WO2009074652A1 - Machine à café automatique à capsules et équipée d'un magasin de capsules - Google Patents

Machine à café automatique à capsules et équipée d'un magasin de capsules Download PDF

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WO2009074652A1
WO2009074652A1 PCT/EP2008/067338 EP2008067338W WO2009074652A1 WO 2009074652 A1 WO2009074652 A1 WO 2009074652A1 EP 2008067338 W EP2008067338 W EP 2008067338W WO 2009074652 A1 WO2009074652 A1 WO 2009074652A1
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Alessio Peroni
Giorgio Peroni
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Gpe Vendors S.R.L.
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
    • A47J31/00—Apparatus for making beverages
    • A47J31/24—Coffee-making apparatus in which hot water is passed through the filter under pressure, i.e. in which the coffee grounds are extracted under pressure
    • A47J31/34—Coffee-making apparatus in which hot water is passed through the filter under pressure, i.e. in which the coffee grounds are extracted under pressure with hot water under liquid pressure
    • A47J31/36—Coffee-making apparatus in which hot water is passed through the filter under pressure, i.e. in which the coffee grounds are extracted under pressure with hot water under liquid pressure with mechanical pressure-producing means
    • A47J31/3604—Coffee-making apparatus in which hot water is passed through the filter under pressure, i.e. in which the coffee grounds are extracted under pressure with hot water under liquid pressure with mechanical pressure-producing means with a mechanism arranged to move the brewing chamber between loading, infusing and ejecting stations
    • A47J31/3623—Cartridges being employed
    • A47J31/3642—Cartridge magazines therefor

