JP7084601B2 - Custom food and beverage carrier - Google Patents

Description

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is an ordered food / drink transport device capable of transporting ordered food / drink to the audience side by using a transport path laid so as to connect the kitchen for cooking food / drink with the audience seat. Regarding.

Conventionally, there is an order food and drink transport device for moving food and drink ordered from the audience seats along a transport path laid so as to connect the kitchen and the audience seats (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In the ordered food and drink transport device of Patent Document 1, a plate (transport body) on which food and drink is placed is placed on a transport path laid so as to connect the kitchen and the audience seat, and constitutes a transport mechanism of the transport path. By driving the so-called crescent chain, food and drink are guided to the transport route and can move between the kitchen and the audience seats.

In such an ordered food and drink transport device, the plate on which the food and drink is placed can be moved to the vicinity of the audience seats on the transport path, but the audience seats have a table located between the seats and the transport path. When receiving food and drink, customers need to reach out or lean forward. In particular, if the seats are table seats where the seats are arranged so as to surround the table extending orthogonally to the transport path, the distance to the food and drink may be long depending on the seat arrangement position, and the food and drink may be eaten while seated. The problem is that it is very difficult to receive.

Therefore, in Patent Document 1, the pushing means is arranged on the opposite side of the transport path of the audience seats, and at the position corresponding to the audience seats, the dishes transported on the transport path by the push-out means are moved to the table side to eat and drink. It is easy to receive.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2009-50507 (Page 5, Fig. 2)

However, in Patent Document 1, in order to move food and drink to the table side of the audience seats, it is necessary to arrange the extrusion means on the opposite side of the transport path of the audience seats, and the structure constituting the extrusion means is provided. There is a problem of limiting the arrangement position of the audience seats arranged along the transport path.

The present invention has been made by paying attention to such a problem, and provides a custom-made food and drink transport device capable of moving food and drink from a transport path to a table side without limiting the arrangement position of audience seats. The purpose is.

In order to solve the above problems, the custom-made food and drink transport device of the present invention is used.
It is an order food and drink transport device that can move a transport body on which food and drink is placed along a transport path laid so as to connect the kitchen and the like with the audience seats by driving the transport mechanism.
The transport body includes a mount body on which the food and drink can be placed and a traveling body traveling by the transport mechanism, and the above-mentioned stationary body and the traveling body rotate relative to each other in the horizontal direction via a shaft member. It is movably connected and
The shaft member is arranged at a position away from the central portion in the traveling direction of the above-mentioned stationary body.
The transport path side is provided with a guide piece capable of contacting the previously described stationary body, and the traveling body travels by driving the transport mechanism in a state where the guide piece is in contact with the previously described stationary body. It is characterized in that the described body rotates, and at least a part of the mounted body protrudes from the transport path toward the table side of the audience seat.
According to this feature, by driving the traveling body by driving the transport mechanism in a state where the guide piece is in contact with the mounted body, the mounted body rotates relative to the traveling body with the shaft member as the center of rotation. do. At this time, since the shaft member is arranged at a position away from the central portion in the traveling direction of the mounted body, the mounted body can be projected from the transport path toward the table side of the audience seat. This makes it easier for customers who are seated to receive food and drink. Further, by using the drive of the transport mechanism for moving the traveling body, another driving means is not required to move the mounted body to the table side of the audience seats, so that the arrangement position of the audience seats is not limited. Further, the mounted body can be returned to the transport path side by traveling the traveling body in the opposite direction by the transport mechanism.

The guide piece is characterized in that it can move forward and backward in the movement path of the previously described body in the transport path.
According to this feature, by making it possible to evacuate the guide piece from the moving path of the mounted body, a plurality of seats are arranged on the side of one transport path, and food and drink are moved to the table side in each seat. be able to.

A groove is formed on the bottom surface of the above-mentioned body, and the guide piece is characterized in that it can move forward and backward in the groove.
According to this feature, since the guide piece abuts in the groove formed on the bottom surface of the mounting body, the rotation of the mounting body is guided at a position where the center of gravity is low, and the food or drink is moved to the table side. Stability can be increased.

The groove is characterized in that it is formed in an arc shape.
According to this feature, the mounted body can be rotated gently, and the stability when moving the food or drink to the table side can be improved.

