RU224190U1 - MARKED CUP - EXTERNAL HOLDER OF ONE CAPSULE, EQUIPPED WITH A RING PART COVER - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to devices for preparing single-ingredient drinks, such as Americano or espresso, using a capsule without an internal piercer. For example, this could be a Nespresso standard capsule. The utility model can be used in a system for the safe preparation of one-component drinks, consisting of the claimed device and a car coffee machine equipped with a scanner capable of monitoring compatibility with the claimed device. This system can be used in taxis to sell single-ingredient drinks. Marked glass - an external holder of one capsule, equipped with a cover of the annular part of the safe preparation system for drinks, consisting of a side wall containing a flange and an annular shelf, inseparably connected to the inner part of the side wall and a piercer containing one piercing element and configured to pierce the lower part of the capsule , placed in the capsule socket; a bottom inseparably connected to the side wall; an annular part containing holes for drinking and configured to connect with the flange; a capsule socket configured to connect to the annular part and configured to accommodate one capsule, containing markings capable of being read by a scanner of an automobile coffee machine, characterized in that it contains a removable annular part; a cover of the annular part containing holes aligned with drinking holes on the annular part, covering the annular part with a capsule and a capsule socket, containing an annular protrusion on the inner side surface in the lower part, engaging with the lower surface of the flange, while the outer side surface is annular The part has a taper, and on the side surface of the cover of the annular part and its annular protrusion, through slots are made evenly around the circumference. The technical result achieved by the utility model is to increase the operational safety of the claimed device. 4 ill.

Description

The utility model relates to devices for preparing single-ingredient drinks, such as Americano or espresso, using a capsule without an internal piercer. For example, this could be a Nespresso standard capsule. The utility model can be used in a system for the safe preparation of one-component drinks, consisting of the claimed device and a car coffee machine equipped with a scanner, capable of monitoring compatibility with the claimed device. This system can be used in taxis to sell single-ingredient drinks.

A known device is a capsule holder for coffee machines, including a socket for installing a capsule with a drink extract and a hole for exiting the finished drink (patent RU 2747134, published on April 28, 2021) [1], characterized by the fact that the capsule holder has an annular groove for tight fitting drink glass holder.

A known device is a capsule glass holder for devices for preparing drinks, including a socket for installing a capsule (patent RU 2761895, published 12/13/2021) [2], characterized in that it contains an annular part containing holes for drinking and air, connected to the cup body, consisting of side and bottom walls, while the cup body is inseparable from the annular part, which is inseparable from the socket for installing the capsule. The disadvantage of the known devices [1, 2] is the impossibility of using a capsule with a bulk product that is not equipped with an internal piercer - for example, a Nespresso standard capsule.

A known holder is a capsule glass for devices for preparing drinks, including a socket for installing the capsule (patent RU 219382, published 06/13/2023). The solution comprises a lower capsule piercer fixed to the inner part of the bottom, configured to be removably connected, and a holder placed on the inner part of the bottom, configured to hold the lower capsule piercer. The disadvantage of this device is the complexity of manufacturing, since it is a complex figure having a combination of undercuts, its production in a monolithic design will require the manufacture of a complex mold, which may include special forming elements such as folding punches, composite and sliding dies and special removal plates. Obviously, the more complex the mold, the higher the defect rate.

The technical result achieved by the utility model is to increase the operational safety of the claimed device.

To achieve the technical result, a marked glass is claimed - an external holder of one capsule, equipped with a lid of the annular part, a system for the safe preparation of drinks, consisting of a side wall containing a flange and an annular shelf, inseparably connected to the inner part of the side wall and a piercer containing one piercing element, and configured to pierce the lower part of the capsule located in the capsule socket; a bottom inseparably connected to the side wall; an annular part containing holes for drinking and configured to connect with the flange; a capsule nest configured to connect to the annular portion and configured to accommodate one capsule; containing markings capable of being read by a scanner of a car coffee machine; characterized in that it contains a removable annular part; a cover of the annular part containing holes aligned with drinking holes on the annular part, covering the annular part with a capsule and a capsule socket, containing an annular protrusion on the inner side surface in the lower part, engaging with the lower surface of the flange, while the outer side surface is annular The part has a taper, and on the side surface of the cover of the annular part and its annular protrusion, through slots are made evenly around the circumference.

The essence of the claimed utility model is illustrated.

Fig. 1 - Assembly diagram of the claimed device and capsule. Side sectional view.

Fig. 2 - Claimed device with installed capsule. Side sectional view.

Fig. 3 - Installing the annular part cover onto the annular part in three positions. Side sectional view. A - before installation on the flange, B - during installation on the flange, C - after installation on the flange.

Fig. 4 - The claimed device is installed in a car coffee machine mounted inside the car. Side sectional view.

Wherein:

1. Ring part

2. Side wall

3. Capsule socket

4. Bottom

5. Beading

6. Piercer

7. Capsule

8. Ring shelf

9. Cup body

10. Car coffee machine

11. Marking

12. Scanner

13. Cover of the ring part

14. Annular projection

The claimed device is an element of a system for the safe preparation of one-component drinks.

The system for the safe preparation of one-component drinks is a system of elements connected to each other. The elements of the system for the safe preparation of single-component drinks are a car coffee machine (10), not equipped with an internal capsule holder, and the claimed device. To prepare a one-ingredient drink using the safe one-ingredient drink preparation system, one capsule (7) containing dry matter and water are used.

The claimed device is connected to a car coffee machine (10) using an upper piercer, which is an element of the car coffee machine, which is connected to a capsule placed in the claimed device. Water moves from the car coffee machine into the glass body (9), inside the elements of the system for the safe preparation of single-component drinks. This eliminates an open stream and ensures protection from single-component drinks getting on the passenger and the vehicle interior during a trip in shaking conditions.

The claimed device can be made, for example, of plastic and/or paper, and contains a side wall (2) inseparably connected to the bottom (4), which form the body of the glass (9). The side wall (2) contains a flange (5), which may have a toroidal shape, and is inseparably connected to the upper edge of the side wall (2). The claimed device contains an annular part (1) containing one or more drinking holes, which can be equipped with protective caps, and configured to be connected to a flange (5) using, for example, an annular groove. The annular part (1) is configured to be connected to the capsule socket (3) using, for example, an annular groove or another connection method.

The claimed device contains a capsule socket (3), which is configured to accommodate the capsule (7) in such a way that the drink flowing from the capsule (7) enters the glass body (9). The capsule socket (3) is made with the ability to access and tightly press the upper piercer, which is an element of the automobile coffee machine, to the capsule (7) installed in the capsule socket (3).

The claimed device contains an annular shelf (8) shaped like a ring, the outer diameter of which is equal to the inner diameter of the side wall (2) at the point of contact of the side wall (2) with the annular shelf (8). The annular shelf (8) is connected to the inner part of the side wall (2), for example, by gluing or casting. To use a capsule (7) without an internal piercer (for example, the Nespresso standard), the claimed device contains a piercer (6) containing a jumper, the edges of which are inseparably connected to the annular shelf (8), for example, by gluing or casting, containing one piercing element (eg igloo). The piercer (6) is configured to pierce the lower part of the capsule (7) when placing the capsule (7) in the capsule nest 3.

Making the piercer in the form of a ring with a jumper and a piercing element, as well as placing the piercer (6) on the annular shelf increases the safety of operation of the claimed device in comparison with the embodiment of the piercer in the form of a pin with a piercing part and placing the piercer (6) on the bottom (4), since if the piercer (6) is placed on the bottom (4), the piercer has a large length and can bend and deviate when resting on the lower part of the capsule, as a result of which the lower part of the capsule (7) will not be pierced, as a result of which splashing may occur water, which is supplied under pressure from a car coffee machine, through the “top pierce-capsule” connection or to the rupture of water lines inside the car coffee machine, which will also lead to splashing of hot water, which can get on the passenger, burn him, stain clothes and/or the interior car. Thus, the design of the piercer (6) on an annular shelf (8), inseparably connected to the inner part of the side wall (2), increases the operational safety of the claimed device.

The inseparable connection of the piercer (6) and the annular shelf (8) provides protection against a situation where the user mistakenly does not install the piercer (6) on the annular shelf (8) or installs the piercer (6) with the piercing part facing down. Any of these situations excludes the piercing of the lower part of the capsule (7), which may result in splashing of water, which is supplied under pressure from the car coffee machine, through the “upper piercer - capsule” connection or rupture of the water lines inside the car coffee machine, which will also lead to splashing hot water, which can get on the passenger, burn him, stain his clothes and/or the interior of the car. Thus, the inseparable connection of the piercer (6) and the annular shelf (8) increases the operational safety of the claimed device.

The claimed device is manufactured using injection molding, for example, using an injection molding machine. To produce the claimed device, it will be necessary to make a mold into which molten plastic material is poured under pressure. Unlike solution [3], made monolithic, the production of which requires a complex mold, which may include special form-building elements, such as folding punches, composite and sliding dies and special removal plates, the claimed utility model is made collapsible, with using one mold to produce the cup body (9), a second mold to produce the annular part (1) and a third mold to produce the capsule seat (3). Thus, we get three products and install the ring part (1) on the flange (5) and the capsule socket (3) in the ring part (1) before use.

Obviously, the more complex the mold, the higher the defect rate. In the “Big Encyclopedia of Oil and Gas” with reference to the book by Samokhvalov Y.A. “Handbook of Design Technicians”, in Chapter 8 “Parts made of plastics” it is written: “...Undercuts impair the manufacturability of parts, reduce their accuracy and surface quality, complicate the design of the mold and limit the productivity during pressing. By changing the design of products, undercuts can be avoided. If it is impossible to avoid undercuts, then in some cases it is advisable to divide such a part into two (or more) simple parts...” p. 330, para. 5. https://www.ngpedia.ru/pg1677673pmQmENz0001274576/.

Unlike the known analogue, the claimed device contains a ring part (1), designed to be removably connected to the flange (5) and removably connected to the capsule socket (3). Such a solution will reduce the number of defects in the production of the declared device and, therefore, reduce the likelihood of using defective declared devices, which increases the safety of operation of the declared device, since a defective device may create a danger, for example, of accidental removal of the annular part (1) from flanging (5) and/or falling out of the capsule and/or breakdown of the claimed device during the preparation of a one-component drink, as a result of which a hot one-component drink may be poured from the body of the glass (9) onto the passenger and/or elements of the car interior. This solution increases the operational safety of the claimed device.

The operational safety of the claimed device is increased by eliminating the possibility of using the claimed device with a car coffee machine that does not correspond to the claimed device, for example, with a car coffee machine designed to prepare multi-component drinks, in which the upper capsule piercer is configured to pierce several capsules simultaneously, the location of which differs from location of the capsule in the claimed device. Supplying water to the upper capsule piercer of a car coffee machine (11), designed to prepare multi-ingredient drinks, will result in hot water splashing past the capsules and creating the danger of hot water splashing onto the user and the vehicle interior.

To eliminate such a danger, the claimed device contains a marking (11), which can be a barcode or a QR code, which is applied to the claimed device, for example, by painting and/or gluing or by any other application method. The marking (11) contains encoded information about the type of the claimed device, allowing the car coffee machine (10) to identify the claimed device as an element that can be used with the car coffee machine (10). The presence of markings (11) allows you to control the compatibility of the declared device and the car coffee machine (10). To read the markings (11), the car coffee machine contains a scanner (12). The automobile coffee machine is configured to receive and analyze information obtained from the marking (11) and make a decision about the possibility or impossibility of operating the automobile coffee machine (10) together with the proposed claimed device. Analysis of the marking (11) occurs, for example, using an electronic control unit of a car coffee machine, which is designed to analyze the information received from the marking (11) and send a command to the elements of the car coffee machine to prepare a single-component drink or block the process of preparing a single-component drink. The marking (11) can be applied to any place of the claimed device with the ability to read the marking (11) by a scanner (12). This solution increases the operational safety of the claimed device.

