Diluting and pouring apparatus for a liquid food

Claim 1

A diluting and pouring apparatus for liquid food, comprising a casing having a circular inner peripheral face and being formed in said inner peripheral face with a raw liquid food inlet port, a diluent inlet port, a pouring port, a washing medium inlet port and a washing medium outlet port, a rotor rotatably supported within said casing, said rotor being substantially triangular in shape providing three equiangularly spaced apexes, said apexes being in slidable contact with said circular inner peripheral face so that a first, second and third chambers having the same volume are formed within said casing and said chambers are moved along said inner peripheral face with a rotation of said rotor and means for driving said rotor, said chambers having such relation to said raw liquid food inlet port, said diluent inlet port, said pouring port, said washing medium inlet port and said washing medium outlet port so that, when said first chamber is in a washing state and communicates with said washing medium inlet and outlet ports, said second chamber is a filling state and communicates with said raw liquid food inlet port and said third chamber is in a diluting and pouring state and communicates with said diluent inlet port and said pouring port, whereby said first chamber is washed by a washing medimum supplied through said washing medium inlet port and discharged from said washing medium outlet port, said second chamber is filled with the raw liquid food supplied through said raw liquid food inlet port and said third chamber is supplied through said diluent inlet port with a diluent so that the raw liquid food therein is diluted with the diluent and then diluted liquid food is poured through said pouring port, said states of said chambers being segmentially exchanged with the rotation of said rotor.