Bracket for mounting lights
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for installing GOVEE® light strings under eaves, such as using VHB tape and surrounding clips, face issues like tape failure, damage to surfaces, difficulty in removal or replacement, and complexity in installation, especially when eaves are absent.
Innovation Solution
The development of brackets with a horizontal surrounding body and vertical mounting base, featuring a light-supporting aperture and string slots, allows for secure and easy installation of lights without adhesives, enabling horizontal orientation and easy removal or replacement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If VHB tape is used to mount light strings under eaves, then the lights can be easily installed, but the tape may fail and cause lights to fall, and may damage surfaces when removing
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system is divided into separate components: a VHB tape base mounted to the surface and separate string clips that attach to the light string. This segmentation allows the tape to provide reliable surface attachment while the clips provide secure light string retention, with each component optimized for its specific function.
Solution Approach 2:
String clips serve as an intermediary element between the VHB tape base and the light string. The clips are mounted to the tape base and then engage with the light string, providing a mechanical connection that is more reliable than tape alone and causes less surface damage than direct screw mounting.
2Reliability
If surrounding clips are used to secure lights under eaves, then the lights are securely mounted, but the installation becomes complex and difficult to remove or replace
Solution Approach 1:
The system separates the mounting function (VHB tape base) from the light string retention function (string clips). The simple base requires only adhesive application, while the clips simply snap onto the string, making the overall system easier to install and remove than traditional surrounding clips that require sandwiching lights between eaves and clip.
Solution Approach 2:
The string clips are designed to be removable and repositionable, allowing users to easily take down lights for storage or replacement. The clips can be detached from the base and reattached to new positions on the light string, providing flexibility that fixed surrounding clips lack.
3Reliability
If traditional surrounding clips are used, then lights are secured under eaves, but the method requires sandwiching lights between eaves and clip, creating installation difficulty
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of sandwiching the light string between the eaves and the clip (traditional method), the system inverts the approach by mounting the clip mechanism to the eaves surface with VHB tape, allowing the light string to be attached to the clip from the outside. This eliminates the need to maneuver lights into tight spaces and simplifies installation.
Solution Approach 2:
The string clip acts as an intermediary that provides a secure attachment point for the light string without requiring direct contact between the light and the eaves structure. The clip mediates the connection, making installation easier while maintaining secure mounting.
Data Source
AI summary
A bracket for mounting a light includes a horizontal surrounding body and an associated vertical mounting base. The surrounding body has a light-supporting aperture defined therein. A string slot is defined in the surrounding body on opposite sides of the light-supporting aperture. The surrounding body is associated with the mounting base such that sides of the mounting base extend beyond sides of the surrounding body.