Tire Casing Storage with Movable Roller and Segmented End Stop
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
The high cost of mechanisms at the extremities of storage channels for vehicle tire casings, which are necessary for supporting and removing casings of varying dimensions, poses a challenge in efficient and cost-effective storage and handling.
Innovation Solution
A store with rectilinear end stops and a conveyor system featuring a movable roller that lifts casings to a height greater than the end stop, allowing for efficient transfer and reducing the need for expensive mechanisms at each channel, while the roller's vertical mobility and parallelogram mounting facilitate easy and damage-free handling of casings of different dimensions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If expensive mechanisms are installed at the extremities of each storage channel for supporting and removing casings, then the handling of casings of varying dimensions is reliable, but the storage cost increases substantially
Solution Approach 1:
The conveyor platform is designed with a movable roller that can serve multiple channels sequentially. The roller is mounted on a carriage that can move horizontally to position over different channels and vertically to lift casings. This single multi-functional device replaces what would traditionally require separate mechanisms at each channel extremity, reducing overall system complexity and cost while maintaining reliable handling capability.
2Reliability
If a fixed lifting mechanism is used at each channel, then the casing removal is reliable, but the energy consumption increases due to difficult manoeuvring
Solution Approach 1:
The roller mounting is designed to be movable both horizontally (via the carriage moving along the rail) and vertically (via the lifting mechanism). This dynamic positioning capability allows the roller to approach casings from the optimal position, lift them efficiently, and transfer them to the conveyor without requiring energy-intensive manoeuvring of fixed heavy mechanisms. The mobility reduces the force required for each lifting operation.
3Device complexity
If the end stop is interrupted in the middle portion, then the structure is simpler, but the casing becomes trapped during storage or removal
Solution Approach 1:
The end stop is designed as an interrupted structure with a gap in the middle portion, rather than a continuous barrier. This segmentation allows the movable roller to pass through the gap to access and lift casings from the channel. The interrupted design maintains the primary function of stopping casings while creating a passage for the lifting mechanism, avoiding the need for a complex continuous end stop with openings.
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
This solution reduces storage costs by eliminating the need for specific mechanisms at each channel, facilitates easy removal of casings, and allows for the handling of casings of various dimensions without risking damage, while maintaining stability and precision in guiding the roller.
Implementation Method 1
a movable roller (46) which makes it possible to lift a casing (4) present in the channel (12) to a height greater than that of the end stop (22)
Implementation Method 2
The casing is then displaced by gravity along the channel until it abuts against an end stop of an exit extremity of the channel or against the casings that have already accumulated there
Data Source
AI summary
Storing vehicle tire casings (4) by providing at least two channels (12) for storing casings, each one having an end stop (22), and a casing conveyor, capable of coming into alignment with any of the channels and containing a platform (32) that can receive a casing. A casing located in the channel is lifted until it is higher than the end stop. The lifting is done by a roller (46), which is mounted in such a way that it can move in the vertical direction in relation to the platform.