Channel Profile Wall Bracket With Dual Support Against Deformation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wall mounting brackets for elongate channel profiles often require a U-shaped support with legs wider than the profile, leading to deformation when fastened, causing misalignment of attached components.
Innovation Solution
A wall mounting bracket with dual support profiles, one bearing against the outer side and the other against the inner side of the channel profile, ensuring even force distribution and preventing deformation, allowing easy installation regardless of profile width.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a U-shaped support profile is used to receive the channel profile, then the channel profile can be easily inserted between the legs, but the lateral walls of the channel profile deform and spread when fastened
Solution Approach 1:
The single U-shaped support is segmented into two separate support profiles. The first support profile engages the exterior side of one opposing wall, while the second support profile engages the interior side of the other opposing wall. This segmentation allows independent positioning of each support, preventing the spreading deformation that occurs with a single U-shaped support while maintaining ease of insertion.
2Ease of operation
If the distance between the legs of the U-shaped profile is made larger than the outer width of the rail profile, then the rail profile can be easily inserted, but the lateral walls deform when fastened
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of having both supports engage the exterior of the channel profile (which causes outward spreading), the invention has one support (the second support profile) engage the interior side of the opposing wall. This inverted engagement direction creates inward-pulling forces that counteract the outward spreading tendency, maintaining shape stability while allowing easy insertion.
3Device complexity
If a single support profile is used on the exterior of the channel profile, then the structure is simple, but the opposing walls are pulled in opposite directions causing distortion
Solution Approach 1:
The invention transitions from a single-plane (exterior-only) support configuration to a multi-dimensional configuration where supports engage both the exterior and interior sides of the channel profile walls. This dimensional change allows the support forces to act in coordinated directions, pulling opposing walls toward each other rather than in opposite directions, thereby maintaining profile alignment while adding minimal structural complexity.
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AI summary
A wall mounting bracket for mounting a channel profile element to a wall surface includes a wall plate to be mounted to the wall surface, and at least one support for supporting an end portion of the channel profile element. The support is attached to and extends from the wall plate. The support includes at least one wall portion having fastening apertures. The support includes at least a first support profile and a second support profile. In use the first support profile bears against an exterior side of one of the opposing walls of the channel profile element and the second support profile bears against an interior side of the other one of the opposing walls of the channel profile element.