JPH10229823A - Manufacturing device for soft iced drink - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform a process for manufacturing ice from water and a process for mixing and agitating the ice obtained in the former process and syrup and manufacturing soft iced drink, in the same device and to suppress energy used in the two processes for manufacturing the soft iced drink with water and the syrup as raw materials to the irreducible minimum. SOLUTION: This device turns water brought into contact with a freezing surface into ice, supplies chip-like ice obtained by cutting the ice with an anger 26 into a container 3 provided with an agitation means 2 along with the syrup and the water and mixes and agitates them. The device is constituted of an auger type ice manufacturing means 13, a storage means 14 for storing the chip-like ice obtained in the ice manufacturing means 13, a supply means 4 for supplying the chip-like ice from the storage means 14 into the container 3, a rotation means for rotating the agitation means 2 under the presence of the syrup for beverages and a control means for controlling the operations of the respective means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a means for obtaining chip ice using water as a raw material, and a means for obtaining a soft ice drink by mixing and stirring the chip ice and beverage syrup in one frame. The present invention relates to an integrated soft ice drink manufacturing apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, cubic ice obtained by making ice from water by an ice making device is used to produce a soft ice drink producing device (hereinafter simply referred to as a producing device) installed at a place separate from the ice producing device or on a separate frame. ) And cut, and the obtained flake ice, sleet ice or amorphous ice (hereinafter referred to as “cut ice”) having a relatively small amount of water, and beverage syrup are supplied to a container having stirring blades and mixed. The technology of making a drink by stirring is known (Jitsuhei 1-).
No. 14148).

According to this technique, the drink is a cold, sorbet-like drink containing air bubbles, ie a soft iced drink, and has long been supported by consumers who prefer a pleasant texture.

[0004]

Therefore, there is an attempt to install the manufacturing apparatus in a geographically scattered place such as a fir food store, a supermarket or a convenience store, and provide it to the convenience of consumers. In this attempt, the cubic ice was transported from an ice maker installed in another place and supplied to the manufacturing apparatus, or the ice maker was provided separately from the manufacturing apparatus, and the cubic ice was similarly added to the manufacturing apparatus. There is a problem that ice must be supplied.

[0005] In addition, when the conventional technology is considered from the viewpoint of energy consumption, there is still room for saving energy in the technology. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, the prior art is an ice making process X for producing cubic ice from water.
Cutting step Y for obtaining cutting ice from cubic ice;
The cutting step Y is a step of mixing and stirring the cutting ice with the syrup. In the cutting step Y, as shown in FIG. 7, the cubic ice B having a side L1 of about 2.5 to 3 cm is cut. It is made of cutting ice that is hard to say as an ice block.

In the ice making process X, as shown in FIG. 8, the apparent size of one side from the beginning, that is,
Assuming that ice blocks of the same volume are cubic, the length of one side L2 in the cubic is 0.5 to 1.5 c.
If the ice can be made into an ice block C having a size as small as about m (hereinafter referred to as chip-shaped ice), at least in the ice making process X, at least FIG.
The area M surrounded by the curve a, the curve d and the dashed line m shown in FIG.
The amount of energy indicated by is saved.

The inventors of the present invention have made intensive studies to solve the above-mentioned problems and to save energy in the prior art. The fact that the hardness of the obtained chipped ice is small, so that a soft iced drink can be obtained from the chipped ice and syrup in the stirring step Z without passing through the cutting step Y, that is, even without the cutting step Y. Was found.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to realize a process for producing ice from water and a process for producing a soft iced drink by mixing and stirring ice and syrup obtained in the process. And to minimize the energy used in the above two processes for producing a soft iced drink using water and syrup as raw materials.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, a soft iced drink producing apparatus is provided in which water brought into contact with a frozen surface is turned into ice, and the ice is cut by an auger. An auger-type ice making means for making chip-shaped ice,
Storage means for storing the chip-shaped ice obtained by the ice making means, supply means for supplying the chip-shaped ice and syrup from the storage means into a container provided with stirring means, respectively, and the beverage syrup And a control means for controlling the operation of each of the means.

