SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model discloses rolling the problem that presses equipment work efficiency is low to current clanis bilineata tsingtauica, providing a higher clanis bilineata tsingtauica meat separating centrifuge of degree of automation, this equipment can accomplish clanis bilineata tsingtauica and remove the head, arrange the pendulum automatically, roll and press and work such as the complete partial shipment of skin meat, realize full-automatic, mechanized and high efficiency processing clanis bilineata tsingtauica.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme:
the bean cortex moutan flesh separator comprises a head removing mechanism, a swinging mechanism, a rolling skin flesh separating mechanism and a conveying mechanism,
a decapitating mechanism for excising the head of the clanis bilineata tsingtauica;
the arranging and arranging mechanism is used for arranging the treated clanis bilineata tsingtauica pellets in order along the front and back directions of the workbench;
the rolling skin and meat separation mechanism is used for rolling and pressing the clanis bilineata tsingtauica meat to realize skin and meat separation and respectively sending the clanis bilineata tsingtauica meat to two containers for containing skin and meat;
the conveying mechanism is used for conveying the clanis bilineata tsingtauica herb to each station;
the head removing mechanism, the swinging mechanism and the rolling skin and meat separating mechanism are arranged above the conveying mechanism, and the head removing mechanism and the swinging mechanism are positioned on the left side of the rolling skin and meat separating mechanism.
Preferably, the row pendulum mechanism is as follows:
the row pendulum mechanism comprises a guide rail, a sliding block, a motor, a pinion, an intermediate gear, a large gear, a rack and a gear shaft, wherein the guide rail is fixedly arranged, the sliding block is arranged on the guide rail, the motor is fixed on the sliding block, the motor transmits power to the gear shaft through the intermediate gear and the large gear in sequence, and the gear and the rack on the gear shaft are meshed, so that the sliding block can move back and forth along the guide rail.
Preferably, the de-heading mechanism is as follows:
the head removing mechanism comprises a rotary table, a planetary gear mechanism and a support, the planetary gear mechanism comprises a gear ring, a sun gear and three planetary gears, a plurality of semicircular grooves are formed in the circumferential surface of the rotary table at equal angles along the circumferential direction, a left vertical plate and a right vertical plate are arranged on two sides of the support, and the left vertical plate and the right vertical plate are respectively fixed on opposite side surfaces of the two sliding blocks.
Preferably, the rolling skin and meat separating mechanism is as follows:
roll skin meat separating mechanism including separating mechanism motor, camshaft, guide arm and last frame, the separating mechanism motor with power transmission to the camshaft on, the camshaft is equipped with push pedal cam, pressure kun cam and scraper blade cam from a left side to the right side in proper order, three cam profile respectively with three guide arm up end contact, the cover has the spring on the guide arm, during three guide arms were installed and are gone up the frame guiding hole, is equipped with push pedal, compression roller and scraper blade respectively from a left side to the right three guide arm below ends.
Preferably, the conveying mechanism is as follows:
conveying mechanism is including workstation, dog, transport guide rail, lead screw, nut support, conveying motor and hasp, the workstation passes through the transmission between lead screw and the nut support and removes on carrying the guide rail, the lead screw passes through coupling joint conveying motor, the both ends of workstation are equipped with flourishing skin container and flourishing meat container respectively, flourishing skin container is connected with the workstation with flourishing meat container through the dog on hasp and the workstation, be equipped with the gyro wheel below flourishing skin container and the flourishing meat container, the gyro wheel is placed in the inside track of frame down.
Preferably, a head container is arranged under the gear ring, and the head container is mounted on a trapezoidal guide rail of the rack through a dovetail groove.
Preferably, the carousel outside is provided with the carousel shell, carousel shell top is provided with the hopper, carousel shell below is provided with the export.
Preferably, when the motor of the separation mechanism is not operated, an included angle between a profile symmetry line of the push plate cam and a horizontal plane, an included angle between a profile symmetry line of the pressure roller cam and the horizontal plane, and an included angle between a profile symmetry line of the scraper cam and the horizontal plane are respectively 0 degree, 120 degrees and 180 degrees, the push strokes of the push plate cam, the pressure roller cam and the scraper cam are the same, and the return strokes of the push plate cam, the pressure roller cam and the scraper cam are the same.
