Height-adjusting apparatus for a mobile foundation, and mobile-foundation apparatus
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile foundations are unable to compensate for uneven and sloping underlying surfaces, requiring laborious pre-leveling and limiting their use once set up.
Innovation Solution
A height-adjusting apparatus comprising a rod with a threaded portion and a threaded plate, which can be adjusted relative to a tube with a cavity, allowing the mobile foundation to be adjusted in height and rotated to compensate for underlying surface inclinations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a mobile foundation is set up on an uneven and/or sloping underlying surface, then the setup process becomes laborious and requires pre-leveling, but using a fixed-height mobile foundation results in inability to compensate for surface unevenness
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile foundation incorporates adjustable height legs with threaded rods and nuts that allow dynamic adjustment of the foundation's height at different points. This dynamic adjustment capability enables the foundation to adapt to uneven and sloping underlying surfaces, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and ease of setup by providing a simple mechanical adjustment mechanism rather than requiring laborious pre-leveling of the surface.
2Manufacturing precision
If the underlying surface is leveled out before setting up the mobile foundation, then the mobile foundation can be properly positioned, but this pre-leveling process is laborious and involves additional costs
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of leveling the underlying surface before setting up the mobile foundation, the invention inverts the approach by providing adjustment capability directly on the mobile foundation itself. The threaded rods and nuts allow the foundation to be adjusted to the correct level after placement, eliminating the need for time-consuming and costly pre-leveling operations while achieving the same leveling precision.
3Productivity
If the mobile foundation is set up immediately without adjustment capability, then the setup process is quick and simple, but retrospective compensation for unevenness is no longer possible
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile foundation is equipped with pre-installed threaded rods and nuts that provide adjustment capability before the foundation is fully positioned and loaded. This preliminary provision of adjustment mechanisms allows for quick setup followed by easy height adjustment if needed, maintaining both setup speed and the ability to compensate for inclination retrospectively.
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 easy setup on uneven surfaces by adjusting the height and orientation of the mobile foundation, ensuring stable and even load distribution without the need for pre-leveling, and allowing gradient compensation in all directions.
Implementation Method 1
a rod (20) with a threaded portion, a threaded plate (24), which is retained in an adjustable manner on the threaded portion
Implementation Method 2
the rod can be rotated relative to the tube at least in part about an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube
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AI summary
A height-adjusting apparatus for a mobile foundation includes a rod with a threaded portion and a threaded plate, which is retained in an adjustable manner on the threaded portion and has a supporting surface. The height-adjusting apparatus also includes a tube, which has a cavity. The tube comprises at least one wall aperture on an outer side, as a result of which the rod projects into the cavity. Additionally, the height-adjusting apparatus is configured such that the rod can be rotated relative to the tube at least in part about an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tube.