JPS6040078B2 - cotton candy vending machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a cotton candy (cotton candy) vending machine.

This kind of well-known vending machine is used in vertical confectionery manufacturing and sales operations.
While the cotton candy purchaser holds the Yasutaka confectionery reel as a means for holding the cotton candy reel so that the cotton candy can be reeled, the cotton candy can be rolled up after the cotton candy is sold. Cleaning in the manufacturing department is also done manually by the machine manager, which means that the system is semi-automatic, and labor-saving is incomplete.

The main purpose of this invention is to provide a vending machine that can automatically carry out the entire manufacturing and sales of cotton candy.Furthermore, this invention also automatically cleans the cotton candy manufacturing section as well as manufacturing and selling cotton candy. The aim is also to provide a vending machine that can.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring to the drawings illustrating an embodiment, a vending machine according to the present invention has a vending machine that melts cotton candy sugar (generally granulated sugar) and discharges it outwardly as cotton candy. It is equipped with an electrically heated sugar chamber 11 with side holes that is rotated at high speed.

The illustrated electrothermal sugar chamber 11 is driven to rotate at high speed via a vertical drive shaft 15 from a rotary motor 13 installed below. The vending machine according to the present invention also includes a cotton candy receptacle 17 which is installed concentrically with the electric heating sugar chamber 11, contains the electric heating sugar chamber 11, and is rotated at low speed. Illustrated cotton candy receiver 17
is rotated at a slow speed in the same rotational direction as the electric heating sugar chamber 11 from an electric motor 9 installed below it via a belt transmission mechanism 21.
The vending machine of the present invention also includes a sugar supply means 23 installed adjacent to the cotton candy receiver 17 for storing a considerable amount of sugar, which is a raw material for cotton candy, and supplying it to the electric sugar chamber 11 in fixed amounts. We are prepared.

This sugar supply means 23 generally includes, as shown in the figure,
It can be composed of a sugar hopper 25 with a quantitative cut-out gate and a sugar supply chute 27 connected to the cut-out opening of the sugar hopper 25. In the illustrated example, the sugar hopper 25 is installed above the outside of the cotton candy receptacle 17, and the sugar supply chute 27 is connected to a standby stand located entirely outside the cotton candy receptacle 17 via a rotating machine (not shown). It is made movable between the position and the Kuon-fuyu position where the tip faces the top of the Senzetsu Sugar Chamber 11. The vending machine of the present invention further has a cylindrical holding head with a cotton candy winding rod insertion hole capable of holding the cotton candy winding rod 51 and rotating it at low speed around the cotton candy winding rod, and a holding head with a cotton candy winding rod insertion hole. The cotton candy receptacle approach state corresponds to the state in which the cotton candy roll Keihin 51 extends substantially vertically inside the cotton candy receptacle 17, and the cotton candy receptacle 1
A cotton candy winding birch holder 31 is provided which is movable so as to take a suitable cotton candy receptacle separation state corresponding to the state where the cotton candy receptacle is extended.

The illustrated cotton candy roll holder 31 has a horizontal shaft 33 that is rotated 900 times from an electric motor via a swing mechanism (none of which is shown), and a swinging hollow arm 35 that extends perpendicularly to the shaft. , attached movably between a horizontal position and a vertical position close to the cotton candy receiver 17, and installed at the tip of the swinging hollow arm 35 and penetrating through the center in the swinging direction of the swinging hollow arm 35. It has a winding rod insertion hole 39 and the insertion hole 3.
It rotatably supports a cylindrical holding head 37 which has a pair of clamping springs 41 facing the extension part of the swinging hollow arm 35 and has a bevel gear 43 fixed to the outside. A rotary drive shaft 47 is mounted inside the swinging hollow arm 35 and has a bevel gear 49 at one end that engages with a bevel gear 43 fixed to the cylindrical holding head 37 and whose other end is connected to an electric motor 45. It consists of an extended structure.

