Dispensing tip assembly including foodstuff additive dispenser for pressurized foodstuff container
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dispensing systems for pressurized foodstuff containers fail to effectively and visibly integrate foodstuff additives into the dispensed product, often resulting in excessive mixing and loss of distinct appearance.
Innovation Solution
A dispensing tip assembly with a tip body featuring a constricted flow passage and a foodstuff additive dispenser that creates a low pressure zone, utilizing duckbill valves and internal fins to selectively deliver additives as visible stripes or swirls on the flowing foodstuff.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If existing dispensing systems are used to integrate foodstuff additives, then the additive can be delivered into the foodstuff flow, but the additive excessively mixes with the foodstuff and loses distinct appearance
Solution Approach 1:
A low pressure zone is introduced as an intermediary region between the additive dispenser and the main foodstuff flow. This low pressure zone receives the additive and allows it to be picked up by the flowing foodstuff without direct high-pressure injection that would cause excessive mixing. The low pressure zone acts as a buffer that maintains additive distinctness while enabling transfer to the foodstuff stream.
Solution Approach 2:
The internal flow passage is designed with a specific local region (low pressure zone) that has different pressure characteristics than the rest of the passage. This localized pressure differentiation allows the additive to be introduced and maintained with distinct appearance in one region while still being effectively delivered into the overall foodstuff flow downstream.
2Stability of the object's composition
If a constricted flow passage with low pressure zone is created, then additive distinctness is maintained, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pressure parameter is changed locally within the flow passage by creating a constricted section (throat) that generates a low pressure zone. This parameter change is achieved through geometric modification of the flow passage rather than adding separate pressure control mechanisms, thereby maintaining additive distinctness while limiting the increase in device complexity to simple structural modifications.
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 assembly ensures distinct and visible application of foodstuff additives on the dispensed product, minimizing intermixing and maintaining a clear distinction between the additive and the foodstuff.
Implementation Method 1
The internal flow passage has low pressure zone in which fluid pressure is lower than fluid pressure upstream of the low pressure zone as the flowable foodstuff from the foodstuff container flows through the internal flow passage toward the open downstream end
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AI summary
A dispensing tip assembly includes a foodstuff additive dispenser for a pressurized foodstuff container. A tip body of the dispensing tip assembly may have low pressure zone in which fluid pressure is lower than fluid pressure upstream of the low pressure zone as flowable foodstuff from the foodstuff container flows through the internal flow passage toward an open downstream end of the tip body. The dispenser tip assembly may include one or more of duckbill valves tethered to one another, and/or a plurality of injection ports and/or structure for one-direction dispensing, and/or internal fins to couple to an actuator of the foodstuff container, and/or an anti-rotation device, and/or a collar for attaching a bulb or pod of the tip body, and/or an ergonomic and functional bulb.