Modular Advertising Display Pole Mounting System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional marketing displays require ladders or lifts for elevation and are often static and rigid, making them impractical and potentially dangerous, especially in adverse conditions, and difficult to position on surfaces like metal poles.
Innovation Solution
A modular advertising system with interchangeable components that can be secured to various surfaces without a ladder, featuring modular brackets, angled brackets, flexible extension connectors, and band clamps, allowing for quick assembly and disassembly and adjustable positioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Weight of moving object
If traditional marketing displays are secured in elevated positions using simple supports or manual securing to existing structures, then the display can be positioned at desired elevations to maximize commercial impact, but a ladder or lift is required which makes the process impractical and potentially dangerous
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is divided into modular components including display holders, mounting brackets, and connection elements that can be assembled in segments. This allows the display to be built and positioned in manageable sections without requiring complete disassembly or complex lifting equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
A pole mounting system with specialized brackets and connectors serves as an intermediary mechanism between the display components and the support pole. This intermediary system enables secure attachment at elevated positions through friction-based and mechanical connection elements, eliminating the need for ladders or lifts.
2Reliability
If traditional displays are permanently affixed to metal structures using screws or similar means, then the display can be securely mounted, but the process is impracticable for metal structures such as stationary poles
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system incorporates flexible pole wraps and friction-based gripping elements that conform to the surface of metal poles. These flexible components create secure attachment through friction and mechanical interlocking without requiring penetration or permanent modification of the pole structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces traditional screw-based mechanical fastening with a friction-based wrapping mechanism. The pole wraps and mounting brackets utilize friction forces and geometric interlocking to achieve secure attachment, eliminating the need for drilling, screwing, or other invasive mounting methods on metal poles.
3Ease of operation
If non-permanent couplings are used to mount displays, then the display can be easily installed and removed, but the coupling loses its ability to support the display over time requiring additional tightening or maintenance
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system incorporates adjustable and adaptable connection elements that can be modified in the field. The friction-based wraps and mechanical connectors allow for tension adjustment and reconfiguration to maintain optimal support characteristics as conditions change over time, ensuring long-term reliability without permanent degradation.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a modular advertising system. One object of the current invention may be to provide a modular advertising system that may be secured to a pole or other external surface and elevated by a user to a desired height without the need of a ladder or lift. Another object of the current invention may also be to provide a quick-release assembly that may be used to quickly couple and de-couple the assembly from a pole or other external surface/structure. Another object of the current invention may be to provide a modular assembly that can be adaptable to a number of surfaces, such as a pole surface, ground surface or horizontal surface. An additional object of the current invention may be to provide a modular advertising display having interchangeable modular structures that may be configured to vary the position and number of advertising displays presented to consumers.