KR200255484Y1 - Purified and Ionized Cold/Hot Water Dispenser - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention can not only provide cold ionized water that ionizes purified water immediately when the water supply is stored at a low temperature after purifying the tap water, but also to supply cold water and hot water separately. It relates to cold and hot water purifier. The ion cold / hot water purifier of the present invention includes a purified water filter unit for purifying tap water, a cooling container 16 formed to receive purified water purified by the purified water filter unit and to store the purified water at a low temperature, and in the purified water filter unit. A hot water tank 12 for receiving purified water and raising the temperature of the purified water, and storing and supplying it, a cooling purified water pump 18 installed in succession to the cooling reservoir 16, and a cooling purified water pump 18 in a row And an electrolytic cell 20 for ionizing the cooling purified water. The purified water filter unit is formed by sequentially connecting the prefilter 10a, the carbon filter 10b, the silver carbon filter 10c, and the post-treatment carbon filter 10d. According to the ion cold / hot water purifier of the present invention, since the purified water and the purified water are cooled and then ionized to generate and supply alkaline ionized water immediately, unlike the conventional method, the loss of efficacy according to the elapsed storage time of the ionized water (neutralization of alkaline water) ) Can be directly supplied with cold alkaline ionized water.

Description

Purified and Ionized Cold / Hot Water Dispenser

The present invention relates to an ion cold water purifier, and more particularly, it is possible to provide cold ionized water in which purified water is stored at low temperature after purifying tap water at low temperature, and ionized purified water immediately when the water supply needs of the user. It relates to an ion cold and hot water purifier that can be supplied separately from the hot water.

It is already known for the cold and hot water machine to supply the water simply by separating it into cold water and hot water. For example, the cold and hot water supply device of the cold and hot water simple supply method disclosed in the Republic of Korea Utility Model Publication No. 1985-6397, the water tank is placed and mounted in the water tank formed on the upper part of the body so that the water is supplied from the drinking tank to the water tank The water from the upper part, which is supplied to the water supply tank and separated by the cold / hot water blocking plate, is heated through the heater via the hot water hole and the hot water pipe to be supplied to the hot water faucet, and to the cooling pipe set on the inner circumferential surface of the water supply tank. The cold water cooled while staying in the lower space of the water supply tank formed by the water supply pipe is configured to be supplied to the cold water faucet through the cold water hole and the cold water pipe.

However, this hot and cold water supply device has the drawback that cold water or hot water can be obtained if necessary, but not purified water.

In addition, the general water purifier is configured to supply only purified tap water by removing only foreign substances mixed with tap water supplied from a water supply tank or tap water pipes through a filter. It does not meet the needs of users who want to use it.

On the other hand, simple ionized water is also commercially available that only supplies ionized water after supplying the ionized water without any further treatment. This ionizer is inconvenient because the user has to receive and drink the ionized water in the refrigerator in hot summer days. In addition, during cold storage, there is a disadvantage in that the pH concentration of the alkaline water stored as the storage time elapses is lost, thereby losing useful properties inherent in ionized water.

In addition, in recent years, the hot and cold water and ionizers are manufactured and sold separately, but in order to solve the problem that users do not meet the demand of ionizing cold and hot water, an apparatus in which the cold and hot water and the ionizer are formed integrally has been proposed (Korean Utility Model Publication No.1991-742). Reference).

The ion cold / hot water beverage apparatus in which the hot and cold water and the ion water group are disclosed in the Utility Model Publication No. 199-742 is formed in the order of the water purifier → the electrolytic bath → the cold water container, based on the cold and hot water and the ion water treatment step. In other words, the electrolytic cell is installed at a position prior to the cold water tank storing the coolant.

The well-known ion cold / hot water drink apparatus purifies water of a tap water in a water purifier, separates purified water into acidic water and alkaline water in an ionization electrolytic cell, and alkaline water is supplied to and stored in a cold water tank and a hot water tank. Water through cold and hot water coke as required. The main configuration of this apparatus is configured to generate alkaline ionized water through an ionizer, that is, an electrolytic cell, and then to cool the alkaline ionized water in a cold storage container first, and then open the cold water faucet to receive and drink the ionized water.

