KR102070004B1 - Vending machine with warm air supply - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vending machine with an improved internal warm air supply function, which can supply not only milk or cocoa but also raw materials such as walnuts, pine nuts and jujube with liquid tea to sell products suitable to the tastes of consumers. To this end, according to the present invention, the vending machine comprises: a plurality of raw material tanks (10) in which cereals and powdered materials are individually stored; a hot water tank (20) in which hot water heated by a heating means is stored at a constant water level; a water tank (30) which is connected by a supply pipe to replenish the hot water tank (20) with water; a raw material mixing unit (40) in which the powdered material discharged from the raw material tank (10) and the hot water supplied from the hot water tank (20) are mixed; a serial guide hopper (50) which performs downward guidance for the cereal material discharged from the raw material tank (10); a cup container (60) which stores a cup where the raw material can be contained; a product withdrawal unit (70) which withdraws a product having the raw material and the hot water contained therein in the cup supplied from the cup container (60); a partition wall (80) which horizontally partitions a lower space with the hot water tank (20) provided therein and an upper space with the raw material tank provided therein; a warm air guide through-hole (81) which is formed in the partition wall; and a warm air supply fan (90) which is configured on a lower portion of the partition wall (80) to supply the warm air generated from the hot water tank (20) to the raw material tank (10) through the warm air guide through-hole (81).

Description

Vending machine with improved internal warm air supply {VENDING MACHINE WITH WARM AIR SUPPLY}

The present invention relates to a vending machine, and more particularly, supplies and sells not only cereal materials such as corn flakes, cookies, chocolate balls, etc., but also materials such as walnuts, pine nuts and jujube with liquid tea such as milk, coffee, and sanghwa tea. The present invention relates to an automatic vending machine with improved internal warm air supply function for preventing deterioration of materials.

In general, a vending machine is a device for selling a variety of items unattended, and various kinds such as tea / vending machines such as cold / hot coffee, milk, cocoa, etc., which are provided with paper cups from cans, have been released.

On the other hand, most of the tea vending machines currently on the market are simply made by supplying the main ingredients of hot or liquid, such as coffee, milk, cocoa and hot water, respectively, mixed drinking is performed.

Recently, however, cereal foods such as corn flakes, chocolate balls, and cookies that can be consumed with milk or cocoa have been in the spotlight from children to the elderly. Due to the difficulty in storing cereal materials such as cereals for a long time, food containing cereals cannot be sold in vending machines.

That is, since cereal materials such as corn flakes and chocolate balls are easily damp because they are sensitive to moisture, there is a problem in that they are difficult to store for a long time in a vending machine.

In addition, even when selling traditional teas, such as Ssanghwa tea or jujube tea, there was a problem that can be provided in a simple powder form, not grains of raw materials (walnuts, pine nuts, jujube, etc.).

Korea Patent Registration No. 1063118 (Registered Aug. 31, 2011) Republic of Korea Patent Registration No. 181919 (August 20, 2018 registration) Republic of Korea patent registration No. 199494615 (registered on June 25, 2019)

The present invention has been proposed to improve the above problems in the prior art, by providing a technology that can maintain a stable internal environment according to the supply of internal warm air, the selling price of products mixed with liquid and cereal through a vending machine The goal is to make it possible.

The vending machine of the present invention for achieving the above object, a plurality of raw material passages in which cereal and powder materials are stored separately; A hot water tank through which hot water heated by the heating means is stored at a predetermined level; A water tank connected by a supply pipe to replenish water with the hot water tank; A raw material mixing unit which mixes the powder material discharged from the raw material container and the hot water supplied from the hot water container; A cereal guide hopper which guides downward of the cereal material discharged from the raw material container; A cup storage passage for storing a cup capable of containing the raw material; A product withdrawal unit configured to withdraw a product containing raw material and hot water in a cup supplied from the cup container; A partition partition partitioning horizontally the lower space in which the hot water tank is installed and the upper space in which the raw material container is installed; A hot air guide through hole formed in the partition partition wall; It is characterized in that the configuration comprising a ;; hot air supply fan configured in the lower partition partition wall for supplying the warm air generated from the hot water tank to the raw material container side through the hot air guide through hole.

Such a vending machine of the present invention, by being able to supply cereal products, such as milk or cocoa, it is possible to sell products that meet the tastes of various consumers.

In particular, by using the heat source generated in the inner hot water tank can be provided with the internal warm air supply for preventing the deterioration of the cereal product exhibits an easy maintenance of the product.

