JPH071070Y2 - Beverage supply device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

This invention relates to a beverage supply device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a beverage supply device, for example, a tea server, hot water is stored in a hot water storage tank in the upper part of a cabinet body, and tea is poured by operating an operation panel provided on a front door of the cabinet body. It is designed to send out signals. When this pouring signal is given,
A beverage supply mechanism is provided for pouring tea by supplying a certain amount of hot water stored in a hot water storage tank to a tea strainer containing tea leaves. The tea thus poured is poured into a cup arranged in the cup insertion opening of the front door to provide the tea.

In addition, when the operation panel is operated without arranging a cup or when the amount of tea provided is too large, the tea in the cup can be discarded so that the bottom of the cup insertion port is A beverage outlet is provided.
The tea (drain tea) flowing out from the beverage discharge port is discharged from the cabinet main body by flowing out from the drain tea tray provided in the cabinet main body through the drain pipe communicating with the drain opening.

[0004]

However, the beverage supply port and the drain tea tray are provided on the cabinet body side, while the beverage outlet port located between the beverage supply port and the drain tea tray is It is provided on the door side. For this reason, if the front door is opened while drain tea is still flowing out of the beverage outlet, the drain tea cannot be received in the drain tea tray and flows down from the beverage outlet to the floor surface. . Therefore, there is a problem that the drain tea spills on the floor surface where the tea server is installed, and the floor surface is soiled.

[0005]

According to the present invention, the cup insertion port is provided with a beverage supply port through which the beverage supplied from the beverage supply mechanism flows down at the upper part, and the beverage which flows down without being received by the cup at the lower part. It is equipped with a beverage outlet for discharging. An opening / closing valve that closes when the front door is opened is attached to the beverage outlet. With this configuration, a beverage supply device that does not pollute the floor surface even when the front door is opened while drain tea is flowing out from the beverage discharge port is provided.

[0006]

In the cabinet body, the beverage supply mechanism is built in, and the front door attached to the front surface of the cabinet body can be opened and closed. Further, a cup insertion port is provided in the front door, and the cup can be placed therein.

The beverage supplied from the beverage supply mechanism flows down from the beverage supply port provided above the cup insertion port to the cup insertion port.

[0008] The drain tea that is not received in the cup and flows down is discharged from the beverage discharge port provided under the cup insertion port. Further, when the front door is opened, the opening / closing valve attached to the beverage outlet is closed, and the drain tea does not flow out from the beverage outlet.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a tea server will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 show a schematic configuration of the whole, and a hot water storage tank 3 provided with a heat insulating wall 2 is fixed to an outer wall surface of an upper part in a cabinet body 1. A so-called throw-in heater 4 is provided at the bottom of the hot water storage tank 3 to heat the water in the hot water storage tank 3. An arm 6 having a float 5 attached at its tip is rotatably supported on the side wall of the hot water storage tank 3, and the movement of the float 5 according to the water level in the hot water storage tank 3, that is, the amount of rotation of the arm 6 is photoelectric. The water level in the hot water storage tank 3 can be detected by detecting with the sensor unit 7. A water supply hose attachment port 8 is attached to the back plate 1a of the cabinet body 1, and the water supply hose attachment port 8 communicates with the hot water storage tank 3 via a water supply valve (not shown). .

The beverage supply mechanism built into the cabinet body 1 will be described. Two solenoid valves, a hot water supply valve for tea (not shown) and a hot water supply valve 9 for hot water, are provided for discharging hot water in the hot water storage tank 3. The hot water supply passage 10 provided from the tea hot water supply valve is guided to the upper front portion of the cabinet body 1 as shown in FIG. 2, and the hot water supply passage 11 from the tea hot water supply valve 9 is provided as shown in FIG. It is led to the center of the front. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 12 denotes a cold water supply valve that cuts off a cold water supply passage 13 from a cold water supply device (not shown), and its outflow side is connected to the hot water supply passage 11. Reference numeral 14 is a water pipe provided with a manual valve 15 and connected to the drain port 16, and 17 is an overflow pipe also connected to the drain port 16.

