RU214141U1 - Chamber for filling water into the container of the buyer of water in the process of aqua vending - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to aqua vending machines, i.e. to water vending machines by means of automatically controlled dispensing of water into the container of the water buyer. The technical problem lies in the need to create an outdoor version of the chamber for filling water into the container of the water buyer in the process of winter aqua vending. The technical result consists in creating a chamber in which the possibility of icing of critical components of the chamber during its operation in winter conditions is excluded by accelerated removal of overflowing water due to the appropriate execution of the bottom of the chamber, which does not have a horizontal plane for installing the buyer's container, and at the same time with the possibility of installing the container the buyer to a horizontal platform, provided by the presence of a false bottom of the chamber, fixed on the walls of the chamber. The chamber contains walls, namely the left vertical wall 1, the rear vertical wall 2 and the right vertical wall 3, as well as the bottom 4, which is mechanically connected to the walls and is part of the drainage system of the chamber together with the drain pipe 5. The chamber also contains a pipe 6 for pouring water into container of the buyer of water, located in the upper part of the chamber, and a false bottom 8, which is horizontally installed in the chamber with a wall mount inside the chamber. 6 ill.

Description

Field of technology to which the utility model belongs

The utility model relates to aqua vending machines, i.e. to water vending machines by means of automatically controlled dispensing of water into the container of the water buyer.

State of the art

A well-known chamber for pouring water into the container of the buyer of water in the process of aqua vending, which contains a holder with a cutout for holding and centering the neck of the bottle to the filling nozzle, while the holder is connected to the body of the vending machine, and in the body above the holder there is a valve connected and controlled by a drive , and this damper blocks the consumer's access to the filling spout and, as a rule, has two positions: the first is closed, in the standby mode, and the second is open, in the water bottling mode (Patent RU No. 180571 U1, B67C 3/00, B67D 7 /00, published: 06/18/2018 Bull. No. 17).

The features of the known chamber, which are common with the features of the camera claimed for patenting, are that it (the known chamber) is a filling chamber containing a filling spout (filling pipe) installed in the upper part of the chamber.

The reason preventing the technical result obtained in the well-known chamber, which is provided by the chamber claimed for patenting, is that the known chamber does not contain means for collecting and diverting overflowed water from this chamber in the process of pouring water into the container of the water buyer, which creates known problems during operation. this camera outdoors in winter.

Known chamber for pouring water into the container of the buyer of water in the process of aqua vending (prototype), referred to in the prototype, for example, as the "first niche 14", containing the walls of the chamber, namely the left, right and rear walls of the chamber, which are vertical walls, the bottom of the chamber, referred to as in the prototype as the "first lower wall 13", mechanically connected with the walls of the chamber, while the specified bottom (13) of the chamber is made flat and located horizontally, and part of the bottom (13) of the chamber, namely the central part, is made in the form of a lattice (12) to drain overflowed water from the chamber (14), so that the bottom (13) of the chamber is part of the drainage system of the chamber (14). In addition, the well-known chamber (14) contains a chamber cover, referred to in the prototype as the "first upper wall 16", mechanically connected to the walls of the chamber, as well as a branch pipe (17) for pouring water into the container of the water buyer in the process of aqua vending, located in the upper part of the chamber (14) and fixed on the cover (16) of the chamber (see the description and Fig. 1 to the patent RU No. 62268 U1, IPC G07F 13/00, pub.: 27.03.2007 Bull. No. 9).

The features of the known chamber (prototype), which are common with the features of the camera claimed for patenting, are that it (the known chamber) contains the walls of the chamber, the bottom of the chamber, which is mechanically connected to the walls of the chamber and is part of the drainage system of the chamber, as well as a pipe for pouring water into container of the buyer of water in the process of aqua vending, located in the upper part of the chamber.

The reason that prevents the technical result obtained in the known chamber (prototype), which is provided by the camera claimed for patenting, is that in the known chamber, overflow water is removed from the chamber through a grate in the horizontally located bottom of the chamber, as a result of which a certain amount of overflow water remains on at the bottom of the chamber and freezes in the winter time of operation of the chamber, requires the location of a container with a discharge pipeline under the grate to collect and drain overflowed water, which together creates problems during the operation of the chamber on the street in winter due to icing of the bottom of the chamber.

