Cheese Shredding Assembly With Beveled Tracking and Easy Cleaning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cheese shredding devices wear out quickly, require frequent blade sharpening, and often leave black marks on cheese due to chemical reactions, making them difficult to clean and hazardous in food industry settings.
Innovation Solution
A cheese shredding apparatus with beveled wheels, a cutting block, and push cube modules that reduce pressure on cheese, allowing for precise cutting and easy dismantling for thorough cleaning, using materials like stainless steel, aluminum, and plastic for durability and hygiene.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Duration of action of moving object
If traditional blades are used for shredding cheese, then cutting function is achieved, but the blades wear out fast and require frequent sharpening
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical blades with a rolling grid mechanism consisting of a grid roller and stationary grid. The grid roller rotates between the grids, mechanically pressing and rolling the cheese through the grids to shred it. This substitution eliminates blade wear and sharpening requirements while maintaining effective cheese shredding functionality.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If traditional blades are used for shredding cheese, then cutting function is achieved, but black marks are left on the cheese
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces blade-based cutting with a rolling grid mechanism that physically rolls and presses cheese through grid openings. This mechanical rolling action shreds cheese without the chemical reactions and surface contact issues that cause black marks, while maintaining productive shredding capability.
3Ease of operation
If traditional shredding devices are used, then cheese shredding function is achieved, but the devices are hard to dismantle for cleaning
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the shredding device into separable components: a removable grid roller assembly that can be detached from the housing. The grid roller itself can be removed and cleaned separately, and the housing can be disassembled to access internal surfaces. This segmentation enables thorough cleaning without complex dismantling procedures.
4Manufacturing precision
If beveled wheels are used on the rolling platform, then precise movement along tracks is achieved, but the device becomes harder to manufacture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs beveled (asymmetric) wheels with angled contact surfaces that mate with correspondingly angled tracks. This asymmetric geometry provides self-aligning properties and precise positioning as the wheels roll along the tracks, while the symmetry of the overall mechanism keeps manufacturing manageable through repetition of identical components.
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AI summary
A cheese shredding apparatus has a table top with a rolling platform that uses 2 pairs of beveled wheels. A partitioned hopper for containing blocks of cheese. A pair of cutting grids located at opposite ends of a cutting block. A pair of push cube modules. A motor powers the rolling platform by way of a cam which converts a rotational motion from the motor into a linear motion which actuates the back and fro motion of the rolling platform.The beveled wheels roll on a pair of tracks which are held within the table top frame. The beveled wheels maintain a very precise and accurate tracking motion of the rolling platform as they move back and forth as guided by the tracks.