Modular Conveyor Plate for Baggage Carousel Advertising
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional baggage carousel advertising systems are labor-intensive and time-consuming to deploy and maintain, often underutilizing the available 'rail-to-rail' advertising space and requiring significant effort to change content.
Innovation Solution
A content displaying conveyor system with modular, releasably coupled conveyor plates that allow for easy installation and removal of advertising content without altering the existing conveyor system infrastructure, utilizing apertures and screws for secure coupling and featuring a design that maximizes viewable space for continuous content display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If conventional baggage carousel advertising systems use recessed cavities in base plates, then advertising content can be displayed, but the viewable advertising space is reduced and less than full rail-to-rail space is utilized
Solution Approach 1:
The advertising display system is segmented into separate modular components: upper plates that can be independently installed and removed from the base plates. This allows the advertising content to be displayed on the full surface area without requiring recessed cavities in the base plates, thereby maximizing the viewable advertising space while maintaining the structural integrity of the conveyor system.
Solution Approach 2:
The advertising display moves from a two-dimensional recessed cavity approach to a three-dimensional overlay approach using upper plates that sit on top of the base plates. This dimensional change allows full utilization of the rail-to-rail space while keeping the base plate structure simple and unchanged.
2Area of stationary object
If adhesive coating with advertising content is wrapped around base plates, then content can be displayed, but content changes become time-consuming and labor intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The advertising content is segmented into removable upper plates that can be independently handled and replaced. This segmentation allows the advertising content to be changed by simply removing one upper plate and installing another, dramatically reducing content change time and labor requirements compared to removing and replacing adhesive coatings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a static adhesive coating approach to a dynamic modular plate system where advertising content can be easily updated. The upper plates are designed to be releasably coupled to base plates, enabling quick changes in advertising content without permanent attachment, thus reducing both time and labor for content updates.
3Productivity
If modular upper plates with connection members are releasably coupled to base plates, then content changes become quick and labor-efficient, but the system requires additional coupling components
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling mechanism is segmented into simple, standardized connection members (such as clips, snaps, or fasteners) that are integrated into the upper plates and base plates. This segmentation allows for quick assembly and disassembly of advertising content while keeping each individual coupling component simple and easy to manufacture, balancing productivity improvement with minimal added complexity.
4Ease of manufacture
If conventional systems require significant effort to deploy and maintain advertising content, then system simplicity is maintained, but deployment and maintenance become labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The advertising content is segmented into modular upper plates that can be manufactured independently and installed separately from the conveyor system. This segmentation simplifies both the manufacturing process (standardized plates can be pre-fabricated) and the installation process (plates can be easily attached to base plates), thereby improving both ease of manufacture and ease of operation simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The upper plates with advertising content can be prepared and staged in advance before installation on the conveyor system. This preliminary action allows for off-site manufacturing and quality control of advertising content, making the actual deployment and maintenance operations simpler and faster when the plates need to be installed or replaced on the conveyor.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for displaying content in a conveyor system are provided. A content displaying conveyor plate includes a base plate and an upper plate that is configured to be releasably coupled to the base plate. The upper plate can be configured to display content, for example content that is integral to the base plate, content that is disposed between the upper plate and the base plate, or any combination thereof. The upper plate can be coupled to the base plate via one or more connection members defined on the upper plate and/or the base plate. Any, number, such as all of the base plates of an existing conveyor system can be replaced with respective content displaying conveyor plates. The base plate of the content displaying conveyor plate can define one or more recesses, the recesses configured to receive an attachment member and/or other components of a carousel therein.