Hollow Cylindrical Pipe Support Base with Engagement Plates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional pipe support bases on building roofs face issues such as corrosion from wind, rain, and sunlight, leading to potential loss of fixture for piping, and require cumbersome rooftop processing and incomplete waterproofing during renovation, which increases costs and complexity.
Innovation Solution
A lightweight, hollow cylindrical pipe support base with a rectangular cross-section, featuring a cross-shaped rib, parallel grooves, and engagement plates, allowing for easy installation and compatibility with various commercially available pipe fasteners without damaging the roof waterproofing, enabling easy handling, installation, and renovation without interfering with the waterproofing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If wood blocks are used as pipe support base, then installation is easy and cost is low, but the wood corrodes from wind, rain, and sunlight causing the piping to lose its fixture
Solution Approach 1:
The invention uses a composite structure combining a hollow cylindrical body (made of corrosion-resistant material) with engagement plates that have grooves. This composite design provides both the ease of installation of simple structures and the reliability of corrosion-resistant materials, resolving the contradiction between easy manufacture and fixture stability.
2Reliability
If concrete blocks are used to fill mold forms, then durability is improved, but construction time and effort increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The invention segments the support base into a pre-formed hollow cylindrical body with integrated engagement plates and grooves. This segmentation allows the component to be manufactured separately and installed as a complete unit, eliminating the time-consuming process of filling mold forms with concrete while maintaining durability through the corrosion-resistant hollow structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The engagement plates with grooves are preliminarily formed as integral parts of the hollow cylindrical body during manufacturing. This preliminary action eliminates the need for on-site concrete pouring and formwork, significantly reducing construction time while ensuring durable, pre-formed structural integrity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If pipe mountings are constructed together with roof waterproofing as a single unit, then integration is achieved, but renovation of roof waterproofing becomes cumbersome and may be incomplete
Solution Approach 1:
The invention separates the pipe support base from the roof waterproofing system, creating independent, modular components. The hollow cylindrical support base can be installed independently on the roof surface without being integrated into the waterproofing layer, allowing waterproofing to be renovated separately without removing or modifying the support structure, thus resolving the contradiction between integration and renovation ease.
Solution Approach 2:
The support base acts as an intermediary element that interfaces with the roof surface but remains independent of the waterproofing system. This intermediary position allows the support base to fulfill its mounting function while permitting separate access and renovation of the waterproofing layer without interference, solving the contradiction between integration and ease of repair.
4Ease of manufacture
If a single support base design is used, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but compatibility with various commercially available pipe fasteners is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The invention incorporates multiple grooves with different cross-sectional shapes on the engagement plates of the single support base design. These varied groove configurations enable compatibility with different types of commercially available pipe fasteners (such as U-clamps, C-clamps, and other standardized fasteners), achieving multi-functionality while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through a single integrated component design.
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AI summary
To provide a pipe support base light in weight and with good workability, to which loads may given according to need. This problem may be overcome with a hollow cylindrical body with a rectangular cross section and with four sides. A through passage is provided in the center portion thereof. Further, a cross-shaped rib is provided at an approximately central position thereof. Additionally, grooves are formed parallel to the aforementioned through passage on at least any of the surfaces, upon the edges of which are provided engagement plates protruding into the cross sections of the grooves.