Patent CZ-304316-B6 (CZ)
Title: Robotic dairy bar
Inventor: CIHAK PETR
IPC: A23C7/00
Filed: 2012-12-11
Abstract: The present invention relates to a robotic dairy bar consisting of four functional portions and namely a hinterland (51), a milk processing facility (1), a technological background (2) and the trading area with a consumer-oriented zone (3). The hinterland (51) represents a single room comprising a hygienic loop and/or a laboratory and/or an office and/or a central control system and/or other milk processing technologies. The milk processing facility (1) being located again in a single room, comprises a through-flow pasteurizing apparatus (8) being followed up with fermentation vessels (14), further ice-cold water producer (33) connected to the outlet of the through-flow pasteurizing apparatus (8), a plate cooler (17) being connected with the fermentation vessels (14), a milk cooling tank (5), which is located upstream said through-flow pasteurizing apparatus (8), a central sanitation unit CIP (36), which is connected to a robotic filling, packaging and sales line (52), further an air compressor (40) connected to said through-flow pasteurizing apparatus (8) and said robotic filling, packaging and sales line (52), pipes (12), (10), (11), (35), (79), (89), which interconnect the separate parts, a central pump (7), which connects said through-flow pasteurizing apparatus (8), further a cooling tank (5) and a piping (35), and optionally also container for producing an ice-cream base (13) wherein the container is also connected with said through-flow pasteurizing apparatus (8). The technological background (2), which is again located in a single room, comprises the robotic filling, packaging and sales line (52) connected to a cooled storage room (66) and another cooled room (98) for empty new cups and storage containers (28) for liquid flavoring agents, where the temperature is automatically maintained within the range of about 4 to about 8 degC, wherein said robotic filling, packaging and sales line (52) is provided with an industrial robot (41) with a corresponding end tool (46), located on a rotary disk (47), further with automatic stations (42) for the preparation of cups, automatic filling stations (30), an automatic station (43) for the preparation of a steaming lid, an automatic station (44) for sealing the steaming lid, an automatic station (45) for the preparation and installation of the outer lid, a belt conveyor (31), and automatic dispensing windows (32), wherein the parts (42), (30), (43), (44), (45), (31) and (32) are handled by the industrial robot (41). The last portion is the trading area with a consumer-oriented zone (3), which is connected via the automatic dispensing windows (32) with said robotic filling, packaging and sales line (52). In the portion (3), there are at least (40) customer places (99), a social background (97), mother-and-children’s room (98), information LEDs panels (77), which are connected to terminal stations (78) for ordering and payment of goods, and the robotic filling, packaging and sales line (52). The functional portions (1), (2), (3), (51) are disposed on an area of up to 120 me2 and are at least partially interconnected.