JPS6146102B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a crush/save device for ice.

In addition to ice shavers that shave ice with a flat blade to obtain so-called shaved ice, ice crushers that produce crushed ice pieces have also become popular. So, I put both of them into 1
A system has also been proposed in which it is attached to a machine frame equipped with two drive sources so that either can be used (Utility Model Publication No. 132562/1983).

In this device, one driving source is connected to both devices in a selective manner to selectively drive one of the devices. In this case, the ice shaver is driven at a reduced speed, and the ice crusher is driven at a constant speed.

However, if you want to get either shaved ice or crushed ice pieces, there is no particular problem, but even if you want to get both, you have to get one first and the other later, so if you want to get both, It takes time. Moreover, since the one obtained first melts during the waiting period, it is not possible to use both in their freshly processed state.

In addition, the ice crusher with a large load is driven at a constant speed, so it is difficult to drive and the machining becomes unstable.The ice crusher with a low load is driven at a reduced speed, so the drive and machining are stable, but it takes a long time. To reduce the efficiency of ice cutting work, which tends to take a long time.

In this invention, a crushing unit equipped with a crushing cutter and a shaving unit equipped with a shaving cutter and an ice rotation pressing plate for the same are installed in the same body, and a single operating handle is provided.
By connecting the crush unit through a deceleration transmission mechanism and the sheave unit through a same-speed or acceleration transmission mechanism, so that both units are driven simultaneously, the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional system can be overcome. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a crush/cheve unit for ice.

Describing the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, a cylindrical container body 1 has an inner sole 2 integrally molded at a mid-height position inside the container body 1. The opening at the lower end of the vessel body 1 is closed by a bottom plate 14 which is fitted therein and fixed with screws 3. At the upper end of the container body 1, an ice block receiving member 6 is fitted into which an ice block charging hopper 4 for the crush unit A and an ice block charging chamber 5 for the sheave unit B are integrally molded. The ice block receiving member 6 is located at the bottom 2 of the container body.
On the other hand, there are screws 9 between connecting columns 7 and 8 in several places.
are connected by The inner sole 2 is formed with a common drop port 12 that communicates with the bottom outlet 10 of the ice block charging hopper 4 and the cutting port 11 at the bottom of the ice block charging chamber 5. An ice receiver 15 is provided below the drop opening 12 and is inserted into and taken out from the bottom plate 14 through the loading/unloading opening 13 on the front surface of the container body 1. 15a is a handle integrally molded on the front surface of the ice tray 15.

In addition to the hopper 4, the crushing unit A includes a falling ice piece roughness limiting member 17 that divides the hopper outlet 10 into an ice piece falling gap 16 of an appropriate width, and a falling ice piece roughness limiting member 17 that is received on the falling ice piece roughness limiting member 17. The rotating crushing cutter 18 crushes the ice block between the rotating crusher 18 and the member 17. Katsushiyukatsuta 18
is a spacer 20 attached to the non-circular cross section of the rotating shaft 19.
The pocket portion 4 is fitted at a constant interval so as to rotate together with the rotating shaft 19, and is formed between the protrusion 21 on the lower surface of the ice block receiving member 6 and the inner sole 2.
The rotary shaft 19 is mounted on the hopper outlet section 10 by bearing the rotary shaft 19 on a bush 22 held at 2. The falling ice piece roughness limiting member 17 has one end connected to an annular groove 23 formed between adjacent ends of the outer periphery of the bush 22.
The other end is held in a pocket portion 43 between the hopper outlet 10 and the midsole drop opening 12, and is fixed to the hopper outlet 10.

In addition to the ice block charging chamber 5, the sheave unit B includes
A sheave cutter 25 fixed with a screw 24 to one edge of the cutting port 11, a rotary cylinder 26 rotatably fitted into the ice cube charging chamber 5, a lid 27 that closes the upper end opening of the ice cube charging chamber 5, and a rotary cylinder 27 that closes the upper end opening of the ice cube charging chamber 5; An ice cube rotation pressing plate 29 is provided, on which a shaft 28 is held. The sheave cutter 25 is provided so that its flat blade 25a protrudes an appropriate amount to the inner bottom surface of the ice cube charging chamber 5.
The screw fixing 24 is attached to the cutter base piece 31 which is screwed from above to one edge of the cutting port 11, and can be attached and removed from above together with the cutter base piece 31 for re-sharpening or for attaching to the inner bottom surface of the ice block charging chamber 5. Adjust the protrusion amount,
We make it possible to do so as needed.

