KR0115289Y1 - Cleaning device in ice tube for cup-type automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The in-pipe purification apparatus for conveying ice of the present invention is an ice making machine which is added to beverages such as juice, syrup, carbonated beverage, and the like. The granular ice produced from the beverage glides on its own weight and moves lower than the ice maker from the ice maker. Keep clean and sanitary by discharging the inclined pipe conveyed at the time of sale in a container such as a cup into the ice conveying pipe as a purifying device in the ice conveying pipe until the drink is sold without contamination in the pipe by contaminants. . A washing | cleaning liquid supply apparatus which supplies the washing | cleaning liquid in a pipeline is provided. Further, the bath is supplied into the conduit from the washing liquid supply device as the washing liquid. The washing liquid supply device comprises a bath in which the bath is stored, and a tapping pipe which connects one end to the bath and pumps the other end into the tub in the pipe connected to the upper end of the pipe by connecting a valve and a valve. Further, a control device for automatically starting and stopping control of the exhaust device and the cleaning liquid supply device is provided.

Description

Purifier in ice chute of cup vending machine

1A is a left side view of a main portion showing the configuration of a purifying apparatus for purifying the inside of an ice feed pipe of a cup type automatic vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 1B is a front view of the purification apparatus of FIG. 1A.

FIG. 2 is a graph showing the temporal sequence of the operation of the purification apparatus shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B.

3 is a front view of a cup-type vending machine with an open door covering the front opening of the case.

Fig. 4A is a left side view of the main part showing the structure of a purifying apparatus for purifying the inside of an ice feed pipe of a conventional cup vending machine.

4b is a front view of the purification apparatus of FIG. 4a.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

1: case 2: door

3: automatic vending machine 4: container

5 chute 6: pedestal

7: cup feeding device 8: outlet

9: water pipe 10: valve

11: reservoir 12: suction port

13: water feed pump 14: water supply device

15: water supply hose 16: ice maker

17 outlet 18 electromagnetic valve

19: hot water tank 20: cold water tank

21: outlet 22: ice chute

23: chute 24: exhaust port

25: blower 26: suction port

27 exhaust device 28 purification device inside the ice feed pipe

29: electromagnetic valve 30: hot water supply hose

31: stirring device 32: beverage hose

33: beverage nozzle 34: raw material box

35: raw material transportation device 36: raw material container

37: pressure reducing valve 38: high pressure vessel

39 valve 40 hot water conduit

41: connection port 42: cleaning liquid supply device

43: Purifier inside the ice chute

[Industrial use]

In this paper, a cup of granulated ice made by an ice maker installed in a vending machine is added to the drink, such as juice, syrup, or soda, and then slides under gravity at the time of sale. A purifying apparatus inside an ice chute between a cup-type vending machine for purifying the inside of an inclined chute to be carried into a container such as the back.

[Private Technology]

Among cup-type vending machines that sell cold drinks such as juices, syrups or carbonated drinks in containers such as cups, there are cup-type vending machines that sell iced drinks with ice added to drinks. In such cup-type vending machines, it is common that an ice maker for making ice from a beverage is provided with an inclined chute which is slid by gravity into a container such as a cup on a pedestal down from such an ice maker. In the vending machine, a raw material container, a raw material box, or the like in which a powdered or granular raw material of a beverage, such as a liquid raw material of a beverage or a beverage or a beverage such as coffee or cream is accommodated, is accommodated. Therefore, powder or granules that splash with steam generated during the process of replenishing such raw materials of beverages or beverages in the raw material containers or box, the process of cooking and manufacturing the beverages with the raw materials or injecting the beverages into the containers, or Various containers, tubes, etc. are contaminated by liquid raw materials, drinks, dust, and the like that invade from outside the gas, and are likely to become unsanitary. In addition, when the granular ice is slid into the glide tube, the melted seawater dissolved in a portion of the ice remains inside the glide tube, and thus the seawater and water vapor and the powder, granule, or liquid raw materials, beverages, and the like. It is common to have a purge system installed in the operating gas to purify the inside of the chute so that the next drink is not contaminated by contaminants such as dust. Such a purifier is generally composed of an exhaust device for exhausting air in the chute, and vaporizable components in the contaminant that can be evaporated are easily evaporated and removed. However, the vaporized non-vaporizing component in the contaminant remains in the conduit so that the non-vaporizing component remaining in the chute may be attached to the ice being transported into the active tube and incorporated into the next ice drink sold. This conventional purifier and the cup vending machine to which it is applied are shown in FIGS. 3 and 4a and 4b. Figure 3 is a front view of the main part of the case showing the internal configuration of the cup-type vending machine, which is the subject of this article with the door covering the front opening, and Figures 4a and 4b are the chute pipes applied to such cup-type vending machines. It is a left side view of the principal part which shows the structure of an internal purification apparatus, FIG. 4B is a front view of the purification apparatus of FIG. 4A, and the right side of FIG. 4A is the front.

