Diseño y construcción de un prototipo de impresora decoradora de alimentos aplicable en dulces de guayaba.

Abstract

The purpose of the degree work was to design a food decorating printer product applicable for guava fruit sweets by completely eliminating the classic manual artisan techniques. The project was divided into three stages, the mechanical system using a Cartesian structure with elements such as step motors, transmission bands, bearings, the electronic system that uses a Rumba plus controller card, end-of-stroke sensors, a power supply and software such as Solid Works that allows to make mechanical design and then to be converted using G code, using the Matter Control software that is in charge of modifying the parameters of the design and printing, communicating the user with the printer through a graphic interface. The design tries to emulate every step made by an artisan decorator with automatic processes and print on a limited flat surface. A test protocol was established capable of evaluating the product obtained, resulting in the increase in the accuracy of the printer that oscillates in 1mm and the reduction of the decorating time that decreases by 30%, it is recommended for future works to use a storage hopper of the material to be extruded of greater capacity allowing the machine can perform the printing of designs on a large scale.