Tapered Pipe Protection Profile for Fast Snap-On Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing thermal protection profiles for pipes and rods are difficult to install quickly and efficiently due to bent casing wall sections, requiring additional handles and complex procedures, making automation challenging.
Innovation Solution
A hollow pipe protection profile with a tapered or widening continuous opening along its longitudinal extent, allowing for easy assembly and disassembly by applying force, which adapts to different pipe sizes and shapes, and can be made from foam materials for enhanced flexibility and insulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a continuous simple parallel slot is used as an opening in thermal insulation profiles, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the casing wall sections bend towards the interior space requiring additional handles and correctors, making installation time-consuming and difficult to automate
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of having a straight slot opening that bends inward during installation, the patent inverts the geometry by providing a tapered opening that is narrower at the interior space end and wider at the exterior space end. This inversion allows the opening to naturally guide the pipe inward during sliding installation without requiring the casing walls to bend toward the interior space, eliminating the need for additional handles and correctors while enabling automated installation
2Device complexity
If a straight slot opening is used in thermal insulation profiles, then the structure is simple, but additional handles and correctors are required for installation, increasing device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional straight slot geometry by creating a tapered opening that is narrower at the interior space and wider at the exterior space. This inverted geometry allows the opening to self-guide the pipe during sliding installation, eliminating the need for additional handles and correctors, thus maintaining structural simplicity while dramatically improving ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The tapered opening geometry is designed to perform the guiding and positioning function automatically during sliding installation. The narrowing toward the interior space creates a self-guiding effect that directs the pipe into the correct position without requiring external handling tools or corrective operations, enabling the structure to serve itself during installation
3Reliability
If casing wall sections are bent towards the interior space during installation, then the pipe can be positioned, but additional handling and rework are required, increasing loss of time
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of bending the casing walls inward during installation, the patent inverts the opening geometry to be tapered, narrower at the interior space and wider at the exterior space. This inverted geometry allows the pipe to be guided into position automatically during sliding installation, achieving reliable positioning without the time-consuming steps of bending and correcting the casing walls
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables quick and effortless mounting on pipes and rods with reduced resistance, promoting mechanical and thermal protection, and can be easily removed and reused, improving handling and insulation efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
the pipe protection hollow profile springs, for example, onto or around the respective pipe, rod, bar, cable, or profile
Implementation Method 2
The pipe protection hollow profile can preferably be made from a foam or foam material or from a combination of different foams or foam materials
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AI summary
The object of the invention is to create a hollow pipe protection profile that can be very easily and quickly arranged or mounted on, for example, pipes, rods, poles, cables, or profiles or arrangements thereof, and which also provides the necessary protection against, in particular, mechanical influences. The hollow pipe protection profile (1) has a longitudinal extension comprising an interior (2) and a shell (3) surrounding the interior (2) and an exterior (4) outside the shell (3), wherein the shell (3) has a section along its longitudinal extension as a continuous opening (5) between the interior (2) and the exterior (4), characterized in that the longitudinally continuous opening (5) tapers and/or widens at least partially from the exterior (4) towards the interior (2).