Automatic doner kebab slicing machine

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current doner kebab slicing machines face issues with slicing conical or rough surfaces, leading to burnt non-sliced areas and complexity in cleaning, as well as unnecessary motion and damage during the slicing process.

Innovation Solution

An automatic doner kebab slicing machine with a rotisserie and circular knife system that minimizes angular motion, allows for precise slicing at desired thickness, and includes a follow-up apparatus to maintain surface alignment, enabling conical, flat, and rough surface slicing while preventing damage and facilitating easy cleaning.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If gauge slicing process is used to detect doner kebab meat, then slicing can be performed on cylindrical doner kebabs, but additional displacement is required and conical or rough surfaces cannot be sliced properly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to slice different doner kebab shapesVSAvoidoperational complexity and additional displacement required

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical gauge-based detection system with an optical detection system using sensors that can detect the surface of doner kebabs of any shape (cylindrical, conical, or rough) without requiring physical contact or additional displacement mechanisms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a dynamic surface follow-up process where the cutting knife automatically adjusts its position to follow the detected surface profile of the doner kebab in real-time, enabling adaptation to any shape without manual intervention

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Manufacturing precision

If optic system with surface follow-up is used, then conical doner kebabs can be sliced, but rough surfaces with burrs cause detection failures and non-sliced areas

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveslicing precision on conical surfacesVSAvoiddetection reliability on rough surfaces

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanical follow-up mechanism that physically guides the cutting knife along the doner kebab surface, ensuring continuous contact and reliable detection even on rough surfaces where optical systems may fail

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary surface detection and mapping before slicing begins, allowing the cutting path to be pre-planned to accommodate rough surfaces and prevent detection failures during the actual slicing process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If complex slicing mechanisms are used to handle various shapes, then slicing capability is improved, but cleaning becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecapability to slice various doner kebab shapesVSAvoidcleaning ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the slicing mechanism into separable modular components, allowing the cutting unit and detection system to be easily removed and cleaned independently while maintaining the capability to handle various doner kebab shapes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9675207B2Automatic doner kebab slicing machine

Publication Date: 2017.06.13 ATALAY OGUZ

AI summary

A doner kebab rotisserie enables the meat of chicken or doner kebab to be formed, cooked and sliced, and where the formed meats are positioned, a circular knife located in the cutting unit and enabling the doner kebab to be sliced by rotating, and a doner kebab burner including a burner wing used while cooking the kebab and providing heat for the desired area of doner kebab. Specifically, an automatic doner kebab slicing machine disclosed includes a doner kebab follow-up apparatus, the position of the upper section of which does not change when it performs rotating motion in accordance with the circular knife and which enables slicing of the doner kebab at fixed thickness and enables the angular change to be construed by an electronic system by transferring angular change to the bearing during the doner kebab surface follow-up via doner kebab follow-up apparatus bearing where it is positioned.