Fishing Leader Organizer with Removable Spools for Easy Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing leader storage tools are complicated, difficult to assemble, and require multiple moving parts, making them costly and cumbersome to use, with access to individual spools being challenging.
Innovation Solution
A simplified organizer with removable spools and a minimal number of moving parts, featuring a base with internal storage and an external winding location, allowing easy access and organization of fishing leaders.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a holder with multiple spools mounted on a common axle is used, then storage and retrievability of preprepared leaders is improved, but device complexity increases and assembly becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The holder is divided into separate components: a base structure with multiple independent spool mounting locations rather than a single common axle. Each spool can be independently mounted and removed without affecting others, reducing overall complexity while maintaining organized storage of multiple leaders.
Solution Approach 2:
The holder allows dynamic reconfiguration of spools - they can be easily mounted, removed, and repositioned at different locations on the base. This flexibility enables users to adapt the holder to different storage needs without requiring complex mechanical linkages.
2Stability of the object's composition
If a common axle passes through all spools, then structural integrity is maintained, but access to individual spools for loading, cleaning, and preparation becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of a single common axle, each spool has its own independent mounting structure on the base. This segmentation allows each spool to be accessed, removed, and prepared independently without requiring disassembly of a complex axial structure, while the base maintains overall structural integrity.
3Reliability
If frictional means are used to join spools on the axle, then spools can be held in place, but engagement becomes difficult and it is hard to know which spool is engaged
Solution Approach 1:
The holder incorporates visual indicators such as colored markers or positioned features at each spool mounting location. These visual cues make it immediately apparent which spool is engaged or in position, eliminating the need for complex frictional engagement mechanisms and their associated identification problems.
Data Source
AI summary
An organizer is disclosed for use in storing a plurality of fishing leaders. The organizer may include a base having an internal storage space, and a plurality of spools removably received within the internal storage space. Each of the plurality of spools is configured to receive a different one of the plurality of fishing leaders. The organizer also includes a winding location positioned external to the base and configured to removably receive at least one of the plurality of spools.