JP6294159B2 - Cooling / heating equipment for PET bottles. - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a cooling / heating device for a PET bottle or the like containing a beverage liquid.

As a beverage storage container, there is a beverage storage container (for example, a PET bottle) that can change the cross-sectional shape in place of a conventional hard synthetic resin bottle.
Refrigeration / heating chambers that have a plurality of plastic bottles and cooling / heating chambers that store multiple types of foods and that cool and heat the cooling / heating chambers are known. .

JP2006-71138

  Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-71138 “Cold Insulation and Heating Device” of Patent Document 1 includes a heating / cooling unit 21 at the bottom of a storage body 20 of a liquid storage container (pet bottle) M with reference to FIG. The bottom of the liquid storage container (pet bottle) M is heated and cooled through the bottom of the container 20 by the heating and cooling of the heating and cooling unit 21.

Only the bottom of the liquid storage container (pet bottle) M is heated and cooled. Therefore, there is a problem that it takes a long time to heat and cool the liquid storage container (pet bottle) M.

It is an object of the present invention to increase the cooling / heating area for a PET bottle or the like stored in a PET bottle storage chamber, shorten the cooling / heating time, and enable rapid cooling / heating.

The present invention provides a plastic bottle storage room,
The three upright surfaces of the left and right side walls and the back wall are connected to each other in a square box shape with a cross section that surrounds the stored plastic bottle with the 3 upright surfaces of the left and right side walls and the back wall, and the front lid. Integrated and thermally conductive, equipped with a pressing body in the center of the opening / closing lid in the width direction of the inner surface, and the PET stored in the PET bottle storage chamber is pushed by the pressing body of the opening / closing lid so that the stored pet With a configuration that deforms the bottle to form a flat surface on the peripheral surface of the bottle,
At least a part of the three sides of the plastic bottle storage chamber is used as a cooling / heating plate, and the plastic bottle stored in the plastic bottle storage chamber is in contact with the three upright surfaces of the plastic bottle storage chamber. It is characterized by heat conduction with the three sides of the PET bottle storage chamber, and cooling and heating the cooling / heating plate and the PET bottle in the PET bottle storage chamber by heat conduction by surface contact.

The invention of claim 2 is the invention of claim 1, wherein the three sides of the plastic bottle storage chamber are a cooling / heating plate made of an aluminum mold, and a refrigerant pipe groove is formed on the back surface of the cooling / heating plate. A heat exchanger is constituted by the refrigerant pipe and the cooling / heating plate engaged with each other.

  In the present invention, the pressing body of the opening / closing lid pushes the plastic bottle stored in the plastic bottle storage chamber to deform the plastic bottle to form a flat surface on the peripheral surface, and to change the flat surface of the deformed plastic bottle peripheral surface. The plastic bottle storage room is in contact with the three sides to conduct heat. Therefore, a part of the three side surfaces of the PET bottle storage chamber is used as a cooling / heating plate, and the cooling / heating plate and the PET bottle in the PET bottle storage chamber conduct heat by surface contact. The bottle can be rapidly cooled and heated, and the effect of shortening the cooling and heating time of a PET bottle or the like can be obtained.

An example of the plastic bottle stored in a plastic bottle storage room (refrigeration / heating room) is shown, a figure is a front view, b is sectional drawing by S1-S1 line. The longitudinal cross-sectional view of the principal part of cooling / heating devices, such as a PET bottle, which shows the Example of this invention which stores one PET bottle. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line S2-S2 of FIG. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view similar to FIG. 3 with the open / close lid open. The 2nd Example of this invention which stores two PET bottles is shown. The longitudinal cross-sectional view of the principal part of cooling / heating devices, such as a PET bottle similar to FIG. FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line S3-S3 in FIG. The perspective view of a heat exchange unit. Similarly front view. The longitudinal cross-sectional view which shows the whole structure of a cooling and a heater. The longitudinal cross-sectional view of a well-known cold insulation temperature apparatus.

With reference to FIG. 1 thru | or FIG. 4, the Example of the aspect which stores a single plastic bottle etc. in a plastic bottle storage chamber (refrigeration / heating chamber) is demonstrated.

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An example of a PET bottle M to cooling and heating are housed in plastic bottles containing chamber 1, FIG. 1, the cross-sectional shape of the central portion is Ri circular der, 2, 3, 4 square lacking four corners is there.

  Referring to FIG. 2, the plastic bottle storage chamber 1 has a cross-section of a configuration in which the plastic bottle M stored is surrounded by three upright surfaces of the left and right side walls 4, 4 and the back wall 2, and a front opening / closing lid 3. The bottom case 7 is formed in a square box shape.

The top cover 6 integral with the opening / closing lid 3 is provided, and the pressing body 5 is integrally formed on the inner surface side of the opening / closing lid 3.

The rear wall 2 (or the three side walls of the rear wall 2 and the left and right side walls 4 and 4) is a cooling / heating plate made of aluminum mold material, and a refrigerant pipe groove 8 is formed on the back surface of the cooling / heating plate. The refrigerant pipe 9 engaged with the pipe groove 8 and the cooling / heating plate constitute a heat exchange unit 10.

FIG. 4 shows the plastic bottle M stored in the plastic bottle storage chamber 1 with the open / close lid 3 open, and the peripheral surface is a curved surface.

