KR20100034942A

KR20100034942A - Apparatus for cooling beverage

Info

Publication number: KR20100034942A
Application number: KR1020080094195A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 손재식
Original assignee: (주)미래휴먼기술
Priority date: 2008-09-25
Filing date: 2008-09-25
Publication date: 2010-04-02

Abstract

PURPOSE: A beverage cooling apparatus is provided to improve the cooling efficiency and performance through uniform temperature distribution of cooling water in a cooling tank. CONSTITUTION: A beverage cooling apparatus comprises a cooling tank(20) storing cooling water, a coolant pipe(50), a beverage circulating pipe(60), a cover(30) attached to the top of the cooling tank and equipped with an impeller, and a water flow guide plate(200) installed in the bottom of the cooling tank to raise the cooling water descending by the operation of the impeller. A dome-shaped central guide part(210) is formed in the center of the water flow guide plate, a plurality of spiral guide parts(220) are formed on the outer side of the central guide part, and a plurality of outer guide parts are formed on the outer side of the spiral guide parts.

Description

Beverage Chiller {Apparatus for cooling beverage}

The present invention relates to a beverage cooling device, and more particularly, to a beverage cooling device that is made to smoothly heat exchange of the cooling water circulated into the cooling water pipe by stirring the cooling water stored in the cooling tank.

In general, liquor such as water or beer, juice drinks, carbonated drinks, etc. are cooled to below a predetermined temperature in a separate cooling device and then discharged and supplied to the drinking user.

In the related art, the beverage cooling device includes a refrigerant pipe in which a predetermined amount of cooling water 11 is stored in the cooling tank 10 having an open upper portion, and refrigerant is circulated by a refrigeration cycle inside the cooling tank 10. 12 and a beverage circulation pipe 13 circulated so as to be cooled and drinkable at a proper temperature are provided at predetermined intervals, and the inside of the cooling tank 10 is driven by the driving of the motor 14. A rotating impeller 15 is located, and a guide lamp 16 is formed below the impeller 15, that is, at the bottom of the cooling tank 10.

Therefore, when a beverage such as water or beer is circulated through the beverage circulation pipe 13 while a predetermined amount of cooling water 11 is stored in the cooling tank 10, the refrigerant pipe 12 cooled according to the operation of the refrigeration cycle. Ice (I) is formed in the vicinity of the ice, and the cooling water 11 heat-exchanged with the ice (I) is able to discharge the low-temperature beverage by heat-exchanging with the beverage in the beverage circulation pipe (13) again.

At this time, the impeller 15 rotated according to the driving of the motor 14 moves the cooling water 11 downward and guide lamp 16 guides the lowered cooling water 11 to the upper side to cool the water in the cooling tank 10. (11) is prevented from freezing.

However, such a conventional technique allows the coolant lowered by the operation of the impeller rotated by the driving of the motor to be raised by the guide lamp. However, in the center of the cooling tank, the cooling water is stirred to some extent, while at the edge of the cooling tank. The flow of the cooling water is not smooth, and the temperature distribution of the cooling water is not uniform, and as time passes, the surroundings of the refrigerant pipe and the cold water pipe are frozen, thereby degrading cooling performance and cooling efficiency.

The present invention has been invented to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a beverage cooling device to maintain a uniform temperature of the cooling water by smoothly flowing the cooling water in the cooling tank.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a beverage cooling apparatus that can improve the cooling performance and the cooling efficiency of the beverage by inducing the spiral flow of the cooling water stirred in accordance with the operation of the impeller.

In the beverage cooling apparatus according to the present invention for achieving the above object, the cooling water is stored inside the cooling tank, and a coolant tube through which a refrigerant is circulated and a beverage circulation tube through which a beverage is circulated are installed. In the cover coupled to the upper side is provided with an impeller to rotate in accordance with the drive of the motor, the bottom of the cooling tank is a beverage cooling device having a water flow guide plate for raising the cooling water descending in accordance with the operation of the impeller, the water induction The plate has a central guide portion formed in a dome shape at the center thereof, and a plurality of spiral guide portions are formed outside the spiral guide portion to guide the formation of spiral water flow. Characterized in that formed.

According to the present invention, the flow of the cooling water lowered by the impeller rotating by the driving of the motor is guided by the water flow guide plate formed on the bottom, spirally rising, and also circulated to the edge of the cooling tank, so that the circulation of the cooling water as a whole is further increased. It is made smoothly, and thus the cooling water temperature distribution in the cooling tank is not only uniform as a whole, but also has the effect of further improving the cooling efficiency and cooling performance of the beverage in the beverage circulation pipe.

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

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view showing a beverage cooling apparatus according to the present invention, the cover 30 is coupled to the upper side of the cooling tank 20 is open.

Inside the cooling tank 20, a refrigerant pipe 50 for cooling the cooling water 40 stored by the refrigerant circulating according to an operation of a refrigeration cycle not shown is formed in a coil shape, and the refrigerant pipe ( At the inner side of 50), a beverage circulation pipe 60 through which liquors such as beer and juice drinks such as juice are circulated at predetermined intervals is located.

