JPS6239499Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (a) Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a beverage dispensing device capable of extracting beverages such as cocktails containing carbonic acid.

(b) Prior art Since there was no beverage dispensing device like the one related to the present invention in the past, when selling a cocktail drink made by mixing shochu with plum soda, it was necessary to use a well-known shaker (mixer). After adding plum juice and shochu and shaking it, add a moderate amount of carbonated water to the shaker and shaking it again before serving it to the customer, or alternatively, first blend the plum juice, shochu and carbonated water in a suitable amount. A method was used in which the shochu and plum soda mixed cocktail drink was filled into a suitable tank, and the tank was pressurized with a carbon dioxide gas cylinder, and the plum soda in the tank was extracted into cups etc. by opening the beverage supply valve. .

(c) Problems that the invention aims to solve Therefore, in the case of the former, the product cannot be provided to customers unless it is manufactured by shaking the sheaker (mixer) each time it is sold, and the problem depends on the way the shaker (mixer) is shaken. However, there was a drawback that the content of the cocktail changed, making it impossible to provide a uniform cocktail beverage.

Furthermore, in the case of the latter, the blended product is extracted from the beverage supply valve and sold, so compared to the former, it is possible to provide cocktails that are more uniform in quality, but with respect to aroma. It will fall at That is, the fragrance of the cocktail is at its best at the time of blending, and as time passes thereafter, it is absorbed by the cocktail liquid in the tank and gradually fades, resulting in the disadvantage that the fragrance cannot be provided at its best when sold.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, recently an alcoholic liquid such as the above-mentioned shochu and a stock solution such as plum juice have been blended in a stock blender, and then this blended liquid is again led from the carbonator tank through a beverage supply valve. A type of beverage dispensing device is emerging that mixes the alcoholic liquid with carbonated water and extracts the mixture into a cup or other container. The drawback is that it is difficult to blend. This has the undesirable effect of complicating the structure of the blender device and increasing manufacturing costs.

The present invention has focused on these points, and aims to provide a beverage dispensing device that can easily eliminate these drawbacks.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems The beverage supply device of the present invention includes a fruit juice tank and a carbonator that are connected by piping so that they are each pressurized at a predetermined pressure by a single pressurized cylinder filled with carbon dioxide gas. A tank and an alcohol tank are provided, and the fruit juice liquid led from the fruit juice tank and the carbonated water led from the carbonator tank are respectively introduced through check valves to blend the fruit juice liquid and the carbonated water. a blender device for supplying a blended liquid led from the blender device to a cup; and a beverage supply valve for mixing an alcohol-containing liquid stored in the alcohol tank with the blended liquid at the beverage supply valve. and a conduit that respectively leads carbonated water from the carbonator tank and alcohol-containing liquid branched from the middle of the conduit to another beverage supply valve.

(e) Operation When one beverage supply valve is opened, fruit juice and carbonated water are introduced into the blender device under a predetermined pressure from a single pressurized cylinder and blended, and the blended liquid is passed through the beverage supply valve. guided by. At the same time, the alcohol-containing liquid in the alcohol tank is also pressurized with a predetermined pressure from the pressurized cylinder and guided to the beverage supply valve.
The blended liquid and alcohol-containing liquid are mixed at a beverage supply valve and supplied to the cup. When the other beverage supply valve is opened, carbonated water and alcohol-containing liquid are supplied to the cup as a mixed beverage.

(f) Example An example of the present invention will be described below in detail based on the drawings.
For convenience of explanation, the embodiment of the present invention will be described using a beverage dispensing device called a postmix dispenser.

1 is an alcohol tank filled with alcoholic liquid such as shochu, 2 and 3 are fruit juice tanks filled with fruit juice concentrates such as lemon juice and plum juice, and each tank 1, 2, and 3 is equipped with a gas pressure regulator. It is pressurized at a predetermined pressure by a pressurized cylinder 5 which is filled with carbon dioxide gas via a cylinder 4.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a cooling water tank containing an evaporator 7 which is a part of a cooling unit device (not shown) including a compressor, etc. In this water tank, the alcohol and fruit juice undiluted solution in each of the above tanks 1, 2, and 3 are further stored. Cooling coils 8, 9, and 10 that cool carbonated water to a predetermined temperature (usually around 3°C) after passing through flow regulators A, B, and C, respectively, and cooling coils that cool carbonated water led from a carbonator tank, which will be described later. 11 are arranged.

