Doner Kebab Slicing Head With Surface Follow-Up Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current doner kebab slicing machines face issues with inconsistent slicing heights, damage to conical or rough surfaces, complexity in cleaning, and inefficiencies in handling different shapes and sizes, leading to burnt non-sliced areas and mechanical difficulties.
Innovation Solution
An automatic doner kebab slicing machine with a rotisserie and circular knife system, featuring a doner kebab follow-up apparatus that maintains constant position during rotation, minimizes angular motion, and includes a burner that adjusts to the kebab's surface, allowing for precise slicing and easy cleaning, with a mobile arm and tray system for efficient operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If gauge slicing process is used to detect doner kebab meat, then slicing can be performed on cylindrical doner kebabs, but additional displacement is required and non-sliced surfaces will be burnt during second cooking process
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical gauge-based detection system with an optical detection system using sensors that detect the position and surface of doner kebab meat non-contactly, eliminating the need for physical contact and additional displacement operations
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses optical sensors to create a digital representation of the doner kebab surface, enabling the system to identify and follow the actual meat surface contour without physical contact, thus achieving precise slicing height control
2Adaptability or versatility
If optic sensors are used to detect doner kebab surface for surface follow-up process, then conical doner kebab can be sliced, but meat pieces hanging out cause rough surface that prevents accurate detection
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic surface follow-up mechanism where the cutting knife adjusts its position in real-time based on continuous optical detection of the doner kebab surface, enabling adaptation to conical shapes and irregular surfaces while maintaining slicing precision
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a feedback control system where optical sensors continuously monitor the doner kebab surface position and provide real-time signals to adjust the cutting knife depth, ensuring accurate slicing even when surface irregularities occur
3Adaptability or versatility
If complex apparatus is used to perform doner kebab slicing process, then various shapes and sizes can be handled, but the apparatus becomes difficult to clean
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the slicing apparatus into modular segments including removable cutting head, detachable sensor units, and separable components that can be easily detached for cleaning, maintaining versatility while simplifying maintenance
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts and separates the cutting mechanism and detection system as independent removable modules from the main body, allowing these components to be easily removed and cleaned without disassembling the entire apparatus
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AI summary
The present invention comprises doner kebab rotisserie (15) which enables the meat of chicken, doner kebab etc. to be formed, cooked and sliced, and where said formed meats are positioned, circular knife (29) located in the cutting unit (2) inside the arm unit (5) and enabling the doner kebab to be sliced by rotating, and a doner kebab burner (10) including burner wing (9) used while cooking said doner kebab and providing heat for the desired area of doner kebab and it is related to an automatic doner kebab slicing machine comprising a doner kebab follow- up apparatus (28), the position of the upper section of which does not change when it performs rotating motion in accordance with said circular knife (29) and which enables to slice doner kebab at fixed thickness and enables the angular change to be construed by electronic system by transferring angular change to the bearing during the doner kebab surface follow-up via doner kebab follow-up apparatus bearing (30) where it is positioned.