Removable Siphon Element for Leak-Tight Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing siphon designs are complex, expensive to produce, and difficult to clean, leading to issues with leak-tightness and uncontrolled water escape during maintenance, which complicates cleaning and can cause water damage.
Innovation Solution
A siphon arrangement featuring a housing with a movable, pivotable siphon element in the form of a bent tube that can be easily removed for cleaning, allowing controlled water flow and eliminating the need for complex seals, with a mounting system that ensures accurate positioning and leak-tight sealing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the siphon housing is designed with complex internal structures to maintain sealing and flow control, then sealing performance is improved, but device complexity increases and manufacturing cost rises
Solution Approach 1:
The siphon is divided into separate modular components: a removable siphon element and a housing. The siphon element can be detached for cleaning and maintenance without affecting the housing, simplifying the overall construction while maintaining sealing performance through dedicated sealing interfaces at the connection points.
Solution Approach 2:
The siphon element is extracted as a separate removable component from the housing, allowing it to be easily detached for cleaning. This extraction eliminates the need for complex internal sealing structures within the housing, as sealing is achieved at the simpler connection interface between the removable element and housing.
2Ease of operation
If the siphon element is made removable for easy cleaning, then ease of operation is improved, but uncontrolled water escape may occur during maintenance
Solution Approach 1:
Before removing the siphon element for cleaning, the system performs a preliminary action by draining the water from the siphon portion through the outlet connection. This ensures that when the siphon element is detached, no uncontrolled water escape occurs, while still allowing easy removal for cleaning purposes.
3Reliability
If complex seals are used to ensure leak-tightness, then sealing performance is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The siphon element is designed as a simple, inexpensive component that can be easily replaced rather than requiring complex, expensive seals. The simplicity of the siphon element design reduces manufacturing costs while maintaining adequate sealing through basic connection interfaces.
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
The design simplifies the siphon structure, enhances cleaning ease, prevents uncontrolled water escape during maintenance, and reduces the risk of water damage, while maintaining effective flow rates and sealing performance.
Implementation Method 1
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Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to a siphon arrangement (1) comprising a housing (2) with an inlet connection piece (3), an outlet connection piece (4), and a siphon seat (5) arranged between the inlet connection piece (3) and outlet connection piece (4), and a siphon element (6) arranged in the siphon seat (5), said siphon element having a siphon portion (7) and an inlet (8) facing towards the inlet connection piece (3) and an outlet (9) leading to the outlet connection piece (4). Water can be guided from the inlet connection piece (3) via the inlet (8) into the siphon portion (7) and from the outlet (9) to the outlet connection piece (4). The siphon element (6) is movable, in particular pivotable, in the housing (2) from a use position into a maintenance position, and when in the maintenance position can be removed, in particular pulled out, from the housing.