Vegetable Knife Pulverizing Coring Pin
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Solution Overview
Problem
The food industry faces inefficiencies in processing vegetables due to the difficulty in disentangling plug cores from cut vegetable products, which are often fragile and interleaved, leading to lost processing efficiencies and potential damage during removal.
Innovation Solution
A vegetable knife with a pulverizing coring pin is used to reduce the core into smaller pieces, allowing for easy removal without disentanglement, integrated into a rotatable cutting assembly for efficient processing of various vegetables and fruits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a traditional coring pin is used to remove vegetable cores, then the core is removed as a single piece, but the core is difficult to disentangle from interleaved cut vegetable products and may cause damage during removal
Solution Approach 1:
The coring pin is designed with multiple cutting edges or blades arranged radially around its circumference, which segment the core into multiple smaller pieces during the coring operation. These segmented core pieces can be easily separated from the cut vegetable products without causing damage, resolving the contradiction between ease of removal and product integrity.
2Productivity
If vegetable cores are removed as intact pieces, then removal is straightforward, but processing efficiency is lost due to difficulty in disentangling interleaved cores
Solution Approach 1:
The coring pin incorporates multiple cutting edges that automatically segment the core into smaller pieces during rotation, eliminating the need for complex disentanglement mechanisms and improving processing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The coring pin is designed to rotate during operation, allowing the multiple cutting edges to dynamically engage with the core material and efficiently segment it, thereby improving productivity without requiring complex stationary mechanisms.
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
This solution enables efficient processing and removal of vegetable cores, reducing waste and maintaining product integrity by converting the core into a pulverized form that can be easily flushed or rinsed away, thereby improving processing efficiency and reducing damage to the cut vegetable products.
Implementation Method 1
A vegetable knife has a pulverizing coring pin for pulverizing a core of a vegetable to produce one or more cut vegetable products
Data Source
AI summary
A vegetable knife includes a pulverizing coring pin for pulverizing a core of a vegetable, where the pulverizing coring pin can be a generally cylindrical tube. The pulverizing coring pin can define one or more pulverizing tubes that extend from a first end of the pulverizing coring pin to a second end of the pulverizing coring pin opposite the first end. The vegetable knife also includes at least one vegetable shaping blade that extends radially outwardly from the pulverizing coring pin, where the at least one vegetable shaping blade supports the pulverizing coring pin at a location generally central with respect to the vegetable knife. The vegetable knife may also include an outer flange for coupling the vegetable knife to a rotatable cutting assembly. The vegetable shaping blade can be connected between the outer flange and the pulverizing coring pin for supporting the pulverizing coring pin.