Adjustable Clamp Arm
Adjustable Clamp Arm
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Hi,
I'm working on a design for a food stirrer that is clamped to the top of the cooking pot with a motor-system as the middle base. I'm thinking of using three equal distance threaded "arms" with a clip attached to the end to hold onto the side of the pot. However, I want to make the arms themselves be adjustable in order to make it extremely portable instead of fixed distance. So, one of the ideas is that instead of threaded arms, I can make a braking arm to fold the clamp onto the middle of the base itself. Does anyone have any feedback or suggestion on this idea? Or any other ideas for adjustable clamp arm?
I'm working on a design for a food stirrer that is clamped to the top of the cooking pot with a motor-system as the middle base. I'm thinking of using three equal distance threaded "arms" with a clip attached to the end to hold onto the side of the pot. However, I want to make the arms themselves be adjustable in order to make it extremely portable instead of fixed distance. So, one of the ideas is that instead of threaded arms, I can make a braking arm to fold the clamp onto the middle of the base itself. Does anyone have any feedback or suggestion on this idea? Or any other ideas for adjustable clamp arm?





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I don't design things for food service. If I were, my first thought would be for cleanliness, and not having any cracks or seams to accumulate food, dirt and germs. If you could cast your food stirrer all in one piece, it would be easy to clean. How badly do you need adjustability?
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JHG
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Below is an example of a homemade pot stirrer, all credits to the user dgm333 of thingiverse. Noticed how the arm of his pot stirrer is fixed setting. I'm aiming to have it be able to fold or closed in onto the base. I appreciate any feedback on the hinge or braking arm ideas before I create a rough model of it.
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That's a possibility, but the goal is for extended usage for long period of time, such as auto stirring a pot of candy. So, I'm thinking a classical hinge attached to two boards that unfolds to 90 degrees before being clamped to the side of the pot with a threaded screw.
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Thank you for the suggestion! Yes, one of the other aspects of our design is to have adjustable shaft of the beaters, possibly it being telescopic. The only problem I can see with that is that it might be difficult to adjust during when placed inside the pot with food in it, but we're gonna have to make assumptions that the shaft will be adjusted before then.
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How about fixing the arms, and rotating the pot? This puts all the screws and mechanisms outside and below the pot opening.
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JHG
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Can you elaborate a bit on that? The pot would assumed to be sitting on a typical home stove, so I'm not sure where the rest of the mechanisms would rest at.