Press Device Piercing Sausage Skin for Mass Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sausage pressing devices require high tension and are complex, making them unsuitable for smaller companies, as they are designed for larger industrial use and struggle with efficiently recycling sausage mass from unsellable sausages with defective skins.
Innovation Solution
A pressing device with a support surface and a press ram featuring pointed or sharp fixing projections to pierce and hold the sausage skin, allowing for easy extraction of the sausage mass, along with a movable container and draining station for efficient skin removal and collection of the sausage mixture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a pressure belt is used to press sausages against a perforated drum, then the sausage mass can be pressed through the holes, but high tension is required and the device becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the essential function of piercing and holding from the complex pressure belt system and implements it through simple fixing projections on the press ram. These projections directly pierce the sausage skin and hold the sausage during pressing, eliminating the need for a tensioned pressure belt while maintaining effective sausage mass extraction.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using a flexible pressure belt that wraps around the sausage, the invention uses rigid fixing projections that pierce into the sausage. This inverts the approach from external compression to internal anchoring, simplifying the device structure while improving extraction efficiency.
2Force
If high tension is applied to the pressure belt to burst sausages, then the sausage mass can be pressed out, but the device requires complex construction and high effort
Solution Approach 1:
The fixing projections are simple, inexpensive components that can be easily manufactured and replaced if needed. Their simple geometry allows for cost-effective production, making the overall device easier and more economical to manufacture compared to complex pressure belt systems.
3Ease of operation
If the press ram is pulled back without fixing projections, then the skin remains on the drum, but the sausage mass cannot be effectively pressed through
Solution Approach 1:
The invention separates the functions of pressing and skin removal into distinct phases. During pressing, the fixing projections anchor the sausage to enable effective mass extraction. After pressing, the projections are pulled back, and the skin naturally detaches and remains on the drum for easy removal, while the pressed sausage mass falls through the perforations.
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 device enables efficient and cost-effective sausage mass extraction with reduced effort, making it accessible to smaller companies, while ensuring safe operation and easy cleaning and disposal of the sausage skins.
Implementation Method 1
at least one, preferably several pointed or sharp fixing projections for piercing and/or cutting and fixing the skin are provided on the pressing device
Implementation Method 2
a press ram for pressing the sausage against the support surface
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AI summary
The pressing device (10) comprises a support surface (22), a through-opening (36) through which the sausage mass (26) is pressed, and a press plate (14) for pressing the sausage (24) against the support surface. The pressing device has several sharp fixing projections (30) formed for puncturing and/or cutting and fixing the skin (28) of sausage.