1 is a front structure diagram of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 is an internal front view of the vending machine of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the raw material supply unit in the present invention.
Figure 4 is an internal side cross-sectional view of the vending machine of the present invention.
5 is a detailed structural diagram of a part A of the present invention vending machine.
Figure 6 is a cross-sectional structure diagram of the installation state of the serial guide hopper in the present invention.
7 is an enlarged view of a portion B of FIG. 6 according to another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Embodiments of the invention may be modified in various forms, the scope of the invention should not be construed as limited to the embodiments described in detail below. This embodiment is provided to more completely explain the present invention to those skilled in the art.

Therefore, the shape of the components, etc. represented in the drawings may be exaggerated to emphasize a more clear description. It should be noted that the same configuration in each drawing is sometimes indicated by the same reference numeral. In addition, detailed descriptions of functions and configurations of well-known techniques that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention may be omitted.

First, the configuration of an automatic vending machine with improved internal warm air supply function according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6.

As shown in FIG. 1, the vending machine according to the present embodiment includes a billboard 1, a selection button 2, a banknote input unit 3, a coin input unit 4, and a product on the front side of the door D side. The outlet 5, the change-out outlet 6, etc., have comprised the normal structure.

On the other hand, when looking at the internal configuration through Fig. 2 to 4, a plurality of raw material container 10, the cereal material, such as corn flakes, chocolate balls, and the like, powder material such as milk, coffee, cocoa, and the like, and heating means such as a heater The hot water tank 20 in which the hot water heated by the water is stored at a predetermined level, and the water tank 30 which is connected by a supply pipe to replenish water with the hot water tank 20, and the raw material tank 10. The raw material mixing portion 40 is made of a mixture of the powder material discharged from the hot water supplied from the hot water tank 20 and the inclined surface to form a downward guide of the cereal material discharged from the raw material container 10 is made. A cereal guide hopper 50, a cup storage container 60 for storing a cup that can contain the mixed raw material, and withdrawal of the product containing the raw material and hot water in the cup supplied from the cup storage container 60 is made The partition partition wall 80 configured at the inner end to horizontally partition the product outlet unit 70, the lower space in which the hot water tank 20 is installed, and the upper space in which the raw material container is installed, and the partition partition 80 are formed. Hot air supply configured in the lower portion of the partition partition wall 80 to supply the hot air guide through-hole 81 and the hot air generated from the hot water tank 20 to the raw material container 10 side of the upper space through the hot air guide through-hole 81. It consists of a fan 90.

In particular, the raw material container 10 in the present embodiment is composed of a powder raw material container 11 in which the powder material is stored, and a cereal raw material container 12 in which the cereal material is stored.

In addition, the upper portion of the partition partition 80 is provided with a guide plate 82 for guiding the warm air introduced through the hot air guide through hole 81 toward the raw material container 10 to form a predetermined inclined surface.

At this time, the raw material mixing unit 40 is provided in each powder raw material container 11, the lower portion, it can be seen that the serial guide hopper 50 is provided in the serial raw material container 12 lower.

In the figure, reference numeral 13 denotes a raw material motor for supplying raw materials in the raw material container 10, and 21 denotes a hot water valve.

The effect of the operation of the present invention vending machine having such a configuration will be described.

Vending machine of the present invention when the user selects a product (milk, coffee, hot chocolate, milk corn flakes, milk chocolate balls, hot chocolate corn flakes, hot chocolate chocolate balls, etc.) through the selection button (2) The raw material stored in (10) is mixed with hot water is supplied through the product withdrawal unit (70).

That is, when the selected product is a general liquid product such as milk, coffee, hot chocolate, or the like, the corresponding raw material stored in the powder raw material container 11 is supplied to the raw material mixing part 40 by screw driving, and the hot water is mixed in the raw material mixing part 40. Mixing with the hot water supplied from the tub (20) is made.

Then, the mixed raw material is supplied through the supply pipe 41, and the usual process of supplying the paper cup dropped from the cup storage container 60 first in the product withdrawal unit 70 is performed.

On the other hand, when the user selects cereal products (milk corn flakes, milk chocolate balls, hot chocolate corn flakes, hot chocolate chocolate balls), the cereal raw material container 12 is separate from the above-described process in which the raw material of the powder raw material container 11 is supplied. The supply of cereal products (flakes, chocolate balls) stored in the additional supply will be made.

That is, at this time, the liquid product (milk, hot chocolate) is first contained in a paper cup in the product withdrawal unit 70, and then the raw material supplied by screw drive from the cereal container 12 to the paper cup is a serial guide hopper 50 ) Supply is made.

Therefore, the automatic vending machine of the present invention can be supplied with cereal products on milk, cocoa as well as general liquid products such as milk or cocoa, so that it is possible to sell products suitable for various consumer tastes.

