Contact Grill Middle Arm with Axial Weight Relief Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing center arms for contact grilling or roasting devices have complex and hygienically inadequate weight relief mechanisms, with cumbersome and imprecise adjustment, leading to contamination and cleaning difficulties.
Innovation Solution
A center arm design featuring a control profile element with axial movement for precise adjustment, utilizing a step element with locking steps and guide rods to ensure easy cleaning and reliable handling, preventing contamination and simplifying the adjustment process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional weight relief mechanism with transverse adjustment is used, then weight relief functionality is provided, but the structure becomes complex and hygiene is compromised due to contamination risks and cleaning difficulties
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional transverse adjustment direction to axial alignment with the guide means. The control profile element moves axially along the guide means rather than transversely, which simplifies the structure and eliminates the need for complex opening mechanisms, thereby improving hygiene while reducing device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the adjustment mechanism from the traditional complex transverse configuration and repositions it axially along the guide means. This extraction allows the control profile element to be integrated directly into the guide means structure, eliminating separate adjustment components and openings that compromise hygiene
2Measurement precision
If a transverse adjustment mechanism is used, then weight relief is provided, but the adjustment becomes cumbersome and imprecise
Solution Approach 1:
By inverting the adjustment direction from transverse to axial, the control profile element can be precisely positioned along the length of the guide means. The axial movement provides a more intuitive and precise control mechanism, improving both adjustment precision and ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the complex transverse mechanical adjustment system with a simpler axial movement system guided by the guide means. This substitution eliminates the need for complex bearing bushes and opening mechanisms, providing smoother and more precise control
3Ease of operation
If openings are provided for the actuating element, then adjustment is enabled, but contamination risk increases and cleaning becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the actuating element from traditional openings and integrates it directly into the guide means structure. The control profile element moves axially within the sealed guide means, eliminating openings that would allow contamination while maintaining full adjustment accessibility
Solution Approach 2:
The guide means acts as a sealed enclosure that contains the adjustment mechanism. This sealed structure prevents contamination from entering the adjustment mechanism while still allowing the control profile element to move axially, thus protecting against harmful factors without compromising operation
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 design provides a hygienically improved and easy-to-clean center arm with precise and simple weight relief, enhancing the functionality and reliability of the weight relief device, making it easier to handle and maintain.
Implementation Method 1
a spring element (39) which is arranged on a free end (29) of the guide means (15) and is held on the guide means (15) by the stop means (17)
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AI summary
The invention relates to a middle arm (10) for assembling a contact grill or roasting upper plate (11), wherein the middle arm (10) has an essentially vertical support section (12) and a mounting section (13) arranged to pivot on the vertical support section (12), to which the contact grill or roasting plate (11) may be fixed and a device (14) for alleviating weight for the contact grill or roasting plate (11) for fixing to the mounting section (13) is arranged in the mounting section (13), the device (14) for alleviating weight having a guide means (15) for pivotable mounting movably arranged on at least one end (21) with a slide element (16) and a reset element (18) fixed between the slide element (16) and the stop means (17) by a stop means (17) and an adjuster device (20) operated by an operating element (19), for changing the separation between the slide element (16) and the stop means (17) in the longitudinal direction of the guide means (15), characterised in that the adjuster device (20) comprises a control profile element (23 )with a control profile for carrying out an axial movement of the slide element (16) in the longitudinal direction of the guide means (15). The invention further relates to a contact grill or roasting device (64) which such a middle arm (10).