Separable Climbing Shoe for Formwork Dismantling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing climbing shoes require additional platforms and a larger stock for dismantling when no longer needed, as they cannot be easily removed from a wall while engaged with climbing rails, especially when the rails span multiple concrete sections.

Innovation Solution

A climbing shoe design featuring a pivotable and/or telescoping claw connected to a wall shoe part, allowing for easy detachment by pivoting and locking mechanisms, enabling removal without additional platforms and facilitating attachment at any point along the rail.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If climbing shoes are designed with fixed attachment to wall, then climbing rails can be securely guided along the wall, but the climbing shoes cannot be easily removed when no longer needed

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveEase of removalVSAvoidSecure attachment
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The climbing shoe is divided into two separable parts: a wall shoe part that remains attached to the wall and a sliding shoe part that can be easily removed. This segmentation allows the system to maintain secure attachment when needed while enabling easy removal when the climbing rail has passed through, resolving the contradiction between secure attachment and ease of removal.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The sliding shoe part is designed to be movable relative to the wall shoe part, transitioning from a fixed engaged state with the climbing rail to a removable disengaged state. This dynamic design allows the climbing shoe to adapt between secure attachment during use and easy removal after use, eliminating the need for additional platforms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Productivity

If climbing shoes remain fixed on the wall, then climbing rails can be continuously guided, but additional platforms and larger stock of climbing shoes are required for dismantling

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveDismantling efficiencyVSAvoidEquipment stock requirement
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

By separating the climbing shoe into wall shoe part and sliding shoe part, the system enables straightforward dismantling without requiring additional platforms or a larger stock of climbing shoes. The sliding shoe part can be directly removed from the wall shoe part, significantly improving dismantling efficiency and reducing equipment requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of operation

If climbing shoes are designed for easy removal, then dismantling is simplified, but the secure engagement with climbing rails may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveEase of dismantlingVSAvoidEngagement security
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The separation into wall shoe part and sliding shoe part allows the sliding shoe part to maintain secure engagement with the climbing rail through claws while enabling easy removal from the wall shoe part. This segmentation ensures that dismantling is simplified without compromising the secure engagement between the sliding shoe part and the climbing rail during operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP1899548B1Separable climbing shoe for a climbing formwork
Publication Date: 2015.01.28 PERI GMBH
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AI summary

The invention relates to a climbing shoe (10) for a climbing formwork for fixing to a concrete lift (14) of a structure, said climbing shoe comprising a guide shoe part (16) on which claws (50) are provided. At least one claw (50) can be pivoted and/or telescoped on the guide shoe part (16).