Multi-directional Pivot Mount with Locking Slot and Serrated Surfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mounts for attaching items to poles often slip due to vibration or bouncing, especially when a joint is involved, leading to insecure attachment of devices like cup holders, fishing poles, and cameras.
Innovation Solution
A mount with a locking slot pivot joint and adjustable clamp, featuring serrated surfaces and a lock washer, which allows for secure attachment to bars of varying shapes and sizes by locking in place with bolts and locknuts, preventing slippage in multiple directions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a joint is used within the mount to enable pivoting, then the mount can be adjusted to desired orientations, but the joint will slip due to vibration or bouncing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the pivoting function from a traditional joint and replaces it with a slot-based mechanism. The extension arm moves within a slot in the mounting bracket, allowing pivoting motion without requiring a joint that can slip. This separates the adjustment function from the connection function, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The mount is divided into distinct components: a mounting bracket with a slot, an extension arm that moves within the slot, and a separate fastening mechanism. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function - the slot provides guided motion while the fastener provides secure locking, eliminating the slippage problem inherent in traditional joints.
2Ease of manufacture
If a traditional mount is used to attach items to a pole, then the mount can be installed, but it will slip or slide due to the weight of the object
Solution Approach 1:
The serrated surfaces on the extension arm and mounting bracket create friction forces that counteract the gravitational force acting on the mounted object. These interlocking serrated surfaces prevent the mount from sliding down the pole by generating sufficient static friction to balance the object's weight, while still allowing for relatively easy installation and adjustment.
3Reliability
If a serrated surface and lock washer are used to prevent slippage, then the mount security is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into unified components. The extension arm integrates both the mounting interface with serrated surfaces for grip and the structural element that connects to the pivot mechanism. The mounting bracket similarly combines the pole-attachment function with the pivot-guiding slot function. This merging reduces the number of separate parts needed while maintaining slip prevention capabilities.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides a secure and stable attachment of objects in desired orientations, preventing slipping and sliding, and can be adapted to various bar shapes and sizes with minimal modifications, ensuring reliable support for items like cup holders, fishing poles, and cameras.
Implementation Method 1
The extension arm has a hollow interior that allows for a bolt to protrude through. The bolt is placed into the extension arm's hollow interior, out of a through hole, then through a serrated surface on the extension arm, through the serrated surface on the second side of the adjustable mounting bracket, and through second side of the adjustable mounting bracket where a locknut is placed. As the bolt is tightened into the lock nut the serrated joint will be locked together and prevented from pivoting.
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AI summary
The present invention is a device that is intended to secure objects to a pole or bar of various shapes and sizes while securely supporting an object. The object being supported may be a cup holder, cellphone holder or other mobile device holder, a flashlight holder or other object. The device provides an adjustable mounting clamp and an extension arm that are capable of pivoting in multiple directions and locking in each direction that it may pivot.