On the other hand, in the front part of the cabinet body 1, the tea leaf automatic supply mechanism 18 is located to the right front of the hot water storage tank 3, and the tea strainer 1 is located below the hot water supply passage 10.
9 and are provided. The automatic tea leaf supply mechanism 18 is equivalent to, for example, the mechanism disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 1-38488 of the present applicant, and includes a tea leaf measuring unit 20 and a canister storage unit 21 connected to the tea leaf measuring unit 20. The canister 22 is detachably attached to the canister housing 21. Further, the tea strainer 19 is attached to a slide frame 23 provided in the cabinet body 1 so as to be movable in the left-right direction, and the slide frame 23 is moved by energizing a tea leaf supplying motor 24 to move the tea strainer. The device 19 is located directly below the automatic tea leaf supply mechanism 18, directly below the hot water supply passage 10, and the tea extractor position above the tea residue receiving container 25 provided on the lower left side of the cabinet body 1 by reversing the tea strainer 19. It can be moved between three positions.

The tea strainer 19 is composed of a filter 26 for storing tea leaves with a hemispherical net and a funnel 27 for guiding the tea poured from under the filter 26 downward. At the lower end of the funnel 27, a funnel port 28 having a narrowed flow path is formed.

A front door 29 is provided on the front surface of the cabinet body 1 having the above-mentioned beverage supply mechanism built therein so as to be openable and closable. The front door 29 is provided with an operation panel 30 on which various operation switches are arranged, and a cup insertion port 31 below which an cup C can be inserted. Above the cup insertion port 31, there is provided a plate-shaped tray 32 for receiving tea flowing down from the funnel port 28, hot water from the hot water supply passage 11 or cold water beverage from the supply passage 13. A beverage supply port 33 is opened at the center of the bottom of the tray 32.

A recess 34 is formed at the bottom of the cup insertion port 31, and a beverage discharge port 35 is opened at the bottom of this recess 34. As shown in FIG. 4, a cylindrical support body 37 that supports the on-off valve 36 so as to be movable up and down is formed inside the beverage discharge port 35, and a spring receiving surface 38 is formed on the lower surface side of the support body 37. Are formed.

The on-off valve 36 has a contact plate 39 formed below the push rod 40 that moves up and down in the support 37. A flexible seal plate 41 is attached to the upper portion of the push rod 40 so as to come into contact with the peripheral edge of the beverage discharge port 35 and prevent the drain tea from flowing out. The seal plate 41 is sandwiched between two thin push plates 42 from above and below, and is fixed by a snap pin 43 inserted into an insertion hole formed in the peripheral surface of a push rod 40 (not shown).
Further, the pressing spring 4 is provided between the spring receiver 38 and the contact plate 39.
4 is interposed to urge the push rod 40 downward. Further, a grill 45, on which the cup C can be placed, is installed on the recess 34 so that the beverage can be discharged to the recess 34.

A drain pan 46 is provided at a portion of the cabinet body 1 which is directly below the beverage discharge port 35 when the front door 29 is closed so that the drain tea flowing down from the beverage discharge port 35 can be received. There is. The drain tray 46 is arranged with the other end connected to a drain discharge pipe 47 communicating with the drain port 16. Further, in the drain pan 46, the push rod 40 is brought into contact with the contact plate 39.
A pressing piece 48 that presses upward is formed.

A permanent magnet piece 49 is attached to the front side of the cabinet body 1, and a reed switch 50 is attached inside the front door 29 that abuts against the permanent magnet piece 49, and the front door 29 is opened. At this time, a relay circuit (not shown) is provided which opens the reed switch 50 to preferentially close all of the tea hot water supply valve, the hot water supply valve 9 and the cold water supply valve 12 which are not shown.

Next, the operation of the tea server will be described. Now, when the operator operates the operation panel 30 while the cup C is placed on the grill 45 and the tea pouring signal is transmitted, the tea hot water supply valve (not shown) is opened,
The hot water stored in the hot water storage tank 3 is supplied from the hot water supply passage 11. Then, it is poured into a tea strainer 19 containing tea leaves, and tea is extracted in the tea strainer 19. At this time, since the funnel opening 28 formed in the funnel 27 has a narrow flow path, the tea flowing out through the filter 26 is prevented from flowing out of the funnel 27 promptly, and the tea flows into the filter 26. The tea is collected and tea is sufficiently poured out. Then, the sufficiently extracted tea sequentially flows out from the funnel port 28, flows down into the saucer 32, and is poured out from the beverage supply port 33 to the cup insertion port 31.

