Door Mount Bracket With Flanges For Plumb Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional door mounting systems in fitting rooms often result in bracket misalignment, leading to interference with the door jamb, potential cracking, bending, and complete door failure due to improper placement or spacing of hinges.
Innovation Solution
A door mount system featuring a hinge mount bar with an upper and lower flange, oriented substantially normal to an elongated member, ensuring precise and repeated plumb placement of the door, utilizing adjustable components to accommodate different door sizes and orientations, and incorporating a gravity pivot assembly for acute angle positioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional door mounting systems are used with separate brackets, then installation flexibility is improved, but manufacturing precision deteriorates due to bracket misalignment and improper placement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate mounting brackets into a single integrated bar structure that includes upper and lower flanges with precisely spaced hinge mounting surfaces. This merging eliminates the misalignment issues between separate brackets while maintaining installation flexibility through the bar's design features such as elongated mounting holes and adjustable components.
Solution Approach 2:
The bar is pre-manufactured with precisely positioned flanges and hinge mounting surfaces at correct spacing and orientations. This preliminary action of pre-positioning the mounting surfaces during manufacturing ensures that when the bar is installed, the hinges are automatically placed with high precision, eliminating the need for field adjustments and ensuring consistent alignment.
2Manufacturing precision
If fixed positioning components are used, then manufacturing precision is improved, but adaptability deteriorates due to inability to accommodate different door sizes and orientations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates adjustable components including elongated mounting holes that allow positional adjustment, and a gravity pivot assembly that enables the bar to be positioned at different orientations. These dynamic features allow the same bar structure to adapt to various door sizes and orientations while maintaining precise placement through controlled adjustment mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The bar design incorporates multiple flanges with hinge mounting surfaces spaced at different positions and orientations, making it suitable for various door configurations. The universal design allows a single bar type to serve multiple mounting scenarios including different door heights, widths, and swing orientations through selective use of the flange positions and adjustment mechanisms.
3Manufacturing precision
If precise placement mechanisms are implemented, then manufacturing precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bar is segmented into distinct flanges with hinge mounting surfaces, each flange being a separate functional element that can be independently positioned and adjusted. This segmentation allows for precise placement of each hinge location without requiring the entire system to be complex, as each segment contributes to the overall precision through its specific function.
Solution Approach 2:
The bar itself acts as an intermediary component that mediates between the wall mounting and the door hinge attachment. By incorporating the precision positioning features within the bar structure rather than requiring complex external positioning mechanisms, the system achieves high precision while keeping the overall device complexity manageable.
Data Source
AI summary
A door mount includes a jamb mounted to an end of a wall, a bracket, an upper hinge and a lower hinge. The bracket includes an upper flange that extends in a direction away from the jamb, an elongated member mounted to the jamb and a lower flange that extends in the direction away from the jamb and is spaced apart from the upper flange by the elongated member. The upper hinge couples the upper flange of the bracket to the door. The lower hinge couples the lower flange of the bracket to the door.