Modular Textile Cleaning Brush With Replaceable Spiked Elements
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cleaning brushes for textile machines require complete replacement or complex repair when worn, leading to inefficiencies in maintenance and product consistency.
Innovation Solution
A cleaning brush design featuring cylindrical hollow elements with a skeleton and spiked lattice connected by a rubber sealing compound, allowing for easy replacement and rotationally locked attachment to a shaft, enabling standardized and modular cleaning elements with adjustable length and configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If cleaning brushes are designed as integrated units with bristles fastened to a basic body, then structural stability is improved, but maintenance complexity increases requiring complete replacement
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning brush is divided into separate modular components: a basic body and interchangeable cleaning elements that can be independently replaced. The cleaning elements are designed as separate cylindrical hollow elements with skeletons and spiked lattices that slide onto the basic body, allowing replacement without replacing the entire brush assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The cleaning elements are designed to be dynamically replaceable through a sliding mechanism. The cylindrical hollow elements can be easily slid onto and off the basic body, transforming the static integrated structure into a dynamic modular system that adapts to maintenance needs.
2Ease of repair
If cleaning elements are designed as standardized modular components, then ease of replacement is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The basic body is designed as a universal component that can accommodate multiple types of cleaning elements through standardized sliding interfaces. The cylindrical hollow elements with skeletons and spiked lattices are manufactured as standardized modules that can be interchanged on the same basic body, reducing overall manufacturing complexity through standardization.
Solution Approach 2:
The cleaning elements are designed as nested structures where the spiked lattice is applied over the skeleton, which in turn is positioned within the cylindrical hollow element. This nested arrangement allows compact manufacturing and assembly while maintaining modular replaceability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cleaning elements are made with adjustable length and configuration, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning elements are segmented into standardized modular units with fixed lengths that can be combined or selected based on required total length. Each cylindrical hollow element is a discrete module that can be arranged in sequences or configurations to achieve different overall dimensions and cleaning patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The cleaning elements provide adaptability not through variable dimensions within each element, but through arrangement in sequences along the basic body's longitudinal axis. Different numbers and types of cylindrical hollow elements can be combined to achieve various effective lengths and cleaning configurations.
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AI summary
A cleaning element to be fastened on a cylindrical basic body has a longitudinal axis and is designed as a cylindrical hollow element and comprises a skeleton and a spiked lattice stretched on the skeleton. The skeleton is connected to the spiked lattice by means of a rubber sealing compound, and an inner surface of the cleaning element facing the longitudinal axis is formed by the skeleton or the rubber sealing compound. The skeleton is formed by support rings which are arranged at certain intervals concentric with the longitudinal axis and which are held by means of one or more webs extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis.