Adjustable Floor Panel Seating Bracket Guide
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for seating floor panels during building construction lack efficiency, accuracy, and safety, particularly in accommodating varying support structure configurations and sizes, leading to potential errors and increased installation time.
Innovation Solution
A bracket system comprising adjustable guide portions that can be mounted to support structures to guide floor panels into position, allowing for precise alignment and secure placement, with removable and reusable components to accommodate different sizes and configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional manual methods are used for seating floor panels, then flexibility in handling various configurations is maintained, but installation time increases and accuracy decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket system is divided into multiple segments including vertical segments, angled segments, and guide portions that can be independently positioned and adjusted. This segmentation allows the system to accommodate various support structure configurations while maintaining fast installation through modular assembly
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket system is designed with universal adaptability to work with different support structures including walls, rim boards, and joists of varying sizes and configurations. The adjustable components enable a single bracket system to serve multiple functions across different installation scenarios, improving productivity without proportionally increasing complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If fixed-size brackets are used, then manufacturing is simplified, but adaptability to different support structure sizes is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket incorporates adjustable and movable components that allow dynamic adaptation to different support structure sizes. The bracket can be reconfigured during installation to accommodate various wall plate, floor rim, or floor joist dimensions, providing versatility while using standardized manufacturing processes for the adjustable mechanisms
3Manufacturing precision
If no guide surfaces are provided, then the bracket structure is simpler, but alignment accuracy of floor panels deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket incorporates guide surfaces that act as intermediary elements between the support structure and the floor panel. These guide surfaces provide precise alignment and positioning for the floor panel during installation, ensuring accuracy while keeping the overall bracket structure relatively simple through targeted guidance features rather than complex mechanisms
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a floor panel seating assembly. The floor panel seating assembly can include adjustable, removable brackets or guides for guiding cross-members and joists of floor panels into their desired positions on a support structure. Also disclosed herein are embodiments of a method of seating a floor panel. The method can include providing one or more adjustable, removable bracket or guide, adjusting the guide(s) to accommodate the width of a wall of the support structure and/or the sizes of the cross-members or joists of the floor panel, mounting the guide(s) to the support structure, and lowering a floor panel into position on the support structure using the guide(s).