CN110960091B

CN110960091B - Discharging device and discharging method for various beverages

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Publication number: CN110960091B
Application number: CN201911188563.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张聪; 秦晓阳; 蒋贤海; 王志; 卢镇宇; 何李照; 林灿基
Original assignee: Guangdong Polytechnic Of Water Resources And Electric Engineering
Current assignee: Guangdong Polytechnic Of Water Resources And Electric Engineering
Priority date: 2019-11-28
Filing date: 2019-11-28
Publication date: 2021-11-30
Anticipated expiration: 2039-11-28
Also published as: CN110960091A

Abstract

The invention discloses a multi-variety beverage discharging device and a method, the device comprises an upper body, a lower body, a connecting disc, an upper cover, beverage guide pipes, an upper cover lifting mechanism and a cleaning mechanism, wherein the upper body is connected with the lower body through the connecting disc, a discharging space is formed in the upper body, an installation space is formed in the lower body, the upper cover is arranged at the mouth of the upper body, at least two beverage guide pipes are distributed on the connecting disc, the outlet ends of the beverage guide pipes are positioned in the discharging space, the liquid outlet end of the cleaning mechanism also extends into the discharging space and is connected with the upper cover, and the power output end of the upper cover lifting mechanism is connected with the upper cover through the cleaning mechanism. The method is to output different beverages according to the beverage types selected by users by utilizing the arrangement of a plurality of beverage guide pipes and a cleaning mechanism. The invention can realize the discharge switching among different beverages, ensure the independence of different types of beverages, ensure the cleanliness of the beverages and avoid the mutual pollution among different types of beverages.

Description

Discharging device and discharging method for various beverages

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of robots, in particular to a discharging device and a discharging method for various beverages.

Background

The beverage is indispensable in catering services, has various varieties and wide range, is a huge market, and various merchants of various brands compete fiercely. Beverage sales are ubiquitous and include various public places such as malls, restaurants, casinos and the like.

The selling of beverages is mainly manual or self-service, and with the development of automation technology, the selling and supplying modes are continuously changed, and the form of unmanned vending machines and the like is developed. With the popularization and application of the robot technology, some merchants in the catering industry introduce robot service as a marketing means, for example, in restaurants, the robots are adopted to deliver food and drink to tables. In addition, at present, manufacturers develop unattended sale equipment specially for milk tea beverages, and adopt industrial robots to carry out on-site blending and sale.

However, the robots currently used in the catering industry have considerable limitations, such as the two types of robots mentioned above: the first type of robot (namely, catering robot) is substantially equivalent to a human-shaped AGV, can only realize delivery by rail navigation, has single function and is difficult to attract consumers for a long time. The second type of robot (namely unattended milk tea selling equipment) is characterized in that an industrial mechanical arm is integrated into a system to form automatic equipment, when the automatic milk tea selling equipment works, the mechanical arm holds a steel cup in hand, milk tea ingredients are filled in the steel cup, the steel cup is shaken uniformly and then poured into a plastic cup on a table board, the equipment has multiple ingredient stations, the system is complex, the occupied area is large, the function is single, and the automatic milk tea selling equipment does not belong to a special beverage supply robot per se, so that the automatic milk tea selling equipment is still difficult to popularize in the current market. Therefore, in order to adapt to the increasingly higher living standard of people, the development of a new beverage selling robot and related accessories thereof has important significance.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art, and provides a multi-variety beverage discharging device aiming at a cup-pouring type beverage supply robot, which can realize the discharge switching among different beverages, has a compact structure and is suitable for various occasions.

The invention also aims to provide a method for discharging various beverages by using the discharging device.

The technical scheme of the invention is as follows: the utility model provides a many varieties beverage discharging device, including upper portion body, the lower part body, link up the dish, the upper cover, beverage pipe, upper cover elevating system and wiper mechanism, connect through linking the dish between upper portion body and the lower part body, this internal ejection of compact space that forms in upper portion, the oral area of upper portion body is located to the upper cover, it has two at least beverage pipes to distribute on the dish to link up, the exit end of each beverage pipe is located ejection of compact space, wiper mechanism's play liquid end also stretches into in ejection of compact space and is connected with the upper cover, upper cover elevating system's power take off end passes through wiper mechanism and is connected with the upper cover. The adapter plate is used for isolating the discharging space and the mounting space to form mutually independent spaces, and is used as a mounting base of various pipelines (such as a beverage guide pipe, a waste water pipe and a central pipe). The discharge space of upper portion body is used for holding the beverage that prepares to pour out, and the installation space of lower part body is convenient for the installation of each component part. The connecting part of the connecting disc and the upper body is provided with a sealing ring to prevent the beverage in the discharging space from leaking.

