Compression-Groove Fish Hook Holder for Tangle-Free Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Anglers face challenges in managing and organizing fishing hooks and lures due to their small size and sharp barbs, leading to tangling and dulling of hooks during transport, which reduces their effectiveness.
Innovation Solution
A fishhook storage device featuring a resilient prismatic block with evenly spaced parallel grooves, held shut by interior walls compressed against one another, and secured by rigid exterior walls, allowing hooks to be stored and transported without tangling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional storage methods like tackle boxes are used, then a wide variety of fishing hooks and lures can be stored, but the hooks become tangled and difficult to access
Solution Approach 1:
The storage device divides the interior space into multiple separate compartments, each dedicated to holding a single fishing hook. This segmentation prevents hooks from tangling with each other while maintaining organized arrangement, directly resolving the contradiction between ease of access and stable composition.
2Quantity of substance
If hooks are stored in traditional containers, then multiple hooks can be carried, but the sharp barbs become dull from banging into one another
Solution Approach 1:
By providing individual compartments for each hook, the device prevents hooks from contacting and banging against one another during transport. This maintains hook sharpness and reliability while still allowing storage of multiple hooks, resolving the contradiction between quantity and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The compartments are designed with cushioning features that protect the sharp barbs of hooks from damage during transport. This beforehand protection ensures hooks maintain their sharpness and effectiveness, addressing the reliability concern while maintaining storage capacity.
3Ease of operation
If hooks are stored loosely, then easy access is provided, but tangling occurs and organization is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The device segments the storage space into individual compartments, each holding one hook in an organized manner. Hooks can be easily retrieved from their designated compartments without tangling, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and organizational stability.
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 device effectively prevents tangling of fishing hooks, maintains their sharpness, and ensures easy access and identification, enhancing the overall efficiency of fishing gear management.
Implementation Method 1
a resilient prismatic block with at least one set of evenly spaced parallel grooves within... held shut with interior walls of each groove pushed taut against one another... compressed against one another respectively
Data Source
AI summary
A fishhook carrying device has a resilient prismatic block, of which two adjacent faces are cut into by at least one set of spaced grooves extending along a longest dimension thereof. Two opposite parallel grooveless faces thereof abut two rigid exterior walls, which, along with a connecting bottom wall, form a unitary box structure. Rigid exterior walls of either side of the box structure maintain the prismatic block in a compressed form such that interior walls of each groove are pressed against each other in a first resting condition. When a flange is inserted into a pressed groove, the interior walls of the groove resiliently separate and thereafter abut the flange, frictionally holding the flange in place. The interior groove walls return to the first resting condition upon removal of the flange from the device.