Background
The conventional beverage dispenser, as described in taiwan patent application M563262, comprises a cup dropping machine, an ice maker, a fructose machine, a plurality of containers, a first transmission module, a second transmission module, and a sealing machine, and particularly, the cup dropping machine and the sealing machine are integrated on thebeverage dispenser 1 to achieve full automation of beverage making.
The cup falling machine is provided with a plurality of cups, the ice maker is provided with ice making and outputting devices, the fructose machine is provided with fructose, each container is provided with a beverage, the first transmission module is arranged below the cup falling machine, the ice maker and the fructose machine, the second transmission module is arranged below each container, a predetermined amount of ice cubes, a predetermined amount of fructose and a predetermined volume of beverage are injected into the cups in sequence through various control signals, and the cups are sealed by the sealing machine 17.
As described above, even if the cup dropping machine and the capper are integrated into the beverage dispenser, the beverage dispenser can actually save the overall beverage production time of about 2-3 seconds, however, in order to achieve the full-automatic beverage production, the beverage dispenser integrated with the cup dropping machine and the capper must be equipped with not only the cup dropping machine and the capper, which are expensive, but also the first transmission module and the second transmission module, which occupy a lot of usage space, so that the beverage dispenser is expensive in overall cost and occupies a lot of usage space.
Accordingly, how to provide an automatic beverage dispenser to solve the above problems has become an urgent issue to be studied.
Detailed Description
For the sake of simplicity, only the main structure of the hand-operated drinking and conditioning machine is illustrated in the attached drawings, and in fact, each inlet and outlet, the barrel and the driving device of the hand-operated drinking and conditioning machine include pipeline connections so that the driving device drives to convey cold water, hot water, tea, fructose, milk and ice blocks. In addition, the cold water source, the hot water source and the tea source which are externally connected with the hand-operated drinking and conditioning machine are connected to the inlets of the hand-operated drinking and conditioning machine through pipelines, and are not shown in the attached drawings.
Referring to fig. 1 to 8 together, fig. 1 and 2 are front and back perspective views of a hand-operated drinking and cooking machine of the present invention, fig. 3 to 4 are exploded views of the hand-operated drinking and cooking machine of the present invention, fig. 5 is a top view of the hand-operated drinking and cooking machine of the present invention, fig. 6 is a partially enlarged view of a stirring tank and a filling valve of fig. 4, fig. 7 is a schematic view of an ice inlet of the stirring tank, a first delivery port of the ice bucket, and a stirring blade of the hand-operated drinking and cooking machine of the present invention, and fig. 8 is a front sectional view of the hand-operated drinking and cooking machine of the present invention. As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the hand-operated drinking and conditioning machine 2 includes abox 21, anice cube bucket 22, afructose bucket 23, acold water outlet 24, ahot water outlet 25, and a plurality oftea outlets 26, and as shown in fig. 4 and 5, the hand-operated drinking and conditioning machine 2 includes astirring tank 27, acup holder 28, afilling valve 29, afirst driving device 30, a plurality ofsecond driving devices 31, athird driving device 32, and anoperation panel 33. As shown in fig. 7, the ice cube bin 22 is disposed in thecase 21 and has afirst delivery port 221. As shown in fig. 3, thefructose receptacle 23 is provided in thecase 21 and has asecond delivery port 231. Thecold water port 24 is disposed on thetank 21 and connected to a cold water source. Thehot water port 25 is disposed on thetank 21 and connected to a hot water source. The plurality oftea drinking ports 26 are disposed on thebox body 21 and connected to a plurality of tea drinking sources. As shown in fig. 6 and 7, theagitation tank 27 is disposed in thetank 21 and has a plurality ofliquid inlets 271, anice inlet 272 and anoutlet 273, theinlets 271 are respectively communicated with thecold water port 24, thehot water port 25, thetea ports 26 and thesecond delivery port 231, and theice inlet 272 is communicated with thefirst delivery port 221. As shown in fig. 6 and 8, thecup holder 28 is provided on thehousing 21 for holding a beverage cup. Thefilling