Golf Cart Rack with Basket and Bag Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golf carts face challenges in simultaneously carrying golf club bags and other equipment while also accommodating portable air conditioning units or ice chests, as existing solutions disrupt the primary function of transporting occupants and golf bags efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A unique rack apparatus is designed to securely mount cargo such as portable air conditioning units or ice chests on a golf cart, maintaining the cart's ability to carry golf bags by utilizing a basket with braces and fastening mechanisms that attach to the cart's existing bag bar and bed, ensuring stability and compatibility with the cart's primary function.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a portable air conditioning unit or ice chest is mounted on the golf cart bed, then additional cargo storage is provided, but the cart's ability to carry golf bags is disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The rack apparatus is divided into separate functional components: a basket for cargo storage and bag supports for golf bag accommodation. This segmentation allows the cart bed to simultaneously hold both cargo and golf bags without interference, resolving the contradiction between cargo storage capacity and adaptability to carry golf bags.
Solution Approach 2:
The rack apparatus utilizes vertical space by elevating the basket above the cart bed using uprights, and positions bag supports at different heights and locations. This dimensional arrangement allows cargo and golf bags to coexist in different spatial zones, maintaining both cargo storage capacity and golf bag carrying ability.
2Reliability
If cargo is secured on the golf cart bed, then cargo stability during movement is improved, but the cart's primary transportation function is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The rack apparatus serves multiple functions simultaneously: it secures cargo through the basket while maintaining golf bag transportation capability through integrated bag supports. This multi-functionality ensures cargo stability during movement without compromising the cart's primary transportation efficiency.
3Quantity of substance
If existing mounting solutions are used, then cargo can be transported, but the cart's main function of carrying golf bags and equipment is interrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The rack apparatus merges cargo storage and golf bag support functions into a single integrated structure. The basket, bag supports, uprights, and cross members work together as one system, allowing cargo transport while maintaining ease of operation for golf bag carrying without requiring separate mounting solutions.
Data Source
AI summary
The improved rack of the present invention has a basket for holding a cargo that is anticipated to be an ice chest or ice cooler, but is not limited to those items. The rack is shaped to be complimentary and attached to a bag bar of a golf cart or other cart. It is anticipated that the basket front can be shaped to fit against a number of different shapes of bag bars found in multiple styles, brands, makes, models, and years of cart. It can be attached by a strap and clamp in some embodiment, and by fasteners on others. The rack also has a bag support is attached to the rear of the basket for attaching golf bags to when the rack is installed in a cart. A bag platform is positioned below the bag support for the golf bags to rest on.