the coffee beans so as to fall from the guide slope portion to the coffee bean intake port. The drop guide portion is provided with a plane portion having an area larger than the opening of the coffee bean intake port in the vicinity of the upper portion relative to the coffee bean intake port, thereby preventing the coffee beans from remaining on the upper portion of the plane portion. Thus, it is possible to provide a coffee beverage production apparatus with a short coffee beverage production time.

It is a front view which shows an example of the coffee drink manufacturing apparatus which concerns on this invention. It is a side view which shows the coffee drink manufacturing apparatus of FIG. It is a sectional side view along the CC line of FIG. It is the sectional side view on which the locus | trajectory of the coffee bean B in the coffee drink manufacturing apparatus of FIG. 1 was drawn. It is a front view which shows an example of the conventional coffee drink manufacturing apparatus. It is a side view which shows the coffee drink manufacturing apparatus of FIG. FIG. 6 is a side sectional view taken along the line DD in FIG. 5.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of a coffee beverage production apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In addition, the same code | symbol is used regarding the same structure as the past. Further, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments. FIG. 1 is a front view showing an example of a coffee beverage production apparatus according to the present invention. 2 is a side view showing the coffee beverage production apparatus of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a side sectional view taken along line CC of FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is a locus of coffee beans B in the coffee beverage production apparatus of FIG. FIG.

  As shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 3, the coffee beverage production apparatus 1 according to the present invention stores roasted coffee beans A, and stores the coffee beans A stored by rotating a screw feeder 13. The coffee bean canister 10 that sends out the coffee beans, the coffee bean shooter 20 that guides the coffee beans A that are sent out and dropped from the coffee bean canister 10, and the coffee beans A that are supplied by dropping through the coffee bean shooter 20 to a predetermined particle size The coffee mill 30 to be crushed, the coffee bean powder crushed by the coffee mill 30 (hereinafter referred to as ground beans) and the hot water supplied from a hot water tank (not shown) are filtered through a paper filter to make a coffee beverage And a coffee extractor (not shown) for extracting the inside of the casing of a cup-type vending machine, etc., from above to below as shown in the figure Only by order coffee canister 10, coffee beans chute 20, coffee mill 30 is provided.

  The coffee bean canister 10 includes a canister body 11 that stores roasted coffee beans A, a lid 12 that covers an upper surface opening of the canister body 11, a screw feeder 13 provided on the bottom 11 a of the canister body 11, and a screw feeder. And a feeder motor 14 for rotating 13. When the feeder motor 14 is driven, the screw feeder 13 rotates, and the coffee beans A between the spiral blades 13a provided integrally with the screw feeder 13 are sequentially sent to the left (see FIG. 3), and the canister body 11 is sent out from a cylindrical supply port 13b projecting forward at the lower end of the front surface (left side in FIG. 3), and when the feeder motor 14 is stopped, the feeding of the coffee beans A is stopped.

  The coffee bean shooter 20 includes a first drop guide part 21 that guides the falling direction of the coffee beans A sent out from the coffee bean canister 10, and the coffee beans A that fall in the first drop guide part 21 on the coffee bean canister 10 side. The guide slope portion 22 is guided in the direction (right side in FIG. 3), and the second drop guide portion 23 guides the coffee beans A so as to fall from the guide slope portion 22 to the coffee bean inlet 34b. . And the 2nd fall induction | guidance | derivation part 23 is provided with the plane part 24 in the upper vicinity facing the coffee bean intake 34b, and the lower end opening 25 covers the circumference | surroundings of the coffee bean intake 34b.

  The coffee mill 30 pulverizes the coffee beans A fed from the coffee bean canister 10 and supplies them as ground beans to a coffee extractor (not shown). As shown in FIG. 3, a mill motor 31, a mill screw 32, A mill body 33 and a mill shooter 34 are provided. The mill screw 32 extends from the output shaft of the mill motor 31, and a spring 35 is wound around the outer periphery thereof in a spiral shape. Further, a rotary blade (mill blade) 36 is attached to the base of the mill screw 32, and when the mill motor 31 is driven, the rotary screw 36 attached to the mill screw 32 and the mill screw 32 is rotated. The mill body 33 is a housing in which the mill screw 32 is inserted and the rotary blade 36 is accommodated, and a fixed blade (mill blade) 37 is fixed so as to face the rotary blade 36. Both the rotary blade 36 and the fixed blade 37 described above are formed in a bowl shape, and the coffee beans A are crushed between the rotary blade 36 and the fixed blade 37 to become ground beans. It is paid out from the formed outlet 33a.

  The mill shooter 34 is for supplying the coffee beans A between the rotary blade 36 and the fixed blade 37 in cooperation with the mill screw 32, and includes a cylindrical shooter portion 34a extending horizontally and a shooter portion 34a. And a coffee bean intake 34b that is continuously extended and expanded upward. The mill shooter 34 is attached to the mill main body 33 so that the shaft center of the shooter portion 34a is concentric with the rotation shaft of the mill screw 32, and in the radial direction between the inner wall surface of the shooter portion 34a and the outer peripheral surface of the mill screw 32. A uniform gap is formed.