valve 29 is disposed above the beverage cup on thebox body 21 and has aninlet 291 and anoutlet 292, theinlet 291 communicates with theoutlet 273 of thestirring tank 27, and theoutlet 292 is aligned above the beverage cup to fill the beverage into the beverage cup. As shown in fig. 6 and 7, thefirst driving device 30 is disposed on thestirring tank 27, and is connected to the stirringblade 301 disposed in thestirring tank 27 to drive the stirringblade 301 to stir in thestirring tank 27. As shown in fig. 4, thesecond driving devices 31 are disposed in thebox 21 and connected to the cold water source, the hot water source, the tea drink sources and thefructose barrel 23 to drive the cold water, the hot water, the tea drink and the fructose into the stirringtank 27. In an embodiment of the present invention, thesecond driving device 31 includes a pump connected to the cold water source, the hot water source, the plurality of tea drink sources and thefructose barrel 23, and drives the cold water, the hot water, the tea drink and the fructose into the stirringtank 27 by the pressure generated by the pump during actual operation. As shown in fig. 5, thethird driving unit 32 is disposed in thecase 21 to drive the ice cubes in theice cube container 22 into theagitation tank 27. Theoperation panel 33 is disposed on thebox 21 and has an operation interface electrically connected to thefilling valve 29, thefirst driving device 30, thesecond driving device 31, and thethird driving device 32, wherein thefilling valve 29, thefirst driving device 30, thesecond driving device 31, and thethird driving device 32 are driven according to instructions of the operation interface.
As shown in fig. 4, 5 and 7, theice bucket 22 has a trapezoidal bottom with a narrow bottom and a wide top to accommodate ice. Thefirst delivery port 221 is provided at the side of the tapered bottom and pushes the ice cubes to theice cube inlet 272 communicated with theagitation tank 27 by the third driving means 32 so that the ice cubes can be smoothly dropped into theagitation tank 27.
As shown in fig. 6, thecup holder 28 comprises amicro switch 281 electrically connected to thefilling valve 29 for sensing when the beverage cup touches themicro switch 281, and opening thefilling valve 29 to fill the beverage into the beverage cup. In addition, thecup holder 28 includes a sensor (not shown) electrically connected to thefill valve 29 for closing thefill valve 29 when the beverage level reaches a predetermined height to stop the injection of the beverage into the cup.
As shown in fig. 6, thefilling valve 29 includes a normally open type plunger control valve or a normally closed type plunger control valve, which is not limited in the present invention. In addition, a normally open type plunger control valve or a normally closed type plunger control valve is used in the present invention. Only when the control valve does not close the output port, the tea drink can flow through, so that compared with the traditional electromagnetic control valve with a right-angle structure, thefilling valve 29 used in the invention has the advantage of being not easy to block the tea drink and accumulate dirt, and is more convenient for a user to clean.
As shown in fig. 5, thethird driving device 32 includes ascrew blade 321, alead screw 322 and adriving motor 323, thedriving motor 323 is disposed outside theice cube container 22, thescrew blade 321 is disposed on thelead screw 322, thelead screw 322 passes through a hole of theice cube container 22 and is disposed in theice cube container 22 together with thescrew blade 321, and thedriving motor 323 drives thescrew blade 321 to further drive the ice cubes to be transported from thefirst transporting port 221 of theice cube container 22 to thestirring tank 27. Further, thedrive motor 323 comprises a stepper motor, which may further control the volume of delivered ice by controlling the rotational speed thereof. For example, by controlling the rotation speed of the drivingmotor 323 driving thelead screw 322 to rotate one turn, the amount of the ice cubes delivered by one turn of theblade 321 of the screw can be further controlled.
The instructions of the operation interface of theoperation panel 33 include instructions of a cleaning function, and the operations of cleaning theagitation tank 27 and thefilling valve 29 are performed every time the filling of the beverage is completed.
As shown in fig. 3, the hand-operated drink-making machine 2 further includes amilk barrel 34 disposed in thebox 21, wherein themilk barrel 34 is connected to one of theliquid inlets 271 of thestirring tank 27 and driven into thestirring tank 27 by thesecond driving device 31. In addition, themilk bucket 34 is provided in a refrigerator of thecabinet 21, thereby preserving milk.
