Flip-Flow Screen Vibration for Reduced Height
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional flip-flow screening machines require a large angle to the horizontal to ensure material transport from the inlet to the outlet, resulting in a considerable overall height.
Innovation Solution
The flip-flow screening machine employs a support frame excited by a drive, with an oscillating frame coupled via elastic transmission elements, allowing for linear or elliptical vibration of the oscillating frame at an angle between 0° and 90° relative to its plane, which enhances material transport efficiency and reduces the machine's overall height.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the machine is positioned at a large angle to the horizontal to ensure material transport, then material transport capability is improved, but the overall height of the machine increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamic vibration to the screen machine frame, transforming it from a static structure to a dynamically active system. The vibratory motion creates artificial gravity components that enhance material transport along the screen surface, allowing the machine to operate effectively at reduced inclination angles while maintaining transport capability and reducing overall height.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the operational parameters by introducing vibratory motion with specific frequency and amplitude characteristics. This parameter change modifies the effective gravity field acting on the material, enabling transport at lower inclination angles. The vibration parameters are optimized to achieve the desired transport effect without requiring the traditional large angle positioning.
2Length of stationary object
If the machine is positioned at a small angle to the horizontal to reduce height, then the overall height is reduced, but material transport capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent directly applies mechanical vibration to the screen machine frame through excitation elements that generate oscillatory motion. This vibration creates dynamic forces that propel material along the screen surface, compensating for the reduced gravitational component available at smaller inclination angles. The vibratory acceleration ensures adequate material transport capability even when the machine operates at reduced height.
Solution Approach 2:
By transforming the static frame into a dynamically vibrating structure, the patent enables the system to generate its own transport forces through controlled oscillation. This dynamic approach replaces the need for relying solely on gravitational force from large inclination angles, allowing effective operation at smaller angles while maintaining 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
This configuration improves material transport capacity even at smaller angles of attack relative to the horizontal, reducing the machine's height while accelerating the material to be screened, thereby enhancing the screening process.
Implementation Method 1
a support frame that is primarily excited by means of a drive and set into vibration, to which a vibrating frame is coupled in a free-floating manner by means of elastic transmission elements, which is secondarily excited by the support frame and set into vibration by the transmission elements
Implementation Method 2
coupled in a free-floating manner by means of elastic transmission elements
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AI summary
A tension wave screen machine with a support frame (10) that is primarily excited by a drive and set into vibration, to which a vibrating frame is coupled in a free-floating manner by means of elastic transmission elements, which is secondarily excited by the support frame (10) and set into vibration by the transmission elements, wherein crossbeams (11, 21) are arranged on the support frame (10) and on the vibrating frame, wherein a crossbeam (11, 21) arranged on the support frame (10) is followed by a crossbeam (21) arranged on the vibrating frame, and a flexible screen lining (30) is arranged between each of the two crossbeams (11, 21) and is detachably attached to the crossbeams (11, 21), wherein the vibration excitation of the vibrating frame is effected via the transmission elements in such a way, and wherein the vibration of the vibrating frame is linear or elliptical,wherein the main direction of the vibration of the oscillating frame is at an angle between 0° and 90° to the plane of the oscillating frame, in particular at an angle greater than 0° and up to 90°.