KR19980040441A - Raw material saving vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide a vending machine for saving raw materials, having a cup retaining device that is operable to bring the last drop of beverage into the cup completely.

The structure of the vending machine for saving the raw material of this invention is a cup type vending machine which injects and sells the drink in the cup 6 discharged | emitted from a cup supply apparatus based on a sale operation start, and has installed the cup in the main body front part. The cup outlet 22, the sales door 3 which opens and closes the cup outlet 22, and the cup 6 which received the injection of the beverage in the vending machine main body from the beverage injection position 22 to the cup outlet 22 And a cup conveying means which is conveyed to the outside of the vending machine main body from the cup dispensing opening 22.

Description

Raw material saving vending machine

In general, in this type of cup vending machine, the beverage tank is arranged at the upper position in the vending machine, and the cup is placed at the lower part to inject the beverage to sell.

Moreover, in the conventional cup type | mold vending machine, since the cup in which the drink was injected is made to open a transparent door, and the drink injecting cup is taken out, the sales outlet which takes out the cup was in the low position. For this reason, the customer has to bend the waist and take out the cup containing the drink, which is inconvenient to be forced into a poor posture.

In addition, there was a hassle to open the door with one hand and take it out with the other.

In addition, since the cup is held by the elastic cup gripping member in the sales area, it is not easy to pull it out from the gripping member with one hand, and when the cup is taken out, the drink in the cup is sometimes caught up and the cup gripping member is dirty. As a result, there was a problem of becoming unsanitary.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a cup-type vending machine with a cup holding device that is operable to bring the last drop of beverage into the cup completely.

1 is a perspective view of the overall appearance of a cup vending machine showing one embodiment of the present invention

2 is a perspective view of a sales structure illustrating a process of injecting a drink into a cup and a cup moving process after the infusion;

3 is a perspective view of a sales mechanism showing a situation immediately after the transfer to the cup vertical transfer apparatus;

4 is a perspective view of a sales mechanism showing a situation in which the cup rises from the bottom to the sales unit;

5 is a side view showing an overall configuration of a sales mechanism

FIG. 6 is a side configuration view seen from the right direction in FIG. 5

7 is a front perspective view of the cup holding apparatus viewed from the front;

8 is an external perspective view of the cup holding apparatus viewed from the rear of the rail;

9 is a plan view of the cup holding apparatus

10 is a plan configuration diagram of the cup holding apparatus in a state waiting to receive a cup that is sent out;

11 is a plan view showing a state in which the cup holding device is slightly moved to the beverage injection nozzle side after holding the cup.

12 is a plan view illustrating a state in which the cup holding apparatus cup gripping is released.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

1: Sales department 2: Counter table

3: sales statement 4: operation panel

4A: SELECT BUTTON 5: Cup Retainer

6: cup 7: cup holder

7A, 7B: Cup holding member 8: Rail

9: slider 10: beverage injection nozzle

11: ice discharge hose 12: cup up and down transfer device

13 pulley 14 belt

15: drive motor 16: slider

18: coaster part 19: guide

20 pulley support shaft 21 cup guide structure

22: cup outlet 23: cup dropping device

24: Cup Suit 25: Cup Holder

26: rack 27: pinion

28M: drive motor 29: roller

30: cup stand 31: cup waste

32: drain container 35: roller receiving portion

37: shaft 38A, 38B: operating lever

39A, 39B: arm 40A, 40B: spring

41A, 41B: Projection 42: Cam

43: cam rotation axis 44a: cam surface

45 cam drive device 46 drive motor

47: reduction mechanism 48: drive gear

49: cam drive gear 50: cup back and forth transfer device

80: carbon dioxide gas nozzle

MEANS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM In order to achieve the objective mentioned above, this invention is the cup-type automatic vending machine which injects and sells the drink in the cup discharged from a cup supply apparatus based on a sale operation start, The cup discharge outlet provided in the main body front part, The said cup A sales door for opening and closing a dispensing outlet, a cup conveying means for transferring the cup, which has been injected with a beverage in the vending machine body, from the beverage dispensing position to the cup dispensing outlet and being sent from the cup dispensing outlet to the outside of the vending machine body; Provided is a raw material saving vending machine comprising a center moving means for moving the center of the cup from the cup drop position to the beverage pouring position.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a perspective view showing the overall appearance of a cup-type vending machine according to the present invention. The selling unit 1 is constituted by a counter table type that is wide open horizontally, unlike a conventional rectangular vending machine.