The hand-operated drinking and conditioning machine 2 further includes a material shortage warning device (not shown) for detecting the consumption of cold water, hot water, tea, fructose and milk, and sending a prompt message on the operation interface of theoperation panel 33 when the consumption reaches a critical value. For example, the user can set the liquid level warning critical values of cold water, hot water, tea drink, fructose and milk on the operation interface, taking the tea drink as an example, the total quantity of the filled tea drink is 10 liters when the business is started, but when the tea drink reaches the critical value of 3 liters, a prompt message is sent to remind a salesperson to replenish the tea drink.
The hand-operated drinking and conditioning machine 2 further comprises a database (not shown) stored in a storage device such as a memory card, a USB flash drive, a random access memory or a hard disk, but the invention is not limited thereto. The storage device is electrically connected with the operation panel and stores various types and proportions of tea drinks, fructose and milk in the database. The operation interface of the operation panel comprises various instructions corresponding to the types, proportions and quantities of various tea drinks, fructose and milk in the database. The storage device is further electrically connected to a wireless signal transmission module or a wired signal transmission module, so as to transmit the types and proportions of the various tea drinks, fructose and milk blending stored in the database to an intelligent device, a cloud network or a computer device in a wireless or wired manner, that is, a user can download or update the types and proportions of the various tea drinks, fructose and milk blending stored in the database, and upload the types and proportions to the storage device after downloading and updating, and further update various instructions corresponding to the operation interface of theoperation panel 33.
In an embodiment of the present invention, for example, when a shop clerk wants to make a big cup of half-sugar ice-less pearl milk tea, the shop clerk first selects a drink cup with a big cup amount, adds about 50mol of pearls into the drink cup, places the drink cup on thecup holder 28, and inputs instructions of sweetness, ice cubes and a big and small cup amount of the pearl milk tea on the operation interface of theoperation panel 33. When a salesperson inputs a command to set a large-cup pearl milk tea with little half sugar and ice, places a beverage cup on thecup holder 28, and touches themicro switch 281 on thecup holder 28, theoperation panel 33 transmits a driving signal to thefirst driving device 30, thesecond driving device 31, thethird driving device 32, and the fillingvalve 29, thesecond driving device 31 drives cold water, milk, fructose, and black tea to flow through thecold water port 24, themilk tank 34, thefructose tank 23, thetea outlet 26, and theliquid inlet 271 of the stirringtank 27 into the stirringtank 27, thethird driving device 32 drives ice in theice tank 22 to flow through thefirst delivery port 221, theice inlet 272 of the stirringtank 27 into the stirringtank 27, thefirst driving device 30 drives thestirring blade 301 to stir in the stirringtank 27, and after stirring, the ice is delivered through theoutlet 273 of the stirringtank 27 and the fillingport 291 of the fillingvalve 29, and upon opening of thefill valve 29, the beverage is output to the beverage cup through theoutput port 292 of thefill valve 29. Furthermore, the size and the amount of the beverage are determined by the rotational speed of the drive. For example, a driving motor is used as thesecond driving device 31, a capacity of 60 mol/sec is set as the driving motor, and if the amount of the large cup beverage is 700mol, the driving motor is controlled to operate for 10 seconds to drive the cold water, milk, fructose, and black tea to produce 600mol portions, and thethird driving device 32 drives the ice cubes of about 50mol portions into the stirringtank 27, thereby completing the preparation of the beverage, and finally the prepared beverage is sealed by the shop assistant. After the beverage is outputted from theoutput port 292 of the fillingvalve 29 to the beverage cup, thefirst driving device 30, thesecond driving device 31 and thethird driving device 32 are stopped, and thesecond driving device 31 drives the hot water from thehot water port 25 into the fillingvalve 29 before the driving is stopped, so as to clean the fillingvalve 29, and then thesecond driving device 31 stops driving, and the fillingvalve 29 returns to the closed state.
In summary, the hand-operated drink-conditioning machine of the present invention can directly inject the liquid raw material into the cup after the liquid raw material is filled into the stirring tank for stirring, so that a cup dropping machine and a sealing machine are not required, and the cost of installing the hand-operated drink-conditioning machine as a whole can be greatly reduced. In addition, because the cup falling machine and the sealing machine do not need to be arranged, and the transmission module does not need to be arranged, the use space occupied by the hand-operated drinking and conditioning machine can be greatly reduced.