Preferably, two ends of a guide rail in the row swing mechanism are provided with limit switches.
Preferably, the turntable, the gear ring and the sun gear are coaxial, the blades are arranged on the circumferential surface of the gear ring and are flush with the left end face of the gear ring, the sun gear, the planetary gear and the gear ring are meshed with each other, the rotation direction of the gear ring is opposite to that of the turntable, the blades on the gear ring are ensured to cut off the head of the clanis bilineata when passing through the semicircular groove of the turntable, the planetary gear is sleeved on the short shaft in a hollow mode through the needle bearing, and the short shaft is fixed on the right vertical plate of the support.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that: the utility model discloses this equipment can accomplish clanis bilineata tsingtauica and remove the head, arrange the pendulum automatically, roll and press and skin meat work such as partial shipment completely, realize full-automatic, mechanized and high efficiency processing clanis bilineata tsingtauica.
Drawings
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings described below are only examples of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.
FIG. 1 is an overall structure diagram of the separator of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the cross-sectional structure A-A of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of a de-heading mechanism;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view C-C of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a planetary gear configuration in the de-heading mechanism;
FIG. 6 is a top view of the transport mechanism;
FIG. 7 is a partial cross-sectional view of M-M of FIG. 6;
FIG. 8 is a left side view of the transport mechanism;
FIG. 9 is an N-N partial cross-sectional view;
FIG. 10 is a plan development of the three cam home positions;
FIG. 11 is a view showing the construction of a press roll;
FIG. 12 is a sectional view taken along line J-J;
FIG. 13 is a view of the construction of the pusher plate;
FIG. 14 is a sectional view taken along line I-I;
FIG. 15 is a squeegee configuration view;
FIG. 16 is a cross-sectional view taken along line K-K;
FIG. 17 is a view showing a state in which the camshaft is rotated 90 °;
FIG. 18 is a state view of the camshaft rotated 180;
FIG. 19 is a state diagram of 240 ° camshaft rotation;
fig. 20 is a state diagram of 300 ° of camshaft rotation.
In the drawings, the components represented by the respective reference numerals are listed below:
1-guide rail, 2-slide block, 3-motor, 300-pinion, 301-bull gear, 4-bracket, 400-left vertical plate, 401-right vertical plate, 402-short shaft, 5-hopper, 6-rotary table shell, 7-gear ring, 8-head container, 9-separating mechanism motor, 10-camshaft, 1000-push plate cam, 1001-roller cam, 1002-scraper cam, 11-spring, 12-guide rod, 13-upper frame, 14-scraper, 15-roller, 16-push plate, 17-workbench, 18-meat container, 19-peel container, 20-conveying motor, 21-rack, 22-gear shaft, 23-intermediate gear, 24-rotary table, 25-sun gear, 26-needle bearing, 27-planetary gear, 28-stepped shaft, 29-blade, 30-semicircular groove, 31-nut support, 32-lead screw, 33-stop, 34-lock catch, 35-roller and 36-conveying guide rail.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the examples of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1-20, the present invention provides a technical solution:
the bean cortex moutan flesh separator comprises a head removing mechanism, a swinging mechanism, a rolling skin flesh separating mechanism and a conveying mechanism,
a decapitating mechanism for excising the head of the clanis bilineata tsingtauica;
the arranging and arranging mechanism is used for arranging the treated clanis bilineata tsingtauica pellets in order along the front and back directions of the workbench;
the rolling skin and meat separation mechanism is used for rolling and pressing the clanis bilineata tsingtauica meat to realize skin and meat separation and respectively sending the clanis bilineata tsingtauica meat to two containers for containing skin and meat;
the conveying mechanism is used for conveying the clanis bilineata tsingtauica herb to each station;
the head removing mechanism, the swinging mechanism and the rolling skin and meat separating mechanism are arranged above the conveying mechanism, and the head removing mechanism and the swinging mechanism are positioned on the left side of the rolling skin and meat separating mechanism
Preferably, the row pendulum mechanism is as follows:
the row pendulum mechanism comprises a guide rail 1, a sliding block 2, a motor 3, a pinion 300, an intermediate gear 23, a large gear 301, a rack 21 and a gear shaft 22, wherein the guide rail 1 is fixedly arranged, the sliding block 2 is installed on the guide rail 1, the motor 3 is fixed on the sliding block 2, the motor 3 transmits power to the gear shaft 22 through the intermediate gear 23 and the large gear 301 in sequence, the gear on the gear shaft 22 is meshed with the rack 21, and then the sliding block 2 moves back and forth along the guide rail 1.
