Tubular Radiator Wall Anchor With Tool-Free Quick Locking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wall anchors for tubular radiators lack ease and speed of assembly, ensuring safety, and often require tools, leading to complex installations and increased time, while also failing to securely prevent accidental disengagement.
Innovation Solution
A wall anchor with a U-shaped metal profile supporting bracket, featuring a snap-interlocking engagement member and quick locking mechanism, allowing tool-free assembly and adjustment both horizontally and vertically, ensuring secure attachment without visible components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional anchors use sophisticated brackets with multiple parts, then engagement safety is improved, but device complexity and installation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into a single integrated support element that simultaneously provides mechanical support, engagement safety through the U-shaped clamp design, and wall mounting capability. This eliminates the need for separate brackets and fastening components, resolving the contradiction between safety and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The support element is designed to be universally applicable to different radiator types and wall configurations. The U-shaped clamp can accommodate various pipe diameters, and the element serves multiple functions including structural support, safety engagement, and adjustable positioning, thereby reducing the need for multiple specialized components.
2Reliability
If anchors require pre-assembly of multiple parts with tools, then engagement reliability is improved, but installation time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The support element is designed as a self-installing component that requires no tools or pre-assembly. The expansion mechanism automatically secures the element to the wall when inserted, and the U-shaped clamp automatically engages with the radiator pipes, eliminating the need for manual pre-assembly operations while maintaining reliable engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The support element is divided into functionally independent segments: the wall-mounted expansion portion and the radiator-clamping portion. This segmentation allows each part to perform its function independently without requiring assembly, simplifying installation while ensuring reliable engagement through specialized design of each segment.
3Ease of operation
If simple saddle-like brackets are used, then ease of installation is improved, but engagement safety and reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The U-shaped clamp features an asymmetric cross-section that provides superior engagement safety. The open U-shape allows easy insertion over the radiator pipes, while the closed configuration provides secure mechanical interlocking. This asymmetric design enables both easy installation and high engagement safety, resolving the contradiction between simplicity and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The support element incorporates curved and contoured surfaces that conform to the cylindrical shape of radiator pipes and wall mounting surfaces. This curvature enables the simple, tool-free installation while the contoured U-shaped clamp provides secure engagement, combining ease of operation with engagement safety.
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AI summary
A wall anchor, particularly for tubular radiators, including a supporting bracket that can be fastened to a wall and at least one engagement member that is joined to the supporting bracket and is provided with a seat that is suitable to allow its association with a tubular portion of a radiator. A quick locking means is adapted to pass, reversibly and without the use of tools, from a removable condition, in which the seat has a partially open transverse cross-section, to a non-removable condition, in which the seat has a substantially closed transverse cross-section.