Pipe Bracket Fastening Tool for Quick Underfloor Heating Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fastening systems for underfloor heating pipes on reinforcement grids and carrier mats are inefficient in quickly and easily attaching pipe holders to wires, as they require manual effort and complex mechanisms that can be cumbersome and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
A fastening system featuring a setting tool with a manually operated slide and magazine, which uses a resilient web between clamping legs and a bottom clamping opening to facilitate easy attachment of pipe holders to wires, allowing for quick and efficient fastening by compressing and releasing the clamping legs to secure the pipe holder.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual pressing of the plunger is used to fasten pipe holders to wires, then the pipe holder can be attached to the wire, but the process is time-consuming and labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The setting tool employs a slide mechanism that can be rapidly displaced between positions, enabling dynamic and quick fastening operations. The slide's movable nature allows for rapid repetition of the fastening cycle, significantly improving productivity compared to static manual pressing methods.
Solution Approach 2:
The pipe holder's clamping legs are designed with resilient properties that enable automatic clamping action. When the slide is displaced, the clamping legs are compressed and then automatically spring back to secure the wire, eliminating the need for continuous manual intervention and reducing installation time.
2Reliability
If complex mechanisms are used to attach pipe holders to wires, then fastening can be achieved, but the mechanism becomes cumbersome and difficult to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The setting tool is divided into distinct functional components: a slide for displacement, clamping legs for gripping, and a resilient web for elastic deformation. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function efficiently, maintaining reliability while simplifying the overall operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The clamping legs utilize elastic deformation as a key parameter change mechanism. By compressing the resilient material during the fastening process and then allowing it to spring back, the system achieves secure fastening through a simple displacement action, making the operation easy while maintaining reliability.
3Strength
If the clamping legs are compressed to maximum extent, then the pipe holder secures to the wire, but the resilient web requires force application
Solution Approach 1:
The resilient web acts as a self-service mechanism that stores elastic potential energy during compression and automatically releases it to achieve maximum clamping force. This eliminates the need for continuous force application and allows the system to self-complete the fastening action.
Solution Approach 2:
The fastening process utilizes periodic action through the compression and release cycle of the resilient web. The slide is displaced to compress the web, then returned to allow the web to spring back and secure the wire, creating a rapid cyclic operation that achieves strong clamping without sustained force application.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables rapid and effortless attachment of pipe holders to wires, reducing installation time and effort while ensuring secure fastening, allowing for quick repositioning and reuse of the setting tool.
Implementation Method 1
a resilient web being arranged between the clamping opening in the underside of the foot and the clamping limbs of the foot
Implementation Method 2
As soon as the clamping legs of the pipe holder for an underfloor heating pipe are compressed to their maximum extent, the bevels of the clamping legs of the pipe holder come off the bevels so that the clamping opening at the bottom of the pipe holder snaps onto the wire
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AI summary
The attachment system has two clamping shanks converging against the pressure direction of a gate valve, which has a trapezoidal support opening for the tube holders in gate valve pressure. A clamping opening is provided in the lower surface of a foot of a tube holder, where opening expands for resting tube holder on the wire.