The groove is characterized in that it is formed on both sides in the width direction orthogonal to the traveling direction of the above-mentioned setting body.
According to this feature, audience seats can be arranged on both sides of the transport path, and food and drink can be moved to the table side of each audience seat.

The carrier is characterized by comprising an urging means for holding a relative position between the previously described stationary body and the traveling body before rotation.
According to this feature, when traveling along the transport path by the urging means, the relative position between the mounted body and the traveling body is maintained, the running performance of the carrier is maintained, and the mounted body is maintained. Can be quickly restored to the state before rotation.

The previously described body and the traveling body are characterized in that the relative positions of the previously described body and the traveling body before rotation are maintained by a magnetic body magnetically attached to each other.
According to this feature, when the carrier travels along the transport path, the relative positions between the mounted body and the traveling body are maintained, and the traveling property of the carrier is maintained.

The transport mechanism is characterized in that the moving speed of the transport body is decelerated during the rotation of the above-mentioned stationary body, and the movement of the transport body is stopped in a state where the rotation is completed. There is.
According to this feature, the deceleration control can suppress the rotation speed of the mounted body to improve the stability when moving the food and drink to the table side, and the stop control makes it easier for the customer to receive the food and drink. Can be done.

It is a top view which shows the order food and drink transporting apparatus in Example 1. FIG. It is sectional drawing of the carrier body and order transport path. It is a figure which shows the structure of the transport body, (a) is the perspective view of the transport body, (b) is the exploded perspective view of the transport body. It is a bottom view of the mounting body which constitutes a carrier body. The bottom view showing the relative relationship between the mounted body and the traveling body is shown by a solid line for the mounted body and a two-dot chain line for the traveling body, (a) is a diagram showing the initial position before rotation, and (b). Is a figure showing a state after rotation. It is a top view which shows the movable piece provided with a guide piece. It is sectional drawing of the transport body and the order transport path in a state where the guide piece is advanced on the transport path. (A) to (c) are diagrams showing how the guide piece is guided to the groove portion of the mounted body and the mounted body is rotated in order. (A) and (b) are diagrams showing in order how the guide piece is guided to the groove portion of the mounted body of the carrier in the second embodiment and the mounted body is rotated. It is sectional drawing of the carrier body and the order carrier path for demonstrating the structure of the guide piece in Example 3. FIG.

An embodiment for carrying out the ordered food and drink transport device according to the present invention will be described below based on examples.

The ordered food and drink transport device according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8.

As shown in FIG. 1, the order food and drink transport device 1 is provided so as to connect the kitchen K where the kitchen clerk S cooks and the in-store C where the food and drink customers eat and drink at a restaurant such as a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. It is provided with the ordered transport path 6 and the transport body 3 that travels on the order transport path 6 according to the instruction from the kitchen K side. In this embodiment, a food and drink table 4 and a counter 5 constituting the audience seats are arranged on the side of the order transport path 6 on the C side of the store.

The eating and drinking tables 4 are arranged facing each other on both sides of the order transport path 6, and the counter 5 is arranged on one side of the order transport path 6. The arrangement relationship between the kitchen K and the store C and the arrangement relationship between the order transport path 6 and the eating and drinking table 4 and the counter 5 are not limited to the configuration of this embodiment.

By traveling on the order transport path 6 from the kitchen K side toward the store C side, the transport body 3 transports food and drink to the left and right eating and drinking tables 4 and the audience seats of the counter 5 when viewed from the traveling direction of the transport body 3. You can do it. In this embodiment, the audience seats refer to each seat that is independent in the accounting unit of the ordered item, and in the case of the eating and drinking table 4, all the seats 4b arranged around the table 4a constituting the eating and drinking table 4 are integrated. If it is a counter 5, each seat 5b arranged on the table 5a constituting the counter 5 is defined as an audience seat and will be described below.

On the kitchen K side of the order transport path 6, a mounting table T for the kitchen clerk S to load food and drink is juxtaposed on the end side of the kitchen K side of the order transport path 6, and these mounting stands T are arranged in parallel. , A control device (not shown) having a confirmation means for confirming the food and drink ordered from each seat and a control means for controlling the operation of the ordered food and drink transport device 1 when the food and drink are transported to each seat. It is placed.

