Rotary cutting machine
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional food processors require frequent component changes for different tasks, leading to increased costs, complexity, and safety hazards due to the need for multiple machines and frequent replacements.
Innovation Solution
A combined shredding and cutting component for rotary cutting machines, featuring a shredder tube with perpendicular strip and spiral cutters, and a power unit that allows 90° rotation, enabling conversion between strip and spiral cutting modes without replacing components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional food processors use separate shredding and cutting components, then each task can be performed effectively, but the device complexity and cost increase due to multiple components and frequent replacements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines strip cutter and spiral cutter into a single integrated component that can perform both shredding and slicing functions. The component includes a strip cutter support with strip cutters arranged radially and a spiral cutter support with spiral cutters arranged radially, both mounted on the same shaft assembly, allowing one component to replace multiple separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated cutter component is designed to perform multiple functions: it can cut food into strips using the strip cutters, slice food using the spiral cutters, and potentially combine both actions. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate shredding and slicing components, reducing device complexity while maintaining task effectiveness.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users frequently replace shredding/cutting components for different tasks, then task versatility is achieved, but time is lost and safety hazards increase
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated cutter component provides both strip cutting and spiral slicing capabilities in a single unit, allowing users to perform multiple tasks without replacing components. The component can be configured for different cutting patterns while remaining installed in the food processor, eliminating replacement time and associated safety risks.
Solution Approach 2:
The component design allows dynamic switching between different cutting functions (strip cutting and spiral slicing) while the component remains installed. This is achieved through the radial arrangement of different cutter types on the same support structure, enabling functional switching without physical replacement.
3Reliability
If multiple separate machines are used for different food processing tasks, then each task can be optimized, but the cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality of separate shredding and slicing machines into a single integrated cutter component that can perform both functions. This allows one food processor to replace multiple specialized machines, reducing overall cost while maintaining task optimization through the specialized design of each cutter type within the integrated component.
Data Source
AI summary
A rotary cutting machine, having a body base, wherein the body base is provided with a shredding and cutting component capable of rotating about the motor axis by 90°; and a power unit for powering the shredding cutter components. The power unit is connected to the shredding and cutting component, and the connector for connecting the power unit is provided on one side of the shredder tube, which having a shredder tube and a feed tube, wherein the feed tube is vertically arranged with the shredder tube. The shredder tube having a shredder tube shell. The strip cutter supporter is arranged in the shredder tube shell, the strip cutter is arranged on the side of the strip cutter support, and the spiral cutter support is clamped on the bottom surface of the strip cutter support, the spiral cutter is arranged on the spiral cutter support, the strip cutter and the spiral cutter are arranged perpendicular to each other. The rotary cutting machine integrates a strip cutter and a spiral cutter in a shredder tube shell, and integrates the two kinds of cuts with different output power modes to facilitate the conversion between the strip cutting and spiral cutting modes.