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  • the present invention refers to the production and the automatic public delivering of drinks and refers to an automatic machine supplied with coffee capsules and refers to a magazine for such capsules, especially suitable for the automatic distribution of coffee, of other similar drinks, of infusions or soluble drinks.
  • a disadvantage of these known machines consists in that they require laborious charging operations which take a long time, a considerable ability and attention by the operator.
  • Some of these known machines utilize magazines containing capsules and having tubular form with closed or sealed ends.
  • a disadvantage of these known magazines consists in that they must be manually opened and they require specific operations assigned to avoid the involuntary coming out and/or the fall of the capsules.
  • Additional disadvantage consists in that to distinguish the full magazine from those empty or partially empty, placed in the machine, it is necessary to extract said magazines from such machine for a direct inspection of their possible content.
  • An aim of the present invention is to propose a machine in which it is possible to insert the full magazines in a very simple and fast way, also by inexpert personnel, almost without risks of errors.
  • Additional aim is to propose a machine fit to open automatically the predisposed magazines.
  • Another aim is to propose a safe magazine and predisposed for the automatic opening.
  • Additional aim is to propose a machine that allows to immediately distinguish the full magazines from those empty or partially empty.
  • Another aim is to propose a magazine almost free from the contaminating risk of the capsules also during the charging.
  • Additional aim is to propose a machine and a magazine fit to maintain protected the capsules until the use by the machine of the respective magazine.
  • figure 1 illustrates a schematic and lateral view of the automatic coffee machine with capsules, object of the present invention, in which some parts have been removed to better illustrate other;
  • figure 2 illustrates a sectional view according to the plane II - II of the machine portion of figure 1;
  • figure 3 illustrates the machine portion of figure 1 seen by the opposite side;
  • figure 4 illustrates a plan view of the machine portion of figure 1 ;
  • figures 5 - 7 illustrate partial views, from the bottom and axonometric of the device in a sequence of magazine opening phases;
  • figure 8 illustrates a further side view of the machine portion of figure 1 ;
  • figure 9 illustrates a partial view of the machine of figure 1 associated to the magazine for capsules object of the present invention, sectioned by a vertical plane;
  • figure 10 illustrates a bottom axonometric view of the machine portion of figure 1;
  • figures 11 - 13 illustrate views respectively axonometric, lateral and in plan of a first plug of the magazine for capsule
  • numeral 1 indicates the automatic coffee machine with capsules, object of the present invention, and with 100 the magazine for capsules, object of the present invention too.
  • the magazine 100 can have any elongate prismatic shape, but preferably is cylindrical shaped and presents a first terminal plug 101 that in collaboration with a second terminal plug 150 closes the ends of the tubular cylindrical body of the magazine, containing the capsules 200.
  • each magazine 100 has transverse dimension, that is external diameter, slightly higher than the maximum external diameter of the respective first terminal plug 101.
  • the first terminal plug 101 is removable to allow, in an operative condition of the machine and of correct positioning of the magazine in it, the passage of each capsule 200 from the tubular body of the magazine 100 to transfer means 60 that push such capsule in an infusion chamber 61 for the coffee delivering.
  • the machine 1 includes opening means 2 provided with a mobile arm 3 shaped in metal sheet and provided with a seat 6. Said arm 3 is operated by actuator means 4 and its seat 6 is assigned to engage itself in an axial protrusion 102 of the first terminal plug 101, said axial protrusion 102 having approximately complementary shape to that of the seat 6, for example in the shape of mushroom.
  • the machine includes moving means 7 provided with a plurality of housings 8 each one for one magazine 100 and assigned to move the closed and full magazines up to the opening means 2 and, in sequence, the full and opened magazines onto the transfer means 60.
  • the housings 8 consist in circular passing holes made on horizontal discs 14, 15 of the moving means 7 rotated around a vertical rotation axis in the operative condition.
  • the diameter of the holes of the housings 8 of the higher discs 14, that is more remote from the opening means 2 is slightly bigger than that of the magazines and the holes of the housings 8 of the lower disc 15, that is closer to the opening means 2, have diameter comprised between that of the magazine tubular body 100 and that maximum of the first terminal plug 101 in order to let pass downwards the first plug avoiding the falling of the magazine body.
  • the seat 6 is obtained by partial cutting up and fold of a terminal portion of the sheet of the arm which form an hanger means 20 parallel and opposed to the opened slot so obtained and that constitutes this seat.
  • Said open slot of the seat 6 is slightly elongated and is directed towards the approaching direction of first plugs 101 of magazines 100 moved by the moving means 7. Such arrangement and orientation of the seat 6 allows to obtain the engagement of the axial protrusion 102 in the open slot of said seat 6 because of the motion of the corresponding magazine.
  • the mobile arm 3 is connected, by a shelf means 10, to a movable member 9 of the actuator means 4 which are of linear type and translate such movable member 9 in a direction almost parallel to the longitudinal axis of the magazine that is parallel to the axial protrusion 102.
  • the shelf means 10 fixed to the movable member 9 and in an operative condition of the machine, has an end 11 protruded towards the seat 6 of the mobile arm 3; the opposite end 12 of the shelf means 10 has a rotation pin 13, perpendicular to the translation direction of the member 9 and to the connecting line of such direction with the longitudinal axis of the magazine 100 and of the axial protrusion 102.
  • the rotation pin 13 realizes the revolving connection of the intermediate portion of the mobile arm 3 to said shelf means 10 and is approximately orthogonal to the longitudinal development of such mobile arm 3.
  • the seat 6 is obtained at a first end of the mobile arm 3 whose opposite end presents match means 16 assigned to match with a stop means 17 during a portion of the translation of the shelf means 10 worked out by the actuator means 4.
  • Such match means 16 consist in the end of the mobile arm 3 opposite to the seat 6 and provided with a slot for an adjustable support 18 of the stop means 17.
  • the machine comprises counterweight means or preferably elastic means 19, for example a metallic helicoidal spring, associated to the arm 3 and assigned to apply to this latter a torque acting against the torque produced by the plug weight and by the capsules weigh acting on the same arm 3 immediately after the opening of the magazine 100.
  • counterweight means or preferably elastic means 19 for example a metallic helicoidal spring