Next, the order transport path 6 will be described in detail. As shown in FIG. 1, at the end of the order transport path 6 on the kitchen K side, a drive portion sprocket 14a rotated in the horizontal direction by a motor (transport drive body) (not shown here) is attached to a transport surface 18a described later. It is provided below, and a tension portion sprocket 14b is provided at the end on the C side of the store.

Further, a rotary encoder (not shown) for measuring the rotation speed of the motor is attached to the motor. Further, a drive belt 16 formed in an annular shape as a transport drive body for traveling the transport body 3 is hung on the drive portion sprocket 14a and the tension portion sprocket 14b arranged at both ends of the order transport path 6. There is.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the ordered food / drink transport device 1 at a location corresponding to the food / drink table 4. As shown in FIG. 2, the order transport path 6 is composed of a transport rail 18 and a partition wall portion 19 that separates the audience seat and the transport rail 18. The upper end 19a of the partition wall portion 19 is formed at substantially the same height as the upper surface of the table 4a of the eating and drinking table 4. Further, the partition wall portion 19 is extended in the vertical direction so that the upper end 19a thereof is located below the bottom surface 8b of the mounting body 8 described in detail later.

At the center of the transport surface 18a of the transport rail 18 in the left-right width direction, a rail portion 18b is provided so as to project over substantially the entire length in the longitudinal direction thereof. The transport rail 18 is made of a metal plate that is a non-magnetic material such as aluminum or stainless steel. The rail portion 18b is formed by pressing and forming the plate material, and a downward U-shaped transport groove 18c in a cross-sectional view is formed on the lower surface side of the plate material on which the rail portion 18b is formed. ..

As shown in FIG. 2, a belt guide 17 having two guide grooves 17a that open upward and face in the front-rear direction in the left-right width direction is provided in the lower portion of the transport rail 18. In these guide grooves 17a, a drive belt 16 on the outward path side and a drive belt 16 on the return path side are arranged respectively.

Further, a belt bracket 22 formed in a substantially L shape in a cross-sectional view is attached to the drive belt 16. At the upper end of the belt bracket 22, a second magnetic body 21 made of a metal having ferromagnetism, a permanent magnet, or the like, and center rollers 24, 24 that rotate in the horizontal direction are pivotally supported, and the transport grooves 18c are respectively supported. It is located inside. A first magnetic body 20 that is driven and connected to the second magnetic body 21 by a magnetic force is attached to the traveling body 7 that constitutes the transport body 3 described later.

The second magnetic body 21 moves over substantially the entire length of the order transport path 6 by being driven by the drive belt 16, and is driven and connected to the second magnetic body 21 by a magnetic force when the drive belt 16 is driven. The traveling body 7 to which the first magnetic body 20 is attached can travel on the transport surface 18a along the transport rail 18.

Next, the carrier 3 will be described. As shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, the transport body 3 is composed of a traveling body 7 traveling on the transport rail 18 and a mounting body 8 connected to the traveling body 7. 7 and the mounting body 8 can rotate relative to each other in the horizontal direction by the shaft member 9.

On the upper surface of the mounting body 8, a guard portion 8a standing upward is formed over the outer peripheral edge to prevent food and drink from falling off from the mounting body 8. Further, at the end of the mounting body 8 on the kitchen K side in the traveling direction, a protruding piece portion 30 projecting in the traveling direction is formed in the center of the width direction, and is formed substantially in the center of the protruding piece portion 30. The shaft member 9 is pivotally supported in the hole portion 30a. That is, the shaft member is arranged at a position away from the central portion in the traveling direction of the mounting body 8.

As shown in FIG. 2, the traveling body 7 is formed in a substantially box shape that opens downward. A load roller 31 that supports the load of the transport body 3 on the transport surface 18a is pivotally supported on the lower side of the outer wall 7b of the traveling body 7 so as to be rotatable in the vertical direction. Further, inside the load roller 31, a pair of front and rear track rollers 32 (only one of the front and rear is shown here) are pivotally supported in the left-right direction and rotatably in the horizontal direction, and these track rollers 32 are railed. The traveling direction of the traveling body 7 is defined by being in contact with the left and right sides of the portion 18b and being guided.

