JPH0689387A - Hot and cold drink dispenser - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the device which offers a tasty hot or cold drink without spoiling the smell of raw material. CONSTITUTION:This dispenser is equipped with a hot drink tank 1 and a cold drink tank 2, which are connected to a mixing bowl 9 by a hot water feeding pipe 7 and a wafer feeding pipe 8 having an opening/closing valve 5a for hot water and an opening/closing valve 6a for water feeding; and a hot air supply pipe 32 is connected, an pouring pipe 10 is also connected, and a cold storage chamber 12 and a raw material sending machine 20 which supply frozen raw materials from the storage chamber are provided. Further, the dispenser has an automatic controller and is provided with a hot drink switch and a cold drink switch and equipped with a switch board 48 having injection cut selection switch. The hot or cold switch is turned on and a quantity selection switch is operated; and then the frozen raw materials are supplied into the mixing bowl 9, hot water or cold water is supplied, and drink liquid wherein the raw materials are dissolved is poured into a cup 46 from an pouring valve.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hot and cold beverage dispenser which can obtain coffee, tea, or fruit beverages hot or cold.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There are various so-called beverage dispensers which can obtain hot beverages and cold beverages, for example, hot coffee and ice coffee, but conventional ones use raw materials as raw materials for these beverages. It is used as powder or granular solid that is heat dried.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional beverage dispenser, the raw material for beverage is made by drying the raw material. Therefore, the scent of the raw material is scattered during the drying process. Therefore, it was possible to provide only beverages in which the original aroma of the raw materials was reduced.

The present invention has made it possible to provide a device capable of obtaining a flavorful hot or cold beverage without impairing the original aroma of the raw materials.

[0005]

A hot and cold beverage dispenser according to the present invention comprises a hot tank having a heater and a cold tank having a cooling coil, both tanks for supplying hot water. An on-off valve, a hot water supply pipe having an on-off valve for water supply, and a water supply pipe connected to a mixing bowl. A hot air supply pipe having a heater and a blower is connected to this mixing bowl, and a pouring valve is also provided. A cold storage room to which the outlet pipe is connected and which also stores frozen raw materials,
It is equipped with a raw material feeder for supplying the frozen raw material in the storage chamber into the mixing bowl, and has an electronic automatic control device, and furthermore, a switch and a coer for hot beverages.
It is equipped with a switch board for cold drinks and a switch panel having a cup number selection switch corresponding to the number of infusion cups, and can be stored by turning on the hot or cold switch and turning on the number selection switch. As the frozen raw material in the room is supplied into the mixing bowl and hot water or cold water is supplied, it becomes a beverage liquid in which the raw material is dissolved, and the beverage liquid can be injected into the cup from the pouring valve. .

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to specific examples shown in the accompanying drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a hot tank, and 2 is a hot tank.
Indicates a cold tank, the hot tank 1 is provided with a heater 3 and the cold tank 2 is provided with a cooling coil 4, to which drinking water is supplied.

A hot water supply pipe 7 is connected to a lower portion of the hot tank 1, and the hot water supply pipe 7 is provided with an opening / closing valve 5a composed of an electromagnetic valve and a flow rate adjusting valve 5b, and a lower end thereof is connected to a mixing bowl 9. is there.

A cooling water supply pipe 8 is connected to a lower portion of the cold tank 2 and the water supply pipe 8 is provided with an opening / closing valve 6a composed of a solenoid valve and a flow rate adjusting valve 6b, and a lower end thereof is connected to the mixing bowl 9. It is connected.

At the lower end of the mixing bowl 9, a spout pipe 10 having a manually operated spout valve 11 is connected.

A material storage chamber 12 is provided with a cooling coil 13, the inside of which is kept at an appropriate temperature, and the stored raw material 14 for the beverage is a frozen product.

For example, in the case of coffee, a solid frozen raw material 14 obtained by freezing a concentrated liquid of coffee is used.

The raw material 14 is put into a large number of convex portions (inverted concave portions) 16 formed at a constant interval in a tape-shaped base packaging material 15 made of a synthetic resin, and the seal packaging material 17 is formed. With a heat-welding material such as hot melt on the bottom surface of the tape packaging material.
The base packaging material 15 is packed in a package for feeding.
The foreground 18 is opened.

In this way, the long raw material package 19 in which a large number of raw materials are packaged is wound around the raw material reel 20, and the reel 20 is attached to the reel rotary shaft 21.

The raw material package 19 is drawn out from the outlet 22 of the storage chamber 12 by a pair of upper and lower feeders 23 and 24, and the lower feeder 24 is the seal packaging material. It also has a function of separating 17 from the base packaging material 15.

The outlet of the storage chamber is closed with a flexible curtain or the like so as not to hinder the movement of the package, so that cold air in the storage chamber does not leak.

