Plug-In Bending Jig for Uniform Pipeline Meander Formation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The rigidity of building pipeline materials makes it difficult to bend them into uniform meander loops for easy attachment to holding elements, often resulting in non-uniform meanders that complicate the assembly process and increase the risk of damage.
Innovation Solution
A device featuring a plug-in frame with fastening rails, a guide rail, and a bending gauge that allows for precise bending and fixation of the pipeline into uniform meander loops, with adjustable bending radius and support elements to prevent damage and facilitate easy assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If building pipeline is bent by hand into meander loops, then assembly can be performed on site with easy adaptation, but the rigidity of material makes bending difficult and results in non-uniform meanders that complicate attachment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by providing a bending gauge with a bending element that has a predetermined bending radius. This pre-configured tool allows the pipeline to be bent into uniform meander loops consistently, eliminating the need for manual bending judgment and ensuring uniformity across all bends while maintaining on-site adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The bending gauge serves as an intermediary tool between the operator and the rigid pipeline. It mediates the bending process by providing a guided bending element that facilitates uniform curvature, making the rigid material easier to work with while ensuring consistent meander formation for attachment to holding elements.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If bending radius is selected carefully to create compact meander without damaging pipeline, then damage-free bending can be achieved, but non-uniform meandering loops result which make attachment even more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The bending gauge is pre-configured with a bending element having a specific bending radius that is optimized to prevent pipeline damage while ensuring uniform meander formation. This preliminary setup eliminates the variability in bending radius selection and ensures consistent, damage-free bending for all meander loops.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of bending radius from a variable selected by the operator to a fixed parameter defined by the bending element's geometry. This parameter standardization ensures that all bends have the same radius, producing uniform meanders that are both damage-free and easy to attach to holding elements.
3Ease of operation
If device is made portable and quickly assembleable with plug-in frame, then transport and setup become easy, but ensuring precise and uniform bending across multiple loops becomes more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The device is segmented into a plug-in frame with multiple independent bending gauges that can be quickly assembled and disassembled. Each bending gauge contains a bending element with a standardized bending radius, ensuring that even though the device is modular and portable, the bending consistency across all loops remains uniform and precise.
Solution Approach 2:
The bending gauges are designed as universal components with standardized bending elements that can be used across multiple loops and different installation scenarios. This universality ensures that the same precise bending radius is applied throughout, maintaining manufacturing precision while allowing quick assembly and disassembly of the portable device.
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 simplified and damage-free bending of building pipelines into uniform meanders, simplifying the attachment process and allowing for quick adaptation to different assembly conditions, while ensuring the device is easy to transport and assemble.
Implementation Method 1
the building pipeline is bent by the bending gauge to form a meandering loop, the bending radius of which is specified by the bending element
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AI summary
A device for mounting a building pipeline (1) on a support element (2) is described. To create an easily transportable device for mounting a building pipeline (1) on a support element (2), which allows for simplified assembly and enables damage-free bending of a building pipeline (1) into a uniform meander conforming to a surface, it is proposed that the device has a plug-in frame (3) with at least two mounting rails (4) and at least one guide rail (5), which is detachably connected to the mounting rails (4) and a bending jig (6) in an assembled state, wherein the bending jig (6) forms a support (7) and a bending element (8) for the building pipeline (1) on the side facing away from the guide rail (5).