The upper side of the outer wall 7b of the traveling body 7 is narrower in the width direction than the lower side, and a step portion 33 is formed between the lower side and the upper side. Further, as shown in FIG. 3B, a protruding piece portion 34 is formed at a position overlapping the protruding piece portion 30 of the mounting body 8 at the end portion of the traveling body 7 on the kitchen K side in the traveling direction. The shaft member 9 is pivotally supported in the hole portion 34a formed in the substantially center of the protruding piece portion 34.

As shown in FIG. 3B, a magnet body 35 made of a permanent magnet or the like is attached to an end portion of the upper surface 7a of the traveling body 7 opposite to the protruding piece portion 34. Further, a U-shaped engaging piece portion 37 that opens to the magnet body 35 side is provided in the vicinity of the protruding piece portion 34 on the upper surface 7a of the traveling body 7. Further, a plurality of hemispherical protrusions 38 are provided scattered between the engaging piece portion 37 and the magnet body 35 on the upper surface 7a of the traveling body 7. As shown in FIG. 2, the upper end of the protrusion 38 is formed at substantially the same height as the ridge 7c formed on the outer edge of the traveling body 7.

As shown in FIGS. 3 (b) and 4, a magnetic body 36 such as iron is provided at the end of the bottom surface 8b of the mounting body 8 opposite to the protruding piece portion 30, and the magnetic body 36 is provided. Is configured to magnetize with the magnet body 35 on the traveling body 7 side in a state where the mounting body 8 and the traveling body 7 are overlapped at a predetermined position.

As shown in FIG. 4, a recess 8c is formed in the vicinity of the protruding piece portion 30 on the bottom surface 8b of the mounting body 8, and the recess 8c has a U-shape that opens toward the protruding piece portion 30. The engaging piece portion 39 is provided.

As shown in FIG. 5, a leaf spring 40 is locked and arranged between the engaging piece portion 37 of the traveling body 7 and the engaging piece portion 39 of the mounting body 8. The leaf spring 40 has a linear shape in the top view in a natural state, and is curved and deformed as the traveling body 7 and the mounting body 8 rotate relative to each other around the shaft member 9, and returns to the natural state. That is, the traveling body 7 and the mounted body 8 exert a restoring force in the direction of overlapping at the initial position.

As shown in FIG. 4, grooves 41 and 41 are formed on both sides of the protruding piece portion 30 in the width direction on the bottom surface 8b of the mounting body 8. Next, the groove portion 41 will be described, but since each has a control shape in the width direction, only the groove portion 41 on one side will be described, and the description of the groove portion on the other side will be omitted.

The groove portion 41 extends from the opposite end portion of the projecting piece portion 30 of the mounting body 8 to the vicinity of the center in the traveling direction of the carrier body 3 and is formed in parallel with the widthwise edge portion 8d. It is composed of a first groove portion 42 and a second groove portion 43 extending continuously to the center side in the width direction of the mounting body 8 with a gentle curvature.

The first groove portion 42 is open outward in the width direction of the mounting body 8, and is formed to have substantially the same width dimension as the step portion 33 of the traveling body 7 as shown in FIG.

As shown in the plan view of FIG. 6, a movable piece 45 is installed on the partition wall portion 19 at a position corresponding to each audience seat. The movable piece 45 is arranged in a notch 46 formed so as to open on the upper end 19a side of the partition wall portion 19, and is above the plate body 47 and the plate body 47 which can partially close the notch portion 46. It is configured to have a protruding guide piece 48. One end of the plate 47 is pivotally supported by a shaft member 49 with respect to the partition wall portion 19, and the plate body 47 is provided with a guide piece 48, and the other end of the transport body 3 on the kitchen K side in the traveling direction is the transport surface 18a. It is a free end that can move up and down.

As shown in FIG. 6, the shaft member 49 is unevenly arranged on the table 4a side of the eating and drinking table 4 of the plate body 47 in the width direction. The plate body 47 is provided with a curved surface portion 47a concentric with the shaft member 49 at an end portion on the side supported by the shaft member 49, and the side surface 47b and the curved surface portion 47a on the transport rail 18 side of the plate body 47 are formed. It is connected by a tapered surface 47c.

