JPH036260Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] This invention relates to a beverage liquid supply device that selectively supplies beverage liquids such as tea and coffee.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems] For example, a tea dispensing device is equipped with a hot water storage tank and a tea leaf supply device, and a certain amount of hot water is supplied from the hot water storage tank to a tea infusion device, and a predetermined amount of hot water is supplied from the tea leaf supply device. Tea leaves are fed into a tea brewer, and a drinking tea liquid is discharged. However, this tea supply device could not fully meet the needs of users because it could only supply tea. For this reason, for example, a beverage supply device that can meet the user's needs by integrating a tea supply device and a coffee supply device is conceivable.
By the way, a coffee supply device requires a hot water storage tank, a coffee powder supply device, and a mixer for mixing hot water and coffee powder. Therefore, when a tea supply device and a coffee supply device are integrated, a hot water storage tank can be used in common. By the way, in products that use hot water, steam is generated, so it is necessary to protect the tea leaves and coffee powder from moisture. For this reason, an exhaust pipe is provided between the installation part of the tea brewer and the installation part of the coffee mixer, and an exhaust fan motor is installed in the exhaust chamber. It is conceivable to exhaust the steam from the brewer and the steam from the mixer to the outside. However, since tea leaves are relatively large, they will not be sucked into the exhaust pipe, but coffee powder has fine particles, so it will be sucked into the exhaust pipe and adhere to the fan motor, causing premature failure of the fan motor. This causes problems such as powder being discharged outside.

[Purpose of the invention] This invention was made in view of the above circumstances.In a system that uses a common hot water storage tank to selectively supply beverages made from tea and powdered raw materials, Prevent the powder from coming out,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a beverage liquid supply device that can be reliably supplied without causing problems such as adhesion to a fan motor.

[Summary of the invention] This invention involves supplying a fixed amount of hot water from a hot water storage tank and a predetermined amount of tea leaves from a tea leaf feeder to a brewer to discharge a drinking tea liquid, and a fixed amount of hot water from a hot water storage tank. In a device that selectively supplies a predetermined amount of beverage powder from a powder raw material feeder to a mixer and discharges the beverage liquid, the exhaust fan motor operates to discharge the beverage powder from the tea infusion device installation part. Exhaust is carried out directly through the pipe and fan motor,
In addition, the powdered beverage liquid is evacuated from the mixer installation part through a pipe, a filter, and a fan motor, thereby preventing the powder from being discharged to the outside or adhering to the fan motor.

[Embodiments of the invention] Examples of the invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the figure, 1 is a main body case, and a hot water storage tank 2, a tea leaf feeder 3, a coffee powder feeder 4 as a powder raw material feeder, and a systank 5 are provided at the upper part of the main body case 1, respectively. The tea leaf feeder 3 is provided with a tea leaf supply port 6 at its lower end, and a tea leaf discharge mechanism 7 is housed inside the supply port 6. This discharge mechanism 7 is configured to discharge a predetermined amount of tea leaves contained in the recess by rotating a rotating body 7a having a recess formed in the upper part. A tea brewer 8 is provided below the supply port 6 of the tea leaf feeder 3. The coffee powder supply device 4
A coffee powder supply port 9 is provided at the lower end, and a predetermined amount of powder is discharged by a powder delivery mechanism housed inside. A mixer 1 is provided below the supply port 9 of the coffee powder supply device 4.
0 is set. The hot water storage tank 2 is provided with solenoid valves 11 and 12 on its side, and a certain amount of hot water is sprinkled onto the brewer 8 like a shower through the solenoid valve 11 and pipe 13 on one side, and the hot water on the other side is sprayed like a shower. A fixed amount of hot water is supplied to the mixer 10 via a solenoid valve 12 and a pipe 14. The system tank 5 is used to adjust the amount of water in the hot water storage tank 2, and is provided with a water amount detection mechanism 15 consisting of a float and a micro switch, and a pipe 1 is connected between the lower end of the system tank 5 and the lower end of the hot water storage tank 2.
6 and communicates with an external water facility (not shown) via a solenoid valve 17. An installation opening 19 for a cup 18 is formed below the tea infusion device 8, and the beverage tea liquid brewed in the tea infusion device 8 is discharged into the cup 18 installed in the installation opening 19. There is. A used tea container 20 is provided behind the installation port 19. The mixer 1
The beverage liquid mixed at 0 is discharged into the cup 18 of the installation port 19 through the pipe 21. Further below the installation port 19, a drain tray 22 is housed over the front surface of the case 1. An exhaust mechanism 23 is provided inside the lower side of the main body case 1 . This exhaust mechanism 23 forms a room 25 in which an exhaust port 24 is provided by covering the same surface as the case 1 with a net or the like.
A fan motor 26 is provided on the side of the exhaust port 24, and a filter 27 is provided upright behind the fan motor 26 so as to divide the room 25. Of the rooms divided by the filter 27, an intake port 28 is provided in the front room where the fan motor 26 is provided, and an intake port 29 is provided in the rear room. A first exhaust pipe 30 is provided between the intake port 29 and the installation part of the mixer 10 to communicate the two, and a second exhaust pipe 30 is provided between the intake port 28 and the installation part of the decoction device 8. An exhaust pipe 31 is provided to communicate the two.

