Roller Vegetable Cutter With Guided Discharge And Detachable Blades

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing roller vegetable cutters lack a guide function for efficient vegetable discharge and suffer from blade assemblies that may fall due to abrasion after long-term use.

Innovation Solution

A roller tool with a guide part on the same axis as the roller body, featuring a hemispherical or cylindrical structure to facilitate vegetable discharge, and detachable blade assemblies mounted on multiple mounting parts with clamping mechanisms to prevent abrasion.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If blade assemblies are slidably clamped on the roller body for easy replacement, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability deteriorates due to abrasion causing blade assemblies to fall

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveblade replacement easeVSAvoidblade assembly retention
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The roller body is divided into multiple mounting parts with independent clamping mechanisms. Each mounting part has clamping grooves that work with clamping protrusions on blade assemblies, creating segmented retention points that distribute mechanical stress and prevent uniform wear failure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The clamping mechanism uses elastic deformation of the roller body material to create a dynamic retention system. The roller body elastically deforms to clamp the blade assemblies, providing continuous retention force that compensates for wear and maintains reliability over time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Device complexity

If the roller body is designed without a guide function for simplicity, then the device complexity is reduced, but the productivity decreases due to inefficient vegetable discharge

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroller structure simplicityVSAvoidvegetable cutting efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

A guide part with a hemispherical or cylindrical curved surface is added to the roller body. This curved guide surface naturally directs cut vegetables toward the outlet through gravity and geometry, improving discharge efficiency without significantly complicating the overall roller structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

Data Source

PatentUS12427684B2Roller tool and roller vegetable cutter
Publication Date: 2025.09.30 ZHONGSHAN SONGTAI ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is a roller tool, comprising a roller body, wherein the roller body is a cylindrical structure, and comprises a roller bottom surface and a roller side face, a discharge cavity is defined by the roller bottom surface and a roller side face, an end, opposite to the roller bottom surface, of the roller body is open to form an outlet, a connecting part protruding towards the outlet is disposed in a middle of the roller bottom surface, and multiple mounting parts are disposed on the roller side face; multiple blade assemblies, wherein the multiple blade assemblies are detachably mounted in the multiple mounting parts; a guide part, wherein the guide part is disposed in the discharge cavity. the guide part is disposed in the roller body and is located on the same axis as the roller body.