Modular Balcony Table Frame With Universal Mounts and Levelers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Furniture available for small balconies, terraces, and irregularly shaped areas often compromises on aesthetics, functionality, ease of assembly, cost, or suitability, lacking customization options.
Innovation Solution
A customizable table line with a top frame in various geometric shapes, adaptable to different materials and patterns, featuring an under-mount cross-member coupling system with curved legs, hub-type leg couplers, and rotatable leg levelers for stability on uneven surfaces, allowing for easy assembly and disassembly with minimal tools.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If furniture offers extensive customization options, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the furniture into standardized modular components with consistent connection interfaces, the system achieves customization without proportionally increasing complexity. Each module remains simple in design while the combination of modules provides extensive customization possibilities, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The furniture system allows customization through parameter adjustments such as leg lengths, top dimensions, and configuration arrangements rather than requiring fundamentally different component designs. This approach enables extensive customization options while maintaining relatively simple base component designs, reducing overall device complexity
2Ease of operation
If furniture is designed for easy assembly and disassembly, then ease of operation is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The furniture is designed as segmented modular components with standardized connection interfaces that require minimal precision for assembly. The modular nature allows for tolerance accumulation to be managed at each connection point rather than requiring high precision across the entire structure, enabling easy assembly while maintaining reasonable manufacturing precision requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The connection mechanisms are designed to be self-aligning and self-locating, reducing the need for precision adjustment during assembly. Features such as tapered fits, keyed connections, and gravity-assisted alignment allow users to assemble the furniture easily without requiring precision tools or skills, while the manufacturing precision requirements remain manageable through standardized component design
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AI summary
A furniture line featuring a table which is customizable and suited for confined and irregular spaces such as balconies, decks or outdoors which line can be easily assembled or disassembled essentially by hand and available affordably with a variety of selectable tops, shapes and applications. The table features a skeletal frame arrangement with universal top mounts, selectable curved tubular or rod like legs, at least one and preferably two hub couplers or tubular leg and pedestal base, and optional rotatable or slide on levelers for uneven surfaces. A method and system disclosed provides purchaser customization of the table and complementary ensembles.