Automatic beancurd sheet making machine provided with cooling grooves
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional beancurd sheet making machines are inefficient, requiring manual labor and intermittent production, leading to inconsistent quality, high labor costs, and a need for extensive worker training, limiting company development.
Innovation Solution
An automatic beancurd sheet making machine with cooling grooves, featuring a machine frame, water tank, soybean milk groove, steam pipes, circulating pump, conveyor belts, and cooling grooves, allowing for continuous sheet picking and natural drying, thereby enhancing production efficiency and reducing human intervention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual sheet picking and intermittent production are used, then skilled workers can control the process, but production efficiency is low and consistency cannot be guaranteed
Solution Approach 1:
The machine enables automatic sheet picking where the conveyor belt system automatically transports and picks sheets without manual intervention. The system serves itself by maintaining continuous operation with automated thickness control and sheet separation mechanisms, eliminating the need for skilled workers to perform repetitive picking tasks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical sheet picking with an automated conveyor belt system. The mechanical substitution includes using motorized conveyors to transport sheets, automated picking mechanisms to separate sheets, and control systems to maintain consistent thickness, replacing the skilled worker's manual dexterity and experience-based judgment.
2Use of energy by moving object
If natural drying by airing is used, then energy consumption is reduced, but production time is extended and throughput is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-heating the soybean milk in the tank before sheet formation. This pre-heating ensures that the sheets are formed at the optimal temperature for drying, allowing them to maintain warmth during the drying process on the conveyor belt. This preliminary thermal preparation enables faster drying times while maintaining energy efficiency, as the sheets start their drying journey already at the required temperature rather than requiring extended ambient drying time.
3Quantity of substance
If thick sheets are formed to increase yield, then production quantity per batch increases, but sheet texture and quality consistency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the sheet formation process into controlled stages on the conveyor belt system. Sheets are formed at consistent thicknesses in the initial stage, then progressively separated and transported through multiple conveyor sections. This segmentation allows each sheet to maintain its optimal thickness independently, preventing the quality deterioration that would occur if sheets were formed too thick and then manually divided, while still achieving high overall yield through continuous production.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The machine enables continuous operation, improves production efficiency, ensures consistent texture, reduces labor costs, and eliminates the need for lengthy worker training, achieving reliable and efficient beancurd sheet production.
Implementation Method 1
an automatic beancurd sheet making machine provided with cooling grooves... the cooling grooves are respectively formed in two sides of the soybean milk groove
Implementation Method 2
steam pipes are arranged in an inner cavity of the water tank
Implementation Method 3
steam pipes are arranged in an inner cavity of the water tank
Implementation Method 4
an upward-sloping conveyor belt is arranged above one end of the soybean milk groove... a parallel conveyor belt is further arranged above the soybean milk groove
Implementation Method 5
Ten sets of stainless steel air blow pipes with circular apertures are connected to the blower... blow wind directly to the soybean milk groove
Implementation Method 6
the circular apertures face downward to blow wind directly to the soybean milk groove
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AI summary
The embodiment of the present invention discloses an automatic beancurd sheet making machine provided with cooling grooves. The automatic beancurd sheet making machine consists of a machine frame, a water tank, a soybean milk groove, a soybean milk circulating pump, cooling grooves, air blow pipes, a beancurd sheet collecting drum and conveyor belts. According to the automatic beancurd sheet making machine disclosed by the embodiment of the present invention, continuous sheet picking can be performed on beancurd sheets formed in the soybean milk groove, a condition that the machine needs to be stopped for sheet forming is avoided, and beancurd sheets can realize natural absorption of residual heat of the soybean milk groove on the conveyor belts like original manual work so as to realize drying by airing. The dried beancurd sheets are cut, and then packed, and automatic continuous operation is realized. The production efficiency is improved, the cost is reduced, consistent texture is guaranteed, and the defects of long-time training of skilled workers and anthropic factors are overcome.