Egg Cup with Knife Guide Gap for Precise Slicing Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Prior art egg cups lack a stable and precise mechanism for cutting eggs, as existing egg slicing tools are imprecise and unstable when used with egg cups.
Innovation Solution
An egg cup design featuring a main body with a top perimeter and a top ring that forms a gap to guide a knife for slicing, allowing the knife to pass through and stop at a connector, providing a secure and precise cutting mechanism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a prior art egg topper or slicing tool is used with an egg cup, then the egg can be broken apart or shell removed, but the tool lacks stability and precision
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a knife guide as an intermediary component between the egg cup and the knife. The knife guide includes a guide opening that directs the knife blade along a precise path during slicing, ensuring both stability and precision. The guide opening is positioned and sized to receive the knife blade while maintaining proper alignment, preventing the knife from deviating during the cutting motion.
2Reliability
If an egg cup is designed deeper to securely hold the egg, then the egg is more stable, but the knife cannot easily reach through to slice the egg
Solution Approach 1:
The egg cup is segmented into distinct functional zones: a deeper interior chamber for securely holding the egg, a top perimeter forming an opening for egg access, and a separate knife guide component with a guide opening. This segmentation allows the main body to be deep for stability while the knife guide provides a dedicated access point that is optimally positioned and sized for knife insertion and slicing operation.
Data Source
AI summary
An egg cup for cutting an egg with a knife has a main body with a base and an upwardly extending sidewall that extends upwardly to a top perimeter. The top perimeter defines an opening that allows access to an interior chamber formed by the main body, wherein the interior chamber is shaped to receive the egg. The egg cup further has a top ring having a connector that connects to the top ring to the top perimeter such that the top ring and the top perimeter form a gap therebetween. The gap is sized to receive the knife between the top ring and the top perimeter so that the knife may slice through the egg and stop at the connector of the top ring.