Monolithic Cutting Machine Frame with Integrated Drainage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electric cutting apparatus for ceramic tiles require a frame made of multiple parts to ensure rigidity, increasing cost, weight, and complicating transport due to the need for separate components for support and maintenance, particularly the water collection system.
Innovation Solution
A single, continuously shaped frame with integrated features such as longitudinal grooves for the cutting disc guide, bulgings for water drainage, and foldable legs, allowing for improved rigidity, reduced weight, and simplified maintenance by eliminating the need for multiple parts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If the frame is made of multiple parts to ensure rigidity, then the structural stability is improved, but the weight and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple frame components into a single monolithic structure made of one continuous piece of material. This integration eliminates the need for separate parts connected by joints, achieving both structural stability through the unified design and weight reduction by removing redundant connecting elements and fasteners.
2Strength
If the frame is made of multiple parts, then the rigidity is improved, but the manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The frame components are merged into a single monolithic structure that can be manufactured as one piece, eliminating the need for assembly operations, fasteners, and joints. This reduces manufacturing complexity and cost while maintaining rigidity through the integrated design that eliminates weak points at connection interfaces.
3Ease of repair
If the frame is made of multiple parts, then the maintenance is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The frame is merged into a single monolithic structure with integrated water drainage features. This simplification reduces the number of parts that can fail or require maintenance, eliminating complex assembly and disassembly procedures while maintaining ease of repair through the simplified unified structure.
4Strength
If the frame is made of multiple parts, then the structural integrity is improved, but the transport difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The frame components are merged into a single monolithic structure that maintains full structural integrity as one piece. This eliminates the need for assembly during setup and simplifies transport, as the unified structure can be moved as a single unit without risk of disassembly or misalignment of multiple parts.
Data Source
AI summary
Frame for an electric apparatus for cutting ceramic elements preferably manufactured by a drawing and punching process starting from a metallic plate, being the frame a unique and continuous part in which one or more lined up going through grooves are arranged along which the cutting disc is movable to carry out the cutting of the ceramic tiles, having one or more bulgings directed in a convex form towards the interior part of the frame, being arranged in each of them a first orifice for draining out the water for cooling the cutting disc, second and third bulgings of the metallic plate being aimed at attachment means and abutment means for foldable legs and first bulgings for joining of the guide supporting and leading the cutting disc.