Rotary Container Fixing Elements for High-Pressure Cleaning Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing container recording devices struggle to securely fix containers during high spray pressures and mechanical influences in container cleaning systems, leading to potential tilting or damage of containers, which negatively impacts cleaning results and process stability.
Innovation Solution
A recording device with a fixing device that includes at least two adjustable fixing elements around a rotary point, which can be adjusted between open and closed positions. The fixing elements attach to the container surface in a closed position, ensuring secure fixation even under high pressures, by positioning the contact point closer to the container opening than the pivot point.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If high spray pressure is used to thoroughly clean the container interior, then cleaning quality is improved, but the container may tip over or be pushed out of the bottle cell
Solution Approach 1:
The fixing elements are positioned and configured in advance (before the cleaning process) to engage with the container at optimally located contact points. This preliminary positioning ensures that when high spray pressure is applied, the container is already secured against tipping or being pushed out, allowing thorough cleaning without compromising stability
Solution Approach 2:
The fixing device applies localized engagement forces at specific contact points on the container surface. By concentrating the securing action at precisely located points (where the perpendicular projection of the contact point onto the container's longitudinal axis is closer to the reference point than the pivot point projection), the device provides targeted stability exactly where needed to prevent container displacement during high-pressure cleaning
2Reliability
If fixing elements are positioned with pivot point projection closer to container opening, then container stability is improved, but fixing effectiveness decreases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of positioning the pivot point projection closer to the container opening (conventional approach), the invention inverts this arrangement by positioning the contact point projection closer to the reference point than the pivot point projection. This inverted configuration creates a mechanical advantage where the fixing elements generate stronger securing forces while simultaneously improving container stability during high-pressure cleaning
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AI summary
Receiving device (100) for receiving a container (109), wherein the receiving device (100) comprises a fixing device (111) for fixing the container (109) in the receiving device (100), wherein the fixing device (111) comprises at least two fixing elements (102), wherein the at least two fixing elements (102) are each rotatably mounted about a pivot point (103) and can be adjusted between an open and closed position, wherein in the closed position the at least two fixing elements (102) can each engage at a contact point (104) on a surface of the container (109), wherein a perpendicular projection (108) of the contact point (104) onto a first longitudinal axis (105) of the container (109) is closer to a reference point (107) of the first longitudinal axis (105) located at the level of an opening (110) of the container (109) than a perpendicular projection (108) of the contact point (108) onto a first longitudinal axis (105) of the container (109) is closer to a reference point (107) of the first longitudinal axis (105) located at the level of an opening (110) of the container (109) than a perpendicular projection (108) of the first longitudinal axis (105) is located at the level of an opening (110) of the container (109). Projection (106) of the pivot point (103) onto the first longitudinal axis (105).