JPH0126341Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] a. Industrial application field The present invention relates to an automatic tea dispenser, in particular, to prevent water droplets spilling from a tea strainer etc. from scattering outside the outlet body during hot water supply, water supply, and tea leaf exchange. The present invention relates to new improvements to achieve this.

b. Conventional technology Conventionally, the hot water outlet structure of an automatic tea dispenser that has been used is such that a water tray formed at the top of the outlet body receives hot water from a tea strainer, and It was supplied into a pot placed at the bottom of the outlet. Further, a tea leaf spillage tray is integrally and continuously formed on the side of the water tray,
Spilled tea leaves during exchange of tea leaves were received by this tea leaf spillage tray.

c. Problems to be solved by the invention However, in the above-mentioned conventional configuration, since the water tray is the only means to catch the hot water that falls through the tea strainer, the water that is not guided to the water tray is scattered. The hot water falls on top of the outlet other than the water tray, falls inside and outside the machine, and
There was rust and stains on the floor etc.

Additionally, when exchanging tea leaves, if the tea infuser is moved horizontally and rotated so that water droplets drip from the tea infuser, the water droplets falling from the tea infuser may fall inside and outside the machine. The particles were scattered, causing rust and staining the floor, etc., as described above.

d. Means for solving the problems The purpose of the present invention is to provide extremely effective means for quickly eliminating the above-mentioned drawbacks, and this invention is intended to achieve this purpose. The gist of the invention is that, in an automatic tea dispenser in which hot water in a hot tank is guided to an outlet body through a water supply valve and a tea strainer, the upper part of the outlet provided in the outlet body and the outlet A water receptacle formed on the upper surface of the upper part of the outlet, and a drainage guide part having a wall part provided at a position around the water receptacle at the upper part of the outlet, and the tea strainer is guided from the tea strainer to the water receptacle. The automatic tea dispenser is configured such that spilled hot water is received by the drainage guide part, and further, the drainage guide part has a drain hole formed therein, and is arranged at a position adjacent to the outlet body. It has a tea waste tank, and an end portion of the tea waste tank is arranged so as to be overlapped with the drain guide portion.

e Effect In the above-mentioned configuration, hot water that scatters outside the water tray when hot water is supplied and tea is dispensed from the tea strainer, and water droplets that fall outside the water tray when replacing tea leaves are scattered or fallen into the drainage guide section. The water is drained to the outside through the lower part of the outlet, and it is possible to prevent rust, dirt, etc. inside and outside the water supply machine.

f. Embodiments Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the automatic tea dispenser according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

In the drawings, reference numeral 1 indicates a main body that is generally box-shaped as a whole, and a hot tank 2 with a built-in heater (not shown) for storing hot water is provided at the top of the main body 1. At the same time, a tank lid 3a is provided on the front side 1a of the main body 1.
A tea leaf storage tank 3 and a tea leaf exchanging device 4 are provided, and the hot tank 2 is provided with a water supply nozzle 5.
A water supply valve 6 having a water supply valve 6 is installed.

The tea leaf exchanging device 4 is provided with a tea strainer 7 for holding tea leaves and receiving hot water from the water supply valve 6, a drive motor 10, a micro switch 1b, etc., which operate in conjunction with each other. The inside of the tea strainer 7 is configured so that hot water diffused by the water supply nozzle 5 is poured into the tea strainer 7.

A rotary tea leaf quantitative unit 8 is provided at the lower part of the tea leaf storage tank 3, and this tea leaf quantitative unit 8 is rotatably provided in a tea leaf grasping unit 9 having a cylindrical shape as a whole. Part 8 and tea strainer 7 are
Both are configured to be driven by a drive motor 10, and by operating the drive motor 10, the tea leaf metering section 8 is rotated, and the tea strainer 7 is moved from side to side. The operation of the tea leaf quantitative unit 8 and the tea strainer 7 is controlled by the micro switch 1.
b and a control circuit (not shown).

Furthermore, an open tea leaf supply port 12 is provided at the lower end of the tea leaf metering section 8 , and the tea leaves supplied from the tea leaf supply port 12 are accommodated in the tea strainer 7 .

At a lower position of the tea strainer 7, an outlet body 13 is provided on the front surface 1a of the main body 1 and for taking out hot water by a fixing means 13a. It is composed of an upper outlet 14 and a lower outlet 15. On the upper surface of the upper outlet 14, a water tray 16 and a tea leaf spill tray 17 are joined to each other and integrally formed.

The water tray 1 formed in the upper part of the outlet 14
6 and the tea leaf spillage tray 17 are shown in plan view as follows:
As shown in FIG. 3, a nozzle 16a is formed at the bottom of the water tray 16, and the spilled tea tray 17 is formed integrally with the water tray 16. Further, a groove-shaped drainage guide portion 18 having a required depth is formed around the water tray 16, as shown in FIG.
The outer peripheral part of this drainage guide part 18 is surrounded by a wall part 19 formed in an upright shape, and
A drainage hole 2 is provided at the sloping bottom of this drainage guide part 18.
0 is formed. Further, on the front side 1a of the main body 1, a tea waste tank 21 is removably disposed adjacent to the outlet body 13.