In FIGS. 3 and 4a and 4b, 1 is a case having a front door 2, and the outer peripheral surface of the cup vending machine 3 is formed by the door 2 and the case 1. . In the case 1, a container 4 such as a cup for holding a beverage is accommodated, and each one is sold at the bottom of the chute 5 through the chute 5 below from the bottom of the cup feeder 7 for each sale. It is discharged onto the box-shaped pedestal 6, the bottom of the pedestal 6 is formed with a drain hole (not shown), the container 4 discharged thereon can be taken out by hand through the outlet (8) . In addition, the case 1 is provided with a reservoir 11 and a water supply device 14, which is connected to the reservoir 11 from the outside of the vending machine 3 via the valve 10 by the water pipe 9. It stores the room temperature water which is the beverage to be supplied, and the water supply device 14 is composed of a water supply pump 13 connected to the inlet 12 at the bottom of the water storage tank (11). The room temperature water from the water supply device 14 is supplied to the ice maker 16 above the water reservoir 11, or one end thereof is directly or directly through the electromagnetic valve 18 to the outlet 17 of the water supply pump 13. The connected water supply hose 15 is supplied to the hot water tank 19 or the cold water tank 20. An upper end of the ice maker 16 is formed with an outlet 21 which is opened at the left side to discharge the granular ice, and the outlet 21 is connected to an upper end of the ice chute 22 which is a corrugated pipe having flexibility. The lower end portion is supported by the upper end portion of the rear wall of the pedestal 6 and fixed toward the inside of the container 4. The ice chute 22 is an inclined chute 23 through which granular ice discharged at the time of selling ice drink from the outlet 21 of the ice maker 16 passes. An exhaust port 24 is formed at the upper end of the chute 23 to open at the side of the chute 23 to exhaust the air. The intake port 26 of the blower 25 is connected to this exhaust port 24, and the exhaust device 27 is provided with the exhaust device 27 which exhausts the air in the conduit 23 by the blower 25. The purification apparatus 28 which purifies the inside of the chute 23 is comprised by this. On the other hand, the hot water in the hot water tank 19 is stirred under the hot water tank 19 through the hot water supply hose 30, one end of which is connected to the left side of the hot water tank 19 via an electromagnetic valve 29. It is supplied to the apparatus 31 and mixed with raw materials and the like. The other end of the beverage hose 32, one end of which is connected to the lower end of the stirring device 31, is supported by the upper end of the rear wall of the pedestal 6, and the beverage nozzle 33 having the tip facing the inside of the container 4. Connected. On the stirring device 31, a raw material box 34 in which powder raw materials are stored and a raw material transport device 35 for guiding the raw material discharged from the raw material box 34 to the stirring device 31 are arranged. It is. Further, in the case 1, a raw material container 36 containing a liquid raw material such as a concentrated syrup to be supplied to the container 4 is disposed at the lower right side, and is connected to a carbonated water production device (not shown) via a pressure reducing valve 37. The high pressure container 38 filled with the high pressure carbon dioxide gas to be supplied is arranged at the rear of the cold water tank 20.

