Foldable Pole Bracket With Integrated Flaps for Clean Display Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fastening mechanisms for attaching display items to elongated poles or anchoring poles to support structures are inefficient, costly, and aesthetically unappealing, often requiring additional components and leading to attachment failures.
Innovation Solution
A bracket apparatus with integrated securing flaps that allow for secure attachment of display items to poles or support structures without additional fastening mechanisms, utilizing foldable attachment flaps and interlocking fasteners for pole retention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional fastening mechanisms (adhesive, staples, tapes) are used to attach display items to poles, then the attachment can be achieved, but the attachment reliability is poor and additional components are required
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket integrates multiple functions into a single unit: the pole retention channel, display item mounting surface, and support structure anchoring features are combined in one piece. This eliminates the need for separate fastening mechanisms like adhesives, staples, or tapes, directly resolving the contradiction between attachment reliability and device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket is designed as a multi-functional component that can attach to poles, mount display items, and anchor to support structures simultaneously. This universal design allows a single component to perform multiple attachment functions, reducing the total number of parts while improving overall attachment reliability
2Ease of manufacture
If staples are used to fasten display items to poles, then the attachment can be achieved, but the aesthetic appearance is compromised due to visible staples
Solution Approach 1:
The visible fastening elements (staples, tapes, adhesives) are extracted and replaced by the bracket's internal pole retention channel system. The attachment mechanism is hidden within the bracket structure itself, allowing easy attachment while maintaining clean aesthetic appearance without visible fasteners on the display item
3Reliability
If penetration of support structure is used to anchor pole, then the anchoring can be achieved, but it is undesirable or infeasible in many cases
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket serves as an intermediary component between the pole and the support structure. Instead of penetrating the support structure directly, the bracket anchors to the support structure through its mounting surface and provides pole retention through the integrated channel system. This mediator approach enables reliable anchoring without penetration, making it adaptable to windows, walls, and other diverse support structures
Data Source
AI summary
A bracket apparatus for pole retention and item display to a pole or anchoring a pole to a support structure includes a support panel and at least one pole attachment. The pole attachment includes a top attachment flap and a bottom attachment flap and is foldably integrated to the support panel. The top attachment flap and the bottom attachment flap each includes a main body, a distal edge, a connector edge, and at least one pole-retaining channel. The pole-retaining channel traverses through the main body as the main body of top attachment flap and the bottom attachment flap are foldably connected to the support panel via the connector edge. The connector edges of the top attachment flap and the bottom attachment flap are linearly offset from each other thus allowing both flaps to be folded towards each other. An elongated pole can then be inserted through the pole-retaining channels.