The coolant pipe 50 and the beverage circulation pipe 60 are introduced from the outside through the upper side of the cooling tank 20.

The cover 30 is provided with a motor 31 in the upper center, the rotary shaft 32 is provided in the motor 31 is lowered to the inside of the cooling tank 20, the front end of the rotary shaft 32 An impeller 33 for stirring the cooling water 40 is coupled.

The overflow hole 34 and the overflow groove 35 are formed at one side of the cover 30 so that when the amount of the coolant 40 stored therein exceeds a predetermined amount, the coolant 40 overflows by introducing and discharging it. It is preventing.

On the other hand, the bottom of the cooling tank 20 to form a spiral flow in the cooling water 40 is lowered by the operation of the impeller 33 rotated in accordance with the drive of the motor 31 to guide the water flow guide plate 200 ) Is formed.

The water flow guide plate 200 is formed in the center of the bottom of the cooling tank 20, as shown in Figure 5, is formed in the center of the dome-shaped central guide portion 210 is raised upward, the outer side is lowered A plurality of spiral guide parts 220 for forming a water flow in the cooling water 40 are formed.

The spiral induction part 220 is radially formed on the outer side of the central induction part 210, and is protruded while the one end thereof forms an arc in an upward direction to induce a spiral water flow to the cooling water 40.

On the outside of the spiral induction part 220, a plurality of outer induction parts 230 are formed to guide the lowered cooling water 40 to the outside to flow to the inner wall of the coolant pipe 50 and the cooling tank 20.

The lower side of the cooling tank 20 is formed to be connected to the drain pipe 22 is formed with a drain port 21 for draining when the cooling water 40 is replaced or cleaned.

In the beverage chiller according to the present invention configured as described above, the refrigerant cooled by the operation of the cooling cycle is circulated through the refrigerant pipe 50, and thus the coolant 40 is a predetermined thickness around the refrigerant pipe 50 Frozen with ice (I) having

At this time, when the rotating shaft 32 and the impeller 33 rotates according to the driving of the motor 31, the cooling water 40 in the cooling tank 20 flows to the lower side of the cooling tank 20.

And the cooling water 40 forcibly moved to the lower side of the cooling tank 20 by the rotation operation of the impeller 33 is guided upward by the water flow guide plate 200.

That is, the coolant 40 hit by the water flow guide plate 200 is raised while hitting the central guide part 210 formed at the center and guided to the outside, while hitting the plurality of spiral guide parts 220 to form a spiral water flow. A portion of the coolant that is hit by the central guide portion 210 and guided to the outside is guided out of the water flow guide plate 200 through the outer guide portion 230 to rise between the cooling tank 20 and the coolant pipe 50. do.

Subsequently, the ice I of the cooling water 40 formed around the coolant tube 50 cools the beverage circulated into the beverage circulation tube 60, thereby supplying the beverage cooled to a predetermined temperature. do.

Therefore, the elevated cooling water 40 rises while forming a spiral shape by the water flow guide plate 200, so that the stirring and flow are more smoothly performed, and thus the temperature distribution of the cooling water 40 in the cooling tank 20 is increased. Is uniformly maintained and the heat exchange between the coolant 40 and the beverage in the beverage circulation pipe 60 is smooth, thereby improving cooling efficiency and cooling performance.

The present invention as described above is not limited to the above-described specific embodiments, and any person having ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various changes without departing from the gist of the present invention as claimed in the claims. will be.

The present invention may be applied to any apparatus for cooling liquids using a refrigeration cycle such as a cold / hot water purifier and a cold / hot water purifier.

1 is a cross-sectional view showing a conventional beverage cooling apparatus.

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view showing a beverage cooling apparatus according to the present invention.

3 is a plan view of a cooling tank showing a beverage cooling apparatus according to the present invention.

4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line II of FIG. 3.

Figure 5 is a partial perspective view showing the water flow guide plate in the beverage cooling apparatus according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

20: cooling tank 30: cover

31: motor 33: impeller

40: cooling water 50: refrigerant pipe

60: beverage circulation pipe 200: water flow guide plate

210: center guide portion 220: spiral guide portion

230: outer induction part

Claims

Cooling water is stored inside the cooling tank and a refrigerant pipe through which the refrigerant is circulated and a beverage circulation pipe through which the beverage is circulated, and a cover coupled to the upper side of the cooling tank is provided with an impeller rotating according to the driving of the motor. In the bottom of the cooling tank is a beverage cooling device having a water flow guide plate for raising the cooling water descending in accordance with the operation of the impeller,

The flow guide plate 200 has a central guide portion 210 formed in a dome shape at the center thereof, and a plurality of spiral guide portions 220 are formed at the outside thereof to guide the formation of a spiral flow. Beverage cooling apparatus, characterized in that formed on the outside of the plurality of the outer induction portion 230 to induce water flow to the outside.

The method of claim 1,

The spiral induction part 220 is formed radially around the central induction part 210, the beverage cooling apparatus, characterized in that the one end is raised while forming an arc from the bottom to the upper side.