The selling operation of the cup-type automatic vending machine configured as described above is carried out by supplying the container 4 from the cup supply device 7 to the pedestal 6 through the chute 5 by the sales command signal and at the same time the raw material box 34 or the raw material container. Raw material is supplied into the stirring apparatus 31 or the container 4 in 36, etc., and the drinking water which is cold water, hot water, or carbonated water is supplied to the stirring apparatus 31 or the container 4 in the water supply apparatus 14, the hot water tank 19, etc. It is supplied in). The beverage and the raw material supplied to the stirring apparatus 31 are forcibly mixed with each other to form a beverage, which is injected into the container 4 from the beverage nozzle 33 through the beverage hose 32, and directly supplied into the container 4. Due to the relative flow rate of the liquid raw material and the beverage when injected into the container 4, the liquid may be mixed in the container 4 into a beverage. In the case where the beverage thus produced is sold as an iced beverage, the granular ice is transferred from the ice maker 16 through the chute 23 to the container 4 on the base 6 before injecting the beverage into the container 4. Supplied. The container 4 in which the beverage is injected can be taken out by the customer through the front opening of the outlet 8.

On the other hand, the inside of the chute (23) is generated in the process of replenishing the raw material of the beverage to the raw material box 34 or the raw material container 36, the process of manufacturing the beverage with the raw material or the process of injecting the beverage into the container (4), etc. Contaminated by contaminants such as fumes, powders, particles, liquids, raw materials or beverages scattered, and dust penetrating from the outside of the vending machine 3, or contaminants such as buried icewater in the chute 23. do. Therefore, the conduit 23 is supplied to the blower 25 constituting the exhaust device 27, which is a purifier 28 that purifies the inside of the conduit 23 so that the ice drink to be sold next is not contaminated with such contaminants. Exhaust air must always be evacuated except for the sale of ice drink. Then, the vaporized component in the contaminant is evaporated in the air inside the chute 23 to be discharged out of the chute 23 together with the discharge gas, and the light solid component such as dust in the non-volatile component in the pollutant also passes through the chute 23 It floats in the air in (23), and is discharged together out of the chute 23 when air is discharged.

[A challenge to solve]

Therefore, the blower 25 which is the exhaust apparatus 27 which comprises the purification apparatus 28 which purifies the inside of the chute 23 of the ice chute of the conventional cup type | mold vending machine ices the air in the chute 23. Except when selling drinks, they are always exhausted. Light solid components such as evaporation components and contaminants in the contaminants contaminating the chute 23 are evaporated or suspended in the air in the chute 23 and out of the chute 23 together with the air. Discharged. However, the nonvolatile components in the contaminants include solid components or liquid components which are not discharged out of the chute 23 due to the exhaust of air in the chute 23. There is a problem that when the ice drink is sold, it enters the container 4 together with the granular ice that slides into the rotary tube 23 and is transferred into the container 4 on the pedestal 6 to contaminate the beverage.

Therefore, the subject matter is that contaminants in the chute, including solid or liquid components, that are not discharged out of the chute upon release of air in the chute may be discharged outside the chute until the next time the ice drink is sold. An object of the present invention is to provide a purifier for purifying the inside of a chute of an ice chute of a cup-type automatic vending machine.

[Means for solving the problem]

According to the proposal for solving the above problem, the ice from the ice maker of the cup-type vending machine which sells drinks such as juice, syrup or carbonated beverage in the form of ice drink with granular ice made by the ice maker installed in the vending machine. The cleaning liquid in the active tube is supplied to a purifier that cleans the inside of the ice chute of the cup type vending machine, which cleans the inside of the inclined chute conveyed into the container such as a cup containing a drink below the ice maker by sliding the inside by gravity. It is provided with a washing | cleaning liquid supply apparatus which supplies.

