Cutting portion of food cutter
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional food cutters with a single blade portion require significant time and labor to produce large amounts of cuttings, limiting efficiency in tasks like shredding cabbage and slicing root vegetables.
Innovation Solution
A cutting portion for a food cutter featuring multiple blade portions and a terminal guide portion, arranged in a parallel configuration with gaps between them, allowing for efficient cutting and reducing clogging, and attachable to a food cutter via rotating shafts and support portions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a single blade portion is used for cutting, then the structure is simple, but it takes time and labor to make a large amount of cuttings
Solution Approach 1:
The cutting portion is divided into multiple blade portions (first blade portion, second blade portion, third blade portion) arranged in parallel, each capable of cutting food materials independently. This segmentation allows simultaneous multi-point cutting, dramatically increasing cutting speed and productivity while maintaining manageable structural complexity through modular design
2Productivity
If multiple blade portions are arranged closely, then cutting efficiency increases, but clogging between blades occurs
Solution Approach 1:
Different gap widths are designed between different blade portions based on local requirements: narrower gaps between first and second blade portions for efficient cutting, and wider gaps between second and third blade portions to prevent clogging. This local differentiation optimizes both cutting efficiency and anti-clogging performance in different regions of the cutting portion
3Productivity
If blade portions are arranged in parallel, then cutting speed increases, but alignment precision becomes difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple blade portions are integrated into a single cutting portion structure that moves as one unit. The connecting portions join the blade portions together, ensuring they maintain fixed relative positions and move in unison during cutting operations. This merging approach preserves manufacturing precision while enabling parallel cutting for high productivity
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a cutting portion that can easily obtain a large amount of cuttings of a food material in a short time. A cutting portion of a food cutter includes a plurality of blade portions that are provided with blades, and a terminal guide portion located on the most downstream side in the cutting operation direction and functions as a guide by coming in contact with the food material when cutting the food material; wherein the plurality of cutting portions and the terminal guide portion are provided so as to be substantially parallel with each other with gaps in between, and move together as one.