Preferably, the de-heading mechanism is as follows:
the head removing mechanism comprises a rotary table 24, a planetary gear mechanism and a support 4, the planetary gear mechanism comprises a gear ring 7, a sun gear 25 and three planetary gears 27, a plurality of semicircular grooves 30 are formed in the circumferential surface of the rotary table 24 at equal angles along the circumferential direction, a left vertical plate 400 and a right vertical plate 401 are arranged on two sides of the support 4, and the left vertical plate 400 and the right vertical plate 401 are respectively fixed on opposite side surfaces of the two sliding blocks 2.
Preferably, the rolling skin and meat separating mechanism is as follows:
the skin and meat rolling separation mechanism comprises a separation mechanism motor 9, a cam shaft 10, guide rods 12 and an upper frame 13, wherein the separation mechanism motor 9 conveys power to the cam shaft 10, the cam shaft 10 is sequentially provided with a push plate cam 1000, a press roller cam 1001 and a scraper cam 1002 from left to right, the profiles of the three cams are respectively contacted with the upper end surfaces of the three guide rods 12, the guide rods 12 are sleeved with springs 11, the three guide rods 12 are installed in guide holes of the upper frame 13, and the lower ends of the three guide rods 12 from left to right are respectively provided with a push plate 16, a press roller 15 and a scraper 14.
Preferably, the conveying mechanism is as follows:
the conveying mechanism comprises a workbench 17, a stop block 33, a conveying guide rail 36, a screw rod 32, a nut support 31, a conveying motor 20 and a lock catch 34, the workbench 17 moves on the conveying guide rail 36 through transmission between the screw rod 32 and the nut support 31, the screw rod 32 is connected with the conveying motor 20 through a coupling, two ends of the workbench 17 are respectively provided with a skin container 19 and a meat container 18, the skin container 19 and the meat container 18 are connected with the workbench 17 through the lock catch 34 and the stop block 33 on the workbench 17, rollers 35 are arranged below the skin container 19 and the meat container 18, and the rollers 35 are placed in a track inside the lower base.
Preferably, a head container 8 is arranged right below the gear ring 7, and the head container 8 is arranged on a trapezoidal guide rail of the rack through a dovetail groove.
Preferably, the turntable 24 is externally provided with a turntable housing 6, the hopper 5 is arranged above the turntable housing 6, and the outlet is arranged below the turntable housing.
Preferably, when the motor 9 of the separation mechanism is not operated, the included angle between the symmetric line of the profile of the pusher cam 1000 and the horizontal plane, the included angle between the symmetric line of the profile of the pressure roller cam 1001 and the horizontal plane, and the included angle between the symmetric line of the profile of the blade cam 1002 and the horizontal plane are respectively 0 degree, 120 degrees, and 180 degrees, the pushing strokes of the pusher cam 1000, the pressure roller cam 1001, and the blade cam 1002 are the same, and the return strokes of the pusher cam 1000, the pressure roller cam 1001, and the blade cam 1002 are the same.
Preferably, two ends of the guide rail 1 in the row swing mechanism are provided with limit switches.
Preferably, the rotating disc 24, the gear ring 7 and the sun gear 25 are coaxial, the blade 29 is arranged on the circumferential surface of the gear ring 7 at the position flush with the left end face of the gear ring 7, the sun gear 25, the planet gear 27 and the gear ring 7 are meshed with each other, the rotation direction of the gear ring 7 is opposite to that of the rotating disc 24, the blade 29 on the gear ring 7 is ensured to cut off the head of the clanis bilineata when passing through the semicircular groove 30 of the rotating disc 24, the planet gear 27 is empty sleeved on the short shaft 402 through the needle bearing 26, and the short shaft 402 is fixed on the right vertical.
