Perforated Brick Insulation Insertion Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for introducing insulating materials into perforated bricks are inefficient in ensuring secure placement and alignment of pre-cut strip-shaped materials within the brick's hole pattern, leading to potential escape during pressure application.
Innovation Solution
A device with a vertically adjustable alignment unit and clamping elements ensures precise alignment and secure fixing of strip-shaped insulating materials, utilizing a pressure difference to insert them into the brick holes, while a suction device prevents buckling and ensures flush placement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If pre-cut strip-shaped insulating materials are fed into receiving elements and pressure difference is applied to insert them into brick holes, then insulating materials are introduced into the holes, but the insulating materials may escape during pressure application
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment unit is positioned directly below the receiving elements before pressure application, pre-aligning the insulating materials with the brick holes to prevent escape during pressure application
Solution Approach 2:
The alignment unit acts as an intermediary component between the receiving elements and the brick holder, providing a guiding structure that ensures insulating materials remain properly positioned during the pressure difference application process
2Manufacturing precision
If alignment unit is added between receiving device and brick holder, then alignment precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment unit is integrated into the existing device structure between the receiving device and brick holder, combining alignment functionality with the insertion mechanism to achieve precise alignment without substantially increasing overall device complexity
3Productivity
If pressure difference is applied to insert insulating materials, then insertion speed is improved, but insulating materials may buckle or deform
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment unit serves as a guiding intermediary that constrains the insulating materials during pressure difference application, allowing rapid insertion while preventing buckling and deformation through proper alignment and support
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 solution enables reliable, efficient, and secure insertion of insulating materials into perforated bricks, preventing escape and ensuring complete filling without buckling, thereby enhancing thermal insulation properties.
Implementation Method 1
a suction device (24) which causes a pressure difference in the holes (4) in the perforated brick (6)
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AI summary
The invention relates to a device for inserting pre-cut insulating materials 26, in particular strip-shaped insulating materials 26 such as mineral wool, into holes 4 of at least one perforated brick 6 forming a perforation pattern, comprising a frame 8, a brick receptacle 10 supported on the frame 8, a suction device 24 causing a pressure difference in the holes 4 of the perforated brick 6, and a receiving device 14 arranged above the brick receptacle 10, with receiving elements 16 corresponding in number and arrangement to the perforation pattern of the holes of the perforated brick, which are designed to receive the strip-shaped insulating materials 26.wherein an alignment unit 12, which can be raised and lowered vertically, is arranged between the receiving device 14 and the brick receptacle 10, with alignment elements 20 corresponding in number and arrangement to the hole pattern of the holes of the perforated brick for aligning the strip-shaped insulating materials 26 onto the hole pattern of the holes 4 of the perforated brick 6, and a method for introducing pre-cut insulating materials 26, in particular strip-shaped insulating materials such as mineral wool, into holes 4 forming a hole pattern of at least one perforated brick 6, in which the insulating materials 26 are introduced into a receiving device 14 arranged above a brick receptacle 10 and are transferred into the holes 4 by applying a pressure difference between the ends of the insulating materials facing the hole pattern and the opposite ends, characterized in thatthat the insulating materials 26, after being placed in the receiving device 14, are aligned at one end by an alignment unit 12 onto the holes 4 of the perforated brick 6, which form a hole pattern (Fig. 1).