Smoker Device with Vertical Smoke Outlets and Impurity Collection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing smokers direct smoke outlets towards foodstuffs, risking carbon residue contamination and complicating grille or filter cleaning, and lack scalability for industrial applications.

Innovation Solution

A smoker design with vertically oriented smoke outlets and an impurity collection chamber, allowing for easy cleaning and scalability, featuring a tubular main body with a frontal opening, a grille or filter, and a hood with multiple smoke outlets that direct smoke towards the hood's walls, preventing residue contamination and facilitating quick cleaning and replacement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the smoke outlet is directly oriented towards the foodstuffs, then the smoke can be efficiently introduced into the covered space, but carbon residue from combustion falls on the foodstuffs causing bad taste and health issues

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesmoke introduction efficiencyVSAvoidcarbon residue contamination

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The smoke outlet is reoriented from a horizontal direction towards the food to a vertical direction towards the hood walls. This dimensional change in smoke outlet orientation allows smoke to reach the covered space through indirect paths along the walls, preventing direct contamination of food while maintaining smoke distribution efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The hood walls serve as an intermediary surface that redirects smoke from the vertically oriented outlet towards the foodstuffs. Instead of smoke directly contacting food from the outlet, the walls mediate the smoke delivery process, allowing efficient smoke introduction while preventing carbon residue accumulation on food

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the grille or filter is fixed in the current structural configuration, then the combustion chamber is sealed, but removing the grille for cleaning and replacement becomes a complicated operation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecombustion chamber sealingVSAvoidgrille removal and cleaning

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The combustion chamber assembly is segmented into separable components: the grille/filter and the main body. This segmentation allows the grille to be independently removed for cleaning and replacement while maintaining the sealed combustion chamber structure when assembled, resolving the conflict between sealing reliability and ease of maintenance

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The grille is designed with dynamic characteristics, transitioning from a fixed sealed position during operation to a removable position for cleaning. This dynamic design allows the system to maintain sealing reliability during use while enabling easy removal and cleaning when needed

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If a traditional smoker design is used, then the basic smoking function is achieved, but the device cannot be easily scaled for industrial applications

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescalability from artisanal to industrialVSAvoidequipment requirements

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The smoker device is designed with universal characteristics that allow it to function effectively across different scales. The modular tubular body, standardized hood interface, and efficient smoke delivery system can be applied from small artisanal operations to large industrial settings without fundamental redesign, enabling scalability while maintaining functional simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Ensures hygienic, efficient, and ecological smoking with reduced risk of residue contamination, enabling scalable use from artisanal to industrial levels, while maintaining flavor and aroma without the need for extensive equipment or resources.

Implementation Method 1

a flame generator, ideally constituted by a torch, to direct the flame so as to introduce it through the frontal opening to burn the combustible, aromatic material

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectCombustion: Combustion

Implementation Method 2

one or multiple smoke outlets oriented such that they do not direct the flow of smoke directly towards the foodstuff located below, but instead direct it towards the walls of the hood

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectConvection: Convection

Data Source

PatentUS20230255218A1Smoker device for the preparation of foodstuffs or beverages

Publication Date: 2023.08.17 SINGLA COMA PEDRO

AI summary

A smoker device for the preparation of foodstuffs or beverages, comprising a tubular main body with a frontal opening communicating with an internal combustion chamber wherein combustible, aromatic material is disposed before a grille or filter, and with a smoke outlet on the opposite side of said tubular body communicating, via an orifice foreseen for this purpose, with a hood suited to cover a container with the foodstuffs or beverages, there also being a flame generator directed through the frontal opening to burn the combustible material, generating a flow of smoke into the hood. The smoke outlet is constituted by multiple outlets, and next to the grille or filter an impurity collector is located, closing the extremity of the tubular main body.