The upper body, the connecting disc and the lower body are sequentially connected to form a bottle-shaped structure, and a pipeline inlet and a pipeline outlet are formed in the side wall of the lower body. This bottle column structure is similar to the beverage bottle, is applied to behind the serve cup formula beverage supply robot with this discharging device, and the goblet on the cooperation robot uses, can improve its interest. The pipeline inlet and outlet of the side wall of the lower body are convenient for connecting various pipelines and lines.

The connecting disc is also provided with a waste water through hole, and the bottom of the waste water through hole is provided with a vacuum pipe joint. The waste water through hole passes through the external waste water suction device of vacuum tube joint, and after the wiper mechanism cleaned the ejection of compact space, waste water suction device utilized the vacuum effect, took away the waste water in the ejection of compact space through the waste water through hole to new beverage is leading-in.

As a preferable scheme, the number of the beverage guide pipes is three according to the consumption habits of people, an installation space is formed in the lower body, and the inlet end of each beverage guide pipe is positioned in the installation space. The inlet end of each beverage conduit is provided with a beverage pipe joint, and the beverage pipe joint is externally connected to a beverage supply device through a hose. When three beverage pipes (assumed to be beverage a, beverage B, and beverage C) are provided, seven kinds of beverages including beverage a, beverage B, beverage C, beverage AB, beverage AC, beverage BC, and beverage ABC can be provided by the discharging device.

The outlet end of the beverage guide pipe is in an elbow shape, the discharging direction of the outlet end is arranged along the tangential direction of the horizontal circumference where the outlet end is located, so that the beverage flowing out of the beverage guide pipe can be forced to flow along the inner wall of the upper body, the discharging is uniform and stable, and a large amount of bubbles are prevented from being generated due to violent impact.

The upper cover is bottle plug form, wholly is flat-top taper structure, including the cover portion and the embedding portion that are connected (cover portion is flat-top form promptly, and the embedding portion is the taper), and the embedding portion is equipped with vertical decurrent screw hole, and a plurality of injection holes of evenly distributed are followed to the embedding portion in the periphery direction. The joint of the bottom surface of the covering part and the opening part of the upper body is also provided with a sealing ring to prevent the beverage in the discharging space from permeating. In the embedding part, the threaded hole is mainly convenient for being fixedly connected with a central pipe, the jet hole is used for being matched with a cleaning mechanism, cleaning liquid is sprayed from the opening part of the upper body, and the whole discharging space can be comprehensively cleaned.

The cleaning mechanism comprises a central pipe and a connecting head, the connecting head is arranged at the bottom of the central pipe, the top of the central pipe is connected with the threaded hole of the upper cover, a plurality of liquid outlet holes are distributed in the top of the central pipe along the circumferential direction, and the liquid outlet holes are communicated with the jet holes in the upper cover; the top of the central tube where each liquid outlet hole is positioned is used as the liquid outlet end of the cleaning mechanism.

The middle of the linking disc is provided with a central hole, the central tube is of a long tubular structure, the central tube extends into the installation space of the lower body from the central hole of the linking disc, the connecting head is arranged in the installation space, and the through hole inside the connecting head is communicated with the through hole of the central tube.

The central tube can be a stainless steel long tube, the central tube passes through the central hole of the connecting disc to be installed, and a sealing ring is arranged at the joint of the central tube and the connecting disc to prevent the beverage in the discharging space from leaking. The end of coupling head is equipped with water pipe head, through the external water supply mechanism of water pipe head, when needs wash ejection of compact space, generally adopt the clear water as the washing liquid, water supply mechanism supplies water to the center tube through water pipe head and coupling head, clear water rises to its top back along the center tube, from each liquid hole blowout, because go out the jet orifice intercommunication in liquid hole and the upper cover, consequently, the clear water is last to be spouted the inner wall of upper portion body from jet orifice department, thereby wash, the waste water that forms after the washing completion is taken away from waste water through-hole department.

