Hidden Furniture Hanging Bracket With Top-Access Height and Depth Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hidden hanging brackets for furniture fail to ensure easy and safe assembly, stable fixation, accessible regulation mechanisms, and ease of manufacturing and assembly, particularly when the seat is not perfectly complementary and when integrated with complex door articulation systems.
Innovation Solution
A shoulder-centre hanging bracket with a rotatable and translatable hooking arm, controlled by distinct mechanisms for height and depth regulation, featuring intercoupled half-shells, perforated branches, and integrated gear systems accessible from above, allowing secure attachment to a wall support and easy manipulation despite non-complementary seats and complex door articulations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the hanging bracket is wedge-inserted inside the shoulder of a piece of furniture with a non-perfectly complementary seat, then the assembly becomes easier and safer, but the regulation mechanisms become less accessible and harder to manoeuvre from the outside
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third dimension for access by providing a vertical access path from the top of the furniture piece. The T-shaped opening in the upper panel allows insertion of a maneuvering tool from above, perpendicular to the front face, thereby accessing the regulation mechanisms without requiring lateral access that would be blocked by the wedge-insertion configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a T-shaped opening in the upper panel as an intermediary access path. This opening serves as a mediator that allows the maneuvering tool to reach the regulation mechanisms from the top of the furniture piece, bypassing the need for direct lateral access that would be obstructed by the wedge-insertion of the hanging bracket.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the hanging bracket is securely fixed inside the shoulder, then the stability and safety of the assembly is ensured, but the regulation mechanisms become less accessible from the outside
Solution Approach 1:
The patent provides a vertical access path from the top of the furniture piece through a T-shaped opening in the upper panel. This allows the maneuvering tool to reach the regulation mechanisms from above, perpendicular to the front face, without compromising the lateral secure fixation of the hanging bracket in the shoulder.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the access path from the fixation function. The upper panel with its T-shaped opening is separated as a distinct access element, allowing independent access to the regulation mechanisms without interfering with the wedge-insertion and secure fixation of the hanging bracket body in the shoulder.
3Ease of operation
If the regulation mechanisms are made easily accessible from the outside, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The T-shaped opening in the upper panel serves multiple functions: it provides structural support as part of the upper panel assembly, enables access to the regulation mechanisms from the top, and allows passage of the maneuvering tool. This multi-functionality avoids adding dedicated access structures that would increase complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the access function with the existing upper panel structure. The T-shaped opening is integrated into the upper panel rather than being a separate access component, thereby providing easy access to the regulation mechanisms without adding independent complex access structures.
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AI summary
A hidden shoulder-centre hanging bracket (20) for the wall (P) assembly of a structural component (21) of a piece of furniture (M) of the type comprising a movable arm (25) for hooking said device (20) to a support (18) fixed to the wall (P), the position of said arm (25) with respect to said wall (P) being adjustable in height and depth, respectively, by means of two separate regulation mechanisms (27,28). According to the invention, the regulation mechanisms (27,28) are completely contained inside a box-shaped body (22), said body (22) being produced in two half-shells (23,24) which, in correspondence with said front side, comprise fixing means of the device (20) inside a seat (65,66) of said component (21) of the piece of furniture (M).