Sausage Filling Machine Adhesive Separation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Filling machines face issues with filling material escaping and sticking to machine parts due to air content and viscosity, leading to contamination and malfunctions, especially when casing changes occur, causing operational disruptions and cleanliness issues.
Innovation Solution
A filling machine with a separating element and cleaning device that captures and cleans adhering filling material, ensuring a clean surface for subsequent transfers and preventing contamination by directing the material to a collection device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If filling material is compressed in the conveying area from the stuffing pump to the end of the stuffing tube, then the filling material can be ejected under pressure, but filling material escapes at the end of the filling tube when the process is interrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts and removes the harmful filling material that escapes from the filling tube end by introducing a separating element that actively takes out the filled material from the filling tube and transports it away from the machine interior to a collection device
Solution Approach 2:
The separating element acts as an intermediary between the filling tube and the machine interior, capturing the escaped filling material before it can contaminate the machine or casing sticks
2Reliability
If scraping elements are used to remove filling material, then the filling tube can be cleaned, but the removed filling material soils the stuffing machine and contaminates casing sticks
Solution Approach 1:
The separating element extracts the filling material from the filling tube in a controlled manner and transports it directly to a collection device, preventing it from falling onto the machine or casing sticks
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces the traditional scraping mechanism with a separating element system that uses adhesion and controlled transport to remove filling material, substituting the uncontrolled mechanical scraping with a more precise removal system
3Reliability
If the filling tube is cleaned by scraping, then filling material is removed, but the cleaning process itself creates uncontrolled distribution of filling material
Solution Approach 1:
The separating element serves as an intermediary that captures filling material in a controlled location and transports it along a defined path to a collection device, preventing uncontrolled distribution throughout the machine
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 prevents filling material from sticking to machine parts, maintaining cleanliness and reducing operational disruptions by ensuring a clean adhesive surface for filling material transfer, thereby preventing contamination and malfunctions.
Implementation Method 1
an adhesive surface (H) for the plaited filling material (6) which is deliberately provided for this purpose on the separating element (T)
Data Source
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AI summary
In a sausage filling machine (M), comprising a filling tube (R) and a unit (E) for removing the filling material strand (6) emerging from the filling tube end (1) during an interruption of the filling process, wherein the unit (E) has a separating element (T) with which the filling material strand (6) can be removed during a relative movement between the filling tube end (1) and the separating element (T), the separating element (T) has at least one filling material adhesion surface (H) to which filling material (G) can be transferred and adhered, and a cleaning device (V) is associated with the adhesion surface (H).