HK1158041B - Beverage preparation machine - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a beverage machine comprising a device for setting up at least one drinking vessel to receive a beverage emitted by a drainage of the beverage machine with a residual liquid collector.

Beverage machines, such as coffee machines, especially when designed as so-called automatic machines, have an outlet from which the brewed drink is discharged. Below the outlet is a device for setting up at least one drinking vessel. This device typically includes a residue collection tank covered on top by a drip grid. The drip grid has openings for the passage of uncovered and discharged liquid from a drinking vessel placed on it, which is then captured in the residual liquid container. The aggregate containers are removed from the drinking machine to allow the liquid to be stored in it for a period of time and disposed of as pure as possible.

One such device is known from EP 1 740 078 A1 where the residual liquid storage tank has a handle and a locking device which, after unlocking the residual liquid storage tank, allows it to be removed from the beverage machine together with the brewing unit.

EP 1 731 065 B1 is another beverage machine known to have a device for the setting up of at least one drinking vessel which includes a removable residual liquid collector for draining and rinsing from the beverage machine. The device described in this document includes a first drainage grid which is removable from the collecting tank and, when removed, a second dropper. This is to enable, depending on which dropper is used, drinking vessels to be positioned at different heights below the open outlet receptacles of a beverage. When a prepared beverage is discharged into a higher top drainage tank, the dropper must be removed from the collecting tank and, if removed, a second dropper must be used. This can be used either on the bottom of the machine or next to the coffee or milk dropper, for example, to discharge the liquid from the drainage machine.

US 5.161.455 is a beverage machine which has a drawer which is located above a lower drawer surface and can be positioned between a drawn-out position for use and a non-use position which is inserted into a stand.

EP 2 215 943 A1 a second edition of a beverage dispensing device which, above a first edition containing a reservoir for the collection of residual liquids, allows a second edition to be placed between a use and non-use position according to the type of container.

The purpose of the invention is therefore to propose, on the basis of the state of the art discussed at the outset, a type-specific beverage-making machine, in which the set-up device with its residual liquid collection tank not only allows easy operation but also allows drinking vessels of different heights to be positioned below the outlet without having to accept the disadvantages of the state of the art discussed above.

This task is solved by a beverage machine of the same type as described in the first part of claim 1 according to the invention.

In this beverage machine, the device for setting up at least one drinking vessel with its residual liquid collector is adjustable from a position of use where it is below the outlet of the beverage machine to a position of non-use where it is not below the beverage machine, although part of the beverage machine remains. The adjustability may be of different design. According to one example, the device is adjustable along a translator motion where the direction of the fuel tank can be set up to be at least parallel to the body or other parts of the beverage machine. For example, the beverage machine is typically set up in a non-markered position, or a typical position is set up in a direction that is at least partially protected by the body of the beverage machine.

The design of the device as a drawer-like outlet allows the device to be easily removed from the beverage machine and thus removed, emptied and cleaned from it, all along the same path of movement. The possibility of placing the device in a position of use and a position of non-use allows drinking vessels of different heights to be positioned under the outlet depending on the position of the device. It is understood that the device, including the residual liquid collection tank and, for example, the top-floor gasket containing such a residual liquid storage tank, cannot be positioned at a certain height and therefore at a significant height below the drinking water depending on whether the outlet is located below its operating position or below the operating display.

According to the invention, the suspension device with its collector is soluble and connected to a device-side adjustment mechanism, which locks the suspension device in its non-use position against the reserve force of a spring element.

The locking of the adjustment mechanism and therefore of the device connected to the adjustment mechanism may be carried out by means of a push-push holder. This allows the lifting device to be free from any handles or other external controls to enable the device to be removed from the non-use position to its use position. If the locking is released in the design prescribed, the energy stored in the spring element causes the lifting device to be discharged at least by an initial amount of motion from the beverage machine housing.In order to push the suspension into its position of use, after the suspension has been moved by the spring element for a first movement, it can be manually held and removed from its position of use. Other means of holding the suspension in the non-use position can be used instead of a push-push suspension, as described above. It is understood that locking is not required in principle if the suspension is moved from its position of use into its position of use without the support of a spring. It is also not possible to use a stall motor to turn the suspension into its position of use.

