Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Automatic control or time means
Patent
1996-05-28
1997-09-30
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Automatic control or time means
99486, 99510, A23N 100
Patent
active
056716630
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention deals with presenting a citric juice extracting system within the framework of a public dispensing machine.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It is well-known that there exist citric juice extractors with electric-electronic control, ever since the appearance of the first domestic robots of small size which gave an axis the necessary rotational force to rub against the inside of the citric fruit, situated over the axis of a body which dealt with pressing and dragging as it turned the inside of the citric fruit which was held firm over the said body, straining the juice produced by the said action through the base of the said juice extracting unit. This mechanism was originally controlled by pushing a button, but later evolved to a system where it was only necessary to press the citrus fruit vertically upon the revolving extracting body, which had two stable positions, and upper stop position, and a lower one driving the axis.
This type of domestic robot, had its parallel in industrial citric juice extracting machines, with subsequent packing for distribution and sales.
Alongside certain dispensing mechanisms for edible liquids or solids, such as coffee, confectionary, etc. juice dispensers appeared, which contained the product to be served in reserves inside the machine, which by means of an electronic selection system combined, for example in the case of coffee machines, a mix of suitable proportions for the selection of the liquid coffee and the milk contained in its stores. The same happened with the juice dispensing machines, in which the juice of various fruits was stored pre-pressed, in respective stores or containers, pouring the liquid into a cup, after selection.
The problem of the aforementioned dispensing machines lay in the number of times the machine was under-used, which meant the liquid or juice lay stagnant for a long time, which caused a gradual deterioration of the product, at times even reaching the point of being unfit for consumption.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This problem is one of those which has led to the creation and invention of the machine subject of this report. In the machine of this invention the risk described above has been removed by incorporating a citric unit storage device and subsequent extraction mechanism for the fruit, so that at all times fresh citric juice is obtained, in the knowledge that juice contained in citric fruit keeps longer than once extracted. In the machine of this invention citric fruit, preferably of diameters between 86 and 80 millimeters may be stored; approximately 384 pieces of fruit may be stored, while all the interior devices are fitted inside an external casing of similar dimensions to coffee or canned soft drink dispensers.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
To better understand the subject of this invention, a practical model of the invention has been proposed in the annexed drawings. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram containing the mechanisms which form the machine of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a flow chart referring to the sequence of operation of the machine of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the internal cleaning process of the machine.
FIG. 4 is a cross-section of the citric fruit store.
FIG. 5 is a front view of the dispensing device of the machine subject of this invention.
FIG. 6 is a side view of the machine subject of this invention.
FIG. 7 is a half-section plan view of the juice extracting device in the framework of the machine subject of this invention.
FIG. 8 is a front half-section view of the juice extracting device in the framework of the machine subject of this invention.
FIG. 9 is a front view of the interior of the casing which covers the devices of the machine subject of this invention, having placed these devices in their permanent locations.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
As illustrated in FIG. 1, the machine consists of a series of modules which, once assembled, allow, by the insertion of coins for its operation, having placed pieces of citric fruit
REFERENCES:
patent: 4706793 (1987-11-01), Awane et al.
patent: 5445068 (1995-08-01), Michelson
patent: 5483870 (1996-01-01), Anderson et al.
Contractfin, A.G.
Simone Timothy F.
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