JPH0133752B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a device for detecting the insertion and removal of food and drinks in an automatic refrigerator management device.

(Prior Art) Guests can freely take out food and drinks from refrigerators installed in guest rooms of hotels and inns.

(Problems with the conventional technology) With conventional refrigerators, the amount of food and drinks consumed is paid at the front desk along with the room charge, but the staff must go to each guest room and inspect the inside of the refrigerator to determine what and how much food and drinks have been consumed. It didn't happen. Therefore, inspection work is troublesome, especially when the number of rooms is large, and requires a lot of manpower.

(Object of the Invention) An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned difficulties and to enable the front desk to automatically manage the consumption of food and drinks in the refrigerator.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The device for detecting the insertion and removal of food and drinks in the automatic refrigerator management device of the present invention has two or more receivers 2 provided in the refrigerator 1 in two or more stages in the horizontal direction and two or more stages in the vertical direction. , a partition wall 6 that partitions the periphery of the receiver 2, and a spring 3 that supports the inner end portions 16, 17 of the receiver 2.
, supports 13 and 14 that support the shoulders of the container 5 placed on the receiver 2 so that the load of the container 5 is applied to the receiver 2; If the container 5 is smaller than a predetermined size, the container 5 will protrude downward extremely or fall, and the container 5 will be placed in the receiver 2.
A gap 26 with a width that prevents the load from being applied is provided, and the receiver 2 is provided so that it gradually slopes upward from the entrance 8 side toward the back, and the container 5 etc. can be freely inserted and taken out. 11 and 12 are provided so as to be rotatable, so that when a container or the like is placed, the rear ends 16 and 17 can move up and down due to the load, and the detector 4 is provided below the rear ends 16 and 17. It is designed to turn on and off when the receiver 2 moves up and down as a container or the like is put in and taken out of the receiver 2.

(Example) FIGS. 1 to 6 show an example of the present invention. In these embodiments, 1 is a refrigerator, and 2 is a receiver provided inside the refrigerator. There are two or more receptors 2 in the horizontal direction,
Two or more stages are provided in the vertical direction.

In FIG. 1, the periphery of the receiver 2 is divided by a partition wall 6 to prevent containers 5 placed on adjacent receivers 2 from coming into contact with each other or from falling from the side.

Although the partition wall 6 in FIG. 1 is made by combining board materials in a lattice shape, the partition wall 6 may be made of other materials, such as an oblong box-like structure with an entrance 8 as shown in FIGS. 2 to 6. The storage room 7 is used as the refrigerator 1.
Two or more stages horizontally and two or more stages vertically may be installed inside.

The receiver 2 shown in FIGS. 3 to 6 has two long thin plates 9 and 10 each having an L-shaped cross section, which are arranged parallel to each other with a predetermined distance between them. It is possible to take food and drinks in and out. In addition, the elongated plates 9 and 10 have inlet side ends 11 and 12 connected to the support 1.
3 and 14 to the bottom plate 15 of the storage chamber 7, the rear ends 16 and 17 are welded to the connecting plate 18, and the connecting plate 18 is suspended from the support piece 19 by the spring 3 from the entrance 8 side of the storage chamber 7. The slope gradually rises towards the back.

Further, in the present invention, there is a gap 26 between both the elongated plates 9 and 10.
is formed so that the container 5 having a smaller size than the gap 26 protrudes downwardly from the receiver 2 or falls down. By providing this gap 26, a small container protrudes downward from the gap 26 or falls, and the outer peripheral surface of the container 5 is exposed to the bottom plate 15 of the storage chamber 7.
, so that the load of the container is not applied to the receiver 2 and the detector 4 is not turned on or off.

3 to 6, the entrance side ends 11, 12 of the elongated plates 9, 10 are connected to the storage chamber 7 by supports 13, 14.
The supports 13 and 14 are attached to the bottom plate 15 of the
may be provided between both side walls of the entrance 8 of the storage chamber 7 with one shaft lying horizontally. In this case, the entrance side ends 11 and 12 of the elongated plates 9 and 10 are connected to the bottom plate 15 by screws or the like.
Attach to.

The support piece 19 is attached to the ceiling plate 20 and the bottom plate 1 of the storage chamber 7.
It is attached to a support plate 21 which is erected and fixed between 5 and 5.

The illustrated spring 3 is a coil spring, but the spring 3 may be of any other type as long as it can support the receiver 2 so that the receiver 2 moves up and down with the load of the container 5 being taken in and out of the receiver 2. body 2
It may be supported from below.

