Cold Drink Discharge Hood Mechanism to Prevent Splashing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional cold drink dispensers experience ice cream or ice slush deformation and splashing due to mechanical impacts at the outlet, leading to hygiene issues and quality degradation.
Innovation Solution
A discharging mechanism with a discharging tray, casing, and handle, featuring a sealing member and transmission component to control the opening and closing of discharging ports, ensuring ice cream or smoothies are retained within the casing and discharged smoothly through a U-shaped accommodating portion and oblique connecting portion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If mechanical pressure and shear force are applied to push ice cream or ice slush out from the freezing cylinder, then sufficient power to push the product out is generated, but intense impact forces cause deformation and breakage of the ice cream or ice slush at the outlet
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a discharging hood as an intermediary structure between the freezing cylinder and the external environment. This hood captures the ice cream or ice slush as it exits the cylinder and guides it through a controlled path to the discharging port, preventing direct impact with surrounding surfaces and reducing deformation and breakage while maintaining the power needed for discharge
2Productivity
If ice cream or ice slush is discharged directly from the freezing cylinder outlet, then discharge efficiency is maintained, but splashing occurs due to impact forces, causing hygiene issues and material loss
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts the harmful impact forces that cause splashing into a beneficial controlled flow. The discharging hood captures the high-velocity discharged ice cream or ice slush and redirects it through a controlled path to the discharging port, transforming the harmful impact into a controlled discharge mechanism that maintains productivity while eliminating splashing and deformation
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AI summary
This application discloses a novel discharging mechanism for a cold drink dispenser, which comprises a discharging tray, a casing, and a handle; the discharging tray is mounted on the casing, the handle is installed on the discharging tray, the discharging tray is provided with a second discharging outlet, the bottom of the discharging tray is provided with a discharging hood, the discharging hood is provided with a first discharging outlet; the bottom of the handle is provided with a sealing member and a transmission component, the transmission component connects the handle and the sealing member, the transmission component is used to control the movement of the sealing member, In this application, effectively avoiding the problem of ice cream or iced drinks splashing everywhere when they are pushed out from the freezing cylinder in traditional cold drink dispensers.