Decorative Container Stabilizing Floor Lamp Base Stand
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing plant receptacles for freestanding devices like floor lamps fail to simultaneously stabilize, aesthetically harmonize, and decorate, often requiring multiple units that clutter space and are not adaptable to various fixtures, while also lacking sufficient stability against accidental bumps.
Innovation Solution
A container design that surrounds the pole and base stand of freestanding fixtures with a sidewall and base panel, allowing for easy assembly and disassembly, accommodating various shapes and configurations, and providing stability and decoration without using screws, nails, or brackets, and can be adapted for multiple fixtures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple conventional planters are placed around the base stand to create contact buffer and visual alternative, then aesthetic compatibility and stability are improved, but floor space is cluttered and trip hazards are created
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions (contact buffer, visual alternative, and planter) into a single integrated container that surrounds the base stand. This eliminates the need for multiple separate planters while achieving the same stability and aesthetic effects, thereby reducing floor space clutter and trip hazards.
Solution Approach 2:
The container serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a contact buffer to prevent accidental bumps, provides visual appeal through plant containment, and stabilizes the base stand. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by achieving stability without requiring additional separate elements that would clutter floor space.
2Reliability
If fixture-specific planters are used for different freestanding fixtures, then each fixture is stabilized and decorated, but aesthetic disharmony occurs in the room
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs a universal container with a generally cylindrical shape that can accommodate various types of freestanding fixtures (floor lamps, patio umbrellas, coat stands) regardless of their specific pole dimensions. This universality ensures aesthetic harmony across different fixtures while maintaining stability for each individual fixture.
Solution Approach 2:
The container incorporates adjustable parameters such as varying diameters at different heights and configurable opening orientations to adapt to different fixture types. These parameter changes allow the same container design to provide both stability and aesthetic harmony across diverse fixtures without requiring fixture-specific designs.
3Ease of operation
If conventional planters are used without integration to base stand, then assembly is simple, but sufficient stability against accidental bumps is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the container with the base stand through direct engagement features (such as the container surrounding and engaging the pole). This integration achieves sufficient stability against accidental bumps while maintaining ease of assembly, as the engagement features are designed to be simple and tool-free.
Solution Approach 2:
The container acts as a flexible stabilizing structure that surrounds the base stand pole, providing stability through its enveloping configuration rather than rigid attachment. This approach achieves stability while maintaining ease of assembly and disassembly.
Data Source
AI summary
A container for substantially surrounding a pole and a base stand of a device such as a floor lamp is disclosed. The container includes a sidewall integrally attached to a base panel to form a ballast volume and a fixture void extending into the ballast void. The container can take on a variety of shapes and can be split into two sections comprising an upper planter section and a lower reservoir section. The upper planter section includes a ballast volume and a pole void and can include a plurality of drain ports with or without attached protruding hollow legs. The lower reservoir section includes a ballast volume, a watering port, and a base stand void extending into the ballast volume. A wedge section can be provided to partially close off the fixture void to define the aperture in which a freestanding device such as a floor lamp is housed.