JP5687103B2 - Dispenser - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a dispenser that discharges ice pieces or ice pieces and beverages from a discharge opening.

  In general, examples of this type of dispenser conventionally used include an ice dispenser and a beverage dispenser that discharges ice pieces together with a beverage. A drink dispenser discharges drinks, such as water and juice, with an ice piece according to a user's operation, for example.

  Conventionally, a push lever type dispenser has been used as a dispenser for discharging such ice pieces. Referring to FIG. 10, the auger type ice making machine provided in the dispenser 101 is provided with an ice storage chamber 108 above the machine room 105 containing the ice making device 106. A cooling pipe 119 is wound around the outer peripheral surface of a vertically long refrigeration casing 109, and an auger 107 having a spiral blade inside is rotatably accommodated. Then, when the ice making water supplied into the freezing casing 109 freezes on its inner peripheral surface, it is transported upward while being scraped off by the spiral blade of the rotating auger 107, and further compressed into a columnar shape through the pressing head. The ice pieces are crushed into pieces and sent to the ice storage chamber 108 through the discharge path for storage. Here, a lever 103 operated by a user is attached to the front portion of the dispenser 101. For example, when the user presses a cup or the like against the lever 103 and the lever 103 is rotated, the lever 103 is rotated. The electromagnetic switch built in 103 detects the rotation of the lever 103 and is driven and controlled to discharge the ice pieces in the ice storage chamber 108 from the discharge port 102 (Patent Document 1).

  Such a push lever type dispenser presses the cup against the lever to pour out the ice, but at this time the ice does not stick out when the ice sticks out of the cup or when the cup is released from the lever. Therefore, there is a possibility that ice falls on the slats that engage with the drain panel disposed below the ice piece discharge port. Therefore, as in the snowboard 110 in FIG. 11, the gap between the ribs 111 is widened so that even if ice falls on the snowboard 110, it smoothly falls into the drain panel 112.

JP 2010-133650 A

  On the other hand, assuming the case of using an extraction button type dispenser in which a cup is placed on a slat and the extraction button is pushed to pour out ice and beverage, the ice protruding from the cup will fall into the slat as in the push lever type. Become. Also in this case, it is desirable to widen the rib spacing of the slats so that when the ice falls on the slats, the ice smoothly falls on the drain panel below. However, in the case of an extraction button type dispenser, this slat has a role of placing a container such as a cup. If the gap between ribs provided in the depth direction is large as in the case of the slat 110 of FIG. 11, when the cup is placed. In addition, when a rib is provided in the horizontal direction, when the cup is placed or the cup is taken out, if the gap between the rib is large, the bottom of the cup will be easily caught between them. Conceivable.

  The present invention has been made to solve such problems. When a cup is placed on a slat, the cup is likely to be stable, and the cup is less likely to get caught on the ribs of the slat when the cup is put in and out. Another object of the present invention is to provide a dispenser equipped with a slat that prevents ice from accumulating on the slat.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a dispenser according to the present invention discharges a supply containing ice pieces or ice pieces and a beverage from a discharge port, and receives the supply by a drain panel disposed below the discharge port. A dispenser configured to be capable of being provided with a slat that is detachably engaged with a drain panel, wherein the slat is a plurality of vertical ribs extending from the front side to the back side of the dispenser and adjacent to each other. The interval between the vertical ribs and the vertical ribs is configured to be wider on the back side than the front side of the dispenser.

The slats may further include a plurality of concentric ribs at a position below the discharge port. More preferably, the vertical rib is not constructed in a straight portion of the slat that passes directly under the discharge port and extends from the front side to the back side of the dispenser. In addition, the slat has a frame part that hangs a rib on the inside and engages with the drain panel, and the frame part has a rising part that rises outward with respect to the surface side of the slat, and the slat is face up. The height of the upper end portion of the rib from the engagement portion with the drain panel may be different between the case where the rib is used and the case where the back side opposite to the front side is used.
Furthermore, in the rib, a large R may be formed at the end portion on the front surface side, and R may not be formed at the end portion on the back surface side, or a minimum R may be formed.

  According to the dispenser according to the present invention, the ribs on the front side of the dispenser have a narrow rib interval, so that a container such as a cup can be stably placed, and when the container is put in and out, the cup is placed in the gap between the rib and the rib. The bottom becomes difficult to catch. On the other hand, since the rib interval between the vertical ribs on the back side of the dispenser is wide, ice pieces can easily fall smoothly to the drain panel under the slats, and ice does not easily accumulate on the slats.

