Scaffold Decking Marginal Regions Gap-Free Surface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Industrial scaffolding systems face challenges in creating gap-free working surfaces around complex contours, requiring a multitude of different parts, which increases costs and logistical efforts, and existing solutions often necessitate additional elements to cover gaps between decking units.
Innovation Solution
Modifying decking units with projecting marginal regions that cover bars, allowing them to almost mutually contact or form a small gap, eliminating the need for additional gap-covering elements and reducing the number of different parts required, while additional bars with identical cross-sections enable versatile adaptation to various contours.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If additional elements are provided to cover gaps between decking units, then the working surface becomes gap-free, but the number of different parts and logistical complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the gap-covering function into the decking units themselves by providing projecting marginal regions that extend beyond the base body. These projecting regions automatically cover gaps between adjacent decking units and bars, eliminating the need for separate gap-covering elements. This combining of functions reduces the number of different parts while maintaining a gap-free working surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The decking units are designed to be self-sufficient by incorporating projecting marginal regions that automatically cover gaps without requiring additional elements. The projecting regions extend beyond the base body and provide the gap-covering function as an integral part of the decking unit, making the system self-service and reducing logistical complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a plurality of different scaffold parts are kept in stock to adapt to various shapes, then complex contours can be scaffolded, but costs and effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention makes the decking units universal by providing projecting marginal regions that can adapt to various configurations. The same decking unit design with projecting regions can be used in different positions and orientations to scaffold complex contours, eliminating the need for multiple specialized parts. The projecting regions provide versatility while maintaining a standardized component library.
3Ease of operation
If decking units are arranged with gaps between them, then assembly is simpler, but the working surface has gaps that require additional covering
Solution Approach 1:
The invention combines the gap-covering function into the decking units themselves through projecting marginal regions. These regions extend beyond the base body and automatically cover gaps between adjacent decking units, maintaining assembly simplicity while ensuring a gap-free working surface without requiring additional covering elements.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to industrial scaffolding comprising vertical supports, which can be interconnected by means of horizontal bars. Plates, which extend on a horizontal plane, can be hooked onto the bars to create an accessible working surface. When the plates are fitted, edge areas of the latter overhang the base body of the plates in such a way that a bar running parallel to an edge area is partially covered by said edge area.