Hooking Profile for Rapid Formwork Platform Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional trapdoor platforms for floor formwork are expensive, time-consuming to construct and dismantle, require large storage space, and necessitate heavy machinery for installation, limiting their reuse and posing safety hazards during construction.
Innovation Solution
A support means featuring a hooking profile that allows for rapid and secure mounting of trapdoor platforms using standardized modules, enabling efficient and safe deployment and removal, with the ability to be reused multiple times by hooking onto existing structures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional trapdoor platforms are constructed and mounted on site, then they can be used for floor formwork, but they are expensive, time-consuming to construct and dismantle, require large storage space, and necessitate heavy machinery for installation
Solution Approach 1:
The support means is divided into separate components: a support structure and a hooking profile. The hooking profile is a separate element that can be pre-fabricated and then quickly attached to the support structure, eliminating the need for complex on-site construction and reducing assembly time while maintaining ease of assembly through simple connection mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The hooking profile is designed to be pre-fabricated and prepared in advance before being installed on the construction site. This preliminary preparation of components allows for rapid assembly when the time comes, reducing on-site construction time while maintaining ease of assembly through standardized pre-manufactured elements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional trapdoor platforms are constructed with multiple loose parts and nails, then they can be assembled, but construction works become time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The hooking profile integrates multiple functions into a single element: it provides structural support, enables attachment to the support structure, and allows for secure connection without requiring separate fasteners like nails or loose parts. This merging of functions reduces structural complexity while maintaining adaptability through the standardized hooking mechanism.
3Strength
If trapdoor platforms are made heavy for structural integrity, then they can support loads, but they require large building cranes for mounting
Solution Approach 1:
The hooking profile acts as an intermediary element that transfers loads between the support structure and the platform. This allows the platform itself to be lighter while maintaining structural strength through the distributed load-bearing system provided by the hooking profiles at multiple attachment points, eliminating the need for heavy building cranes.
4Reliability
If trapdoor platforms require large space for storing, then all components can be kept ready, but storage requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The hooking profile and support means are designed as universal, standardized components that can be used across multiple platforms and applications. This universality allows for compact storage of standardized parts that can be quickly assembled into multiple platforms, maintaining readiness while significantly reducing storage space requirements compared to storing complete pre-assembled platforms.
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AI summary
Support means comprising a hooking profile for rapidly to secure temporary lifted objects, particularly for floor formworks mainly in the construction and building industry, said hooking profile comprising a substantially rectangular cross section having a top plate (4) with a to one side outwardly extending first hooking flange (7) as a prolongation of the top plate (4), said first hooking flange (7) being adapted to be clamped to a second hooking flange corresponding with the first hooking flange, arranged on a profile (8) above the hooking profile and secured to for example the floor formwork, said hooking profile to the other side, apposed said first hooking flange (7), below the top plate (4), thereby comprises an outwardly extending flange (5) with a flange hook (6) arranged above and at a distance from the flange (5), and that said flange hook (6) being adapted to, in an inclined position, be hooked on to a third hooking flange (7) in the under side of the above arranged profile (8), opposite said second hooking flange (7).