The upper cover lifting mechanism comprises a lifting electric cylinder and a spring, the power output end of the lifting electric cylinder is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the coupling head, the spring is sleeved on the periphery of the central pipe, the upper end of the spring is connected with the bottom surface of the connecting disc, and the lower end of the spring is connected with the top surface of the coupling head. When the upper cover needs to be opened to pour out the beverage, the lifting electric cylinder drives the connecting head and the central pipe to ascend to lift the upper cover, so that the covering part of the upper cover is far away from the opening part of the upper body, a discharging gap is formed between the embedding part and the opening part, and the spring is compressed in the process; after the beverage is poured out, the lifting electric cylinder is powered off, the connecting head is driven to drive the central pipe to reset under the action of the elastic force of the spring, and the upper cover is also lowered to cover the opening of the upper body tightly.

The invention realizes a method for discharging various beverages through the material device, which comprises the following steps:

when a single beverage is required to be provided, after a user selects the corresponding beverage, the beverage is guided into the discharging space through the corresponding single beverage guide pipe, the upper cover is driven to lift and open by the upper cover lifting mechanism, and the single beverage is poured out from the mouth part of the upper body;

when mixed beverages of various beverages are required to be provided, after a user selects corresponding beverages, the beverages are guided into the discharging space through the corresponding beverage guide pipes, the upper cover is driven to lift and open by the upper cover lifting mechanism, and the mixed beverages are poured out from the opening part of the upper body;

when the beverage variety selected by the user is different from the beverage variety selected by the previous user, after the user selects the corresponding beverage, the cleaning mechanism is started to clean the discharge space, the cleaning liquid is discharged, then the beverage is guided into the discharge space through the corresponding single or multiple beverage guide pipes, the upper cover is driven to lift and open by the upper cover lifting mechanism, and the single beverage or the mixed beverage is poured out from the opening part of the upper body.

The specific process of pouring out the beverage comprises the following steps: the lifting electric cylinder drives the coupling head and the central pipe to ascend to lift the upper cover, so that the covering part of the upper cover is far away from the opening part of the upper body, a discharging gap is formed between the embedding part and the opening part, and the spring is compressed in the process; after the beverage is poured out, the lifting electric cylinder is powered off, the connecting head is driven to drive the central pipe to reset under the action of the elastic force of the spring, and the upper cover is also lowered to cover the opening of the upper body tightly.

The specific process for cleaning the discharging space comprises the following steps: cleaning liquid (generally clean water is adopted) is introduced into the central tube, the clean water rises to the top of the central tube along the central tube and is sprayed out from each liquid outlet hole, and the liquid outlet holes are communicated with the spray holes in the upper cover, so that the clean water is finally sprayed to the inner wall of the upper body from the spray holes so as to be cleaned; after the cleaning is finished, the waste water suction device connected with the waste water through hole externally acts, and waste water in the discharging space is pumped away through the vacuum pipe joint and the waste water through hole by utilizing the vacuum effect so as to introduce new beverage.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

the multi-variety beverage discharging device and the multi-variety beverage discharging method can realize discharging switching among various different beverages, and can realize that the discharging space is cleaned firstly when the different varieties of beverages are switched by arranging the cleaning mechanism, so that mutual independence among the different varieties of beverages is ensured, the cleanliness of the beverages is effectively ensured, and mutual pollution among the different varieties of beverages is avoided.

This many varieties beverage discharging device's compact structure is fit for multiple occasion and uses.

This many varieties beverage discharging device's upper portion body and lower part body form bottle column structure, are similar to the beverage bottle, are applied to this discharging device and serve behind the cup formula beverage supply robot, and the drinking cup on the cooperation robot uses, can improve its interest, has stronger market competition.

In the multi-variety beverage discharging device, the beverage guide pipes are uniformly distributed on the connecting disc along the circumferential direction, the outlet ends of the beverage guide pipes are designed into a bent shape, the discharging direction of the outlet ends is arranged along the tangential direction of the horizontal circumference where the outlet ends are located, the beverage flowing out of the beverage guide pipes can be forced to flow along the inner wall of the upper body, the uniform and stable discharging is ensured, the violent impact is avoided, a large amount of bubbles are generated, and the beverage is prevented from directly impacting the upper cover.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the discharging device.

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view a-a of fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of the discharging device when the upper cover needs to be opened to pour out the beverage.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of the discharging device applied to a robot.