The notch 46 of the partition wall portion 19 is arranged close to the curved surface portion 47a of the plate body 47, and the plate body 47 rotated around the shaft member 49 has a tapered surface 47c on the inner surface 46a of the notch portion 46. The contact regulates the rotation.

Further, although not described in detail in the figure, the movable piece 45 is fixed to the shaft member 49, and the shaft member 49 is rotationally driven by the driving means 50 (see FIG. 7). The drive means 50 can be controlled by the control device that controls the drive of the motor and the drive belt 16 described above.

Specifically, the kitchen clerk S confirms the ordered food and drink, and performs a process of transporting the food and drink to the target audience seats in order from the cooked and ready food. The kitchen clerk S places food and drink on the mounting body 8 of the transport body 3 that has been made to stand by on the kitchen K side, and selects a target audience seat by an operation means (not shown). The operating means is connected to the control device, and by selecting the audience seat, the drive of the motor and the drive belt 16 is driven, and the carrier 3 is automatically transported to the target audience seat and corresponds to the target audience seat. The driving means 50 of the movable piece 45 is rotationally driven, and the guide piece 48 is in a state of protruding onto the transport surface 18a (see FIG. 7).

The control device can measure the rotation speed of the motor that drives the drive belt 16 by the rotary encoder described above, and the mileage of the carrier 3 is calculated from the rotation speed of the motor measured by the rotary encoder. ing. Further, in the control device, orders for food and drink ordered from all the seats are stored in association with the seat ID set for each seat, and further, from the mounting table T in the order transport path 6 to the vicinity of each seat. The distance is remembered. Therefore, it is possible to accurately travel the transport body 3 on which the food and drink are placed to each seat where the food and drink is ordered, and further, the transport body 3 is located in the vicinity of each seat where the food and drink is ordered by the speed control means of the control device. Can be decelerated / stopped.

As shown in FIGS. 8A and 8B, the transport body 3 travels on the transport rail 18 with the audience seat as the destination, and in the vicinity of the target audience seat, in the groove portion 41 of the mounting body 8. The guide piece 48 of the movable piece 45 protruding on the transport surface 18a is inserted.

Due to the relative movement of the carrier 3 due to the operation of the drive belt 16, the guide piece 48 enters the second groove 43 via the first groove 42 of the mounting body 8 and is guided to the inner surface of the second groove 43. 2 Moves to the back side of the groove portion 43.

Since the second groove portion 43 is formed with a gentle curvature toward the center side in the width direction of the mounting body 8, the guide piece 48 is in contact with the inner side surface of the second groove portion 43 of the mounting body 8. Then, the traveling body 7 travels due to the operation of the drive belt 16, so that the mounting body 8 rotates and moves from the transport rail 18 to the table 4a side of the audience seat. That is, the force of moving the traveling body 7 by the drive belt 16 in the direction along the order transport path 6 is converted into the rotational force that causes the mounting body 8 to rotate relative to the traveling body 7.

When rotational power is generated, the magnet body 35 and the magnetic body 36 that magnetically magnetize the mounting body 8 and the traveling body 7 are separated from each other. Further, the rotation limit of the mounting body 8 is defined by the guide piece 48 coming into contact with the inner end portion 43a (see FIG. 4) of the second groove portion 43.

According to this, since the shaft member 9 which is the center of rotation of the mounting body 8 is biased to one side in the traveling direction, the mounting body 8 rotates relative to the traveling body 7 to cause the mounting body 8 to rotate. A part of the portion can be rotated and moved from the transport rail 18 onto the table 4a of the audience seats, so that the customers seated in the seats can easily receive food and drink. Further, by using the drive belt 16 which is a transport mechanism for moving the traveling body 7 and the driving of the motor, another driving means for moving the mounting body 8 to the table 4a side of the audience seat is not required, and the passenger seat The placement position is not restricted.

Further, since the bottom surface 8b of the mounting body 8 is formed with grooves 41 and 41 on both sides in the width direction orthogonal to the traveling direction, the audience seats are arranged on both sides of the transport rail 18 and the tables of the respective audience seats are arranged. Food and drink can be moved to the side. In addition, of the table sides of the audience seats on both sides of the transport rail 18, the mounting body 8 is pushed out only on one side to be transported, so that the passenger seats on both sides of the transport rail 18 are mistakenly picked up. It also has the effect of preventing.

