Tasting Tap Removable Pipe Stopper Clogging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional tasting taps used in the wine-making industry often clog due to solid particles and experience liquid residue stagnation, making sampling inefficient and difficult to clean, especially when screwing mechanisms are used.
Innovation Solution
A tasting tap design featuring a pivot-mounted stopper mechanism with a removable pipe that flushes particles and minimizes liquid retention, allowing for easy assembly, disassembly, and cleaning, with a locking system that prevents threading complications and facilitates streamlined flow.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional valve system is used to control flow in the tasting tap, then the tap can maintain airtight sealing, but the flow guide becomes prone to clogging by solid particles and liquid residue stagnation
Solution Approach 1:
The invention removes the traditional valve system and flow guide structure that caused clogging and residue stagnation. Instead, it uses a simple hole in the stopper that can be completely opened or closed, eliminating the problematic flow guide chamber where liquid would stagnate and particles would accumulate.
Solution Approach 2:
Rather than using a valve to control flow through a chamber, the invention inverts the approach by using a stopper with a hole that is either completely open or completely closed. This binary state eliminates the intermediate positions where residue would accumulate, and the hole design prevents particle accumulation.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the pipe is permanently fixed in the body, then the structure is more stable, but cleaning becomes difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The invention divides the tap into separable components: the body with the hole and the stopper that can be removed. This segmentation allows the stopper to be easily taken out for cleaning or replacement without disassembling the entire tap structure, maintaining stability while enabling quick maintenance.
3Strength
If a screwing mechanism is used to attach the tap, then the connection is secure, but assembly and cleaning become complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The invention removes the screwing mechanism entirely, replacing it with a simple stopper that fits into a hole in the body. This extraction of the complex fastening system simplifies both assembly and cleaning operations while maintaining adequate connection strength through the stopper-body interface.
Data Source
AI summary
A tap for industrial use allows the collection of liquid samples. The tap is partially made up of a body crossed by a pipe and a control mechanism including, in particular, a handle and a shutter. In a closed position, the shutter entirely obstructs the hole of the pipe. In an open position, the shutter does not even partially obstruct the hole of the pipe. The tap is attached, in a closed position, to a container holding a liquid. An operator can, using the lever, switch the tap from a closed position to an open position, and vice versa, thus allowing the liquid to flow through the pipe according to variable flow rates ranging from a flow rate of zero in closed position to a maximum flow rate in open position. The pipe is removable to enable optimal cleaning of all the elements of the device.