When the cup C is placed on the grill 45 in the cup insertion port 31, the tea is poured into the cup C and the tea is provided.

When the operator operates the operation panel 30 without placing the cup C, tea flows out from the beverage supply mechanism through the beverage supply port 33 and flows down onto the grill 45, as described above. Then, from the recess 34 through the beverage discharge port 35, the drain pan 46 on the cabinet body 1 side.
Flow into the drain discharge pipe 47 and drain port 1
6 is discharged to the outside of the cabinet body 1. Here, as shown in FIG. 4, the pressing piece 48 abuts against the abutting plate 39 from below and pushes up the push rod 40 against the urging force of the pressing spring 44. 35
The seal plate 41 is lifted from the opening, the on-off valve 36 is opened, and the drain tea flows down into the drain pan 46.

Now, as shown in FIG. 3, when the front door 29 is opened, the reed switch 5 attached to the front door 29.
0 opens and the relay circuit operates to close the tea hot water supply valve (not shown). Therefore, when the front door 29 is opened, the supply of hot water from the hot water storage tank 3 is stopped even if the operation panel 30 is operated, and hot water is supplied from the hot water storage tank 3 after the front door 29 is opened. There is no. Similarly, in addition to the supply of tea, hot water and cold water are not supplied by a relay circuit (not shown).

When the front door 29 is opened, as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, from the state where the contact plate 39 is engaged with the pressing piece 48, this engagement is released as shown in FIG. 5, and the push rod 4 is urged by the urging force of the pressing spring 44.
0 is pushed down. Therefore, when the sealing plate 41 abuts the periphery of the beverage discharge port 35 to close the beverage discharge port 35 and the front door 29 is opened from the cabinet body 1, tea discharged from the beverage discharge port 35 may flow out. To be prevented.

Thus, according to this embodiment, the recess 3
Even if the front door 29 is opened in a state in which the discharged tea remains in 4, the drain tea is prevented from flowing out from the beverage supply port 33 and the floor surface is not polluted. Further, when the front door 29 is opened, the tea hot water supply valve is closed, so that the drain saucer 4 is drained from the beverage supply port 33.
It is also possible to prevent the tea from flowing down directly to 6, and to prevent the surroundings from becoming dirty due to the scattered tea.

Besides, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above and shown in the drawings, and may be variously modified within the scope not departing from the gist, for example, other beverage supply devices such as coffee supply devices may be used. Can be carried out.

[0025]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION In this invention, the cup insertion port has a beverage supply port at the upper portion for flowing down the beverage supplied from the beverage supply mechanism, and a lower portion for discharging the beverage flowing down without being received by the cup. In addition, the beverage outlet is equipped with an on-off valve that closes when the front door is opened, so that when the front door is opened, the beverage syrup does not flow out from the beverage outlet and the floor surface It is possible to provide a beverage supply device that does not stain the.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional side view of a beverage supply device.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a state in which a front door is removed

[Fig. 3] Partial vertical cross-sectional view with the front door opened.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of the on-off valve with the front door closed.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the on-off valve with the front door open.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Cabinet body 29 ... Front door 31 ... Cup insertion port 33 ... Beverage supply port 35 ... Beverage discharge port 36 ... Open / close valve C ... Cup

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A cabinet main body having a built-in beverage supply mechanism for supplying a beverage, and a front door provided with a cup insertion port into which a cup can be inserted, the front door being openably and closably attached to a front surface of the cabinet main body. In the beverage supply device, the cup insertion port is provided with a beverage supply port through which a beverage supplied from a beverage supply mechanism flows down at an upper portion, and a beverage discharge port through which a beverage that flows down without being received by the cup is discharged at a lower portion. A beverage supply device characterized in that an opening / closing valve which is closed when the front door is opened is attached to the beverage discharge port.