Scaffold Board Hooked Transverse Profiles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing scaffolding decking is expensive to manufacture and difficult to repair due to the need for welding or riveting of transverse profiles to longitudinal profiles, which complicates the process and increases costs.

Innovation Solution

The transverse profiles are hooked into the longitudinal profiles using the covering panel, eliminating the need for welding or riveting, and the covering panel serves a dual function of connecting and securing the profiles, providing sufficient load-bearing capacity and torsional rigidity while being cost-effectively manufactured.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If transverse profiles are welded or riveted to longitudinal profiles, then structural strength and connection reliability are improved, but manufacturing complexity and repair difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection reliabilityVSAvoidmanufacturing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The connection system is segmented into modular components: hooks on transverse profiles, corresponding receptacles in the decking panel, and separate longitudinal profiles. This allows the transverse profiles to be independently attached to longitudinal profiles without requiring complex welding or riveting operations, reducing manufacturing complexity while maintaining connection reliability through the interlocking hook-receptacle mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Strength

If transverse profiles are welded or riveted to longitudinal profiles, then structural strength is improved, but repair cost and time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural strengthVSAvoidrepair cost and time
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSEase of repair

Solution Approach 1:

The design enables easy replacement of damaged transverse profiles by simply detaching the hook from the receptacle in the decking panel, without requiring destructive removal methods like cutting welds or removing rivets. The hook's design allows it to be released by lifting the transverse profile upward, enabling quick recovery and replacement of damaged components, significantly reducing repair time and cost while maintaining structural strength.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #34Discarding and recovering

3Ease of manufacture

If decking panel is used solely for connecting longitudinal profiles, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but load-bearing capacity and securing function are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoidload-bearing capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The decking panel is designed with multi-functionality: it serves as both the walking surface and the securing mechanism for transverse profiles. By incorporating receptacles directly into the decking panel structure, it simultaneously provides load-bearing capacity for workers and equipment, while also functioning as the locking element that secures transverse profiles in place. This eliminates the need for separate connection components, maintaining manufacturing simplicity while ensuring adequate load-bearing capacity and securing function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3563017B1Scaffold board and method for producing such a scaffold board
Publication Date: 2020.11.25 PERI GMBH
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AI summary

The invention relates to a scaffold platform (10) for a scaffold in the construction field, comprising a support frame (16) having two longitudinal profiles (18) and one or more transverse profiles (20) via which the longitudinal profiles (18) are connected to one another. The scaffold platform has a platform plate (12), which is fastened to the longitudinal profiles (18), wherein each transverse profile (20) is hooked into the two longitudinal profiles (18) and is held and secured in its position hooked into the longitudinal profiles (18) solely by the platform plate (12). Each transverse profile (20) has two wall limbs (42), which are connected to one another via a back portion (44), and wherein the two wall limbs (42) have angled free edge portions (46), against which the platform plate (12) bears. The invention further relates to a method for producing said scaffold platform (10).