Lifting Tower System with Threaded Rods for Continuous Height Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional building lifting methods using hydraulic jacks and blocks are dangerous, physically demanding, and require frequent recalibration, making them unsafe and inefficient for lifting structures to higher heights.
Innovation Solution
A lifting tower system with parallel columns and threaded lifting rods, powered by bidirectional rotational means, allowing for continuous vertical motion without intermediate recalibration, and optionally telescoping columns for adjustable height, enabling safe and efficient lifting of structures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Length of moving object
If hydraulic jacks and blocks are used for building lifting, then the building can be lifted to higher heights, but the operation becomes dangerous and requires frequent manual intervention for resetting
Solution Approach 1:
The lifting system is divided into multiple independent lifting towers, each capable of supporting the structure independently. This segmentation allows the building to be lifted in a controlled manner while distributing the load and risk across multiple units, enhancing safety during high-altitude lifting operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The lifting towers incorporate adjustable and telescoping components that allow dynamic adaptation during the lifting process. The towers can be extended and repositioned without resetting, enabling continuous lifting operation that maintains safety while achieving greater heights.
2Length of moving object
If hydraulic jacks with longer strokes are used to decrease resets, then the lifting height increases, but the device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The lifting towers feature telescoping columns and adjustable mechanisms that allow the structure itself to adapt its height dynamically during operation. This dynamic adjustment capability replaces the need for extremely long-stroke jacks, achieving high lifting capacity through modular extension rather than single-component oversizing.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of increasing stroke length in one dimension (vertical jack travel), the solution introduces horizontal dimensionality through telescoping columns and adjustable support structures. This multi-dimensional approach achieves the same functional goal of increased lifting height while maintaining reasonable component dimensions and complexity.
3Productivity
If traditional jacking equipment is used, then the lifting operation requires frequent resets and blocking, but this creates delays and increases physical labor demands
Solution Approach 1:
The lifting towers are designed to perform continuous lifting action without interruption or resetting. The telescoping columns and adjustable mechanisms allow the towers to maintain their lifting function throughout the entire operation, eliminating the stop-start nature of traditional jack resetting and enabling uninterrupted building elevation.
Solution Approach 2:
The lifting towers incorporate self-adjusting and self-supporting features that reduce the need for manual intervention. The structures automatically maintain their position and support loads throughout the lifting process, eliminating the need for workers to continuously reset equipment and place blocking, thereby reducing both labor demands and time loss.
4Reliability
If removeable safety locks or anchors are used in tower-based systems, then safety is enhanced, but the attachment and detachment processes create delays
Solution Approach 1:
The lifting towers are equipped with permanent or pre-installed safety locking mechanisms that are integrated into the tower structure itself. These safety features are built-in from the beginning rather than requiring attachment during operation, eliminating the time-consuming process of attaching and detaching external anchors while maintaining continuous safety protection throughout the lifting operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system allows for safe and efficient lifting of structures to higher heights without the need for frequent recalibration or attachment/detachment of anchors, reducing physical labor and safety risks, and enabling continuous operation within a single stroke.
Implementation Method 1
A threaded left lifting rod of at least the same length as the left column is rotatably attached in parallel axial relation to the left column. A threaded right lifting rod of at least the same length as the right column is rotatably attached in parallel axial relation to the right column.
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AI summary
A lifting tower for use in the adjustment of the height of an attached structure. The tower uses rotational power means to raise and lower a lift, and an attached lifting beam, within the entire travel zone defined by vertical columns of the tower in a single stroke without the need for any intermediate recalibration of the tower. A system comprising a plurality of towers and a controller, as well as a method of use, are also disclosed.