Surface Covering Panel Anchoring Bracket Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing surface covering structures for buildings, particularly in the building sector, face issues with mechanical stability under external forces, insufficient anchoring, and water infiltration due to inadequate hermetic coupling between panels.
Innovation Solution
A surface covering structure comprising panels with complementary hooking portions and anchoring brackets that provide stable engagement and improved mechanical stability, using a fixing bracket and anchoring bracket configuration to enhance anchoring and prevent water infiltration through a shape-coupled interlocking mechanism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If panels are anchored using a single fixing bracket retaining the end edge of the internal hooking portion, then the anchoring system is simple, but the anchoring is insufficiently robust to retain the panelling under considerable external forces
Solution Approach 1:
The anchoring system is divided into two distinct brackets: a fixing bracket that retains the end edge of the internal hooking portion, and an anchoring bracket that engages with the external hooking portion of the adjacent panel. This segmentation allows each bracket to perform its specific function optimally, with the anchoring bracket providing additional robustness against external forces while the fixing bracket maintains positioning stability.
2Ease of manufacture
If panels use recesses on the lower hooking portion to collect and channel filtered water, then water drainage is provided, but water stagnation between panels occurs causing deterioration
Solution Approach 1:
The external hooking portion of each panel acts as an intermediary element that receives water flowing along the panel surface and redirects it laterally away from the joint between panels. This mediator function prevents water from entering the recesses where it would cause stagnation, while still maintaining the drainage capability of the system.
3Stability of the object's composition
If hooking portions are coupled to provide stable engagement, then mechanical stability is improved, but the coupling is not sufficiently hermetic to prevent fluid passage
Solution Approach 1:
The solution addresses water infiltration not by modifying the horizontal coupling between hooking portions, but by utilizing the vertical dimension. The external hooking portion extends downward to engage with the anchoring bracket, creating a vertical barrier that blocks water passage. This dimensional approach maintains mechanical stability while preventing fluid infiltration through a different spatial plane.
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AI summary
Structure (1) for the covering of surfaces, comprising mainly a first panel (2) and a second panel (3), each having a main portion (8) and, on opposite sides of the main portion (8), a first hooking portion (6), and a second hooking portion (7), at least partially shaped at the first hooking portion (6). In a configuration of use, the second hooking portion (7) of the second panel (3) is applied on the first hooking portion (6) of the first panel (2) according to a unique and predetermined positioning. The structure (1) also comprises a fixing bracket (4) configured to interpose, in the configuration of use, between the first panel (2) and the second panel (3). Finally, the structure (1) comprises an anchoring bracket (5) shaped so as to define a mounting portion (20) on which the fixing bracket (4) is applicable, in use.