Rolling Mandrel Temperature Control for Wafer Rolls

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional ring baking machines struggle to introduce temperature-sensitive masses into wafer rolls without compromising their temperature, due to heat transfer from the hot wafer strips to the rolling mandrel, making it difficult to maintain the desired temperature of the filling within the rolls.

Innovation Solution

A winding device with a temperature-controlled rolling mandrel featuring a cylindrical winding wall and a temperature control channel that extends from the supported section to the projecting section and back, allowing for precise temperature management and preventing heat transfer to the wafer rolls, ensuring the mass is introduced at the correct temperature.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the rolling mandrel is used to wind up hot wafer strips, then the wafer rolls are formed continuously, but heat is transferred from the wafer strip to the rolling mandrel causing temperature-sensitive masses to deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontinuous production of wafer rollsVSAvoidtemperature of rolling mandrel
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

A temperature control medium is introduced as an intermediary substance that flows through channels in the rolling mandrel, acting as a thermal mediator to absorb or supply heat between the wafer strip and the mandrel structure, thereby controlling the mandrel temperature independently

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The temperature parameter of the rolling mandrel is actively changed and controlled by circulating a temperature control medium through integrated channels, allowing the mandrel temperature to be adjusted to match the required mass introduction temperature

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Quantity of substance

If a mass channel with larger diameter is arranged centrally in the rolling mandrel, then mass can be introduced into the wafer rolls, but the mass channel bears on the outer wall of the rolling mandrel making temperature control difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveamount of mass introduced into wafer rollsVSAvoidtemperature control of rolling mandrel
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSTemperature

Solution Approach 1:

The temperature control channels are nested within the rolling mandrel structure, with the mass channel and temperature control channels arranged concentrically or adjacently within the same mandrel body, allowing both functions to coexist without interfering with each other

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The rolling mandrel is segmented into functional zones with separate channels for mass introduction and temperature control, allowing independent optimization of each function's performance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

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

Enables the continuous production of wafer rolls with temperature-sensitive fillings, maintaining the desired temperature and quality, overcoming the limitations of prior art by effectively controlling the temperature of the rolling mandrel through a specially designed temperature control channel.

Implementation Method 1

heat is transferred from the hot wafer strip to this winding surface

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHeat transfer: Conduction (thermal)

Implementation Method 2

at least one temperature control channel for conducting a temperature control medium is provided inside the cylindrical winding wall

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectTemperature control: Heat Exchanger

Data Source

PatentEP3272220B1Baking machine and winding device
Publication Date: 2019.10.09 HAAS FOOD EQUIPMENT GMBH
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AI summary

Winding device and baking machine for the continuous production of edible wafer rolls coated on their inside with a mass such as an edible cream, wherein the winding device (1) comprises a rolling mandrel (2) extending along a main axis (5), wherein the rolling mandrel (2) is bounded in its projecting section (4) transversely to the main axis (5) by a cylindrical winding wall (6), wherein inside the cylindrical winding wall (6) a mass channel (8) extending along the main axis (5) is provided for introducing a mass into the interior of an endless sleeve-shaped hollow body or the wafer rolls, wherein inside the cylindrical winding wall (6) at least one tempering channel (9) is provided for guiding a tempering medium, in particular a tempering fluid,and wherein the temperature control channel (9) extends from the supported section (3) of the rolling mandrel (2) into the projecting section (4) of the rolling mandrel (2) and back into the supported section (3) of the rolling mandrel (2).