Rotating Hanger Body with Bushing Surfaces for Display Angles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hangers for displaying flat articles often require the article to be positioned at a considerable angle to the display rack, making it difficult to showcase different preferred faces of multiple articles simultaneously and limiting consumer inspection without removing the article from the display.
Innovation Solution
A hanger design featuring a hook portion with a barb that engages a receiver on a vertical axis, allowing the hanger body to rotate relative to the hook, enabling the article to be displayed at various angles and easily inspected by consumers without removal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the hook portion is disposed near the horizontal center of the hanger body in the same plane, then the hanger structure is simple and stable, but the article must be displayed at a considerable angle to the display rack bar, limiting consumer inspection
Solution Approach 1:
The hanger body is made rotatable relative to the hook portion through a receiver and shank mechanism, allowing the hanger to dynamically change its orientation. This enables the article to be displayed at various angles including parallel to the display rack bar, improving consumer inspection capability without requiring multiple fixed-position hangers
Solution Approach 2:
The hanger is divided into separable components: a hook portion with shank, a receiver in the hanger body, and a rotatable connection interface. This segmentation allows independent movement of the hanger body relative to the hook, enabling rotation while maintaining structural simplicity through modular design
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple articles are displayed with different preferred faces, then product variety is showcased, but different hangers or complex positioning mechanisms are required
Solution Approach 1:
The rotatable hanger design provides a universal solution that can display articles with different preferred faces using the same hanger type. By rotating the hanger body to different angles, any article orientation can be achieved, eliminating the need for multiple specialized hanger designs
3Ease of operation
If the article is suspended at a considerable angle to the display rack bar, then the hanger maintains stable suspension, but the consumer cannot easily inspect the entire surface of the article without removing it
Solution Approach 1:
The rotatable connection between the hanger body and hook portion allows dynamic adjustment of the article's orientation while maintaining stable suspension. The article can be rotated to any angle for inspection while remaining securely hung from the display rack bar
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
Enables flexible display angles and easy rotation of articles for full inspection, enhancing consumer visibility and usability without the need to reposition the hanger.
Implementation Method 1
The second bushing surface of the barb slidably engages the first bushing surface of the receiver sidewall to thereby rotatably support the hanger body and the suspended article(s)
Implementation Method 2
When the barb is inserted into the receiver in an interference fit, the receiver sidewall will resiliently flex in a radial outward direction
Data Source
AI summary
A downwardly facing first bushing surface is formed on a lower end of a cylindrical receiver surface of a hanger body. A barb formed on the end of a shank of a hook portion has an upwardly facing second bushing surface. The second bushing surface supports the hanger body through the first bushing surface. The first bushing surface is rotationally slidable on the second bushing surface, permitting the hanger body, and an article suspended by it, to assume any of a number of angular positions relative to a display bar axis.