Unitary Floating Shelf Bracket to Simplify Installation and Leveling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional floating shelf bracket installation methods require multiple steps and can be complicated, often necessitating professional assistance due to the need to level and align separate brackets, making it difficult to ensure the shelf lies straight.
Innovation Solution
A unitary, single-piece floating shelf bracket design featuring a support connector and multiple shelf supports that are permanently or removably attached, allowing for easy leveling and hanging, with countersunk screw holes to ensure flush installation and a connecting bar with optional level for quick alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple separate brackets are used for floating shelf installation, then the shelf can be supported, but the installation process becomes complicated and time-consuming requiring professional assistance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate brackets into a single integrated floating shelf bracket unit. This unit includes a mounting plate with multiple mounting holes and a shelf support component that forms a unified structure, eliminating the need to install and align multiple separate brackets. The integration directly resolves the technical contradiction by reducing installation complexity while maintaining support functionality.
2Manufacturing precision
If separate brackets are hung and leveled individually, then each bracket can be positioned, but alignment and leveling become difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The floating shelf bracket is designed with pre-integrated leveling features and alignment mechanisms built into the single-unit structure. The mounting plate includes pre-positioned mounting holes and the shelf support component incorporates alignment features that automatically guide proper positioning during installation. This preliminary integration of alignment and leveling features eliminates the need for time-consuming individual adjustment of multiple separate brackets.
3Reliability
If conventional multi-piece brackets are used, then the shelf can be supported, but the installation requires multiple steps and professional assistance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple bracket components into a single floating shelf bracket unit that maintains the structural reliability of multi-piece constructions. The unified design includes a mounting plate with multiple mounting holes and a shelf support component that work together as one assembly, providing reliable shelf support while simplifying installation to a single-unit mounting process that does not require professional assistance.
Data Source
AI summary
A floating shelf includes a plank shelf, and a floating shelf bracket, configured to support the plank shelf, including a support connector and two or more shelf supports attached to one another by the support connector. The support connector and the two or more shelf supports may be permanently attached to one another so that the floating shelf bracket is a unitary, single-piece bracket. The support connector and the two or more shelf supports may be removably attached to one another.