Triangular Food Dough Alignment Apparatus
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional apparatuses for spacing and aligning triangular-like shaped food dough pieces have complex mechanisms that lead to unnecessary movements and mechanical vibrations, reducing productivity due to complicated groove shapes and high operational speeds.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus with pin-holding members that rotate between 0 and 90 degrees, using ascending and descending beams and rotating rods to alternately rotate pieces clockwise and anticlockwise, simplifying the groove shapes and reducing mechanical vibrations by limiting rotation to only 0 and 90 degrees.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional apparatuses use complex mechanisms with complicated groove shapes to rotate pieces, then the pieces can be aligned and spaced, but mechanical vibrations increase and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the rotation angle parameter from arbitrary complex angles to specifically 0° and 90° positions. This parameter simplification allows the use of simpler groove shapes in the cam mechanism, reducing mechanical vibrations while maintaining alignment precision. The pin-holding members only need to rotate to these two specific positions, which can be achieved with simpler mechanical structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention extracts and eliminates the unnecessary complex groove shapes from the cam mechanism. By removing the complicated groove design and replacing it with simpler groove patterns that only guide the pin-holding members to 0° and 90° positions, the mechanical vibrations are reduced while the alignment function is preserved.
2Manufacturing precision
If conventional apparatuses use complicated groove shapes in the cam mechanism, then the pieces can be rotated and aligned, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention simplifies the device by changing the rotation angle parameters to only 0° and 90°. This allows the cam grooves to have simpler shapes, reducing the complexity of the cam mechanism while maintaining the ability to achieve precise alignment. The pin-holding members rotate only to these two positions, which can be guided by simpler groove patterns.
3Productivity
If the apparatus operates at high speeds to enhance productivity, then output increases, but mechanical vibrations increase due to complicated mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the rotation parameter to only 0° and 90° positions, which allows the use of simpler cam groove shapes. These simpler grooves reduce mechanical vibrations during high-speed operation, enabling the apparatus to maintain high productivity without being hindered by excessive vibrations that would occur with complex mechanisms.
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AI summary
This invention provides an apparatus for spacing and aligning triangular-like shaped pieces of food dough in one direction, which pieces are arranged so that they form a plurality of columns, wherein the directions of the pieces of the adjacent columns are alternately opposite each other, by rotating the pieces clockwise and anticlockwise at 90 degrees. The pieces 9 are cut and separated from a sheet 7 of food dough and are carried sequentially downstream from upstream by conveyors 3, 5. The apparatus, which alternately rotates the pieces 9 clockwise and anticlockwise by 90 degrees, comprises pin-holding members 67 fixed to rotating rods 63, which rods 63 can move vertically and rotate clockwise and anticlockwise at 90 degrees. The pieces 9 can thus be aligned so that one of the apexes of the triangular-like-shaped pieces 9 is oriented toward the upstream side of the direction for carrying the pieces 9.