Drawer Storage Container With Hooking Tongue and Modular Dividers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional storing containers used in industrial drawers lack features to remain fixed during opening and closing, causing interference with adjacent drawers and failing to allow selective division of storage space or content identification.
Innovation Solution
A container design with a tongue for secure attachment, separators for dividing the storage space, and labeled rims for content identification, along with features like slots, grooves, and ribs for stability and easy assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional storing containers are used in industrial drawers, then they provide basic storage functionality, but they cannot remain fixed during opening and closing, causing interference with adjacent drawers
Solution Approach 1:
The container is divided into a base container and separate modular components (separators and dividers) that can be independently positioned and fixed. This segmentation allows each component to be stabilized individually, preventing the entire container assembly from moving and interfering with adjacent drawers during operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The container includes pre-designed fixing features such as tongues, grooves, and attachment points that are built into the structure before use. These preliminary structural preparations enable the container to be securely fixed to the drawer bottom and to itself, eliminating movement and interference with adjacent drawers during opening and closing operations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional storing containers are used, then they provide simple storage space, but they do not enable users to selectively divide up the storage space
Solution Approach 1:
The storage container is segmented into a base container and multiple independent modular components including separators and dividers. These segments can be independently positioned, removed, and reconfigured within the base container, enabling users to selectively divide storage space according to specific needs without requiring a completely different container structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The container incorporates dynamic, reconfigurable elements such as movable separators and adjustable dividers that can be repositioned along the container walls. This dynamic capability allows the storage configuration to adapt to different storage requirements while maintaining a relatively simple base container structure, thus increasing versatility without proportionally increasing overall complexity.
3Ease of operation
If conventional storing containers are used, then they provide basic storage capability, but they do not enable convenient identification of content
Solution Approach 1:
The container incorporates color-coded labels, coded identifiers, or visually distinct features on the separators, dividers, and container surfaces. These visual indicators enable users to quickly and conveniently identify the content of different storage sections without requiring complex labeling systems or additional identification devices, thus improving ease of operation with minimal added complexity.
4Adaptability or versatility
If modular components are added to the container, then they enable flexible storage configurations, but they increase the number of parts to assemble
Solution Approach 1:
The container is designed as a segmented system with a base container and separate modular components (separators and dividers) that can be manufactured independently using standardized processes. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured separately with simpler tooling and assembly requirements, while still enabling flexible storage configurations when assembled together.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular components are designed with universal compatibility features, such as standardized connection interfaces and dimensions, allowing the same separator or divider designs to be used across different container sizes and configurations. This universality reduces the total number of unique parts that need to be manufactured and assembled, simplifying the manufacturing process while maintaining flexible storage capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
A container for storing at least one article, the container including opposite front and rear walls, and opposite left and right walls, each of the walls being provided with an inner surface and an outer surface, and having an upper rim. The container also includes a bottom floor. The walls and bottom floor are operatively connected to one another so as to define a main storing space within the container for storing the at least one article. An important aspect of the present invention lies in the fact that the rear wall of the container includes a tongue extending longitudinally along the upper rim of the rear wall, the tongue further extending downwardly from the upper rim of the rear wall and being shaped and sized for hooking the container onto a fixed structure via the tongue.