Adjustable Anchor Support Profile for Scaffolding Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Scaffolding structures often face instability due to areas unsuitable for anchoring, leading to improper anchoring arrangements that violate static regulations and increase assembly effort and material costs, potentially resulting in component failure or collapse.
Innovation Solution
The method involves using vertically and horizontally adjustable anchor support profile devices to position wall anchors outside unsuitable areas, ensuring anchoring can occur in any vertical or horizontal direction within a scaffolding bay, with telescopic and reinforced profiles to maintain structural integrity and flexibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If wall anchors are connected at the nodes of the scaffolding system to ensure stability, then the scaffolding structure maintains structural integrity, but it becomes impossible to install anchors in buildings with large windows, recesses, offsets, or skeleton structures where anchor areas are unsuitable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary device consisting of a vertical adjustable support and a horizontal adjustable support that mediates between the wall anchor and the scaffolding node. This intermediary mechanism allows the anchor to be positioned at non-node locations while still transferring forces to the node, thus resolving the contradiction between adaptability to unsuitable anchor areas and structural stability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs dynamically adjustable supports with telescopic elements that can be extended or retracted to accommodate varying distances between the anchor position and the node. This dynamic adjustment capability enables the system to adapt to different building geometries while maintaining proper force transfer to the scaffolding structure
2Adaptability or versatility
If wall anchors are arranged outside the node areas to accommodate building geometry, then adaptability to unsuitable anchor areas is improved, but the anchoring arrangement violates static regulations and may lead to component failure or collapse
Solution Approach 1:
The adjustable support acts as a mediator that connects the off-node anchor to the node, properly channeling and distributing the anchoring forces. This intermediary structure eliminates the harmful effects of improper anchoring by ensuring forces are transferred to the structurally sound node areas, thus preventing component failure while maintaining adaptability
3Reliability
If traditional anchor grids are used to ensure stability, then structural reliability is maintained, but assembly effort and material costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the anchoring function into modular components: a wall anchor, an adjustable vertical support, an adjustable horizontal support, and connection elements. This segmentation allows for flexible configuration and reduces the need for additional materials and assembly steps compared to traditional rigid anchor grids, thereby improving productivity while maintaining reliability
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for anchoring a scaffolding structure (10) to a scaffolded device (50) with regions (80) which are not suitable for anchoring, such as structural elements, façades, or the like, by means of wall anchors (12) and to a device for carrying out the method. The method or the device is characterized by a profiled anchor support device with at least one first rod-shaped vertical profiled anchor support mechanism (20) and/or at least one second rod-shaped horizontal profiled anchor support mechanism (30) which is connected to one or more vertical member(s) (16) directly below or above nodal regions (40.1, 40.2) and which allows: one or more wall anchors to be connected in any desired position outside of regions which are not suitable for anchoring in a vertical and/or horizontal direction (V, H) within a scaffold field formed by two scaffold members (16) that are parallel to each other in a mutually spaced manner in the horizontal direction (H) and by two scaffold bases (18) that are parallel to each other in a mutually spaced manner in the vertical direction (V), the wall anchor(s) (12) to be secured to the profiled anchor support device secured to the scaffold structure (16) or the first and second profiled anchor support mechanism (20, 30) in the desired position, and the wall anchor(s) (12) to be secured to the scaffolded device (50).