However, in the apparatus, the alkaline ionized water generated through the ionizer is stored for a long time in the cold water tank and the hot water tank, which are the ionized water storage tanks, until the user withdraws the water, and the ionic component of the alkaline ionized water stored in the cold water tank disappears over time. As the pH level decreases to neutral. In other words, the ionized ion component is unstable compared to the original bound state, and has a property of returning to a stabilized state when there is a binding factor or energy is applied. There is a problem that disappears over time.

In addition, alkaline ionized water produced in the ionizer is generally stored in a cold storage container of metallic stainless steel rather than plastic or glass containers. Since the ionic component is bound to the metal and returns to a stabilized state, the ionic component quickly disappears. There is also a problem.

In addition, the ionized water changes as the calcium component of the ionized water stored in the cold water container becomes entangled with crystals over time, so that calcium bodies remain in the cold water container to increase contamination, and the effect of the ionized water stored in the cold water water bottle is also reduced. have.

Therefore, the present invention was devised in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object thereof is an ion cold / hot water purifier capable of immediately drinking ionized water in a cool state after ionizing the purified purified water immediately after purifying tap water. In providing. In other words, an object of the present invention is to provide a water purifier, a hot and cold water purifier, and an ion cold and hot water purifier in which the ionizers are sequentially integrated into one another, but after the ionization as in a conventional ion cold and hot beverage device, the water is stored and then watered according to a user's request. It is to provide an ion cold / hot water purifier which does not take a configuration, but instead stores the purified water at a low temperature and ionizes and supplies the cold storage purified water only when a user's water supply is required.

1 is a view showing a piping state of the ion cold and hot water purifier of the present invention.

2 is a view showing a state in which the water filter unit of the ion water purifier of the present invention is attached.

Figure 3 is a view showing the inner installation state of the ion cold and hot water purifier of the present invention. * Explanation of the symbols for the main parts of the drawing *

10a: pre-filter 10b: carbon filter

10c: silver carbon filter 10d: post-treatment carbon filter

12: hot water bottle 16: cooling reservoir

18: cooling purified water pump 20: electrolyzer

Therefore, according to the present invention for achieving the above object, by the water filter unit and the water filter unit is formed so that the pre-filter, carbon filter, silver carbon filter and the post-treatment carbon filter in order to purify the tap water, In the ion cold and hot water purifier consisting of a cooling reservoir formed to receive the purified purified water and lower the temperature of the purified water, and a hot water tank receiving the purified water purified by the purified water filter unit and storing the purified purified water at a high temperature. A cooling purge water pump is installed following the reservoir, and an electrolytic cell for ionizing the cooling purified water is installed following the cooling purifying water pump; The cooling purified water pump is installed to be connected to the next portion of the cooling reservoir is installed to supply the cooling purified water stored cold in the cooling reservoir to the electrolytic cell, the electrolytic cell is installed in series with the cooling purified water pump to the cooling purified water pump And receiving the cooling purified water from the cooling container, converting the supplied cooling purified water into ionized water, and discharging the alkaline water and the acidic water converted into the ionized water into the cold water tap and the acidic water outlet respectively. According to the ion cold / hot water purifier of the above-described configuration according to the present invention, the water supplied from the outside is first purified through the water purifier or the water filter unit, and then the purified water is stored in the cooling reservoir and the hot water tank, respectively. Stored in the cooling dish, The cold purified water kept at low temperature is supplied to the electrolytic cell by the pump when the user's water supply is required, and the electrolytic cell separates the cold purified water supplied from the cooling reservoir into the acidic water and the alkaline water, and the separated alkaline water supplies the cold water tap at the outlet. According to the ion cold / hot water purifier of the present invention, since the ionized ionized water is not processed, the conventional problems such as loss of ionic components (ie, neutralization of alkaline water) due to long-term storage of ionized water are eliminated. do. In addition, since there is no need to store the ionized water separately, conventional problems such as material selection of the ionized water storage container and deposit formation in the storage container are completely solved.