On the contrary, when the drive belt 16 is driven so as to return the traveling body 7 to the kitchen K side, the groove portion 41 is guided to the guide piece 48 in the procedure opposite to the above-described embodiment, and the mounting body 8 rotates. Then, the mounting body 8 and the traveling body 7 overlap at the initial position. At this time, the leaf spring 40 assists the moving force of the mounted body 8 in the direction of returning to the initial position, and the mounted body 8 and the traveling body 7 can be quickly and surely polymerized at the initial position. Further, in a state where the mounted body 8 and the traveling body 7 are polymerized at the initial position, the magnet body 35 and the magnetic body 36 are magnetized, and the polymerized state at these initial positions is maintained.

Further, in addition to the distance from the mounting table T in the order transport path 6 to the vicinity of the audience seat, the control device guides the groove portion 41 of the mounting body 8 from the mounting table T to the guide piece 48 corresponding to the audience seat. The number of rotations of the motor until the mounting body 8 has completed the rotational movement from the transport rail 18 to the table 4a side of the audience seat, that is, the guide piece 48 has moved to the inner end 43a of the second groove 43. Stop position rotation speed) is stored.

Then, the control device is a drive belt which is a transport mechanism based on the rotation speed of the motor from the mounting table T until the mounted body is in a state where the rotational movement from the top of the transport rail 18 to the table 4a side of the audience seat is completed. 16 and the motor stop processing (speed control means) are performed. According to this, it is possible to prevent excessive rotational movement and prevent damage to the guide piece 48 and the groove portion 41. Since the transport mechanism can be stopped from the mounting table T based on the rotation speed of the predetermined motor, for example, when the rotational movement of the mounting body 8 is completed, the guide piece 48 is at the back of the second groove portion 43. Even if the design is such that the mounting body 8 is located on the front side of the end portion 43a, the rotational movement of the mounting body 8 can be reliably stopped at a predetermined position.

Further, the control device also stores the rotation speed (deceleration position rotation speed) of the motor from the mounting table T to the guide piece 48 corresponding to the audience seat until the groove 41 of the mounting body 8 reaches. The control device performs deceleration processing (speed control means) of the drive belt 16 and the motor based on the rotation speed of the motor from the mounting table T to the guide piece 48 corresponding to the audience seat until the groove 41 of the mounting body 8 reaches for the first time. By doing so, the collision speed of the guide piece 48 and the groove 41 can be reduced, and damage can be prevented.

Further, by using the stop position rotation speed stored in the control device, the rotational movement of the mounting body 8 can be terminated, so that the sensor and the like can be omitted, the control can be simply configured, and the cost can be reduced. ..

Further, since the movable piece 45 is configured such that the tapered surface 47c of the plate body 47 abuts on the inner surface 46a of the notch portion 46 to restrict its rotation, the groove portion 41 of the mounting body 8 is the guide piece 48. The notch 46 can directly receive the reaction force when the mounting body 8 rotates, and the position of the guide piece 48 is positioned at a predetermined position guided by the groove 41. It is possible to prevent the movable piece 45 from rotating. In other words, the guide piece 48 can be held in a protruding state on the transport surface 18a. Further, the load applied to the driving means 50 of the shaft member 49 can be reduced.

Further, since the movable piece 45 can be retracted from the transport surface 18a which is the moving path of the mounting body 8, a plurality of seats are arranged on the side of one transport rail 18, and each seat is on the table side. You can move food and drink to.

Further, the guide piece 48 is in contact with the groove portion 41 formed on the lower surface of the mounting body, and the rotation of the mounting body 8 is guided at a position where the center of gravity is low, so that the food and drink is moved to the table 4a side. It is possible to increase the stability when making it.

Further, since the second groove portion 43 of the groove portion 41 is formed in an arc shape, the mounting body 8 can be rotated gently, and the stability when moving the food or drink to the table 4a side can be improved. ..

Further, by forming the step portion 33 on the outer wall 7b of the traveling body 7, the traveling body 7 is expanded in the width direction while traveling while avoiding interference between the guide piece 48 and the movable piece 45 other than the groove portion 41. Stability is ensured.

