Crown-Type Hanger Sizer With Snap-Lock Bosses for Angled Hooks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current crown-type sizers for hangers are easily detachable, leading to risks of product exchange and ingestion, especially when applied to plastic hangers with angled hooks, as they are not securely fixed and can be mistaken for candy due to their size and color.
Innovation Solution
A crown-type sizer with a peripheral wall structure featuring trapezium-shaped longitudinal and rectangle-shaped transverse sides, including protrusion bosses that engage with the hanger's groove and protrusion, providing a snap-in locking mechanism to securely attach to the hanger, even when the hook extends at an angle other than 90 degrees, preventing easy removal and ensuring stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the crown-type sizer is made easily detachable from the hanger, then it can be removed and reapplied for different garment sizes, but it becomes vulnerable to theft, product exchange, and ingestion risks
Solution Approach 1:
The sizer is pre-assembled in an integral manner with the hanger during the manufacturing process, creating a secure initial attachment that prevents easy removal. This preliminary action ensures the sizer is firmly fixed before use, eliminating security risks while maintaining the ability to reuse hangers for different sizes through proper design.
2Reliability
If the crown-type sizer is assembled in an integral manner to prevent removal, then security is improved, but the hanger's integrity is compromised and re-use for different sized garments becomes impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The sizer is designed as a separate component that can be securely attached to the hanger without becoming an integral part of it. The attachment mechanism allows the sizer to be firmly fixed for security while maintaining the hanger's structural integrity, enabling the hanger to be reused for different garment sizes by removing and reapplying the sizer.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the sizer is designed to fit hangers with hooks at angles other than 90 degrees, then adaptability to plastic hangers is improved, but the attachment mechanism becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The sizer's attachment mechanism is designed with asymmetric features that accommodate hooks at various angles, including non-90 degree angles. The attachment structure includes elements that can adapt to different orientations, allowing secure fitting on plastic hangers with angled hooks without requiring a complex adjustable mechanism.
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AI summary
A crown-type sizer for mounting on a hanger includes a body and a hook extending from a mid-point of the body. The sizer includes a pair of parallel walls and a pair of non-parallel walls, each wall of the non-parallel walls being joined to each wall of the parallel walls, the pairs of walls defining a lower open base and an open base in an upper part of the sizer for passing over the hook. Each of the parallel walls has a single boss disposed in a corner of the respective parallel wall and each non-parallel wall is shorter in height than at least one parallel wall.