Pool Float Tether Straps for Modular Float Configurations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing pool floats are pre-configured and impersonal, lacking personalization and entertainment options, particularly for children, and do not offer sufficient flexibility in shape and size to accommodate individual user preferences.
Innovation Solution
A pool float tether device using hook and loop fasteners to connect multiple pool floats, allowing users to create personalized and customizable configurations, such as flat rafts or circular donuts, providing entertainment and flexibility in design.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If pre-made pool floats with specific shapes and sizes are used, then flotation support is provided, but personalization and adaptability to individual users are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The pool float system is divided into multiple separate floatation components that can be individually selected and combined. Each component maintains its structural integrity while allowing users to create customized configurations by connecting different shapes, sizes, and types of float sections together.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection mechanism serves multiple functions: it securely joins float components together, allows for easy separation and reconfiguration, and accommodates various float shapes and sizes. The same connection system enables both stable flotation and flexible personalization.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate pool floats are used to provide desired effects, then some personalization is achieved, but support becomes tenuous and specificity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple separate float components are merged into a unified configuration through the connection mechanism. The components work together as an integrated system, distributing weight and providing stable support while maintaining the flexibility of modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection mechanism is pre-designed and attached to each float component before use, ensuring that when components are joined, they immediately form a stable configuration. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for complex assembly during use and ensures reliable support from the start.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional pool floats are used, then flotation is provided, but entertainment and interactive creativity for users are not offered
Solution Approach 1:
The pool float system transitions from a static, pre-configured design to a dynamic, user-configurable system. Users can continuously reconfigure the float components to create different shapes and designs, providing ongoing entertainment and creative engagement rather than a fixed, unchangeable structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to build unique and interactive pool floats that cater to individual preferences, offering enhanced personalization and entertainment options beyond traditional pre-configured shapes and sizes.
Implementation Method 1
each strap can have a hook or loop fastener portion on a longitudinal portion of one strap surface which terminates at one strap end, and an opposing hook or loop fastener portion on a longitudinal portion of the opposing strap surface which terminates at the opposing strap end; each hook or loop fastener portion being capable of making a releasable connection with the opposing hook or loop fastener portion of the same strap to form a loop
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AI summary
There is provided herein a pool float tether device. The device can have two identical rectangular straps each having a longitudinal length, two opposing strap surfaces and two opposing longitudinal strap ends. Each strap can have two hook or loop fastener portions, one on each strap surface and which are at opposing strap ends. The hook or loop fastener portions are capable of making a releasable connection therebetween in order to form a loop having an interior loop surface and an exterior loop surface. The two rectangular straps are also permanently bound together at a bonding location; and the straps can each have a buckle connector located on the exterior loop surface of each strap. There is also provided a method of tethering together pool floats which can entail providing two pool floats; making the releasable connection with the opposing hook and loop fasteners of one strap around both of the pool floats to provide a first set of tethered pool floats, tethering two other pool floats together using a second tethering device which is identical with the first tethering device to provide a second set of tether pool floats; and, connecting a buckle connector of the first set of tether pool floats with the corresponding buckle connector on the second set of tethered pool floats.