TWI789273B - coffee bean cooler - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention is a coffee bean cooling device, which includes a main casing, an air-conditioning assembly, a carrying tray and a pouring mechanism. A cooling space is formed inside the main casing and has a bean outlet. The air-conditioning component is arranged on the main casing, communicates with the cooling space, and includes a cooling chip and an internal fan. The cooling chip has a cold side and a hot side opposite to each other. The inner fan is arranged on the cold surface and blows air toward the cooling space. The carrying plate is arranged in the main casing, and is located between the cooling space and the bean outlet. The dumping mechanism is connected to the carrier plate, and selectively dumps the carrier plate so as to connect or block the bean outlet and the cooling space. This creation can place the roasted coffee beans in the cooling space and blow cold air directly on the coffee beans, so as to improve the cooling efficiency of the coffee beans.

Description

coffee bean cooler

The invention relates to a food processing device, especially a coffee bean cooling device used for cooling coffee beans after roasting.

Coffee beans need to be cooled by coffee bean cooling device after roasting. The coffee bean cooling device in the prior art is a pot with a stirring rod in the center. When in use, the roasted coffee beans are placed in the pot, and the stirring rod is started to stir the coffee beans to achieve cooling coffee. bean purpose.

However, the coffee bean cooling device in the prior art can only allow the outermost coffee beans to come into contact with the air for cooling, and its cooling efficiency is low. Moreover, although there is a stirring rod to stir the coffee beans, there is no way to ensure that all the coffee beans will be completely stirred to the surface, resulting in uneven cooling temperature of the coffee beans, which cannot achieve better quality control.

In view of the above-mentioned shortcomings and deficiencies of the prior art, this creation provides a coffee bean cooling device, which makes all the coffee beans come into contact with the cold air through the cooling chip and the airflow direction, and uses the negative pressure space to extract the hot air to accelerate the coffee. The beans are cooled to quickly lock the flavor, which can improve the cooling efficiency of the coffee beans and make the temperature of the coffee beans uniform.

In order to achieve the above creative purpose, the technical means used in this creation is to design a coffee bean cooling device, which includes: A main casing, which forms a cooling space inside and has a bean outlet; A cold air assembly, which is arranged on the main casing and communicates with the cooling space; the air cold assembly includes A cold chip having opposite cold and hot faces; An internal fan, which is arranged on the cold surface and blows air toward the cooling space; a carrying plate, which is arranged in the main casing and located between the cooling space and the bean outlet; A dumping mechanism, which is connected to the carrier plate, and selectively dumps the carrier plate so as to connect or block the bean outlet and the cooling space.

The advantage of this creation is that the air-conditioning unit is arranged on the main casing and communicates with the cooling space, and the inner fan of the air-conditioning unit is arranged on the cold surface of the cooling wafer and blows air toward the cooling space. This invention can release the roasted coffee beans Place it in a cooling space and blow cold air directly on the coffee beans to improve the cooling efficiency of the coffee beans.

The air outlet is located under the carrier tray and communicates with the cooling space through the bottom cooling hole and is connected to the air extraction device. This way, the hot air can be drawn out from below to form a negative pressure effect so that the cold air can be sucked between the coffee beans, improving the cooling efficiency.

The thermometer is mainly in contact with the carrying plate with multiple bottom cooling holes to sense the temperature of the entire surface, and when the temperature is lower than the set value, the power device is turned on to drive the dumping mechanism to make the carrying plate tilt to a set angle and the beans are directly discharged from the bean outlet .

Furthermore, in the coffee bean cooling device, the main housing has an air intake; the air intake communicates with the cooling space and is used to connect with an air exhaust device.

Further, in the coffee bean cooling device, a plurality of bottom heat dissipation holes are formed on the carrier plate; the air intake is located under the carrier plate and communicates with the cooling space through the bottom heat dissipation holes.

Furthermore, in the coffee bean cooling device, a plurality of side cooling holes are formed on the lateral side wall of the main casing.

Further, in the above coffee bean cooling device, wherein, the air-conditioning unit includes a cooling fin, which is arranged on the cold surface of the cooling chip; the internal fan is arranged on the cooling fin, and by The cooling fins are arranged on the cold surface.

