Beautification practitioner's chair
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Solution Overview
Problem
Beautification practitioners face inefficiencies due to the lack of comfortable and accessible seating options for clients, as well as inadequate storage solutions for tools, leading to reduced productivity and client capacity.
Innovation Solution
A beautification practitioner's chair that reclines to a horizontal position with integrated storage compartments containing trays and drawers, allowing easy access to tools and items, enhancing both client comfort and practitioner efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a general salon chair is used, then the chair structure is simple, but the client comfort deteriorates during long procedures
Solution Approach 1:
The chair back is made dynamically adjustable, allowing it to be positioned at different angles including a substantially horizontal position. This dynamic adjustment enables the chair to adapt to different procedural needs, providing client comfort during long procedures while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
2Ease of operation
If a recliner chair is used to improve client comfort and practitioner access, then client comfort and access improve, but the device size increases making integrated storage difficult
Solution Approach 1:
Storage compartments are nested within the chair structure itself, specifically within the seat and backrest assemblies. This nesting approach allows integrated storage functionality to be incorporated into the chair without significantly increasing its external dimensions, thereby maintaining both client comfort and practitioner access while avoiding the need for separate storage furniture.
3Volume of moving object
If storage is placed on separate tables or cabinets, then the chair size remains small, but the practitioner must continuously move to access tools reducing productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The storage compartments are merged with the chair structure, creating an integrated system where tools and materials are stored directly in the chair. This merging eliminates the need for separate storage furniture and allows the practitioner to access tools without leaving the chair, thereby improving productivity while maintaining a compact chair design.
Solution Approach 2:
The chair provides self-service storage functionality, allowing the practitioner to access and organize tools independently without needing to move to separate storage units. The integrated compartments enable the practitioner to service themselves by having all necessary items within immediate reach at the workstation.
4Ease of operation
If the chair includes integrated storage compartments, then practitioner access to tools improves, but the chair structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
Storage compartments are strategically placed in specific local areas of the chair where they provide maximum utility to the practitioner. By concentrating storage functionality in targeted locations rather than distributing it throughout the entire structure, the design improves tool accessibility while minimizing the overall structural complexity of the chair.
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AI summary
This invention is directed to a beautification practitioner's chair capable of reclining to a substantially horizontal position and having integrated storage that may include rearwardly sliding trays and/or drawers. The beautification practitioner's chair may include a seat, a seat back, at least one arm rest, a head rest, and a leg rest. Contained below the at least one arm rest is at least one compartment that is generally enclosed on its front, sides, top, and bottom, and is generally accessible through the rear of the compartment. Contained therein may be at least one tray, at least one drawer, and/or at least one storage container. The compartment is configured to provide integrated storage in the beautification practitioner's chair, and the beautification practitioner's chair is configured such that the seat back is capable of reclining to a substantially horizontal position.