Citrus Juicing Rotor Layout With Integrated Cutting and Peel Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional juicing devices for citrus fruits are often bulky, costly, and unsuitable for domestic use, with ineffective peel management and a lack of automatic cutting capabilities, making them impractical for both personal and professional settings.
Innovation Solution
A compact juicing device featuring a transfer rotor and a juicing rotor that rotate in complementary profiles to juice citrus fruits, with integrated automatic cutting and efficient peel management, allowing for easy operation and maintenance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional automatic juicing devices are designed for professional environments, then juicing performance is improved, but device complexity and cost increase making them unsuitable for domestic use
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into separate functional modules: a juicing unit with rotors for extracting juice, a cutting unit with blades for preparing fruit, and a peel management system. This segmentation allows each module to be optimized independently while maintaining overall simplicity suitable for domestic use.
Solution Approach 2:
The device integrates multiple functions into a single compact unit: automatic cutting of citrus fruits, juicing extraction, and peel collection/management. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate devices while keeping the overall structure simple and affordable for home environments.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional juicing devices include all juicing elements inside the covering shell, then juicing function is provided, but the device becomes bulky
Solution Approach 1:
The cutting blades are positioned within or adjacent to the juicing rotors, and the peel collection mechanism is integrated into the same spatial envelope. This nested arrangement allows multiple functions to share space efficiently, reducing the overall device volume while maintaining full functionality.
3Extent of automation
If conventional devices are designed with integrated cutting capability, then preliminary cutting is automated, but device complexity and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The cutting blades are merged with the juicing rotors in a single integrated assembly. The same rotational mechanism that drives juice extraction also powers the cutting action, eliminating the need for separate motors or control systems for cutting, thereby maintaining simplicity while providing automation.
4Ease of operation
If conventional devices lack effective peel management, then user attention is required to prevent soiling, but adding peel management increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The peel management system extracts and separates peels from the juicing process, collecting them in a dedicated compartment or directing them to a collection container. This extraction of the peel handling function from the main juicing operation simplifies user interaction while maintaining overall device simplicity through modular design.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The device provides efficient and easy juicing of citrus fruits, suitable for both domestic and professional environments, with simple maintenance and cost-effective design, while managing peels and juice collection effectively.
Implementation Method 1
at least one juicing rotor, which can rotate about a second rotation axis, which is parallel to said first axis, during respective useful portions of the rotation of said at least one seat and of said juicing rotor, said at least one juicing rotor penetrating at least partially in said at least one seat, for the juicing of the at least one portion of the agricultural product accommodated in said seat
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AI summary
A juicing device for agricultural products of the type of citrus fruits and the like including at least one transfer rotor and at least one juicing rotor. The transfer rotor rotate about a first rotation axis and is provided externally with at least one seat for at least partial accommodation of at least one portion of an agricultural product, of the type of citrus fruits and the like. The at least one juicing rotor can rotate about a second rotation axis, which is parallel to the first axis. During respective useful portions of the rotation of the at least one seat and of the juicing rotor, the latter penetrates at least partially in the at least one seat, for the juicing of at least one portion of the agricultural product accommodated in the seat.