Pigeon Ring Chip Accessory with Hooked Lips
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions for applying a chip to a pigeon ring are complex, expensive, and difficult to apply, often requiring unnecessary modifications to the ring, leading to high material and storage costs, and are not compatible with conventional rings.
Innovation Solution
A compact accessory with a case and fixing means featuring two opposite lips that can be hooked onto the pigeon ring, allowing the chip to be applied without encircling the ring's addendum circle, simplifying installation and compatibility with standard rings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a flexible arm is used to apply the chip round the entire addendum circle of the pigeon ring, then the chip can be securely attached, but the accessory becomes large, requires much material, and increases storage and transport costs
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the essential function of attaching the chip from the conventional flexible arm design that encircles the entire ring. Instead, it uses a localized attachment mechanism with lips that engage only at specific points on the ring, removing unnecessary material while maintaining secure attachment.
Solution Approach 2:
The accessory applies the chip-attachment function locally at specific engagement points on the pigeon ring rather than distributing it around the entire addendum circle. The lips engage at discrete locations, providing sufficient security with minimal material usage.
2Reliability
If a flexible arm is bent round the ring and fixed to the case, then the chip can be attached to the ring, but the application process becomes difficult requiring simultaneous force to keep the arm bent and fix it
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment mechanism is segmented into separate lips that can engage with the ring independently. This segmentation allows each lip to be positioned and fixed separately, eliminating the need to maintain complex bent-arm geometry during the attachment process.
Solution Approach 2:
The lips act as intermediary elements between the case and the pigeon ring, providing a simplified interface for attachment. Instead of bending a continuous arm, the lips serve as discrete mediators that engage the ring and transfer the attachment force.
3Quantity of substance
If conventional pigeon rings are used without chip application features, then material and storage costs are reduced, but chips cannot be applied to these standard rings
Solution Approach 1:
The accessory is designed with universal compatibility, allowing chips to be attached to any standard pigeon ring regardless of whether the ring itself has chip application features. The lips engage with the ring's outer surface in a manner that works with conventional ring designs, making the system universally applicable.
4Adaptability or versatility
If specially equipped pigeon rings with chip application features are used, then chips can be applied to the rings, but the rings become more expensive and pigeons that don't qualify for races still incur these costs
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the chip application capability from the pigeon ring itself, placing it in a separate removable accessory. This allows the ring to remain a simple, inexpensive conventional design while the accessory provides the chip attachment function only when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a static, permanently modified ring to a dynamic configuration where the chip accessory can be attached only when required. Pigeons can have the accessory added later when they qualify for races, avoiding unnecessary costs for pigeons that don't compete.
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AI summary
Accessory for applying a chip to a pigeon ring, whereby this accessory (1) is provided with a case (2) in which can be provided a chip, and with fixing means (3) which are attached to the above-mentioned case (2) and which can be fixed to the pigeon ring, characterised in that the above-mentioned fixing means (3) comprise at least one lip (6, 7 or 17) which can be hooked at least partly on the above-mentioned pigeon ring.