Pivoting Interior Storage Panels for Gun Safe Space Maximization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional safe designs lack efficient mechanisms for maximizing storage space and easy access to stored items, particularly guns and accessories, as they often require complex sequences to open and deploy storage panels.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of pivotably movable interior storage panels with modular and adjustable configurations, utilizing hinges, link arms, and automated mechanisms to transition between stored and exterior positions, allowing for customizable storage solutions and enhanced accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional safe designs are used, then the safe structure is simple, but the storage space utilization is poor and access to stored items is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The interior storage panel is divided into multiple segments including a main panel and one or more accessory panels that can be independently positioned. These segments are connected through hinges and link arms, allowing them to be stored within the safe interior or deployed exterior to the safe door, thereby maximizing storage space utilization while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The storage panels utilize three-dimensional space by extending from the interior of the safe to the exterior of the door. When deployed, the panels create additional storage dimensions outside the main safe compartment, effectively increasing storage capacity without proportionally increasing the safe's footprint or structural complexity.
2Ease of operation
If storage panels are made accessible, then ease of access to stored items improves, but the mechanisms required become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The accessory panels are nested within the main storage panel structure, with smaller panels positioned to utilize the space created by the larger panel. When the main panel is deployed, the accessory panels can be independently accessed or further deployed, providing easy access to frequently used items while maintaining a compact configuration when stored.
Solution Approach 2:
The storage panels incorporate dynamic mechanisms including hinges and link arms that allow the panels to transition between stored and deployed positions. The link arm mechanism provides automated movement assistance, reducing the physical effort required to access stored items while keeping the overall mechanism relatively simple through the use of basic mechanical components.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple storage panels are added to maximize storage, then storage capacity increases, but the space available for other items within the safe decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The storage panels are pre-configured with hinges and mounting mechanisms that allow them to be stored within the safe interior in a compact configuration. This preliminary positioning maximizes the use of interior space when the safe is closed, while still providing the capacity to deploy multiple panels to the exterior for expanded storage when needed.
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AI summary
Storage panels for safes, such as gun safes. Some embodiments may comprise an interior storage panel configured so as to be positioned at least partially outside of a safe in an open position, and may be configured so as to extend along and be positioned at least substantially parallel to the safe door in a closed position with the safe door closed. In some embodiments, the interior storage panel may be configured to be repositioned between the open position and the closed position by rotating the interior storage panel about a pivot axis opposite from a pivot axis of the safe door. In some embodiments, the interior storage panel may be configured to extend away from a side of the safe when opened opposite from a side of the safe from which the safe door extends.