JPS636913B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] This invention relates to a beverage vending machine, and more specifically, it is capable of dispensing drinks such as instant coffee to more people in a small space to suit their tastes. This invention relates to a beverage vending machine that has a material stocker with a two-layer structure so that the material stocker can be dispensed.

[Prior Art] As a beverage vending machine, as described in Utility Model Application No. 53-91183 and Utility Model Application No. 55-16056,
Multiple stockers containing powder raw materials are installed side by side,
A nozzle provided below the stocker and a screw conveyor are installed inside the stocker, and a shutter provided downward from the end of the nozzle feeds into the mixing bowl in conjunction with the rotation of the screw conveyor. Beverage vending machines are known that are configured to take out a predetermined amount of raw materials when opened, mix the raw materials with a predetermined amount of diluent to make a beverage, and vend the beverage automatically.

In this way, the beverage vending machines that are currently in practical use have a single-layer material stocker, which means that the number of material stockers is small and it is not possible to respond to the diversification of user tastes. Beverage vending machines had to be placed side by side in one place, or larger vending machines with larger widths and depths that could sell a variety of beverages had to be prepared.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, with this approach, there are problems in that the installation cost increases and a large space for installation and a power supply corresponding to the number of vending machines are required.

Therefore, in order to store many raw materials in one beverage vending machine, for example,
As shown in the publication, the problem can be solved by stacking the raw material stocker in two layers instead of one layer.
Even with a simple two-layer stacked structure, when considering the replenishment of raw materials, a stepladder must be used to raise and lower the upper material stocker, and especially when replenishing the lower material stocker, the upper material stocker must also be raised and lowered. There is a problem.

The object of the present invention is to eliminate the problems of the above-mentioned conventional techniques, and to provide a beverage vending machine equipped with a material storage mechanism that has a large storage capacity for materials, facilitates replenishment of materials, and has a small frontage. It is.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above-mentioned object of the present invention is to provide a pair of guide rails each having a U-shaped cross section, sloping forward and downward, and curving outward at the center of the inner upper part of the side plate of the housing. At the same time, a pair of pulleys pivotally installed on the upper side plate of the upper material stocker are respectively engaged with these guide rails to enable the upper material stocker to be moved up and down. A drive control member made of a wire rope wound around the winding drum is provided in the upper part of the housing, and the drive control member allows the upper material stocker to be raised and lowered along the guide rail. This is achieved by movably installing a lower material stocker on a pair of guide rails provided at the lower part of the inner surface via a pulley.

[Function] The beverage vending machine of the present invention is used with the upper and lower material stockers arranged vertically, but when replenishing the upper material stocker with materials, the shutter is removed and then the drive When the control member is actuated, the upper material stocker can be lowered along the guide rail, and the upper material stocker is held in the lowered position by its own gravity.

After putting the material into the upper material stocker in this state, by reversing the drive control member, the upper material stocker can be returned along the guide rail.

Furthermore, when replenishing material to the lower material stocker, remove the shutters of the lower material stocker and the upper material stocker, and then pull the lower material stocker toward you so that it can be moved horizontally on the guide rail toward the front plate. In this state, it is only necessary to put the material into the lower material stocker and return it to the normal position, and the material can be replenished into each of the upper and lower material stockers at the same height at a relatively lower part of the housing.

[Example] The beverage vending machine 1 of the present invention is shown in FIGS.
It is configured as shown in Figures a to c. That is, a pair of guide rails 4a, 4b are provided above the inner surfaces of side plates 3a, 3b in the left and right direction of the housing 2, which are inclined forward downward and curved outward, and parallel to the bottom plate 5 below the housing 2. guide rails 6a, 6b and 7
a and 7b are attached respectively.

The distance between the upper ends of the guide rails 4a and 4b and the back plate 8 is approximately 1/1/2 of the depth of the material stocker, which will be described later.
2, the lower end and the front plate 9 are spaced apart by approximately 1/2 the length of the depth of the stocker made of the same material,
The guide rails 4a, 4b have a U-shaped cross section and are designed to prevent the material stocker from slipping off during movement.

A pulley 10a is mounted on the guide rails 7a and 7b.
A box-shaped moving box 11 with 10d attached to the side is placed thereon. A lower material stocker 13 having pulleys 12a to 12d attached to the bottom is mounted on the guide rails 6a and 6b.
The box body 14 that constitutes the storage space constitutes five independent storage spaces with partition plates 15a to 15d, and lids 16a to 16e are attached above each space.