In addition, the washing liquid supply device may be a washing liquid supply device for supplying the hot water as the washing liquid into the chute.

In addition, the washing liquid supply device includes a hot water tank for storing the hot water and one end is connected to the hot water tank and the other end is connected to the upper end of the chute through the pump or valve to draw hot water in the hot tub into the chute. Can be.

In addition, an automatic control device for automatically controlling the operation or stop of the exhaust device and the cleaning liquid supply device may be further provided.

[Action]

This paper is designed to be used in vending machines to produce granular ice to be added to beverages such as juices, syrups, or carbonated beverages, and to cause the ice to glide by gravity to be transferred into containers such as cups containing beverages. It is equipped with a cleaning liquid supply device for supplying the cleaning liquid in the photo chute tube so that contaminants in the chute can be washed out with such a cleaning liquid, and the air in the chute is evacuated by an exhaust device to evaporate the cleaning liquid in the chute after washing. Allow the tube to dry rapidly.

In addition, the hot water from the hot water tank installed in the vending machine is used as a washing liquid and supplied to the chute tube to wash away contaminants in the chute tube, and the air in the chute tube is evacuated to the exhaust system to evaporate the hot water contained in the chute tube after washing. The inside of the chute can be rapidly dried.

In addition, the washing liquid supply device is configured to additionally include a hot water tank for storing hot water and one end connected to the hot water tank and the other end is connected to the upper end of the conduit via a pump or valve to draw hot water in the hot water tank. As a result, the hot water tank for storing the hot water supplied to the stirring device can be used as the hot water tank of the washing liquid supplying device as it is, so that the washing liquid supplying device can be configured at a low cost, and the installation space in the vending machine of the washing liquid supplying device can be saved. In addition, if the hot water surface in the hot water tank is higher than the position of the upper end of the chute tube, the hot water in the hot water tank can be flowed into the chute through the hot water conduit using the head of such hot water by simply opening and closing the valve. If the position is lower than the position of the upper end of the chute, the hot water in the hot water tank can be flowed into the chute through the hot water conduit using a pump. In addition, while washing the inclined chute with hot water introduced from the upper end of the chute can be drained out automatically from the bottom of the chute.

In addition, an automatic control device for automatically controlling the start and stop of the exhaust device and the cleaning liquid supply device is provided so that the exhaust pipe and the cleaning liquid supply device can be started or stopped during the sales wait immediately after the sale of the beverage to automatically clean the inside of the chute. This can prevent contaminants from entering the ice drink.

EXAMPLE

An embodiment of a purification apparatus according to the present invention will now be described with reference to FIGS. 1A to 3. FIG. 1A is a left side view of an essential part showing an embodiment of a purifying apparatus for purifying the inside of the chute of a cup type vending machine according to the present invention, FIG. 1B is a front view of the purifying apparatus of FIG. 1A, and the right side of FIG. FIG. 2 is a graph showing the temporal sequence of the operation of the purification apparatus shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, and FIG. 3 is an interior configuration of the cup vending machine, which is the subject of this paper, with the door covering the front of the case open. Figure is a scene of the main part shown. The parts common or identical to those in FIGS. 4A and 4B are denoted by the same reference numerals.

In Figs. 1A to 3, 1 is a case in which the front face is opened, and in such case 1, the door 2 covering the front face is freely supported for rotation, and such a door 2 and case 1 are supported. The automatic vending machine forms the outer circumferential surface of the cup vending machine. In the case 1, a container 4 such as a cup containing a beverage is discharged from the lower end one by one every time it is sold, and a pedestal 6 below the chute 5 is passed through the chute 5 below it. It has a cup feeding device for supplying it to the table, such pedestal 6 has an open top and front sides and is formed with a non-draining drainage under the funnel member, which is also a box-shaped fixed in the case 1. It is a pedestal 6. The pedestal 6 is supported against the door 2 on both sides of the exit 8 by opening the front and rear sides so that the customer can take out the purchased beverage by hand. In addition, in the case 1, a water storage tank 11 on the upper right side for storing normal temperature water supplied from the outside of the vending machine 3 via the valve 10 by the water pipe 9 on the upper right side, and the water storage tank ( 11 is provided with a water supply device 14 composed of a water supply pump 13 belonging to the suction port 12. From the water supply device 14, normal temperature water is supplied to the ice maker 16 by a water supply hose 15 having one end directly connected to the bottom of the water storage tank 11, or one end thereof to the outlet 17 of the water supply pump 13; It is supplied to the hot water tank 19, the cold water tank, etc. in the upper inner side of the cup supply apparatus 7 via the electromagnetic valve 18 or by the water supply hose 15 connected directly. On the left side of the upper end of the ice maker 16, an outlet 21 for discharging the granular ice is formed, and the lower end of the ice activator 22, which is a corrugated pipe having an upper end connected to the outlet 21, is flexible. Is supported at the upper end of the rear wall of the pedestal 6 and directed into the container 4. Inside the ice chute 22, the inclined particles which are discharged from the outlet 21 of the ice maker 16 at the time of selling the ice drink slide inwardly and are transported into the container 4 on the pedestal 6. The chute 23 is formed. The upper end of the chute 23 is formed with a connection port 41 and the exhaust port 24, the connection port 41 is open at the side of the chute 23, and the hot water tank 19 via the valve 39 The other end of the hot water conduit 40, one end of which is connected, is connected, and the exhaust port 42 is formed to exhaust air in the chute 23.

The inlet port 26 of the blower 25 is connected to the exhaust port 24, and the exhaust device 27 for exhausting the air in the slide pipe 23 includes the blower 25, and the washing liquid supply device 42. The hot water tank 19 and the hot water conduit 40 is composed of. In addition, the washing | cleaning liquid supply apparatus 42 and the exhaust apparatus 27 are started and stopped alternately during a sales wait, and it does not shown in figure which performs control of starting and stopping of this washing liquid supply apparatus 42 and the exhaust apparatus 27 automatically. An automatic control device is provided in the vending machine 3. A control device (not shown) provided in the vending machine 3 and a purifying device 43 for purifying the inside of the chute 23 are provided by the cleaning liquid supply device 42 and the exhaust device 27. On the other hand, the hot water in the hot water tank 19 is the stirring device 31 below the hot water tank 19 through the hot water supply hose 30 connected to the left side of the hot water tank 19 via the electromagnetic valve 29. ) Is mixed with raw materials and beverages. The other end of the beverage hose 32, one end of which is connected to the lower end of the stirring device 31, is connected to the beverage nozzle 33, and on the stirring device 31, a raw material box 34 in which powder raw materials are stored; A raw material feeding device 35 for guiding the raw material discharged from the raw material box 34 to the stirring device 31 is disposed. Further, in the case 1, a raw material container 36 for accommodating a liquid raw material such as a concentrated syrup to be supplied into the container 4 on the pedestal 6 is disposed at the lower right, and is not shown via the pressure reducing valve 37. The high pressure vessel 38 filled with the high pressure carbon dioxide gas to be supplied to the carbonated water production apparatus is disposed at the rear of the cold water tank 20, and other configurations are the same as in the prior art.

Since the selling operation of the cup-type vending machine according to the present invention configured as described above is the same as the conventional example, only the operation and function of the purifying device 43 will be described.

