Floor Drain Cover With Hinged Flange For Wall Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing floor drain designs face challenges in achieving both aesthetic and functional sophistication while being cost-effective, particularly in creating drainage channels that are stable and easily integratable into floor coverings, especially when installed close to walls, due to requirements for sufficient slope and watertight connections.
Innovation Solution
The floor drain features a drain cover with a bending edge that allows for adjustable positioning, enabling it to protrude significantly for stable integration in the first operating state and be angled close to walls in the second state, along with a drainage channel made from a single piece of sheet metal with a slope and gutter socket for efficient water guidance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If the floor drain is designed with a large horizontal extension to ensure stable integration into the floor covering, then the stability and integration quality improve, but the ability to install close to walls deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The flange is designed as a bent plate with a bend line, allowing it to change its spatial configuration. In the first spatial configuration, the flange extends horizontally for stable integration. In the second spatial configuration, the flange is bent at approximately 90 degrees, reducing its horizontal extension to enable installation close to walls. This dynamic adaptability resolves the contradiction between stability and installation flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The flange is divided into a permanent section and a bent section by a bend line. The permanent section remains fixed to the drain body, while the bent section can be folded along the bend line. This segmentation allows the flange to provide both extended horizontal support for stability and reduced extension for wall-close installation by folding the bent section downward.
2Length of moving object
If the drainage channel is made long (over 100 cm) to cover sufficient floor area, then the drainage coverage improves, but the manufacturing complexity and stability maintenance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The drainage channel is manufactured from a single piece of sheet metal that is bent and formed into the desired shape. This thin film approach allows creation of long channels (over 100 cm) with integrated slopes and connection pieces without complex assembly, while maintaining structural stability through the continuous material structure and strategic bending lines.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a floor drain 1 with an inlet opening 101 and an outlet opening, wherein the inlet opening 101 is formed on a vertical upper side of the floor drain 1 and the outlet opening is formed on a transverse side or on a vertical underside of the floor drain 1, wherein the floor drain 1 has a drain pot 11 and a drain cover 10 connected to the drain pot 11, wherein the drain cover 10 has the access opening inlet opening 101 and the drain pot 11 has the outlet opening, wherein the drain cover 10 projects laterally around the drain pot 11 with a flange section, wherein the drain cover 10 has a hinge edge 106 which divides the drain cover 10 into a flat permanent section 109 and a flat hinged section 108, wherein the drain cover 10 is hingeable at its hinge edge 106.wherein in a first operating state of the floor drain 1 the permanent section 109 and the kinked section 108 run in a common horizontal plane and in a second operating state of the floor drain 1 the kinked section 108 is angled to the permanent section 109 or is separated from it.