4 in FIGS. 2 and 5 is a detector. This is attached to the supporting plate 21 below the connecting plate 18, and when the container 5 is placed on the receiving body 2 and the receiving body 2 is lowered, the contact 22 of the detector 4 is connected to the connecting plate 18.
When the container 5 is removed from the receiver 2 and the receiver 2 moves upward, the contact 22 is released from being pressed down and turned off.

The type and structure of the detector 4 is not particularly limited as long as it turns on and off when the receiver 2 moves up and down to a predetermined position. For example, it may be a reed switch or a switch using an electronic element. In the case of a reed switch, a magnet is attached to the connecting plate 18.

Reference numerals 23 and 24 in FIGS. 2 and 4 are stoppers for preventing the receiver 2 from being pulled upward more than necessary by the spring 3 when no food or drink is placed on the receiver 2, and is a support plate. It is made to protrude rearward from 21.

(effect) The present invention has the following various effects.

(1) A gap 26 is provided in the receiver 2 so that containers smaller than the predetermined size will either protrude extremely downward or fall. Even if a youth bottle smaller in size than a beer bottle is placed in the empty receptacle 2, the youth bottle will protrude extremely downward from the gap 26 or fall, and the outer circumferential surface of the beer bottle will fall into the storage chamber 7. The detector 4 does not turn on or off because it comes into contact with the bottom plate 15 and no load from the wine bottle is applied to the receiver 2. Therefore, for example, it is possible to prevent illegal eating and drinking by placing a youth bottle on the bottle after taking out the beer bottle so that the beer is not drunk.

(2) If you decide in advance what kind of food and drink container is to be placed in which container 2, and if the detector 4 is electrically connected to the detector 25 installed at the front desk, etc., the detection By simply operating the machine 25, the front desk can know which food and how much food and drink have been consumed in the refrigerator of which room. This eliminates the need for employees to visit each guest room and inspect the inside of the refrigerator, resulting in significant labor savings.

(3) Since the periphery of the receiver 2 is divided by the partition wall 6, food and drink containers 5 placed on adjacent receivers 2 can be separated.
Since there is no possibility of the containers 5 coming into contact with each other or the container 5 falling from the side, there are almost no malfunctions caused by these.

(4) Supports 13 and 14 are provided to support the shoulders of the food and drink container 5 placed on the receiver 2 so that the load of the container 5 is applied to the receiver 2. load is reliably transmitted to the receiver 2.

(5) Since the receiver 2 is installed so that it gradually slopes upward from the entrance 8 side toward the back, and the inner ends 16 and 17 of the receiver 2 are movable up and down,
The load of the food and drink container 5 placed on the receiver 2 is more reliably transmitted to the receiver 2.

(6) The detector 4 is located at the inner end portions 16 and 17 of the receiver 2, which moves up and down when food containers 5, etc. are put in and taken out.
Since it is provided below the receiver 2, it turns on and off accurately by following the vertical movement of the receiver 2.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram of the present invention, Figs. 2 to 6 show an embodiment of the invention, Fig. 2 is a rear view, Fig. 3 is a front view, and Fig. 4 is a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line AA in the figure, FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along line BB in FIG. 2, and FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of FIG. 4 with the bottle inserted. 1 is a refrigerator, 2 is a receiver, 3 is a spring, 4 is a detector, and 5 is a container.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Supports two or more receivers 2 provided in the refrigerator 1 in two or more stages horizontally and two or more vertically, a partition wall 6 that partitions the periphery of the receiver 2, and the inner end portions 16 and 17 of the receiver 2. The spring 3 supports the shoulder of the container 5, etc. placed on the receiver 2, and the load of the container 5, etc. is transferred to the receiver 2.
The supports 13 and 14 and the receiver 2
A detector 4 detects when a container 5 or the like is put in or taken out of the receiver 2.If the container 5 has a smaller size than a predetermined size, the container 5 will protrude extremely downward or fall, and the container 5 will be placed in the receiver 2. A gap 26 large enough to prevent any load from being applied is provided, and the receiver 2 is provided so that it gradually slopes upward from the entrance 8 side toward the back, and the container 5 etc. can be freely put in and taken out. 11 and 12 are rotatable so that when a container or the like is placed on it, the rear ends 16 and 17 can move up and down due to the load.
7. A device for detecting the loading and unloading of foods and drinks in an automatic refrigerator management device, characterized in that the device is installed below a container 2 and is turned on and off when the container 2 moves up and down by loading and unloading containers into and out of the container 2.