  In the coffee beverage manufacturing apparatus 1 configured as described above, the coffee beans A sent out from the coffee bean canister 10, dropped in the coffee bean shooter 20, and taken in from the coffee bean intake 34 b are obtained by the shooter 34 a. The spring 35 wound spirally around the mill screw 32 is fed toward the rotary blade 36 and the fixed blade 37 and is pulverized between the rotary blade 36 and the fixed blade 37. The pulverized ground beans are discharged to the outside of the mill body 33 through the discharge outlet 33a.

  The ground beans discharged from the outlet 33a are taken into the coffee extractor, and the coffee extractor filters the mixed liquid obtained by pouring hot water supplied from a hot water tank (not shown) into the ground beans with a paper filter. Extract coffee beverage.

  Even if the coffee bean A sent out from the coffee bean canister 10 and dropped in the coffee bean shooter 20 is taken in from the coffee bean intake 34b, hits the spring 35 of the rotating mill screw 32, is bounced and jumps up. Then, it hits the flat surface portion 24 provided in the second drop guiding portion 23 of the coffee bean shooter 20 and immediately rebounds to the shooter portion 34a (see FIG. 4). In this way, even if the feeder motor 14 stops and the coffee bean A finally sent from the coffee bean canister 10 is bounced by the spring 35 and jumps up, the jumped coffee bean (hereinafter referred to as coffee bean B) is Since the plane portion 24 immediately repels the shooter portion 34a, the time for returning the coffee bean B to the shooter portion 34a is shortened, and the rotating blade 36 and the fixed blade 37 between the shooter portion 34a and the other coffee beans A are reduced. You can send it in between. In addition, the coffee beans B that are bounced up by the spring 35 do not jump out of the gap between the coffee bean canister 10 and the coffee bean shooter 20.

  Thereby, since the time from stopping the feeder motor 14 to stopping the mill motor 31 can be shortened and the coffee beverage production time can be shortened, in the cup type vending machine equipped with the coffee beverage production apparatus 1, By shortening the time from when the user presses the beverage selection button until the production of the coffee beverage is completed, it is possible to shorten the sales waiting time of the customer of the cup type vending machine.

  Also, the coffee bean shooter 20 is provided with a guide slope portion 22 that guides the coffee bean A that is fed from the coffee bean canister 10 and falls in the first drop guide portion 21 to the coffee bean canister 10 side (right side in FIG. 3). Since the coffee beans A slide down the guiding slope portion 22 and fall from the second drop guide portion 23 to the coffee bean inlet 34b, the coffee beans A are prevented from remaining on the upper portion of the flat portion 24. Can do.

  As described above, according to the coffee beverage manufacturing apparatus 1 of the present embodiment, the coffee bean shooter 20 is disposed below the coffee bean canister 10 and above the coffee mill 30. Since the flat portion 24 is provided in the vicinity of the upper portion opposite to the coffee bean inlet 34b of the coffee beans B, the coffee beans B that are bounced and jumped by the spring 35 are immediately rebounded to the shooter portion 34a by the flat portion 24. Since the time from stopping the feeder motor 14 to stopping the mill motor 31 can be shortened to shorten the coffee beverage production time, Cup type vending machine by shortening the time from when the beverage selection button is pressed until the production of the coffee beverage is completed It is possible to shorten the sales waiting time of passengers.

  Further, the coffee bean shooter 20 includes a first drop guide part 21 that guides the coffee beans A that are sent out from the coffee bean canister 10 and the coffee beans A that falls from the first drop guide part 21 to the coffee bean canister 10 side. And a second drop guide part 23 that guides the coffee beans A so as to fall from the guide slope part 22 to the coffee bean inlet 34b. By providing the flat portion 24 in the upper vicinity opposite the coffee bean intake 34b, the coffee bean A slides down the guiding slope portion 22 and falls from the second drop guide portion 23 to the coffee bean intake 34b. As a result, it is possible to prevent the coffee beans A from remaining on the upper portion of the flat surface portion 24, shorten the time from when the feeder motor 14 is stopped to when the mill motor 31 is stopped. It is possible to shorten the manufacturing time of the heating beverages.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Coffee drink manufacturing apparatus 10 Coffee bean canister 11 Canister main body 13 Screw feeder 14 Feeder motor 20 Coffee bean shooter 21 1st fall guide part 22 Guidance slope part 23 2nd fall guide part 24 Plane part 30 Coffee mill 31 Mil motor 32 Mill screw 33 Mil Body 34 Mill Shooter 35 Spring 36 Rotary Blade 37 Fixed Blade A Coffee Bean B Coffee Bean

Claims (2)

In a coffee beverage production apparatus equipped with a coffee bean shooter for guiding coffee beans from a coffee bean canister to a coffee mill,
The coffee bean shooter is disposed below the coffee bean canister and above the coffee mill,
The coffee bean shooter is provided with a plane portion having an area wider than the opening of the coffee bean intake in the vicinity of the upper side of the coffee mill facing the coffee bean intake . The coffee bean shooter has a first drop guide part for guiding coffee beans sent out from the coffee bean canister and guiding the coffee beans falling to the coffee bean canister side. A slope part and a second drop guide part for guiding the coffee beans so as to fall from the guide slope part to the coffee bean take-in port, and the second drop guide part includes the coffee bean take-in part. The coffee beverage production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a flat portion having an area wider than the opening of the coffee bean intake port is provided in the vicinity of the upper portion facing the mouth.

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