Method of pouring drink with milk and drink dispenser using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018078084-A1
Application number	US-201715819728-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 21, 2017
Priority date	Jun 2, 2015
Publication date	Mar 22, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method of pouring drink with milk includes pouring milk foam made by mixing heated steam, undiluted milk solution, and air into a drink container; and pouring liquid steam milk made by mixing heated steam and undiluted milk solution into the drink container after pouring the milk foam so as to provide drink with milk including the milk foam and the steamed milk, the drink being topped with the milk foam on a top layer in the drink container.

First claim

1 . A method of pouring drink with milk, the method comprising:
pouring milk foam made by mixing heated steam, undiluted milk solution, and air into a drink container; and pouring liquid steam milk made by mixing heated steam and undiluted milk solution into the drink container after pouring the milk foam so as to provide drink with milk including the milk foam and the steamed milk, the drink being topped with the milk foam on a top layer in the drink container.

2 . A drink dispenser comprising:
an undiluted-solution storage unit that stores undiluted milk solution at cool temperature; a steam supplying unit that supplies heated steam; an air supplying unit that supplies compressed air; a mixing unit that is structured to be supplied with steam from the steam supplying unit, undiluted milk solution from the undiluted-solution storage unit, and compressed air from the air supplying unit, and that makes, when steam and undiluted milk solution are supplied, warmed liquid steamed milk by mixing the steam and the undiluted milk solution, and makes, when steam, undiluted milk solution, and compressed air are supplied, milk with foam warmed by the steam and foamed with the compressed air by mixing the steam, the undiluted milk solution, and the compressed air; a foaming unit that increases foam in the milk with foam supplied from the mixing unit to make milk foam; a nozzle unit that pours the warmed liquid steamed milk that is made by the mixing unit and the milk foam made by the foaming unit; and a control unit that has a liquid steamed milk pouring process of pouring liquid steamed milk in which steam and undiluted milk solution are supplied to the mixing unit, and liquid steamed milk made by the mixing unit is poured through the nozzle unit, and a milk foam pouring process of pouring milk foam in which steam, undiluted milk solution, and compressed air are supplied to the mixing unit, milk with foam that is made and foamed by the mixing unit is supplied to the foaming unit, and milk foam that is made by the foaming unit is poured through the nozzle unit, and that performs the liquid steamed milk pouring process and the milk foam pouring process to pour drink with milk into a drink container when a drink with milk is selected, wherein the control unit performs the milk foam pouring process and then the liquid steamed milk pouring process when a drink with milk is selected.

3 . The drink dispenser according to claim 2 , wherein
the nozzle unit is structured as a container to temporarily store any one of the warmed liquid steamed milk and the milk foam supplied from any one of the mixing unit and the foaming unit, and to remove steam, a bottom portion of the container is formed so as to be gradually inclined downward as approaching to an end apart from a base that is a portion at which any one of the steamed milk and the milk foam is supplied, and a nozzle part is formed at the end from which any one of the liquid steamed milk and the milk foam is poured, and an angle of a wall with which any one of the liquid steamed milk and the milk foam collides in the container is formed as an acute angle.

4 . The drink dispenser according to claim 3 , wherein
a diameter of a tube of a discharge outlet to discharge to a container is smaller than a diameter of a tube linking the foaming unit and a container of the nozzle unit.

Assignees

• Fuji Electric Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nagayoshi Kenya

Classifications

• A23C2210/30

  Whipping, foaming, frothing or aerating dairy products · CPC title

• B67D1/0046

  Mixing chambers · CPC title

• B67D1/0034

  for controlling the amount of each component · CPC title

• B67D1/0857

  Cooling arrangements (cooling systems per se F25B) · CPC title

• A47J31/4489

  Steam nozzles, e.g. for introducing into a milk container to heat and foam milk · CPC title