Modular Transverse Cutting Roller for Food Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transverse cutting devices for flat food products, such as industrially produced cheese, are limited in flexibility and cleanliness due to their design, requiring significant retooling for different products and having hard-to-reach areas that collect residue, making them difficult to clean and maintain.
Innovation Solution
A transverse cutting roller with a modular design featuring a carrier shaft and pivotable blade carriers that allow for easy attachment and adjustment of transverse cutting blades, enabling flexibility in cutting various product qualities and dimensions while ensuring high cleanliness standards through detachable and removably mounted components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If transverse cutting blades are attached to transverse cutting rollers with fixed recesses, then the position and orientation of the blade are fixedly predefined, but the device is limited to a single application and requires considerable retooling measures when changing products
Solution Approach 1:
The transverse cutting roller is divided into separate functional components: the roller body and the transverse cutting blade. The blade can be detached and replaced independently from the roller, allowing different blades to be used for different product types without replacing the entire roller assembly. This segmentation enables flexibility while keeping the overall device structure simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The transverse cutting roller is designed with a universal mounting interface that can accommodate different transverse cutting blades for various product types. The roller body serves multiple functions by working with different blades, making the device adaptable to cutting different product qualities and dimensions without requiring complete retooling.
2Ease of manufacture
If transverse cutting blades and rollers are designed as separate components with fixed recesses, then the blade can be replaced and cleaned, but hard-to-reach gaps and intermediate spaces are created where product residue collects
Solution Approach 1:
The transverse cutting blade is extracted as a completely separate component from the roller body, mounted on the outer circumference rather than being recessed into the roller. This eliminates the hard-to-reach gaps and intermediate spaces between blade and roller where product residue would accumulate, making the device easier to clean while maintaining replaceability of the wear part.
3Adaptability or versatility
If transverse cutting blades are mounted on the carrier shaft directly, then the structure is simpler, but the blade position and orientation cannot be selectively adjusted for different applications
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system is segmented into the carrier shaft, the transverse cutting blade, and intermediate mounting components. This segmentation allows the blade to be positioned and oriented independently on the carrier shaft through selective mounting arrangements, providing adjustability while keeping each component relatively simple in structure.
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AI summary
A transverse cutting roller 1 for the transverse cutting of a flat product moving in a transport direction, in particular a viscous foodstuff, such as industrially produced cheese 14, wherein a transverse cutting blade 3, which bridges the product, which is intended to be cut, transversely to the transport direction, is held on a carrier shaft 2 by a plurality of axially spaced blade carriers 4 mounted on the carrier shaft 2, wherein each blade carrier has at least one carrier element 7, which extends radially outward with respect to the rotational axis A of the carrier shaft 2 when the blade carrier 4 is installed, wherein provided on the outer end of each carrier element 7 is a blade attachment section 5, on which the strip-type blade is detachably attached so as to be radially spaced from the carrier shaft 2.