Further, since the mounting body 8 is supported by the hemispherical protrusion 38 provided on the upper surface 7a of the traveling body 7 and the protrusion 7c of the traveling body 7 and rotates and moves, the contact area is small and the mounting body 8 is smooth. It can be rotated and moved.

The ordered food and drink transport device according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The same components as those shown in the first embodiment are designated by the same reference numerals, and the description of overlapping configurations will be omitted.

The transport body 53 shown in FIG. 9A is formed so that the dimension in the traveling direction and the dimension in the width direction of the mounting body 80 are substantially the same, and the shaft member 59 is the mounting body 80 and the traveling body 70. It is unevenly arranged on one side in the width direction at the end of the kitchen K side. The groove 80a of the mounting body 80 is provided only on one side in the width direction. By arranging the shaft member 59 unevenly on one side in the width direction in this way, even if the dimension in the traveling direction and the dimension in the width direction of the mounting body 80 are substantially the same, the mounting body 80 At the time of rotation (see FIG. 9B), the mounting body 80 can be moved so as to approach the table 4a side of the audience seat.

The ordered food and drink transport device according to the third embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The same components as those shown in the first embodiment are designated by the same reference numerals, and the description of overlapping configurations will be omitted.

The transport body 63 shown in FIG. 10 does not have a step portion on the outer wall 71b of the traveling body 71. In the transport rail 18, the pin member 58 constituting the guide piece can move up and down from the transport surface 18a, and the pin member 58 can move forward and backward in the groove 41 formed on the lower surface of the mounting body 81. ing. The vertical movement of the pin member 58 is controlled by the above-mentioned control device.

When such a configuration is adopted, the advancing / retreating mechanism 51 of the pin member 58 which is a guide piece can be installed below the transport surface 18a regardless of the structure such as the thickness dimension of the partition wall portion 60, and the partition wall portion 60 can be installed. Further, it is possible to increase the degree of freedom in arrangement and shape of the eating and drinking table 4 and the counter 5 adjacent to the partition wall portion 60.

Although examples of the present invention have been described above with reference to the drawings, the specific configuration is not limited to these examples, and any changes or additions that do not deviate from the gist of the present invention are included in the present invention. Will be.

For example, in the above embodiment, the shaft member 9 that pivotally supports the mounting body 8 and the traveling body 7 so as to be relatively rotatable is located on the kitchen K side of the transport body 3, and the groove portion 41 of the mounting body 8 is located. Although the mode of guiding the guide piece 48 when traveling from the kitchen K side to the store C side has been described, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, the transport body 3 is set so that the shaft member 9 is located on the store C side of the transport body 3. The shaft member 49 of the movable piece 45 may be arranged in the opposite direction, and the shaft member 49 of the movable piece 45 may be arranged on the kitchen K side accordingly. In such an embodiment, for example, before driving the movable piece 45, the control device causes the transport body 3 running forward in the C direction in the store to pass the movable piece 45 once, and then drives the movable piece 45. By advancing the guide piece 48 onto the transport surface 18a and causing the transport body 3 to run backward to the kitchen K side to guide the guide piece 48 to the groove 41 of the mounting body 8, the mounting body 8 is guided to the table 4a. Try to rotate it to the side.

Further, as a means for determining the mileage of the carrier 3 used for the speed control means in the control device, that is, the position of the carrier 3, a sensor may be used instead of the rotary encoder attached to the motor. In this case, for example, it is preferable to install the sensor in the vicinity of each seat so that only the sensor corresponding to the seat targeted for transportation can be detected by the above-mentioned selection means. As an example of using the sensor, the sensor is arranged on the front side of the audience seat on the transport rail 18, the first sensor for detecting the state where the groove 41 of the mounting body 8 has reached the guide piece 48, and the sensor are arranged on the table 4a. A second sensor for detecting the state in which the rotational movement of the mounted body 8 is completed is provided, deceleration measures are performed based on the detection of the first sensor, and stop measures are performed based on the detection of the second sensor.

Further, the guide piece that comes into contact with the mounting body 8 is not limited to the configuration guided by the groove portion 41 formed in the bottom surface 8b of the mounting body 8, for example, by directly contacting the side surface of the mounting body, the drive belt. The force for moving the traveling body 7 by 16 in the direction along the order transport path 6 may be converted into a rotational force for rotating the mounting body 8 relative to the traveling body 7.

