Modular Gun Holster with Adjustable Width and Height Mechanisms
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Solution Overview
Problem
The vast variety of gun sizes and shapes poses a challenge in finding suitable holsters, leading to potential accidents and intentional discharges due to unsafe or inefficient holstering and unholstering processes.
Innovation Solution
A modular gun holster with adjustable width and height mechanisms, including a locking mechanism, width adjustment parts, and a height adjustment plate, allowing for secure fitting of guns with different dimensions and add-ons, featuring a guiding rail, screws, and a spring mechanism for precise gun retention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed-size holster is used, then the structure is simple, but it cannot accommodate guns of different sizes and shapes
Solution Approach 1:
The holster is divided into multiple adjustable components including width adjustment parts with guiding rails, height adjustment plates with barrels, and modular connection parts. This segmentation allows each component to be independently adjusted to fit different gun dimensions while maintaining overall structural coherence.
Solution Approach 2:
The holster incorporates dynamic adjustment mechanisms that allow users to modify the holster's width, height, and shape according to different gun specifications. The adjustable components enable the holster to adapt its configuration rather than being fixed, resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a custom holster is made for each gun, then the fit is precise, but it requires multiple holsters for multiple guns
Solution Approach 1:
The holster is designed as a universal platform that can accommodate multiple guns of different sizes and shapes through its adjustable width, height, and shape components. A single holster can be reconfigured to fit various firearms, eliminating the need for multiple dedicated holsters and reducing the total quantity required.
3Reliability
If a non-adjustable holster is used, then the manufacturing is simple, but it does not provide secure retention for different gun dimensions
Solution Approach 1:
The holster employs segmented adjustable components including width adjustment parts, height adjustment plates, and modular connection elements. These segmented parts can be manufactured using standardized processes and then assembled in various configurations, maintaining manufacturing simplicity while enabling secure retention for different gun dimensions.
4Productivity
If quick-release mechanism is added, then unholstering speed is improved, but the risk of accidental discharge increases
Solution Approach 1:
The holster incorporates a retention mechanism that acts as an intermediary between the gun and the user's hand. This mechanism provides controlled release through a release button that requires deliberate action, enabling quick unholstering when intentionally activated while preventing accidental discharge through its designed activation threshold and positioning.
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
Enables safe, efficient, and customizable holstering and unholstering of guns, preventing accidental discharges by ensuring a snug fit and secure retention across various gun sizes and shapes, while accommodating different trigger guards and add-ons.
Implementation Method 1
a spring; and gun stopper, wherein said spring is wrapped around said screw and pushes said gun stopper
Implementation Method 2
said stopper contain a magnet adapted to secure gun's barrel to said magnets position
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AI summary
Systems, methods and apparatus for adjustable and modular gun holster to be comprised of three parts: a base part 100, a width adjustment part 401 and a height adjustment part 301.