Double-Walled Work Container Heating System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions for providing hot working media, such as hot wax, in closed systems for processing parts face inefficiencies in heat transfer and risk of contamination or explosion due to direct contact between heating pipes and wax, and are time-consuming in application.
Innovation Solution
A closed container system with double-walled walls and base, featuring a heating medium trough and C-shaped guide plates for efficient heat transfer, along with a pump system for temperature control and leak safety, ensuring uniform heating and minimizing contact risks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If heating pipes are arranged inside the container to provide direct contact with the working medium, then heat transfer efficiency is improved, but the risk of contamination or explosion increases due to potential leaks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a heating medium (water or steam) as an intermediary substance that circulates through pipes in the double wall and double bottom structures. This mediator transfers thermal energy to the working medium (wax) through the container walls without direct contact between the heating source and the working medium, thereby maintaining high heat transfer efficiency while eliminating the risk of contamination or explosion from direct pipe leaks.
2Reliability
If a double-walled container is used to prevent direct contact between heating medium and working medium, then safety is improved, but heat transfer efficiency deteriorates due to small contact area
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extends the heating system from a single-dimensional pipe arrangement to a three-dimensional double-walled and double-bottom structure. The heating medium circulates through channels in both the vertical walls and the horizontal bottom, creating extensive thermal contact surfaces in multiple spatial dimensions. This dimensional expansion maintains safety through the double-walled design while compensating for the reduced contact area by distributing heating throughout the entire container structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The heating system is segmented into multiple independent circulation channels within the double wall and double bottom structures. Rather than relying on a single large contact area, the system divides the heating function across numerous smaller channels that collectively provide extensive thermal contact. This segmentation maintains safety through the double-walled design while achieving efficient heat transfer through the cumulative effect of multiple contact surfaces.
3Adaptability or versatility
If individual preservation points are treated separately with flexible heated lines, then adaptability is improved, but productivity deteriorates due to time-consuming treatment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal heating system where the double-walled and double-bottom container structure serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides thermal insulation, enables uniform heating of the entire working medium volume, and allows for controlled dispensing at multiple points. The system heats the wax bulk uniformly, and any location can serve as a dispensing point, eliminating the need for separate flexible heated lines at each treatment location while maintaining adaptability and significantly improving productivity.
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
Achieves uniform and efficient heat transfer to the working medium, maintaining constant viscosity and temperature, while safely preventing contamination and explosion risks through controlled heating medium contact.
Implementation Method 1
a heating system operated with a heating medium is arranged in the intermediate areas between the container bottom and the container wall
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AI summary
The invention relates to a working vessel for the provision of liquid hot working media, comprising a closed vessel, wherein extraction pumps for the working medium are arranged accessible from above via the vessel ceiling to the interior of the vessel, and both the vessel wall and the vessel bottom are double-walled, and a heating system operated with a heating medium is arranged in the intermediate areas of the vessel bottom and the vessel wall, a level measuring system for the working medium, a supply device and extraction pumps for the working medium, a heater for the heating medium arranged outside the vessel, as well as temperature monitoring and control systems for the supply and extraction of working medium and heating medium.To create a uniform and effective underfloor heating system without thermal bridges, a heating media tray (2) is additionally arranged as a closed tray on the entire bottom surface of the work container, wherein C-profile guide plates are fixedly arranged inside the heating media tray (2) as guide and stiffening plates.