JPS6345220Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a coffee making machine with an improved lid for a liquid reservoir.

Recently, some coffee making machines of this type are equipped with a mill mechanism for crushing coffee beans and a drip mechanism for dripping boiling water onto the crushed coffee beans, but in both cases, The coffee liquid dripped is received and stored in a cup-shaped liquid reservoir equipped on the machine. For this reason, the lid of the liquid reservoir is provided with an opening through which the dripping coffee liquid passes, but depending on how the liquid reservoir is placed, the opening may be misaligned from the bottom of the coffee liquid dripping area. If the opening is located off-center from the coffee dripping part, the dripping coffee liquid will fall onto the lid and then fall outward from the outer periphery of the lid and into the liquid reservoir. There was a problem in that the lower peripheral area of the container was left clean.

The present invention was developed in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and its purpose is to ensure that even if the opening of the lid of the liquid reservoir is deviated from the coffee liquid dripping area, the coffee liquid will not fall into the surrounding area. It can be placed in a liquid reservoir,
To provide an extremely practical coffee making machine which can eliminate the problem of contamination around a liquid reservoir.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

First, in FIG. 1, 1 is a machine body, which is equipped with a mill mechanism 2 for crushing coffee beans and a drip mechanism 3 for dripping hot water into the crushed coffee beans together with a liquid reservoir 24 to be described later. As will be described in detail below, a motor housing section 4 and a liquid reservoir mounting section 5 are formed on both left and right sides of the lower half of the fuselage 1, and furthermore, a motor storage section 4 and a liquid reservoir mounting section 5 are formed on both left and right sides of the upper half. A case mounting portion 6 and a water storage tank 7 are formed respectively. Reference numeral 8 denotes a heating plate provided on the lower surface of the liquid reservoir mounting portion 5, in which a sheathed heater 9 and a heating pipe 10 are buried in parallel, and one end of this heating pipe 10 is extended upward to show the water storage tank 7. The water supply pipe 11 is connected to a water outlet not provided, and the other end is extended to the upper part of the case mounting part 6 to form a hot water supply pipe 12. Reference numeral 13 denotes a case attached to the case attachment part 6, which is common to both the mill mechanism 2 and the drip mechanism 3 described above. A drive shaft 18 is inserted and supported through a metal 16 and a water seal 17. A cutter 19 for grinding coffee beans is attached to the upper end of the drive shaft 18, while a joint 20 is attached to the lower end, and this joint 20 is connected to the joint 22 of the motor 21 placed in the motor housing 4. It's forcing me. Reference numeral 23 denotes a filter for filtration provided within the case 13 and below the cutter 19, so that it can receive the coffee powder crushed by the cutter 19. Now, 24 is a cup-shaped liquid reservoir for storing coffee liquid, 25 is a lid attached to the upper opening of this liquid reservoir 24, and this lid 25 is made of, for example, synthetic resin. The front part has a U-shaped cutout opening 26 as shown in FIG.
In addition, there is a bank part 27 surrounding the inner part on the outer periphery, and a F-shaped elastic engagement piece 2 in the center part.
8 respectively. And lid 2 like above
As shown in FIG. 1, the liquid reservoir 24 with the lid 25 covered thereon is removably placed on the liquid reservoir mounting portion 5 which is in a fixed position as shown in FIG. The piece 28 is elastically pressed into engagement with a recess 29 provided in the outer bottom of the water storage tank 7, which is a part of the body 1, thereby elastically retaining the liquid reservoir 24 on the body 1. Here, the liquid reservoir 24 held in this manner faces the extraction port 30, which is the coffee liquid dripping part of the case 13, through the opening 26 of the lid 25, and the outer bottom of the liquid reservoir 24 is connected to the liquid reservoir. It is in close contact with the upper surface of the container mounting section 5.

Next, to explain the operation, when producing coffee liquid, the motor 2 of the mill mechanism 2 is operated with water stored in the water storage tank 7 and coffee beans stored in the case 13.
By energizing the motor 1, the motor 21 is driven to rotate, and the cutter 19 rotated by the motor 21 crushes the coffee. After crushing, the motor 21 is turned off and the sheathed heater 9 of the drip mechanism 3 is energized to generate heat, thereby draining the water in the heating pipe 10 supplied from the water storage tank 7 through the water supply pipe 11. Heat and bring to a boil. Then, the hot water flows through hot water pipe 1 at boiling pressure.
2 into the case 13, and further passes through the coffee powder in the case 13 and the filter 23, becomes coffee liquid, passes through the opening 26 of the lid 25 from the extraction port 30, and drips into the liquid reservoir 24. be accommodated in.

Now, when producing coffee liquid as described above,
If the opening 26 of the lid 25 is shifted from the extraction port 30, which is the part where the coffee liquid drips, depending on the angle at which the liquid reservoir 24 is placed, the coffee liquid dripping from the extraction port 30 will flow onto the top of the lid 25. However, in this embodiment, a bank 27 is provided on the outer periphery of the lid 25, which prevents the coffee liquid that has fallen onto the lid 25 from falling downward around the lid 25 as described above. The coffee liquid thus prevented from falling downwardly flows along the downward slope toward the opening 26 on the upper surface of the lid 25 and falls from the opening 26 into the liquid reservoir 24.
As a result, the lower peripheral part of the liquid reservoir 24 is not contaminated, and the coffee liquid is not wasted.

Incidentally, the upper surface of the lid 25 does not necessarily have to be sloped as described above, and the opening 26 is not limited to a notch shape but may be a hole shape.

In addition, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above and shown in the drawings, and in particular, the presence or absence of the elastic engagement piece 28, the specific method of producing coffee liquid, for example, the presence or absence of the mill mechanism 2, etc. However, modifications may be made as appropriate without departing from the spirit of the invention.

As explained above, the present invention relates to a coffee making machine in which a machine that generates and drips coffee liquid is equipped with a liquid reservoir that receives and collects the coffee liquid that drips. , characterized in that an opening through which the coffee liquid passes is provided, and a bank is provided that surrounds a region other than the opening that can receive the coffee liquid dripping, so that the opening of the lid of the liquid reservoir is Even if the coffee liquid dripping part is located out of position from the coffee liquid dripping part, the coffee liquid can be reliably put into the liquid reservoir without dropping it to the surrounding area, thus eliminating the problem of contamination around the liquid reservoir, and also preventing the coffee liquid from dropping. This has excellent practical effects such as eliminating waste.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, with FIG. 1 being a longitudinal sectional side view of the entire device, and FIG. 2 being a perspective view of the lid of the liquid reservoir. In the drawings, 1 is a machine body, 2 is a mill mechanism, 3 is a drip mechanism, 24 is a liquid reservoir, 25 is a lid, 26 is an opening, and 27 is a bank.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A device that generates and drips coffee liquid is equipped with a liquid reservoir for receiving and storing the dripping coffee liquid, and the lid of the liquid reservoir is provided with an opening through which the coffee liquid passes. A coffee making machine characterized in that a bank part is provided that surrounds a part other than the opening part that can receive dripping of the coffee liquid.