Measuring Seat Reference Board for Safe Stone Cutting Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sintered stone cutting machines require users to measure cutting positions by extending fingers to the cutting wheel, leading to inconvenience and safety hazards, and the suckers' material degradation affects stability and accuracy over time.
Innovation Solution
A measuring seat with a positioning arm and reference board that aligns with the cutting wheel's edge, allowing safe and accurate measurement without direct contact, and engaging arms for stable attachment to the track base.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If users extend fingers to the cutting wheel to measure the actual cutting location, then measurement can be performed, but user safety is compromised due to the sharp edge of the cutting wheel
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a reference board as an intermediary element between the user and the cutting wheel. The reference board features a reference line that is vertically aligned with the cutting wheel's cutting line, allowing users to measure cutting positions by referencing the board instead of directly contacting the cutting wheel. This mediator eliminates the harmful factor (injury risk) while preserving the measurement function.
Solution Approach 2:
The reference board creates a safe copy or representation of the cutting wheel's position. The reference line on the board replicates the cutting line's location without having the sharp edge, enabling measurement without direct contact with the dangerous cutting wheel. This copying approach allows users to interact with a safe surrogate rather than the actual cutting element.
2Ease of operation
If the cutting wheel is located below the operating shaft for cutting functionality, then cutting can be performed, but measurement convenience deteriorates as users must reach near the rotating wheel
Solution Approach 1:
The reference board extends the measurement interface from the horizontal cutting plane to a vertical dimension. By positioning the reference board on the cutter body above the cutting wheel, the patent creates a vertical alignment relationship where the reference line on the board corresponds to the cutting line below. This dimensional extension allows users to measure from a safe, elevated position rather than reaching down near the rotating wheel.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple suckers are used to hold the track base on the processed sintered stone, then the cutting machine can be easily assembled and disassembled, but long-term use causes material changes that affect adsorption strength and stability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a replaceable sucker component that can be discarded after material degradation and recovered/replaced when adsorption strength diminishes. The measuring seat includes a sucker specifically designed for attachment to the track base, allowing these components to be replaced periodically without affecting the overall cutting machine structure. This approach maintains reliability over time while preserving the ease of assembly and disassembly functionality.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables convenient, accurate, and safe cutting line measurement by using the reference board instead of the cutting wheel edge, preventing injuries and maintaining cutting stability.
Implementation Method 1
the track base can be held securely on the processed sintered stone by the multiple suckers adsorbed to the top of the processed sintered stone
Data Source
AI summary
A measuring seat for a sintered stone cutting machine is disposed on a sintered stone cutting machine and has a positioning arm. The sintered stone cutting machine has a track base and a cutter. The cutter is movably disposed on the track base and has a cutting wheel. The positioning arm extends outwardly and downwardly adjacent to a bottom of the track base, is located at a same side of the track base as the cutting wheel, and has a reference board formed on a free end of the positioning arm. The reference board has an external side face. An imaginary extension line of the external side face of the reference board is in a straight line with a cutting edge of the cutting wheel.