As shown in fig. 1, 3, 4 and 5, the de-heading mechanism is composed of a planetary gear mechanism, a blade 29, a needle bearing 26, a shaft sleeve, a gear shaft 22 and the like. The stepped shaft 28 and the sun gear 25 are connected through a flat key, the sun gear 25 is respectively meshed with three planetary gears 27, the planetary gears 27 are sleeved on a short shaft 402 through needle bearings 26 in an empty mode, the three short shafts 402 are fixed on a right vertical plate 401 of the support 4, the axis of the short shaft 402 is perpendicular to the right vertical plate 401, a left vertical plate 400 and a right vertical plate 401 of the support 4 are respectively fixed on the side faces of the two sliders 2, the three planetary gears 27 are respectively meshed with the gear ring 7, the gear ring 7 is sleeved on the stepped shaft 28 in an empty mode through the needle bearings 26, two blades 29 are fixed on the circumferential face of the gear ring 7 in parallel and level with the left end face, two cutting edges are distributed on each blade 29 relative to the symmetric center, the two blades 29 are distributed along the circumference and are 180 degrees apart, and the head container 8 is arranged below the gear ring 7 and.
As shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the row pendulum mechanism is composed of a motor 3, a gear, a rack 21, a coupling, a gear shaft 22, a hopper 5, a turntable 24, a slider 2, a guide rail 1 and the like. The slide block 2 is arranged on the guide rail 1, the front end and the rear end of the guide rail 1 are provided with limit switches, the motor 3 is fixed on the slide block 2 on the left side, the pinion 300 is connected with the motor 3 through a coupler, the pinion 300 is meshed with the intermediate gear 23, the intermediate gear 23 is meshed with the gearwheel 301, the gearwheel 301 is connected with the gear shaft 22 through a flat key, the right gear of the gear shaft 22 is meshed with the rack 21, the rack 21 is fixed on the frame, the turntable 24 is connected with the stepped shaft 28 through a flat key, the shaft for fixing the intermediate gear 23 is connected with the stepped shaft 28 through a coupler, a plurality of semicircular grooves 30 are distributed on the circumferential surface of the turntable 24 at equal angles, the turntable 24 is externally provided with a disc-shaped turntable shell 6, an upper opening of the turntable shell 6 is communicated with an outlet of the hopper 5, the turntable shell 6 and the hopper 5 are connected into a whole and fixed on the bracket 4 through a welding mode, the distance between the right wall of the rotary disc shell 6 and the right end face of the rotary disc 24 is slightly larger than the length of the head of the clanis bilineata tsingtauica, a blade 29 is arranged between the right wall of the rotary disc shell 6 and the right end face of the rotary disc 24, and the blade 29 is close to the right end face of the rotary disc.
As shown in fig. 1, the rolling skin and meat separating mechanism is composed of a separating mechanism motor 9, a cam shaft 10, a guide rod 12, a spring 11, a push plate 16, a press roller 15, a scraper 14 and the like. Three cams are arranged on a cam shaft 10, from left to right, the first cam is a push plate cam 1000, the second cam is a compression roller cam 1001, the third cam is a scraper cam 1002, the shape of the push plate cam 1000 is different from that of the compression roller cam 1001 and the scraper cam 1002, the shapes of the compression roller cam 1001 and the scraper cam 1002 are the same, the cam shaft 10 is fixed on an upper frame 13 through a bearing seat, three guide rods 12 are arranged in guide holes of the upper frame 13, nuts are arranged at the upper ends of the guide rods, springs 11 are arranged between the nuts and the upper frame 13, the contour surfaces of the three cams are in contact with the upper end surfaces of the guide rods 12, a push plate 16 is fixed at the tail end of the guide rod 12 at the left side (shown in figures 13 and 14) through bolts, a compression roller frame is fixed at the tail end of the guide rod 12 at the middle through bolts, two ends of a compression roller, the upper end of the scraper 14 is provided with two holes, springs are arranged in the holes, the tail end of the right guide rod 12 is provided with a long strip bolt hole, and the front end and the rear end of the scraper 14 are respectively fixed with a narrow baffle.
