Clip Seal Ground Stake for Holiday Lights
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions for affixing holiday lights in the ground fail to maintain straight alignment, secure attachment, and prevent water penetration, often leading to misalignment, damage, and increased installation costs over time.
Innovation Solution
A clip and seal ground stake system comprising a plastic ring-shaped device with a sealing ring that integrates with the bulb and bulb base, providing a moisture seal and easy installation, while a long plastic stake is inserted into the ground to hold the bulb base and bulb above the ground, ensuring stability and protection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing ground stake solutions are used to affix holiday lights, then the lights can be installed in the ground, but they become misaligned or fall off over time and require frequent reinstallation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the ground stake, mounting bracket, and electrical connection components into an integrated single-unit device. The stake includes an integrated mounting bracket that simultaneously secures the light string and provides electrical connectivity, eliminating the need for separate attachment mechanisms and reducing reinstallation requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting bracket is pre-configured with attachment features and electrical connections before installation. The device is prepared in advance with all necessary components positioned and secured, allowing for quick insertion into the ground without requiring subsequent adjustments or reattachments during the holiday season.
2Stability of the object's composition
If existing mounting devices are used to keep lights straight, then installation is attempted, but they fail to stay straight over the Holiday season
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket is divided into functional segments including a light string retention portion and an electrical connection portion. This segmentation allows each component to independently perform its function while maintaining overall stability, with the retention portion specifically designed to keep lights straight throughout the season.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting bracket features localized structural characteristics optimized for specific functions: a rigid structure for maintaining alignment, flexible elements for electrical connection, and weather-resistant materials for outdoor durability. These local quality variations ensure the bracket remains stable and functional throughout the holiday season.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If existing stakes are used for ground installation, then lights can be mounted, but they provide no protection against water penetration to the bulb and bulb base connection
Solution Approach 1:
The electrical connection portion of the stake incorporates flexible, weather-resistant materials that form protective barriers around the bulb base connection. These flexible elements conform to the connection components and provide moisture protection while maintaining electrical conductivity and connection integrity.
4Strength
If existing attachment methods are used to secure the base to the stake, then mounting is achieved, but they put too much force on the electric wires at the bulb base, causing separation
Solution Approach 1:
The electrical connection functionality is extracted as a separate integrated component within the stake structure. The mounting bracket and electrical connection are designed as distinct but integrated elements, allowing the mounting function to provide strength without concentrating excessive force on the electrical wires, thus preventing wire stress and connection separation.
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AI summary
A device for mounting a light bulb and bulb base to a ground stake having a mounting ring for attaching a bulb and a bulb base to the ground stake. A sealing ring is disposed in the mounting ring having the bulb received in an upper end of the sealing ring and the bulb base secured to the lower end of the sealing ring whereby the sealing ring restricts moisture from flowing around the bulb and into the bulb base when the bulb is screwed into the sealing ring.