Further, the movable piece 45 has been described with a configuration in which the rotation limit is defined by the tapered surface 47c of the plate body 47 coming into contact with the inner surface 46a of the notch portion 46 of the partition wall portion 19, but the present invention is not limited to this. The rotation of the shaft member 49 that drives the movable piece 45 may be stopped directly by the brake means, or the rotation of the shaft member 49 may be stopped by adopting a geared motor as the drive means 50 of the shaft member 49. good.

Further, in the above embodiment, the order transport path 6 has been described in an example in which the order transport path 6 is formed in an endped shape so as to be arranged so as to span the kitchen K and the store C. It may be a substantially U-shape straddling C, or it may be endless.

Further, the mounting body 8 may be removable from the traveling body 7 by a manual operation of the customer or the kitchen clerk S. According to this, for example, by removing the mounting body 8 from the traveling body 7 at the audience seat and receiving food and drink together with the mounting body 8, the mounting body 8 and the traveling body 7 are returned to the initial positions. The operation can be omitted.

Further, the mounting body 8 and the traveling body 7 are not limited to the configuration in which the initial positions of the magnet body 35 and the traveling body 7 are held by magnetic attachment of the magnet body 35 and the magnetic body 36 or by a urging means such as a leaf spring 40, for example. A ball plunger is provided on one of the facing surfaces of the mounting body 8 and the traveling body 7, and a concave portion to which the tip of the ball plunger is engaged is formed on the other side, and the concave and convex portions are engaged to hold the ball plunger in the initial position. You may.

1 Ordered food and drink transport device 3 Transport body 4 Food and drink table 4a Table 5 Counter 5a Table 6 Order transport path 7 Traveling body 8 Mounting body 9 Shaft member 16 Drive belt 18 Transport rail 18a Transport surface 19 Partition wall 30 Projecting piece 33 Step 34 Projecting piece 35 Magnet body (magnetic material)
36 Magnetic material (magnetic material)
38 Protrusion 40 Leaf spring (urging means)
41 Groove 42 1st groove 43 2nd groove 45 Movable piece 46 Notch 47 Plate 48 Guide piece 49 Shaft member 50 Drive means 51 Advance / retreat mechanism 58 Pin member (guide piece)
C store K kitchen

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It is an order food and drink transport device that can move a transport body on which food and drink is placed along a transport path laid so as to connect the kitchen and the like with the audience seats by driving the transport mechanism.
The transport body includes a mount body on which the food and drink can be placed and a traveling body traveling by the transport mechanism, and the above-mentioned stationary body and the traveling body rotate relative to each other in the horizontal direction via a shaft member. It is movably connected and
The shaft member is arranged at a position away from the central portion in the traveling direction of the above-mentioned stationary body.
The transport path side is provided with a guide piece capable of contacting the previously described stationary body, and the traveling body travels by driving the transport mechanism in a state where the guide piece is in contact with the previously described stationary body. A custom-made food and drink transport device, characterized in that the described body rotates and at least a part of the mounted body protrudes from the transport path toward the table side of the audience seat. The ordered food and drink transport device according to claim 1, wherein the guide piece can move forward and backward in the movement path of the previously described body in the transport path. The ordered food / drink transport device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a groove is formed on the bottom surface of the above-mentioned body, and the guide piece can move forward and backward in the groove. The custom-made food and drink transport device according to claim 3, wherein the groove portion is formed in an arc shape. The custom-made food and drink transport device according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the grooves are formed on both sides in a width direction orthogonal to the traveling direction of the previously described body. The ordered food / drink transport device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the transport body includes an urging means for holding a relative position between the previously described stationary body and the traveling body before rotation. .. The first to sixth aspects of claim 1 to 6, wherein the above-mentioned body and the traveling body are held at a relative position between the above-mentioned setting body and the traveling body before rotation by a magnetic body magnetically attached to each other. Ordered food and drink carrier according to any one. The transport mechanism is characterized in that the moving speed of the carrier is decelerated during the rotation of the above-mentioned stationary body, and the movement of the carrier is stopped when the rotation is completed. The ordered food and drink transport device according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

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