Movable Food Sprayer Head for Compact Bakery Coating
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional bakery sprayers are bulky, expensive, and messy, requiring conveyor belts that occupy significant space, take time to clean, and sanitize, and are inefficient for coating food items and trays.
Innovation Solution
A food article sprayer with a movable head along a track, featuring adjustable nozzles that can be oriented horizontally and vertically, allowing for customizable fluid distribution over food-related items, and includes a handle and activation switch for user control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional bakery sprayers use conveyor belts to spray food items, then the spraying function is achieved, but the device occupies significant space and requires extensive cleaning time
Solution Approach 1:
The sprayer is divided into separate modular components: a removable spray head with nozzles, a reservoir, and a handle assembly. This segmentation allows the spray head to be easily detached for cleaning or replacement, significantly reducing cleaning time and simplifying maintenance while maintaining effective spraying functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The spray head is designed to be movable and repositionable along the conveyor belt or food items, allowing flexible adjustment of spraying position and angle. This dynamic capability enables thorough coverage without requiring a large fixed structure, reducing space occupation while maintaining productivity
2Device complexity
If conventional sprayers use fixed conveyor belts at single speed, then the spraying process is simplified, but the adaptability to different food items and spraying requirements is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The spray head can be manually repositioned and adjusted to different locations along the conveyor belt or around food items, providing dynamic adaptability to various food shapes, sizes, and spraying requirements without complicating the overall system design
Solution Approach 2:
The spray head is designed with multiple nozzles oriented in different directions, enabling it to handle various food items and spraying patterns with a single universal component, eliminating the need for multiple specialized spray systems
3Productivity
If conventional sprayers use enclosed spray areas, then the spraying coverage is improved, but the cleaning and sanitization time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The spray head is a separate removable component that can be easily detached from the main body, allowing quick removal and cleaning without disassembling an enclosed structure. This significantly reduces cleaning and sanitization time while maintaining effective spray coverage through proper nozzle positioning and orientation
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 system provides efficient, space-saving, and user-friendly fluid application, enabling quick and thorough coating of food items and trays with minimal cleanup effort.
Implementation Method 1
A supply hose is removably coupled to the nozzle. The supply hose is configured to deliver a fluid to the nozzle to be sprayed on the at least one food-related article.
Data Source
AI summary
The systems and methods described herein relate to basting food-related items. The food-related items may include baked goods, baking sheets, cake pans, cupcake pans, and the like. The food items may include pastries, baked good, pies, etc. The item to be basted, glazed, or otherwise deposited with a fluid is placed in a target area. A movable head is then able to move along a track and distribute a fluid over the fluid-related item. The item is stationary during the process.