Conical Wedge Fastening for Pipe Wall Mounts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for fixing bodies like pipes and ducts to walls lack reliability and safety, especially under significant tensile stresses, due to the transmission of forces through threading, which can lead to instability and failure.
Innovation Solution
A fixing system comprising a U-shaped rail with conical socket connections between a cylindrical rod and a plate, allowing for strong wedging and secure attachment of pipes or ducts to walls, ceilings, or floors, using a conical fitting with a through orifice and a truncated cone tip, along with a collar or other linking means for enhanced tensile strength.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If threading is used to transmit forces from the plate to the rail, then the assembly is simple to manufacture, but the reliability and safety under tensile stresses deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the threading mechanical system with a conical wedging system. The rod has a conical end that fits into a conical recess in the rail, creating a friction-based mechanical connection that eliminates threads entirely. This substitution maintains ease of manufacture while dramatically improving reliability under tensile loads.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses conical (curved) surfaces instead of cylindrical threaded surfaces. The conical end of the rod and the corresponding conical recess create a wedging action through their angled surfaces, providing superior load distribution and connection strength compared to linear threading.
2Ease of operation
If threading is used to connect the rod to the plate, then the connection is easy to assemble, but the tensile strength and safety deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the threading mechanical system with a conical wedging system. The rod has a conical end that fits into a conical recess in the rail, creating a friction-based mechanical connection that eliminates threads entirely. This substitution maintains ease of manufacture while dramatically improving reliability under tensile loads.
3Device complexity
If conventional fixing systems with threading are used, then the device complexity is low, but the safety and reliability under significant forces deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the threading mechanical system with a conical wedging system. The rod has a conical end that fits into a conical recess in the rail, creating a friction-based mechanical connection that eliminates threads entirely. This substitution maintains ease of manufacture while dramatically improving reliability under tensile loads.
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 system significantly increases tensile strength, reduces material usage and costs, and facilitates easy assembly and adjustment, with the cylindrical and conical shapes of revolution ensuring robust and reliable attachment while minimizing the risk of rupture at the threaded end.
Implementation Method 1
The means 43 for fixing a first end 44 of the rod to the plate so that it is substantially perpendicular to the plane of this plate, consist of a conical socket 50
Data Source
AI summary
The system has a plate (41), a cylindrical rod (42) and a securing unit (43) for securing an end (44) of the rod to the plate. The plate has a width that is less than a width of a longitudinal opening (24), a length higher than the width and lower than a distance internally separating two U-shaped branches. The plate has a thickness that is lower than a minimal distance. The securing unit fixes the end of the rod to the plate such that the rod is approximately perpendicular to a plane of the plate constituted by a conical socket (50). The plate has an approximately parallelepipedic form.