Roofing Membrane Attachment Device with Protective Board
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing process of attaching a roofing membrane to a building surface is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and costly due to the need for multiple workers to prevent adhesive overspray on welding seam areas, requiring additional cleaning steps.
Innovation Solution
A device with an insertion mechanism and extension frame that holds a roofing membrane and a board, reducing adhesive overspray by positioning the board along the welding seam area during application, allowing for efficient attachment with minimal labor and cost.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple workers are used to protect welding seam areas from adhesive overspray, then the welding seam quality is improved, but the labor cost and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
A protective board is introduced as an intermediary object between the adhesive spray source and the welding seam area. The board physically blocks adhesive overspray from reaching the welding seam, eliminating the need for multiple workers to manually protect the seam area while maintaining welding quality
Solution Approach 2:
The protective board is designed to be self-positioned and self-retained through the channel structure. Once placed in the channel, the board automatically stays in position during the spraying process without requiring continuous manual adjustment or multiple workers to hold it in place
2Reliability
If adhesive is sprayed generously to ensure membrane attachment, then the attachment reliability is improved, but the adhesive overspray onto welding seam area increases
Solution Approach 1:
The protective board acts as a mediator that allows generous adhesive spraying for reliable membrane attachment while preventing the harmful overspray from reaching the welding seam area. The board absorbs or blocks the excess adhesive without affecting the attachment quality of the roofing membrane
3Reliability
If a protective board is manually held by a worker during spraying, then the welding seam area is protected, but the device complexity and labor requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The protective board system is designed to be self-sustaining through the channel structure. The board is placed in the channel and remains in position automatically during the spraying process, eliminating the need for workers to manually hold or continuously adjust the board, thus reducing device complexity while maintaining protection reliability
Data Source
AI summary
This invention, in embodiments, relates to a device and a method of attaching a roofing membrane to a building surface that prevents and/or reduces overspray of adhesive onto a welding seam area. The device includes an insertion mechanism configured to hold a roofing membrane as the roofing membrane is being attached to a building surface via an adhesive, and an extension frame attached to the insertion mechanism, the extension frame including a channel that is configured to support and to hold at least one board, to thereby reduce the adhesive from spraying onto a welding seam area as the roofing membrane is being applied to the building surface.