Squeezing system
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fruit squeezers with parallel rotating axles require large machinery, suffer from fruit rejection and size issues, and have laborious disassembly for cleaning, leading to inefficiencies and potential breakages due to material fatigue.
Innovation Solution
A squeezing system with female and male drums having axles deployed at an angle, with one base larger than the other and a frustoconical shape, allowing for synchronized rotation and engagement of protuberances with cavities, utilizing a guide and retention subsystem to maintain fruit alignment and shape during juicing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If parallel rotation axles are used in the squeezing system, then the structure is simpler and easier to manufacture, but the machinery size becomes large and material fatigue occurs leading to breakages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies asymmetry by deploying the rotation axles of the male and female drums at an angle other than 0° or 180°, creating an asymmetric configuration that eliminates parallel alignment. This angular arrangement prevents material fatigue and breakages while maintaining structural integrity, resolving the contradiction between ease of manufacture and reliability.
2Device complexity
If parallel rotation axles are used in the squeezing system, then the structure is simpler, but the machinery occupies large space
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a two-dimensional parallel axle arrangement to a three-dimensional angular configuration. By deploying axles at an angle in different spatial dimensions, the system achieves compactness and reduces the overall machinery footprint while maintaining functional complexity.
3Device complexity
If parallel rotation axles are used in the squeezing system, then the structure is simpler, but fruit rejection and size issues occur
Solution Approach 1:
The asymmetric angular deployment of rotation axles creates optimal engagement between male and female drum cavities and protuberances. This configuration ensures proper fruit alignment and engagement throughout the squeezing cycle, eliminating fruit rejection issues and improving productivity while maintaining manageable device complexity.
4Ease of manufacture
If parallel rotation axles are used in the squeezing system, then the structure is simpler, but disassembly for cleaning becomes laborious
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs segmentation by designing the squeezing system with modular male and female drum elements that can be independently accessed and removed. The angular axle configuration naturally segments the structure, allowing easy disassembly for cleaning while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through standardized modular components.
Data Source
AI summary
Squeezing system that comprises at least one female drum (1) and at least one male drum (2), one close to the other and which rotate in a synchronous manner, one in the opposite direction to the other, the female (1) having on its side at least one cavity (6) apt for lodging the fruit to be squeezed, and the male drum (2) likewise having on the side at least one protuberance (5) apt for engaging in a portion of the rotation path and apt for being tightly lodged in the cavity (6) of the female drum (1) during each rotation, compressing and squeezing the fruit; the rotation axle (3) of the female drum (1) not being parallel to the rotation axle (4) of the male drum (2), both crossing at a point in space, being preferably coplanar and concurrent and being deployed one with respect to the other at an angle other than 0° or 180°, in which the female (1) and male (2) drums have one of their bases larger than the other, preferably adopting a a frustoconical shape.