The ion cold / hot water purifier of the present invention configured as described above will be described below.

1 is a view showing a piping state of the ion cold and hot water purifier of the present invention, Figure 2 is a view showing a state attached to the water filter unit of the ion cold and hot water purifier of the present invention, Figure 3 is installed inside the ion cold and hot water purifier of the present invention It is a figure which shows the state.

In the ion cold / hot water purifier of the present invention, a water filter unit is formed to primarily purify the water supplied through the water pipe.

The water filter unit is divided into four water filter units 10a, 10b, 10c, and 10d. The prefilter 10a primarily passes through the water filter unit, and the carbon filter formed so as to filter the water that passes primarily through 10b), the silver carbon filter 10c which filters the water which passed through the carbon filter 10b in 3rd order, and the post-processing carbon filter 10d which filters the 4th purified water are formed.

As described above, the cooling container 16 capable of cooling or heating the water purified by the pre-filter 10a, the carbon filter 10b, the silver carbon filter 10c, and the post-treatment carbon filter 10d of the purified water filter unit, and The hot water tank 12 is formed so that the user can selectively draw water to eat.

The cooling device 13 for cooling the water in the cooling reservoir 16 is generally composed of a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, an evaporator, and the like.

In addition, the cooling purified water stored in the cooling container 16 is generally supplied as purified water itself according to the user's choice, or is supplied to the electrolytic cell 20 so that the purified water can be ionized and drinkable with ionized water which is beneficial to health.

In the middle of the pipe leading from the cooling reservoir 16 to the electrolytic cell 20, a cooling purified water pump for introducing the cooling purified water in the cooling reservoir 16 into the electrolytic cell 20 while applying pressure to the water of the cooling reservoir 16 ( 18) is installed.

With reference to the accompanying drawings, the ion cold and hot water purifier of the present invention configured as described above will be described in more detail.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, when the tap water is introduced into the pre-filter (10a) of the purification filter unit, the tap water is first filtered through a filter of about 5 microns.

In order to adsorb and remove harmful chemicals contained in the purified water primarily filtered through the prefilter 10a, the purified water passed through the prefilter 10a is passed through a carbon filter 10b using an activated carbon filter.

As described above, after removing the harmful chemical components from the carbon filter 10b, a silver carbon filter 10c having an activated carbon filter coated with pure silver is formed so as to sterilize and sterilize the purified water.

The water purified by the silver carbon filter 10c is purified by passing through a post-treatment carbon filter 10d having an activated carbon filter so as to filter back the taste and smell of purified water.

Although not shown, the purified water is supplied to the hot water tank 12 and the cooling storage tank 16 as shown in FIG. 3 using a tubing hose.

Since the purified water supplied to the hot water tank 12 is always heated immediately by using a heater or the like in the hot water tank 12, the user can open the hot water tap 26 of the water purifier and immediately take it.

In addition, the purified water supplied to the cooling reservoir 16 without being supplied to the hot water tank 12 is kept cold by a cooling device composed of a compressor 13, a condenser, an expansion valve, an evaporator, and the like.

In order to increase the cooling efficiency of the cooling container 16, the outer surface of the cooling container 16 is wrapped with a heat insulating material 19 that can block the outflow of cold air to be cooled.

The purified water stored in the cooling container 16 is supplied to the electrolytic cell 20 by the cooling purified water pump 18 (see FIG. 1).

The electrolytic cell 20 is a general electrolytic cell, separating alkaline water and acidic water.

