Bakery Mold Carrier Plate with Elastic Return Means
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current support plate systems for bakery and pastry products fail to ensure complete sealing during fermentation and cooking due to uneven mold edges, leading to dough overflows and quality issues, and require complex and costly mechanical locking mechanisms that are difficult to maintain.
Innovation Solution
A support plate device with elastic return means applied to each mold individually, allowing for independent vertical force application to maintain contact with the cover plate, and articulated connections for movement freedom, simplifying the locking process and reducing mechanical stress.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If complex mechanical locking and clamping means are used to press the cover plate against the molds, then sealing is improved, but device complexity and maintenance cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the clamping function into individual segments by providing separate elastic return means for each mold rather than using a single complex mechanical locking system. Each mold receives independent elastic force from its own return means, achieving reliable sealing through distributed simple elements rather than concentrated complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical locking and clamping means with elastic return means that utilize elastic deformation and recovery. This substitution eliminates the need for intricate mechanical linkages, locks, and clamps while maintaining effective sealing through the inherent elastic properties of the return means.
2Reliability
If mechanical locking means are used to maintain plate contact, then sealing is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in separating plates after baking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamic elastic return means that automatically adjust their force based on the thermal expansion and contraction of the molds during baking. The elastic elements compress during heating to maintain sealing and expand during cooling to facilitate easy plate separation, providing adaptive operation without complex controls.
Solution Approach 2:
By replacing mechanical locking means with elastic return means, the patent eliminates the need for manual locking and unlocking operations. The elastic system provides automatic engagement through compression and automatic release through expansion, dramatically simplifying operation while maintaining sealing reliability.
3Device complexity
If uniform clamping force is applied to all molds, then device complexity is reduced, but manufacturing precision deteriorates because mold edges are not coplanar
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the clamping force application by providing individual elastic return means for each mold, allowing each mold to receive independently optimized force. This segmentation enables precise compensation for variations in mold edge positions and coplanarity without requiring a complex distributed system, as each simple elastic element adapts to its specific mold.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by providing tailored elastic return means for each specific mold location, allowing the sealing force to be optimized for the local conditions of each mold edge. This local adaptation ensures precise sealing at each position while maintaining overall system simplicity through the use of standard elastic components.
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 device ensures effective sealing and maintains product shape by applying dedicated forces to each mold, reducing dough overflow and simplifying operation, while eliminating the need for complex locking mechanisms and minimizing material deformation.
Implementation Method 1
means for elastic return of each mold according to a force pushing each mold individually and independently against the lower face of the top plate
Implementation Method 2
said upper cover plate may have a mass whose weight is at least greater than the total sum of the forces of said elastic return means
Implementation Method 3
The device may comprise locking means for holding together said upper cover plate with said lower support plate
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a support plate device for baked goods, pastries, or Viennese baked goods, including at least one lower plate (2) and at least two molds (3) supported by said lower plate (2), said device (1) further including at least one upper plate (4) which covers said molds (3) and the lower surface (4) of which engages with the upper ends (33) of the respective edges of the molds, characterized in that said device includes resilient return means (5) for each mold (3), which generate a force urging each mold (3) individually and separately against the lower surface of the upper plate (4).