Baking Carrier Handling System for High-Speed Oven Loading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for temporarily storing dough pieces on multiple levels face limitations in speed due to potential impacts and loss of contact between pallets, requiring expensive coupling elements to prevent relative movement and ensure smooth operation.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize tension and pressure-resistant coupling of loading and removal devices with baked goods carriers, allowing for synchronous movement and deceleration to prevent impulse transmission, enabling higher speeds and reduced dwell times while maintaining product stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If pallets are moved at higher speeds, then productivity increases, but impacts occur causing dough pieces to move relative to pallets
Solution Approach 1:
The loading device couples with the baking product carrier before movement begins, preparing the system for high-speed operation. The coupling is established in advance, allowing the device to control the carrier throughout acceleration, movement, and deceleration phases, preventing product displacement even at higher speeds.
Solution Approach 2:
The system controls the speed parameter dynamically during the loading process. The loading device accelerates the baking product carrier to higher speeds than prior art, then decelerates it before contact with adjacent carriers. This parameter control allows high-speed operation without causing product movement, resolving the contradiction between productivity and reliability.
2Productivity
If pallets are shifted at higher speeds, then productivity increases, but loss of contact between adjacent pallets occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The loading device monitors the position and speed of the baking product carrier throughout the movement process. This feedback control allows the device to maintain proper contact with the carrier and adjacent carriers, preventing loss of contact even at higher speeds. The device adjusts its movement based on real-time conditions, ensuring continuous contact and system stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The loading device establishes coupling with both the baking product carrier to be inserted and the adjacent carrier before high-speed movement begins. This preliminary coupling ensures that contact is maintained throughout the acceleration and deceleration phases, preventing separation between carriers while enabling higher throughput.
3Reliability
If coupling elements are provided between pallets to prevent contact loss, then reliability improves, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the complex coupling elements from the system. Instead of adding mechanical connectors between pallets, the solution uses the loading and removal devices to maintain contact through controlled movement. The coupling elements are extracted entirely, simplifying the system structure while maintaining reliability through active control rather than passive mechanical connection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical coupling elements with a control-based system. Rather than using physical connectors to maintain contact between carriers, the loading device uses controlled acceleration and deceleration profiles to prevent contact loss. This substitution of mechanical structures with control algorithms reduces device complexity while maintaining or improving reliability.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for operating a system (1), in particular an oven and a proofing cabinet, for the temporary storage of baked goods carriers (4) in several superimposed levels (5). The invention further relates to a system (1) for carrying out this method. The method according to the invention is characterized by the following steps: a. coupling a loading device (20) with a baked goods carrier (4) to be inserted in a tensile- and compression-resistant manner; b. coupling a removal device (30) with the baked goods carrier (4") of a level (5) that is closest to the dispensing end (3) of the system (1) in a tensile- and compression-resistant manner; c. moving the loading device (20) so that the baked goods carrier (4) to be inserted is in contact with the baked goods carrier (4') of the level (5) that is closest to the loading end (2) of the system (1); d.e. synchronous movement of the loading device (20) and the unloading device (30) so that the baking carrier (4) to be inserted moves into the position of the baking carrier (4') closest to the loading end (2) in the initial state; e. movement of the unloading device (20) so that the baking carrier (4") coupled to the unloading device (20) is pulled away from the other baking carriers (4); f. uncoupling of the loading device (20); and g. uncoupling of the unloading device (30).