Rotating Ring Joining Part for Wide-Opening Partition Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing partitioning and protecting systems are not effective for wide openings due to deflection of telescopic profiled sections, leading to gaps in sealing, and lack adaptability to various configurations and angles.
Innovation Solution
A multipurpose partitioning and protecting system featuring a joining part with a contact pad, superposed rings, and a support base for telescopic props, allowing angular adjustment and reversible fastening, ensuring consistent sealing and adaptability to different configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If telescopic profiled sections are used to cover wide openings, then the system can be applied to larger openings, but significant deflection occurs creating gaps in sealing
Solution Approach 1:
The frame is divided into multiple straight profiled sections connected by angular joining parts. Each section remains straight and rigid, avoiding deflection, while the joining parts handle the angular connections. This segmentation allows the system to span wide openings without the profiled sections themselves deflecting, maintaining sealing effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The solution moves from attempting to span wide openings with single long telescopic sections (one-dimensional approach) to using multiple shorter sections connected by angular joining parts (multi-dimensional approach). The joining parts introduce angular geometry to accommodate wide openings while keeping individual profiled sections straight and rigid.
2Strength
If rigid clamping connections are used between profiled sections, then structural strength is improved, but the system cannot be disassembled for cleaning or reuse
Solution Approach 1:
The connection system is segmented into modular components: profiled sections, joining parts with rotatable rings, and fastening means. This modular segmentation allows the frame to be disassembled by removing fasteners while maintaining rigid connections when assembled, enabling both structural strength and ease of disassembly for cleaning or reuse.
Solution Approach 2:
The fastening means transitions between locked (rigid) and unlocked (disassemblable) states. When fastened, the connections provide rigid structural strength; when unfastened, the system can be easily disassembled. This dynamic fastening system resolves the contradiction between permanent rigidity and temporary disassemblability.
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AI summary
A joining part for a multipurpose system for partitioning a premise and protecting it, regardless of its configuration, in particular angular, includes a contact pad with a bearing surface comprising a cylinder. Two superposed rings are fitted around the cylinder of the pad and are mounted so as to rotate with respect to one another. Each ring includes a protrusion for fastening a longitudinal element of the partitioning system. The joining part also includes a support base for a telescopic prop. The support base and the contact pad include complementary fastening means configured such that the rings are free to rotate about the cylinder but butt against the pad and the base.