Multi-Orientation Light Clip for Roof and Gutter Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Decorative lighting installation is challenging due to varying roof line differences, making it difficult to attach lights to roof coverings and vertically oriented structures like shingles and gutters while maintaining proper light orientation.
Innovation Solution
A multi-orientation light clip with adjustable socket mounts that can be attached to roof coverings and vertically oriented edges, ensuring lights are oriented correctly, featuring inline and gutter collars with angled supports and a securing clip to secure the clip to the roof or gutter.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single-orientation light clip is used, then the structure is simple, but it cannot adapt to different roof line differences and mounting surfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The light clip incorporates multiple socket mounts oriented in different directions (first direction and second direction perpendicular to the first) within a single clip structure. This allows the same clip to accommodate various mounting surfaces including roof coverings and vertically oriented structures like gutters, eliminating the need for multiple specialized clips while maintaining proper light orientation for each application type
2Adaptability or versatility
If the light clip is designed for specific orientation, then the light orientation is accurate, but it cannot be attached to vertically oriented structures like gutters
Solution Approach 1:
The clip is divided into functionally independent components: a first socket mount oriented in a first direction for roof covering applications, and a second socket mount oriented in a second direction perpendicular to the first for vertical structure applications. Each socket mount can be independently attached to its respective mounting surface while maintaining accurate light orientation, allowing the same clip design to serve multiple mounting scenarios without compromising orientation precision
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AI summary
A light clip is provided having a roof covering socket mount including an inline collar to at least partially encircle a light in a socket, opposing side supports coupled to and extending from the inline collar and spaced apart sufficiently to contain a light socket, opposing bottom side supports coupled to the opposing side supports extending from the inline collar substantially parallel to the opposing side supports to form a channel to receive a roof covering, and a securing clip coupled to the opposing bottom side supports. The light clip also includes a gutter socket mount having a gutter collar formed between the opposing bottom supports, the gutter collar configured to at least partially encircle a light in a socket and a parallel offset of the opposing side supports providing a gutter rest structurally configured to rest on a gutter top and run along an inside edge of the gutter.