As shown in FIG. 1, the conveying mechanism is composed of a workbench 17, a conveying guide rail 36, a screw rod 32, a nut support 31, a conveying motor 20, a skin container 19, a meat container 18, a lock catch 34 and the like. Conveying motor 20 links to each other with lead screw 32 through the shaft coupling, lead screw 32 passes through nut support 31 and is connected with workstation 17, both sides respectively fix a dog 33 about workstation 17 bottom surface, two terminal surfaces respectively install a hasp 34 about workstation 17, hasp 34 and workstation 17 pass through the pin junction, flourishing skin container 19 is placed on workstation 17 the left side, container right wall clamp is between hasp 34 and dog 33, flourishing meat container 18 is placed on workstation 17 the right, container left wall clamp is between hasp 34 and dog 33, be equipped with four gyro wheels 35 below every container, gyro wheel 35 is placed in the inside track of frame down, the container bottom surface is equipped with semi-circular logical groove, so that lead screw 32 passes.
The utility model discloses a theory of operation:
a plurality of drowned clanis bilineata tsingtauica heads are placed rightwards in the hopper 5, the motor 3 is started to rotate positively, and power and motion are transmitted to the two transmission lines respectively after passing through the gears. The first transmission route is transmitted to the gear shaft 22 through the intermediate gear 23 and the large gear 301, the gear on the gear shaft 22 is meshed with the rack 21, and the rack 21 is fixed on the rack, so that the gear on the gear shaft 22 moves back and forth while rotating, and the gear shaft 22 is fixed on the left slide block 2 through the bearing seat because the left slide block 2 and the right slide block 2 are connected into a whole through the rack, so that the left slide block 2 and the right slide block 2 are driven to move back and forth along the guide rail 1 when the gear shaft 22 moves back and forth; the second transmission route is that after passing through the intermediate gear 23, the shaft connected with the intermediate gear is driven to rotate, so as to drive the rotary table 24 to rotate, when the semicircular groove 30 on the rotary table 24 is aligned with the discharge hole on the hopper 5, the clanis bilineata tsingtauica can fall from the hopper 5 into the semicircular groove 30 of the rotary table, the head of the clanis bilineata tsingtauica is between the right wall of the rotary table shell 6 and the right end face of the rotary table 24, because the rotary table 24 is coaxial with the gear ring 7 and the sun gear 25, the sun gear 25 also rotates in the same direction, the sun gear 25 drives the three planet gears 27 to rotate, the planet gears 27 drive the gear ring 7 to rotate and reverse to the direction of the rotary table 24, and the rotating speed of the gear ring 7 is greater than that of the rotary table 24, when the rotary table 24 rotates, the blade 29 fixed on the gear ring 7 can rapidly cut off the head of the clanis bilineata tsingtau, after the rotary table 24 rotates 180 degrees, the clanis bilineata tsingtauica with the head removed is discharged from a discharge hole below the rotary table shell 6 and falls onto the workbench 17, the clanis bilineata tsingtauica also are orderly arranged on the workbench 17 at equal intervals along with the movement of the sliding block 2 and the rotation of the rotary table 24, and the motor 3 is powered off after the sliding block 2 touches the limit switch. The mechanical structure has the advantage that the head and the row of the clanis bilineata tsingtauica are simultaneously completed in the process of moving the sliding block 2 back and forth.