  • the seat 6 includes a hanger means 20 assigned to support the free end of the axial protrusion 102 of the first terminal plug 101 immediately after the opening of the magazine 100.
  • the machine includes moreover a support means 21, for example in the shape of flat metallic plate, parallel and near to the lower face of the disc 15 closer to the opening means 2.
  • a support means 21 extends, in the direction of the magazines motion, among the opening means 2 and the transfer means 60.
  • a border of such support means 21 is assigned to match with an internal protrusion 103 of the first terminal plug 101 just unthread from the magazine following to a light advancing motion of the magazines 100.
  • the surface of the support means 21 comprised between the opening means 2 and the transfer means 60 acts as sliding plane for the lower capsule of the magazine in the passage of these latter in the opened condition up to the transfer means 60 in which the capsule can fall for gravitational effect.
  • the machine optionally comprises a supporting means 22 plate-shaped, parallel and near to the lower face of the disc 15 closer to the opening means 2 and immediately extended behind the transfer means 60, up to the opening means 2 as to the direction of the magazines motion.
  • Such supporting means 22 is assigned to slidingly support the free external end of the axial protrusion 102 of the first terminal plug 101 for maintaining the closed magazine 100 lifted in respect to those opened.
  • the support means 21 and the supporting means 22 can be made of a single plate provided with a passing hole for the first plug in front of the opening means 2 and provided with a passing hole of the capsules in front of the transfer means 60.
  • the actuator means 4 are of electric type and the movable member 9 comprises a threaded stem engaged in a female screw means 23 for the adjustable fixing of the shelf means 10.
  • the adjustable support 18 comprises a fixed threaded stem, engaged in female screw means of the stop means 17 for the positioning adjustment of these latter.
  • the moving means 7 are rotated by a respective motor controlled by control and activation means which controls also the actuator means 4 and the other members of the machine.
  • the control and activation means for example of programmable digital type and including a microprocessor and not volatile memories, can be also connected to members position, temperature, level, and/or flow sensors.
  • a possible operation provides, starting from an operative condition in which a closed magazine has been brought by the moving means 7 up to the opening means 2 and in which the axial protrusion 102 of the first terminal plug 101 of such magazine is engaged in the seat 6 of the arm 3, that the operating of the actuator means 4 causes the downwards translation, in two different and sequenced steps, of the movable member 9 and of the shelf means 10.
  • the first phase of downwards translation of the movable member 9 and of the shelf means 10 ends when the match means 16 of the mobile arm 3 match with the stop means 17 or just before such match.
  • the mobile arm 3 is prevented to rotate upwards by the end 11 of the shelf means 10 and unthreads the first plug 101 until disengage it from the magazine.
  • the spring 19 prevents that the weight of the plug and of the capsules cause the downwards rotation of the mobile arm with uncontrolled falling of the capsules.
  • the first plug 101, disengaged from the magazine is placed in a way so that its internal protrusion 103 protrudes above the support means 21 and above the disc 15 maintaining the capsules of the magazine above these two latter.
  • a small rotation of the moving means 7 in the advancing direction causes the overlapping of the magazine and of the respective capsules to the support means 21 which prevent the falling of these capsules in case of complete removal of the first plug.
  • the rotation of the moving means 7 carries the opened and full magazine and its capsules over the transfer means 60 making the machine fit to produce the coffee or other drinks.
  • the magazine is assigned to contain and to protect capsules 100 for the production of coffee or other drinks.
  • the magazine is provided with a tubular body, for example made in proofed carton, in coupled or plastic material, of elongated prismatic shape or preferably cylindrical shaped, to contain a plurality of capsules 100, for example of about frustoconical or cylindrical shape.
  • the ends of the magazine are closed by a first terminal plug 101, removable to allow the opening of the tubular body and the taking of the capsules, and from a second terminal plug 150 assigned, in combination with the first one 101, to close with pneumatic seal the magazine 100.
  • the magazine contains the capsules 200, for example in number of 25, in a modified atmosphere for the optimal preservation of the product of the capsules.
  • Such modified atmosphere is based on nitrogen, or on other gas having similar characteristics, with about the same pressure or slightly higher than that ambient.
  • the first terminal plug 101 has an axial protrusion 102, for example in shape of mushroom, protruding outwards of the magazine 100 and comprising a stem 104 whose free end has a head 105 of higher diameter than that of the stem.
  • an axial protrusion 102 for example in shape of mushroom, protruding outwards of the magazine 100 and comprising a stem 104 whose free end has a head 105 of higher diameter than that of the stem.
  • the first terminal plug 101 comprises a sealing surface 106 of a corresponding shape to that of the inside surface of the tubular body, for example of cylindrical shape, and assigned to the sealing fixing of the first terminal plug 101 entering inside an end of the same tubular body.
  • the first terminal plug 101 comprises an internal protrusion 103 protruding as to the sealing surface 106.
  • the inside surface of the tubular body, the sealing surface 106 and the internal protrusion 103 are of cylindrical shape and the diameter and the longitudinal dimension of the sealing surface 106 are respectively greater and lower to the diameter and to the longitudinal dimension of the internal protrusion 103.
  • the first terminal plug 101 comprises an annular element 107 sideways protruding and assigned to match with the border of an extremity of the tubular body.
  • the annular circular element 107 has an external diameter which is comprised between the external and the inner diameters of the cylindrical tubular body and furthermore has an introducing bevelling 108 of frustoconical shape and oriented towards the exterior of the tubular body.
  • the first terminal plug 101 and the second terminal plug 150 are made of plastic material or of elastomer and the second terminal plug 150 has form of small glass.
  • An advantage of the present invention is to supply a machine in which it is very simple and fast to insert the full magazines, also by inexpert personal, almost without risks of errors. Additional advantage is to propose a machine fit to automatically open the prearranged magazine.
  • Additional advantage is to propose a machine that allows to immediately distinguish the full magazines from those empty or partially empty.
  • Additional advantage is to propose a machine and a magazine fit to maintain protected the capsules until the moment of the use by the machine of the respective magazine.

