Cooker Drum with Multiple Threads and Integral Cups
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooker devices for industrial use lack precision in product advancement and unloading, leading to non-uniform cooking due to single-thread screws and open loading cups that fail to ensure complete product transfer and expulsion.
Innovation Solution
A cooker drum with multiple screws and integral unloading cups at each thread start, ensuring precise product insertion and complete expulsion by providing axial thrust for uniform cooking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a single-thread screw is used for product advancement, then the device structure is simpler, but the cooking precision deteriorates due to non-uniform product insertion time
Solution Approach 1:
The single-thread screw is segmented into multiple threads (first thread, second thread, third thread) arranged at different angular positions. Each thread independently advances product portions, ensuring that all product is inserted into the cooking water simultaneously, thereby improving cooking precision and uniformity.
2Manufacturing precision
If open loading cups are used for product unloading, then the device structure is simpler, but the product transfer completeness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The unloading cup is merged with each screw thread, forming an integral structure. The cup is positioned at the end of each thread's advancement path, ensuring that all product advanced by the thread is completely transferred to the unloading cup and subsequently to the drainage chute, eliminating product retention issues.
3Measurement precision
If multiple threads are used on the drum, then the product insertion precision is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The drum is segmented with multiple independent threads (first, second, third threads) positioned at different angular locations. This segmentation allows simultaneous engagement of multiple product portions, ensuring precise and uniform insertion timing while distributing the mechanical load across multiple threads.
Solution Approach 2:
Each thread on the drum serves multiple functions: it advances product portions, transfers product to its corresponding unloading cup, and ensures synchronous insertion into the cooking water. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate mechanisms for each task.
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 solution improves cooking precision and ensures effective expulsion of all product, resulting in uniform cooking and enhanced product quality by utilizing multiple threads and integral unloading cups to manage product movement and exit.
Implementation Method 1
The drum bears a central rotation shaft, along which a thread is extended that is adapted to obtain a screw such that, once the product is loaded from a loading end, this is situated immersed in the cooking water, to be advanced following the actuation of the rotating drum.
Implementation Method 2
a lower half-tank inside of which water is present maintained at a temperature (for cooking or scalding) by suitable heating and control means
Implementation Method 3
ensures the effective expulsion of the entire product at the end of the transfer step, i.e. at the end of cooking
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AI summary
Cooker device for the transferring, moving and the at least partial cooking of food products to be packaged or further processed in a line downstream, of the type comprising a. at least one lower half-tank (2) which receives cooking water in the operative step, b. a loading zone (I) and, at the outlet, an unloading zone (U), c. a product advancement drum (3) immersed in the water, for product advancement from the inlet point (I) to the outlet point (U), by means of a product advancement screw; said drum (3) controllable in axial rotation (AA) by means of known type; in operative conditions, the drum is partially immersed in the water. The drum (3) comprises multiple starts (4, 5, 6) or threads equidistant from each other and each start or thread (4, 5, 6), at the outlet section (U), comprises a collection cup (T) which unloads the product, if in communication with the outlet (U) of the device. Each cup is integral with the respective thread.