A shutter 17 for individually taking out materials in the stock space of the lower material stocker 13 is detachably attached, and although not shown in connection with this shooter, a screw conveyor driven by a bend motor is a well-known means. It is prepared in such a way that it can be taken out in a fixed amount or by adjusting this amount.

In addition, pulleys 20a, 20b attached to the side surfaces of the box 19 constituting the upper material stocker 18 are connected to the curved guide rails 4a, 4b.
b, so that the upper material stocker 18 is suspended in a hanging manner and can be moved from the upper back side of the housing 2 to the lower front side.

The above-mentioned upper material stocker 18 has a partition plate 21a.
-21d constitute five independent stock spaces, and lids 22a-22e are attached above each space. As shown in FIG. 1, screw conveyors 23a to 23e are attached to the bottom plate side of the upper material stocker 18, corresponding to each stock space.

The rotating shaft of this screw conveyor projects outward from the back plate of the stocker, and meshes with the bevel gear 25 attached to each output shaft of five motors 24 attached to the back plate 8 of the housing 2. Disc gears 26 are respectively attached. A shutter 27 for taking out materials individually is removably attached to the front surface of the upper material stocker 18, and a valve and a bend motor (not shown) are provided in connection with this shutter by well-known means. It is possible to take out a fixed amount or adjust this amount.

In addition, the moving box 11 placed on the guide rails 7a and 7b has the above-mentioned two material stockers 1.
3, 18 material storage chambers 141a to 141e, 19
A mixing bowl 2 for mixing any one or more of the materials 1a to 191e taken out from the storage chamber via the shooters 17 and 27;
8a to 28e are attached.

At the top of the upper material stocker 18 described above, there is a pulley 32 with a wire rope 31 attached to the ceiling plate 29 of the housing 2 and a wire rope 31 attached to the other end of a drive control member 30 constituted by a motor etc. attached to the ceiling plate 29 of the housing 2. It has been installed after.

As shown in FIGS. 2a to 2c, the back plate 8 of the housing 2
A buffer/limit switch 33 made of an elastic plate-like member such as rubber is attached to the rear plate of the material stocker so as to be in contact with the upper material stocker 18 when it is in the normal position.

In addition, locking pins 34a, 34b are provided protrudingly on both side plates of the upper material stocker 18, and the locking pins 34a, 34b are provided with the side plates 3a, 34b of the housing 2.
The locking hooks 36a and 36b pivotally supported above the upper material stocker 3b lock the upper material stocker 18, thereby preventing the motor constituting the drive control member 30 from malfunctioning and slipping down due to the weight of the upper material stocker 18. .

A front plate 9 is attached to the end of the locking hooks 36a, 36b.
An operating handle 38, which is always resiliently pushed toward the back plate side by a spring 37, is attached via piano wires 39a, 39b, and the side plates 3a, 3b are provided with counterclockwise rotation of the locking hook. A blocking stop pin 40a, 40b is attached.

Further, as the drive control member 30 of the upper material stocker 18, a double-shaft motor 3 provided on the ceiling plate 29 is used.
A winding drum 30B is provided on the rotating shaft of 0A, and this winding drum 30
A wire rope 31 wound around B is connected to an upper material stocker via a pulley 32 to constitute a winding and unwinding mechanism.

Furthermore, a diluent is injected into the mixing bowls 28a to 28e by well-known means to produce a beverage, which is then packaged into sales cups as shown in FIG. 2a.
It is poured into CUP and sold.

The beverage vending machine of the present invention has the above-described structure, and the replenishment and repair of materials will be described below with reference to FIGS. 2a to 2c.

Normally, the lower material stocker 13 and the upper material stocker 18 are used vertically as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2b, after removing the shutter 27, if you pull the operating handle 38 toward you against the elasticity of the spring 37, the locking hooks 36a and 36b will rotate clockwise as shown by the dashed line. Locking pins 34a, 34b
When the motor constituting the disengagement drive control member 30 operates and descends along the guide rails 4a and 4b to the middle thereof, the meshing state between the bevel gear 25 and the disc gear 26 disengages, and even if the operating handle 38 is released, the The locking hooks 36a, 36b are in contact with the stop pins 40a, 40b, and are not locked with the stop pins 34a, 34b again.

The upper material stocker 18 is automatically lowered from the state shown in FIG. 2b to the position shown in FIG. 2c, and the motor 30A of the drive control member 30 is stopped by a limit switch (not shown) to maintain the lowered position. .

In this state, the lid 22a of the upper material stocker 18
22e and put the materials into each of the material storage chambers 191a to 191e, and after closing the lid, press the reverse operation button (not shown) of the motor 30A to reverse the motor 30A and guide it to the position shown in FIG. 2a. It can be automatically returned along the rails 4a and 4b.