Preferably, a second supply means for supplying the syrup from the second storage means for storing the beverage syrup into the container in the same manner as described above is added to the above configuration (the invention of claim 2). More preferably, a water pipe is added to the configuration as third supply means for supplying water to the container (the invention of claim 3).

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First, as shown in FIG. 2, the manufacturing apparatus according to the present invention has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape as a whole, and a recess A is formed slightly above the central portion on the front side of the casing-like main body frame 1. . In this recess A, a container 3 having a stirring blade 2 as an agitating means inside can be installed, and chip-like ice produced by auger-type ice making means described later is supplied to the container 3. Supply port 4 is provided as first supply means.

A switch board 5 is installed on the upper front side of the frame 1, and near the top of the board 5,
An automatic operation switch 6 for program-operating the manufacturing apparatus by control means described later, a stop switch 7 for stopping the means in an emergency, and a changeover switch 8 for switching whether or not to supply water to the container 3; A changeover switch 9 for switching between increasing and decreasing the production amount of soft iced drink per operation is provided.

Similarly, a switch 1 for instructing the control means to additionally supply ice or water to the container 3 during the program operation of the manufacturing apparatus is provided near the lower portion of the base 5.
Switches 0 and 11 are provided, and a switch 12 for instructing the stirring blade 2 to extend the rotation time is provided. A main switch (not shown) for operating the auger type ice making means is provided on a side surface of the main body frame 1, and when the switch is turned on, the main means automatically manufactures chip ice. I do.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, an auger-type ice making means 13 for cutting ice obtained by freezing water to obtain chip-like ice is provided in the main body frame 1.
1st storage means 1 for storing the chip ice obtained by 3
4, a second storage means 15 for storing the beverage syrup to be supplied to the container 3, and a motor 1 as a rotating means which engages with a stirring shaft 16 for rotating the stirring blade 2.
7 are incorporated. Further, the first storage means 14
And the first supply means 4 and the second supply means 1 for supplying chip-like ice and syrup from the second storage means 15 to the container 3
9, an actuator 2021 of the first and second storage means 14 and 15, an auger-type ice making means 13, and a control means 22 for controlling other means described later are provided in the frame 1.

The auger type ice making means 13 has a structure known per se, and has a vertical cylindrical freezing casing 23 capable of receiving water as a raw material, and a heat exchange for cooling the outer surface of the freezing casing 23. Means 24 and the water exchange means 24
And an auger 26 that cuts the ice generated on the freezing surface 25 of the freezing casing 23 after being cooled down, compresses the cut ice, and conveys it upward as a rod-shaped ice block containing air bubbles.

The heat exchanging means 24 compresses the refrigerant.
It is composed of a liquefaction unit 27 and a circulating system 28 that comes into contact with the outer surface of the refrigeration casing 23, and the refrigerant flowing through the circulating system 28 exchanges heat with the surface temperature of the refrigeration casing 23, and thus with the water in the casing 23, Cool below freezing. Tap water is supplied to the refrigeration casing 23 directly from the water pipe 29 or through the water storage tank 18, the control valve 30, and the metering means 31.

The stocker 14 as the first storage means
The breaking rod 3 breaks the compressed ice conveyed by the auger 26 into chip-shaped ice at the upper end 33a of the insulated cylindrical body 32 and the rotating shaft 33 of the auger 26.
4 and a stirring rod 35 for stirring the chip-shaped ice stored in the main body 32 to prevent coagulation or coalescence of the chip-shaped ice. A sensor 36 for detecting the storage amount is provided.

