Window Bracket Mounting for Miniature Gardens Without Facade Damage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing window decorations, such as elongated flower boxes, lack flexibility in design and often result in soil being washed out during rain or watering, causing soiling issues and disputes, especially in densely populated cities where space is limited.
Innovation Solution
A window decoration system featuring a bracket with adjustable fastening means that can be attached to a building using clamping, suction, or adhesive forces, allowing for greater design freedom, incorporating edge-limiting elements, articulation, rotary bearings, and drainage systems to prevent soiling and facilitate easy maintenance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional elongated flower boxes are used, then they can be mounted on windows, but they offer too little flexibility in terms of usable area and freedom of design
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is divided into multiple segments (first bracket portion, second bracket portion, connection element) that can be independently positioned and connected. This segmentation allows the bracket to adapt to various window configurations and design requirements while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection element enables relative movement between the first and second bracket portions, allowing the bracket to be adjusted to different positions and orientations. This dynamic capability provides design flexibility without requiring a completely complex reconfigurable structure.
2Ease of operation
If flower boxes are mounted close to the window for accessibility, then users can easily reach them, but soil washed out during rain or watering causes soiling and disputes
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket serves as an intermediary structure that positions the flower box at an optimal distance from the window. It provides a mounting platform that balances accessibility (close enough to reach) with protection (far enough to reduce direct soil washout onto the window), effectively mediating between user needs and environmental protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The harmful effect of soil washout is extracted and redirected through the bracket structure. The bracket's design allows water and soil to drain away from the window surface, separating the planting function from the soiling problem by providing dedicated drainage pathways.
3Area of moving object
If the bracket extends far from the window for more usable area, then more space is available for decoration, but it becomes difficult for users to reach and maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket incorporates movable connection elements that allow adjustment of the extension distance. Users can position the flower box at different distances from the window depending on accessibility needs, optimizing the balance between usable area and maintainability without being fixed at a single extended position.
4Strength
If fixed mounting structures are used, then they provide stable support, but they require machining or damage to the building facade
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket replaces traditional mechanical fastening systems (screws, anchors requiring drilling) with a clamping-based mechanical system. The first and second bracket portions clamp onto the window frame or sill, providing stable support through friction and geometric constraint rather than penetration, thereby avoiding damage to the building facade.
Solution Approach 2:
The bracket acts as an intermediary mounting structure that interfaces with the window frame without requiring modification to the building's load-bearing elements. It distributes mounting forces across larger contact areas and uses the window frame itself as the mounting surface, eliminating the need to drill into or attach to the building facade.
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 system enables the creation of a miniature garden with enhanced design flexibility, prevents soil from washing away, and allows for easy maintenance, reducing the risk of soiling and damage to the building or adjacent apartments.
Implementation Method 1
the attachment means is preferably attached directly to the building by clamping force or suction force or adhesive force
Implementation Method 2
the attachment means is preferably attached directly to the building by clamping force or suction force or adhesive force
Implementation Method 3
the attachment means is preferably attached directly to the building by clamping force or suction force or adhesive force
Implementation Method 4
the bracket has at least one drainage system, in particular a siphon and/or a drainage channel, the drainage system enabling targeted drainage
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AI summary
The window decoration has an extension which is assigned to a window element of a building in front of the outer wall of the building and serves as a carrier for the window decoration, particularly a miniature garden. The extension has a mounting unit which is connected with the extension. The mounting unit is fixed directly to the building by clamping force, suction force or adhesion force, particularly by avoiding processing or breakdown of the building.