The rotary cylinder 26 is screwed 32 into the opening of the ice cube charging chamber 5.
The upper outer flange 35 is guided to the inner periphery of the shoulder ring 33, and the lower outer flange 36 is guided to the inner periphery of the ice cube charging chamber 5, so that they rotate smoothly. I have to. The lower end outer flange 36 is an annular body 38 that is integrally attached to the rotary cylinder 26 by screwing 37 or gluing.
A passive gear 39 of the rotating cylinder 26 is formed in the ring body 38 . The lower outer flange 36 and the passive gear 39 may be integrally formed with the rotary cylinder 26. The lid 27 is removably attached by engaging a helicoidal engaging piece 40 on the outer periphery of the upper end of the shoulder ring 33 with a helicoidal engaging piece 41 on the inner periphery of the lower end of the lid 27 .

The center of the ice block rotating press plate 29 is the rotating shaft 28.
The rotating shaft 28 is attached to the lower end of the
is inserted into the through hole 45 in the center of the lid body 27, and the shaft head 47 is attached to the upper end of the rotating shaft 28 by screwing 46 or the like.
By preventing the cover from coming off, it is held so that it can move up and down and rotate relative to the lid body 27. The pressing plate 29 also has rotating cylinders 2 arranged at equal positions on the outer periphery.
A passive engagement portion 49 is formed to engage with a protrusion 48 vertically provided on the inner periphery of the rotating tube 26 to receive rotation of the rotary cylinder 26, and a large number of small pyramidal projections 50 are formed on the lower surface. A spike pin 51 on the diameter circle and a spike pin 52 on the small diameter circle are respectively implanted.

The through hole 45 of the lid body 27 is opened at the center of the bottom of a nut chamber 53 that is integrally formed on the central upper surface of the lid body 27. A sliding guide 54 is fitted into the nut chamber 53, and has a guide tube 54a on a bottom plate 54b that fits into the through hole 45, and has guide side plates 54c integrally formed on both sides of the bottom plate 54b.
Two split nut pieces 55 and 56 are held between c and can be moved into and out of contact with the threaded portion 28a of the rotating shaft 28. At the upper part of the nut chamber 53, two peripheral walls 53a and 53b are formed by cuts 57 from the upper end, and these two peripheral walls 53a and 53b are connected to the sheet piles 58.
A nut operating member 58 is provided which is received in circular arc holes 58b and 58c opened on the left and right sides a, and which is held rotatably in an arc with an outer peripheral sleeve 58d covering the outer periphery of the nut chamber 53.

In the member 58, an operation piece 58e is integrally molded on a sleeve 58d, and nut operation protrusions 58f and 58g are formed on the lower surface of the top plate 58a.
8f, 58g into the cam groove 5 of each nut piece 55, 56
5a, 56a and rotates the nut operating member 58, the nut pieces 55, 56 are moved toward and away from each other. Each nut piece 55,5
6 is the threaded portion 2 of the rotating shaft 28 when it is pressed into contact.
8a, and when the rotating shaft 28 rotates in the ice block sheave direction with the ice block pressing plate 29, the rotating shaft 2
A downward thrust is applied to the ice block rotating press plate 29, which is rotating in the ice block sheave direction, to gradually move downward. As a result, the ice block rotation pressing plate 29
The ice block put into the ice block input chamber 5 is gradually pressed against the flat blade 25a of the shave cutter 25 while being rotated in cooperation with the rotary cylinder 26, and shaved into shaved ice of a constant roughness. The roughness is determined by the amount of protrusion of the sheave cutter 25 above the bottom surface of the ice cube charging chamber 5 and the thread pitch of the threaded portion 28a, and the thread pitch is considerably smaller than a standard thread. has been done.

When the nut pieces 55 and 56 are separated from each other, they disengage from the threaded portion 28a of the rotating shaft 28, and the rotating shaft 28 is moved up and down regardless of the threaded portion 28a. This is convenient when it is desired to push the body 27 in the axial direction all at once, and the rotating shaft 28 can be pushed down arbitrarily to obtain shaved ice of the desired roughness without being affected by the propulsive force of the screw.

A cap 59 is screwed 60 onto the outer periphery of the upper end of the two-part peripheral walls 53a, 53b, and the nut operating member 5
I'm trying to keep 8 from falling out.

At the bottom of one side of the ice cube charging chamber 5, there is a drive shaft 6 which is used for both the crush unit A and the sheave unit B.
1 is installed horizontally. The drive shaft 61 is connected to a bush 64 held in a pocket portion 63 between a protrusion 62 on the lower surface of the ice block receiving member 6 and a protrusion 79 on the inner sole 2.
and a bush 65 held in a decorative tube 66a around the drive shaft protrusion hole 66 on the side of the container 1. An operation handle 67 is screwed onto the end of the drive shaft 61 that protrudes outside the container 1, and a large diameter drive gear 69 and a small diameter drive gear 70 are attached to the inside of the drive shaft 61. It is installed. The large-diameter drive gear 69 meshes with the passive gear 39 of the rotary cylinder 26 through a notch 71 on one side of the bottom of the ice cube charging chamber 5, and the small-diameter drive gear 70 meshes with the passive gear 39 on the rotating shaft 19 of the crusher cutter 18. It meshes with 72.