Next, a case will be described in which the automatic tea dispenser according to the present invention is operated in the above configuration.

By pressing an operation button (not shown), the drive motor 10 starts rotating, and the tea strainer 7 moves horizontally via the tea leaf exchanging device 4 to a position below the tea leaf supply port 12. Furthermore, the rotation of the drive motor 10 rotates the tea leaf quantitative unit 8 via a connection mechanism (not shown), and the tea leaves in the tea leaf storage tank 3 are supplied into the tea strainer 7 from the tea leaf supply port 12.

In the above state, when the tea supply button (not shown) is pressed, the water supply valve 6 opens and the hot water in the hot tank 2 is supplied from the water supply nozzle 5 into the tea strainer 7, and the hot water that has passed through the tea strainer 7 is used to make tea. The water is then supplied through the water tray 16 into a pot (not shown) provided at the lower part 15 of the outlet.

In the above-mentioned state, even if some of the tea falling from the tea strainer 7 scatters outside the water tray 16, it is guided into the drainage guide section 18 and drains through the gently sloping bottom and drainage hole 20. The water is then drained to the outside from the lower part 15 of the outlet via a drainage system (not shown).

When hot water passes through the tea strainer 7 for a certain period of time, the usage time is counted by a control circuit (not shown), and the tea strainer 7 is automatically moved and turned over to transfer the used tea leaves to the tea strainer 7. The operation of discarding the tea leaves into the waste tank 21 is performed, but since the tea leaves in the tea strainer 7 still contain sufficient moisture even when the tea strainer 7 moves and turns over, the water droplets that fall from the tea strainer 7 are All of the water does not fit into the water tray 16, and the water tray 1
The water is guided into a drainage guide portion 18 formed around the drain hole 6, and is drained to the outside through a gently sloping bottom portion and a drainage hole 20, and then from the outlet lower part 15 through a drainage system (not shown).

Furthermore, water droplets that fall when the tea strainer 7 is moved and reversed are removed from the upper end 21a of the tea waste tank 21.
However, in the upper part of the drainage guide part 18, the upper end 21a is overlapped with the drainage guide part 18, that is, the upper end 21a is overlapped with the drainage guide part 18 in the upper part of the drainage guide part 18.
Because it protrudes inward from the wall 19 of the
The water falls inside the wall portion 19 and is drained to the outside via the drainage guide portion 18.

Further, the tea leaves supplied from the tea leaf quantitative unit 8 are
Almost all of the tea leaves enter the tea strainer 7, and the tea leaves quantitatively pass through the tea strainer 7.
If the tea leaves are bitten, please use the spilled tea tray 1.
7, but a very small amount of tea leaves falling inside the wall portion 19 can be received within the drainage guide portion 18.

Note that the above-described drainage guide section 18 is not limited to the shape and structure shown in this embodiment, but the same effect can be obtained even if the shape is slightly modified.

g. Effects of the invention Since the automatic tea dispenser according to the invention has the above-mentioned configuration and function, all the water droplets that fall when the tea strainer is moved and reversed are collected by the water tray and the drainage guide part. This prevents water droplets from spilling inside and outside the machine.
It is possible to effectively prevent the occurrence of rust inside and outside the machine and stains on the floor.

Furthermore, the drainage guide section can extremely effectively prevent the scattering of hot water and spillage of tea leaves.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings are for illustrating a preferred embodiment of the automatic tea dispenser according to the present invention. Figure 1 is a front view showing the overall configuration, and Figure 2 is a left side view of Figure 1 with the tea waste tank removed. 3 is an enlarged plan view of the main part in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line A--A in FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 is a front view of FIG. 3. 1 is the main body, 2 is a hot tank, 3 is a tea leaf storage tank, 4 is a tea leaf exchanging device, 5 is a water supply nozzle, 6 is a water supply valve, 7 is a tea strainer, 8 is a tea leaf quantitative unit, 13 is an outlet body, 14 is an extractor. The upper part of the outlet, 15 is the lower part of the outlet,
16 is a water tray, 17 is a spilled tea leaf tray, 18 is a drainage guide portion, 19 is a wall portion, 20 is a drainage hole, and 21 is a tea waste tank.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] (1) In an automatic tea dispenser in which hot water in a hot tank 2 is guided to an outlet body 13 via a water supply valve 6 and a tea strainer 7, a water receptacle 16 formed on the upper surface of the receptacle upper part 14; and a drainage guide section 18 having a wall section 19 provided around the water receptacle 16 in the upper receptacle 14; An automatic tea dispenser characterized in that it is configured such that spilled hot water guided from the tea strainer 7 to the water tray 16 is received by the drainage guide section 18. (2) The automatic tea dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the drainage guide portion 18 has a drainage hole 20 formed therein. (3) A tea waste tank 21 is provided at a position adjacent to the outlet body 13, and the tea waste tank 21
2. The automatic tea dispenser according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the upper end 21a of the drain guide portion 18 is arranged so as to overlap with the drain guide portion 18. (4) The automatic tea dispenser according to claim 1, wherein a spilled tea tray 17 is formed on the side of the water tray 16 of the upper portion of the outlet 14.