JPH0729062A - Raw material delivering device for automatic cup drink vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten selling time to be prolonged because a cup is carried about in the automatic vending machine of a cup mixing system to make a drink by carrying about the cup successively to plural raw material delivering parts classified by a raw material box, and charging raw material into the cup, and after that, pouring hot water or cold water into this cup, and stirring and mixing the raw material in the cup. CONSTITUTION:Powdery raw material (coffee, sugar, cream in this case) from the raw material boxes 1-1 to 1-3 is discharged respectively from a raw material discharging mechanism 2 at the lower part of the raw material box, and is preserved temporarily in each raw material temporary preserving means installed at the lower part of the raw material box. Besides, this preserving means consists of a raw material chuter 3A and a raw material shutter 4A. At the time of sale, when the cup 02 carried out of a cup mechanism 01 and received by a cup carrying device at a position (1) is carried to the position (2) at the lower part of these raw material boxes, three raw material shutters 4A are opened at a time, and three kinds of the raw material are charged into the cup 02 at a time, and the carrying-about time of the cup is shortened.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a beverage raw material in a cup,
Hot water or cold water for diluting or dissolving the raw materials is discharged, the beverage is directly stirred and mixed in this cup, and the cup containing this beverage is put on sale. The so-called cup mixing type vending machine (hereinafter referred to as vending machine) Is also abbreviated as a vending machine)
In the above, the present invention relates to a device for dispensing raw materials so as to shorten the sales time (also called the bend time).

In the following drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a product selling operation of a conventional cup mixing type vending machine. 01 in the figure
Stores a cup, and each time a product is sold, a cup mechanism for taking out and dropping one of the stored cups, 02
Is a cup carried out from this cup mechanism.

Reference numeral 1 (1-1 to 1-3) is a raw material box having substantially the same structure for storing beverage raw materials (powder raw material for coffee beverages in this example), 1-1 is coffee and 1-2 is sugar. ，
Each of 1-3 stores the powder raw material of the cream. Reference numeral 2 is a raw material discharge mechanism provided at the bottom of each raw material box 1, 3 is a raw material shooter, 4 is a raw material shutter, and these 3 and 4 constitute a raw material temporary holding means.

Further, 03 is a hot water discharge pipe connected to hot water discharge means not shown, 04 is cold water discharge pipe also connected to cold water discharge means not shown, and 05 is also connected to an ice making machine not shown. It's an ice shooter. Since the cup mixing type vending machine mixes beverages directly in the cup, the cup moving device (not shown) moves the cup to the raw material box portion of the necessary raw material to receive the raw material.

That is, the cup carrier receives the cup 02 carried out from the cup mechanism 01 at the position shown in FIG.
The cup 02 is moved in the order of position to. First, coffee powder is received from the raw material box 1-1 to the cup 02 at the position, and sugar powder is received from the raw material box 1-2 to the cup 02 at the next position. At the next position, cream powder is received from the raw material box 1-3 into the cup 02, and at the next position, hot water is received from the hot water discharge pipe 03 into the cup 02 when hot coffee is sold. At this time, the powder raw material is melted and stirred by the hot water discharged and jetted, and hot coffee beverage is prepared.

Next, the cup transporting device moves the cup 02 in which the beverage has been prepared to the cup outlet as the position of
Allow the customer to remove this cup. It should be noted that instead of hot water, cold water is received from the cold water discharge pipe 04 and ice is received from the ice shooter 05 into the cup 02 at the position when the cold coffee is sold. Also in this case, the powdered raw material is dissolved and stirred by the cold water discharged and jetted, and the cold coffee drink is prepared.

By the way, in the above selling operation, when the powdered raw materials of coffee, sugar and cream are discharged from the respective raw material boxes 1 from the time when the cup 02 arrives at the raw material box portion, the waiting time under the raw material boxes increases. Bend time becomes longer. Therefore, in order to avoid this, when the customer presses the product selection button (not shown in the figure), each cup of raw material is immediately fed from the raw material boxes 1-1 to 1-3 and the raw material discharge mechanism 2 provided below the raw material boxes 1-1 to 1-3. The discharge is held in the above-mentioned temporary holding means through the above, and when the cup 02 arrives, the raw material is discharged from the temporary holding means into the cup in a short time so as to minimize the waiting time. That is, the temporary holding means for each raw material is composed of the raw material shooter 3 and the raw material shutter 4, and the raw material discharged from the raw material box 1 via the raw material discharging mechanism 2 is temporarily held above the raw material shutter 4 via the raw material shooter 3. , Cup 0
When 2 arrives below the material shutter 4, the shutter 4 is opened as shown by the arrow and the material temporarily held in the cup 02 is discharged and dropped.