The conveying motor 20 is started to rotate forwards, the working platform 17 is driven to move rightwards through the lead screw 32 and the nut support 31, the working platform 17, the skin container 19 and the meat container 18 move simultaneously because the two ends of the working platform 17 are connected with the skin container 19 and the meat container 18 through the lock catches 34,
after the tails of the clanis bilineata tsingtauica beans reach the right side of the push plate 16, the conveying motor 20 is powered off, the separating mechanism motor 9 is started, the cam shaft 10 is driven to rotate, the guide rod 12 connected above the push plate 16 is pushed to move downwards, the initial position of the three cams on the cam shaft 10 after being unfolded is shown in a combined graph 10, after the cam shaft 10 rotates for 90 degrees, the positions of the three cams after being rotated are shown in a graph 17, the push plate 16 reaches a preset position, the lower end of the push plate 16 is slightly contacted with the workbench 17, the compression roller 15 and the scraper 14 are still kept at the original position, then the separating mechanism motor 9 is powered off, the conveying motor 20 is started to rotate reversely to drive the workbench 17 to move leftwards at a micro distance, the push plate 16 pushes a plurality of clanis bilineata beans to move rightwards for a plurality of millimeters, the alignment of the tails of all clanis bilineat, starting a separating mechanism motor 9 to drive a cam shaft 10 to rotate by 90 degrees, as shown in figure 18, a push plate 16 returns to an initial position under the action of a spring 11, a scraper 14 is still kept at the original position, the cam shaft 10 pushes a guide rod 12 connected above a press roller 15 to move downwards until the press roller 15 tightly presses the tail of the clanis bilineata tsingtauica on a workbench 17, the separating mechanism motor 9 is powered off, a conveying motor 20 is started to rotate reversely, the workbench 17 drives the clanis bilineata tsingtauica to move leftwards, meat of the clanis bilineata tsingtauica is extruded under the rolling pressure of the press roller 15, after skin and meat are separated, the conveying motor 20 rotates forwards to drive the workbench 17 to move rightwards, after the press roller 15 presses the tail of the clanis bilineata tsingica, the conveying motor 20 is powered off, the separating mechanism motor 9 is started to drive the cam shaft 10 to rotate by 60 degrees, as shown in figure 19, therefore, the scraping plate 14 should be pressed at the position close to the head of the bean curd sheet, then the motor 9 of the separating mechanism is powered off, the conveying motor 20 rotates reversely to drive the workbench 17 to move to the left, when the bean curd sheet starts to move, the pressing roller 15 is also pressed on the bean curd sheet, so that the scraping plate 14 can be kept still when scraping meat, and the connecting part of the upper end of the scraping plate 14 and the guide rod 12 is provided with a spring, so that the scraping plate 14 is not pressed on the workbench 17 with large force, the bean curd sheet is not pulled off, and the scraping plate 14 can still be attached to the surface of the workbench 17 after being separated from the bean curd sheet, when the scraping plate 14 moves to the right end of the workbench 17, the bean curd sheet meat is completely pushed into the meat containing container 18 at the right end of the workbench 17, then the conveying motor 20 is powered off, the motor 9 of the separating mechanism is started to drive the cam shaft 10 to rotate for 60 degrees and then the power off, the scraping plate 14 is still pressed on the workbench 17, then the motor 9 of the separating mechanism is powered off, the conveying motor 20 is started to rotate forwardly, the workbench 17 moves rightwards, after the scraping plate 14 reaches the left end of the workbench 17, the scraping plate 14 pushes the bean curd sheet into the skin containing container 19, and the conveying motor 20 is powered off, so that the bean curd sheet and meat are separated. Finally, the motor 9 of the separating mechanism is started to drive the cam shaft 10 to rotate for 60 degrees, then the power is cut off, the cam on the cam shaft returns to the initial position, and the push plate 16, the compression roller 15 and the scraper 14 are all stopped at the initial position shown in figure 1.
And (3) reversely rotating the conveying motor 20, moving the workbench 17 leftwards, returning to the position below the rotary table 24, then powering off the conveying motor 20, starting the motor 3 to reversely rotate, continuously arranging the clanis bilineata tsingtauica, and repeating the actions.
After all the clanis bilineata tsingtauica is processed, the container 8 for holding the head is pulled out along the dovetail groove direction, cleaned, the lock catches 34 on the left side and the right side of the workbench are unlocked, and the container 18 for holding meat and the container 19 for holding skin are pulled out.
The utility model discloses in, the workstation arrives the article when each position, realize the detection to its position by detection device, this detection device can adopt conventional device, for example infrared probe, proximity switch, travel switch etc. and set up the position and also can set for according to actual need, and this is prior art, so the unnecessary repeated description.
In the description herein, references to the description of "one embodiment," "an example," "a specific example," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention disclosed above are intended only to help illustrate the present invention. The preferred embodiments are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise embodiments disclosed. Obviously, many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its practical applications, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best understand the invention for and utilize the invention. The present invention is limited only by the claims and their full scope and equivalents.