Cutting device for a kitchen utensil
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cutting vegetables, fruit, and potatoes using traditional methods or electric kitchen appliances is labor-intensive and requires additional space for separate appliances.
Innovation Solution
A cutting device designed for integration with electric kitchen appliances, featuring a drivable cutting disk and adapter that transmits rotation from the appliance's mixing knife, allowing for efficient cutting within the appliance's pot with minimal space requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a separate electric food processor is used for cutting vegetables and fruit, then the cutting function is achieved, but additional kitchen space is required
Solution Approach 1:
The cutting device merges the cutting function with the existing kitchen appliance by integrating a cutting disk that attaches to the adapter, which connects to the appliance's mixing knife drive shaft. This combination allows the appliance to perform both mixing and cutting functions without requiring a separate food processor
Solution Approach 2:
The kitchen appliance is enhanced with multi-functionality through the cutting device attachment. The adapter can be connected to either the mixing knife for mixing operations or the cutting disk for cutting operations, allowing one appliance to serve multiple culinary purposes and eliminate the need for additional specialized equipment
2Device complexity
If manual knife cutting is used for vegetables, fruit, and potatoes, then no additional appliance is needed, but the cutting process requires great effort and time
Solution Approach 1:
The cutting device enables self-service cutting by utilizing the appliance's own drive mechanism. The adapter connects to the existing mixing knife drive shaft, and the cutting disk automatically rotates when the appliance operates, eliminating the need for manual cutting effort while keeping the system simple and integrated
3Area of stationary object
If a cutting device with adapter and shaft is integrated into the appliance, then space is reduced, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The cutting device is segmented into modular components: a cutting disk with mounting opening, an adapter with drive interface, and a shaft. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently while being easily assembled and disassembled, reducing overall structural complexity despite the integrated functionality
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
Enables quick and simple cutting of vegetables, fruit, and potatoes with reduced kitchen space usage by utilizing the existing appliance's drive mechanism and collecting the cut material gently, enhancing the appliance's functionality.
Implementation Method 1
The free end of the shaft is supported in a sliding manner in the lid during the operation of the kitchen appliance
Data Source
AI summary
A cutting device for insertion into a pot of an electric kitchen appliance includes a lid configured to be installed on the pot, and which has a feed opening. The cutting device includes a drivable cutting disk which, in the installed state, is rotated underneath the feed opening, and an adapter having an adaption interface for a mixing knife disposed in a bottom region of the pot. The mixing knife, during operation, causes the adapter to rotate, wherein the adapter further has a shaft which, in a state of the cutting device having been inserted into the pot, extends centrally in the direction towards the lid, and which is configured for contacting the cutting disk and for transmitting the rotation of the adapter onto the cutting disk during operation. A free end of the adapter shaft is supported in a sliding manner in the lid during operation.