Liquid Container Traverse Rod Fixation Against Dynamic Load Failure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transport and storage containers for liquids experience premature failure of traverse rods and webs due to dynamic loads during transportation, leading to potential leaks and instability.
Innovation Solution
A transport and storage container design featuring a filling element inserted into the through opening of the web to prevent relative movement between the traverse rod and web, ensuring a form-fit fixation and preventing premature failure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the traverse rod extends through the through opening of the web to allow easy attachment and disassembly, then the ease of operation is improved, but the traverse rod and web are subject to point loads and repeated contact during transportation, leading to premature failure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a filling element that is inserted into the movement-free space between the traverse rod and the through opening of the web. This filling element acts as a cushioning component that prevents direct contact between the traverse rod and the web during dynamic loads, thereby eliminating point loads and repeated contact that cause premature failure. The filling element is positioned in advance to provide protective cushioning before any harmful contact occurs.
2Ease of operation
If the through opening is designed with a considerably larger cross section than the traverse rod to enable easy passage, then the ease of operation is improved, but a movement-free space is created that allows relative movement and dynamic contact during transportation
Solution Approach 1:
The filling element serves as an intermediary component between the traverse rod and the web. It fills the movement-free space created by the larger cross-section of the through opening, preventing direct interaction between the traverse rod and the web while maintaining the ease of passage design. The intermediary filling element eliminates harmful relative movement and dynamic contact during transportation.
3Ease of operation
If the inner container is allowed to move freely within the lattice jacket for easy filling and emptying, then the ease of operation is improved, but dynamic loads during transportation cause repeated contact and point loads on the traverse rod and web
Solution Approach 1:
The filling element provides beforehand cushioning by being positioned in the movement-free space before any dynamic loads occur during transportation. It prevents direct contact between the traverse rod and the web, cushioning against point loads and repeated contact that would otherwise occur when the inner container moves during filling, emptying, and transportation operations.
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AI summary
A liquid transport and storage container and method for modifying a transport and storage container having a pallet-type understructure for a plastic inner container having a closeable filling nozzle on an upper bottom and a discharge nozzle on a lower section of a lateral wall with a dispensing fitting and a lattice jacket having horizontal and vertical metal lattice struts for receiving the inner container, ends of the vertical lattice struts having a hollow profile welded to lower and upper circumferential edge profiles of the lattice jacket, vertical lattice rods on opposite lateral walls connected by a traverse rod with a hollow profile extending across the upper bottom, a web extending vertically with a through opening formed therein molded on the upper bottom, the traverse rod extending through the through opening. A filling element is in a movement-free space between the through opening and the traverse rod.