Foldable Tilt-Back Display Stand for Fast Setup and Compact Shipping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing merchandise display stands are cumbersome to assemble, often requiring time-consuming setup and inefficient in space usage during transportation due to separate components, and lack secure mounting of merchandise cases.
Innovation Solution
A foldable and self-erectable display stand design with securely mounted merchandise containers, allowing for pre-assembly and efficient space utilization, featuring a collapsible structure with elastic tension for easy assembly and disassembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If display stands are pre-assembled as integral units, then merchandise cases can be securely mounted, but transportation space efficiency decreases due to separate components occupying space
Solution Approach 1:
The display stand is divided into separate components (support stand and merchandise case) that can be transported independently and assembled at the destination. The support stand includes a base unit and vertical panels that can be separated for compact storage and transport, then reassembled to provide secure mounting positions for merchandise cases.
Solution Approach 2:
The support stand incorporates foldable vertical panels and adjustable mounting mechanisms that allow the structure to adapt between a compact folded state for transportation and an expanded assembled state for secure merchandise display. The dynamic structure enables the same components to serve dual purposes: efficient storage and secure mounting.
2Volume of moving object
If display stands are assembled on-site, then transportation space is utilized efficiently with separate components, but assembly time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The support stand components are pre-designed with integrated connection features and pre-positioned mounting points that simplify on-site assembly. The base unit and vertical panels include built-in alignment guides and snap-fit connections that enable rapid assembly without requiring complex tools or procedures, reducing assembly time while maintaining component separability for efficient transportation.
3Ease of operation
If display stands use simple pedestal structures, then assembly is quick and easy, but merchandise cases are not securely mounted and can easily separate
Solution Approach 1:
The support stand introduces intermediate mounting structures including vertical panels with integrated slots and adjustable clamps that act as mediators between the base unit and merchandise cases. These intermediate components provide secure attachment points while maintaining the overall simplicity of the pedestal structure, enabling reliable merchandise mounting without compromising assembly ease.
Data Source
AI summary
A tilt back merchandise display stand has a front panel tilted at the top rearwardly to its rear panel. The stand has two triangular side panel foldable inwardly along two vertical middle fold lines. A horizontal fold line formed at the middle position of the stand so that the stand may be folded into a collapsed condition. A single large rectangular merchandise display shelving or two separate merchandise display shelving may be mounted to the front panel with S-shaped hooks mounted to open mounting slots formed at the top edge and at the horizontal fold line of the front panel. A plurality of separate merchandise display trays with upper L-shaped tabs may also be mounted to the front panel with a plurality of vertical mounting slots formed along its side edges. The display stand is self-erectable with the provision of an elastic cord mounted between a brace panel and the rear panel within the stand.