Mountable Feed Bucket Bracket Design for Fence Rails
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing feed buckets are either weakly secured to fence rails, allowing horses to knock them off, or permanently secured, making cleaning difficult and leading to hazards from exposed screws.
Innovation Solution
A mountable feed bucket design with brackets and affixation means that allows easy positioning and removal for humans but secures the bucket to prevent horses from removing it, featuring a receptacle with orthogonal and perpendicular bracket legs and a removable secondary mount for versatile attachment to fence rails and other structures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If feed buckets are weakly secured to fence rails, then they are easy to install and remove, but horses can knock them off and create safety hazards
Solution Approach 1:
The feed bucket mounting system uses a dynamic bracket design that allows easy installation and removal by humans while maintaining secure attachment during use. The bracket can be quickly attached to and detached from the fence rail, providing operational flexibility while ensuring the bucket remains firmly secured when mounted.
2Reliability
If feed buckets are permanently secured to fence rails, then they are secure against horse interference, but cleaning becomes difficult and exposed screws create hazards
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system is divided into separate components: a bracket that attaches to the fence rail and a feed bucket that attaches to the bracket. This segmentation allows the bucket to be easily removed for cleaning while the bracket remains securely mounted on the fence rail, eliminating the need for permanent attachment and exposing no external fasteners.
3Stability of the object's composition
If feed buckets use permanent mounting, then they remain stable during use, but they cannot be easily repositioned or removed for cleaning
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system transitions from a static permanent attachment to a dynamic removable connection. The bracket provides stable mounting during use while allowing quick installation and removal by humans, enabling easy repositioning and cleaning without compromising the stability of the mounted bucket during normal operation.
4Reliability
If feed buckets are securely mounted to prevent horse removal, then safety is improved, but the mounting structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system separates the security function (bracket attached to fence rail) from the bucket attachment function. This segmentation achieves secure mounting that prevents horse removal while keeping the overall structure simple and easy to understand, with each component performing its specific function independently.
Data Source
AI summary
A mountable feed bucket suitable for securing to a fence rail, having a receptacle and one or more brackets for securing the mountable feed bucket to the fence rail. The brackets include multiple bracket legs forming a vacuous area with the receptacle suitable for receiving a fence rail. Further, a removable secondary mount is provided to facilitate affixation to other structures, such as stall walls and doors, bars or girders of portable horse stalls, and like structures. Methods for mounting feed buckets are also provided.