Mesh Garment Bag Structure With Internal Clips for Travel and Laundry
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions fail to provide an efficient and versatile method for organizing, managing, and storing small personal garments like socks and underwear across various activities such as laundry, drying, storage, and travel, lacking a unified structure that ensures neatness and convenience.
Innovation Solution
A multi-purpose bag structure made of open-mesh nylon fabric with pivotally mounted clips and matable zipper structures along the edges, allowing for roll-folding, hanging, and interconnection of multiple bags for collective use, featuring a central zipper for access and a hook passage for hanger attachment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a simple bag structure is used, then manufacturing cost is reduced, but organizational functionality and versatility are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The bag structure integrates multiple functions into a single device: it serves as a containment bag, provides organizational clips for securing garments, offers zipper connections for linking multiple bags, enables hanging via integrated hooks, and allows roll-folding for compact storage. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by providing comprehensive organizational capabilities without requiring multiple separate products.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines previously separate elements (bag, clips, zippers, hooks) into a single integrated structure. The clips are attached to the bag, zippers are incorporated into the edges, and hanging hooks are built into the top edge, creating a unified multi-functional garment organization system that reduces the need for multiple separate products.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate products are used for different garment organization needs, then functional versatility is improved, but device complexity and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The bag structure serves multiple purposes: containing garments, organizing them with integrated clips, connecting to other bags via zippers, hanging on hooks, and compacting through roll-folding. This single multi-functional product replaces what would otherwise require multiple separate products, simplifying management while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
By integrating clips, zippers, and hanging hooks into the bag structure itself, the invention combines multiple organizational functions into one product, reducing the number of separate items users need to manage while providing comprehensive garment organization capabilities.
3Volume of moving object
If a compact roll-folded structure is used for travel, then portability is improved, but access to garments becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The bag incorporates zipper structures that allow it to be opened into sections, enabling easy access to garments even when rolled or compacted. The zippers create accessible openings that maintain garment accessibility while allowing the bag to be compacted for portability.
4Ease of operation
If clips are pivotally mounted for easy garment attachment, then ease of operation is improved, but structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The clips are pivotally mounted rather than fixed, allowing them to rotate and easily grasp or release garments with simple motion. This dynamic mounting provides easy operation while keeping the structural complexity relatively low through the use of simple pivot mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
A combined, flexible and floppy laundry, travel, storage/display bag structure for socks and like small clothing articles, including (a) a machine-launderable/dryable, open-mesh, fabric bag having front and back sides, and spaced top, bottom and lateral edges, (b) located intermediate the bag's top and bottom edges, an elongate openable/closeable closure structure joined to and extending laterally across the bag's front side and between its lateral edges, and furnishing user-selective access to the inside of the bag, and (c) plural, releasable, clothing-article-holding structures mounted inside the bag on its back side, made manually accessible, via the closure structure, for operative gripping and releasing, within the bag, of user-selected clothing articles.