Disposer Rotating Plate with Hammer and Fixed Blade
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing kitchen waste disposers often experience clogging due to insufficient pulverization of fibrous waste, leading to stagnancy and increased costs from separate decomposing mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A disposer design featuring a rotating plate with a hammer and annular fixed blade, along with a communication regulation portion above the outlet, prevents clogging by regulating the vertical flow and reducing the likelihood of waste tangling, eliminating the need for additional decomposing mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a separate mechanism for decomposing agglomerate is added, then the ability to decompose kitchen waste agglomerate is improved, but the cost of the disposer increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the agglomerate decomposition function into the existing rotating plate mechanism by adding a scraping portion. This integrates two functions (pulverization and agglomerate decomposition) into a single rotating component, avoiding the need for a separate decomposing mechanism and thus preventing cost increase while maintaining the ability to decompose kitchen waste agglomerates
2Productivity
If the rotating plate rotates the hammer to scrape away kitchen waste, then the removal of remaining kitchen waste is improved, but the outlet portion or downstream part may still be clogged by agglomerate
Solution Approach 1:
The scraping portion on the rotating plate performs preliminary decomposition of kitchen waste agglomerates before they reach the outlet portion. By scraping and breaking down agglomerates in advance during the rotation process, the system prevents clogging at the outlet while maintaining efficient waste removal
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 effectively suppresses clogging of the outlet portion while maintaining cost-effectiveness by preventing waste tangling and reducing the need for separate decomposing mechanisms, ensuring efficient kitchen waste discharge.
Implementation Method 1
a hammer provided on the rotating plate; and an annular fixed blade that is provided on an inner lateral face of the housing to surround the rotating plate with an interval, and pulverizes the kitchen waste in cooperation with the hammer
Implementation Method 2
pulverizes the kitchen waste in cooperation with the hammer
Data Source
AI summary
A disposer includes: a housing with an inlet portion in an upper part thereof through which kitchen waste is thrown in, and an outlet portion on a lower lateral face thereof through which the kitchen waste is discharged together with water; a rotating plate provided in a rotatable manner to separate an inner space of the housing into a pulverization chamber positioned on a side of the inlet portion, and a discharging chamber positioned on a side of the outlet portion; a hammer on the rotating plate; and an annular fixed blade that is provided on an inner lateral face of the housing to surround the rotating plate with an interval, and pulverizes the kitchen waste in cooperation with the hammer, in which a visor portion that regulates communication in a vertical direction toward a gap between the rotating plate and the fixed blade is formed above the outlet portion.