Although not shown in the inside of the electrolytic cell 20, generally, a positive electrode (+), which is an electrode for making acidic water, and a negative electrode (-), which is an electrode for making alkaline water, are provided. An electrode plate and a membrane (membrane), etc. which generate | occur | produces are formed. Therefore, when current is applied to both electrodes while passing water inside the electrolyzer 20, electrolysis is performed, and hydrogen ions are increased in the passing water to generate oxygen molecules. At this time, various minerals contained in the water are ionized, and calcium, magnesium, sodium, and hydrogen, which constitute alkaline water, move toward the negative electrode through the diaphragm, and chlorine, sulfur, phosphorus, etc. Move to the anode and separate.

The electrolytic cell 20 according to the embodiment of the present invention generates ionized water using cooling purified water that has already been cooled in the cooling reservoir 16, and alkaline water is collected at the cathode side and acidic water is collected at the anode side. Alkaline water is supplied to the cold water tap 22 of the outlet is discharged so that the user can drink in a cool state immediately. On the other hand, the acidic water generated like alkaline water is discharged to the acidic water outlet 24.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, since the purified water and the purified water is cooled and then ionized to generate and supply alkaline ionized water immediately, unlike the conventional art, the loss of ionic components due to the elapsed storage time of the ionized water (alkali water) There is an advantage that can directly provide cold alkaline ionized water without neutralization). In addition, although not shown in the present invention, it is possible to selectively provide alkaline ionized water or purified water which is generally purified only by installing a switching switch, if necessary.

In addition, in order to use the electrolytic cell of the present invention more effectively, the actual use test was conducted as follows.

The water purified through the purified water filter unit is primarily stored in the cooling container 16 and is cooled and maintained. When the user opens the cold water tap 22 to drink alkaline water, the cooled water is directly the electrolytic cell 20. Was immediately supplied through the cold water tap 22 through, so that the user could drink alkaline water to maintain the best pH concentration.

Therefore, as shown in the use test example of the present invention, rather than installing the electrolytic cell 20 in the position of the previous step prior to the conventional cooling reservoir 16, as in the embodiment of the present invention of the next step of the cooling reservoir 16 It can be seen that it is more preferable to provide the electrolytic cell 20 at the position from the viewpoint of supplying good alkaline water.

In addition, the present invention is because the first purified water is stored in the cooling container 16 immediately after the ionization treatment in the electrolytic cell 20, so the problem of the generation of calcium crystals generated over time as in the conventional There is an advantage that does not.

According to the ion cold and hot water purifier of the present invention formed as described above, there is a convenient effect that can directly drink the cool water cooled in the cool state without the loss of ionic components.

In addition, according to the ion cold and hot water purifier of the present invention, the user can immediately drink the purified cold water ionized in a cold state, so that after obtaining ionized water as in the prior art, it is not necessary to store it separately in the refrigerator to drink it coolly, It is very effective to prevent the phenomenon that ion component of ionized water is lost (neutralization of ionized water) by long time storage.

Claims (1)

The purified water filter unit formed so that the pre-filter 10a, the carbon filter 10b, the silver carbon filter 10c, and the post-treatment carbon filter 10d are sequentially connected to purify the tap water, and purified water purified by the purified water filter unit. In the ion cold and hot water purifier consisting of a cooling reservoir (16) formed to receive and lower the temperature of the purified water, and a hot water tank (12) for receiving the purified water purified by the purified water filter unit to raise and store the purified water. , A cooling purified water pump (18) is installed following the cooling reservoir (16), and an electrolytic cell (20) for ionizing the cooling purified water is installed following the cooling purified water pump (18); The cooling purified water pump 18 is installed to be connected to the next portion of the cooling container 16 is installed to supply the cooling purified water stored in the cooling container 16 to the electrolytic cell 20, The electrolytic cell 20 is installed in series with the cooling purified water pump 18 to receive cooling purified water from the cooling reservoir 16 by the cooling purified water pump 18, and converts the supplied cooling purified water into ionized water. , The ion cold and hot water purifier, characterized in that configured to discharge the alkaline water and acidic water converted to the ionized water to the cold water tap 22 and the acidic water outlet 24, respectively.