Bean Bag Chair With Dual Compartments for Storage and Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional bean bag chairs lack the functionality to store articles of varying size, shape, and hardness without compromising their ability to provide conformable body support.
Innovation Solution
A bean bag chair design featuring an upper compartment with adaptable filler material and a lower compartment for storage, both made of flexible bags (fabric, leather, or imitation leather) with a closable opening, secured by a zipper or other fasteners, allowing for the storage of miscellaneous items while maintaining body support.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional bean bag chair is designed with only a single compartment for body support, then the chair can conformably support a person's body, but it cannot store numerous articles of varying size, shape, and hardness
Solution Approach 1:
The bean bag chair is divided into two separate compartments: an upper compartment filled with adaptable filler material for body support, and a lower compartment for storing articles. This segmentation allows each compartment to serve its specific function independently, enabling storage capability while preserving the chair's conformable support function.
Solution Approach 2:
The lower storage compartment is positioned beneath and supports the upper body support compartment, creating a nested structure where the storage compartment serves as a foundation for the functional compartment. This nesting arrangement maximizes space utilization without compromising the chair's primary function.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a lower storage compartment is added to the bean bag chair, then storage of numerous articles is enabled, but the structural stability may be compromised when articles are inserted or removed
Solution Approach 1:
A layer of foam material is applied specifically to the inner surface of the lower compartment's cylindrical wall portion. This localized addition provides structural reinforcement and stability to the wall where it is needed most - during insertion and removal of articles - without affecting the overall flexibility or adding excessive weight to the entire chair structure.
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AI summary
An improved bean bag chair is disclosed that not only provides conforming support for a person's body in a variety of positions, but also provides a closable storage compartment for storing a large number of miscellaneous articles of varying size, shape and hardness, all without compromising the chair's effectiveness in providing conforming support. The chair includes an upper flexible bag defining an upper compartment that carries an adaptable filler material, and it further includes a lower flexible bag defining a lower compartment for receiving and storing the miscellaneous articles. A closure, e.g., a zipper, secures the upper and lower flexible bags together.