Street Cabinet Installation Element Template for Cabling and Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for installing ground-mounted street furniture, such as electrical and telecommunications cabinets, face challenges in accurately accommodating cabling and ensuring proper entry points, leading to inefficiencies and potential water leaks.
Innovation Solution
An installation element with a gasket-receiving region and apertures for utility items is used as a template to establish a support base and correctly position cabling, ensuring accurate placement and sealing during the installation of ground-mounted articles of street furniture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a concrete base is cast to support the cabinet, then the cabinet is securely supported, but it becomes difficult to accurately accommodate cabling entry points
Solution Approach 1:
The installation system is divided into separate functional components: the concrete support base and the installation element. The installation element with pre-formed apertures is placed on top of the cured concrete base, separating the structural support function from the precise cabling access function. This allows each component to be optimized independently.
Solution Approach 2:
The installation element is prepared in advance with precisely formed apertures for cabling entry points before the concrete base is cast. This preliminary preparation ensures accurate cabling access positions are established before the concrete hardens, eliminating the difficulty of modifying entry points after concrete curing.
2Ease of operation
If traditional installation methods are used without a template, then the installation process is simpler, but the accuracy of utility item placement is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The installation element serves as a physical template or copy of the final installed configuration. It replicates the exact positions where utility items and cables need to be placed, allowing installers to simply follow the template's apertures and markings without complex measurements, thereby maintaining simplicity while improving precision.
3Device complexity
If no sealing mechanism is provided, then the installation structure is simpler, but water leaks can occur at the interface between the cabinet and support base
Solution Approach 1:
A sealing element is introduced as an intermediary component between the concrete support base and the cabinet/installation element assembly. This sealing element fills the gap at the interface, preventing water leakage while maintaining relative structural simplicity. The sealing element is integrated into the installation element design.
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AI summary
An installation element (101) for use in a method of installation of a ground-mounted article of street furniture (103), and a method of installation of a ground-mounted article of street furniture (103). The installation element (101) comprises an underside (201) for location upon a support base (901) for an article of ground-mounted street furniture (103), and an upper side (202) comprising a gasket-receiving region (203) for receiving a rubber gasket (209) therein upon which the lower edges of the article of ground-mounted street furniture (103) can be located. The installation element (101) comprises a central region (207), internally of the gasket-receiving region (203), that defines least one aperture (210) therethrough, open to the upper side (202) and to the underside (201), for receiving a utility item (702) therein. The installation element (101) is usable as a template for establishing a support base location (502) for said ground-mounted article of street furniture (103) and for establishing a utility item location (701) for said ground-mounted article of street furniture (103).