As a result, when the drive shaft 61 is rotated in the direction of the arrow a by the operation handle 67, the large diameter drive gear 69 and the small diameter drive gear 70 are rotated in the same direction a, and the large diameter drive gear 69 is passively rotated. The rotary cylinder 26 is driven at a constant speed in the direction of the arrow b via the gear 39, and the small-diameter drive gear 70 decelerates and drives the crushing cutter 18 in the direction of the arrow c via the passive gear 72, allowing the crushing work with large resistance to be performed easily. When the rotary cylinder 26 is rotated in the direction of the arrow b, the ice block rotation pressing plate 29 is rotated in the same direction b via the protrusion 48 and the passive engagement portion 49. Therefore, one operating handle 67
By this operation, both the crushing unit A and the sheave unit B are driven at the same time, and if ice blocks have been put into the hopper 4, the crushed ice pieces from the crushing unit A will pass through the drop port 12 and be sent to the ice receiver. 15, and if the ice cubes have been put into the ice cube input chamber 5, the shaved ice from the shave unit B will fall into the ice tray 15 through the drop opening 12.

As a result of the above, whether to obtain crushed ice pieces or shaved ice is selected depending on which of the ice block charging hoppers 4 and the ice block charging chamber 5 the ice blocks are to be fed into.
It is only necessary to rotate the two operating handles 67 in a fixed direction. Moreover, if ice blocks are put into both the hopper 4 and the chamber 5, crushed ice pieces and shaved ice are obtained at the same time, and both fall into one ice receiver 15 and mix with each other. However, the crash unit A
The crushed ice pieces from the shave unit B and the shaved ice from the shave unit B can also be dropped into separate ice trays from separate drop ports.

Furthermore, even if ice blocks are thrown into the ice block charging chamber 5, unless the nut pieces 55 and 56 are pulled apart and the rotating shaft 28 is manually pushed down, even if the rotating cylinder 26 is driven, the sheave unit B will not function properly. Processing work can be reserved.

The ice blocks in the ice block charging hopper 4 are prevented from escaping below the ice block charging chamber 5 by rotating the crushing cutter 18 in the direction of arrow c.
In order to reliably prevent such escape, as shown by the imaginary line in FIG. slit 7
4 should be provided. In addition, the shaved ice shaved from the cutting port 11 easily falls into the dropping port 12 under the guide of the shave cutter 25, but the shaved ice falls out of the dropping port 12 from the gap between the lower surface of the ice block input chamber 5 and the dropping port 12 of the inner sole 2. If there is a tendency for the shaved ice to scatter, extend the drop opening 12 to the bottom of the ice cube charging chamber 5, as shown by the imaginary line in Fig. The connecting guide wall may be formed continuously with the hopper outlet 10.

In the figure, 74 is the removable lid of the ice block charging hopper 4;
5 and 76 are a nut operating member 58 and a cap 5
A through hole for the rotation shaft insertion is opened in the center of 9.
77 is an operating knob of the operating handle 67, and 78 is a pivot pin to which the operating knob 77 is rotatably attached.

In the second embodiment shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, power is transmitted from a small-diameter drive gear 70 on a drive shaft 61 to a passive gear 72 on a crusher rotating shaft 19 via an intermediate gear 91, and Since the distance between the shaft 61 and the crushing cutter rotating shaft 19 is increased, the ice block charging hopper 4 in the crushing unit A can be easily and easily operated. The ice block charging chamber 5 is separate from the ice block receiving member 6 that integrally forms the ice block charging hopper 4, and is fitted from above into an opening 93 opened adjacent to the hopper 4 of the member 6, and is inserted from above into the ice block receiving member 6 that integrally forms the ice block charging hopper 4. With the flange 94 received on the edge of the opening 93, it is connected to the inner sole 2 between the connecting columns 7 and 8 with screws 9, similar to the member 6.

The midsole 2 has a first hopper outlet 10 connected to the hopper outlet 10.
A drop port 12a and a second drop port 12b connected to the cutting port 11 of the ice block input chamber 5 are formed separately, and one ice receiver 15 is arranged under each drop port 12a, 12b. It is possible to take in and out from either of the inlet/outlet openings 13 provided at the front and rear of the vessel body 1. A separate ice tray 15 is arranged below each drop port 12a, 12b as shown in FIG.
Each may be drawn out separately. In this case, a partition wall 92 erected on the bottom plate 14 may be provided between each ice tray 15 to prevent the insertion and removal of one of the ice trays 15 from affecting the other. Furthermore, each ice tray 15 can be individually taken in and out from the same side of the vessel body 1, as shown in FIG.