The cylindrical holding head 37 of the cotton candy winding holder 31 of this illustrated example is mounted on the horizontal axis 33 by an electric motor (not shown).
The electric heating sugar chamber 11 and the cotton candy receiver 17 are moved around the koji wire of the cotton candy winder insertion hole 39 through the operation of the electric motor 45 while moving up and down through the rotation of 0°. It is rotated in the same direction as the axis of rotation. The vending machine according to the present invention furthermore has a cotton candy receiver 17.
The cotton candy receptacle holder 31, which is installed adjacent to the cylindrical holding head 37 of the Yasuhata confectionery retractor holder 31 which is in a separated state, is installed adjacent to the cotton candy receptacle. A cotton candy winding rod supply means 53 is provided in which a cotton candy winding rod 51 can be inserted into the cotton candy winding rod insertion hole 39 of the cylindrical holding head 37 when taking the separated state.

This supply means 53 generally includes a large number of cotton candy winding threads 5.
1, and a winding busher 57 that pushes out the cotton candy winding rods 51 stored in the winding rod storage case 55 one by one. The illustrated winding rod storage case 55 has a structure in which the cotton candy winding rods 51 are stacked one on top of the other and accommodated, and all the winding rods 51 are always urged to move downward via a weight 59 placed on the upper part. The take-up busher 57 is connected to the take-up case 55.
Insert the cotton candy winding rod 51 horizontally into a position corresponding to the cotton candy winding rod 51 at the bottom of the It is set up so that you can wear it. The vending machine according to the present invention basically includes the electric heating sugar chamber 11 with a side hole as described above, the cotton candy receiver 17, the sugar supply means 23, the cotton candy winder holder 31, and the cotton candy winder. It is equipped with a supply means 53, and performs, for example, the following operation by adding a sales start signal by inserting a coin or the like (this operation can be changed as appropriate by appropriately setting the sequence control configuration).

When the sales start signal is added, first, at the same time as the electric heater starts heating, the electric sugar chamber 11 with side holes starts rotating at high speed, and the cotton candy receiver 17 starts rotating at low speed.

Further, the sugar supply means 23 is activated, and a fixed amount of sugar is supplied to the electric heating sugar chamber 11 which has started rotating at high speed. The sugar supplied into the electric sugar chamber 11 is then heated and melted by the electric heater, and then passed through the side hole by the centrifugal force caused by the high speed rotation and is placed in the outer cotton candy receptacle in the form of fibrous cotton candy. It is discharged into the container 17. Meanwhile, at the same time as above, the cotton candy roll supply means 53 is operated, and one cotton candy winding rod is attached to the cotton candy roll holder 31 located at a position adjacent to it (the cotton candy receiver is separated). 51
is sent and held.

Cotton candy roll holder 31 holding cotton candy roll 51
In this case, the cotton candy reel 51 moves vertically within the cotton candy receptacle 17 to a state close to the cotton candy receptacle after the supply of sugar to the electric heating sugar chamber 11 is completed. 51 rotates at low speed. As a result, the cotton candy discharged into the cotton candy receiver 17 is transferred to the cotton candy reel 5.
1 is sequentially wound.

When a predetermined period of time has passed and there is no more sugar in the electric sugar chamber 11, the electricity to the electric heater is cut off, the high speed rotation of the electric sugar chamber 11 is stopped, and the low speed rotation of the cotton candy winding rod 51 is stopped. do.
On the other hand, the low speed rotation of the cotton candy receiver 11 is also stopped. The cotton candy winder holder 31 then moves to a suitable position for reaching out from the outside and removing the cotton candy winder holder 51, and then stops.

In the illustrated example, the cotton candy winder 51 that has been wound up with cotton candy is taken out, and the cylindrical holding head 37 is placed in a position where the swinging hollow arm 35 makes a considerable angle (for example, 45 degrees) with respect to the horizontal. This is done by pulling it out from the insertion hole 39.

Next, the vending machine according to the present invention has the above configuration, and is installed adjacent to the cotton candy receiver 17 so as to be movable between the inside and outside of the cotton candy receiver. A device with a cleaning brush 61 added thereto is also included.

According to this additional configuration of the cleaning brush 61, the cleaning brush 61 is applied to the inner surface (in the illustrated example, only the inner surface of the outer periphery) of the confectionery receiving container 17 while it is being rotated at a low speed for at least one sales operation. This is convenient because cotton candy adhering to the area can be automatically removed and cleaned.