Reference numeral 12 refers to beverage supply valves A, B, which will be described later, which respectively correspond to the alcoholic liquid cooled by the cooling coil 8.
It is a branch pipe that distributes to C via conduits 13, 14, and 15.

On the other hand, 16 is the carbonator tank mentioned above, which is connected to a pressurizing pump 18 and a check valve 19 by a cistern 17 that temporarily releases tap water to the atmosphere.
Tap water led through the pressurized cylinder 5 mentioned above
Carbonated water of a certain concentration is produced by mixing it with carbon dioxide gas drawn from the water.

Reference numerals 20 and 21 refer to blender devices having a structure in which, for example, the two kinds of stock solutions cross each other in a shower shape so that at least two types of stock solutions can be appropriately mixed, and one side of each of the blender devices 20 and 21 is equipped with the above-mentioned flow rate adjustment device. Lemon juice and plum juice whose flow rates are controlled in vessels B and C are led through check valves a and b, and carbonated water produced in carbonator tanks 16 is introduced into the other side through flow rate regulators D. Controlled post-branch pipe 1
2' and check valves c and d.

Therefore, the respective liquids, ie, lemon juice and carbonated water, plum juice and carbonated water, are transferred to the blender devices 20, 2.
It becomes possible to mix appropriately within 1.

A, B, and C are the aforementioned beverage supply valves, each of which is an electromagnetic valve, and is branched from the liquid blended by the blender devices 20 and 21 through the aforementioned branch pipe 12. Alcohol liquid is introduced respectively.

Therefore, when the beverage supply valves A, B, and C are opened, a cocktail drink called Chuyu-hai, which is made by diluting shochu with carbonated water, will come from the beverage supply valve A, and shochu and plum juice from the beverage supply valve B. A plum soda cocktail made by mixing shochu, lemon juice, and carbonated water, and a lemon soda cocktail made by mixing shochu, lemon juice, and carbonated water from the beverage supply valve C are easily dispensed into containers such as cups (not shown). This makes it possible to extract

(g) Effects In this invention, the fruit juice from the fruit juice tank and the carbonated water from the carbonator tank are first blended in a blender device via check valves, and then the blended liquid is further supplied to the beverage supply valve. and mix with the alcohol-containing liquid drawn from the alcohol tank. A beverage consisting of a mixture of carbonated water and alcohol-containing liquid without fruit juice mixed therein is taken out from another beverage supply valve.

Therefore, the device of the present invention blends fruit juice with a large amount of carbonated water, and takes advantage of the fact that fruit juice and carbonated water can easily mix, making the blender device simpler than conventional devices. structure can be created. In addition, with the device of the present invention, the ingredients are mixed at the point of sale, so the fragrance of the cocktail does not deteriorate and the quality can be made uniform. Furthermore, in the case of cocktails, the fruit juice liquid and carbonated water are blended in advance using a blender device, and this blended liquid is supplied to the beverage supply valve, so that the introduction path to the beverage supply valve is the one where the blended liquid and the alcohol-containing liquid are mixed. Only two are required, and there is no need for a special device with three liquid introduction paths, and the entire device can be made inexpensive because it can be used as a conventional beverage supply valve like the other beverage supply valve. Furthermore, it is effective as a device that can mix fruit juice, carbonated water, and alcohol-containing liquid by effectively utilizing the carbon dioxide pressure from a single pressurized cylinder, and can continuously dispense alcoholic beverages.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings are piping diagrams related to the device of the present invention, 1, 2,
3 is an alcohol tank and a fruit juice tank, 5 is a pressurized cylinder, 16 is a carbonator tank, 20, 2
1 is a blender device, A, B, C are beverage supply valves,
a, b, c, and d are check valves, respectively.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A fruit juice tank, a carbonator tank, and an alcohol tank are connected by piping so that they are each pressurized at a predetermined pressure by a single pressurized cylinder filled with carbon dioxide gas, and the fruit juice liquid led from the fruit juice tank and A blender device for blending the fruit juice and the carbonated water by introducing the carbonated water led from the carbonator tank through check valves, and a cup for the blended liquid led from the blender device. a beverage supply valve for supplying carbonated water from the carbonator tank and a conduit for guiding the alcohol-containing liquid stored in the alcohol tank to mix with the blended liquid at the beverage supply valve; A beverage supply device comprising a conduit that branches an alcohol-containing liquid from the middle and guides the alcohol-containing liquid to another beverage supply valve.