Fibre-Anchored Sealing Profile for Stable Embedded Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Sealing profiles in prefabricated components, such as tubbings, often experience displacement during assembly due to inadequate anchoring, leading to deformation and failure in sealing effectiveness.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a non-woven, felted, or random fibre layer that is fixedly connected to the sealing profile and extends beyond its surface, providing additional anchorage within the curable material moulding, either instead of or in addition to anchoring feet, to enhance adhesion and prevent displacement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If anchoring feet are used to anchor the sealing profile in the moulding, then the seal can be held in position during casting, but the seal is still displaced during assembly of prefabricated parts
Solution Approach 1:
The sealing profile combines two different anchoring mechanisms: traditional anchoring feet for vertical positioning and an integrated fibre layer (non-woven, felted, or random fibres) that extends into the curable material for lateral anchoring. This composite anchoring system prevents both vertical displacement during casting and lateral displacement during assembly, resolving the contradiction between initial positioning and final placement accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The fibre layer is specifically applied in regions where lateral anchoring is needed, while anchoring feet provide vertical positioning. This localized differentiation of anchoring functions ensures that each component addresses specific displacement directions, improving overall seal placement accuracy without compromising either positioning aspect
2Ease of manufacture
If the sealing profile is anchored with anchoring feet, then it can be embedded in the curable material, but the seal deforms in the regions of frame corners during assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The combination of anchoring feet and fibre layer creates a distributed anchoring system that provides support across the entire sealing profile, particularly at vulnerable areas like frame corners. The fibre layer distributes stresses more evenly compared to discrete anchoring feet, preventing local deformations while maintaining the overall embedding capability
Solution Approach 2:
The anchoring system is segmented into discrete anchoring feet and a continuous fibre layer network. This segmentation allows the anchoring feet to provide point-supported vertical anchoring while the fibre layer provides continuous lateral support, particularly effective at preventing deformation at critical locations such as frame corners during assembly
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AI summary
A sealing profile for embedding into a moulding of curable material, in particular a concrete or plastic moulding, and to a sealing arrangement comprising such a sealing profile. The object of the present invention is to provide a sealing profile for embedding into a moulding of curable material that can be anchored into the moulding in particular such that displacements of the seal in its seat occur to a significantly lesser extent, if at all, when installing or assembling the mouldings. The object is achieved by a sealing profile (1) with a profile region (2) having a profile region surface (4) which is directed towards the moulding (3) after embedding the sealing profile (1), wherein the profile region (2) has, at least in one subregion (6), a non-woven, felted or random fibre layer (5) which is fixedly connected to the sealing profile (1) and which extend beyond the profile region surface (4).