JP2004065325A - Juicer/blender - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a juicer/blender to be manufactured inexpensively, capable of securely taking out the juice made by cutting and agitating the raw material by a cutter. <P>SOLUTION: The juicer/blender comprises a blender container 12 with the cutter 11 rotatably disposed inside, a juice takeout pipe 16 for taking out the juice inside the blender container 12 to the outside, an open/close valve 17 attached in the middle of the juice takeout pipe 16, a juice takeout pump 13 mounted between the blender container 12 and the juice takeout pipe 16 for compulsorily feeding the juice inside the blender container 12 to the juice takeout pipe 16, and a single motor 22 for rotating/driving the cutter 11 and the juice takeout pump 13 integrally. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a juicer mixer, particularly to a commercial juicer mixer used in a restaurant or the like.
[0002]
[Prior art]
FIG. 4 shows the configuration of a conventional juicer mixer 49 used for the above-mentioned applications. In FIG. 4, reference numeral 50 denotes a mixer vessel provided with a cutter 51 at the center bottom, and at the bottom of the mixer vessel 50, an outlet pipe 53 communicating with the inside and outside of the mixer vessel 50 and having an on-off valve 52 in the middle. Is provided.
[0003]
The juicer mixer 49 is used by putting a juice material into a mixer container 50, cutting and crushing the same material with a cutter 51 to produce juice, and opening the on-off valve 52 to flow the juice out of the mixer container 50. Then, it is received in an appropriate container such as a glass.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, the above-described conventional juicer mixer 49 still has the following problems to be solved.
That is, if a large amount of juice made and stored in the mixer container 50 is left for a while, the fiber component in the juice precipitates due to the specific gravity and separates from the water, and the on-off valve 52 is opened in this state. Then comes the juice that is very drunk and not delicious. Therefore, every time the on-off valve 52 is opened, the switch is turned on once, the cutter 51 is rotated, and the whole juice is stirred. The opening / closing valve 52 is opened after uniformization.
[0005]
At this time, due to the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the cutter 51, the juice flows toward the outside as shown by the arrow X, hits the inner wall in the mixer container 50, and becomes an upward flow. Therefore, even if the on-off valve 52 is opened while the cutter 51 is rotated, the vicinity of the portion of the outflow pipe 53 that opens inside the mixer container 50 becomes negative pressure due to the flow of the juice, and the mixer container 50 is closed. The outflow of juice to the outside is very poor and sometimes does not.
In other words, when using this kind of juicer mixer, once the switch for stirring the juice must be turned on, and after a while, the switch must be turned off, and then the opening / closing valve 52 must be opened. Met.
[0006]
Further, in the case of a juice having a high concentration, that is, a juice having a low fluidity, the weight of the juice is used even if the mixture is stirred evenly as described above, the switch is turned off after a while, and then the on-off valve 52 is opened. Because of the natural flow down method, it was difficult to reliably discharge the water.
[0007]
The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem, and can significantly enhance the usability of a juicer mixer, and evenly use a juice having a high concentration, that is, a juice having a low fluidity. An object of the present invention is to provide a juicer mixer that can be reliably taken out with stirring and can be manufactured at low cost by using a single drive source.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
A juicer mixer according to the present invention for achieving the above object is provided with a mixer container in which a cutter is rotatably arranged, a juice outlet tube for taking out the juice in the mixer container to the outside, and a midway of the juice outlet tube. An on-off valve, a juice extraction pump interposed between the mixer container and the juice extraction tube, and a juice extraction pump for forcibly transferring the juice in the mixer container to the juice extraction tube, and a cutter and a juice extraction pump are integrally rotated. And a single driving source. Here, the juice extraction pump refers to a device having a structure and a function capable of forcibly transferring juice to the outside, and is not limited to a discharge pump having a built-in impeller, and includes, for example, a screw feeder and the like. .
[0009]
With the above-described configuration, the cutter and the juice extracting pump can always be integrally rotated.By driving the driving source with the on-off valve closed, the juice can be made by the cutter and the juice can be made uniform. Can be stirred. At this time, the juice extracting pump that is driven to rotate integrally with the cutter does not cause the juice to flow out because the on-off valve is in a closed state, and contributes to the uniform stirring of the juice similarly to the cutter. After that, when extracting juice, it is not necessary to stop the drive of the drive source, just open the on-off valve and force the juice in the mixer container to the outside by the powerful pump action of the juice extraction pump. It can be drained through a juice outlet tube. Therefore, the usability of the juicer mixer can be improved.
[0010]
In addition, since the juice can be forcibly discharged using the juice extraction pump as described above instead of flowing naturally, even if the juice has a high concentration, that is, a juice having a low fluidity, the juice is uniformly stirred. It can be reliably taken out of the mixer container.
