Removable Rotor Tub for Hygienic Juice Extraction Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing juice extraction devices lack easy and efficient methods for disassembly and reassembly of components for cleaning, compromising hygiene and usability.
Innovation Solution
A juice extraction device with a removable tub that houses the rotors, allowing for easy disassembly and cleaning by separating the rotors from the main structure, facilitating rapid and straightforward washing and maintenance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the device architecture is designed to ensure optimal interaction between rotors and kinetic movement mechanisms, then juicing performance is improved, but ease of disassembly for washing is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into distinct modular components: a fixed base containing the drive mechanism and a removable tub assembly containing the rotors. This segmentation allows the tub and rotors to be easily detached for washing while the base remains stationary, resolving the contradiction between maintaining optimal rotor interaction and enabling easy disassembly for hygiene purposes.
Solution Approach 2:
The tub assembly containing the rotors is extracted as a separate removable unit from the fixed base. This extraction allows users to easily remove the components that require frequent washing (rotors and tub) while leaving the complex drive mechanism in place, thus maintaining juicing performance while improving ease of cleaning.
2Reliability
If frequent washing of rotors and components is required to maintain hygiene, then hygiene conditions are improved, but device complexity increases due to disassembly requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The device is segmented into a fixed base and a removable tub assembly, creating a simple two-part structure that facilitates frequent washing without requiring complex disassembly mechanisms. The tub can be easily lifted out and the rotors removed for cleaning, maintaining hygiene while minimizing structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The components requiring frequent washing (tub and rotors) are extracted as a separate removable assembly from the fixed base. This extraction simplifies the disassembly process to a single removal action rather than multiple steps, thereby improving hygiene maintenance while avoiding increased device complexity.
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AI summary
A juice extraction device for fruit and vegetable products (A), which comprises an outer shell (2), which internally defines a compartment (3) for accommodating at least one juice extraction rotor (4), which can rotate about a first rotation axis (B) which is perpendicular to the ideal resting plane of the shell (2), and at least one conveyance rotor (5), which can rotate beside the juice extraction rotor (4) about a second rotation axis (C), which is parallel to the first and has at least one at least partial accommodation seat (6) for at least one portion of a fruit and vegetable product (A); during respective useful portions of rotation of the rotors (4, 5) the juice extraction rotor (4) penetrates at least partially into the seat (6), for the juice extraction of the at least one portion of the fruit and vegetable product (A) accommodated in the seat (6). The device 1 comprises a tub (7) which is removably arranged in the compartment (3), in at least one juice extraction configuration, and is configured to accommodate at least the rotors (4, 5).