Adjustable Support Pedestal with Continuous Height and Integrity Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing support pedestals have limited height adjustment ranges, requiring multiple sizes and leaving gaps in achievable heights, and often lack sufficient structural integrity when threaded members are not fully engaged.
Innovation Solution
A support pedestal system with a base member, support member, and height adjusting member, featuring cylindrical threads and indexing elements, allowing for adjustable height without gaps and ensuring sufficient engagement for structural integrity through tactile feedback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If threaded members are rotatably engaged to adjust pedestal height, then height adjustability is improved, but structural integrity deteriorates when engagement depth is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates tactile feedback mechanisms through threaded engagement that provide audible or tactile cues when sufficient engagement depth is achieved. This feedback system ensures that users can determine when the threaded members are properly engaged to maintain structural integrity while achieving the desired height adjustment.
Solution Approach 2:
The design establishes minimum engagement depth requirements as a preliminary condition before the pedestal can function safely. By pre-defining the necessary thread engagement depth, the system ensures structural integrity is maintained while allowing height adjustment within safe parameters.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple different sized pedestals are used to accommodate surface variations, then adaptability to different conditions is improved, but device complexity and inventory requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms fixed-size pedestals into dynamically adjustable pedestals where the height can be changed by rotating threaded members. This dynamic adjustment capability allows a single pedestal design to replace multiple fixed-size pedestals, accommodating various surface conditions without increasing inventory complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The pedestal design incorporates universal adjustability features that allow one pedestal model to perform the function of multiple different sized pedestals. Through threaded height adjustment and optional extension members, a single pedestal can accommodate a wide range of height requirements and surface variations.
3Length of stationary object
If extension members are added to increase pedestal height, then maximum height is improved, but gaps in achievable heights worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs extension members that can be nested within or attached to the main pedestal structure. These extension members feature threaded engagement that integrates seamlessly with the primary height adjustment mechanism, allowing continuous height adjustment across the entire range from minimum to maximum height without creating gaps.
Solution Approach 2:
The design ensures continuous height adjustment capability by coordinating the threaded engagement of both the main pedestal members and extension members. This allows the height to be adjusted continuously from the minimum position through all intermediate values to the maximum extended position, eliminating gaps in the achievable height range.
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AI summary
A method and device for supporting a structure above a fixed surface. The device can include a support pedestal whose height is adjustable through a range of heights without a substantial gap in the obtainable heights.