Separable Baking Pan for Easy Cupcake Removal

Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional cupcake and muffin pans often make it difficult to remove baked goods due to their design, which limits the ability to easily release the items after baking.

Innovation Solution

A baking pan with a separable design, featuring a first portion forming at least half of the sidewalls and a second portion forming the remaining sidewalls and bottoms, including corner cups, interior cups, and dividers, with a curved transition and cap to facilitate easy removal.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a traditional cupcake pan with fixed cups is used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but it becomes difficult to remove the cupcake or muffin from the cups after baking

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of removalVSAvoidpan structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The pan is divided into two separable portions: a first portion forming at least half of the sidewalls and a second portion forming the remaining sidewalls and bottoms. This segmentation allows the second portion to be removed after baking, enabling easy extraction of cupcakes or muffins without damaging them.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If a separable pan design is used to enable easy removal, then the ease of operation improves, but the device complexity increases due to multiple portions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of removalVSAvoidnumber of portions

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The pan is divided into two separable portions: a first portion forming at least half of the sidewalls and a second portion forming the remaining sidewalls and bottoms. This segmentation allows the second portion to be removed after baking, enabling easy extraction of cupcakes or muffins without damaging them.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10568330B2Cupcake and muffin pan

Publication Date: 2020.02.25 GOTHAM STEEL LLC

AI summary

A baking pan for cooking a plurality of cupcakes or muffins is provided, the pan including a first portion and a second portion separable from the first, where the first portion represents a form for at least half of the sidewalls of the cupcakes or muffins, and where the second portion represents a form for at least part of the sidewalls not formed by the first portion and for the bottoms of the cupcakes or muffins.