The liquid syrup mixed and stirred with the chip-shaped ice in the container 3 is subjected to a second storage means 15 by using the pressure of an inert gas such as carbon dioxide gas or nitrogen gas or by using gravity. Two supply means 19 and actuator 21
A predetermined amount is supplied to the container 3 through a flow control valve serving as a valve. However, from the viewpoint of reducing the delivery cost of syrup to a plurality of manufacturing apparatuses geographically scattered and installed, the syrup in the present invention is preferably
The water is supplied to the container 3 at a concentration as low as possible.
Used by diluting it with water. In the case of adopting this mode, a third supply means 38 as a supply pipe of tap water is attached to the manufacturing apparatus, and the supply amount of water is adjusted by a flow control actuator 39 provided in the middle of the means.

Next, an operation of manufacturing a soft iced drink by mixing and stirring the chip-like ice, the concentrated syrup and the water in the container 3 in the apparatus having the above structure will be described. First, when a predetermined time elapses after the main switch on the side surface of the main body frame 1 is turned on, the heat exchange means 24 of the auger type ice making means 13 cools the freezing casing 23, and the water supplied therein is removed. It is frozen and ice is deposited on the frozen surface 25. The auger 26 cuts the surface side of the ice layer deposited to a predetermined thickness on the freezing surface 25 and transports it upward. At this time, the ice is squeezed to separate water, and the ice is squeezed at the upper outlet of the freezing casing 23. It becomes a rod-shaped ice block.

The rod-shaped ice mass that has risen while being compressed is broken by the breaking rod 34 in the stocker 14 to become chip-shaped ice, and is stored in the stocker 14 in a predetermined amount. In the process in which a large number of cut small chunks of ice are compressed and turned into a rod-shaped ice block, bubbles derived from water are trapped in the small-packed ice compression section. As a result, the density of the bar ice is smaller than that of the conventional cubic ice, and the hardness is remarkably lower.

Next, after setting the changeover switch 9 in the recess A so that a standard amount (equivalent to one ordinary glass) of soft iced drink can be manufactured, the automatic operation switch 6 is turned on. 22 to rotating means 17
At the time t shown by the bending line C1 in FIG.
At 1, the stirring blade 2 of the container 3 rotates.

The time point t2 indicated by the bending lines C2 and C3 in FIG.
At the same time or slightly after the rotation of the stirring blade 2, a predetermined amount of concentrated syrup and water are respectively supplied to the container 3 from the second supply means 19 and the third supply means 38. And the time point t2
At the same time or slightly later, that is, at a time t3 indicated by the bending line C4, a predetermined amount of the chip ice is also sequentially supplied from the first supply means 4 of the stocker 14. When a predetermined amount of water and syrup are supplied, time points t5 and t5 shown in the bending lines C2 and C3.
At 4 the supply is stopped, but the supply of chip ice is continued and stopped at time t6 indicated by the bending line C4.

During these periods, the rotation of the stirring blades 2 in the vessel 3 is continued by the rotating means 17 until the time t7 of the bending line C1 even after the supply of the fuel is stopped. The chip ice is a small ice block of 0.5 to 1.5 cm, but its hardness is much smaller than that of the conventional cubic ice, so that the chip ice is easily broken by the stirring blade 2,
A standard quantity of sherbet-shaped soft iced drink containing bubbles is produced.

Next, a description will be given of a case where a soft iced drink having a volume twice as large as the standard volume is manufactured. The 3 stirring blades 2 rotate. Then, at a time point t9 indicated by the bending lines C6 and C7 in FIG.
At the same time as or slightly after the rotation of the stirring blade 2, a predetermined amount of concentrated syrup and a standard amount of water are supplied from the first supply unit 4 and the third supply unit 38 to the container 3, respectively, from the time t9. At a slightly delayed time, that is, at time t10 shown by the bending line C8, a predetermined amount of chip-shaped ice is also sequentially supplied to the container 3 from the stocker 14.

