Mobile Hunting Blind with Lightweight Rods and Anchors

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional hunting blinds are often bulky and heavy, limiting their portability and ease of movement, making it difficult for hunters to follow animals without scaring them away.

Innovation Solution

A mobile blind apparatus comprising rods, blind sheets, and anchors that can be easily deployed along a raised platform, using durable and lightweight materials like fiberglass or aluminum, allowing for ease of movement and concealment while being anchored securely.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If conventional blinds are made bulky and heavy to provide structural strength and stability, then the structural strength and stability are improved, but the portability and ease of movement deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural strengthVSAvoidweight

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs thin rod structures (11) made from lightweight materials such as fiberglass or aluminum, combined with blind sheets (13) that function as flexible concealment surfaces. This approach provides the necessary structural support and stability while maintaining lightweight construction for portability, directly resolving the contradiction between structural strength and weight.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Solution Approach 2:

The blind system combines different materials with complementary properties: fiberglass or aluminum rods provide structural strength and rigidity, while the blind sheets provide concealment and flexibility. This composite approach allows the structure to achieve both strength and lightness simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

2Reliability

If hunters remain camouflaged and motionless for long periods to avoid scaring animals, then the concealment effectiveness is improved, but the ease of movement deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconcealment effectivenessVSAvoidease of movement

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The blind system is designed to be mobile rather than fixed, allowing hunters to move the entire blind structure to follow animal movements. The lightweight construction on skis or sleds enables dynamic repositioning while maintaining concealment, resolving the contradiction between staying motionless for effectiveness and moving to follow prey.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The blind is designed as a modular, separable structure that can be easily assembled and disassembled. This segmentation allows hunters to quickly set up and take down the blind when moving locations, maintaining concealment effectiveness while enabling ease of movement and rapid deployment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11707060B2Mobile blind

Publication Date: 2023.07.25 ARKENAU EDWARD CLIFFORD

AI summary

A mobile blinds apparatus that installs along a raised platform for hunting is presented. The mobile blinds apparatus contains at least one rod, at least one blinds sheet, and at least one blinds anchor. Each of the at least one rod contains a mounting end. The mounting end is terminally positioned adjacent to the at least one rod. Each of the at least one blinds sheet traverses along each of the at least one rod. Each of the at least one blinds anchor is connected adjacent to the mounting end.