Drawer-Type Toolbox With Pivot And Buckle Locking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing toolboxes, even when improved to be foldable, still lack sufficient embedded grooves for tool organization, leading to potential damage and loss of tools, especially for professional repair and maintenance workers.
Innovation Solution
A drawer-type toolbox design featuring a pivotally connected cover and box body with a slide rail and buckle system, creating an accommodation space for tool storage, with a tool carrying plate and handles for easy access and organization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the toolbox is designed as a simple cover and box body structure, then it is lightweight and portable, but it lacks sufficient embedded grooves for tool organization, leading to potential damage and loss of tools
Solution Approach 1:
The toolbox is divided into multiple functional segments: a fixed box body with embedded grooves for organizing tools, a drawer for additional storage, and a cover for protection. This segmentation allows each part to serve its specific function while maintaining overall portability.
Solution Approach 2:
The drawer is nested within the box body, and the cover encloses both the box body and drawer when closed. This nesting arrangement maximizes storage capacity within a compact form factor, maintaining portability while providing organized storage spaces with embedded grooves.
2Ease of operation
If the toolbox is opened progressively like a foldable toolbox, then accessibility is improved, but the inner space type follows the old-fashioned design without embedded grooves, making tools likely to be damaged and lost
Solution Approach 1:
The interior of the cover is segmented into multiple compartments with embedded grooves, allowing tools to be organized in specific positions. This segmentation ensures tools remain secure during progressive opening while maintaining easy accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
Embedded grooves are strategically placed in specific locations within the cover and drawer to match the shapes and sizes of different tools. This local quality adaptation ensures each tool has a dedicated secure position, preventing damage and loss while maintaining accessibility.
3Ease of operation
If the cover is pivotally connected to allow opening, then accessibility is improved, but the cover may rotate unintentionally, and the drawer may slide out of position
Solution Approach 1:
The buckle mechanism applies a preliminary locking action to prevent the cover from rotating unintentionally and the drawer from sliding out of position. This preliminary anti-action maintains stability during transport while allowing easy access when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The buckle mechanism automatically engages when the cover is closed and the drawer is in position, providing self-service stabilization without requiring additional fastening actions from the user. This maintains stability while preserving ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
A drawer-type toolbox has a box, a pivot, an axis and at least one buckle. The box has a box body, a cover and a drawer. The top surfaces of the cover and the box body are pivotally connected to each other, so they can be selectively opened or closed. The drawer is a storage space type, and some part of the drawer is accommodated in the box body, and the other part is covered with the cover. A slide rail is arranged between the drawer and the box body. When the box body, cover body and drawer are in close contact, an accommodation space is formed inside. The buckle is arranged on the cover surface and the corresponding position of the drawer, so as to lock the rotation limit of the closed state of the cover and limit the sliding state of the drawer at the same time.