Adjustable Shower Room Pulley Structure for Vibration and Sagging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional shower room pulleys experience vibration and sagging issues, leading to poor sliding performance and increased mounting costs due to the need for additional anti-jump devices, affecting aesthetics and convenience.

Innovation Solution

An adjustable pulley structure with a mounting structure comprising a mounting seat, gland, door leaf clamping structure, mounting column, worm gearing structure, and adjusting screw, allowing for precise adjustment and prevention of screw rotation during use, ensuring smooth and reliable operation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a pulley assembly is mounted on a guide rail to enable sliding door movement, then the door can be opened and closed, but the pulley assembly vibrates and sags during sliding, causing poor sliding performance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesliding performanceVSAvoidpulley assembly stability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting column is designed to be adjustable within the mounting seat, allowing the pulley assembly's position to be dynamically adjusted to eliminate sagging and vibration during operation, thereby improving sliding performance while maintaining stability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Stability of the object's composition

If anti-jump devices are separately mounted on the pulley assembly to prevent vibration, then the pulley stability improves, but the mounting cost increases and the overall aesthetics are affected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepulley assembly stabilityVSAvoidmounting structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The anti-jump function is integrated into the mounting structure itself through the adjustable mounting column and mounting seat assembly, eliminating the need for separate anti-jump devices. This reduces device complexity while maintaining pulley assembly stability during sliding operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Reliability

If the pulley assembly is adjusted to ensure smooth connection with the guide rail, then the sliding performance improves, but the adjustment operation becomes complex without proper adjustment mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesliding performanceVSAvoidadjustment convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The mounting column is designed with adjustability within the mounting seat, allowing easy position adjustment to ensure smooth connection with the guide rail. This improves sliding performance while making the adjustment operation simple and convenient

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The mounting structure includes self-adjustment capabilities through the worm gearing structure and adjusting screw, allowing the pulley assembly to be easily positioned and locked in the optimal location for smooth sliding operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

4Ease of operation

If the adjusting screw is allowed to rotate freely during use, then the adjustment operation is simple, but the screw loosens and the door leaf sags, reducing reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadjustment convenienceVSAvoidadjustment stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The worm gearing structure serves as an intermediary mechanism between the adjusting screw and the mounting column. It allows easy adjustment through screw rotation while the worm gear's self-locking特性 prevents the screw from loosening during use, ensuring both adjustment convenience and long-term stability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The worm gearing structure provides beforehand protection against screw loosening through its self-locking mechanism, preventing the adjusting screw from rotating back and causing door leaf sagging during normal operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The structure enhances the smoothness and reliability of pulley operation, preventing loosening and sagging, improving adjustment precision and overall usability.

Implementation Method 1

a worm gearing structure and an adjusting screw; the worm gearing structure penetrates through the transverse perforation; the adjusting screw is in threaded connection with the vertical through hole, and the worm gearing structure is connected with the adjusting screw

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectWorm gearing: Worm Drive

Implementation Method 2

the adjusting screw is in threaded connection with the vertical through hole... the adjusting screw rotates and realizes movement adjustment of the mounting column in the adjusting strip-shaped concave cavity

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectThreaded connection: Screw

Data Source

PatentUS12404709B2Adjustable pulley structure for shower room
Publication Date: 2025.09.02 ZHONGSHAN WELLBO SANITARY CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure discloses an adjustable pulley structure for a shower room, which includes a mounting structure and a pulley assembly, wherein the mounting structure includes a mounting seat, a gland, a mounting column, a worm gearing structure and an adjustment screw; an end surface of the mounting seat is integrally formed with a convex block with an adjusting strip-shaped concave cavity; the convex block is provided with a transverse perforation, and the convex block is provided with a vertical through hole communicated with the transverse perforation; the mounting column is provided in the adjusting strip-shaped concave cavity, the adjusting screw is in threaded connection with the vertical through hole, the worm gearing structure is connected with the adjusting screw; and the pulley assembly is fixed on the mounting column.