Apparatus for holding an artwork
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for packaging artwork for transportation and storage are often expensive, skill-dependent, and not easily adaptable to different artwork sizes, requiring custom-built containers and high expertise from specialist firms.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus featuring a fastening device with a T-bar locking mechanism and a securing device that allows for easy alignment and secure attachment of the artwork to a mounting panel, enabling high-quality packaging at lower costs and accommodating various artwork sizes, with reusable components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If custom-built containers are used for artwork packaging, then packaging quality and security are improved, but cost and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting panel is divided into multiple modular components including a back panel with recesses, L-shaped brackets, and separate fastening devices. Each component can be independently manufactured and assembled, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining packaging quality through precise modular integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting panel with its array of recesses and L-shaped brackets can accommodate artworks of various sizes and configurations. The same basic structure serves multiple functions: securing artworks, providing adjustment capabilities, and enabling reuse for different packaging needs, thereby reducing the need for custom-built containers.
2Reliability
If specialist firms assemble artwork packaging, then packaging quality is improved, but skill dependence and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting panel is pre-configured with recesses at specific locations and L-shaped brackets pre-positioned to align with artwork frame corners. Fastening devices are pre-assembled with resilient members and locking mechanisms. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for complex on-site assembly skills while ensuring consistent packaging quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The resilient members in the fastening devices automatically engage with the L-shaped brackets through spring-loaded or elastomeric mechanisms that self-lock into place. The T-nut and bolt assembly automatically secures itself through threaded engagement, reducing the need for skilled manual assembly operations.
3Ease of manufacture
If fixed-size containers are used, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but adaptability to different artwork sizes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting panel incorporates adjustable L-shaped brackets that can be repositioned along the panel edges, and fastening devices with resilient members that can accommodate variations in artwork thickness and frame dimensions. This dynamic adjustability allows a single container design to adapt to different artwork sizes while maintaining manufacturing simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows modification of mounting parameters such as bracket position, fastening depth, and resilient member compression to accommodate different artwork dimensions. The T-nut and bolt assembly can be adjusted to secure artworks of varying thicknesses, enabling a standardized container to handle diverse artwork sizes.
4Device complexity
If single-use packaging is used, then packaging simplicity is improved, but cost-effectiveness and sustainability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting panel, L-shaped brackets, and fastening devices are designed as durable reusable components that can be disassembled and recovered after each use. The resilient members can be reset, and the T-nut and bolt assembly can be reused, allowing the same packaging structure to serve multiple artworks over time, improving cost-effectiveness and sustainability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The apparatus provides a cost-effective, adaptable, and high-quality packaging solution for artworks of different sizes, reducing dependence on specialized skills and enabling efficient reuse, thus improving the efficiency and affordability of artwork transportation and storage.
Implementation Method 1
The engagement part preferably comprises a resiliently compressible member compression of which in a first axial direction provides said axial movement
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AI summary
Apparatus for use in holding an artwork during transportation and storage, the artwork comprising or being mounted within a frame (40) with a plurality of fastening devices (20) secured to the frame, each fastening device having an aperture in a part which protrudes from a side of the frame, the apparatus comprising a substantially flat mounting panel (50) provided with a plurality of retention members (51); and a plurality of securing devices (60) for securing the fastening devices to the mounting panel, each of the securing devices comprising an engagement part (63) for engaging the fastening device and a locking part (61) which is rotatable about an axis from a first angular position in which it can be located adjacent a respective retention member and a second angular position in which it engages with a respective retention member, whereby each securing device can be used to secure a respective fastening device to the mounting panel by aligning the aperture in the fastening device relative to a retention member of the mounting panel, inserting the locking part through the aperture in the fastening device to a position adjacent a retention member so that the engagement part of the securing device engages a surface of the fastening device about the aperture therein, and rotating the locking part from the first angular position to the second angular position so the locking part engages with and is retained by said retention member.