Blade housing tool
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional kitchen knife holders primarily focus on functionality and lack an aesthetic appeal, failing to transform cooking tools into interior accessories that enhance the kitchen's ambiance and playfulness.
Innovation Solution
An edged tool storage device featuring a pedestal, a vertical support rod, and removably connected edged tool covers with elastic holding parts, allowing for adjustable positioning and easy attachment/removal, which enhances both appearance and functionality by converting the holder into an interior accessory.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If conventional kitchen knife holders are designed with simple storage functionality, then they are easy to manufacture and use, but they lack aesthetic appeal and cannot serve as interior accessories
Solution Approach 1:
The knife holder is divided into multiple independent blade storage slots, each capable of holding knives at different orientations. The base is segmented into distinct functional zones for upright storage and angled storage, allowing aesthetic customization while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through modular design
Solution Approach 2:
The knife holder serves multiple functions: it stores knives upright for display, stores knives at angled orientations for space efficiency, and acts as a decorative interior accessory. The same structural elements fulfill both aesthetic and functional roles, converting a simple storage device into a multi-functional interior piece
2Adaptability or versatility
If kitchen knife holders are designed to store multiple knives in various orientations, then storage versatility is improved, but the structural complexity and difficulty of manufacture increase
Solution Approach 1:
The holder is segmented into standardized blade slots that can accommodate different knife orientations. Each slot is a independent structural unit with consistent dimensions, allowing versatile knife storage while simplifying manufacturing through repeated production of identical components
Solution Approach 2:
The blade slots are designed with adjustable parameters including angle of inclination and depth, allowing the same basic structure to accommodate various knife types and orientations. This parameter variability provides storage versatility without requiring fundamentally different structural designs
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
The device provides a visually appealing and practical solution by allowing easy customization of tool placement, improving the kitchen's aesthetic and usability, while maintaining the functionality of a traditional knife holder.
Implementation Method 1
each the first edged tool cover and the second edged tool cover includes a holding part (32) that is elastically fitted onto the support rod and thus holds the support rod
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AI summary
An edged tool storage device storing a kitchen knife and the like has a structure including a pedestal, a support rod that extends in a substantially vertical direction from the pedestal, and a first edged tool cover and a second edged tool cover that are removably connected to the support rod and store edged tools, in which each of the first edged tool cover and the second edged tool cover includes a holding part that is elastically fitted onto the support rod and thus holds the support rod, and is removably connected to the support rod by the holding part, and the holding part of the first edged tool cover and the holding part of the second edged tool cover are different in height when connected to the support rod.