As shown in FIG. 2, the pipe 33 that communicates the electromagnetic valve 17 of the systank 5 with the water facility is constructed by passing the pipe 33a on the systank 5 side through a fixing plate 34 fixed to the case 1, and attaching a hexagonal nut 35 to the tip of the pipe 33a. A male part 35a is attached. Said pipe 33a
A flange is formed at the tip of the nut 35 to prevent the nut 35 from coming off. Also, pipe 3 on the water facility side
A female part 35b of a hexagonal nut 35 is attached to the tip of 3b. And the female part 35b is attached to the male part 35a.
are screwed together with a gasket 36 in between. The selection of whether to obtain a tea beverage liquid through the brewer 8 or a coffee beverage liquid through the mixer 10 is made by a selection switch (not shown) provided outside the case 1. I have to.

In the apparatus of the present invention having such a configuration, when tea is selected with the selection switch, the rotary body 7a of the discharge mechanism 7 rotates once to supply a predetermined amount of tea leaves to the tea brewer 8, and the solenoid valve 11 is opened for a certain period of time and a certain amount of hot water is supplied to the tea brewer 8. As a result, tea is supplied to the cup 18.
When coffee is selected with the selection switch, the delivery mechanism of the coffee powder supply device 4 operates to supply a predetermined amount of coffee powder to the mixer 10, and the solenoid valve 12 opens to supply a predetermined amount of hot water to the mixer 10. The coffee beverage liquid obtained by mixing in the mixer 10 is supplied to the cup 18 via a pipe 21. In this way, tea and coffee can be selectively supplied by operating the selection switch.

Further, the steam generated in the installation part of the tea brewer 8 by the operation of the fan motor 26 is transferred to the second exhaust pipe 3.
1 into the room 25 from the intake port 28 and discharged to the outside from the exhaust port 24. On the other hand, steam generated in the installation part of the mixer 10 is sent into the room 25 from the intake port 29 via the first exhaust pipe 30. At this time, the steam is further passed through filter 2.
7 and is then discharged to the outside through the exhaust port 24. Therefore, even if coffee powder is sucked in along with the steam, the coffee powder is stopped by the filter 27, so that the coffee powder will not adhere to the fan motor 26 or be discharged to the outside from the exhaust port 24. Therefore, only steam is released from the exhaust port 24. In this way, exhaust air is reliably performed and moisture inside the main body case 1 is reliably prevented.

Furthermore, the pipe 33 is connected to the pipe 33a and the pipe 3
Pipe 3 is constructed by connecting with pipe 3b.
The male part 35a of the hexagonal nut 35 is inserted into the tip of the pipe 33a with a flange provided at the tip of the pipe 33a to prevent it from coming off, and the female part 35b of the hexagonal nut 35 is attached to the tip of the pipe 33b.
Since the female part 35b is screwed and connected to the hexagonal nut 35 through the gasket 36 in between, the hexagonal nut 35 does not come into direct contact with water, and there is no need to particularly consider measures against contact with water. . It also simplifies the configuration.

In the above embodiments, coffee powder was used as the powder raw material, but it is needless to say that the invention is not limited to this.

[Effects of the invention] As detailed above, according to this invention, in a system that uses a common hot water storage tank to selectively supply beverage liquids using tea and powder raw materials, powder may not adhere to the fan motor, To provide a beverage supply device that can exhaust air without releasing it to the outside and can reliably prevent moisture.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing an embodiment of this invention.
FIG. 2 is a partially enlarged view showing the connection structure of the pipe with the water supply facility in the same embodiment. 1... Body case, 2... Hot water tank, 3...
Tea leaf feeder, 4...Coffee powder feeder, 8...
Tea brewer, 10... Mixer, 11, 12... Solenoid valve, 23... Exhaust mechanism, 26... Fan motor,
27... Filter, 30... First exhaust pipe,
31...Second exhaust pipe.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] a hot water storage tank, a tea leaf supply device, and a tea infusion device which supplies a predetermined amount of tea leaves from the tea leaf supply device and discharges a beverage tea liquid by supplying a predetermined amount of hot water from the hot water storage tank by operating a selection switch. , by operating a powder raw material supply device and the selection switch, a predetermined amount of powder raw material is supplied from the powder raw material supply device, and a fixed amount of hot water is also supplied from the hot water storage tank, which is mixed and a drinking liquid is discharged. an exhaust mechanism comprising: a mixer for discharging air; an exhaust fan motor provided near the exhaust port; a filter provided as a room partition plate behind the fan motor; and an intake port provided in each room divided through the filter. and a first exhaust pipe that communicates the air intake port provided in the room behind the filter with the installation part of the mixer among the rooms divided by the filter, and the air intake provided in the room in front of the filter. A beverage supply device characterized by comprising a second exhaust pipe communicating between the mouth and the installation part of the tea infusion device.