In particular, by using the heat source generated in the hot water tank can be supplied with internal warm air for preventing the deterioration of the cereal product to show the advantage of easy maintenance for controlling the humidity of the raw material.

On the other hand, Figure 7 shows a configuration according to another embodiment of the present invention, the serial guide hopper 50 is formed with a protective coating layer 51 for smooth guidance and protection of the cereal.

At this time, the protective coating layer 51 is 40 to 70% by weight of fluorine resin, 10 to 30% by weight of nano silver, 10 to 20% by weight of boric acid, 1 to 10% by weight of bentonite, 1 to 10% by weight of mineral oil, 1 to 8 mica powder It is preferable to achieve a mixed composition of 5% by weight, 1 to 5% by weight of silica sand powder, 1 to 5% by weight of cobalt, 1 to 3% by weight of manganese dioxide, and 1 to 3% by weight of cobalt chloride.

The protective coating layer 51 constituting such a configuration prevents surface contamination of the serial guide hopper 50 through an antibacterial effect, thereby protecting the serial material.

In particular, since the bentonite and biotite powder are mixed in the protective coating layer 51, cracks are prevented due to the increase in durability of the coating layer, and mineral oils can be prevented from occurring in the cereals due to the reduction of surface friction.

In addition, the silica powder composed mainly of silicon dioxide prevents discoloration of the coating layer due to the activation of the fluorine resin, cobalt and manganese dioxide prevents oxidation of the coating layer, and cobalt chloride has a moisturizing function. Nano silver according to the improvement will show the advantage of strengthening the antimicrobial activity.

In addition, although specific embodiments of the present invention have been described and illustrated above, it is obvious that the vending machine structure of the present invention may be variously modified and implemented by those skilled in the art.

For example, in the above embodiment, a specific commodity raw material (powder, cereal) product has been described, but in addition, the sale of high-quality traditional tea, such as ssanghwa or jujube tea, in which raw materials such as walnuts, pine nuts and jujube are provided in granular form, are sold in the present invention. It can be done through.

Therefore, such modified embodiments should not be understood individually from the spirit or scope of the present invention, such modified embodiments will be included within the appended claims of the present invention.

10: raw material container 11: powder raw material container
12: cereal raw material container 13: raw material motor
20: hot water tank 21: hot water valve
30: bucket 31: auxiliary bucket
40: raw material mixing portion 41: supply pipe
50: serial guide hopper 51: protective coating layer
60: cup storage 70: product withdrawal unit
80: partition bulkhead 81: hot air guide
90: hot air supply fan

Claims (5)

A plurality of raw material bins 10 in which cereal and powder materials are stored separately;
A hot water tank 20 in which hot water heated by a heating means is stored at a predetermined level;
A water tank 30 connected by a supply pipe to replenish water with the hot water tank 20;
A raw material mixing part 40 in which the powder material discharged from the raw material container 10 and the hot water supplied from the hot water container 20 are mixed;
A serial guide hopper 50 which guides downward of the cereal material discharged from the raw material container 10;
A cup storage container 60 in which a cup in which the raw material can be stored is stored;
A product withdrawal unit 70 in which a product supplied with raw material and hot water is drawn in a cup supplied from the cup storage tube 60;
A partition partition wall 80 that horizontally partitions the lower space in which the hot water tank 20 is installed and the upper space in which the raw material container is installed;
A warm air guide hole 81 formed in the partition partition wall;
A hot air supply fan 90 configured below the partition partition wall 80 to supply the warm air generated from the hot water tank 20 to the raw material container 10 through the hot air guide through hole 81;
Improved vending machine with internal warm air supply, characterized in that the configuration comprising a. The method according to claim 1,
The raw material container (10) is an automatic vending machine with improved internal warm air supply function, characterized in that the powder raw material container (11) for storing the powder material and the cereal material container (12) for storing the cereal material. The method according to claim 1,
The internal warm air supply function is characterized in that the partition plate 80 is provided with a guide plate 82 for guiding the warm air introduced through the hot air guide hole 81 toward the raw material container 10 to form a predetermined slope. Improved Vending Machines. The method according to claim 2,
The raw material mixing unit 40 is provided under the powder raw material container (11), the cereal guide hopper (50) is an automatic vending machine with improved internal warm air supply function, characterized in that provided in the lower part of the cereal raw material container (12). The method according to claim 1,
The serial guide hopper 50 is coated with a protective coating layer 51 for smooth guide and protection of the cereal, the protective coating layer 51 is fluorine resin, nano silver, boric acid, bentonite, mineral oil, biotite powder, silica sand powder Vending machine with improved internal warm air supply, characterized in that a mixed composition of cobalt, manganese dioxide and cobalt chloride.

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