It is a perspective view of the whole dispenser provided with the drainboard which concerns on this invention. It is a top view showing the shape of a snowboard. It is a perspective view showing the shape of a snowboard. It is sectional drawing which looked at the snowboard from the horizontal direction. It is a perspective view showing the state which changes and uses the front and back of a snowboard. It is sectional drawing showing the engagement state of a drainboard and a drain panel in a push lever type dispenser. It is sectional drawing showing the engagement state of a drainboard and a drain panel in an extraction button type dispenser. It is a perspective view of a drain panel and a machine room. It is a top view of the drain panel and machine room which were shown in FIG. It is sectional drawing of the conventional dispenser. It is a perspective view of the conventional dispenser.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The present invention will be described using a push lever dispenser. As shown in FIG. 1, ice pieces made by an auger type ice maker (not shown) provided in the dispenser 1 are sent to and stored in an ice storage chamber 8 above the auger type ice maker. The lever 3 is installed at the front part of the dispenser 1 and is controlled so that the ice pieces in the ice storage chamber 8 are discharged from the discharge port 2 when the user presses a cup or the like against the lever 3. . An elongated, substantially rectangular parallelepiped drain panel 30 is disposed at the front lower part of the front surface of the dispenser 1, and the drainboard 10 is engaged with the inside of the drain panel 30. The ice that has been discharged from the discharge port 2 and dropped onto the slat 10 falls between the ribs 61 to 71 (see FIG. 2), which will be described later, and falls into the drain panel 30.
Below, the shape of the snowboard 10 which concerns on this invention is demonstrated in detail.

  First, as shown in FIG. 2, the snowboard 10 includes a frame portion 14 and a plurality of ribs 61 to 71 that are installed inside the frame portion 14. The shape of the snowboard 10 is substantially rectangular according to the shape of the drain panel 30 so as to engage with the inside of the drain panel 30. 2 is a view of the slat 10 in a state of being disposed in the dispenser 1 shown in FIG. 1 as viewed from above, and is a view represented with the front side of the dispenser 1 being the lower side and the back side being the upper side.

The detailed shapes of the ribs 61 to 71 will be described with reference to FIG.
First, the pair of vertical ribs 61 and 62 are arranged symmetrically with respect to the depth center line 28. First, the vertical ribs 61 and 62 extend in a direction perpendicular to the front surface of the dispenser 1 while keeping the width a constant from the front side toward the back side, and are orthogonal to the horizontal center line 29. The vertical ribs 61 and 62 extending further to the back side after being orthogonal to the horizontal center line 29 extend while expanding the width b of each other, and terminate at intersections 76 and 77 with the outermost rib 67 among the concentric circular ribs. . From the intersection points 76 and 77, a pair of lateral ribs 68 further linearly extend in the lateral direction. Further, the vertical ribs 63 and 64 disposed symmetrically on the outer sides of the vertical ribs 61 and 62 extend while maintaining a constant distance from the vertical ribs 61 and 62. That is, the vertical ribs 63 and 64 first extend parallel to a direction perpendicular to the front surface of the dispenser 1 from the near side to the far side, and are orthogonal to the horizontal center line 29. The longitudinal ribs 63 and 64 that extend further to the far side after orthogonally intersecting the lateral center line 29 extend while being bent so as to spread outward, and terminate at intersections 78 and 79 with the outermost rib 67 among the concentric ribs. . From the intersections 78 and 79, a pair of lateral ribs 69 further linearly extend in the lateral direction. In addition, the vertical rib is formed in the straight part 27 which passes just under the discharge outlet 2 and goes to the back side 22 from the near side 21 of the dispenser 1 so that it may not be constructed. In this case, the “straight portion” refers to a belt-like portion having a certain width that extends straight from the front side 21 to the back side 22 and passes directly under the discharge port 2 (see FIG. 2).
Furthermore, four lateral ribs 68 to 71 extend from the front side to the back side of the dispenser 1 in the lateral direction in parallel to each other at equal intervals.
Here, the “front side” of the dispenser 1 refers to the side where the user takes in and out the cup that receives the supply discharged from the discharge port 2 on the front side of the dispenser 1 having the discharge port 2 and the lever 3. “Back side” refers to the back side of the dispenser 1.

  Next, the concentric ribs 65 to 67 are integrally formed with the frame portion 14, the vertical ribs 61 to 64, and the lateral ribs 68 to 71, and the center of the concentric circular ribs 65 to 67 is lateral to the vertical center line 28. This is the intersection with the center line 29, that is, the center of the snowboard 10.

  The number of ribs is not limited to the present embodiment, and can be changed as appropriate in relation to the size of ice. In addition, the planar shape by the arrangement of the ribs 61 to 71 of the snowboard 10 may be bilaterally symmetric as in this embodiment shown in FIG. desirable.