In the above figures, the components indicated by the respective reference numerals are as follows: the automatic lifting type beverage bottle comprises an upper body 1, a connecting disc 2, a lower body 3, an upper cover 4, a central pipe 5, a beverage guide pipe 6, a spring 7, a connecting head 8, a lifting electric cylinder 9, a beverage pipe joint 10, a sealing ring 11, a jet hole 12, a liquid outlet hole 13, a water pipe joint 14, a discharge gap 15, a waste water through hole 16, a vacuum pipe joint 17, a pipeline inlet and outlet 18, a discharge space 19, an installation space 20, an arm 21, a rotary joint 22, an arc-shaped clamping plate 23 and a soft sleeve 24.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples, but the embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto.

Example 1

The embodiment is a multi-variety beverage discharging device, as shown in fig. 1, which mainly comprises an upper body 1, a connecting disc 2, a lower body 3, an upper cover 4, a central pipe 5, a beverage conduit 6, a spring 7, a coupling head 8 and a lifting electric cylinder 9. Wherein, upper portion body and lower part body form the bottle, and the upper cover is the bottle plug form, and central tube and coupling head constitute wiper mechanism, and spring and electronic jar constitution upper cover elevating system goes up and down.

The specific structure of each component part is as follows:

the bottle body is divided into an upper part and a lower part (namely an upper body and a lower body), and the middle part of the bottle body is tightly connected by a connecting disc to form two spaces (namely a discharging space 19 and a mounting space 20) which are separated up and down. The connecting part of the upper body and the connecting disc is provided with an annular sealing ring which can prevent the beverage from leaking downwards.

As shown in fig. 2, in this embodiment, there are three beverage conduits, which are uniformly distributed on the connecting disc, and each beverage conduit passes through the connecting disc from top to bottom. The upper part of the beverage guide pipe is processed into an elbow, and the discharge port of the beverage guide pipe is arranged along the circumferential tangent line, so that the flowing liquid can be forced to flow along the bottle wall, the discharge is uniform and stable, and simultaneously, the severe impact is prevented from foaming a large amount. The lower part of the beverage conduit is provided with a beverage pipe joint 10 which is externally connected to a discharge port of a metering pump of the beverage storage tank through a hose (the beverage storage tank and the metering pump are used as a feeding mechanism externally arranged on the discharging device). Three beverage guide pipes, namely three beverage pipe joints, are arranged in the bottle and are respectively and correspondingly connected to the discharge ports of three metering pumps of beverage storage tanks filled with different beverage varieties. When the beverage discharging device works, beverage in the beverage storage tank is quantitatively pumped out by the metering pump, conveyed into the discharging device through the hose and then flows into the discharging space of the upper body through the beverage guide pipe.

The central pipe is a stainless steel long tubular part and is installed by penetrating through the central hole of the connecting disc, and a sealing ring is also arranged at the joint of the central pipe.

The top end of the central tube extends to the mouth of the upper bottle body and is connected with the upper cover through threads. The upper cover is of a flat-top cone-shaped structure (namely comprises a covering part and an embedding part which are connected), and a sealing ring 11 is arranged at the joint of the upper cover and the opening part and used for closing and opening the bottle mouth. A plurality of spray holes 12 are uniformly distributed on the circumference of the cone part of the upper cover, a plurality of liquid outlet holes 13 are distributed at the top end of the central tube, and the spray holes are correspondingly connected with the liquid outlet holes one by one and communicated with the central tube.

The bottom end of the central tube is provided with a spring and a coupling head. The inner pipeline of the coupling head is communicated with the central pipe, and the tail end of the coupling head is provided with a water pipe joint 14. The water pipe joint is externally connected to a water outlet of a high-pressure pump of the water storage tank through a hose (the water storage tank and the high-pressure pump are used as a water supply mechanism externally arranged on the discharging device). When the water tank works, pure water in the water storage tank can be pumped out by the high-pressure pump, is conveyed into the discharging device through the hose, flows through the central pipe through the connecting head, and is finally sprayed out from the spraying hole of the upper cover.

And a lifting electric cylinder is fixedly arranged in the mounting space of the lower body and used for controlling the closing or opening of the upper cover. As shown in fig. 1, when the lifting electric cylinder is powered off, the upper cover is pressed on the opening of the upper body by the downward pulling force of the central pipe under the action of the spring, so that the bottle opening is in a closed state. As shown in fig. 3, when the lifting electric cylinder is powered on, the piston rod rises to press the coupling head, the upper cover is lifted through the central pipe, the bottle mouth is opened, and the discharging gap 15 is exposed.