Furthermore, in the coffee bean cooling device, the air-conditioning unit includes a heat radiation fin disposed on the heat surface of the cooling chip; an external fan disposed on the heat radiation fin.

Furthermore, in the coffee bean cooling device, the coffee bean cooling device includes a thermometer, which is arranged on the bottom surface of the supporting plate.

The technical means adopted by this creation to achieve the predetermined creation purpose are further described below in conjunction with the drawings and the preferred embodiments of this creation.

Please refer to Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 5, the coffee bean cooling device of the present invention comprises a main housing 10, an air-conditioning assembly 20, a carrier plate 30, a dumping mechanism 40 and a thermometer in this embodiment 50.

Please refer to FIG. 2 , FIG. 3 , FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 , a cooling space 11 is formed inside the main casing 10 and has a bean outlet 12 and an air outlet 13 . The air exhaust port 13 communicates with the cooling space 11 and is used for connecting with an air exhaust device (not shown in the figure). Specifically, the exhaust device may be an external exhaust fan connected to the air outlet 13 via an air pipe, or a fan directly arranged on the air outlet 13 . Preferably, the air intake 13 is formed at the bottom of the main housing 10, and the cooling air assembly 20 is arranged on the top, so that the cooling space 11 can be drawn from below to form a cold air flow to take away the air in the cooling space 11 faster. heat. In addition, in this embodiment, a plurality of side cooling holes 14 are formed on the lateral side wall of the main housing 10 to increase air intake and improve cooling efficiency.

Please refer to FIG. 2 , FIG. 3 , FIG. 4 and FIG. 7 , the cooling unit 20 is disposed on the main casing 10 and communicates with the cooling space 11 . The cooling unit 20 includes a cooling chip 21 , a cooling fin 22 , a heat dissipation fin 23 , an inner fan 24 and an outer fan 25 . The cooling chip 21 has a cold surface and a hot surface opposite to each other. The cooling fins 22 are disposed on the cold surface of the cooling chip 21 . The heat dissipating fins 23 are disposed on the thermal surface of the cooling chip 21 . The inner fan 24 is disposed on the cold surface and blows air toward the cooling space 11 . Specifically, the inner fan 24 is adapted to be disposed on the cooling fins 22 , and is disposed on the cold surface through the cooling fins 22 . The external fan 25 is disposed on the heat dissipation fins 23 . The specific structure of the cooling unit 20 is not limited to the above, and only the cooling chip 21 and the inner fan 24 may be directly arranged on the cooling surface. In addition, in this embodiment, two air-cooling assemblies 20 are used in parallel, but in other embodiments, the number of air-cooling assemblies 20 may be one or more.

Please refer to FIG. 2 , FIG. 3 , FIG. 5 and FIG. 7 , the carrier plate 30 is disposed in the main housing 10 and located between the cooling space 11 and the bean outlet 12 . In this embodiment, a plurality of bottom cooling holes 31 are formed on the carrier plate 30 , and the air outlet 13 of the main housing 10 is located below the carrier plate 30 and communicates with the cooling space 11 through the bottom cooling holes 31 .

The dumping mechanism 40 is connected to the carrier tray 30 , and selectively dumps the carrier tray 30 so as to connect or block the bean outlet 12 and the cooling space 11 . Specifically, when the carrier tray 30 is filled with coffee beans for cooling, the carrier tray 30 is placed flat and the coffee beans cannot pass through the bean outlet 12 to leave the main housing 10; and after the cooling is completed, the dumping mechanism 40 dumps the carrier tray 30 The coffee beans on it are poured to the bean outlet 12 and discharged from the main housing 10 . The dumping mechanism 40 can be automated with a motor and a control unit to dump the carrier tray 30 , or it can be a linkage or other mechanical mechanism manually operated by humans.

The thermometer 50 is arranged on the bottom surface of the supporting plate 30, thereby most directly measuring the temperature of the air flowing through the coffee beans from top to bottom, so as to judge the temperature of the coffee beans most accurately.