In addition, when such a cleaning brush 61 is attached, a water tank 63 in which the cleaning brush 61 can be immersed is preferably provided outside the cotton candy receptacle 17.

By doing this, the cleaning brush 61 will be clean, so
The cotton candy receiver 17 can be cleaned more effectively. As is clear from the above explanation, the cotton candy vending machine according to the present invention enables automatic manufacturing and sales of cotton candy with a substantially simple configuration, while also being capable of automatically manufacturing and selling cotton candy and receiving cotton candy. This makes it possible to automatically clean the container, which will result in almost complete labor savings in cotton candy sales.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawing is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of a cotton candy vending machine according to the present invention. 1 1. ．． ．． ．． ．． ．． Electrically heated sugar chamber with side holes,
I7... wire candy receiver, 23... sugar supply means, 31... cotton candy winding holder, 33
...... Cylindrical holding head, 51... Cotton candy winding twill, 53... Cotton candy winding comb supplying means, 61...
...Cleaning brush, 63...Aquarium.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An electric heating sugar chamber with a side hole that rotates at high speed around a vertical axis and melting sugar for making cotton candy and discharging it outward as cotton candy, and an electric heating sugar chamber. A cotton candy receptacle that contains the electric heating sugar chamber and is rotated at low speed is installed concentrically with the cotton candy receptacle, and a fixed amount of cotton candy is placed in the electric heating sugar chamber that is installed adjacent to the cotton candy receptacle. A sugar supply means for supplying sugar for manufacturing, and a cotton candy winding rod insertion device that is installed adjacent to the cotton candy receiver and is capable of holding the cotton candy winding rod and rotating it around its axis at low speed. It has a cylindrical holding head with a hole, and corresponds to a state in which the held cotton candy winding rod extends vertically within the cotton candy receiver, corresponding to a state in which the cotton candy receiver approaches, and a state in which it extends outside the cotton candy receiver. A cotton candy roll holder movable so that the cotton candy receptacle is separated from the cotton candy receptacle, and a plurality of cotton candy roll holders installed adjacent to the cylindrical holding head of the cotton candy roll holder in the cotton candy receptacle separated state. It has a winding rod storage case for accommodating the cotton candy winding rod, and a winding rod pusher for pushing out the cotton candy winding rods stored in the winding rod storage case one by one,
When the cotton candy winding rod holder is in the state where the cotton candy receiver is separated, the cotton candy winding rod can be inserted into the cotton candy winding rod insertion hole of the cylindrical holding head via the cotton candy winding rod bushier. A cotton candy vending machine comprising a candy roll supply means. 2. An electric heating sugar chamber with a side hole that rotates at high speed around a vertical axis and installed concentrically with the electric heating sugar chamber, which melts sugar for making cotton candy and releases it outward as cotton candy. , a cotton candy receiver containing the electric heating sugar chamber and rotating at low speed, and supplying a fixed amount of sugar for making cotton candy to the electric heating sugar chamber installed adjacent to the cotton candy receiver. The sugar supply hand has a cylindrical holding head with a cotton candy winding rod insertion hole that is installed adjacent to the cotton candy receiver and is capable of holding the cotton candy winding rod and rotating it at low speed around its axis. At the same time, the cotton candy receptacle is approached to a state corresponding to a state in which the held cotton candy winding rod extends vertically inside the cotton candy receptacle, and the cotton candy receptacle is separated from the cotton candy receptacle to a state corresponding to a state in which it extends outside the cotton candy receptacle. A cotton candy roll holder that is movable as shown in FIG. It has a winding rod storage case and a winding rod pusher that pushes out the cotton candy winding rods stored in the winding rod storage case one by one, and when the cotton candy winding rod holder is in a state where the cotton candy receiver is separated. a cotton candy winding rod supply means capable of inserting the cotton candy winding rod into the cotton candy winding rod insertion hole of the cylindrical holding head via the winding rod bushier; A cotton candy vending machine comprising a cleaning brush that is movable between the inside and outside of the cotton candy receiver and can come into contact with the inner surface of the cotton candy receiver. 3. The cotton candy vending machine according to claim 2, wherein a water tank in which a cleaning brush can be immersed is provided on the outside of the cotton candy receptacle.