Adjustable Ceiling Storage Frame With Removable Rack Sections
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing storage apparatuses attachable to surfaces, such as ceilings, often lack easy and efficient adjustability, making it cumbersome to fit them into specific locations and maximize storage capacity.
Innovation Solution
A storage apparatus with a polygonal support frame featuring adjustable support beams and cross beams, allowing for telescopic adjustments in length and width, along with removable rack segments and suspension legs for secure attachment to surfaces, enabling flexible configuration and increased storage capacity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If storage apparatus dimensions are made adjustable to fit particular locations and increase storage capacity, then adaptability and storage capacity are improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate due to difficult and cumbersome adjustment mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The storage apparatus is divided into modular components including adjustable support beams with multiple mounting locations, removable cross beams, and detachable rack segments. This segmentation allows independent adjustment of each component to achieve desired dimensions without requiring complex overall restructuring, thereby improving adaptability while maintaining ease of operation through simple modular reconfiguration
Solution Approach 2:
The support beams incorporate multiple predefined mounting locations that enable dynamic adjustment of the apparatus dimensions. Users can reposition mounting points along the beams to change the overall size and configuration of the storage system, allowing the structure to adapt to different spatial requirements while maintaining structural integrity through standardized mounting mechanisms
2Device complexity
If storage apparatus is designed with fixed dimensions for structural simplicity, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to fit particular locations and maximize storage capacity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The support beams are designed with multiple predefined mounting locations that serve universal adjustment purposes. The same beam structure can accommodate different mounting configurations to fit various location requirements, eliminating the need for multiple specialized beam types and maintaining structural simplicity while achieving high adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
The apparatus allows change of dimensional parameters through adjustment of support beam lengths and positions. By providing multiple mounting locations along each beam, the system can modify its overall dimensions to suit different spatial constraints while maintaining the same basic structural design, thus achieving adaptability without increasing fundamental complexity
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AI summary
A storage apparatus attachable to a surface includes a polygonal support frame having first, second, third, and fourth support beams, a plurality of cross beams, and a plurality of suspension legs. In one embodiment, the storage apparatus further includes racks supported on at least a portion of the support beams and defining a first series of racks aligned transverse to a longitudinal axis and a second series of racks aligned along the longitudinal axis with the first series of racks being removable during adjustment of the first and second support beams and the second series of racks being removable during adjustment of the third and fourth support beams.