Please refer to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 , when in use, the roasted coffee beans are first introduced into the cooling space 11 of the main casing 10 and placed on the carrier plate 30 . Then start the air-conditioning assembly 20, and the internal fan 24 blows the cold air of the cold surface of the cooling wafer 21 into the cooling space 11 through the cooling fins 22; Heat away from the hot side of the cold wafer 21 . Subsequently, the air exhaust device connected to the air exhaust port 13 of the main housing 10 is activated, and the cooling space 11 is exhausted from below the carrier plate 30 through the bottom cooling holes 31 . In this way, the overall air flow direction is that the cold air blown by the inner fan 24 and the air taken in by the side radiating holes 14 are drawn downward, passing between the coffee beans to take away the heat of the coffee beans, and passing through the thermometer 50 to measure the temperature, and finally Expelled from the suction port. Finally, when the temperature reaches the standard, the dumping mechanism 40 dumps the carrier tray 30 and pours the coffee beans thereon to the bean outlet 12 to be discharged from the main casing 10 .

The advantage of this invention is that the air-cooling assembly 20 is arranged on the main housing 10 and communicates with the cooling space 11, and the inner fan 24 of the air-conditioning assembly 20 is arranged on the cold surface of the cooling chip 21 and blows air towards the cooling space 11. The roasted coffee beans can be placed in the cooling space 11 and the cold air is directly blown towards the coffee beans, so as to improve the cooling efficiency of the coffee beans.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of this creation, and does not impose any formal restrictions on this creation. Although this creation has been disclosed as above with a preferred embodiment, it is not used to limit this creation. Anyone in the technical field has Ordinary knowledgeable persons, without departing from the scope of this creative technical solution, may use the technical content disclosed above to make some changes or modify them into equivalent embodiments with equivalent changes. However, any content that does not deviate from this creative technical solution, according to The technical essence of the creation Any simple modification, equivalent change and modification made to the above embodiments still belong to the scope of the technical solution of the creation.

10: Main shell 11: cooling space 12: Bean outlet 13: Vent 14: Side cooling holes 20: Air-conditioning components 21: cooling chip 22: Cooling fins 23: thermal fins 24: Internal fan 25: External fan 30: carrying plate 31: Bottom cooling hole 40: dumping mechanism 50: Thermometer

Fig. 1 is the three-dimensional appearance diagram of this creation. Figure 2 is an exploded view of the components of this creation. Fig. 3 is an exploded view of components from another angle of this creation. Figure 4 is an exploded view of the air-conditioning assembly of this invention. Fig. 5 is the combined diagram of the carrying plate, dumping mechanism and thermometer of this creation. Fig. 6 is the three-dimensional appearance diagram of the looking up angle of this creation. Fig. 7 is the side view sectional view of this creation. Fig. 8 is the action schematic diagram of this creation.

10: Main shell

11: cooling space

12: Bean outlet

13: Vent

14: Side cooling holes

20: Air-conditioning components

21: cooling chip

22: Cooling fins

23: thermal fins

24: Internal fan

25: External fan

30: carrying plate

40: dumping mechanism

50: Thermometer

Claims (7)

A coffee bean cooling device comprising A main casing, which forms a cooling space inside and has a bean outlet; A cold air assembly, which is arranged on the main casing and communicates with the cooling space; the air cold assembly includes A cold chip having opposite cold and hot faces; An internal fan, which is arranged on the cold surface and blows air towards the cooling space; a carrying plate, which is arranged in the main casing and located between the cooling space and the bean outlet; A dumping mechanism, which is connected to the carrier plate, and selectively dumps the carrier plate so as to connect or block the bean outlet and the cooling space. The coffee bean cooling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main housing has an air intake; the air intake is connected to the cooling space and is used to connect to an air exhaust device. The coffee bean cooling device as described in claim 2, wherein, A plurality of bottom cooling holes are formed on the carrier plate; The air intake is located under the carrier plate and communicates with the cooling space through the bottom cooling holes. The coffee bean cooling device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a plurality of side cooling holes are formed on the lateral side wall of the main casing. The coffee bean cooling device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein, The air conditioner package contains a cooling fin disposed on the cold surface of the cooling chip; The internal fan is arranged on the cooling fins, and is arranged on the cold surface through the cooling fins. The coffee bean cooling device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein, The air conditioner package contains a heat dissipating fin disposed on the thermal surface of the cooling chip; An external fan is arranged on the heat radiation fin. The coffee bean cooling device as described in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the coffee bean cooling device includes A thermometer is arranged on the bottom surface of the carrier plate.

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