Mechanical assist equipment support stand
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing musical instrument stands lack versatility and stability, especially on uneven surfaces like stairs or auditorium steps, and fail to provide adequate support for instruments like sousaphones and amplifiers, which require adjustable height and angular positioning for optimal performance.
Innovation Solution
A collapsible stand with independently adjustable legs and a telescoping mechanism, featuring dovetail locking and a spring-assisted lifting system, allowing for multiple angular positions and easy extension on uneven surfaces, while maintaining stability and reducing weight for transport.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the stand uses fixed-length legs, then the structure is simple, but it cannot adapt to uneven surfaces like stairs or auditorium steps
Solution Approach 1:
The stand legs are divided into multiple telescoping segments that can extend and retract independently. Each leg contains inner and outer tubes that slide relative to each other, allowing the leg length to be adjusted in stages to match uneven surfaces like stairs or auditorium steps while maintaining a compact form when retracted.
Solution Approach 2:
The stand transitions from a static fixed-length structure to a dynamic adjustable-length structure. The telescoping mechanism allows the legs to change length continuously or in discrete stages, enabling the stand to adapt to various surface heights and angles while providing stable support configurations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the stand uses telescoping legs with multiple sections, then adaptability to uneven surfaces improves, but the structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The telescoping legs employ a nested tube structure where inner tubes are housed within outer tubes, similar to nested dolls. This allows multiple leg sections to be stored within each other when retracted, providing extended height adjustment capability while minimizing the stored size and reducing overall structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The stand incorporates both vertical telescoping adjustment and horizontal articulation capability. The legs can extend vertically to adjust height while also articulating at joints to accommodate angular variations in uneven surfaces, adding dimensional flexibility without proportionally increasing mechanical complexity.
3Strength
If the stand is designed to support heavy instruments like sousaphones, then support capability improves, but the weight for transport increases
Solution Approach 1:
The stand uses telescoping legs that can be extended to provide longer support arms for heavy instruments like sousaphones, increasing leverage and support capability without permanently adding weight. The adjustable length allows the stand to optimize its mechanical advantage based on the instrument being supported.
Solution Approach 2:
The stand incorporates localized reinforcement at critical support points where heavy instruments contact the structure, while keeping other portions of the framework lighter. This allows the stand to provide maximum support capability where needed while minimizing overall weight for easier transport.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the stand includes articulation mechanisms for angle adjustment, then positioning flexibility improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The articulation mechanism is divided into separate joint segments that allow independent angular adjustment at different points of the stand. Each joint can be adjusted separately to accommodate the specific angular requirements of the instrument being supported, providing flexibility without requiring a complex integrated articulation system.
Solution Approach 2:
The stand incorporates dynamic articulation joints that allow the legs and support arms to be adjusted to various angles during setup, then locked in position. This provides positioning flexibility for different instrument configurations while maintaining structural stability when locked, balancing adaptability with mechanical simplicity.
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 stand provides versatile and stable support for musical instruments and amplifiers, enabling adjustment to various heights and angles, enhancing user convenience and reducing the need for manual lifting, thus improving performance and ease of use.
Implementation Method 1
spring or gas charged strut within the musical instrument stand that assists in the extension of telescoping members
Implementation Method 2
dovetail locking and a spring-assisted lifting system, allowing for multiple angular positions
Data Source
AI summary
Improvements in a tilting, lifting stand are presented. The tilt, lift stand is for a musical instrument stand or to elevate/tilt a speaker and or amplifier and rigidly supports a sousaphone brass type instruments, speaker or amplifier in an in a stored and in a playable or elevated position. The stand supports all or the majority of the weight of the instrument or speaker or amplifier in a static position to relieve the weight of the musical instrument or speaker or amplifier. The stand has legs that are extendable to rest on multiple levels as might be found in a stadium. The stand further has a securing mechanism that gently grasps a tubular section to hold the musical instrument. The speaker stand can be easily collapsed for transportation and storage.