[0011]
Further, a cutting and stirring device for making juice can be formed from a mixer container, a cutter, and a driving source, and a removing device for removing juice from the outside is the same as the juice removing pump described above. And a driving source. As described above, since the cutting and stirring device and the take-out device can use the common drive source, the entire structure of the juicer mixer can be manufactured at low cost. Further, since the cutting and stirring device and the take-out device and stirring device can be integrally formed, the juicer mixer can have a compact configuration.
[0012]
Further, in the above configuration, a variable rotation speed motor such as a hydraulic motor or an inverter-controlled electric motor can be used as the drive source. By using the variable rotation speed motor in this way, the strength of cutting and stirring the juice raw material by the cutter can be appropriately adjusted according to the properties of the juice raw material. For example, when the concentration of the juice raw material is high, the cutter can be rotated at a high speed, and when the concentration of the juice raw material is low, the cutter can be rotated at a low speed. Furthermore, in the case of an operation in which juice is not taken out and only stirring is performed, the rotation speed variable motor is rotated at a low speed, and when the juice is taken out while stirring, the rotation speed variable motor is rotated in a high speed to consume the juice. Power can be saved.
[0013]
Further, in the above-described configuration, the mixer container and the juice extraction pump can be connected to the drive source in a separable manner. In this case, after the mixer container and the juice extraction pump are separated from the drive source from the separation point, Since the whole container can be washed with water, the mixer container and the juice extracting pump can be kept clean.
Further, the juice extracting pump may have a configuration in which the impeller is rotatably built in the impeller casing. By taking out the juice using the impeller in this way, the juice can be taken out at a constant flow rate.
[0014]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, a juicer mixer according to the present invention will be described with reference to an embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional front view of a juicer mixer according to a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a second embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a cross-sectional front view of the juicer mixer according to the first embodiment.
[0015]
(First embodiment)
The configuration of the juicer mixer 10 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
As shown in the figure, a suction opening 14 provided at the upper center of a juice extraction pump 13 is connected to the bottom of a mixer container 12 having a cutter 11 at the center of the bottom. A juice outlet pipe 16 is connected to the discharge opening 15 provided. Further, an on-off valve 17 for taking out the juice produced in the mixer container 12 to the outside is attached to the juice extracting pipe 16. Further, a lower portion of the juice extracting pump 13 is fixedly supported on a base 18.
[0016]
The juice extraction pump 13 may be of various types. In this embodiment, the juice extraction pump 13 is connected to an impeller casing 20 having a rotatable impeller 19 and a lower part of the impeller casing 20. A drive source 22 for fixing the impeller 19 to the output shaft 21 and rotating the impeller 19 is provided.
[0017]
In this embodiment, as shown in the figure, the output shaft 21 of the drive source 22 extends through the suction opening 14 and extends into the mixer container 12, and the extension end has a cutter 11 for cutting and stirring the juice raw material. Is fixed. In the illustrated embodiment, the cutter 11 is formed of a plurality of radially arranged knives. However, other known cutters can be used.
[0018]
Next, a method for producing juice using the juicer mixer 10 having the above configuration will be described.
When the drive source 22 is driven by turning on the switch with the on-off valve 17 closed, the cutter 11 and the juice extracting pump 13 rotate integrally, and the cutter 11 can cut the juice raw material to produce juice. In addition, the juice can be stirred uniformly. At this time, the juice extracting pump 13 which is driven to rotate integrally with the cutter 11 does not allow juice to flow out since the on-off valve 17 is in a closed state, and contributes to uniform stirring of the juice to some extent like the cutter 11. Will do. Then, when the juice is taken out, it is not necessary to stop the driving of the drive source. Simply by opening the on-off valve 17, the juice in the mixer container 12 is forcibly forced by the powerful pump action of the juice take-out pump 13. The juice can be discharged to the outside through the juice extracting pipe 16 and taken out into a cup or the like. Therefore, the usability of the juicer mixer 10 can be improved.
[0019]
In addition, since the juice can be forcibly discharged using the juice extracting pump 13 as described above, instead of flowing naturally, even if the juice has a high concentration, that is, a juice having a low fluidity, the juice is uniformly stirred. It can be taken out of the mixer container 12 with certainty.
[0020]
Further, a cutting and stirring device for making juice can be formed from the mixer vessel 12, the cutter 11, and the driving source 22, and a taking-out device for taking out juice to the outside is provided with a juice take-out pump 13, It can be formed from the same drive source as described above. As described above, since the cutting and stirring device and the take-out device can use the common drive source, the entire structure of the juicer mixer 10 can be manufactured at low cost. Further, since the cutting and stirring device and the take-out device and stirring device can be integrally formed, the juicer mixer 10 can have a compact configuration.
