Floor Drain With Integrated Connecting Bar
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional floor drains have a complex structure with multiple components, making them production-intensive and cost-intensive.
Innovation Solution
A simplified floor drain design featuring a channel body with two parallel outflow channels, a connecting bar, and a slat-like connecting element that eliminates the need for a cover and frame, allowing for easy access to the outflow opening for cleaning and featuring a one-piece channel body made from extruded metal or plastic.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional floor drain with base body, channel body, frame and cover is used, then the outflow channel is fully covered and protected, but the structure becomes complex and production-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the protective functions previously performed by separate frame and cover components into an integrated channel body design. The channel body itself forms the protective enclosure for the outflow channels, eliminating the need for additional frame and cover parts while maintaining the protective function.
Solution Approach 2:
The channel body is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it provides structural support, encloses and protects the outflow channels, and incorporates the connecting bar as an integral part. This multi-functionality reduces the overall component count while maintaining protective capabilities.
2Reliability
If a multiplicity of components is used in the floor drain, then the outflow channel is protected, but production and assembly costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple previously separate components (channel body, frame, cover) into a reduced component structure where the channel body serves as the primary protective element. This consolidation reduces manufacturing steps, assembly operations, and associated costs while maintaining the protective function.
3Reliability
If the outflow opening is enclosed by a cover and frame, then the outflow channel is protected, but access for cleaning and maintenance is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting bar is designed as a detachable component that can be removed to provide access to the outflow opening for cleaning and maintenance, then reattached to restore protection. This dynamic design allows the system to switch between protective and accessible states, resolving the contradiction between protection and maintainability.
4Ease of manufacture
If a simplified design with fewer components is used, then production costs decrease, but the protective coverage of the outflow channel may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The channel body is designed to provide complete protective coverage of the outflow channels through its integrated structure, eliminating the need for separate frame and cover components. The protective function is maintained within the channel body itself, ensuring full coverage while reducing component count and production costs.
Data Source
AI summary
A floor drain includes a channel body defining a longitudinal direction and including two outflow channels which extend parallel to each other, each having a channel bottom and two channel walls. A connecting bar extends horizontally and connects the upper mutually facing longitudinal edges of the channel walls. An outflow opening interrupts the connecting bar and the channel walls directly connected thereto. An outflow fitting is arranged below the channel body and surrounds the outflow opening in the circumferential direction. At least one slat-like connecting element is detachably mounted on the channel body and is designed in such a way that it continues the connecting bar and the channel walls in the region interrupted by the outlet opening.