JPH11115973A - Viscous fluid force feed container - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a viscous fluid force feed container, small and noiseless, for simplifying the cleaning work. SOLUTION: A metal bellows 1, a sheet packing 3 and a pressure-resistant cylinder 4 are overlapped successively in said order on a stand 2 of a force feed container section B and clamped thereon, and a hydrogen gas port is provided on the metal bellows 1 and connected with a hydrogen gas port of a gas driver section A through a pipe 12. A cover 7 is clamped on a flange on the upper section of the pressure-resistant cylinder 4, and a bag holding section C is fitted on the center of the cover, and the bag holding section C is clamped between a flange of a bag fixing hardware 18 and the cover 7 across a sheet packing 20 by a nut 19, and a bag 15 is screwed and installed on the bag fixing hardware 18, and a discharge port fitment 21 is screwed thereon and stretched forcibly from inside to secure the sealing. A viscous fluid 16 in the bag 15 is arranged to communicate with a dispenser by a compression transfer hose 14 screw connected with the discharge port fitment 21.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a container for pressure-feeding a mucous liquid which is used to take out mucous liquid 16 or the like in a fixed amount, and more particularly to a device for quantitatively taking out ingredients such as mayonnaise, miso and ketchup in cooking.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a constant volume pump (hereinafter referred to as a pump) of various types such as a plunger, a screw and a cam type is generally used as a pumping device used for the above-mentioned foodstuffs. Was.

In these conventional methods, cleaning after use of the apparatus involves disassembly of the pump, so that the time for the cleaning is extremely uneconomical, and the structure is generally complicated and completely cleaned. However, maintaining sanitary conditions was extremely difficult. Also, in a cooking workplace, the operating sounds of these pumps during use were extremely harsh. In addition, these pumps were generally large and very cumbersome to use in the kitchen.

[0004]

As described above, there is the uneconomical effect of cleaning the pump in the prior art pumping apparatus after use, the operating noise of the pump in a cooking workplace, and the apparatus is large. .

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and the pressurization of the viscous liquid 16 to be fed under pressure is performed by the hydrogen storage alloy 2.
It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-described problem by heating the 9 with a thermoelectric element 31 to release the stored hydrogen gas from the hydrogen storage alloy 29 and using the hydrogen gas pressure.

[0006]

A viscous liquid feeding container provided to achieve the above object has a gas driver section A containing a hydrogen storage alloy 29, a metal bellows 1 which expands and contracts by hydrogen gas, and a viscous liquid 16 provided therein. A flexible bag 15 containing therein is stored, and a bag storage portion B for transmitting a hydrogen gas pressure to the mucus 16 via water 17 filling a space portion.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A gas driver section A has an MH case 28 for storing a hydrogen storage alloy 29 and a filter 25 for preventing dust of the hydrogen storage alloy 29 from flowing into a bag storage section B.
And a filter case 25 having a port for sending hydrogen gas to the bag storage section B and two ports for maintenance, and a metal seal 27 sandwiched between bolts 30 on the mating surface of the MH case 28 and the filter case 25. The thermoelectric element 31 for heating and cooling the hydrogen storage alloy 29 is fixed to the two surfaces of the prism portion of the MH case 28 by aligning the heat absorbing and dissipating plate 32 with the facing surface of each thermoelectric element 31. It is fastened by bolts and nuts 33.

[0008] In the bag storage section B, a gantry 2 and a pressure-resistant container 4 are placed on a metal bellows 1 welded to a plate having a hydrogen gas port, and a sheet packing 3 is sandwiched between mating surfaces of the metal bellows 1 and the pressure-resistant container 4. A bolt 7 is attached to the upper part of the pressure-resistant container 4 with a sheet packing 6 interposed therebetween, and a cover fixing bracket 18 is attached to the lid 7 with a nut 19 with a sheet packing 20 interposed therebetween. The bag fixing fitting 18 is formed by a discharge port fitting 21 which is screwed in with a screw at the mouth of the bag 15 and which expands and fixes the mouth of the bag 15 having a discharge passage from the inside from above.