The use of a spring is particularly suitable for bringing the lifting device from its non-use position to its use position after a lock has been removed. The spring is flat and, depending on the design of the beverage machine, can be placed, for example, between a water tank for storing the water needed for the beverage making process and a tray. Preferably, a spring is used with two or more windings, which allows the arms of the spring to be arranged in a certain distance from each other without over-crossing the wind diameter.The suspension is soluble in such a design, for example by being attached to the rail by a grating. An absorber attached to such a rail can slow down the starting motion of the rail with the suspension. In such a design, when using a push-push suspension, only a small amount of user input is required to drive the suspension into the injection molding machine.

Further advantages and features of the invention are shown by the following description of an example of an embodiment, using the accompanying figures: Figure 1:a perspective view of a beverage machine operated as a coffee machine with a device for setting up at least one drinking vessel with this device in its operating position,Figure 2:the coffee machine in Figure 1 with the setting up in its non-operating position,Figure 3:a perspective view of the coffee machine in Figure 1,Figure 4:a representation similar to that in Figure 3 with a separate tray to represent the set-up mechanism for the set-up,Figure 5:the set-up mechanics highlighting the adjacent non-use components,Figure 6:the layout of the rest of the components in Figure 4 by the rearward section of the liquid-fuel machine in the direction of its set-up in the coffee machine,Figure 7: the rest of the elements in the direction of its set-up in the coffee machine,Figure 7: the rest of the elements in the rear section of the machine, and Figure 7: the rest of the elements in the direction of the coffee machine in the direction of its set-up in the opposite direction,Figure 7: the rest of the elements in the coffee machine in the direction of its set-up in the coffee machine,Figure 7: the rest of the elements in the set-up mechanism in the direction of the coffee machine in the direction of the coffee machine,Figure 7: the rest of the rest of the components in the set-up in the coffee machine in the direction of the set-off,Figure 7: the rest of the rest of the coffee machine in the set-fuel in the coffee machine in the direction of the set-fuel,Figure 7: the rest of the set-fuel in the set-up mechanism in the coffee machine in the direction of the set-fuel,Figure 8: the rest of the set-fuel machine in the set-fuel machine in the set-up in the position of the set-up in the coffee machine in the position of the coffee machine in the coffee machine in the position of the coffee machine,Figure 8: the set-fuel in the set-figure 7: the rest of the set-figure 7: the rest of the set-figure 7: the rest of the set-figure 7: the set-figure 7: the rest of the

A coffee machine 1 as a beverage machine has a case 2 containing the aggregates necessary for the preparation of the beverage. On the front of the coffee machine 1 there is an outlet 3 for the output of the beverage brewed with the coffee machine 1. Below the outlet 3 the coffee machine 1 has two containers arranged in the coffee machine 1.

Part of the coffee machine 1 is a device for setting up at least one drinking vessel, marked with reference number 6, to receive a drink released by outlet 3. Figure 1 shows the setting up device 6 in its position of use. The setting up device 6 includes a residual liquid collection tank designed in the style of a bathtub 7. It is covered on the top by a droplet plate 8. The droplet plate 8 has breaks to prevent liquid captured in a drinking vessel from being picked up by the residual liquid collection tank 7 below.

The device 6 with its residual liquid storage tank 7 and the drip plate 8 is inserted into the housing 2 of the coffee machine 1 from its position below the outlet 3 shown in Figure 1 in the manner of a drawer, this position of the device 6 - the non-use position of the device 6 - is shown in Figure 2. A comparison of the representations of the coffee machine 1 with its device 6 in its use position (Figure 1) and in its non-use position (Figure 2) shows that below the outlet 3 each drinking vessel can be positioned at different heights to receive a drink given to the outlet 3.

The arrangement of the water tank 4 and the tray tank 5 next to it, which is located inside the coffee machine 1, can be seen from the partial position of the coffee machine 1 in Figure 3, where the stand 6 is located in its position of use, which is removed from the housing 2. The two tanks 4, 5 each have a front partition 9 and 10, which is supported over the width of the tanks 4, 5. Both tanks 4, 5 can be drawn out of the housing 2 of the coffee machine 1 and removed from the other components of the beverage machine in a drawer-like manner. In their position of use (the position shown in Figure 3) between the two sides of the containers 4, 4 which face each other, the inserted position (the position of use) is located between the two sides of the container 4, 4.The column 11 is used in the illustrated example to accommodate a femoral spring 12 of an adjustment mechanism to move the device 6 from its non-use position to its use position. The femoral spring 12 is more clearly visible in the illustration in Figure 4 because the tread canister 5 is not shown. The adjustment mechanism includes, in addition to the femoral spring 12, a rail 13 which is mounted in a longitudinally moving position in a manner not shown in detail, and a push-push hold device consisting in the illustrated example of a rolling guide 14 and a rolling gear 15.The rear bearing 17 has two opposite-pointed pins 18, 18.1, on which the double-spoke spring 12 is supported. The spoke spring 12 is a double-spoke spring, as it is designed by the wire course on a double-arm bearing made of two wires and thus double-spoke. The rear bearing 17 comprises one further of the 19 pins, which is not designed to be double-spoke and is supported by a double-spoke bearing on its back side.The arm of the spring 12 which supports the spring 17 is shown in Figure 4 with reference 21. The other arm 22 of the spring, opposite the spring 21, rests on the top of the spring 13 at a pivot point 13. It is moulded to the locking jack 14 pointing the locking pins 15. The spring 12 is in the position shown in Figure 4 in which the spring 6 is in its position extended from the housing 2 of the coffee machine 1 and is still in a certain tension.The spring 12 is operated by the femoral spring 12 in conjunction with the spring 13 and its stored spring force.