An example of the structure of the upper and lower feeders will be described in detail. As shown in FIG. 6, the upper feeder 23 has the perforations of the base packing material 15 on both end flanges 25 as shown in FIG. The sprocket is provided with a feed claw 26 that engages with 18, and a recess 27 that fits into the protrusion 16 of the base packaging material is formed between the left and right flanges 25. In addition, the lower feeder 2 has an upper feeder 2
The holes 28 with which the feeding claws 26 of No. 3 engage are formed in the outer periphery of both ends.

The seal packaging material 17 peeled off by the lower field roll is wound around a seal material recovery reel 30 in a recovery chamber 31 via an appropriate number of guide rolls 29.

Base packaging material 15 obtained by peeling off the seal packaging material
Is wound around the recovery reel 30 by intermittent rotation to enter the mixing bowl 9 through the inlet 9a and the outlet 9a.
It is designed to be pulled out from b.

A hot air supply pipe 32 is connected to the mixing bowl 9, and the hot air heated by the heater 33 is blower 34.
Is sent into the mixing bowl 9, and the surface of the frozen raw material in the convex portion of the base packaging material is instantly melted by this hot air, and the frozen raw material falls into cold water or hot water in the mixing bowl and is melted. The cooling coil 4 for a cold tank
The refrigerant from the refrigerator 35 including a compressor, a condenser and the like is sent to the compressor from the expansion valve 37 via the outward pipe 36, and the refrigerant from the cooling coil returns to the refrigerator from the return pipe 38.

Refrigerant is also sent to the cooling coil 13 of the storage chamber from the branch pipe 39 branching from the refrigerant outward pipe 36 through the expansion valve 40 and returned to the refrigerator by the return pipe 41. A switching valve 42 is provided at the intersection of the refrigerant outward pipe and the branch pipe, if necessary.

Reference numeral 43 in the drawing denotes a guide roll, 4
Reference numeral 4 denotes a rotation axis of the base packaging material recovery reel, 45 denotes a rotation axis of the seal packaging material recovery reel, 46 denotes a cup, and 47 denotes a number detection sensor.

The mechanical structure of the device of the present invention is as described above, and its operation will be described below. <In the case of hot beverage (coffee)> When the hot switch (HS) of the switch board 48 shown in FIG. 7 is turned on and the number of cups (number of pieces) selection switch, for example, one cup is turned on, it operates in the process of FIG. Then, it will be explained below.

(A) The switching circuit S1 is actuated by the signal from the control circuit 49 to start the motor M1 of the raw material feeding mechanism, and the raw material package 19 corresponds to one raw material, that is, only one convex portion of the base packaging material. It is sent into the mixing bowl 9 according to a command from the number selection sensor 47. At this time, the raw material package 19 is introduced into the mixing bowl with the seal packaging material 17 on the lower surface peeled off.

(B) Simultaneously with the feeding of the raw material or after a slight time lag, the switching circuit S2 is actuated by the signal from the control circuit to start the blower 34 and the heater 33.
The heated hot air is blown onto the upper part of the raw material body delivered to the upper part of the mixing bowl 9. As a result, the surface of the frozen raw material of the base packaging material in the mixing bowl is melted and falls into the mixing bowl by its own weight.

(C) The switch circuit S3 is actuated by a signal from the control circuit at the same time as or slightly before or after the dropping of the raw material, and the open / close valve 5a of the hot water supply pipe 7 is opened to supply one bowl of hot water to the mixing bowl. The raw materials are dissolved in this boiling water.

(D) When the raw material is completely dissolved in hot water, the valve 11 of the pouring pipe is opened and hot coffee is poured into the cup. It should be noted that a pilot lamp or the like may be used to indicate during or after the melting.

Hot coffee is dispensed as described above, but the switch is turned on for n cups, for example, 5 cups.

As a result, the raw material package is sent by the amount of only five raw materials, the five raw materials fall into the mixing bowl by hot air, and 5 cups worth of molten metal are poured to dissolve the raw materials.
You get a cup of hot coffee.

This is poured into 5 cups by pressing the pouring valve 5 times.

In the above embodiment, the upper feed roll is driven by the motor M1. In this case, in order to remove the looseness of the base packaging material, the base packaging material collecting reel 31 is driven by the motor. The base packaging material may be wound by driving the base packaging material at a predetermined tension at M2.

When the upper feed roll is driven by the motor M1, if a stepping motor is used for the motor M1 and the number of rotations of the motor corresponding to the selected number is stored in the electronic automatic control circuit, the number detection can be performed. The sensor 47 is unnecessary.

<In case of cold beverage (ice coffee)> The switch CS for cold of the switch board is turned on, and the switch for one cup is turned on. By doing so, it operates as shown in FIG. 9, which will be described below.

(A) A signal from the control circuit 49 activates the switching circuit S1 to start the motor M1 of the raw material feeding mechanism, and one raw material is fed into the mixing bowl 9 as in the case of hot coffee. Also, the seal packaging material on the lower surface of the raw material package sent to the mixing bowl is peeled off.