FIG. 3 shows the plastic bottle M stored in the plastic bottle storage chamber 1 and with the open / close lid 3 closed. When the pressing body 5 of the open / close lid 3 pushes the plastic bottle M in the plastic bottle storage chamber 1, The stored plastic bottle is deformed to form a plane m on the peripheral surface of the bottle.

The three upright surfaces of the left and right side walls and the back wall, which function as a cooling and heating plate, and the PET bottles in the PET bottle storage room are rapidly cooled and heated by heat conduction through surface contact.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on the second embodiment of the present invention shown in FIGS.

In a plastic bottle storage room (refrigerated / heated room), a plurality of beverage containers (two drinking water pet bottles) M having a leg shape having a plane m on four sides can be stored freely.

Plastic bottle storage room (refrigerated / heated room) 1 is box-shaped (legislative shape), rear wall (cooling / heating plate) 2, opening / closing lid 3 integrated with top cover 6, left and right side walls 4, The inner space is divided into a plurality of partitions 15 and a bottom case 7, and the inner space is divided into a plurality (two) of storage spaces H and H. Yes.

In the embodiment, the left and right side walls 4 are also formed of a single aluminum mold in a shape integrated with the back wall (cooling / heating plate) 2.

Referring to FIG. 9, the heat exchange unit 10 includes a radiator 11, a condenser 12, and a compressor 13 to form a cooling / heating unit.

In the cooling cycle, the back wall (cooling / heating plate) 2 of the heat exchange unit is cooled by the refrigerant gas passing through the refrigerant pipe 9, and the apparatus of the present invention functions as a cooling apparatus.

In the heating cycle, the back wall (cooling / heating plate) 2 of the heat exchange unit is heated by the refrigerant gas passing through the refrigerant pipe 9, and the apparatus of the present invention functions as a heating apparatus.

Therefore, although the apparatus of the present invention functions as a cooling / heating apparatus, it is needless to say that a small cooling apparatus may be used as a function of only the cooling apparatus.

In the state in which the opening / closing door 3 is provided with the heat insulating material 14 and the storage spaces H and H are loaded with the beverage container M, the heat insulating material 14 presses the beverage container M, so that the plane m of the beverage container M is back. It is in close contact with the wall (cooling / heating plate) 2, the side walls 4, 4 and the partition wall 15.

Cooling and heating of the heat exchange unit by the refrigerant supplied through the refrigerant pipe is added to the back wall (cooling / heating plate) 2 and the partition 15 and the left and right side walls 4 and 4 are added. By conducting heat to the containers M and M, the plurality of beverage containers M and M are rapidly cooled and heated.

  The present invention promotes the sale of beverage liquids such as PET bottles by enabling rapid cooling and heating of beverage liquids such as PET bottles, and contributes to the development of the industry.

M Plastic bottle m Plane H Storage space 1 Plastic bottle storage room 2 Back wall (cooling / heating plate)
3 Front open / close lid 4 Left and right side walls 5 Press body

Claims (2)

In a cooling / heating device for PET bottles, including a PET bottle storage room storing PET bottles and a cooling / heating plate,
The plastic bottle storage room is
The three upright surfaces of the left and right side walls and the back wall are connected to each other in a square box shape with a cross section that surrounds the stored plastic bottle with the 3 upright surfaces of the left and right side walls and the back wall, and the front lid. Integrated and thermally conductive, equipped with a pressing body in the center of the opening / closing lid in the width direction of the inner surface, and the PET stored in the PET bottle storage chamber is pushed by the pressing body of the opening / closing lid so that the stored pet With a configuration that deforms the bottle to form a flat surface on the peripheral surface of the bottle,
At least a part of the three sides of the plastic bottle storage chamber is a cooling / heating plate,
The plastic bottle stored in the plastic bottle storage room is in thermal conduction with the three sides of the plastic bottle storage room by contacting the flat surface formed on its peripheral surface with the 3 upright surfaces of the plastic bottle storage room.
A cooling / heating device for a plastic bottle or the like, wherein the cooling / heating plate and the plastic bottle in the plastic bottle storage chamber are cooled and heated by heat conduction by surface contact. In a cooling / heating device for PET bottles, including a PET bottle storage room storing PET bottles and a cooling / heating plate,
The plastic bottle storage room is
The three upright surfaces of the left and right side walls and the back wall are connected to each other in a square box shape with a cross section that surrounds the stored plastic bottle with the 3 upright surfaces of the left and right side walls and the back wall, and the front lid. Integrated and thermally conductive, equipped with a pressing body in the center of the opening / closing lid in the width direction of the inner surface, and the PET stored in the PET bottle storage chamber is pushed by the pressing body of the opening / closing lid so that the stored pet The bottle is deformed so that a flat surface is formed on the peripheral surface of the bottle, and the PET bottle stored in the plastic bottle storage chamber is connected to the three upright surfaces of the plastic bottle storage chamber. As a result, the cooling / heating plate is made of aluminum mold, and the three sides of the PET bottle storage chamber conduct heat with the three sides of the PET bottle storage chamber, and a refrigerant pipe groove is formed on the back of the cooling / heating plate. Cold engaged in the groove Constitute a heat exchanger pipe and the cooling and heating plate,
A cooling / heating device for a plastic bottle or the like, wherein the cooling / heating plate and the plastic bottle in the plastic bottle storage chamber are cooled and heated by heat conduction by surface contact.

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