Universal Store Frame Bracket Tooth Profile for Multi-Frame Coupling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Retail display frame manufacturers require frame-specific brackets with unique tooth patterns, leading to different requirements for each manufacturer, making it difficult to create a universal solution for coupling and securing shelving across various frame structures.
Innovation Solution
A universal store frame bracket profile with a bracket body featuring a first and second tooth feature, each with specific upper and lower portions and cavities, allowing the bracket to couple with multiple different store frame configurations, including adaptors that can fit various tooth patterns, enabling compatibility with multiple store frames.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If frame-specific brackets with unique tooth patterns are used for each manufacturer, then the bracket securely couples to the specific frame structure, but the adaptability to different frame configurations is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is designed with a universal tooth pattern configuration that can couple to multiple different store frame structures. The tooth features include upper portions, lower portions, and cavities arranged in specific patterns that accommodate various frame opening configurations, allowing one bracket design to serve multiple manufacturers' frames.
Solution Approach 2:
The tooth pattern is divided into separate tooth features with distinct upper and lower portions. This segmentation allows the bracket to interface with different frame structures by engaging specific portions of the frame openings, providing both secure coupling and adaptability through modular engagement points.
2Reliability
If multiple frame-specific brackets are purchased for different manufacturers, then each bracket optimally fits its designated frame, but the device complexity and inventory requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
A single bracket design with a standardized tooth pattern configuration can be used across multiple frame manufacturers' products. The universal design eliminates the need to maintain multiple different bracket inventories while maintaining secure coupling to various frame structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges the functionality of multiple manufacturer-specific brackets into a single universal bracket design. By combining the essential coupling features needed for different frame types into one bracket, the system reduces inventory complexity while maintaining frame fit precision.
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AI summary
A universal store frame bracket profile is provided for coupling to one of multiple different store frame openings. Embodiments of the bracket include a bracket body with a platform support surface, a first tooth feature, and a second tooth feature. The first and second tooth features extend in a first direction from an edge of the bracket body. In embodiments, the first tooth feature includes an upper and lower portion, while the second tooth feature includes a lower portion. A cavity formed between the first tooth feature and the bracket body, and the second tooth feature and the bracket body, provides a coupling mechanism for mating the universal bracket to one of multiple store frames.