A waste water through hole 16 is also processed in the middle of the connecting disc and is communicated up and down, the bottom of the waste water through hole is connected with a vacuum pipe joint 17, and the vacuum pipe joint is externally connected to a vacuum pump suction inlet of a waste water storage tank through a hose (the waste water storage tank and a high-pressure pump are used as a waste water suction mechanism externally arranged on the discharging device). During operation, the vacuum pump in the waste water storage tank is started, and the residual liquid in the discharge space is completely pumped by the waste water through hole through the hose and is sent into the waste water tank.

The side wall of the lower body is provided with a line inlet 18 for the inlet of the line such as the hose and the lead line.

Example 2

In the embodiment, the discharging device in embodiment 1 is applied to a cup-pouring type beverage supply robot, and the discharging method for various beverages and the working principle thereof are as follows:

as shown in fig. 4, the discharging device is mounted on an arm 21 of the robot, a rotary joint 22 is arranged on the wrist of the arm, the rotary joint clamps the discharging device through an arc-shaped clamping plate 23, a pipeline inlet and outlet is connected with the arm of the robot through a flexible sleeve 24, and various pipelines required by the discharging device are hidden in the flexible sleeve.

As mentioned above, the present invention can be better realized, and the above embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention; all equivalent changes and modifications made according to the present disclosure are intended to be covered by the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. The multi-variety beverage discharging device is characterized by comprising an upper body, a lower body, a connecting disc, an upper cover, beverage guide pipes, an upper cover lifting mechanism and a cleaning mechanism, wherein the upper body is connected with the lower body through the connecting disc, a discharging space is formed in the upper body, the upper cover is arranged at the mouth of the upper body, at least two beverage guide pipes are distributed on the connecting disc, the outlet end of each beverage guide pipe is positioned in the discharging space, the liquid outlet end of the cleaning mechanism also extends into the discharging space and is connected with the upper cover, and the power output end of the upper cover lifting mechanism is connected with the upper cover through the cleaning mechanism;

the outlet end of the beverage guide pipe is in an elbow shape, and the discharging direction of the outlet end is arranged along the tangential direction of the horizontal circumference where the outlet end is located;

the upper cover is in a bottle plug shape and comprises a covering part and an embedding part which are connected, the embedding part is provided with a vertically downward threaded hole, and a plurality of injection holes are uniformly distributed in the embedding part along the peripheral direction;

the cleaning mechanism comprises a central pipe and a connecting head, the connecting head is arranged at the bottom of the central pipe, the top of the central pipe is connected with the threaded hole of the upper cover, a plurality of liquid outlet holes are distributed in the top of the central pipe along the circumferential direction, and the liquid outlet holes are communicated with the jet holes in the upper cover; the top of the central tube where each liquid outlet hole is positioned is used as a liquid outlet end of the cleaning mechanism;

the upper cover lifting mechanism comprises a lifting electric cylinder and a spring, the power output end of the lifting electric cylinder is fixedly connected with the bottom surface of the coupling head, the spring is sleeved on the periphery of the central pipe, the upper end of the spring is connected with the bottom surface of the connecting disc, and the lower end of the spring is connected with the top surface of the coupling head.

2. The multi-variety beverage discharging device according to claim 1, wherein the upper body, the connecting disc and the lower body are connected in sequence to form a bottle-shaped structure, and a pipeline inlet and outlet is arranged on the side wall of the lower body.

3. The multi-variety beverage discharging device according to claim 1, wherein the connecting disc is further provided with a waste water through hole, and a vacuum pipe joint is arranged at the bottom of the waste water through hole.

4. The multiple beverage dispensing apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein there are three beverage conduits, and the lower body defines an installation space therein, and the inlet end of each beverage conduit is located in the installation space.

5. The multi-variety beverage discharging device according to claim 1, wherein the adapter plate has a central hole in the middle, the central tube has a long tubular structure, the central tube extends from the central hole of the adapter plate to the installation space of the lower body, the coupling head is disposed in the installation space, and the through hole inside the coupling head is communicated with the through hole of the central tube.

6. The discharging device of any one of claims 1 to 5, which is used for discharging various beverages, and is characterized in that: