Pool Side Storage Basket with Net and Spacers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Storing swimming pool toys and accessories is challenging due to their large and irregular shapes, leading to tripping hazards and the need for remote storage, which complicates transportation and access.
Innovation Solution
A storage basket with parallel rods, hooks, spacers, and a net that secures to the side of an above-ground pool, providing an open interior volume for storing accessories and ensuring easy access while preventing damage to the pool wall.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If pool accessories are stored on the ground or deck surrounding the swimming pool, then they are easily accessible, but they create a tripping hazard for individuals near the swimming pool
Solution Approach 1:
The storage basket transitions storage from the horizontal ground/deck surface to a vertical dimension by hanging from the pool edge, utilizing the third dimension (height) to resolve the conflict between accessibility and safety. This elevates accessories off the ground where they remain easily reachable but no longer pose tripping hazards.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If pool accessories are stored in a storage shed removed from the swimming pool, then tripping hazards are eliminated, but it becomes difficult and time consuming to transport large pool accessories to the swimming pool
Solution Approach 1:
By positioning the storage basket vertically at the pool edge rather than horizontally in a remote shed, the invention eliminates the need for transportation while maintaining safety. Accessories remain stored off the ground to prevent tripping hazards but are positioned immediately adjacent to the pool, eliminating transport time and effort.
3Ease of operation
If a storage basket is designed with hooks to secure to the pool edge, then accessories can be stored close to the pool, but the hooks may damage the pool wall
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces spacers as intermediary elements between the hooks and the pool wall. These spacers act as a protective mediator that distributes the mechanical load and prevents direct contact between the hooks and the pool wall surface, thereby preventing damage while maintaining the structural integrity needed for secure attachment.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the storage basket uses a net to contain accessories, then various sized accessories can be stored, but the net may not provide sufficient structural support for large items
Solution Approach 1:
The storage basket employs a composite structure combining a rigid frame (made from rods or similar structural elements) with a flexible netting material. The rigid frame provides the necessary structural strength and support for large accessories, while the netting provides adaptability to accommodate various sizes and shapes of pool toys and accessories.
Data Source
AI summary
A storage basket. The storage basket includes a pair of rods positioned parallel to one another, a hook disposed on the upper end of each of the pair of rods, a spacer disposed on the lower end of each of the pair of rods, a first cross-bar connecting each of the pair of rods, an extension member disposed on each of the pair of rods, and a second cross-bar connecting each of the extension rods to one another. The first cross bar, the extension rods, and the second cross-bar define an opening. A net is secured to the opening and extends downward toward the lower ends of the pair of rods, wherein the net and the opening define an open interior volume. The storage basket is securable to the outer side of a swimming pool and may be used to store various swimming pool rafts, toys, and other accessories.