However, since the addition of water is minimally necessary, the supply of water corresponding to the standard amount is started again at a point slightly later than or at the same point in time t12 at time t11 of the bending line C7. The supply stops at time t13. Thereafter, at time t14 of the bending line C6, time t15 of the bending line C8, and time t16 of the bending line C5, the supply of the syrup and the ice and the rotation of the rotating unit 17 are stopped. In this embodiment, although it depends on the concentration of the syrup, the water is added in two portions and the amount of soft iced drink equivalent to twice the standard amount is mixed with the syrup at the place where the production apparatus according to the present invention is installed. Regulated from water.

In the preferred embodiment described above, the beverage syrup is stored in the second storage means 15 and supplied to the container 3 through the second supply means 19 while being program-controlled, but without using these means, A predetermined amount of syrup may be put in the container 3 in advance, and the ice chips may be supplied to the container 3 and then mixed and stirred.

[0027]

As described in detail above, the present invention provides an apparatus for delivering cubic ice to geographically scattered places such as a fir food store, a supermarket or a convenience store, and an apparatus for manufacturing the ice. Not only does it need to be installed together, but also soft iced drinks can be produced with significantly less energy than conventional techniques using transparent and hard cubic ice.
That is, the present invention exerts an excellent effect that the energy used in the region M and the energy used in the cutting step Y in FIG. 9, that is, the energy consumption in the region N surrounded by the straight lines m, b, n, and x can be saved. .

As an additional effect, in the prior art, when the cubic ice once manufactured in the ice making process is supplied to the manufacturing apparatus, handling is not required, and the apparatus is very sanitary.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a drawing showing elements constituting the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing the auger type ice making means partially broken away.

FIG. 4 is a time chart of one embodiment of operating the device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a time chart of another embodiment.

FIG. 6 shows a process drawing of the prior art.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of cubic ice.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the tip ice described on the same scale as the cubic ice shown in FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing energy consumption used in a series of processes for manufacturing an ice block from water and cutting the ice block to produce a soft iced drink in the prior art.

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 First Supply Means 13 Auger Type Ice Making Means 14 First Storage Means 15 Second Storage Means 17 Rotating Means 19 Second Supply Means 21 Second Storage Means 22 Control Means 26 Auger 39 Third Supply Means

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An auger-type ice making means (13) for converting water brought into contact with a frozen surface into ice, cutting the ice with an auger (33) to form chip-shaped ice, and chip-shaped ice obtained by the ice-making means. Storage means (14) for storing ice, supply means (4) for supplying chip-shaped ice from the storage means into a container (3) provided with stirring means (2), and in the presence of the beverage syrup An apparatus for producing a soft iced drink, comprising: a rotating means (17) for rotating a stirring means in (1); and a control means (22) for controlling the operation of each means. 2. An auger-type ice making means (13) for converting water brought into contact with a frozen surface into ice, cutting the ice with an auger (33) to produce chip-shaped ice, and chip-shaped ice obtained by the ice-making means. From the first storage means (14) for storing ice, the second storage means (15) for storing syrup for beverages, and each of the chip-shaped ice and syrup from each of the first storage means and the second storage means, First supply means (4) and second supply means (1) for supplying into a container (3) provided with stirring means (2).
9) and rotating means (17) for rotating the stirring means.
And a control means (22) for controlling the operation of each means described above. 3. An auger-type ice making means (13) for converting water brought into contact with the frozen surface into ice, cutting the ice with an auger (33) to form chip-shaped ice, and chip-shaped ice obtained by the ice-making means. The first storage means (14) for storing ice, the second storage means (15) for storing beverage syrup, and the chip-shaped ice and syrup from each of the first storage means and the second storage means, A first supply unit (4) and a second supply unit (19) for supplying the container with a stirring unit, and a third supply unit (38) for supplying water to the container;
An apparatus for producing a soft iced drink, comprising: a rotating means (17) for rotating the stirring means; and a control means (22) for controlling the operation of each means. 4. The chip-shaped ice has bubbles inside.
4. The apparatus for producing a soft iced drink according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus has an apparent size of 0.5 to 1.5 cm.