Shelf Support Bracket With Pole-Guided Anti-Rotation Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing shelving support systems lack effective mechanisms for securely adjusting and orienting shelves between vertically oriented support poles, allowing for relative rotation and inadequate heightwise adjustment.
Innovation Solution
A shelving support bracket with a ledge for shelf support, featuring guide surfaces and a longitudinally extending channel with threads for secure fastening, preventing rotation and enabling heightwise adjustment, and optional ribs or pins for precise orientation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a simple bracket design is used for shelf support, then the device complexity is reduced, but the bracket allows relative rotation and lacks effective orientation control
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is divided into distinct functional elements: a pole-engaging portion with guide surfaces for orientation, a shelf-supporting ledge, and aperture provisions for fastening. This segmentation allows each element to perform its specific function effectively while maintaining overall simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
Guide surfaces are introduced as an intermediary mechanism between the bracket and pole to prevent relative rotation. These surfaces engage with the pole to define and maintain the desired angle between the shelf and vertical, providing reliable orientation control without complex mechanisms.
2Adaptability or versatility
If heightwise adjustment capability is added to the bracket, then the adaptability of the shelving system is improved, but the device complexity and fastening mechanism requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket design incorporates universal features that work with various pole configurations. The aperture provisions can accommodate different fastening members, and the guide surfaces work with poles of different cross-sections, allowing the same bracket design to be used throughout the shelving system for height adjustment and orientation control.
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket system enables dynamic height adjustment along the pole while maintaining stable orientation once positioned. The fastening mechanism allows the bracket to be moved to different heights and securely fixed, providing both adjustability and stability.
3Manufacturing precision
If guide surfaces are added to prevent relative rotation, then the orientation precision is improved, but the manufacturing complexity of the bracket increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide surfaces are designed to engage with specific local features of the pole to define the orientation angle. By concentrating the orientation control function in this localized interface, the rest of the bracket can be manufactured using simpler processes, balancing precision requirements with manufacturing ease.
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AI summary
A shelving bracket for supporting an end of a shelf is adapted to be attachable at any location along the length of a heightwise extending pole. The bracket is adapted to bear against a side face of a pole and includes at least two guide surfaces engageable with front and rear faces of the pole to define the angle of orientation of the bracket and to maintain the bracket at that angle. The bracket is secured rigidly to the pole by a fastener. A second pole is provided with a similar shelf bracket. Each of the shelf brackets has a shelf-supporting ledge adapted to support an end of a shelf that spans between the poles.