In FIG. 5, the lid 27 is attached directly to the upper end of the ice cube charging chamber 5, and the rotary cylinder 26 is attached to the lid 27.
It is prevented from coming off by a presser plate 95 protruding from the back surface of the holder. 96 and 97 are the lid body 27 and the ice block charging chamber 5
It is a helicoidal engagement piece. In FIG. 6, 98 is the rotating shaft of the intermediate gear 91, and 99 is its bearing bush. Like the drive shaft 61, the rotating shaft 98 is held between the inner sole 2 and the member 6 via the bush 99.

FIG. 9 shows a third embodiment in which a shaft head 47 provided at the upper end of the rotating shaft 28 of the ice block rotating press plate is rotatably attached with a screw 111 or the like. In this way, the rotation of the shaft head 47 can be easily performed when the rotary shaft 28 is pressed down by hand without using an automatic propulsion device using the split nut and the threaded portion. Idle rotation relative to the shaft 28 avoids friction between the shaft head 47 and the hand.

The fourth embodiment shown in FIG.
Crash unit A and sheave unit B
The operating handle 67
is attached to the upper end of the rotating shaft 28 of the ice block pressing plate 29. Therefore, the rotating cylinder 26 is connected from the rotating shaft 28 to the ice block rotation pressing plate 29 and the outer circumference engaging portion 4 of the pressing plate 29.
9. Rotates by receiving the driving force of the operating handle 67 via the protrusion 48 on the inner circumference of the rotating cylinder 26.

The rotation of the rotating cylinder 26 is controlled by a driving gear 121 on the outer periphery of the upper end of the rotating cylinder 26, and a gear 1 held between the ice block receiving member 6 and the container body 1 and the inner bottom 2.
22,..., 126, crushing ivy 18
The crushing cutter 18 is driven by a passive gear 72 provided on the rotating shaft 19 . The gear 122 can be omitted, and the configuration of the gear train from the driving gear 121 to the passive gear 72 can be arbitrary.

According to this invention, a crushing unit equipped with a crushing cutter and a sheave unit equipped with a crushing cutter and an ice rotation pressing plate for it are installed in the same body, and are connected to one operating handle so that they can be driven simultaneously. From this, both crushed ice pieces and shaved ice can be obtained at the same time in one processing operation. In addition, in order to obtain shaved ice and crushed ice pieces at the same time, the crushing unit, which has a large load, is driven at a reduced speed, so even if both units are driven simultaneously, light and stable processing can be performed. Moreover, the sheave unit, which has a small load, can operate at the same speed or increase the speed, allowing the ice cutting operation, which tends to take a long time, to be carried out efficiently without compromising the stability of the processing, and for the faster processing of crushing ice blocks. You can follow the progress.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a vertical side view of the first embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal rear view, Fig. 3 is a partial exploded slope view, Fig. 4 is an entire exploded slope view, and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional side view of the first embodiment of the present invention. Second
Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view, Fig. 7 is a longitudinal sectional side view of the embodiment.
Fig. 8 is a partial vertical cross-sectional view and a cross-sectional view showing different modifications, respectively, Fig. 9 is a partial cross-sectional view of the third embodiment, and Fig. 10 is a partial cross-sectional view of the fourth embodiment. FIG. 1... Vessel body, 2... Middle bottom, {4... Ice block charging hopper, 10... Outlet, 17... Falling ice piece roughness limiting member, 18... Crushing vine, 19... Rotating shaft} A... Crushing unit, {5... Ice block charging chamber, 11... Cutting port, 25... Shave cutter, 26... Rotating cylinder, 27... Lid, 28... Rotating shaft, 29... Ice block rotation pressing plate, 33 ...shoulder ring,
47... protrusion, 49... engaging portion}B... sheave unit, 12, 12a, 12b... drop port, 1
5...Ice catcher, 61...Drive shaft, 67...Operation handle, 39, 69, 70, 72, 121,...,
126...Gear.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A crushing unit equipped with a crushing cutter and a shaving unit equipped with a shaving cutter and an ice rotation pressing plate for the same are installed in the same body, and one operation handle is connected to the crushing unit. A crush/save unit for ice which is characterized in that it is connected to a sheave unit via a deceleration transmission mechanism and a same-speed or acceleration transmission mechanism to drive both units at the same time. 2. The ice crush/save combination device according to claim 1, wherein the operating handle is attached to a drive shaft connected to both the crush cutter and the ice block rotating press plate. 3. The crush/save device for ice according to claim 1, wherein the operating handle is attached to a rotating shaft fixed to the ice block rotating and pressing plate.