JP2559428Y2 - vending machine - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

[Industrial application field] The present invention is applied to regular coffee,
It relates to vending machines that sell regular tea in cups.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Along with the sophistication of tastes of users, there is a strong tendency toward real drinks provided by vending machines. For coffee drinks, coffee beans manufactured using ground beans are used. Prizes are extracted each time they are sold or those that are roasted with a mill and crushed and extracted as ground beans every time they are sold.For tea beverages, tea leaves are used directly. What is extracted each time it is sold has been well received.

[0003] Although the taste and aroma of beverages provided by this kind of conventional vending machine are very good, the drawback is that the time required for extraction is long, and the utilization rate is correspondingly reduced.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a vending machine which can provide a high quality regular beverage and can shorten the sales time.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a brewer for extracting a beverage from regular beverage ingredients, a storage tank for storing a concentrated beverage extracted from the brewer, and a storage tank for storing a concentrated beverage extracted from the brewer. It comprises a cooling tank for cooling the tank, and an instantaneous heater for heating the concentrated beverage carried out from the storage tank.

[0006]

In the present invention, a regular beverage ingredient, that is, coffee or black tea which is thicker than the leaves of ground beans or black tea, is extracted by a brewer prior to sale and temporarily stored in a storage tank cooled by a cooling tank. deep. When a sales request is made, the concentrated beverage is carried out from the storage tank in a fixed amount, heated instantly by an instantaneous heater, and added with hot water and other seasonings as appropriate, and poured into a cup.

[0007]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG.

In the figure, 1 is a water inlet valve, 2 is a hot water tank, and 3, 4, 5, and 6 are hot water valves provided in the hot water tank 2. 7 and 8 are coffee bean material boxes, 9 is a mill that uses coffee beans supplied from the coffee bean material boxes 7 and 8 as ground beans, and 10 is a ground bean supplied from the mill 9 through a hot water valve 3 and a hot water supply pipe 11. Coffee brewer for injecting supplied hot water to extract a coffee beverage, 12 and 13 are storage tanks for storing the concentrated coffee beverage generated by the coffee brewer 10, 14 is an instantaneous heater, 15 is a coffee mixing bowl, 16 is Mixing ball 15 connected to hot water valve 4
A hot water supply pipe 17 is opened at the bottom, and 17 is a pouring nozzle connected to the mixing ball 15. 18 is a box for tea leaves,
Reference numeral 19 denotes a black tea brewer for injecting hot water supplied from a hot water supply valve 20 through a hot water supply pipe 20 into a black tea leaf supplied from a black tea leaf raw material box 18 to extract a black tea beverage; A storage tank for storing a concentrated black tea beverage, 23 is an instantaneous heater, 24 is a black tea mixing ball,
Reference numeral 25 denotes a hot water supply pipe connected to the hot water valve 6 and opening to the mixing ball 24, and reference numeral 26 denotes a pouring nozzle connected to the mixing ball 24. Coffee storage tanks 12, 13,
The black tea storage tanks 21 and 22 are placed in a cooling tank 27, and the pouring nozzles 17 and 26 are open to a bend stage 28.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described. Prior to sale, a predetermined amount of a coffee beverage and a tea beverage are respectively stored in storage tanks. That is, for coffee beverages, coffee beans are supplied to the mill 9 from the coffee bean material box 7 or 8 to be ground beans, and coffee grounds are supplied by the ground beans and hot water supplied from the hot water valve 3 via the hot water supply pipe 11. At 10, the coffee beverage is extracted. The coffee beverage having this concentration is sent to the storage tanks 12 and 13, where it is temporarily stored. The coffee beverage having this concentration is cooled by a cooling tank at a concentration of 10 ° C. or less regulated by the Food Sanitation Law. Similarly, for tea, rich black tea is extracted by the tea brewer 19 and the storage tank 2
1 and 22 are stored in a cooled state.

Now, when the user operates the product selection button to select, for example, coffee, a certain amount of concentrated coffee beverage is sent from the storage tank 12 or 13 to the instant heater 14,
Instantly heated to make hot coffee beverages. This coffee drink is sent to the mixing ball 15 and the hot water valve 4
The coffee is mixed with hot water supplied through the hot water supply pipe 16 to produce coffee having an appropriate strength, and sugar, mix, etc. are added according to the user's preference. And is carried out to the bend stage 28. In this way, the time required for sale is substantially determined by the heating time in the instantaneous heater and the cooking time in the mixing bowl, and is reduced to about 10% of the conventional value.

In the above example, two coffee or tea storage tanks are provided, but the number is not limited to two. By using a plurality of storage tanks and selling them alternately, the storage period can be shortened and the sales can be made uniform. The replenishment to the storage tank may be performed each time the product is sold, or may be performed when the beverage in the storage tank drops below a certain amount. As the instantaneous heater, various types existing in the related art can be used. For example, it is advantageous to use an electromagnetic induction heating type. Note that, in the above example, an example of a combination of coffee and tea has been described, but exclusive use of coffee or tea is also possible.

[0012]

According to the present invention, since the extraction operation that is required the longest of the sales time is performed in advance before the sale, the sales time can be greatly reduced, and the extracted time can be reduced. The beverage is kept in a cool state, so the taste and aroma as a regular beverage do not decrease, and it is heated instantly immediately before selling, so that a hot beverage is always provided, and a soft beverage comes out and dissatisfaction of users Can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Water inlet valve 2 Hot water tank 3-6 Hot water valve 7, 8 Coffee raw material box 9 Coffee mill 10 Coffee brewer 11 Hot water pipe 12, 13 Storage tank 14 Instantaneous heater 15 Mixing ball 16 Hot water pipe 17 Discharge nozzle 18 Black tea Leaf material box 19 Black tea brewer 20 Hot water supply pipe 21, 22 Storage tank 23 Instantaneous heater 24 Mixing ball 25 Hot water supply pipe 26 Discharge nozzle 27 Cooling tank 28 Bend stage 29 cup

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A brewer for extracting a beverage from a regular beverage material, a storage tank for storing a concentrated beverage extracted from the brewer, a cooling tank for cooling the storage tank,
A vending machine comprising an instant heater for heating a concentrated beverage carried out from a storage tank.