Tea Cartridge Vortex Sidewall for Rapid Hot-Water Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional tea brewing methods are time-consuming and inefficient, leading to slow tea leaf extraction, long wait times, and a decrease in tea water temperature, which negatively impacts the taste and aroma of the tea.
Innovation Solution
A beverage producing system comprising a beverage substance cartridge with a polypropylene cartridge body featuring convex side walls that form a vortex when filled with hot water, accelerating the extraction process and maintaining high water temperature for rapid brewing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional manual tea brewing method is used, then the brewing process can be simple, but it is time-consuming and inefficient with slow tea leaf extraction
Solution Approach 1:
The cartridge body side wall is designed with arc-shaped convex parts that create a vortex flow pattern when water is poured in. This curved geometry induces rotational motion in the water, significantly enhancing the extraction speed of tea leaves by increasing water-substance contact and circulation.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention utilizes hydraulic principles by designing the water filling apparatus to pour water at specific positions and angles into the cartridge. The water flow pattern, combined with the arc-shaped side wall, creates a vortex that accelerates extraction through enhanced fluid dynamics and circulation.
2Productivity
If brewing time is extended to improve extraction, then extraction efficiency increases, but water temperature drops and negatively impacts taste and aroma
Solution Approach 1:
The arc-shaped convex parts on the cartridge side wall generate a vortex flow that intensifies water-substance interaction. This vortex effect accelerates extraction so rapidly that high-quality extraction is achieved in short time, preventing significant temperature drop that would occur with prolonged brewing.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the flow parameters of water by inducing vortex motion through the curved side wall geometry. This transforms the water flow from simple pouring to rotational circulation, dramatically increasing extraction rate and allowing brief brewing duration while maintaining high temperature.
3Ease of operation
If simple automatic brewing equipment is used, then manual operation is eliminated, but tea leaf extraction remains very slow requiring several minutes to ten minutes waiting time
Solution Approach 1:
The cartridge incorporates arc-shaped convex parts on its side wall that automatically generate vortex flow when water is poured. This geometric feature passively accelerates extraction without requiring complex mechanical stirring mechanisms, maintaining simplicity while reducing wait time from several minutes to under one minute.
Solution Approach 2:
The cartridge structure itself performs the extraction acceleration function through its arc-shaped geometry. When water is poured in, the curved side wall automatically creates vortex flow that enhances extraction, eliminating the need for additional active stirring components or complex control mechanisms.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system enables rapid brewing by forming a vortex within the cartridge, enhancing extraction efficiency and maintaining high water temperature, making it suitable for both office and home use.
Implementation Method 1
A side wall of the cartridge body is integrally formed of plural arc parts... forming a vortex within the cartridge
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AI summary
A beverage substance cartridge, a tea filtering apparatus, a beverage producing equipment, a beverage producing system and a beverage producing method are provided to efficiently solve the problems of slow tea leaf extraction, long wait time for tea drinker, low tea water temperature and bad tea water taste. The water filling apparatus of the beverage producing equipment fills hot water into the bottom of the beverage substance cartridge near the side wall of the cartridge body, and forms vortex in the beverage substance cartridge which speeds up extraction efficiently. Furthermore, inside convex edges are set at the side wall of the beverage cartridge and hot water temperature is high enough to strengthen extraction effects and then realize rapid brewing effects in the tea brewing equipment. The beverage producing equipment can be widely applied in offices and homes.