And in this state, the upper limit switch 33
Accordingly, the motor 30A can be stopped and held.

Furthermore, when replenishing the lower material stocker 13 with materials, remove the shooters 17 and 27 of the lower material stocker 13 and the upper material stocker 18, and then pull the lower material stocker 13 toward you to remove the guide rails 6a, 6b. The upper part can be moved horizontally toward the front plate 9 side, and in this state, the lids 16a to 16e of the lower material stocker 13 are opened and the material storage chambers 141a to 141a are opened.
All you have to do is put the materials into the containers 141e, close the lids, and then return them to the regular positions shown in FIG. 2a.

Furthermore, even if the mixing balls 28a to 28e attached to the moving box 11 break down, they can be easily repaired or replaced by moving the moving box horizontally on the guide rails 7a, 7b toward the front plate 9.

In addition, as shown by the chain line in Fig. 2c, the guide rail 4
If b is extended to the left, the upper material stocker 18 can be moved further to the left, making replenishment of materials even easier.

Furthermore, when a brake motor is used as the double-shaft motor 30A, the locking hook and locking pin can be omitted.
A wire rope 31 can hold the upper material stocker 18 in its upper position.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, the present invention employs means for solving the above problems, and therefore replenishes materials to each of the upper and lower material stockers at a relatively lower portion of the housing 2. This allows the operation to be carried out without using a stepladder, and it is also possible to sell a wide variety of beverages without increasing the width of the housing, and the upper material stocker can be raised and lowered by operating an electric switch.

Further, in this invention, the side plates 3a and 3b of the housing 2
A pair of guide rails 4a and 4b, each having a U-shaped cross section and slanting forward downward and curving outward, are disposed at the center of the inner upper part of the guide rail 4.
A, 4b are respectively engaged with a pair of pulleys 20a, 20b, which are pivotally provided on the upper side plate of the upper material stocker 18, so that the upper material stocker 18 can be raised and lowered, so that the upper material stocker can be used as a lower material stocker. Because it can descend while drawing an arc in the direction away from the front upper part of the body, and then rise again,
In addition to the effect of reducing the amount of corner cut at the front upper part of the lower material stocker and maximizing the material storage capacity of the lower material stocker, since there is no stacking element, the above-mentioned upper and lower material stockers can be It has the advantage of being able to be moved smoothly and easily, and requiring only a small installation space.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Each of the figures shows an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing only the configuration of the main parts of a beverage vending machine, and FIGS.
2A is a sectional view taken along the line A. FIG. 2a shows the normal state, and FIGS. 2b and 2c show the intermediate and descending states of the lowering operation of the upper material stocker. 2... Housing, 3a, 3b... Side plate, 4a, 4b,
6a, 6b, 7a, 7b...guide rail, 5...bottom plate,
8... Back plate, 9... Front plate, 10a, 10b, 12
a-12d... Pulley, 11... Moving box, 13... Lower material stocker, 16a-16e, 22a-22e...
Lid, 17, 27... Shooter, 18... Upper material stocker, 23a to 23e... Screw conveyor, 2
4...Motor, 28a-28e...Mixing ball, 30...Drive control member, 30A...Double shaft motor for drive control, 33...Buffer material and micro switch, 3
4a, 34b...locking pin, 36a, 36b...locking hook, 37...spring, 38...operation handle, 4
0a, 40b...Lock pin.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a beverage vending machine in which materials are taken out via shutters that are removably installed in a plurality of material stockers that are housed in two upper and lower layers inside the housing, mixed with a diluent, and sold, A pair of guide rails 4 having a U-shaped cross section and slanting downward toward the front and curving outward are located at the center of the inner upper part of the side plates 3a and 3b.
a, 4b, respectively, and a pair of pulleys 20a, 20b, which are pivotally provided at the upper part of the side plate of the upper material stocker 18, are engaged with these guide rails 4a, 4b, respectively, so that the upper material stocker 18 can be raised and lowered. A drive control member 30 consisting of a winding drum 30B of a double-shaft motor 30A and a wire rope 31 wound around this winding drum 30B is provided in the upper part of the housing 2. The upper material stocker 18 is connected to the guide rails 4a, 4.
It is configured so that it can be raised and lowered along with the side plate 3.
A pair of guide rails 6 provided at the lower part of the inner surfaces of a and 3b
Place the lower material stocker 13 on the pulley 12a and 6b.
A beverage vending machine characterized in that it is movably installed via 12d.