Rotating Impeller Wings for Sausage Packaging Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices for transferring sausages or food portions into packaging face limitations in delivery speed and alignment precision, leading to errors and mechanical damage.
Innovation Solution
A device with two cooperating conveyor devices featuring protruding wings that rotate synchronously to guide and place sausages precisely into packaging, utilizing impellers with evenly spaced blades to support and guide sausages, reducing mechanical stress and enabling high-speed transfer.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the second conveyor unit moves quickly to increase transfer speed, then productivity improves, but the sausage groups are no longer placed correctly into the packaging and alignment precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of moving the conveyor quickly and trying to place sausages accurately, the invention inverts the approach by using rotating impellers that actively guide and propel the sausage groups at high speed while maintaining placement accuracy through controlled rotation and wing geometry
Solution Approach 2:
The impellers with wings serve as an intermediary mechanism between the conveyor and packaging. These impellers receive sausage groups from the conveyor and use their rotating motion to gently guide and place them into packaging, decoupling the high-speed conveyor motion from the precise placement requirement
2Device complexity
If conventional conveyor mechanisms are used to transfer sausages, then the device structure is simple, but mechanical damage occurs to the sausages during placement
Solution Approach 1:
The impellers are equipped with flexible wings that can adapt to the shape and size of sausage groups. These flexible wings gently guide the sausages without rigid contact, reducing mechanical damage while maintaining effective transfer
Solution Approach 2:
The impellers rotate dynamically to adapt to different sausage group sizes and positions. The rotating motion allows the wings to naturally guide sausages into packaging without forceful contact, reducing mechanical stress compared to fixed conveyor mechanisms
3Manufacturing precision
If multiple components are used to ensure precise placement, then manufacturing precision improves, but device complexity increases and maintenance costs rise
Solution Approach 1:
The impellers serve multiple functions: they transfer sausage groups from the conveyor, guide them laterally using their wings, control placement speed through rotation, and cushion the impact into packaging. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate alignment mechanisms, reducing component count while maintaining precision
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines the transfer function and alignment function into a single impeller mechanism. The rotating impeller with wings simultaneously performs both the conveying and lateral guidance tasks that would traditionally require separate components, simplifying the overall device structure
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AI summary
Device for transferring at least one sausage or food portions, in particular a group of sausages (4), into a package (35), with at least one driveable, rotatable conveying device (8) having at least one protruding wing (41), which is designed and arranged such that in a receiving position the at least one sausage (20) can be placed on the wing (41), and that by rotating the conveying device (8) the at least one sausage (20) can be placed from the wing (41) onto or into the package (35) in a dispensing position.