Noodle Cutting Rollers With Comb Plates to Reduce Strand Adhesion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wide noodle strands experience significant adhesion issues due to large contact areas between strands, leading to inadequate gelatinization during steaming and unraveling during eating, which affects product quality.
Innovation Solution
Applying an external force to noodle strands removed from annular grooves of a cutting roller to change their orientation using a comb plate, reducing or preventing adhesion between strands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If wide noodle strands are produced using conventional cutting rollers, then the noodle width is increased, but adhesion between strands occurs due to large contact areas
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a new spatial dimension by positioning scrapers at inclined angles (10° to 50°) relative to the cutting roller surface. This angular dimension allows the scrapers to not only remove noodles from grooves but also to separate and orient noodles in a direction that reduces contact area between wide strands, thereby preventing adhesion while maintaining wide noodle production
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the geometric parameter of the scraper arrangement by specifying an inclination angle range (10° to 50°) relative to the cutting roller. This parameter modification transforms the scraper function from simple noodle removal to combined removal and orientation, effectively controlling noodle strand separation and preventing adhesion of wide noodles
2Object-generated harmful factors
If noodle strands are vertically crimped inside a guide, then gaps are created between strands, but adhesion still occurs for wide noodle strands
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by having scrapers oriented at inclined angles that not only remove noodles from cutting roller grooves but also pre-orient and separate the noodles before they enter the guide. This preliminary separation action reduces the contact area between wide noodle strands in advance, preventing adhesion before the vertical crimping process occurs
3Object-generated harmful factors
If the contact area between noodle strands is reduced, then adhesion is prevented, but the noodle width must be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent resolves this contradiction by introducing an angular dimension through inclined scrapers (10° to 50°). This allows wide noodles to be produced while the inclined scrapers simultaneously reduce the effective contact area between strands by orienting them at an angle, preventing adhesion without compromising noodle width
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AI summary
Provided are a noodle cutting device and a noodle production device that are capable of reducing or preventing adhesion between noodles (52a, 52b), particularly thick noodles. This noodle cutting device comprises: a pair of cutting blade rolls (10a, 10b) having a plurality of annular grooves (12a, 12b) arranged in parallel so as to face and mesh with each other; plate-shaped sections (24a, 24b) that extend along the longitudinal direction of the cutting blade rolls; scrapers (20a, 20b) having a plurality of protrusions (22a, 22b) on a long side of the plate-shaped sections and extending in a direction substantially orthogonal to the long side, said scrapers being configured such that the each of the plurality of protrusions engage with the corresponding annular groove among the plurality of annular grooves in the cutting blade rolls and peels noodles that are in the plurality of annular grooves from the cutting blade rolls; and comb plates (30a, 30b) having a plurality of protrusions (32a, 32b) arranged displaced from the center of the plurality of annular grooves, along the longitudinal direction of the cutting blade rolls, and being arranged such that the plurality of protrusions are in contact with the noodles at a position at which the noodles are not in contact with the cutting blade rolls or the plurality of protrusions in the scrapers.