Wall Cupboard Hanging Bracket With Rear-Access Side Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing visible hanging brackets for wall cupboards are inaccessible for height and depth adjustments when cupboard doors hinge around a horizontal axis, making it difficult to regulate the assembly securely and efficiently, especially without a rear lining.
Innovation Solution
A visible hanging bracket with a structurally integrated mechanism comprising a rotating and translating hooking arm, controlled by separate mechanisms for height and depth adjustments, allowing easy access and secure fixing to the cupboard shoulder regardless of door articulation, using a combination of intercoupled half-shells and guiding components for rotation and translation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the cupboard door uses horizontal axis hinging, then the door can open vertically, but the articulation system prevents axial access to the regulation mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of accessing the regulation mechanisms from the front (axial direction), the patent provides access from the rear side of the device. The rear access panel allows the maneuvering tool to reach the regulation mechanisms from behind, reversing the conventional access direction to solve the blocking problem caused by horizontal hinging doors.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a rear access panel as an intermediary element that provides a new pathway to the regulation mechanisms. This panel acts as a mediator between the user and the mechanisms, allowing access without requiring axial approach from the front where the door articulation blocks the path.
2Ease of operation
If the regulation mechanisms are made accessible from the rear, then access is enabled for horizontal hinging doors, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The device body is segmented into accessible sections, with a specific rear access panel that can be opened or removed to reach the regulation mechanisms. This segmentation allows targeted access to only the necessary components without requiring disassembly of the entire device, thereby limiting the increase in structural complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the arm is made adjustable for height and depth regulation, then positioning flexibility is improved, but the mechanism complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The regulation mechanisms are extracted as separate, modular components that can be independently accessed and adjusted. By separating the height and depth regulation functions into distinct mechanisms accessible through the rear panel, the design achieves positioning flexibility while keeping each individual mechanism relatively simple and maintainable.
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AI summary
A visible device for the wall assembly of a structural component (69, 169) of a piece of furniture (M) of the type comprising: a movable arm (34, 134) for the hooking of said device to a support fixed to the wall, the position of said arm (34, 134) with respect to said wall being adjustable with respect to the height and depth by means of two different regulation mechanisms (36, 37; 136, 137) respectively, characterized in that said mechanisms (36, 37; 136, 137) are fully contained inside a box-shaped body (31, 131), from a front side of which a hook-shaped end (39, 139) of said arm (34, 134) protrudes, said box-shaped body (31, 131) being composed of two half-shells (32, 33; 132, 133) which are firmly intercoupled by fixing means (66, 70, 71, 174, 174', 175), on the side (80, 180) of said box-shaped body (31, 131), there also being respective access means (44, 64; 144, 164) to the side of said mechanisms (36, 37; 136, 137), and fixing means (70, 172) to said component (69, 169).