Non-slip temperature resistant cutting board assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cutting boards face issues with bacterial propagation due to discontinuities in the cutting surface, difficulty in maintaining sanitation and hygiene compliance, susceptibility to slippage, and inability to withstand high temperatures, leading to frequent replacements and increased costs in commercial kitchen settings.
Innovation Solution
A cutting board assembly with anti-slip support assemblies that engage through-holes in the cutting board body, featuring snap-fitting support bases with anti-slip layers that maintain cleanliness and usability, allowing for easy maintenance and resurfacing, and constructed from materials that withstand high temperatures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If anti-slip supports are integrally formed with the cutting board during manufacture, then the cutting board maintains stability during use, but the cutting board cannot be economically serviced or resurfaced when the cutting surface degrades
Solution Approach 1:
The cutting board is divided into separate components: a cutting board body and removable anti-slip supports. The supports are inserted into recesses in the cutting board body but are not integrally formed, allowing them to be removed and replaced independently when degraded, while maintaining stability during use.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If the cutting board is constructed as a unitary body, then the cutting surface remains smooth and easy to clean, but the cutting board becomes susceptible to slippage during use
Solution Approach 1:
The cutting board is segmented into a smooth unitary cutting board body that resists bacterial propagation and removable anti-slip supports that provide stability. This separation allows each component to fulfill its specific function without compromise.
Solution Approach 2:
The anti-slip supports act as intermediary elements between the cutting board body and the support surface, providing friction and stability without being part of the cutting surface itself, thus maintaining the hygiene properties of the unitary body.
3Adaptability or versatility
If discrete supports are integrally formed with both sides of the cutting board, then the cutting board provides multiple usable surfaces, but the supports are exposed to cutting activities and cannot be repaired if damaged
Solution Approach 1:
The supports are segmented from the cutting board body and made removable, allowing them to be replaced when damaged. The cutting board body retains multiple usable surfaces while the supports can be economically serviced by simple removal and replacement rather than repair.
4Stability of the object's composition
If anti-slip supports are provided on one side of the cutting board, then the cutting board resists slippage, but only one planar side remains usable for cutting operations
Solution Approach 1:
Anti-slip supports are placed at the perimeter corners rather than across the entire surface, providing stability while leaving the cutting surfaces intact and usable. The segmented placement allows multiple cutting surfaces to remain accessible.
Solution Approach 2:
The anti-slip supports are positioned at the perimeter (one-dimensional placement) rather than covering the two-dimensional cutting surface, providing stability without interfering with the usability of the cutting surfaces on either side of the board.
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 solution provides a sanitary, slip-resistant, and durable cutting board assembly that can be serviced economically, maintaining regulatory compliance and operational integrity even at elevated temperatures, reducing bacterial propagation and the need for frequent replacements.
Implementation Method 1
anti-slip layer...increase the frictional interaction with the support surface
Data Source
AI summary
A cutting board assembly that includes a plurality of anti-slip support assemblies that maintain usability of at least one of the opposing surfaces of the cutting board assembly for cutting operations and which maintain a sanitary and cleanable construction of the cutting board assembly. Each support assembly includes first and second support bodies that are constructed to engage one another and cooperate with discrete through-holes that are formed in the body of the cutting board. Each support assembly includes an anti-slip layer that protrudes above the discrete cutting surface and sealingly cooperates with the walls of the discrete through-holes to maintain a sanitary and cleanable condition of the cutting board assembly. The body of the cutting board assembly is constructed to withstand exposure to high temperature conditions associated with use thereof.