Wheel-Blocking Guide Carriage Layout for Rear Beam Clearance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing guide and carriage systems for blocking truck wheels on loading and unloading platforms are inefficient in terms of compatibility and load distribution, leading to potential conflicts with truck rear beams and inadequate rainwater drainage.
Innovation Solution
The guide and carriage system features interlocking U-section housing parts with adapted shapes and sliding strips, allowing the carriage to fit snugly within the guide, with rolls that move along tracks and a spring-loaded axle system for optimal load distribution and easy unlocking, while ensuring compatibility with low-positioned truck bodywork and aerodynamic covers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If the guide and carriage system uses a conventional enclosed design, then the structural stability is improved, but the compatibility with low-positioned truck bodywork and aerodynamic covers deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The guide housing is divided into two separate housing parts (first and second housing parts) that can be positioned at different heights. This segmentation allows the system to accommodate both low-positioned truck bodywork and maintain structural stability, resolving the contradiction between stability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a vertical dimension differentiation by positioning housing parts at different heights. The first housing part is positioned at a first height and the second at a second height, creating a multi-level structure that accommodates varying truck configurations while maintaining overall system stability.
2Force
If the carriage housing parts are enclosed by guide housing parts, then the load distribution is improved, but the risk of conflict with truck rear beams increases
Solution Approach 1:
The carriage is designed to be movable along the guide, allowing dynamic adjustment of its position. This mobility enables the carriage to adapt to different truck positions and avoid conflicts with rear beams while maintaining proper load distribution through the guide structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The separation of carriage and guide as distinct components allows the carriage to move independently along the guide. This segmentation provides the flexibility needed to avoid conflicts with truck rear beams while the guide maintains the load distribution function.
3Productivity
If the carriage fits snugly within the guide housing parts, then the movement efficiency is improved, but the rainwater drainage capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The guide housing is segmented into multiple parts positioned at different heights, creating spaces between them. These spaces allow rainwater to drain through while the carriage maintains efficient movement contact with the guide surfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
By positioning housing parts at different vertical heights, the patent creates vertical drainage pathways that allow rainwater to pass through the structure. This dimensional arrangement enables both snug carriage fitting for efficient movement and adequate drainage capability.
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 design enhances load distribution and reduces the risk of conflicts with truck rear beams, ensures efficient movement and locking of the carriage, and allows for effective rainwater drainage, meeting safety and environmental regulations.
Implementation Method 1
the carriage is provided with one or more rolls, and by means of which the carriage is movable over the guide
Implementation Method 2
a spring-loaded axle system for optimal load distribution
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AI summary
Guide (6) extending from a road side to a façade side, and a carriage (10) provided with a locking arm (9) with rolls (11) or such like, by means of which the carriage (10) is movable along one or more tracks provided on the guide (6), for application with a device for the blocking of the wheel of a truck on a lane in front of a loading and unloading platform, characterized in that the carriage (10), as seen from the roadside towards the façade side, comprises a left carriage housing part (12) and a right carriage housing part (13), and whereby the guide (6), as seen from the road side towards the façade side comprises a left guide housing part (14) and a right guide housing part (15), and whereby the left carriage housing part (12) at least partly is taken up within the left guide housing part (14) or is enclosed thereby and/or whereby the right carriage housing part (13) at least partly is taken up within the right guide housing part (15) or is enclosed thereby.