An automatic control device (not shown) opens and closes the valve 39 or starts and stops the blower 20 to alternately start and stop the exhaust device 27 and the washing liquid supply device 42 during the sales wait. The purifier 43 may be cleaned in the chute 23 by the hot water supplied from the hot water tank 19 to the chute 23 by the valve 39 being opened and passed through the valve 39 to the hot water conduit 40. The exhaust device 27 is started and the drying in the chute 23 by exhausting the air in the chute 23 is alternately performed repeatedly during the sales wait as shown in the graph shown in FIG. On the other hand, the powder form that scatters with water vapor generated during the process of replenishing the beverage or raw material to the raw material box 34 or the raw material container 36, the process of preparing a beverage from the raw material or injecting the beverage into the container (4), Dust or powder entering the outside of the vending machine 3 and the inside of the chute 23 are contaminated. However, the contaminants contaminating in the chute 23 are all washed out by hot water, which is a washing liquid, and discharged out of the chute 23 through an unshown drain hole formed in the bottom of the funnel-shaped member of the pedestal 6 and exhausted. The inside of the chute 23 can be dried by evaporating the hot water buried in the chute 23 in the air in the chute 23 exhausted by the apparatus 27. Therefore, at least when the ice drink is sold, the inside of the chute 23 is clean, and when the ice drink is sold, the inside of the chute 23 slides into the inside of the chute 23 and is transported into the container 4 on the pedestal 6. Since contaminants do not enter the container 4 together with ice, the beverage is not contaminated with contaminants.

[Effect of design]

According to the present invention, since the washing liquid is supplied from the ice maker installed in the vending machine, the washing liquid is supplied to the slanted chute which is slid by the gravity and moved into the container such as the cup. This can be used to flush contaminants from the chute and to dry quickly.

In addition, since the washing liquid supply device is a washing liquid supplying device that uses hot water as a washing liquid and supplies it to the chute tube, the washing liquid supply device washes contaminants in the chute tube with hot water, which is a washing solution supplied to the chute tube, and removes hot water from the chute tube. The evaporation can rapidly dry the chute.

In addition, the washing liquid supply device is a hot water tank for storing hot water and one end is connected to the hot water tank and the other end is made of a hot water conduit connected to the upper end of the chute pipe via a pump or valve, so that the hot water tank for storing hot water to be supplied to the stirring device As it can be used as a hot water tank of the washing liquid supply device can be configured at a low cost and the washing liquid supply device can save the installation space occupied in the vending gas. In addition, by opening and closing the valve or by using a pump, the hot water in the hot water tank can flow into the chute through the hot water conduit at the top of the chute. In addition, the hot water introduced from the top of the chute can be flushed while washing the inside of the inclined chute can be automatically discharged out of the chute from the bottom of the chute.

In addition, an automatic control device for automatically controlling the start and stop of the exhaust device and the cleaning liquid supply device is provided. Therefore, the exhaust system and the cleaning liquid supply device automatically clean the inside of the chute pipe during contamination, such as immediately after the sale of the drink. It is possible to prevent the substance from being incorporated into ice drink.

Therefore, the inside of the chute can be kept clean and hygienic at least during the sale of ice drink, and the sale of ruled beverages due to the incorporation of contaminants due to insufficient purification of the inside of the chute can be prevented and sold from cup vending machines. The quality evaluation of beverages can be improved and sales promotion can be achieved.

Claims (4)

In a cup-type vending machine in which granular ice produced by an ice maker installed in a vending machine is added to a beverage such as juice, syrup or carbonated beverage and sold as ice drink, the ice from the ice maker glides inside by the gravity. In the purifying apparatus in the ice chute tube of the cup-type automatic vending machine which is provided with the inclined chute tube which is sent to the container, such as a cup which is lower, and purifies the inside of this chute tube by exhausting the air in this chute tube to an exhaust apparatus. And a washing liquid supply device for supplying washing liquid into the chute. 2. The purifying apparatus in an ice chute tube according to claim 1, wherein the washing solution supply device is a washing solution supply device for supplying hot water as a washing solution to the chute. According to claim 2, wherein the washing liquid supply device is connected to the hot water tank for storing the hot water and one end of the hot water tank and the other end is connected to the upper end of the chute pipe via a pump or valve to draw hot water in the hot water tank into the chute pipe Purifier in the ice chute pipe of the cup-type vending machine, characterized in that consisting of hot water conduit. The ice of a cup vending machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising an automatic control device for automatically controlling start and stop of the exhaust device and the cleaning liquid supply device. Purifier in the chute.