Bread Conveying Apparatus Guide Member Release Mechanism

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing bread conveying apparatuses often result in bread being placed incorrectly or colliding, leading to scratches due to the free fall onto the discharge conveyor, as seen in U.S. Pat. No. 2,859,713.

Innovation Solution

A bread conveying apparatus featuring a conveyor device with a guide member and a chute member that supports and releases the bread at a predetermined position, ensuring accurate transfer to a chute for stable placement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If bread dough falls freely onto the discharge conveyor, then the conveying process is simple, but the bread dough is placed on incorrect positions or collides causing scratches

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconveying process structureVSAvoidbread placement position accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

A guide member is introduced as an intermediary component between the hearth and the discharge conveyor. The guide member temporarily holds the bread dough and releases it at the correct position on the discharge conveyor, preventing incorrect placement and collisions while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The guide member performs preliminary action by positioning the bread dough correctly before it is released onto the discharge conveyor. This preliminary positioning ensures that the bread is placed at the predetermined correct position rather than falling freely and potentially colliding

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If multiple pieces of bread dough continuously fall, then the conveying speed is high, but collisions occur causing scratches on the bread dough

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconveying speedVSAvoidcollisions and scratches

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The guide member acts as a mediator that controls the release of each piece of bread dough sequentially. By holding and then releasing the bread at the correct timing and position, it prevents collisions between continuously conveyed bread pieces while maintaining high conveying speed

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The guide member applies preliminary anti-action by preventing the harmful collision before it can occur. It does this by controlling the release timing and position of each bread piece, ensuring they are placed correctly on the discharge conveyor without colliding with previously placed pieces

Inventive Principle:

Principle #9Preliminary anti-action

Data Source

PatentUS10849328B2Bread conveying apparatus

Publication Date: 2020.12.01 OSHIKIRIKK

AI summary

A bread conveying apparatus for conveying bread, includes a conveyor device that has a container on which the bread is placed, and that conveys the container in a conveying direction; a guide member disposed on a downstream end portion side of the conveyor device in the conveying direction to releasably support the bread in cooperation with the container; and a chute member that discharges the bread conveyed by the conveyor device.