Figure 5 shows in an enlarged representation the prescribed elements of the adjustment mechanism with the gear rail 13 and the femoral spring 12. The femoral spring 12 has two twist sections 24, 25 arranged in the plane of the femoral spring 12 in a reverse order. The twist sections 24, 25 of the illustrated embodiment have the same or approximately the same diameter. The twist sections 24, 25 differ in their number of twists. While the twist section 24 closer to the reverse 17 has only one twist for each branch of the double-spindle spring 12, the wind section 25 has two twists.

Adjacent to the adjustment nook 23 of the transformer rail 13 is a two-part receptacle 26 cut transversely to the longitudinal direction of movement of the transformer rail 13 The two receptacles 26 are separated by a vertical step 27 The two receptacles 26 are used to connect the residual fluid storage tank 7 of the transformer device 6 to the adjustment rail 13 of the transformer mechanism For this purpose, the residual fluid storage tank 7 has two stop rails in its upper part which interfere with the longitudinal direction of movement of the transformer rail 13 The two receptacles 26 are separated by a single stop in relation to the transformer rail 30 of the transformer device 6 to the adjustment rail 13 of the transformer mechanism 28 For this purpose, the residual fluid storage tank 7 has two stop rails in its upper part which interfere with the transformer rail 26 The residual fluid storage tank 7 is insulated by a single insulation in relation to the transformer rail 30 of the transformer rail 30 of the transformer equipment 30 1 The transformer rail 7 is insulated in a certain angle of the transformer rail 28 1 These two stop rails are insulated in the inner part of the transformer rail 7 of the transformer rail 28 and the two stop rails in the transformer rail 7 of the transformer rail 30 of the transformer rail 7 are insulated in the inner part of the transformer rail 28 1 and the two stop rails are insulated in the left side of the transformer rail 7 are insulated in the same direction of the transformer rail 28 1 and the other two stop rails 7 are insulated in the transformer rail.

In a cross-section of the images 26 the residual liquid collection tank 7 is shown in Figure 6 in its position connected to the control rail 13. The stop rails 31, 31.1 of the residual liquid collection tank 7 are clearly visible in each of the images 26 and 31.1 of the control rail 7. This design allows the control rail 13 to extend only to the rear of the residual liquid collection tank 7 because the operation of the stop rails 31, 31.1 in Figure 26 prevents the residual liquid collection tank 7 from tipping after being reserved.

The insertion of the insertion device 6 is made against the force of the femoral spring 12 which is therefore tense in the position shown in Figure 7. The insertion rail 13 is held against the force of the femoral spring 12 by the locking pin 15 entering the gel box 14 of the push-push holder. From the outside, in the example shown, the front of the insertion device 6 flows with the 9, 10 of the blinds above it. 4, 5. The insertion device 6 shows no disruptive design features or handles on the front of the insertion device.From its non-use position shown in Figure 7 where the outlet 6 is not below the outlet 3, the outlet 6 can be moved to its use position by a user moving the outlet 6 slightly further in order to release the lock of the push-push holder. This relieves the locking of the locking cap 15 within the locking box 14. The energy stored in the shaft spring 12 pushes this outlet 13 and thus the connected outlet 6 out of the housing 2 of the coffee machine to the direction shown in Figure 4. The outlet 13 shown for this purpose is not designed to be used in a way that is obvious and significant.

The purpose of the hydraulic damping element 32 is to dampen the specified exit movement by means of a notch in a gear bar 33 moulded on the inside of the side 29 of the control rail 13 (see also Figure 6). The damping element 32 moves the control device 6 from its non-use position to its exhaust position at reduced speed.

