Adjustable Can Manipulating System for Multi-Size Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current can rinsing systems require separate apparatuses for different can sizes and shapes, necessitating complex and costly equipment, skilled labor, and extensive tool inventories for adjustments, which complicates the process and increases operational costs.
Innovation Solution
A multi-size adjustable can manipulating system that inverts cans along a production line, allowing for fluid introduction and evacuation without specialized tools or skilled labor, featuring a pinion and rack mechanism for two-dimensional support and adjustment, and a cylinder-like structure for rotational positioning of conduits to accommodate various can sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If separate apparatuses are used for different can sizes and shapes, then each can size can be processed accurately, but device complexity and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal can manipulating system with adjustable guide rails, support structures, and manipulation mechanisms that can accommodate multiple can sizes and shapes through reconfiguration, eliminating the need for separate dedicated apparatuses for each can type while maintaining processing accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs dynamically adjustable components including movable guide rails, adjustable support structures, and reconfigurable manipulation mechanisms that can be modified in real-time to match different can dimensions, allowing a single system to adapt to various processing requirements without requiring multiple fixed apparatuses
2Adaptability or versatility
If complicated adjustment mechanisms are used to accommodate different can sizes, then adaptability improves, but ease of operation deteriorates due to requiring skilled labor and special tools
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates self-adjusting mechanisms and self-aligning components that automatically adapt to different can sizes through built-in adjustment features, reducing the need for skilled operators and specialized tools while maintaining versatility across multiple can types
Solution Approach 2:
The manipulation mechanisms feature dynamic adjustment capabilities with movable components that can be easily repositioned to match different can dimensions, allowing unskilled operators to quickly adapt the system to various can sizes without requiring complex adjustment procedures or specialized knowledge
3Manufacturing precision
If extensive tool inventories are maintained for different can sizes, then manufacturing precision is maintained, but loss of substance and operational cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a single set of multi-functional tools and components that can be reconfigured for different can sizes and shapes, eliminating the need to maintain extensive inventories of specialized tools for each can type, thereby reducing resource consumption and operational costs while preserving processing accuracy
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AI summary
This invention structurally includes an adjustable guide rail system for laterally adjustably guiding and axially rotatably manipulating containers, such as cans, passed axially between the guide rail systems and with structure to simply and easily facilitate adjustment of the system to adjust to various series of different size cans to guide multiple series of different size cans there through by rotating a cylinder through which the cans passed to present a different passage for each respective series of different size cans.