WO2016086265A1 - Method and apparatus of cutting and forming potato twist - Google Patents
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- WO2016086265A1 WO2016086265A1 PCT/AU2015/000734 AU2015000734W WO2016086265A1 WO 2016086265 A1 WO2016086265 A1 WO 2016086265A1 AU 2015000734 W AU2015000734 W AU 2015000734W WO 2016086265 A1 WO2016086265 A1 WO 2016086265A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
- B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
- B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
- B26D3/10—Making cuts of other than simple rectilinear form
- B26D3/11—Making cuts of other than simple rectilinear form to obtain pieces of spiral or helical form
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
- B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
- B26D1/00—Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor
- B26D1/01—Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work
- B26D1/02—Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a stationary cutting member
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
- B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
- B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
- B26D7/06—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
- B26D7/0608—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form by pushers
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- the present invention relates to the field of food preparation.
- the present invention relates to a method and apparatus of cutting potato or any other similar vegetable or fruit, pierced by the wooden skewer through the longitudinal axes, in to spiral and spiral stretched along the skewer covering always the same length of the skewer regardless on the size of the potato within appropriate potato size range,
- Prior art methods of making potato twist is based on manually operated apparatus designed to cut potato in spiral which is already placed on the skewer or alternatively inserted skewer after cutting. Spreading cut potato over the skewer was done by hand in very labour intensive operation and operator dependant with varying aesthetic appearance. New invention eliminates all negative aspects of making potato twist and significantly increases output per operator.
- the invention resides in a method of potato cutting and forming potato twist comprising:
- At least one fresh potato (or any other applicable piece of fruit and vegetable) with inserted skewer along longitudinal axes and placed on predetermined position on the skewer;
- apparatus for potato cutting in to spiral and spreading over the skewer comprising of structural frame, cutting blade, potato support and skewer centralizing for rotation purposes, primary threaded spindle for cutting potato in to spiral, secondary threaded spindle for skewer pushing at appropriate ratio to spiral cutting, electric motor with timing belt arrangement to drive primary spindle, electric motor with timing belt arrangement to drive secondary spindle, electronic speed control for both motors, electric device (linear transducer) to measure potato size, PLC to control operation and calculate necessary parameters, control panel for human/machine interface.
- the invention resides in method of potato cutting and forming potato twist comprising:
- Process of spreading spiral over the skewer is performed via secondary threaded spindle which pushes skewer faster forward than the speed created by cutting spiral.
- Differential speed forward of the potato and the skewer creates gap between spiral flights which is variable dependant on the potato size. All potatoes within acceptable size range (60mm to 130mm) are spread on the same length of the skewer by stretching spiral more for the smaller potatoes and less for bigger potatoes.
- the invention resides in method of cutting and forming potato twist comprising:
- an apparatus for producing a spiral from a vegetable or fruit comprising:
- a motor arranged for rotationally driving the cutter or the vegetable/fruit such that the cutter rotates relative to the vegetable/fruit through the vegetable or fruit;
- Figure: 1 is presentation of the final product for consumption
- Figure: 2 is top view of the apparatus performing potato measuring, spiral cutting and spiral spreading over the skewer
- FIG. 3 is side view of the apparatus showing potato support and cutting blade. DETAIL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
- Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to method and apparatus of cutting and forming potato twist.
- the present invention provides conditions to improve product preparation and giving caterers better chance to fulfil customer expectation.
- Referring to Figure: 1, illustrates final product "Potato Twist" prepared and deep fried for consumption.
- Process of spiral cutting and spreading over the skewer is performed by apparatus shown on Figure: 2 and Figure: 3.
- Apparatus is fixed on to the bench top of practical height and using 240V power to run it.
- Figure: 2 shows apparatus from top view
- Figure: 3 shows apparatus from output side.
- Potatoes(or any other suitable vegetable and fruit) are not the same size and therefore every cycle size is measured and skewer speed adjusted to spread potato over the constant length. This function is achieved via electronic motor speed controllers (9) and (13) supplied with appropriate parameters from PLC (15).
- the apparatus starts with potato (vegetable or fruit) with skewer pre inserted through longitudinal axes and while spiral is cut the skewer is pushed through at calculated pitch, for each potato, to accommodate different potato sizes to be spread over constant skewer length. (Each potato is cut and spread with different spiral pitch, but on the skewer they are spread always over predetermined skewer length).
- a machine with motorized two axes movement, first for potato rotation and second for pushing skewer at appropriate pitch for spreading. Movement of axes are electronically controlled by programmable logical controller (PLC) and driven by motor variable speed control unit. Potato is pushed through by two threaded spindles with different but constant thread pitch. One to provide cutting pitch and another to provide spiral spreading pitch. To achieve potato spiral pitch variation it is used motor speed variation in appropriate, individually calculated, ratio to potato rotation speed.
- PLC programmable logical controller
- the skewer is inserted before cutting process on the separate device.
- One method is to first manually punch hole through and on the way of sliding potato off the punch, potato is slid on to skewer.
- Second method is using powered device which pushes skewer on to potato in one movement.
- Examples of the invention may provide a method and apparatus of cutting and forming potato twist (or vegetable and fruit twist) utilizes specially designed apparatus to provide required movements based on the method of cutting continuous spiral of the potato and at the same time pushing through skewer with higher speed than longitudinal speed of spiral cutting to form spiral flight pitch greater than spiral cutting pitch. This may provide infinite variability of the spiral flight pitch to ensure that potato twist covers constant skewer length regardless on size variation within potato size range (60 to 130mm).
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CN108372550A (en) * | 2018-02-25 | 2018-08-07 | 陈灵枝 | Finished product splicing transshipment acitivity |
CN108391797A (en) * | 2018-02-25 | 2018-08-14 | 陈灵枝 | A kind of whirlwind potato chips continuous process system |
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