Lubricant Dispenser Mount with Protective Casing and Bracket

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing lubricant dispensers are fragile and prone to damage under harsh use conditions, with a risk of uncontrolled leaking and contamination, necessitating improved protection mechanisms.

Innovation Solution

A protective mount comprising a bracket with a lower horizontal leg and a separate protective casing that encloses the dispenser, providing support, protection, and a seal, with features like inward projections, a convex upper end, and centering members to secure the casing, ensuring the lubricant dispenser is safeguarded from impacts and contaminants.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the lubricant dispenser is attached to a support using simple metallic tracks, clamps, or pipe clamps, then the attachment is simple and easy to implement, but the mount becomes fragile and vulnerable to damage under harsh use conditions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of attachmentVSAvoidprotection against damage

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The protective mount is divided into distinct functional segments: a bracket portion for attachment to the support, a protective casing portion enclosing the dispenser, and a connection interface between them. This segmentation allows each part to be optimized independently - the bracket for secure attachment and the casing for protection - while maintaining overall simplicity of implementation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The protective casing is designed to beforehand cushion and absorb impacts before they can reach the lubricant dispenser. The casing acts as a protective barrier that prevents damage from collisions with objects or people, eliminating the need for complex shock-absorbing mechanisms while maintaining reliability under harsh conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

2Device complexity

If the lubricant dispenser is attached directly to the device to be lubricated, then the connection is direct and simple, but the dispenser is exposed to damage from collisions with moving objects or people

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesimplicity of connectionVSAvoidexposure to collision damage

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The protective mount serves as an intermediary element between the lubricant dispenser and the support structure. It provides a secure attachment point while simultaneously acting as a protective barrier that shields the dispenser from collision damage, thus maintaining simple connection while reducing harmful factors.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If a protective casing is added to enclose the lubricant dispenser, then protection against damage and contamination is improved, but the device complexity and number of components increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprotection against damage and contaminationVSAvoidnumber of components

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The bracket and protective casing are merged into a single integrated mount assembly that can be attached as one unit to the support. This merging reduces the number of separate components that need to be handled and installed, while still providing both attachment functionality and protective enclosure for the lubricant dispenser.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10429005B2Mount for lubricant dispenser

Publication Date: 2019.10.01 PERMA TEC GMBH & CO KG

AI summary

These objects are attained in a mount for a lubricant dispenser and that has a protective casing forming a cavity adapted to hold the dispenser and having a lower edge and a bracket having a lower generally horizontal leg on which the lower edge of the casing sits. An outlet fitting is provided on the lower leg positioned to received lubricant from the dispenser in the cavity of the casing sitting on the lower leg.