Integrally Assembled Sink Frame Design for Easy Countertop Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sinks are difficult to assemble and disassemble, poorly adapted to countertops, and often require the replacement of countertops when changed, posing inconvenience and increased costs, especially for obese individuals and pregnant women due to their embedded installation within cabinets.
Innovation Solution
An integrally assembled sink design featuring a frame made of materials like artificial stone or stainless steel, with fixation components and a double-step inward flange, allowing the sink to be placed on the countertop, facilitating easy installation, disassembly, and accommodating diverse design needs by supporting the sink body with hooks and support members.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the sink is embedded in the countertop and cabinet body, then the sink is securely fixed, but it becomes difficult to assemble and disassemble, and the countertop must be replaced when the sink needs to be changed
Solution Approach 1:
The sink system is divided into separate components: the sink body, the frame, and the countertop. The frame acts as an intermediate structure that can be independently assembled and disassembled, allowing the sink to be separated from the countertop without damaging either component. This segmentation enables easy maintenance and replacement while maintaining secure fixation during use.
2Shape
If the sink is embedded in the cabinet body, then the appearance is integrated, but obese people or pregnant women cannot use it conveniently due to insufficient space for their abdomens
Solution Approach 1:
The frame structure extends the sink assembly outward from the cabinet body, creating additional vertical space. This dimensional extension allows the sink to maintain its integrated appearance while providing sufficient clearance for obese people and pregnant women to comfortably position their abdomens, eliminating the space constraint without compromising the aesthetic integration.
3Ease of manufacture
If the sink is made of a single material, then the manufacturing process is simple, but the appearance is monotonous and diverse design demands cannot be fulfilled
Solution Approach 1:
The sink system employs composite construction with the frame made of one material (e.g., stainless steel) and the sink body made of another material (e.g., ceramic or artificial stone). This composite approach allows each component to be manufactured using its most suitable material and process, maintaining manufacturing simplicity while enabling diverse material combinations to satisfy various design requirements and aesthetic preferences.
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AI summary
Provided is an integrally assembled sink, which includes a first frame made of a first material and a second sink body made of a second material, wherein the first frame is open at an upper end and a lower end and it has an upper opening at the upper end; and the second sink body is a container with a base and a top opening at its top. The first frame is sleeved on the second sink body, and an inside wall of the upper opening of the first frame is aligned with the inside wall of the second sink body. Several sets of bumps for hanging are arranged on the inside wall of the first frame, and each set of bumps includes horizontally symmetrical bumps protruding from the inside wall of the first frame.