Flexible Animal Decoy Design for Compact Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing animal decoys are cumbersome and difficult to store and transport due to their complex designs and numerous pieces, hindering user convenience.
Innovation Solution
The design of the animal decoy features a minimal number of parts, including a body portion, support member, carrying aperture, and textural ridges, allowing for easy assembly, storage, and transportation without compromising visual appearance, along with optional components like a cap, support rod, and carrying strap for enhanced usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If traditional animal decoy designs are used to achieve realistic appearance, then visual appearance is improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate due to numerous pieces and cumbersome structure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple traditional decoy components into a single integrated body portion made of flexible material. The body portion combines the animal shape, support structure, and stacking functionality into one piece, eliminating the need for separate rigid shells, internal supports, and connection mechanisms while maintaining realistic appearance through the flexible material's ability to conform to the desired shape.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible body portion serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides the realistic animal shape for visual appeal, acts as its own support structure through material flexibility, enables easy stacking and storage when collapsed, and requires no assembly or disassembly. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making one component do the work of several traditional components.
2Stability of the object's composition
If traditional animal decoy designs with multiple pieces are used, then structural stability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in assembly and transportation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a flexible material that dynamically adapts its properties based on usage state. When deployed, the material maintains a stable animal shape through its flexibility and memory. When stored, it can be easily collapsed and stacked. This dynamic behavior allows the single body portion to provide structural stability during use while enabling easy assembly and transportation during storage, eliminating the need for complex assembly mechanisms.
3Ease of manufacture
If minimal number of parts is used to improve ease of operation, then ease of manufacture and ease of operation are improved, but reliability may deteriorate due to fewer components to distribute functional requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the material parameter from rigid to flexible, which fundamentally alters how the single body portion achieves reliability. The flexible material's ability to conform, support its own weight, and maintain shape without internal structures compensates for the lack of multiple components. This parameter change enables the single-piece design to be both easy to manufacture and reliably functional.
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AI summary
The invention provides animal decoys and animal decoy kits comprising a body portion and a support member. The support member is made up of a sleeve with a top end and a bottom end, wherein the top end of the support member is positioned within the body portion of the decoy. The decoy can also include a carrying aperture, having an interior surface, and a reinforcement member positioned to cover at least a portion of the interior surface of the carrying aperture. The body portion of the decoy can further contain textural ridges and a carrying strap, which passes through the carrying aperture.