A part of this counter table part 2 is formed in a dome shape, and a cup discharge port for carrying out goods is provided in the counter table part 2, while a dome shape of the same shape is approached under this dome part. The sales door 3 is provided so that the rotational movement is free, and the sales door 3 is formed with a hole that coincides with the cup outlet when the sales door 3 is opened.

Therefore, normally, the said cup delivery opening by this sales door 3 is comprised so that it may open by mutually matching holes at the time of sale.

Moreover, the selling part 1 is provided in the position of the height one step higher than the position of the conventional height.

Specifically, this selling part 4A is formed just below the operation panel 4 to which the selection button 4A is attached, and is in a recessed state, and has a height that does not interfere with the extraction of the cup 6. Open sideways with the dimensions of.

And this cup part is comprised so that the drink-injected cup may spring out.

On the other hand, the supply unit to which cups, beverages, ice, etc. are sent out is installed in a vending machine.

Next, the structure of a main part is demonstrated to the cup type | mold vending machine of this invention based on FIG.

2 is a configuration diagram showing a situation in which the cup is injected and the cup after the injection to move the cup up and down conveying device, and FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing a situation in which the cup containing the drink rises by the cup up and down conveying device. In addition, Figure 4 is a block diagram showing a situation in which a cup containing a drink approaching the sales department.

In each figure, (5) has the opening-and-closing cup holding member 7A (7B) which hold | grips the cup 6 sent out from the cup supply apparatus as mentioned later by a sales instruction, and also conveys a cup. As a cup holding device which also acts as a device, the cup holding device 5 is installed so as to slide the slider portion 9 freely on a rail 8 which is installed almost horizontally in a cabinet of the vending machine. It is comprised so that it may slide along the rail 8 in the front-back direction seen from the front.

Although not shown above the position shown in FIG. 2, the beverage supply apparatus, the ice maker, etc. which the cup holding apparatus 5 normally waits are provided, and the beverage injection nozzle 10 and the ice discharge hose from them ( 11 faces the cup 6.

In addition, the beverage supply apparatus combines the beverages in accordance with the product selection operation by the consumer as described below, and combines the beverages in the state in which the cup holding device 5 holds the cup 6. Inject into the cup (6) through.

At this time, the beverage supply device dilutes the syrup with carbonated water to combine the carbonated beverage or dissolve powder raw materials such as coffee with hot water, and combines the coffee beverage by adding sugar and milk as necessary.

Similarly, the ice maker also sends ice into the cup held by the cup holding device 5 through the ice discharge hose 11 when there is a product selection operation by the consumer.

When both the drink and the ice are supplied to the cup, the cup holding device 5 slides in the direction of the arrow A as shown in FIG. 2, advances to the position shown in FIG. 3, and stops at the predetermined position.

The control regarding the stop of the cup holding apparatus 5 is controlled by the optical position sensor etc. arrange | positioned on the conveyance path of a cup.

(12) is a cup up / down conveying apparatus which transfers and advances the cup advanced to this predetermined position. The cup up / down conveying apparatus 12 includes a belt 14 arranged on a pulley 13 arranged up and down, a drive motor 15 capable of driving one of the pulleys in a forward and reverse rotation, and the belt ( 14, the upper and lower sliders 16 attached to the upper and lower sliders 16, a cylindrical coaster portion 18 provided at the front end of the upper and lower sliders 16, and the base portion of the upper and lower sliders 16 are inserted therethrough, and the coaster portion 18 is inserted. ) Is composed of guide bars 19 to perform stable up and down movement.

The coaster portion 18 is normally waiting at a position slightly below the bottom of the cup 6 moving in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 2, and when the cup 6 comes, the driving motor 15 rotates slightly forward. The coaster portion 18 rises slightly to support the bottom of the cup and is mounted thereon.

Thereafter, the cup gripping members 7A and 7B are opened and the transfer from the cup gripping members 7A and 7B to the coaster portion 18 is performed.

Next, after the cup gripping members 7A and 7B are opened to a greater extent without limiting the rise of the cup 6, the coaster portion 18 is raised again by the forward rotation of the drive motor 15. In order to prevent the cup from falling over, it enters the cup guide 21 of the shape which is one step larger than the diameter of the cup and stops at the slightly exited position.

4 shows a situation where the cup 6 has emerged above the counter table portion 2 of the sales section 1, and as can be seen from this figure, the cup 6 containing the beverage is raised from the bottom to the sales section. It appears in (1).

For this reason, the sales door 3 opens and the cup dispensing opening 22 which the cup 6 exits is opened.

As described above, gripping of the cup discharged from the cup supply device → injecting beverage into the cup → after pouring the drink, moving to the cup up / down conveying device → transferring the cup to the cup up / down conveying device → lifting the cup → to the sales department The cup beverage is provided to the consumer by performing a series of sales operations called the export of.