The gas driver A is attached to the base 2 by a bracket 22 fixed with bolts 10, and the space between the gas driver A and the bag storage B is welded to a hydrogen gas port provided in a filter case 25. The pipe 12 is connected by setting the pipe 12 to the connected pipe joint 36 and the pipe joint 11 welded to the hydrogen gas port provided on the plate of the metal bellows 1. By using the hydrogen storage alloy 29 as a gas pressure generation source in this way, a pressure generation device (gas driver section A) which is extremely compact as compared with the conventional system can be obtained.
By heating the hydrogen storage alloy 29 in the case 28 with the thermoelectric element 31, hydrogen gas is released, and the pressure is transmitted to the mucous liquid 16, whereby the mucous liquid 16 can be pumped silently. Further, since the mucus 16 to be pumped is contained in the bag 15, the mucus does not deteriorate due to contact with air due to contact with air. Further, since the pressure-feeding container portion B storing the bag is not contaminated by the mucus 16, the empty bag 15 is removed, and the bag fixing member 18 and the discharge port member 21 are simply cleaned and cleaned. Can be cleaned. As described above, the above problems are solved and improvements are made.

The hydrogen storage capacity of the hydrogen storage alloy 29 reaches about 1000 times in volume ratio, that is, it stores hydrogen gas equivalent to that compressed at 100 MPa.
The hydrogen storage alloy 29 storing the hydrogen gas is used as a thermoelectric element 3
By heating as 1 and releasing hydrogen gas and using it as a gas pressure source, a pressure generator (gas driver section A) which is much more compact than the conventional method can be obtained.

Since the hydrogen gas pressure is generated only by heating the hydrogen storage alloy 29 with the thermoelectric element 31 or the like, it does not involve rotation or sliding, so that a silent pressure generator (gas driver section A) can be provided.

Since the mucus 16 to be pumped is contained in a bag 15 made of flexible nylon or the like, the cleaning after the entire mucus 16 has been pumped is discarded and the discharge port fitting 21 that touches the mucus 16 is removed. Cleaning is sufficient, and the trouble of disassembling and cleaning the pump as in the conventional apparatus is released.

The mucus 16 to be pumped by the present mucus pumping container is contained in a flexible bag 15 made of nylon or the like. Available. As described above, the above problem can be solved, and a function of preventing deterioration by air can be added.

[0014]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of an embodiment of a viscous liquid feeding container according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the appearance of the viscous liquid pumping container is as shown in FIG. 1, a gantry portion D having a gas driver portion A therein, a pumping container portion B bolted up on the gantry portion D, and an upper portion of the pumping container portion B. It is constituted by the bag holding part C provided.
In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, the entire system using the mucus pressure feeding container connects a bag holding portion C and a dispenser portion G by a pressure feeding hose 14, and a switching power supply for electrically controlling the gas driver portion A and the dispenser portion G. It comprises a control panel F in which a part E is housed.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of an operation cycle in which the dispenser unit G controls the discharge of the viscous liquid pumped from the pumping container unit B.

A gas driver section A fixedly mounted on the inside of the base 2 of the viscous liquid feeding container shown in FIG. 3 with the bracket 22, the bolt 34 and the bolt 10 has an MH case containing a hydrogen storage alloy 29 as shown in FIG. Filter case 25 internally fitted with a filter 26 for preventing dust of the hydrogen storage alloy 29 from flowing out of the MH case 28
The metal seal 27 is interposed between the MH case 28 and the filter case 25, and is tightened by bolts 30 to form a sealed body. Also, filter case 2
5 has a hydrogen gas port provided with a pipe 38 for activating the hydrogen storage alloy 29 and charging hydrogen gas and a stop valve 35 and a pipe joint 36 to the metal bellows 1. Furthermore, MH case 2
8, two thermoelectric elements 31 for heating and cooling the hydrogen storage alloy 29 and two heat absorbing / radiating plates 32 are fastened by bolts and nuts 33 so as to sandwich the MH case 28.

As shown in FIG. 3, the internal structure of the mucous pressure pumping container is such that the bottom plate 23 of the metal bellows 1
The sheet packing 3 and the pressure-resistant cylinder 4 are sequentially overlapped and fastened with bolts 5. The upper flange of the pressure-resistant cylinder 4 is fastened with a sheet packing 6 and a lid 7 with bolts 8. Is fixed to the flange portion of the bag fixing member 18 by fastening the sheet packing 20 and the lid 7 with a nut 19 and further expanding the screw opening of the bag 15 from the inside. A discharge port fitting 21 having a tapered distal end is screwed in for fastening and sealing. The hydrogen gas port to the gas driver part A and the metal bellows 1 is inserted into the pipe 12 by the pipe joint 36 welded to the gas driver part A and the pipe joint 11 similarly welded to the bottom plate 23 of the metal bellows 1. It is connected by doing.

