Sliding Bed Mattress Bracket for Easy Installation and Delivery

Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional bed brackets are difficult to install, leading to additional costs for professional assistance, and their protrusive design is prone to damage during delivery.

Innovation Solution

A bed bracket design featuring two seats with arcuate portions and a bracket member with slidably received rear-extending sections, allowing for secure and space-efficient installation on a bed frame, with improved mechanical strength to withstand external forces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the bracket is installed on the bed frame before delivering to the user, then the mattress can be retained securely, but the protrusive vertical portion will occupy additional space and can be accidentally damaged or deformed during delivery

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemattress retentionVSAvoiddamage or deformation during delivery

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The bracket is divided into two separate parts: the seat portion that is pre-installed on the bed frame, and the vertical portion with hooks that is attached later. This segmentation allows the seat to be installed early for structural support while the vulnerable vertical portion remains separate during delivery, preventing damage while maintaining eventual retention reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The seat portion is prepared and installed on the bed frame in advance before delivery to the user. This preliminary action establishes the base structure early, while the vulnerable vertical portion with hooks is attached as a final step at the user's location, ensuring the retention function is ready but the vulnerable parts are protected during transport.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the bracket is installed on the bed frame before delivering to the user, then the mattress can be retained securely, but the installation process is too difficult for users and requires professional assistance

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemattress retentionVSAvoidinstallation difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The bracket is divided into two separate parts: the seat portion that is pre-installed on the bed frame, and the vertical portion with hooks that is attached later. This segmentation allows the seat to be installed early for structural support while the vulnerable vertical portion remains separate during delivery, preventing damage while eventual retention reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The seat portion is prepared and installed on the bed frame in advance before delivery to the user. This preliminary action establishes the base structure early, while the vulnerable vertical portion with hooks is attached as a final step at the user's location, ensuring the retention function is ready but the vulnerable parts are protected during transport.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If the bracket uses a conventional design with threaded portions and multiple alignment requirements, then the mattress can be retained securely, but the installation process becomes complex and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemattress retentionVSAvoidinstallation time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The bracket is divided into two separate parts: the seat portion that is pre-installed on the bed frame, and the vertical portion with hooks that is attached later. This segmentation allows the seat to be installed early for structural support while the vulnerable vertical portion remains separate during delivery, preventing damage while eventual retention reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The complex threaded connection and multi-bore alignment requirements are extracted from the main bracket structure and replaced with a simpler insertion mechanism. The vertical portion with hooks is designed to be easily inserted into the seat without requiring precise alignment of multiple threaded components, significantly reducing installation time while maintaining secure mattress retention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS8769739B1Bracket for retaining a bed mattress

Publication Date: 2014.07.08 MCCARTY PHILIP WOODS

AI summary

An easy-installable bracket for retaining a bed mattress is provided. The bracket is adapted to be disposed on a bed frame having a head portion and a feet portion. The bracket includes two seats and a bracket member. Each of the seats has a bottom plate for fixed at the feet portion of the bed frame, and an arcuate portion extended from the bottom plate. Two passages are respectively defined between the arcuate portions of the seats and the feet portion. The bracket member has a vertical portion, two front-extending sections respectively extended from two bottom ends of the vertical portion toward the head portion of the bed frame, and two parallel rear-extending sections respectively extended from distal ends of the front extending sections toward the feet portion. The rear-extending sections are slidably received in the passages respectively.