Floating Platform Guide Posts With Horizontal Blades
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing floating platforms fail to accommodate changing water levels due to tides and wave action, leading to instability and potential submersion or displacement.
Innovation Solution
A floating platform design featuring guide posts with horizontal blades that slidably engage brackets on a connected object, allowing vertical movement to adjust for water level changes while maintaining horizontal stability, utilizing modular construction for quick assembly and transportation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If the floating platform is rigidly fixed to the object, then horizontal stability is improved, but the platform cannot accommodate vertical water level changes
Solution Approach 1:
The guide posts are designed with horizontal blades that slidably engage with brackets, creating a dynamic connection that allows vertical movement while maintaining horizontal positioning. This enables the floating platform to adapt to changing water levels while remaining horizontally stable relative to the fixed object.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the floating platform allows vertical movement, then adaptability to water level changes is improved, but horizontal stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The guide posts are designed with horizontal blades that slidably engage with brackets, creating a dynamic connection that allows vertical movement while maintaining horizontal positioning. This enables the floating platform to adapt to changing water levels while remaining horizontally stable relative to the fixed object.
3Reliability
If complex anchoring mechanisms are used, then reliability in changing water levels is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into separate functional components: guide posts for vertical guidance, horizontal blades for horizontal positioning, and brackets for connection. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently, simplifying the overall design while maintaining reliability in changing water levels.
4Ease of manufacture
If modular construction is used, then ease of assembly and transportation is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The floating platform is constructed from modular components including guide posts, horizontal blades, brackets, and floating elements that can be manufactured separately and assembled on-site. This segmentation improves ease of manufacture and transportation while the simple sliding engagement mechanism maintains reasonable connection precision requirements.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The platform remains horizontally stable while accommodating vertical water level changes, ensuring the floating member remains functional and secure, even when attached to a fixed or floating object, reducing the risk of submersion or displacement due to tidal and wave-induced water level fluctuations.
Implementation Method 1
a floating member. The floating member may be a floating dock or similar platform that will float in water
Data Source
AI summary
A floating platform has a floating member. The floating member is attached to another object, which may be fixed to the earth or it may be a floating object such as a floating dock or a vessel. At least two guide posts each have a horizontal blade extending from them. Each blade slidably engages a bracket that is mounted to the object, with the slidable blade permitting horizontal adjustment of the distance of the floating member from the object. The floating member has at least two horizontal receptacles extending through the floating member. Guide posts slidably engage the receptacles, permitting the floating member to move vertically relative to the guide posts, which fix the floating member's horizontal position relative to the object.