[0009]

The cup mixing method as shown in FIG. 3 is excellent in hygiene since it is a method of directly mixing a drink in a cup, but on the other hand, even if a temporary holding means for raw materials is used. Since the raw material receiving operation to the cup is performed at three places of ,,,, there is a drawback that the sales time is long,
It is desired to improve this. Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a material dispenser for a cup vending machine that can solve this problem.

[0010]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the raw material dispensing device according to claim 1 dispenses a plurality of types of raw materials into cups (02, etc.) that are successively conveyed, and the (discharging pipe A cup mixing type vending machine for discharging hot water or cold water while stirring and mixing the raw materials in this cup to make a beverage, and providing the cup containing the beverage for sale, Raw material storage means for each type (raw material boxes 1-1 to 1-3, etc.) and raw material provided for each storage means and discharging a cup of raw material from each of the storage means at the time of selling a product. In a cup vending machine provided with a discharging means (raw material discharging mechanism 2 etc.), the raw materials discharged from each of the raw material discharging means are temporarily held, and the temporarily held plural types are held in a cup conveyed to a predetermined position. Raw material And those with simultaneously payout obtained raw escrow unit (raw material chute 3A, raw shutter 4A, etc.).

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the raw material delivery device according to the first aspect, wherein the raw material temporary holding means is provided for each raw material storage means. Further, in the raw material dispensing device according to claim 3, in the raw material dispensing device according to claim 1 or 2, the plurality of types of raw materials are coffee, sugar and cream.

[0012]

The shutter 4 for discharging the raw materials of coffee, sugar and cream has a structure in which three parts are bundled within the diameter of the cup 02, and when the cup arrives, the three raw material discharging shutters 4 are provided.
To operate at the same time. In this way, the time required for material discharge is reduced to about 1/3 of the conventional time.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a raw material temporary holding means as an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 (1-1, 1
-2, 1-3) are coffees similar to those described in FIG. 3,
A raw material box for each powder raw material of sugar and cream, and 2 is a raw material discharge mechanism provided below the raw material boxes 1-1 to 1-3. Next, 3A and 4A are the respective raw material boxes 1-1 to 1
-3 is a new raw material temporary holding means attached to the lower part of -3, 3A is a raw material shooter, and 4A is a raw material shutter.

That is, in FIG. 1, the three raw material shutters 4A corresponding to the raw material boxes 1-1 to 1-3 of coffee, sugar, and cream are close to each other, and the three shutters 4A are provided.
The downward projection of the contour of the opening of the cup is configured so as to fit within the diameter of the upper end opening of the cup 02 conveyed to a predetermined position below the raw material box, and the raw material shooters 3A correspond to each other. The raw material discharge section is connected to the raw material shutter 4A to form a raw material discharge path.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view of a product selling operation using the raw material temporary holding means of FIG. 1 and corresponds to FIG. Figure 2
, The cup 02 is in the position of, and each raw material box 1-
1 to 1-3 separately receives the powdered raw materials of coffee, sugar and cream for each cup held in the raw material temporary holding means 3A and 4A, and then proceeds to the position of stirring the beverage with hot water or cold water. Therefore, in FIG. 2, in FIG.
It is only necessary to transfer the cups to the position and feed each raw material at one time, and the operation step for one sale is from 6 steps in FIG. 3 to 4 steps in FIG.

[0016]

According to the present invention, in the cup mixing type vending machine, the shape of the raw material temporary holding means attached to each raw material box of a plurality of powder raw materials for making one beverage is changed, Since the powdered raw material is put into the conveyed cup at the same time, the selling time of the cup beverage can be shortened.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a raw material temporary holding means as an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a selling operation when the raw material temporary holding means of FIG. 1 is used.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional selling operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 01 cup mechanism 02 cup 03 hot water discharge pipe 04 cold water discharge pipe 05 ice shooter 1 (1-1 to 1-3) raw material box 2 raw material discharge mechanism 3A, 4A raw material temporary holding means 3A raw material shooter 4A raw material shutter

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of types of raw materials are dispensed into a cup that is sequentially conveyed, and hot water or cold water is discharged into the cup to stir and mix the raw materials in the cup to make a beverage, and the cup containing the beverage is sold. A cup-mixing type automatic vending machine for use in, which is provided for each type of raw material storage means, and is provided for each storage means, and discharges one cup of raw material from each storage means when selling a product. In a cup vending machine equipped with a raw material discharge means, the raw material discharged from each of the raw material discharge means can be temporarily held, and the temporarily held plural kinds of raw materials can be simultaneously discharged to a cup conveyed to a predetermined position. A material dispensing device for a cup vending machine, which is equipped with a material temporary holding means. 2. The raw material dispensing device according to claim 1, wherein the raw material temporary holding means is provided for each raw material storing means. 3. The raw material dispensing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the plurality of types of raw materials are coffee, sugar and cream.