(B) Similar to the feeding of the raw material, or with a slight time lag, the switching circuit S2 is actuated by the signal from the control circuit to start the blower 34 and the heater 33.
The hot air heated by is sent to the upper part inside the mixing bowl, and the frozen raw material of the base packaging material in the mixing bowl has its surface melted and falls into the bowl.

(C) The switching circuit S3 is triggered by a signal from the control circuit at the same time as or slightly before or after the dropping of the raw material.
Is operated, the electromagnetic opening / closing valve 5a of the hot water supply pipe 7 is opened, and a predetermined amount of hot water is supplied to the mixing bowl in order to melt the raw material in a short time.

(D) When the raw material is melted by the hot water supply, the switching circuit S4 is actuated by the signal from the control circuit to open the electromagnetic on-off valve 6a of the water injection pipe 8 and the cooling water is injected into the mixing bowl to cool the ice. I get coffee.

(E) The obtained ice coffee is poured into the cup by opening the pouring valve 11 of the pouring pipe.

To obtain n cups, for example 5 cups of ice coffee, press switch CS and then switch on.

By doing so, 5 cups of ice coffee can be obtained in the steps (a) to (d). At this time (a) ~
It goes without saying that the processing time of each step of (d) will be long enough to be suitable for 5 cups.

In the apparatus of the present invention, each timing, time and supply amount operation of feeding the raw material corresponding to the above-mentioned number of cups, supplying hot air, injecting hot water or cooling water into the mixing bowl,
The control is performed by the electronic automatic control device, but there are various types of the device, and the description thereof is omitted.

[0042]

[Effects of the Invention] The apparatus of the present invention can selectively obtain hot beverages and cold beverages. However, since the hot beverages and cold beverages can be used as raw materials, frozen products of undiluted solutions produced by freeze concentration of raw materials can be used. Providing a hot or cold beverage that does not have the flavor, especially the scent, and has the scent of the raw material, unlike the solid (powder, granule, etc.) raw material produced by hot air drying, etc. be able to.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall mechanism diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a raw material package.

3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line III-III in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing a feed roll unit.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing a feed roll unit.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a raw material feeding mechanism.

FIG. 7 is a sequence diagram showing a control circuit.

FIG. 8 is a time chart when pouring a hot beverage.

FIG. 9 is a time chart when a cold beverage is poured out.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of an embodiment of a hot dispenser according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Hot tank 2 Cold tank 3 Heater 4 Cooling coil 5a Open / close valve 5b Flow rate adjusting valve 6a Open / close valve 6b Flow rate adjusting valve 7 Hot water supply pipe 8 Water supply pipe 9 Mixing bowl 9a Mixing bowl inlet 9b Mixing bowl outlet 10 Note pipe 11 Note Outlet valve 12 Material storage chamber 13 Cooling coil 14 Raw material 15 Base packaging material 16 Base packaging material convex portion 17 Seal packaging material 18 Perforation 19 Raw material packaging body 20 Reel 21 Reel rotary shaft 22 Storage chamber outlet 23 Upper feed roll 24 Lower feed roll 25 Flange 26 Feed claw 27 Recess 28 Hole 29 Guide roll 30 Seal material recovery reel 31 Base packaging material recovery reel 32 Hot air supply pipe 33 Heater 34 Blower 35 Refrigerator 36 Refrigerant forward pipe 37, 40 Expansion valve 38, 41 Refrigerant return pipe 39 Refrigerant Branch pipe 42 switching valve 43 guide roll 44 base packaging material collecting reel rotary shaft 45 seal material collecting reel rotary shaft 46 cup 47 number detection sensor 48 switch board 49 control circuit HS hot switch CS cold switch M1, M2 motors S1, S2, S3 , S4 switching circuit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A hot tank having a heater and a cold tank having a cooling coil, both tanks having hot water supply on-off valves, hot water supply pipes having water supply on-off valves, and water supply pipes for mixing. It is connected to a bowl, a hot air supply pipe having a heater and a blower is connected to the mixing bowl, and a pouring pipe having a pouring valve is connected to the mixing bowl, and a cold storage room for storing frozen raw materials, The raw material feeding mechanism for supplying the frozen raw material in the storage chamber into the mixing bowl, and having an electronic automatic control device,
Moreover, it is equipped with a switch for hot beverages and a switch for cold beverages, and also has a switch panel with a cup number selection switch corresponding to the number of infusion cups. By turning on the number selection switch, the frozen raw material in the storage chamber is supplied to the selected number in the mixing bowl and hot water or cold water is supplied to become a beverage liquid in which the raw material is dissolved,
A hot and cold beverage dispenser having a structure in which this beverage liquid can be poured into the cup from the pouring valve.