Removable Seat Platform Wedge Locking for Stable Multipurpose Floors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing removable seats systems in multipurpose rooms fail to provide a stable floor and seat installation while allowing for easy installation and removal, often resulting in unstable platforms and seats due to complex, expensive, or aesthetically undesirable solutions with gaps or structural weaknesses.
Innovation Solution
A removable seats system featuring vertically movable platforms with complementary male-female engagement members, such as tapering pin and socket wedges, that securely engage seats without compromising platform stability, allowing for easy installation and removal by vertical and horizontal movement of platforms and seat displacers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If prior art systems use spaced apart floor platforms to allow seat installation, then seat installation is enabled, but floor stability deteriorates and gaps are created that are aesthetically undesirable and can be accidentally engaged by high heels
Solution Approach 1:
The floor is divided into multiple vertically movable platforms that can be independently positioned. Each platform is a separate segment that can be raised or lowered to create stable engagement points for seats while maintaining overall floor stability through the distributed segment structure
Solution Approach 2:
The floor platforms are made vertically movable rather than fixed, allowing them to dynamically adjust position. This enables the platforms to move into engagement positions with seats during installation and return to stable floor positions during use, resolving the contradiction between installation accessibility and floor stability
2Ease of operation
If prior art systems provide non-trivial openings in floor platforms to allow seat raising, then seat installation is enabled, but platform structural strength deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of creating horizontal openings in the platform surface, the system uses vertical movement of the entire platform to enable seat installation. The seat installation process occurs in the vertical dimension through platform movement rather than through horizontal openings, preserving platform structural integrity
3Ease of operation
If prior art systems provide seats that engage floor platforms in an unstable manner, then seat installation is simplified, but seat stability deteriorates causing movement and vibrations disturbing to persons sitting
Solution Approach 1:
The vertically movable platform acts as an intermediary between the floor and the seat. It provides a stable engagement surface for the seat while being movable enough to facilitate installation and removal, mediating between the conflicting requirements of ease of operation and stability
4Ease of operation
If complex automated systems are used to move seats from underneath floor platforms to operative positions, then ease of seat installation is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The vertically movable platforms are capable of self-moving between positions without requiring complex automated seat handling systems. The platforms themselves perform the work of enabling seat installation through their vertical movement, eliminating the need for additional automated mechanisms to move seats
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system ensures stable floor and seat engagement, preventing movement and vibrations, while maintaining aesthetic integrity and reducing wear on platform surfaces, thus providing a practical and stable seating configuration for both theatre and free floor configurations.
Implementation Method 1
said first and second male-female engagement members respectively comprise first and second complementary male-female wedge members, whereby said seat member may be removably installed in said operative position on said upper side of said first platform through the releasable engagement of said first and second male-female wedge members with one another in a wedging relationship
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AI summary
The removable seats system has a first vertically movable platform defining opposite upper and lower sides, a seat member comprising at least one seat and first and second complementary male-female engagement members respectively provided on the first platform and on the seat member. The seat member may be removably installed in an operative position on the upper side of the first platform through a releasable engagement of the first and second male-female engagement members with one another.