  Due to the shape of the ribs 61 to 71, the rib interval a on the front side 21 of the slat 10 is narrow, so that it is stable when the cup is placed on the slat 10 and when the cup is taken in and out. The possibility of hooking the bottom on the lateral ribs 68-71 is also reduced. On the other hand, since the rib interval b on the back side 22 of the snowboard 10 is widened, the spilled ice that is not received by the cup smoothly falls to the drain panel 30. Furthermore, since the vertical rib is not constructed on the straight portion 27, the ice piece discharged from the discharge port 2 hits the vertical rib, or the beverage discharged together with the ice piece hits the vertical rib. It is possible to prevent the splash from flying. Further, the provision of the concentric ribs 65 to 67 increases the stability when placing the cup, and the concentric ribs 65 to 67 are positioned below the discharge port 2 to allow the user to place the cup. It is easy to adjust so that the position where the stool is placed is just below the discharge port 2, and the amount of ice falling on the slat 10 without being received by the cup is also reduced.

Next, the three-dimensional shape of the snowboard 10 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.
As described above, the snowboard 10 includes the frame portion 14 and the plurality of ribs 61 to 71. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the frame portion 14 is a substantially rectangular frame that forms the outer peripheral portion of the snowboard 10. As shown in FIG. 4, the frame portion 14 has a rising portion 16 that rises outward with respect to the surface side 23 of the snowboard 10. The rising portion 16 has a height H3. Here, as shown in FIG. 4, the first engaging portion 17 is formed at the end portion of the surface side 23. Moreover, the 2nd engaging part 18 is formed in the back surface side 24 of the frame part 14 so that engagement with the step part 31 of the drain panel 30 mentioned later is possible. Here, the “front surface side” refers to the surface on which the frame portion 14 has the rising portion 16, and the “rear surface side” refers to the surface opposite to the front surface side 23.
Moreover, as shown also in FIG. 4, the height from the back surface edge part of a rib to the 1st engaging part 17 forms height H1. Further, the height from the second engagement portion 18 to the surface end portion of the rib forms a height H2. The effects of the heights H1 and H2 will be described later.

Further, as shown in the detailed cross-sectional view of the rib of FIG. 4, large R1 is formed at the two corners of the end portion on the front surface side 23 of each rib, and R is not formed at the two corners of the end portion of the back surface side 24. Or the smallest R2 is formed. In this embodiment, when the rib width is 3 mm, “large R1” is set to R1.5 mm and “minimum R2” is set to R0.5 mm, but the specific value of R is not limited to this.
“Large R1” means R large enough to allow ice pieces falling from the discharge port 2 to pass smoothly between the ribs. “Minimum R2” means that the cup is stable. R of the size within the range that can be placed.

  Next, a feature that can be used with any kind of dispenser of push lever type or extraction button type by changing the front and back of the snowboard 10 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, a method of using the stool 10 with a push lever dispenser will be described with reference to the state (a) of FIG. 5 and FIG.
When the slat 10 is used in a push lever type dispenser, the slat 10 is used by being engaged with the drain panel 30 with the surface side 23 facing up, as in the state (a) of FIG. Here, the drain panel 30 has an elongated and substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and has a double structure including an outer wall 39 and an inner wall 37, and the outer wall 39 and the inner wall 37 are integrated with each other via an upper end portion 38. Molded. In addition, an inner recess 36 is defined that is surrounded by the inner wall 37 and receives ice that has fallen on the slat 10. Near the upper end of the inner wall 37, two stepped portions are formed so that the lower step portion constitutes a first engagement step portion 31 and the upper step constitutes a second step portion 32. Here, in the drain panel 30, the depth from the upper end portion 38 to the first engagement step portion 31 is H <b> 1 similarly to the height of the snowboard 10 described above.

  Therefore, when engaging the drainage board 10 with the surface side 23 facing upward to the drain panel 30, the second engagement part 18 of the snowboard is connected to the first engagement step part 31 of the drain panel 30 as shown in FIG. By engaging, the height from the first engagement step portion 31 of the drain panel 30 to the end portion on the surface side 23 of the snowboard 10 is H2, and the upper end of the drain panel 30 from the first engagement step portion 31 is H2. The height to the portion 38 is lower than the height H1. As a result, the upper end portion of the inner wall 37 of the drain panel 30 becomes a wall, and ice is unlikely to spill out of the drain panel 30, that is, out of the dispenser 1. Moreover, the front-end | tip part (refer FIG. 4) which has large R of each rib is arrange | positioned upwards by making the surface side 23 of the snowboard 10 face up. For this reason, when ice pieces fall from the discharge port 2, the ice can smoothly pass through the slats 10. The first engaging portion 17 and the second step portion 32 are arranged flush with each other.

Next, a method of using the stool 10 with the extraction button type dispenser will be described with reference to the state (b) of FIG. 5 and FIG.
When the slat 10 is used in the extraction button type dispenser, the slat 10 is used by being engaged with the drain panel 30 with the back surface 24 facing up, as in the state (b) of FIG. To engage the drainage board 10 with the back surface 24 facing up to the drain panel 30, engage the first engagement part 17 of the snowboard with the first engagement step part 31 of the drain panel 30, as shown in FIG. Let Here, the height from the 1st engagement step part of the snowboard 10 to the edge part of the back surface of the ribs 61-71 becomes the height H1 mentioned above.

