Fishing Hook Packaging System with Resilient Bulbous Loop
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Solution Overview
Problem
Fishing hooks are often jumbled and entangled when stored together, making it difficult to retrieve a single hook without risk of being hooked, and existing storage solutions are either inefficient in space usage or time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
A compact packaging system with a flat backing member and a flexible, resilient line that holds hooks in an orderly manner, allowing easy retrieval and assisting in threading the hook onto a fishing line, featuring a bulbous loop that flattens for hook placement and returns to its relaxed state for secure storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If fishing hooks are stored loosely in a container, then storage space is efficient, but hooks become jumbled and entangled making retrieval difficult and dangerous
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the storage system into individual compartments, each holding a single hook or small group of hooks. This segmentation prevents hooks from becoming entangled while maintaining compact storage, directly resolving the contradiction between easy retrieval and safety.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a threading aid component that acts as an intermediary between the hook and the user's finger. This mediator allows the user to thread the hook onto line without direct contact with the sharp hook point, eliminating the harmful factor while maintaining ease of operation.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If fishing hooks are packaged individually in separate containers, then the risk of being hooked is reduced, but storage space efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual hook storage compartments into a single integrated container with dividers. This combining approach maintains the safety benefits of individual packaging while significantly reducing the total volume required for storage compared to separate containers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent designs the storage system with nested or stacked compartments that efficiently utilize three-dimensional space. Hooks are arranged in a compact configuration where smaller compartments fit within or alongside larger ones, maximizing storage density while maintaining individual hook isolation.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If fishing hooks are packaged individually in separate containers, then the risk of being hooked is reduced, but implementation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent provides a pre-configured storage system with dividers and compartments already in place, ready to receive hooks. This preliminary preparation eliminates the time-consuming process of creating individual packaging, as users simply place hooks into the pre-organized compartments rather than assembling packaging materials.
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 system allows for safe and efficient retrieval of fishing hooks while conserving storage space, preventing entanglement and facilitating easy hook threading onto a fishing line, with a simple and cost-effective design.
Implementation Method 1
A flexible and resilient line has a pair of ends and a medial section therebetween such that the two end each pass through the opening or openings of the backing member so as to be located facing the back surface of the backing member with the medial section facing the front surface of the backing member. The medial section articulates between two states, a normally relaxed state wherein the medial section forms a bulbous loop having a first cross section and a flattened state wherein the medial section is flattened and has a second cross section whenever a squeezing force is placed onto the medial section. Whenever the squeezing force is removed from the medial section whenever the medial section is in the flattened state, the medial section resiliently returns to the normally relaxed state.
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AI summary
A packaging system for fishing hooks and other items having an eye, such as a needle. A backing member has a flexible and transparent cover hingedly attached to the backing member along an edge of each item. A flexible and resilient line passes through one or two openings on the backing member such that a bulbous loop is formed on one side of the backing member. The held items are fed onto the line via the each item's eye and the items held between the bulbous loop and the backing member such that the bulbous loop prevents the items' discharge from the line. When the bulbous loop is squeezed, it becomes flattened allowing the items to slide off of the line in orderly fashion. When the bulbous loop is no longer squeezed, it resiliently returns back to its bulbous state.