Backpack Weapon Carrier Tether for Even Load Distribution

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing backpacks for carrying weapons, such as long guns and archery bows, often result in an uneven load and potential damage due to the weapon shifting to one side, compromising user comfort and safety.

Innovation Solution

A backpack design featuring a lower pocket and a tether system with ends attached to both shoulder straps, allowing the tether to wrap around the weapon for securement and maintaining an upright position, preventing the weapon from leaning and distributing the weight evenly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the weapon is secured in a lower pocket with a single tether attachment, then the weapon can be easily removed without removing the backpack, but the weapon may shift to one side causing an uneven load and potential damage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of weapon removalVSAvoidweapon position stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The tether is divided into two separate attachments on opposite shoulder straps instead of a single attachment point. This segmentation allows the tether to wrap around the weapon and provide balanced, symmetrical securing forces that prevent the weapon from shifting to one side while maintaining ease of removal through the detachable coupling mechanism.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The tethering system uses asymmetrical placement of attachment points on opposite shoulder straps to create balanced forces that counteract the weapon's weight and prevent lateral shifting. The symmetrical wrapping configuration around the weapon provides stable, centered positioning while the detachable nature maintains operational ease.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #4Asymmetry

2Adaptability or versatility

If the backpack is designed to carry multiple types of weapons, then versatility is improved, but the structural design becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveweapon type compatibilityVSAvoidbackpack structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The backpack incorporates a universal lower pocket design that can accommodate different weapon types (long guns, archery bows, etc.) without requiring separate dedicated compartments. The detachable tether system provides universal applicability across weapon types while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure that avoids excessive complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The detachable tether coupling mechanism provides dynamic adaptability, allowing the same basic backpack structure to securely carry different weapon types by simply adjusting or reconfiguring the tether attachment, rather than requiring multiple fixed structural configurations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10072906B2Backpack for carrying weapons

Publication Date: 2018.09.11 EBERLESTOCK USA LLC

AI summary

A backpack for carrying a weapon that includes a main body with a first shoulder strap and a second shoulder strap attached thereto. The backpack additionally includes a weapon carrier that has a lower pocket attached to a lower portion of the backpack for receiving an end of the weapon, and a tether having a first end and a second end respectively attached to the first and second shoulder straps of the backpack. When the weapon is positioned in the lower pocket, the tether wraps around the weapon to secure the weapon against an outer periphery of the main body of the backpack.