[0021]
Further, in the above configuration, a variable rotation speed motor such as a hydraulic motor or an inverter-controlled electric motor can be used as the drive source. When the rotation speed variable motor is used as described above, the strength of the cutting and stirring of the juice raw material by the cutter 11 can be appropriately adjusted according to the properties of the juice raw material. For example, when the concentration of the juice raw material is high, the cutter 11 can be rotated at a high speed, and when the concentration of the juice raw material is low, the cutter 11 can be rotated at a low speed. Furthermore, in the case of an operation in which only the cutting and stirring is performed without taking out the juice, the rotation speed variable motor is rotated at a low speed, and when the juice is taken out while stirring, the rotation speed variable motor is rotated at a high speed. Power consumption can be saved.
[0022]
In the above-described configuration, the juice extracting pump 13 includes an impeller casing 20 that rotatably incorporates the impeller 19, a driving source 22 that forms a driving source, and that coaxially attaches the impeller 19 and the cutter 11 to the output shaft 21. And can be provided. By taking out the juice using the impeller 19 in this manner, the juice can be taken out at a constant flow rate.
[0023]
(Second embodiment)
As shown in FIG. 3, the juicer mixer 30 according to the present embodiment is characterized in that the mixer container 12 and the juice extraction pump 13 are configured to be vertically separable from the pedestal 18 from a separation point 31. In this embodiment, components having the same configurations and functions as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals.
[0024]
As shown in FIG. 3, the bottom of the intermediate cylinder 32 is placed on the pedestal 18 so as to be vertically separable, and the juice extracting pump 13 is fixed to the upper part of the intermediate cylinder 32. A mixer container 12 is fixed to an upper portion of the mixer 13. On the other hand, the output shaft 21 of the drive source 22 is connected to a cutter mounting shaft 33 having the cutter 11 mounted on the upper end thereof via a joint 36 including a pair of joint pieces 34 and 35 separable at a separation point 31 and a bearing 37. It is communicatively connected.
[0025]
Even with the juicer mixer 30 described above, juice that is uniformly stirred can be produced without having to turn the switch on and off, and the juice can be taken out to the outside, thereby improving the usability. In addition, the juice can be forcibly discharged by using the juice extracting pump 13, so that even the juice having a high concentration, that is, the juice having a low fluidity, can be reliably taken out from the mixer container 12 with uniform stirring. it can.
Further, since the mixer container 12 and the juice extracting pump 13 can be separated from the driving source 22 from the separation point 31, the mixer container 12 and the juice extracting pump 13 can be washed with water, and the mixer container 12 and the juice extracting pump 13 can be washed. Can be easily maintained clean.
[0026]
As described above, the present invention has been described with reference to some embodiments. However, the present invention is not limited to the configurations described in the embodiments, and is made within the scope of the invention described in the claims. It also includes various modifications and variations that can be obtained. For example, in the above-described embodiment, the mixer container and the juice extracting pump are arranged in the vertical direction or the vertical direction. However, it is needless to say that the case where the mixer container and the juice extracting pump are arranged in the horizontal direction or the horizontal direction is also included in the present invention.
[0027]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to produce a uniformly stirred juice without complicated on / off operation of the switch, and to reliably take out the juice to the outside, thereby improving the usability. Can be. In addition, the juice can be forcibly discharged by using the juice extracting pump, so that even the juice having a high concentration, that is, the fluid having a low fluidity can be reliably taken out from the mixer container while being uniformly stirred.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a sectional front view of a juicer mixer according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.
FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional front view of a juicer mixer according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a partial cross-sectional front view of a conventional juicer mixer.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Juicer mixer 11 ... Cutter 12 ... Mixer container 13 ... Juice extraction pump 14 ... Suction opening 15 ... Discharge opening 16 ... Juice extraction pipe 17 ... Open / close valve 18 ... Pedestal 19 ... Impeller 20 ... Impeller casing 21 ... Output shaft 22 ... Drive Source 30 Juicer mixer 31 Separation point 32 Intermediate cylinder 33 Cutter mounting shaft 34 Joint piece 35 Joint piece 36 Joint 37 Bearing part

Claims (3)

A mixer container with a cutter rotatably arranged inside,
A juice take-out tube for taking out the juice in the mixer container to the outside,
An on-off valve attached in the middle of the juice outlet pipe,
A juice extraction pump interposed between the mixer container and the juice extraction tube, and forcibly transferring the juice in the mixer container to the juice extraction tube;
A single drive source that integrally rotates the cutter and the juice extraction pump;
A juicer mixer comprising: The juicer mixer according to claim 1, wherein the drive source is a variable rotation speed motor. The juicer mixer according to claim 1, wherein the mixer container and the juice extraction pump are connected to the driving source so as to be separable.

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