The claimed device contains a cover of the annular part (13), configured to be installed on the annular part (1) and containing an annular protrusion (14). Installing the cover of the annular part (13), covering the annular part (1) with the capsule (7) and the capsule socket (3), and making an annular protrusion (14) included in the inner side surface of the cover of the annular part (13) in its lower part engagement with the lower surface of the flange (5), allows you to fix the flange (5) in the annular protrusion (14) and thereby prevent the cup body from falling out of the annular part during operation of the claimed device. This increases the safety of operation of the claimed device, since the fall of the glass body from the annular part will lead to the spilling of the hot drink located in the glass body and the hot drink getting on the passenger and the vehicle interior. The taper of the outer side surface of the annular part (1) and the execution of through slots on the side surface of the annular part cover (13) and its annular protrusion (14) uniformly around the circumference create conditions for elastic deflection of the side surface of the annular part cover (13) during installation of the cover. The holes, aligned with the drinking and air holes on the annular part, allow the drink to be consumed after installing the ring part cover (13).

The utility model operates as follows: the user installs the annular part (1) on the flange (5), inserts the capsule socket (3) into the annular part (1), inserts the capsule (7) into the capsule socket (3), and the capsule (7) is pierced by its lower part with a piercer (6). After this, the user places the claimed device into a car coffee machine (10), positioning the claimed device in such a way that the capsule placed in the claimed device is located under the upper piercer, which is an element of the car coffee machine. Next, the user presses the upper piercer using, for example, a lever. The user turns on the water supply. The car coffee machine (10), using a scanner (12), reads the markings (11), analyzes the information received and sends a command to the elements of the car coffee machine (10) to prepare a drink or blocks the process of preparing the drink. Using a water pump, water is supplied to the upper piercer, which is configured to drain water passing through the upper piercer into the capsules through the puncture. Water passes through the capsule (7) and from there, in the form of a one-component drink, flows into the body of the glass (9). After the inventive device is filled, the user moves the upper piercer away from the inventive device by lifting the lever and manually removes the inventive device with the drink. After removing the claimed device with a drink from a car coffee machine, the user installs the cover of the annular part (13) on the annular part (1) with the capsule (7) and the capsule socket (3), while aligning the holes on the cover of the annular part with the drinking holes on the annular part . Thanks to the slots made evenly around the circumference on the side surface of the annular part cover (13) and the annular protrusion (14), as well as the conical outer side surface of the annular part (1), the annular protrusion (14) when installing the annular part cover (13) is deflected and passes the annular part (1) inside the cover of the annular part (13). In this case, the annular protrusion (14) returns to its initial position under the action of elastic forces and engages with the lower surface of the flange (5), thereby ensuring the fixation of the connection of the flange (5) with the annular part (1). The drink is ready to drink through the drinking hole. After consuming the one-component drink, the user disposes of the claimed device.

Thus, the claimed utility model makes it possible to increase the safety of operation of the claimed device.

Claims (1)

Marked glass - an external holder of one capsule, equipped with a lid of the annular part, a system for the safe preparation of drinks, consisting of a side wall containing a flange and an annular shelf, inseparably connected to the inner part of the side wall and a piercer containing one piercing element and configured to pierce the lower part a capsule placed in the capsule socket; a bottom inseparably connected to the side wall; an annular part containing holes for drinking and configured to connect with the flange; a capsule socket configured to connect to the annular part and configured to accommodate one capsule, containing markings capable of being read by a scanner of an automobile coffee machine, characterized in that it contains a removable annular part; a cover of the annular part containing holes aligned with drinking holes on the annular part, covering the annular part with a capsule and a capsule socket, containing an annular protrusion on the inner side surface in the lower part, engaging with the lower surface of the flange, while the outer side surface is annular The part has a taper, and on the side surface of the cover of the annular part and its annular protrusion, through slots are made evenly around the circumference.