Container Whisk Mixing Members for Complete Ingredient Blending
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mixing systems often leave ingredients unmixed, leading to incomplete dissolution and uneven ratios, which results in wasted ingredients and increased cleaning difficulties.
Innovation Solution
A mixing system with a shaft and rotatable mixing members, including rotatable and stationary vanes, that engages with a container to facilitate complete mixing by rotating and sliding within the container, ensuring thorough contact and interaction of ingredients through angled surfaces and apertures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If vigorous shaking is used to mix ingredients, then mixing speed is improved, but mixing completeness deteriorates (clumps of undissolved formula remain)
Solution Approach 1:
The mixing system employs multiple mixing members (whisk, blender, or chopper) that can rotate or move dynamically within the container. These mixing members are designed to rotate in different directions and at different speeds, creating dynamic mixing action that thoroughly breaks down clumps while maintaining high mixing speed. The system transitions from static vigorous shaking to dynamic mechanical mixing with multiple moving components.
Solution Approach 2:
The mixing system divides the mixing function into multiple separate mixing members (whisk, blender, chopper) rather than relying on a single mixing action. Each mixing member targets different aspects of mixing - the whisk breaks surface tension and incorporates air, the blender cuts through clumps, and the chopper distributes ingredients evenly. This segmentation of mixing functions achieves both speed and completeness.
2Device complexity
If simple mixing methods are used, then device complexity is reduced, but mixing completeness deteriorates (ingredients remain unmixed)
Solution Approach 1:
The mixing system is designed as a multi-functional device that can perform multiple mixing operations (whisking, blending, chopping) within a single container system. The mixing members are integrated into the container structure, allowing one device to serve multiple mixing purposes rather than requiring separate tools for each mixing task. This universality maintains relative simplicity while achieving thorough mixing completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The mixing members are nested within the container structure, with the whisk, blender, and chopper components fitting inside the container in a compact arrangement. The mixing members can be stored within the container when not in use, creating a space-efficient nested configuration. This nesting approach maintains device simplicity by integrating multiple mixing functions into a compact, unified system.
3Loss of substance
If incomplete mixing occurs, then ingredient waste increases, but cleaning ease is worsened (cleaning becomes more difficult)
Solution Approach 1:
The mixing system is designed to be self-cleaning through the action of the mixing members themselves. The rotating whisk, blender, and chopper components agitate the ingredients and residue along the container walls, preventing ingredient buildup and making cleaning easier. The mixing action essentially cleans the container surfaces as part of the mixing process, reducing both ingredient waste and cleaning effort.
Solution Approach 2:
The mixing members continue to rotate and agitate ingredients throughout the mixing process, ensuring continuous contact with all surfaces of the container. This continuous mixing action prevents ingredient residue from settling and hardening on container walls, maintaining a clean state throughout the mixing process. The useful mixing action extends to cleaning by continuously disrupting ingredient buildup.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system achieves rapid and complete mixing with reduced residue, enhancing the mixing process and user experience by ensuring all ingredients are well combined.
Implementation Method 1
motion of the ingredients along the axis induces rotation of each rotatable mixing member about the axis
Data Source
AI summary
A mixing system and method may be used to facilitate mixture of ingredients within a container such as a bottle for mixing fitness and recreational beverages and the like. The mixing system may include a mixing apparatus with a container engagement component that couples the mixing system to the container, and a mixing component that mixes the ingredients. The mixing component may have a shaft, a plurality of rotatable mixing members that are rotatable about the shaft, and a plurality of stationary mixing members that are fixedly secured to the shaft. The mixing members may be arranged to contact the ingredients in a manner that facilitates mixture of the ingredients together, in response to repetitive motion of the container.