Wall-mounted hat rack

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing baseball cap display racks cause inconvenience in removing individual caps and lead to deformation due to stacking pressure.

Innovation Solution

A wall-mounted hat rack with clamping components featuring grooves for buckle accommodation and L-shaped pressing plates to secure caps, enhanced by rotating clamping portions and springs for easy cap insertion and removal, preventing deformation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If baseball caps are stacked on hooks for display, then multiple caps can be showcased simultaneously, but individual cap removal becomes inconvenient and caps deform due to stacking pressure

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of caps displayedVSAvoidconvenience of individual cap removal

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display rack is divided into multiple independent clamping components, each capable of holding one cap individually. This segmentation allows caps to be displayed in groups while maintaining independent access to each cap, resolving the contradiction between displaying multiple caps and enabling convenient individual removal.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Quantity of substance

If baseball caps are stacked on hooks for display, then multiple caps can be showcased simultaneously, but caps deform due to stacking pressure

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of caps displayedVSAvoidcap shape integrity

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

By dividing the display rack into separate clamping components, each cap is held independently without stacking pressure from other caps, preventing deformation while still displaying multiple caps simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Each clamping component is designed with specific local features (grooves for buckle accommodation, L-shaped pressing plates) that provide tailored support to the cap's structure, maintaining cap shape integrity at the local level where contact occurs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If traditional hooks are used to display baseball caps, then the structure remains simple, but cap security is insufficient and caps may fall

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural simplicityVSAvoidcap security

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The clamping components incorporate specific local structural features (grooves matching buckle shapes, L-shaped pressing plates positioned to contact cap interiors) that enhance cap security without requiring complex overall device architecture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The clamping components act as intermediary structures between the wall-mounted rack and the caps, providing a secure interface that prevents caps from falling while maintaining relative structural simplicity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12502018B1Wall-mounted hat rack

Publication Date: 2025.12.23 LIU YUN

AI summary

A wall-mounted hat rack includes a hat rack body and a clamping component. The hat rack body has a first surface parallel to the longitudinal direction; the clamping component includes a first clamping portion and a second clamping portion, the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion are respectively arranged on the first surface, and the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion are arranged at intervals along the longitudinal direction. A groove is provided at the bottom of the first clamping portion, and the groove is used to accommodate the buckle portion of a baseball cap.