The overall flow of this selling operation will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

During the selling operation, if the cup dropping device 23 operates by the selling command, the cup falls to the cup stand 30 via the cup chute 24 and is sent out. In this state, the cup holding device 5 is located above the cup stand 30, and the cup sent to the cup chute 24 is mounted on the cup stand 30, and the cup gripping members 7A and 7B. Is held by.

Subsequently, after cup holding, beverage injection is performed by the beverage injection nozzle 10 etc., after which the whole cup holding apparatus 5 moves to the side, and moves from cup 1 to cup 2 to cup 3.

At the position of the cup 3, the cup is conveyed to the cup up and down conveying apparatus 12, lifted up to the position of the cup 4, and carried out.

By the way, when the cup carried out is not gripped correctly by the cup holding members 7A and 7B, and entered into the cup holding members 7A and 7B in an inclined state, the light beam is continuously blocked by the cup. Therefore, the cup detection sensor S which outputs the signal which informs a cup jamming is provided directly on the cup holding apparatus 5.

When the cup jamming detection sensor S performs the detecting operation, the cup holding members 7A and 7B slightly open and drop the cups correctly, so that the cup is held in the normal state by the cup holding members 7A and 7B. .

The cup support 30 is configured to be freely moved up and down so that the upper end of the cup is always fitted with the cup gripping members 7A and 7B even if a different cup height is used.

In addition, when the cup holding device 5 moves along the rail 8 and is temporarily fixed to the cup holding members 7A and 7B, the cup holder 30 is in contact with the cup 6. The cup is not moved horizontally along the rail 8, but is inclined upwardly at an angle of about 5 degrees in order to prevent falling and contamination by the metal.

Next, the cup back-and-forward conveying apparatus 50 which moves the structure of the cup holding apparatus 5 and the cup holding apparatus 5 in the front-back direction seen from the front of a vending machine is demonstrated based on FIG. 7 and FIG.

As described above, the cup holding device 5 has a slider portion 9 that slides freely on the rail 8, and a pair of cup holding members for fitting the cup 6 to the slider portion 9. The cup holder 25 which attached (7A) and 7B is provided.

The slider 9 is reciprocated on the rail 8 by the force applied by the drive device 9A, but the drive device 9A is engaged with the rack 26 provided on the rear surface of the rail 8. It consists of the pinion 27 and the drive electric motor 28M.

In addition, the slider portion 9 includes two pairs of upper and lower pairs of rollers 29 which support the projections 26A on which the racks 26 are formed from the up and down directions, and at the bottom of the rail 8 One set of rollers 36, which move while rotating in the roller receiving portion 35 provided at the lower end, is provided.

The pair of cup gripping members 7A and 7B are supported at one end of the actuating levers 38A and 38B supported by the shaft 37 which is mounted on the base stand 25A of the cup holder 25. As shown in FIG. 12, it is connected via the arms 39A and 39B.

These actuating levers 38A and 38B are springs 40A and 40B mounted on the upper base frame 25B of the cup holder 25, and a force is applied in the direction of mutual repulsion.

Then, at the ends of the other rotational movement of the actuating levers 38A and 38B, the protrusions 41A and 41B are bent in the direction centrally concentrating, respectively, and the front ends thereof are in contact with the cams 42, respectively. have.

This projection is arranged such that the projection 41B provided on the actuating lever 38B side is positioned above, and the projection 41B provided on the actuating lever 38A side is positioned below.

As shown in FIGS. 10 and 12, the surfaces around the cams (hereinafter referred to as cam surfaces) 44 and the cam surfaces 44a and 44b in which the two protrusions 41A and 41B are in uniform contact with each other. 11, the cam surface 44C of the concave state which the projection 41A contacts, and the cam surface 44d of the convex state which the protrusion 41B contacts are formed, and the cam surface (shown by the solid line) is shown. 44d) is formed above and the cam surface 44c shown with the dotted line is located below.

Since these cam surfaces 44a, 44b, 44c, 44d have different distances from the center of the cam rotation shaft 43, the degree of opening of the cup holding members 7A, 7B varies depending on the cam surface. Change.

In addition, the cam 42 shown in order to change the spreading degree of the cup holding member 7A, 7B also changes the distance from the center of the cam rotation axis 43 to the position of the up-down symmetry also by the size of a cup. Thus, cam surfaces 44e and 44f corresponding to the cam surfaces 44c and 44d are formed.

And this cam 42 is rotated by the cam drive device 45 in the angular range of about +180 degree or -180 degree from the standby position shown in FIG.

