Food Cutting Grid Grip Design for Safe High-Power Processing
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing food cutting accessories struggle with handling safety and efficiency, particularly when handling secondary cutting tools like grids, and lack sufficient power to cut hard foods, with limitations in quantity and power when integrated with motorized drive systems.
Innovation Solution
A food cutting accessory design featuring a plate with a rotating primary cutting tool and a secondary cutting tool with a gripping member extending outside the working chamber, allowing safe manipulation, combined with a motorized drive unit for increased cutting power and a conduit for discharging cut food, enabling the cutting of large quantities and hard foods like carrots.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a removable cutting grid is used in the cutting window, then the secondary cutting tool can be easily replaced, but the cutting grid becomes difficult to handle and requires pressure to be exerted on it, inducing a risk of injury
Solution Approach 1:
A gripping member is introduced as an intermediary element between the user's hand and the cutting grid. This gripping member extends from the cover into the working chamber and engages with the cutting grid, allowing the user to manipulate the cutting grid through the gripping member rather than directly with their hand. This resolves the contradiction by enabling easy replacement while eliminating the need to exert pressure directly on the cutting grid, thus removing the injury risk.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a bowl is used to contain food during cutting, then the food is contained during processing, but the cutting of large quantities of food is not allowed due to space limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The food containment function is extracted from a closed bowl and replaced by an open plate structure with a chute. The plate allows food to be placed on its surface and guided through the chute into the cutting window, eliminating the space limitations of a closed bowl while maintaining adequate food containment during the cutting process. This enables processing of large quantities of food without the spatial constraints of a bowl.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a removable motor unit with hand-held operation is used, then the device is portable and adaptable, but insufficient power is provided to cut hard foods such as carrots into cubes
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the portable, adaptable design of the removable motor unit with the high power of a stationary motorized drive system. The motor unit is designed to be mountable on either a hand-held base or a stationary mixer stand base, allowing the user to combine the cutting accessory with different power sources depending on the task. When cutting hard foods like carrots, the user can attach it to the stationary mixer stand for sufficient power, while maintaining the adaptability to use it portably when needed.
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
AI summary
The invention relates to a food cutting accessory comprising: - a plate (1) partly delimiting a working chamber (13) open opposite a bottom (10) provided with a receiving seat (11 ) a primary cutting tool (2) movable in rotation as well as a cutting window in which a fixed secondary cutting tool (3) is removably placed, - a cover (6) comprising a chute (68 ) introduction of food to be cut located substantially opposite the cutting window, - drive means (100) in rotation of the primary cutting tool (2). According to the invention, the secondary cutting tool (3) comprises a frame which carries at least one cutting member (40) and which comprises a gripping member (34) extending outside the working chamber (13) being accessible from outside the assembly formed by the plate (1) and the cover (6).