  In the case of the extraction button type, the closer the distance between the cup and the discharge port, the easier it is for ice to enter the cup. Therefore, it is desirable to make the height of the snowboard 10 as high as possible. Here, as described above, the height of the snowboard 10 from the first engagement step portion 31 of the drain panel 30 becomes H1 by engaging the snowboard 10 with the drain panel 30 as described above. Compared with the height H2, it is higher by H1-H2. Further, the end portions of the ribs 61 to 71 are exactly the same height as the height H1 of the end portion 38 from the first engagement step portion 31 of the drain panel 30. As a result, ice and beverages can easily enter the cup, and when the cup is placed on or taken out from the slat 10, the possibility that the bottom of the cup will hit the drain panel 30 and the contents of the cup will spill out is reduced. . Moreover, the front-end | tip part (refer FIG. 4) in which R of each rib is not formed is arrange | positioned upwards by making the back surface side 24 of the snowboard 10 upward. For this reason, when used in an extraction button type dispenser, the flat portion can be widened so that the cup can be placed stably, and the cup is unlikely to fall down. The second engaging portion 18 and the second step portion 32 are arranged flush with each other.

  As described above, by changing the front and back of one type of slats, it can be used for both push lever type and extraction button type dispensers, so there is no need to make two types of slats depending on the type of dispenser. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the cost of parts and to make parts common.

  Instead of the drain panel 30 described above, a drain panel 80 as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 may be used, and a drain pan 50 described later may be disposed on the machine room 85 side. About another structure, it is the same as the above-mentioned dispenser 1. FIG.

  In the conventional dispenser 101 as shown in FIG. 10, since the drain panel 112 is located below the ice or water discharge port 102, water may enter from the gap between the drain panel 112 and the front panel 104. There was a problem that the water that entered through the gap entered the inside of the machine room 105, dropped into the base portion 115, and leaked out of the machine.

  In order to solve this problem, as shown in FIG. 8, in this dispenser, a belt-like guard 82 extending along the end of the drain panel 80 on the machine chamber 85 side, and a drain pan on the base inside the machine chamber 85 are provided. 50. The drain panel 80 also has an elongated, substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, similar to the drain panel 30, and has a double structure including an outer wall 89 and an inner wall 87. The outer wall 89 and the inner wall 87 have an upper end portion 88. It is integrally formed via. Further, the drain panel 80 is engaged with a substantially rectangular slat 81 similar to the drain panel 30. Further, a notch 84 having a rectangular opening is provided in a part of the guard 82 (substantially in the center in the present embodiment), and the drain pan 50 is disposed below the notch 84. By providing the guard 82, water that has entered from the gap between the drain panel 80 and the front panel is prevented from entering the machine chamber 85. Furthermore, since the notch 84 is provided in a part of the guard 82, the intruded water flows down to the machine room 85 side through the notch 84. At this time, since the drain pan 50 is installed under the notch 84 as shown in FIG. 9, the water that has entered the machine chamber 85 accumulates in the drain pan 50, and as a result, the water does not drip on the base portion 86. Water will not leak out of the machine.

  The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described with reference to the above description and drawings, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Dispenser 2 Release | release port 10 Snowboard 21 Front side 22 Back side 23 Front side 24 Back side 30 Drain panel 61-64 Vertical rib 65-57 Concentric rib

Claims (5)

In a dispenser configured to discharge ice pieces or a supply comprising ice pieces and a beverage from a discharge outlet, and to receive the supply at a drain panel disposed below the discharge outlet,
A slat that is detachably engaged with the drain panel,
A plurality of vertical ribs extending from the front side to the back side of the dispenser, wherein the interval between the adjacent vertical ribs and the vertical ribs is wider on the back side than the front side of the dispenser. It is comprised in the dispenser characterized by the above-mentioned.   The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the slat is further provided with a plurality of concentric ribs at a position below the discharge port.   3. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the vertical rib is not provided on a straight portion that passes directly under the discharge port and extends from the near side to the far side of the dispenser.   The snowboard includes a frame portion that hangs the rib on the inside and engages with the drain panel, the frame portion having a rising portion that rises outward with respect to the surface side of the snowboard, and The height of the upper end portion of the rib from the engaging portion with the drain panel changes depending on whether the front side is used or the back side opposite to the front side is used. The dispenser according to any one of claims 1 to 3.   5. The dispenser according to claim 4, wherein in the rib, a large R is formed at two corners on the front surface side, and R is not formed at the two corners on the back surface side, or a minimum R is formed.

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