Brickmould Projections for Precise Frame Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mouldings for covering spaces between frames and walls often result in nonuniform reveals due to misalignment, are aesthetically displeasing, and require time-consuming alignment processes, while large bundles increase shipping and storage costs.

Innovation Solution

Mouldings with projections and recesses that facilitate precise alignment by abutting frames and walls, allowing for efficient packaging in nested configurations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If mouldings are packaged in large bundles, then shipping and storage costs increase, but the space required to store the bundles becomes excessively large

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebundle sizeVSAvoidstorage space

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSVolume of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies nesting by designing mouldings with complementary projections and recesses that allow one moulding to fit inside another. This nested configuration enables multiple mouldings to be packaged in a compact, space-efficient manner, significantly reducing the storage volume required compared to traditional bundled packaging while maintaining the quantity of mouldings available.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Manufacturing precision

If mouldings are positioned without proper alignment features, then installation becomes time-consuming and measurement errors occur, but uniform reveals cannot be achieved

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvealignment precisionVSAvoidinstallation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-forming alignment features (projections and recesses) on the mouldings during manufacturing. These features are prepared in advance to guide proper positioning during installation, eliminating the need for time-consuming measurements and calculations on-site while ensuring precise alignment and uniform reveals are achieved automatically.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses projections and recesses as intermediary elements that mediate between the moulding and the frame. These alignment features act as intermediaries to transfer and ensure precise positional relationships, allowing installers to achieve accurate alignment simply by fitting the projections into the recesses without requiring complex measurement procedures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Shape

If mouldings have curved or nonuniform profiles, then aesthetic appearance improves, but gaps between adjacent mouldings increase and packaging costs rise

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprofile complexityVSAvoidpackaging requirements

Core Design Contradiction:

ShapeVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent resolves this contradiction by designing the nested configuration to accommodate curved and nonuniform profiles effectively. The complementary projections and recesses are shaped to match the curved profiles, allowing mouldings with aesthetically pleasing curves to nest together without creating gaps, thus maintaining both aesthetic quality and packaging efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS20250290327A1mouldings

Publication Date: 2025.09.18 STEVES & SONS

AI summary

This disclosure is directed to a moulding including a locator (e.g., a projection). The locator can assist in positioning the moulding relative to a frame, for example, a door or window frame, during installation of the moulding. Additionally, the moulding can include a recess that can receive a locator (e.g., projection) of an adjacent moulding to allow multiple mouldings to be packaged in a space-saving manner. The moulding can be a brickmould.