The cam drive device 45 is a cam drive gear attached to the lower portion of the cam rotation shaft 43 in which the drive electric motor 46, the reduction mechanism 47, the drive gear 48, and the cam 42 are fixedly installed. It consists of 49.

In the structure of the cup holding apparatus 5 mentioned above, the mechanism and operation | movement of the cup holding member 7A (7B) are shown in the top view of the cup holding apparatus 5 shown in FIG. 9, and shown in FIGS. 10-12. It may be well understood as a drawing.

As shown in each drawing, the projections 41A and 41B at the end of the rotational movement of the cup gripping members 7A and 7B are reciprocated in the cam 42 in a predetermined range, and as a result, they are concave. The cam holding members 44a, 44b, 44c, 44d or 44a, 44b, 44e, 44f in the convex state are rotated in a direction centrally concentrated with each other. The cup can be held as (7A) (7B).

In this way, the holding action of the cup by the cup holding members 7A and 7B is controlled by the contact between the protrusions 41A and 41B and the cam surface 44.

10 shows a standby state in which the cups sent out are held and held, and the projections 41A and 41B are in contact with the common cam surface 44a at positions coinciding in the up-down direction, and the operating lever ( 38A) 38B oppose in parallel as shown in the figure.

In addition, in FIG. 10, the cup holding members 7A and 7B are enlarged 2-3 mm larger than the diameter of the supporting portion of the designated cup, so that it is easy to accommodate a cup that is sent out and falls.

Fig. 11 shows a state in which the cup is displaced from (a) to (b) and then moved to the lower part of the beverage injection nozzle after receiving the discharged cup. The last drop P of the dripping liquid is also secured into the cup to prevent the cup from being dirty or the grip of the grip.

The operation is achieved as follows.

Now, when the cam 42 rotates in the counterclockwise direction in the state of FIG. 10, the projection 41A of the actuating lever 38A moves from the cam face 44a to the cam face 44c as shown in FIG. The cam surface 44b is reached from the projection 41B of 38B.

In this process, the cup gripping member 7A is adjusted to close slightly, and the cup gripping member 7B is also adjusted to close slightly so as to grip the cup based on the size of the cup.

Thereafter, the cup gripping members 7A and 7B have the support shaft 37 that rotatably supports the base ends of the operation levers 38A and 38B in the same direction (arrow direction in Fig. 11). Slightly displaced. This displacement direction is the direction in which the beverage injection nozzle 10 is located.

The stroke by this displacement operation is different in the cup holding members 7A and 7B. For example, the cup holding members 7B are controlled to be larger than the cup holding members 7A to form the cups. In addition, the displacement function is also achieved.

As a result, the center of the cup 6 is moved from the cup drop position of the point (a) shown in FIG. 11 to the drink injection position axis | shaft to the cup shown by the point (b).

In this way, the cup 6 is moved, and the inlet portions of the cups 6 are opposed to each other below the vertical line of the nozzle opening 10A of the beverage injection nozzle 10, and the beverage liquid from the beverage injection nozzle 10 is Even if there is a drop P which is injected into the cup 6 and falls off at the end of the injection, it also enters into the cup 6 so as not to contaminate the periphery of the cup and the periphery of the top.

Therefore, according to the vending machine for saving raw materials of the present invention, the last drop of the beverage can be completely entered into the cup by moving from the drop position of the cup to the injection position and injecting the beverage.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cup-type vending machine for continuously discharging a cup from a cup storage unit and injecting and selling various drinks into the cup by initiating a selling operation.

Claims (2)

In the cup type vending machine which injects and sells the drink in the cup 6 discharged | emitted from a cup supply apparatus based on a sale operation start, The cup outlet 22 which installed in the body front part, Sales door 3 for opening and closing the cup outlet 22, Cup conveying means for conveying the cup 6 receiving the beverage in the vending machine main body from the beverage injecting position to the cup dispensing port 22 and sent from the cup dispensing 22 to the outside of the vending machine main body; , And a center moving means for moving the center of the cup (6) from the cup drop position (a) to the beverage injection position (b). 2. The center movement means according to claim 1, wherein the projection 41A of the actuating lever 38A is operated from the cam surface 44a to the cam surface 44c by the rotational movement of the cam 42 in the counterclockwise direction. The projection 41B of the lever 38B reaches the cam surface 44b from the cam surface 44a, and the cup gripping member 7A is adjusted to close slightly so that the cup is gripped according to the size of the cup, and the cup gripping member 7A (7B) is a raw material saving vending machine, characterized in that it is configured to slightly displace to the beverage injection position with the support shaft 37 rotatably supporting the base ends of the operation levers 38A and 38B. .