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Abstract

L'invention porte sur une machine à café automatique qui utilise des capsules reçues dans au moins un magasin de forme prismatique allongée (100) ou, de préférence, de forme cylindrique, comportant au moins un premier obturateur terminal amovible (101) pour permettre, dans un état de positionnement du magasin dans la machine (1), le passage de chaque capsule (200) du magasin (100) à un moyen de transfert (60) qui amène la capsule dans une chambre d'infusion (61) pour la délivrance de café. Ladite machine (1) comprend des moyens d'ouverture (2) comportant au moins un bras mobile (3) actionné par des moyens d'actionnement (4) et comportant un siège (6) destiné à coopérer avec une saillie axiale (102) du premier obturateur terminal (101) et ayant une forme sensiblement complémentaire à celle du siège (6). Dans l'état de positionnement du magasin dans la machine (1) et de coopération de la saillie axiale (102) dans le siège (6), le bras mobile (3), du fait des moyens d'actionnement (4), écarte le premier obturateur (101) du magasin (100), de façon à l'ouvrir.
PCT/EP2008/067338 2007-12-12 2008-12-11 Machine à café automatique à capsules et équipée d'un magasin de capsules WO2009074652A1 (fr)

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EP2306417A1 (fr) * 2009-09-25 2011-04-06 F.A.S. International S.p.A. Chargeur de cartouche
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JP2021506423A (ja) * 2017-12-22 2021-02-22 ソシエテ・デ・プロデュイ・ネスレ・エス・アー 飲料ポーションディスペンサーのための交換可能カートリッジ

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EP1949833A1 (fr) * 2007-01-26 2008-07-30 DPS Techniek Dispositif pour le stockage de stimulant emballé dans du papier filtre

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JP2021506416A (ja) * 2017-12-22 2021-02-22 ソシエテ・デ・プロデュイ・ネスレ・エス・アー ポーション化飲料品を供給するためのポーションディスペンサー
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JP7305644B2 (ja) 2017-12-22 2023-07-10 ソシエテ・デ・プロデュイ・ネスレ・エス・アー ポーション化飲料品を供給するためのポーションディスペンサー
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