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Croissant forming machine.
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Croissant dough cutting roller - GIF
Croissant sorting robot
Magic black box - in one side, out the other all change.
Can we see the mechanism?
I wanted to see how they layer up the doe with butter, as that's the trick in making these, this rolling up part being automated, probably has a trick mechanism, that even with patent, is too stupid easy to replicate.
What you are calling a too stupid to replicate mechanism is the moving conveyor belt and the stationary loose plat chain that catches the leading edge of the dough as it is pulled along on the conveyor. Once the lead edge passes under the links in the chain it can't help but roll the dough. And yes, it is a stupidly brilliant idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by metric_taper
That's why they don't let vendors in the back door to film the process, as people like you will copy it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
My father in law was in Antecortes, Washington in his retirement, but worked as an independent plumber. He got a fix it call for some local company that makes that crappy fake crap meat. That's a secrete process, they had watchers on him during the whole fix, he had an interesting story. Somehow they take some scrap ocean fish, I think chemically make the protein separate into a slime, they can eject through minions of nozzles, along with colored orange stuff along the outer edges, to simulate a crab leg. It produces those long protein muscles of a real crap piece. But how all that is done is proprietary, and if Frank gets in there, they'll be producing that for much lower cost using local labor in Texas.;)
I have been known to do things like you said. Back in 1980 while design building a 5000ft drilling rig for a guy he asked me about an annular squeeze style blow out preventer. He had a cutaway picture of a Reagan Bladder BOP A week later I dug a deep hole behind the shop screwed an end cap on the bottom put a 4" steel bar in the BOP to resemble a piece of drill pipe plumbed a high pressure in the side and 1 in the end cap Laid a 2" thick plate over the hole and parked the cat excavator on top of that. Then we tested the one I made It needed to withstand 3000 PSI bottom hole pressure to meet his requirements, so I pumped the closure pressure to 5000 and the bottom pressure to 7500PSI then backed the bottom hole pressure off to 4K eased the closing pressure off until the steel bar slipped out and hit the steel plate. The bar struck the plate when the closing pressure was down to around 1800 PSi. $20 K cheaper than the Reagan or the others like it We made over 100 ov them before the oilfield started to crash in 82Quote:
Originally Posted by metric_taper
The drill rig? we put it in the field over its first hole for less than $150K Powered by a pair of Ford 460s and automatics it could reach 3000Ft on 1 engine. Toby drilled 30 wells then we upgraded to a Cat 3406 with an Allison But the 2nd rig I built for him was really cool because I used Disk brakes on my draw-works
For the few humans with super pattern recognition (autism) skills, just seeing the outside of the box, is all that is needed. It's that autism that lets the few stand away from the herd, and wonder how the heck that works, or simple messing around with fire and stones, invents the iphone. It took many iterations to get to where we are. Most of us, just copy what the predecessor did, in that monkey see, monkey do basic animal behavior, but the autistic ones got us to where we are today.
My gift was figuring out who to get the brain dump from, and listening to many ideas. I know I was good at seeing the good ones, and getting the group to do some brain storming. In my life, I just applied what the other vanilla PHDs/MS taught me. Dad, and all the minions I watched was the major help.
I know when I was looking for my job out of engr school, there were two companies from Texas that were down hole instrumentation. One had some quiz question I remember, as the stretch of their telemetry cable did not allow them accurate location by it's length, at it stretches when down a 3 mile bore. They were looking for answers from fresh EE students looking for a job, on an accurate way to do this. Probably a great way to interview sort the imaginative from "don't know which way to turn a left hand nut in the southern hemisphere" thinkers. But careful, my wife is smarter then me, and don't know left from right. She does put up with my autism.
Let's call it neurodiversity so no one is offended by the word.
I saw were my intelligence was relative to my coworkers, better then some, but I was wowed by the super skill of a few. Mostly very wide band areas of knowledge and very deep in where they were used. My company had a science center with 40+ PHDs, only worked with one of them that had ultra injection of idea, an ME. Same with the ones at university, or brought in as specialist, you can see the ones with real aptitude for their art. Always amazed at how inept someone from MIT or Stanford was with a MSEE, and were totally useless, but spent months trying to measure why the box was being upset by test injection instead of putting a feed through capacitor to ground to kill the noise. The technician working with him had to wait until his wife got sick with the flu, and it got fixed. And that lab time was with Union IBEW technicians, and a sorta side company with in the company, Environmental Effects Engineering Labs, whole different vice president arm of the company that hid the profits, by all of our internal research costs. That 2 months of testing with zero results cost $2.5mill. But the boss would not listen to me, as he was a kid up and coming. I was out of there within the 85 point exact count retirement date. And mental health and drinking problem are no more.
How many sides does a hollow cube have?