Cornet Cone Tip Crimping Machine for Uniform Package Length
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cornet cone packaging machines produce conically shaped cornet packages with pointed ends, leading to inconsistencies in package height, storage issues, and production line inefficiencies due to varying lengths.
Innovation Solution
A tip crimping machine with a crimping arm and guide mechanism that rotates and crimps the cone tip inwards during wrapping, ensuring a straight and robust structure, maintaining consistent package length.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the cone tip is left pointed during packaging, then the packaging process is simple, but the package length becomes inconsistent causing storage and production line problems
Solution Approach 1:
The crimping action is performed during the wrapping process itself, before the package leaves the machine. The crimping arm applies inward force to the cone tip while the wrapping film is being applied, ensuring the cone tip is flattened and package length is standardized in advance, eliminating subsequent storage and production line issues.
Solution Approach 2:
A crimping arm with a crimping surface acts as an intermediary element between the wrapping mechanism and the cone tip. This intermediary component applies the necessary compressive force to flatten the cone tip without requiring complex adjustment mechanisms, achieving consistent package length while maintaining packaging simplicity.
2Manufacturing precision
If the cone tip is crimped inwards to create a straight structure, then package length is standardized, but the crimping mechanism becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The crimping function is merged with the existing wrapping mechanism. The crimping arm is integrated into the wrapping assembly, sharing the same drive system and spatial arrangement. This combination allows the cone tip crimping to be achieved without adding separate complex mechanisms, as the crimping action occurs naturally during the wrapping cycle.
Solution Approach 2:
The crimping arm is designed as a dynamic component that moves in sync with the wrapping process. The crimping surface contacts the cone tip and applies force during the wrapping motion, then retracts automatically. This dynamic design eliminates the need for static, complex adjustment mechanisms while maintaining consistent crimping results.
3Shape
If pointed cone tips are used, then the conical shape is maintained, but stacking and placement problems occur due to length variations
Solution Approach 1:
The crimping action is applied locally only to the cone tip portion, while the main conical body of the cornet remains intact and unchanged. The crimping surface targets specifically the apex area, flattening only that local region to create a straight tip. This localized modification preserves the overall conical shape and aesthetic appearance while eliminating the problematic length variations at the tip that cause stacking and placement issues.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a tip crimping machine which is used with the purpose of wrapping the conically shaped cornet cone packages of cornet-type ice-creams and which provides for the cone tip to be straight and robust and all the cornet cone packages to be produced in the same standard size by folding the cone tip by crimping the same inwards during the wrapping of cornet cone packages by being rotated on the conical crimping end.