The operation of the entire system using the mucus pumping vessel is briefly described below with reference to FIG. As described above, a power supply line 13 for the thermoelectric element 47 and a power supply for a valve switch to the dispenser unit G are supplied from the control panel unit F to a liquid container for pressure-feeding in which the bag 15 filled with the liquid 16 is hermetically mounted in the pressure-resistant cylinder 4. The control wiring 9 is provided, and further, the pressure feeding hose 14 connecting the viscous liquid pressure feeding container and the dispenser section G is attached to complete the preparation. Thereafter, when the power of the control panel F is turned on and the valve opening / closing push button of the dispenser unit G is pressed, the operation shown in FIG.
As described above, one discharge cycle is performed according to the valve switch operation cycle. When this operation is repeated and the bag 15 filled with the mucus 16 becomes empty, the pressure of the mucus 16 at the dispenser section G becomes 0 kgf / cm ² , the polarity of the thermoelectric element 31 is automatically switched, and the hydrogen storage alloy 29 Is cooled, the hydrogen gas released into the metal bellows 1 is occluded in the hydrogen storage alloy 29, and the metal bellows 1 returns to its original contracted state.

Next, when the bag 15 is empty, the bag 15
Here is a brief description of the replacement procedure. The discharge port fitting 21 is removed, the valve opening / closing push button of the dispenser unit G is pressed to open the valve, and tap water or the like is caused to flow from the screw end of the removed discharge port fitting 21 to wash out the mucus. Turn off the power of the control panel F,
The bolt 8 is removed, and the bag 15 screwed and fixed to the bag fixing bracket 18 is removed and disposed. New bag 1 with mucus 16
5 is screwed and fixed to the bag fixing bracket 18, water is replenished into the pressure-resistant cylinder 4 about half, and the lid 7 on which the bag 15 is attached is tightened and fixed to the upper flange of the pressure-resistant cylinder 4 with the bolt 8, and The discharged discharge port fitting 21 is screwed and fixed to the bag fixing fitting 18 to complete the operation.

As described above, cleaning after use and mounting of a new bag 15 have become extremely simple.

[0020]

As described above, the viscous liquid pumping container of the present invention can be made much smaller than the conventional pump system by using the hydrogen storage alloy 29 and the thermoelectric element 31. By simply heating the hydrogen storage alloy 29, the hydrogen gas pressure could be generated, and the silence could be completely eliminated. In addition, cleaning after use could be an extremely simple task of disposing of the empty bag 15 and passing tap water or the like.

Furthermore, by putting the mucus 16 to be pumped into the bag 15, it is possible to pressurize even the one that deteriorates due to contact with air.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining an embodiment using a viscous liquid feeding container.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an operation cycle of a dispenser G.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an internal structure of a mucus pressure feeding container.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the structure of a gas driver unit.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a metal bellows.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a bag holding unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Metal bellows 2 Stand 3 Sheet packing 4 Pressure-resistant cylinder 5 Bolt 6 Sheet packing 7 Lid 8 Bolt 9 Wiring 10 Bolt 11 Pipe joint 12 Pipe 13 Power cord 14 Pressure hose 15 Bag 16 Viscous liquid 17 Water 18 Bag fixing bracket 19 Nut 20 Sheet packing 21 Discharge port fitting 22 Bracket 23 Bottom plate 24 Top plate 25 Filter case 26 Filter 27 Metal seal 28 MH case 29 Hydrogen storage alloy 30 Bolt 31 Thermoelectric element 32 Heat sink / radiator plate 33 Bolt nut 34 Bolt 35 Stop valve 36 Pipe joint 37 Pipe joint 38 Pipe A Gas driver section B Pumping vessel section C Bag holding section D Stand section E Switching power supply F Control panel G Dispenser

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A bag fixing bracket 18 provided on a lid 7 of a pressure-resistant cylinder 4 in which a metal bellows 1 which expands and contracts by the hydrogen gas pressure is heated and cooled to release and occlude hydrogen gas. Fix the mouth of the bag 15 consisting of screws, and
And the pressure-resistant cylinder 4
And the space of the bag 15 is filled with a liquid such as water 17 and the lid 7.
Characterized in that the container is fastened to the pressure-resistant cylinder 4 with bolts 8 and installed.