To remove the suspension device 6 with its residual liquid storage tank 7 and the drop plate 8 on it, it is removed from the contact rail 13 from the position of use by overcoming the restraint forces provided by the action of the restraint 34 in the restraint knots 28, 28.1.

It is clear from the description of the invention that the beverage machine described can easily provide two levels for the positioning of drinking vessels below the outlet line 3, in particular without having to handle or dispose of unnecessary elements for the purpose of positioning. In addition, the adjustment mechanism described provides a very haptically pleasing sensation of operation or movement, especially without the need for electrical actuators. This is also due to the fact that the positioning device can be moved and removed from the coffee machine when the latter is without power or not on.

Without leaving aside the scope of the claims in force, there are many other ways in which a professional can realize the invention without having to explain it in detail in the context of these presentations.

List of reference marks

1 coffee machine2 housing3 drainage4 water tank5rester tank6 outlet7 residual liquid collector8 dropper 9 blender10 blender11 split 12 jaw spring13 adjustment rail14 locking jack15 locking sockets16 frame part17 backrest 18, 18.1 socket19 support leg20 back side21 jaw spring22 jaw spring23 adjustment knob24 winding section25 winding section26 recording27 stages2828281 restnut29,29.1 sidewall30,1 30th inch31.1,3 1 stopper32 damper33 additional element34

Claims (11)

1. A beverage preparation machine comprising a device (6) for the erecting of at least one drinking vessel for collecting a beverage discharged through an outlet (3) of the beverage preparation machine (1) having a residual liquid collector (7), wherein the device (6) is movable relative to the housing (2) and to the outlet (3) of the beverage preparation machine (1) from a usage position in which the device (6) is with its residual liquid collector (7) is located beneath the outlet (3), into a non-usage position in which the device (6) with its residual liquid collector (7) is not located beneath the outlet (3) and is at least for the most part accommodated in the housing (2) of the beverage preparation machine (1), and is also movable vice versa, the device (6) being detachably attached to an adjuster mechanism (12,13, 14, 15) held and guided on the machine, by which adjuster mechanism (12, 13, 14, 15) the device (6) is held locked in its non-usage position against the restoring force of a spring element (12).
2. A beverage preparation machine according to claim 1 wherein the adjuster mechanism comprises an adjusting rail (13) which is displaceably mounted in the housing of the beverage preparation machine and which is held latched by means of a push-push holding device (14, 15) in the non-usage position of the device.
3. A beverage preparation machine according to claim 2 wherein the push-push holding device has a locking bush (14), preferably arranged on the machine, and a locking pin (15), preferably arranged on the adjusting rail and which can be pressed into the locking bush (14) to lock said holding device.
4. A beverage preparation machine according to claim 2 or 3 wherein there is disposed between the adjusting rail (13) and an abutment (17) arranged on the machine an ejector spring (12) as a spring element against whose restoring force the device (6) is pushed into its in non-usage position.
5. A beverage preparation machine according to claim 4, where the ejector spring is configured as a leg spring (12) whose one leg (22) is supported off the adjusting rail (13) and whose other leg (21) is supported off the abutment (17).
6. A beverage preparation machine according to claim 5 wherein the ejector spring (12) exhibits two coil sections (24, 25) which are arranged offset relative to one another in the plane of the spring.
7. A beverage preparation machine according to claim 6 wherein the number of coils in the two coil sections (24, 25) is different.
8. A beverage preparation machine according to claim 7 wherein the number of coils in the coil section (25) closer to the support of the ejector spring (12) on the adjusting rail (13) is greater than in the other coil section (24).
9. A beverage preparation machine according to any one of claims 2 to 8 wherein the residual liquid collector (7) of the device (6) is detachably attached or attachable to the adjusting rail (13) in the direction of motion of the adjusting rail (13) by means of a detent (28, 28.1, 34).
10. A beverage preparation machine according to any one of claims 1 to 9 wherein for holding the residual liquid collector (7) in its intended arrangement on the adjusting rail (13) there is provided at least one mount (26) open towards its usage position in the direction of motion of the adjusting rail (13) and undercut in the direction square thereto, and in each of which engages a holding rail (31, 31.1) arranged on the residual liquid collector (7) of the device (6).
11. A beverage preparation machine according to any one of claims 1 to 10 wherein the beverage preparation machine is configured as a coffee machine (1), in particular as a so-called fully automatic machine.