The technical problem to be solved by the technical solution claimed for patenting is the need to create an outdoor version of the chamber for pouring water into the container of the water buyer in the process of winter aqua vending.

Disclosure of the essence of the utility model

The technical result, mediating the solution of this technical problem, is to create a chamber in which the possibility of icing of the bottom of the chamber and other critical components of the chamber during its operation on the street in winter conditions is excluded, which is achieved due to the accelerated removal of overflowing water from the bottom surface of the chamber. Such an accelerated drainage is provided by the shape of the bottom of the chamber, which is traditionally inherent in any drainage system, i.e. shape without a horizontal platform. However, this shape of the bottom of the chamber does not make it possible to install the container of the buyer of water in the chamber for pouring water directly onto the bottom of the chamber, precisely because such a bottom does not have a horizontal platform. In the claimed design of the loading chamber, this technical contradiction is removed by the presence of a horizontal false bottom. At the same time, the installation of this false bottom with its support on the chamber bottom is technically difficult due to the complex (and not horizontal) shape of the chamber bottom, dictated by the need for accelerated removal of overflowing water from the chamber, which makes it necessary to mount the false bottom on the chamber walls (i.e. without resting on the bottom of the chamber).

The technical result is achieved by the fact that the chamber for pouring water into the container of the water buyer in the process of aqua vending contains the walls of this chamber, the bottom of this chamber, mechanically connected to the walls of this chamber and being part of the drainage system of this chamber, the shape of which does not have a horizontal platform, the water filling pipe in container of the buyer of water in the process of aqua-vending, located in the upper part of this chamber, as well as a false bottom, made with its wall fastening inside the specified chamber for pouring water into the container of the water buyer.

In addition, the technical result is also achieved by the fact that:

- the drainage system of the specified chamber contains a gutter formed by the bottom of this chamber, made in the form of a flat plate, and the walls of this chamber, so that the specified gutter contains a plug installed at its drain end, in the area of which a drain pipe is installed;

- the drainage system of the specified chamber contains a gutter, including the bottom of this chamber, made in the form of a plate bent along its fold line with the formation of two planes relative to this line, so that these planes together form a V-shape in their cross section with an obtuse angle between these planes of this form, while the specified gutter contains installed on its waste end of the plug, in the area of which the drain pipe is installed, so that the specified fold line crosses the inlet of the specified waste pipe;

- the drainage system of the specified chamber contains a drain funnel, in the form of which the bottom of the chamber is made, and a drain pipe connected to this funnel;

- false bottom wall mount is detachable;

- false bottom wall mount contains brackets fixed on the chamber walls, on which the false bottom is horizontally installed;

- false bottom wall mount is made with the possibility of limited rotation of the false bottom around the wall-mounted axis.

Brief description of the drawings

In FIG. 1 shows a schematic longitudinal sectional view of the vertical plane of the chamber for pouring water into the container of the buyer of water in the process of aqua vending (side view), in which the false bottom 8 is installed with fastening on the walls of the chamber in a stationary horizontal position, and the bottom 4 of the chamber is made to form a gutter along with the walls of the chamber 10 with a plug 11 at its waste end;

in fig. Fig. 2 shows a schematic longitudinal section of the vertical plane of the chamber for pouring water into the container of the buyer of water during aqua vending (side view), in which false bottom 8 is installed with fastening on the walls of the chamber in a working horizontal position, in which its (false bottom) limited forced rotation around the axis is possible 13, installed either on one of the walls of the chamber, or on opposite walls of the chamber, and the bottom 4 of the chamber is made to form, together with the walls of the chamber, a gutter 10 with a plug 11 at its drain end;

in fig. 3 shows a schematic longitudinal sectional view of the vertical plane of the chamber for pouring water into the container of the buyer of water in the process of aqua vending (side view), in which the false bottom 8 is installed with fastening on the walls of the chamber in a stationary horizontal position, and the bottom 4 of the chamber is made in the form of a drain funnel 12;

in fig. 4 shows a schematic longitudinal sectional view of the vertical plane of the chamber for pouring water into the container of the buyer of water in the process of aqua vending (side view), in which the false bottom 8 is installed with fastening on the walls of the chamber in a working horizontal position, in which its (false bottom 8) limited forced rotation around axis 13, installed either on one of the walls of the chamber, or on opposite walls of the chamber, and the bottom 4 of the chamber is made in the form of a drain funnel 12;

in fig. 5 shows a schematic representation of the bottom 4 of the chamber, when this bottom is made with the formation of a chute, top view;

in fig. 6 shows a schematic representation of the bottom 4 of the chamber, when this bottom is made with the formation of a trough, front view.

Implementation of the utility model

The chamber for pouring water into the container of the water buyer in the process of aqua vending contains (Fig. 1):

- walls of the chamber, namely, the left vertical wall 1, the rear vertical wall 2 and the right vertical wall 3 (here left and right are considered relative to the water buyer facing the front of the filling chamber);

- the bottom 4 of the chamber, mechanically connected with the walls of the chamber and being part of the drainage system of the chamber together with the drain pipe 5;

- branch pipe 6 for pouring water into the container of the buyer of water in the process of aqua vending, located in the upper part of the chamber and installed, for example, on the cover 7 of the chamber; in this case, the chamber may not have a cover 7, so that the nozzle 6, being located in the upper part of the chamber, is attached to the front shield of the aqua vending machine (not shown);

- false bottom 8, which is installed in the chamber with mounting on the walls of the chamber using brackets 9, fixed on the left 1 and right 3 walls of the chamber, while the false bottom 8 is installed in a stationary horizontal position with a detachable mount on the brackets 9 (Fig. 1, 3) .

The horizontal position of the false bottom 8 makes it possible to install the container of the buyer of water on it for pouring water into this container during aqua vending, so that in winter the indicated container does not slide on the surface of the false bottom 8. Detachable fastening of the false bottom 8 on the brackets 9 (Fig. 1, 3) allows maintenance personnel to remove the false bottom 8 from the brackets 9 for maintenance and repair of the drainage system of the chamber, part of which is the bottom 4 of the chamber, made in the variant of Fig. 1 with the formation together with the walls 1-3 of the chamber of the gutter 10 with a plug 11 at its (gutter) waste end, and in the version of the chamber in FIG. 3 in the form of a drain funnel 12.

The variant in Fig. 2 differs from the embodiment in FIG. 1 by the fact that false bottom 8 is installed in the chamber with fastening on the walls of the chamber in the working horizontal position of the false bottom, in which its (false bottom) limited forced rotation around axis 13 is possible, either installed on one of the walls of the chamber using appropriate brackets (i.e. , or on wall 1, or on wall 2, or on wall 3), or with their ends on opposite walls 1 and 3 of the chamber. The hinged fastening of the false bottom 8 on the axis 13 (Fig. 2, 4) enables the service personnel to rotate the false bottom 8 around the axis 13 for maintenance and repair of the drainage system of the chamber, part of which is the bottom 4 of the chamber, made in the variant in Fig. 1 and 2 in the form of a gutter 10 with a plug 11 at its (gutter) drain end, and in the chamber variant in FIG. 3 and 4 in the form of a drain funnel 12.

The variant in Fig. 3 differs from the embodiment in FIG. 1, as well as the variant in Fig. 4 differs from the embodiment in FIG. 2 in that the bottom 4 of the chamber in the embodiments shown in FIGS. 3, 4 is made in the form of a drain funnel 12.

The execution of the bottom 4 of the chamber with the formation of the chute 10 together with the walls 1-3 of the chamber (Fig. 1, 2) is technologically simpler than the options in Fig. 3, 4 (drain funnel 12), which is why the variant of the gutter 10 formed by the walls 1, 2, 3 (more precisely, the lower parts of these walls) and the bottom 4 is preferred. Moreover, in this embodiment (Figs. 1, 2) the bottom 4 can be either an inclined plane (this is not shown explicitly) or a V-shaped trough, as shown in Figs. 3, 6. An inclined plane is easier to manufacture, but at the same time it has the obvious disadvantage that the rolling of spilled water along it may not be intense enough, so that it (spilled water) may have time to freeze in winter. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to provide a significant angle of inclination of the bottom 4, which increases the total amount of space occupied by the camera in the composition of the aqua vending apparatus, thereby taking away the usable space of the aqua vending apparatus from other components of the aqua vending apparatus. However, even in this (flat) variant, there is a significant probability of ice formation on the bottom 4 plane. This technical contradiction eliminates the execution of the bottom 4 in the form of a V-shaped trough (Fig. 3, 6), formed by two planes 14 and 15. Specifically, in this embodiment, the bottom 4 is a solid plate, bent along the bend line 16 with the formation of relative to this line two planes 14 and 15, thereby forming a V-shaped cross-section of the bottom 4 with an obtuse angle β between the planes 14 and 15 of this V-shaped. In this case, line 16 crosses the inlet of the waste pipe 5.

The use of the loading chamber is as follows.

The water buyer installs his water container on a horizontal false bottom 8 under the filling pipe 6 and starts the process of dispensing water into the water buyer's container. Further, a situation is possible when the buyer, for one reason or another, removes his container from the chamber before the filling process is completed; or he does not remove the container earlier, but the automation of the aqua vending machine does not turn off the water supply to the container of the water buyer in time due to a malfunction in its operation. In this situation, which often occurs, water overflows, which through the false bottom 8, if it is made with holes, or bypassing the false bottom 8 through its side gaps, if it is made with side gaps relative to the chamber walls, enters the drainage system of the chamber, from which, thanks to the design of this system, spilled water quickly goes into the sewer without having time to turn into ice.

In the regions of operation of the chamber, characterized by particularly low temperatures in winter, the bottom 4 of the chamber is heated using a heating cable adjacent to the bottom 4 of the chamber from below (cable not shown), which eliminates the possibility of icing of the bottom 4. At the same time, due to the close location of the false bottom 8 relative to the bottom 4 is also relatively heated and the false bottom 8 due to the natural convection of heat from the bottom 4 to the false bottom 8, as a result of which the false bottom 8 is not subjected to icing. Moreover, other components of the device are not subject to icing, since they do not come into contact with overflowing water, which is ensured by the design of the drainage system of the chamber.

As for the current maintenance of the gutter system of the chamber or its repair, the attendants get access to it by removing the false bottom 8 from the brackets 9 (Fig. 1, 3) or simply rotating the false bottom 8 around the axis 13 (Fig. 2, 4).

Claims (7)

1. A chamber for filling water into a container for a water buyer during aqua-vending, including the walls of this chamber, the bottom of this chamber, mechanically connected to the walls of this chamber and being part of the drainage system of this chamber, the shape of which does not have a horizontal platform, as well as a pipe for pouring water into the container a water buyer in the process of aqua vending, located in the upper part of this chamber, characterized in that it contains a false bottom, made with its wall fastening inside the said chamber for pouring water into the container of the water buyer. 2. The chamber according to claim 1, characterized in that the drainage system of the specified chamber contains a gutter formed by the bottom of this chamber, made in the form of a flat plate, and the walls of this chamber, so that the specified gutter contains a plug installed at its drain end, in the area of which drain pipe installed. 3. The chamber according to claim 1, characterized in that the drainage system of the specified chamber contains a gutter, including the bottom of this chamber, made in the form of a plate bent along its fold line with the formation of two planes relative to this line, so that these planes together form V- shaped in their cross section with an obtuse angle between these planes of this shape, while the specified gutter contains a plug installed at its drain end, in the area of which the drain pipe is installed, so that the specified fold line crosses the inlet of the specified drain pipe. 4. The chamber according to claim 1, characterized in that the drainage system of the specified chamber contains a drain funnel, in the form of which the bottom of the chamber is made, and a drain pipe connected to this funnel. 5. The camera according to claim 1, characterized in that the wall mount of the false bottom is made detachable. 6. The camera according to claim 1, characterized in that the false bottom wall mount contains brackets fixed on the walls of the chamber, on which the false bottom is horizontally installed. 7. The camera according to claim 1, characterized in that the wall mount of the false bottom is made with the possibility of limited rotation of the false bottom around the wall-mounted axis.

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